24 September, 2010

Radio 4 Listings for 25/09/2010 - 01/10/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00tw5xc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tt6ms (Listen) SAT The First Global Economy (1450 - 1600 AD), Pieces of eight SAT SAT Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things that SAT time has left behind. This week he is exploring the world SAT between 1450 and 1600 - looking at what was happening in SAT South America, Africa and Japan at the time of the great SAT European age of discovery. He has looked at the new ocean SAT going galleons that were being built in Europe at this time SAT and today he describes the money that was being used to fuel SAT the great new trade routes of the period. He is with pieces SAT of eight, little silver coins that by 1600 could have been SAT used in many countries around the world. Neil describes SAT Spain's dominance in South America and their discovery of a SAT silver mountain in Potosi in present day Bolivia. He SAT describes the process by which pieces of eight turned into SAT the first truly global money. The Bolivian former head of a SAT UNESCO project in Potosi describes the conditions for SAT workers there today and the financial historian William SAT Bernstein looks at how these rough silver coins were to SAT shift the entire balance of world commerce. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tw5xf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tw5xh (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tw5xk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00tw5xm (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tt6zv (Listen) SAT With Philip Robinson. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00tt6zx (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00tw5xp (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00tw5xr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00tw5xt (Listen) SAT Series 16, Episode 2 SAT SAT Clare Balding walks through the Wiltshire countryside with a SAT Swindon based group of people with early onset dementia. SAT Alzheimers and dementia are becoming increasingly prevalent SAT in our ageing society, but the message this group is keen to SAT portray is that a diagnosis doesn't mean the end of a happy SAT or fulfilling life. They get together once a week to walk SAT for several hours and find that walking not only stimulates SAT the mind, but helps them overcome anxieties and problems to SAT do with the loss confidence and self esteem that stem from SAT having the disease. Clare joins the Forget Me Not group on SAT one of their hikes and discovers a very lively group of SAT people who share a lot of laughs along the way, even when SAT they get lost in a field at the end of their walk. SAT Clare walked a circular route from the village of Brinkworth SAT in Wiltshire SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00tw615 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00tw617 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00tw6c9 (Listen) SAT With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00tww4f (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by historian Michael Wood, poet Aoife SAT Mannix, a woman who found 32 skeletons in her back garden, SAT and a man who was jailed in 1960 for being gay.There's a SAT Crowdscape from the North Devon Show and musician Jean SAT Michel Jarre shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT The producer is Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00tww4h (Listen) SAT Hot-air balloons - Wildlife conservation SAT SAT John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and joys SAT of travel. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b00tw6y1 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 2 SAT SAT Steve Punt turns super sleuth, investigating a range of SAT curious cases. SAT SAT Today, Punt probes the curious claim that the Nazis SAT developed flying saucers. This initially bizarre theory SAT starts to carry a ring of truth as our gumshoe delves deeper SAT into the evidence. Punt assesses sightings of strange lights SAT in wartime skies - so-called foo fighters - and pores SAT through CIA dossiers and old newspaper cuttings in search of SAT the facts. SAT SAT Following the paper trail across Europe, Punt is led to SAT Poland and to a mysterious site dubbed The Henge where his SAT contact, Igor, promises to spill the beans on top secret SAT Nazi research apparently conducted there. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00twwf4 (Listen) SAT As Nick Clegg tries to reassure his party, and as Labour is SAT poised for a new supremo, what is the essence of good SAT political leadership? Beyond the debate about policy SAT specifics, what human qualities are essential? Can these be SAT taught or learned over time or do some individuals just have SAT them while others never will? Is luck essential or can SAT adversity be the best way to improve leadership skills? Is SAT what's required changing or is it timeless? And are all our SAT political leaders becoming more similar, all formed in the SAT same Westminister bubble? SAT SAT John Kampfner talks to those who've been at the political SAT sharp end, and quizzes leadership experts on whether they SAT could make a political difference. Political biographers SAT will add their thoughts on the key moments and characters in SAT leadership past and present. SAT Producer: Chris Bowlby. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00twwfd (Listen) SAT Saturday's From Our Own Correspondent hears despatches from SAT a small fishing town in Venezuela, the rainy uplands of SAT Yemen, the brightly-lit streets of Las Vegas, an ancient SAT church in eastern Turkey and a smart Chinese restaurant by a SAT racetrack in Nigeria. SAT SAT It used to be a rather less reported corner of the Middle SAT East. But lately Yemen has been attracting some unwanted SAT attention. A branch of Al Qaeda has taken root in its SAT rugged, lawless countryside. And this has added to problems SAT caused by rebels in the north, and seccessionist tensions in SAT the south. But on a journey into the mountains, Paul Harper SAT saw quite a different .....much less troubled.... side of SAT Yemen.. SAT SAT For the first time in nearly a century, a service has been SAT held in an ancient Armenian church in eastern Turkey. The SAT Turkish government allowed the act of worship to go ahead as SAT a gesture of reconciliation towards the Armenian minority -- SAT which was subjected to mass killing and deportation during SAT the First World War. Jonathan Head was there to watch the SAT service in the church in the province of Van, and he's been SAT reflecting on local attitude's towards the past. SAT SAT It's fifty years since Nigeria became an independent nation. SAT The British colonialists handed over power, and sailed away SAT in October, 1960. But preparations for that parting of the SAT two nations had brought two men together -- one British, and SAT one Nigerian. They forged a friendship that's endured down SAT through the decades. And Anna Horsbrugh-Porter was there SAT when they met again, back in northern Nigeria all these SAT years on.. SAT SAT The elections in Venezuela on Sunday are for new MPs rather SAT than a new president. But no-one there's in any doubt the SAT people will actually be giving their opinions on ten years SAT of rule by their controversial leader Hugo Chavez. At the SAT moment the National Assembly is made up, almost entirely, of SAT parties loyal to the president. This is partly because the SAT opposition boycotted the last poll five years ago. This time SAT around the opposition's taking part and concentrating its SAT efforts on one big issue, rising crime. As the campaign SAT reached its climax, Will Grant sought a little peace and SAT quiet in the coastal village of Puerto Maya: SAT SAT These are bleak economic times in the United States. Just SAT lately, its capitalist game has seemed much harder to play. SAT More people have wound up feeling like losers, than SAT winners... But there's nowhere in America that better SAT understands the business of winning and losing than Las SAT Vegas..... And in the decline of one of Vegas's legends, SAT Kevin Connolly found further evidence of the fading of the SAT American Dream.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00twws7 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT Producer: Monica Soriano. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00tt6w1 (Listen) SAT Series 72, Episode 1 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, SAT Sue Perkins and Andy Hamilton. SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00twxx7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00twxx9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00tt6wr (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Loreto SAT College in Manchester, with questions for the panel SAT including Chris Huhne, Secretary of State for Energy and SAT Climate Change; Douglas Alexander, co-chair of David SAT Miliband's campaign for the Labour leadership and Shadow SAT Secretary of State for International Development; Will SAT Straw, editor of Left Foot Forward; and Amanda Platell, SAT broadcaster and columnist. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00twy9p (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 b00gh9dg (Listen) SAT Walter Now SAT SAT by David Cook. In 1982 Channel 4 launched with "Walter", SAT directed by Stephen Frears and starring Ian McKellen as a SAT man with learning difficulties. More than 25 years later SAT award-winning writer David Cook brings us up to date with SAT Walter's life and Ian McKellen recreates his extraordinary SAT performance. SAT SAT Walter.....Ian McKellen SAT Steph.....Becky Hindley SAT Mr Herd.....Malcolm Tierney SAT Mary.....Anna-Marie Heslop SAT Bernard.....Robert Londsdale SAT Terry.....Gunnar Cauthery SAT Tom.....Edmund Davies SAT Mrs Hall.....Jill Cardo SAT Boy.....Ceallach Spellman SAT SAT Director Claire Grove SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00tt5hs (Listen) SAT Series 10, Faure Requiem SAT SAT "He wanted it to be something that's consoling and helpful. SAT It's the end of their lives where they can rest in peace". SAT World renowned choral conductor Sir David Willcocks, shares SAT his personal reflections on the Faure Requiem alongside SAT those for whom the music has comforted and inspired. Known SAT for its peaceful and hopeful nature the Faure Requiem has SAT been called 'The lullaby of death'. Whilst Gabriel Faure SAT himself never spoke directly about what inspired his SAT interpretation of the Requiem, author and biographer Jessica SAT Duchen has speculated that it may have been born out of his SAT experience as a soldier during the Franco-Prussian war. In SAT this edition of Soul music, personal stories of conflict and SAT deliverance are shared from across the decades. Reaching SAT from the beaches of Normandy to the plains of Afghanistan SAT and into the skies of Salisbury. Faure composed the first SAT version of the work, which he called "un petit Requiem" with SAT five movements, of which the Pie Jesu and In Paradisum have SAT become arguably the most popular. "Everything I managed to SAT entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my SAT Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end SAT by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest.". SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00twydd (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes. SAT SAT 16:30 PM b00twyf1 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00tt6kj (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT Evan Davis is joined by a panel of chief executives to SAT discuss the US economy. There was concern over the summer SAT that the world's economic powerhouse could be about to enter SAT a double-dip recession, dragging rest of the world down with SAT it. Those fears might may have now subsided, so how is the SAT US economy actually faring? And can the rest of the world SAT thrive without a booming America? The panel also discusses SAT sponsorship - how companies decide which events to back, and SAT how much to spend. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Nani Beccalli-Falco, SAT President and Chief Executive of GE International; Trevor SAT Matthews, Chief Executive of Friends Provident; Mike Lynch, SAT founder and Chief Executive of Autonomy. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00twyjx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00twyjz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00twyk1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00twymz (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Gold-toothed junglist Goldie can turn his hand to anything SAT these days. From holding the baton as a classical music SAT conductor, to graffiti artist and now a ballroom dancer! SAT Clive talks to the BBC Proms composing, drum and bass SAT producing and now Strictly Come Dancing contestant, Goldie. SAT SAT Strikes, economic recession, political turmoil - we could be SAT talking about 2010. In fact it was the early 1970's. The SAT historian Dominic Sandbrook looks back at insecurity, SAT unrest, creativity and innovation in his new book 'State of SAT Emergency' The Way We Were: Britain, 1970-1974 SAT SAT Journalist and broadcaster Matthew Wright celebrates the SAT 10th Anniversary of his lively and topical daily chat show, SAT The Wright Stuff. SAT SAT Bookworm Robin Ince is tucked up with the author Tom Cutler SAT with the perfect bedtime read for the discerning male. He SAT offers advice like ten ways to grow the perfect moustache SAT and how to mend a puncture with a coffee spoon in his SAT Gentleman's Bedside Book. SAT SAT Award winning comedy from this year's Edinburgh Comedy Award SAT Winner, Russell Kane. His show 'Smokescreens and Castles' is SAT inspired by his childhood home; the only council house in SAT his street which had been privately bought by his Dad and SAT attracted the ire of the neighbours. When an extension was SAT added, their home was mockingly christened 'The Castle'. SAT SAT There's music live in the studio from Copenhagen-born, SAT Berlin-based singer-songwriter Agnes Obel performing from SAT her album Philharmonics. SAT SAT And from handmade hip hop blues soul trio Belleruche who SAT play their new single Clockwatching. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00twyw9 (Listen) SAT Eric Daniels SAT SAT Eric Daniels, CEO of Lloyds, Britain's biggest retail bank, SAT who announced this week that he will retire in 12 months SAT with an estimated £13 million pay off package. He's the last SAT survivor of the big banking beasts - Fred "the Shred" SAT Goodwin and co - who were at the helm when the banking SAT crisis struck. Daniels is still being pursued by angry SAT shareholders who saw their stake plummet after he presided SAT over the Lloyds takeover of HBOS. SAT SAT A heavy smoking, cricket-loving American, of Chinese/German SAT parentage, Eric Daniels won a reputation as the quiet man, a SAT safe pair of hands, risk averse: the archetypal boring SAT banker. That was before Gordon Brown persuaded him and his SAT chairman at Lloyds to take on HBOS at the hight of the SAT banking crisis. Triumph rapidly turned to disaster. As the SAT Independent Banking Commission this week reveals its plans SAT to re-shape the banking sector, Morland Sanders profiles a SAT respected City figure, and through Daniels' story, throws a SAT revealing light on Britain's recent banking culture and SAT crisis. SAT SAT Producer: Andy Denwood SAT Presenter: Morland Sanders. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00twzp8 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00tx2bc (Listen) SAT Open that Door: Gay Comedy in the Last 30 Years SAT SAT It's 30 years since comedian Simon Fanshawe first stood up SAT on stage to perform his style of comedy dealing openly with SAT gay issues. Until the advent of Alternative Comedy, the SAT subject of gay sexuality and lifestyles had been dealt with SAT by veiled allusion, nudges and camp. SAT SAT To cross the boundary between innuendo and overt declaration SAT was to court career suicide. Yet suddenly, comedians like SAT Fanshawe and Julian Clary proclaimed their sexuality and SAT made it the subject of their comedy performances. SAT SAT Since then, Gay Stand Up has evolved out of the margins into SAT a staple of mainstream entertainment. In a single SAT generation, gays have gone from being the stick with which SAT the Right beat the loony Left to the sign of political SAT modernity, the litmus test of liberality, the essential SAT credential of change. Against the backdrop of sweeping SAT legislative and social emancipation, gays have emerged from SAT an underground counter-culture into mainstream public life. SAT SAT Simon revisits his roots in Stand Up comedy to chart this SAT cultural journey with interviews and archive of performers SAT old and new. He talks to leading comedians and writers about SAT how they tackle gay themes. SAT SAT Julian Clary describes what it was like being "out" in the SAT early days; Barry Cryer talks about writing material for SAT performers such as Frankie Howerd and about the impact of SAT Alternative Comedy in changing performance styles and SAT audience attitude. Graham Norton and Rhona Cameron discuss SAT the development of their careers into the mainstream via SAT stage, radio and tv. He talks to performers of a younger SAT generation like Paul Sinha, visits contemporary stand up SAT venues to find out what's entertaining audiences and SAT examines how "straight" comedians are once more dealing with SAT gay themes. SAT SAT Producer: Mike Greenwood SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00tt3x1 (Listen) SAT The Ladies' Delight, Episode 1 SAT SAT By Emile Zola. SAT Dramatised by Carine Adler. SAT SAT Business, ambition and fashion all collide in Zola's SAT colourful love story. Set in the hustle and excitement of SAT the expansion of one of Paris' first department stores. SAT SAT Episode One SAT When innocent provincial girl Denise arrives in Paris, she SAT quickly catches the eye of the notorious seducer of women, SAT Octave Mouret. Despite her uncle's disapproval, Denise SAT accepts a job at Mouret's ever expanding department store SAT The Ladies' Delight. SAT SAT Narrator.....David Hargreaves SAT Denise.....Georgia King SAT Mouret.....Lee Williams SAT Bourdoncle.....Conrad Nelson SAT Baudu.....Nicholas Blane SAT Old Bourras/Baron/Vincard.....Will Tacey SAT Jean/Bauge.....Stephen Hoyle SAT Deloche/Colomban.....Michael Hugo SAT Mme Aurelie/Mme Baudu.....Clare Beck SAT Mme Desforges.....Melissa Jane Sinden SAT Mme Marty/Pauline.....Maeve Larkin SAT Clara.....Chantelle Dean SAT Genevieve/Margueritte/Mme Boves.....Polly Lister SAT SAT Written by Emile Zola SAT Adapted by Carine Adler SAT Directed by Stefan Escreet SAT Producer: Charlotte Riches. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00tx2jk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b00tt626 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 1 SAT SAT As the parenting wars escalate and politicians and childcare SAT gurus lock horns over how best to raise our children, SAT Mariella Frostrup and her guests debate the dilemmas of SAT modern parenting. Issues up for discussion in this third SAT series of Radio 4's parenting programme, include the SAT experience of growing up an only child, how best to break SAT bad news and the hard choices at the heart of the care SAT system. As they explore the theory of twenty-first century SAT parenting - and the rather messier practice - Mariella and SAT her guests share advice and some very different views on how SAT best to bring up our next generation. SAT SAT producer: Julia Johnson. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00tt4lw (Listen) SAT (8/12) Tom Sutcliffe chairs a return match between Michael SAT Schmidt and Adele Geras of the North of England, playing SAT Alan Taylor and Michael Alexander of Scotland. Tom also has SAT the answer to the cliffhanger question from last week. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00tt3zt (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents an autumn edition focussing on Louis SAT MacNeice and including parts of his Autumn Journal. Paul SAT Mundell is the reader. Also two new poems by veteran SAT Midlands poet Roy Fisher. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00tx2kz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00hvckm (Listen) SUN Readings From Bath, Inappropriate Dancing SUN SUN Stephanie Cole reads the second of three stories from the SUN stage of last year's Bath Literature Festival. At the age of SUN 81, Alice Garbutter has taken her first risk, and it feels SUN so good she's going to take more. Inappropriate Dancing by SUN Fran Landsman SUN SUN Producers: Sue Fry/Sara Davies. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tx2l1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tx2l3 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tx2l9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00tx2pq (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00tx2sy (Listen) SUN The bells of St Anne's, Limehouse, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00twyw9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00tx32m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00tx33z (Listen) SUN The New Age of the Engineer SUN SUN Is it true that the creativity and contribution of Britain's SUN engineers has gone largely unrecognised and unappreciated. SUN If it is true, why is it true? SUN SUN And is this about to change? SUN SUN With Readings by David Holt and Emily Raymond. SUN SUN Producer: Eley McAinsh SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00tx35v (Listen) SUN On Your Farm catches up with Gareth Barlow as he strives to SUN make it in the world of farming. On Your Farm first met SUN Gareth 6 months ago, and we find out how he's progressed so SUN far. When On Your Farm visited Gareth in April he had a SUN handful of sheep, a borrowed field and a lot of drive and SUN ambition. Caz Graham visits him in North Yorkshire to find SUN out if Gareth is any closer to fulfilling his dream of SUN becoming a farmer. SUN Presenter: Caz Graham; Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00tx39j (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00tx39l (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00tx39n (Listen) SUN After a meeting of world leaders to discuss the Millennium SUN Development Goals, Sunday assesses why the MDGs are unlikely SUN to be met, and what this will mean for the religious SUN organisations who have been campaigning for the targets to SUN be achieved. SUN SUN Sunday reports from Jerusalem on the religious beliefs about SUN land as the partial moratorium on settlement construction SUN comes to an end. What affect will this have on the American SUN backed peace-process? SUN SUN Presenter William Crawley interviews psychologist and author SUN Jesse Bering about his new book 'The God Instinct'. The book SUN argues that believing in God is a natural reflex that can be SUN explained in scientific terms. SUN SUN The Vatican Bank is investigated for money laundering by SUN Italian police. Sunday speaks to the financial journalist SUN Jeffrey Robinson about why. SUN SUN As the Labour Party elects its next leader Sunday looks at SUN the influence of religion on the party and in particular the SUN role of the Christian Socialist Movement. Do they still have SUN power to influence the hearts and minds of rank and file SUN members? SUN SUN How do women religious leaders compare to me? Sunday SUN discusses their strengths and weaknesses. SUN SUN And as a landmark legal ruling in India is eagerly awaited SUN which will finally decide the fate of religious land in SUN Ayodhya, we look at why it is this is such an important SUN decision for both Hindus and Muslims. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00tx39q (Listen) SUN British Lung Foundation SUN SUN Dame Judi Dench presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity the British Lung Foundation. SUN SUN Donations to the British Lung Foundation should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope British Lung Foundation. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide the British Lung Foundation with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 326730. SUN SUN British Lung Foundation SUN SUN The British Lung Foundation is a UK charity working for SUN everyone affected by lung disease. They focus their SUN resources on providing support and advice for people SUN affected by lung disease, and work in a variety of ways, SUN including funding world-class research, to bring about SUN positive change, to improve treatment, care and support for SUN people affected by lung disease now and in the future. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00tx39s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00tx39z (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00tx3bf (Listen) SUN In the week of the Ryder Cup, Archbishop Barry Morgan leads SUN a special service from the only church in Wales on a SUN golf-course. Taking part at St. Peter's in Chepstow, are SUN former golfer, Kitrina Douglas and the Director of the Welsh SUN Christian Golf Association, the Rev John Hall. The SUN Cambrensis Choir are directed by Kelvin Thomas. Producer: Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00tt6y9 (Listen) SUN Cakes and coupons SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reveals her inner conflict between two passions SUN inherited from her mother, who recently passed away. On the SUN one hand is a carefulness about money which leads Lisa to a SUN perpetual search for a bargain. On the other is a wild SUN extravagance in baking, creating rich, multi-layered cakes, SUN stacked high with lashings of butter icing. SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00tx3jw (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00tx46h (Listen) SUN Written by ... Tim Stimpson SUN Directed by ... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ... Helen Monks SUN Nigel Pargetter ... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ... Alison Dowling SUN Helen Archer ... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ... Angela Piper SUN Kate Madikane ... Kellie Bright SUN Jolene Perks ... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ... Dan Ciotkowksi SUN Joe Grundy ... Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy ... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ... Becky Wright SUN Roy Tucker ... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ... Lorraine Coady SUN Bert Fry ... Eric Allan SUN Kirsty Miller ... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jim Lloyd ... John Rowe SUN Harry Mason ... Michael Shelford SUN Holly ... Maya Barcot SUN Marty ... Jonny Magro SUN Martyn Gibson ... Jon Glover SUN Andrew Eagleton ... John Flitcroft. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00tx499 (Listen) SUN Tom Jones SUN SUN In a career spanning fifty years he's sold 150 million SUN albums and his hits have included It's Not Unusual, What's SUN New Pussycat? and Delilah. As a child it was assumed he'd SUN follow in his father's footsteps and become a miner. But he SUN developed TB when he was twelve and doctors warned his SUN parents against sending their only son to the pit; they said SUN his lungs were too weak. Now aged seventy, he has no plans SUN to retire. "Singing's like breathing to me", he says, "my SUN voice drives me, it tells me that I have to do it". SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00tt56z (Listen) SUN Radio 4's long running and popular panel game hosted by SUN Nicholas Parsons. The panellists attempt to speak for a SUN minute without hesitation, repetition or deviation. This SUN week they are Paul merton, Tony Hawks, Ross Noble and Sheila SUN Hancock. Subjects include 'The Joke Book' and 'Learning to SUN Play Golf'. It seems Paul Merton has taken up golf recently SUN and Ross Noble is not very happy about it. Last in the SUN current series. SUN SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00tx49y (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon looks behind the scenes of the world's largest SUN and smallest pasta factories. It's a difficult time as wheat SUN prices are high and so competition for grain is fierce. SUN SUN Fires, droughts and speculation in the wheat market together SUN with poor harvests of durum wheat is creating a rise in SUN prices. Pasta producers all over the world compete for the SUN best quality semolina, produced from the milled, high SUN protein and low yielding durum crop. SUN SUN John Dickie, Professor of Italian Studies at University SUN College London, outlines the rise and rise of pasta making SUN in Italy dating back to the Middle Ages. Sicily had a large SUN scale pasta export business dating back at least 1000 years SUN but it wasn't until Italy's economic boom of the 1960's that SUN pasta became a truly national dish. SUN SUN Reporter Dany Mintzman follows five tonnes of spaghetti as SUN it travels along the production line of the world's largest SUN pasta factory, owned by Barilla, a family owned business SUN started in the 1870s. SUN SUN Farmers in the UK used to grow durum wheat when it was an EU SUN subsidised crop. Although it is best suited to hot and dry SUN weather conditions a lot of it was then used by British SUN companies producing dried pasta for the supermarkets. That SUN is no longer the case and the last factory selling mass SUN market pasta stopped production in 2001, unable to compete SUN with the vast scale of the Italian producers. SUN SUN However in Cornwall, one farmer, Charlie Watson-Smyth has SUN spent the last two years trying to grow durum wheat and then SUN turn it into pasta to sell in his farm shop. As reporter SUN Dilly Barlow discovers it's been such a success that he's SUN now supplying The Eden Project and restaurants around Padstow. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00tx4b6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00tx4bz (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Africa at 50 b00tx4d7 (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN In the first of a new series, Robin Denselow reports on SUN Africa at 50, visiting countries which are celebrating their SUN landmark anniversary this year. SUN SUN What were the hopes and aspirations at the time they won SUN their freedom from colonialism in 1960? What are today's SUN challenges and opportunities? This week Robin visits SUN Nigeria, formerly a British colony. SUN SUN Despite vast oil wealth, the lights regularly go out, SUN there's a heated national debate about corruption, and the SUN country spends billions of dollars importing food when it SUN could be growing it. SUN SUN Robin meets a businessman who makes power cables, but can't SUN get regular electricity to manufacture them, a state SUN governor who wants to change agriculture and education, and SUN a group of young activists vowing to change next year's SUN presidential election. One of the country's most powerful SUN politicians acknowledges the problems. SUN SUN But despite the challenges- Nollywood, the home grown film SUN industry is thriving, and the legacy of the nation's SUN favourite rebel musician Fela Kuti lives on at the New SUN Shrine in Lagos. SUN SUN Celebrated novelist Chinua Achebe recalls independence in SUN 1960 and warns Nigerians are wasting their talents and SUN resources. SUN SUN Producer: Liz Carney SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tt6vv (Listen) SUN Eric Robson and panel are guests of Henleaze Garden Club in SUN Bristol. SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood revisits Jennie Eastman and mother Kay in SUN their Portishead garden. Part of the 'Listeners' Gardens' SUN series. SUN SUN The producer is Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 A View Through a Lens b00tx4hw (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 3 SUN SUN Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in SUN isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe SUN filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the SUN uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the SUN fragility of life and the connections which unite society SUN and nature across the globe. SUN SUN 3/5. Tigers. It's April, and John flies to India to film SUN tigers hunting for the BBC Natural History television SUN series, LIFE. Many foreigners avoid this time of year SUN because of the heat - but that's why John and his colleagues SUN are here - it's the best time for seeing tigers. SUN Searching for tigers in a tangled Indian forest is hard work SUN on the eyes - and John knows he must also use his ears - and SUN listen to the sounds around him, trying to use the alarm SUN calls of other animals to lead him to the tiger. SUN In the dawn chorus one bird sings louder than the others SUN 'brain fe-ver, brain fe-ver', it seems to be saying, putting SUN John on edge. He knows the task ahead is almost impossible. SUN He draws parallels with the Jungle Book and Kipling's SUN stories. The peacock, spotted deer and langur monkeys warn SUN each other and John if a tiger approaches. A mahout and his SUN elephant prove invaluable, but when John finally comes close SUN to tiger, in a remarkable encounter, he realizes that this SUN animal - one of just 1400 which are left in the wild in SUN India, has paid a high price for survival in the forest. SUN SUN Presented by John Aitchison SUN Produced by Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00tx4kz (Listen) SUN The Ladies' Delight, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Emile Zola. SUN Dramatised by Carine Adler. SUN SUN Business, ambition and fashion all collide in Zola's SUN colourful love story. Set in the hustle and excitement of SUN the expansion of one of Paris' first department stores. SUN SUN Episode Two SUN After her dismissal from The Ladies' Delight, Denise is SUN determined to stay in Paris. She rents a room above old SUN Bourras' umbrella shop and quickly sets about trying to find SUN other work. With local shops closing as The Delight expands, SUN the task proves more difficult than she imagined. SUN SUN Narrator.....David Hargreaves SUN Denise.....Georgia King SUN Mouret.....Lee Williams SUN Bourdoncle.....Conrad Nelson SUN Baudu.....Nicholas Blane SUN Old Bourras/Baron/Vincard.....Will Tacey SUN Jean/Bauge.....Stephen Hoyle SUN Deloche/Colomban.....Michael Hugo SUN Mme Aurelie/Mme Baudu.....Clare Beck SUN Mme Desforges.....Melissa Jane Sinden SUN Mme Marty/Pauline.....Maeve Larkin SUN Clara.....Chantelle Dean SUN Genevieve/Margueritte/Mme Boves.....Polly Lister SUN SUN Written by Emile Zola SUN Adapted by Carine Adler SUN Directed by Stefan Escreet SUN Producer: Charlotte Riches. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00tx4lp (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Susan Hill about how she SUN creates menace and fear in her new ghost story 'The Small SUN Hand'. SUN SUN Novelists Alex Miller and Julie Orringer both have new books SUN out set in Paris. They join Mariella to talk about outsiders SUN living in the city and why they have put them at the centre SUN of their latest novels. SUN SUN And as a new anthology of prose and poetry for reading aloud SUN is published, novelist Joanna Trollope and editor of The SUN Reader Magazine Angela MacMillan discuss the pleasure and SUN power of reading out loud. SUN SUN Producer: Aasiya Lodhi. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00tx4p0 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces a selection of requested American SUN poems. Peter Marinker is the reader. Poets include Wallace SUN Stevens, Carl Sandburg, John Crowe Ransome and Delmore SUN Schwartz. Also two new poems from Midlands veteran poet SUN Roy Fisher. SUN SUN 17:00 Nuclear Waste b00tt5mg (Listen) SUN Communities across the UK are being asked to volunteer to SUN host permanent deep storage of the country's most dangerous SUN radioactive waste. SUN Tonnes of higher level nuclear waste are currently stored at SUN Sellafield in Cumbria, but government policy - in line with SUN international scientific consensus - is to find permanent SUN storage, deep underground in a geological repository. SUN But so far, only communities around Sellafield have said SUN they might be interested, and if they have second thoughts, SUN or if the geology of the area is found to be unsuitable, SUN then it's back to square one. SUN As one of the pioneers of nuclear power, Britain has a SUN mountain of historic waste to deal with, but despite the SUN scale of the UK problem, other countries are already decades SUN ahead in identifying and developing storage sites hundreds SUN of metres down into the rock. SUN BBC Environment Correspondent, Richard Black, visits the SUN Onkalo site in Finland, where the world's first geological SUN repository, 420 metres underground, is due to open for SUN business in ten years time. He finds out why the Finns were SUN so enthusiastic about volunteering, even competing, to host SUN this nuclear waste store and considers how the same process, SUN to identify a site here in the UK, could unfold over the SUN next crucial 12 months. SUN SUN Producer: Fiona Hill. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00twyw9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00tx4sv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00tx4w8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tx4wb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00tx4xn (Listen) SUN Felcity Finch makes her selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN The Magic Carpet Flight Manual - World Service SUN Who Was Joyce Hatto? - Radio 4 SUN Robert Elms Show - BBC Radio London SUN The Story of Rumours - Radio 2 SUN Black History Month and the Usual Suspects - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN Beyond Belief - Radio 4 SUN Gift Horses and Gaffes - Radio 4 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN Mysteries of the Brain - World Service SUN Ramblings - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - World Service SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Late Junction - Radio 3 SUN SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00txgfg (Listen) SUN There's an unpleasant encounter for Kenton, and Nigel's SUN plans are thrown into disarray. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00txgfj (Listen) SUN An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping SUN America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion SUN and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00j4d56 (Listen) SUN In Her Element, No Refund for Clouds SUN SUN Series of three readings by women writers that describe SUN their personal connections with the Welsh landscape. SUN SUN Hilary Lloyd remembers life on a smallholding in the Welsh SUN Marches. Read by Eiry Thomas. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00tt6r6 (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team examine more numbers SUN in the news. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00tt6vx (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Barbel Bohley, the East german artist who was one of the SUN leaders of the protests that brought down the Berlin Wall. SUN The composer Geoffrey Burgon who wrote the memorable TV SUN theme for Brideshead Revisited and the score for the Monty SUN Python film "Life of Brian". Terry Jones pays tribute. SUN The lesbian feminist campaigner Jill Johnston who took part SUN in the notorious discussion of women's rights at the SUN Manhattan Town Hall in the 1970s. SUN The MI6 Agent John McGlashan who was involved in a plot to SUN assassinate Egypt's President Nasser with a box of poisoned SUN chocolates. SUN And the publisher Tom Guinzberg who launched the careers of SUN many influential writers - and fell out with his friend SUN Jackie Kennedy Onassis over a Jeffrey Archer novel. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00twws7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00tx39q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00tt575 (Listen) SUN What's wrong with child labour? SUN SUN What is childhood for? SUN SUN It is commonly seen as a time for play and learning, but SUN should employment play a more important part? SUN SUN Fran Abrams examines the subject of children at work in the SUN UK, and asks why it is a phenomenon so little talked about. SUN SUN She traces the history of child labour in this country, and SUN explores modern-day notions of the 'priceless child' who SUN ought to be immersed in education and shielded from harsh SUN economic reality. SUN SUN In protecting our children, she asks, are we causing them SUN harm? And might the youth of Britain benefit from a revival SUN of child labour? SUN SUN Should children be expected to work? SUN SUN The number of youngsters with part-time jobs has almost SUN halved in the last five years. Might the youth of Britain SUN benefit from a revival of child labour? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00txmd0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00txghs (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00txghv (Listen) SUN Episode 20 SUN SUN Long BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - SUN What the Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In SUN each programme a leading political journalist has a wry look SUN at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest SUN stories in Westminster and beyond. This week Iain Martin SUN takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00tt6vz (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Ben Affleck about his new feature SUN The Town, which he has written, directed and starred in. He SUN reveals why he rang other actor/directors like Sean Penn and SUN Warren Beatty for advice. SUN SUN Francine launches our search for community cinemas and film SUN societies around the country, and visits two of the oldest SUN cinemas in the country - The Phoenix in East Finchley and SUN The Duke Of York's in Brighton which both celebrated their SUN 100th anniversary this week. SUN SUN Colin Shindler reports from September 1960 and reveals what SUN was showing at the local Gaumonts 50 years ago. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00tx33z (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00tx2sy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tw2yx (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tw30b (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tw339 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00tw33r (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00txgnt (Listen) MON With Philip Robinson. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00txgnw (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Martin MON Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00txmdj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00txmf9 (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00txgs3 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the economist Will Hutton about the MON need to transform a country blighted by inequality and MON indebted to big finance. While Will Hutton argues for a MON fairer society, Lars Kroijer comes clean about the life and MON decisions of a hedge fund manager. Also arguing for greater MON fairness is Billy Ivory whose latest screenplay, Made In MON Dagenham, charts the walkout of the women workers at the MON Ford car plant who fought for equal pay in the 1960s. Women MON demonstrators form the backbone of Ronit Avni's new MON documentary film, which shows how one community organiser MON united both Palestinian and Israeli supporters to save his MON village from destruction by Israel's Separation Barrier. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00txgs5 (Listen) MON Tolerance and Intolerance (1550 - 1700 AD), MON The Shi'a religious parade standard MON MON Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things. This MON week he is exploring the development and co-existence of MON faiths across the globe around 400 years ago, looking at MON objects from India and Central America, Europe and Indonesia MON that embody the political consequences of belief. Today he MON is with a remarkable object from Shia Iran, that in the 16th MON Century was open to the co-existence of faiths. The object MON he has chosen is a symbol of Shia faith, a standard or Alam MON that was carried at the front of Shia processions. They were MON often so tall and heavy that they would require great MON physical strength to handle. Neil visits religious sites in MON Isfahan to reflect on the spiritual climate of the time. MON Hossein Pourtahmasbi, from the Iranian community in London MON and a former alam carrier, describes the tradition. And the MON Iranian historian Haleh Afshar reflects on the shifting MON position of Shia Islam within Iran over the centuries. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00txmjv (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Gifted lives: what happens when MON gifted children grow up? Over a 35 year period, psychologist MON Joan Freeman recorded interviews with gifted and talented MON children, and monitored their progress as they grew up. What MON happens to a child when he or she is labelled as special in MON this way? And how best should a parent deal with a brilliant MON mind? The Visible in Stone online exhibition looks at how MON women's suffrage and trades union movements influenced MON architecture during the late 19th and early 20th centuries? MON Nano Scientist Professor Ijeoma Uchegbu talks about the work MON and we hear about three women who formerly worked for MON Goldman Sachs & Co. are suing the Wall Street firm for what MON they say is purposeful and institutional gender MON discrimination that unfairly favours men for pay and promotions. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00txgs7 (Listen) MON The Beginning of Spring, Episode 1 MON MON Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of an English family in Moscow, MON adapted by Penny Leicester. The winter of 1913 finds Frank MON Reid, owner of a printing company, abandoned by his wife. MON First Nellie takes their three children with her, then she MON sends them back to Frank. What is he to do? MON MON Narrator: Clare Higgins; Frank: Richard McCabe; Selwyn: MON David Bamber; Nellie: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse; Dolly: MON Charlotte Ellis. Other parts played by Sonia Ritter, Rachel MON Atkins, Samuel Barnet, Richard Bremmer and David Collins. MON Producer: Tim Dee. MON MON 11:00 Britain's Abandoned Homes b00txgs9 (Listen) MON Jolyon Jenkins investigates the scandal of the million MON houses standing empty. With five million people on housing MON waiting lists the government is keen to get them back into MON use. MON MON This is not about second homes, or holiday homes. This is MON about the empty houses to be found in almost every MON neighbourhood - the run-down or derelict house that sticks MON out like a sore thumb. These buildings blight communities, MON attract crime and devalue neighbouring property. MON MON Potential family homes are standing empty despite the MON chronic housing shortage, which has got dramatically worse MON since the recession. House building rates have virtually MON collapsed and unoccupied houses are becoming a political hot MON potato. MON MON We investigate the reasons for the empty homes crisis in MON this country, focussing on properties in Bristol. Jolyon MON Jenkins talks to the owners, both developers and private MON individuals, to ask why it is that so many have been MON standing empty for years, and what it would take to get them MON lived in again. MON MON 11:30 HR b00txgsc (Listen) MON Series 2, Consulting MON MON Comedy drama series by Nigel Williams that charts the MON misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his MON trouble-making colleague. MON MON Having nursed Peter through retirement blues, Sam himself MON succumbs to the dreaded sense of purposelessness. Then Peter MON gets an ad looking for experienced consultants. They're MON made! MON MON Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce MON Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost MON Waiter ..... Sam Dale MON MON Director: Peter Kavanagh. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00txzlq (Listen) MON New-style energy bills means it's easier to check the best MON deals if you want to switch suppliers. We'll get advice on MON how to make the move. Debenhams is considering whether to MON continue using a wheelchair mannequin in its shop windows. MON We'll find out what shoppers make of the plans. Majorca may MON become host to Europe's first Christian theme park. What MON will visitors make of plans to offer 'live resurrections' ? MON And Cheryl Cole is credited with boosting kipper sales after MON revealing she ate them whilst recovering from malaria. We MON explore the influence of celebrities on the food we buy. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00tw37y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00txgv5 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00txgv7 (Listen) MON (9/12) The Welsh team of David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander MON are looking for their third victory of the series, this time MON taking on Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland. MON Tom Sutcliffe puts the notoriously fiendish cryptic MON questions to the teams. MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00txgfg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00txgv9 (Listen) MON The Conspiracy of the Illuminati MON MON by Nigel Baldwin. A historical mystery set in Arras in the MON lead up to the French Revolution, looking into the MON suggestion that the Bavarian Order of the Illuminati were MON behind some of the key figures of the time. MON MON Cast MON Simone Felix ..... Siobhan Redmond MON Marcel Laroche ..... Sean Baker MON The Advocate ..... John Dougall MON Emile Fleury ..... Iain Batchelor MON The Apothecary ..... Tony Bell MON The General ..... Henry Devas MON Woman ..... Claire Harry MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00txgvt (Listen) MON Open that Door: Gay Comedy in the Last 30 Years MON [Edited rpt of Saturday, 20:00] MON MON 15:45 Run up to the Ryder Cup b00txgxl (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON This week sees the opening of one of the world's biggest MON sporting events - the 2010 Ryder Cup. On Friday, this MON glamorous golfing tournament tees off in Newport - a South MON Wales city hit hard by the economic recession. MON MON In the first of a new series, we go behind the scenes to MON follow the ups and downs of the last year's preparations MON (from October 2009 to October 2010) - from building a course MON fit for the golfing elite, to overhauling an area devastated MON by an economic storm. MON MON With twelve months to go, Bryn Terfel's in full voice at a MON celebrity match to mark the countdown... If everything goes MON to plan, the Ryder Cup could change Newport's fortunes MON forever...but Newport City Council leader Matthew Evans has MON his work cut out enthusing the locals - and ensuring vitally MON important building projects finish on time. MON MON Newport has seen record job losses; plans for a new shopping MON centre have just collapsed after investors pulled out. Now MON all hope rests on the Ryder Cup at the Celtic Manor Resort... MON MON But as Christmas approaches, golf hits the headlines for all MON the wrong reasons...Tiger Woods emerges from a reported car MON crash to announce his break from the game ...but...will he MON be back in time for the Ryder Cup? MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00tx49y (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00txgxn (Listen) MON Religion in prison MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by three guests who discuss how their MON own religious tradition affects their values and outlook on MON the world, often revealing hidden and contradictory truths. MON MON In this programme, Ernie Rea and his guests discuss the MON statutory provision of religion in prison. What is the MON history and role of prison chaplains? Should the state make MON provision for prisoners to worship and practice their own MON faith inside prison. Is radical Islam being propagated MON within the prison system and what is being done to combat MON extremist views. MON MON Discussing religion in prison is the Rev Christopher Jones, MON a former prison chaplain and now Home Affairs Policy Adviser MON for the Church of England's, Archbishop's Council; Rashad MON Ali from Centri, a counter extremist organisation; and MON Frances Crook, the director of the Howard League for MON Penal Reform. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00txgxq (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 b00tw388 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00txgz9 (Listen) MON Series 6, Episode 1 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Chris Addison, Susan Calman, Rufus Hound MON and Armando Iannucci are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Henry Ford, MON Biscuits, Rain and Squirrels. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00txgzc (Listen) MON Things are tense at Lower Loxley and can Adam break the MON deadlock for Borchester Land? MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00txh0k (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reviews the film Made in Dagenham, MON based on the 1968 Ford factory strike, where women workers MON campaigned for equal pay. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00txgs5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Empire's Last Officers b00txh0m (Listen) MON Fifty years ago, on 1 October 1960, Nigeria gained MON independence from Britain. To mark this anniversary, the BBC MON takes back a former British colonial officer to meet his MON friend, and someone he trained in 1961 - Alhaji Sulaiman MON Baffa. John Smith first arrived in Kano in 1951 at the age MON of 23 to take up his first posting in the colonial service MON as a cadet District Officer. Ten years later, as MON independence approached, he met a teacher on the opposing MON side of a very smart Nigerian football team, on a pitch MON north of Kano. Sulaiman's team beat John's soundly, the two MON men were to became life-long friends. The following year MON Sulaiman came to the training college in Zaria and was one MON of John's last trainees preparing Nigerians to become civil MON servants after the colonial handover. John went on to work MON for an independent Nigeria for another ten years, before MON becoming a colonial governor in the Pacific. Sulaiman became MON a banker, and then director of the Nigerian national mint. MON This BBC programme looks at the life of a colonial District MON Officer through John's experiences in the 1950s, the two men MON remember Nigeria's hopes and great promise at independence, MON and reflect on what has happened since, and what the future MON holds. We eavesdrop into the thoughts and memories of the MON two friends as they travel back to the places they met and MON worked in half a century ago. MON Presenter: Tim Whewell MON Producer: Anna Horsbrugh-Porter. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00txh29 (Listen) MON The Big Society MON MON Bigging It Up MON MON The Coalition claims its Big Society is more than a slogan MON and its ideas are shaping key policies. Anne McElvoy MON investigates the little-known genesis of David Cameron's big MON idea and examines what its roots reveal about how the MON government will go about doing less - and ensuring society MON does more. MON MON Presenter Anne McElvoy MON Producer Simon Coates MON Editor Innes Bowen. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00tt6h8 (Listen) MON Gene therapy. 20 years after the first trial, Quentin asks MON whether it will eventually make it into conventional MON medicine, and why it's taking so long. MON MON Forensic archaeology in the search for the 'disappeared' MON from Northern Ireland's troubles. Last weekend, Charlie MON Armstrong, a victim of the IRA, was at last given a proper MON burial. John McIlwaine explains how geophysics helped trace MON his hidden remains. MON MON And British geology in your pocket. To mark its 175th MON anniversary, the British Geological Survey crams its entire MON geological map of the British Isles into a smartphone app MON for all to use. MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00txgs3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00ty1k7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00txh84 (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00txh86 (Listen) MON Sister, Episode 6 MON MON Tess's funeral has taken place. Beatrice has learned about MON the three drugs which were found in her sister's body during MON the post-mortem. During a visit to Tess's friend Simon's MON flat to ask him about his last meeting with Tess, Bee MON discovered in his bedroom a collection of photographs of MON Tess. Tess's Polish friend Kasia reveals for the first time MON that both women had been given money during the course of MON the Cystic Fibrosis gene therapy trial. Now, Bee decides to MON find out more about the trial from Professor Rosen who is MON running it. MON MON Hattie Morahan reads Rosamund Lupton's novel, abridged by MON Lauris Morgan Griffiths. MON Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. MON MON 23:00 Great Unanswered Questions b00txh88 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON The show which introduces the funny part of your brain to MON the intelligent part. Joining comedian Colin Murphy, MON scientist Dr David Booth and computer nerd Matthew Collins MON is Irish comedy star Neil Delamere. Who will make the most MON sense - the geeks or the comedians? MON MON 23:30 A Brief History of Mathematics b00sr3fm (Listen) MON Newton and Leibniz MON MON This ten part history of mathematics reveals the MON personalities behind the calculations: the passions and MON rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas MON heard. Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters of MON abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that MON mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. MON MON Today, the story of two late 17th century mathematicians who MON worked on the same problem at the same time - the calculus MON - in which the great hero of British science, Newton, MON reveals himself to be a little less gentlemanly than his MON German rival, Leibniz. The calculus is one of the greatest MON achievements of mankind: an astronaut and an investment MON analyst pay homage to its enormous power. MON MON Producer: Anna Buckley. MON MON 23:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0lk (Listen) MON Leonard Euler MON MON This ten part history of mathematics reveals the MON personalities behind the calculations: the passions and MON rivalries of mathematicians struggling to get their ideas MON heard. Professor Marcus du Sautoy shows how these masters MON of abstraction find a role in the real world and proves that MON mathematics is the driving force behind modern science. MON MON Today, how the mathematics that Leonard Euler invented two MON hundred years ago has transformed the internet. Euler's MON solution to an eighteeneth century conundrum paved the way MON for the search engines most of us use every day . MON MON Producer: Anna Buckley. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00txgs5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tw2yn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tw302 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tw31r (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00tw33c (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ty1r8 (Listen) TUE With Philip Robinson. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00ty1rb (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00txmff (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. TUE TUE 09:00 The Brown Years b00txhb6 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Steve Richards reveals the inside story of Gordon Brown's TUE time as prime minister, based on interviews with his close TUE colleagues, including cabinet ministers and Downing Street TUE staff. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00txhf1 (Listen) TUE Tolerance and Intolerance (1550 - 1700 AD), TUE Miniature of a Mughal prince TUE TUE This week Neil MacGregor's history of the world is looking TUE at the co-existence of faiths - peaceful or otherwise - TUE across the globe around 400 years ago. Today he is in one of TUE the great Islamic empires of the 16th and 17th centuries - TUE in Mughal India. He tells the story of the Mughal rulers and TUE their relationship with Hindu India through a miniature TUE painting (dated around 1610) that shows an encounter between TUE a noble man and a holy man. Neil describes an early mood of TUE religious tolerance and the development of this exquisite TUE art form. Asok Kumar Das discusses the function of miniature TUE painting in India and the historian Aman Nath reflects on TUE encounters between holy men and men of political power TUE throughout Indian history. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00ty4hx (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. John Burningham and Helen Oxenbury TUE on their first collaborative children's book. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ty4k8 (Listen) TUE The Beginning of Spring, Episode 2 TUE TUE Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of an English family in Moscow, TUE adapted by Penny Leicester. The winter of 1913 finds Frank TUE Reid, owner of a printing company, abandoned by his wife. TUE Frank Reid is not being helped by his accountant, Selwyn. TUE TUE Narrator: Clare Higgins; Frank: Richard McCabe; Selwyn: TUE David Bamber; Nellie: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse; Dolly: TUE Charlotte Ellis. Other parts played by Sonia Ritter, Rachel TUE Atkins, Samuel Barnet, Richard Bremmer and David Collins. TUE Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00txhf3 (Listen) TUE Episode 22 TUE TUE 22/40. How tough are oceans? Biologists use the word TUE 'resilience'. In this programme we're devoting our air time TUE to the resilience of oceans. The Gulf of Mexico spill TUE remains fresh in our minds. For now the oil leak is plugged TUE and as the weeks and months unfold so the impact of this TUE pollution event will be assessed. Resilience in an TUE ecological sense means the ability of a wilderness, an TUE ocean, to continue to function in the light of external TUE change. The sea is made of community upon community of TUE animals, plants and microbes which eat each other, grow on TUE each other, parasitise each other in such a way that TUE nutrient is circulated and populations of species are sustained. TUE TUE Howard Stableford will be in the Mississippi Delta area TUE gathering information about the resilience of a huge river TUE Delta and its relationship with the sea. TUE TUE Kelvin Boot will be talking to experts about the sea's TUE ability to rebuff pollution events and human exploitation. TUE TUE How much flex is in the system? We'll find out. TUE TUE Presented by Kelvin Boot TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Gauguin: The Right to Dare b00txhf5 (Listen) TUE Paul Gauguin asked August Strindberg to write an TUE introduction to his catalogue exhibition. TUE TUE In response, Strindberg wrote passionately, but regretfully TUE that he couldn't as he didn't like Gauguin's work and while TUE he struggled to explain his antipathy, he wrote "What is he TUE then? He is Gauguin, the savage who hates the restraints of TUE civilisation, who has something of the Titan who, jealous of TUE the creator, makes his own little creation in his spare TUE time, the child who takes toys apart to make others, the one TUE who renounces and defies, preferring to see the sky red, TUE rather than blue with the crowd." TUE TUE By the time he's written these words he begins to understand TUE this controversial artist's work and exclaims "Upon my word, TUE it seems to me that, now I've become excited writing, I'm TUE starting to have a certain understanding of Gauguin's art. TUE TUE The last romantic, the leading light in Symbolist painting, TUE the primitive sophisticate, 'decivilising' painter of the TUE French colonial tropics and revolutionary colourist - Paul TUE Gauguin's work shaped modern art. His rejection of the TUE bourgeois Parisian lifestyle of a stockbroker and wild TUE escape to an archipelago of tiny, remote Pacific islands is TUE the stuff of modern artistic legend. But to this day he TUE remains a very controversial figure, lauded on the one hand TUE and vilified by critics on the other. TUE TUE Our title is taken from Gauguin's life-maxim - that he TUE demanded "The right to dare to do anything." The 'right to TUE dare' goes to the heart of our argument here - and of our TUE assessment of the contemporary importance of Gauguin's art . TUE We investigate the ways in which Gauguin pushed at the TUE boundaries of convention both in art and life and explore TUE the legacy of that daring in terms of Gauguin's influence TUE today. TUE TUE Producer: Kate Bland TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00ty5qz (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00tw36q (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00ty5rx (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00txhfk (Listen) TUE Series 10, How Great Thou Art TUE TUE The enduring popularity of the hymn, How Great Thou Art is TUE explored in this series that examines those pieces of music TUE that never fail to move us. Based on a Swedish poem by Carl TUE Gustav Boberg, the hymn was written by the British TUE missionary Stuart Hine in 1949. TUE TUE It subsequently become an Elvis Presley classic and as the TUE country and western star , Connie Smith explains, it's the TUE piece she always sings to close her show, the stirring TUE lyrics and soaring melody having the ability to move and TUE inspire audiences of all ages and backgrounds. TUE TUE We also hear from George Beverly Shea, now a hundred and one TUE but with clear memories of singing it at hundreds of Billy TUE Graham crusades. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00txgzc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00txhh1 (Listen) TUE On The Field: On Leave TUE TUE Annie Caulfield's comedy drama returns with a third episode TUE in the On The Field series. Mahmoud the barber has exchanged TUE Basra for Istanbul where his old friend Sergeant - now TUE Captain - Billy has ended up as Miltary Attache. TUE TUE Mahmoud.....Paul Chahidi TUE Billy.....Paul Mundell. TUE Kev.....Carl Prekopp TUE Damon.....Osi Okerafor TUE Yusuf.....Sal Osbay TUE Inspector Guler.....Hakan Silahsiz TUE Director: Mary Ward Lowery. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00txhh3 (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners' questions and research help TUE offer new insights into the past. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00txhh5 (Listen) TUE The Greengrocer's Apostrophe, Penny's from Heaven TUE TUE Comic tales inspired by those hand-written signs offering TUE "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in TUE Britain. TUE TUE James Anthony Pearson reads a quirky story about the TUE apostrophe that ends a relationship, written by Anneliese TUE Mackintosh. TUE TUE Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE 15:45 Run up to the Ryder Cup b00ty7fq (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE One of the world's biggest sporting events, the 2010 Ryder TUE Cup, tees off in just four days... In the second part of our TUE series charting the behind- the-scenes preparations, we TUE catch up with progress at Welsh host city, Newport, in South TUE Wales. TUE TUE It's January 2010, and Celtic Manor director Russell TUE Phillips waits anxiously for the go-ahead to demolish a TUE derelict listed farmhouse right next to the eighteenth TUE hole...but the planning process is complicated, and time is TUE running out to relocate the ruin before the world's media TUE beam images of it across the world... TUE TUE At the clubhouse, interviews are underway to find golf TUE assistants..in an area devastated by the economic TUE recession, every job is precious - and unemployed warehouse TUE worker Selwyn fights off nerves as he faces very stiff TUE competition. TUE TUE Meanwhile, Newport City council leader Matthew Evans's TUE nerves are already frayed, as he finds out a vital TUE footbridge linking the railway station to the city may not TUE be ready for the Ryder Cup. TUE TUE And as new revelations about Tiger Woods hit the headlines, TUE there's still a question-mark over whether the world's most TUE famous golfer will even make the Ryder Cup... TUE TUE 16:00 Tracing Your Roots b00txhj8 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 3 TUE TUE This week the popular Radio 4 genealogy show presented by TUE Sally Magnusson features listeners whose ancestors may have TUE been involved in revolution or radical actions. TUE TUE Trying to find records pertaining to revolutions is always TUE tricky, since by their nature revolutions are fraught with TUE chaos and upheaval. Files tend to be mislaid or destroyed, TUE or too secret to have been placed in national archives. TUE However, when an ancestor gets involved with revolution as TUE well as high profile legal wrangling, there's a much better TUE chance of striking gold. In this week's programme, Listener TUE Anne Induni finds out the true story of her ancestor's TUE arrest, for killing a politician in a 19th century Swiss TUE revolution, and there are a whole lot more eye popping TUE revelations about his activities. TUE TUE When Judy Thompson wrote into the programme wanting to find TUE out about her French ancestor's activities in the Paris TUE Commune of 1871, she was hoping to track down more details TUE from French archives, but found getting access and TUE information baffling for a non gallic speaker. Author Gavin TUE Dowd has been through the process and joins the team to TUE dispense advice. TUE TUE And another listener is keen to verify if she really is the TUE great great great granddaughter of the assassin of a British TUE 19th century Prime Minister. The first and only successful TUE attempt in British history didn't quite spark a revolution, TUE but has left a legacy in the modern House of Commons. TUE TUE And regular studio guest Dr Nick Barratt is on hand to TUE dispense advice and tips on how to trace revolutionaries in TUE your family tree. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00txhlb (Listen) TUE Series 22, Walt Disney TUE TUE Satirical cartoonist Gerald Scarfe nominates Walt Disney. TUE TUE Gerald Scarfe spent much of his childhood in his sick bed, TUE so it's not surprising that Disney cartoons and feature TUE films meant so much to him. He can still recall the thrill TUE at the prospect of seeing Pinocchio at the cinema, and then TUE the agony of being lead away again in the rain because the TUE tickets were too expensive. TUE TUE Walt Disney came from a working family. His god-fearing TUE father Elias, said by one writer to have 'hated Capital, and TUE favoured Labour, but really needed to make a buck', found TUE work where he could. So Walt lived a peripatetic childhood, TUE and sought solace in drawing and play acting. Hard times TUE early on did not make Walt frugal with money in adulthood, TUE and despite the huge successes of the golden era of Disney, TUE it was only with the opening of Disneyland that Walt TUE attained any substantial personal wealth. TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00typrv (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 b00tw380 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Listen Against b00txhld (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE TUE The programme that looks back at a week's worth of radio and TUE TV that never happened. A disaster on the island from Desert TUE Island Discs, and BBC presenters go commercial. TUE TUE Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes. TUE Produced by Sam Bryant and Jon Holmes. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00txhlg (Listen) TUE Jazzer begs a favour and Matt does some serious thinking. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00tyq8y (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, who talks to novelist Nick Hornby and TUE musician Ben Folds about their songwriting partnership. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00txhf1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Foreign Bodies b00txhp0 (Listen) TUE Britain is the second largest destination in the world for TUE international students, after the US. TUE TUE They contribute £3 billion to the British economy and are a TUE key source of revenue for UK higher education. Yet in the TUE media foreign students seem to appear only as suspected TUE terrorists (in the wake of the arrest of the former UCL TUE student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab) or as cash cows for TUE British universities, and most recently as possible illegal TUE immigrants. TUE TUE What does it feel like to be seen as cash cow, possible TUE illegal immigrant or possible terrorist? Are the British as TUE hospitable as we like to think, and exactly how world class TUE is British higher education? Why do foreign students come to TUE study in Britain and how does the dream measure up against TUE the reality? TUE TUE This programme also explores another story: how the presence TUE of foreign students reveals the tensions and contradictions TUE within a UK 'national' education system now operating in a TUE globalised world driven by market forces. If Britain thinks TUE of foreign students as a problem, they will go elsewhere TUE (Sweden now offers degrees in English with no fees at all TUE for foreign students) and UK higher education will become TUE the Bates Motel of the global education world, somewhere off TUE the main road. TUE TUE Presenter: Philip Dodd TUE Producer: Simon Hollis TUE A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00tyqk9 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Tempus Fugit b00p2cbz (Listen) TUE Why does time seem to speed up the older you get? TUE TUE Ian Peacock finds out what is going on in our brain when we TUE perceive time. He discovers why, when we're young, summer TUE holidays seem to stretch forever. But as we age, those TUE precious two weeks in the sun are over in a flash. TUE TUE He looks at how we measure time and how it can be distorted TUE in our minds, and asks what we can do to make the most of TUE the precious time we have. TUE TUE 21:30 The Brown Years b00txhb6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00tw397 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00tyqpt (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis, with Robun Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00tyqws (Listen) TUE Sister, Episode 7 TUE TUE The realisation that Tess's baby did not have Cystic TUE Fibrosis has set Beatrice on the trail of the murderer. TUE Knowing the police won't take her seriously, she is on her TUE own: her next move is to interview another of the mothers TUE who took part in the CF gene therapy trial. TUE TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths from Rosamund Lupton's TUE novel. Read by Hattie Morahan. TUE Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. TUE TUE 23:00 Shappi Talk b00lh4yp (Listen) TUE Iranian comedian Shappi Khorsandi was brought to this TUE country and a child and grew up in a very unusual and un TUE British family. TUE TUE Her father was one of Iran's top satirists and the family TUE were forced to leave their home country as her father was TUE termed a political dissident. As she grew up, it became TUE apparent that the Khorsandi household was a little different TUE from some of the families that Shappi had been friends with. TUE TUE Shappi Talk takes this alternative background for Shappi to TUE host a four part comedy series where she takes four elements TUE of this upbringing to hilariously reveal what it was like TUE growing up in a non-British family. TUE TUE Joining Shappi will be comedian Felix Dexter who was born in TUE St Kitts and moved to the UK as a child and each week Shappi TUE also chats to another guest 'on location' and this time TUE she's joined by Meera Syal. TUE TUE There'll also be a song from comedian Hils Barker. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE An Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0l9 (Listen) TUE Joseph Fourier TUE TUE This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the TUE present day, reveals the personalities behind the TUE calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians TUE struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du TUE Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in TUE the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving TUE force behind modern science. TUE TUE Today, the mathematics of Joseph Fourier. It's thanks to his TUE mathematical insight that you can hear Marcus on the radio TUE and that Brian Eno can create sounds that have never been TUE heard before. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 23:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0lc (Listen) TUE Evariste Galois TUE TUE This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the TUE present day, reveals the personalities behind the TUE calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians TUE struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du TUE Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in TUE the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving TUE force behind modern science. TUE TUE Today how the mathematics of the French revolutionary, TUE Evariste Galois, has proved invaluable to particle TUE physicists working today.The mathematics that Galois began, TUE over two hundred years ago, now absolutely describes the TUE fundamental particles that make up our universe. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00txhf1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tw2yq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tw304 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tw31t (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00tw33f (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tyr03 (Listen) WED With Philip Robinson. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00tyr14 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b00txmh5 (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00tyr16 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tyr5v (Listen) WED Tolerance and Intolerance (1550 - 1700 AD), Shadow Puppet of Bima WED WED The history of humanity - as told through one hundred WED objects from the British Museum in London - is in South East WED Asia. This week Neil MacGregor, the museum's director, is WED with the objects from across the world around 400 years ago WED that explore the relationships between religion and society. WED Today he is with a shadow puppet from the Indonesian island WED of Java, asking how a puppet watched by a predominantly WED Muslim audience is a character from a Hindi epic. He WED describes the history of the theatre of shadows and explores WED how it reveals the religious traditions that have shaped WED Indonesian life. He talks to a puppet master from Java. And WED the Malaysian novelist Tash Aw discusses the influence of WED shadow theatre on the region today. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tys8m (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Jocelyn Dimbleby talks about WED recipes, travels and memories. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tys98 (Listen) WED The Beginning of Spring, Episode 3 WED WED Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of an English family in Moscow, WED adapted by Penny Leicester. The winter of 1913 finds Frank WED Reid, owner of a printing company, abandoned by his wife. WED Frank Reid is not being helped by his accountant, Selwyn. WED The English Chaplaincy has a scary resident and now a shop WED girl looks set to take on the nannying duties. WED WED Narrator: Clare Higgins; Frank: Richard McCabe; Selwyn: WED David Bamber; Nellie: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse; Dolly: WED Charlotte Ellis. Other parts played by Sonia Ritter, Rachel WED Atkins, Samuel Barnet, Richard Bremmer and David Collins. WED Producer: Tim Dee. WED WED 11:00 Parting Shots b00txhq3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Matthew Parris returns with more revealing despatches from WED Foreign Office archives in a new series celebrating WED diplomacy's least diplomatic tradition. WED WED Until 2006, a British ambassador departing a foreign capital WED would write a valedictory despatch, a candid and often very WED funny report summing up their time at the post. Ambassadors WED heading into retirement would reflect back on their whole WED career; an elegant formal equivalent of the unguarded WED speeches one sometimes hears at office leaving-dos. WED WED During a stint as a desk officer in the diplomatic service WED in the 1970s, one of Matthew Parris' duties was to copy the WED most celebrated despatches and - to those with the WED appropriate security clearance - circulate them across Whitehall. WED WED As classified documents these reports were never intended WED for prying eyes, but by returning to the Freedom of WED Information process and to the National Archives the WED programme team have unearthed a fresh treasure trove of this WED glorious tradition of indiscretion. WED WED In this programme, foreigners are once more the butt of the WED jokes, as ambassadors cast an unsparing eye over the WED national characteristics of their unwitting overseas hosts. WED WED Also in this episode, we look at how diplomats in years gone WED by paid tribute in their valedictories to their wives - the WED famous 'trailing spouse' who sacrifices her own career to WED act as unpaid cook, cleaner and hotel manager in embassy WED residences from Cairo to Kathmandu. WED WED Producer: Andrew Bryson. WED WED 11:30 Mum's on the Run b00txhq5 (Listen) WED Episode 6 WED WED Battling lippy kids, annoying neighbours and a jazz playing WED ex-husband Jen's failing to be the yummy mummy she longs to WED be. Jen has at last secured a semi-date with Mr Rigby but WED then realises that it's bonfire night and she's promised the WED kids fireworks in the garden. Their date turns to farce as WED both Mr Rigby and the ex-husband turn up and neighbour WED Vivienne is almost hospitalised by a dodgy rocket. WED WED Jen ..... Ronni Ancona WED Mr Rigby ..... John Gordon Sinclair WED Shelly ..... Alexis Zegerman WED Keith ..... Kevin Eldon WED Vivienne ..... Christine Kavanagh WED Felicity ..... Amy Dabrowa WED Toby ..... Alexander Heath WED Connor ..... Pip Woolley WED Adam ..... Caleb Hughes WED Karina ..... Amaya Rowlands WED Policeman ..... Lloyd Thomas WED WED Producer/Director Alison Vernon-Smith. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00tysrs (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00tw36s (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00tysrv (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00tysrx (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00txhlg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00txhtx (Listen) WED Stone, The Deserved Dead WED WED Detective series created and written by Danny Brocklehurst. WED WED DCI John Stone and his team shake up the Bridgeton Estate WED when they embark upon an investigation into the brutal WED murder of a known sex offender. Stone must act quickly when WED he realises that someone is taking it upon themselves to WED clean up the Estate. WED WED Stone.....Hugo Speer WED Tanner.....Craig Cheetham WED Sue.....Deborah McAndrew WED Fisher.....Conrad Nelson WED McCaffrey.....Russell Dixon WED Sweet.....William Ash WED Morrison.....Warren Brown WED Aaron.....Tachia Newall WED Ken.....Terence Mann WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b00tyv85 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal WED finance questions. 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 WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tyv87 (Listen) WED The Greengrocer's Apostrophe, Alice, Hanging In There WED WED Comic tales inspired by those hand-written signs offering WED "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in WED Britain. WED WED When Alice's high-flying career stalls, she finds a novel WED way to occupy her time. Armed only with a balaclava and a WED pot of paint, she starts to vent her anger on sloppy WED punctuation. WED WED A new story by Ronald Frame, read by Tracy Wiles. WED WED Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED 15:45 Run up to the Ryder Cup b00tyv89 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED With just three days left to this year's Ryder Cup WED tournament, we return to Welsh host city Newport, in South WED Wales, for the third part of our series following the hectic WED behind-the-scenes preparations for one of the world's WED biggest sporting events... WED WED Excitement is beginning to build in the City, as local WED rappers Goldie Lookin-Chain record a Ryder Cup anthem with WED Newport City Choir... WED WED But Newport is still far from ready for the world stage; WED frustrated Newport City Council leader Matthew Evans is WED chasing up vital refurbishment projects, like floodlights WED for the City's castle - he threatens to stand there and hold WED a torch himself... WED WED Meanwhile organisers at the Celtic Manor Resort are gearing WED up for the Wales Open tournament - their dress rehearsal for WED the Ryder Cup... WED WED But it's not just golfers that the Celtic Manor have to WED accommodate, it also has to look after dormice...the resort WED have had to build footbridges over Ryder Cup coach parks for WED the protected species.....and if that wasn't enough, there's WED an historic Roman Road to preserve... WED WED To cap it all, the Tiger Woods uncertainty continues WED ...everyone wants golf's biggest star to come to the Ryder WED Cup ...but will he return to form in time? WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00txhtz (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor discusses a new study of au pairs in the UK. WED WED 16:30 Tempus Fugit b00p2cbz (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00typzf (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 b00tw382 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Maltby Collection b00c4x3m (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Julian Rhind-Tutt and Geoffrey Palmer star in series 2 of WED Reginald Perrin writer David Nobbs' museum-based sitcom. WED It's the first Children's Day at The Maltby Collection and WED the museum's Spot the Dog Kiddies Competition Advisory WED Committee cannot bring themselves to decide on anything. WED WED Rod Millet ... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Walter Brindle ... Geoffrey Palmer WED Prunella Edgecumbe ... Rachel Atkins WED Julian Crumb-Loosely ... Ben Willbond WED Susie Maltby ... Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Wilf Arbuthnot ... Geoff McGivern WED Eva Tattle ... Julia Deakin WED Des Wainwright ... Michael Smiley WED Stelios Constantinopoulis ... Chris Pavlo WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00txxpk (Listen) WED Kenton's forced to think on his feet, and will it be a happy WED anniversary for Elizabeth and Nigel? WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00tyv8c (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tyr5v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b00tyv8f (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED As the parenting wars escalate and politicians and childcare WED gurus lock horns over how best to raise our children, WED Mariella Frostrup and her guests debate the dilemmas of WED modern parenting. WED WED In this edition they compare the experience of only children WED and siblings, ask how family size is changing and debate WED whether we're having too many children or too few. As they WED explore the theory of twenty-first century parenting - and WED the rather messier practice - Mariella and her guests share WED advice and some very different views on how best to bring up WED our next generation. WED WED 20:45 Medicalising Melancholy b00v14h1 (Listen) WED Mary Kenny reflects on the growth of depression as a serious WED global illness and questions the medicalising of states of WED mind which were once regarded as part of normal human WED experience. Is it time to reclaim some of the traditional WED language associated with melancholy or must an ever WED increasing number of mental conditions be treated as a form WED of illness susceptible to treatment with drugs? WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00txj0j (Listen) WED The UK's carbon capture and storage (CCS) sector could WED sustain 100,000 jobs by 2030 and generate up to £6.5bn a WED year. The Energy Act 2010 made law plans to raise a levy on WED power users to establish four CCS projects in Britain and WED the Carbon Capture and Storage Association (CCSA), says WED Britain is now at the forefront of this new technology. But WED could this also put Britain at the forefront of an expensive WED mistake? WED WED Christene Ehlig-Economides, professor of energy engineering WED at Texas A&M, and Michael Economides, professor of chemical WED engineering at University of Houston recently published a WED report looking at the need to store CO2 in an enclosed WED space. Their calculations suggest that the volume of CO2 to WED be disposed cannot exceed more than about 1% of pore space. WED This will require from 5 to 20 times more underground WED reservoir volume than has been envisioned by many, and it WED renders geologic sequestration of CO2 a non-starter. WED "It is like putting a bicycle pump up against a wall. It WED would be hard to inject CO2 into a closed system without WED eventually producing so much pressure that it fractured the WED rock and allowed the carbon to migrate to other zones and WED possibly escape to the surface," Economides said. WED WED Their findings have been disputed but in another blow to CCS WED The Mongstad project in Norway, developed by oil firm WED Statoil, which was seen as one of the first to start WED full-scale operation has been set back. The current WED government cannot commit to the money needed to keep the WED project on track so it will be put on hold until at least 2014. WED WED But does this mean the idea should be given up by our own WED new government? At the University of Nottingham Mineral WED carbonation is a promising technology which captures CO2 by WED reacting it with magnesium or calcium rich minerals, WED producing valuable carbonates and doing away with the need WED for vast underground storage. If it works it could provide a WED much needed solution with less inherent risk. The big WED question remains how much we are willing to pay for the fix. WED Tom Heap investigates. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00tyr16 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00tw399 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00tyvwn (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00tyvwq (Listen) WED Sister, Episode 8 WED WED After visiting a second mother who had taken part in the WED same Cystic Fibrosis gene therapy trial as Tess, and whose WED baby also died at birth, Beatrice is convinced there is a WED link between the trial and the her sister's death. She is WED given hope by the fact the the police have finally accepted WED her belief that Tess was murdered, but she must still try WED to find further evidence before she can prove her theory to WED them. WED WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan Griffiths and read by Hattie WED Morahan. WED Producers: Sara Davies and Christine Hall. WED WED 23:00 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop b00txj0l (Listen) WED Responsibility WED WED By Christopher Green. WED Ida Barr is a music hall singer who has embraced hip hop and WED rap, reflecting the cultural diversity of London's East End, WED where she has been living in retirement for several decades. WED Ida has a genuine love of talking to people so each week she WED investigates a new topic and creates a unique brand of WED music-hall, hip-hop fusion with beat boxer Shlomo. This WED week, the topic is "Responsibility". WED WED Produced by Claire Grove WED WED 23:15 A Series of Psychotic Episodes b00txj0n (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Step inside the deranged mind of comedian Miriam Elia in a WED new sketch series. Postman Pat discovers he's a fictional WED construct, and Hansel and Gretel find an all night garage. WED WED Following a successful run on Radio 7, Miriam Elia's WED fantastical sketch series transfers to Radio 4 for a brand WED new series, with new characters and a few familiar faces. WED WED Written by Miriam Elia WED Produced by Victoria Lloyd. WED WED 23:30 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss0lf (Listen) WED Carl Friedrich Gauss WED WED This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the WED present day, reveals the personalities behind the WED calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians WED struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du WED Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in WED the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving WED force behind modern science. WED WED It was the German scientist and mathematician, Carl WED Friedrich Gauss, who said mathematics was the Queen of WED Science. One of his many mathematical breakthroughs, the WED Gaussian or normal distribution, is the lifeblood of WED statistics. It underpins modern medicine and is a valuable WED tool in the fight against prejudice. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED 23:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss1jg (Listen) WED The mathematicians who helped Einstein WED WED This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the WED present day, reveals the personalities behind the WED calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians WED struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du WED Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in WED the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving WED force behind modern science. WED WED Today, the pioneering nineteenth century mathematicians who WED helped Albert Einstien with his maths: Jonas Bolyai, Nicolas WED Loachevski and Bernhard Riemann. Without the mathematics to WED describe curved space and multiple dimensions, the theory of WED relativity doesn't really work. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tyr5v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tw2ys (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tw306 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tw31w (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00tw33h (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tz228 (Listen) THU With Philip Robinson. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00tz253 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Fran Barnes. THU THU 06:00 Today b00txmhc (Listen) THU With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00txj8d (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Delphic Oracle, the THU most important and best documented source of prophecies in THU the ancient world. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tz2d7 (Listen) THU Tolerance and Intolerance (1550 - 1700 AD), THU Mexican codex map THU THU The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects THU from the British Museum in London. This week Neil MacGregor THU is looking at the co-existence of faiths - peaceful or THU otherwise - across the globe around 400 years ago. Today he THU is with a document that shows what happened after Catholic THU Spain's conquest of Mexico - it's an old map, or codex, that THU was made at the height of the Spanish church building boom THU in Mexico. Neil uses the object to consider the nature of THU the Spanish conquest and to explore what happened when THU Catholic beliefs were assimilated alongside older pagan THU beliefs. The historian Samuel Edgerton offers an THU interpretation of the map that shows churches alongside THU older temples, and the Mexican born historian Fernando THU Cervantes considers the ongoing legacy of the great THU Christian conversion. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tz3yt (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. What difference did the 1968 THU Dagenham women's strike make? THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tz3yw (Listen) THU The Beginning of Spring, Episode 4 THU THU Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of an English family in Moscow, THU adapted by Penny Leicester. The winter of 1913 finds Frank THU Reid, owner of a printing company, abandoned by his wife. THU Frank Reid is not being helped by his accountant, Selwyn. THU The English Chaplaincy has a scary resident and now a shop THU girl is taking on the nannying duties. Lisa, the new nanny, THU is too beautiful for Frank, even with her plaits cut off. THU THU Narrator: Clare Higgins; Frank: Richard McCabe; Selwyn: THU David Bamber; Nellie: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse; Dolly: THU Charlotte Ellis. Other parts played by Sonia Ritter, Rachel THU Atkins, Samuel Barnet, Richard Bremmer and David Collins. THU Producer: Tim Dee. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00tz3z7 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Alchemist b00txj8g (Listen) THU The Alchemist is a worldwide bestseller. From San Francisco THU to Mumbai, huge stacks of the book can be found in any THU store, along with the author's many other inspirational THU works. The man behind The Alchemist is Paulo Coelho, and THU around the world many claim that his books have changed THU their lives. THU THU Despite his global success, few know the true story of Paulo THU Coelho's steep rise to fame. Born in Rio de Janeiro, he THU spent a childhood struggling to find an outlet for his THU creative energies. His behaviour seemed so disturbed to his THU parents that they decided that the only option was to have THU him locked up in a mental institution, an episode which left THU an indelible mark on the young writer. THU THU Later he began to experiment with drugs and developed his THU interest in black magic, activities which brought him to the THU notice of the Brazilian Military Police. At a dark time in THU Brazilian history, he found himself in the dungeons of the THU country's military dictatorship facing torture. THU THU Mark Rickards goes in search of the man behind The Alchemist THU to find the inspiration for a book which has in turn THU inspired its readers. Meeting Paulo Coelho, he talks to the THU author about both the good and the bad times in a remarkable THU life. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00tz42j (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00tw36v (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00tzk50 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00txj0j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00txxpk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00txj8j (Listen) THU A Nice Little Holiday THU THU By Sarah Wooley THU 1961. The South of France. On holiday with his mistress, THU Jocelyn Rickards, John Osborne has embarked on a passionate THU affair with his future third wife while, in London, THU Osborne's current wife gives birth to a son. THU From the idyllic French farmhouse, Osborne penned his THU infamous 'Damn you, England' letter which caused such a THU furore back home that they found themselves under siege and THU their nice little holiday turned into a nightmare -with THU Osborne only just escaping alive. THU THU Jocelyn Rickards ... Tracy Wiles THU John Osborne ... Robin Laing THU Tony Richardson ... Tobias Menzies THU Christopher Isherwood .. Richard Greenwood THU Don Bachardy ... James Anthony Pearson THU Major ... Matthew Zajac THU THU Directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00tw5xt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00tx39q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tzk96 (Listen) THU The Greengrocer's Apostrophe, The Sweet Possessive THU THU Comic tales inspired by those hand-written signs offering THU "Apple's and Banana's" which can be found in every town in THU Britain. THU THU Distracted by an apostrophe obsession, a woman fails to THU notice that her lover is not all that he seems. Monica Gibb THU reads a new short story by Diana Hendry. THU THU Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU 15:45 Run up to the Ryder Cup b00tzkhx (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Thousands of spectators are already on their way to Newport THU in South Wales, to witness the world's golfing elite battle THU it out for the game's biggest trophy, the 2010 Ryder Cup, THU which opens tomorrow. (Oct 1st) THU THU In our fourth programme following the behind-the-scenes THU preparations over the twelve months, it's July, and THU organisers toast the success of the Welsh Open tournament - THU their dress rehearsal for the Ryder Cup. THU THU There is just one last hurdle before the purpose-built THU course graces the world stage - a derelict listed farmhouse THU right next to the 18th hole. THU THU Celtic Manor bosses are relying on Newport City Council's THU planning committee to grant permission to rebuild it, brick THU by brick, and relocate it to a less obtrusive site - away THU from the glare of the world's media - a move condoned by THU conservation body Cadw, and backed by council leader Matthew THU Evans. THU THU But the City's planning committee refuses to be dictated to. THU THU Meanwhile, Newport's most famous landmark, its century-old THU iron Transporter Bridge, is re-opening across the River Usk, THU after a Ryder Cup refurbishment..but progress on a THU futuristic railway station footbridge is running dangerously THU behind schedule. THU THU And there's still no news on whether Tiger Woods will make THU the team - and pull in the Ryder Cup crowds. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00tx4lp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00txj8l (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 The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00typz7 (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 b00tw384 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b00j4hjr (Listen) THU Series 5, Garden Party THU THU Clare in the Community continues with Sally Phillips as THU Clare Barker the social worker with all the politically THU correct jargon but none of the practical solutions. THU THU It's a busy week for Clare who organises a petition to keep THU the Sparrowhawk Family Centre open and also hosts a garden THU party to get to know her new neighbours. THU THU Clare ..... Sally Phillips THU Brian ..... Alex Lowe THU Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck THU Ray ..... Richard Lumsden THU Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti THU Irene ..... Ellen Thomas THU Simon ..... Andrew Wincott THU THU Written By Harry Venning And David Ramsden THU Produced By Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00txxwd (Listen) THU There's a shock in store for Kirsty and Patrick, and Kate THU goes her own sweet way. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00tzlrc (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reports on the experience of judging THU the Stirling Prize for architecture. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tz2d7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00tzlrf (Listen) THU The plan to build an Islamic Centre near Ground Zero has THU polarised the US and become a key political issue. Linda THU Pressly explores the fallout. Could it change America? THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00tzlrh (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00txhf3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00txj8d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00tw39c (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00tzlrk (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00tzlrm (Listen) THU Sister, Episode 9 THU THU The police have finally acknowledged that Bea's sister Tessa THU was murdered, and didn't commit suicide whilst in the grip THU of post-natal psychosis. Bea is convinced that the key to THU her death lies with the Cystic Fibrosis gene therapy trial THU she had taken part in, and has been given hope by William, a THU doctor from the hospital where Tess had her baby, who has THU not only become a partner in the hunt for the truth, but has THU made his attraction to Bea quite clear. As she closes in on THU the killer, there's a dreadful shock in store for Bea. THU THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by Hattie THU Morahan. THU Produced by Sara Davies and Christine Hall. THU THU 23:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mr4w3 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 5 THU THU Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert Webb, THU with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland. THU THU Including how to leave your body to evil, a date with a THU slightly disappointing superhero, the perils of compulsory THU workplace drinking, and the god of Easter Island puts a THU brave face on an unwanted gift. THU THU 23:30 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss1j0 (Listen) THU Georg Cantor THU THU This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the THU present day, reveals the personalities behind the THU calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians THU struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du THU Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in THU the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving THU force behind modern science. THU THU Today, Georg Cantor, the mathematician who showed us how to THU carry on counting when the numbers run out. An insight into THU the nature of infinity that Roger Penrose believes helps to THU explain why the human brain will always be cleverer than THU artificial intelligence. THU THU Producer: Anna Buckley. THU THU 23:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss1j2 (Listen) THU Henri Poincare THU THU This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the THU present day, reveals the personalities behind the THU calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians THU struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du THU Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in THU the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving THU force behind modern science. THU THU Today Henri Poincare, the man who proved there are certain THU problems that mathematics will never be able to answer: a THU mathematical insight that gave rise to chaos theory. THU THU Producer: Anna Buckley. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 01 OCTOBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tz2d7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tw2yv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tw308 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tw31y (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00tw33k (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tzm0p (Listen) FRI With Philip Robinson. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00tzmk9 (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Anna Varle. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00txmhm (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00tx499 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tzmkc (Listen) FRI Tolerance and Intolerance (1550 - 1700 AD), FRI Reformation centenary broadsheet FRI FRI Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things that FRI time has left behind. This week Neil is looking at the FRI co-existence of faiths - peaceful or otherwise - across the FRI globe around 400 years ago. So far he has looked at objects FRI from India and Central America, Iran and Indonesia that FRI embody the political consequences of belief. Today he is FRI back in Europe, with a document that marks an anniversary FRI and that is designed to raise morale. It's a woodblock FRI print, a broadsheet, commissioned in Saxony in 1617 to mark FRI a hundred years of the Protestant reformation and anti FRI Catholic sentiment. Neil describes the broadsheet and the FRI uncertain Protestant world that produced it. Was this the FRI first time that an anniversary was commemorated in this way, FRI with a kind of souvenir? The broadcaster and journalist Ian FRI Hislop considers the broadsheet as an early equivalent to FRI the tabloid press while the religious historian Karen FRI Armstrong describes the reforming motivation that the FRI broadsheet celebrates. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tzmkf (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Are the Commonwealth Games inspiring FRI Indian women to take up sport? FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tzmqn (Listen) FRI The Beginning of Spring, Episode 5 FRI FRI Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of an English family in Moscow, FRI adapted by Penny Leicester. The winter of 1913 finds Frank FRI Reid, owner of a printing company, abandoned by his wife. FRI Frank Reid is not being helped by his accountant, Selwyn. FRI The English Chaplaincy has a scary resident and now a shop FRI girl is taking on the nannying duties. Lisa, the new nanny, FRI is too beautiful for Frank, even with her plaits cut off. FRI FRI Narrator: Clare Higgins; Frank: Richard McCabe; Selwyn: FRI David Bamber; Nellie: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse; Dolly: FRI Charlotte Ellis. Other parts played by Sonia Ritter, Rachel FRI Atkins, Samuel Barnet, Richard Bremmer and David Collins. FRI Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 11:00 Big Game, Little Game b00txjsg (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Mark Stephen charts a unique swap involving two gamekeepers FRI - one from the Kalahari, the other from the Angus Glens. FRI Gamekeeper Andy Malcolm is swapping 40,000 acres of heather FRI moorland high in the Angus Glens for a reserve on the edge FRI of the Kalahari in South Africa. The game warden from there FRI will travel to Scotland in a unique swap documented for BBC FRI Radio 4. FRI FRI Producer: Sue Mitchell. FRI FRI 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00txjth (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 3 FRI FRI Stanley Baxter, inspired in his own stellar career by the FRI man's outstanding impersonations, stunning pantomime dame FRI performances and brilliant comic timing; pays tribute to FRI Tommy Lorne, one of Scotland's greatest early twentieth FRI century comedians FRI FRI Stanley says "In the long and distinguished history of great FRI Scottish comedians there is one name that stands out FRI particularly in my mind, that of Tommy Lorne. His star FRI burned brightly, but briefly, in the early years of the 20th FRI century. My parents loved him, as did many Glaswegians, and FRI in 1934 as an eight year old boy I was taken to the Theatre FRI Royal to see him as Dame in Babes in the Wood. FRI FRI Although he died only a year later and I was to see him no FRI more, his hilarious and extraordinary stage persona is still FRI etched in my memory. He was, rightly, a huge star in FRI Scotland, and although he may be long gone I'd hate for him FRI to be forgotten. So this is my tribute to the great Tommy FRI Lorne entitled, in the words of his own, famous catch FRI phrase: 'In the Name of the Wee Man.'" FRI FRI The play follows Tommy's own life story from 1890 to 1935, FRI of how he became a star in Scotland, touring sometimes to FRI twelve venues a week, and becoming the most popular FRI pantomime dame of the era; but he pushed himself too hard, FRI and in 1935 the pressure of work was too much and Tommy FRI collapsed at the Kings Theatre Edinburgh before a show. At FRI his funeral three thousand people turned out to say FRI farewell- the biggest audience he'd ever played. FRI FRI Tommy Lorne ..... Stanley Baxter FRI Willie Barbour ..... John Sessions FRI Harry McKelvie ..... John Ramage FRI Mary ..... Gabriel Quigley FRI Danny ..... Davild Holt FRI FRI Written by David Holt FRI FRI Producer: Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00tzn5x (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00tw36x (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00txjtk (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00tznbk (Listen) FRI Magazine show investigating the ways we use numbers, FRI statistics and measurements. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00txxwd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00dx253 (Listen) FRI Owls FRI A fictional story written and narrated by Paul Evans and FRI based on an island legend about a brother and sister who FRI were bound by a wish sworn on a barn owl feather, which in FRI turn became a curse that proved fatal. Recorded on location FRI in Scotland; isolation, human desire and the supernatural FRI are explored in this unsettling drama about the relationship FRI between hope and desire, Man and Nature. FRI FRI Old man / young boy .. Jimmy Yuill / David McLellan FRI Old sister / young girl .. Alyth McCormack / Michaela FRI Sweeney FRI FRI WILDLIFE SOUND RECORDIST: Chris Watson, FRI SOUND ENGINEER : Michael Burgess FRI PRODUCER / DIRECTOR: Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00txjtm (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs and the panel return to Sparsholt College to FRI answer listeners' letters. In addition, Bob Flowerdew FRI presents Grow Your Own Christmas - preparing the garden for FRI your Christmas needs. FRI FRI Also, advice on winter care for tender plants. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Run up to the Ryder Cup b00tznzh (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Today saw the start of one of the world's biggest sporting FRI events.the 2010 Ryder Cup. Millions of viewers worldwide FRI watched the opening ceremony, at the Celtic Manor resort in FRI Newport, South Wales. FRI FRI In our final programme charting the behind-the-scenes dramas FRI over the last year, it's September - one month to go - and FRI the last tee-off before the big tournament - the Gareth FRI Edwards Golf Day. Some of Wales' biggest rugby names descend FRI on the Celtic Manor, in a crowd-pleasing event. FRI FRI Back at the hotel, events manager Becky Joy has just weeks FRI before the world's golfing elite, and their families, FRI arrive. She has to make sure everything is perfect - from FRI beds and menus to spa and gym equipment.it's a stressful time. FRI FRI As the last round comes to an end, the course closes - FRI there's just a month to add the finishing touches to the FRI course for the Ryder Cup. Director of golf Jim Mackenzie and FRI his team are working flat out to make sure the greens are in FRI pristine condition for the arrival of golfing glitterati. FRI FRI Newport City Council leader Matthew Evans is also feeling FRI the pressure.with just weeks to go, has he persuaded the FRI city's residents about the benefits of the Ryder Cup and has FRI he been able to capitalise on Newport's newly found fame to FRI secure new investors into the city? FRI FRI Will there be a legacy for the struggling city after the FRI golfing stars and media frenzy has left? FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00tzp0s (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 b00txjw1 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Murray Melvin, the star of A Taste FRI Of Honey, about the British New Wave 50 years after the FRI movement made a splash in national cinema. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00typz9 (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 b00tw386 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00txjw3 (Listen) FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, FRI Paul Sinha and Andy Hamilton. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00txxx9 (Listen) FRI Written By ... Caroline Harrington FRI Directed By ... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ... Timothy Bentinck FRI Pip Archer ... Helen Monks FRI Nigel Pargetter ... Graham Seed FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ... Alison Dowling FRI Brian Aldridge ... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ... Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane ... Kellie Bright FRI Alice Aldridge ... Hollie Chapman FRI Matt Crawford ... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks ... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ... Dan Ciotkowksi FRI Christopher Carter ... Will Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Roy Tucker ... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker ... Lorraine Coady FRI Phoebe Tucker ... Lucy Morris FRI Kirsty Miller ... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary ... Ryan Kelly FRI Alan Franks ... John Telfer FRI Harry Mason ... Michael Shelford FRI Patrick Hennessy ... Joseph Kloska FRI Barrie Curtis ... Robin Simpson FRI Martyn Gibson ... Jon Glover. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00tzp2t (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with photographer FRI Martin Parr, who is curating the 2010 Brighton Photo Biennial. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tzmkc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00txjw5 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Michael FRI Hall School in Forest Row, East Sussex, with panellists FRI including Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, FRI Jeremy Hunt. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00tzp7c (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00txjw7 (Listen) FRI The Beginning of Spring, Omnibus FRI FRI Penelope Fitzgerald's novel of an English family in Moscow, FRI adapted by Penny Leicester. The winter of 1913 finds Frank FRI Reid, owner of a printing company, abandoned by his wife. FRI First Nellie takes their three children with her, then she FRI sends them back to Frank. What is he to do? FRI FRI Narrator: Clare Higgins; Frank: Richard McCabe; Selwyn: FRI David Bamber; Nellie: Jennifer Lee Jellicorse; Dolly: FRI Charlotte Ellis. Other parts played by Sonia Ritter, Rachel FRI Atkins, Samuel Barnet, Richard Bremmer and David Collins. FRI Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00tw39f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00tzp7f (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00tzp7h (Listen) FRI Sister, Episode 10 FRI FRI Beatrice now knows who killed her sister, and why, but has FRI the knowledge come too late? The murderer has her at his FRI mercy and it's clear he's planning to kill again. There's a FRI final shocking twist to this dark and gripping psychological FRI thriller about the bond between two sisters. FRI FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by hattie FRI Morahan. FRI Produced by Sara Davies and Christine Hall. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00txhlb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 A Brief History of Mathematics b00ss1j4 (Listen) FRI Hardy and Ramanujan FRI FRI This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the FRI present day, reveals the personalities behind the FRI calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians FRI struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du FRI Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in FRI the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving FRI force behind modern science. FRI FRI Today, G.H.Hardy, the mathematician who insisted he had FRI never done anything useful. And yet his work on the FRI "diabolical malice" inherent in prime numbers inspired the FRI millions of codes that now help to keep the internet safe. FRI FRI Producer: Anna Buckley. FRI FRI 23:45 A Brief History of Mathematics b00stcgv (Listen) FRI Nicolas Bourbaki FRI FRI This ten part history of mathematics from Newton to the FRI present day, reveals the personalities behind the FRI calculations: the passions and rivalries of mathematicians FRI struggling to get their ideas heard. Professor Marcus du FRI Sautoy shows how these masters of abstraction find a role in FRI the real world and proves that mathematics is the driving FRI force behind modern science. FRI FRI Today, the mathematician that never was, Nicolas Bourbaki. A FRI group of French mathematicians, working between the two FRI world wars and writing under the pseudonym Nicolas Bourbaki FRI transformed their discipline and paved the way for several FRI mathematical breakthroughs in the 21st century. FRI FRI Producer: Anna Buckley. FRI