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SAT SATURDAY 02 OCTOBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00v1whm (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 b00tzmkc (Listen) SAT Tolerance and Intolerance (1550 - 1700 AD), SAT Reformation centenary broadsheet SAT SAT Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things that SAT time has left behind. This week Neil is looking at the SAT co-existence of faiths - peaceful or otherwise - across the SAT globe around 400 years ago. So far he has looked at objects SAT from India and Central America, Iran and Indonesia that SAT embody the political consequences of belief. Today he is SAT back in Europe, with a document that marks an anniversary SAT and that is designed to raise morale. It's a woodblock SAT print, a broadsheet, commissioned in Saxony in 1617 to mark SAT a hundred years of the Protestant reformation and anti SAT Catholic sentiment. Neil describes the broadsheet and the SAT uncertain Protestant world that produced it. Was this the SAT first time that an anniversary was commemorated in this way, SAT with a kind of souvenir? The broadcaster and journalist Ian SAT Hislop considers the broadsheet as an early equivalent to SAT the tabloid press while the religious historian Karen SAT Armstrong describes the reforming motivation that the SAT broadsheet celebrates. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v1wj0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v1wj2 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v1wj4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00v1wjg (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v1wk3 (Listen) SAT With the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00v1wk5 (Listen) SAT What has the Commonwealth done for us? Listeners' views on SAT the importance and relevance of the institution as Delhi SAT prepares for the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games. SAT Voices include the Secretary General of the Commonwealth SAT Broadcasting Association and a Malaysian scientist now SAT leading research on the effects of radiation at the UK's SAT Health Protection Agency. Your News is read by the voice of SAT Saturday teatime - James Alexander Gordon. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00v1wkk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00v1wm3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00v10mr (Listen) SAT Series 16, Episode 3 SAT SAT Clare Balding is in the Forest of Dean with a group who've SAT been walking through the county of Gloucestershire for two SAT months with donkeys. As part of the Cultural Olympiad Sarah SAT Blowers, along with various artists, children and people SAT who've just tagged along, set off to discover the beauty of SAT the countryside at a slow pace, setting camp at the end of SAT each day's walk. Everyone Clare meets as she joins them at SAT Soudley to walk through the forest is enthusiastic about the SAT gentle pace of life they're experiencing walking with the SAT donkeys carrying their provisions. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00v10sn (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Only a third of the apples in UK shops are grown here. But SAT 'top fruit' - which is grown on trees - is well suited to SAT the the climate. Charlotte Smith asks if more of the apples, SAT pears plums and cherries we eat could be produced on home SAT soil. She hears from farmers who've pioneered techniques to SAT make fruit available the whole year round, to protect them SAT from rain damage and to provide new varieties. She visits SAT Hayles fruit farm near Cheltenham where orchards that were SAT grubbed up years ago are now being replanted and asks if SAT more . Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00v1wm5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00v10sq (Listen) SAT With Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00v115b (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined in the studio by the first lady of Radio SAT 1 Annie Nightingale MBE, poet Salena Godden and the daughter SAT of Ugandan dictator Idi Amin. There's a guerilla report from SAT a woman who has 400 pairs of designer shoes, an interview SAT with the milkman who threw away several paintings by LS SAT Lowry, and former Ryder cup captain Sam Torrance shares his SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT The producer is Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00v115q (Listen) SAT Alaska - Zambia - Cycle path to Paris SAT SAT The actress Imogen Stubbs talks to John McCarthy about why SAT she is drawn to the Alaskan wilderness. Her experiences SAT there with the vast distances, the extreme weather and the SAT danger from encounters with bears contrast strongly with the SAT relatively safe indoor life of theatre and television. SAT SAT John also meets Abraham Banda, who leads walking safaris in SAT Zambia where you can encounter danger from many animals from SAT lions to crocodiles, and learns why the role of the guide is SAT getting more and more professional. SAT SAT And reporter and keen cyclist Stephen Mulvey tells John SAT about a new bike trail from London to Paris which is mostly SAT off-road and should prove very popular with the increasing SAT numbers of cyclists making the journey for charity. SAT SAT Producer Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b00v117n (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 3 SAT SAT Steve Punt turns super sleuth and goes in search of a most SAT unusual royal relic: Queen Victoria's voice. He embarks on a SAT journey to the dawn of recorded sound as he tracks down a SAT wax cylinder which may contain the voice, the only suspected SAT recording of Victoria in existence. Via sound archives, SAT strong rooms, forensic audiologists, royal voice coaches, SAT the Queen's apartments and Palace letters he pieces together SAT the story of the lost recording of Queen Victoria and tries SAT to get to the bottom of any message she left for her SAT subjects. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00v119l (Listen) SAT Ahead of the Conservative Party conference, John Kampfner SAT asks what it means now to be a Tory, what defines the party SAT & what impact sharing power with the Lib Dems is having. SAT The programme goes beyond Westminster to Sunderland Central SAT and Hexham to meet new Tory voters, disappointed Tories and SAT a new breed of young, MPs who are as much at ease connecting SAT with their constituents via their blogs as their surgeries. SAT How well are they going down with their more traditional SAT supporters? And what will the North East make of the SAT coalition government's cuts? SAT Producer : Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00v11ck (Listen) SAT A broken-hearted picture house manager tells From Our Own SAT Correspondent how the cinema is dying a slow death in SAT Baghdad. Also, SAT SAT our reporter hears sad songs and talk of home as he joins SAT Chinese workers on a night out in Angola. SAT SAT We're fast approaching one of the major dramas in the SAT American political cycle. The mid-term Congressional SAT elections are now just a month away. Hundreds of House and SAT Senate seats are being fought for all across the country. SAT And if Barack Obama's Democrats were to do badly, his job SAT would become even tougher than it already is. Kevin Connolly SAT has been watching the President as he begins to square up to SAT this new electoral challenge. SAT SAT The people of Iraq haven't only been forced to endure years SAT of dictatorship and war. They've also had to cope with SAT economic collapse, rampant corruption and sectarian SAT violence. Over time, almost every area of life has been SAT degraded in some way. Popular culture has been no exception. SAT And Gabriel Gatehouse says Iraq's troubles have been SAT reflected in the demise of its cinemas... SAT SAT South Africa has no fewer than than eleven official SAT languages. Along with English and Afrikaans the constitution SAT recognises all the country's major, indigenous SAT languages....like Zulu and Xhosa. Then on top of that SAT official list, immigrants from across Africa and the world SAT have brought their mother tongues.... And Hamilton Wende SAT reflects now on the country's extraordinary linguistic riches. SAT SAT It's now more than two decades since Germany was re-united. SAT For years the once formidable Berlin Wall has been no more SAT than a tourist attraction. And the old East Germany has... SAT officially...been consigned to history. But Steve Evans says SAT that not far below the surface divisions linger on. And SAT among some in the East, there's a certain nostalgia for the SAT past.... SAT SAT China first reached out to Africa about six-hundred years SAT ago. A Chinese admiral led a series of trading expeditions SAT to the east coast. But this contact was quite brief. China SAT soon turned its back on the world, and centuries of SAT isolation followed.... Now though the Chinese are very much SAT back in Africa. And Justin Rowlatt has been spending time SAT with young entrepreneurs who see huge potential in Angola.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00v11d8 (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 b00txjw3 (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, SAT Paul Sinha and Andy Hamilton. SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00v1wmm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00v1wmw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00txjw5 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Michael SAT Hall School in Forest Row, East Sussex, with panellists SAT including Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, SAT Jeremy Hunt, Jo Swinson, Liberal Democrat MP and SAT Parliamentary private secretary to Vince Cable, Chris SAT Bryant, a Labour MP standing for the Shadow Cabinet and SAT Trevor Kavanagh, columnist on The Sun. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00v11t5 (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00v11t7 (Listen) SAT The Kane Conspriacy SAT SAT In 1941 Orson Welles' film Citizen Kane, now regularly voted SAT top in critics' and audience polls, picked up nine Oscar SAT nominations and was already being spoken of as a work of SAT genius. But there were powerful forces lobbying hard against SAT it, not least among them William Randolph Hearst, the media SAT mogul on whom the story is based, and FBI supremo J Edgar SAT Hoover. SAT SAT As the Oscar nominations are announced, Welles suffers an SAT uncharacteristic attack of anxiety. And not without cause: SAT FBI supremo J.Edgar Hoover has tasked a small-time FBI SAT agent, Special Agent RB Wood, with making sure the film SAT doesn't triumph at the Oscars ceremony. Hearst has banned SAT any mention of the film across his media empire, RKO, the SAT distributor, is looking shaky, and while the movie plays to SAT capacity houses in art-house cinemas, no major theatres or SAT cinema chains will take it. A chance encounter in an SAT elevator leads to a highly charged head-to-head between SAT Hearst and Welles when the two men lay their cards on the SAT table. At the ceremony in February 1941 the film only wins SAT one Oscar, and Welles' reputation in America never recovers. SAT SAT Only the character of Agent Wood is imagined, although he is SAT based on a documented but shadowy figure mentioned in the SAT FBI archives. And it is Wood who finally confronts Welles SAT with the uncomfortable truth about the film: in hijacking SAT Hearst's life for Citizen Kane, Welles has replaced it with SAT his own. SAT SAT Orson Welles.........Jeff Harding SAT J. Edgar Hoover........Toby Jones SAT Herman Mankiewicz.....John Guerrasio SAT William Randolph Hearst...Peter Marinker SAT George Schaefer.......Garrick Hagon SAT Agent Wood..........Val Jobara SAT Radio Interviewer.......Paul Mundell SAT SAT Written by Jonathan Holloway SAT Producer: Sara Davies. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00txhfk (Listen) SAT Series 10, How Great Thou Art SAT SAT The enduring popularity of the hymn, How Great Thou Art is SAT explored in this series that examines those pieces of music SAT that never fail to move us. Based on a Swedish poem by Carl SAT Gustav Boberg, the hymn was written by the British SAT missionary Stuart Hine in 1949. SAT SAT It subsequently become an Elvis Presley classic and as the SAT country and western star , Connie Smith explains, it's the SAT piece she always sings to close her show, the stirring SAT lyrics and soaring melody having the ability to move and SAT inspire audiences of all ages and backgrounds. SAT SAT We also hear from George Beverly Shea, now a hundred and one SAT but with clear memories of singing it at hundreds of Billy SAT Graham crusades. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00v11w3 (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00v1wrp (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00tzlrh (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 and a panel of guests from the worlds of civil SAT engineering, hedge funds and investment discuss the art of SAT staying ahead of the competition. SAT SAT The ruthless former chief executive of General Electric, SAT Jack Welch, often held up as a model of business leadership, SAT pursued a strategy to establish each of GE's businesses as SAT either number one or number two in the market. Without this SAT approach, he believed the company's prospects would be SAT bleak. Some companies will do anything to be big, even if it SAT means cutting prices and making less money. Other businesses SAT are happy to be smaller and more profitable. Which strategy SAT wins? SAT SAT The panel also discusses corporate claptrap. Silly jargon, SAT faddish ideas and vacuous ideas - why is the business world SAT so keen on nonsense? SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Deborah Meaden, entrepreneur SAT and business investor; Keith Clarke, chief executive of FTSE SAT 250 civil engineering and design consultancy Atkins; Hugh SAT Hendry, hedge fund manager and co-founder of Eclectica Asset SAT Management. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00v1xdp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00v1xdy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00v1xhj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00v11wp (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by father and son actors Timothy SAT and Samuel West, who perform together as father and clones SAT in the play A Number at The Menier Chocolate Factory. SAT SAT Private Eye writer and satirist Craig Brown talks about his SAT new book, The Lost Diaries, spoof entries from from Harold SAT Pinter, Barack Obama and Germaine Greer, to Victoria SAT Beckham, Jeremy Clarkson and Sarah Ferguson. SAT SAT One half of the Marks and Gran comedy partnership that SAT created Birds of a Feather, Shine on Harvey Moon, The New SAT Statesman and Goodnight Sweetheart, Maurice Gran talks about SAT their latest show for stage, Von Ribbentrop's Watch. SAT SAT 6Music's Gideon Coe talks to the comedian and Grumpy Old SAT Woman Jenny Eclair as she embarks on a mission to cheer up SAT Britain, both with her new book and her Old Dog, New Tricks SAT tour of the UK. SAT SAT Stand out stand-up comedy from Andi Osho who explores her SAT culture clash - living in London's East End with Nigerian SAT roots - in her show Afroblighty. SAT SAT There's live music from Irish folk songstress Heidi Talbot SAT who performs from her hotly anticipated new album The Last SAT Star. SAT SAT And from Los Angeles - The Airborne Toxic Event - return to SAT Loose Ends as their concert film All I Ever Wanted premieres SAT at the Raindance Film Festival in London. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00v11yp (Listen) SAT Dilma Rousseff SAT SAT Brazilians go to the polls this weekend, to elect a new SAT president, replacing the charismatic Lula da Silva. And, SAT with Dilma Rousseff far ahead in the polls, it looks like SAT the country could get its first female leader. It's been an SAT amazing journey for Rousseff, the daughter of a Bulgarian SAT immigrant. In the 1960's, she joined a revolutionary urban SAT guerrilla group after the military coup, and was imprisoned SAT and tortured. SAT She is now seen as Lula's successor, nicknamed 'The Iron SAT Lady', though there are questions about her own public SAT charisma and in which direction she will take this booming SAT country of 200 million people. If she wins, she could become SAT one of the world's most powerful leaders. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00v11zt (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Linda Grant, comedian SAT Natalie Haynes and former Rector of the Royal College of Art SAT Christopher Frayling review the week's cultural highlights SAT including Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. SAT SAT Michael Douglas returns as Gordon Gecko in Oliver Stone's SAT sequel to his 1987 film Wall Street. Gecko's out of jail and SAT the economy's crashing - is greed still good? SAT SAT Philip Roth's novel Nemesis is set in Newark in the summer SAT of 1944 and explores the impact of a polio epidemic on the SAT closely knit Jewish community. Bucky Cantor is an idealistic SAT playground superintendent who tries to manage the panic as SAT his young charges succumb to the disease. SAT SAT Sebastian Faulks's 1993 novel Birdsong sold more than 1.7 SAT million copies in the UK alone. Now it has been adapted for SAT the stage by Rachel Wagstaff. Trevor Nunn's production is at SAT the Comedy Theatre in London and stars Ben Barnes and Lee SAT Ross. SAT SAT Gauguin: Maker of Myth is the first major exhibition in SAT London to be devoted to the artist for more than 50 years. SAT Assembling more than 100 works from public and private SAT collections around the world, it runs at Tate Modern until SAT January 16th 2011. SAT SAT Channel 4's series The Genius of British Art comprises six SAT individually authored films on different topics. The SAT presenters are David Starkey, Augustus Casely-Hayford, SAT Howard Jacobson, Jon Snow, Janet Street Porter and Sir Roy SAT Strong. There is also an accompanying series of talks by the SAT presenters at the National Gallery in London. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00v1294 (Listen) SAT A Working-Class Tory Is Something To Be SAT SAT David Davis MP delves into the BBC sound archive to explore SAT the history of a crucial political group: the working-class SAT Tories. SAT SAT Ever since British mass democracy began, the working-class SAT vote has played a crucial part in returning the Conservative SAT Party to power. SAT SAT And yet, for many years, there was barely a handful of SAT working-class Conservative MPs in Parliament. SAT SAT But the rise of the working class Tory culminated by the SAT 1980s with the central presence in the Thatcher Cabinet of SAT Norman Tebbit, and the introduction of such policies as SAT council house sales. SAT SAT Edward Heath, Margaret Thatcher and John Major all came from SAT 'humble' backgrounds, in stark contrast to their SAT aristocratic predecessors. SAT SAT So where is the working-class Tory today? On the one hand, SAT Britain appears to some a much less hierarchical society. SAT On the other, we have our first Etonian Tory PM in almost SAT half a century. SAT SAT David Davis is a Tory from a working-class background - and SAT is the man Cameron beat in 2005 for the Party leadership. SAT In this programme, he explores the rise and fate of the SAT working-class Tories, as charted in the BBC sound archive. SAT SAT And he talks to former and current working-class Tory SAT Cabinet Ministers like Lord Tebbit, Conservative Party SAT Chairman Baroness Warsi, and Eric Pickles, the Secretary of SAT State for Communities and Local Government. SAT SAT He discovers why, in Oldham in 1899, one of Britain's SAT toughest trade union leaders ran alongside Winston Churchill SAT as a Tory candidate. SAT SAT Davis listens to a rare interview with Edith Pitt, a young SAT Birmingham woman who left school at 13, became a SAT Conservative during the Depression of the 1930s, and went on SAT to serve in Government. SAT SAT And he explores the attitudes of senior Tories to the '30s SAT hunger marchers - of whom his grandfather was one. And how SAT the Depression shaped the politics of future Prime Minister SAT Harold Macmillan, many of whose Geordie voters were SAT working-class. SAT SAT But he also examines the crucial divide at the heart of SAT working-class Toryism. Macmillan's supporters backed him as SAT a wealthy man who knew how to run things. But there was SAT another kind of working-class Tory, driven more by SAT aspiration than deference. SAT SAT Davis discovers how Norman Tebbit, who himself grew up poor SAT in the 1930s, considered Macmillan a failure as Prime SAT Minister. And how, when the upwardly mobile Tebbit became a SAT Cabinet Minister, he found Macmillan disparaging him as a SAT Cockney interloper in the party elite. SAT SAT And he rediscovers Reginald Bevins, a Liverpudlian of SAT 'modest' background who left Labour to join the Tories and SAT ended up in Cabinet under Macmillan. He watches an SAT interview in which Bevins recounts his despair at the choice SAT of the aristocratic Alec Douglas-Home as Macmillan's SAT successor. SAT SAT Two of the great comic creations of the 1960s - Albert SAT Steptoe and Alf Garnett - were defiant working-class Tories. SAT With historian Dominic Sandbrook, Davis watches episodes of SAT 'Steptoe and Son' and 'Till Death Us Do Part' to unpick how SAT the working-class Tory was seen in the age of Harold Wilson. SAT SAT He explores how the appeal of Tory Enoch Powell to Labour SAT voting dockers complicated the picture in the early 1970s. SAT And how all this looked from Europe. SAT SAT And he asks Lord Tebbit, Eric Pickles, Baroness Warsi, SAT election expert John Curtice and former Tony Blair SAT speech-writer Philip Collins, who comes from a family of SAT working-class Tories, what part they think this durable SAT tribe now plays in Cameron's Britain. SAT SAT With: Philip Collins, John Curtice, Juliet Gardiner, Ross SAT McKibbin, Eric Pickles, Martin Pugh, Dominic Sandbrook, Lord SAT Tebbit, Baroness Warsi. SAT SAT PRODUCER - PHIL TINLINE. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00tx4kz (Listen) SAT The Ladies' Delight, Episode 2 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 After her dismissal from The Ladies' Delight, Denise is SAT determined to stay in Paris. She rents a room above old SAT Bourras' umbrella shop and quickly sets about trying to find SAT other work. With local shops closing as The Delight expands, SAT the task proves more difficult than she imagined. 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 Adapted by Carine Adler SAT Directed by Stefan Escreet SAT Producer: Charlotte Riches. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00v1xht (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b00tyv8f (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 2 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. SAT SAT In this edition they compare the experience of only children SAT and siblings, ask how family size is changing and debate SAT whether we're having too many children or too few. As they SAT explore the theory of twenty-first century parenting - and SAT the rather messier practice - Mariella and her guests share SAT advice and some very different views on how best to bring up SAT our next generation. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00txgv7 (Listen) SAT (9/12) The Welsh team of David Edwards and Myfanwy Alexander SAT are looking for their third victory of the series, this time SAT taking on Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland. SAT Tom Sutcliffe puts the notoriously fiendish cryptic SAT questions to the teams. SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00tx4p0 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces a selection of requested American SAT poems. Peter Marinker is the reader. Poets include Wallace SAT Stevens, Carl Sandburg, John Crowe Ransome and Delmore SAT Schwartz. Also two new poems from Midlands veteran poet SAT Roy Fisher. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 03 OCTOBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00v1xkp (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00hvckp (Listen) SUN Readings From Bath, The Successor SUN SUN Pippa Haywood reads a third story recorded on stage at last SUN year's Bath Literature Festival. An ex-wife looks on in SUN disapproval at her husband's choice of her successor, but SUN her criticism turns to helplessness as danger threatens. The SUN Successor written by Rachel Fixsen. SUN SUN Producers: Sue Fry/Sara Davies. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v1xkr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v1xkt (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v1xkw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00v1xky (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00v12tx (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary the Virgin, Chislet, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00v11yp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00v1xn8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00v12xc (Listen) SUN Snakes and Ladders SUN SUN The writer Sarah Cuddon explores the ancient notion of SUN Snakes and Ladders. SUN SUN With reference to Salman Rushdie's 'Midnight's Children', SUN the poetry of Dorothy Porter and the work of filmmaker Maya SUN Deren, she examines the way the game mirrors our experience SUN of life and our attitudes towards fate and morality. SUN Featuring music by Radiohead, Erik Satie and Alarm Will Sound. SUN SUN Producer : Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00v12yq (Listen) SUN Imagine a 250 kilo stag charging at you with antlers SUN weighing another 10 kilos. Terry Shaw, Livestock Manager at SUN Round Green Deer Farm has had a few close shaves with the SUN animals he says would never truly be tamed. Caz Graham SUN travels to Barnsley to meet the team there who produce SUN animals for the growing venison market. SUN SUN The meat is now regularly stocked in supermarkets as well as SUN farm shops and much of it comes from farmed animals, stunned SUN and bled in abattoirs, rather than shot wild deer. SUN SUN Farmer Richard Elmhirst introduced a few deer to his SUN family's dairy farm in the 1970s. Now the cattle are gone SUN and hundreds of hinds and stags can be seen grazing the SUN fields instead. A specially designed abattoir has been SUN installed and they now process thousands of animals for SUN other deer farms. SUN SUN Only half the amount of venison eaten in the UK is reared SUN here with much of the rest coming from New Zealand. Richard SUN says the returns on deer are more favourable than sheep or SUN beef and is encouraging more farmers to consider deer SUN farming as an alternative. SUN SUN Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00v1xnb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00v1xnd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00v12zk (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00v131f (Listen) SUN One World Action SUN SUN Glenys Kinnock presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity One World Action. 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SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00tzp7c (Listen) SUN Huizinga and the human cost of cuts SUN SUN Lisa Jardine reflects on the upcoming government spending SUN cuts through the prism of Dutch historian, Johan Huizinga, SUN and argues that the human cost of the cuts must not be SUN overlooked. She describes how Huizinga - writing in the SUN 1940s - was concerned about an obsession with economics - SUN where only the number counts - and says those in public life SUN should not fall into the same trap when deciding where to SUN cut. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00v136j (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00v136z (Listen) SUN Written By ... Caroline Harrington SUN Directed By ... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ... Timothy Bentinck SUN Pip Archer ... Helen Monks SUN Nigel Pargetter ... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ... Alison Dowling SUN Brian Aldridge ... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ... Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane ... Kellie Bright SUN Alice Aldridge ... Hollie Chapman SUN Matt Crawford ... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ... Dan Ciotkowksi SUN Christopher Carter ... Will Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Roy Tucker ... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ... Lorraine Coady SUN Phoebe Tucker ... Lucy Morris SUN Kirsty Miller ... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ... Ryan Kelly SUN Alan Franks ... John Telfer SUN Harry Mason ... Michael Shelford SUN Patrick Hennessy ... Joseph Kloska SUN Barrie Curtis ... Robin Simpson SUN Martyn Gibson ... Jon Glover. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00v137f (Listen) SUN Johnny Vegas SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the entertainer Johnny Vegas. SUN SUN As a stand-up comic he made his name as one of the most SUN brilliant and unpredictable acts on the circuit. His stage SUN persona was a belligerent drunk who would heckle his own SUN audience. But the more successful he became, the more the SUN similarities between his own life and his stage character SUN seemed to blur. "I found popularity through SUN self-destruction" he says, "and that can be quite SUN addictive". In recent years, he has cut down on his SUN drinking, lost weight and now got engaged - all part of a SUN plan to ensure he reached his 40th birthday and could be a SUN proper father to his young son. "Life's actually turned SUN around and been very good to me," he says. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00txgz9 (Listen) SUN Series 6, Episode 1 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. Chris Addison, Susan Calman, Rufus Hound SUN and Armando Iannucci are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Henry Ford, SUN Biscuits, Rain and Squirrels. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00v137p (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon looks at some of the latest developments in SUN airline food. The supply chain is beginning to open up and SUN innovative producers from the north east of Britain have SUN succeeded in winning contracts to supply leading airlines. SUN One of these suppliers - 'Look What We Found' - has led the SUN way in technology to deliver quality ambient food in a bag. SUN They've converted this to a tray of food that can be heated SUN and eaten during a flight. Gate Gourmet, one of the largest SUN providers of airline catering in the world, has had its SUN difficulties in recent years - strike action and radical SUN restructuring. Now back on its feet it has just opened a new SUN £10m production kitchen. Sheila Dillon visits the new SUN facilities and sees for herself the challenges of feeding SUN and pleasing millions of people a year consuming meals SUN 30,000 feet up in the sky. SUN producer: Lucinda Montefiore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00v1xnl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00v1380 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Africa at 50 b00v138l (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN At dusk in Bamako, the capital of Mali, a bugler plays and SUN the traffic stops as soldiers lower the Malian national SUN flag. On the monument, banners proclaim Mali's independence SUN from France, fifty years on. SUN SUN But, as Robin Denselow reports, this is a bittersweet SUN anniversary. Mali is a vast landlocked country on the SUN southern borders of the Sahara and is one of the tenth SUN poorest countries in the world. SUN SUN It has survived a dictatorial one party system, then corrupt SUN army rule but today this predominantly Muslim state is SUN praised by the west for its democracy and stability. SUN SUN But Mali faces massive problems as many young and unemployed SUN people from the country risk their lives to cross deserts SUN and oceans, as they desperately try to leave for the west as SUN illegal immigrants. SUN SUN Robin joins world music star Rokia Traore at an outdoor SUN concert on the banks of the River Niger, as she launches a SUN music foundation to help young people. He meets Malians SUN deported home from overseas, and visits a migration centre, SUN which has been criticized as an outpost of fortress Europe. SUN SUN And he discovers why farmers who've grown Mali's main cash SUN crop, cotton, are struggling to return a profit. SUN SUN Producer Liz Carney SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00v139z (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs and the panel return to Sparsholt College to SUN answer listeners' letters. In addition, Bob Flowerdew SUN presents Grow Your Own Christmas - preparing the garden for SUN your Christmas needs. SUN SUN Also, advice on winter care for tender plants. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 A View Through a Lens b00v13dh (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 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 4/5. In the footsteps of Emperors. Having learnt how to SUN build a snow cave in which to sleep, and completed a series SUN of training courses to equip them to survive in the hostile SUN conditions of Antarctica, a team including wildlife SUN cameraman, John Aitchison, fly up the coast from the SUN American Base at McMurdo Station to a colony of birds; birds SUN which John never imagined he would see in the flesh, birds SUN that he has flown half way round the world to see, Emperor SUN Penguins - the tallest and heaviest penguins of all. John is SUN here to film the penguins entering and leaving the sea SUN through ice holes in the frozen landscape. It sounds easy SUN enough, but following the penguins across the frozen terrain SUN is far from easy, as the landscape is not flat, and the SUN skidoos are not designed to travel across the chaotic, SUN jagged, terrain that is thrown up by the sea, wind and ice. SUN And then, there's the weather to contend with. Fierce snow SUN storms force John and his colleagues to take shelter in SUN their camp for several days. With time and supplies running SUN low, the pressure is on. After a few last minute changes to SUN the complex slow-motion camera (involving a saw), John and SUN the team set off. They are finally rewarded with an amazing SUN and magical encounter: shambling penguins are transformed SUN into beautiful divers, as they disappear into the blue, sun SUN dappled waters beneath the ice. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00v14v4 (Listen) SUN Goodbye to Berlin, Episode 1 SUN SUN Isherwood's dramatic eyewitness account of Berlin in the SUN early 30s, the book that inspired Cabaret. SUN SUN Living in Berlin as a young man, Isherwood encountered a SUN range of vibrant characters both ordinary and extraordinary SUN whose daily lives reflect a city and its people at a very SUN particular time in history. He observed at first hand how SUN ordinary people, at every level of society, became sucked SUN into the new era of Hitler and his kind. SUN SUN Recorded on location in East Berlin, this new dramatisation SUN by Tina Pepler has a documentary feel that vividly evokes SUN the feel of the city and the lives of its inhabitants as the SUN Nazi party slowly gains credence and ultimate power in the SUN early 1930s. SUN SUN Christopher Isherwood is played by UK up and coming leading SUN man James Norton in his first radio, and the Berlin SUN inhabitants by an ensemble of excellent German actors - SUN Leslie Malton (award winning German/American actress), SUN Nicola Schoessler, Matthias Horn, Tilmar Kuhn and exciting SUN newcomers Julia Reznik and Andre Kaczmarczyk. SUN SUN Isherwood arrives in Berlin, and takes lodgings with SUN Fraulein Schroder, a once well off widow, now forced to take SUN in a motley crew of lodgers. He's enthralled by Berlin's SUN chaotic, hedonist nightlife and the rich variety of SUN characters he meets: Jewish department store heiress Natalia SUN Landauer, her cousin the serious and troubled Bernhard, SUN fantastical night club singer Sally Bowles and the SUN freeloading Otto Nowak. But as Christopher Isherwood grows SUN to love the city and its people he cannot ignore the growing SUN influence of the Nazi party even in his own carefree SUN circles. SUN SUN Christopher Isherwood ..... James Norton SUN Natalia Landauer ..... Nicola Schoessler SUN Fraulein Schroder/Sally Bowles ..... Leslie Malton SUN Fraulein Mayr ..... Julia Reznik SUN Herr Landauer ..... Matthias Horn SUN Bernhard Landauer ..... Andre Kaczmarczyk SUN Otto Nowak ..... Tilmar Kuhn SUN SUN Sound design: Eloise Whitmore SUN Pianist: Paulette Marla Schmidt SUN SUN Producer/Director: Polly Thomas SUN A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00v1511 (Listen) SUN Roddy Doyle SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to the Irish writer Roddy SUN Doyle about his Booker prize winning novel Paddy Clarke HA SUN HA HA. SUN SUN In the novel ten year old Paddy rampages through the streets SUN of suburban Dublin with a pack of like-minded boys, playing SUN cowboys and Indians, etching their names in wet concrete and SUN lighting fires. SUN SUN To get into the character of the boy Roddy took himself into SUN his own childhood memories. He walked round Dublin and SUN tried to remember how the City looked from a child's eye SUN view, and he saw things he hadn't seen since he was ten, and SUN realised that children don't discriminate in their outlook. SUN SUN In the book Doyle captures the sensations and speech SUN patterns of a ten year old without resorting to SUN sentimentality. This is a book that reminds you of your own SUN childhood, the fun things, the scary, and the SUN incomprehensible. SUN SUN It's a portrayal of ordinary family life - the father SUN learning to drive is just one comic set piece; but there's SUN also the brutality of the school playground and the SUN unvarnished but slow realisation that Paddy's parents' SUN marriage is falling apart. SUN SUN Roddy Doyle wrote this book when he was still a teacher and SUN his son was newly born. He finished longer passages during SUN the Christmas and Easter holidays when he had more time; and SUN wrote shorter sections when his son was napping. SUN SUN Roddy Doyle is known for the sharp edged street humour in SUN previous books such as the Commitments and the Snapper, and SUN in the programme he shows he still has that trademark Dublin SUN wit. SUN SUN James Naughtie chairs the programme. SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00v157m (Listen) SUN Roger McGough goes through the Poetry Please requests to SUN find poems about the things that make a house a home. SUN Listeners suggest poetry evoking memories of home as a SUN mercurial place of light and shade changing as we grow SUN older. There are poems by AA Milne, UA Fanthorpe, RL SUN Stevenson which together go beyond the mere bricks and SUN mortar into unique places and spaces for childhood and SUN growth, for nourishment, for bereavement and decline. SUN SUN 17:00 Foreign Bodies b00txhp0 (Listen) SUN Britain is the second largest destination in the world for SUN international students, after the US. SUN SUN They contribute £3 billion to the British economy and are a SUN key source of revenue for UK higher education. Yet in the SUN media foreign students seem to appear only as suspected SUN terrorists (in the wake of the arrest of the former UCL SUN student Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab) or as cash cows for SUN British universities, and most recently as possible illegal SUN immigrants. SUN SUN What does it feel like to be seen as cash cow, possible SUN illegal immigrant or possible terrorist? Are the British as SUN hospitable as we like to think, and exactly how world class SUN is British higher education? Why do foreign students come to SUN study in Britain and how does the dream measure up against SUN the reality? SUN SUN This programme also explores another story: how the presence SUN of foreign students reveals the tensions and contradictions SUN within a UK 'national' education system now operating in a SUN globalised world driven by market forces. If Britain thinks SUN of foreign students as a problem, they will go elsewhere SUN (Sweden now offers degrees in English with no fees at all SUN for foreign students) and UK higher education will become SUN the Bates Motel of the global education world, somewhere off SUN the main road. SUN SUN Presenter: Philip Dodd SUN Producer: Simon Hollis SUN A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00v11yp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00v1yg6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00v1yg8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00v1ygb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00v158b (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN The challenges facing wildlife cameramen John Aitchison as SUN he attempts to film penguins diving in the Antarctic is SUN featured on the programme this week. There's also the tale SUN of a dramatic plot by the FBI to sabotage Citizen Kane in SUN 1941, and Berlin in the thirties as Christopher Isherwood SUN meets the enigmatic Sally Bowles. SUN SUN As Nigeria celebrates fifty years of Independence, one of SUN the original colonial cadets returns to meet up with the man SUN who became his lifelong friend. And a Scottish gamekeeper SUN also arrives in Africa to swap jobs with a Ranger in the SUN Kalahari desert. SUN SUN The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4 SUN The Empire's Last Officers - Radio 4 SUN Run Up To The Ryder Cup - Radio 4 SUN Goodbye to Berlin - Radio 4 SUN Gaugin: The Right To Dare - Radio 4 SUN Radio 1 Stories - Radio 1 SUN A View Through A Lens - Radio 4 SUN Big Game, Little Game - Radio 4 SUN The Kane Conspiracy - Radio 4 SUN The Leon Russell Story - Radio 2 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Yerma - Radio 3 SUN The Alchemist Himself - Radio 4 SUN The Danny Baker Show - Radio 5 Live SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN FAX: 0161 244 4243 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00v15dh (Listen) SUN Things take a surprising turn for Jill and Pat offers a SUN shoulder to cry on. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00v15dk (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 b00js222 (Listen) SUN Penelope's People, Divorcing Grandpa SUN SUN In Penelope's People, a new series of specially commissioned SUN monologues, Penelope Keith presents three very different SUN women, coming to terms with their changing circumstances - SUN and demonstrates her skills as a versatile character actor. SUN SUN In Divorcing Grandpa by Roy Apps, Penelope Keith plays SUN Eleanor - an upper-middle class woman whose professional SUN husband has been sent to prison for an unspecified SUN white-collar crime. In order to continue living in the style SUN to which she has become accustomed (and to continue to be SUN able to afford her darling grand-daughter's school fees) she SUN realises that she too must break the law - and quickly SUN discovers that she is rather good at it. SUN SUN Reader: Penelope Keith SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00tznbk (Listen) SUN Gay Britain SUN According to recent Office for National Statistics figures SUN the UK has fewer gay, lesbian and bisexual people living in SUN it than we thought. But gay rights groups have questioned SUN the number. Why is it so much lower than previous estimates? SUN More or Less investigates. SUN SUN Paying for bankers' mistakes SUN The Irish Central Bank has released an estimate of the total SUN cost of bailing out its banking sector: about 45bn euros, or SUN £39bn. We ask a favourite More or Less question: is that SUN really a big number? SUN SUN "Needless" deaths? SUN "More than 70 children may have died needlessly after heart SUN surgery" claimed a recent Sunday Telegraph headline. But the SUN story was based on research led by David Spiegelhalter, a SUN medical statistician and no stranger to More or Less, who SUN thinks the reporter misunderstood his numbers. SUN SUN The PM 's pay SUN Last week we noted that the prime minister's salary has SUN become a convenient benchmark against which other public SUN sector workers' pay is measured. But you wanted us to go SUN further and work out the PM's total reward. So we have. SUN SUN The micromort SUN We examine the micromort, a cheeky little unit of risk, with SUN Matt Parker, the "stand up mathematician". Matt's show at SUN the Edinburgh Fringe was a raging success (which is what SUN we'd expect of a show about maths). SUN SUN Police numbers SUN An HMIC report in July claimed that only 11% of police SUN officers are available to respond to incidents at any one SUN time. Since then the number - generally summarised as 1 in SUN 10 - has been widely quoted. The implication, it seems, is SUN that while one officer is fighting crime, the other 9 are SUN holed up in the police station eating donuts or SUN form-filling. But with the help of listener Tim Treffry we SUN examine whether that's really the conclusion we should draw. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00tzp0s (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN He starred in some of Hollywood's greatest movies, but he SUN never won an Oscar. We reflect on the life and loves of SUN Hollywood legend Tony Curtis. SUN We hear the story of the abortive coup against Soviet leader SUN Mikhail Gorbachev as we remember Gennady Yanayev, the vice SUN president who tried to topple his boss. SUN Also Catherine Walker, the discreet fashion designer who SUN created spectacular dresses for Diana Princess of Wales. SUN Jimi Heselden, the self made businessman from Yorkshire who SUN gave millions to charity and died whilst out riding his SUN Segway scooter SUN And the self styled King of the Buskers Don Partridge who SUN had a hit in the late sixties with the single "Rosie". SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00v11d8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00v131f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00txh29 (Listen) SUN The Big Society SUN Bigging It Up SUN The Coalition claims its Big Society is more than a slogan SUN and its ideas are shaping key policies. Anne McElvoy SUN investigates the little-known genesis of David Cameron's big SUN idea and examines what its roots reveal about how the SUN government will go about doing less - and ensuring society SUN does more. SUN SUN Presenter Anne McElvoy SUN Producer Simon Coates SUN Editor Innes Bowen. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00v1ygl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00v15gp (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00v15j7 (Listen) SUN Episode 21 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week James Forsyth of The SUN Spectator takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00txjw1 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Murray Melvin, the star of A Taste SUN Of Honey, who reveals the real reason why he never picked up SUN his Best Actor award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1962 SUN SUN Documentary maker Mark Cousins talks about The First Movie, SUN in which he gave movie cameras to children from a war-torn SUN village in Kurdistan so they could make their screen debuts SUN SUN Director Rodrigo Cortes reveals how he managed to make a SUN whole movie set in a coffin. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00v12xc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 04 OCTOBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00vcmsg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00txhtz (Listen) MON Liverpool Football Club - Au Pairs MON MON Laurie Taylor explores the different experiences of au pairs MON in the UK and finds that the ( predominantly ) girls view of MON the families they work for is not always very positive. MON Laurie also talks to sociologist John Williams about his new MON biography of Liverpool Football Club and explores not only MON the early history of the club in the late 19th century and MON its place in the rapidly expanding seaport of Liverpool, but MON also how it has reflected the city it inhabits and how it MON fits into what some call Liverpool's 'exceptionalism'. MON Producer: Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00v12tx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v1yht (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v1yml (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v1yn9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00v1ync (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v1ynf (Listen) MON With the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00v15m2 (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin MON Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00v1ynh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00v1mt6 (Listen) MON With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00v1mtz (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Jonathan Franzen, hailed as a 'Great MON American Novelist' for his latest book, Freedom. Amidst the MON backdrop of the war on terror, environmental disaster and MON class war, Franzen chronicles the lives, choices and MON compromises of one family. The playwright Shelagh Stephenson MON also explores family tensions in her new play, about what MON happens when a missing child returns home. Philosophy is MON under attack as advances in neuroscience question many of MON its assumptions, and yet Barry Smith argues that the science MON of the mind needs philosophers now more than ever, to make MON sense of its new discoveries. And Robert Douglas-Fairhurst MON celebrates the great Victorian journalist Henry Mayhew and MON his captivating portraits of life on the streets of London. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v1mvt (Listen) MON Exploration, Exploitation and Enlightenment MON (1680 - 1820 AD), Akan drum MON MON Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through things MON that time has left behind. Throughout this week he is MON examining the often troubled relationship between Europe and MON the rest of the world during the 18th century. MON MON Today he tells the extraordinary story of a now fragile MON African drum. It was taken to America during the years of MON the slave trade and where it came into contact with Native MON Americans. The drum was brought to England by Sir Hans MON Sloane, whose collection helped provide the British Museum MON with its first material. This drum, the earliest MON African-American object in the Museum, is a rare surviving MON example of an instrument whose music was to profoundly MON influence American culture - bought to America on a slave MON ship and transported to Britain by a slave owner. The MON historian Anthony Appiah and the writer Bonnie Greer MON consider the impact of this drum. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00v1mvw (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Cyndi Lauper famous for her hits MON 'Girls just want to have fun', 'Time after Time' and 'True MON Colours' talks about her life and new album of blues music . MON Can being wrong ever be right? Kathryn Shulz author of MON 'Being Wrong. Adventures in the Margin of Error', debates MON the issue with columnist Johann Hari. Helen Castor explores MON the power of the medieval queens and we look at how the MON family courts deal with children after divorce. The Family MON Justice Review has just finished it's public consultation, MON with their recommendations to be published next year. We MON consider whether claims that the current system is biased MON against fathers and damaging to children have any basis. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v1nh8 (Listen) MON The Power of Life and Death, The Resurrection of Imelda Sharp MON MON When a number of distinguished members of government MON committees are found dead in suspicious circumstances, it MON falls to DCI Kate Duncan of Scotland Yard's Sensitive Cases MON Squad to discover what the connecting factor is. MON MON Mark Lawson's deftly plotted murder-mystery gets to grips MON with a major concern at the heart of our cash-strapped NHS: MON the post code lottery and exactly who is to be considered MON deserving of the most expensive life saving drugs on the MON market. MON MON Kate Duncan- Haydn Gwynne MON Lorenzo- Lloyd Thomas MON Briggs- Chris McHallem MON Hermione Sharp - Abigail McKern MON Dame Imelda Sharp- Honor Blackman MON Sue Wells- Abigail McGibbon MON Dr Tom Cready- Nick Dunning MON Dee Mortimer- Stella McCusker MON Jeremy Vine- Himself MON MON Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. Written by Mark Lawson. MON MON 11:00 Brandreth's Pills b00pdk2q (Listen) MON Gyles Brandreth tells the tale of one of the most MON influential people you've never heard of - his great great MON grandfather, Benjamin. It's a story that takes us from MON Liverpool in the 1830s to New York, with a cast of MON hucksters, quacks, politicians, millionaires, and medics -- MON not to mention the founders of tabloid journalism and mass MON advertising. Benjamin Brandreth set sail from Liverpool in MON 1835 with nothing. By the time of his death in 1887 he was a MON New York senator, a landowner, the owner of one of New MON York's biggest hotels, and one of the richest men in the MON country. He had invented the giant billboard, financed MON Gordon Bennett's yellow press and developed mass MON advertising. How? Brandreth's vegetable pills! They were a MON powerful laxative. Brandreth claimed they could cure almost MON anything, he spent a fortune on advertising, and people MON believed him. MON MON Producer: Chris Bond. MON MON 11:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00v1nhb (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON January and February. Satirist Craig Brown dips into the MON private lives of public figures from the 1960's to the MON present day. MON MON As the New Year begins, great thinkers like Barack Obama, MON John Prescott and Barbara Cartland turn their thoughts to MON new beginnings. MON MON Voiced by Jan Ravens, Alistair McGowan, Lewis McLeod, Ewan MON Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and Dolly Wells. MON Written by Craig Brown. MON Produced by Victoria Lloyd. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00v1nhd (Listen) MON You and Yours is 40. To mark this special Birthday Julian MON Worricker presents the first in a series of special programmes. MON MON The Telephone. MON MON In 1970 your phone was supplied by the GPO and the big news MON was that all domestic users would soon be able to call the MON USA and Australia from the comfort of their own home. Four MON decades ago there were 6,000 telephone exchanges connecting MON calls across the UK, today there are none. MON MON To celebrate the programme's 40th anniversary You and Yours MON explores the direction of a revolution which means phones MON are now mobile mini-computers and which has given rise to MON two modern pet hates - the call centre and the automated MON switchboard. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00v2xnq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00v1nhg (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00v1nhj (Listen) MON (10/12) The teams from the North of England and the South of MON England return for a revenge fixture, in the game of MON fiendish connections and lateral thinking. The MON questionmaster is Tom Sutcliffe. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00v15dh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00dzmcf (Listen) MON Mandrake MON MON Irene, an old woman threatens her new neighbour with a MON scythe when he suggests cutting down a tree which is on his land. MON MON Irene claims that her husband is buried under the tree- "to MON cut the branches would be to cut his limbs." But the tree is MON around a hundred years old. MON MON Ruth, a social worker is called in to assess Irene's mental MON health and ability to look after herself. But as she gets to MON know Irene she is drawn into a strange and magical tale that MON will change her life forever. MON MON Cast: MON Irene ..... Sara Kestelman MON Ruth ......Martina Laird MON Poppy .......Kate Aspinall MON Aiden ..... Hugh Ross MON Nick ...... Nicholas Boulton MON MON Written and directed by Anita Sullivan MON Music by Sara Harrison MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00v1294 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 At War with Wellington Docudrama b00d1x77 (Listen) MON Peter and Dan Snow investigate the diaries and letters of MON Wellington's forces in the Peninsular War against Napoleon. MON MON The archives of the Royal Greenjackets Museum reveal how the MON men travelled, from their voyages to Portugal to their long MON forced marches, suffering in the heat and shivering in the MON rain. Songs and military airs played an important role in MON inspiring the troops to fight for King and country. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00v137p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00v1nhl (Listen) MON Islam in America 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 explore the MON history and place of Islam in America, following recent MON tensions over plans to build an Islamic cultural centre MON close to Ground Zero in New York. Confusion over whether the MON building will be a mosque or a community centre have fuelled MON suspicions over the motivation of those behind the plans and MON given rise to a wave of Islamophobia across the USA. In the MON countdown to the mid-term elections in November, is such MON anti-Muslim rhetoric politically motivated or are Americans MON having a long overdue conversation about the place of Islam MON in their society? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss this are Robert Salaam a former US MON Marine who converted to Islam and is now the editor of The MON American Muslim: Dr Hussein Rashid, Lecturer at Hofstra MON University in New York and associate editor of Religion MON Dispatches; and Daniel Pipes Director of the Middle East MON Forum in Philadelphia. MON MON The middle interview comes from Pamela Geller, editor of the MON blog, AtlasShrugs.com and author of "The Post-American MON Presidency: The Obama Administration's War on America." MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00v1nhn (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 b00v2xp9 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00v1nhq (Listen) MON Series 6, Episode 2 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. MON MON Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as: Cake, Shoes, Nudity and Walt Disney. 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 b00v1nhs (Listen) MON Robert has his hands full and Jazzer makes use of his powers MON of persuasion. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00v1nj5 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, who reports on the Turner Prize MON exhibition, featuring work from the four contenders for the 2010 award. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v1mvt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Sex, Porn and Teenagers b00v1nkx (Listen) MON "Shag bands" are thin coloured rubber bracelets, indicating MON how far the wearer will go sexually if the band is broken. MON MON Purple for a kiss or yellow for a hug may seem comparatively MON harmless but some of the other colours such as black for MON full intercourse or blue for oral sex ring alarm bells. MON MON A Wakefield MP recently campaigned to stop shops selling MON them after complaints from parents including a mother who MON innocently bought some for her 6-year old's party bag. MON Elsewhere schools have banned "shag bands" after finding MON pupils wearing them. MON MON Part of playground culture, they're often worn innocently or MON in a show of bravado but there is a darker side where early MON sexual exploration strays into the easily accessible world MON of internet porn. Where children once passed notes, they now MON use their mobile phones to share explicit images and there's MON peer pressure through social networking sites. MON MON Presenter Miranda Sawyer, herself a mother, investigates MON whether society and parents are aware of just what their MON children are getting up to and asks how concerned should we MON be about the sexualisation of children in media, advertising MON and fashion such as sale of padded bras for pre-pubescent MON girls or sexual references on T shirts for primary-aged kids. MON MON Even though teenage pregnancy rates are falling, Britain MON still has the highest rate in Western Europe. As many as 1 MON in 4 teenagers have underage sex with anecdotal evidence of MON sexual experimentation including anal sex to avoid MON pregnancy. However sex education is improving in schools and MON access to contraception and STI screening has never been MON better. MON MON But there are concerns that unlike the 'dirty mags' of their MON parent's day, teenagers now access porn which can be MON addictive, desensitising and threatening to healthy MON relationships in the future. MON MON Producer: Sara Parker MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00v1nlk (Listen) MON Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood? MON MON Women will be hit disproportionately by the Budget cuts MON already announced by the government: A new study suggests MON that they will shoulder nearly three quarters of the burden, MON because they rely more on the state for benefits and are MON more likely to work in the public sector than men. MON MON The state has reduced women's dependency on men, only to MON install itself as the new patriarch. If the state shrinks, MON it will be women who will feel the difference MON MON Is this what generations of feminists have fought for? Where MON is the sisterhood now, marching on the treasury? MON Jo Fidgen goes in search of modern feminism in the rubble of MON the economy and asks whether being a woman is no longer a MON political state. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00txj8l (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents the week's digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. In this edition: the latest planet MON capable of supporting life; how the World Wide Web unveils MON the laws of our collective behaviour; 'dry water' - a powder MON that's 95% H2O; and the discovery of Francis Crick's lost MON correspondence, revealing the fractious exchanges between MON the rival parties hunting the structure of DNA. MON MON The producer is Roland Pease. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00v1mtz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00v2xqx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00v1np8 (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. With Ritula Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00v1npb (Listen) MON Mr Chartwell, Episode 1 MON Written by Rebecca Hunt. MON MON Set across five days in July 1964 we follow the bizarrely MON intertwined lives of Sir Winston Churchill, Esther MON Hammerhans and the unwelcome visitor they both share. MON MON July 1964, and the day looms when Winston Churchill must MON leave Parliament. Meanwhile Esther, a library clerk, has her MON own black date in the diary. She also has an unusual MON visitor. MON MON The reader is Miriam Margolyes. MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Great Unanswered Questions b00v1nq7 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON The comedy entertainment show which invites listeners to ask MON questions which other shows would probably be too MON embarrassed to answer but, comedians Colin Murphy and Adam MON Bloom are only to happy to discuss. Questions such as: after MON cremation will a 20 stone person fit into a cremation jar? MON What age does the average couple cease to have sex? And, MON does each of us have the potential to be a bright sparkling MON diamond? MON MON 23:30 Mitch Benn's Wondrous Stories b00n52l1 (Listen) MON Armed with little more than a harpsichord and a copy of The MON Hobbit, musician and comedian Mitch Benn fearlessly uncovers MON the myths and legends of the symphonic concept album. MON MON Meeting some of the leading artists and fans of the genre, MON including Rick Wakeman, Jeff Wayne, David Bedford, Brian MON Blessed and Stuart Maconie, he battles capes and keyboard MON solos to rediscover the wondrous stories behind these epic MON musical extravaganzas. MON MON From Rick Wakeman's 'Journey to the Centre of the Earth' to MON Jeff Wayne's 'The War of the Worlds', musicians in the MON seventies somehow decided that it was a good idea to retell MON classic tales in the form of symphonic concept albums. MON MON Classical music met rock to spawn towering monuments to MON pretension and excess: gigantic gatefold covers, sleeve MON notes longer than a 19th century novel, and - surely its MON defining feature- portentous narration delivered by some of MON our finest thesps. MON MON For a generation of acned youth weaned on Tolkien and MON Moorcock, these epic compositions were masterpieces, a MON symphonic escape from dreary mid-70's discontent and MON economic gloom. They sold millions, but until recently, MON languished forgotten in the vinyl collections of middle-aged MON men, gathering dust in the post-punk apocalypse. But with MON The War of the Worlds now filling stadiums world wide thirty MON years on, and Rick Wakeman's two tudor-tastic Six Wives of MON Henry VIII concerts selling out at Hampton Court last year, MON can Mitch be discovering a symphonic rock renaissance? MON MON Produced by Jackie Curthoys and Dave Dodd MON A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 05 OCTOBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00vcmsv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v1mvt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v2xsn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v2xt3 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v2xt5 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00v2xt7 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v2xvq (Listen) TUE With the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00v1phk (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00v1phm (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. TUE TUE 09:00 The Brown Years b00v1php (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Steve Richards tells the inside story of Gordon Brown's time TUE as prime minister, based on revealing interviews with his TUE close colleagues. TUE TUE Interviewees include former ministers Peter Mandelson, Ed TUE Balls, Harriet Harman, Jack Straw, Douglas Alexander, Alan TUE Johnson, Hazel Blears, Peter Hain and Shriti Vadera; and TUE several former Downing St insiders including those TUE responsible for policy, political strategy and polling. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v2y7d (Listen) TUE Exploration, Exploitation and Enlightenment TUE (1680 - 1820 AD), Hawaiian feather helmet TUE TUE This week Neil MacGregor's history of the world is telling TUE the story of European encounters across the globe during the TUE 18th century. TUE TUE Today he finds out what happened to Captain Cook as he was TUE mapping and collecting in the Pacific. Neil tells the story TUE through a chieftain's helmet made from a myriad of colourful TUE bird feathers that was given to Cook when he landed in TUE Hawaii in 1778. This is not a story with a happy ending. The TUE anthropologist Nicholas Thomas and the Hawaiian academics TUE Marques Hanalei Marzan, Kyle Nakanelua and Kaholokula help TUE describe Cook's impact in the Pacific and the meaning of the TUE feathered helmet. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00v1phr (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v2y85 (Listen) TUE The Power of Life and Death, A Pill For Everything TUE TUE When a number of distinguished members of government TUE committees are found dead in suspicious circumstances, it TUE falls to DCI Kate Duncan to discover what the connecting TUE factor is. TUE TUE A series of anonymous letters suggested that Dame Imelda TUE Sharpe might have been murdered. An exhumation of the body TUE revealed the presence of a prescription drug not mentioned TUE in her medical records. TUE TUE Mark Lawson's deftly plotted murder-mystery gets to grips TUE with a major concern at the heart of our cash-strapped NHS: TUE the post code lottery and exactly who is to be considered TUE deserving of the most expensive life saving drugs on the TUE market. TUE TUE Kate Duncan-Haydn Gwynne TUE Lorenzo-Lloyd Thomas TUE Briggs-Chris McHallem TUE Hermione Sharp -Abigail McKern TUE Dame Imelda Sharp-Honor Blackman TUE Sue Wells-Abigail McGibbon TUE Dr Tom Cready-Nick Dunning TUE Dee Mortimer-Stella McCusker TUE Jeremy Vine-Himself TUE TUE Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE Written by Mark Lawson. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00v1pht (Listen) TUE Episode 23 TUE TUE 23/40. We go in search of fungi this week with expert Lynn TUE Boddy. We have reported the importance of microbes before in TUE Saving Species. "It's the little things that run the world" TUE Arron Bernstein from Harvard University told us. And fungi TUE belong to that group of little things - except not so TUE little. It's a fungus that is the largest terrestrial living TUE thing on earth with it's matrix of underground roots TUE [hyphae] spreading across an area the size of a football TUE pitch. We're in a west Wales woodland looking for the TUE wonderful fruiting bodies, the time of year when the TUE otherwise hidden fungus emerges from the ground with their TUE wonderfully shaped and coloured "spore dispersal units". TUE TUE We discover the crucial role fungi have in keeping woodlands TUE alive. TUE TUE We're also back in Africa with a report from Tessa McGregor TUE about the successful conservation of the Grevy's Zebra in TUE the Samburu National Park in Kenya. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Never Before in the History of TUE Motion Pictures... b00rkm42 (Listen) TUE With the help of Michael Winner, Invictus star Adjoah Andoh TUE and those both currently and formerly responsible for TUE bringing us the hyperbole and bombast we've come to expect TUE from film advertising, writer Patrick Humphries takes an TUE affectionate look at the story of the movie trailer. He TUE charts its beginnings from simple cinema slide into the high TUE octane technological wizardry we're used to today. TUE TUE Central to the story in the UK is Esther Harris who TUE dominated British trailer making for over fifty years TUE beginning in the 1920s. We hear from this 'Queen of TUE Trailers', herself in a never before broadcast interview. TUE This wonderfully eccentric ninety year old explains over a TUE cup of tea how her extraordinary career began and the TUE problems she encountered with censors and occasionally TUE directors including Michael Winner who she recalls told her, TUE "you're a bloody nuisance you know but you've got style!" TUE TUE Passionate trailer lover Michael Winner talks about Esther TUE and that relentlessly thorny issue, censorship and we find TUE out about his own personal trailer favourites. TUE TUE With king size thrills and breathtaking suspense, this is a TUE never before heard tribute to a unique aspect of the film TUE industry; and of course, perhaps to no one's surprise, it TUE features a very gravelly voice.... TUE TUE Produced by Katrina Fallon TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00v1pj0 (Listen) TUE When children are used as weapons in divorce battles, how TUE much damage is being done? England's most senior family TUE court judge has accused divorcing couples - and TUE well-educated parents in particular - of using their TUE children to try to score points in their personal disputes. TUE Sir Nicholas Wall said parents who separate "rarely behave TUE reasonably", use their children as both "the battlefield" TUE and "the ammunition" and simply don't realise how much TUE damage they're inflicting on them. He believes things would TUE improve if the family justice system was less adversarial TUE and discouraged parents to fight. What's your experience of TUE divorce? Were your children used to get back at the other TUE parent? If your parents divorced, what was it like for you? TUE Did one parent bad-mouth the other? Or were they able to TUE hold it together - for the sake of the children? You can TUE share your views with Julian Worricker by emailing TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 08700 100 444. (Lines open at TUE 10am on the day). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00v2yxq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00v1pk7 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00v1pk9 (Listen) TUE Series 10, The Emperor TUE TUE Majestic and moving in equal measure, Beethoven's fifth and TUE final piano concerto, The Emperor, is this week's Soul Music. TUE TUE Richard McMahon (concert pianist, and teacher at the Royal TUE Welsh School of Music and Drama) plays extracts and TUE discusses the virtuosic demands posed by The Emperor. TUE TUE Australian film producer, Hal McElroy, talks about using the TUE Adagio (the second movement) to illustrate the classic 1970s TUE film Picnic at Hanging Rock. TUE TUE That was where Andrew Law - now Chaplain at Malvern College TUE - first heard the piece. He describes the Adagio as being TUE 'one of those pieces of art which it is worth being alive to TUE have heard'. TUE TUE Concert pianist, James Rhodes, describes how The Emperor was TUE central to his childhood and his developing love of TUE Beethoven's piano music. TUE TUE Music teacher and singer, Prue Hawthorne, recalls how her TUE father (an amateur clarinetist) laboriously transcribed by TUE hand the horn and clarinet sections of the first movement so TUE they could play along with the record in their living room. TUE TUE Also contributing is the renowned Beethoven biographer, John TUE Suchet. TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00v1nhs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v1q3z (Listen) TUE The Pursuit TUE TUE By Matt Hartley. TUE TUE When a road accident ends in tragedy, the police officer TUE involved sets out to discover who was to blame. But is he TUE prepared to accept the findings? TUE TUE Paul . . . . . Don Gilet TUE Clare . . . . . Claire Price TUE Simon . . . . . Adeel Akhtar TUE Cormac . . . . . Sean Baker TUE Alison . . . . . Sally Orrock TUE Thomas . . . . . Reilly Newbold TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00v1q41 (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 Presenter: Vanessa Collingridge TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00v2z35 (Listen) TUE Three Short Stories by E Nesbit, Her Marriage Lines TUE TUE She is known now, almost exclusively, as a children's writer TUE - the author of The Railway Children. But E. Nesbit was more TUE than that: a pioneer Socialist, a campaigner for Women's TUE Rights and a passionate social reformer. She was also a TUE prolific poet and author of adult fiction. TUE TUE The stories in this series are taken from 'In Homespun', a TUE collection that was originally published in 1896, and are TUE set in the villages of South Kent and East Sussex that TUE Nesbit knew well. Told in the first person, by a variety of TUE strong, women characters- the sort of character E. Nesbit TUE specialized in - looking back on their earlier lives. Their TUE voices are robust and distinct. TUE TUE Here, by turns, are danger, comedy and romance. At stake? TUE Marriage and money. Deft and atmospheric writing from a TUE master story teller. TUE TUE Her Marriage Lines is a wonderfully comic detective story TUE cum romance. Harry, the son of the house, wants to marry TUE Poll, but the delightfully wicked old housekeeper has other TUE ideas. When the Old Man dies unexpectedly, poison is TUE suspected. But there is a surprising twist in the tale. TUE TUE Reader: Jenny Agutter TUE Abridged by Roy Apps TUE Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 At War with Wellington Docudrama b00d1znp (Listen) TUE Food and Entertainment TUE TUE Peter and Dan Snow continue their investigation into the TUE experiences of the army that marched with Wellington in TUE Spain and Portugal in 1808. TUE TUE We find out what the soldiers ate and drank, and what they TUE did for entertainment. From the groaning tables of winter TUE quarters to the arduous rations of the road, we travel from TUE the formal dances for officers and men to the honorary TUE bullfights staged for Wellington. TUE TUE The part of the Duke of Wellington is played by Benedict TUE Cumberbatch, the other members of the cast are Neil Dudgeon, TUE David Holt, Frank Stirling and David Westhead. TUE TUE Producer: Alyn Shipton TUE A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Tracing Your Roots b00v1q43 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 4 TUE TUE October is Black History Month and this week Tracing Your TUE Roots hears from listeners with family ties to the TUE Caribbean. We follow Monica Brown Johnson, whose family come TUE from Jamaica, as she makes an emotional trip to Zanzibar, TUE visiting the underground chamber where slaves - including, TUE she believes, her ancestors - were kept in horrific TUE conditions before being sold. She wants to know more about TUE her east African heritage. TUE TUE Rosemarie Barnes also has slavery on her family tree, or so TUE she thinks. Her great great great grandfather (who lived in TUE Essex in the mid-nineteenth century) shares the name of a TUE man who appears on the Jamaican slave register. Were they TUE one and the same person? And if so, how did Edward Andrews TUE get to England? TUE TUE Soldiers from the Caribbean played their part in World War TUE One, but how were they treated in comparison with their TUE white counterparts? And were false promises made to them to TUE induce them to head for Europe? Valerie Vaughan-Dick and TUE Sheena Simpson ask what their ancestors did in the war, and TUE what greeted them on their return home. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00v1q45 (Listen) TUE Shirley Williams, Sathnam Sanghera TUE TUE The start of the autumn series of A Good Read, Radio 4's TUE paperback discussion programme, is launched by veteran TUE politician Baroness Shirley Williams, who explains why she's TUE chosen 'The Kite Runner' by Khaled Hosseini. Sue MacGregor TUE is also joined by the writer Sathnam Sanghera who selects a TUE paean of praise to pop - 'Lost in Music' by Giles Smith. TUE TUE Later in the series we'll hear the paperback choices of TUE politician Edwina Currie, Will Gregory of the band TUE Goldfrapp, cricketer Mike Brearley, and mother and son - TUE both of them writers - Judith Kerr and Matthew Kneale. TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00v2z82 (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 b00v2z8s (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Write Stuff b00v1qkl (Listen) TUE Series 10, PG Wodehouse TUE TUE More literary challenges will be set as another series of TUE The Write Stuff starts, seeing the return of host, James TUE Walton, along with novelists, John Walsh and Sebastian TUE Faulks as team captains. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00v1qkn (Listen) TUE Kate's plans are thwarted and Brian tries to reach a TUE compromise. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00v2z8v (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reviews Michael Douglas as he returns TUE to the role of financier Gordon Gekko in Oliver Stone's film TUE Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v2y7d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00v1qkq (Listen) TUE The planned withdrawal of British and other foreign troops TUE from Afghanistan relies on the Afghan army and police to TUE take over security duties. TUE Since 2002, the USA has spent $27bn - over half of its total TUE reconstruction fund - training and equipping Afghan forces. TUE The aim is to build up an army of 171,600 people and a TUE police force of 134,000 by October 2011. TUE The Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants national forces to TUE be in complete control of the country by 2014. TUE But these targets, and the loyalty of some personnel, are TUE called into question by recent killings carried out by TUE members of the Afghan security forces: TUE *20 July 2010: two US weapons trainers were shot dead by an TUE Afghan soldier TUE *13 July 2010: three British soldiers were attacked by an TUE Afghan soldier who shot one dead in his bed and fired a TUE rocket-propelled grenade which killed two others TUE *3 November 2009: three British soldiers and two members of TUE the Royal Military Police were shot dead by an Afghan TUE policeman. TUE An investigation published in June 2010 by the US Special TUE Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found that TUE officials had often overstated the readiness of Afghan TUE forces, rating some units as first class when they were TUE incapable of fighting the Taliban on their own. It also TUE reported high levels of desertion, corruption and drug abuse. TUE Gerry Northam asks if the transition to Afghan control is TUE really on track. TUE TUE Producer: David Lewis Editor: David Ross. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00v1qks (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 The Secret Science of Pee b00txhvf (Listen) TUE A research team at an Edinburgh University think they've TUE cracked the answer to providing renewable, commercially TUE viable and environmentally friendly energy from it; TUE harvesting the multitude of medically powerful ingredients TUE it holds could become big business; an innovative Danish TUE company has found a way to turn it into plastics; NASA have TUE even found a novel way of cooking with it in space! TUE TUE The scientific applications for this wonder substance seem TUE almost to be without end - and the good news doesn't end TUE there. Not only is it free but we humans alone make enough TUE of it every year to replace the entire contents of Loch TUE Lomond - picture a million Olympic sized swimming pools full TUE to brimming and you're getting close - so what's the TUE downside? Attitude. More specifically, ours. Why? Well, TUE because this amber nectar, miracle-working wonder stuff is TUE urine - and we go squeamish at its mere mention, an attitude TUE that has blinded us to its astonishing versatility and TUE potential. TUE TUE In The Secret Science of Pee Sally Magnusson provides a TUE truly surprising and enlightening look at some of the more TUE extraordinary and innovative contemporary scientific TUE applications for urine; asks why we've become so TUE uncomfortable with even talking about this casually despised TUE blood product when it has been an essential part of life for TUE centuries; and considers the shocking environmental cost TUE (the UK uses 65,000 gigajoules a day to pump, stir, heat and TUE aerate our urine - that's about a quarter of the output of TUE the country's largest coal-fired power station) of flushing TUE away such an abundant and abundantly useful substance. TUE TUE Flushing the toilet will never be the same again. TUE TUE 21:30 The Brown Years b00v1php (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00v2zbx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00v1qkv (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. With Robin Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00v2zbz (Listen) TUE Mr Chartwell, Episode 2 TUE Written by Rebecca Hunt. TUE TUE Set across five days in July 1964 we follow the bizarrely TUE intertwined lives of Sir Winston Churchill, Esther TUE Hammerhans and the unwelcome visitor they both share. TUE TUE July 1964, and the day looms when Winston Churchill must TUE leave Parliament. Meanwhile Esther, a library clerk, has her TUE own black date in the diary. She also has an unusual TUE visitor. TUE TUE The reader is Miriam Margolyes. TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Shappi Talk b00lk2zh (Listen) TUE Unconventional Parents TUE TUE Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it is TUE like growing up in multi-cultural families. TUE TUE Joining Shappi will be comedian John Gordillo who shares his TUE memories of growing up in a Spanish family with a very TUE forceful father. Shappi also chats with another 'related' TUE guest- and also to Lenny Henry 'on location' to talk about TUE his family. TUE TUE There'll also be a chance for Shappi to chat with the TUE audience and there'll be a song from Hils Barker. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE An Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00v1qkx (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports as the House of Lords returns from its TUE summer break. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 06 OCTOBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00vcmt5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v2y7d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v2zgm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v2zgp (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v2zgr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00v2zh0 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v3k27 (Listen) WED With the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00v1qlp (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin WED Poyntz-Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b00v1qlr (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00v1qlt (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v3kg5 (Listen) WED Exploration, Exploitation and Enlightenment WED (1680 - 1820 AD), North American buckskin map WED WED The history of humanity - as told through one hundred WED objects from the British Museum in London - is once again in WED North America. This week Neil MacGregor, the museum's WED director, is looking at Europe's engagement with the rest of WED the world in the 18th century. WED WED Today he tells the story of a map, roughly drawn on deer WED skin, that was used as the British negotiated for land in WED the area between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi. It was WED probably drawn up by a Native American around 1774. Neil WED looks at how the French and the British were in conflict in WED the region, and examines the different attitudes to land and WED living between Europeans and Native Americans. Martin Lewis, WED an expert on maps from this region, and the historian David WED Edmunds describe the map and the clash of cultures that was WED played out within its boundaries. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00v1qlw (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Ingrid Betancourt on her 6 years WED as a hostage in Columbia. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v3ky6 (Listen) WED The Power of Life and Death, The Red Triangle WED WED When a number of distinguished members of government WED committees are found dead in suspicious circumstances, it WED falls to DCI Kate Duncan to discover what the connecting WED factor is. WED WED An autopsy has revealed that Dame Imelda Sharp may have been WED killed by an experimental drug which she had not been WED prescribed. Now toxic levels of another unprescribed drug WED have been found in the body of a second patient of the same WED GP, Dr Tom Cready. DI Kate Duncan of Scotland Yard's WED Sensitive Cases Squad is investigating. WED WED Mark Lawson's deftly plotted murder-mystery gets to grips WED with a major concern at the heart of our cash-strapped NHS: WED the post code lottery and exactly who is to be considered WED deserving of the most expensive life saving drugs on the WED market. WED WED Kate Duncan - Haydn Gwynne WED Lorenzo - Lloyd Thomas WED Briggs - Chris McHallem WED Hermione Sharp - Abigail McKern WED Dame Imelda Sharp - Honor Blackman WED Sue Wells - Abigail McGibbon WED Dr Tom Cready - Nick Dunning WED Dee Mortimer - Stella McCusker WED Jeremy Vine - Himself WED WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. WED Written by Mark Lawson. WED WED 11:00 Parting Shots b00v1qly (Listen) WED Series 2, Cold Warriors and the perils of forecasting WED WED Matthew Parris opens classified Foreign Office files to WED discover valedictory despatches from behind the Iron WED Curtain. British diplomats used the traditional last WED telegram home from a foreign post to recount the strains of WED life under Communism - and its occasional upsides. WED WED The programme reveals landmark despatches from Britain's WED last ambassadors to the Soviet Union, released for the first WED time under Freedom of Information, as well as a wealth of WED earlier material from the depths of the Cold War. WED WED This episode also looks at the perils of forecasting; the WED valedictory was a place where ambassadors would chance their WED arm with predictions about the direction of future events WED abroad. WED WED Producer: Andrew Bryson. WED WED 11:30 The Secret World b00svnnc (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Parallel stories unfold from morning til night as the great WED and good become embroiled in the most unlikely situations. WED Repeat of Series 2, Epsiode 1. WED WED The producer/creator is Bill Dare. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00v3l19 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00v3l2s (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00v1qnh (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00v1qnk (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00v1qkn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v1qnm (Listen) WED Stone, Collateral Damage WED WED Series created by Danny Brocklehurst. Written by Martin WED Jameson. WED WED DCI John Stone is forced to open up an investigation into WED the death of Gary Taylor, a veteran of the Iraq War WED suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The theory WED that he died from a self-inflicted drug overdose is turned WED on it's head when one of his ex-army mates accuses Gary's WED grieving widow of having murdered him. WED WED Stone.....Hugo Speer WED Sue.....Deborah McAndrew WED Tanner.....Craig Cheetham WED Copsey.....Paul Oldham WED Carol.....Becky Hindley WED Lisa.....Suranne Jones WED Jason.....Johann Myers WED Steve.....Andrew Westfield WED Waleria.....Vivienne Harvey WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00v1qnp (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00v39mh (Listen) WED Three Short Stories by E Nesbit, The Bristol Bowl WED WED Jane's aunt is a real ogre to work for, but Jane is after WED her money, so she puts up with it. WED WED Everything is going to plan, until the day Jane smashes The WED Bristol Bowl- aunt's prize bit of porcelain. That disaster WED takes her on her first trip to London and a very surprising WED offer of marriage. WED WED Reader: Jenny Agutter WED Abridged by Roy Apps WED Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 At War with Wellington Docudrama b00d1znr (Listen) WED Spoils of War WED WED Everybody knows the phrase "the spoils of war", but what WED does it really mean? WED WED Peter and Dan Snow introduce more of the experiences of WED Wellington's army in the Iberian Peninsula 200 years ago, WED and pull no punches in describing looting, pillaging and WED worse, as the French, Spanish and English armies clashed in WED some of the most famous battles in history. WED WED The part of the Duke of Wellington is played by Benedict WED Cumberbatch, the other members of the cast are Neil Dudgeon, WED David Holt, Frank Stirling and David Westhead. WED WED Producer: Alyn Shipton WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00v1qrz (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Secret Science of Pee b00txhvf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00v1qs1 (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 b00v3m7c (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Maltby Collection b00c81sm (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED WED The Maltby Collection's staff pitch their ideas for a WED special exhibition to be hosted by the museum, Prunella WED suffers from cold feet and Des resigns. again. 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 b00v1qs3 (Listen) WED It's starters for ten at the Bull pub quiz and Jazzer is WED full of bright ideas. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00v3mb1 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who interviews actor Rory Kinnear as he WED prepares to play Hamlet. WED WED Producer Gavin Heard. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v3kg5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b00v1qtl (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Mariella and her guests share their thoughts this week on WED the best way of breaking bad news to children. If you have WED to tell your kids that you're separating how honest should WED you be with them? Do we tell our children too much, even WED treat them as "best friends" at times to the detriment of WED their emotional well-being? When it comes to bad news in the WED media - should we let them see everything or should we WED censor what they hear and see? WED WED Producer: Sarah Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Le News, C'est Moi b00v6l8x (Listen) WED For generations, while the scandal-hungry British press have WED happily ferreted around the bedroom antics of their WED politicians, France has proudly boasted higher standards. WED Politicians' private lives were private - and the President WED in particular was a remote and austere figure. Now the BBC's WED former Paris correspondent Emma Jane Kirby explains how the WED traditional relationship between French politicians and the WED press is changing dramatically under President Sarkozy. WED WED "President Bling Bling" as he's been dubbed is like no WED previous French President. His new approach made him - WED initially at least - the darling of the media. His glamorous WED marriage to model-turned-singer Carla Bruni turned politics WED into a celebrity show. His willingness to appear on TV at WED the drop of a hat is legendary. And dutifully ticking the WED gender equality box, Sarkozy's first cabinet was stocked WED with photogenic female ministers - irresistible to TV editors. WED WED But these tactics have created a backlash. With far greater WED transparency, the traditional reverence which reined in the WED French press for most of the duration of the Vth Republic WED has gone. Nicolas Sarkozy has changed France's press for ever. WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00v1qtn (Listen) WED Carbon Capture Conundrum WED WED What's happening in the Gulf of Mexico is quite literally a WED drop in the ocean compared to the growing plastic pollution WED further out in the Pacific and now found closer to home in WED the North Atlantic. Thirteen years after the world woke up WED to the threat from plastic polluting our seas and CTE's WED award-winning expose of the potential threat to our food, we WED reveal how far from winning the war on plastic pollution WED it's actually getting worse. WED WED Along British beaches UFO's - unidentified floating objects WED are appearing in larger quantities than ever before. The WED Marine Conservation Society recently reported that the WED amount of plastic on our beaches has more than doubled in WED the last 15 years and more and more of it ends up inside or WED wrapped around our wildlife. Nobody knows what these oddly WED shaped bits of plastic are or where they have come from but WED there are increasingly urgent attempts to find out how much WED of it might be out there and what we can do to stop it. WED WED The Pacific Gyre, a vortex of floating plastic already twice WED the size of France, is well documented but Gyres in the WED North and South Atlantic, The Indian Ocean and a further WED Pacific patch whilst long suspected have only just been WED discovered. Anna Cumming of the 5 Gyres Project discovered WED the North Atlantic Gyre in February and the Project is about WED to sail for the Southern Atlantic. WED WED High profile campaigners like David de Rothschild, who WED sailed to the Pacific Gyre on a boat made of plastic bottles WED called The Plastiki, have told us about the sheer horror and WED size of the rubbish patch, now Costing the Earth looks at WED what can be done about it. The Plastiki boat has been made WED using a revolutionary new plastic which is completely WED recyclable, a new plant in Ireland plans to turn plastic WED waste into fuel and there is even a new plastic being made WED from algae. WED WED The University of Sheffield are also researching the use of WED microbes to break down the plastics already in the sea. WED Prevention would be the key but with the gyres themselves WED only the tip of the problem and 70% of the plastic we allow WED into the sea sinking to the sea-bed a solution to disperse WED these giant rubbish islands is essential. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00v1qlt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00v3mdg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00v1qvt (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. With Robin Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00v4m08 (Listen) WED Mr Chartwell, Episode 3 WED Written by Rebecca Hunt. WED WED Wednesday 22nd July has been a long day for Esther, and it WED is still not over - Mr Chartwell has promised to tell her WED more about himself and just what the nature of his work is. WED WED The reader is Miriam Margolyes. WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop b00v1qvw (Listen) 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 "Choice". WED WED Produced by Claire Grove WED WED 23:15 A Series of Psychotic Episodes b00v1qvy (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Slightly skewed sketch comedy from comedian Miriam Elia. WED WED Edward the Hamster makes a friend, and Sweep has an WED interesting story about his life before he met Sooty. WED WED Written by Miriam Elia & Ezra Elia WED WED Featuring the voices of: WED Rachel Atkins WED Miriam Elia WED Pippa Evans WED Geoff McGivern WED David Reed WED Dan Tetsell WED WED Script edited by Jon Hunter WED Produced by Victoria Lloyd. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00v77rh (Listen) WED Sean Curran with all the latest news from the House of WED Lords. WED WED THU THURSDAY 07 OCTOBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00vcn5x (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v3kg5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v3mwy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v3mxg (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v3wcw (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00v3wcy (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v3wds (Listen) THU With the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00v1qy6 (Listen) THU Presented By Charlotte Smith and produced by Fran Barnes. THU THU 06:00 Today b00v1qy8 (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00v1qyb (Listen) THU The Spanish Armada THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Spanish Armada, the THU fleet which attempted to invade Elizabethan England in 1588. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v3x6v (Listen) THU Exploration, Exploitation and Enlightenment THU (1680 - 1820 AD), Australian bark shield THU THU The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects THU from the British Museum in London. This week Neil MacGregor, THU the Director of the Museum, is looking at Europe's THU engagement with the rest of the world during the 18th Century. THU THU Today he is with an object "freighted with layers of THU history, legend, global politics and race relations". It is THU an aboriginal shield from Australia, originally owned by one THU of the men to first set eyes on Europeans as they descended THU on Botany Bay nearly 250 years ago. This remarkably THU well-preserved object was brought to England by the explorer THU Captain Cook. What can this object tell us about the early THU encounter between two such different cultures? Phil Gordon, THU the aboriginal Heritage Officer at the Australian Museum in THU Sydney, and the historian Maria Nugent help tell the story. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00v1qz7 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Ingrid Betancourt on her 6 years THU as a hostage in Columbia. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v3xx7 (Listen) THU The Power of Life and Death, Nice Distinctions THU THU When a number of distinguished members of government THU committees are found dead in suspicious circumstances, it THU falls to DCI Kate Duncan to discover what the connecting THU factor is. THU THU Two elderly female patients of Dr Tom Cready - a GP - have THU been found to have died from experimental drugs which they THU had not been prescribed. The doctor was a critic of the THU NHS's prescription policy and it has emerged that the two THU dead women served on drug-licensing committees. DCI Kate THU Duncan is urgently returning to interview Dr Cready. THU THU Mark Lawson's deftly plotted murder-mystery gets to grips THU with a major concern at the heart of our cash-strapped NHS: THU the post code lottery and exactly who is to be considered THU deserving of the most expensive life saving drugs on the THU market. THU THU Kate Duncan - Haydn Gwynne THU Lorenzo - Lloyd Thomas THU Briggs - Chris McHallem THU Hermione Sharp - Abigail McKern THU Dame Imelda Sharp - Honor Blackman THU Sue Wells - Abigail McGibbon THU Dr Tom Cready - Nick Dunning THU Dee Mortimer - Stella McCusker THU Jeremy Vine - Himself THU THU Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. THU Written by Mark Lawson. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00v1qz9 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Lennon Visitors b00v1qzc (Listen) THU Every year, around 8,000 people from 50 countries pay homage THU to John Lennon at his childhood home, Mendips. But who are THU these visitors and what do they seek from an ordinary THU suburban semi in Liverpool? Comedian, Alexei Sayle, took the THU National Trust tour in 2009 and was so taken with its 1950s THU charm and with the spirit of it, that he's gone back; this THU time meeting custodian, Colin Hall and finding out what it's THU like to live in one of the most famous houses in Liverpool. THU He also talks to some of those who visited the house when THU John Lennon lived there - John's cousin Mike; Colin Hanton, THU the drummer in John Lennon's band, the Quarrymen; and Freda THU Kelly, the Beatles' Club Secretary. And of course just a few THU of those 8000 visitors. This half hour documentary runs as THU Liverpool celebrates what would have been John Lennon's 70th THU birthday. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00v3ynd (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. Ten councils have THU been told to improve asbestos management in their schools or THU face the legal consequences. This is a result of survey THU carried out by the Health and Safety Executive in 152 local THU authorities. THU THU One area which is proving robust in the recession is the THU sale of baby products. We examine how the market has changed THU and the increasing competition among retailers to secure a THU place in this market. THU THU Research indicates that almost half of the UK's leading THU brands are sending out unwanted emails to people and failing THU to follow best practice guidelines. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00v3yng (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00v1r8v (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00v1qtn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00v1qs3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v1r9k (Listen) THU Visitors THU THU Peter Tinniswoood's final play, written just before his THU death in 2003, is an elegaic drama on the shortness of life THU and the frailty of love. THU THU Shacklock ..... Roy Hudd THU Stella ..... Emma Fielding THU THU Music ..... David Chilton THU Abridger ..... Liz Goulding THU Producer ..... Gordon House THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00v10mr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00v131f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00v39s8 (Listen) THU Three Short Stories by E Nesbit, Grandsire Triples THU THU Kate's 'intended' comes back from learning farming, a THU Catholic. THU THU Kate is torn between duty and love, a conflict that is THU dramatically resolved when the two lovers inadvertently get THU locked in the bell tower, during a Grandsire Triple peal THU ("there's five thousand and fifty changes to 'em, and it's a THU matter of three hours!') groans Kate. THU THU Reader: Jenny Agutter THU Abridged by Roy Apps THU Producer/Director: Celia de Wolff THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 At War with Wellington Docudrama b00d1znt (Listen) THU When an army went to war in the Napoleonic era, it wasn't THU just a question of soldiers on the march. In this episode we THU delve into the letters and diaries of the Royal Greenjackets THU Museum, Peter and Dan Snow discover who else accompanied the THU redcoats as they fought in Portugal and Spain. THU THU From the loyal women who drew lots to accompany their THU husbands into battle to the children carried through all THU kinds of terrain and conditions, we discover all about the THU retinue that had to be fed and watered whenever an army took THU to the road. THU THU The part of the Duke of Wellington is played by Benedict THU Cumberbatch, the other members of the cast are Neil Dudgeon, THU David Holt, Frank Stirling and David Westhead THU THU Producer: Alyn Shipton THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00v1511 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00v1rbd (Listen) THU With a new batch of Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Chemistry and THU Physics announced this week, Quentin Cooper assesses the new THU Laureates' impact on science. THU THU Producer: Roland Pease. THU THU 17:00 PM b00v1rbg (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 b00v3yt7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b00j72sb (Listen) THU Series 5, The 1864 Mining Disaster THU THU It's the end of the series for Clare in the Community and, THU possibly, the end of the Sparrowhawk Family Centre. THU THU Sally Phillips plays social worker Clare Barker who has THU entered a caring profession so that she can sort out other THU peoples' problems rather than deal with her own. THU THU In the last of the current series, Clare organises a charity THU benefit in a bid to keep the Family Centre open. The benefit THU will showcase the talents of her colleagues - and Ray's folk THU songs. 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 b00v1rbj (Listen) THU Roy and Hayley receive an unwelcome letter and Kate hears THU some home truths. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00v3ywn (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Aaron Sorkin, THU creator of White House drama The West Wing, who has scripted THU The Social Network, a film about the founders of Facebook. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v3x6v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00v1rfz (Listen) THU There were an estimated 12 million incidents of anti-social THU behaviour in England and Wales last year but only about a THU quarter were reported to the police. Now there's evidence THU that in some areas those calls are not taken seriously THU enough, with the emphasis on more 'serious' crime. As forces THU brace themselves for large spending cuts, Jane Dodge asks THU whether the policing of anti-social behaviour will suffer. THU THU The Chief Inspector of Constabulary in England and Wales, THU Sir Denis O'Connor said in its latest report, that it's time THU to 'reclaim some neighbourhoods'. He warned chief constables THU to think carefully before making cuts as they could tip some THU areas into a spiral of economic and social decline, and said THU that what's needed are feet on the street. But critics claim THU this is scaremongering in an attempt to save frontline jobs. THU THU We hear from those on the receiving end of anti-social THU behaviour and those trying to stop it: the victims who THU become prisoners in their own homes and about the few THU extreme cases which have resulted in death. Some express THU frustration with the lack of police action. So how can anti THU social behaviour be tackled when budgets are tight? To get THU an insight into the challenges of juggling resources and THU meeting the public expectations we spend time with two THU forces in the North of England both with very different THU approaches to anti-social behaviour. THU THU Producer: Samantha Fenwick. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00v1rg1 (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00v1pht (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00v1qyb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00v3yx4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00v1rg3 (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 b00v4m0x (Listen) THU Mr Chartwell, Episode 4 THU Written by Rebecca Hunt. THU THU Having agreed that Black Pat aka Mr Chartwell can stay over THU for a night, Esther is not sure what to expect in the THU morning. THU THU The reader is Miriam Margolyes. THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mwm67 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 6 THU THU David Mitchell and Robert Webb star in the final episode of THU their sketch series That Mitchell and Webb Sound. THU THU This week you can meet the world's leading crime-fighting THU tortoise; there's a man who really really doesn't like board THU games; we witness the not-very auspicious invention of the THU salad; and a group of office workers find that whenever they THU have trouble putting up a flipchart or working the THU photocopier Superman is on hand to help them. Although he's THU beginning to out-stay his welcome. Plus the only Orthopaedic THU Supplies Company in Britain to have it's own portal to THU another dimension is starting to regret using it as a bin, THU and some very helpful old ladies ask a certain pair of THU comedians what they plan to do once they decide to get a THU proper job. THU THU David Mitchell and Robert Webb are joined by Sarah Hadland, THU James Bachman and Olivia Colman. THU THU The Producer was Gareth Edwards. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00v3yxg (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports on the days events in the House of THU Lords. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 08 OCTOBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00vcn65 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v3x6v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v3zdn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v3zdx (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v4ky6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00v4ky8 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v4kyb (Listen) FRI With the Rev. Dr. Craig Gardiner. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00v1rgp (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne Marie FRI Bullock. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00v1rgr (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v78zw (Listen) FRI The 100th Object FRI FRI Neil MacGregor and the British Museum have chosen the final FRI object for A History of the World in 100 Objects. Radio 4 FRI will reveal it to the nation on 14th October. Before that FRI announcement, Evan Davis has been to the museum to see what FRI objects were considered for the short list to be the 100th, FRI and from which the final object was selected. Can something FRI made in 2010 really speak to future generations of the FRI challenges and ingenuity of our time? Evan Davis finds out. FRI FRI 09:05 Desert Island Discs b00v137f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v4l55 (Listen) FRI Exploration, Exploitation and Enlightenment FRI (1680 - 1820 AD), Jade bi FRI FRI Neil MacGregor's world history told through the things that FRI time has left behind. Throughout this week, Neil has been FRI looking at Europe's discoveries around the world and its FRI engagement with different cultures during the 18th century - FRI the European Enlightenment project. FRI FRI Today he describes what was happening in China during this FRI period, as the country was experiencing its own FRI Enlightenment under the Qianlong Emperor. He tells the story FRI through a jade ring (called a Bi) that was probably made FRI around 1500 BC and then written over during the Qing FRI dynasty. What does this prehistoric piece of jade tell us FRI about life in 18th century China? The historian Jonathan FRI Spence and the poet Yang Lian find meaning in this FRI intriguing object. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00v1rh6 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v4ldy (Listen) FRI The Power of Life and Death, A Death for a Death FRI FRI When a number of distinguished members of government FRI committees are found dead in suspicious circumstances, it FRI falls to DCI Kate Duncan to discover what the connecting FRI factor is. FRI FRI An autopsy has revealed that Dame Imelda Sharp may have been FRI killed by an experimental drug which she had not been FRI prescribed. Now toxic levels of another unprescribed drug FRI have been found in the body of a second patient of the same FRI GP, Dr Tom Cready. DI Kate Duncan of Scotland Yard's FRI Sensitive Cases Squad is investigating. FRI FRI Mark Lawson's deftly plotted murder-mystery gets to grips FRI with a major concern at the heart of our cash-strapped NHS: FRI the post code lottery and exactly who is to be considered FRI deserving of the most expensive life saving drugs on the FRI market. FRI FRI Kate Duncan - Haydn Gwynne FRI Lorenzo - Lloyd Thomas FRI Briggs - Chris McHallem FRI Hermione Sharp - Abigail McKern FRI Dame Imelda Sharp - Honor Blackman FRI Sue Wells - Abigail McGibbon FRI Dr Tom Cready - Nick Dunning FRI Dee Mortimer - Stella McCusker FRI Jeremy Vine - Himself FRI Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI Written by Mark Lawson. FRI FRI 11:00 Big Game, Little Game b00v1rh8 (Listen) FRI Episode 2 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 Producer: Sue Mitchell. FRI FRI 11:30 Psmith in the City b00dgjw3 (Listen) FRI First Steps in a Business Career FRI by PG Wodehouse, dramatised by Marcy Kahan. FRI FRI Comedy series following the adventures of the extraordinary FRI Psmith and his friend Mike in the world of Edwardian finance. FRI FRI Mike's future looks gloomy when he's forced to give up his FRI dreams of university and work in a bank. But help is at FRI hand... FRI FRI P.G. Wodehouse ..... Simon Williams FRI Psmith ..... Nick Caldecott FRI Mike Jackson ..... Inam Mirza FRI John Bickersdyke ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Mr Rossiter/Mr Jackson ..... Chris Pavlo FRI Mr Waller ..... Jonathan Tafler FRI Bannister ..... Robert Lonsdale FRI FRI Produced by Abigail le Fleming. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00v4lf0 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00v4lf2 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00v1rhb (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00v1rjw (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI Coinciding with the arrival of the new series of Feedback, FRI is a new Radio 4 controller. FRI FRI Is Radio 4 going to have a whole new sound? Will 'The FRI Archers' go urban and 'Just A Minute' take an extra 30 seconds? FRI FRI Keep your ear to the ground and let Feedback know what you FRI think. FRI FRI If you were the new controller, would you have some big FRI changes to make? What's good and what's bad? Where should FRI the investment be going, where is money being wasted? FRI FRI This is the place to hear those at the top of BBC radio FRI justifying their decisions. If you hear something that riles FRI you, let us know and we will take your opinions right to the FRI top. FRI FRI We will also be digging down into the mystery of the FRI programme makers world. Getting an idea of why things turn FRI out the way they do, and giving you a chance to comment and FRI offer suggestions on the way things are done. FRI FRI So, get in touch. If you have a complaint about a programme FRI anywhere on BBC Radio, or perhaps thoughts on how something FRI could be handled better, let us know. Equally, if you've FRI heard something brilliant, tell us. FRI FRI We are also interested in your general views about how FRI broader BBC decisions affect your experience as a listener. FRI You can contact us about everything from programme FRI scheduling to management pay. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00v1rbj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v1rlh (Listen) FRI Maidens' Trip FRI FRI By Emma Smith. Dramatised for radio by David Ashton (writer FRI of the popular Radio 4 detective series McLevy). FRI FRI First published in 1948, this adaptation of Emma Smith's FRI fictionalised memoir opens in 1943 and relates the FRI adventures of three eighteen-year-old girls who'd signed on FRI with the Grand Union Canal Carrying Company to replace FRI workers drafted overseas. FRI FRI Quite literally thrown in at the deep end Emma, Charity and FRI Nanette embark on their maiden voyage - carrying steel north FRI by canal from London to Birmingham - surmounting the FRI dangerous, back-breaking work thanks largely to an endearing FRI mix of youthful bravado and blissful ignorance. Steering FRI their way through the 'other world' of the boat people, the FRI girls, often out of their depth, face up to an assortment of FRI challenges with courage and good cheer. FRI FRI Tilly.......... Greta Scacchi FRI Emma...... Emily Wachter FRI Charity..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Nanette.... Georgia Groome FRI Wilfred..... Rufus Wright FRI Mr Silver... Sean Baker FRI Eli Silver... Lloyd Thomas FRI FRI Director.... Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00v1rlk (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs this programme from Blenhiem Palace, FRI Oxfordshire. He is joined by panellists Christine Walkden, FRI Anne Swithinbank and Chris Beardshaw. FRI FRI Emma Morris from our Listeners' Gardens series is at the FRI Malvern Autumn Show, where she is advised on the do's and FRI don't's of plant shopping. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 At War with Wellington Docudrama b00d1znw (Listen) FRI Medicine FRI FRI It wasn't good news if you were injured in battle 200 years FRI ago. Men were as likely to die from the ministrations of the FRI doctors as from their wounds during the Portuguese and FRI Spanish campaigns against Napoleon. FRI FRI Concluding their look at the letters and diaries of the FRI soldiers and men who fought alongside Wellington, Peter and FRI Dan Snow find out what happened to the wounded, and how they FRI were looked after during a five year conflict in which FRI thousands of soldiers were seriously injured. FRI FRI The part of the Duke of Wellington is played by Benedict FRI Cumberbatch, the other members of the cast are Neil Dudgeon, FRI David Holt, Frank Stirling and David Westhead. FRI FRI Producer: Alyn Shipton FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00v1rm4 (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 b00v1rm6 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Tim Hetherington, the director of FRI Restrepo, a fly-on-the-wall documentary about American FRI soldiers in Afghanistan. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00v1rmx (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 b00v4llf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00v1rmz (Listen) FRI Series 72, Episode 2 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, FRI Sue Perkins and Andy Hamilton. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00v1rn1 (Listen) FRI Written By . Nawal Gadalla FRI Directed By . Rosemary Watts FRI Editor . Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ... Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer ... Richard Attlee FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ... Judy Bennett FRI David Archer ... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ... Helen Monks FRI Pat Archer ... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ... Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge ... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ... Angela Piper FRI Adam Macy ... Andrew Wincott FRI Ian Craig ... Stephen Kennedy FRI Kate Madikane ... Kellie Bright FRI Matt Crawford ... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ... June Spencer FRI Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ... Dan Ciotkowksi FRI Roy Tucker ... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker ... Lorraine Coady FRI Phoebe Tucker ... Lucy Morris FRI Brenda Tucker ... Amy Shindler FRI Robert Snell ... Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell ... Carole Boyd FRI Bert Fry ... Eric Allan FRI Jazzer McCreary ... Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd ... John Rowe FRI Izzy ... Lizzie Wofford FRI Barry ... Robin Simpson FRI Marty ... Jonny Magro FRI Martyn Gibson ... Jon Glover FRI Andrew Eagleton ... John Flitcroft FRI Gerry Morton ... Mark Perry FRI Matthew ... Ben Whybrow. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00v4lsn (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with actor Martin FRI Shaw. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v4l55 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00v1rq5 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from City FRI Academy, in Southwark, London with questions for the panel FRI including Iain Duncan-Smith, Secretary of State for Work & FRI Pensions, David Starkey, historian and Claire Fox, director FRI of the Institute of Ideas. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00v1rq7 (Listen) FRI Sarah Dunant reflects on topical events FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00v1rq9 (Listen) FRI The Power of Life and Death, Omnibus FRI FRI When a number of distinguished members of government FRI committees are found dead in suspicious circumstances, it FRI falls to DCI Kate Duncan of Scotland Yard's Sensitive Cases FRI Squad to discover what the connecting factor is. FRI FRI Mark Lawson's deftly plotted murder-mystery gets to grips FRI with a major concern at the heart of our cash-strapped NHS: FRI the post code lottery and exactly who is to be considered FRI deserving of the most expensive life saving drugs on the FRI market. FRI FRI Kate Duncan- Haydn Gwynne FRI Lorenzo- Lloyd Thomas FRI Briggs- Chris McHallem FRI Hermione Sharp - Abigail McKern FRI Dame Imelda Sharp- Honor Blackman FRI Sue Wells- Abigail McGibbon FRI Dr Tom Cready- Nick Dunning FRI Dee Mortimer- Stella McCusker FRI Jeremy Vine- Himself FRI Written by Mark Lawson. FRI The Power of Life and Death was directed in Belfast by Eoin FRI O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00v4lsq (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00v1rqc (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. With Ritula Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00v4m42 (Listen) FRI Mr Chartwell, Episode 5 FRI Written by Rebecca Hunt FRI FRI The weekend is approaching, together with the imminent FRI anniversary of Esther's husband's death. But an unexpected FRI task is set for Esther by her boss at the Westminster Library. FRI FRI The reader is Miriam Margolyes. FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00v1q45 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Shelved b00p7g8b (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley recounts how the political circumstances of the FRI late 1970s resulted in three of the most popular TV series' FRI of the time - Dr Who, Secret Army and The Professionals - FRI each having at least one episode scrapped after filming. FRI Interviewees include the then Dr Who, Tom Baker. FRI
01 October, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 02/10/2010 - 08/10/2010
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