Radio 4 Listings for 30/01/2010 - 05/02/2010

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SAT       SATURDAY 30 JANUARY 2010
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SAT       00:00 Midnight News b00q44cj (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4. Followed by Weather.
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SAT       00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00q2p6g (Listen)
SAT       After the Ice Age: Food and Sex (8,000-3,000BC), Jomon Pot
SAT       The Director of the British Museum, Neil MacGregor,
SAT       retells the history of human development from the first
SAT       stone axe to the credit card, using 100 selected objects
SAT       from the Museum.
SAT       Neil tells the story of a 7,000-year-old Japanese clay pot
SAT       which has managed to remain almost perfectly intact. Pots
SAT       began in Japan around 17,000 years ago and by the time
SAT       this pot was made had achieved a remarkable sophistication.
SAT       Neil explores the history of this cooking pot and the
SAT       Jomon, the hunter-gatherer society that made it.
SAT       Archaeologists Professor Takeshi Doi and Simon Kaner
SAT       describe the significance of agriculture to the Jomon and
SAT       the way in which they made their pots and used decorations
SAT       from the natural world around them.
SAT       This particular pot is remarkable in that it was lined
SAT       with gold leaf in perhaps the 18th century and used in
SAT       that quintessentially Japanese ritual, the tea ceremony.
SAT       This simple clay object makes a fascinating connection
SAT       between the Japan of today and the emerging world of
SAT       people in Japan at the end of the Ice Age.
SAT       Producer: Anthony Denselow.
SAT       
SAT       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q44cl (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q917y (Listen)
SAT       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4
SAT       resumes at 5.20am.
SAT       
SAT       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q44cn (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       05:30 News Briefing b00q44cq (Listen)
SAT       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00q44cs (Listen)
SAT       Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea.
SAT       
SAT       05:45 iPM b00q44cv (Listen)
SAT       The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring
SAT       online conversation and debate.
SAT       
SAT       06:00 News and Papers b00q44cx (Listen)
SAT       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SAT       
SAT       06:04 Weather b00q9180 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       06:07 Open Country b00q9h9c (Listen)
SAT       In the second of two programmes set within striking
SAT       distance of the centre of London, Helen Mark seeks a sense
SAT       of community and being 'away from it all' more usually
SAT       associated with the countryside.
SAT       Among the people she meets on the banks of the River
SAT       Wandle, which flows into the Thames in Wandsworth, are the
SAT       journalist Richard Sharp who, among other things, harvest
SAT       grapes from south London allotments and gardens to make a
SAT       wine known as Chateau Tooting; Theo Pike of the Wandle
SAT       Trust, which works hard to keep the river clean and full
SAT       of fish; and anglers, gardeners and walkers who just love
SAT       messing about on, in or by the river.
SAT       It can be a challenge; two years ago a chemical spillage
SAT       from a sewage treatment works caused major pollution and
SAT       thousands of fish were killed. There is an upside, though:
SAT       as a result Thames Water has invested 500,000 pounds in
SAT       the Wandle Trust's work.
SAT       
SAT       06:30 Farming Today b00q9h9f (Listen)
SAT       Farming Today This Week
SAT       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
SAT       
SAT       06:57 Weather b00q9h9h (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       07:00 Today b00q9h9k (Listen)
SAT       With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
SAT       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
SAT       
SAT       09:00 Saturday Live b00q9h9m (Listen)
SAT       Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues
SAT       that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by Laurence
SAT       Shorter. With poetry from Susan Richardson.
SAT       studio guest :: Laurence Shorter
SAT       Writer and comedian Laurence Shorter joins Fi in the
SAT       studio this week.
SAT       
SAT       10:00 Excess Baggage b00q9h9p (Listen)
SAT       John McCarthy explores Germany with two writers who know
SAT       the country well and asks why, in such a fascinatingly
SAT       diverse and interesting place, more British tourists don't
SAT       visit. He also examines the vastly different regions
SAT       within Germany, their food, their culture and their
SAT       history.
SAT       
SAT       10:30 Travels With The Prime Minister b00q9h9r (Listen)
SAT       Every prime minister feels the need to travel. Every so
SAT       often, usually during the Parliamentary recess, they up
SAT       and off to foreign parts - to meet other great leaders, to
SAT       cheer up the troops, to show they're abreast of global
SAT       affairs, and to impress the voters back home. With them go
SAT       a motley crew of minders, civil servants and journalists.
SAT       Julia Langdon, one time political editor of the Daily
SAT       Mirror, has travelled with four prime ministers. It's a
SAT       gruelling rather than glamorous experience, constantly
SAT       crossing time zones, constantly jet lagged and rarely the
SAT       chance to get a good night's sleep or even do your
SAT       washing. But it's exciting, it serves democracy and for a
SAT       journalist it's a great source of stories.
SAT       Julia talks to some of the others who've gone travelling
SAT       with the prime minister; she hears what went right, what
SAT       went wrong and what was fun.
SAT       
SAT       11:00 Week in Westminster b00q9h9t (Listen)
SAT       All eyes were on Tony Blair's appearance before the
SAT       Chilcot Inquiry on Iraq this week. Fraser Nelson, editor
SAT       of The Spectator, and Alex Barker of the Financial Times,
SAT       who has been attending the inquiry throughout, assess
SAT       Blair's account of himself.
SAT       One of the benefits of the Iraq Inquiry is the insight it
SAT       provides into the internal workings of government. Two
SAT       publications this week, the Better Government Initiative
SAT       and a report form the Lords' Constitutional Committee,
SAT       address the relationship between Downing Street, Whitehall
SAT       and parliament. Lord Butler, a crossbencher and former
SAT       Cabinet Secretary, and Lord Norton, Professor of
SAT       Government at Hull University, discuss.
SAT       David Laws (Liberal Democrats) and David Willetts
SAT       (Conservative) talk about the recent LSE report on
SAT       inequality, plus Professor John Curtice and Anthony Wells
SAT       of UK Polling Report analyse the conclusions of the most
SAT       recent social trends survey, which shows Britain moving to
SAT       the right on economic issues.
SAT       
SAT       11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00q9h9w (Listen)
SAT       Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the
SAT       stories behind the headlines.
SAT       
SAT       12:00 Money Box b00q9h9y (Listen)
SAT       Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal
SAT       finance.
SAT       
SAT       12:30 The News Quiz b00q43vh (Listen)
SAT       Series 70, Episode 4
SAT       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
SAT       panellists are Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, Sue Perkins
SAT       and Carrie Quinlan.
SAT       
SAT       12:57 Weather b00q9hb0 (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       13:00 News b00q9hb2 (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
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SAT       13:10 Any Questions? b00q4430 (Listen)
SAT       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from
SAT       Goring-on-Thames in Oxfordshire. The panel includes Labour
SAT       MP Jon Cruddas, Liberal Democrat foreign affairs spokesman
SAT       Ed Davey, historian and columnist Max Hastings and Priti
SAT       Patel, Conservative Parliamentary candidate for Witham.
SAT       
SAT       14:00 Any Answers? b00q9hb4 (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 b009x37d (Listen)
SAT       Dr Johnson's Dictionary of Crime: A for Assassin
SAT       Comic thriller by David Ashton.
SAT       Samuel Johnson and James Boswell tackle the teeming London
SAT       underworld of 1781. How can a man who has shot another at
SAT       point blank range be saved from the gallows, and how can
SAT       the power and vested interest of a man highly placed in
SAT       His Majesty's Government be defeated?
SAT       Dr Johnson ...... Timothy West
SAT       James Boswell ...... Stuart McQuarrie
SAT       Hester Thrale ...... Joanna David
SAT       Lord Spencer ...... David Shaw-Parker
SAT       Capt John Porteous ...... Oliver Milburn
SAT       Tobias Boothroyd ...... Harry Myers
SAT       Caroline Spencer ...... Abigail Hollick
SAT       Lady Crewe ...... Teresa Gallagher
SAT       Serena Boothroyd ...... Cathy Sara
SAT       Silas Pike ...... Ron Cook
SAT       Directed by Marilyn Imrie.
SAT       A Bona Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4.
SAT       
SAT       15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00q3frb (Listen)
SAT       Series 8, Chet Baker
SAT       Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th
SAT       Century.
SAT       By his early twenties, trumpeter Chet Baker was the poster
SAT       boy of jazz with a beautiful playing style and film star
SAT       good looks. A leading exponent of 1950s 'cool jazz', his
SAT       lyrical playing drew comparisons to Miles Davis and his
SAT       career blossomed. But his life was hampered by drug
SAT       addiction and came to a brutal end in 1988.
SAT       Mike Maran, who wrote the recent hit production Chet
SAT       Baker: A Funny Valentine, joins Ken to discuss Baker's
SAT       flawed genius.
SAT       
SAT       16:00 Woman's Hour b00q9hb6 (Listen)
SAT       Weekend Woman's Hour
SAT       Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with
SAT       Jane Garvey.
SAT       Maternity matters: have promises made on choice in
SAT       childbirth been met? Impressionist Jan Ravens on how much
SAT       we pick up from our parents; Dame Jane Goodall on her
SAT       life's work in animal conservation; poet Ruth Padel on why
SAT       she's turned to novel writing; the impact of the one child
SAT       policy on China's gender balance; winning women's votes on
SAT       education - who should run schools?
SAT       
SAT       17:00 PM b00q9hb8 (Listen)
SAT       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
SAT       Quinn, plus the sports headlines.
SAT       
SAT       17:30 The Bottom Line b00q439h (Listen)
SAT       Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests to
SAT       brainstorm the world economy: where might future growth
SAT       come from? He also asks if management should be
SAT       responsible for the health of their employees; is a
SAT       healthy worker more productive?
SAT       Evan is joined by Adrian Fawcett, chief executive of the
SAT       General Healthcare Group, Hugh Hendry, hedge fund manager
SAT       and founder of Eclectica Asset Management, and Lucius
SAT       Cary, the founder and managing director of Oxford
SAT       Technology Management.
SAT       
SAT       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00q9hvg (Listen)
SAT       The latest shipping forecast.
SAT       
SAT       17:57 Weather b00q9hvj (Listen)
SAT       The latest weather forecast.
SAT       
SAT       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00q9hvl (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4.
SAT       
SAT       18:15 Loose Ends b00q9hvn (Listen)
SAT       Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of
SAT       conversation, music and comedy.
SAT       Clive is joined by film producer Michael Wearing, football
SAT       writer Brian Glanville and actress Gemma Arterton.
SAT       Gideon Coe talks to Monkee Micky Dolenz.
SAT       With comedy from Alex Horne and music from The Imagine
SAT       Village and Carolina Chocolate Drops.
SAT       
SAT       19:00 Profile b00q9hvq (Listen)
SAT       Chris Morris
SAT       Claire Bolderson profiles the satirist Chris Morris.
SAT       Best known for his cult TV shows The Day Today and Brass
SAT       Eye, he has tackled subjects considered taboo by many
SAT       people, including paedophilia, incest and suicide. His
SAT       latest offering, a film poking fun at jihadis, promises to
SAT       be no different. But who is this intensely private
SAT       individual, and where does his decidedly angry brand of
SAT       humour come from?
