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SAT SATURDAY 27 FEBRUARY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00qxfpg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00qsvj7 (Listen) SAT The World in the Age of Confucius (500 - 300 BC), Chinese Bronze Bell SAT SAT Neil MacGregor continues to explore the emergence of SAT sophisticated new powers across the world 2,500 years ago, SAT from the Parthenon in Greece to the great empire of Cyrus SAT in Persia and the forgotten people of the Olmec in Mexico. SAT SAT In this programme he arrives in China at the time of SAT Confucius. He explores the Confucian view of the world with SAT reference to a large bronze bell, and with help from the SAT writer Isabel Hilton and the percussionist Evelyn Glennie. SAT Confucius believed in a society that worked in harmony. How SAT do his teachings go down in China today? SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qxfpj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qxfpl (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qxfpn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00qxfpq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qxfps (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Canon Patrick Thomas. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00qxfpv (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. A weekly SAT companion to the nightly PM, the expertise of the Radio 4 SAT audience shapes the programme. Presented by Jennifer Tracey SAT and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00qxfpx (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00qxywy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00qxyx0 (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 4 SAT SAT Clare Balding explores the joys of group walking. SAT SAT Clare joins the volunteers from the Holst Birthplace Museum SAT who take her from Cranham through the Cotswolds, a SAT landscape that inspired Holst to compose some of his best SAT known and loved pieces. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00qxzzg (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT 1.4 billion pounds was spent on ethnic food last year in the SAT UK. One farmer, Surinder Pal, is hoping to cash in on this SAT growing market on his farm in Shropshire. He grows an array SAT of vegetables and herbs that would be more at home on a SAT farm in warmer sunnier climes. Charlotte Smith meets SAT Surinder in his vast coriander field. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00qxzzj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00qxzzl (Listen) SAT With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00qy01t (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by actor Anthony SAT Head. With poetry from Murray Lachlan Young. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00qy01w (Listen) SAT Zoologist and conservationist Mark Carwardine talks to John SAT McCarthy about his life travelling to film, photograph and SAT write about creatures which inhabit the deepest oceans or SAT the dustiest plains. In 1990 he went in search of animals SAT nearing extinction with Douglas Adams and more recently SAT with Stephen Fry and, as an occasional leader of wildlife SAT expeditions, he shares his thoughts on the ethics of animal SAT tourism, ecology and the environment. SAT SAT John also meets Robin Bayley, who went to Mexico in search SAT of traces of his great grandfather who went to work there SAT and, according to family legend, consorted with bandits and SAT had to hot-foot it back to Britain during the revolution of SAT 1910. Robin not only finds the pleasures of rural Mexico SAT but more than he bargained for in terms of family history. SAT And Mexican author and British resident Chloe Aridjis tells SAT John about her perspective on her homeland from Europe and SAT whether Mexico's Spanish heritage makes it in any sense SAT culturally European. SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b00qy1k5 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Gigi SAT SAT In April 1959 the musical Gigi, starring Leslie Caron, SAT Maurice Chevalier and Louis Jourdan, won nine Oscars SAT including the Best Picture Award, breaking the previous SAT record of eight awards which went to Gone With The Wind in SAT 1940. Paul Gambaccini discovers how the combination of SAT Gallic charm and memorable songs, including The Night They SAT Invented Champagne, Gigi and I Remember It Well, sanitised SAT Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette's risque novella for the big SAT screen. SAT SAT Considered to be the last of MGM's great musicals, Gigi SAT tells the story of a young girl being groomed as a SAT courtesan, and the movie's producers battled with the SAT censors to get it made. Director Vincente Minnelli's lavish SAT film, which was shot mostly in Paris, sugar-coated the SAT subject matter, and Caron's gamine performance melted SAT Hollywood cinemagoers. SAT SAT The programme also explores how Gigi represented the SAT passionate early days of the on-off American love affair SAT with France - a relationship that has come under strain in SAT recent years following the war in Iraq. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00qy21m (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Ben Brogan. SAT SAT Gordon Brown's a bully, according to a new book by SAT journalist Andrew Rawnsley. Downing Street has strongly SAT denied the allegation. But it has dominated the political SAT scene this week. The Prime Minister's long time supporter, SAT Geoffrey Robinson, and a former Downing Street insider, SAT reflect on the pressures of the top job. SAT SAT The allegations are in part based on anonymous sources. The SAT Guardian's Michael White and Newsweek's Stryker McGuire SAT describe how journalists and figures from the political SAT world work together. SAT SAT What seems to have stopped the Tories' progress in the SAT polls? Michael Heseltine and newly-selected Tory candidate, SAT Nadhim Zahawi, wonder if the party is attacking Labour hard SAT enough and if the message on the doorstep is clear. SAT SAT This week's new guidelines on assisted suicide are not SAT enough, according to campaigners who want to make it legal. SAT But the opposition to any such move is fierce. Two peers, SAT Margaret Jay and Ilora Finlay, take sides. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00qy21p (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00qylpq (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00qx5rc (Listen) SAT Series 70, Episode 8 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The panellists SAT are Susan Calman, Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton and Victoria SAT Mather. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00qylpt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00qylpw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00qx5rf (Listen) SAT Ed Stourton chairs the topical debate from Wirral. The SAT panellists are home secretary Alan Johnson, Liberal SAT Democrats' home affairs spokesman Chris Huhne, deputy SAT leader of Plaid Cymru Helen Mary Jones and Iain Duncan SAT Smith, former Conservative leader and chairman of the SAT Centre for Social Justice. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00qynb4 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00qynvv (Listen) SAT Northern Broadsides theatre company's version of SAT Shakespeare's tragedy of love turned sour by unfounded SAT jealousy. Othello's descent into deluded rage is SAT orchestrated by the dazzling villainy of his lieutenant, SAT Iago. SAT SAT Iago ...... Conrad Nelson SAT Roderigo ...... Matt Connor SAT Brabantio ...... Geoff Leesley SAT Othello ...... Lenny Henry SAT Cassio ...... Richard Standing SAT Duke/Gratiano ...... David Beckford SAT Senator/Lodovico ...... Simon Holland Roberts SAT Desdemona ...... Jessica Harris SAT Montano ...... Andy Cryer SAT Emilia ...... Sara Poyzer SAT Herald/Gentleman ...... Chris Pearse SAT Bianca ...... Victoria Gee SAT SAT Directed by Barrie Rutter SAT SAT Producer David Hunter. SAT SAT 16:30 Woman's Hour b00qynvx (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Weekend Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. John Barrowman on his SAT music, sexuality, and being Captain Jack; Booker SAT prize-winning author Hilary Mantel on writing and the SAT fascination of the supernatural; the political agenda of SAT the baby-boomer generation; and the life and death of Lady SAT Jane Grey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00qynvz (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00qx454 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis asks his panel of top business guests where they SAT draw the line when it comes to outsourcing. They also SAT discuss the future of publishing. SAT SAT Evan is joined by Ronan Dunne, chief executive of mobile SAT phone company O2 UK; Stevie Spring, chief executive of SAT magazine publisher Future Plc; and Ananda Mukerji, chief SAT executive of outsourcing company Firstsource. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00qynw1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00qynw3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qynw5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00qyqw6 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the satirist Rory Bremner, talks survival SAT with the actor Max Beesley and celebrates 35 years in SAT poetry with Pam Ayres. SAT SAT Allegra McEvedy talks about marital skirmishes in the SAT kitchen with Christopher Hirst, author of Love Bites. SAT SAT Comedy from Loose Ends' favourite outlaw country music SAT legend that is Wilson Dixon. SAT SAT Music comes from Los Angeles Local Natives and Lou Rhodes. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00qyqw8 (Listen) SAT Sir Gus O'Donnell SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Cabinet Secretary Sir Gus SAT O'Donnell, a key figure in the controversy over Gordon SAT Brown's alleged bullying of Downing Street staff. It's said SAT that Britain's most senior civil servant is not a typical SAT Whitehall mandarin. He gives straight answers and didn't go SAT to Oxbridge. Can a man with such influence stay clear of SAT the political storm? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00qyqwb (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00qyqwd (Listen) SAT Hurry Up Please, It's Time SAT SAT From Falstaff at The Boar's Head to John Self at The SAT Shakespeare in Martin Amis's Money, English literature and SAT the pub are intertwined. It started in a pub - Chaucer's SAT pilgrims setting out from The Tabard in Southwark - and has SAT been waiting to be chucked out ever since. Robert Hanks SAT presents an elegy for pubs in literature and an exploration SAT of what the smoking ban, the gastro pub and the five quid SAT pint are going to do to writing. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00qs5kh (Listen) SAT Plantagenet, Lionheart SAT SAT Series of plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's SAT Chronicles, charting the early years of the Plantagenet SAT dynasty. SAT SAT Prince Richard has become heir apparent, but in the face of SAT Henry II's refusal to acknowledge his position, he turns to SAT the Crusades. SAT SAT Queen Eleanor ...... Jane Lapotaire SAT Richard ...... Ed Stoppard SAT King Henry II ...... David Warner SAT William Marshall ...... Stephen Hogan SAT King Philip ...... John Biggins SAT Saladin ...... Raad Rawi SAT El-adel ...... Khalid Laith SAT Baldwin ...... Ewan Hooper SAT Prince John ...... Neil Stuke SAT Hugh ...... Philip Fox SAT Robert of Champagne ...... Rhys Jennings SAT Conrad ...... Piers Wehner SAT SAT With Bruce Alexander and Joseph Cohen-Cole SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00qyrsl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00qvnjk (Listen) SAT How much should the personality of our leaders influence our SAT vote? Politics has always been about making a connection SAT with the voter, but with the prime minister and party SAT leaders giving increasingly personal interviews and a US SAT presidential-style TV debate on the cards, is politics SAT turning into the X Factor? Have spin doctors destroyed SAT politics or are we part of the problem? Are we increasingly SAT unwilling to devote the time and intellect, to engage fully SAT with political debate and the tough moral and ethical SAT choices that poses? SAT SAT Witnesses: SAT SAT George Pascoe Watson, former political editor of The Sun, SAT now partner at Portland Public Relations. SAT Mark Vernon, co-editor Citizen Ethics SAT Iain Dale, political blogger SAT Mehdi Hasan, senior editor The New Statesman. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00qtsnp (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of SAT quotations and anecdotes. SAT SAT With Mary Beard, Marcel Theroux, Arthur Smith and Ariel SAT Leve. The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00qs5lz (Listen) SAT Roger McGough is joined by poet Tony Harrison for a new SAT reading of Newcastle is Peru, and introduces poems by SAT Frances Horowitz and the winner of the BBC Wildlife Poet of SAT the Year competition, Heather Reid. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT SAT Horses on the Camargue SAT by Roy Campbell SAT From: The Collected Poems of Roy Campbell SAT Published by The Bodley Head SAT SAT Child in Cornwall SAT by Frances Horovitz SAT From: Frances Horovitz – Collected Poems SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT From the Wave SAT by Thom Gunn SAT From: Thom Gunn – Collected Poems SAT Published by Faber SAT The Surfer SAT by Judith Wright SAT From: A Human Pattern – Selected Poems SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT The Swamp Pheasant SAT by Judith Wright SAT From: Judith Wright – Collected Poems SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT A Murmuration SAT by Heather Reid SAT Winner of BBC Wildlife poem of the year award SAT Newcastle is Peru SAT by Tony Harrison SAT From: Tony Harrison – Collected Poems SAT Published by Viking SAT SAT Rain-Birdoswald SAT by Frances Horovitz SAT From: Frances Horovitz – Collected Poems SAT Published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 FEBRUARY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00qysrw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b00qvpf0 (Listen) SUN Will Self SUN SUN Series of talks by eminent thinkers exploring how faith and SUN religion interact with a variety of aspects in society. SUN SUN Novelist Will Self reflects on the relationship between art SUN and religion. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qyt4h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qyt4k (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qyt4m (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00qyt4p (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00qyt4r (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Lawrence Church, Towcester, in SUN Northamptonshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00qyqw8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00qyt4v (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00qyt4x (Listen) SUN Drudgery Divine SUN SUN Scholar and priest Teresa Morgan explores some of the many SUN ways in which we see work - as a necessary evil, an act of SUN love, a right, a gift and an expression of faith. With SUN readings from the Bhagavad Gita, Gerard Manley Hopkins and SUN Virgil, and music by Peggy Seeger, Robert Fayrfax and SUN Vaughan Williams. SUN SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Music SUN SUN Music: Three Waulking Songs - excerpt SUN Women from Euist & Kate Nicholson SUN (CD Heather and Glen – Songs & Melodies from the Highland SUN and Lowland of Scotland) SUN Essentia Media Group tr. 12 SUN SUN Music: Peggy Seeger - ‘Gonna be an engineer’ SUN Smithsonian SF40048 tr. 16 SUN (The Folkways Years) SUN Pub. Stormking Music SUN SUN Music: plainchant – Benedicta es tu, Virgo Maria SUN Benedictine Monks SUN (CD Santo Dominigo De Silos) SUN Jade 74321 306 572 tr. 10 SUN SUN Music: Teach me my God and king SUN Cardiff Festival Choir/Owain Arwell Hughes SUN (CD Hymns of Ralph Vaughan Williams) SUN Griffin CD tr. 7 SUN SUN Music : Vaughan Williams - ‘Hugh the Drover’ – scene 1 SUN primrose-seller’s song SUN Corydon Orchestra & Singers/Matthew Best SUN (CD: Vaughan Williams: Hugh the Drover) SUN Hyperion CDA 669012 cd 1 tr. 2 SUN SUN Music: Jonathan Harvey – Nataraja SUN Harrie Starreveld (flute/piccolo) & Rene Eckhardt (piano) SUN (CD Jonathan Harvey) SUN Bridge BCD9031 tr. 2 SUN Pub. Faber Music SUN SUN Music: Bruckner’s ‘Christus factus est’ SUN Bavarian Radio Chorus/Eugen Jochum SUN (CD Bruckner Geistliche Chorwerke) SUN DG423 127-2 CD 2 tr. 8 SUN SUN Music: Robert Fayrfax ‘Missa O quam gloria’ – Sanctus SUN The Cardinall’s Musick/Andrew Carwood SUN (CD Robert Fayrfax) SUN ASV CD GAU 142 tr. 4 SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Reading: Columella - ‘On Agriculture’ SUN Translated by E Forster / E Heffner SUN Published by Harvard University Press SUN SUN Reading: St Benedict – Monastic Rule SUN SUN Reading: from the Bhagavad Gita SUN Translated by Juan Mascoro SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN Reading: George Herbert – Teach me my God and King SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN Reading: Gerard Manley Hopkins on divinity of work SUN SUN Reading: J. S. Collis, ‘The worm forgives the plough’ SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN Reading: Shakespeare - ‘Cymbeline (Fear no more the heat of SUN the sun) SUN Published by Penguin SUN SUN Reading: Virgil - Aeneid SUN Published by OUP SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00qyvdk (Listen) SUN Crayfish SUN SUN Surprisingly the British Isles are home to seven species of SUN crayfish. Only one, the white clawed crayfish, is SUN indigenous; once a common sight along British rivers, it is SUN now endangered, due partly to the release of its North SUN American cousin into British rivers 30 years ago. Lionel SUN Kelleway travels to Somerset to investigate the plight of SUN our largest freshwater crustacean and to see a project to SUN try and save the crayfish in the wild. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00qyvdm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00qyvdp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00qyvdr (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, both SUN familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00qyvdt (Listen) SUN TB Alert SUN SUN Jeremy Paxman appeals on behalf of TB Alert. SUN SUN Donations to TB Alert should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio SUN 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope TB Alert. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide TB Alert with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. SUN The online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1071886. SUN SUN TB Alert SUN SUN TB Alert is a national Tuberculosis charity. TB Alert SUN raises awareness of the disease so that cases are diagnosed SUN without the delays which spread the infection, and can be SUN fatal. It supports local organisations in Southern Africa SUN and India, to increase access to information about and SUN treatment for TB. In the UK it provides advice, information SUN and support for TB patients and their families. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00qyvdw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00qyvdy (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00qyvf0 (Listen) SUN People on the Edge of His Pain SUN SUN The second in a series of services for Lent. SUN Live from Calvary Baptist Church in Cardiff. SUN Led by Rev Dr Craig Gardener. Preacher: Rev Dr Karen Smith. SUN Musical Director: Kelvin Thomas. Accompanist: Jonathan SUN Davies. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00qx5rh (Listen) SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on the importance for history of the SUN recording of personal memories and her regrets that her SUN mother can no longer recall her own fascinating life. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00qyvf2 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00qyvf4 (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00qyvf6 (Listen) SUN June Spencer SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is actress June Spencer. SUN SUN She is one of the best-loved matriarchs in broadcasting. As SUN Peggy Woolley in The Archers, she's the only original SUN member of the cast still in the show. It's 60 years this SUN spring since the pilot episodes were first broadcast and, SUN although she is now aged 90, June has no plans to retire. SUN She says, 'It's a great bonus for me that The Archers has SUN run as long as it has, and I've gone along with it.'. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00qtt8c (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 8 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Graham SUN Norton, Sue Perkins, Paul Merton and Tony Hawks. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00r33sd (Listen) SUN New World Cheese SUN SUN Sheila Dillon speaks to people around the world risking SUN everything for the cause of good cheese. One is Australian SUN Will Studd. He faced the prospect of jail in a protest to SUN overturn a ban on raw milk cheese being made and imported SUN into the country. He was among thousands of cheese SUN enthusiasts who had gathered in northern Italy for an event SUN set up to celebrate small-scale producers from all over the SUN world. SUN SUN As well as meeting pioneering producers from Australia and SUN America, Sheila talks to campaigners from former communist SUN countries in eastern Europe who have to use the black SUN market to buy and sell artisanal cheeses. This is the only SUN way they believe food traditions can be kept alive. SUN SUN Should we care about these cheese struggles in far off SUN places? Sheila is joined by cheese expert Juliet Harbutt SUN who argues that we should. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00qyvfb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00qyw6w (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Portraying the Poor b00qyw6y (Listen) SUN In Print SUN SUN Paul Mason explores the image of poverty and the working SUN class that has been created by writers. SUN SUN From Friedrich Engels's reports on the Salford slums in the SUN 1840s through to Raphael Selbourne's story of a young SUN Bangladeshi woman in present-day Wolverhampton, by way of SUN George Orwell's expeditions to Wigan and the hop fields of SUN Kent, our picture of the poor has been painted by members SUN of the middle class. Paul Mason asks if this outsider's SUN view gives us a full and fair account, or if it says more SUN about the attitudes of the literary class than about the SUN poor themselves. SUN SUN Interviewees include Orwell's biographer DJ Taylor, Polly SUN Toynbee (author of Hard Work: Life In Low-Pay Britain); SUN Michael Collins (author of The Likes Of Us: A Biography Of SUN The White Working Class) and Raphael Selbourne (author of SUN Beauty). SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00qx5r5 (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum, which SUN joins the fuschia fanatics of Camborne in Cornwall. SUN SUN Matt James visits the UK's only tea plantation and Matthew SUN Wilson visits gardening celebrity Christine Walkden. SUN SUN Includes gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Head To Head b00k8g51 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN Edward Stourton presents a series celebrating great debates, SUN combining archive of rare discussions between key figures SUN with analysis by a panel of experts. SUN SUN Norman Mailer and Marshall McLuhan clash over the electronic SUN age. Has technology set man free or alienated individuals SUN and led to a fragmented society? SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00qzd3b (Listen) SUN Plantagenet, John, By the Grace of God SUN SUN Series of plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's SUN Chronicles, chronicling the early years of the Plantagenet SUN dynasty. SUN SUN The