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SAT SATURDAY 15 MAY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00s9xzq (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00sbmjw (Listen) SAT A Gambling Man - Charles II and The Restoration, Episode 5 SAT SAT After The Great Fire of London in 1666, rebuilding work SAT began with a vengeance. But elsewhere, all is not well and SAT Charles is about to take the biggest gamble of his life. SAT SAT Written by Jenny Uglow SAT Read by Michael Maloney SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00s9xzs (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00s9xzv (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00s9xzx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00s9xzz (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00s9y01 (Listen) SAT Presented from Wales by the Rev. Peter Baker. SAT SAT 05:45 A View Through a Lens b00gq4nb (Listen) SAT Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal view of SAT life as he finds himself in isolated and often dangerous SAT locations across the globe filming wildlife. SAT SAT Squatting on a tiny platform 30 metres offshore, John waits SAT for young black-footed albatrosses to embark on their first SAT flight from the shore. Below him in the water, shadows are SAT patrolling back and forth, waiting for the birds to land on SAT the waves. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00s9y03 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00s9zfq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00s9zqg (Listen) SAT The Forest of Bowland SAT SAT Helen Mark is in Lancashire to explore the Forest of SAT Bowland, an area often described as England's last great SAT wilderness. Helen meets members of the Pendle Forest History SAT Group, who strongly believe that the history of the area in SAT which they live has more to offer than stories of witches, SAT and who have been unearthing more about the rural heritage SAT of their landscape. Helen then joins ornithologist, Stephen SAT Murphy who gives her an insight into the life of the SAT 'breathtaking' Hen Harrier, the iconic bird which is SAT Bowland's emblem. Will Helen be lucky enough to be able to SAT spot just one of the ten male Hen Harriers in England today? SAT SAT At Halstead's Farm near Slaidburn, Helen meets up with Helen SAT Wallbank who has been unearthing and recording the ancient SAT limekilns along the Hodder Vally, a feature of the landscape SAT all around which can tell so much about the history of the SAT rural communities of Bowland. And as the day draws to a SAT close, Helen joins David Fisher in caves and along SAT riverbanks searching for some of the 10 species of bats that SAT inhabit this Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00s9zqj (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT For more than five years now, farmers have been joining two SAT schemes which have specifically paid them to bring in more SAT wildlife, and use their land more sustainably. The Entry SAT Level and Higher Level Stewardship Schemes give farmers a SAT list of the things they can do to encourage insects, bees SAT and birds. Recently, Natural England warned that nearly 500 SAT plants and animals have become extinct in England, and SAT virtually all of these have been lost within the last two SAT centuries. On Farming Today This Week, Charlotte Smith SAT visits a Worcestershire farm run by The Wildlife Trust in SAT partnership with a conventional dairy farmer. Charlotte SAT investigates whether farms are doing enough to encourage SAT wildlife onto their land and asks what part does growing SAT food play in all of this. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00s9zql (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00s9zqn (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00s9zqq (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by restaurateur Prue Leith OBE. The poet SAT is Elvis McGonagall. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00sb0gs (Listen) SAT John McCarthy meets Anil Ananthaswamy a science writer who SAT has visited many of the world's most inaccessible SAT observatories and telescopes. These are often sited in SAT remote places to avoid light pollution or cosmic SAT interference so his travels have taken him to the South SAT Pole, the Atacama Desert, half a mile underground in SAT Minnesota and the middle of a frozen Lake Baikal. And he has SAT encountered the particular breed of technologists who don't SAT mind being cut off from the rest of the world for up to SAT eight months at a time. SAT SAT John also talks to travel journalist Juliet Rix who enthuses SAT about the Neolithic temples in Malta and Gozo which predate SAT the Egyptian pyramids by a thousand years. Although SAT discovered a hundred years ago and forming a fascinating SAT part of Malta's rich history they remain under-visited by SAT tourists to the islands. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Big in Bangalore, Big in Beijing b00sb0gv (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Rajan Datar follows Iron Maiden to India to seek out SAT opportunities for Western music. SAT SAT Are the new economies of India and China ripe for Western SAT music acts to exploit? Rajan heads to Beijing to find out SAT why China is another market western bands are targeting. SAT With a growing, affluent middle class bands ranging from SAT Mumford and Sons to Shakira are heading to the Far East in SAT the hope of breaking this huge country. SAT SAT The producer is Tim Mansel, and this is a Bite Yer legs SAT production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00sbgtc (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian reports on a tumultuous week SAT in politics when hundreds of newly-elected MPs arrived at SAT Westminster after the indecisive result of the general SAT election. But, with a hung parliament, were they in SAT government or opposition? SAT SAT Negotiations between the main parties ended with David SAT Cameron and Nick Clegg forming a Conservative/Liberal SAT Democrat coalition. SAT SAT For Labour, Gordon Brown bade an emotional farewell to SAT Downing Street and David Miliband was first to declare in SAT the race to become the party's next leader. SAT SAT In this programme: SAT SAT * The senior Conservative MP, Michael Fallon, and Labour's SAT Kevin Brennan ask how far coalition government means an end SAT to tribalism in politics SAT SAT * The Lib Dem historian, Duncan Brack, and the party's SAT former chief executive, Lord Rennard, savour the week when SAT Lib Dems finally reached government SAT SAT * Two Labour MPs, Mary Creagh and Meg Hillier look forward SAT to the Labour leadership election SAT SAT * And two newcomers to Westminster who triumphed over Labour SAT - the Lib Dem's Ian Swales, who took Redcar, and the SAT Conservative, Penny Mordaunt, who took Portsmouth North - SAT describe their first week. SAT SAT Producer: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00sb0gx (Listen) SAT A British army General tells us how he took a gamble, and SAT saved an African nation. SAT SAT The children thrown into prison in Turkey on terrorism SAT charges. SAT SAT And our correspondent pays tribute to the glories of New SAT Zealand... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00sb0gz (Listen) SAT In this week's programme, Paul Lewis and guests examine the SAT personal finance aspects of the coalition government's SAT agreement, and the National Landlords' Association voices SAT its opposition to proposed changes to capital gains tax. SAT SAT What is a fair charge for using the internet or your mobile SAT phone abroad? A listener tells Money Box he was shocked to SAT find he had been billed more than £7,000 by his internet SAT provider when he was stuck in Italy for five days because of SAT the travel disruption caused by the volcanic ash cloud. SAT SAT And Paul Lewis finds out why interest rates on overdrafts SAT are at a 10-year high, according to Moneyfacts research. SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00s9xwy (Listen) SAT Series 71, Episode 5 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week are Phill Jupitus, SAT Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, and Susan Calman. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00sb0h1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00sb0h3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00s9xx0 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from the University SAT of Brighton. On the panel. the former Labour minister, Roy SAT Hattersley; the former Conservative minister, Douglas Hurd; SAT the Liberal Democrats' Simon Hughes MP; and the newly SAT elected Green Party MP, Caroline Lucas. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00sb0h5 (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 b00sb0h8 (Listen) SAT The Jubilee Singers SAT SAT Writer Adrian Mitchell's drama about the extraordinary SAT Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, Tennessee, who in the SAT years immediately after slavery brought their great Sorrow SAT Songs from the plantations to Europe. SAT SAT Cast SAT Adjoa Andoh SAT Felix Dexter SAT Bonnie Greer SAT Nadine Marshall SAT Alibe Parsons SAT Clive Rowe SAT Ray Shell SAT Jonathan Pryce SAT SAT Producer: Marilyn Imrie SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 The Music Group b00s97gt (Listen) SAT Series 4, Episode 5 SAT SAT The Thick of It's 'glummy mummy' Nicola Murray - better SAT known as actress Rebecca Front - joins journalist James SAT Brown and novelist Robert Hudson to explain why they've SAT brought a slice of Sixties musical theatre, a punk rock rap SAT record and a song about imminent environmental apocalypse to SAT be scrutinised by the group this week. SAT SAT Rebecca reveals how Sammy Davis Jr has helped her children's SAT swimming lessons, and James tells tales of what happened SAT when he visited some hip hop superheroes in the Hollywood SAT Hills. Robert wonders why his father didn't give it all up SAT for music and The Free Electric Band. SAT SAT With Phil Hammond. SAT SAT The music choices are: SAT The Rhythm of Life by Sammy Davis Jr SAT Sabotage by The Beastie Boys SAT We're Running Out by Albert Hammond SAT SAT Producer: Tamsin Hughes SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00sb0nb (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Including a visit to the newly reopened Florence Nightingale SAT Museum to cast new light on the lady with the lamp. SAT Following a week of high level political compromise, former SAT British Ambassador to the US Sir Christopher Meyer discusses SAT what it takes to be a good negotiator. We discover the SAT secret life of whales, and look at why Glee clubs are taking SAT off in schools around Britain. There's debate over whether SAT it can ever be acceptable to smack your child. And who SAT exactly was Maid Marian - where did she originate and how SAT has she changed in line with women's emancipation? Plus, SAT pets - do they bring families together or cause more trouble SAT than they're worth? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00sb2rm (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00sb2rp (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sb2rr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00sb2rt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sb2rw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00sb2ry (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00sb2s0 (Listen) SAT Series 8, Double Dip SAT SAT Writer Neil Brand responds to the crisis in the Eurozone. SAT SAT As the Greek economic crisis risks plunging the entire SAT eurozone into meltdown, an Athens family go to hilarious SAT lengths to conceal their wealth from revenue-hungry tax SAT authorities. SAT SAT Nicholas ..... Stephen Critchlow SAT Sofia ..... Anna Savva SAT Illiana ..... Lydia Leonard SAT Joe ..... Lloyd Thomas SAT SAT Director: Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00sb2s2 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00sb2s4 (Listen) SAT Unsung Heroes SAT SAT Tucked out of sight in the pit of Covent Garden, the SAT Orchestra of the Royal Opera House accompanies every world SAT class performance presented on that stage. What does that SAT glittering world look like from down there? Sarah Lenton, SAT using a mixture of archive and backstage material, follows SAT the orchestra's fortunes from Handel's time down to the SAT latest rehearsal of the new Aida and allows the players to SAT give us their "Pit's Eye" view of the ROH. SAT SAT We find out what it's like never to see a show "I can always SAT tell a ballet night, when a herd of elephants suddenly SAT thunders overhead...", how to rate conductors "you know what SAT you've got in the first five minutes..." and what happens SAT when the action spills over into their playing space, SAT "suddenly a dagger flew between me and the next violinist SAT and stuck quivering through 5 pages of music." SAT SAT What binds the story together is the band's passion for the SAT rep. and the brilliance of their colleagues: "At the last SAT Swan Lake all the brass players stayed behind to hear SAT Vasiley play his solo - that was inspiring for the whole SAT string section." And their adaptability - does a modern SAT composer want a new instrument made out of a bucket of SAT broken crockery, or would the Tosca E flat bell sound better SAT if you donged a vast length of LCC gas piping? The band SAT finds a way of doing it. The harpist is even prepared to SAT thread his harp with newspaper, to make it sound like a SAT banjo in Fanciulla. (It might be more sensible to use a SAT proper banjo, but Puccini thought otherwise.) SAT SAT Supplementing the player's view of life is archive from SAT their conductors, from the despotic Thomas Beecham (who SAT calmly extended one morning rehearsal to midnight,) to the SAT mercurial Georg Solti ("it's perfectly possible to conduct SAT with your eye brows"). Bernard Haitink makes an appearance, SAT apparently as baffled as anyone else as to how a band SAT manages to read a conductor's hands, and we hear from the SAT current Music Director, Antonio Pappano ("my orchestra SAT listen with genius, they've saved my bacon on countless SAT occasions"). SAT SAT Producer: Philippa Ritchie. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00757rv (Listen) SAT Cider with Rosie, Episode 2 SAT SAT In the second of two episodes dramatised by Nick Darke, SAT young Loll experiences his first taste of the adult world. SAT SAT Laurie.................Tim McInnerny SAT Mother................Niamh Cusack SAT Young Loll...........Sunny Leworthy SAT Rosie..................Emily Parrish SAT SAT with Jennifer Compton, Paul Currier, Lisa Kay, Briony SAT Fforde, Daniel Clifford, Jed Blacklock, David Goodland, Bill SAT Wallis, Paul Dodgson, June Barrie, Chris Grimes, Megan SAT Melish, Laura Beckett, Luke Glastonbury-Cole, Buster Reece, SAT Alex Smith, Leanne French, Villagers of Slad and Rodborough. SAT Music by Paul Burgess SAT Directed by Viv Beeby and Jeremy Howe SAT Repeated Saturday 9.00 p.m. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00sb91f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Devil's Advocate b00s9f92 (Listen) SAT Terrorism SAT SAT Two guest speakers are invited to turn their established SAT views on their head and debate the contrary position. SAT SAT The motion is: "Terrorism can only truly be defeated by SAT ignoring it in our everyday lives." SAT SAT The debate will explore the strategies and ideologies behind SAT the war on terror: is it real or a construct made by SAT governments, and if so for what gains? SAT SAT Speaking in favour of the motion is former Defence Secretary SAT Geoff Hoon, who spent almost six years in the Ministry of SAT Defence during Tony Blair's time as Prime Minister and was SAT responsible for much of the government's response to SAT terrorism threats after 9/11. SAT SAT Speaking against the motion is Jamie Bartlett from the think SAT tank DEMOS, who in the past have argued that the state have SAT overreacted to terrorism. SAT SAT Richard Hollingham presents. SAT SAT The programme is recorded in front of an invited audience at SAT Judge Business School in Cambridge. SAT SAT Producers: David Prest and Rose de Larrabeiti SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Counterpoint b00s97hj (Listen) SAT Series 24, Episode 8 SAT SAT (8/13) Paul Gambaccini chairs the penultimate heat of the SAT 2010 tournament. Three amateur music enthusiasts face Paul's SAT questions on a wide variety of musical topics, from the SAT baroque to rock. This week's competitors come from London, SAT Worthing and Hale in Cheshire. As always, there'll be SAT musical extracts and clues to suit every taste. SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Back to the Hellespont b00s8f1x (Listen) SAT It is 200 years since the poet Lord Byron swam the SAT Hellespont, commemorating the feat in a poem and setting off SAT a mania for swimming throughout Europe. He said it was his SAT proudest moment. SAT SAT His talent for swimming was one of the qualities that made SAT him a legend and wherever he swam became almost a sacred SAT spot. On the shore of the Bay of Spezzia, where Shelley SAT drowned, stands a plinth dedicated to "Lord Byron, Noted SAT English Swimmer and Poet". Note which comes first! SAT SAT Comedian and Channel swimmer Doon Mackichan takes a look at SAT the man and the event through his poetry and journal SAT entries, comparing Byron's swim with the experiences of some SAT of the swimmers who turn up every year for a race across SAT this historical channel that separates Europe and Asia. SAT Organised by the Canakkale Rotary Club, it is one of the SAT highlights of the wild water swimming calendar. SAT SAT Byron was inspired by Leander who, according to Ovid, SAT nightly swam the strait to visit his beloved Hero and, after SAT hours of love making, swam back home again. No slouch in the SAT sack himself, Byron marvelled that Leander's conjugal powers SAT were not "exhausted in his passage to Paradise". SAT SAT Swimming gave Byron, lame as he was, some of the most SAT exhilarating moments of his life. Only in swimming was he SAT able to experience complete freedom of movement and freedom SAT was a state he aspired to in all things - political and SAT sexual. SAT SAT How many of today's swimmers have been inspired by Byron to SAT put pen to paper? The programme set them a challenge and you SAT can hear some of the best entries alongside Byron's own SAT effort. SAT SAT The producer is Merilyn Harris, and this is a Testbed SAT production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 MAY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00sb9fr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00bf6mn (Listen) SUN Anger, Kinetic SUN SUN Andy McNab's 'Kinetic' takes us on a personal journey from a SUN turbulent childhood into the army and ultimately into SUN battle, where geopolitical anger is reduced to man against man. SUN SUN Read by the author. SUN SUN Part of a series in which five writers from a range of SUN backgrounds shed light on an aspect of anger in a mix of SUN fiction, memoir and thought pieces. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sb9ft (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sb9fw (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sb9fy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00sb9g0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00sb9g2 (Listen) SUN The bells of the Parish Church of St Mary, Bishopstoke in SUN Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 It Happened Here b00sb9g4 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN In the last of his series looking at how key political SUN events have been decisively influenced by where they took SUN place, Peter Hennessy visits Lancaster House near Buckingham SUN Palace in London. It was the grand location for SUN international deals on the creation of Zimbabwe thirty years SUN ago and, most recently, for discussing the future of SUN Afghanistan. SUN SUN Most celebrated, Peter Hennessy argues, as the "House for SUN Imperial Disposals", Lancaster House was the location in the SUN 1950s and 1960s for a number of independence deals over SUN former British colonies. But it came into its own as the SUN venue for talks in 1979 that finally ended the bitter SUN dispute over the independence of the African country then SUN known as Rhodesia. Its white supremacist government, led by SUN Ian Smith, had unilaterally declared independence from SUN Britain in the 1960s. But following international sanctions SUN and pressure from the apartheid regime in South Africa, the SUN Rhodesian authorities had finally agreed to discuss ending SUN their rebellion. SUN SUN Peter Hennessy charts the course of the often tortuous SUN negotiations over independence and the move to black SUN majority rule in Rhodesia. He describes the way in which the SUN layout and rooms of Lancaster House helped to facilitate a SUN settlement. And he explains how the atmosphere of the SUN building has proved attractive to many other government SUN delegations from abroad, including those attending the SUN conference on the future of Afghanistan held there earlier SUN this year. SUN SUN Producer: Simon Coates. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00sb9g6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00sb9g8 (Listen) SUN The Problem with Passion SUN SUN Mark Tully asks what the self-help manuals really mean when SUN they advise us to "discover our passion" if we want to live SUN a fulfilled life. Is this advice well-founded, rooted in the SUN spiritual notion of vocation, or rather a route to SUN self-obsession and confusion? SUN SUN Producer: Eley McAinsh SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00sb9gb (Listen) SUN A community farm in Sheffield who met online, rented land SUN from a farmer and learned the hard way how to grow their own SUN and keep bees, pigs, ducks and chickens. Caz Graham helps SUN plant out the crops at Loxley Valley community farm, meeting SUN some of the 20 families who farm there. They met on the SUN Landshare website, and with help from the Soil Association SUN and others, realised they could grow more and learn faster SUN if they joined forces. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00sb9gf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00sb9gh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00sb9gk (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00sb9gm (Listen) SUN Jacqueline Wilson presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity Brake. SUN SUN Donations to Brake should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Brake. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Brake with your full name and address so they SUN can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1093244. SUN SUN Jacqueline Wilson appeals on behalf of Brake, a charity SUN which supports families bereaved as a result of road crashes SUN providing emotional support as well as information and SUN advice. SUN SUN "Brake helped us during our darkest moments. Just knowing SUN that Brake understands and is there to listen gives us the SUN courage to carry on." SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00sbbjs (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00sbbjv (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00sbbjx (Listen) SUN A service of Anglican Morning Prayer from St Mark's Church SUN of Ireland in Portadown. The preacher is the Rector, Canon SUN Jim Campbell, Rector of Portadown and the service is led by SUN Rev Carmen Hayes, Curate Assistant. The Music Director is SUN Stuart Nelson and the Organist is Philip Elliott. SUN Producer: Rev.Bert Tosh SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00s9xx2 (Listen) SUN Britain's New Politics SUN SUN Simon Schama reflects on the political dramas following the SUN general election and favourably compares the British system SUN for a swift handover of power to the cumbersome American SUN one. He praises the party leaders for managing, ultimately, SUN to rise above the usual partisan rhetoric, and looks forward SUN to a new politics in the spirit of Thomas Paine. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00sbbjz (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00sbbk1 (Listen) SUN WRITTEN BY ..... CAROLINE HARRINGTON SUN DIRECTED BY ..... KATE OATES SUN EDITOR ..... VANESSA WHITBURN SUN SUN JILL ARCHER .....PATRICIA GREENE SUN KENTON ARCHER ..... RICHARD ATTLEE SUN DAVID ARCHER ..... TIMOTHY BENTINCK SUN RUTH ARCHER ..... FELICITY FINCH SUN PIP ARCHER ..... HELEN MONKS SUN JOSH ARCHER ..... 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SUN SUN Growing up in Port Talbot, South Wales, he discovered SUN performing when he was a teenager and says he came alive SUN when he was on stage: so much so that he left school with SUN only a couple of O Levels. For years, he made a comfortable SUN but unfulfilling living recording voice-overs and working on SUN a television shopping channel. He always dreamed of working SUN in comedy, though, and eventually it was 'Marion and Geoff' SUN and then 'Gavin and Stacey' that made him a household name. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b00s92p7 (Listen) SUN Series 3, Episode 1 SUN SUN Prepare to have your synapses twisted into a string SUN theorist's nightmare, as Professor Lloyd and his new SUN curator, the startlingly insightful comedian Jon Richardson, SUN hurriedly throw the dust covers off the Museum's clump of SUN empty plinths for a brand new series of the BBC's most SUN improving comedy panel show. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00sbbk5 (Listen) SUN Soft Drinks SUN SUN Sheila Dillon investigates the latest trends in the world of SUN soft drinks and asks why a number of cities in the United SUN States are trying to tax sugary drinks? SUN SUN The City of Philadelphia, along with New York and Pittsburg, SUN is attempting to levy a tax on so called sugar sweetened SUN beverages. The Deputy Mayor of Philadelphia and Health SUN Commissioner, Dr Donald Schwartz believes the link between SUN sugary soda drinks and obesity is strong enough to justify a SUN 2 cents per ounce tax to reduce consumption. A vote on the SUN tax will take place at the end of May. SUN SUN The American Beverage Association, which represents Pepsico SUN and Coca Cola, strongly disagrees with the soda tax. It SUN argues that it is not the solution to America's obesity SUN problem and has spent millions of dollars lobbying Congress SUN to convince policy makers to reject the idea. SUN SUN Here, the Food Standards Agency is taking a different SUN approach. It is working with the soft drinks industry to try SUN and remove sugar from the regular brands of soft drink. So SUN far only Pepsico has said it will commit to a 4% sugar SUN reduction target. Sheila asks which of these two strategies SUN will bring the greatest health benefits? SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00sbbk7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00sbbk9 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00s9xwr (Listen) SUN A correspondence edition presented by Eric Robson with Anne SUN Swithinbank, Bunny Guinness & Pippa Greenwood. How good are SUN supermarket bedding plants? We also bring you an update on SUN our tomato trials at Sparsholt College. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's Escape to the Country b00sbcdh (Listen) SUN Gertrude Jekyll and the Suburban Countryside SUN SUN Gertrude Jekyll might come as a surprise in Laurence SUN Llewelyn-Bowen's series about the countryside, given that SUN she is loved for her colourful borders rather than any grand SUN landscape. But Jekyll did something that profoundly SUN contributed to our idea of the British countryside - she SUN transformed the garden from a lawn and parterres into a SUN microcosm of the natural world. SUN SUN Just when the wilds of Kent or Berkshire or her own beloved SUN West Surrey were being invaded by the city, her action was SUN to protect, to encase nature, to bring it, in all its wild SUN unevenness, into our gardens. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Greenwell SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00sgzm0 (Listen) SUN Now, Voyager SUN SUN A dowdy, frustrated spinster from a wealthy New England SUN family, living with her overpowering mother in the SUN stiflingly repressive Boston of the inter-war years, suffers SUN a nervous breakdown after an unhappy love affair. SUN SUN Partially restored under the wise guidance of a SUN psychiatrist, she is urged by her fashionably elegant SUN sister-in-law to have a beauty makeover and to undertake a SUN Mediterranean cruise. Physically transformed, she meets on SUN board an architect, Jerry Durrance, with whom slowly, as she SUN gains confidence in her new image, she falls in love. But he SUN is married with children he loves, and the affair cannot SUN have a happy ending. SUN SUN Circumstances lead her to form a special bond with his SUN vulnerable 12-year-old daughter, and finally she settles for SUN a loving relationship with him and the child. The famous SUN last line, of both the film and the book, is: "Jerry, don't SUN let's ask for the moon. We have the stars!" SUN SUN Cast SUN Charlotte ..... Sarah Lancashire SUN Jerry ..... Anthony Head SUN Mother ..... Joan Plowright SUN Lisa ..... Lysette Anthony SUN Jaquith ..... John Rowe SUN Dora ..... Debora Weston SUN Mack ..... Sam Douglas SUN Giuseppe ..... Nunzio Caponio SUN Tina ..... Elisha Mansuroglu SUN Miss Trask ..... Joanna McCallum SUN Lloyd ..... Jon Glover SUN Hilda ..... Alice Hart SUN SUN Based on the novel by Olive Higgins Prouty. SUN Dramatised by Neville Teller. SUN Directed by Andy Jordan. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00sbcj1 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the Australian novelist Christos SUN Tsiolkas, whose debut The Slap won the 2009 Commonwealth SUN Writers Prize. The book tells the story of a father who SUN rashly smacks a child who is not his own at a family SUN barbeque - and the drastic consequences of that event. SUN SUN Producer: Thomas Morris. SUN SUN Booklist SUN SUN Christos Tsiolkas - The Slap SUN Publisher: Tuskar Rock SUN SUN JB Priestley – The Good Companions SUN Publisher: Great Northern Books SUN SUN JB Priestley - Angel Pavement SUN Publisher: Penguin (out of print) SUN SUN Young Bond series SUN Charlie Higson - By Royal Command SUN Publisher: Puffin SUN SUN Charlie Higson - Silverfin SUN Publisher: Puffin SUN SUN Charlie Higson - Double or Die SUN Publisher: Puffin SUN SUN Andrew Lane – Young Sherlock Holmes: Death Cloud SUN Publisher: MacMillan Children’s Books SUN SUN Other programmes on JB Priestley SUN SUN Priestley's Postscripts: Archive on 4 will be broadcast on SUN Radio 4 on 22 May at 8pm. SUN SUN And Blackout at Gretley by JB Priestley is the Book at SUN Bedtime, starting on 31 May on BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00sbcj3 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces requests for poems learnt by heart SUN while at school. Including classic works by AA Milne, Thomas SUN Hardy and 'Anon'. SUN SUN 17:00 Bagram Airbase b00sbckp (Listen) SUN Hilary Andersson investigates numerous allegations of recent SUN physical and mental abuse of prisoners held at the detention SUN centre at the US military's Bagram Airbase in Afghanistan. SUN The centre became notorious during the early years of the SUN American operation in Afghanistan, with well-documented SUN cases of torture. Conditions improved and President Obama SUN came to power promising to clean up Bagram - and there is SUN now a new detention centre at the base. SUN SUN Now, there are new allegations that prisoners are again SUN being subjected to deliberate abuse there - including sleep SUN deprivation and extremes of cold. SUN SUN Many former detainees describe being held in a top-secret SUN "dark prison" within the centre, where conditions are SUN particularly harsh. The US military authorities and the SUN Obama administration deny all these allegations and insist SUN that the detainees are Islamist terrorists who are committed SUN to violence. SUN SUN And Hilary investigates cases of "extraordinary rendition" SUN by British authorities, where detainees were transferred SUN from Iraq to Bagram, even though there was clear evidence SUN that they were at risk of torture. She discovers that one of SUN the detainees has become insane while held in Bagram. Why SUN did the British government do this and why is it not seeking SUN the men's release? SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Finnegan. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00sb2s0 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00sbcpy (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00sbcq0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sbcq2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00sbcq4 (Listen) SUN James Walton makes his selection from the last seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN In Pick of the Week, James Walton travels from Burma to SUN Orkney, from the outer reaches of the universe to a small SUN record shop in Manchester. He hears perhaps the best song SUN ever written about bidding for a toaster on eBay and has a SUN ringside seat for the fights between Rupert Murdoch and the SUN printworkers, Tippi Hedren and Alfred Hitchcock and of SUN course the big one: Mark Lawson versus Russell Crowe. So, SUN seconds out for Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Last Orders At the Spinning Disc - Radio 2 SUN Greed All About It - Radio 4 SUN Front Row - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Global Perspective - World Service SUN The Museum of Curiosity - Radio 4 SUN Democracy on Trial - Radio 4 SUN Comprehensively Eton - Radio 4 SUN Mark Steel's In Town - Radio 4 SUN Keep Calm and Carry on - The Vera Lynn Story - Radio 2 SUN The Tudor Tarantino - Radio 4 SUN The Donor Trail - Radio 4 SUN Why Go? - Radio 4 SUN So Wrong it's Right - Radio 4 SUN The Shuttleworths - Radio 4 SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN FAX: 0161 244 4243 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00sbcvn (Listen) SUN Vicky puts her money where her mouth is and full-time Brenda SUN adjusts to a part-time relationship. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00sbcvq (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, SUN lively discussion and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Book at Bedtime b00s5ncd (Listen) SUN A Perpetual Love Affair, Jan Morris's Venice SUN SUN Henry James felt that the inevitable relationship with SUN Venice was "a perpetual love affair", and certainly many SUN writers have found that to be true. SUN SUN In today's piece about the city, travel writer Jan Morris SUN notes particularly the children of Venice - and the cats. SUN The reader is Selina Cadell, and the programme is abridged SUN and produced by Christine Hall. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00sbhzw (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00s9xwt (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Peter Heathfield. As General Secretary of the National Union SUN of Mineworkers he stood four square behind Arthur Scargill - SUN who pays tribute - during the strike of the 1980s. SUN SUN Also the singer and actress Lena Horne who rose above racial SUN discrimination to become an international star. SUN SUN The ultra Orthodox Rabbi Moshe Hirsch, who was strongly SUN opposed to Zionism and the state of Israel and became an SUN advisor to Yasser Arafat. SUN SUN Marguerite Garden the fourteen year old girl who carried SUN secret messages for the French resistance and saved the SUN lives of many British airmen. SUN SUN And Peter O'Donnell who created the cartoon adventures of SUN Modesty Blaise - the daring action woman with fans around SUN the world. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00sb0gz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00sb9gm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00sf8r9 (Listen) SUN Not Just Silicon SUN SUN Silicon Valley California is the place where for the past SUN fifty years new enterprise has thrived more effectively than SUN anywhere else in the world. So how is the Valley tackling SUN recession? SUN SUN Peter Day hears from some brand new companies trying to SUN reshape the future in the same old vigorous way. SUN SUN Producers: Sandra Kanthal and Neil Koenig. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00sbpk1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00sbpk3 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00sgy8m (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN The country's leading political journalists analyse how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00s9xww (Listen) SUN The star of Gigi, Leslie Caron, discusses her star spangled SUN career with Francine Stock. SUN SUN Memorable as the unmarried mother in the groundbreaking SUN British drama The L-Shaped Room, Caron discusses working SUN with Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire and Cary Grant in the golden SUN age of Hollywood. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00sb9g8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 MAY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00sbqjs (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00s9f5l (Listen) MON Evacuation MON MON In 1939 over three quarters of a million unattended MON schoolchildren left Britain's towns for the supposed safety MON of the countryside. They were the first wave of evacuees and MON they stunned their rural hosts with their combination of MON lice, bedwetting, bad table manners, dirtiness, inadequate MON clothing and malnutrition. For the first time the realities MON of urban deprivation were brought out of the shadows of the MON city and into the light of public opinion. What effect did MON the experience have on social policy in Britain? Laurie MON Taylor talks to John Welshman, the author of a new book MON Churchill's Children: The Evacuee experience in war time MON Britain and also to the social historian Selina Todd. MON Also on the programme the extraordinary enthusiasm for the MON barbecue which gripped America in the years after the war. MON Laurie talks to Tim Miller about the birth of what has MON become known as 'Patio Daddy-o'. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00sb9g2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sbqr7 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sbr18 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sbqt5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00sbr4p (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sbr6r (Listen) MON Presented from Wales by the Rev. Peter Baker. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00sbr8k (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith examines DEFRA's £3 billion budget, and MON looks where cuts might fall. Former MP Michael Jack has MON spent years scrutinising DEFRA, and suggests its 10,000 MON staff may be trimmed. MON And as apple trees continue to blossom, Farming Today visits MON a champion cider maker, who explains the challenge of MON growing champion apples. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00scgxt (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00sbryx (Listen) MON With Justin Webb and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00scgxw (Listen) MON On Start the Week, with Andrew Marr, the historian and MON former advisor to Margaret Thatcher, Norman Stone, gives his MON personal take on the winners and losers of the Cold War. The MON journalist, Ben Judah witnessed the toppling of the MON President of Kyrgyzstan last month and reflects on the fate MON of this former Soviet state. The Director of the British MON Museum, Neil MacGregor explores what historical objects can MON tell us about leadership and the divisions of power, and MON Marina Warner looks back at the art and music that expresses MON a genuine dialogue between East and West. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbryz (Listen) MON Empire Builders (300 BC - 1 AD), Head of Alexander MON MON Neil MacGregor opens the second part of his global history MON as told through objects from the British Museum in London. MON This week he is exploring the lives and methods of powerful MON rulers around the world 2000 years ago, asking what enduring MON qualities are needed for the perfect projection of power. MON MON He begins with one of history's most famous leaders, one MON with a divine aura - Alexander the Great, a ruler whose MON empire was to stretch from Egypt to northern India, and who MON has left an impressive legacy on the world today. MON MON He tells the story of Alexander the Great through a small MON silver coin, one that was made years after his death by one MON of his former generals but that portrays an idealised image MON of the great leader as a vigorous young man. Political MON commentator Andrew Marr considers Alexander as a model for MON future rulers and the historian Robin Lane-Fox explains the MON motivation behind Alexander's extraordinary ascent. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sbvvr (Listen) MON How do we view women who leave their children? We talk to MON two authors who've written about it. Jane Ashley, one of MON Laura Ashley's daughters, worked for Laura Ashley for twelve MON years from the age of 18, helping to create their iconic MON image through her photographs. She talks about her new MON exhibition, the early days with Laura Ashley, and her MON current work for the Laura Ashley Foundation. British jails MON are failing to investigate serious allegations of male rape MON according to Stephen Shaw, the prisons' ombudsman - we MON discuss the issue with two experts and hear from the mum of MON a man who claims he was raped whilst in jail. And you can MON hear the music of the jazz harpist Lucinda Belle. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sbvwb (Listen) MON The Rabbit House, Going Underground MON MON Laura Alcoba was the daughter of members of the Montoneros, MON a militant left-wing organisation engaged in a bitter and MON violent conflict with the military government in Argentina MON in what later came to be called the 'dirty war' of the 1970s. MON MON Her memoir of living through this turbulent time is a MON powerful and moving account of political upheaval seen MON thorugh the eyes of a young child, who knows enough to be MON frightened, but not enough to understand. With her father in MON prison, she and her mother move into a safe house in the MON suburbs of Buenos Aires, where they run a rabbit breeding MON business as a cover for the backroom operation of the MON Montoneros' clandestine printing press, turning out copies MON of their revolutionary newspaper for distribution all over MON the city. MON MON The seven year-old Laura is brought up among secrecy, MON subterfuge and silence, and learns very early the importance MON of keeping hr muth shut, and the danger of loose talk or MON careless behaviour. But there's also love and laughter in MON the Rabbit House, and a comforting sense of loyalty and MON friendship - which she only later discovers to have been MON betrayed most horribly. MON MON Laura Alcoba's story of living through violence and MON political turbulence is about the Argentina of only thirty MON years ago, and she speaks for a generation who carry the MON scars of that time. The emotions she remembers from her MON childhood are those still felt by children all around the MON world living on the front line of fear, violence and MON uncertainty as adults wars rage around them. Laura Alcoba MON now lives in Paris. MON MON Adult Laura: Saira Todd MON Young Laura: Bethan Barke MON Mother: Jenny Coverack MON Father: Jay Villiers MON Grandmother: Merelina Kendall MON Grandfather: Rod Beacham MON Diana: Lisa Coleman MON Engineer: Vincenzo Pellegrino MON Chicha: Sonia Elliman MON Shopkeeper/Guard: Charlotte Ellis MON MON Producer: Sara Davies MON MON The Rabbit House by Laura Alcoba is translated by Polly MON McClean and dramatised for radio by Sheila Yeger. MON MON 11:00 The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll b00s77wp (Listen) MON Bob Dylan's biographer Howard Sounes casts new light on a MON song that has haunted two families for nearly 50 years - MON Dylan's account of the killing of a black hotel worker. MON MON The producer is Sara Parker, and this is a Falling Tree MON production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON The Story Behind a Bob Dylan Classic MON MON Howard Sounes writes about the programme on the BBC Music MON blog MON MON 11:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00nfqzj (Listen) MON Series 2, Daddy Cool MON MON Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in the finest, feistiest, MON family-run record shop in Birmingham. MON MON When his teenage son won't be seen in public with him, Adam MON is determined to prove that he's got what it takes to be MON cool. And his elderly dad, Rudy, is on hand to give some MON unexpected advice. MON MON Adam ...... Lenny Henry MON Rudy ...... Larrington Walker MON Richie ...... Joe Jacobs MON Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey MON Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon MON Doreen ...... Claire Benedict MON DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke MON Tunde ...... Femi Elufowoju MON Rapper ...... Doc Brown. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00scbg4 (Listen) MON The mental health charity Mind tells us about its new survey MON which shows support in the workplace for employees with MON mental health problems is wanting. Julian Worricker also MON talks to a small business which is having to cut the MON opportunities it provides to people with mental health MON issues because of the impact of the recession. MON MON Also on the programme, the Australian motorcycle club for MON the over 50s which has now been set up in the UK; and the MON food writer Stefan Gates tells us why, despite their bad MON reputation, some food additives and e-numbers might actually MON be good for us. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00scbj7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00scbpp (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00scgxy (Listen) MON Series 24, Episode 9 MON MON (9/13) The ninth and last heat of the 2010 contest comes MON from Manchester, with Paul Gambaccini welcoming three MON contestants from Scotland and the North of England to the MON general knowledge music quiz. One of them will win the last MON remaining place in the semi-finals, which begin next week. MON The musical extracts in the programme encompass classical MON composers old and modern, jazz, rock and pop, and musical MON theatre. MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00sbcvn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00s9zkd (Listen) MON The End of the World MON MON by Danny Brocklehurst MON MON It's 1983: the Cold War is raging; Thatcher is in goverment; MON Britain is in recession and seventeen year old Simon Miller, MON living in the shadow of Sellafield is haunted by fears of MON nuclear holocaust. When he falls in love with Tasha, a MON beautiful anti-nuclear activist, he sees his chance to make MON a difference. MON MON Simon............. Bryan Dick MON Tasha..............Olivia Hallinan MON Jo-Jo...............Jake Norton MON Kenneth..........Neil Dudgeon MON Liz................. Jacqueline Leonard MON Mickey........... Aidan Parsons MON Iain................ John Catterall MON Tina................Emma Hartley-Miller MON Teacher... .......Balvinder Sopal MON Sergeant.........Russell Richardson MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00sb2s4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Running Away b00f37gc (Listen) MON Shami Chakrabarti MON MON Tim Samuels joins five famous guests as they put the demands MON of their hectic daily lives on hold and escape for a few MON hours. MON MON Shami Chakrabarti, director of the pressure group Liberty, MON prises herself away from the confines of her small, MON windowless office and her email and heads for the British MON Film Institute on London's Southbank, only to take a seat in MON a darkened room of a very different kind and indulge in her MON favourite form of escape - going to the pictures. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00sbbk5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Traveller's Tree b00schhd (Listen) MON Series 6, Rail Holidays MON MON Katie Derham looks at the growing number of environmentally MON savvy travellers considering rail holidays as their first MON choice. MON MON Rail travel has been a favoured choice for thousands of MON holidaymakers for many years, and the popularity of the MON railway holiday is growing and growing. New high-speed lines MON are opening around the world, and the scenic railway tour MON business is experiencing a boom. MON MON We hear from Nick Southgate about his metaphysical MON perspective of rail travel, and joining Katie in the studio MON are guests Anthony Lambert, travel writer and journalist and MON Mark Smith, founder of rail travel information station 'The MON Man in Seat Sixty-One'. MON MON We also hear a listener report from Richard Biddlecombe MON taking a Grand tour around Europe, and from travel writer MON Melissa Shales as she attempts to traverse the continent of MON Africa by rail. MON MON Producer: David Prest MON A Whistledown and Just Radio co-production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00sccg7 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sccnh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b00schhg (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 2 MON MON While Jon Richardson is detained by the volcano MON Eyjafjallajokull, John Lloyd is joined by emergency guest MON curator Dave Gorman to welcome poet Ruth Padel, Madness MON frontman Suggs and Bo Selecta comedian Leigh Francis, who MON are offering us the Great Exhibition of 1851, a tiger MON reserve and some Spidermans, and all for public display. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00scbqg (Listen) MON The countdown begins for Lilian, and Paul wonders if the MON time has come to say how he really feels. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00scct8 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including actors Nigel Harman and John MON Light, who are starring in a new production of Sam Shepard's MON play True West, and swapping the roles they play on MON alternate nights. MON MON Producer Timothy Prosser. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbryz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Tiger v Dragon b00schhj (Listen) MON China's String of Pearls MON MON This is the Asian century. It will be increasingly dominated MON by two countries that share nearly half of the world's MON population: India and China. But the hype around the MON economic growth of these two Asian giants, lumped hopefully MON together as "Chindia," has obscured some much darker truths. MON MON In this provocative series of programmes, Mukul Devichand MON travels across frontiers, from the controversial new ports MON China is building in the Indian Ocean to the poor interior MON villages of these continent-sized countries. He examines MON whether China's authoritarianism may in fact be doing much MON more for the poor than India's sometimes bloody democracy. MON He also looks at how the old nationalist rivalries mingle MON with the intense hunger for oil and other natural resources. MON Far from the dream of a co-operative "Chindia," there's a MON risk India and China may well end up at odds with each other MON in what some have called an Asian cold war. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00s9g08 (Listen) MON The Pakistani Taliban MON MON The Pakistani army has quashed the Taliban in tribal areas MON such as Swat by the use of military force. But has the MON problem of militancy been resolved? And how serious is the MON threat from Islamist insurgents in the heartlands of MON Pakistan, particularly the Punjab? MON MON Owen Bennett-Jones investigates the appeal of these MON movements to young Pakistanis. How much are they about MON fundamentalist Islam? And how much are they a reaction to MON grievances about land, jobs and poverty? MON Owen travels across the country, meeting both feudal MON landowners and the young Punjabis who are attracted by the MON lure of militancy. MON MON Presenter: Owen Bennett-Jones MON Producer: Shelley Thakral. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00s9gbn (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. This week the dangers of deep water MON exploration. How do engineers drill wells into the rock MON below the sea bed? How do they overcome the different MON currents that drag the mile long steel tube in different MON directions? MON MON The maths behind electoral reform - is there such a thing as MON a fair voting system? MON MON The fourth of our finalists from our science talent search MON "So you want to be a scientist?" meets her mentor and MON decides on how best to track snails from her garden. MON MON And fifty years of the laser - what will be next fifty bring MON - we find out if nuclear fusion is a reality? MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00scgxw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00sccwh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00scd2g (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00scd77 (Listen) MON No And Me, Episode 6 MON MON 13-year-old Lou has developed an unlikely friendship with a MON homeless young woman called No. Lou's parents have agreed to MON meet No with a view to taking her in. But No is in a bad MON way. MON MON Emerald O'Hanrahan reads from this tale of adolescence and MON homelessness, set in contemporary Paris. MON MON Written by Delphine de Vigan MON Read by Emerald O'Hanrahan MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00s93v1 (Listen) MON Michael Rosen on the world of words and the way we use them. MON This week, the language of football. As the World Cup MON approaches, has football chatter become more important than MON the sport itself? MON MON Produced by Beatrice Fenton. MON MON 23:30 When Real Women Wore Minis MON and Real Men Drove Them b00k7c1x (Listen) MON Francesco da Mosto celebrates the original Italian Job film MON from 1969 and explores the movie's enduring popularity. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 MAY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00sbqjj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbryz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sbqp5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sbqt7 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sbqr9 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00sbr1b (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sbr4r (Listen) TUE Presented from Wales by the Rev. Peter Baker. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00sbr6t (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anna Varle. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00sbr8m (Listen) TUE With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Democracy on Trial b00scjdz (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Michael Portillo goes back in time to trace the difficult TUE and often dangerous journey the democratic ideal has taken TUE to arrive at the version we recognise today. TUE TUE Although the democratic experiment began in fifth century BC TUE Athens, it wasn't without its critics at the time and it TUE didn't survive. Despite Roman talk of "the people", the TUE form of government that Plato and Pericles would recognise TUE lay largely untouched until the Renaissance - and even then TUE it was dismissed as a route to chaos and mob rule. Michael TUE Portillo looks back at the statebuilders of the England, TUE France and America as they grappled with the problems of how TUE to enfranchise the people. TUE TUE The story of compromise, confusion and conflict that TUE surrounds the ideal of democracy back then helps us TUE understand its frailties now, as well as the difficulties TUE that can arise when countries rush to adopt this complicated TUE and unruly form of government. TUE TUE Producer: Philip Sellars. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz1 (Listen) TUE Empire Builders (300 BC - 1 AD), Pillar of Asoka TUE TUE The history of the world as told through objects at the TUE British Museum arrives in India over 2000 years ago. TUE Throughout this week Neil MacGregor is exploring the lives TUE and methods of powerful new leaders. TUE TUE Today he looks at how the Indian ruler Ashoka turned his TUE back on violence and plunder to promote the ethical codes TUE inspired by Buddhism. He communicated to his vast new nation TUE through a series of edicts written on rocks and pillars. TUE Neil tells the life story of Ashoka through a remaining TUE fragment of one of his great pillar edicts and considers his TUE legacy in the Indian sub-continent today. Amartya Sen and TUE the Bhutanese envoy to Britain, Michael Rutland, describe TUE what happened when Buddhism and the power of the state come TUE together. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sbtm7 (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Why aren't there more women in the TUE judiciary? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sbvvt (Listen) TUE The Rabbit House, The Reunion Doll TUE TUE Laura Alcoba's powerful and moving account of a growing up TUE as the child of militant members of the Montoneros during TUE Argentina's 'dirty war' in the 1970s. TUE TUE Young Laura is staying with her grandparents, while her TUE father 's in prison and her mother goes into hiding. It's TUE been two months since she's seen them. After a visit to her TUE father in prison, Laura goes with her grandparents to meet TUE her mother in a busy square, to be confronted by a woman TUE with heavily dyed hair she barely recognises who takes her TUE off to buy another doll. Each time she and her parents are TUE reunited after a period apart, Laura gets a doll, and she's TUE beginning to build up quite a collection. TUE TUE Adult Laura: Saira Todd TUE Young Laura: Bethan Barke TUE Mother: Jenny Coverack TUE Father: Jay Villiers TUE Grandmother: Merelina Kendall TUE Grandfather: Rod Beacham TUE Diana: Lisa Coleman TUE Engineer: Vincenzo Pellegrino TUE Chicha: Sonia Elliman TUE Shopkeeper/Guard: Charlotte Ellis TUE TUE Producer: Sara Davies TUE TUE The Rabit House by Laura Alcoba is translated from the TUE French by Polly McLean, and adapted for radio by Sheila Yeger. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00scjnb (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE TUE The Black Bear of North America is a common species; over a TUE million of them roam the forests of the mid west and eastern TUE states. The perception of bears in the United States and TUE Canada is mixed. To some people bears are revered as an TUE emblem of wildness, perhaps as much as the Bald Eagle. To TUE others bears are dangerous and a nuisance. For sure, Black TUE and Brown [Grizzly] bears are different characters. And only TUE recently, has the more gentle Black Bear been taken off the TUE vermin list of America and been reclassified as "big game" - TUE this new classification reduces the hunting season for bears TUE from any-time of year to a six week window. TUE TUE Saving Species will be following the science and fortunes of TUE Black Bears over the year and in this week's programme we TUE have our first report from the wildwoods of Minnesota and a TUE guaranteed close encounter with this much misunderstood bear. TUE TUE We broadcast another edition of our "Memories are Made of TUE This" - these are your memories of past abundances of TUE British wildlife. This week you remember when Lapwings were TUE considerably more numerous than today. TUE TUE And we'll be talking to the British Trust for Ornithology TUE about their ongoing work retrieving the data loggers they TUE fitted to Nightingales last year. Where Nightingales go to TUE winter, surprisingly, is still a mystery. Maybe we will find TUE out in this programme. TUE TUE Kelvin Boot will be on the show as ever with a global news TUE roundup of other wildlife news. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Young, Gifted and Black b00scjx2 (Listen) TUE On the eightieth anniversary of Lorraine Hansberry's birth, TUE Adjoa Andoh reflects on the brief but highly influential TUE career of the African American playwright and social activist. TUE TUE In 1959, Hansberry became the first black woman to have a TUE play produced on Broadway and the youngest recipient of the TUE New York Drama Critics Circle Award. An eloquent and TUE impassioned orator for civil rights, Lorraine Hansberry TUE quickly became one of the most famous women in the country. TUE TUE Friend to the likes of Paul Robeson, James Baldwin and Nina TUE Simone, who composed 'To Be Young, Gifted and Black' in her TUE honour, Hansberry's prescient speeches and artfully TUE constructed drama played a key role in the ongoing civil TUE rights struggle. TUE TUE In this programme we hear from her sister Mamie Hansberry, TUE poet and playwright Jackie Kay, Chicago Southside historian TUE Timuel Black and theatre directors Michael Buffong and TUE Paulette Randall. TUE TUE Producer: Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00scbds (Listen) TUE The dust has settled, the new government's in place. Time TUE now to focus on the big issue: How to deal with the massive TUE deficit? We'll get more details in the Emergency Budget TUE which the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats have promised TUE to deliver by the 1st July at the latest. But the government TUE has already said spending cuts, not tax increases, will be TUE the main focus in trying to reduce the UK's huge annual TUE borrowing - expected to reach £163 billion this year. If TUE you're in business, is that the right way forward? What if TUE you work in the public sector - health, education, the armed TUE forces? What kind of an impact will planned cuts have on TUE your job? How do you get spending down year on year without TUE the risk of sending the UK economy back into recession? TUE Share your ideas by calling us on 03700 100 444 or email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00scbg6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00scbj9 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 The Music Group b00b529t (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE TUE Comedian and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks three guests to play TUE the track of their choice. With Nick Clegg, Kate Adie and TUE Robin Denselow. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00scbqg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00scv5n (Listen) TUE The Recordist TUE TUE By Sean Grundy TUE TUE An illicit affair proves both destructive and a useful TUE teaching aid. Starring John Gordon Sinclair, Sharon Horgan TUE and Gemma Jones. TUE TUE Stuart is a freelance surveillance expert who teaches covert TUE 'information gathering' to new Intelligence recruits. As TUE part of his work he 'bugs' friends & family, including his TUE wife, Penny. When he discovers that she's having an affair TUE with a man called Neil, his work colleague, Ren, offers her TUE own skills in 'enhanced interview techniques' to help, but TUE Stuart declines. He realises that the secret affair could TUE make an engaging teaching aid. Initially, his students are TUE slightly unsettled but very intrigued. The affair becomes TUE the main focus of the curriculum, and the group study how to TUE 'bug' all manner of difficult situations, such as an TUE impromptu hotel room, a car in a field, busy nightclub, and TUE hot-air balloon. But Penny feels terrible about the affair TUE and Stuart discovers emotions deeply buried and things soon TUE spiral out of control. TUE TUE 'The Recordist' is a dark, offbeat comedy, looking at the TUE price love pays for clear acoustics in Dolby NR. TUE TUE Cast: TUE TUE Stuart - John Gordon Sinclair TUE Penny - Sharon Horgan TUE Ren - Gemma Jones TUE Neil - Ed Weeks TUE Reese - Fergus Craig TUE Munro - Nick Mohammed TUE Penny's Mum - Phyllida Nash TUE TUE Directed / Produced by Alison Crawford. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00scv5q (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge returns with a new series of Radio 4's TUE popular history programme in which listeners' questions and TUE research help offer new insights into the past. TUE TUE This episode features the nineteenth-century Somerset TUE boot-maker who helped improve the lives of millions of TUE amputees and changed the course of medical history; and in TUE the North West a literary scheme that is using historical TUE fiction to help readers unlock the past. But is there a TUE temptation for a good story to get in the way of historical TUE facts? TUE TUE You can send us questions or an outline of your own TUE research. TUE TUE Email: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Write to Making History. BBC Radio 4. PO Box 3096. Brighton TUE BN1 1PL TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00scvdq (Listen) TUE Why, Robot?, The Melancholy TUE TUE A story by Toby Litt inspired by Issac Asimov's three laws TUE of robotics. TUE TUE It is 2068 AD. Local application 13/13 has disappeared TUE mysteriously on Europa, one of Jupiter's moons. In her TUE official report, Chief Engineer Chandi Kane arrives at an TUE all-too-human set of conclusions. TUE TUE Writer Toby Litt was born in 1968 and grew up in TUE Bedfordshire. In 2003, he was named one of Granta's Best of TUE Young British Novelists. His eleventh novel, King Death, TUE will be published in May 2010. TUE TUE Written by Toby Litt TUE Read by Indira Varma TUE TUE Producer - Jeremy Osborne TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Running Away b00f671m (Listen) TUE Andrew Sachs TUE TUE Tim Samuels joins five famous guests as they put the demands TUE of their hectic daily lives on hold and escape for a few TUE hours. TUE TUE Actor Andrew Sachs needs little persuasion to take a TUE well-earned break from penning his autobiography and enjoy a TUE grand day out at the zoo - and a stroll down memory lane. TUE TUE 16:00 It's My Story b00scvqh (Listen) TUE The Girl in the Picture TUE TUE Kim Phuc, subject of an iconic picture from the Vietnam War, TUE tells her story as she's reunited with the ITN reporter who TUE helped save her life 38 years ago. TUE TUE The image of a nine year old girl screaming as she ran naked TUE down a road in Trang Bang after suffering extreme burns in a TUE Napalm chemical attack became one of the most famous TUE photographs of the Vietnam War. But what happened to the TUE 'Girl in the Picture'? TUE TUE In an emotional meeting, former ITN reporter Christopher TUE Wain - who helped to save her life that day - is reunited TUE with Kim for the first time in 38 years. TUE TUE They recall the events of June 8th 1972 and Kim hears for TUE the first time the lengths to which Chris went to get her TUE life-saving treatment. TUE TUE She tells how Nick Ut's Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph TUE has helped and haunted her in equal measure. She explains TUE how she was recruited as a 'symbol of war' before finally TUE escaping Government control by fleeing to Canada. TUE TUE She managed to live a normal life for a while but was TUE discovered by the press again in the 1990s. She soon TUE realised she had to take control of the photograph and TUE decided to use her fame to help others by establishing a TUE charity for child victims of war called 'The Kim Phuc TUE Foundation'. TUE TUE The burns Kim suffered in 1972 left her scarred for life and TUE still take their toll on her body. She's in constant pain TUE and has to take regular breaks. But it doesn't stop her TUE living a busy life. TUE TUE As part of the programme, Kim also meets Ali Abbas, who lost TUE both his arms and sixteen members of his family in the Iraq TUE War. The pair share their experiences and Kim offers him TUE advice on living a normal life and finding a way to forgive. TUE TUE The programme is presented by Christopher Wain. TUE TUE Producer: Ashley Byrne. TUE A Made in Manchester production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00scvqk (Listen) TUE Series 21, Carl Sagan TUE TUE Physicist Brian Cox tells Matthew Parris how Carl Sagan's TUE Cosmos tv show changed his life. TUE TUE As a young boy of 13, Brian Cox stared at his television TUE screen every Wednesday evening, as Carl Sagan took him on a TUE journey across the Cosmos. The programme was a TUE ground-breaking piece of television by a brilliant young TUE scientist who could be inspiring and infuriating in equal TUE measure. TUE TUE Sagan was a complex character. Driven to succeed, he came TUE from a relatively poor background to become a millionaire, TUE and one of the most influential scientists of his era. His TUE popularity left him open to both criticism and jealousy TUE amongst his colleagues, and whilst he was passionate about TUE the need to educate the populace, he could also be arrogant TUE and dismissive of his fellow scientists. TUE TUE So just how good a scientist was he, and what is his legacy? TUE TUE Producer: John Byrne. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00sccf0 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sccg9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Baggage b00lymqf (Listen) TUE Series 4, You're a Long Time Dead TUE TUE Comedy series by Hilary Lyon, set in Edinburgh. TUE TUE It's summer and all change all-round. Caroline struggles to TUE come to terms with Ruth now being her dad's lover, and TUE agonises over Roddy's shock proposal - the end of an era beckons. TUE TUE Caroline ...... Hilary Lyon TUE Hector ...... David Rintoul TUE Ruth ...... Adie Allen TUE Nicholas ...... Moray Hunter TUE Roddy ...... Robin Cameron TUE Gladys ...... June Watson TUE TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00scbpr (Listen) TUE The game is up for Eddie and it's home, sweet home, for TUE Matt. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00sccnk (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with TUE French-Canadian pianist Louis Lortie, as he prepares to play TUE all 27 of Chopin's Etudes at the Norfolk and Norwich TUE festival. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Bagram Airbase b00sbckp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 17:00 on Sunday] TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00scvy1 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00scvy3 (Listen) TUE How much water should we drink? TUE TUE Producer: Deborah Cohen. TUE TUE 21:30 Democracy on Trial b00scjdz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00scctb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00sccwk (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00scd2j (Listen) TUE No And Me, Episode 7 TUE TUE The arrival of No in the Bertignac household has had a TUE surprising effect on Lou's mother. Emerald O'Hanrahan reads TUE from this tale of adolescence and homelessness, set in TUE contemporary Paris. TUE TUE Written by Delphine de Vigan TUE Read by Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 So Wrong It's Right b00scw1t (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Charlie Brooker presents the new comedy panel show that TUE seeks the best in wrong answers. He plunders his guests' TUE pasts and creativity over a series of rounds in which TUE panellists have to be wrong to be right. TUE TUE Comedians Lee Mack, Josie Long and Tom Basden are the guest TUE panel for this edition. Their worst experiences on public TUE transport and the wrongest ideas for high concept TUE restaurants are up for comedy discussion. TUE TUE Plus Lee Mack takes Charlie to task over his chief modern TUE pleasure - the social network Twitter. TUE TUE Producer: Aled Evans TUE A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Cadbury is Our Longbridge b00rblc1 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Miles Warde tells the inside story of the closure of TUE Cadbury's Somerdale factory near Bristol. Two years in the TUE making, the series reveals how Somerdale became caught up in TUE a global story. TUE TUE Cadbury first announced the closure of this historic site at TUE the end of 2007. Miles follows the protests, the TUE frustrations, and the raised hopes of a workforce who TUE believed that Kraft's takeover meant their jobs could be TUE saved. Production is now largely moving to Poland instead. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 19 MAY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00sbqjl (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sbqp7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sbqt9 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sbqrc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00sbr1d (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sbr4t (Listen) WED Presented from Wales by the Rev. Peter Baker. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00sbr6w (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Martin Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b00sbr8p (Listen) WED With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00scw2q (Listen) WED Libby Purves is joined by former West Indian fast bowler WED Michael Holding. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz3 (Listen) WED Empire Builders (300 BC - 1 AD), Rosetta Stone WED WED Today's programme finds Neil MacGregor in the company of one WED of the best known inhabitants of the British Museum - the WED Rosetta Stone. Throughout this week he is exploring shifting WED empires and the rise of legendary rulers around the world WED over 2000 years ago and here he takes us to the Egypt of WED Ptolemy V. He tells the story of the Greek kings who ruled WED in Alexandria. He also explains the struggle between the WED British and the French over the Middle East and their WED squabble over the stone. And, of course, he describes the WED astonishing contest that led to the most famous decipherment WED in history - the cracking of the hieroglyphics on the WED Rosetta Stone. Historian Dorothy Thompson and the writer WED Ahdaf Soueif help untangle the tale. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sbtm9 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Caroline Lucas, the UK's first WED ever Green MP. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sbvvw (Listen) WED The Rabbit House, The Rabbits Arrive WED WED Laura Alcoba's powerful and moving story about her childhood WED in Argentina during the violent years of the 'dirty war' in WED the 1970s. WED WED Laura and her mother move into a new safe house, with a WED couple called Diana ('Didi') and Daniel ('Cacho'), who are WED also members of the Montoneros militant group, although both WED lead outwardly respectable lives. This is the house the WED Montoneros have chosen for their clandestine printing press, WED which will be operated under the cover of a rabbit breeding WED business. WED WED Laura watches as the Engineer arrives each morning in a van WED with a blanket over his head to build a false wall which WED will hide the press, and once the rabbits arrive she's WED thrilled to be entrusted with a job of her own to help with WED the distribution of the Montoneros' clandestine newspaper. WED But as the stakes grow higher, her silence becomes more WED important to the operation. WED WED Adult Laura: Saira Todd WED Young Laura: Bethan Barke WED Mother: Jenny Coverack WED Father: Jay Villiers WED Grandmother: Merelina Kendall WED Grandfather: Rod Beacham WED Diana: Lisa Coleman WED Engineer: Vincenzo Pellegrino WED Chicha: Sonia Elliman WED Shopkeeper/Guard: Charlotte Ellis WED WED Producer: Sara Davies WED WED The Rabbit House by Laura Alcoba is translated by Polly WED McClean and dramatised for radio by Sheila Yeger. WED WED 11:00 Day One in Number 10 b00slbzh (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED What happens on a Prime Minister's first day in Number Ten? WED Who does he see? What decisions await him? What is everyone WED else in Number Ten doing? In Part 2 of Day One in Number WED Ten, Peter Hennessy speaks to people close to this change of WED government, on how it has gone, and what lessons we might WED learn. WED WED And he hears what happens in Number Ten after the first few, WED frantic hours. What is in the first briefings on foreign and WED defence policy? How do you make successful institutional WED change at the heart of government? And what if you are hit WED by an immediate crisis - caused by terror or industrial WED action? WED WED Peter also discusses, with those who have been there over WED the years, the difficult personal aspect to this rapid WED change at the top. A joyful Day One for the new PM can also WED be a painful final day for the person who has just lost WED their job, and potentially for the civil servants who have WED worked closely with them for many years. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 11:30 Miracles R Us b00scx37 (Listen) WED Caroline (Deborah Findlay) is running Household Solutions on WED her own from the student rooms she is renting - just WED leaflets through doors, offering a family back-up service. WED After a chance meeting with Sylvia (Anna Massey), Sylvia is WED sure she could be helpful to the business. Caroline is sure WED she couldn't. WED WED Sylvia persists and, against her better judgement, Caroline WED gets drawn in. And gradually, gradually, throughout the WED series, a mutual respect is formed and a strong business, WED MiraclesRus, is built up. WED WED Sylvia ..... Anna Massey WED Caroline ..... Deborah Findlay WED Tanya ..... Alison Pettitt WED WED Written by Lesley Bruce. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00scbdv (Listen) WED Winifred Robinson and her guests discuss Ireland's reponse WED to the recession, how are they coping and what lessons can WED the UK learn from their experience as we approach a similar WED period of austerity. WED WED And we hear from the campaigners trying to save Sheffield's WED first dedicated cutlery works, part of the city's unique WED industrial heritage, and now under threat of closure. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00scbg8 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00scbjc (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00scxbn (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00scbpr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00scxbq (Listen) WED Brief Lives - Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED By Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly WED Last in the current series of legal dramas set in WED Manchester. Frank is chipper; he's finally got his own WED parking space at the local nick. Life doesn't get any better. WED WED Frank .....David Schofield WED Debbie ..... Emma Atkins WED Sarah ..... Tracey- Ann Oberman WED Doug ..... Eric Potts WED Lilah ..... Pavla Beier WED Kyle ..... Greg Wood WED Policeman ..... Robert Garrett WED WED Producer Gary Brown. WED Original music by Carl Harms. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00scxbs (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and guests are on hand to answer your WED personal finance questions. WED Subject: Mortgages WED Guests: Ray Boulger, John Charcol. WED David Hollingworth,London and Country WED Louise Cuming, Cuming Associates WED You can call the programme when lines open on Wednesday at WED 1330 BST. The number is 03700 100 444. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00scvds (Listen) WED Why, Robot?, Algorithms WED WED Scarlet Thomas has a very different take on a brief which WED asked writers to use Issac Asimov's 'three laws of robotics' WED as the starting point for a story. WED WED An algorithm is a step-by-step method for solving a problem. WED Rebecca's life is full of them. Trouble is, they tend to WED solve one problem while creating a new one. WED WED Scarlett Thomas was born in 1972. Her work featured in the WED New Puritans anthology of 2002. Her novel 'The End Of Mr Y' WED was longlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize For Fiction in WED 2008. Her new novel 'Our Tragic Universe' will be published WED in May 2010. WED WED Scarlett's previous work for Radio 4 includes 'Why My WED Grandmother Learned To Play The Flute' (2003) and 'Brother WED and Sister Foot' (2005). She teaches Creative Writing at The WED University of Kent. WED WED Written by Scarlett Thomas. WED Read by Siobhan Redmond. WED WED Producer - Jeremy Osborne WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Running Away b00fdf7k (Listen) WED Nitin Sawhney WED WED Tim Samuels joins five famous guests as they put the demands WED of their hectic daily lives on hold and escape for a few WED hours. WED WED Musician and composer Nitin Sawhney escapes the dark WED confines of his studio to the hustle and bustle of the WED Science Museum and one of his favourite pastimes - the WED search for connections between Hindu philosophy and quantum WED physics. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00scxbv (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00scvy3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00sccf2 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sccgc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b00scxbx (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 1 WED WED Victoria Coren joins forces with comedian Rufus Hound, WED artist Grayson Perry and newspaper columnist Julia WED Hartley-Brewer in challenging conventional wisdom and WED knee-jerk thinking. WED WED For example, the received wisdom that 'Women look better in WED men's clothes than women do in women's' is rejected by WED Grayson Perry on the grounds that he's never been more WED successful with the ladies than when he's wearing a dress. WED WED In arguing against the belief that 'an artist who doesn't WED make his own work is a fraud' Julia Hartley-Brewer points WED out that nobody ever complained that Sir Christopher Wren WED was never seen up a ladder laying the bricks of St Paul's WED Cathedral. WED WED And all three guests dismiss the idea that spending 4.4 WED billion on the Large Hadron Collider is a waste of money - WED if only on the grounds that it may prove useful for smashing WED a few political leaders' heads together. WED WED Producer: Brian King. WED An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00scbpt (Listen) WED It's all work and no play for Tom and Brenda, and the Dower WED House opens its doors to guests. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00sccnm (Listen) WED With John Wilson, who meets the writer Rana Dasgupta, winner WED of the 2010 Commonwealth Writers' Prize for his novel Solo. WED WED Producer Gavin Heard. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 The World Tonight b00sgzsy (Listen) WED Special Debate WED WED With Robin Lustig. WED WED 20:45 I'd Like to Thank the Returning Officer b00sbpk5 (Listen) WED If you're a newly-elected MP, how do you contain your joy? WED What do you say if you've just lost? WED WED Phil Collins reviews fifty years of election night speeches WED - the moving, the inspirational, and the truly terrible. He WED talks to the MPs and their unsuccessful rivals who have had WED to give them. And as a former speechwriter himself, he WED offers some pointers for future candidates: who should you WED thank, who should you praise, and who - or what - should you WED just ignore? And how best to win or lose graciously? WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00scy0d (Listen) WED Rare Earth Metals WED WED Most of us may never have heard of Rare Earth Elements but WED these precious metals such as terbium, lanthanum and WED neodymium are vital to the electronics we rely on and WED increasingly to the green technologies we hope to utilise in WED the future. The automobile industry uses tens of thousands WED of tons of rare earth elements each year, and advanced WED military technology depends on these elements, too. Lots of WED "green" technologies depend on them, including wind WED turbines, low-energy light bulbs and hybrid car batteries. WED WED 97% of these elements are mined in China and as demand has WED skyrocketed over the last decade from 40,000 tons to 120,000 WED tons China has started reserving supplies for its own WED economic expansion. Now, it only exports about 30,000 tons a WED year - only a quarter of the supply the world needs now and WED far less than the demands of the green technologies needed WED for a carbon free future. WED WED The elements themselves are abundant in the Earth's crust. WED New sources have been found in Greenland and Utah but WED extraction is difficult and demand seems certain to outstrip WED supply. Tom Heap searches for solutions to the looming WED crisis. WED WED Producer: Helen Lennard. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00scw2q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00scctd (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00sccwm (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00scd2l (Listen) WED No And Me, Episode 8 WED WED No asks Lou to come with her to find her mother. WED WED Emerald O'Hanrahan reads from this tale of adolescence and WED homelessness, set in contemporary Paris. WED WED Written by Delphine de Vigan WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED Read by Emerald O'Hanrahan WED WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Shuttleworths b00scy0g (Listen) WED Series 5, Smells Like White Spirit WED WED Ken Worthington needs Jon to write a catchy pop song at WED short notice, but John's DIY duties prove a serious WED obstacle. Will he be able to complete the song in time to WED meet Ken's deadline? WED WED John is created and performed by Graham Fellows, and the WED series is produced by Dawn Ellis. WED WED 23:15 One b00n5ngh (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED Sketch show written by David Quantick, in which no item WED features more than one voice. WED WED With Graeme Garden, Dan Maier, Johnny Daukes, Deborah WED Norton, Katie Davies, Dan Antopolski, Andrew Crawford and WED David Quantick. WED WED 23:30 Cadbury is Our Longbridge b00rf169 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Miles Warde tells the inside story of the closure of WED Cadbury's Somerdale factory near Bristol. Two years in the WED making, the series reveals how Somerdale became caught up in WED a global story. WED WED Cadbury first announced the closure of this historic site at WED the end of 2007, and said that much of the production would WED be moved to Poland instead. Miles explores why that decision WED was made, and what happens in an economy where the WED shareholder is always put first. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 MAY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00sbqjn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sbqp9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sbqtc (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sbqrf (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00sbr1g (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sbr4w (Listen) THU Presented from Wales by the Rev. Peter Baker. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00sbr6y (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00sbr8r (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00sdbw4 (Listen) THU The Cavendish Family THU THU Melvyn Bragg explores the scientific achievements of the THU Cavendish family. With Simon Schaffer and Patricia Fara. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz5 (Listen) THU Empire Builders (300 BC - 1 AD), Chinese Han lacquer cup THU THU In a week of programmes exploring the nature of power and THU the emergence of new rulers around the world 2000 years ago, THU Neil MacGregor takes us to Han Dynasty China. He tells the THU story of how the Chinese maintained loyalty and control by THU dispensing luxury gifts. He describes the world of the THU imperial Han through an exquisite lacquer wine cup that was THU probably given by the emperor to one of his military THU commanders in North Korea. The historian Roel Sterckx THU underlines the importance of lacquer for the period while THU writer Isabel Hilton looks at how the production of goods THU under state control has remained a consistent interest of THU the Chinese. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sbtmc (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Plaits - we follow the hair trend THU through history. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sbvvy (Listen) THU The Rabbit House, A Dangerous Mistake THU THU Laura Alcoba's powerful and moving account of growing up THU among the militant Montoneros group in the 'dirty war' in THU Argentina in the 1970s. THU THU As the Rabbit House is up and running, with a clandestine THU printing press installed under the cover of a rabbit THU breeding business, the young Laura, despite being only THU seven, knows the importance of secrecy and silence. A visit THU to her father in prison proves too much for her to cope THU with, and her grandparents decide its too dangersous for her THU to go again. THU THU Then the Engineer, who's built the complex secret mechanism THU fior hiding the printing press, finds Laura's school blazer THU with an incriminatory name tape, and accuses her of putting THU the entire operation in danger. Poor Laura is shattered. THU THU Adult Laura: Saira Todd THU Young Laura: Bethan Barke THU Mother: Jenny Coverack THU Father: Jay Villiers THU Grandmother: Merelina Kendall THU Grandfather: Rod Beacham THU Diana: Lisa Coleman THU Engineer: Vincenzo Pellegrino THU Chicha: Sonia Elliman THU Shopkeeper/Guard: Charlotte Ellis THU THU Producer: Sara Davies THU THU The Rabbit House by Laura Alcoba is translated by Polly THU McClean and dramatised for radio by Sheila Yeger. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00sdc12 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Peter Porter On Air b00sg1n6 (Listen) THU Sean O'Brien celebrates the life and work of the late poet THU and broadcaster Peter Porter, with fellow-Australian poet, THU Clive James, novelist Julian Barnes and poet and editor of THU Poetry Review, Fiona Sampson. THU THU Shortly before he died last month at the age of 81, the THU Australian-born poet and broadcaster Peter Porter gave his THU final interview to fellow-poet Sean O'Brien. From high up in THU his Bayswater flat, he reflected on how life has changed in THU the sixty years that he has lived in Britain and on how his THU own faith in poetry has strengthened in the face of personal THU loss, Illness and death. THU THU Sean has also spoken with fellow-Australian poet and THU broadcaster Clive James, to the novelist Julian Barnes and THU to the younger poet and editor of Poetry Review, Fiona THU Sampson. They shares memories of Porter's prodigious THU learning and great kindness, his love of cats, long lunches THU and music, while also grappling with the challenges some of THU his poems present. THU THU The programme features Porter himself reading from THU well-known works such as An Exequy as well as from a final THU collection, to be published posthumously. THU THU Producer: Beaty Rubens. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00scbdx (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00scbgb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00scbjf (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00scy0d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00scbpt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sdc14 (Listen) THU Cinders THU by Ali Taylor THU THU Emma discovers a brilliant new talent in the unsolicited THU pile. A pacy comedy lifting the lid on the ethics of THU publishing war-torn misery memoirs. THU THU Emma Collins ..... Claudie Blakley THU Jason Barkley ..... Michael Shelford THU Mariam Zohab ..... Vineeta Rishi THU Holly Owen ..... Lizzy Watts THU Rory Stevenson ..... Sam Dale THU Claire Porter ..... Alison Pettitt THU Ahmad Wali ..... Imran Khan THU Robin Wright ..... David Seddon THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole THU THU When a heartbreaking memoir about life in war-torn Kabul THU lands on her desk, Emma thinks she's discovered a new THU literary sensation. Her colleagues, though, are deeply THU sceptical. A comedy about drawing the line. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00s9zqg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00sb9gm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00scvdv (Listen) THU Why, Robot?, The Companion THU THU Story by Anita Sullivan inspired by Issac Asimov's three THU laws of robotics, read by Sheila Steafel. Colin - a THU medically-trained, 'Companion-series' humanoid - watches THU over Eunice's old age with an unorthodox interpretation of THU 'The Three Laws of Robotics'. THU THU Written by Anita Sullivan THU Read by Sheila Steafel THU THU Producer - Jeremy Osborne THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Running Away b00f678q (Listen) THU Hugh Dennis THU THU Tim Samuels joins five famous guests as they put the demands THU of their hectic daily lives on hold and escape for a few THU hours. THU THU Hugh Dennis escapes his punishing schedule on the comedy THU circuit and takes one of his favourite walks - through THU glorious countryside near his home on the Sussex Downs - to THU the oldest woods in the land. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00sbcj1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00sdcfc (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b00sccf4 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sccgf (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00hd80x (Listen) THU Series 4, Documentary THU THU To further his career as a top celebrity, Arthur manages to THU persuade Geoffrey away from his duties at the church hall, THU to help make a documentary about Arthur himself to sell to THU the BBC! A visit to an old haunt proves intriguing - could THU the management have changed hands? THU THU Everyday life with Count Arthur Strong is, as always, an THU enlightening experience! We again follow the one time THU Variety Star as he uncompromisingly fulfils his daily list THU of engagements. THU THU Stars Steve Delaney, Alastair Kerr, David Mounfield and Mel THU Giedroyc. THU THU Produced by John Leonard and Mark Radcliffe. THU A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for THU BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00scbpw (Listen) THU Alistair goes on a recruitment drive, and Vicky embraces a THU new challenge. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00sccnp (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who meets the legal thriller writer Scott THU Turow, who is about to publish a sequel to his best-selling THU debut Presumed Innocent. THU THU Producer Timothy Prosser. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00sdcff (Listen) THU The deal between the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats to THU form the UK's first coalition government for almost 70 years THU was an historic occasion. At its height the Liberal THU Democrats were being wooed with offers from both sides and THU it was unclear who they would embrace. This week Linda THU Pressly speaks to those involved to get the inside story of THU the negotiations and how the deal was finally done. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00sdcfh (Listen) THU Ticking Over THU THU Can the Isle of Man create a revival in British watch THU making? Precision time pieces are proving recession proof THU but with so few watchmakers left in this country Peter Day THU finds out if we can really wind the clock back for a British THU tradition. THU Producer: Clare Walker. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00scjnb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00sdbw4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00scctg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00sccwp (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00scd2n (Listen) THU No And Me, Episode 9 THU THU After Lou's father asks No to move out, Lou and Lucas look THU after her in secret. THU THU Emerald O'Hanrahan reads from this tale of adolescence and THU homelessness, set in contemporary Paris. THU THU Read by Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Written by Delphine de Vigan THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU THU Produced by Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Music Teacher b00sdcxq (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Shut away in a tiny windowless practice room in a regional THU arts centre, Nigel endures his usual succession of bizarre THU pupils whilst wrestling with the latest curveball thrown at THU him by panicked Arts Centre manager, Belinda. THU THU Nigel has to suffer his usual succession of bizarre pupils - THU an asthmatic flautist and a thrash metal guitarist prove THU particularly trying. And though Belinda is demanding to use THU his tiny room to hide booze from the Peruvian Pan Pipe band THU booked into the Arts Centre that evening, it's having to THU share his tiny room with an unwanted boorish guest that THU threatens to take the gloss off Nigel's already rubbish day. THU THU Nigel Penny ..... Richie Webb THU Belinda ..... Vicki Pepperdine THU Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson THU THU Directed by Nick Walker THU Written by Richie Webb THU THU The producer is Richie Webb, and this is a Top Dog THU production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:15 My Teenage Diary b00jn5s2 (Listen) THU Shappi Khorsandi THU THU Host Rufus Hound is joined each week by a special guest from THU the world of comedy to read out selected passages from their THU diaries. THU THU In this episode, Rufus is joined by Iranian comedienne THU Shappi Khorsandi who reveals herself to be a lonely and THU awkward teenager, desperate to be part of a group. Listen THU out for Shappi's embarrassed readings of her hilarious THU teenage poetry. THU THU Producer: Victoria Payne THU A talkbackTHAMES production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Cadbury is Our Longbridge b00rmthx (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Two years in the making, this is the inside story of how the THU Somerdale chocolate factory near Bristol became caught up in THU a huge global tale. Cadbury announced the factory was THU closing over two years ago, but the American food giant THU Kraft reckoned they could keep it open if their bid for THU Cadbury proved a success. Six days after winning, they THU announced Somerdale would shut, making employees feel they'd THU been made redundant all over again. THU THU Producer Miles Warde. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 MAY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00sbqjq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00sbqpc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00sbqtf (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00sbqrh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00sbr1j (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00sbr4y (Listen) FRI Presented from Wales by the Rev. Peter Baker. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00sbr70 (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00sbr90 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00sbbk3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz7 (Listen) FRI Empire Builders (300 BC - 1 AD), Head of Augustus FRI FRI Neil MacGregor concludes the first week of the second part FRI of his global history as told through objects from the FRI British Museum. This week he has been exploring the lives FRI and methods of powerful rulers around the world about 2000 FRI years ago, from Alexander the Great in Egypt to Asoka in FRI India. Today he introduces us to the great Roman emperor FRI Augustus, whose powerful, God-like status is brilliantly FRI enshrined in a larger than life bronze head with striking eyes. FRI Neil MacGregor describes how Augustus dramatically enlarged FRI the Roman Empire, establishing his image as one of its most FRI familiar objects. The historian Susan Walker and the FRI politician Boris Johnson help explain the power and FRI methodology of Augustus. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00sbtmf (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00sbvw0 (Listen) FRI The Rabbit House, Exile and Return FRI FRI Ih the last episode of Laura Alcoba's powerful and moving FRI account of her childhood in the turbulent years of the FRI 'dirty war' in Argentina in the 1970s, the young Laura FRI leaves the Rabbit House and is sent to safety in France. FRI From here, many years later, she returns to Buenos Aires to FRI discover what happened to the house and to her friends Did FRI and Cacho, and especially to the baby Didi gave birth to. FRI Like many people who lived through those times, the adult FRI Laura finds the truth of what happened hard to bear, but FRI like the women who demonstrate each week in the main square FRI in Buenos Aires, she finds some hope for the future alive FRI and still defiant. FRI FRI The Rabbit House by Laura Alcoba is translated by Polly FRI McClean and dramatised for radio by Sheila Yeger. FRI FRI Cast: FRI Adult Laura: Saira Todd FRI Young Laura: Bethan Barke FRI Mother: Jenny Coverack FRI Father: Jay Villiers FRI Grandmother: Merelina Kendall FRI Grandfather: Rod Beacham FRI Diana: Lisa Coleman FRI Engineer: Vincenzo Pellegrino FRI Chicha: Sonia Elliman FRI Shopkeeper/Guard: Charlotte Ellis FRI FRI Producer: Sara Davies. FRI FRI 11:00 i-shrine b00sdd8v (Listen) FRI When KJ, a 21-year-old Bath University student, fell into FRI the river Avon last summer and drowned, the first indication FRI some of his closest friends had was the RIP messages that FRI started appearing on KJ's Facebook page. The site became a FRI place for friends to visit, remember and preserve their FRI interactions with him. FRI FRI As is the case with all Facebook sites, control of the FRI deceased account is never given to anyone else. Instead it FRI is either shut down or "memorialized", a new Facebook FRI procedure that removes certain details from the site and FRI allows access only to existing friends. Richard Allan, FRI Facebook's European Director of Public Policy, calls this "a FRI new form of mourning". FRI FRI Then there are the sites built specifically to memorialize FRI people, the RIP sites - a growing business. Jon Davies set FRI up muchloved.com, a free service that allows you to make a FRI memorial website in minutes that can then grow as people FRI contribute photos, messages and stories. FRI FRI Hours before her mum died of cervical cancer, sixteen year FRI old Sarah Phillips recorded a version of one of her FRI favourite songs for her on her mobile phone. The recording FRI was later shared with friends via YouTube. What Sarah and FRI her dad didn't realise was that allowing the world access FRI would turn this home-recording into an instant internet hit FRI and attract a torrent of messages of shared grief. FRI FRI A moving examination of death in the age of the internet. FRI FRI Producer: Peregrine Andrews FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 When The Dog Dies b00sddnk (Listen) FRI Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man FRI FRI Sandy's daughter Ellie is an artist but he's never liked her FRI work. The trouble is that she never sells anything - until FRI Sandy buys a canvas anonymously. He instantly regrets doing FRI such a thing - what if she finds out? He must go to any FRI length to ensure that she doesn't, even admitting to a FRI strange predilection involving nuns... FRI FRI Ronnie Corbett reunites with the writers of his hit sitcom FRI Sorry - Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent - for a new comedy FRI for Radio 4 about Sandy Hopper, a granddad happily growing FRI old along with his dog Henry and his lodger, Dolores (Liza FRI Tarbuck). FRI FRI Sandy ..... Ronnie Corbett FRI Ellie ..... Tilly Vosburgh FRI Mrs Pompom ..... Sally Grace FRI Lance ..... Philip Bird FRI Dolores ..... Liza Tarbuck FRI Estate Agent ..... Jon Glover FRI FRI Producer: Liz Anstee FRI A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00scbdz (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00scbgd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00scbjh (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00sdgmb (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the team return with the first in a new FRI series of More or Less, explaining numbers in the news, FRI looking out for misused statistics and using maths to FRI explore the world around us. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00scbpw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00ctlhm (Listen) FRI Left at Marrakech FRI FRI By Richard Stevens. FRI FRI In 1943, a B-17 takes off from Florida on its way to active FRI service in England, embarking on a flight via Puerto Rico, FRI Dakar and Marrakech. Joining the American crew are two FRI British hitchhikers, who need a lift home. One of them, an FRI attractive WAAF, seems to be a good omen - she looks like FRI the painted figure on their fuselage. But each leg of the FRI journey is beset with increasing difficulty and danger. Is FRI someone on board not what they seem to be? FRI FRI Albie ...... Will Keen FRI Draper ....... Jonathan Cullen FRI Charlie ...... Clare Corbett FRI Levitt ...... Alan Cox FRI Conroy ...... Nicholas Rowe FRI Stickley ...... Ben Lewis FRI FRI Directed by Fiona McAlpine. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00sdgmd (Listen) FRI Local gardening expert Carole Baxter joins Bob Flowerdew, FRI Anne Swithinbank and Peter Gibbs in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire. FRI Peter Gibbs explores woodland flora. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Running Away b00f678s (Listen) FRI Baroness Julia Neuberger FRI FRI Tim Samuels joins five famous guests as they put the demands FRI of their hectic daily lives on hold and escape for a few FRI hours. FRI FRI Baroness Julia Neuberger - rabbi, social reformer and member FRI of the House of Lords - takes a morning stroll through the FRI Victorian gardens and hothouse in the heart of Royal FRI Leamington Spa for a brief respite from a full diary of engagements. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00sdgmg (Listen) FRI Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on FRI the lives of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00sdgmj (Listen) FRI Francine Stock hops on board The Screen Machine, the cinema FRI in a truck, as it travels through the Highlands and Islands FRI of Scotland. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00sccf6 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00sccgh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00sdgml (Listen) FRI Series 71, Episode 6 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Armando FRI Iannucci, Phill Jupitus, and Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00scbpy (Listen) FRI WRITTEN BY ..... CAROLE SIMPSON SOLAZZO FRI DIRECTED BY ..... NAYLAH AHMED FRI EDITOR ..... VANESSA WHITBURN FRI FRI JILL ARCHER ..... PATRICIA GREENE FRI ALISTAIR LLOYD ..... MICHAEL LUMSDEN FRI DAVID ARCHER ..... TIMOTHY BENTINCK FRI RUTH ARCHER ..... FELICITY FINCH FRI PIP ARCHER ..... HELEN MONKS FRI TOM ARCHER ..... TOM GRAHAM FRI BRIAN ALDRIDGE ..... CHARLES COLLINGWOOD FRI JENNIFER ALDRIDGE ..... ANGELA PIPER FRI MATT CRAWFORD ..... KIM DURHAM FRI LILIAN BELLAMY ..... SUNNY ORMONDE FRI JOE GRUNDY ..... EDWARD KELSEY FRI EDDIE GRUNDY ..... TREVOR HARRISON FRI EDWARD GRUNDY ..... BARRY FARRIMOND FRI SUSAN CARTER ..... CHARLOTTE MARTIN FRI VICKY TURNER ..... RACHEL ATKINS FRI ROY TUCKER ..... IAN PEPPERELL FRI BRENDA TUCKER ..... AMY SHINDLER FRI JAZZER MCCREARY ..... RYAN KELLY FRI PAUL MORGAN ..... MICHAEL FENTON STEVENS. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00sccnr (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00sbrz7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00sdgmn (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Gowerton FRI School near Swansea with questions from the audience for the FRI panel including: David Lammy Labour MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00sdgmq (Listen) FRI In the first of ten programmes, historian Professor David FRI Cannadine delivers his weekly view on current events. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00sdh0j (Listen) FRI The Rabbit House, 21/05/2010 FRI FRI Laura Alcoba was the daughter of members of the Montoneros, FRI a militant left-wing organisation engaged in a bitter and FRI violent conflict with the military government in Argentina FRI in what later came to be called the 'dirty war' of the 1970s. FRI FRI Her memoir of living through this turbulent time is a FRI powerful and moving account of political upheaval seen FRI thorugh the eyes of a young child, who knows enough to be FRI frightened, but not enough to understand. With her father in FRI prison, she and her mother move into a safe house in the FRI suburbs of Buenos Aires, where they run a rabbit breeding FRI business as a cover for the backroom operation of the FRI Montoneros' clandestine printing press, turning out copies FRI of their revolutionary newspaper for distribution all over FRI the city. FRI FRI The seven year-old Laura is brought up among secrecy, FRI subterfuge and silence, and learns very early the importance FRI of keeping hr muth shut, and the danger of loose talk or FRI careless behaviour. But there's also love and laughter in FRI the Rabbit House, and a comforting sense of loyalty and FRI friendship - which she only later discovers to have been FRI betrayed most horribly. FRI FRI Laura Alcoba's story of living through violence and FRI political turbulence is about the Argentina of only thirty FRI years ago, and she speaks for a generation who carry the FRI scars of that time. The emotions she remembers from her FRI childhood are those still felt by children all around the FRI world living on the front line of fear, violence and FRI uncertainty as adults wars rage around them. Laura Alcoba FRI now lives in Paris. FRI FRI Adult Laura: Saira Todd FRI Young Laura: Bethan Barke FRI Mother: Jenny Coverack FRI Father: Jay Villiers FRI Grandmother: Merelina Kendall FRI Grandfather: Rod Beacham FRI Diana: Lisa Coleman FRI Engineer: Vincenzo Pellegrino FRI Chicha: Sonia Elliman FRI Shopkeeper/Guard: Charlotte Ellis FRI FRI Producer: Sara Davies FRI FRI The Rabbit House by Laura Alcoba is translated by Polly FRI McClean and dramatised for radio by Sheila Yeger. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00scctj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00sccwr (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00scd2q (Listen) FRI No And Me, Episode 10 FRI FRI It's decision time for Lou and No. Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI concludes the tale of adolescence and homelessness, set in FRI contemporary Paris. FRI FRI Written by Delphine de Vigan FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI Read by Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00scvqk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Now Wash Your Hands b00nhn21 (Listen) FRI The story of the original Izal Medicated, in the words of FRI people who have a soft spot for hard toilet paper. Featuring FRI songs written by the presenter, Sally Goldsmith, and sung by FRI a Professor of Infectious Diseases at the University of FRI Sheffield and locals of the city, where the paper was FRI originally made. FRI FRI A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI
14 May, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 15/05/2010 - 21/05/2010
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