SAT       
SAT       19:15 Saturday Review b00q9hvs (Listen)
SAT       Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural
SAT       highlights.
SAT       
SAT       20:00 Archive on 4 b00q9hvv (Listen)
SAT       Flexible Friend or Foe
SAT       How did a little sliver of plastic take over the world?
SAT       Journalist Max Flint explores the arrival of the credit
SAT       card into British life and the huge role it plays today.
SAT       The credit card was launched by Barclays in the UK in
SAT       1966. The Barclaycard was marketed at first as a 'shopping
SAT       card', rather than a credit card, to thwart the British
SAT       public's resistance to getting into debt. Barclaycard's
SAT       first on-screen ad was called Travelling Light; it was
SAT       targeted at women and featured the famous Barclaycard
SAT       Bikini Girl who, oblivious to the shocked looks of
SAT       passers-by, is seen making her way down a busy shopping
SAT       street buying clothes and records, wearing nothing but a
SAT       lilac-coloured bikini and carrying her Barclaycard in the
SAT       bikini bottom. The advert finished with the line,
SAT       'Barclaycard: all a girl needs when she goes shopping.'
SAT       Barclaycard executives admit that the name of the first
SAT       face of Barclaycard has now been lost in the mists of
SAT       time. The Bikini Girl and subsequent marketing has now
SAT       given rise to the biggest cause of personal bankruptcies
SAT       in the UK. That first card is now accompanied by some
SAT       1,700 other credit cards in Britain alone, and we have the
SAT       unenviable record as the world's most intensive credit
SAT       card country, with 67 million cards for 59 million people.
SAT       With the launch of the first card began a technological
SAT       battle between fraudsters and card companies, and the war
SAT       is yet to be won.
SAT       The American credit companies invaded us in the mid-90's
SAT       and goaded Britain into unheard-of levels of debt. The
SAT       thrill of the till has created a spending spree which is
SAT       untempered by all the warnings from the archive news clips
SAT       in this programme, taken from over the last 40 or so
SAT       years, all of which tell us all what we already know -
SAT       that this can't continue.
SAT       
SAT       21:00 Classic Serial b00q0h3y (Listen)
SAT       The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Book 2: The
SAT       Honourable Schoolboy, Part 1
SAT       Dramatisation of John le Carre's classic novel featuring
SAT       intelligence officer George Smiley.
SAT       Set against the backdrop of the war in Indochina in 1975,
SAT       spymaster George Smiley uncovers a trail of Russian money
SAT       leading to a prominent Hong Kong citizen. But what is the
SAT       money for?
SAT       George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SAT       Jerry Westerby ...... Hugh Bonneville
SAT       Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane
SAT       Connie Sachs ...... Maggie Steed
SAT       Doc De Salis ...... Bruce Alexander
SAT       Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton
SAT       Oliver Lacon ...... Anthony Calf
SAT       Enderby ...... James Laurenson
SAT       Craw ...... Philip Quast
SAT       Ann Smiley ...... Anna Chancellor
SAT       The Girl, Phoebe ...... Tessa Nicholson
SAT       Stubbs/Wilbrahim ...... Nigel Hastings
SAT       Frost ...... Piers Wehner
SAT       Drake Ko ...... David Yip
SAT       Tiu ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu
SAT       Directed by Marc Beeby
SAT       This episode is available until 3.00pm on 14th February as
SAT       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
SAT       
SAT       22:00 News and Weather b00q9hzg (Listen)
SAT       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SAT       4, followed by weather.
SAT       
SAT       22:15 Decision Time b00q3ld0 (Listen)
SAT       Nick Robinson and a panel of politicians, civil servants
SAT       and journalists examine how controversial proposals to
SAT       tackle binge drinking would fare in Whitehall and
SAT       Westminster.
SAT       
SAT       23:00 Brain of Britain b00q2wjg (Listen)
SAT       Russell Davies chairs the last semi-final of the perennial
SAT       general knowledge contest, with heat winners Jim Cook from
SAT       Worcestershire, David Edwards from Staffordshire, Anne
SAT       Hegerty from Manchester and Simon Pitfield from the
SAT       Midlands competing for a place in the final.
SAT       Contestants
SAT       Jim Cook from Stourport
SAT       David Edwards from Denstone
SAT       Anne Hegerty from Manchester
SAT       Simon Pitfield from Birmingham
SAT       
SAT       23:30 Terezin Dreams b00q0hgk (Listen)
SAT       A few years ago writer and poet Sibyl Ruth inherited a
SAT       series of poems written by her German great aunt Rose
SAT       Scooler in 1944-45 when she was an inmate at Terezin camp.
SAT       Terezin, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was
SAT       a ghetto town in occupied Czechoslovakia used by Nazis to
SAT       hold Jews en route to extermination camps. Many prominent
SAT       Czech and German musicians and cultural figures passed
SAT       through Terezin, which was developed into a 'model' camp,
SAT       where cultural activities were permitted and encouraged,
SAT       to disguise to the outside world the true Nazi project. In
SAT       1944 the authorities permitted a visit by the Red Cross to
SAT       dispel rumours of genocide, a notorious attempt - and a
SAT       remarkably successful one - to cover-up the great crime of
SAT       the Holocaust.
SAT       The poems, which are read by Eleanor Bron, are powerful
SAT       and unexpected; they speak with an utterly singular voice:
SAT       dramatically confident, ironic, often playful and never
SAT       self-pitying. Although nothing in Rose Scooler's
SAT       privileged background could have prepared her for life in
SAT       a Nazi concentration camp, what comes through is a strong,
SAT       humorous and defiant spirit. The poems are life affirming,
SAT       and despite the terrible conditions of the camp, full of
SAT       hope - hope which was, for Rose, if not for others,
SAT       fulfilled when the camp was liberated. Rose went on to
SAT       live a long and busy life before dying in the United
SAT       States at the age of 103.
SAT       Sibyl Ruth describes how she set about translating the
SAT       poems, and the journey of discovery about Terezin she made
SAT       as she did so. The renowned Holocaust historian David
SAT       Cesarani provides the historical background to Rose
SAT       Scooler's poems, and explains the role Terezin played in
SAT       the Nazi extermination project.
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SUN       SUNDAY 31 JANUARY 2010
SUN       
SUN       00:00 Midnight News b00q9j76 (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4. Followed by Weather.
SUN       
SUN       00:30 Afternoon Reading b008x3yn (Listen)
SUN       Cupid Strikes, Stupid Cupid
SUN       Stories exploring the reality behind St Valentine's Day.
SUN       By David Threlfall.
SUN       A woman gives her family a rather unexpected Valentine's
SUN       surprise.
SUN       Read by Victoria Wood with Simon Treves as the newsreader.
SUN       Producer Heather Larmour.
SUN       
SUN       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9jsm (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9jsp (Listen)
SUN       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
SUN       
SUN       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9jsr (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       05:30 News Briefing b00q9jst (Listen)
SUN       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       05:43 Bells on Sunday b00q9jsw (Listen)
SUN       The sound of bells from All Saints Church, East Pennard in
SUN       Somerset.
SUN       
SUN       05:45 Profile b00q9hvq (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.]
SUN       
SUN       06:00 News Headlines b00q9jsy (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news.
SUN       
SUN       06:05 Something Understood b00q9jt0 (Listen)
SUN       Signposts and Route Maps
SUN       Life's not like a scene in a play where each character has
SUN       his or her own motivation or journey. Life lacks the
SUN       signposts provided by a script that knows where it's
SUN       heading. Felicity Finch considers goal-orientated and
SUN       extemporised lives, drawing on the words of acting teacher
SUN       Utah Hagen, the writing of Dave Eggers and Milan Kundera,
SUN       poetry by Joyce Sutphen and Philip Larkin and music by
SUN       Liszt, Clara Schumann and Ornette Coleman.
SUN       A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       06:35 The Living World b00q9jt2 (Listen)
SUN       Pike
SUN       The pike has a fearsome reputation as Britain's most
SUN       successful freshwater river predator. Keen fisherman and
SUN       retired freshwater biologist Mike Ladle will never forget
SUN       the first time he landed a pike. He was trying to catch
SUN       eels, and hauled up a pike instead. When he tried to
SUN       release the hook from inside its mouth, he soon found out
SUN       why fishermen treat pike with such respect: their mouths
SUN       are lined with rows of backwardly pointing teeth. They
SUN       even have teeth on their tongue, a tongue which is green
SUN       in colour! So once a pike has trapped its prey in its
SUN       mouth there is no escape from those rows of thorn-like
SUN       teeth.
SUN       Lionel Kelleway joins Mike Ladle on the banks of the River
SUN       Frome in Dorset for a spot of fishing, using a curved hook
SUN       and a dace as bait to lure their pike. While the two men
SUN       watch the cork on the line bobbing in the water, Mike
SUN       reveals some of the traits which make the pike so
SUN       successful and why these fish are not choosy about the
SUN       species of prey but the shape of the prey. Pike are also
SUN       cannibalistic and will eat their own relatives, and even
SUN       their own young.
SUN       Pike have been described as jet-propelled mouths. They are
SUN       cylindrical in shape and all the large fins are at the
SUN       rear end of the fish, which gives them the thrust they
SUN       need to spring forwards in the water after prey. They hide
SUN       under cover at the edge of the bank and then curl their
SUN       tail round which then acts like a spring to thrust them
SUN       forwards at their prey.
SUN       Years of catching, tagging, releasing and studying pike
SUN       has given Mike a fascinating knowledge of these formidable
SUN       creatures, but even so, there still remain some mysteries
SUN       about the pike as Lionel discovers when he meets a
SUN       self-confessed 'pikeoholic', gets to peer inside the mouth
SUN       of a predator and learns about a fish called Isaac.
SUN       
SUN       06:57 Weather b00q9jt4 (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       07:00 News and Papers b00q9jt6 (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       07:10 Sunday b00q9jt8 (Listen)
SUN       Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news
SUN       of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories,
SUN       both familiar and unfamiliar.
SUN       
SUN       07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00q9jtb (Listen)
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SUN       
SUN       07:58 Weather b00q9jtg (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       08:00 News and Papers b00q9jtj (Listen)
SUN       The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.
SUN       
SUN       08:10 Sunday Worship b00q9jtl (Listen)
SUN       Holocaust Memorial
SUN       On 27th January 1945, the Red Army liberated the biggest
SUN       Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz. Marking this 65th
SUN       anniversary, Dr Kevin Franz and Dr Ed Kessler share a
SUN       first visit to Auschwitz-Birkenau, a visit they had both
SUN       avoided in the past.
SUN       
SUN       08:50 A Point of View b00q4432 (Listen)
SUN       Lisa Jardine compares the reputations of American
SUN       presidents during their time in office with how they are
SUN       remembered after leaving the White House.
SUN       
SUN       09:00 Broadcasting House b00q9k4x (Listen)
SUN       News and conversation about the big stories of the week
SUN       with Paddy O'Connell.
SUN       
SUN       10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00q9k4z (Listen)
SUN       The week's events in Ambridge.
SUN       
SUN       11:15 Desert Island Discs b00q9k51 (Listen)
SUN       Mary Beard
SUN       Kirsty Young's castaway is the classicist Mary Beard.
