15 January, 2010

Radio 4 Listings for 16/01/2010 - 22/01/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 16 JANUARY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00prgj0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00pnstc (Listen) SAT Must You Go?, Episode 5 SAT Antonia Fraser reads from her diary of her life with SAT Harold Pinter. SAT Pinter is still working, still grasping at the joy of SAT life, until a double blow falls. First the death of his SAT oldest friend, the playwright Simon Gray, and then his own SAT fateful diagnosis. SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00prgj2 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00prgj4 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00prgj6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00prgj8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00prgk7 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev Kelvin SAT Holdsworth. SAT SAT 05:45 A Box of Wittgensteins b00g44sj (Listen) SAT The One Handed Pianist SAT The great-niece of philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein, SAT Margaret Stonborough, talks to artist and historian SAT Michael Huey as she delves into six boxes of SAT newly-inherited family archives. As she digs deeper into SAT the talented but tortured lives of the Wittgensteins she SAT finds her cramped London house becoming ever more crowded SAT with her larger-than-life forbears. SAT Margaret uncovers details of the life of her great uncle SAT Paul Wittgenstein who, after the First World War, was SAT determined to continue his career as a concert pianist, SAT despite the loss of his right arm. SAT The readers are Sarah Finch, Nicholas Rowe and Dan Starkey. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00prgn3 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00prgn5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00ps0hx (Listen) SAT Herefordshire SAT Richard Uridge muses on the idea that one tiny fruit - the SAT strawberry - has transformed both the physical and SAT cultural landscape of Herefordshire, with the arrival of SAT pickers from Eastern Europe and the building of SAT polytunnels to grow the fruit all year round. SAT He meets some of the young people from countries such as SAT Lithuania and Poland who have taken the brave decision to SAT settle in the county, sometimes moving on from fruit SAT picking to start their own businesses, and discovers how SAT new friendships are being made between local people and SAT the migrant workers. On a very snowy hill in woodland SAT overlooking the city of Hereford, he meets one woman who SAT says her life has been enriched by the friendships she's SAT made with some of the workers, and how she, in turn, can SAT take credit for introducing the Hokey Cokey to some of the SAT Baltic States. SAT Kath Card and Tanya Dimova enjoy the snow at Queenswood SAT Country Park SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00ps0hz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00ps0ts (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00ps0tv (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00ps1h8 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. The Rev Richard Coles is joined by SAT novelist Tariq Goddard. With poetry from Matt Harvey. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00ps1hb (Listen) SAT John McCarthy meets Christopher Aslan Alexander, who ran a SAT carpet weaving workshop in Khiva in Uzbekistan to revive SAT traditional skills and provide work and a focus for local SAT women. He reveals a country that is a confusion of SAT Mohammedism, Marxism and modernism. SAT John also talks to author Deborah Moggach, who visited SAT Ghana to find out about the role of women and girls in SAT society there and discovered a melting pot of the ancient SAT and the modern. SAT And Professor Clive Harber has been visiting Africa for SAT nearly 40 years as an academic specialising in education. SAT He tells John about African academic life, how the school SAT systems there treat girls in particular and about some of SAT the spectacular wildlife parks he has been to over the SAT years. SAT SAT 10:30 What's So Great About ...? b00ps1hd (Listen) SAT Series 2, Samuel Beckett SAT Lenny Henry questions the iconic status of people or SAT things held dear by many. SAT Despite having seen Waiting for Godot half a dozen times SAT and studying the work of the modernist Irish writer as SAT part of his degree, Lenny has never really completely SAT tuned in to the work of Samuel Beckett. He sets out to SAT rectify this by talking to a glorious cast of SAT Beckettophiles, who are determined to make the great SAT playwright and poet come alive for him. He talks to actor SAT and director Simon McBurney, actress Fiona Shaw, Beckett's SAT long-term friend and publisher John Calder, and the man SAT who was authorised to write his biography, James Knowlson. SAT Lenny also joins a rehearsal by the Godot Theatre players, SAT some of whom knew the playwright well, and hears their SAT thoughts on tuning in to the Beckett idiom. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00ps3w7 (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley looks behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT Alastair Campbell, giving evidence to the Chilcot Inquiry SAT on Iraq, said he stood by everything he had done as the SAT prime minister's head of communications in the run up to SAT war. Denis MacShane, a minister in the Foreign Office at SAT the time, and Norman Baker, a Liberal Democrat opposed to SAT the war, evaluate the strength of his testimony. SAT Bankers' bonuses are still causing the government SAT embarrassment. Angela Knight of the British Bankers' SAT Association says they are necessary to maintain a SAT successful banking industry in Britain, while Michael SAT Fallon, Conservative member of the Treasury Select SAT Committee, thinks they are a gross misuse of taxpayers' SAT money. SAT Also in the programme: accountability of cabinet ministers SAT in the House of Lords (Lord Tyler and Peter Luff MP SAT discuss), and snow chaos - should the government have done SAT more? Justine Greening (Conservative) and Phyllis Starkey SAT (Labour) discuss. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ps3w9 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00ps3wc (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00prd54 (Listen) SAT Series 70, Episode 2 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The SAT panellists are Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, John Gordillo SAT and Fred Macaulay. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00ps3wf (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00ps3wh (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00prd56 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cheddar SAT in Somerset. The panellists are novelist, playwright and SAT critic Louise Doughty, historian Peter Hennessy, shadow SAT home secretary Chris Grayling, and Ben Bradshaw, secretary SAT of state for culture, media and sport. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00ps3wk (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00p016z (Listen) SAT Dover and The Sleeping Beauty SAT Comedy thriller by Paul Mendelson, set in the 1960s, SAT featuring Scotland Yard's most unwanted man, Chief SAT Inspector Wilfred Dover, and his long-suffering gofer, SAT Sergeant McGregor. A young woman, Isabel Slatcher, has SAT been in an irreversible coma for months after being shot SAT outside her local church in a small northern town. Now she SAT has been smothered - murdered. Who killed her? Was it the SAT person that shot her and why have they waited until now to SAT complete their evil crime? SAT Chief Inspector Dover ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT Sergeant McGregor ...... Stuart McQuarrie SAT Chief Constable Muckle ...... Philip Whitchurch SAT Mrs Muckle ...... Colleen Prendergast SAT Reverend Bonnington ...... Shaun Prendergast SAT Mrs Horsley ...... Geraldine McNulty SAT Violet ...... Debbie Arnold SAT Freddie Gash ...... Ross Adams SAT Muckle ...... Cesca Bonetti SAT Other parts played by the cast. SAT Directed by David Ian Neville. SAT SAT 15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00pqj0z (Listen) SAT Series 8, Humphrey Lyttelton SAT Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th SAT century. SAT Many Radio 4 listeners knew 'Humph' as the hilariously SAT deadpan chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. But the SAT much-loved broadcaster was also an exemplary and SAT influential jazz musician. Louis Armstrong dubbed him 'the SAT top trumpet man in England today', and not without reason. SAT A master of his instrument as well as several others, he SAT spearheaded the post-war traditional jazz revival in SAT Britain, later forming his own band that set the standard SAT for British jazz for several decades. SAT Friend and fellow BBC jazz presenter Alyn Shipton joins SAT Ken in the studio to discuss Britain's most important jazz SAT musician. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00ps50r (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT War widow Christina Schmid talks about rebuilding her SAT life; Celia Imrie on stepping from Cranford on to the SAT stage; why help is needed for people who survive cancer; SAT the working-class family and what politicians could do for SAT it; what women in 1950s films tell us about how society SAT was changing; and stop before you throw out your old SAT furniture - could it have arrived at the cutting edge of SAT retro? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00ps5dr (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00ps5dt (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ps5dw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00ps5dy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ps5f0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00ps5f2 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT John Hurt SAT Actor John Hurt, star of 'The Elephant Man', ‘The Naked SAT Civil Servant’ and ‘The Alan Clark Diaries’ (to name but a SAT few) talks to Clive Anderson about his latest film, the SAT gangster revenge caper ‘44 Inch Chest’. ’44 Inch Chest’ is SAT on nationwide release. SAT 44 Inch Chest SAT SAT Paul Whitehouse SAT Paul Whitehouse talks about Radio 4’s Sony Award winning SAT ‘Down the Line’ transfering to television in the form of SAT 'Bellamy's People'. Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson SAT collaborate once again with for the hapless radio host SAT Gary Bellamy’s search for the ‘real’ people of Britain. SAT ‘Bellamy’s People’ begins on Thursday 21 January at 10 pm SAT on BBC Two. SAT SAT Emilia Fox SAT Clive talks to the award winning actress Emilia Fox, who SAT returns as the lead in BBC One’s Silent Witness, broadcast SAT Thursday and Friday nights at 9 pm. SAT SAT Rachel Johnson SAT Emma Freud talks to Rachel Johnson, journalist, author and SAT editor of ‘The Lady’ magazine which celebrates its 125th SAT Anniversary this year. SAT SAT Ava Vidal SAT Making a welcome return to Loose Ends, comedy comes from SAT Ava Vidal imparting pearls of wisdom from her latest show. SAT ‘Remember, Remember the 4th November’ is at London’s Soho SAT Theatre from Wednesday 20 January to Saturday 23 January SAT and at The Midas, Leicester as part of the Leicester SAT Comedy Festival on Thursday 11 February. SAT SAT Biffy Clyro SAT Music from Ayrshire rockers Biffy Clyro performing their SAT latest single ‘Many a Horror (When Things Collide)’, out SAT on Monday 18 January from their album ‘Only Revolutions’. SAT They are on a world tour before returning to the UK in SAT April. SAT SAT Jesse Dee SAT And invoking the Soul Sound of Motown, Jesse Dee backed by SAT members of the superb Jools Holland Band, plays ‘Over and SAT Over Again’ from his album ‘Bittersweet Batch’. Jesse Dee SAT plays The Jazz CafĂ©, London tonight. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00ps5f4 (Listen) SAT Arlene Foster SAT Jonathan Maitland charts the meteoric rise of Northern SAT Ireland's acting First Minister, Arlene Foster. She is SAT stepping into the shoes of Peter Robinson and is the first SAT woman to hold the top post. But can she make a permanent SAT mark on the face of politics in Northern Ireland? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00ps5f6 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by poet Kate Clanchy, literary SAT critic John Carey and comedian and writer Danny Robins to SAT discuss the cultural highlights of the week - featuring a SAT man whose life is spent up in the air, a woman who's SAT legally blonde, a reclusive movie star arriving in SAT Donegal, Doctorow's eccentric brothers and A History of SAT the World in 100 Objects. SAT The film Up in the Air stars George Clooney as Ryan SAT Bingham, a corporate downsizing expert whose cherished SAT life on the road is threatened just as he is on the cusp SAT of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles and just SAT after he's met the frequent-traveller woman of his dreams. SAT The anguish, hostility, and despair of his 'clients' has SAT left him falsely compassionate, living out of a suitcase, SAT and loving every second of it until his boss hires SAT arrogant young Natalie, who has developed a method of SAT video conferencing that will allow termination without SAT ever leaving the office. SAT Legally Blonde, The Musical is a stage adaptation of the SAT 2001 comedy film which starred Reese Witherspoon, with a SAT score by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin. After a run SAT on Broadway, it now comes to the Savoy Theatre in London SAT with Sheridan Smith as Elle Woods, a pink-clad blonde from SAT Malibu who aims to show her ex (Duncan James) that she's SAT the serious type he's looking for by applying to study law SAT at Harvard. Despite numerous setbacks it all hurtles SAT towards a happy ending for those who deserve it with the SAT help of a chihuahua, a bulldog and a UPS delivery man with SAT a big package. SAT Frank McGuinness's play, Greta Garbo Came to Donegal, is SAT set in 1967. Ireland is on the verge of violent change, SAT two couples are on the verge of separating, a woman tries SAT to save her family, a girl tries to save her future. Above SAT it all but in the midst of things, determining what SAT happens next, is the loveliest and loneliest of all women, SAT the great Garbo. SAT Homer and Langley Collyer were reclusive brothers whose SAT names became a byword for clutter and eccentricity due to SAT the tons of junk which they accumulated in their Manhattan SAT townhouse. EL Doctorow, whose mother would look into his SAT bedroom when he was a teenager and cry 'The Collyer SAT Brothers!' has used their story as the basis for his SAT novel, Homer and Langley. The blind Homer tells how the SAT house fills up with a bizarre collection of objects SAT relating to Langley's various projects and obsessions - SAT newspapers stacked to the ceiling, a Model T Ford, SAT dismembered pianos, body parts in jars - while the 20th SAT century laps against their doorstep and occasionally SAT intrudes into their lives. SAT The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, SAT retells the history of human development on Radio 4, from SAT the first stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected SAT objects from the Museum. Each of the 100 episodes focuses SAT on a different object from the collection. Neil tells the SAT fascinating stories behind the chosen item, which may be SAT anything from a mundane tool to a great work of art, but SAT which must be man-made. The series is chronological, SAT beginning with some of the earliest objects from Tanzania SAT dating to almost two million years ago, and running up to SAT the present day. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00ps5f8 (Listen) SAT The ITV Story SAT This is the story of how Yorkshire seems to have SAT disappeared. In fact, it is not a single county that has SAT vanished from the map - the territory that has gone SAT missing also stretched across Lincolnshire and into north SAT Norfolk. SAT Of course, if you look at any road atlas of the UK, there SAT is still a sizeable piece of land between The Pennines and SAT the North Sea. What has gone, in fact, is the regional ITV SAT company, YTV, which began broadcasting from new studios in SAT Leeds on July 29th, 1968. SAT One of ITV's unique features in previous decades has been SAT its regional structure, which was especially strong in the SAT north of England where Granada, Yorkshire TV and Tyne Tees SAT provided the backbone of national programmes made from SAT around the nation. SAT Today however, ITV is no longer a collection of regional SAT companies; Mark Lawson examines why by taking a look at SAT the history of Yorkshire Television. SAT Initially, Granada served the whole of the north of SAT England but for 40 years, YTV was Yorkshire's very own SAT station and gave its region a prominent voice in millions SAT of homes all over the country. Yorkshire Television was a SAT station run by local people who 'talked right'. It made SAT the likes of Richard Whiteley, Les Dawson, Annie Sugden SAT and Hannah Hauxwell household names and it became part of SAT a regional revolution that provided ITV with a significant SAT part of its output, from soap opera (Emmerdale), and drama SAT (Flambards and Heartbeat) to hard-hitting, award-winning SAT documentaries including Johnny Go Home and Rampton: The SAT Secret Hospital. SAT Sir Paul Fox, a former managing director at YTV, says: SAT 'You can tell a Yorkshire man but you can't tell him SAT much.' And it was this refusal to compromise on its own SAT particular provincial flavour that characterised the YTV SAT style. For many years, Yorkshire Television demonstrated a SAT regional approach to broadcasting that was successfully SAT duplicated across the network by other many other ITV SAT franchise holders. SAT Mark Lawson grew up in Yorkshire and has a keen SAT understanding of the workings of the British television SAT industry. SAT Those contributing include Sir Paul Fox, Jeremy Isaacs SAT (Director of Programmes at Thames in the 1970s and Chief SAT Executive at Channel 4 in the 1980s), John Whiston (former SAT Director of Programmes at YTV and now Creative Director of SAT ITV Studios UK), Alan Whicker and Austin Mitchell MP. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00pnp9c (Listen) SAT The Custom of the Country, Episode 2 SAT Dramatisation by Jane Rogers of Edith Wharton's 1913 SAT satire of marriage and money in early-20th century SAT American society. SAT Leaving her husband and child in New York, Undine travels SAT to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. SAT Mrs Heeny ...... Lorelei King SAT Elmer Moffatt ...... Tom Hollander SAT Undine Spragg ...... Rebecca Night SAT Mrs Spragg ...... Barbara Barnes SAT Abner Spragg ...... Jonathan Keeble SAT Ralph Marvell ...... Dan Stevens SAT Clare Van Degen ...... Lucy Gaskell SAT Peter Van Degan ...... William Houston SAT Mabel Lipscombe ...... Tessa Nicholson SAT Laura Fairford/Princess Estradina ...... Provence Maydew SAT Raymond De Chelles ...... Joseph Kloska SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b00ps5fb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b00pr52d (Listen) SAT How would a government, facing a huge deficit, cut SAT middle-class benefits? Nick Robinson and a panel of SAT politicians, civil servants and journalists examine how SAT this controversial proposal would fare in Whitehall and SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00pqh8v (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the second semi-final of the SAT perennial general knowledge contest, with heat winners Dr SAT Ian Bayley from Oxford, Bernard Fyles from St Helens, SAT Chris Quinn from Huyton and Martin Wyatt from Accrington SAT competing for a place in the final. SAT Contestants SAT Ian Bayley from Oxford SAT Bernard Fyles from St Helens SAT Chris Quinn from Huyton SAT Martin Wyatt from Accrington SAT SAT 23:30 And Go To Innisfree b00pnp9h (Listen) SAT Poet Kenneth Steven explores WB Yeats's The Lake Isle of SAT Innisfree. SAT In his famous poem, Yeats declared that he will 'arise ... SAT and go to Innisfree', and Kenneth does exactly that: SAT journeying from the Strand in London, where Yeats had the SAT idea, to the the Lake Isle of Innisfree in Lough Gill, SAT near Sligo, investigating why the poem strikes a chord SAT with so many people. SAT Yeats spent many childhood summers on Lough Gill, a large SAT lake with several small islands. Then his family moved to SAT London, to a depressingly grey area of Kensington. One day SAT while he was walking along the Strand he saw in a shop a SAT fountain with a ball balanced on top of the jet and, SAT somehow, the water transported him imaginatively back to SAT the lough and the Isle of Innisfree. So he wrote the short SAT poem which became perhaps his best known, somewhat to his SAT chagrin (he was once faced by 10,000 boy scouts, chanting SAT it in unison). SAT The poem is a work of contrasts, opposing the city with SAT the country, crowds with solitude, and peace not with war SAT (though the situation in Ireland at the time was tense) SAT but with stress and anxiety. It also demonstrates the SAT poet's early philosophical thinking. When he speaks of SAT planting nine rows of beans and living in 'the bee-loud SAT glade', it is clear that he has been reading Henry SAT Thoreau's Walden Pond, which, as well as being radical in SAT its environmental concerns, is about freedom, about the SAT individual in relation to society (it was published with SAT his great essay On Civil Disobedience) and about that SAT society in relation to other powers. SAT Kenneth Steven'a own life and work share similar concerns. SAT He too is drawn to the remote and rural, and is deeply SAT concerned with the cultural and political integrity of his SAT country, Scotland. Here Kenneth explores all this on his SAT journeying to the Lake Isle of Innisfree, starting, like SAT Yeats, on the Strand in the rain, and while speaking to SAT Yeats experts, historians and other poets, journeys from SAT London to Sligo to Lough Gill and rows across to the Isle SAT itself. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 JANUARY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00ps5s0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008x3ym (Listen) SUN Cupid Strikes, Better Off Without Them SUN Stories exploring the reality behind St Valentine's Day. SUN By Philip Ardagh. SUN Will Cupid's arrow reach its target of Juliet and Geoff or SUN will some unusual tokens of love knock it off course? SUN Read by Denis Lawson and Phyllis Logan. SUN Producer Heather Brennon. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ps5s4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ps5s6 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ps5s8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00ps6kl (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00ps6kn (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Edward's Church in Eggbuckland, SUN Plymouth. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00ps5f4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00ps6qq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00ps6qs (Listen) SUN Absolutely Honest SUN Mark Tully asks if absolute honesty is always the best SUN policy, and questions philosopher AC Grayling about his SUN suggestion that dishonesty can sometimes even be virtuous. SUN The readers are Emily Raymond and David Westhead. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Music SUN Music 1: ‘His Affection and His Faith: Andantino’ composed SUN by Robert Russell Bennett and performed by the Moscow SUN State Symphony Orchestra. Available on Robert Russell SUN Bennett: Lincoln: Likeness in Symphony. Released by Naxos. SUN Music 2: ‘It’s a Sin to tell a Lie’ by Billie Holiday. SUN Available on the album Over There. Released by Dictum – SUN Phontastic. SUN Music 3: ‘Les Deux Avares - Overture’, composed by Andre SUN Gretry, performed by Sophie Karthauser, Les Agremens & Guy SUN van Waas. Available on Selections from Cephale & SUN Procis/L’Aurore: Arias. SUN Music 4: ‘Reason to Believe’ by Tim Hardin. Available on SUN Reasons to Believe (The Best of). Released by Polygram SUN Records Inc. SUN Music 5: ‘Le roi Lear’ composed by Hector Berlioz, SUN performed by the London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by SUN Sir Colin Davis. Available on the album Berlioz Overtures. SUN Released on Philips Classics. SUN Readings SUN Reading 1: ‘If’ by Dr. David Jaffin, available in SUN Intimacies of Sound. Published by Shearsman Books. SUN Reading 2: ‘Bitcherel’ by Eleanor Brown. Available in SUN Making for Planet Alice. Edited by Maura Dooley. Published SUN by Bloodaxe. SUN Reading 3: ‘Don’t Ask’ by Brian Patten. Available in SUN Collected Love Poems, Published by Harper. SUN Reading 4: ‘Diary of a Young Girl’ by Anne Frank, SUN translated by Susan Massotty. Published by Penguin. SUN Reading 5: ‘The Teacup Storm’ by Georgina Blake, from the SUN book The Delicious Lie. Published by Crocus Books. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00psp8n (Listen) SUN Caz Graham travels to Wales to find out why an artist is SUN building a house out of wool. SUN For many centuries, wool was the UK's most important SUN export and the cloth trade led to the development of many SUN of the nation's industrial towns. One of those is Newtown SUN in Mid Wales. Among other things, they produced flannel SUN and apparently even Queen Victoria ordered her garments SUN from there. However, the market for wool has seen a SUN massive decline. To highlight this decline, artist Steve SUN Messam is using 300 white fleeces from the local breed of SUN sheep, the Kerry Hill, to clad a traditional timber-framed SUN building. SUN Steve's work is part of an exhibition called Beyond SUN Pattern from a Newtown Gallery and 'Clad' aims to SUN 'investigate and celebrate the cultural and industrial SUN heritage of the area'. He wants to demonstrate how the SUN wool has been an important part of the fabric of the built SUN as well as rural environment here. Caz helps build the SUN house of wool and investigates how the decline in the wool SUN trade has affected those who live and work in the area. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00psp8q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00psp8s (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00psp8v (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 b00psp8x (Listen) SUN National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society SUN Juliette Kaplan appeals on behalf of National Rheumatoid SUN Arthritis Society. SUN Donations to NRAS should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope NRAS. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide NRAS 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 Numbers: 1086976 SCO39721. SUN Related Links SUN * National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) SUN (www.nras.org.uk) SUN The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) SUN The National Rheumatoid Arthritis Society (NRAS) provides SUN support for people who live with Rheumatoid Arthritis. SUN Rheumatoid Arthritis is a disease which affects the joints SUN causing inflammation, stiffness and extreme fatigue. It is SUN a disabling and progressive condition which can affect SUN people of any age, including children. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00psp8z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00psp91 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00psp93 (Listen) SUN The Potter's Hand SUN A service reflecting on the creative power of God from the SUN Chelmsford Corps of the Salvation Army with the SUN International Staff Songsters of the Salvation Army and SUN the Chelmsford Corps Band. Leaders: Majors Derek and Susan SUN Jones. Preacher: Lt-Col. George Pilkington, executive SUN officer of the International Staff Songsters. Staff SUN Songster Leader: Dorothy Nancekievill. Bandmaster: Dr SUN Simon Schultz. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00prd58 (Listen) SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on the challenge of delivering the SUN right level of supplies for public use, be it salt to cope SUN with ice or a flu vaccine. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00psp95 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00psp97 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00psp99 (Listen) SUN James Ellroy SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is American crime writer James SUN Ellroy. SUN His books have been translated into 30 languages and, SUN according to the New York Times, he is the author of some SUN of the most powerful crime novels ever written. SUN But the case that has dominated his life and much of his SUN writing was the murder of his mother when he was just ten SUN years old. In the years since, he has tried to find a way SUN of getting to know and understand her. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00pqh91 (Listen) SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Panellists SUN Josie Lawrence and Charles Collingwood reveal how they SUN know when they are in love (though not necessarily with SUN each other), and Paul Merton and Chris Neill remember what SUN it was like to be sweet sixteen. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00psp9c (Listen) SUN Micro Dairies SUN In the last decade, two-thirds of dairy farmers in England SUN and Wales have gone out of business. With milk cheaper SUN than mineral water, many just cannot make a living. SUN Charlotte Smith hears how dairy farmers are forging SUN stronger links with consumers to stay in business. Could SUN small scale community dairies be the way forward? SUN Sheila Dillon visits North Aston Dairy in Oxfordshire, SUN where a small herd of 18 Ayrshires provides milk to 250 SUN residents in local villages, all within a two-and-a-half SUN mile radius. She also catches up with Nick Snelgar of SUN Future Farms co-operative in Hampshire, who is planning to SUN start a 'micro dairy' along the same lines as North Aston. SUN She also hears from dairy farmer Ian Crouch in Dorset SUN about his struggle to stay in business with a mixed herd SUN of 150 cows including Holsteins, Jerseys and Guernseys. SUN MP Michael Jack, Chair of the Environment, Food and Rural SUN Affairs Select Committee, gives his view of the state of SUN the industry, and Charlotte is joined in the studio by SUN Gwyn Jones, Dairy Board Chairman of the National Farmers' SUN Union. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00psph7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00psph9 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Ruthless and Brilliant b00pn4c5 (Listen) SUN At the end of 2006 one of Radio 4’s longest standing SUN presenters announced, very publicly, that she had breast SUN cancer. Jenni Murray, who has been presenting Woman’s Hour SUN for more than 20 years, told her listeners that she would SUN be away from the microphone for a while, as she underwent SUN treatment. SUN Jenni returned to work after a mastectomy and SUN chemotherapy. Then in 2008 she was joined on the programme SUN by the Irish journalist Lia Mills who had much of her jaw, SUN neck and cheekbone removed after she was diagnosed with SUN oral cancer. She described her surgeons as ‘ruthless and SUN brilliant’ – brilliant enough to save her life and SUN ruthless enough to take a knife to her face. SUN This got Jenni thinking – what does it take to lift a SUN scalpel and cut into the most intimate and treasured parts SUN of the human body? SUN This programme examines the extremes of surgery, and SUN speaks to the doctors whose work saves lives, but also SUN fundamentally changes them. How do you tell a patient that SUN radical surgery is needed, as they beg you for an SUN alternative? SUN The programme concentrates on maxillofacial, breast and SUN prostate surgery. It will look at the relationship between SUN patient and doctor as the various surgical options are SUN considered. SUN As part of the programme Jenni will attend a mastectomy. SUN The program is presented by Jenni Murray and produced in SUN Manchester by Nicola Swords SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pr8bh (Listen) SUN Eric Robson and the Gardeners' Question Time panel SUN remember the late John Cushnie, whose untimely death was SUN announced over the New Year. SUN SUN 14:45 Gameboy v The Mongolian Steppe b00cmqnc (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Series following the exploits of a computer games-obsessed SUN 14-year-old with learning difficulties who is taken to SUN Mongolia by his father to experience the more exciting SUN side of life. SUN The family leave Beijing on the Trans-Mongolian Express on SUN their way to Ulan Bator, where they plan to equip SUN themselves for their stay with nomads on the snowy wastes SUN of the steppes. Sarah kits herself out in the traditional SUN dress - a long fleece lined del - and Dexter tries to SUN persuade his dad to buy him a hunting knife. Dexter's SUN computer game causes much excitement in the capital's main SUN square. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00psqvj (Listen) SUN The Custom of the Country, Episode 3 SUN Dramatisation by Jane Rogers of Edith Wharton's 1913 SUN satire of marriage and money in early-20th century SUN American society. SUN Undine's plans to secure a better future for herself move SUN on apace, but will she ever find real happiness? SUN Mrs Heeny ...... Lorelei King SUN Elmer Moffatt ...... Tom Hollander SUN Ralph Marvell ...... Dan Stevens SUN Undine Spragg ...... Rebecca Night SUN Marquise de Chelles ...... Olwen May SUN Raymond de Chelles ...... Joseph Kloska SUN Princess Estradina ...... Provence Maydew SUN Paul ...... Daniel Rogers SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00psqvl (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the creator of the phenomenally SUN successful Lemony Snickert children's books, Daniel SUN Handler. A Series of Unfortunate Events, his 13 volumes SUN chronicling the sufferings of the Baudelaire orphans, have SUN sold over 50 million copies in the last decade. He SUN explains how painful family history led to the dark tone SUN of his work. SUN Kati Nicholl joins Mariella to choose some of her SUN favourite recent audiobooks, from Conan Doyle to Cormac SUN McCarthy. SUN Seventy years after the death of Mikhail Bulgakov, the SUN author of novels including The Master and Margarita, two SUN fans discuss his work. The writer and broadcaster Misha SUN Glenny - the son of Bulgakov's first translator - and the SUN novelist's biographer Julie Curtis explore the life of a SUN writer now regarded as one of Russia's greatest. SUN BOOK LIST: SUN Lemony Snickert's A Series of Unfortunate Events (13 SUN volumes) SUN Publisher: Egmont Press SUN Mikhail Bulgakov: The Master and Margarita (trans. Michael SUN Glenny) SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN Mikhail Bulgakov: A Country Doctor's Notebook (trans. SUN Michael Glenny) SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN Mikhail Bulgakov: Diaboliad (trans. Michael Glenny) SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN Mikhail Bulgakov: The Heart of a Dog (trans. Michael SUN Glenny) SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN Mikhail Bulgakov: The White Guard (trans. Michael Glenny) SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN Mikhail Bulgakov: Black Snow: a Theatrical Novel (trans. SUN Michael Glenny) SUN Publisher: Vintage SUN KATI NICHOLL'S AUDIOBOOK PICKS SUN Cormac McCarthy: No Country for Old Men, read by Sean SUN Barrett SUN Publisher: Naxos SUN Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Hound of the Baskervilles, SUN read by David Timson SUN Publisher: Naxos SUN George Orwell: Animal Farm, read by Simon Callow SUN Publisher: CSA SUN Alice Sebold: The Lovely Bones, read by Allyssa Bresnahan SUN Publisher: Macmillan SUN Antonia Fraser: Must You Go?, read by Lyndsey Duncan SUN Publisher: Orion SUN SUN 16:30 Consorting With Angels b00psqvn (Listen) SUN A tribute to the life and work of American poet Anne SUN Sexton. SUN Featuring poetry, home video archive and dramatised SUN transcripts of audio tapes recorded during Sexton's SUN psychotherapy sessions. Anne's daughters Linda and Joyce SUN remember their mother, and her close friend JD McClatchy SUN and former psychiatric nurse and poet Anne Rouse share SUN their thoughts on a truly remarkable woman. SUN SUN 17:00 Closing Guantanamo b00pqn29 (Listen) SUN President Obama has admitted that the process of closing SUN the controversial prison camp in Guantanamo Bay will take SUN longer than the 12 months he promised in his first major SUN announcement as president. Jon Manel reveals the inside SUN story of what went wrong. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00ps5f4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00psr3d (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00psr3g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00psrcs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00psrcv (Listen) SUN Simon Parkes introduces his selection from the last seven SUN days of BBC Radio. SUN Chris Evans - Radio 2 SUN Simon Mayo - Radio 2 SUN Radcliffe and Maconie - Radio 2 SUN Ruthless and Brilliant - Radio 4 SUN At Any Cost - Radio 4 SUN Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats - Radio 4 SUN Ed Reardon's Week - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: Must You Go? - Radio 4 SUN Front Row - Radio 4 SUN The Frost Collection - Radio 4 SUN Guantanamo Reunited - Radio 5live SUN Deep Cut - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: The ITV Story - Radio 4 SUN The Jonestown Letters - Radio 4 SUN Midnight Feasts and Lashings of Ginger Beer - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00psrt6 (Listen) SUN Jazzer has a blast with Fallon. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00psrt8 (Listen) SUN While a nation waits for Obama to deliver his State of the SUN Union Address, Americana asks why wait? We deliver our own SUN State of the Nation programme. SUN Kevin Connolly hears from the celebrated Haitian American SUN author Edwidge Danticat to learn more about what life is SUN like in Haiti and the view from the United States. America SUN has halted deportation of Haitians living within its SUN borders. It remains unclear whether the nearly 30,000 SUN Haitians living in the US will be granted Temporary SUN Protective Status and allowed to stay indefinitely. SUN James Fallows, national correspondent for The Atlantic, SUN joins us to discuss the long-term outlook for United SUN States, and attempts to answer the question 'Can America SUN rise again?' SUN The United States Census just launched its 2010 campaign. SUN Its work will have a last political, social and economic SUN impact on the country. Census Director Robert Groves SUN explains how the survey works and what powers he has to SUN say 'no' to the man in the White House. SUN We also hear from some of the nation's newest citizens at SUN a naturalization ceremony in Richmond, Virginia. At a time SUN when so many in the US feel demoralized about the SUN country's future, Americana hears what makes these newbies SUN feel optimistic about officially joining the country. SUN There is one US citizen who continues to inspire Americans SUN around the nation, even though he is no longer with us. On SUN Monday the United States observes a national holiday in SUN honour of Martin Luther King Jr. Americana hears from SUN third graders in Illinois about what they'd ask Martin SUN Luther King Jr if they had the chance. SUN Haitian in America: Part 1 SUN Kevin Connolly talks to author Haitian American author SUN Edwidge Danticat for a better understanding of the view of SUN Haiti from the United States. Danticat’s vivid writing SUN speaks eloquently and often heartbreakingly of life on the SUN island. She lives in Miami Florida where she is an SUN advocate for the Haitian community and has spoken for the SUN halt of repatriation of Haitians currently in the United SUN States. SUN SUN James Fallows SUN Kevin Connolly talks to James Fallows, National SUN Correspondent for The Atlantic. The two discuss how Haiti SUN fits into America’s international diplomacy agenda and SUN about what domestic issues may move into the spotlight SUN going forward. SUN SUN The U.S. Census SUN The 2010 U.S. Census has kicked off its efforts to learn SUN more about every person living within the borders of the SUN United States. Americana speaks to U.S. Census director SUN Robert Groves about the goals for the 2010 investigation SUN and how the results may influence the distribution of SUN federal support for communities around the nation. SUN SUN Useful Links: The Big Count Archive SUN A hallmark of each decennial census is the high priority SUN goal of engaging the public and motivating full SUN participation in The Big Count. The Big Count galleries SUN provide glimpses of films, videos, photographs and audio SUN from a cross-section of decennial census promotional SUN efforts - all of which highlight the benefits of SUN completing the national census form. SUN SUN America’s newest citizens SUN It's not just Haitians who would like to become U.S. SUN citizens. Americana meets some of the nation's newest SUN citizens at this week's naturalization ceremony in SUN Richmond, Virginia. SUN SUN Martin Luther King Jr. Day SUN Monday is Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. While many SUN around the world are taking up his call to action by SUN lending money, supplies and time to Haiti, across the SUN United States some Americans will observe the national SUN holiday (a day off from work) by spending time doing SUN community service and reflecting on the civil right’s SUN leader’s goals for the U.S. Chicago-area independent SUN producer David Green surveyed his class of third graders SUN and found they had questions they would ask Martin Luther SUN King Jr. if they’d had the chance. SUN SUN Useful Links: Third Grade Audio SUN Third Grade Audio from North Shore Country Day School in SUN Winnetka, Illinois (just north of Chicago) writes, records SUN and produces (with the help of Producer David Green and SUN co-teacher Amy Kenyon) audio pieces that document the SUN world as seen, heard and experienced by eight and SUN nine-year-olds. SUN Third Grade Audio SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00b0t4s (Listen) SUN An Italian Bestiary, The Smiling Shepherd 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 In February, Giovanni the shepherd begins to move his SUN flock of sheep and goats back to the high mountain. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00pr8bc (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the team ask if the electoral system is SUN biased in favour of Labour, as some Conservatives claim, SUN and why Wales is so frequently used as a unit of SUN measurement. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00prd50 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN Sir Donald Acheson SUN Chief Medical Officer who had to deal with the public SUN management of BSE, HIV/AIDS and salmonella SUN Sir Donald Acheson was the eminent epidemiologist who SUN became the government’s Chief Medical Officer. For eight SUN years from 1983 he had the difficult task of advising both SUN ministers and the public on the pressing health issues of SUN the day. In the early eighties, he chaired a study group SUN investigating primary health care in inner London which SUN made more than a hundred recommendations for urgent SUN changes in the way GPs, hospitals and community nursing SUN worked. But it was as Chief Medical Officer that he came SUN to wider public attention. SUN We speak to Edwina Currie who worked with Donald Acheson SUN when she was a Junior Health Minister and to the Chief SUN Executive of the General Medical Council, Niall Dickson, SUN who was the BBC’s Health Correspondent in the 1980s. SUN Born 17 September 1926, died 10 January 2010. SUN SUN Eric Rohmer SUN Idiosyncratic French film-maker who was a leading figure SUN in the cinema of the postwar new wave SUN Like many of his colleagues, Eric Rohmer had been a critic SUN and academic writing for the influential magazine “Cahiers SUN Du Cinema”. Once he had begun directing, he stayed true to SUN the New Wave principles for the rest of his long career. SUN Rohmer grouped his films into cycles, starting with Six SUN Moral Tales of which Ma Nuit Chez Maude is considered a SUN particular highlight, then Comedies and Proverbs, which SUN included Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune and Tales of the Four SUN Seasons. SUN Matthew talks to Professor of film studies at King’s SUN College London, Ginette Vincendeau, to the actress Lucy SUN Russell and to the film director and producer Barbet SUN Schroeder. SUN Born 21 March 1920, died 11 January 2010. SUN SUN Lady Philippa Scott SUN Wildlife photographer and champion of conservation with SUN her husband, Sir Peter Scott SUN Philippa Scott was born in South Africa and spent her SUN childhood on a farm. During the war she worked in SUN intelligence at Bletchley Park and then took a job as SUN secretary to Peter Scott. She became as passionately SUN devoted to wildlife as he was and they married in SUN Reykjavik during an expedition to ring pink footed geese. SUN After Sir Peter’s death in 1989, Lady Scott continued her SUN commitment to the trust which runs Slimbridge and carried SUN on her enthusiasm for scuba diving well into her eighties. SUN Matthew speaks to the TV presenter Kate Humble who is SUN President of the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds SUN and to Martin Spray, the Chief Executive of the Wildfowl SUN and Wetlands Trust at Slimbridge. SUN Born 22 November 1918, died 6 January 2010. SUN SUN Willie Mitchell SUN Memphis musician who produced soul classics and made a SUN star of Al Green SUN Perhaps best known for his association over many years SUN with the great Al Green, Willie Mitchell worked with SUN scores of stars at his famous Royal studios. He was also SUN an arranger and the leader of a group of top session SUN musicians who were much in demand. But Willie also had SUN hits in his own right, such as Buster Browne and Soul SUN Serenade. SUN We hear from the legendary soul singer Solomon Burke and SUN from music journalist Paul Sexton. SUN Born 23 March 1928, died 5 January 2010. SUN SUN Miep Gies SUN Last surviving member of the group who helped protect Anne SUN Frank and her family from the Nazis and guardian of Anne’s SUN now world famous diary SUN Miep Gies was one of a small group of people who hid Anne SUN Frank and her family from the Nazis during the second SUN world war. And, after the family were discovered and SUN arrested, Miep preserved Anne Frank’s diary. The writings SUN of the teenage girl vividly describe the family’s SUN experiences of hiding from the persecution of the Jews in SUN Amsterdam by the occupying German forces. Anne, her sister SUN and mother all died in concentration camps. But, after the SUN war, Miep Gies was able to present Anne’s diary to her SUN father Otto and later helped him to get it published. SUN Born Hermine Santrouschitz in Vienna, 15 February 1909, SUN died 11 January 2010. SUN SUN Bobby Charles SUN Singer-songwriter and author of 'See you Later Alligator' SUN Bobby Charles was a Cajun who had been born Robert Charles SUN Guidry in Abbeville Louisiana. He composed many songs in SUN his career, but will best be remembered for Walking to New SUN Orleans which was a hit for Fats Domino, and See You SUN Later, Alligator recorded by Bill Haley and the Comets SUN Born 21 February 1938, died 14 January 2010. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00ps3wc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00psp8x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today.] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00pr72d (Listen) SUN Doing It Wrong SUN Russell Ackoff was a great subversive - a business school SUN professor who thought that business schools were a block SUN on management thinking and who delighted in pointing out SUN the flaws in the way companies work. Before he died at the SUN age of 90 in October 2009, this business rebel gave Peter SUN Day some insights into his unconventional approach to SUN getting things done. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00psrtb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00psrtd (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN More Than A Game. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00prd52 (Listen) SUN Director Andrea Arnold discusses her controversial drama SUN Fish Tank and how she discovered her star on a station SUN platform having an argument with her boyfriend. SUN Novelist Jonathan Coe and historian Matthew Sweet mull SUN over the qualities of forgotten British melodrama They SUN Were Sisters. SUN Jacques Audiard tackles crime and punishment in his prison SUN drama A Prophet. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00ps6qs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today.] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 JANUARY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00pstm1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00pr4wz (Listen) MON Professor Jytte Klausen maintains that the crisis MON following the publication of cartoons depicting Mohammed MON in the Jyllands-Posten newspaper in Denmark back in 2005 MON was stirred up by different sets of people all with MON something to gain from precipitating a crisis. MON Her detailed analysis of the course of events claims to MON show that irresponsible newspaper publishers, vested MON interests in elections in Denmark and Egypt, and later MON Islamic extremists seeking to destabilise governments in MON Pakistan, Lebanon, Libya and Nigeria all played a part in MON orchestrating the upset. MON Also, Laurie Taylor talks to Les Back and Mike Robinson, MON editor of The Framed World: Tourism, Tourists and MON Photography, about the hidden significance of holiday MON snaps. What are people hoping to achieve when they MON 'capture' a scene and what does the holiday pose tell us MON about modern mores? MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00ps6kn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday.] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pstnq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pstsp (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pstq6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00pstw7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00psv51 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev Kelvin MON Holdsworth. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00psv9j (Listen) MON Multi-storey growing could be the future of farming in UK MON towns and cities. Europe's first vertical farm is being MON piloted at Paignton zoo in Devon. In Kevin Frediani's MON farm, 11,000 plants are growing in trays stacked three MON metres high while rotating around the glasshouse. If the MON pilot's a success, this could open up the way for schools, MON hospitals and housing estates in cities and towns to grow MON their own vegetables. MON Also, the number of rats in the UK is on the rise by MON around 15 per cent a year. As rats become resistant to MON some poisons, farmers are being warned that they risk MON killing wildlife if they're not careful. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00pxhwy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00psvbm (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00pxj6d (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe is caught in a web of deception, as Ben MON Macintyre retells one of the greatest hoaxes of World War MON 2, and the writer John Guare talks about the duplicity at MON the heart of his most famous play, Six Degrees of MON Separation. AL Kennedy makes a plea for the purpose and MON point of art in the 21st century. And the all-important MON catchy book title: would James Bond have sounded quite so MON adventurous if The Undertaker's Wind had triumphed over MON Live and Let Die? The biographer Frances Spalding MON discusses choosing the right name. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwmgq (Listen) MON Making Us Human (2,000,000-8,000BC), Mummy of Hornedjitef MON The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, MON retells the history of human development from the first MON stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects MON from the Museum. MON At the age of eight, Neil visited the British Museum for MON the first time and came face to face with an object that MON fascinated and intrigued him ever since, an Egyptian MON mummy. Hornedjitef was a priest who died around 2,250 MON years ago, and he designed a coffin that, he believed, MON would help him navigate his way to the afterlife. Little MON did he know that this afterlife would be as a museum MON exhibit in London. This ornate coffin holds secrets to the MON understanding of his religion, society and Egypt's MON connections to the rest of the world. MON Neil tells the story of Hornedjitef's mummy case with MON contributions from egyptologist John Taylor, Egyptian MON author Ahdaf Soueif and Indian economist and Nobel Prize MON winner Amartya Sen. MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pwp1y (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pwp20 (Listen) MON The Postman of Good Hope, Episode 1 MON By Al Smith, inspired by a true story. MON When Nicholas returns to his village after fighting in the MON civil war, he discovers that none of the post has been MON delivered. MON Nicholas ...... Steve Toussaint MON Grub ...... Nyasha Hatendi MON The Mayor ...... Patrice Naiambana MON Caramella ...... Chipo Chung MON Inspector Shandy ...... Jimmy Akingbola MON Perdita ...... Adjoa Andoh MON Loupe ...... Darren Hart MON The Oracle ...... Anni Domingo MON Cornelius ...... Ilario Bisi-Pedro MON The Boy ...... Isaac Ajala MON Directed by Sally Avens. MON MON 11:00 Obama's Babies b00pxjpp (Listen) MON In Swahili Obama means 'blessed one' and mothers across MON Africa were quick to bestow the name on their offspring. MON 'Obama babies' followed in America and across Europe as MON parents grasped at the hope that the President Elect's MON magic could rub off on their children. But one year on and MON with the President's dreams being tested by reality, how MON have some of the babies named after him fared? MON Peter White explores the hopes and fears of five families MON and follows their lives as the babies approach their first MON birthdays. For the babies - including Nancy Otieno's son, MON Barack Obama, and Sasha Fisher's baby, Sanjae Obama - it MON will be years before they fully comprehend the hopes and MON aspirations imbued in a name. MON The programme focuses on five very different families, MON examining how our changing world, in part shaped by the MON man they so admire, is having an impact on their MON experiences. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00pxjpr (Listen) MON Series 6, Charity Begins Next Door MON Comedy series by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. MON Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger MON and master of the abusive email, attempts to survive in a MON world where the media seems to be run by idiots and lying MON charlatans. MON Ed has a new member in his writing class, and unlike Stan, MON Olive and Pearl, Clive is actually impressed by Ed's MON writing portfolio. Thus it is that Ed finds he has a MON protege who not only wants to emulate his life, but more MON fortuitously will help him to write a rather dull speech MON on water shortages in Africa for the agency's charity MON auction. MON Ed Reardon ...... Christopher Douglas MON Olive ...... Stephanie Cole MON Felix ...... John Fortune MON Clive ...... Tony Gardner MON Jaz ...... Philip Jackson MON Pearl ...... Rita May MON Ping ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Stan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00pwppf (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Peter White. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00pwpsr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00pwptl (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00pxjzx (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs another semi-final of the perennial MON general knowledge contest, with heat winners Martin Boult MON from Basingstoke, David Clark from Port Talbot, Jane Ann MON Liston from St Andrews and Anthony Payne from St Bees in MON Cumbria competing for a place in the final. MON Contestants MON Martin Boult from Basingstoke MON David Clark from Port Talbot MON Jane Ann Liston from St Andrews MON Anthony Payne from St Bees MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00psrt6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday.] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pxjzz (Listen) MON Some Secluded Glade MON Psychological thriller by Hugh Costello. MON Following a fall and severe concussion, Tom Beaumont's MON grasp on reality begins to weaken, with terrifying results MON for his family. MON Tom Beaumont ...... Patrick Fitzsymons MON Gail Beaumont ...... Cathy Belton MON Toby Beaumont ...... Robbie Gilmore MON Bruno ...... Sean Campion MON Megan ...... Maggie Cronin MON Dr Marriott ...... Melissa Advani MON Sgt Osborne ...... Hugh Costello MON Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00ps5f8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday.] MON MON 15:45 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00lydhb (Listen) MON The Great Omar MON Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick MON Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very MON different missing works of art. MON Rick tells the story behind the fabulous jewelled binding MON of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, which was encrusted with MON over a thousand diamonds, rubies and emeralds and was MON regarded as the finest work produced by the bindery of MON Sangorski and Sutcliffe. Sadly it went down with the SS MON Titanic and is still lying unclaimed at the bottom of the MON ocean. MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00psp9c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday.] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00pxk01 (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss the religious traditions of MON the poorest state in the Arab world and ask why Jihadi MON networks are taking hold in Yemen. MON MON 17:00 PM b00pwqdc (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pwqfb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00pxk23 (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 2 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, recorded at MON Derby University. The panellists are Josie Lawrence, MON Justin Moorhouse, Tony Hawks and Dave Gorman. Subjects MON include how to spot a mature student and three ways to pay MON back your student loan. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00pwpyj (Listen) MON Brenda faces a crisis of confidence. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00pwqfz (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a review MON of Clive Owen as a widower learning to look after his two MON sons in the film The Boys are Back. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwmgq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] MON MON 20:00 The De-Railing of Transport 2010 b00pxk9w (Listen) MON In the 1990s, a new way of thinking about transport MON emerged. Sustainability became the buzz word, advocates of MON a so-called New Realism had the ear of government and a MON ten-year plan was hatched. But many of its ideas got no MON further than Whitehall. Chris Ledgard looks back at the MON revolution which never happened and asks if transport is MON one of the hardest ministerial briefs in government. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00pr5b6 (Listen) MON 24 Hours in Tulsa MON 24 Attacks by midget gangsters; incompetent thieves who MON resort to stealing air-conditioning units; a teenage girl MON with a crack habit who gets shot a few days after MON promising to go clean. These are just some of the MON criminals and junkies encountered by one police officer MON cruising the streets of one Midwestern US city. MON But this is Officer Jay Chiarito-Mazarrella, who created a MON cult following for his Street Story podcasts, vivid MON vignettes of his work for the Tulsa Police Department. MON Hugh Levinson hears the best of the Street Stories, giving MON a fresh, funny and sometimes downright scary insight into MON policing from the horse's mouth. MON Producer: Hugh Levinson. MON MON 21:00 The Vox Project b00pxk9y (Listen) MON Dysfunctional Voices MON Clare Balding, with the help of the Cognitive MON Neuro-Science department of University College, London, MON investigates all aspects of the human voice and the way we MON use it. MON Clare is joined by specialist speech therapist Christella MON Antoni and Dr John Local to discuss how we make sense of MON other people's voices. MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00pxj6d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00pwt5l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00pwt8y (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pwv3l (Listen) MON The Coral Thief, Episode 6 MON Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in MON Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. MON Daniel is unsettled by an encounter with Henri Jagot, the MON infamous chief of the security police, and Lucienne MON reveals a secret from her past. MON Abridged by Viv Beeby MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00pqjs7 (Listen) MON Michael Rosen investigates lying. Does the sound of our MON voice change when we are trying to deceive, and do we use MON different words? MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pwv6c (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with David Wilby. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 JANUARY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00pstkc (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwmgq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday.] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pstm3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pstq8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pstns (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00pstsr (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pstw9 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev Kelvin TUE Holdsworth. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00psv53 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00psv9l (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Taking a Stand b00pxll6 (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to people who have taken risks and made TUE sacrifices to stand up for what they believe in. TUE How does it feel to come under armed attack by Somali TUE pirates when you know you are days away from any kind of TUE protection? Peter Stapleton knows. He was master of the TUE cargo ship Boularibank when it was targeted by pirates at TUE the entrance to the Gulf of Aden. Aside from cargo and TUE crew, he was also carrying eleven passengers, including TUE his wife. Peter Stapleton tells Fergal Keane how he TUE managed to repel the boarders. TUE TUE 09:30 Famous Footsteps b00pxll8 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Author and journalist Fiona Neill explores the experience TUE of growing up in a creatively successful family. TUE What are the advantages of being born into a creatively TUE successful family, and what is the nature of the silver TUE spoon handed down from one generation to the next? Is it TUE the contacts, insider knowledge or sense of entitlement TUE that smoothes the way for the children of writers, TUE musicians and artists? Fiona talks to Jennifer Saunders, TUE Ella Edmondson, Guy Chambers and writer Kamila Shamsie to TUE find out. TUE A Paladin Invision production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7m (Listen) TUE Making Us Human (2,000,000-8,000BC), Olduvai Stone TUE Chopping Tool TUE The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, TUE retells the history of human development from the first TUE stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects TUE from the Museum. TUE Neil goes back two million years to the Rift Valley in TUE Tanzania, where a simple chipped stone marks the emergence TUE of modern humans. TUE One of the characteristics that mark humans out from other TUE animals is their desire for, and dependency on, the things TUE they fashion with their own hands. Faced with the needs to TUE cut meat from carcasses, early humans in Africa discovered TUE how to shape stones into cutting tools. From that one TUE innovation, a whole history of human development springs. TUE Neil tells the story of the Olduvai stone chopping tool TUE with contributions from flint napper Phil Harding, Sir TUE David Attenborough and African Nobel Prize winner Dr TUE Wangeri Maathai. TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pwnk2 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pwp22 (Listen) TUE The Postman of Good Hope, Episode 2 TUE By Al Smith, inspired by a true story. TUE Nicholas helps keep a young footballer's dreams alive. TUE Nicholas ...... Steve Toussaint TUE Grub ...... Nyasha Hatendi TUE The Mayor ...... Patrice Naiambana TUE Caramella ...... Chipo Chung TUE Inspector Shandy ...... Jimmy Akingbola TUE Perdita ...... Adjoa Andoh TUE Loupe ...... Darren Hart TUE The Oracle ...... Anni Domingo TUE Cornelius ...... Ilario Bisi-Pedro TUE The Boy ...... Isaac Ajala TUE Directed by Sally Avens. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00pxmcr (Listen) TUE Series 4, Wildlife Gardening TUE Gardening for wildlife is one of the most popular and TUE practical things we can do to keep in touch with the TUE natural world. But does it have any real benefits for TUE wildlife on a countrywide scale or is it merely a placebo TUE which convinces us that we're doing something to save the TUE planet? Paul Evans visits the winter conference of the TUE Wildlife Gardening Forum to find out if our efforts are TUE making a difference, and asks conservationists where the TUE future of wildlife gardening lies. TUE TUE 11:30 The House That Chekhov Built b00pxmcv (Listen) TUE The White Dacha, the house in which Chekhov wrote his TUE greatest works is falling into ruin. With the campaign to TUE save it due to culminate on the 150th anniversary of his TUE birth, actor Michael Pennington journeys to Yalta in the TUE Ukraine to get an inside view of Chekhov's life and work. TUE The White Dacha was Chekhov's place of both escape and TUE inspiration. Built in 1898 by Chekhov after the success of TUE The Seagull, he moved there to find solace after his TUE father's death and to help his ailing health due to TUE tuberculosis. The building is the genesis of some of his TUE best-loved stories but stands to be lost forever as it TUE stands on land that could be sold off; until just a few TUE months ago the house was crumbling away, the victim of TUE post-Soviet politics and the recession. TUE After he died in 1904, Chekhov's house was protected by TUE his sister, Masha, and then became a museum in 1921. As TUE Michael wanders around the house and gardens he learns how TUE it survived the Russian Revolution, civil war and Nazi TUE occupation. TUE Michael meets the individuals fighting to keep Chekhov's TUE personal and literary legacy alive, including Chekhov TUE scholar and director of the Yalta Chekhov Campaign, TUE Rosamund Bartlett. The campaign hopes to raise 200,000 TUE euros by January 2010, the 150th anniversary of Chekhov's TUE birth. TUE Others contributers to the programme include actress TUE Prunella Scales and Oscar-winning playwright Christopher TUE Hampton, both of whom have travelled to the house to take TUE inspiration from the home of their literary hero. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00pwpmv (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00pwpph (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00pwpst (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00pxmcx (Listen) TUE Series 8, Cannonball Adderley TUE Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th TUE Century. TUE Florida-born saxophonist Cannonball Adderley first made TUE his name alongside his brother Nat in the 1950s. Moving to TUE New York, he quickly found success and before long was TUE playing with Miles Davis. Drawing influence from many of TUE the greats, including Charlie Parker, John Coltrane and TUE Louis Jordan, Cannonball was one of the leading pioneers TUE of hard-bop. By the 1960s he was also prominent in the TUE soul jazz scene, becoming increasingly experimental TUE towards the end of the decade. TUE Leading British sax player Alan Barnes talks to Ken about TUE Cannonball's eclectic career. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00pwpyj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday.] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pxmcz (Listen) TUE The Lonely TUE Dramatisation by Rebecca Hughes of Paul Gallico's romantic TUE novella set during the Second World War. TUE An American airforce lieutenant suffering from battle TUE fatigue and a young English WAAF officer become lovers. TUE But when he returns to America to break off his TUE engagement, things get complicated. TUE Jerry ...... Michael Goldsmith TUE Patches ...... Laura Rees TUE Harmon ...... Sam Dale TUE Helen ...... Tracy Wiles TUE Eagles ...... Piers Wehner TUE Directed by Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00pxmf1 (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge brings together objects from around TUE the UK that are making A History of The World, including a TUE 9th-century bell in Northern Ireland and rosary beads TUE found on the Mary Rose. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pxmk1 (Listen) TUE City Of Two Continents, The Byzantine Passage TUE Series of short stories marking Istanbul's tenure as TUE European Capital of Culture in 2010. TUE A young girl's life changes forever when she glimpses the TUE man to whom she is betrothed. TUE By Jenny White, read by Melody Grove. TUE TUE 15:45 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00m17q8 (Listen) TUE The Lost Career of Charles Rennie Mackintosh TUE Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick TUE Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very TUE different missing works of art. TUE Architect, designer and artist Charles Rennie Mackintosh TUE is internationally celebrated as one of the most TUE significant talents of the late-19th and early-20th TUE centuries. His creative genius and contribution to modern TUE architecture and design is unquestioned, with his design TUE for the Glasgow School of Art undoubtedly his masterpiece. TUE But commissions were few and support for his work limited. TUE Rick examines Mackintosh's life and work and asks why he TUE received so little support during his lifetime. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Too White to Be Black b00pxn0z (Listen) TUE Kim Normanton talks to three people who are white but TUE black: they come from a black or Asian background and live TUE with albinism. Their unusual situation provides thoughtful TUE insight into questions of identity. TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE Personal stories TUE Naseem is 30 and British Asian. She has long fair hair, TUE white skin and pale eyes. She’s struggled to be accepted TUE by her Asian community and eventually left home and TUE married Richard who is white British. TUE Within the Asian community while I was growing up I was TUE seen as a bit freaky. I didn’t quite look English but I TUE was meant to be Asian. I did have an identity crisis, who TUE am I, where do I fit in? All teenagers want to fit in. So TUE a lot of the effects of what went on as a child provoked TUE me to make the decisions I made late on in life. I didn’t TUE embrace my culture. It drove me away from it. I feel like TUE I relate more to western people living in Britain because TUE of the colour of my skin. TUE Ayo is 18 and lives in London with his parents who TUE originally come from Nigeria. He talks about the TUE complications of having parents who are black when he has TUE white skin. TUE I have African features but my skin is white so I look TUE different. People tend to stare and call me ‘white boy’ if TUE they don’t know my nationality. They say – You’re not TUE black. I ask Where do you think I’m from then? It makes TUE me feel angry. I know why they’re staring but it’s TUE annoying. Everywhere I go I have to explain my story. TUE Mian is 30 and was born and raised in Punjab in Pakistan. TUE He came to Britain three years ago to study because he TUE found it impossible to live and study in Pakistan due to TUE abuse and intolerance. TUE I have white hair and pale skin. It’s really a strange TUE experience when your skin is a different colour to your TUE parents' and your sisters'. When I was growing up people TUE swore at me and pointed. They said I was cursed and called TUE me white boy and English man. At first you get a bit hurt. TUE But you get used to it. TUE So these things encouraged me to think am I English or TUE Asian? I realised it might be better for me to be an TUE English man. Where I live here most people are English. I TUE feel more comfortable here. I’m a normal man here. I look TUE like everyone else. TUE TUE The Albinism Fellowship TUE The Albinism Fellowship (AlbinismUK) provides information TUE and support for people with Albinism and their families. TUE They also provide information about the condition to TUE professionals. TUE TUE Nystagmus Network TUE Nystagmus is a condition which causes an unintentional TUE wobbling of the eyes experienced by most people with TUE Albinism. Nystagmus Network is a UK charity which provides TUE support and information for those with nystagmus. They TUE also foster research and provide information to teachers TUE and parents. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00pxn11 (Listen) TUE Series 20, Picasso TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Photographer David Bailey first saw Picasso's work in Look TUE magazine in the 1950s - it was a revelation to him. He TUE discusses the founder of Cubism's work and the enigma of TUE the man himself, and their influence on him. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00pwq9h (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pwqdf (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Act Your Age b00pxn13 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE Simon Mayo hosts the comedy show that pits the comic TUE generations against each other to find out which is the TUE funniest. TUE Team captains Jon Richardson, Lucy Porter and Adrian Walsh TUE are joined by Kevin Bridges, Jason Byrne and Johnnie TUE Casson. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00pwpxk (Listen) TUE Annette's past comes back to haunt her. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00pwqfd (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an TUE interview with the actor Jonathan Pryce. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7m (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00pxng0 (Listen) TUE In 2009, 2,445 cases, including allegations of police TUE brutality, deaths in custody and serious negligence, were TUE referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. TUE But is it truly independent, and does its record over five TUE years encourage public confidence? Gerry Northam TUE investigates. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00pxng2 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00pxng4 (Listen) TUE Aspirin is associated with preventing miscarriage, heart TUE disease and cancer, but it's not for everyone and can TUE cause complications. Mark Porter unpicks the confusing TUE messages surrounding aspirin and when it should be taken. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00pxll6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00pwt3l (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00pwt5n (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pwv38 (Listen) TUE The Coral Thief, Episode 7 TUE Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in TUE Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. TUE Lucienne receives one last and unwelcome commission. TUE Abridged by Viv Beeby TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b00pxng6 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Living in a Movie TUE Jon Ronson hears the story of conflict photographer Jason TUE Howe. Jason had gone to Colombia to photograph both sides TUE of the war when he met a Colombian woman, Marilyn, at a TUE bus stop. They quickly became romantically involved but TUE then she revealed she was a paramilitary fighter. Suddenly TUE Jason was living his life as if it were a movie, going TUE down a dangerous path that would end in tragedy. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pwv5z (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Sean Curran. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00pstkf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7m (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday.] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pstm5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pstqb (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pstnv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00pstst (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pstwc (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev Kelvin WED Holdsworth. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00psv55 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00psv9n (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00pxqh7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7p (Listen) WED Making Us Human (2,000,000-8,000BC), Olduvai Handaxe WED The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, WED retells the history of human development from the first WED stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects WED from the Museum. WED Neil follows early humans as they slowly begin to move WED beyond their African homeland, taking with them one WED essential item - a hand axe. In the presence of the most WED widely-used tool humans have created, Neil sees just how WED vital to our evolution this sharp, ingenious implement was WED and how it allowed the spread of humans across the globe. WED Including contributions from designer Sir James Dyson and WED archaeologist Nick Ashton. WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pwnk4 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pwp24 (Listen) WED The Postman of Good Hope, Episode 3 WED By Al Smith, inspired by a true story. WED Nicholas decides to stop editing the post so only good WED news is delivered. But it might be too late. WED Nicholas ...... Steve Toussaint WED Grub ...... Nyasha Hatendi WED The Mayor ...... Patrice Naiambana WED Caramella ...... Chipo Chung WED Inspector Shandy ...... Jimmy Akingbola WED Perdita ...... Adjoa Andoh WED Loupe ...... Darren Hart WED The Oracle ...... Anni Domingo WED Cornelius ...... Ilario Bisi-Pedro WED The Boy ...... Isaac Ajala WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED 11:00 QE2: Portrait of an Ocean Liner b00fkbrp (Listen) WED After 40 years as arguably the most elegant ship at sea, WED QE2 docked at her final resting place in Dubai to be WED converted into a floating hotel. The story of the ship's WED eventful life, from construction on the Clyde in the WED 1960s, through refitting as a cruise ship that epitomised WED a golden age of luxury travel, to service in the WED Falklands, is told through the words of serving and former WED staff and recordings made on board the vessel during one WED of her final cruises. WED A Falling Tree production. WED WED 11:30 Towards Zero b00pxqz1 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective WED novel. WED Lady Tresselian's house party is thrown into disarray by WED the death of her old friend Justice Treves. Meanwhile WED Nevile is feeling the strain of a house party with both WED his wife and his ex-wife in attendance. WED Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville WED Lady Tresselian ...... Marcia Warre WED MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion WED Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook WED Mary ...... Julia Ford WED Kay ...... Lizzy Watts WED Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska WED Inspector Leach ...... Philip Fox WED Royde ...... Stephen Hogan WED Receptionist ...... Annabelle Dowler WED Doctor Lazenby ...... Benjamin Askew WED Treves ...... David Hargreaves WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00pwpmy (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00pwppk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00pwpsw (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00pxqz3 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00pwpxk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pxqz5 (Listen) WED Carbon Cleansing WED By Sophie Woolley. When ex-banker Tabitha knocks 'green' WED activist Will off his bicycle with her 'Chelsea Tractor', WED two worlds literally collide. A tale of ecological WED responsibility, guilt and grimy hot tubs. WED Tabitha ...... Doon Mackichan WED Will ...... Joseph Kloska WED Samantha ...... Gemma Saunders WED Mary ...... Tessa Nicholson WED Reporter ...... John Biggins WED Directed by David Hunter. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00pxqz7 (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED small business finance. WED Guests: WED Mary Monfries, tax partner and head of UK private WED business, PricewaterhouseCoopers WED Stephen Alambritis, Federation of Small Businesses WED Ed Harber, advisor, Business Debtline. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pzhcw (Listen) WED City Of Two Continents, The Abyss as Viewed from Istanbul WED on 27th October 1962 WED Series of short stories marking Istanbul's tenure as WED European Capital of Culture in 2010. WED By Maureen Freely. The Cuban Missile Crisis as viewed from WED the streets of Istanbul. As the world stands on the brink WED of annihilation, one city resident negotiates the fears WED and preoccupations of his lovers, friends and neighbours. WED Read by Jimmy Chisholm. WED WED 15:45 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00m68s7 (Listen) WED Has Anybody Seen a Copy of Et Tu Healy? WED Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick WED Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very WED different missing works of art. WED Written by James Joyce in 1891 when he was just nine years WED old as a protest at the death of the Irish nationalist WED leader Charles Parnell, the poem Et Tu Healy was printed WED by his proud father and distributed to friends and family; WED even the Pope was sent a copy. WED But it was never published, and, apart from three lines, WED no copy of it has ever been found. Rick Gekoski asks where WED might one be, and, if one were to be found, how much it WED might be worth. WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00pxqz9 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00pxng4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 17:00 PM b00pwq9k (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pwqdh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Ayres on the Air b00mg9fy (Listen) WED Series 3, Shopping WED Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, WED anecdotes and sketches. WED Pam is joined on stage by Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity WED Montagu for poems and sketches on the subject of Shopping. WED Featuring sketches about braving the cosmetics department, WED and how some shop assistants think anyone over 40 should WED only wear beige. WED Pam's shopping poems include Nowadays We Worship at Saint WED Tesco, the Contact Lens poem and I Can't Find Nice WED Knickers, one of her briefer poems. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00pwpxm (Listen) WED Brian gives Pat a lesson in diplomacy. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00pwqfg (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review WED of the film Brothers, starring Tobey Maguire as a soldier WED sent to Afghanistan. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7p (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b00pxqzc (Listen) WED How to abolish the BBC licence fee? Nick and a panel of WED former political insiders examine how a government which WED wanted to abolish the BBC licence fee could get its way, WED and ask what opposition it would face in Whitehall, WED Westminster and White City. WED WED 20:45 More Than A Game b00pxr8k (Listen) WED The Football War WED Professor Anthony King tells the story of WED politically-significant sporting events. WED In 1969, Honduras and El Salvador played each other in a WED series of qualifying matches for the 1970 World Cup in WED Mexico. Both were absolutely determined to win, so much so WED that shortly after the final whistle of the final match, WED they went to war. It only lasted four days but thousands WED were killed and thousands more displaced. Was it really WED all about football? WED WED 21:00 Nature b00pxmcr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00pxqh7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00pwt3n (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00pwt5q (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pwv3b (Listen) WED The Coral Thief, Episode 8 WED Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in WED Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. WED Plans to break into the Jardin des Plantes advance rapidly. WED Abridged by Viv Beeby WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 23:00 Weird Tales b00pxr8m (Listen) WED Series 2, The House on Pale Avenue WED Hoarder of horror Lovecraft returns to share three more WED chilling tales. WED By Richard Vincent. Scratching in the walls, under the WED floorboards, in the pipes: their new home is trying to WED tell the Williams family something and they won't be given WED a moment's peace until its secret is out in the open. WED Geoff Williams ...... Jamie Glover WED Jane Williams ...... Julia Ford WED Sarah Williams ...... Agnes Dromgoole WED Martin Crabtree ...... John Biggins WED DCI Cram ...... Piers Wehner WED Psychiatrist ...... Melissa Advani WED Lovecraft ...... Stephen Hogan WED Directed by Gemma Jenkins. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pwv61 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Robert Orchard. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 JANUARY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00pstkh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday.] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pstm7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pstqd (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pstnx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00pstsw (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pstwf (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev Kelvin THU Holdsworth. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00psv57 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00psv9q (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in THU Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00pxrr7 (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg explores the Glencoe Massacre of 1692, and THU its impact on Scottish history. With Karin Bowie, Murray THU Pittock and Daniel Szechi. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7r (Listen) THU Making Us Human (2,000,000-8,000BC), Swimming Reindeer THU The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, THU retells the history of human development from the first THU stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects THU from the Museum. THU Found in France and dating back 13,000 years, this is a THU carving of two swimming reindeer - and it's not just the THU likeness that is striking. The creator of this carving was THU one of the first humans to express their world through THU art. But why did they do it? THU Neil tells the story of the Swimming Reindeer and its THU place in the history of art and religion with THU contributions from the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan THU Williams, and archaelogist Professor Steven Mithen. THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pwnk7 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pwp26 (Listen) THU The Postman of Good Hope, Episode 4 THU By Al Smith, inspired by a true story. THU Nicholas must deliver a letter to the Oracle of Good Hope THU but she has a surprising message for him. THU Nicholas ...... Steve Toussaint THU Grub ...... Nyasha Hatendi THU The Mayor ...... Patrice Naiambana THU Caramella ...... Chipo Chung THU Inspector Shandy ...... Jimmy Akingbola THU Perdita ...... Adjoa Andoh THU Loupe ...... Darren Hart THU The Oracle ...... Anni Domingo THU Cornelius ...... Ilario Bisi-Pedro THU The Boy ...... Isaac Ajala THU Directed by Sally Avens. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00pxs36 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Frost Collection b00pxs38 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 5 THU Sir David Frost and guests look back at some of the most THU memorable interviews of his long career. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00pwpn0 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00pxs3b (Listen) THU Fine Justice THU John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. THU Efforts by the Health and Safety Executive to ensure heavy THU punishment for serious breaches of regulations are often THU undermined by laws which are aimed at companies rather THU than the people who run them. Firms which go into THU administration after an accident can simply escape any THU penalty while the directors can set up in business again THU soon afterwards, all perfectly legally. The government has THU thus far resisted efforts to change the law to make it THU easier to prosecute individual directors. John hears how THU one firm, found guilty after men died. folded between THU verdict and sentencing, leaving a penalty of nearly half a THU million pounds unpaid. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00pwppm (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00pwpsy (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00pxshw (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 b00pwpxm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday.] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00cxbdh (Listen) THU Two-Pipe Problems, A Streetcar Named Revenge THU Plays by Michael Chaplin, set in The Old Beeches, a THU retirement home for elderly thespians. Inmates William and THU Sandy still nurse a certain affectionate animosity towards THU one another since they starred as Holmes and Watson in a THU 1960s television series. THU William and Sandy are haunted by the return of two THU characters from the past. Sandy becomes amorously involved THU through the medium of a shared passion for crosswords. THU Sandy Boyle ...... Stanley Baxter THU William Parnes ...... Richard Briers THU Hatty Doran ...... Edna Dore THU Angel Hosmer ...... Linda Broughton THU Mary Winter ...... Jillie Meers THU Edgar ...... David Shaw-Parker THU Karen ...... Tracy Wiles THU Ronnie Adair ...... Nickolas Grace THU Marie Devine ...... Susan Wooldridge THU Hugo Oberstein ...... Rad Lazar THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00ps0hx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday.] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00psp8x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday.] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pzhcp (Listen) THU City Of Two Continents, True Turk THU Series of short stories marking Istanbul's tenure as THU European Capital of Culture in 2010. THU A wise gypsy wrestler comes to the aid of a couple whose THU relationship is threatened by their families' entrenched THU prejudices. THU By Moris Farhi, read by Grant O'Rourke. THU THU 15:45 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00mbhqx (Listen) THU The Cradle of Civilisation THU Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick THU Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very THU different missing works of art. THU One of the little-reported but culturally significant THU effects of the war in Iraq has been the loss of works of THU antiquity from the country's museums. From the Iraq Museum THU in Baghdad alone, it is estimated that 15,000 objects THU dating from the dawn of civilisation have disappeared. THU Rick Gekoski examines how and why these Mesopotamian THU artefacts were looted and speculates on what may have THU happened to them. THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00psqvl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday.] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00pxshy (Listen) THU A thousand years ago, the centre of world science and THU invention was not in Europe but the Middle East. Muslim THU minds produced a flying machine in the 9th century, the THU first distillation system, surgical instuments familiar in THU a modern hospital, and the most accurate clock in 1,000 THU years. Gareth Mitchell visits the Science Museum in London THU and picks out a few exhibits from an exhibition of 1,001 THU inventions. THU THU 17:00 PM b00pwq9m (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pwqdk (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Deep Trouble b007mhzw (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU Comedy series by Jim Field Smith and Ben Willbond set THU aboard HMS Goliath, a nuclear stealth submarine. THU An overheating nuclear reactor leads to dangerous THU encounters for Captain Wade with a lobster, Fairbanks with THU a laser-guided jet and Trainor with a rather large Prince THU Albert. THU Captain Paul Wade ...... Jim Field Smith THU Commander Alison Fairbanks ...... Katherine Jakeways THU Lieutenant Jack Trainor ...... Ben Willbond THU Barry ...... Alice Lowe THU PO Curtis ...... Rufus Jones THU Narrator ...... Jonathan Ryland THU CIA Special Agent Gelati ...... Steve Furst THU Produced and directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00pwpxp (Listen) THU Eddie's van bites the dust. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00pwqfj (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a review THU of the British premiere of the play The Little Dog THU Laughed, a Hollywood satire starring Tamsin Greig and THU Rupert Friend. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7r (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00pxslj (Listen) THU Every week children who arrive alone in the UK and claim THU asylum go missing from local authority care. Many are THU believed to have been trafficked to work in brothels, THU cannabis factories and private homes or in street crime. THU Angus Crawford examines how criminals are using loopholes THU in the system to exploit these children. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00pxsyk (Listen) THU Ready to Wear THU Many of our clothes are made by low-paid workers in THU low-cost countries. But when In Business got involved, a THU factory was closed and working conditions improved. From THU Bangladesh, Peter Day found out what happens when THU westerners intervene. THU THU 21:00 Hot House Kids b00gkz12 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Former prima ballerina Deborah Bull investigates the THU advantages and the pitfalls of being an elite performer in THU the arts and sport and what young people need to succeed. THU She also looks at the physiological advantages and THU problems of attaining perfection, discovering the optimum THU and the safe age to begin meaningful training. THU Deborah started ballet training at the age of seven - THU dangerously close to the age at which, however hard she THU worked, she would have been too late to consider a career THU on the international ballet stage today. The ability to THU excel at complex and extreme physical endeavours in ballet THU and other performing arts and sport requires a combination THU of two things: a highly trained body and an expert brain. THU To achieve the levels of excellence necessary to compete THU on the global job market today you have to start young, THU taking advantage of the brain's early plasticity and the THU increased potential for muscle flexibility in THU pre-adolescents. In the UK, most little girls (and some THU boys) start serious dancing and music training at around THU the age of seven. A UK child has some degree of choice and THU control and, after a few years, the ability to decide THU whether or not to pursue one of the activities as a THU professional career. However, in some countries in Eastern THU Europe and Asia children enter full time training as young THU as three - gymnastics and ballet training are key examples THU - and endure challenging physical and mental regimes to THU ensure that they are ready to compete - and achieve the THU highest standards as soon as they reach double figures. THU On a journey that takes Deborah to the Ukraine, she visits THU the National Ballet School in Kiev, the elite football THU training centre at Dynamo Kiev and the National Gymnastics THU centre in Kiev where she discovers why elite athletes are THU achieving such high levels of achievment in Eastern Europe. THU Because of the growing number of top-class performers THU coming out of Asian countries she also has contributions THU from members of the national ballet school in Korea. THU In this first programme Deborah looks at the physiological THU development of a young person, what happens to the body THU and the brain of an elite child and what key things are THU needed to help nurture and realise its potential. She also THU discovers that if a child is to avoid some of the short- THU and long-term injuries which result in top class training THU he or she may have to compromise on standards. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00pxrr7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00pwt3q (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00pwt5s (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pwv3d (Listen) THU The Coral Thief, Episode 9 THU Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in THU Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. THU Daniel arranges a meeting with Henri Jagot and plays his THU trump card. THU Abridged by Viv Beeby THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 23:00 House On Fire b00pxtwg (Listen) THU Neighbourhood Watch THU Comedy by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman. THU After trouble with some local youths, Vicky sets up a THU neighbourhood watch scheme. Matt is completely THU uninterested - until, that is, he meets Lindsay, a glamour THU model from down the road, and suddenly discovers his sense THU of social duty. THU Vicky ...... Emma Pierson THU Matt ...... Jody Latham THU Col Bill ...... Rupert Vansittart THU Julie ...... Janine Duvitski THU Peter ...... Philip Jackson THU Lindsey ...... Kellie Shirley THU With Fergus Craig, Colin Hoult and Ned Leadbeater. THU Directed by Clive Brill and Dan Hine THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pwv63 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with David Wilby. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 JANUARY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00pstkk (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pstm9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pstqh (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pstnz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00pstt0 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pstwh (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with the Very Rev Kelvin FRI Holdsworth. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00psv59 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00psv9s (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00psp99 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday.] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7t (Listen) FRI Making Us Human (2,000,000-8,000BC), Clovis Spear Point FRI The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor, FRI retells the history of human development from the first FRI stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects FRI from the Museum. FRI Neil describes an object that dates from the earliest FRI settlement of North America, around 13,000 years ago. It FRI is a deadly hunting weapon, used by the first inhabitants FRI of the Americas. FRI This sharp spearhead helps us understand how humans spread FRI across the globe. By 11,000 BC humans had moved from FRI north-east Asia into the uninhabited wilderness of north FRI America; within 2,000 years they had populated the whole FRI continent. How did these hunters live, and how does their FRI Asian origin sit with the creation stories of modern-day FRI Native Americans? FRI Including contributions from Michael Palin and American FRI archaeologist Gary Haynes. FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pwnk9 (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pwp28 (Listen) FRI The Postman of Good Hope, Episode 5 FRI By Al Smith, inspired by a true story. FRI Nicholas and Grub go on trial for fictionalising the mail. FRI Nicholas ...... Steve Toussaint FRI Grub ...... Nyasha Hatendi FRI The Mayor ...... Patrice Naiambana FRI Caramella ...... Chipo Chung FRI Inspector Shandy ...... Jimmy Akingbola FRI Perdita ...... Adjoa Andoh FRI Loupe ...... Darren Hart FRI The Oracle ...... Anni Domingo FRI Cornelius ...... Ilario Bisi-Pedro FRI The Boy ...... Isaac Ajala FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI FRI 11:00 US Health Reform: Beware of Side Effects! b00n8ss0 (Listen) FRI America is the world leader in medical innovation, and FRI many advances in medicine have been instrumental in FRI helping Americans and people all over the world to live FRI longer and healthier lives. So should we be worried in the FRI UK that healthcare reform in America may impact on the FRI sorts of drugs and technologies that NHS patients have FRI access to? FRI In 2008, the US pharmaceutical industry spent 65 billion FRI dollars on research and development, and they have made it FRI clear that 'reform must protect the US's lead in medical FRI innovation'. FRI Justin Webb investigates whether all that money, FRI prohibitively expensive drugs and cutting-edge technology FRI translates to better healthcare and asks if cuts can been FRI made without stifling innovation. FRI He talks to those who are involved in making the decisions FRI and those who will be affected by them when the health FRI reform bill is delivered to the president, and speaks to FRI leading figures in the NHS to ask if American fears are FRI well founded. FRI FRI 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00pxvds (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Musical 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 Owing to the huge success of shows like Miss Saigon, Cats FRI and Annie Get Your Coat, Arthur decides 'his time is now' FRI and devises his own autobiographical musical tribute to FRI himself, Count Arthur Strong: The Musical. Hoping to raise FRI the money to take it into the West End, Arthur performs FRI highlights of the show to an invited audience of potential FRI investors. Will he raise the money he needs to make his FRI dream come true? FRI With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and FRI Alastair Kerr. FRI A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for FRI BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00pwpn2 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00pwppp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00pwpt0 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00pxvdv (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 b00pwpxp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b009xspl (Listen) FRI Grace FRI Intimate family drama by Mick Gordon and AC Grayling. FRI Grace, a scientist and champion of atheism, is faced with FRI the decision of her son Tom to become a priest. FRI Grace ...... Paola Dionisotti FRI Tom ...... Will Keen FRI Tony ...... Trevor Peacock FRI Ruth ...... Priyanga Burford FRI Michael ...... Nathan Osgood FRI Directed by Mick Gordon. FRI A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pxvdx (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs a correspondence edition of the popular FRI horticultural forum. FRI Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Matt Biggs answer FRI listeners' questions sent in by post and email. FRI Jon Stokes of The Tree Council joins the programme to FRI discuss the problem of sudden oak death. FRI FRI 15:45 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00mg3yq (Listen) FRI The Destroyed Portrait of Winston Churchill FRI Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick FRI Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very FRI different missing works of art. FRI Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill, FRI commissioned by both Houses of Parliament as a tribute to FRI Churchill on the occasion of his 80th birthday, was FRI destroyed after his death by his wife because she hated it FRI so much. Photographs taken before its demise show the FRI Prime Minister hunched with age and dark in mood. A FRI detailed study by the artist for the destroyed painting FRI still hangs in the National Portrait Gallery. FRI Rick tells the story behind this lost portrait and asks if FRI the rights of an owner override those of the public, and FRI if the Churchills had the moral right to destroy it. FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00pxvr3 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00pxvr5 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Peter Jackson about his adaptation FRI of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones. Director Park Chan FRI Wook discusses his Korean vampire movie Thirst, which is FRI being released on DVD. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00pwq9p (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pwqdm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00pxvr7 (Listen) FRI Series 70, Episode 3 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists are Francis Wheen, Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman FRI and Sue Perkins. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00pwpxr (Listen) FRI Lilian gets a blast from Matt's past. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00pwqfl (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00pwn7t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00pxvr9 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the BBC FRI Radio Theatre in London. The panel includes author Anthony FRI Horowitz, Lord Victor Adebowale and Bob Crow, general FRI secretary of the RMT. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00pxvrc (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00q3f44 (Listen) FRI The Accountant of Solyanka Square FRI By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. FRI Now that Andrei's business interests are legitimate, he FRI never talks about how he made his millions. But when he is FRI kidnapped by his estranged son Victor, who will stop at FRI nothing to get answers, he is forced to reveal his secrets. FRI Set against the backdrop of Russia's turbulent recent past FRI - from the Soviet Union's fall to Putin's rise - this FRI slick thriller explores the period which gave birth to the FRI now infamous 'oligarchs'. FRI Andrei ...... Steven Mackintosh FRI Victor ...... Steven Webb FRI Alina ...... Kate Ashfield FRI Chubatkin ...... Struan Rodger FRI Valentin ...... Ben Crowe FRI Orlovsky ...... John Rowe FRI Verzirov ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Uzrovskaya ...... Liz Sutherland FRI Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00pwt3s (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00pwt5v (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pwv3g (Listen) FRI The Coral Thief, Episode 10 FRI Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in FRI Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. FRI Lucienne's audacious plan is carried out, and Paris' FRI subterranean quarries provide the backdrop for a vanishing FRI act. FRI Abridged by Viv Beeby FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00pxn11 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday.] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pwv65 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI