12 February, 2010

Radio 4 Listings for 13/02/2010 - 19/02/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00qlf3c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qg5mk (Listen) SAT The Beginning of Science and Literature (1500 - 700 BC), SAT Statue of Ramesses II SAT Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor retells the SAT history of human development from the first stone axe to SAT the credit card, using 100 selected objects from the SAT Museum. SAT The story arrives in Egypt around 1250 BC. At the heart of SAT this programme is the British Museum's giant statue of the SAT king Ramesses II, an inspiration to Shelley and a SAT remarkable ruler who built monuments all over Egypt. He SAT inspired a line of future pharaohs and was worshipped as a SAT god a thousand years later. He lived to be over 90 and SAT fathered some 100 children. SAT Neil considers the achievements of Ramesses II in fixing SAT the image of imperial Egypt for the rest of the world, and SAT sculptor Antony Gormley, the man responsible for a SAT contemporary giant statue, The Angel of the North, SAT considers the towering figure of Ramesses as an enduring SAT work of art. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qlf3f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qlf3j (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qlf3l (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00qlf3n (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qlf3q (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00qlf81 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00qlf83 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00qlf85 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00qlgz3 (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 2 SAT Clare Balding explores the joys of group walking. SAT Clare walks with artists Richard and Tom Keating, and Kel SAT Portman. They all lead guided walks in the area, SAT encouraging their companions to enjoy the landscape by SAT drawing and painting what they see as they go. The artists SAT use their knowledge of the area and of creating art to SAT assist the other walkers in the work, suggest different SAT techniques or views and to generally encourage and support. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00qlgz6 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00qlgz8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00qlgzb (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00qlgzd (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00qlgzg (Listen) SAT Don McCullin is renowned as a photographer for his stark SAT and telling pictures, often of conflicts and catastrophes. SAT Now in his seventies, he has turned to photographing SAT landscapes and Roman ruins across the ancient empire. John SAT McCarthy asks him about his life of travel, both in combat SAT zones in the remoter parts of the world, and the apparent SAT peace of scenes closer to home. SAT Journalist Monica Porter and her family left their native SAT Hungary after the failed uprising against the Soviet SAT powers in1956. In the many times she has returned there SAT since she has witnessed the huge changes that have brought SAT it to its current status as a democratic member of the EU. SAT She joins travel writer Andrew Eames, who horse-trekked SAT across Hungary, in telling John about the rich heritage of SAT the country and the appeal of the contrast between SAT bustling, modern Budapest and the more traditional rural SAT areas. SAT SAT 10:30 Johnny Cash of Easter Cash b00qll0x (Listen) SAT Johnny Cash is an all-American hero, yet he discovered SAT that his ancestors came from a small village in Scotland. SAT A chance conversation on a transatlantic flight led him to SAT trace his family roots to Easter Cash in Fife. Sarfraz SAT Manzoor goes in search of the Cash connection. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00qll0z (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Andrew Pierce. SAT The Conservatives have been accused of back tracking on SAT their economic policy, making it barely distinguishable SAT from that of the government. Michael Fallon, Conservative SAT member of the Treasury Select Committee, and Kitty Ussher, SAT until recently economic secretary to the Treasury, form SAT the battle lines between Labour and Conservative on SAT cutting the deficit. SAT Current opinion polls suggest the possibility of a hung SAT parliament. Would that lead to instability or might it SAT have advantages? Liberal Democrat peer Lord McNally and SAT the Conservative Lord Howell, both with experience of SAT inconclusive elections results in the 1970s, consider the SAT implications for 2010. SAT Also in the programme: SAT Are the Conservatives losing momentum? Tim Montgomerie of SAT ConservativeHome and Conservative MP Mark Field on what SAT strategy they should employ to improve their ratings. SAT Politicians who shed tears: do we believe them? Sketch SAT writers Ann Treneman of The Times and Andrew Gibson of The SAT Telegraph take a wry look politicians parading their SAT emotions. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00qll11 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00qll13 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00qldxx (Listen) SAT Series 70, Episode 6 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The SAT panellists are Will Smith, Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton and SAT Milton Jones. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00qll15 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00qll17 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00qldxz (Listen) SAT Shaun Ley chairs the topical debate from Burnley. SAT The panellists are UKIP chairman Paul Nuttall, former SAT editor of The Sun Kelvin MacKenzie, professor emeritus at SAT the Royal College of Arts Christopher Frayling and SAT professor of politics and women's studies at the SAT University of York Haleh Afshar. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00qll19 (Listen) SAT Shaun Ley takes listeners' calls and emails in response to SAT this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00qny57 (Listen) SAT Slaughterhouse 5 SAT Dramatisation by Dave Sheasby of the celebrated anti-war SAT novel by Kurt Vonnegut. Billy Pilgrim, who hops back and SAT forth in time, relives various moments in his real and SAT fantasy lives, as a prisoner of war, optometrist and time SAT traveller. SAT Narrator ...... John Guerassio SAT Billy Pilgrim ...... Andrew Scott SAT Bernard V O'Hare ...... Nathan Osgood SAT Mary ...... Joanne McQuinn SAT Montana ...... Annabelle Dowler SAT Barbara ...... Sarah Goldberg SAT Valencia ...... Madeleine Potter SAT Roland Weary ...... Simon Lee Philips SAT Mother ...... Liza Ross SAT Eliot Rosewater ...... Kerry Shale SAT Howard J Campbell Jnr ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Bertram Rumfoord ...... Peter Marinker SAT English Officer ...... Michael Mears SAT Cinderella ...... Philip Fox SAT Paul Lazarro ...... Gunnar Cauthery SAT Soldiers ...... Orlando James, Michael Shelford SAT Music by 65 Days of Static SAT Directed by David Hunter. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00qll1c (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT With Jane Garvey. SAT Including, as part of Winning Women's Votes, the first of SAT the programme's interviews with the party leaders. Nick SAT Clegg, the leader of the Liberal Democrats, talks about SAT his plans, if were to be elected to No. 10. You can hear SAT what he has to say on such issues as childcare provision, SAT parental leave and tuition fees. SAT In 2005 Bee, a BBC World Service journalist, contacted SAT May, an English-speaking Iraqi university lecturer, to ask SAT if she would give an interview about living conditions in SAT Baghdad in the run-up to the elections. An unlikely SAT friendship blossomed between Bee, who was living the quiet SAT life juggling work and children, and May, who was dealing SAT the daily terror of bombs and violence. The collection of SAT their emails over a four-year period has resulted in a new SAT book, Talking about Jane Austen in Baghdad. The two women SAT talk to Jenni about their correspondence and why it had a SAT life-changing effect on both of them. SAT Kelly McGillis was one of the most successful film stars SAT of the 1980s, appearing inTop Gun, Witness and The SAT Accused, to name but a few. Then she walked away from SAT stardom to concentrate on the theatre. She joins Jenni to SAT talk about her life and career. SAT Plus the working class and their domestic lives in the SAT 1930s, and, after the revelations about Margaret SAT Thatcher's egg diet, a celebration of the great egg SAT revival with some tasty dishes. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00qll1f (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Brian SAT Hanrahan, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00qjx5n (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top executives from the SAT world of public relations to discuss exactly what it is SAT that they do. He also finds out what advice they would SAT give to companies in crisis; what should they say when it SAT all goes wrong? SAT Evan is joined by chairman of Chime Communications Lord SAT Bell, chief executive of Editorial Intelligence Julia SAT Hobsbawm and chief executive of Edelman UK Robert Phillips. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00qll1h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00qll1k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qll1m (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00qll1p (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Clive is joined by former director of communications and SAT strategy at No.10 Alastair Campbell and the actors Ashley SAT Walters and Ralf Little. SAT Emma Freud talks to the director of Skippy: Australia's SAT First Superstar, Stephen Oliver. SAT With music from The Low Anthem and Vieux Farke Toure and SAT Toumani Diabate. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00qll1r (Listen) SAT Rajendra Pachauri SAT Jonathan Maitland profiles Rajendra Pachauri, a key player SAT in the climate change debate. SAT As the head of the UN's climate change panel, he is coming SAT under increasing fire for a glaring error in the IPCC SAT reporting on glaciers. Pechauri's critics also claim that SAT his business interests - as a consultant to energy SAT industry giants - could represent a conflict of interest. SAT But his supporters say he's a tireless champion in SAT alerting people to the impact of climate change on SAT developing nations. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00qll1t (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00qs41j (Listen) SAT AJP at the BBC SAT Joe Queenan recalls the long and turbulent relationship SAT between the BBC and the first television don, historian SAT AJP Taylor. SAT Taylor's broadcasting career spanned five decades, SAT beginning on BBC radio and then switching to the new SAT medium of television, where his unscripted lectures SAT brought serious history out of the university lecture SAT halls and into the living rooms of millions of people for SAT the first time. His broadcasts were as provocative as they SAT were popular, at one point arousing bitter condemnation in SAT the House of Commons, and his relationship with the SAT corporation was often far from cordial. SAT It dropped the sulky don, as he became known, from the SAT airwaves on numerous occasions - once for refusing to SAT speak any further in a live discussion programme. For his SAT part, Taylor campaigned vigorously for an independent SAT competitor to the BBC, and frequently mocked it in the SAT press. Still, the relationship served both well over the SAT years, providing Taylor with the mass audience he craved SAT and the BBC with many hours of entertaining and SAT enlightening broadcasting from one of the greatest SAT academics of his day. SAT Queenan, a long-term admirer of Taylor, tells the story of SAT the historian and the corporation through written and SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00qg17p (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Karla Trilogy, Book 2: The SAT Honourable Schoolboy, Part 3 SAT Dramatisation of John le Carre's classic novel featuring SAT intelligence officer George Smiley. SAT Smiley's plans to get hold of Russian spy Nelson Ko are SAT coming to a head. But Smiley has pinned his hopes on Jerry SAT Westerby - and Westerby has plans of his own. SAT George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Jerry Westerby ...... Hugh Bonneville SAT Liese Worth ...... Daisy Haggard SAT Peter Guillam ...... Richard Dillane SAT Martello ...... John Guerrasio SAT Enderby ...... James Laurenson SAT Oliver Lacon ...... Anthony Calf SAT Connie Sachs ...... Maggie Steed SAT Sam Collins ...... Nicholas Boulton SAT Drake Ko ...... David Yip SAT Charlie Marshall ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu SAT Mickey ...... Angelo Paragoso SAT Ricardo ...... Chris Pavlo SAT Murphy ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole 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 b00qll1w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00qj218 (Listen) SAT More than 70,000 citizens will be denied their chance to SAT vote in the general election this Spring. They're SAT prisoners and the ban has been in place since 1870. In SAT 2005 the European Court of Human Rights ruled that the ban SAT breaches prisoners' right to free elections. Prison reform SAT charities have warned that the government has had enough SAT time to sort this out and if the general election goes SAT ahead and prisoners aren't allowed to vote, it could be SAT challenged in the courts. Have criminals by definition SAT lost their moral authority to vote or could it help with SAT their rehabilitation and keep them in touch with society SAT and their role as citizens? How do we balance the rights SAT of prisoners with our rights to punish them, and who SAT should decide which takes precedence? SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00qgxxd (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange SAT of quotations and anecdotes. SAT With guests Ken Bruce, Valerie Grove, Dr Ben Goldacre and SAT Kwame Kwei-Armah. SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00qg23w (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests. He guides us SAT through a poetic landscape cast in frost, with requested SAT poems by Ted Hughes, William Morris and Raymond Carver. SAT There's also a tender poem about fatherhood and language SAT from the 2008 Forward Prize-winning poet Mick Imlah. SAT With readers Tanya Moodie, John Telfer and David Henry. SAT Poems featured in this edition SAT The Horses SAT by Ted Hughes SAT From: Ted Hughes, New Selected Poems 1957-1994 SAT Pub: Faber SAT When You Are Old SAT by WB Yeats SAT From : The Collected Poems of WB Yeats SAT Pub: Palgrave SAT February SAT by Francis Brett Young SAT From: An Anthology of Modern Verse SAT Pub: Methuen SAT To All Who Read the Cover and Proclaim SAT by Jean Binta Breeze SAT From :Spring Cleaning SAT Pub: Virago SAT Iona SAT by Mick Imlah SAT From: The Lost Leader SAT Pub: Faber SAT Jewels in my Hand SAT by Sasha Moorsom SAT From :Your Head in Mine – Sasha Moorsom & Michael Young SAT Pub: Carcanet SAT Late Fragment SAT by Raymond Carver SAT From : A New Path to the Waterfall SAT Pub: Harvill SAT Gravy SAT by Raymond Carver SAT From : All of Us – The Collected Poems SAT Pub: The Harvill Press SAT Iceland First Seen SAT by William Morris SAT From : William Morris, Selected Poems SAT Pub: Fyfield Books SAT The Last Snow SAT by Andrew Young SAT From: Andrew Young, The Poetical Works SAT Pub: Secker & Warburg SAT A Song to Heal SAT by Jean Binta-Breeze SAT From : Spring Cleaning SAT Pub: Virago SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00qllt3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b008x3yr (Listen) SUN Cupid Strikes, Interview with a Cupid SUN Stories exploring the reality behind St Valentine's Day. SUN A revealing interview gives a rare insight into Cupid's SUN world. SUN By Polly Devlin, read by Julian Clary. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qlm27 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qlm29 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qlm2c (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00qlm2f (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00qlm2h (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from All Saints Church in Worcester. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00qll1r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00qlm50 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00qlmr5 (Listen) SUN Breathe Easy SUN Mark Tully explores the power of the breath as the source SUN of our physical, mental and spiritual health. SUN The readers are Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling and David SUN Westhead. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00qm35q (Listen) SUN The Deer Park SUN On a very blustery autumn morning, Lionel Kelleway joins SUN naturalist Phil Gates from Durham University in Bishop SUN Auckland Deer Park in County Durham where he learns about SUN the history and wildlife of this undulating landscape in SUN the grounds of Auckland Castle. SUN Auckland Castle is the home of the Bishop of Auckland. It SUN is built above the Rivers Wear and Gaunless, 10 miles SUN south-west of Durham. It was established about 800 years SUN ago, and has expanded over the centuries. In 1822 it SUN became the official residence of the Bishop of Durham. The SUN grounds would have been a managed forest in medieval SUN times, then converted parkland with a collection of now SUN slowly disintegrating trees (wonderful habitats for SUN wildlife) - amazing old sweet chestnuts whose trunk and SUN branches grow twisted like a corkscrew, decaying beeches, SUN giant redwoods with soft bark, horse chestnuts, poplars, SUN birches and old oaks. SUN A fine stone deer house still exists. This would have been SUN used to shelter the deer. A watchtower was built for SUN guests to view the animals, and there was at one time a SUN banqueting apartment where guests would have feasted on SUN the venison. Today, while only the occasional wild roe SUN deer might be spotted in the park, there's a metropolis of SUN meadow ant hills. SUN Yellow Meadow Ants, Lasius flavus live primarily SUN underground in meadows and very commonly in lawns. The SUN nests are often completely overgrown by grass and mosses SUN and form mounds. Below ground, the nests are highly SUN intricate with numerous fine channels; the whole structure SUN strengthened by the plant roots. Usually the mounds have SUN one flat face which faces south east to gain the maximum SUN benefits from the heat of the sun. SUN Like all ants, meadow ants live in organised social SUN colonies, consisting of the reproductive female, the SUN queen, a few males and large numbers of workers, which are SUN non-sexual females. Mating takes place in summer during a SUN 'nuptial flight' when a male and female form a pair and SUN mate on the wing. After mating, the female finds a SUN suitable place to establish a new colony. SUN Where there are meadow ants, there are often Green SUN Woodpeckers, as these birds feed on as many as 2,000 ants SUN a day, digging a hole into the mound and licking up the SUN ants as they rush out. SUN As they explore this undulating landscape, Lionel and Phil SUN also find a fine collection of autumn fungi and huge SUN numbers of berries and nuts before the blustery wind blows SUN them on their way. It's a beautiful and fascinating park SUN in any season, but in autumn, when the wind whisks up the SUN leaves in a whirling dance, and the river in the valley SUN gurgles and chuckles over the rocks, nature is perhaps at SUN its most playful. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00qm35s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00qm35v (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00qm35y (Listen) SUN William Crawley 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 b00qm360 (Listen) SUN Coeliac UK SUN Dr Chris Steele appeals on behalf of Coeliac UK. SUN Donations to Coeliac UK should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Coeliac UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you SUN are a UK tax payer, please provide Coeliac UK with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation. The online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity Number: England and Wales (1048167) and SUN in Scotland (SC039804). SUN Related Links SUN * Coeliac UK (www.coeliac.org.uk) SUN Coeliac UK SUN Coeliac UK is a leading charity working for people with SUN coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis (DH). Coeliac SUN UK works to improve the lives of people with coeliac SUN disease through support, campaigning and research. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00qm362 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00qm364 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00qm366 (Listen) SUN A service from St Nicholas Buccleuch Parish Church, SUN Dalkeith, Midlothian. SUN Led by Rev Sandy Horsburgh. Preacher: Rev Marjory MacLean. SUN With the Edinburgh University Renaissance Singers directed SUN by Noel O'Regan. Organist: Willie Hendry. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00qldy1 (Listen) SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on the power of music and the value SUN of musical education. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00qm368 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00qm36c (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00qm36f (Listen) SUN Professor Jim Al-Khalili SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the physicist Professor Jim SUN Al-Khalili. SUN He's spent his adult life studying sub-atomic particles - SUN and trying to explain them to the rest of us. He fell in SUN love with physics when he was a teenager growing up in SUN Iraq. With an Iraqi father and English mother, the Baghdad SUN he spent his early years in was cosmopolitan and vibrant SUN but, once Saddam Hussein came to power, his parents SUN realised the family would have to flee, and he has lived SUN and worked in Britain for the past 30 years. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00qgz7x (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 6 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Paul Merton SUN and Graham Norton talk about how to pass the time if SUN you're stuck in traffic, and Sue Perkins and Liza Tarbuck SUN debate whether bikers should be clad in leathers or SUN lettuce. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00qm461 (Listen) SUN The New Gastronomy SUN In 1825 Brillet-Savarin published one of the most famous SUN books about food, The Physiology of Taste. In one chapter, SUN the book's 'Third Meditation', he put forward the argument SUN that the world needs an 'Academy of Gastronomy', where, SUN gastronomy, 'will have its own academicians, courses, SUN professors, and scholarships'. SUN Now, nearly 200 years later, that idea is finally being SUN put into practice. In Italy the Slow Food organisation has SUN set up the University of Gastronomic Sciences, where SUN students from all over the world study food taking what SUN they describe as 'a holistic approach'. During the SUN three-year degrees they have lectures in plant biology, SUN study cheesemaking, research the anthropology of food and SUN learn to develop their palates. SUN Do these courses have any practical value? Their SUN supporters argue that the food industry will now be able SUN to recruit graduates with a deeper understanding of food. SUN To put that argument to the test Sheila Dillon travels to SUN Pollenzo in the north of Italy to meet students and SUN lecturers at the University of Gastronomic Sciences. She SUN also hears how the American television chef Julia Child SUN helped launch a similar course at Boston University. SUN Back in the UK Sheila hears from academics in Oxford, SUN Shropshire and London who reveal the work underway to SUN bring the study of gastronomy to Britain. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00qm463 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00qm465 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Let's Go to Misterland b00qm467 (Listen) SUN Stephanie Flanders, BBC economics editor and daughter of SUN the actor and singer Michael Flanders, examines the appeal SUN of Roger Hargreaves' Mr Men books and how these bold, SUN colourful drawings and simple stories continue to capture SUN children's hearts. SUN Created in 1971, the Mr Men books have been an important SUN part of many childhoods. Inspired by the author's son SUN Adam, who one day inquired, 'what does a tickle look SUN like?', the first character was born. The Little Miss SUN books followed ten years later, worldwide sales have SUN exceeded 100 million, and today the brand is flourishing SUN under its new owners. SUN Stephanie takes a look at the Mr Men business and its SUN growth over the years. She speaks to Adam Hargreaves, who SUN tells the story behind the books and what inspired his SUN father to create such a simplistic, yet hugely influential SUN brand. Created in the humble surroundings of a small home SUN office, the characters have reached a global audience, and SUN they appeal to today's children as much as they did to SUN their 1970s counterparts. Although he died in 1988, Roger SUN Hargreaves was still the third-best selling author of the SUN past decade, outstripping such feted writers as Jacqueline SUN Wilson, Terry Pratchett and John Grisham. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00qldxq (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and Pippa Greenwood SUN answer questions from the gardeners of Lacock and District SUN Garden and Allotment Association in Wiltshire. SUN Pippa Greenwood attends a meeting of snowdrop-lovers. SUN In part two of the Behind the Scenes at Chelsea series, we SUN meet the nurserymen involved in design execution. SUN Includes gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Head To Head b00js7tl (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Edward Stourton presents a series celebrating great SUN debates, combining archive of rare discussions between key SUN figures with analysis by a panel of experts. SUN The panel discusses the heated 1969 debate between SUN left-wing philosopher Noam Chomsky and conservative SUN commentator William F Buckley about United States foreign SUN policy and how it justifies its objective of spreading SUN 'freedom' around the world. SUN A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00qm62k (Listen) SUN Plantagenet, What is A Man? SUN Series of plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's SUN Chronicles, about the early years of the Plantagenet SUN dynasty. SUN The first of the House of Anjou to be king of England, SUN Henry II's long reign was finally beset by conflict with SUN his sons. SUN King Henry II ...... David Warner SUN Queen Eleanor ...... Jane Lapotaire SUN Prince Richard ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole SUN Prince Hal ...... Piers Wehner SUN Prince Geoffrey ...... Rhys Jennings SUN William Marshall ...... Stephen Hogan SUN Bertran de Bourne ...... Bruce Alexander SUN King Louis ...... Philip Fox SUN Courtier ...... John Biggins SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00qm62m (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Australian writer Peter Carey, SUN whose celebrated novels include Oscar and Lucinda and True SUN History of the Kelly Gang. He talks about his latest, SUN Parrot and Olivier in America, and reflects on why lonely SUN children feature so heavily in his fiction. SUN Liz Thomson joins Mariella to reveal the ways in which SUN publishers persaude reluctant celebrities to join the SUN ranks of their authors. SUN And Jon McGregor, whose new novel Even the Dogs tells the SUN story of an impoverished alcoholic, and Peter Kemp, SUN fiction editor of the Sunday Times, talk about the SUN tradition of writing about the dispossessed. SUN Peter Carey: Parrot and Olivier in America SUN Publisher: Faber SUN Peter Carey: Oscar and Lucinda SUN Publisher: Faber SUN Peter Carey: True History of the Kelly Gang SUN Publisher: Faber SUN Peter Carey: Jack Maggs SUN Publisher: Faber SUN Jon McGregor: Even The Dogs SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00qm62p (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces a selection of poems for SUN Valentine's Day, with love on the menu but no SUN straightforward hearts and flowers. SUN Including poems on extraordinary manifestations of love by SUN Edson Burton, Anne Sexton and John Updike, and poet Jenny SUN Joseph reads from her new collection, Nothing Like Love. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00qhrxd (Listen) SUN While Britain's top bankers celebrate their bonuses, SUN Michael Robinson investigates the commercial property SUN market and the nasty surprises that it may hold for the SUN banks and for the long-suffering British taxpayers who SUN bailed them out. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00qll1r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00qm62r (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00qm62t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qm62w (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00qm62y (Listen) SUN Clive Coleman introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN The Mystery of the Moving Statues - Radio 4 SUN The Essay: Germany Dreaming - Radio 3 SUN Robo Wars - Radio 4 SUN Let's Go To Misterland - Radio 4 SUN Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern America SUN - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: AJP at the BBC - Radio 4 SUN I Was A Teenage Dotcom Millionaire - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - World Service SUN Mark Thomas: The Manifesto - Radio 4 SUN Act Your Age - Radio 4 SUN Milton's Music - Radio 4 SUN Taking A Stand - Radio 4 SUN The Ocean - Radio 2. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00qm6lw (Listen) SUN Ambridge mourns an old friend. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00qm6ly (Listen) SUN Matt Frei talks to John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, the SUN authors of the bestseller Game Change, a candid account of SUN the Obamas, the Clintons, McCain and Palin. Up for debate: SUN political gridlock, the rise and fall of John Edwards and SUN what 'real change' is needed in America SUN American news types have given us a new word: 'mirandize.' SUN The White House has come under attack after it was SUN revealled the FBI has read underwear bomber Umar SUN Abdulmutallab his 'Miranda' rights. His what? Matt talks SUN to lawyer Robert Shapiro - best known for his successful SUN defence of OJ Simpson - to find out what role these SUN Miranda rights play in the US justice system. Who do they SUN apply to and why they are so important? SUN Will America ever send a man to the moon again? President SUN Obama has set NASA off on a different course, one that SUN does not involve the planet made of cheese. So a perfect SUN time to hear from the last man to set foot on the moon, SUN Captain Eugene A Cernan. He tells us about that final SUN journey and shares his throughts about what might happen SUN when Americans can no longer reach for the stars - or the SUN moon or Mars. SUN The America's Cupold, the oldest active trophy in SUN international sport is once again its up for grabs. Faced SUN with high-tech yachts made of carbon-fibre, we cannot help SUN but pine for the boats of days gone by and old-fashioned SUN boat building. We've a slice of boat building life from SUN two guys in Martha's Vineyard in New England who are SUN carving out their living in the old-fashioned way. SUN Game Change SUN Matt Frei speaks to the authors of the best-seller Game SUN Change - John Heilemann and Mark Halperin. A candid SUN account of the Obama's, the Clintons, McCain and Palin. Up SUN for debate - political gridlock, the rise and fall of John SUN Edwards and what ‘real change’ is needed in America. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00b736p (Listen) SUN Jennings' Little Hut, General Sir Melville Merridew SUN Mark Williams reads one of Anthony Buckeridge's classic SUN school stories, abridged in five parts by Roy Apps. SUN A distinguished former pupil is to pay the school a visit. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00qld0z (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00qldxs (Listen) SUN John Wilson presents the obituary series. Marking the SUN lives of Alexander McQueen, Johnny Dankworth, Charlie SUN Wilson and Ian Carmichael. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00qll13 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00qm360 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today.] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00qh0zf (Listen) SUN Foreigner Policy SUN In the past decade, Britain has experienced mass SUN immigration on an unprecedented scale. A former government SUN aide recently suggested this was a deliberate policy, SUN motivated in part by a desire to increase racial SUN diversity. David Goodhart investigates the ideological SUN forces behind one of the most significant social changes SUN to have affected the UK. SUN Andrew Neather, a former Number 10 speechwriter, recently SUN wrote a much-discussed article in the Evening Standard in SUN praise of multicultural London, but suggesting that those SUN who have influenced immigration policy under Labour were SUN politically-programmed to be relaxed about such numbers. SUN His article was immediately seized upon by SUN anti-immigration campaigners as evidence of a conspiracy SUN to make Britain a more racially diverse society. SUN In this programme, David Goodhart investigates the truth SUN about reasons for recent increases in migration to SUN Britain. Political insiders, including former home SUN secretary David Blunkett, talk candidly about the real SUN influences behind the scenes. None of them give credence SUN to the accusation that there was a plan to create a more SUN multicultural Britain. An unexpected increase in asylum SUN applications and the demand for cheap labour from SUN employers were the main motivators, according to those who SUN influenced policy. But, admits former Home Office special SUN adviser Ed Owen, a nervousness about discussing SUN immigration policy meant that New Labour was, in its first SUN years in office, poorly prepared to deal with the issue. SUN We may not have witnessed a grand act of social SUN engineering, concludes David Goodhart, but New Labour's SUN combination of economic liberalism and cultural liberalism SUN led it to regard mass immigration as a trend which would SUN bring great social benefits and few disadvantages. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00qm6m0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00qm6m2 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Hung, Drawn and Thwarted. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00qldxv (Listen) SUN The Last King Of Scotland star James McAvoy talks Tolstoy, SUN sneezing garden gnomes and his latest film, The Last SUN Station. SUN Fashion guru Tom Ford discusses the links between SUN designing clothes and directing film, and why he spent his SUN own money to finance his debut film, A Single Man. SUN Matthew Sweet picks another neglected British gem, I See A SUN Dark Stranger. SUN Anil Sinanan discusses the crossover between Bollywood and SUN Hollywod and the latest example of this growing trend, My SUN Name Is Khan. SUN Director: Tom Ford SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00qlmr5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today.] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00qm7lr (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00qj214 (Listen) MON The car was a potent symbol of freedom for black America, MON but the cultural critic Paul Gilroy argues that the escape MON it once represented has become a cage for the African MON American. Consumerism and the ultimate commodity of the MON car has turned the fight for rights into a race to buy new MON things. He tells Laurie Taylor how black people spend far MON more on their cars than whites and how the automobile has MON fatally undermined culture and community. MON In his new book, Darker Than Blue, Paul Gilroy writes MON about how jazz, blues, hip-hop and much of what stood for MON black culture now seems generically American and is MON exported around the world. And within the United States MON luxury goods, motor cars, branded items and a quest for MON individual gratification have diluted the collective MON spirit which brought African Americans the civil rights MON they won. With his brilliant and provocative analysis, MON Paul Gilroy traces the shifting character of black culture MON on both sides of the Atlantic and offers an account of MON what it means to be black in Britain and the United States. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00qlm2h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday.] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qm7qm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qm86j (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qm87v (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00qm8d8 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qm8dz (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00qm8l7 (Listen) MON An Oscar-nominated film which explores large-scale MON agricultural production in the US is causing controversy MON among the farming industry in the UK. Reviewers has said MON that Food Inc exposes some unsavoury realities about how MON American food reaches the table, and the power of MON multinational corporations in deciding what people eat. MON Charlotte Smith looks at whether this film could predict MON the future of farming in the UK. MON Also, energy could be the new cash crop for farmers. From MON April, farmers will be able to sell electricity to the MON national grid for more. And a company which builds houses MON out of hemp is calling on more farmers to grow the crop. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00qp09l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00qm8v6 (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00qp09n (Listen) MON Andrew Marr gains insight into the workings of government MON offices with the investigative journalist Michael MON Cockerell and the former MP Lord Hurd. Jonathan Miller MON gives a 19th-century Italian opera a 1950s American MON facelift, and Lyndall Gordon argues that it's time to look MON again at the life of the poet Emily Dickinson. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qmb8h (Listen) MON Old World, New Powers (1100 - 300 BC), Lachish Reliefs MON Neil MacGregor's history of the world told through objects MON from the British Museum arrives at the Palace of MON Sennacherib in Northern Iran. MON Throughout this week, Neil MacGregor explains the key MON power struggles taking place across the globe around 3,000 MON years ago, as ambitious new forces were building MON sophisticated new societies. MON It seems that war has been one of the constant themes of MON our shared human history and, in this programme, Neil MON tells the story of the Assyrian king Sennacherib and his MON bloody siege of Lachish in Judah in 701 BC. The siege is MON described unsparingly in giant stone carvings that were MON placed around the King's palace and that show, perhaps for MON the first time, the terrible consequences of war on MON civilian populations. The Assyrian war machine was to MON create the largest empire that the world had ever seen and MON used the terror tactic of mass deportations. MON Statesman Paddy Ashdown and the historian Antony Beevor MON reflect on these powerful images of war. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qmdk6 (Listen) MON With Sheila McClennon. MON Research indicates that around a third of women struggle MON with maths, and yet this is a time when employers' MON organisations say they require higher skill levels than MON ever before. So why has it happened? MON In a special edition of Woman's Hour, Sheila McClennon MON discusses where the problems started for a whole MON generation of women and how they can now help their own MON children from struggling too. Even those parents who are MON confident mathematicians may find the syllabus is now MON taught in a different way and covers topics which weren't MON around when they were at school. With a panel of guests, MON including the Marie Curie Professor of Maths Education Jo MON Boaler, Carol Vorderman and the president of the MON Mathematical Association Jane Imrie, Sheila finds out what MON is happening in the classroom now, and if new initiatives MON are likely to help all pupils feel confident in maths. MON And, with many girls excelling in maths at school, what MON can be done to encourage these high flyers continue with MON their maths into higher education and careers in maths, MON engineering and technology? MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qmdk8 (Listen) MON The Whole of the Moon, series 2, Episode 1 MON Legal drama serial by Colin MacDonald. MON Advocate Depute Jo Ross is prosecuting her first murder MON trial at Edinburgh's High Court, but something about the MON case is beginning to bother her. MON Jo ...... Vicki Liddelle MON Iain ...... Steven McNicoll MON Mrs Ross ...... Eliza Langland MON Frank Gray ...... Simon Tait MON Peter Loudon ...... Greg Powrie MON DCI Brand ...... Lewis Howden. MON MON 11:00 The Voices Who Dug Up The Past b00qp0qx (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00qp1cf (Listen) MON Series 6, Elgar Writes 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 While Ed is busily teaching grammar to some clumsy, MON apostrophe-ridden phishers, Elgar finds fame when he MON becomes an internet hit with his blog. Could Elgar be a MON more successful writer than Ed? Quite probably. MON Ed Reardon ...... Christopher Douglas MON Olive ...... Stephanie Cole MON Ray ...... Simon Greenall MON Cliff ...... Geoff McGivern MON Jaz ...... Philip Jackson MON Pearl ...... Rita May MON Ping ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Stan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead MON With Dan Tetsell and Andrew Nickolds. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00qmdv3 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00qmdx9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00qmdyv (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00qp1ch (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange MON of quotations and anecdotes. With David Nobbs, Justin MON Webb, Marcel Berlins and Naomi Gryn. The reader is Peter MON Jefferson. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00qm6lw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday.] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qp1kl (Listen) MON Legsy Gets a Break MON By Phil Gladwin. Seventeen-year-old Legsy, recently out of MON the care system, is on a quest to find the brother he was MON separated from as a child. And when he finds him, Legsy MON must decide whether to follow his brother into a life of MON escalating crime or to try and break free. MON Legsy ...... Josef Altin MON Brady ...... Darren Douglas MON Donna ...... Sophie Stanton MON Chloe ...... Tessa Nicholson MON Ash ...... Benjamin Smith MON John ...... Gethin Anthony MON Mental ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole MON Detective ...... Nigel Hastings MON Directed by John Dryden. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00qs41j (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday.] MON MON 15:45 The Tribes of Science b00lxvl7 (Listen) MON Computer Programmers MON Series in which Peter Curran visits members of the many MON and varied disciplines of science, from astronomy to MON zoology, to explore their habitat, customs, rituals and MON beliefs. Beneath the typecast and somewhat nerdy image of MON scientists, Peter finds passion, humour and, on occasion, MON an enviable sense of community. MON Peter starts off by visiting computer programmers. Do the MON makers of the virtual world, Second Life, spend more time MON in their virtual world than in the real one? Are they MON architects, engineers or computer geeks, or actually MON highly competent people? MON Related Links MON * Linden Lab (lindenlab.com) MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00qm461 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday.] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00qp1mf (Listen) MON Monogamy MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether or not monogamy is MON the ideal for human relationships. MON MON 17:00 PM b00qmf51 (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 b00qmf6q (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00qp1mh (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 7 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Paul MON Merton, Jenny Eclair, Gyles Brandreth and Pam Ayres. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00qmdz7 (Listen) MON Kenton finds some displacement activity. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00qmfb5 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the MON verdict on the film The Lovely Bones, directed by Peter MON Jackson and based on the best-selling novel by Alice MON Sebold. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qmb8h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] MON MON 20:00 Paying for the Party b00qpkln (Listen) MON Anne McElvoy asks if reform is likely to the way political MON parties are funded. What plans are in the pipeline to end MON fears that wealthy individuals and trades unions 'buy' MON influence with big donations? MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00qpklq (Listen) MON Crying Treason MON There have been calls for the treason laws to be used MON against an Islamic group protesting about British troops MON in Afghanistan. Such laws are widely regarded as out of MON date, so can any citizen now challenge the state with MON impunity? Chris Bowlby asks if treason still matters in MON modern Britain. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00qpkls (Listen) MON Protecting the Past MON Alice Roberts investigates the threats posed to our great MON historic sites by climate change. Is there anything we can MON do to save the most vulnerable properties from extreme MON weather and regular flooding? MON All over the world conservators and policy makers are MON pondering the implications of global warming for our most MON important heritage sites. Alice visits three sites to MON investigate possible responses to the problem. MON In Ireland she visits Newgrange, the stunning centrepiece MON of a Neolithic landscape which finds itself assaulted by MON regular flooding of the nearby River Boyne and ever more MON extreme rainstorms. Europe's greatest collection of MON Megalithic art is being eroded faster than ever and MON undiscovered archaeology is being ploughed into the ground MON as local farmers turn from farming cattle and sheep to the MON arable farming that suits the changing climate. MON At Rosslyn Chapel near Edinburgh the laser-scanners from MON Historic Scotland are part way through their ambitious MON attempt to record 3-D models of the pick of the World MON Heritage Sites. They have already fired lasers at the MON presidents' heads on Mount Rushmore and are set to visit MON Machu Picchu and Orkney's Skara Brae, an ancient village MON at imminent risk of destruction from rising sea levels and MON more frequent storms. MON Is all we can do really to record, scan, photograph and MON despair, or can our historic landscapes be saved with MON enough time, vision and money? On Exmoor the National MON Trust is devising a plan to manage an entire river from MON source to sea. The aim is to avoid another Boscastle-style MON disaster where sudden, unprecedented rainfall overwhelms a MON river and the historic sites on the coast below. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00qp09q (Listen) MON Andrew Marr gains insight into the workings of government MON offices with the investigative journalist Michael MON Cockerell and the former MP Lord Hurd. Jonathan Miller MON gives a 19th-century Italian opera a 1950s American MON facelift, and Lyndall Gordon argues that it's time to look MON again at the life of the poet Emily Dickinson. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00qmfdc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00qny2t (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qnztt (Listen) MON Moonlight in Odessa, Episode 1 MON Jane Collingwood reads from Janet Skeslien Charles's debut MON novel, set in the Ukraine. MON Daria is a young woman just out of university with an MON engineering degree and perfect English. However, in Odessa MON impeccable qualifications alone are no guarantee of a good MON job. MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00p31l0 (Listen) MON Everyone's A Critic MON Are you worried about the future of criticism? You should MON be. When newspaper editors are forced to make cutbacks, it MON is critics who are the first in the firing line. But do we MON really need critics and criticism? Critic and journalist MON Toby Young is joined by blogger Lynne Hatwell and MON occupational psychologist Clive Fletcher to write about MON and discuss criticism and the critics. Dominic Arkwright MON presents. MON MON 23:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b008tnzk (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney make it up as they go along MON in an improvised sketch show driven by suggestions from MON the studio audience and with a loose grip on reality. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00qm7c8 (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 b00qmb8h (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday.] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qm7lt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qm80k (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qm86l (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00qm87x (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qm8db (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00qm8hj (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00qm8l9 (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Taking a Stand b00qpl4q (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to William and Kate Lyons about the TUE devastating effects of bipolar disorder on both sufferer TUE and carer. TUE The lives of William and Kate Lyons, a young married TUE couple, have included dealing with Kate's bipolar TUE depression. It's a condition she has had most of her adult TUE life and that William has to monitor constantly. It has TUE led, on one occasion, to him having Kate sectioned under TUE the Mental Health Act. They have decided to speak out TUE because they believe there is a taboo surrounding the TUE illness which can leave carers, as well as sufferers, TUE isolated and vulnerable. TUE TUE 09:30 When I Grow Up b00qpl4s (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Forty years ago 14,000 11-year-olds across Britain were TUE asked to write about where they saw themselves in the TUE future: their jobs, family lives, belongings, living TUE environments and leisure pursuits. Those essays have now TUE been followed up by the Nuffield Foundation as a way of TUE finding out how far ambition at an early age shapes what TUE happens in later life. TUE This is the first time that media access has been granted TUE to those who have taken part in their research. As well as TUE evidence of ambition the essays offer detail about how TUE youngsters imagined life would be at 25, with one writing, TUE 'My husband would have just won 200 pounds so we decided TUE to go to the moon for our holiday while we had not got any TUE children.' TUE The series covers jobs, family lives, living environments, TUE leisure pursuits and belongings that the children imagined TUE owning when first studied. The findings suggest that TUE children who are ambitious go on to enjoy greater success TUE than those with lower aspirations. Once background and TUE ability were accounted for, children did better if they TUE set themselves lofty goals. TUE It reveals that, even if a child is economically TUE disadvantaged or less able, having high ambitions at TUE around the time they leave primary school means that they TUE are significantly more likely to have a professional job, TUE though not necessarily the one that they predicted. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qm8z8 (Listen) TUE Old World, New Powers (1100 - 300 BC), Sphinx of Taharqo TUE Neil MacGregor continues to describe the power struggles TUE across the globe around 3,000 years ago, as ambitious new TUE forces set about creating the first cities and building TUE sophisticated new societies - from the Middle East to TUE South America. TUE Neil describes what was happening along the River Nile and TUE how a powerful new king conquered Egypt from Sudan. His TUE name was Taharqo and he ruled from a vibrant new TUE civilisation (in modern day Sudan) called Kush. These days TUE few people even know that the mighty land of the Pharaohs TUE was once ruled over by its southern neighbour. The TUE evidence is summed up by a sculpture at the British Museum TUE that shows the ruler from Kush as an Egyptian sphinx. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qmd5v (Listen) TUE With Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qmdkb (Listen) TUE The Whole of the Moon, series 2, Episode 2 TUE Legal drama serial by Colin MacDonald. TUE Jo visits a leading private school and turns up some TUE surprising information about the dead man. TUE Jo ...... Vicki Liddelle TUE Iain ...... Steven McNicoll TUE Irene Lee ...... Eliza Langland TUE Tom Stein ...... Lewis Howden TUE Chris Murray ...... Andrew Clark TUE Frank Gray ...... Simon Tait TUE Peter Loudon ...... Greg Powrie. TUE TUE 11:00 Watching the Watchdog b00qpl4v (Listen) TUE Penny Marshall looks at the progress of a new internet TUE watchdog that is working with the government to protect TUE children from dangers in the digital world. TUE How best to strike a balance between safety and freedom TUE online? Penny finds that issues such as cyber bullying and TUE access to harmful material are affecting younger and TUE younger children - 66 per cent of five- to seven-year-olds TUE are now internet users - and getting industry players to TUE agree to some form of regulation is not easy. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00qpl4x (Listen) TUE Kate Humble TUE Wildlife presenter Kate Humble shares some favourite TUE pieces of writing with an audience. The readers are John TUE Telfer and Rosie Cavliero. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00qmdtq (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00qmdwd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00qmdxc (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Piano Stool Beethovens b00qpl4z (Listen) TUE Ian McMillan sets out on the trail of a forgotten local TUE hero, one of countless composers whose work lies buried TUE under the bottoms of amateur pianists to this day. As he TUE discovers, it's also a route to the passions and TUE preoccupations of everyday people from a century ago. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00qmdz7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday.] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qpl51 (Listen) TUE English in Afghanistan TUE Modern-day fable by Ryan Craig, set against the backdrop TUE of war-torn Afghanistan. Two British soldiers embark on a TUE perilous quest to retrieve a love letter. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00qpl53 (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge asks listeners to suggest objects TUE that help tell A History Of The World. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00qplcy (Listen) TUE The Writing Life, The Author at Home TUE Novelist AL Kennedy, who spices up the isolation of the TUE day job with a sideline in stand-up comedy, presents three TUE despatches from the sharp end of the writing life. TUE There's the lady novelist reclining in her Creating TUE Hammock, attended by Juan her fragrant assistant. Or maybe TUE not. TUE TUE 15:45 The Tribes of Science b00m0jvx (Listen) TUE The Zoologists TUE Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied TUE disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to TUE explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs. TUE Peter meets zoologists and spends time at the Institute of TUE Zoology at London Zoo. Are the otter specialists as TUE quick-witted, sociable and fun as the aquatic animals they TUE study? And does the office hierarchy mirror the pecking TUE order of the food chain? TUE Related Links TUE * The Institute of Zoology (www.zsl.org) TUE TUE 16:00 Chips With Everything b00lv18s (Listen) TUE Sue Nelson explores the mining town in North Carolina that TUE is responsible for the production of the entire world's TUE supply of silicon chips. TUE The small community of Spruce Pine is home to the purest TUE quartz on Earth, which is essential for making the chips TUE that run every computer, digital radio, washing machine TUE and microwave on the planet. TUE Quartz is vital because of how computer chips are made; TUE this uniquely pure mineral forms the mixing bowls and TUE tools that make the manufacture of silicon chips possible. TUE If the quartz is contaminated then it becomes useless, but TUE by a stroke of geological luck these rocks formed in the TUE shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains are just perfect. TUE Without them - and therefore without the work of this TUE North Carolina town - microchip development as we know it TUE would grind to a halt. TUE But as new quartz deposits are discovered in other TUE countries, including Norway, could Spruce Pine cease to be TUE indispensible? And what will the people of the town do if TUE their last major industry disappears? The programme meets TUE the locals of this Mitchell County town and digs beneath TUE the surface of this strategically important mineral. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00qplyl (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to columnist India Knight and musician TUE Richard Hawley about their favourite books. TUE India's choice is a rollercoaster tale of love and recipes TUE by the screenwriter of When Harry Met Sally, Richard opts TUE for a tale of friendship and freedom set in the sultry TUE surroundings of Monterey, and Sue's selection is a TUE poignant story tracing the plight of a young Chinese TUE girl's struggle during her country's civil war. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00qmf15 (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 b00qmf53 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Act Your Age b00qplyn (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 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 Tom Wrigglesworth, John Bishop and Tom TUE O'Connor. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00qmdyx (Listen) TUE Alan prepares for some time in the wilderness. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00qmf6s (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an TUE interview with Megan Mullally, best known for playing the TUE role of Karen in the TV sitcom Will and Grace. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qm8z8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00qplyq (Listen) TUE After two big scandals in a year over dire standards in TUE hospitals which put patients at serious risk, Julian TUE O'Halloran asks how many people are still being killed by TUE avoidable medical blunders, and how far the NHS has TUE progressed since it began to address the problem ten years TUE ago. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00qplys (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00qplyv (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter visits a midwife-led unit in south London TUE to ask the mothers there why they have chosen this option. TUE What happens if they need surgical intervention? TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00qpl4q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00qmfb7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00qmfdf (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qstrd (Listen) TUE Moonlight in Odessa, Episode 2 TUE Jane Collingwood reads from Janet Skeslien Charles's debut TUE novel, set in the Ukraine. TUE Daria is desperate not to lose her much-cherished job but TUE just as determined not to sleep with her boss, so she TUE recruits an old friend to help her - with unexpected TUE results. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Fabulous b00qplyx (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE Sitcom by Lucy Clarke about a woman who wants to be TUE Fabulous but can't cope. TUE Faye is still engaged to a man she is roughly 65 per cent TUE sure she should marry - 66 per cent on a good day. TUE All chocolate and junk food has been outlawed from the TUE office. Seeing a chance to make some extra money to help TUE pay for her wedding, Faye turns into a wannabe Al Capone, TUE selling illicit biscuits and chocolate to her TUE sugar-starved co-workers. TUE With Katy Brand, Daisy Haggard, Olivia Colman, Anne Reid, TUE Alison Pettit, Joanna Munro, Sally Grace, Margaret TUE Cabourn-Smith, David Armand. TUE Music by Osymyso. TUE TUE 23:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b008vzdy (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney make it up as they go along TUE in an improvised sketch show driven by suggestions from TUE the studio audience and with a loose grip on reality. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00qm7cb (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 b00qm8z8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday.] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qm7lw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qm80n (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qm86n (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00qm880 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qm8dd (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00qm8hl (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00qm8lc (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00qpmgf (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qm8zb (Listen) WED Old World, New Powers (1100 - 300 BC), Chinese Zhou Ritual WED Bowl WED The Director of the British Museum Neil MacGregor retells WED the history of human development from the first stone axe WED to the credit card, using 100 selected objects from the WED Museum. WED Three thousand years ago the world was in huge flux, with WED new powers creating sophisticated new societies - from the WED Middle East to South America - as older ones collapsed. WED Neil finds out what was happening in China during that WED period and describes how a group of outsiders, the Zhou, WED overthrew the long-established Shang dynasty. WED The story is told through a bronze bowl that was used both WED for feasting and also as an object to be buried alongside WED the dead for use in the afterlife. What does this WED beautiful bronze bowl tell us about the Zhou and life in WED China at this time? WED Dame Jessica Rawson and the Chinese scholar Wang Tao help WED paint the picture. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qmd5x (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qmdkd (Listen) WED The Whole of the Moon, series 2, Episode 3 WED Legal drama serial by Colin MacDonald. WED Edinburgh is wilting in the heat, and Jo's murder case is WED going pear shaped. WED Jo ...... Vicki Liddelle WED Iain ...... Steven McNicoll WED Mrs Ross ...... Eliza Langland WED Frank Gray ...... Simon Tait WED Peter Loudon ...... Greg Powrie WED DCI Brand ...... Lewis Howden. WED WED 11:00 Fort Dunlop b00qpmgh (Listen) WED Giles Poyner, a creative director at the iconic Fort WED Dunlop building, pays tribute to the Birmingham landmark. WED He, his mother and grandfather talk about their working WED life there. WED Drive through Birmingham on the M6 and you can't fail to WED notice an imposing fort-like building, standing proud WED against the city's industrial skyline. The Fort Dunlop WED building was built for the tyre company in the early 20th WED century to accommodate the thousands of workers needed to WED supply the growing motoring and aviation industries. The WED Dunlop Tyre Company, was one of Birmingham's largest WED employers, and those who worked there were looked after WED and had a job for life. But by the end of the century, WED competition from overseas led to the closure of the site, WED as Dunlop transferred much of its operation abroad. WED The Fort was abandoned in the late 1980s and stood empty WED for 20 years, until it was taken over by an innovative WED urban design company who transformed the vast empty tyre WED store into state of the art offices, cafes and shops. WED This is where Giles Poyner works as brand design manager. WED The achingly hip surroundings of his office are a far cry WED from his 92-year-old grandfather's experience of working WED at the Fort. He recalls the stench of rubber in the air, WED the workers arriving by canal boat before the road was WED built and, above all, the sense of being part of a family, WED cared for by a benevolent employer. WED Giles's mother Susan also worked at Fort Dunlop as a WED typist during the 1960s. She remembers the generous WED facilities provided for the workers, including a pub, WED theatre and playing fields. WED Giles Poyner pays tribute to this iconic Birmingham WED landmark and discovers how his workplace has changed both WED physically and culturally over the decades. WED Related Links WED * Birmingham Mail Archive (www.birminghammail.net) WED WED 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00qpmlk (Listen) WED Series 3, Mr Majhu Goes To Lenzie WED Sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald WED McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop. WED Ramesh inadvertently enters the murky world of Lenzie WED politics. WED Ramesh ...... Sanjeev Kolhi WED Dave ...... Donald McLeary WED Sanjay ...... Omar Raza WED Alok ...... Susheel Kumar WED Father Henderson ...... Gerard Kelly WED Bob Shandy MP ...... Ron Donachie WED Guthrie ...... Tom Urie WED Mrs Gibb ...... Marjory Hogarth WED Mutton Jeff ...... Sean Scanlan WED Jeff ...... Steven McNicol WED Hilly ...... Kate Brailsford WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00qmdts (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00qmdwg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00qmdxf (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00qpq1n (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00qmdyx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qpq1q (Listen) WED God Bless Our Love WED Romantic comedy by Ray Connolly about a priest and a nun WED who fall in love and leave their orders to marry and begin WED a new life together. WED Michael ...... David Neilson WED Eleanor ...... Alexandra Mathie WED Jane ...... Fiona Clarke WED Darrell ...... Joe Ransom WED Fr Dermot ...... Stephen Tomlin WED Suzy ..... Cherylee Houston WED Produced by Charlotte Riches. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00qpq1s (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on debt and WED borrowing. WED Guests: WED Jasmine Birtles, Moneymagpie.com WED Liz McVey, managing counsellor of CCCS Scotland and WED Scottish Debtline WED Michael Park, money adviser, National Debtline. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00qplk8 (Listen) WED The Writing Life, The Author Away WED Novelist AL Kennedy, who spices up the isolation of the WED day job with a sideline in stand-up comedy, presents three WED despatches from the sharp end of the writing life. WED Stuck in the Northern Lodge Motel, Tasmania, with only WED foot-long woodlice for company, maybe life on the road WED during the book tour isn't everything it's cracked up to WED be. WED WED 15:45 The Tribes of Science b00m8plt (Listen) WED The Botanists WED Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied WED disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to WED explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs. WED Peter meets the botanists who won the lottery. Seed WED conservation used to be rather marginal to the main WED scientific activity at The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. WED That is, until, the scientists who preserve seeds for WED future generations asked for and received 30 million WED pounds. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00qpq1v (Listen) WED With the advent of Napster and Pirate Bay, people assume WED that intellectual piracy is the creation of the digital WED age. But Laurie Taylor hears that piracy has a much longer WED history than expected. He speaks to the author of a WED history which traces its lively lineage back to the WED invention of the Gutenberg Printing Press. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00qplyv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 17:00 PM b00qmf17 (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 b00qmf55 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 The Write Stuff b00qpq1x (Listen) WED Series 9, Nancy Mitford WED James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary WED correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are WED joined by John O'Farrell and Mark Billingham. The author WED of the week and subject for pastiche is Nancy Mitford, and WED the reader is Beth Chalmers. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00qmdyz (Listen) WED Helen drops a bombshell at Bridge Farm. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00qmf6v (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson, including an WED interview with comedy performer and writer David Mitchell. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qm8zb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00qpqj8 (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, WED Michael Portillo and Clifford Longley cross-examine WED witnesses. WED WED 20:45 Head To Head b00jxb04 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Edward Stourton presents a series celebrating great WED debates, combining archive of rare discussions between key WED figures with analysis by a panel of experts. WED The 1976 battle between Milton Friedman and Lord Balogh on WED the relative merits of free-market economics at a time WED when Britain was in financial crisis. WED A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:00 Inside the Elephant Mind b00qxgzw (Listen) WED Everyone knows that elephants are clever but science is WED only now beginning to reveal just how smart they are. WED Andrew Luck-Baker joins British and Kenyan researchers on WED the East African savannah who are revealing the depths of WED the elephant mind with the help of a huge loudspeaker in WED the back of a Land Rover. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00qpmgk (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00qmfb9 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00qmfdh (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qstr3 (Listen) WED Moonlight in Odessa, Episode 3 WED Jane Collingwood reads from Janet Skeslien Charles's debut WED novel, set in the Ukraine. WED Daria, uncertain of her future with the shipping firm, WED starts to moonlight for the Soviet Unions dating agency, WED translating for lovelorn Americans searching for a WED beautiful Ukrainian bride. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Mordrin McDonald: 21st-Century Wizard b00qprmm (Listen) WED Market Magic 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 b00pftgn (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED Twin presenters John Tweedledum and Jim Tweedledee present WED in-depth news analysis covering the latest stories WED happening this 'once upon a time'. WED Mary Mary reports on a medical mystery involving and old WED woman who swallowed a fly. WED With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Fi Glover, Lewis MacLeod, WED Alex MacQueen, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, Dan WED Tetsell. WED Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. WED WED 23:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b008xf49 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney make it up as they go along WED in an improvised sketch show driven by suggestions from WED the studio audience and with a loose grip on reality. WED WED THU THURSDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00qm7cd (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 b00qm8zb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday.] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qm7ly (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qm80q (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qm86q (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00qm882 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qm8dg (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00qm8hn (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. THU THU 06:00 Today b00qm8lg (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00qprnj (Listen) THU The Indian Mutiny THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Faisal Devji, Shruti Kapila and THU Chandrika Kaul discuss the Indian Mutiny of 1857 and the THU rebellion which followed. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qm8zd (Listen) THU Old World, New Powers (1100 - 300 BC), Paracas Textile 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 The theme so far has been one of empires collapsing, new THU regimes and warfare. In South America there were no new THU empires and we still don't entirely understand the THU cultures that were thriving there. THU Here, Neil shows off some of the remarkably well-preserved THU textiles discovered in the Paracas peninsula on the THU southern coast of Peru and tries to piece together what THU life might have been like for these people living in THU around 500 BC. The early Peruvians went to astonishing THU lengths to make and decorate their textiles whose colours THU remain striking to this day. What were they for and what THU do they tell us about beliefs of this time? THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qmd5z (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qmdkg (Listen) THU The Whole of the Moon, series 2, Episode 4 THU Legal drama serial by Colin MacDonald. THU Jo suspects that the man she's prosecuting for murder THU isn't guilty. But if she's wrong, her career in the High THU Court is over before it's begun. THU Jo ...... Vicki Liddelle THU Iain ...... Steven McNicoll THU Lord Watten ...... Simon Tait THU Alan Tait ...... Lewis Howden THU Old Woman ...... Eliza Langland THU Peter Loudon ...... Greg Powrie THU Elliot ...... Andrew Clark. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00qps7v (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Capturing America: Mark Lawson's History of Modern THU American b00qps7x (Listen) THU The Crucible of Capitalism THU Mark Lawson explores how American writing became the THU literary superpower of the 20th century, telling the THU nation's stories of money, power, sex, religion and war. THU Mark considers how America's post-war playwrights - from THU Tennessee Williams to David Mamet - have challenged THU political rhetoric about the triumph of capitalism in the THU USA. THU Edward Albee, author of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? THU reveals his candidate for 'the best American play'. Other THU interviewees include Tony Kushner, author of Angels in THU America, and the late August Wilson, whose sequence of ten THU plays about the African-American experience is typical of THU the structural ambition and political questioning found in THU so many of the major post-war American plays. THU Through the theatres of Broadway, the programme also THU explores the commercial pressures in America's THU largely-unsubsidised theatre culture, which have led to THU several of the nation's greatest playwrights - including THU Albee, Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams - facing long THU periods of neglect. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00qmdtv (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00qmdwj (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00qmdxh (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00qpkls (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday.] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00qmdyz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday.] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00c1q5z (Listen) THU Address Unknown THU Tim Dee's adaptation of Kressmann Taylor's novel, THU published in 1938. THU Two old friends, former business associates in San THU Francisco, exchange letters. One is an American German THU Jew, the other an American German who, excited and THU energised by the new Germany of the 1930s, has gone home. THU Attitudes harden with the seemingly inexorable rise of THU Hitler, the Jew horrified by the change in his friend and THU his wholesale adoption of the rhetoric and ideology of THU Nazism. THU With Henry Goodman, Patrick Malahide. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00qlgz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday.] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00qm360 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday.] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00qplk6 (Listen) THU The Writing Life, In the Public Eye THU Novelist AL Kennedy, who spices up the isolation of the THU day job with a sideline in stand-up comedy, presents three THU despatches from the sharp end of the writing life. THU Meet the author - what maniac thought of that? ALK THU proposes her 10 Point Plan for surviving the insatiable THU demands of the press, while living uncomfortably alongside THU her multi-mediated virtual presence. THU THU 15:45 The Tribes of Science b00m5rs7 (Listen) THU The Astronomers THU Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied THU disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to THU explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs. THU Peter meets the astronomers at Jodrell Bank Observatory. THU For 50 years, astronomers at the Jodrell Bank worked with THU colleagues around an iconic radio telescope that famously THU spotted Sputnik. But now most of the Jodrell tribe are THU leaving their telescope in the middle of the Cheshire THU countryside and moving to Manchester. The telescope will THU survive as it is a listed building, but will the tribe? THU Related Links THU * Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics (www.jb.man.ac.uk) THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00qm62m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday.] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00qps7z (Listen) THU In October 2005, a European scientific satellite lifted THU off on a Russian rocket to perform crucial measurements on THU the effects of global warming on polar ice. Just a few THU minutes later, CryoSat crashed in the Arctic. Now, reborn, THU rebuilt and renewed, CryoSat-2 is on the launch pad. Its THU chief scientist, Professor Duncan Wingham of UCL, joins THU Quentin Cooper to discuss the hazards and frustrations of THU space missions and why this one is crucial to our THU understanding of climate change. THU The question of whether global climate change is causing THU the polar ice caps to shrink is one of the most hotly THU debated environmental issues of our time. By monitoring THU precise changes in the thickness of the polar ice sheets THU and floating sea ice, CryoSat-2 aims to answer this THU question. It will use radar to measure the extent and THU thickness of ice around both poles and to see how it is THU changing. THU THU 17:00 PM b00qmf19 (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 b00qmf57 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00qps81 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 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 b00qmdz1 (Listen) THU Neil and Lynda go head to head. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00qmf6x (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including news of THU the longlist of contenders for the Art Fund Prize for THU Museum and Galleries. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qm8zd (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00qps83 (Listen) THU Author Terry Pratchett has argued that assisted suicide THU should be legal in the UK - but there is already a medical THU technique widely used in the NHS which some campaigners THU claim is euthanasia by the backdoor. Called terminal THU sedation, it's used to ease the pain and suffering of the THU very sick. But critics say it can hasten death. Linda THU Pressly investigates the extent of terminal sedation and THU examines if it is always in the interests of patients and THU their families. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00qps85 (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 Science on Trial b00qps87 (Listen) THU What happens when the free pursuit of answers in THU scientific research comes face to face with English law? THU Alan Urry investigates. THU Simon Singh, author of Fermat's Last Theorem and The Code THU Book, is one of the UK's most successful science writers. THU Peter Wilmshurst is a respected cardiologist and has long THU fought for high ethical standards in scientific research. THU Francisco Lacerda works in Stockholm studying how children THU learn to speak. Henrik Thomsen is a Danish radiologist THU with an interest in kidney disease. They are a disparate THU group, but what they all have in common is that they have THU all fallen foul of English law for engaging with what they THU believe are scientific debates. Lawyers, journalists and THU scientists are now campaigning for a change to the UK THU libel laws to protect free speech. Those issuing or THU threatening the writs say they have commercial reputations THU to protect. Where should the balance lie? THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00qprnj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00qmfbc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00qmfdl (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qstr5 (Listen) THU Moonlight in Odessa, Episode 4 THU Jane Collingwood reads from Janet Skeslien Charles's debut THU novel, set in the Ukraine. THU Daria's plan to distract her boss, Mr Harmon, has worked THU so well that he is now besotted with her former friend THU Olga, who in turn is uncontrollably jealous of Daria. THU Daria's reaction is somewhat unexpected. THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group b00qps89 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Comedy by Sarah Millican, who plays Sarah, life counsellor THU and modern-day agony aunt. THU Together with her team of 'experts', Sarah tackles the THU nation's problems head on, dishing out real advice for THU real people. THU Sarah tackles the problems, 'I love a plumber but I'm no THU boiler; dating outside of your class: would you, should THU you, could you?' and 'Help! I love two women at the same THU time - my mam not included'. THU Sarah ...... Sarah Millican THU Marion ...... Ruth Bratt THU Terry ...... Simon Daye THU Chris ...... Steve Edge THU Jamie ...... Nick Mohammed THU Carol ...... Helen Atkinson Wood. THU THU 23:30 The Lawrence Sweeney Mix b008z5ld (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU Josie Lawrence and Jim Sweeney make it up as they go along THU in an improvised sketch show driven by suggestions from THU the studio audience and with a loose grip on reality. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00qm7cg (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 b00qm8zd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qm7m0 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qm80s (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qm86s (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00qm884 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qm8dj (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Johnston McKay. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00qm8hq (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Caz Graham. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00qm8lk (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00qm36f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday.] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qm8zg (Listen) FRI Old World, New Powers (1100 - 300 BC), Gold Coin of Croesus FRI Neil MacGregor has been looking at the collapse of old FRI regimes and the emergence of new powers from the Middle FRI East to China. In this programme, he describes how a FRI powerful new state finds a dramatic way to help run its FRI increasingly complex economy and trading networks - using FRI coins. FRI Croesus was a king in what is now western Turkey and his FRI kingdom was called Lydia. It's remarkable that over 2,000 FRI years later we still have an expression that celebrates FRI his wealth. Neil considers how money, in the form of FRI coins, first came about, and describes the hugely complex FRI methods of creating them. And whatever happened to Croesus? FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qmd61 (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qmdkj (Listen) FRI The Whole of the Moon, series 2, Episode 5 FRI Legal drama serial by Colin MacDonald. FRI In a packed and stifling courtroom, Jo puts her career on FRI the line. FRI Jo ...... Vicki Liddelle FRI Iain ...... Steven McNicoll FRI Peter Loudon ...... Greg Powrie FRI Lord Watten ...... Simon Tait FRI Alan Tait ...... Lewis Howden FRI Mrs Ross ...... Eliza Langland. FRI FRI 11:00 Last Orders b00qpslw (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI A celebration of the pub landlord and landlady. FRI With pubs disappearing at the rate of more than three a FRI day, signalling one of the most rapid cultural shifts of FRI recent times, half a dozen landlords and landladies FRI reflect on life as a licensee and explore what we're in FRI danger of losing besides the beer and the buildings. FRI This rueful view from behind the bar includes reflections FRI on the qualities of a good landlord or landlady, their FRI role as community confessional and settler of tap room FRI fights, dispenser of best bitter and pearls of wisdom. FRI The programme hears from from old hands like Barbara, an FRI ex-Bunny girl who runs The Grapes in London's Limehouse; FRI Tetley Dave who fought a battle to keep The Shoulder of FRI Mutton from closing in Castleford; Maureen from Langsett FRI who's famous for her pies; ex miner Dennis from Barnsley, FRI whose bête noir is health and safety; and former Cambridge FRI academic Tim, who's taken early retirement to open his FRI first pub in York, The Pheonix, just as others around are FRI shutting up shop. FRI How have they kept their marriages together, living and FRI working on the premises? How much of a temptation was it FRI to hit the top shelf after a hard day's graft behind the FRI bar? Why do they think the pub can help teach the next FRI generation how to hold their drink? And how do they bar an FRI objectionable customer without starting a Wild West-style FRI bar room brawl? FRI FRI 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: Cast in Order of FRI Disappearance b00qpsrd (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. FRI Just who did kill Elliot Roth and will they stop at one FRI murder? FRI Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy FRI Jodie ...... Martine McCutcheon FRI Frances ...... Suzanne Burden FRI Maurice ...... Jon Glover FRI Nick ...... Rhys Jennings FRI Dr Mayhew ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Elspeth ...... Kate Layden FRI Directed by Sally Avens. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00qmdtx (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00qmdwl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00qmdxk (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00qpsrg (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00qmdz1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qpsrj (Listen) FRI Bad Faith, The Fire This Time FRI Series of plays by Peter Jukes about Jake Thorne, a FRI Methodist minister and police chaplain who is battling FRI with his own demons at the same time as trying to resolve FRI the problems of his parishioners. FRI Jake takes on his arch rival and nemesis Bishop Elias FRI Wright in a battle over the soul of a mentally unstable FRI parishioner, fighting the good fight against homophobia FRI and Islamophobia along the way. FRI Jake Thorne ...... Lenny Henry FRI Michael ...... Danny Sapani FRI Ruth Thorne ...... Jenny Jules FRI Vincent Ngomwe ...... Jimmy Akingbola FRI Rev Elias Wright ...... Cyril Nri FRI Chief Supt Khan ...... Vincent Ebrahim FRI Firearms Officer ...... Melissa Advani FRI Radio Voice ...... Rhys Jennings FRI Producer Mary Peate FRI Executive Producer Simon Elmes. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00qpsrl (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Bunny Guinness, Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew answer FRI questions posed by the gardeners of Lakeland Horticultural FRI Society in Windermere. FRI Eric investigates how plants can survive flooding FRI following the recent heavy rain in Cumbria. FRI Plus a profile one of the region's best-known garden FRI designers, Thomas Mawson. FRI FRI 15:45 The Tribes of Science b00mf27l (Listen) FRI The Mathematicians FRI Series in which Peter Curran visits members of the many FRI and varied disciplines of science, from astronomy to FRI zoology, to explore their habitat, customs, rituals and FRI beliefs. FRI Peter meets the mathematicians of the Isaac Newton FRI Institute of Mathematics in Cambridge. There are FRI blackboards in the lifts and in the loos to encourage FRI communication between visiting professors, but not FRI everyone shares their mathematical insight. FRI A few members of the mathematical tribe do wear the same FRI t-shirt for six months and it's often inside-out, but not FRI all the stereotypes hold true. Among these mathematicians, FRI Peter finds passion, humour and an enviable sense of FRI purpose. FRI Related Links FRI * The Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences FRI (www.newton.ac.uk) FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00qqz3k (Listen) FRI John Wilson presents the obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00qqz3m (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Lord of The Rings director Peter FRI Jackson about his adaptation of Alice Sebold's novel The FRI Lovely Bones. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00qmf1c (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 b00qmf59 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00qqz3p (Listen) FRI Series 70, Episode 7 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The panel FRI includes Fred MacAulay, Jeremy Hardy, Ava Vidal and Miles FRI Jupp. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00qmdz3 (Listen) FRI Pat and Helen do some baby talk. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00qmf6z (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qm8zg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today.] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00qqzzc (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Diss in Norfolk. FRI The panel includes former Conservative cabinet minister FRI Lord Tebbit, Labour MP Diane Abbott and Guardian columnist FRI Maya Jaggi. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00qqzzf (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00qqzzh (Listen) FRI The Whole of the Moon, series 2, 19/02/2010 FRI Omnibus edition of the legal drama serial by Colin FRI MacDonald. FRI Advocate Depute Jo Ross is prosecuting her first murder FRI trial at Edinburgh's High Court, and something about the FRI case is beginning to worry her. But if she gets it wrong FRI her career will be ruined and a killer will go free. FRI Jo ...... Vicki Liddelle FRI Iain ...... Steven McNicoll FRI Mrs Ross ...... Eliza Langland FRI Frank Gray ...... Simon Tait FRI Peter Loudon ...... Greg Powrie FRI DCI Brand ...... Lewis Howden FRI Chris Murray ...... Andrew Clark. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00qmfbf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00qmfdn (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qstr7 (Listen) FRI Moonlight in Odessa, Episode 5 FRI Jane Collingwood reads from Janet Skeslien Charles' debut FRI novel, set in the Ukraine. FRI When Mr Harmon wants to give Daria's job to Olga, Daria FRI makes him a deal: she'll take six weeks off to prove to FRI Harmon that he can't cope without her. She spends those FRI six weeks working at the dating agency. FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00qplyl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday.] FRI FRI 23:30 Paying for the Party b00qpkln (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Monday.] FRI FRI FRI