SUN       A professor at Cambridge, she's that rare thing: a
SUN       university academic who writes for the masses. Her popular
SUN       books, blog, articles and reviews have led to her being
SUN       called 'Britain's best-known classicist'.
SUN       But while her research is steeped in the ancient world,
SUN       her commentary is all about the here and now. The
SUN       classical world speaks to us, she says, and makes us see
SUN       our own world differently.
SUN       
SUN       12:00 Just a Minute b00q3cm1 (Listen)
SUN       Series 56, Episode 4
SUN       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The
SUN       panellists are David Mitchell, Paul Merton, Julian Clary
SUN       and Gyles Brandreth.
SUN       
SUN       12:32 Food Programme b00q9k53 (Listen)
SUN       Puddings
SUN       A celebration of British puddings. Not food but medicine,
SUN       according to food writer Nigel Slater. There to heal and
SUN       comfort, to cosset and hug.
SUN       Simon Parkes explores why Britain has excelled at
SUN       producing puddings through a heritage going back to the
SUN       Norman Conquest. Mary Norwak, author of English Puddings,
SUN       explains her passion for trifle, while food writer and
SUN       publisher Tom Jaine outlines the development of the sweet
SUN       pudding through history. But how do the shop-bought
SUN       selections measure up? Award-winning company Manna from
SUN       Devon explain the success of their hand-made and home-made
SUN       puddings.
SUN       
SUN       12:57 Weather b00q9kgf (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       13:00 The World This Weekend b00q9kgh (Listen)
SUN       A look at events around the world.
SUN       
SUN       13:30 The Greening of the Deserts b00lbsbq (Listen)
SUN       Episode 2
SUN       Ayisha Yahya explores predictions from some scientists and
SUN       meteorologists that some deserts, including the Sahara,
SUN       could get greener in the future and experience more
SUN       rainfall.
SUN       Ayisha visits the Egyptian settlement of Abu Minqar, which
SUN       is entirely dependent on water from the ancient Nubian
SUN       aquifer.
SUN       Faced with ever-growing population pressure in the fertile
SUN       Nile delta, and the possibility that, according to some
SUN       scenarios of global warming, much of the delta may be
SUN       inundated by rising sea levels, scientists in Egypt are
SUN       experimenting with high-tech techniques to make the desert
SUN       bloom.
SUN       Satellite and radar imaging have enabled ancient
SUN       groundwater in the deserts to be identified and tapped.
SUN       Using water pumped from the aquifer deep below the sand,
SUN       thousands of acres of the Saharan desert have been
SUN       cultivated. The Egyptian government is keen to encourage
SUN       people to move to the desert by pressing ahead with a
SUN       controversial plan to reclaim millions more acres of
SUN       desert over the next 10 years. But is such a plan
SUN       practical or sustainable?
SUN       
SUN       14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00q43p1 (Listen)
SUN       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
SUN       Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs are
SUN       guests of the North East Hardy Plant Society in Newcastle.
SUN       Eric Robson rediscovers a long-lost design by 18th-century
SUN       the Northumbrian garden designer Capability Brown. Chris
SUN       Beardshaw meets students of Capel Manor College to discuss
SUN       the fundamentals of garden design.
SUN       Includes gardening weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       14:45 Gameboy v The Mongolian Steppe b00clmh9 (Listen)
SUN       Episode 4
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 see a fox being killed. Used to eating food
SUN       killed by others, or in Sarah's case being a vegetarian,
SUN       this is the toughest challenge of the journey so far. But
SUN       the harsh weather and conditions are a reminder of how
SUN       important meat and fur are to the nomads they are staying
SUN       with.
SUN       
SUN       15:00 Classic Serial b00q9l86 (Listen)
SUN       The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Book 2: The
SUN       Honourable Schoolboy, Part 2
SUN       Dramatisation of John le Carre's classic novel featuring
SUN       intelligence officer George Smiley.
SUN       Smiley's operation in Hong Kong becomes increasingly
SUN       dangerous when the government and American Intelligence
SUN       begin to take notice.
SUN       George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale
SUN       Jerry Westerby ...... Hugh Bonneville
SUN       Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane
SUN       Connie Sachs ...... Maggie Steed
SUN       Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton
SUN       Doc De Salis ...... Bruce Alexander
SUN       Craw ...... Philip Quast
SUN       Tiu ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu
SUN       Pelling ...... John Biggins
SUN       Mrs Pelling ...... Kate Layden
SUN       Liese Worth ...... Daisy Haggard
SUN       Hibbert ...... Ewan Hooper
SUN       Martello ...... John Guerrasio
SUN       Eckland ...... Rhys Jennings
SUN       Luke ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
SUN       Directed by Marc Beeby
SUN       This episode is available until 3.00pm on 14th February as
SUN       part of the Series Catch-up Trial.
SUN       
SUN       16:00 Open Book b00q9lzl (Listen)
SUN       Neel Mukherjee's debut novel, A Life Apart, has already
SUN       shared a major Indian literary prize with one of the
SUN       nation's modern masters, Amithav Ghosh. Neel Mukherjee
SUN       joins Mariella to discuss the novel. He reveals his
SUN       feelings about modern India, 17 years after he left the
SUN       country, and his frustration with many depictions of the
SUN       country by its own writers.
SUN       A new yearly anthology brings together fiction writing
SUN       from more than 30 European countries. The collection's
SUN       editor, Aleksandar Hemon, talks about compiling the volume
SUN       and what it reveals about the concerns of contemporary
SUN       European writers.
SUN       As a new Hollywood adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's
SUN       novel A Single Man reaches our screens, the novelist Adam
SUN       Mars-Jones and Katherine Bucknell, the editor of
SUN       Isherwood's diaries, discuss the life and legacy of the
SUN       writer.
SUN       Neel Mukherjee: A Life Apart
SUN       Publisher: Constable
SUN       Best European Fiction 2010 (ed. Aleksander Hemon)
SUN       Publisher: Dalkey Archive
SUN       Christopher Isherwood: A Single Man
SUN       Publisher: Vintage
SUN       
SUN       16:30 Poetry Please b00q9lzn (Listen)
SUN       Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, including
SUN       Stevie Smith's galloping cat and Les Murray's poem
SUN       defining the quintessentially Australian quality of
SUN       'sprawl'. Plus a whirling drunken evening with Tony
SUN       Harrison and a recollection of high summer from Sylvia
SUN       Plath and Robert Graves.
SUN       With readers Tanya Moodie, John Telfer and David Henry.
SUN       
SUN       17:00 File on 4 b00q3gjj (Listen)
SUN       A British drug company is being sued by more than 15,000
SUN       people in the United States who claim its bestselling
SUN       antipsychotic drug caused severe weight gain, diabetes and
SUN       other serious medical conditions. Ann Alexander
SUN       investigates concerns about the way it was marketed and
SUN       asks how much the public should be told about the drugs
SUN       they take.
SUN       
SUN       17:40 Profile b00q9hvq (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.]
SUN       
SUN       17:54 Shipping Forecast b00q9mcl (Listen)
SUN       The latest shipping forecast.
SUN       
SUN       17:57 Weather b00q9mcn (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00q9mcq (Listen)
SUN       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
SUN       4.
SUN       
SUN       18:15 Pick of the Week b00q9mcs (Listen)
SUN       Steve Hewlett introduces his selection of highlights from
SUN       the past week on BBC radio.
SUN       
SUN       19:00 The Archers b00q9mpq (Listen)
SUN       Clarrie and Will join forces.
SUN       
SUN       19:15 Americana b00q9n8g (Listen)
SUN       The US budget is over three trillion dollars. Matt Frei
SUN       talks to US budget expert Stan Collender to translate what
SUN       all those zeros in 'trillion' mean for the federal budget
SUN       and national debt.
SUN       Matt Frei talks to Grammy Award-winning musician Steve
SUN       Earle about how one in ten Americans face unemployment.
SUN       They discuss how those numbers affect real Americans and
SUN       the songs sung about them. Americana hears from three
SUN       people who have lost jobs in the last year, from South
SUN       Dakota, Nashville and Oregon.
SUN       Americans are counting down the days until one of the
SUN       largest national unified television viewing experiences
SUN       arrives, the Superbowl. The Superbowl typically draws over
SUN       90 million viewers. It also draws over two million dollars
SUN       for a 30-second window of advertising. The most
SUN       controversial ad in the Superbowl line-up this year brings
SUN       the abortion debate to the field.
SUN       This will be the 44th Superbowl and sports writer Don
SUN       Steinberg notes that the nation also just elected its 44th
SUN       president. Matt Frei talks to Don to learn when, if ever,
SUN       US leadership is more impressive than in its championship
SUN       football games.
SUN       
SUN       19:45 Afternoon Reading b00b737b (Listen)
SUN       Jennings' Little Hut, The Squatters
SUN       Mark Williams reads one of Anthony Buckeridge's classic
SUN       school stories, abridged in five parts by Roy Apps.
SUN       'Until Darbishire had finished making his famous
SUN       ventilating-shaft out of that disused drain-pipe, it was
SUN       just as well they had got air-conditioned walls.' It was
SUN       only a little hut, but Jennings was very proud of it. And
SUN       the other boys at Linbury Court were proud of their huts
SUN       too.
SUN       A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.
SUN       
SUN       20:00 Feedback b00q43nz (Listen)
SUN       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
SUN       and policy.
SUN       
SUN       20:30 Last Word b00q43p3 (Listen)
SUN       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
SUN       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
SUN       recently died.
SUN       
SUN       21:00 Money Box b00q9h9y (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday.]
SUN       
SUN       21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00q9jtb (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today.]
SUN       
SUN       21:30 Analysis b00q3cnl (Listen)
SUN       Are environmentalists bad for the planet?
SUN       The BBC's 'Ethical Man' Justin Rowlatt asks if the
SUN       environmental movement is bad for the planet. He explores
SUN       the philosophical roots of a way of thinking that
SUN       developed decades before global warming was an issue. He
SUN       also examines some of the ideological baggage that
SUN       environmentalists have brought to the climate change
SUN       debate, from anti-consumerism and anti-capitalism to a
SUN       suspicion about technology and a preference for natural
SUN       solutions. Could these extraneous aspects of green
SUN       politics be undermining the environmental cause, and are
SUN       some environmentalists being distracted from the urgent
SUN       task of stopping global warming by a more radical agenda
SUN       for social change?
SUN       Justin speaks to green capitalists including the
SUN       Conservative MP John Gummer, who thinks that technology
SUN       and reinvented markets hold the answer to tackling global
SUN       warming. He talks to Greenpeace chairman John Sauven about
SUN       green attitudes to so-called techno fixes, including
SUN       nuclear power, and discusses green conversion tactics such
SUN       as so-called identity campaigning with Tom Crompton from
SUN       the conservation charity WWF and Solitaire Townsend,
SUN       co-founder of the green public relations company Futerra.
SUN       The programme also hears from the leading green thinkers
SUN       Jonathon Porritt and Professor Mike Hulme, founding
SUN       director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change
SUN       Research, and from the theologian and United Nations
SUN       advisor on climate change and world religions Martin
SUN       Palmer. Martin sees parallels between some parts of the
SUN       green movement and millenarian cults who have claimed that
SUN       'the end of the world is nigh'. Justin also interviews
SUN       Andrew Simms from the New Economics Foundation, who
SUN       believes we can only tackle climate change if we are
SUN       weaned off our addiction to consumption and economic
SUN       growth.
SUN       
SUN       21:58 Weather b00q9n9m (Listen)
SUN       The latest weather forecast.
SUN       
SUN       22:00 Westminster Hour b00q9nl0 (Listen)
SUN       Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including
SUN       Turkeys Voting for Christmas.
SUN       
SUN       23:00 The Film Programme b00q43vf (Listen)
SUN       Director Lee Daniels discusses his award-winning drama
SUN       about a 400-pound African-American girl, Precious. He also
SUN       reveals why Mariah Carey ended up in a role intended for
SUN       Dame Helen Mirren and the support he was offered by Oprah
SUN       Winfrey.
SUN       Havana Marking goes behind the scenes of the Afghan
SUN       version of Pop Idol and reveals why one of the contestants
SUN       received death threats and has gone into hiding.
SUN       Film-maker and critic Mark Cousins waxes lyrical about Ozu.
SUN       Neil Brand tells us the score about the work of composer
SUN       Ron Goodwin.
SUN       
SUN       23:30 Something Understood b00q9jt0 (Listen)
SUN       [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today.]
SUN       
SUN       
MON       MONDAY 1 FEBRUARY 2010
MON       
MON       00:00 Midnight News b00q9nqj (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4. Followed by Weather.
MON       
MON       00:15 Thinking Allowed b00q3lcw (Listen)
MON       On the 1st of July 1997 Hong Kong passed out of British
MON       hands and came under Chinese rule, ending more than 150
MON       years of British control. It was an emotional moment which
MON       seemed to signify the final end to an era of British
MON       history. Many expatriates returned to the UK but a
MON       minority stayed on. Today there are still 19,000 British
MON       nationals living in Hong Kong, representing only 0.3 per
MON       cent of the population. How do they feel about the changes
MON       in the city? What has happened to the colonial life they
MON       once lead, and what do they think of people 'back home'?
MON       Laurie Taylor discusses an in-depth study by Caroline
MON       Knowles which explores the lives and attitudes of the
MON       British migrants still living in Hong Kong.
MON       Laurie also talks to Robert Ford, the co-author of a new
MON       study exploring the reasons behind people voting for the
MON       BNP, the most electorally successful far-right party in
MON       British electoral history. What are the factors behind its
MON       success? Angry White Men: Individual and Contextual
MON       Predictors of Support for the British National Party
MON       examines the social, geographical and attitudinal
MON       characteristics of the BNP voter.
MON       
MON       00:45 Bells on Sunday b00q9jsw (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday.]
MON       
MON       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yr5 (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zmd (Listen)
MON       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
MON       
MON       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yrm (Listen)
MON       The latest shipping forecast.
MON       
MON       05:30 News Briefing b00qb0cw (Listen)
MON       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
MON       
MON       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0dw (Listen)
MON       Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea.
MON       
MON       05:45 Farming Today b00qb0w8 (Listen)
MON       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
MON       
MON       05:57 Weather b00qbt24 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast for farmers.
MON       
MON       06:00 Today b00qb12z (Listen)
MON       With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk;
MON       Weather; Thought for the Day.
MON       
MON       09:00 Start the Week b00qbt26 (Listen)
MON       Stewart Brand, a pioneer of the 1960s environmental
MON       movement, tells Tom Sutcliffe that the green agenda is
MON       becoming outdated and sentimental, arguing that science
MON       and technology are the answer to a world lit by nuclear
MON       energy and fed by GM crops. The investigative journalist
MON       Felicity Lawrence warns that food science is prone to
MON       political and financial interference, and Jim Al-Khalili
MON       attempts to make chemistry exciting and entertaining.
MON       Throughout, Matthieu Ricard, dubbed by neuroscientists
MON       'the happiest man in the world', spreads a little
MON       meditative calm.
MON       
MON       09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5yf (Listen)
MON       The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), King Den's
MON       Sandal Label
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       Neil investigates the impact on human society of large
MON       numbers of people coming together in the world's first
MON       cities between 5,000 and 2,000 BC. As they did so, they
MON       developed new trade links, the first handwriting, and new
MON       forms of leadership and beliefs.
MON       All of these innovations are present in a small label made
MON       of hippo ivory that was attached to the sandal that one of
MON       the earliest known kings of Egypt, King Den, took his
MON       grave. The label not only depicts the king in battle
MON       against unknown foes but also boasts the first writing in
MON       this history of the world: hieroglyphs that describe the
MON       king and his military conquests.
MON       Neil and contributors consider whether this is just the
MON       first indication that there would never be civilisation
MON       without war.
MON       Producer: Anthony Denselow.
MON       
MON       10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb91p (Listen)
MON       With Jane Garvey.
MON       
MON       10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbbd7 (Listen)
MON       How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough),
MON       Richard
MON       By Shelagh Stephenson.
MON       Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down
MON       she's losing patience. Richard Fallon MP, once the darling
MON       of the media, now can't get an invitation onto Question
MON       Time. And he thinks he knows who's to blame.
MON       Martha ...... Cathy Belton
MON       Richard ...... Roger Allam
MON       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
MON       
MON       11:00 Listening to China b00qbv2m (Listen)
MON       BBC World Affairs Correspondent Emily Buchanan hears the
MON       little-known story of around 300 young men who were
MON       selected to learn Chinese at the start of their National
MON       Service and then sent to Hong Kong to eavesdrop on Chinese
MON       communications.
MON       In the mid 1950s, with the Cold War raging and Chairman
MON       Mao's communists in power in China, the RAF began a
MON       top-secret programme to select and train a small group of
MON       National Servicemen to carry out intelligence work in Hong
MON       Kong. For six years from 1955 about 60 a year spent 12
MON       months learning Chinese in England before being flown
MON       across the world to monitor radio broadcasts from the
MON       highest peak on Hong Kong Island for six months before
MON       being demobbed.
MON       Emily hears fom some of them about their time on a course
MON       which few had known about or chosen to do, and how it
MON       changed their lives. They recall the intensive language
MON       lessons, life in Hong Kong, the work itself and what they
MON       have since learned about their role in the Cold War.
MON       Some went on to work in intelligence, others formed the
MON       basis for a generation of professors of Chinese at British
MON       universities, and some never used their Chinese again. But
MON       all recall how the often chance decision to select them
MON       for the language course changed their lives.
MON       
MON       11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qbv2p (Listen)
MON       Series 6, Cheese Cricket
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       Despite his assumption that somewhere in the vaults of the
MON       National Health Service can be found statistics for
MON       injuries sustained in the kitchen as a result of the dash
MON       to turn the wireless off at 6.30, Ed finds himself a
MON       surprise hit when he takes part in a new Radio 4 'topical
MON       quiz with a tasty twist'.
MON       Ed Reardon ...... Christopher Douglas
MON       Olive ...... Stephanie Cole
MON       Felix ...... John Fortune
MON       Pearl ...... Rita May
MON       Ping ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy
MON       Stan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead
MON       With Dan Tetsell, Katy Wix, Tom Price and Rhys Rusbatch.
MON       
MON       12:00 You and Yours b00qbc04 (Listen)
MON       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
MON       
MON       12:57 Weather b00qbnp1 (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       13:00 World at One b00qbnrt (Listen)
MON       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
MON       
MON       13:30 Brain of Britain b00qbvg7 (Listen)
MON       Russell Davies chairs the 2010 final of the perennial
MON       general knowledge contest. Contestants Ian Bayley from
MON       Oxford, David Clark from Port Talbot, Anne Hegerty from
MON       Manchester and Rob Hannah from Torquay compete to be this
MON       year's winner.
MON       Contestants
MON       Ian Bayley from Oxford
MON       David Clark from Port Talbot
MON       Rob Hannah from Torquay
MON       Anne Hegerty from Manchester
MON       
MON       14:00 The Archers b00q9mpq (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday.]
MON       
MON       14:15 Afternoon Play b00qbvg9 (Listen)
MON       The Ditch
MON       Recorded on location, this chilling tale is written and
MON       narrated by Paul Evans.
MON       Tom Saunders, a wildlife sound recordist, goes missing,
MON       leaving only a collection of recordings and a notebook.
MON       These fall into the hands of his radio producer, who tries
MON       to piece together what has happened. His quest leads him
MON       back to the disturbing aural landscape of Slaughton Ditch,
MON       where an obsession with hidden sounds has terrifying and
MON       fatal consequences.
MON       Tom Saunders ...... Jimmy Yuill
MON       Narrator ...... Paul Evans
MON       Other parts played by Christine Hall and Richard Angwin.
MON       Wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson
MON       Directed by Sarah Blunt.
MON       
MON       15:00 Archive on 4 b00q9hvv (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday.]
MON       
MON       15:45 Key Matters b009x7g5 (Listen)
MON       C major
MON       Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to
MON       have distinct characteristics and create specific moods.
MON       1/5: He looks at the brightest and simplest of keys - C
MON       major.
MON       
MON       16:00 Food Programme b00q9k53 (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday.]
MON       
MON       16:30 Beyond Belief b00qbw64 (Listen)
MON       Ernie Rea and guests examine the rise of new monastic
MON       communities and ask what characteristics they share with
MON       traditional orders.
MON       
MON       17:00 PM b00qbqcg (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 b00qbrh6 (Listen)
MON       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
MON       4.
MON       
MON       18:30 Just a Minute b00qbw66 (Listen)
MON       Series 56, Episode 5
MON       Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Paul Merton
MON       and Charles Collingwood explain how to remember people's
MON       names, and Josie Lawrence and Chris Neill talk about puppy
MON       love.
MON       
MON       19:00 The Archers b00qbnxv (Listen)
MON       Alan camps it up for Lent.
MON       
MON       19:15 Front Row b00qbrkk (Listen)
MON       With Mark Lawson, who interviews Martin Amis as he
MON       publishes a new novel which focuses on the effects of the
MON       sexual revolution of the 1960s.
MON       
MON       19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5yf (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.]
MON       
MON       20:00 Robo Wars b00qbxv5 (Listen)
MON       Episode 1
MON       The pilotless drone aircraft has become key to current
MON       conflicts such as Afghanistan, but how far can technology
MON       take over combat? Stephen Sackur investigates a secretive
MON       and controversial change in how we wage war.
MON       
MON       20:30 Analysis b00qbxwj (Listen)
MON       A Price Worth Paying?
MON       Investment banks warn that if British taxpayers cease to
MON       guarantee to bail them out, they will leave the UK. That,
MON       according to a senior Bank of England official, might be
MON       'a price worth paying'. Edward Stourton talks to the
MON       growing band of experts who believe that risk-taking
MON       investment banks should be forced to face the consequences
MON       of their losses and finds out why the government remains
MON       unconvinced.
MON       
MON       21:00 Costing the Earth b00qbz09 (Listen)
MON       The New Diggers
MON       In 1649 the chaos of the English Civil War inspired a
MON       group that declared our land to be a common treasury and
MON       began to plant fruit and vegetables on common land in
MON       southern and central England. It was a response to a
MON       shortage of food and what the Diggers saw as the misuse of
MON       productive land by the large landowners.