fourth son of Henry II never expected to succeed to the SUN English throne. When he does, he reveals a talent for SUN making enemies. SUN SUN Queen Eleanor ...... Jane Lapotaire SUN King Richard ...... Ed Stoppard SUN King John ...... Neil Stuke SUN William Marshall ...... Stephen Hogan SUN Prince Arthur ...... Ryan Watson SUN Queen Isabelle ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN King Philip ...... John Biggins SUN Saladin ...... Raad Rawi SUN El-Adel ...... Khalid Laith SUN Doctor/Langton ...... Ewan Hooper SUN Girard ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole SUN De Roche ...... Bruce Alexander SUN Fitzwalter ...... Piers Wehner SUN Will Marshall ...... Rhys Jennings SUN Prince Henry ...... Bertie Gilbert SUN SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00qzdvz (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to American writer Joshua Ferris SUN about his new book The Unnamed, in which a man has an SUN unusual illness. He he cannot stop walking and the medical SUN profession cannot help. The character is fervent in his SUN belief that he is not mentally ill and the book charts the SUN effect of his symptoms on his body, on his family and on SUN his life as he is literally forced to walk away from SUN everything and everyone. SUN SUN After the credit crunch comes 'crunch lit'. While bankers SUN may no longer be writing large cheques, many of them are SUN using the opportunity provided by redundancy to write about SUN their experience of working in the city. Alex Preston is SUN the first trader to write a novel about the credit crunch SUN and Geraint Anderson, who pens columns under the pseudonym SUN City Boy, discuss the issues involved in writing about the SUN city from the inside. What do the bankers' books tell us SUN about the excesses of city life that we didn't know SUN already? SUN SUN And 71 years after the end of the Spanish Civil War - which SUN featured in books by Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell - SUN Spanish writers are at last writing about the conflict that SUN tore the country apart. Galician writer Manuel Rivas, whose SUN latest book Books Burn Badly, tells the story of the mass SUN book burnings that took place in his native city of Corunna SUN at the start of the civil war, is joined by Professor SUN Amanda Hopkinson to discuss the ways in which Spanish SUN writers are addressing the past, asking whether it is SUN healing of old wounds or reviving ancient bitternesses. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00qzdw1 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces requests for poems including An SUN Overworked Elocutionist by Carolyn Wells, in which a SUN confused boy struggles to master a maelstrom of famous SUN first lines. The readers are Kate Littlewood, Jon SUN Strickland, Bonnie Hurren and Zahra Barri. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00qvm9h (Listen) SUN CAFCASS, the family courts' advisory service, is again SUN facing claims that it is failing the vulnerable children it SUN is supposed to protect. Seven years after reporting that SUN the organisation was in crisis, Jenny Cuffe returns to ask SUN why the service is still facing a backlog of urgent cases SUN and unprecedented delays. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00qyqw8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00qzf0d (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00qzf0g (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qzf0j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00qzf0l (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Othello - Radio 4 SUN The Ballet Russes In England - Radio 4 SUN And The Winner Is - Radio 2 SUN Costing The Earth - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Yesterday in Parliament - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN Hurry Up Please it's Time - Radio 4 SUN Last Orders - Radio 4 SUN From Gameboy to Armageddon - Radio 3 SUN Elvis In Prestwick - Radio 4 SUN Chris Evans - Radio 2 SUN Desert Island Discs - Radio 4 SUN After the Accident - Radio 4 SUN Good Golly, Bad Golly - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - Radio 3. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00qzf70 (Listen) SUN David plans meeting with the enemy. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00qzf72 (Listen) SUN David Willis presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today. SUN SUN As American politicians debate healthcare reform in SUN Washington DC, Americana hears from a few people in SUN Baltimore who feel left out in the cold. SUN SUN David Willis heads to the briefing room of the White House's SUN West Wing. Political analyst Marc Ambinder shares an SUN insider's view of how the big decisions are made and SUN declared to the world. SUN SUN Author Mary Karr discusses her personal journey from health SUN to alcoholism and back again. SUN SUN Matt Frei offers a view of the United States from Cuba. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00qzfhp (Listen) SUN Jennings' Little Hut, The Difficult Guest SUN SUN Mark Williams reads one of Anthony Buckeridge's classic SUN school stories, abridged in five parts by Roy Apps. SUN SUN Jennings and Darbishire try to play the perfect hosts, but SUN the General's grandson gives them the slip. SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00qx1m9 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00qx5r7 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, marking the SUN lives of Alexander Haig, Cy Grant, Geoffrey Woolley and SUN Allan Wicks. SUN SUN GENERAL ALEXANDER HAIG SUN SUN Former White House Chief of Staff and Secretary of State who SUN has died aged 85 SUN SUN During two major crises in American politics, General SUN Alexander Haig had his hands on the levers of power. He was SUN Chief of Staff in the dying days of Richard Nixon’s SUN discredited administration and held the government together SUN as the Watergate crisis reached it climax. And when Ronald SUN Reagan was shot and wounded, Haig was the Secretary of SUN State who famously claimed to be in control of the White SUN House. Alexander Haig had seen active service in Korea and SUN Vietnam, and as Henry Kissinger’s deputy in in the National SUN Security Council, he had helped to negotiate an end to the SUN Vietnam war. But it was his skills as a bureaucrat which SUN led to his rapid promotion in the White House. SUN SUN Matthew speaks to Dr Henry Kissinger, to former US National SUN Security Advisor Richard Allen, to former Secretary of SUN State for Defence, Sir John Nott and to the American SUN historian and writer Dr. Robert Dallek. SUN SUN Alexander Meigs Haig was born December 1924 and died 20 SUN February 2010. SUN SUN CY GRANT SUN SUN Actor, singer and writer who has died aged 90 SUN SUN In the late 1950s and early 60s, the BBC’s Tonight Programme SUN changed the way television reported current affairs. SUN Presented by Cliff Mitchelmore, Tonight’s irreverent SUN approach proved popular with millions of viewers. One SUN regular feature was the topical calypso, sung by the tall, SUN handsome actor Cy Grant. He put lyrics written by Bernard SUN Levin to lilting Caribbean music and became a much loved TV SUN personality. After leaving the show, Cy founded Britain’s SUN first black arts centre Drum and launched a series of multi SUN cultural festivals around the country. SUN SUN Matthew speaks to his friend Professor Gus John of the SUN University of London, to broadcaster Alex Pascal and to SUN Alistair Milne, producer of the Tonight Programme and SUN former Director General of the BBC. SUN SUN Cy Grant was born on November 8, 1919 and died on February SUN 13, 2010. SUN SUN GEOFFREY WOOLLEY SUN SUN Former Times journalist who has died aged 94 SUN SUN For thirty years, starting in the 1950s, Geoffrey Woolley SUN edited the letters page of the Times newspaper. Under his SUN leadership it became an essential debating forum for the SUN great and the good of British society. He balanced the SUN significant and trenchant with the whimsical and trivial to SUN make the pages an influential, but also entertaining read. SUN SUN Last Word hears from the broadcaster and journalist Tony SUN Howard. SUN SUN Geoffrey Woolley was born June 29, 1915 and died February SUN 17, 2010. SUN SUN ALLAN WICKS SUN SUN Cathedral organist who has died aged 86 SUN SUN Allan Wicks was seen as the greatest cathedral organist of SUN his generation. He worked at York Minster, Manchester SUN Cathedral and then, for thirty years, at Canterbury, where SUN he served under three archbishops. He was born in Skipton SUN in Yorkshire and started playing the piano at an early age. SUN He took up the organ at school, winning an organ SUN scholarship to Christ Church, Oxford. Wherever he worked, SUN Allan was noted for championing the work of 20th century SUN composers alongside the more traditional religious SUN repertoire. SUN SUN Last Word hears from two former choirboys at Canterbury SUN Cathedral, Radio 3 producer Andrew Lyle and the cabaret SUN performer Kit Hesketh Harvey. SUN SUN Allan Wicks was born on June 6, 1923 and died February 4, SUN 2010. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00qylpq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00qyvdt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00qttpp (Listen) SUN Failing Better SUN SUN Mistakes often provide the best lessons in life, so why are SUN they so undervalued? Michael Blastland explores our SUN attitude to failure and the impact it has on politics. SUN SUN We may accept, in our personal lives, that 'to err is SUN human'. But, when it comes to politicians, we enjoy pouring SUN scorn on those who make mistakes: we relish the cock-up, SUN the blunder and the humiliating U-turn. But what effect SUN does this bloodthirsty approach have on policy-making? SUN SUN Michael talks to former cabinet minister Estelle Morris SUN about her experience of dealing with mistakes in SUN government. We also hear from former civil servant Paul SUN Johnson and from David Halpern - a former prime-ministerial SUN advisor who helped create The Institute for Government. SUN SUN Michael goes in search of inspiration from two professions SUN which, far from seeking to bury mistakes, see them as SUN opportunities to learn. He speaks to surgeon and writer SUN Atul Gawande and he visits RAF Cranwell, where mistakes SUN made by airman are seen as 'clues'. He also talks to SUN philosopher Susan Wolf about blame and 'moral luck' and he SUN interviews the editor of The Spectator magazine, Fraser SUN Nelson. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00qzfhr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00qzfht (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including It SUN Happened Here. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00qx5r9 (Listen) SUN Amelie and Delicatessen director Jean Pierre Jeunet reveals SUN why he thinks all his films are the same, and why his SUN latest MicMacs is no exception. SUN SUN Poet Ian McMillan reviews the Keats biopic Bright Star. SUN SUN Colin Shindler reports from the cinemas of February 1960. SUN SUN Francine Stock embarks on the first leg of her national tour SUN of local cinema. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00qyt4x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 MARCH 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00qzg9k (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00qvnjf (Listen) MON CP Snow first used the phrase 'corridors of power' in his MON book Homecoming in 1956. It soon became a cliché, conjuring MON up a world of officialdom, hierarchy, whispers and secret MON machinations. The advent of open plan, with its airy MON atriums and glass walls, was supposed to put pay to all MON that, ushering in a new sense of democracy to the work MON place. However, research from Rachel Hurdley reveals the MON hidden values of corridors. The chance meetings, gossip and MON confrontations which actually undermine hierarchy will all MON be lost if we fail to appreciate the seemingly unimportant MON passage between doors. She discusses her research with MON Laurie Taylor and with the architect Jeremy Till. MON MON Simon Duncan, Professor of Comparative Social Policy at the MON University of Bradford, talks about the phenomenon of MON Living Apart Together - or 'LAT' - a form of relationship MON which keeps partners out of each other's living space. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00qyt4r (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qzgh0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qzgk2 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qzgn8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00qzgql (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qzgt1 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Canon Patrick Thomas. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00qzgyh (Listen) MON UK food exports have grown by 19 per cent during the MON recession. Charlotte Smith finds out that exports of MON cheese, pork and beer contribute to a market worth 14 MON billion pounds a year. And wheat for pasta is now being MON grown in England. A visit to a Cornish pasta producer MON reveals what it takes to match the Italians. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00qzvdc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00qzgyy (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. 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MON MON Actress Helena Bonham Carter has cast off the corset-look MON she is famous for in costume dramas, and has had her head MON digitally expanded to play the scary Red Queen in the new MON version of Alice in Wonderland. She talks to Jane about her MON role in the film, what it's like working with her real-life MON partner, director Tim Burton, her wacky dress-sense and MON rather unusual living arrangements. MON MON In October 2008, Iceland hit the international headlines MON when three major Icelandic banks collapsed owing billions MON of pounds to foreign investors. This week, the country is MON in the news again with a referendum on whether to repay MON Britain and the Netherlands the money lost by foreign MON savers. But behind the dramatic headlines, what is life MON like for families in Iceland? Jane discusses the isues with MON Icelandic politician and economist, Sigridur Ingadottir and MON journalist Alda Sigmundsdottir. MON MON Felicity Aston has recently returned from an expedition in MON which she successfully led seven women from the MON Commonwealth to the South Pole. It was the largest ever MON women's team to get there entirely unsupported. Some of the MON women hadn't even seen snow before. Felicity joins Jane to MON discuss their extraordinary achievement. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjr4 (Listen) MON Beyond Black, Voices from the Other Side MON MON Dramatisation by Caroline Harrington of Hilary Mantel's MON blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a MON troubled past. MON MON Alison Hart is a professional medium, an awkward, obese, MON disorganised woman, but with a gift for empathy and a good MON platform technique. Her familiar spirits are figures from MON her chaotic childhood, principal among them a small, MON foul-mouthed circus performer with disgusting personal MON habits called Morris who is her unpleasant and bitter MON spirit guide. MON MON To try and create some order in her messy existence she has MON taken on an assistant, the highly efficient but essentially MON heartless Colette, who, although she is a regular witness MON to Alison's gift, is nevertheless a profoundly sceptical MON companion. The two of them are bound together by a need MON that neither wants to recognise. MON MON Alison ...... Alison Steadman MON Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero MON Morris ...... Bill Wallis MON MON Directed by Sara Davies. MON MON 11:00 The New Global Indians b00r0p2b (Listen) MON Indians Shining MON MON Mukti Jain Campion examines how Indians have moved so MON rapidly from running cornershops to running corporations. MON MON The phenomenal rise of the 'new global indians' started MON slowly 20 years ago but has really taken off in the past 10 MON years. Equipped with the English language and higher MON degrees from top universities, their ambitions go far MON beyond being call centre operators or back office workers MON for the west. Instead they're making it big as MON entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and as analysts and bankers MON on Wall Street and Canary Wharf, buying up British MON businesses and running global companies. MON MON A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Sneakiepeeks b00p8dkd (Listen) MON Storm Warning MON MON Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of MON inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. MON MON Beagle Team are tasked with the surveillance of a Russian MON billionaire. The nation's security and gas supply are at MON stake. MON MON Bill ...... Richard Lumsden MON Sharla ...... Nina Conti MON Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya MON Captain Le Clerc ...... Kevin Eldon MON Bolkonski ...... Shaban Arifi MON Boris ...... John Biggins MON Russian Girls ...... Alex Tregear, Kate Layden MON Russian Crew ...... Nigel Hastings, Ewan Hooper. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00qznr1 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00qzp7v (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00qzp89 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00r0qh9 (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of MON quotations and anecdotes. MON MON With Ken Bruce, Valerie Grove, Ben Goldacre and Kwame MON Kwei-Armah. MON MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00qzf70 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r0qhc (Listen) MON Ashes to Antarctica MON MON By Jim Eldridge. Widow Jill Foster is determined to scatter MON her husband's ashes on the wastes of Antarctica to MON commemorate the work he did there years ago. She sets off MON with her sister on a tourist cruise, only to find that MON attitudes have changed radically, and it will be more MON difficult than she thinks to fulfil her task. MON MON Jill ...... Carolyn Pickles MON Liz ...... Deborah McAndrew MON Emilie ...... Yolanda Vazquez MON Geoffrey ...... Mark Carey MON MON Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00qyqwd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Generation Gap b00qzrl7 (Listen) MON Agony Aunts MON MON Series of programmes in which two people from different MON generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing MON nature of Britain. MON MON The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. MON MON Irma Kurtz, the original Cosmopolitan agony aunt, talks to MON her younger counterpart Simone Bienne, who works as a sex MON and relationship expert for various publications. How has MON the nature of problems changed? MON MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00r33sd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00r0qw1 (Listen) MON For St David's Day, Ernie Rea and guests discuss whether MON patron saints are still important cultural icons. What do MON their stories tell us about ourselves and our history? Do MON we have the right saint for each nation and is there a MON place for a patron saint of the UK? MON MON 17:00 PM b00qzrn6 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qzrs8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00r0qw3 (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 9 MON MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, recorded at MON the University of Derby. Panellists Tony Hawks, Justin MON Moorhouse, Josie Lawrence and Dave Gorman speak on subjects MON including the people you find in a student bar and the art MON of studying. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00qzrj5 (Listen) MON Lilian performs an act of kindness. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00r0qw5 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson reports on why the MON Apocalypse is proving popular with film and TV producers. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjr4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Food Fights b00r3r0k (Listen) MON Indonesia MON MON Bill Law investigates the causes and consequences of the MON great global land grab, as richer nations and multinational MON corporations acquire vast tracts of land in developing MON countries. MON MON Bill weighs up the pros and cons of Indonesia's palm oil MON revolution. The country leads the world in palm oil MON production and the world is hungry for it; check any food MON label and as likely as not palm oil will turn up as one of MON the ingredients. Low-cost, high-yield palm oil has MON transformed Indonesia creating wealth and a new middle MON class. But in the process, it has carved up huge swathes of MON rainforest. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00r3r5h (Listen) MON Tea Party Politics MON MON It's been described as the 'most vibrant political force' in MON America today, but what is the Tea Party movement and who MON are its supporters? MON MON Launched in 2009 as a grass-roots protest group against MON deficit spending and big government, the Tea Party movement MON is now being seen by some commentators as a viable threat MON to the Republican Party as supporters seek to uphold what MON they see as real right-wing principles. Author and MON journalist Gary Younge assesses the strength and influence MON of the 'tea baggers'. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00r0qw9 (Listen) MON The Big Clean Up MON MON When Corby council was ruled to be negligent in its efforts MON to clean up the site of the town's enormous steelworks, a MON shiver ran through the building industry. MON MON For a decade builders have been urged to build new homes, MON offices, schools and hospitals on brownfield land. It meant MON that ex-industrial eyesores were cleaned up and it saved MON greenfield land from the bulldozers. MON MON The rejuvenation of Corby was one of the biggest brownfield MON building projects in the country and, many believe, it was MON an unmitigated disaster. The High Court ruled that the MON council had failed to oversee the works, resulting in MON dangerous contaminants spreading far and wide across the MON town. Numerous birth defects have been blamed on the MON contamination and the council could face a legal and MON compensation bill running into millions of pounds. MON MON Alice Roberts asks what impact the Corby decision has had on MON Britain's building industry. Will it be cheaper and safer MON for risk-averse councils and builders to turn their MON attention back to greenfield land? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00qzvdf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00qzrw5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00qzsqd (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qzswk (Listen) MON Trespass, Episode 1 MON MON Sara Kestelman reads from the new and disturbing novel by MON Rose Tremain. Set in the Cevennes, an untamed area of MON southern France where traditions and secrets run deep, it MON is the story of two very different sets of siblings. MON MON Veronica and Anthony are privileged, cultured and English. MON Aramon and Audrun are French, rooted in the old stone mas MON and the land around it that their family have cultivated MON for generations, and in their shared and violent past. When MON these two very different worlds collide, a chain of events MON is set in unstoppable motion. MON MON Alone in Pimlico, Anthony has a moment of self-knowledge: MON the best is over. Meanwhile, above a river bank in southern MON France, a little girl is screaming. MON MON Abridged by Sally Marmion. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00p93sw (Listen) MON How's My Driving? MON MON Having a driving licence used to be proof you'd grown up and MON could move about on your own; now it is almost a guilty MON pleasure. MON MON Dominic Arkwright borrowed a car to get to the studio to MON meet entrepreneur Alison Larkman (who walked), broadcaster MON Chris Serle (on his motor scooter) and actor Patrick Field MON (bike, train and bike) to consider the point of driving in MON the 21st century. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00qzszt (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Susan Hulme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 02 MARCH 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00qzg5c (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00qzh56 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qzg9m (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qzgh2 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qzgk4 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00qzgnb (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qzgqn (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Canon Patrick Thomas. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00qzgwc (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00qzgyk (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in TUE Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00r5yxf (Listen) TUE Between 1880 and 1890, the game of football was transformed TUE by a growing professionalism. Suddenly disagreements which TUE had previously been settled in a gentlemanly way between TUE captains were becoming rancorous. Professional teams who TUE were now paying wages and getting crowds of several TUE thousands wanted to win. The goalposts needed changing and TUE in came the cross tape. But that wasn't good enough, so the TUE cross bar was installed. Then came referees to make the TUE decisions previously agreed by captains. But when, on 26 TUE October 1889, a game between Everton and Accrington at the TUE Anfield ground in Liverpool descended into a near riot over TUE a disputed goal, an engineer in the crowd thought he had TUE the answer. John Alexander Brodie's Goal Net was patented a TUE year later. He met the Football Association and, after some TUE initial trials, they decided that the net was a very good TUE way of assisting referees and encouraged all clubs to use TUE them. TUE TUE So what holds back today's authorities from using the modern TUE camera technology that might have changed Ireland's fate in TUE the recent World Cup play-off? There was another disputed TUE goal at the African Cup of Nations, Cameroon losing out on TUE that occasion. Rugby has adopted cameras and a fourth TUE official with access to the pictures, cricket is moving TUE that way and tennis has taken up the referred line call. TUE TUE So should football take the Long View and use the available TUE technology or is the reticence to do something more TUE indicative of our culture and time? Are we as ready as the TUE Victorians to accept the new? TUE TUE 09:30 When I Grow Up b00r0rdl (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE 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 TUE This is the first time that media access has been granted to TUE 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 to TUE go to the moon for our holiday while we had not got any TUE children.' TUE 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 set TUE themselves lofty goals. TUE TUE It reveals that, even if a child is economically TUE disadvantaged or less able, having high ambitions at around TUE the time they leave primary school means that they are TUE significantly more likely to have a professional job, TUE though not necessarily the one that they predicted. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00r2jkd (Listen) TUE Just Kids, Episode 2 TUE TUE Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New TUE York in the late 1960s and 1970s. TUE TUE In 1967, Patti is hungry, homeless and penniless, until a TUE chance encounter in a bookstore changes her life for ever. TUE TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qzkk6 (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjr6 (Listen) TUE Beyond Black, Colette's Story TUE TUE Dramatisation by Caroline Harrington of Hilary Mantel's TUE blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a TUE troubled past. TUE TUE Colette is an event organiser whose marriage to dull, TUE conventional Gavin ends after she has the strange TUE experience of holding a phone conversation with Gavin's TUE mother, whom she later discovers is dead. Colette's TUE interest in the paranormal leads her to a Psychic TUE Extravanganza in Windsor where professional medium Alison TUE is performing, and to a subsequent consultation where TUE Alison drops a bombshell about her father and then makes TUE her a surprising job offer. TUE TUE Alison ...... Alison Steadman TUE Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero TUE Gavin ...... Mark Meadows TUE Natasha/Renee ...... Adrienne O'Sullivan TUE TUE Directed by Sara Davies. TUE TUE 11:00 The New Global Indians b00r0rkn (Listen) TUE Uniquely Indian? TUE TUE Mukti Jain Campion examines how Indians have moved so TUE rapidly from running cornershops to running corporations. TUE TUE India has the largest number of illiterate people in the TUE world, yet it also produces some of the most numerate and TUE ambitious graduates at world-famous establishments such as TUE the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs). Mukti visits TUE the campus of IIT Kanpur during recruitment week to find TUE out why the students there are so highly sought-after by TUE multinational companies and meets IIT alumni at their TUE annual global conference in Chicago. Is there anything TUE uniquely Indian behind their success? TUE TUE A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:30 The Ballets Russes in England b00r0rzl (Listen) TUE What Did Diaghilev Do for Britain? TUE TUE Jane Pritchard, dance curator at the Victoria and Albert TUE Museum, explores our ongoing love affair with Diaghilev's TUE Ballets Russes. TUE TUE Without Diaghilev, British ballet would be unrecognisable. TUE All three of our major dance companies were founded by his TUE protegees. TUE TUE A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00qznd3 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00qznr3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00qzp7x (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00r0smn (Listen) TUE Series 9, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto TUE TUE Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional TUE appeal. TUE TUE When Mendelssohn wrote his Violin Concerto in 1844 he could TUE hardly have imagined how famous and well loved it would TUE become. In this programme, people tell how it has played an TUE important part in their lives. TUE TUE Violinist Daniel Hope tells how he got caught practising TUE this concerto secretly locked in the bathroom at school. TUE Harry Atterbury remembers hearing the Mendelssohn for the TUE first time on the night before a Second world War air raid TUE which turned his life upside down. Composer Stephen Pratt TUE describes discovering that his father had played this TUE concerto to cheer fellow soldiers in the jungle in Burma, TUE and explains how this inspired him to write his own violin TUE concerto. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00qzrj5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r0smq (Listen) TUE Pinkerton TUE TUE By Ronald Frame. TUE TUE In the new immigrant community of 1840s America, Scotsman TUE Allan Pinkerton turns detective when an influx of TUE counterfeit dollars threatens the local economy. TUE TUE Allan Pinkerton ...... Forbes Masson TUE Joan Pinkerton ...... Rachel Ogilvy TUE John Craig ...... Sam Dale TUE Mrs O'Riordan/elderly Woman ...... Marcella Riordan TUE Nathan Madison/ Croupier/Elderly Man ...... Robert Jezek TUE Lisl ...... Alison Pettitt TUE Jack Paige/Police Officer ...... John Biggins TUE Wolf/Bank Teller/Dr Morgan ...... Bruce Alexander TUE TUE Directed by David Ian Neville. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00r0sms (Listen) TUE The new series kicks off with a remarkable revelation about TUE how our minds might be controlled by parasites within our TUE brains. Are we really just vehicles for their survival? TUE Inundation by the sea is often portrayed as the end to any TUE agricultural soil. Yet many parts of the world successfully TUE grow all sorts of crops on land reclaimed from the sea. Is TUE the salination really as serious as it is made out to be? TUE Why does wood buried deep inside a living tree emerge in so TUE many different colours, and do hibernating animals have TUE some mechanism to stop their limbs seizing up after months TUE of inactivity? Why, too, is the Richter scale logarithmic TUE and is there something special about logs that allows us to TUE understand them more easily? TUE TUE Join Richard Daniel and his guests - ecologist Dr Lynn Dicks TUE of Cambridge University, forest ecologist Dr Nick Brown of TUE Oxford University and Professor Philip Stott, an TUE environmental scientist from the University of London. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00r0tbs (Listen) TUE Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight, Stowmont TUE TUE Series of stories with a supernatural theme, newly TUE commissioned for the Bath Literary Festival. TUE TUE By Sadie Jones. A story set in the 18th century about a man TUE and the architect he employs, who are forced to shelter for TUE the night from a snowstorm in the house they have resolved TUE to pull down and replace. In spite of their rationalism, TUE and beyond their comprehension, the past asserts itself TUE over their will. TUE TUE Read by John Telfer. TUE TUE 15:45 The Generation Gap b00qzrj7 (Listen) TUE Gay Protest TUE TUE Series of programmes in which two people from different TUE generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing TUE nature of Britain. TUE TUE The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. TUE TUE 82-year-old gay rights campaigner Anthony Grey was a TUE pioneer. His counterpart is Bobby, a 22-year-old volunteer TUE who goes into schools to help combat homophobic bullying. TUE Laws about homosexuality may have changed, but have TUE attitudes? TUE TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00r0tvc (Listen) TUE Clive Coleman and a panel of politicians examine some of the TUE key policies on justice. TUE TUE Interviewees: TUE Charles Falconer QC, the former Lord Chancellor TUE Edward Garnier QC, the Shadow Attorney General TUE David Howarth, Liberal Democrat Shadow Justice Secretary. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00r0tvf (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to museum curator Ken Arnold and writer TUE Jay Griffiths about their favourite books. TUE TUE Ken's choice is a Victorian memoir of a journey from TUE religious fundamentalism to Darwinian science. Jay picks a TUE collection of essays from the author of Ways of Seeing. TUE Sue's selection is a challenge to sloppy thinking in modern TUE life. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00qzrl9 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn TUE Quinn. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qzrn8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00d3rvq (Listen) TUE Role Playing! - Count Arthur Strong at Edinburgh TUE TUE Special edition of Steve Delaney's comedy vehicle, recorded TUE at the Edinburgh Festival. TUE TUE Interrupted by the constant ringing of his doorbell, Arthur TUE loses his train of thought whilst looking through the ads TUE in the local newspaper. This leads to a very confused TUE series of phone calls in his search for a hedge trimmer. He TUE is left with just enough time to pop in to Gerry's for a TUE quick lunch on his way to a role-playing engagement at the TUE hospital. TUE TUE With Sue Perkins, Alastair Kerr and David Mounfield. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00qzr71 (Listen) TUE Pip plays a game of avoidance at Brookfield. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00qzrsb (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjr6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00r0vxg (Listen) TUE As ministers decide whether a 12-billion-pound NHS computer TUE project in England offers value for money, Gerry Northam TUE asks if some major IT projects could be scrapped by a new TUE government looking for big spending cuts. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00r0vxj (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b00r66v6 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Bullying TUE TUE When does anger or teasing become bullying and who decides? TUE Vivienne asks if the definition of bullying is now so wide TUE that it has become meaningless. Did the overuse of the term TUE lead to Gordon Brown hitting the headlines? TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00r5yxf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00qzrsd (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00qzsb4 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qzsqg (Listen) TUE Trespass, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sara Kestelman reads from the new and disturbing novel by TUE Rose Tremain. Set in the Cevennes, an untamed area of TUE southern France where traditions and secrets run deep, it TUE is the story of two very different sets of siblings. TUE TUE Veronica and Anthony are privileged, cultured and English. TUE Aramon and Audrun are French, rooted in the old stone mas TUE and the land around it that their family have cultivated TUE for generations, and in their shared and violent past. TUE TUE Suddenly appalled by his lonely life in London, Anthony TUE seeks refuge with his beloved sister in southern France and TUE there discovers a renewed hope. Meanwhile Aramon Lunel has TUE his own plans - but not ones that his sister may be so TUE taken with. TUE TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion. TUE TUE 23:00 Fabulous b00r0w3b (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE TUE Sitcom by Lucy Clarke about a woman who wants to be Fabulous TUE but can't cope. TUE 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 TUE With her wedding day imminent, Faye is having serious doubts TUE - about getting married, and about whether or not Denise TUE should live. It is the morning after her hen night and Faye TUE cannot remember what happened. Everyone seems really TUE annoyed with her and somehow she has acquired Mark Lamarr's TUE phone number. TUE TUE With Daisy Haggard, Katy Brand, Olivia Colman, Anne Reid, TUE Sally Grace, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Alison Pettitt, Rufus TUE Wright, David Armand, Bradley Ford, Nigel Hastings, Mark TUE Lamarr. TUE TUE Music by Osymyso. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00qzswm (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with David Wilby. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 MARCH 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00qzg5f (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00r2jkd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qzg9p (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qzgh4 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qzgk6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00qzgnd (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qzgqq (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Canon Patrick Thomas. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00qzgwf (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00qzgym (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00r0wtq (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00r2jf3 (Listen) WED Just Kids, Episode 3 WED WED Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New WED York in the late 1960s and 1970s. WED WED In 1969, Patti and Robert Mapplethorpe have moved to the WED Chelsea Hotel, Brooklyn - a magnet for artists, writers and WED musicians. WED WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qzkk8 (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjr8 (Listen) WED Beyond Black, An Evil Thing WED WED Dramatisation by Caroline Harrington of Hilary Mantel's WED blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a WED troubled past. WED WED Colette decides Alison should publish a book, and starts to WED interview her on tape. She soon realises she's taken on WED more than she might want to know: Alison's memories of her WED childhood in Aldershot turn out to be profoundly WED disturbing. Her mother arranged abortions for other women, WED but couldn't get rid of her own child, and may well have WED offered her to a succession of detestable petty thieves and WED abusers. They lived in squalor, Alison was neglected, and WED her school life and subsequent jobs were messed up by WED interfering spirits. She was rescued by a neighbour, Mrs WED Etchells, who claimed to be her grandmother, and who WED introduced her to the psychic world. WED WED Alison ...... Alison Steadman WED Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero WED Morris ...... Bill Wallis WED Emmie ...... Katharine Rogers WED Keith ...... Simon Armstrong WED Mrs McGibbet ...... Sheila Hannon WED Mrs Etchells ...... June Barrie WED WED Directed by Sara Davies. WED WED 11:00 The New Global Indians b00r0rkq (Listen) WED Mukti Jain Campion examines how Indians have moved so WED rapidly from running cornershops to running corporations. WED WED On his recent trip to Washington the Indian prime minister WED described it as his country's brain gain: the increasing WED number of successful expatriate Indians who are returning WED to India to start businesses and run philanthropic WED projects. In this programme returnees talk about why India WED is now so attractive to them, and we discover the impact WED they are making on their country; for example, with social WED projects such as Akshaya Patra, the world's biggest midday WED meals programme which feeds a million poor school children WED a day. WED WED A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00r0xt1 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Lenzie Splicer WED WED Sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald WED McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop. WED WED Dave is thrown into turmoil after an old school friend WED appears in the shop. WED WED Ramesh ...... Sanjeev Kolhi WED Dave ...... Donald McLeary WED Sanjay ...... Omar Raza WED Alok ...... Susheel Kumar WED Father Henderson ...... Gerard Kelly WED Ted ...... Gavin Mitchell WED Michael Binfield ...... Sylvester McCoy WED Mrs Armstrong ...... Maureen Carr WED WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00qznd5 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00qznr5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00qzp7z (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00r0xt3 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00qzr71 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r0xt5 (Listen) WED Shakespeare's Vortigern and Rowena WED WED Comedy by Melissa Murray. In 1796, at Drury Lane theatre, WED Richard Sheridan puts on a guaranteed hit: a production of WED a 'lost' Shakespeare play. What could possibly go wrong? WED WED Sheridan ...... Lorcan Cranitch WED Kemble ...... Alex Jennings WED Stage Hand ...... Ben Crowe WED Henry ...... Rufus Wright WED Samuel ...... Bruce Alexander WED Mrs Powell ...... Joanna Monro WED Mrs Jordan ...... Alison Pettitt WED Actor ...... David Seddon WED WED Producer Marc Beeby. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00r0xzq (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls about ISAs and WED tax-free savings. WED WED Guests: WED WED Mark Dampier, head of research at Hargreaves Lansdown WED Rachel Thrussell, principal consultant at Moneyfacts WED John Douglas - senior financial consultant at Finesco WED Financial Services, Independent Financial Advisors. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00r0tbv (Listen) WED Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight, The Ghost Writer WED WED Series of three stories with a supernatural theme, newly WED commissioned for the Bath Literary Festival. WED WED By Amanda Craig. Justin Vest, critically acclaimed but WED poorly selling novelist, is staying temporarily in the home WED of the late, wildly successful, very pink and fluffy writer WED Arabella Fysshe. At first glance they don't have much in WED common - for a start, he's alive and she isn't - but WED Arabella has some unfinished business with the world. WED WED Read by John Telfer. WED WED 15:45 The Generation Gap b00qzrj9 (Listen) WED Beauty Queens WED WED Series of programmes in which two people from different WED generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing WED nature of Britain. WED WED The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. WED WED Lesley Langley, who was Miss UK and crowned Miss World in WED 1965, compares notes about her experiences with the current WED Miss England, Katrina Hodge, who is known as Combat Barbie WED as she is a lance corporal in the army. WED WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00r0ymj (Listen) WED The servant's story in England is a hidden history. Laurie WED Taylor discusses new research examining the way people in WED service in the 18th century thought about their role. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b00r66v6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00qzrlc (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn WED Quinn. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qzrnb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Write Stuff b00r0yml (Listen) WED Series 9, JD Salinger WED WED James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary WED correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are WED joined by Tibor Fischer and Peter Kemp. The author of the WED week and subject for pastiche is JD Salinger, and the WED reader is Beth Chalmers. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00qzr73 (Listen) WED Helen ventures into the unknown. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00qzrsg (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including an WED interview with Velvet Underground founder member John Cale, WED as he prepares to perform his acclaimed 1973 solo album WED Paris 1919. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjr8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00r0ymn (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind WED the week's news. Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, Melanie WED Philips and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00r0yq3 (Listen) WED Andreas Whittam Smith WED WED Series of six talks by eminent thinkers exploring how faith WED and religion interact with a variety of aspects in society. WED WED Financial journalist Andreas Whittam Smith explores the WED temptations of the financial world. WED WED 21:00 The Big Bang: What Happened Next b00qvpb9 (Listen) WED More than a year after Big Bang Day, Geoff Watts visits CERN WED in Geneva to discover what the last year has held for the WED Large Hadron Collider and the biggest scientific experiment WED ever undertaken. WED WED After the fanfare of the first switch-on of the so-called WED Big Bang Machine back in September 2008, and the subsequent WED breakdown, what has been happening in the intervening WED months? Are scientists now finally ready to start probing WED some of the great unanswered questions about the universe, WED and is the largest machine ever built finally ready to take WED on the challenge? WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00r0wtq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00qzrsj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00qzsb6 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qzsqj (Listen) WED Trespass, Episode 3 WED WED Sara Kestelman reads from the new and disturbing novel by WED Rose Tremain. Set in the Cevennes, an untamed area of WED southern France where traditions and secrets run deep, it WED is the story of two very different sets of siblings. WED WED Veronica and Anthony are privileged, cultured and English. WED Aramon and Audrun are French, rooted in the old stone mas WED and the land around it that their family have cultivated WED for generations, and in their shared and violent past. WED WED Anthony's dream expands and his hopes rise. But high in the WED hills, at the Mas Lunel, Audrun is realising the full WED devastation her brother's greed may bring. WED WED Abridged by Sally Marmion. WED WED 23:00 Earls of the Court b00r0yt2 (Listen) WED The Eklov Experience WED WED Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright WED about two Australians down on their luck in London. WED WED Now living with his girlfriend, Johnno is steadying himself WED for a couples' day out. But his sofa-crashing best mate WED Lloydie has other plans WED WED Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright WED Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale WED Nadine ...... Keely Beresford WED Security ...... Rufus Wright WED WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 23:15 The News At Bedtime b00pftgs (Listen) WED Episode 7 WED 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 WED It's New Year's Day and riot police are called in as the WED Teddy Bears try to have their picnic. WED WED With Jack Dee, Peter Capaldi, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Kate WED Leyden, Lewis MacLeod, Lucy Montgomery, Vicki Pepperdine, WED Dan Tetsell. WED WED Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00qzswp (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Sean Curran. WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 MARCH 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00qzg5h (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00r2jf3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qzg9r (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qzgh6 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qzgk8 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00qzgng (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qzgqs (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Canon Patrick Thomas. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00qzgwh (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00qzgyp (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00r2cn4 (Listen) THU The Infant Brain THU THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Usha Goswami and Denis Mareschal THU discuss what recent research is revealing about the infant THU brain. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00r2jf6 (Listen) THU Just Kids, Episode 4 THU THU Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New THU York in the late 1960s and 1970s. THU THU In 1975, Patti recorded her debut album Horses. It's a THU landmark in rock music - but the cover is just as iconic. THU THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qzkkb (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjrb (Listen) THU Beyond Black, Death of a Princess THU THU Dramatisation by Caroline Harrington of Hilary Mantel's THU blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a THU troubled past. THU THU Colette is woken one night by Alison getting news from THU beyond of Princess Diana's fatal car crash. The tragic THU accident means business will be heavy for all the psychics THU at the Psychic Fair in Nottingham, and they're not helped THU by Alison's disgusting spirit guide, Morris, who is more THU than usually irritating, patrolling the motorway services, THU desperate to find his mates, and interfering with Alison's THU friend Mandy. As Alison becomes more disturbed by the THU darker side of her job, Morris finds his old mate THU Aitkenside, a development that throws Alison into despair. THU THU Alison ...... Alison Steadman THU Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero THU Morris ...... Bill Wallis THU Mandy ...... Adrienne O'Sullivan THU Silvana ...... Jacqueline Tong THU THU Directed by Sara Davies. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00r2bqb (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 THU History of Modern American Literature b00r2cm3 (Listen) THU Landscapes, Interiors, Underworlds THU THU Mark Lawson tells the story of how American writing became THU the literary superpower of the 20th century, telling the THU nation's stories of money, power, sex, religion and war. THU THU John Updike, author of the Rabbit quartet of novels, always THU remembered being inspired by the 1960s Pop Art of Andy THU Warhol and others: an attempt to catch the visual reality THU of modern America. Updike responded by trying to achieve THU something similar in fiction, depicting the lives of people THU from places and backgrounds which had often been ignored. THU Richard Ford (The Sportswriter trilogy), John Irving (The THU Cider House Rules), Marilynne Robinson (Housekeeping, THU Gilead) and Jonathan Franzen (The Corrections) also reflect THU on this mission to describe the external and internal THU nature of life in the United States in all its regional and THU personal variety. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00qznd7 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00qznr7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00qzp81 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00r0qw9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00qzr73 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r2cm5 (Listen) THU Final Demands, A Call From The Coast THU THU Series of plays by Frederic Raphael reuniting the characters THU from his novel The Glittering Prizes, which followed the THU fortunes of scholarship boy Adam Morris and his THU contemporaries at Cambridge University in the early 1950s. THU Decades have passed, and we now catch up with Adam and his THU friends (and enemies) in the days of John Major's THU government. THU THU Adam is now a successful novelist and screenwriter, and his THU daughter Rachel is living in California with his old THU classicist friend Bill Bourne. But Bill is now terminally THU ill, and Adam faces the prospect of a trip to Los Angeles THU that will turn out to have some unexpected consequences. THU THU Adam Morris ...... Tom Conti THU Barbara Morris ...... Barbara Kellermann THU Rachel Morris ...... Flora Montgomery THU Mike Clode ...... Mark Wing-Davey THU Jason Singer ...... Simon Greenall THU Clifford Ayres ...... Colin Macfarlane THU Samantha Sabatini ...... Laurence Bouvard THU Joann ...... Lachele Carl THU Frank Skipton ...... Kenneth Danziger THU Mitchell Ambrose ...... Ben Onwukwe THU THU Produced by Jo Wheeler THU THU Directed by Pete Atkin THU THU An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00qxyx0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00qyvdt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00r0tbx (Listen) THU Bath Festival Stories by Candlelight, The Whisper THU THU Series of three stories with a supernatural theme, newly THU commissioned for the Bath Literary Festival. THU THU By Diana Evans. Rachel Armstrong is a burden to her THU neighbours, but she carries a burden of her own. THU THU Read by Syan Blake. THU THU 15:45 The Generation Gap b00qzrjc (Listen) THU Underwear and Sex Shop Entrepreneur THU THU Series of programmes in which two people from different THU generations discuss a topic that reveals the changing THU nature of Britain. THU THU The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. THU THU Jane runs an underwear shop in a seaside town, and has THU recently started stocking sex toys for the older THU generation. Her son helps out in the shop, and they discuss THU attitudes to sex across the generations. THU THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00qzdvz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00r2cm7 (Listen) THU In London alone, there are now around 5,000 sets of traffic THU lights, about a thousand more than in the year 2000. But do THU we need them all? Do they really make our roads safer for THU motorists and pedestrians? In many cases, say campaigners, THU the answer is no. They point to trials elsewhere in Europe THU where removing lights seems to increase drivers' awareness THU of pedestrians and other road users, at the same time THU reducing congestion. THU THU Quentin Cooper hears about a new study in London to THU investigate the impact of removing lights at selected THU junctions and the consequent financial costs or benefits in THU terms of accidents, injuries and delays. THU THU 17:00 PM b00qzrlf (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn THU Quinn. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00qzrnd (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00r2cm9 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 1 THU THU Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his field, THU with no ability whatsoever. THU THU Milton is a daredevil test pilot and Top Gun who gets THU tangled up in a fiendish plot to replace the turkey THU twizzler. THU THU With Tom Goodman-Hill, Ingrid Oliver, Dave Lamb. THU THU Written by Milton Jones and James Cary. THU THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00qzr75 (Listen) THU Oliver can't stand the heat at Grey Gables. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00qzrsl (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including a THU first-night review of Kim Cattrall and Matthew Macfadyen in THU a new staging of Private Lives by Noel Coward. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjrb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00r0tvc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00r2cmc (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs and THU company bosses talk about the issues that matter to their THU companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 The Moral Code b00r2cmf (Listen) THU Is a sense of morality hard-wired in the brain, or is it a THU product of our environment and upbringing? Adam Rutherford THU investigates the new science of morality and the suprising THU evidence that we may be born with some kind of innate moral THU code. THU THU He talks to the scientists using some very modern techniques THU to study an age-old question and hears what philosophy and THU religion think about the idea that our sense of right and THU wrong may be written in our genes. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00r2cn4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00qzrsn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00qzsb8 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qzsql (Listen) THU Trespass, Episode 4 THU THU Sara Kestelman reads from the new and disturbing novel by THU Rose Tremain. Set in the Cevennes, an untamed area of THU southern France where traditions and secrets run deep, it THU is the story of two very different sets of siblings. THU THU Veronica and Anthony are privileged, cultured and English. THU Aramon and Audrun are French, rooted in the old stone mas THU and the land around it that their family have cultivated THU for generations, and in their shared and violent past. THU THU Faced with losing all she holds dear, Audrun makes a fateful THU decision. Meanwhile Anthony finds the perfect place to live THU out the final chapters of his life. THU THU Abridged by Sally Marmion. THU THU 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group b00r2cy5 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Comedy by Sarah Millican, who plays Sarah, life counsellor THU and modern-day agony aunt. THU THU Sarah tackles the problems 'I'm a clown with a secret' and THU 'Do age-gap relationships work: is 65 in slippers the new THU 30 in a suit?' THU THU Sarah ...... Sarah Millican THU Marion ...... Ruth Bratt THU Terry ...... Simon Daye THU Judith ...... Susie Blake THU Malcolm ...... Mark Heap THU Helen ...... Debra Stevenson. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00qzswr (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Robert Orhcard. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 MARCH 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00qzg5k (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00r2jf6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00qzg9t (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00qzgh8 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00qzgkb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00qzgnj (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00qzgqv (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Heather Payne. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00qzgwk (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00qzgyr (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00qyvf6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00r2jf9 (Listen) FRI Just Kids, Episode 5 FRI FRI Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New FRI York in the late 1960s and 1970s. FRI FRI In 1986, Patti is living with her husband and son in Detroit FRI when she hears bad news about Robert Mapplethorpe. FRI FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00qzkkd (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjrd (Listen) FRI Beyond Black, Escape FRI FRI Dramatisation by Caroline Harrington of Hilary Mantel's FRI blackly comic novel about a professional medium with a FRI troubled past. FRI FRI Alison's disgusting spirit guide Morris has been joined by FRI Donny Aitkenside, one of the violent group of petty FRI criminals who were in and out of the house all through FRI Alison's abusive childhood. Alison knows the other members FRI of the spirit gang can't be far behind, and decides the FRI only way to escape them is to move to a new house where FRI they won't want to follow her. Her assistant Colette FRI locates a suitable new development, and the move has the FRI desired effect: Morris hates it, and announces he's FRI leaving. At long last, Alison thinks, she's free. FRI FRI Alison ...... Alison Steadman FRI Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero FRI Morris ...... Bill Wallis FRI Emmie ...... Katharine Rogers FRI Aitkenside ...... Simon Armstrong FRI FRI Directed by Sara Davies. FRI FRI 11:00 Night Witches b00nk0g9 (Listen) FRI Lucy Ash tells the extraordinary but little-known tale of FRI Russia's three all-female regiments that flew more than FRI 30,000 missions on the Eastern Front during Second World FRI War. At home they were celebrated as Stalin's Falcons, but FRI terrified German troops called them the Night Witches. FRI FRI Lucy travels to Moscow and Rostov-on-Don to meet a number of FRI these formidable women, who are now grandmothers in their FRI 80s and 90s. She discovers that their bravery has inspired FRI aerobatic champions, comic book artists and even a Dutch FRI heavy metal band. FRI FRI See an audio slideshow of the Night Witches FRI FRI Click on the link below for the audio slideshow with archive FRI photographs of the Russian female fighter pilots. The FRI slideshow also includes more recent comics by Garth Ennis FRI based on the Night Witches' stories. FRI FRI 11:30 People in Cars b00r2dp6 (Listen) FRI Miles on the Clock FRI FRI Series of linked comedies by Simon Brett. FRI FRI An elderly lady finds it easier to talk to her car than to FRI people. She always has done, as she explains to the vehicle FRI she's in today: a stately Roller. FRI FRI Valerie ...... Anne Reid FRI Limousine ...... John Sessions FRI FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00qznd9 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00qznr9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00qzp83 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00r2dp8 (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00qzr75 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r2dpb (Listen) FRI Final Demands, The Lesson of the Master FRI FRI Series of plays by Frederic Raphael reuniting the characters FRI from his novel The Glittering Prizes, which followed the FRI fortunes of scholarship boy Adam Morris and his FRI contemporaries at Cambridge University in the early 1950s. FRI Decades have passed, and we now catch up with Adam and his FRI friends (and enemies) in the days of John Major's FRI government. FRI FRI Back in Britain with the manuscript of Rachel's book, Adam FRI decides to ask his and Rachel's old college mentor to give FRI his opinion on it. The result is unsettling. He also gets FRI an offer he'd love to be able to refuse, and spends a long FRI car journey with a couple of his old sparring partners. FRI FRI Adam Morris ...... Tom Conti FRI Barbara Morris ...... Barbara Kellermann FRI Rachel Morris ...... Flora Montgomery FRI Mike Clode ...... Mark Wing-Davey FRI Alan Parks ...... Alistair McGowan FRI Gavin Pope ...... Malcolm Sinclair FRI Lars Waring ...... Ian Kelly FRI Patricia Reece ...... Annabel Leventon FRI Sheridan Reece ...... Julian Glover FRI FRI Produced by Jo Wheeler FRI FRI Directed by Pete Atkin FRI FRI An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00r2dpd (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI FRI Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer FRI questions posed by the gardeners of Selly Park Garden Club FRI in Birmingham. FRI FRI Matthew Wilson meets renowned garden designer Beth Chatto as FRI part of our Gardener's Gardener series. FRI FRI 15:45 The Generation Gap b00qzrjg (Listen) FRI Prostitution FRI FRI Series in which two people from different generations FRI discuss a topic that reveals the changing nature of FRI Britain. FRI FRI The theme of the second series of five programmes is Sex. FRI FRI Helen worked as a bar hostess and prostitute in the 1970s. FRI She talks to Maria, who is currently funding her way FRI through university by being a sex worker. How do their FRI experiences differ? FRI FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00r2fh4 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00r2fh6 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Leonardo DiCaprio about his latest FRI collaboration with Martin Scorsese, Shutter Island. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00qzrlh (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 b00qzrng (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00r2fh8 (Listen) FRI Series 30, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the FRI week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch FRI Benn and Marcus Brigstocke. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00qzr77 (Listen) FRI Jude goes into the Dragon's Den. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00qzrsq (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a report FRI on the many artworks inspired directly and indirectly by FRI Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00qzjrd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00r2fhb (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the London FRI Muslim Centre in Whitechapel, London. The panel includes FRI the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, shadow business FRI secretary Ken Clarke, senior politics editor at the New FRI Statesman Mehdi Hasan and Liberal Democrat spokesman on FRI communities and local government Julia Goldsworthy. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00r2fhd (Listen) FRI Simon Schama presents the first in a series of personal FRI reflections for Radio 4's weekly essay programme. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00r2hky (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Another chance to hear the director of the British Museum FRI Neil MacGregor retell the history of human development FRI using 100 selected objects from the Museum - from the first FRI stone axe to the credit card. His history covers two FRI million years and includes items that were made in every FRI part of the globe. FRI FRI In this programme, an omnibus of the first five objects of FRI the series, Neil begins by recalling the first object that FRI enthralled him a young boy of eight, an Egyptian mummy, FRI before examining the the earliest examples of human FRI ingenuity from Africa, America and Europe. FRI FRI Hornedjitef was a priest who died around 2,250 years ago, FRI and he designed a coffin that, he believed, would help him FRI navigate his way to the afterlife. Little did he know that FRI this afterlife would be as a museum exhibit in London. This FRI ornate coffin holds secrets to the understanding of his FRI religion, society and Egypt's connections to the rest of FRI the world. Neil tells the story of Hornedjitef's mummy FRI case, with contributions from egyptologist John Taylor, FRI Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif and Indian economist and Nobel FRI Prize winner Amartya Sen. FRI FRI Neil then goes back goes back two million years to the Rift FRI Valley in Tanzania, where a simple chipped stone marks the FRI emergence of modern humans. One of the characteristics that FRI mark humans out from other animals is their desire for, and FRI dependency on, the things they fashion with their own FRI hands. This obsession has long roots and Neil introduces FRI one of the earliest examples of human ingenuity. Faced with FRI the need to cut meat from carcasses, early humans in Africa FRI discovered how to shape stones into cutting tools. From FRI that one innovation springs a whole history human FRI development. Neil tells the story of the Olduvai stone FRI chopping tool, with contributions from Sir David FRI Attenborough and Nobel Prize winner Dr Wangeri Maathai. FRI FRI Neil then follows early humans as they slowly begin to move FRI beyond their African homeland, taking with them one FRI essential item: a hand axe. In the presence of the most FRI widely used tool humans have created, Neil sees just how FRI vital to our evolution this sharp, ingenious implement was FRI and how it allowed the spread of humans across the globe. FRI He tells the story of the hand axe with contributions from FRI flint-napper Phil Harding, designer Sir James Dyson and FRI archaeologist Nick Ashton. FRI FRI Next up is one of the earliest works of art. It is a carving FRI of two swimming reindeer and it's not just the likeness FRI that is striking. The creator of this carving was one of FRI the first humans to express their world through art. Its FRI place in the history of art and religion is considered with FRI contributions from the Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan FRI Williams and archaelogist Professor Steven Mithen. FRI FRI Finally, Neil heads west to North America and an object that FRI dates from the earliest settlements there, around 13,000 FRI years ago. It is a deadly hunting weapon, used by the first FRI inhabitants of the Americas. This sharp spearhead lets us FRI understand how humans spread across the globe. By 11000 BC FRI humans had moved from northeast Asia into the uninhabited FRI wilderness of north America; within 2,000 years they had FRI populated the whole continent. How did these hunters live? FRI And how does their Asian origin sit with the creation FRI stories of modern-day Native Americans? Neil tells the FRI story of the Clovis Point, with contributions from Michael FRI Palin and American archaeologist Gary Haynes. FRI FRI If you'd like to see the objects described in the programme, FRI up-close and from all angles, then go online to FRI www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00qzrss (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00qzsbb (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00qzsqn (Listen) FRI Trespass, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sara Kestelman reads from the new and disturbing novel by FRI Rose Tremain. Set in the Cevennes, an untamed area of FRI southern France where traditions and secrets run deep, it FRI is the story of two very different sets of siblings. FRI FRI Veronica and Anthony are privileged, cultured and English. FRI Aramon and Audrun are French, rooted in the old stone mas FRI and the land around it that their family have cultivated FRI for generations, and in their shared and violent past. FRI FRI Disappointed at Mas Lunel, Anthony sets out in search of FRI another dream house, while at the mas, Audrun's future is FRI in doubt. FRI FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00r0tvf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00qzswt (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI
26 February, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 27/02/2010 - 05/03/2010
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