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SAT SATURDAY 06 MARCH 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00r2fjr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00r2jf9 (Listen) SAT Just Kids, Episode 5 SAT SAT Patti Smith reads from her new memoir of her life in New SAT York in the late 1960s and 1970s. SAT SAT In 1986, Patti is living with her husband and son in Detroit SAT when she hears bad news about Robert Mapplethorpe. SAT SAT Abridged by Jeremy Osborne SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00r2g3r (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00r2g3t (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00r2g3w (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00r2g3y (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00r2g40 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00r2g42 (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 b00r2g44 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00r2lh8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00r323j (Listen) SAT Series 14, Episode 5 SAT SAT Clare Balding meets members of the Shropshire Bereavement SAT Walking Group for a therapeutic ramble. SAT SAT The Stroller's Group from the Severn Hospice SAT SAT Walk start point is Severn Hospice SAT Bicton Heath, SAT Shrewsbury, SAT SY3 8HS SAT SAT This walk is regularly done by the hospice and is used as an SAT annual fundraiser as well as enjoyed by the strollers. SAT The walk starts from the hospice and goes along the main SAT road until featherbed Lane. Here if the weather is good and SAT the Severn is not flooded then the walk can take a route SAT closer to the river. You can then either follow the route SAT along the river footpath or Featherbed lane until you get SAT to Rossall Farm. From the riverside section of the walk you SAT will see the grand home – Berwick House. It is not open to SAT the public. (Thomas Powys purchased the Berwick estate in SAT 1728 and constructed Berwick House in 1731. The park SAT originally dates back to the 14th century.) SAT SAT This is perhaps one of Ramblings successes. Caroline Clegg SAT runs the team of four social workers attached to the Severn SAT Hospice. She is always looking for ways of supporting the SAT bereaved. She heard the programme we made five years to the SAT day, with the group that walked for mental health and SAT thought that it could work for them too. She floated the SAT idea with her staff and volunteers and the Strollers Group SAT was born. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00r323l (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00r323n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00r323q (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00r323s (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Richard Coles is joined by writer SAT Dreda Say Mitchell. With poetry from Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00r323v (Listen) SAT To investigate the influence of the solar system on our SAT planet the particle physicist Prof Brian Cox visits some of SAT earth's most alien environments. He flies to the top of the SAT atmosphere, dives to the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, SAT ascends the world's tallest mountain and descends into a SAT cave soaked in sulphuric acid; he witnesses a total solar SAT eclipse and the aurora borealis. Brian tells Sandi Toksvig SAT how, as the dunes of the Namib desert are rather like those SAT of Mars, we can get an idea of what other planets are like SAT by going to particular places on our own. SAT SAT Chief executive of Oxfam Dame Barbara Stocking has travelled SAT to dozens of countries. She talks to Sandi about her recent SAT visit to Chad, a vast, dry country in Africa with a SAT permanent humanitarian crisis of its own, strained by SAT refugees from neighbouring conflicts. She explains lack of SAT water is at the heart of the trouble and how the role of SAT women in organising wells offers some hope. SAT SAT There have been Jews in India for over 2,000 years; Sandi SAT meets artist and writer Esther David from one Indian Jewish SAT community to hear why they came to be there and how the two SAT cultures have become intertwined. Esther also looks at the SAT Jews who are leaving India and the Israelis who are SAT travelling in the other direction to discover a different SAT kind of Judaism. SAT SAT 10:30 And The Academy Award Goes To ... b00r32b3 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Unforgiven SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini tells the story behind Clint Eastwood's 1992 SAT film Unforgiven. Starring Morgan Freeman, Gene Hackman and SAT Eastwood himself as both actor and director, Gambaccini SAT reflects on Eastwood's extraordinary Hollywood career, from SAT the epitome of the lonesome cowboy to respected Hollywood SAT director. SAT SAT When the screenplay of Unforgiven landed on his desk, Clint SAT Eastwood optioned it, then sat on it for two decades, SAT developing his directoral skills, gathering a team of SAT experts around him at Malpaso Productions, and waiting SAT until he himself was the right age to take the leading SAT role. SAT SAT Film editor Joel Cox, cinematographer Jack N Green, actor SAT Jaimz Woolvett and screenwriter David Webb Peoples tell of SAT the experience of working with a legend as director and SAT star, and biographer Richard Schickle and critics David SAT Thomson and Kenneth Turan ruminate on how Clint Eastwood, SAT the eternal cowboy, became a Best Picture director. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00r32b5 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Steve Richards SAT of The Independent. SAT SAT As the gap in the polls closes between Labour and the SAT Conservatives and the general election approaches, there is SAT nervousness in the Conservative camp. How does the present SAT situation compare with the run-up to past elections? SAT SAT Lord Fowler, closely involved in the elections of the 1980s SAT and early 90s, talks to John Campbell, a biographer of SAT Margaret Thatcher. SAT SAT The proposed leaders' debates during the election campaign SAT are going to be fraught with rules and regulations which SAT many feel will sanitise the debates. Sir Menzies Campbell SAT talks about the value of this innovation, given his SAT experience of televised debates between ministers and SAT opposition spokesmen in the election of 2001. SAT SAT Also in the programme, Ian Aitken and Bill Keegan remember SAT their regular lunches with Michael Foot over many years, SAT and Alex Barker, the Financial Times's 'Chilcot Watcher', SAT assesses Gordon Brown's performance before the Iraq SAT inquiry. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00r32b7 (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00r32b9 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00r2fh8 (Listen) SAT Series 30, Episode 1 SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the SAT week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch SAT Benn and Marcus Brigstocke. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00r32bc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00r32bf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00r2fhb (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the London SAT Muslim Centre in Whitechapel, London. The panellists are SAT the former Mayor of London Ken Livingstone, shadow business SAT secretary Ken Clarke, senior politics editor at the New SAT Statesman Mehdi Hasan and Liberal Democrat spokesman on SAT communities and local government Julia Goldsworthy. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00r32bh (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 b00r32vt (Listen) SAT Vincent Price and The Horror of The English Blood Beast SAT SAT By Matthew Broughton. In 1967, Vincent Price came to the UK SAT to make the horror movie Witchfinder General. It was the SAT best performance of his career, and the worst few months of SAT his life. This play takes a light-hearted look behind the SAT scenes of the making of this classic British film. SAT SAT Vincent Price ...... Nickolas Grace SAT Tony Tenser ...... Kenneth Cranham SAT Michael Reeves ...... Blake Ritson SAT Philip Waddilove ...... Richard Nichols SAT Hilary Dwyer ...... Phoebe Waller Bridge SAT Ian Ogilvy ...... Gareth Pierce SAT SAT Other parts played by Simon Ludders and Lynne Seymour SAT SAT Produced and directed by Sam Hoyle. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00r0smn (Listen) SAT Series 9, Mendelssohn Violin Concerto SAT SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional SAT appeal. SAT SAT When Mendelssohn wrote his Violin Concerto in 1844 he could SAT hardly have imagined how famous and well loved it would SAT become. In this programme, people tell how it has played an SAT important part in their lives. SAT SAT Violinist Daniel Hope tells how he got caught practising SAT this concerto secretly locked in the bathroom at school. SAT Harry Atterbury remembers hearing the Mendelssohn for the SAT first time on the night before a Second world War air raid SAT which turned his life upside down. Composer Stephen Pratt SAT describes discovering that his father had played this SAT concerto to cheer fellow soldiers in the jungle in Burma, SAT and explains how this inspired him to write his own violin SAT concerto. SAT SAT The recording of the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto featured in SAT this programme was by violinist Maxim Vengerov with the SAT Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra conducted by Kurt Masur. SAT Teldec 4509-90875-2. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00r32vw (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT With Jane Garvey. Pauline Prescott talks about life with SAT John, and the son she gave up for adoption; Helena Bonham SAT Carter on playing the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland; SAT three's a crowd - the impact of a close friendship or SAT partnership on a marriage; one woman's campaign to bring to SAT justice those responsible for her mother's murder; choice SAT in childbirth - who carries the risk?; music from Carly SAT Simon, performing in the studio. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00r32vy (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00r2cmc (Listen) SAT Evan Davis asks his panel of top business guests whether the SAT pace of business life has sped up. They also discuss the SAT power of advertising; is it true that the more you spend SAT the more you get? SAT SAT Evan is joined by the chief executive of WPP Sir Martin SAT Sorrell, chairman of Interbrand Rita Clifton and managing SAT partner of private equity firm ISIS Wol Kolade. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00r32w0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00r32w2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00r32w4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00r32w6 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by businesswoman Hilary Devey and American SAT crime writer George Pelecanos. SAT SAT Gideon Coe talks to hidden camera prankster Olivia Lee. SAT SAT With comedy from Phil Nichol and music from Tunng and Laura SAT Marling. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00r32w8 (Listen) SAT Tidjane Thiam SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Tidjane Thiam, the Ivory SAT Coast-born chief executive of Prudential. SAT SAT He is the first black person to head a FTSE 100 company and SAT describes himself as 'African, francophone and 6ft 4ins'. SAT Others describe him as 'the most interesting man in SAT insurance'. This week he brokered a deal which could make SAT his company the biggest insurer in South East Asia. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00r32wb (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by novelist Deborah Moggach, SAT historian Dominic Sandbrook and musician Pat Kane to review SAT the cultural highlights of the week. SAT SAT Film director Tim Burton's reworking of Lewis Carroll's SAT classic tale Alice in Wonderland has a 19-year-old Alice SAT returning to the magical world of her childhood adventures. SAT She reunites with her old friends and learns of her true SAT destiny: to end the Red Queen's (Helena Bonham Carter) SAT reign of terror with the help of the Mad Hatter (Johnny SAT Depp). It also features the voices of Stephen Fry, Alan SAT Rickman, Barbara Windsor and Matt Lucas. SAT SAT At the theatre we are promised a 'truly terrifying SAT experience' in Ghost Stories, from Andy Nyman and one of SAT The League of Gentlemen's masters of the macabre Jeremy SAT Dyson. It takes the form of a lecture by an academic SAT specialist in supernatural folklore; as he lectures on the SAT human fascination with the uncanny, three of his case SAT histories play out on the stage behind. SAT SAT Tim Pears's latest novel, Landed, tells the tragic story of SAT Owen, brought up in the Anglo-Welsh borders by an SAT affectionate but alcoholic and feckless mother. His sense SAT of self is rooted in his long, vivid visits to his SAT grandparents' small farm in the hills. There he is deeply SAT impressed by his grandfather's primitive, cruel SAT relationship with his animals and the land. As an adult he SAT moves to an English city and builds a new life, working as SAT a gardener. He meets Mel, and they have children. But then SAT a tragic accident devastates Owen's life and starts him on SAT a journey of self-discovery. SAT SAT Artist Richard Hamilton was one of those to popularise the SAT Pop Art movement and, from his 60s Swinging London series SAT to Tony Blair as a cowboy, he has been ahead of the curve SAT ever since. His latest exhibition at London's Serpentine SAT Gallery is Modern Moral Matters, which looks at the ways in SAT which the media represents modern society. Much of the work SAT on show focuses on his obsession with global politics and SAT the manipulation of the media. Themes such as riots, SAT terrorist acts and war are all included in the artworks, SAT with a focus on how they are fed to the masses through SAT television, newspapers and the internet. SAT SAT In a three-part documentary series, Inside John Lewis, BBC2 SAT looks at the department store's 150-year history and how it SAT is dealing with the current recession. The young Victorian SAT orphan-turned-entrepreneur John Lewis began his career in SAT 1864 when he set up a draper's shop in Oxford Street. SAT Sixty-five years on his son, John Spedan Lewis, turned it SAT into the huge co-operative it is today: the John Lewis SAT Partnership. The series explores whether a business model SAT developed in the 1920s can really survive the commercial SAT turmoil of the 21st century. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00r32wd (Listen) SAT Hate Against Hope SAT SAT Alan Dein hears how London's East End Bangladeshi community SAT forged new alliances to oppose racism in the 1970s and 80s. SAT SAT The East End had been a centre of racial struggle and SAT opposition since the 1930s, when Oswald Mosely's SAT Blackshirts had paraded through the then largely Jewish SAT streets around Brick Lane. By the 1970s a new wave of SAT predominantly Bangladeshi immigrants faced racism again SAT from the National Front and its sympathisers. SAT SAT As provocation and attacks increased, this community made SAT new alliances with local anti-fascist activists, SAT culminating in large-scale movements such as Rock Against SAT Racism. Once again Brick Lane and the streets beyond became SAT a battleground. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00qzd3b (Listen) SAT Plantagenet, John, By the Grace of God SAT SAT Series of plays by Mike Walker, inspired by Holinshed's SAT Chronicles, chronicling the early years of the Plantagenet SAT dynasty. SAT SAT The fourth son of Henry II never expected to succeed to the SAT English throne. When he does, he reveals a talent for SAT making enemies. SAT SAT Queen Eleanor ...... Jane Lapotaire SAT King Richard ...... Ed Stoppard SAT King John ...... Neil Stuke SAT William Marshall ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Prince Arthur ...... Ryan Watson SAT Queen Isabelle ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan SAT King Philip ...... John Biggins SAT Saladin ...... Raad Rawi SAT El-Adel ...... Khalid Laith SAT Doctor/Langton ...... Ewan Hooper SAT Girard ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole SAT De Roche ...... Bruce Alexander SAT Fitzwalter ...... Piers Wehner SAT Will Marshall ...... Rhys Jennings SAT Prince Henry ...... Bertie Gilbert SAT SAT Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00r32wg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00r0ymn (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind SAT the week's news. Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, Melanie SAT Philips and Clifford Longley cross-examine witnesses. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00r0qh9 (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of SAT quotations and anecdotes. SAT SAT With Ken Bruce, Valerie Grove, Ben Goldacre and Kwame SAT Kwei-Armah. SAT SAT The reader is Peter Jefferson. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00qzdw1 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces requests for poems including An SAT Overworked Elocutionist by Carolyn Wells, in which a SAT confused boy struggles to master a maelstrom of famous SAT first lines. The readers are Kate Littlewood, Jon SAT Strickland, Bonnie Hurren and Zahra Barri. SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT SAT An Overworked Elocutionist SAT by Carolyn Wells SAT From : Best Loved Poems in Large Print SAT Pub: GK Hall (1983) SAT SAT Prayer SAT by George Herbert SAT From: George Herbert – The Complete English Poems SAT Pub: Penguin SAT SAT Culture and Anarchy SAT by Adrienne Rich SAT From: The Fact of a Doorframe – Poems selected and New SAT 1950-1984 SAT Pub: WW Norton and Company SAT SAT He is Forgetting Her SAT by Tanya Attapattu SAT From: The Bristol Review of Books SAT Summer 2009 SAT Vergissmeinicht SAT by Keith Douglas SAT From: Keith Douglas – The Complete Poems SAT Pub: Faber SAT SAT Barbara Fritchie SAT by John Greenleaf Whittier SAT From: English Poetry III From Tennyson to Whitman: The SAT Harvard Classics SAT Pub: Easton Press SAT SAT Try to Praise the Mutilated World SAT by Adam Zagajewski SAT From: Without End – New and Selected Poems SAT Translated by Clare Cavanagh and Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin SAT Ivry and C. K. Williams SAT Pub: Farrar, Straus and Giroux SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 07 MARCH 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00r33lh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b00r0yq3 (Listen) SUN Andreas Whittam Smith SUN SUN Series of six talks by eminent thinkers exploring how faith SUN and religion interact with a variety of aspects in society. SUN SUN Financial journalist Andreas Whittam Smith explores the SUN temptations of the financial world. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00r33lk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00r33lm (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00r33lp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00r33lr (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00r33lt (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from Worcester Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00r32w8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00r33lw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00r33ly (Listen) SUN The Judas Kiss SUN SUN Mark Tully explores the conflict between loyalty and SUN betrayal. What circumstances force us to choose between SUN loyalty and betrayal, and what determines our final choice? SUN SUN The readers are Janice Acquah, Frank Stirling and David SUN Westhead. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00r33m0 (Listen) SUN The remote mountains of Wales are a long way from Sydney SUN Opera House, but singer Simon Keenlyside is equally at home SUN in both places. He splits his time between a glittering SUN career on the opera stage and his remarkable ecology SUN project in Carmarthenshire. He has planted more than 10,000 SUN trees, hundreds of thousands of wildflowers, and has seen SUN barn owls, house martins and merlins return to his secluded SUN farm. SUN SUN Alex James pays him a visit and goes bird watching among the SUN giant seqouoia and wildflower meadows. Alex also made the SUN journey from rock musician to farmer, and discovers that SUN Simon sees music and the natural world as the same thing. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00r33m2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00r33m4 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00r33m7 (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 On this weekend's Sunday SUN SUN In a special programme we broadcast live from the East End SUN of London, from a church destroyed by an IRA bomb and SUN rebuilt as a peace centre. We'll delve into its fascinating SUN history. SUN SUN The Church is hosting part of this weekends East festival; a SUN celebration of the rich cultural heritage of the area. SUN We'll have Hindu story telling and Bangla music as well as SUN a walk around the Jewish East End. We also examine the SUN changing Bangladeshi identities in the area. SUN SUN Edward Stourton will be joined by a live panel of guests SUN with their own stories from the East End, as well as a view SUN on where the debate on religious tolerance is going. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00r33m9 (Listen) SUN Arthur Rank Centre SUN SUN Pam Rhodes appeals on behalf of Arthur Rank Centre. SUN SUN Donations to Arthur Rank Centre should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Arthur Rank Centre. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Arthur Rank SUN Centre with your full name and address so they can claim SUN the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone SUN donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1104300. SUN SUN The Arthur Rank Centre supports the rural community and its SUN churches with training, local facilities, housing, and care SUN for the most vulnerable people in rural society. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00r33mc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00r33mf (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00r33mh (Listen) SUN People on the Edge of His Pain - Judas Iscariot SUN SUN A third service in a series for Lent from St Molua's Church, SUN Belfast, led by Canon David Humphries. SUN SUN Preacher: Very Rev Dr John Dunlop. SUN Director of Music: Robert Thompson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00r2fhd (Listen) SUN In the last of her talks, Lisa Jardine reflects on the SUN valuable example of the Nobel Prize-winning chemist Dorothy SUN Hodgkin, who bridged the so-called divide between the arts SUN and the sciences. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00r33mk (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00r33mm (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00r33mq (Listen) SUN Maggie Aderin-Pocock SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is space scientist Maggie SUN Aderin-Pocock. SUN SUN She has, she says, a special relationship with the moon, one SUN that started when she first saw The Clangers as a small SUN child. As a teenager she made her own telescope so she SUN could study the moon more closely. Now she makes highly SUN technical optical equipment for satellites, but says she SUN still harbours desires to go into space - her dream job is SUN building a telescope on the moon. She says: 'From the age SUN of three, I wanted to get into space and I still do. It's SUN been the driving force of my life really, that desire to SUN get out there one day.'. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00r0qw3 (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 9 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, recorded at SUN the University of Derby. Panellists Tony Hawks, Justin SUN Moorhouse, Josie Lawrence and Dave Gorman speak on subjects SUN including the people you find in a student bar and the art SUN of studying. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00qyvf8 (Listen) SUN Marmalade SUN SUN Marmalade is a uniquely British food, spread thick on the SUN morning toast. But marmalade has been a declining market SUN for many years, eaten primarily by the over-45s, and SUN suffering under the relentless expansion of cereals, and SUN sweeter spreads. Simon Parkes explores moves to restore SUN toast's most noble partner to its rightful place at the SUN breakfast table, from the domestic to the industrial. SUN SUN The annual Marmalade Festival at Dalemain House in Cumbria SUN was founded by Jane Hassel McCosh to celebrate domestic and SUN artisan marmalade production. Judy Merry meets participants SUN and judges, including baker Dan Lepard. Some of the winning SUN marmalades are available at Fortnum and Mason in London, SUN including Wild and Fruitful Lemon and Lavender. SUN SUN Premier Foods is the largest marmalade manufacturer in the SUN UK, accounting for 60 per cent of sales. They recently SUN announced their new push to boost marmalade sales: a tie-up SUN between Paddington Bear and a new squeezy marmalade for SUN children, Robertson's Golden Smooth Sweet Orange Marmalade SUN (available later in the year). Simon Parkes visits their SUN Cambridge site to talk to general manager for spreads David SUN Atkinson and technical manager David Smith. Robin MacArthur SUN from market researchers IRI discusses the latest marmalade SUN sales figures. SUN SUN In the studio Simon is joined by food historian Ivan Day to SUN discuss the history of marmalade, Clare Simpson, senior SUN consultant with the branding agency Dragon Rouge, to assess SUN its image problem, and food columnist and Tom Parker SUN Bowles, author of Full English: A Journey Through the SUN British and their Food. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00r33sg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00r33sj (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Portraying the Poor b00r33sl (Listen) SUN In Film and TV SUN SUN Paul Mason explores the image of poverty and the working SUN class that has been created by writers. SUN SUN From Saturday Night and Sunday Morning to Coronation Street, SUN and from On The Buses to Big Brother, British film and TV SUN has had plenty to say about the working class. But precious SUN little of it has been written, less of it directed and SUN virtually none of it commissioned by people who have SUN themselves grown up among the poor. SUN SUN Paul Mason asks how the picture has changed over the SUN decades, and whether or not we are now any closer to seeing SUN real lives on screen than we were in the days of the Ealing SUN Comedies or the 'kitchen sink' dramas. SUN SUN Interviewees include film director Ken Loach, whose career SUN spans almost half a century from Cathy Come Home (1966) to SUN Looking For Eric (2009); California-born playwright Donna SUN Franceschild, whose 2003 TV series The Key was the story of SUN three generations of working-class Glasgow women; Anthony SUN Wonke, director of the BAFTA-winning documentary series The SUN Tower: A Tale Of Two Cities (BBC TV 2007); John Jewell of SUN Cardiff University, who has studied the representation of SUN class in comedy; and TV reality show presenter Trisha SUN Goddard. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00r2dpd (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN SUN Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer SUN questions posed by the gardeners of Selly Park Garden Club SUN in Birmingham. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson meets renowned garden designer Beth Chatto as SUN part of our Gardener's Gardener series. SUN SUN Includes gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Snowdrop Mania b00r33y5 (Listen) SUN Kerry ten Kate investigates the passions, the jealousies and SUN the murky underworld of snowdrop collecting among the SUN enthusiasts who have a big obsession with a small plant. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00r33y7 (Listen) SUN Of Mice and Men SUN SUN Dramatisation by Donna Franceschild of John Steinbeck's SUN seminal 1937 novel about migrant workers in 1930s SUN California whose dream of one day owning a place of their SUN own is tragically destroyed. SUN SUN George ...... David Tennant SUN Lennie ...... Liam Brennan SUN Carlson/Crooks ...... Jude Akuwudike SUN Lennie ...... Liam Brennan SUN Candy ...... Christopher Fairbank SUN Curley's Wife ...... Melody Grove SUN Slim ...... Neil McKinven SUN Curley's ...... Richard Madden SUN George ...... David Tennant SUN SUN Directed by Kirsty Williams. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00r341s (Listen) SUN Douglas Coupland SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to Canadian author Douglas SUN Coupland about his cult novel Generation X. SUN SUN First published in 1991, it became a worldwide bestseller SUN and defined a generation. Set during a time of yuppies and SUN youth unemployment, the characters in Generation X are all SUN in their late 20s, highly educated but with no ambition - SUN they work in bars, and tell each other stories. This is the SUN novel that made 'McJob' a popular term; and looking back at SUN the novel Douglas speaks movingly of his own struggle as he SUN set out to be a writer. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00r341v (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00r0vxg (Listen) SUN As ministers decide whether a 12-billion-pound NHS computer SUN project in England offers value for money, Gerry Northam SUN asks if some major IT projects could be scrapped by a new SUN government looking for big spending cuts. SUN SUN NHS IT deal 'stitch up' claim by Conservatives SUN SUN The Conservatives say revamped contracts for the SUN government's NHS IT system would "tie the hands" of the SUN next administration. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00r32w8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00r341x (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00r341z (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00r3421 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00r3423 (Listen) SUN Jenni Murray introduces her selection of highlights from the SUN past week on BBC radio. SUN SUN Ballad of the Miners' Strike - Radio 2 SUN La Princesse de Cleves - Radio 3 SUN When I Grow Up - Radio 4 SUN The Write Stuff - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: Just Kids - Radio 4 SUN And The Winner Is... - Radio 2 SUN Beyond Black - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Play: Shakespeare's Vortigern and Rowena - Radio 4 SUN The Ballet Russes in England - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Generation Gap - Radio 4 SUN Sarah Millican's Support Group - Radio 4 SUN Trespass - Radio 4 SUN Portraying the Poor - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00r343l (Listen) SUN Hayley braces herself for Kate's arrival. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00r343n (Listen) SUN Host Matt Frei talks to Democratic political strategist SUN Donna Brazile for her view of the week's top news. SUN SUN The FBI is ready to close more than 100 murder cases SUN committed during the Civil Rights era. Matt talks to SUN special agent Cynthia Deitle about her efforts to close the SUN cold cases, even as some argue not enough has been done to SUN solve them. SUN SUN Americana hears from visionary musician Yo-Yo Ma. The SUN award-winning cellist explains what's distinctly American SUN about music from the melting pot. SUN SUN In San Francisco, California the hottest thing on the block SUN just might be curry. Matt Frei visits local food cart SUN operators to learn more about the trendiest mobile foods SUN and the crowds they draw. SUN SUN 19:45 A Guide to Woodland Birds b00c4mf9 (Listen) SUN The Big Stuff! SUN SUN Brett Westwood presents a series to help listeners identify SUN different species. SUN SUN He is joined by keen bird watcher Stephen Moss and wildlife SUN sound recordist Chris Watson to help identify some of the SUN woodland's larger species. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00r2dp8 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00r2fh4 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00r32b9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00r33m9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00r3r5h (Listen) SUN Tea Party Politics SUN SUN Tea party politics is sweeping across America. Not genteel SUN chat over cucumber sandwiches but a right wing protest SUN movement against big government and high taxes, now widely SUN regarded as the most vibrant political force in the United SUN States. Author and journalist Gary Younge investigates the SUN tea party movement. He finds out what sparked this grass SUN roots insurgency, who the supporters are and assesses the SUN potential impact of the tea party movement. SUN SUN Gary is invited to a tea party rally in Little Rock Arkansas SUN where he meets supporters who are angry with the political SUN establishment particularly the Republican party. "If the SUN Republican Party does not pay attention to the tea party SUN folks, they're not going to win the next election", one SUN delegate told Gary. "We have to change the Republican Party SUN and get more conservative, instead of the direction they've SUN been trying to go over the last few years, which is leaning SUN towards the middle". The impetus for the launch of the tea SUN party movement a year ago was the recent financial crisis SUN and frustration at the bank bail-outs while ordinary people SUN were losing their jobs, homes and savings. David Frum, a SUN former speech writer for George W Bush tells Gary that the SUN frustration with the Republican Party began much earlier. SUN SUN Over the last year the tea party movement has made its SUN presence known with huge protests across the country. If SUN 2009 was the year tea part activists got angry, 2010 is the SUN year they get political. Now supporters have their eye on SUN the mid-term elections later this year. Gary meets Rand SUN Paul, an eye surgeon who is standing in the Senate SUN elections. A few months ago he was a rank outsider. Today, SUN after some intense campaigning and the endorsement of Sarah SUN Palin he is the front runner. In several other campaigns SUN the tea party movement is making an impact. Ring wing SUN pollster Frank Luntz warns supporters not to jeopardise SUN their chances of success by getting too angry and stubborn. SUN Publisher and commentator Andrew Neil, who has long had a SUN foot on either side of the Atlantic, tells Gary that SUN there's a popular strand to American history and American SUN politics which doesn't exist in the UK and which allows a SUN phenomena like the tea party movement to merge: "I think SUN it's the size of America and the diversity of America", SUN Neil says, "that allows for grass root movements to grow up SUN and become independent of New York or Washington". SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00r348s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00r348v (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including It SUN Happened Here. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00r2fh6 (Listen) SUN Leonardo DiCaprio tells Francine Stock about the details of SUN his working relationship with Martin Scorsese. SUN SUN Neil Brand tells us the score about composer Miklos Rozsa. SUN SUN Andrew Collins traces the family tree of Fantastic Mr Fox. SUN SUN Mia Hansen Love discusses the state of the French film SUN industry and why it led one producer to commit suicide. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00r33ly (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 08 MARCH 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00r3rn1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00r0ymj (Listen) MON Fetching water, cleaning knives, shovelling out a privy, MON setting fires - how did servants make sense of the tough MON menial duties in the 18th-century home? During that time MON they made up the largest occupational group in the British MON state, and the historian Caroline Steedman argues that MON servants' resentments and personal philosophies had a huge MON impact on the development of the English character and the MON British nation state. Laurie Taylor discusses a neglected MON corner of social history with Caroline Steedman and Amanda MON Vickery. MON MON Laurie also hears about the working class at Britain's elite MON universities; Diane Reay tells him about her research into MON state-educated working-class children studying at Oxbridge. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00r33lt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00r3rqv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00r3rtt (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00r3rs6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00r3s52 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00r3ss2 (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00r3txj (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00r4tf6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00r3vcr (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00r4tf8 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr discusses films, soundtracks and the idea of LA MON with composer John Adams, as he prepares for the UK MON premiere of City Noir, which brings the grime and glamour MON of 1940s films to orchestral life. Science writer Philip MON Ball talks about how our relationship with music proves MON that we're human and why and how music affects us. The MON filmmaker Julien Temple talks about his latest documentary, MON Requiem for Detroit, a moving elegy for the death of a MON city. And filmmaker Sangeeta Datta talks about the long MON history and exciting present of British-Asian cinema. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00r3ykb (Listen) MON Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode 1 MON MON Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street MON parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. MON MON He came into this world as 'the elephant'. Was everyone MON prepared? MON MON With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna MON Monro as Anne. MON MON Abridged by Penny Leicester. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00r3yx0 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON MON A woman who cheated her grandmother and her fiance out of MON 150,000 pounds has been jailed for three years. The MON 25-year-old from Newcastle claimed she was a successful MON photographer and that she had cancer. The judge described MON her as 'wicked', despite the fact that she suffered from a MON personality disorder. But to what extent can you be MON 'wicked' if you have a personality disorder? Peter Harris, MON a BBC reporter in Newcastle, joins Jane to talk about the MON case. Dr Kevin Healy, Clinical Director of Cassel Hospital MON in London, and musician Kayla Kavanagh who has been MON diagnosed with borderline personality disorder, also MON discuss the issue. MON MON Helen Skelton became the 33rd Blue Peter presenter in 2008. MON In aid of 2010 Sport Relief she aimed to complete a MON 2,010-mile solo kayak journey down the length of the Amazon MON River, a feat Helen achieved on 28th February and in the MON process set two Guinness World Records. For six weeks she MON faced heat exhaustion, sea sickness, aching limbs, a sunken MON support boat and a splintered kayak, not to mention an MON impromptu tarantula passenger. Now back in Britain, Helen MON joins Jane to discuss her achievement, one of the toughest MON physical challenges ever undertaken for Sport Relief. MON MON Accomplished seamstress Jean Baggott has produced a MON cross-stitch tapestry detailing the events of her life. She MON focuses on her wartime childhood in the industrialised MON Black Country, her vivid memories of growing up in a house MON where the bath hung on a nail on the yard and children made MON rag rugs, and she sets the narrative within a wider MON historical context. Jean is now 72 and in the final year of MON studying for a history degree. She joins Jane to look back MON on her life and the pictures that she has created. MON MON Annie Fisher was diagnosed with secondary breast cancer four MON months ago. Having planned a special trip to visit friends MON in the USA this summer, she was dismayed to find travel MON insurance quotes as high as 1,000 pounds. Why do insurers MON perceive cancer sufferers to be of such high risk? Are MON their premiums justified? And what other options are there MON for people who want to travel with pre-existing medical MON conditions like cancer? Jane speaks to Fiona Macrae, who MON has launched a travel insurance policy specifically for MON women suffering from breast cancer, and Graeme Trudgill MON from the British Insurance Brokers Association. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdk (Listen) MON Beyond Black, Alison's Good Action 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's disgusting spirit guide, Morris, seems to have MON disappeared, much to Alison's delight, leaving her to enjoy MON her new house unmolested. Colette decides that it's time MON for her to take a more proactive role in the business, but MON reading palms doesn't seem to be her forte, and an MON unexpected encounter with her ex, Gavin, leaves her MON rattled. When a homeless young man takes up residence in MON the new garden shed, Alison sees an opportunity finally to MON perform a good action and lay the evil ghosts of her past MON to rest. But Colette has other ideas. MON MON Alison ...... Alison Steadman MON Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero MON Gavin ...... Mark Meadows MON Mart ...... Malcolm Hamilton MON MON Directed by Sara Davies. MON MON 11:00 A Good School b00r5dlk (Listen) MON As Anne McElvoy trawls schools looking for the right place MON for her own children, she's been confronted by an MON underlying question: what is a good school and how does the MON intellectual history of that aspiration influence political MON argument and educational choices today? MON MON Anne speaks to leading politicians at the heart of the MON debate about education at secondary level. She hears from MON Michael Gove, the shadow secretary of state for children, MON schools and families, who has made it clear that he wants a MON return to more traditional educational techniques. MON MON His critics argue that teenagers who have not already MON 'learned to learn' gain little from being forced to sit MON through subject-based lessons they dislike and aren't able MON to absorb. In further new interviews for the programme, the MON secretary of state for children, schools and families Ed MON Balls challenges Gove's vision of the good school, as does MON the Liberal Democrat peer Shirley Williams, herself a MON former education secretary. MON MON Other contributors include Pete Hyman, a former aide to Tony MON Blair, who now teaches at an inner-London comprehensive, MON sociologist Professor Frank Furedi and Chis Woodhead, the MON former chief inspector of schools. MON MON 11:30 Sneakiepeeks b00pckm1 (Listen) MON Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of MON inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. MON MON Beagle Team undertake a top secret Category G surveillance MON operation. MON MON Bill ...... Richard Lumsden MON Sharla ...... Nina Conti MON Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya MON Mrs A ......Kate Layden MON Mr A ...... Ewan Hooper MON Justine ...... Tessa Nicholson MON David ...... Ewan Bailey MON Delphine ...... Kate Layden. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00r3z10 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00r3z4x (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00r3zlw (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Quote... Unquote b00r5dlm (Listen) MON Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of MON quotations and anecdotes. MON MON With David Nobbs, Justin Webb, Marcel Berlins and Naomi MON Gryn. MON MON The reader is Peter Jefferson. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00r343l (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r5dm6 (Listen) MON By Nicholas Meiklejohn. Jonathan and Laura are celebrating MON their 30th anniversary with family and friends, but there MON is a shock in store when they announce to the guests that MON they are getting divorced. Is it possible to have a happy MON divorce? MON MON Laura ...... Tamara Kennedy MON Jonathan ...... Andy Gray MON Caroline ...... Carol Ann Crawford MON Zack/Bill/Band Singer/Taxi Driver ...... John Kielty MON Eve/Alice/Diane ...... Corinne Harris MON MON Produced and directed by David Ian Neville. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00r32wd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping b00r401p (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the MON modern world. They sit in boardrooms, audit schools, make MON government policy and pull the plug on failing companies. MON And most of us have our performance measured. The history MON of accounting and book-keeping is largely the history of MON civilisation. MON MON Jolyon asks how this came about and traces the religious MON roots of some accounting practices. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00qyvf8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00r5fk2 (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and guests examine how Biblical attitudes to MON childlessness persist in society today. MON MON 17:00 PM b00r407w (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 b00r41d6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00r5fk4 (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 10 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. With Graham MON Norton, Liza Tarbuck, Paul Merton and Sue Perkins. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00r3zmb (Listen) MON Elizabeth and Nigel meet the new boy. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00r4pdg (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including the MON verdict on Martin Scorsese's film Shutter Island, which MON stars Leonardo DiCaprio and is set in a sinister asylum. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Document b00r5fk6 (Listen) MON Mike Thomson presents the series using documentary evidence MON to throw new light on past events. MON MON In May 1964 prime minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home declared in MON the House of Commons that British policy in the North Yemen MON Civil War was one of non-intervention. But with the MON security of British interests in Aden and South Arabia MON under threat, rumours spread of London's covert involvement MON in the war. Mike unravels the extent of Britain's underhand MON engagement in the region, told through high-level secret MON Whitehall documents, private papers and eyewitness MON accounts. As Yemen returns once more to the news headlines, MON Mike looks back at Britain's policy in the 1960s that went MON on to have far-reaching consequences for the Yemen of MON today. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00r5g6x (Listen) MON Babies and Biscuits MON MON Do party leaders need to hug babies and advertise their MON favourite biscuits in pursuit of the female vote? Are women MON more likely to vote for female MPs and do they care more MON than men about politicians' personalities? Alison Wolf MON examines gender gaps in the polling booth and asks why men MON and women vote differently. MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00r5xfk (Listen) MON Fusion Future MON MON For 50 years nuclear fusion has been touted as the safe, MON cheap, limitless fuel of the future. In 2010 the future may MON finally arrive. MON MON The Lawrence Livermore Laboratory in the United States is MON expected this year to fire a laser which will demonstrate, MON for the first time, more energy coming out of a fusion MON reaction than has been put in. For many scientists it will MON be the public proof that all their work has been MON worthwhile, that the future really does belong to fusion MON energy. MON MON Tom Heap meets the world's top fusion scientists and, from a MON safe distance, witnesses a fusion reaction taking place. MON MON He asks what the enormous recent advances in fusion research MON really mean. Can we expect a fusion power station to be MON boiling our kettle in 10, 20 or 100 years? Is there enough MON fuel available to move from experimentation to real-world MON energy production? How safe is the whole process? It may MON produce much less radioactive waste than conventional MON nuclear power stations, but the fuel used is the raw MON material for hydrogen bombs. MON MON Does the future belong to fusion? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00r4tf8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00r4snm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00r4syf (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r4syh (Listen) MON Trespass, Episode 6 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's life of robust contentment is about to be MON shattered for ever. Up at the Mas Lunel, Aramon is MON struggling to remember recent events. MON MON Abridged by Sally Marmion. MON MON 23:00 Rory Bremner's International Satirists b00r5xfm (Listen) MON Hans Teeuwen - Holland MON MON Rory Bremner engages topical comics, satirists and comedians MON from different countries about their cultures and how they MON relate to ours - if at all. MON MON Mad bad and dangerous to know, Hans Teeuwen is an absurdist MON comic performer who takes great risks on stage and has been MON likened to Bill Hicks and Andy Kaufman. But after the MON murder of his close friend Theo van Gogh he decided to MON start performing his Dutch 'cabaretier' show in English, to MON wide acclaim. MON MON Rory and Hans explore the world of performance and topical MON and absurdist comedy, exchanging views and impressions MON while discussing the risks facing Dutch comics today. MON MON The programme features media academic Liesbet van Zoonen of MON Loughborough University and Rotterdam University. MON MON A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00r4t7g (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with David Wilby. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 09 MARCH 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00r3rkg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00r3ykb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00r3rn3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00r3rs8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00r3rqx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00r3rtw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00r3sbj (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00r3ts8 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00r3v50 (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00r0rdj (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland presents the series that looks for the TUE past behind the present. TUE TUE As the small Wiltshire town of Wootton Bassett becomes the TUE focus of the nation's commemoration of soldiers killed in TUE Afghanistan, Jonathan journeys to Towton in Yorkshire, TUE scene of the bloodiest battle on British soil, and of the TUE 'repatriation' of the fallen to consecrated ground by TUE Richard III 23 years later. With Dr Carl Watkins, Andrew TUE Boardman and Andrew Meek, Jonathan discovers the reasons TUE behind this unprecedented act of commemoration, and traces TUE the changing culture of such acts, through the wars of the TUE 20th century to the present 'Highway for Heroes' in Wootton TUE Bassett. TUE TUE 09:30 When I Grow Up b00r5yzr (Listen) TUE Episode 4 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 b00r3yk2 (Listen) TUE Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode 2 TUE TUE Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street TUE parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. TUE TUE Mac is made a star contributor of Eagle magazine and his TUE gifts for delusion soar. TUE TUE With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna TUE Monro as Anne. TUE TUE Abridged by Penny Leicester. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00r3ypk (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdm (Listen) TUE Beyond Black, The Fiends Are On Their Way 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 Alison is increasingly troubled by a sense of foreboding, TUE which becomes stronger on the return of her horrible spirit TUE guide Morris. Her young friend Mart, banished by Colette TUE from the garden shed but working with a group of labourers TUE over the road, tells her he's seen a white van full of TUE boxes arrive looking for her. The news brings back terrible TUE memories to Alison, who fears that the events of her TUE childhood - and the evil men who were part of them - are TUE getting closer all the time. Meanwhile, her assistant TUE Colette is more interested in getting their accounts sorted TUE out. TUE TUE Alison ...... Alison Steadman TUE Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero TUE Morris ...... Bill Wallis TUE Mandy ...... Adrienne O'Sullivan TUE Mart ...... Malcolm Hamilton TUE TUE Directed by Sara Davies. TUE TUE 11:00 The Alps b00r5zsl (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE The Alps form a vast mountain barrier stretching from Vienna TUE to Nice, dividing German north from Latin south. Misha TUE Glenny tackles our shared European history in a totally TUE unexpected way, exploring the impact of the Alps on our TUE culture, our economy and the formation of eight European TUE states. TUE TUE In this first programme, Misha focuses on the mountain TUE passes, and why controlling these cracks in the Alps was TUE the key to moving from north to south. TUE TUE 11:30 Belfast: Re-imagining the City b00r6027 (Listen) TUE When artist Bill Drummond discovered Belfast wasn't twinned TUE with anywhere he made a sign and put it up under the city's TUE welcome notice. It said 'Belfast: Twinned with Your Wildest TUE Dreams'. In this programme, Bill shares his vision of the TUE city: his memories of glamorous 1930s cinemas with TUE glittering curtains, of spontaneous creative happenings and TUE a landscape where the smell of the mountain heather seeps TUE down to the city centre. With a range of urban guides, Bill TUE offers a tour of Belfast unlike any you've heard before. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00r3yx2 (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00r3z12 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00r3z4z (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00r6029 (Listen) TUE Series 9, Dido's Lament TUE TUE Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional TUE appeal. TUE TUE Dido's Lament is a popular name for a famous aria, 'When I TUE am laid in earth', from the opera Dido and Aeneas by Henry TUE Purcell, with the libretto by Nahum Tate. Mezzo soprano TUE Sarah Connolly talks about why she finds the piece, sung by TUE the likes of Janet Baker and Emma Kirkby, so extraordinary, TUE and the skill it takes to perform it. Composer and cellist TUE Philip Shepperd's musical life was transformed when he was TUE part of the rock singer Jeff Buckley's performance of the TUE piece at the 1995 Meltdown Festival. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00r3zmb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r6534 (Listen) TUE Say What You Want to Hear - The Endgame TUE TUE By Tim Wright. Dotcom entrepreneurs Erik and Mike set up Say TUE What You Want to Hear, a website for people to voice these TUE secret thoughts. This play follows their adventures as they TUE pursue love, fortune, football and film stars across TUE Europe. TUE TUE Erik ...... Stephen Tompkinson TUE Mike ...... Ewan Bailey TUE Scarlett ...... Keely Beresford TUE Jeannie ...... Alison Pettit TUE Jurgen ...... Bruce Alexander TUE Sylvie ...... Rachel Atkins TUE TUE Directed by David Hunter. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00r657s (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the natural world and our impact on it. TUE TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00r658y (Listen) TUE Rhys Davies Award Winners, Getting Up TUE TUE By Sian Preece. TUE TUE When a young graffiti artist falls into a cave, a surprising TUE discovery reveals the power of art through time. TUE TUE Read by Gareth David-Lloyd. TUE TUE 15:45 A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping b00r96r0 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the TUE modern world. TUE TUE He goes back 5,000 years, to ancient Mesopotamia, to examine TUE controversial theories about how accountants invented TUE writing. The first written records do not record great TUE stories or noble thoughts but show whether or not people TUE had paid their bills to the state authorities. Accounting TUE started off as the exercise of political power. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00r6611 (Listen) TUE Outdated, inadequate and piecemeal are just some of the TUE criticisms levelled at the UK's current anti-bribery TUE legislation. Clive Coleman and guests weigh up whether or TUE not the Bribery Bill and proposed reforms are robust enough TUE to achieve their aims. Penalties, plea bargains and the TUE enforcement role of the Serious Fraud Office are examined TUE in the light of recent cases, such as the BAE Systems TUE settlement. TUE TUE Interviewees include former Attorney General Lord Goldsmith TUE and Monty Raphael, special counsel at Peters and Peters law TUE firm. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00r6613 (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to writer Julia Blackburn and The World TUE Tonight presenter Ritula Shah about their favourite books. TUE TUE Their choices include a fascinating and harrowing novel set TUE in Sri Lanka, a memoir about life, death and love, and a TUE poet's story of blood vengeance, sisterhood and cleaning. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00r407f (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 b00r418s (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00r66c1 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Sanjeev Bhaskar TUE TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. TUE Sanjeev Bhaskar tries five things he's never done before. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00r3zly (Listen) TUE Lilian pays her last respects. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00r4pd6 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdm (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00r66v2 (Listen) TUE Five years ago the government promised to provide a safety TUE net for when pension funds went bust, but this new scheme TUE is already more than a billion pounds in deficit. Fran TUE Abrams investigates allegations that some companies are TUE simply dumping their obligations and leaving the Pensions TUE Protection Fund - and in some cases the taxpayer - to pick TUE up the bill. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00r66v4 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b00r60gp (Listen) TUE Series 7, Ageing TUE TUE Am I normal for my age? Vivienne Parry examines our TUE perceptions and the realities of what happens to us as we TUE get older. She unpicks the differences between ageing and TUE disease and asks if there is such a thing as normal ageing. TUE TUE It happens to us all; nothing can hold back the tide of TUE time. The natural process of ageing not only affects our TUE appearance and how our bodies respond to general wear and TUE tear, but also how we succumb to and are affected by TUE illness. Yet it seems, no one ages in the same way. Middle TUE age for some of us doesn't end until we're well into our TUE 70s, whereas some people feel old before their time. TUE TUE The programme asks what will happen to us when we age TUE normally? And indeed is there such a thing as a normal TUE ageing process? Genes, lifestyle choices, environment and TUE even social class all play a part. TUE TUE So what was normal 20 or 30 years ago is not normal now. The TUE average age of the world's population is increasing at an TUE unprecedented rate. It's been estimated that the number of TUE people worldwide who are 65 and older now will double by TUE 2040 (from seven to fourteen per cent). TUE TUE How we are ageing is changing too. We are living longer and TUE dying quicker. Professor of geriatric medicine Raymond TUE Tallis says that, 'Despite the fact that we're living TUE longer, the period of chronic illness or disability before TUE death is shrinking.' Advances in modern medicine have TUE postponed many diseases of old age to such an extent that TUE we live longer, healthier lives before succumbing when we TUE are really old and frail and therefore die relatively TUE quickly. TUE TUE But not everyone is still running marathons at 75 or TUE constantly feels 15 years younger than their actual age. TUE And the phrase 'you're only as old as you feel' can be TUE pretty depressing to some people. So what is normal for a TUE certain age? How can we measure it? And does it really TUE matter? TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00r0rdj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00r4slp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00r4snp (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r4syk (Listen) TUE Trespass, Episode 7 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 Kitty sets out to prove her own theory about Anthony's TUE disappearance. At the Mas Lunel, Aramon makes a shocking TUE and surprising discovery. TUE TUE Abridged by Sally Marmion. TUE TUE 23:00 An Open Letter to Richard Branson b00r673j (Listen) TUE 2009 Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Tom Wrigglesworth TUE recounts his tale of taking on the jobsworths. Tom TUE describes his confrontation with a vile train manager and TUE finds the time to mull over other important issues TUE including trainspotters, big beige granny bags and the TUE length of time it takes to eat a pistachio nut. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00r4t2t (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Sean Curran. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 10 MARCH 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00r3rkj (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00r3yk2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00r3rn5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00r3rsb (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00r3rqz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00r3rty (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00r3sbl (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00r3tsb (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00r3v52 (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00r7kvp (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk4 (Listen) WED Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode 3 WED WED Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street WED parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. WED WED Mac leaves for Africa in the footsteps of his relation, WED Lewis: there's Stone Age Man to track down. WED WED With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna WED Monro as Anne. WED WED Abridged by Penny Leicester. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00r3ypm (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdp (Listen) WED Beyond Black, Team Psychics 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 Alison is invited to take part with her fellow mediums in a WED Team Psychics show, but the event is disrupted when the WED elderly medium Mrs Etchells sees some unexpected figures in WED the back row of the audience. The fiends from Alison's past WED are back, and they are intent on mischief. Their first WED victim is Mrs Etchells, who dies of a heart attack and WED brings Alison disturbing news from the other side. WED WED Alison ...... Alison Steadman WED Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero WED Silvana ...... Jacqueline Tong WED Mrs Etchells ...... June Barrie WED WED Directed by Sara Davies. WED WED 11:00 Mothers and Daughters b00r7kyq (Listen) WED The producers of Woman's Hour asked listeners to tell them WED about their experiences as mothers and daughters, and WED hundreds of women replied. From these responses, this WED programme for Mother's Day tells three exceptional stories WED of mothers and daughters lost and found. All of them went WED through through years in which their relationships had WED broken down completely; divorce, alcohol, religious WED differences all played their part. For years they lost each WED other; but then they found each other again. Now WED reconciled, they talk movingly about rediscovering their WED love. WED WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00r7kys (Listen) WED Series 3, Bacon Punctuation WED WED Sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald WED McLeary, set in a Glasgow corner shop. WED WED The future of the shop's much-loved Wall of Crisps comes WED under threat. 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 Mutton Jeff ...... Sean Scanlan WED Jeff ...... Steven McNicol WED Hilly ...... Kate Brailsford WED Mr Hepworth ...... Tom Urie WED WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00r3yx4 (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00r3z14 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00r3z51 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00r7l78 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00r3zly (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r7l7b (Listen) WED Not Bobby WED WED By Nick Warburton. Frank brings a pet rabbit home. Mum gives WED Bobby's hutch pride of place in the sitting room. But who WED finished that last clue in yesterday's crossword? It wasn't WED mum. WED WED Frank ...... Mackenzie Crook WED Miss Bradfield ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Mum ...... Kate Layden WED Sophie ...... Tessa Nicholson WED Mr Vincent ...... Bruce Alexander WED WED Directed by Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00r7l7d (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00r8hwh (Listen) WED Rhys Davies Award Winners, Dammed WED By Sarah Wishart. WED WED A young woman's grief forces her to view the world through WED the sudden sharp focus of heightened emotion. WED WED Read by Caryl Morgan. WED WED 15:45 A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping b00r96qp (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the WED modern world. WED WED Jolyon hears how a corrupt Roman governor was tried in court WED using his own forged account books, and how the ancient WED Greeks inscribed the accounts of public expenditure on WED walls for all to see. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00r7l7g (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b00r60gp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00r407h (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 b00r418v (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b00r7l7j (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Satirical sitcom by Tom Basden about a group of young WED idealists trying to set up a new political party. WED WED Simon ...... Tom Basden WED Mel ...... Anna Crilly WED Duncan ...... Tim Key WED Jared ...... Johnny Sweet WED Phoebe ...... Katy Wix. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00r3zm0 (Listen) WED Jill gets her affairs in order. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00r4pd8 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a WED first-night review of Andrew Lloyd Webber's new musical WED Love Never Dies, a sequel to The Phantom of the Opera. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00r7lps (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind WED the week's news. Melanie Philips, Michael Portillo, Kenan WED Malik and Matthew Taylor cross-examine witnesses. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00r7lpv (Listen) WED Maajid Nawaz 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 Maajid Nawaz, co-director of the Quilliam Foundation, WED reflects on pluralism in society. WED WED 21:00 Geoengineering the Climate b00r7lpx (Listen) WED Mark Whitaker reports from Britain and the USA on the WED science of geoengineering and the political questions it WED raises. Putting giant parasols in space, injecting WED substances into the stratosphere, fertilising the oceans WED and brightening the clouds are all techniques to cool the WED earth, by reducing sunlight or removing carbon dioxide from WED the atmosphere. Until recently they were the stuff of WED science fiction but now they are being taken seriously on WED both sides of the Atlantic. WED WED A Square Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00r7kvp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00r4slr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00r4snr (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r4sym (Listen) WED Trespass, Episode 8 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 Aramon makes another discovery but his memory is no clearer. WED And for Anthony, the inevitable finally arrives. WED WED Abridged by Sally Marmion. WED WED 23:00 Earls of the Court b00r7lpz (Listen) WED Crisis Management WED WED Comedy drama series by Will Adamsdale and Stewart Wright WED about two Australians down on their luck in London. WED WED Lloydie and Johnno need money fast to pay the rent, but will WED the contents of Lloydie's trusty backpack be enough to save WED the day? WED WED Lloydie ...... Stewart Wright WED Johnno ...... Will Adamsdale WED WED Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. WED WED 23:15 Nick Mohammed in Quarters b00grtmv (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Energetic sketch comedy by Nick Mohammed. With guests Anna WED Crilly and Colin Hoult. WED WED Video Clip: Nick Mohammed as David Sunshine WED WED Nick stars as weather presenter David Sunshine in a sketch WED from the energetic sketch comedy series. WED WED Written and performed by Nick Mohammed. Filmed with the WED assistance of Sarah Boland and the BBC Weather Centre. WED WED Radio producer Victoria Lloyd. Video producer Pamela Norris. WED WED More Comedy Videos WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00r4t2w (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Robert Orchard. WED WED THU THURSDAY 11 MARCH 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00r3rkl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00r3yk4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00r3rn7 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00r3rsd (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00r3rr1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00r3rv0 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00r3sbn (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00r3tsd (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00r3v54 (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in THU Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00r7lr9 (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Miranda Aldhouse-Green, Juliette THU Wood and Richard Hingley discuss the life and THU mythologisation of Boudica. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk6 (Listen) THU Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode 4 THU THU Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street THU parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. THU THU At last, the story of the family's beleaguered TV set. THU THU With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna THU Monro as Anne. THU THU Abridged by Penny Leicester. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00r3ypp (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdr (Listen) THU Beyond Black, A Violent Death 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 Alison tries to get the truth about her childhood out of her THU mother, but Emmie won't give her a straight reply. It's not THU until the appalling Morris and his evil spirit friends have THU caused another shocking death that Alison begins to get THU some answers. When Alison confronts Morris with the evil THU he's done, he counters by revealing the true extent of the THU vengeance that the young Alison took on her abusers. It's THU all too much for Colette, who announces she won't stay THU another day in the house. THU THU Alison ...... Alison Steadman THU Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero THU Morris ...... Bill Wallis THU Emmie ...... Katharine Rogers THU THU Directed by Sara Davies. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00r7lyc (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 b00r7lyf (Listen) THU Making Sex Safe 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 From the 1950s the phrase 'scandalous bestseller' began to THU appear on the covers of paperbacks such as Peyton Place by THU Grace Metalious, Couples by John Updike and Portnoy's THU Complaint by Philip Roth. And in spite of a widespread THU belief that America had become unshockable, there continued THU to be bursts of controversy over works of literature THU dealing with sex, including Tony Kushner's Angels in THU America - subtitled A Gay Fantasia on National Themes - THU Edmund White's A Boy's Own Story, Susanna Moore's In the THU Cut and Patricia Cornwell's introduction of the first THU lesbian character in a mainstream crime series. The THU programme also features Nicholson Baker's response to THU discovering - in the Starr Report - that his erotically THU explicit book Vox was one of the love gifts given by Monica THU Lewinsky to President Clinton. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00r3yx6 (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00r3z16 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00r3z53 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00r5xfk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00r3zm0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r7mfs (Listen) THU Final Demands, Point Counterpoint 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 THU At a publisher's launch party, Adam runs into several old THU friends and a few enemies. Forty years on from their days THU at Cambridge, other paths are also crossing. THU THU Adam Morris ...... Tom Conti THU Barbara Morris ...... Barbara Kellermann THU Rachel Morris ...... Flora Montgomery THU Joyce Hadleigh ...... Angela Down THU Dan Bradley ...... Malcolm Stoddard THU Samuel Marcus Cohen ...... Alistair McGowan THU Terry Slater ...... Stephen Mangan THU Innes Maclean ...... Struan Rodger THU Connie Simpson ...... Lorelei King THU Jason Singer ...... Simon Greenall THU Tamara Singer ...... Georgina Rich THU Tom Morris ...... Rupert Degas THU Alexi Morris ...... Gene Goodman THU Juliana Morris ...... Raquel Cassidy THU Jonty Logan ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt THU THU Produced by Jo Wheeler THU THU Directed by Pete Atkin THU An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00r323j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00r33m9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00r8hwk (Listen) THU Rhys Davies Award Winners, Zeina THU THU By Craig Hawes. THU THU A young journalist dreams of forbidden love on the streets THU of Dubai. THU THU Read by Steffan Rhodri. THU THU 15:45 A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping b00r96qr (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the THU modern world. THU THU How the emergence of double entry book-keeping in medieval THU Italy paved the way for the rise of capitalism. Some people THU claim that the new system, known as the 'Italian method', THU arose because of the need of medieval merchants to square THU their desire to make money with their need to save their THU eternal souls. Was double entry a way to fudge an outbreak THU of conscience? THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00r341s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00r7mrr (Listen) THU Have you ever been trapped in a maze and wondered how to get THU out? The problem of solving a maze is something that has THU intrigued physical chemist Bartosz Grzybowski at THU Northwestern University in the USA. Quentin Cooper finds THU out more about his research into chemotactic droplets: THU chemicals that can find their way by a process of trial and THU error. They are chemicals that could be said to learn. The THU idea is to use this self-navigation ability to better THU target cancer tumours with drugs. A problem with drug THU delivery in the human body is that there is a maze of blood THU vessels to get through. What if you could design a chemical THU molecule that could cleverly navigate the human body THU delivering drugs to its target alone? THU THU 17:00 PM b00r407k (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 b00r418x (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b00r7n2p (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 2 THU THU Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his field, THU with no ability whatsoever. THU THU Milton is a mathematical whiz-kid who gets tied up in knots THU and rings trying to solve the equation of the mysteriously THU disappearing geniuses. THU THU With Tom Goodman-Hill, Lucy Montgomery, Ben Willbond. THU THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00r3zm2 (Listen) THU Ed lays down the law with the boys. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00r4pdb (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including a report THU on Bristol Old Vic's new production Juliet and her Romeo, THU in which Shakespeare's lovers are elderly and face THU opposition from their children. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00r6611 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00r7n2r (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 Can't Connect, Won't Connect b00lxh3p (Listen) THU A so-called 'digital revolution' is promised to transform THU public and private life, but many millions are still not THU online in Britain, saying that they don't need or want to THU join this revolution. Chris Bowlby discovers who the THU digital 'refuseniks' are, and explores how far their THU resistance can go. And he asks the government's new digital THU inclusion champion, Martha Lane Fox, what will happen if THU attitudes do not change. THU THU The internet's conscientious objectors THU THU Chris Bowlby on those who choose not to engage with the THU digital world. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00r7lr9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00r4slt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00r4snt (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r4syp (Listen) THU Trespass, Episode 9 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 With the discovery of a body, can it be long before the THU murderer is unmasked? THU THU Abridged by Sally Marmion. THU THU 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group b00r7nqc (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Comedy by Sarah Millican, who plays Sarah, life counsellor THU and modern-day agony aunt. THU THU Sarah tackles the problems 'My broken heart needs fixing but THU I've only got paper glue' and 'Tonight is the night that THU two become one - I'm leaving you'. THU THU Sarah ...... Sarah Millican THU Marion ...... Ruth Bratt THU Terry ...... Simon Daye THU Marie ...... Jo Neary THU Kim ...... Katherine Parkinson THU Colin ...... Martin Trenaman. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00r4t2y (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with David Wilby. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 12 MARCH 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00r3rkn (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00r3yk6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00r3rn9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00r3rsg (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00r3rr3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00r3rv2 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00r3sbq (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00r3tsg (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00r3v56 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00r33mq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00r3yk8 (Listen) FRI Did You Really Shoot the Television?, Episode 5 FRI FRI Max Hastings recalls the marriage of his Fleet Street FRI parents, roving reporter Mac and glamorous editor Anne. FRI FRI More trouble for Mac, and Anne's later 'business' with the FRI small Picasso. FRI FRI With additional readings by Nigel Hastings as Mac and Joanna FRI Monro as Anne. FRI FRI Abridged by Penny Leicester. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00r3yps (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdt (Listen) FRI Beyond Black, Alison's Retribution 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 knows that in order to banish the demons of her past FRI she must face them and confront the painful truth about FRI what happened in her childhood. With the help of Mrs FRI McGibbet, yet another spirit from her past, Alison learns FRI the worst. Meanwhile, Colette goes back home to Gavin, and FRI the two of them try to remember why they split up in the FRI first place. Alison's appalling spirit guide Morris FRI realises she's lost to him forever now that she has not FRI only faced down her demons but has committed a good deed FRI and will go on to commit more. Alison is at last free to FRI set off into a brighter future with a replacement spirit FRI guide, the sweet and devoted Maureen. FRI FRI Alison ...... Alison Steadman FRI Colette ...... Rosie Cavaliero FRI Morris ...... Bill Wallis FRI Emmie ...... Katharine Rogers FRI Aitkenside ...... Simon Armstrong FRI Gavin ...... Mark Meadows FRI Mrs McGibbet/Maureen ...... Sheila Hannon FRI FRI Directed by Sara Davies. FRI FRI 11:00 Racing Ahead b00r7ps3 (Listen) FRI Horse racing is trying to revolutionise its public image, FRI restore television audiences and attract a new generation FRI of punters. But does anyone fancy its chances? Chris FRI Ledgard investigates. FRI FRI Twenty years ago, betting shops were dominated by horse FRI racing. Now, bookmakers say, the sport accounts for less FRI than half of their business. Racing faces a challenging FRI future and has set up a group called Racing For Change to FRI develop a new image. FRI FRI 11:30 People in Cars b00r7rfr (Listen) FRI Series of linked comedies by Simon Brett. FRI FRI A businessman spices up his life with excursions to FRI extramarital assignations. But why is his new sat nav FRI directing him back home? FRI FRI He ...... Bruce Alexander FRI She ...... Maureen Beattie FRI FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00r3yx8 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00r3z18 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00r3z55 (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00r7rft (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00r3zm2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00r7rfw (Listen) FRI Final Demands, ...And A Happy New Year 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 FRI Adam and Barbara meet their daughter-in-law Juliana and FRI grandson for the first time. Juliana's encounter with one FRI of Adam's old associates is shocking, to put it mildly, and FRI the result is the reappearance of some other faces from FRI Adam's past. FRI FRI Adam Morris ...... Tom Conti FRI Barbara Morris ...... Barbara Kellermann FRI Rachel Morris ...... Flora Montgomery FRI Joyce Hadleigh ...... Angela Down FRI Juliana Morris ...... Raquel Cassidy FRI Mike Clode ...... Mark Wing-Davey FRI Denis Porson ...... Nigel Havers FRI Samuel Marcus Cohen ...... Alistair McGowan FRI Bruno Laszlo ...... Simon Greenall FRI Jill Tabard ...... Annabel Leventon FRI Jonty Logan ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI FRI Produced by Jo Wheeler FRI FRI Directed by Pete Atkin FRI An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00r7rfy (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI FRI Matthew Biggs, Pippa Greenwood and guest panellist Christine FRI Walkden answer questions posed by the gardeners of FRI Edenfield and District Horticultural Society in Lancashire. FRI FRI Eric Robson explores the history of the lawnmover in its own FRI dedicated museum. FRI FRI 15:45 A Brief History of Double Entry Book-keeping b00r96qt (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Jolyon Jenkins investigates how accountants shaped the FRI modern world. FRI FRI Jolyon examines accountancy fraud in the Middle Ages, FRI brought about by the Black Death. He hears how 16th-century FRI merchants didn't try to hide the evidence of their FRI smuggling in their double entry books and how the Exchequer FRI collected taxes by chopping sticks in half. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00r7rg0 (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 b00r7rg2 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to director Paul Greengrass about Green FRI Zone, his latest collaboration with Matt Damon. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00r407m (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 b00r418z (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00r7rg4 (Listen) FRI Series 30, Episode 2 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 special guest. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00r3zm4 (Listen) FRI Helen tells Kate some home truths. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00r4pdd (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00r4rdt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00r7rg6 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Oxford. The FRI panel includes secretary of state for transport Lord FRI Adonis, Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe and John FRI Micklethwait, editor-in-chief of The Economist. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00r7rg8 (Listen) FRI Simon Schama presents the first of a series of personal FRI reflections. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects Omnibus b00r7rlv (Listen) FRI Episode 2 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. FRI FRI In this programme, he explores the profound changes that FRI humans experienced at the end of the Ice Age. By this FRI period, humanity is reconsidering its place in the world FRI and turning its attention to food, power, worship and human FRI relationships. FRI FRI But then, as now, one of the most important parts of human FRI existence was finding enough food to survive. Taking a FRI pestle from Papua New Guinea as an example, Neil asks why FRI our ancestors decided to grow and cook new foods. The FRI answer provides us with a telling insight into the way FRI early humans settled on the land. Becoming farmers and FRI eating food that was harder for other animals to digest FRI made us a formidable force in the food chain. The impact on FRI our environment of this shift to cookery and cultivation is FRI still being felt. Neil is joined by Indian food writer FRI Madhur Jaffrey, campaigner Sir Bob Geldof and archaeologist FRI Professor Martin Jones. FRI FRI Neil then goes on to investigate a palm-sized stone FRI sculpture that was found near Bethlehem. It clearly shows a FRI couple entwined in the act of love. The contemporary FRI sculptor Marc Quinn responds to the stone as art and the FRI archaeologist Dr Ian Hodder considers the Natufian society FRI that produced it. What was human life and society actually FRI like all those years ago? Possibly a lot more sophisticated FRI than we imagine. FRI FRI For his third item in the programme Neil selects four FRI miniature clay cows made from Nile mud in Egypt 5,500 years FRI ago, way before the time of the pyramids or the pharaohs. FRI Why did the Egyptians start burying objects like this one FRI with their dead? Neil goes in search life and death on the FRI Nile and discovers how the domestication of cattle made the FRI humble cow transform human existence. FRI FRI Neil then switches his focus to the world of the Mayan FRI civilisation and a stone Maize God, discovered on the site FRI of a major Mayan city in present day Honduras. This large FRI statue is wearing a headdress in the shape of a giant corn FRI cob. Maize was not only worshipped at that time but the FRI Maya also believed that all their ancestors were descended FRI from maize. Neil reveals why maize, which is notoriously FRI difficult to refine for human consumption, becomes so FRI important to the emerging agriculture of the region. Neil FRI is joined by the anthropologist Professor John Staller and FRI the restaurateur Santiago Calva who explain the complexity FRI of Mayan mythological belief and the ongoing power of maize FRI in Central America today FRI FRI Finally, Neil moves to Japan and the story of a FRI 7,000-year-old clay pot which has managed to remain almost FRI perfectly intact. Pots began in Japan around 17,000 years FRI ago and by the time this pot was made had achieved a FRI remarkable sophistication. The archaeologists Professor FRI Takeshi Doi and Simon Kaner describe the significance of FRI agriculture to the Jomon and the way in which they made FRI their pots and used decorations from the natural world FRI around them. This particular pot is remarkable in that it FRI was lined with gold leaf in perhaps the 18th century and FRI used in that quintessentially Japanese ritual, the tea FRI ceremony. This simple clay object makes a fascinating FRI connection between the Japan of today and the emerging FRI world of people in Japan at the end of the Ice Age. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00r4slw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00r4snw (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00r4syr (Listen) FRI Trespass, Episode 10 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 A return to the place where they began; peace and FRI reconciliation at last. FRI FRI Abridged by Sally Marmion. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00r6613 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00r4t30 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI
05 March, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 06/03/2010 - 12/03/2010
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