MON       Alice Roberts meets the new Diggers - groups and
MON       individuals across the country determined to tackle the
MON       looming food crisis by making the wasteland grow.
MON       In Todmorden in West Yorkshire locals began by secretly
MON       planting up the gardens of their derelict heath centre.
MON       Today the whole town seems to throb with fertility; new
MON       allotments fill the retirement home gardens and feed the
MON       residents, an aquaponics growing system is being built
MON       behind the secondary school and pak choi self-seeds
MON       through the cracks in the town centre pavements.
MON       Near Gateshead a National Trust-owned stately home has
MON       cleared its enormous Georgian walled garden and invited
MON       local people in to create their own allotments. Meanwhile,
MON       a farming estate in Oxfordshire has decided that a
MON       reliance on arable farming leaves it vulnerable to world
MON       markets. New farmers and growers are being invited to rent
MON       small plots of land to try their hand at making the tricky
MON       transition from amateur grower to real farmer.
MON       Alice Roberts asks if this grassroots revolution will
MON       produce enough food to feed Britain. Will it transform the
MON       shape of our countryside and the look of our towns?
MON       
MON       21:30 Start the Week b00qbt26 (Listen)
MON       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.]
MON       
MON       21:58 Weather b00qbrmw (Listen)
MON       The latest weather forecast.
MON       
MON       22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrsn (Listen)
MON       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
MON       Shah.
MON       
MON       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbsk3 (Listen)
MON       The Still Point, Episode 6
MON       Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about
MON       true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two
MON       couples, living a hundred years apart, collide
MON       unexpectedly one summer's day.
MON       How Edward Mackley's men survived a terrifying attack by a
MON       bear and a near-fatal fall through the ice, as Julia
MON       revisits their journey north through Edward's diaries.
MON       Abridged by Sally Marmion
MON       Produced by Justine Willett.
MON       
MON       23:00 Off the Page b00ny8gr (Listen)
MON       I'm H.A.P.P.Y.
MON       From absolute euphoria to a state of contentment, positive
MON       psychologist Miriam Akhtar, Dr Phil Hammond and writer
MON       Lucy Mangan describe what makes them H.A.P.P.Y.
MON       
MON       23:30 Today in Parliament b00qbsnj (Listen)
MON       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
MON       with Susan Hulme.
MON       
MON       
TUE       TUESDAY 2 FEBRUARY 2010
TUE       
TUE       00:00 Midnight News b00q9npt (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 b00qb5yf (Listen)
TUE       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday.]
TUE       
TUE       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yky (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zlc (Listen)
TUE       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
TUE       
TUE       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yr7 (Listen)
TUE       The latest shipping forecast.
TUE       
TUE       05:30 News Briefing b00qb06n (Listen)
TUE       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0cz (Listen)
TUE       Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea.
TUE       
TUE       05:45 Farming Today b00qb0v5 (Listen)
TUE       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
TUE       
TUE       06:00 Today b00qb12d (Listen)
TUE       With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports
TUE       Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in
TUE       Parliament.
TUE       
TUE       09:00 Taking a Stand b00qc02y (Listen)
TUE       Fergal Keane talks to Dr Jim Swire, who has waged a long
TUE       campaign to expose those he believes were responsible for
TUE       the 1988 Lockerbie bombing, in which his daughter died.
TUE       It has been 21 years since his daughter, Flora, died when
TUE       Pan Am Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, yet Jim Swire's
TUE       demands for a full public enquiry into the incident remain
TUE       undimmed. Only then, he believes, might the full story be
TUE       exposed. Jim has also fought for the release of Abdelbaset
TUE       Ali al-Megrahi, a man he helped bring to trial but has
TUE       long believed was innocent.
TUE       
TUE       09:30 Famous Footsteps b00qc030 (Listen)
TUE       Episode 4
TUE       Author and journalist Fiona Neill explores the experience
TUE       of growing up in a creatively successful family.
TUE       Fiona finds out how creatively successful people cope when
TUE       things go wrong. What is the impact on a family when
TUE       something occurs to prick the bubble of success? Fiona
TUE       talks to songwriter Guy Chambers and his family about the
TUE       breakdown in his working relationship with Robbie
TUE       Williams. She also talks to Adrian Edmondson about the ups
TUE       and downs of managing his daughter, musician Ella
TUE       Edmondson, and hears from Daphne Du Maurier's daughter
TUE       about living with the legacy of a famous parent.
TUE       A Paladin Invision production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xv (Listen)
TUE       The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), Standard of Ur
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 examines the first great civilisations and one of the
TUE       most spectacular discoveries of ancient royal goods.
TUE       Magnificent gold and silver jewellery was found nearly 100
TUE       years ago at a royal burial site in the city of Ur in
TUE       southern Iraq, at the heart of one of the first great
TUE       civilisations in the world. It leads Neil to contemplate
TUE       the nature of kingship and power in Mesopotamia. One of
TUE       the objects buried alongside the dead was The Standard of
TUE       Ur, a set of mosaic scenes mounted on a single box that
TUE       show powerful images of battle and regal life and that
TUE       remain remarkably well preserved given its 4,500-year-old
TUE       history.
TUE       Contributors include sociologist Anthony Giddens, on the
TUE       growing sophistication of societies at this time, and the
TUE       archaeologist Lamia Al-Gailani, who considers what Ancient
TUE       Mesopotamia means to the people of modern-day Iraq.
TUE       Producer: Anthony Denselow.
TUE       
TUE       10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb8yc (Listen)
TUE       With Jane Garvey.
TUE       
TUE       10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbby2 (Listen)
TUE       How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough),
TUE       Caroline
TUE       By Shelagh Stephenson.
TUE       Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down
TUE       she's losing patience. Caroline thinks her child's a
TUE       genius because she bites teachers and dreams of 'being
TUE       somebody'. Sadly, however, there's rather more to genius
TUE       than having a mother with vaulting ambition.
TUE       Martha ...... Cathy Belton
TUE       Caroline ...... Rebecca Saire
TUE       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
TUE       
TUE       11:00 Nature b00qc032 (Listen)
TUE       Series 4, A Local Patch, part 1
TUE       The first of two programmes exploring our relationship
TUE       with the landscape and the value of getting to know 'a
TUE       local patch'.
TUE       Three wildlife enthusiasts share their experiences of
TUE       their local patch and its wildlife. For wildlife
TUE       cameraman, John Aitchison, the local patch is the sea loch
TUE       which is just a stone's throw from his home on the west
TUE       coast of Scotland. For wildlife sound recordist Chris
TUE       Watson, the suburban back garden in Newcastle upon Tyne is
TUE       his local patch, and for wildlife artist writer Jessica
TUE       Holm, it's the woodland on the Isle of Wight where she
TUE       spent four years studying red squirrels.
TUE       Recordings from each location are weaved together,
TUE       highlighting the value of getting to know a patch of
TUE       landscape so well that it's like having 'a second skin',
TUE       as Jessica Holm says.
TUE       Walking along the shore from his home, John reflects on
TUE       the memories which are trigged by familiar sights: the
TUE       stone where the seals haul out, the stream where he's
TUE       watched the otters bathe, the patch of grass where the
TUE       lapwings shelter. With time, the unfamiliar has become
TUE       familiar; his closest neighbours are the curlews,
TUE       oystercatchers and sea otters.
TUE       For Chris too, time has bred familiarity and memories of
TUE       the past are bound up with this garden. His memories are
TUE       of the sounds of the past - the houses sparrows which used
TUE       to be so common, the wind sighing among the leaves of the
TUE       cherry tree, the swifts arriving in the summer. The
TUE       recordings he has made in his garden also demonstrate how
TUE       the landscape has changed; the house sparrows once so
TUE       common are now hardly ever heard in his garden, but the
TUE       recordings allow him to reconnect with the past, relive
TUE       memories he associates with the sounds, like his children
TUE       sleeping in their pram.
TUE       It is 20 years since Jessica Holm has visited Newton Copse
TUE       on the Isle of Wight where she spent four years studying
TUE       red squirrels, and yet the landscape feels the same. She
TUE       even finds the paths she made to the trees where she had
TUE       stapled live traps to catch the squirrels she was
TUE       studying. Walking among the trees she explains, 'I think
TUE       when you get really attached to a place, it never leaves
TUE       you ... it becomes part of the fabric of you. And even
TUE       though I haven't stepped foot in this copse for 20 years,
TUE       it feels exactly the same as it did all that time ago.'
TUE       The programme reveals the emotional and spiritual strength
TUE       each of the three derives from a connection with the
TUE       landscape that comes through time spent in a landscape,
TUE       through observing, watching, getting to know a landscape,
TUE       becoming familiar with its colours, moods and character.
TUE       It's a revealing and fascinating insight into the power of
TUE       experience and the relationships between people and place,
TUE       between Man and Nature.
TUE       
TUE       11:30 With Great Pleasure b00qc034 (Listen)
TUE       Paul Gambaccini
TUE       Paul Gambaccini has broadcast on just about every BBC
TUE       radio platform over his decades as a radio presenter, but
TUE       this is an opportunity to hear something he doesn't
TUE       normally share - his literary interests. They range from
TUE       Shakespeare to a graphic novel, via Bob Dylan and Arthur
TUE       Rubinstein. Paul's readers are John Guerrasio, Kathryn
TUE       Akin and Philip Rosch.
TUE       
TUE       12:00 You and Yours b00qbbzf (Listen)
TUE       Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker.
TUE       
TUE       12:57 Weather b00qbnng (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       13:00 World at One b00qbnrf (Listen)
TUE       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
TUE       
TUE       13:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00qc036 (Listen)
TUE       Series 8, Sonny Rollins
TUE       Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th
TUE       Century.
TUE       New York sax player Sonny Rollins is regarded as one of
TUE       most influential and unique saxophonists in contemporary
TUE       jazz. He began playing in the late 1940s, rehearsing and
TUE       performing with such luminaries as Thelonious Monk, Art
TUE       Blakey and Tadd Dameron. By the mid 1950s he was winning
TUE       popularity polls and enjoying widespread critical acclaim.
TUE       He has since gone on to develop a fluid and easily
TUE       accessible style, often lauded for bringing jazz to a
TUE       wider audience.
TUE       Ken talks to Mercury Music Prize-nominated saxophonist
TUE       Denys Baptiste, a fellow Sonny Rollins fan.
TUE       
TUE       14:00 The Archers b00qbnxv (Listen)
TUE       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday.]
TUE       
TUE       14:15 Afternoon Play b00qc0jp (Listen)
TUE       The Right Ingredients
TUE       By Pat Davis. When her world falls to pieces, Lisa resorts
TUE       to using other people's shopping lists as a means of
TUE       structuring her life. Her hope is that she will eventually
TUE       get all the right ingredients for the cake she needs to
TUE       bake. A delicate and beautiful story of a woman coming to
TUE       terms with a heart-breaking bereavement.
TUE       Lisa ...... Jasmine Hyde
TUE       Jake ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
TUE       Ella ...... Helen Longworth
TUE       Mum ...... Kate Layden
TUE       Directed by Tracey Neale.
TUE       
TUE       15:00 Making History b00qc0jr (Listen)
TUE       Vanessa Collingridge asks listeners to suggest objects
TUE       that help tell A History Of The World. Today, a writing
TUE       tablet from Roman Cumbria and the original blueprint for
TUE       garden suburbs.
TUE       
TUE       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00qc1bs (Listen)
TUE       A Georgian Trilogy, A Peacock in Sulphur
TUE       Series of specially-commissioned stories by James Hopkin,
TUE       inspired by his travels in Georgia in autumn 2008.
TUE       Niko Pirosmani was one of Georgia's greatest artists, but
TUE       was it his art that killed him?
TUE       Read by Allan Corduner
TUE       Produced by Rosalynd Ward
TUE       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       15:45 Key Matters b00b0g6b (Listen)
TUE       D minor
TUE       Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to
TUE       have distinct characteristics and create specific moods.
TUE       2/5: He looks at the saddest of keys, D minor.
TUE       
TUE       16:00 Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means
TUE       Business b00kp806 (Listen)
TUE       Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open
TUE       source' computer software. Much has been said about the
TUE       likes of free web browser Firefox and the operating system
TUE       Linux, but little about how thousands of programmers
TUE       scattered around the world collaborate in a 'virtual
TUE       anthill' to create products that rival more commercial
TUE       offerings. Gerry finds out how it is done and shows how
TUE       its ethos is being applied to other kinds of business,
TUE       with some startling results.
TUE       A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4.
TUE       
TUE       16:30 Great Lives b00qc2hn (Listen)
TUE       Series 20, Bill Hamilton
TUE       Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which
TUE       his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives.
TUE       Professor Richard Dawkins explains why he believes Bill
TUE       Hamilton to have been one of the greatest evolutionary
TUE       theorists of the 20th century. Dr Mary Bliss offers expert
TUE       advice.
TUE       
TUE       17:00 PM b00qbqby (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 b00qbrdm (Listen)
TUE       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
TUE       4.
TUE       
TUE       18:30 Act Your Age b00qcj8m (Listen)
TUE       Series 2, Episode 3
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, Ed Byrne and Johnnie Casson
TUE       are joined by Jared Christmas, Mark Watson and Eddie Large.
TUE       
TUE       19:00 The Archers b00qbnxd (Listen)
TUE       Will has an exercise in diplomacy.
TUE       
TUE       19:15 Front Row b00qbrh8 (Listen)
TUE       With Mark Lawson, including news of this year's Oscar
TUE       nominations.
TUE       
TUE       19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xv (Listen)
TUE       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.]
TUE       
TUE       20:00 File on 4 b00qcj8p (Listen)
TUE       The government has pledged 150 million pounds to combat
TUE       the threat of improvised explosive devices, which are now
TUE       the biggest danger to British and other coalition troops
TUE       in Afghanistan. But is the UK doing enough to tackle the
TUE       increasing threat they pose? Allan Urry investigates.
TUE       
TUE       20:40 In Touch b00qcj8r (Listen)
TUE       Peter White with news and information for the blind and
TUE       partially sighted.
TUE       
TUE       21:00 Case Notes b00qcj8t (Listen)
TUE       Dr Mark Porter explores the health issues of the day.
TUE       
TUE       21:30 Taking a Stand b00qc02y (Listen)
TUE       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.]
TUE       
TUE       21:58 Weather b00qbrkm (Listen)
TUE       The latest weather forecast.
TUE       
TUE       22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrmy (Listen)
TUE       National and international news and analysis with Ritula
TUE       Shah.
TUE       
TUE       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbsk5 (Listen)
TUE       The Still Point, Episode 7
TUE       Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about
TUE       true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two
TUE       couples, living a hundred years apart, collide
TUE       unexpectedly one summer's day.
TUE       Edward's expedition encounters danger, frustration and
TUE       finally loss. Will he ever return safely to his Emily?
TUE       Abridged by Sally Marmion
TUE       Produced by Justine Willett.
TUE       
TUE       23:00 Jon Ronson On b00qcj8w (Listen)
TUE       Series 5, Ambition
TUE       The writer Jon Ronson asks how our driving ambitions shape
TUE       us.
TUE       By interviewing several people at different points in
TUE       their lives, he sees how ambition can make and break
TUE       people. He talks to an 11-year-old-boy who has plans to be
TUE       a world-class architect, a young woman who has set her
TUE       sights on being prime minister, and an ambitious
TUE       stockbroker whose success led him down a dangerous path
TUE       towards a high security prison in the US.
TUE       
TUE       23:30 Today in Parliament b00qbsn6 (Listen)
TUE       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
TUE       with David Wilby.
TUE       
TUE       
WED       WEDNESDAY 3 FEBRUARY 2010
WED       
WED       00:00 Midnight News b00q9npw (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 b00qb5xv (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday.]
WED       
WED       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yl0 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zlf (Listen)
WED       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
WED       
WED       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yr9 (Listen)
WED       The latest shipping forecast.
WED       
WED       05:30 News Briefing b00qb06q (Listen)
WED       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0d1 (Listen)
WED       Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea.
WED       
WED       05:45 Farming Today b00qb0v7 (Listen)
WED       News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.
WED       
WED       06:00 Today b00qb12g (Listen)
WED       With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
WED       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
WED       
WED       09:00 Midweek b00qcjdl (Listen)
WED       Lively and diverse conversation with Francine Stock and
WED       guests.
WED       
WED       09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xx (Listen)
WED       The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), Indus Seal
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       The ancient city of Harappa lies around 150 miles north of
WED       Lahore in Pakistan. It was once one of the great centres
WED       of a civilisation that has largely disappeared, one with
WED       vast trade connections and boasting several of the world's
WED       first cities, and it developed at a time when another
WED       great civilisation was being forged along the banks of the
WED       river Nile in Egypt. Neil investigates this much less
WED       well-known civilisation on the banks of the Indus Valley.
WED       He introduces a series of little stone stamps that are
WED       4,500 years old, covered in carved images of animals and
WED       probably used in trade. The civilisation built over 100
WED       cities, some with sophisticated sanitation systems, big
WED       scale architecture and even designed around a modern grid
WED       layout. The great modern architect Sir Richard Rogers
WED       considers the urban planning of the Indus Valley, and the
WED       historian Nayanjot Lahiri looks at how this lost
WED       civilisation is remembered by both modern India and
WED       Pakistan.
WED       Producer: Anthony Denselow.
WED       
WED       10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb8yf (Listen)
WED       With Jenni Murray.
WED       
WED       10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbbxt (Listen)
WED       How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough),
WED       Howard
WED       By Shelagh Stephenson.
WED       Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down
WED       she's losing patience. Howard is a chef whose son
WED       ridicules the idea of cooking, preferring instead to try
WED       his hand at The X Factor. Sadly, however, he's almost 31
WED       and still living at home.
WED       Martha ...... Cathy Belton
WED       Howard ...... Tim McInnerny
WED       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
WED       
WED       11:00 Weekend Warriors No Longer b00qcjdn (Listen)
WED       Episode 1
WED       Martin Bell investigates how the part-time Territorial
WED       Army is surviving full-time warfare.
WED       The TA was at one time dismissed as 'weekend warriors',
WED       but now the military admit they couldn't do without them.
WED       Martin finds out what makes ordinary people want to give
WED       up their civilian life to fight in Afghanistan.
WED       
WED       11:30 Towards Zero b00qcjl3 (Listen)
WED       Episode 4
WED       Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective
WED       novel.
WED       Now Nevile is in the clear, suspicion has turned on Audrey
WED       for the murder of Lady Tresselian. But no-one can find
WED       her, and MacWhirter is convinced she's innocent.
WED       Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville
WED       MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion
WED       Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook
WED       Mary ...... Julia Ford
WED       Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska
WED       Kay ...... Lizzy Watts
WED       Inspector Leach ...... Philip Fox
WED       Royde ...... Stephen Hogan
WED       Sergeant ...... Matt Addis
WED       Directed by Mary Peate.
WED       
WED       12:00 You and Yours b00qbbzh (Listen)
WED       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
WED       
WED       12:57 Weather b00qbnnj (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       13:00 World at One b00qbnrh (Listen)
WED       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
WED       
WED       13:30 The Media Show b00qcjrz (Listen)
WED       Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the
WED       fast-changing media world.
WED       
WED       14:00 The Archers b00qbnxd (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday.]
WED       
WED       14:15 Afternoon Play b00c197q (Listen)
WED       Listen to the Words
WED       By Ed Hime.
WED       Tim has a problem with empathy, and justifies tapping
WED       fellow student Sophie's phone as the only way to
WED       understand her. When it all goes wrong, he books the media
WED       room of the secure unit where he is being held and creates
WED       a broadcast for his college radio station.
WED       Tim ...... Joe Dempsie
WED       Sophie ...... Lizzie Watts
WED       Damon ...... Sam Crane
WED       Stella ...... Lisa Stevenson
WED       Derek ...... Nyasha Hatendi
WED       Dr Susan ...... Helen Longworth
WED       Bill Keyes ...... Ben Crowe
WED       Clive ...... John Rowe
WED       Zoe ...... Liz Sutherland
WED       Lecturer ...... Stephen Critchlow
WED       Toby ...... Dan Starkey
WED       Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.
WED       
WED       15:00 Money Box Live b00qcjwl (Listen)
WED       Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on investing in
WED       shares.
WED       Guests:
WED       Morven Whyte, portfolio manager at Redmayne Bentley
WED       Stockbrokers
WED       Gavin Oldham, chief executive officer, The Share Centre
WED       Rob Burgeman, divisional director, Brewin Dolphin.
WED       
WED       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00qc1bv (Listen)
WED       A Georgian Trilogy, The Wurst Express From Kakheti
WED       Series of specially-commissioned stories by James Hopkin,
WED       inspired by his travels in Georgia.
WED       It is summer 2008 and an impoverished Georgian poet is
WED       living in Berlin for three months. He is not expecting to
WED       hear shattering news from his homeland.
WED       Read by Tom Goodman-Hill
WED       Produced by Rosalynd Ward
WED       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       15:45 Key Matters b00b5ltz (Listen)
WED       B flat
WED       Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to
WED       have distinct characteristics and create specific moods.
WED       3/5: He looks at the key of B flat.
WED       
WED       16:00 Thinking Allowed b00qcjwn (Listen)
WED       Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how
WED       society works.
WED       
WED       16:30 Case Notes b00qcj8t (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday.]
WED       
WED       17:00 PM b00qbqc0 (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 b00qbrdp (Listen)
WED       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
WED       4.
WED       
WED       18:30 The Write Stuff b00qcjwq (Listen)
WED       Series 9, Episode 2
WED       James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary
WED       correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are
WED       joined by Jane Thynne and Christopher Brookmyre. The
WED       author of the week and subject for pastiche is Irvine
WED       Welsh, and the reader is Beth Chalmers.
WED       
WED       19:00 The Archers b00qbnxg (Listen)
WED       Helen fears the worst for Annette.
WED       
WED       19:15 Front Row b00qbrhb (Listen)
WED       Arts news and reviews with John Wilson.
WED       
WED       19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xx (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.]
WED       
WED       20:00 Moral Maze b00qck2s (Listen)
WED       Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions
WED       behind the week's news. Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor,
WED       Michael Portillo and Claire Fox cross-examine witnesses.
WED       
WED       20:45 Turkeys Voting for Christmas b00qf7sb (Listen)
WED       Episode 2
WED       David Runciman explores the reasons why people often vote
WED       against their own self interest.
WED       David penetrates the psyche of the British electorate. He
WED       asks why inheritance tax is so unpopular among the people
WED       who have least to lose from it. Is it really true that
WED       people prefer politicians who make them feel better about
WED       themselves rather than politicians who make them better
WED       off? And why are voters so scathing about the focus groups
WED       designed to help the policy makers do them a good turn?
WED       
WED       21:00 Nature b00qc032 (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday.]
WED       
WED       21:30 Midweek b00qcjdl (Listen)
WED       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.]
WED       
WED       21:58 Weather b00qbrkp (Listen)
WED       The latest weather forecast.
WED       
WED       22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrn0 (Listen)
WED       National and international news and analysis with Robin
WED       Lustig.
WED       
WED       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbsk7 (Listen)
WED       The Still Point, Episode 8
WED       Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about
WED       true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two
WED       couples, living a hundred years apart, collide
WED       unexpectedly one summer's day.
WED       Julia has a visitor who, without knowing, reveals a
WED       shocking truth about her family's history.
WED       Abridged by Sally Marmion
WED       Produced by Justine Willett.
WED       
WED       23:00 Mordrin McDonald: 21st-Century Wizard b00qck4v (Listen)
WED       Blairochil Business Awards
WED       Comedy by David Kay and Gavin Smith.
WED       Mordrin is a 2,000-year-old wizard living in the modern
WED       world, where regular bin collections and watching
WED       Countdown are just as important as slaying dragons.
WED       With Gordon Kennedy, Jack Docherty, Cora Bissett and David
WED       Kay.
WED       A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4.
WED       
WED       23:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgj (Listen)
WED       Episode 3
WED       Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present
WED       in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories
WED       happening this 'once upon a time'.
WED       Food campaigner Jack Spratt and the Tooth Fairy debate the
WED       nation's nutrition.
WED       With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Charlotte Green, Lewis
WED       MacLeod, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan Tetsell.
WED       Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman.
WED       
WED       23:30 Today in Parliament b00qbsn8 (Listen)
WED       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
WED       with Sean Curran.
WED       
WED       
THU       THURSDAY 4 FEBRUARY 2010
THU       
THU       00:00 Midnight News b00q9npy (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 b00qb5xx (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday.]
THU       
THU       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yl2 (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zlh (Listen)
THU       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
THU       
THU       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yrc (Listen)
THU       The latest shipping forecast.
THU       
THU       05:30 News Briefing b00qb06s (Listen)
THU       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0d3 (Listen)
THU       Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea.
THU       
THU       05:45 Farming Today b00qb0v9 (Listen)
THU       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
THU       
THU       06:00 Today b00qb12j (Listen)
THU       With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk;
THU       Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.
THU       
THU       09:00 In Our Time b00qckbw (Listen)
THU       Ibn Khaldun
THU       Melvyn Bragg and guests Robert Hoyland, Robert Irwin and
THU       Hugh Kennedy discuss the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun.
THU       
THU       09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xz (Listen)
THU       The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), Jade Axe
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       Neil continues his examination of the growing
THU       sophistication of modern humans around the globe between
THU       5000 and 2000 BC. Mesopotamia had built the royal city of
THU       Ur, the Indus valley boasted the city of Harappa, and the
THU       great early civilisation of Egypt was beginning to spread
THU       along the Nile.
THU       In Britain life was much simpler, although trade links
THU       with Europe were well established. In this programme, Neil
THU       tells the story of a beautiful piece of jade, shaped into
THU       an axe head. It is about 6,000 years old and was
THU       discovered near Canterbury but was made in the high Alps.
THU       Neil tells the story of how this object may have been used
THU       and traded and how its source was cunningly traced to the
THU       heart of Europe.
THU       Producer: Anthony Denselow.
THU       
THU       10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb8yh (Listen)
THU       With Jenni Murray.
THU       
THU       10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbbxw (Listen)
THU       How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough),
THU       Philip and Rose
THU       By Shelagh Stephenson.
THU       Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down
THU       she's losing patience.
THU       Since Phil's demotion as anchorman of a local TV news
THU       channel, he and his wife imagine they are dying of
THU       creeping invisibility. They could be right.
THU       Martha ...... Cathy Belton
THU       Philip ...... Tim McInnerny
THU       Rose ...... Shelagh Stephenson
THU       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
THU       
THU       11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00qckby (Listen)
THU       BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the
THU       world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.
THU       
THU       11:30 Henry Moore, My Father b00qckc0 (Listen)
THU       On the occasion of an important exhibition of Henry
THU       Moore's early sculpture at Tate Britain, Moore's daughter,
THU       Mary, refreshes our view of the life and work of Britain's
THU       foremost 20th-century sculptor. Contributors include
THU       Antony Gormley, Anthony Caro, Richard Wentworth and
THU       Penelope Curtis, the newly-appointed Director of Tate
THU       Britain.
THU       Mary takes listeners on a tour of the Moore's home at
THU       Hoglands in Hertfordshire, a small house crammed with
THU       extraordinary carvings and paintings from all over the
THU       world. Being Moore's only child, life for Mary was never
THU       going to be totally straightforward. Hoglands was besieged
THU       by people wanting to talk to her father and take
THU       photographs of the family having tea in the garden. Art
THU       students, including Gormley, Caro and Wentworth, 'popped
THU       up'. 'My father was an extremely generous man who had time
THU       for anyone curious about art, unless of course he was
THU       watching the tennis,' Mary says.
THU       The Henry Moore Foundation was formed in the last years of
THU       Moore's life and it stands as the most important supporter
THU       for sculpture in Britain.
THU       
THU       12:00 You and Yours b00qbbzk (Listen)
THU       Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.
THU       
THU       12:30 Face the Facts b00qckg5 (Listen)
THU       India's City of Tomorrow
THU       John reports from Lavasa, built across 12,500 acres in the
THU       Sahyadri Mountains outside Pune. One of the new residents
THU       will be a campus of the University of Oxford, and
THU       developers say the project creates jobs and much-needed
THU       housing. But what has been the effect on those who have
THU       seen their lands acquired and their livelihoods disappear,
THU       and what about wider concerns about the impact of these
THU       kinds lof luxury developments?
THU       
THU       12:57 Weather b00qbnnl (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       13:00 World at One b00qbnrk (Listen)
THU       National and international news with Martha Kearney.
THU       
THU       13:30 Costing the Earth b00qbz09 (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday.]
THU       
THU       14:00 The Archers b00qbnxg (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday.]
THU       
THU       14:15 Afternoon Play b00qckkv (Listen)
THU       No Trampy Immigrants
THU       Inspired by events which took place in Belfast in the
THU       summer of 2009, Eoin McNamee's play tells the story of a
THU       community reeling from a shocking racist attack.
THU       A riot takes place at the height of marching season, but
THU       not the type of riot you might expect.
THU       Cyril ...... Adrian Dunbar
THU       Valerie ...... Brid Brennan
THU       Helen ...... Frances Tomelty
THU       Davy ...... Gerard Jordan
THU       Natasha ...... Cristina Catalina
THU       Davy ...... Gerard Jordan
THU       Directed by Heather Larmour.
THU       
THU       15:00 Open Country b00q9h9c (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday.]
THU       
THU       15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00q9jtb (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday.]
THU       
THU       15:30 Afternoon Reading b00qc1bx (Listen)
THU       A Georgian Trilogy, The Soul is Missing Fairy Tales!
THU       Series of specially-commissioned stories by James Hopkin,
THU       inspired by his travels in Georgia in autumn 2008.
THU       A tour bus of journalists, writers and artists breaks down
THU       on the infamous military highway from Vladikavkaz to
THU       Tbilisi. It is only nine days since the Russian army
THU       withdrew from parts of Georgia, but there are rumours of a
THU       return.
THU       Read by Ben Miles
THU       Produced by Rosalynd Ward
THU       A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4.
THU       
THU       15:45 Key Matters b00b6x4s (Listen)
THU       F sharp
THU       Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to
THU       have distinct characteristics and create specific moods.
THU       4/5: He looks at the key F sharp.
THU       
THU       16:00 Open Book b00q9lzl (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday.]
THU       
THU       16:30 Material World b00qckkx (Listen)
THU       Take the carbon dioxide from a power station or factory
THU       chimney and use it to grow algae which are then turned
THU       into biofuel. It sounds too good to be true and of course
THU       there's a snag; you have to disolve the carbon dioxide in
THU       water before the algae can use it and that only happens
THU       slowly - unless you inject it as microscopic bubbles, and
THU       that takes a lot of energy.
THU       Quentin Cooper hears how researchers in Sheffield have
THU       developed a much more energy-efficient way of producing
THU       microbubbles and are applying it both to biofuel
THU       production and cleaning up pollution.
THU       
THU       17:00 PM b00qbqc2 (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 b00qbrdr (Listen)
THU       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
THU       4.
THU       
THU       18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00qcn23 (Listen)
THU       Series 2, Episode 1
THU       Comedian and activist Mark Thomas creates a People's
THU       Manifesto, taking suggestions from his studio audience and
THU       then getting them to vote for the best.
THU       
THU       19:00 The Archers b00qbnxj (Listen)
THU       David's paternal instincts come to the fore.
THU       
THU       19:15 Front Row b00qbrhd (Listen)
THU       Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson.
THU       
THU       19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5xz (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.]
THU       
THU       20:00 The Report b00qf5p7 (Listen)
THU       The attempt to blow up an airliner over Detroit on
THU       Christmas Day has led to claims that young Muslims are
THU       being radicalised at British universities. Talented
THU       student turned alleged bomber Umar Farouk Abdulmutalib was
THU       president of the Islamic Student Society at University
THU       College London. James Silver asks whether some UK campuses
THU       have become seedbeds for extremism?
THU       
THU       20:30 The Bottom Line b00qf5p9 (Listen)
THU       Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs
THU       and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to
THU       their companies and their customers.
THU       
THU       21:00 2010: Space Odyssey to Europa b00qf5wp (Listen)
THU       Astronomer Paul Murdin explores the idea proposed by
THU       Arthur C Clarke in his novel 2010: A Second Space Odyssey
THU       that Jupiter's moon Europa might offer suitable conditions
THU       for living organisms. Four hundred years after Galileo
THU       first discovered Europa, scientists believe that data from
THU       the Galileo probe might just prove Clarke right.
THU       In Clarke's novel, a joint Soviet-American space mission
THU       is beaten to Jupiter by a Chinese mission, which lands on
THU       Europa and falls victim to its unknown terrain. The last
THU       astronaut to die on the alien surface broadcasts a
THU       message: there is life on Europa.
THU       Clarke's imaginings were recently backed up by pictures
THU       and data sent back by the Galileo probe which suggested
THU       that Europa was the only place in the solar system, apart
THU       from the Earth, that had deep, liquid water oceans, buried
THU       beneath an icy crust. Conditions in these oceans - dark
THU       and hot - could conceivably support biological life.
THU       In the last year, NASA and the European Space Agency have
THU       announced their intention to launch a joint mission to
THU       Jupiter's moons in 2020. One of their key aims is to
THU       investigate Europa - and its potential for life - in
THU       greater detail.
THU       Paul Murdin is a research astronomer at the University of
THU       Cambridge and Treasurer of the Royal Astronomical Society.
THU       In this programme he speaks to fellow astronomers, to
THU       astro-biologists and to scientists at NASA and the
THU       European Space Agency about the importance of Europa and
THU       the possibility of finding extra-terrestrial life there.
THU       Readings by Joseph Cohen-Cole.
THU       
THU       21:30 In Our Time b00qckbw (Listen)
THU       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.]
THU       
THU       21:58 Weather b00qbrkr (Listen)
THU       The latest weather forecast.
THU       
THU       22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrn2 (Listen)
THU       National and international news and analysis with Robin
THU       Lustig.
THU       
THU       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbsk9 (Listen)
THU       The Still Point, Episode 9
THU       Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about
THU       true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two
THU       couples, living a hundred years apart, collide
THU       unexpectedly one summer's day.
THU       Simon finally puts an end to the threat to his marriage,
THU       while Julia realises that she's been living far too much
THU       in the past.
THU       Abridged by Sally Marmion
THU       Produced by Justine Willett.
THU       
THU       23:00 House On Fire b00qf6ls (Listen)
THU       Filth
THU       Comedy by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman.
THU       When Matt refuses to do his fair share of cleaning around
THU       the flat, Vicky decides to down mops. As the dirt gathers,
THU       so do the flies. Is this the ideal scenario for Vicky to
THU       introduce her new boyfriend?
THU       Vicky ...... Emma Pierson
THU       Matt ...... Jody Latham
THU       Julie ...... Janine Duvitski
THU       Peter ...... Philip Jackson
THU       Donny ...... Sebastian Cardinal
THU       With Fergus Craig and Colin Hoult
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 b00qbsnb (Listen)
THU       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
THU       with Robert Orchard.
THU       
THU       
FRI       FRIDAY 5 FEBRUARY 2010
FRI       
FRI       00:00 Midnight News b00q9nq0 (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 b00qb5xz (Listen)
FRI       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday.]
FRI       
FRI       00:48 Shipping Forecast b00q9yl4 (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00q9zlk (Listen)
FRI       BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
FRI       
FRI       05:20 Shipping Forecast b00q9yrf (Listen)
FRI       The latest shipping forecast.
FRI       
FRI       05:30 News Briefing b00qb06v (Listen)
FRI       The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qb0d5 (Listen)
FRI       Daily prayer and reflection with Father Paul Clayton-Lea.
FRI       
FRI       05:45 Farming Today b00qb0vc (Listen)
FRI       News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.
FRI       
FRI       06:00 Today b00qb12l (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 b00q9k51 (Listen)
FRI       [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday.]
FRI       
FRI       09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5y1 (Listen)
FRI       The First Cities and States (3,500-2,000BC), Early Writing
FRI       Tablet
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       Between 5000 and 2000 BC, Mesopotamia had created the
FRI       royal city of Ur, the Indus Valley boasted the city of
FRI       Harappa and the great early civilisation of Egypt was
FRI       beginning to spread along the Nile. New trade links were
FRI       being forged and new forms of leadership and power were
FRI       created. And, to cope with the increasing sophistication
FRI       of trade and commerce, humans had invented writing.
FRI       In this programme, Neil describes a small clay tablet that
FRI       was made in Mesopotamia about 5,000 years ago and is
FRI       covered with sums and writing about local beer rationing.
FRI       The philosopher John Searle describes what the invention
FRI       of writing does for the human mind and Britain's top civil
FRI       servant, Gus O'Donnell, considers the tablet as an example
FRI       of possibly the earliest bureaucracy.
FRI       Producer: Anthony Denselow.
FRI       
FRI       10:00 Woman's Hour b00qb8yk (Listen)
FRI       With Jenni Murray.
FRI       
FRI       10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qbbxy (Listen)
FRI       How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough),
FRI       Richard Revisits
FRI       By Shelagh Stephenson.
FRI       Martha is a sincere, caring psychotherapist, but deep down
FRI       she's losing patience.
FRI       Richard Fallon MP has hired himself a publicist to up his
FRI       profile in the media. But it's soon apparent that
FRI       anonymity is the least of his problems.
FRI       Martha ...... Cathy Belton
FRI       Richard ...... Roger Allam
FRI       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
FRI       
FRI       11:00 First Nation, First People b00qjwz2 (Listen)
FRI       With the start of the winter Olympics in Vancouver, the
FRI       world may discover there are still many uncomfortable
FRI       realities in Canadian society both past and present.
FRI       Lovejit Dhaliwal looks at what it means to be an
FRI       indigenous person of so-called First Nations status.
FRI       A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4.
FRI       
FRI       11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: Cast in Order of
FRI       Disappearance b00qf6t4 (Listen)
FRI       Episode 2
FRI       Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett.
FRI       Charles Paris goes fishing and finds a dead body.
FRI       Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy
FRI       Jodie ...... Martine McCutcheon
FRI       Frances ...... Suzanne Burden
FRI       Maurice ...... Jon Glover
FRI       Juliet ...... Tilly Gaunt
FRI       Miles ...... Thomas Arnold
FRI       Dr Mayhew ...... Stephen Hogan
FRI       Barman ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
FRI       Receptionist ...... Tessa Nicholson
FRI       Directed by Sally Avens.
FRI       
FRI       12:00 You and Yours b00qbbzm (Listen)
FRI       Consumer news and issues with Peter White.
FRI       
FRI       12:57 Weather b00qbnnn (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       13:00 World at One b00qbnrm (Listen)
FRI       National and international news.
FRI       
FRI       13:30 Feedback b00qf6t6 (Listen)
FRI       Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes
FRI       and policy.
FRI       
FRI       14:00 The Archers b00qbnxj (Listen)
FRI       [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday.]
FRI       
FRI       14:15 Afternoon Play b00cqhr7 (Listen)
FRI       Bad Faith, Bad Faith
FRI       By Peter Jukes.
FRI       As a police chaplain, it is Jake Thorne's job to offer
FRI       counselling and comfort to officers in trouble, victims
FRI       and young offenders. But Jake is the epitome of a bad
FRI       priest. He's lost his faith and has decided, as a test for
FRI       God, to behave appallingly towards those he's supposed to
FRI       help.
FRI       Jake Thorne ...... Lenny Henry
FRI       Michael ...... Danny Sapani
FRI       Ruth Thorne ...... Jenny Jules
FRI       Isaac Thorne ...... Oscar James
FRI       Helen ...... Helen Longworth
FRI       Denise ...... Rosie Cavaliero
FRI       Chantelle ...... Kerri Mclean
FRI       Declan ...... Ben Crowe
FRI       TJ ...... Daniel Anderson
FRI       Barry ...... Edward Clayton
FRI       Producer Steven Canny
FRI       Executive Producer Simon Elmes.
FRI       
FRI       15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00qf7bg (Listen)
FRI       Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum.
FRI       Matthew Wilson, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank join
FRI       gardeners in Linton, Cambridgeshire.
FRI       Bob draws inspiration for creating winter dazzle in the
FRI       garden from Cambridge University Botanical Gardens.
FRI       Plus a profile of one of the nation's favourite flowers,
FRI       the camelia.
FRI       
FRI       15:45 Key Matters b00bbdm8 (Listen)
FRI       E flat major
FRI       Ivan Hewett explores how different musical keys seem to
FRI       have distinct characteristics and create specific moods.
FRI       He looks at the key E flat major.
FRI       
FRI       16:00 Last Word b00qf7bj (Listen)
FRI       Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing
FRI       and celebrating the life stories of people who have
FRI       recently died.
FRI       
FRI       16:30 The Film Programme b00qf7bl (Listen)
FRI       Francine Stock talks to Morgan Freeman about his role as
FRI       Nelson Mandela in Invictus.
FRI       
FRI       17:00 PM b00qbqc4 (Listen)
FRI       Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn
FRI       Quinn. Plus Weather.
FRI       
FRI       18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qbrdt (Listen)
FRI       The latest national and international news from BBC Radio
FRI       4.
FRI       
FRI       18:30 The News Quiz b00qf7bn (Listen)
FRI       Series 70, Episode 5
FRI       Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The
FRI       panellists are Francis Wheen, Jeremy Hardy, Micky Flanagan
FRI       and Jack Dee.
FRI       
FRI       19:00 The Archers b00qbnxl (Listen)
FRI       Annette makes a surprise decision.
FRI       
FRI       19:15 Front Row b00qbrhg (Listen)
FRI       Kirsty Lang on the art of casting non-professional actors
FRI       in films and TV dramas, with actor Dominic West and writer
FRI       Ed Burns from The Wire, and Katie Jarvis, star of Fish
FRI       Tank.
FRI       
FRI       19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qb5y1 (Listen)
FRI       [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.]
FRI       
FRI       20:00 Any Questions? b00qf7bq (Listen)
FRI       Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Edgware
FRI       in Middlesex. The panellists are The Daily Telegraph's
FRI       chief political commentator Benedict Brogan, Francis
FRI       Crook, director of the Howard League for Penal Reform,
FRI       
FRI       20:50 A Point of View b00qf7lj (Listen)
FRI       A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine.
FRI       
FRI       21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00qf9kt (Listen)
FRI       How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary's Not Enough),
FRI       Omnibus
FRI       An omnibus edition of Shelagh Stephenson's drama about
FRI       psychotherapist Martha and her dealings with a series of
FRI       patients.
FRI       Martha ...... Cathy Belton
FRI       Richard ...... Roger Allam
FRI       Caroline ...... Rebecca Saire
FRI       Howard/Philip ...... Tim McInnerny
FRI       Rose ...... Shelagh Stephenson
FRI       Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan.
FRI       
FRI       21:58 Weather b00qbrkt (Listen)
FRI       The latest weather forecast.
FRI       
FRI       22:00 The World Tonight b00qbrn4 (Listen)
FRI       National and international news and analysis with Robin
FRI       Lustig.
FRI       
FRI       22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qbskc (Listen)
FRI       The Still Point, Episode 10
FRI       Emma Fielding reads from Amy Sackville's debut novel about
FRI       true courage and enduring love, in which the lives of two
FRI       couples, living a hundred years apart, collide
FRI       unexpectedly one summer's day.
FRI       With the secrets of Julia's family finally laid bare, she
FRI       and Simon must find a way to resolve the distance between
FRI       them and to confront their unspoken fears.
FRI       Abridged by Sally Marmion
FRI       Produced by Justine Willett.
FRI       
FRI       23:00 Great Lives b00qc2hn (Listen)
FRI       [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday.]
FRI       
FRI       23:30 Today in Parliament b00qbsnd (Listen)
FRI       News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament
FRI       with Mark D'Arcy.
FRI       
FRI       
FRI