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SAT SATURDAY 09 OCTOBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00v68n6 (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 b00v4l55 (Listen) SAT Exploration, Exploitation and Enlightenment (1680 - 1820 AD), Jade bi SAT SAT Neil MacGregor's world history told through the things that SAT time has left behind. Throughout this week, Neil has been SAT looking at Europe's discoveries around the world and its SAT engagement with different cultures during the 18th century - SAT the European Enlightenment project. SAT SAT Today he describes what was happening in China during this SAT period, as the country was experiencing its own SAT Enlightenment under the Qianlong Emperor. He tells the story SAT through a jade ring (called a Bi) that was probably made SAT around 1500 BC and then written over during the Qing SAT dynasty. What does this prehistoric piece of jade tell us SAT about life in 18th century China? The historian Jonathan SAT Spence and the poet Yang Lian find meaning in this SAT intriguing object. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v68nv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v68tc (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v68v6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00v68v8 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v4lzc (Listen) SAT With the Reverend David Arnott. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00v68vn (Listen) SAT Who benefits? SAT SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00v68w7 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00v68w9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00v6957 (Listen) SAT Series 16, Episode 4 SAT SAT Clare Balding walks with a group of women who have produced SAT their own book of walks in the Peak District called 'Women's SAT Ways' that celebrates their friendships and the countryside SAT around their home city of Sheffield. SAT SAT The group walked a circular route from the village of SAT Wardlow in Derbyshire OS Map Explorer OL24 SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00v6959 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00v695c (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00v695x (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vhvwz (Listen) SAT The 100th Object SAT SAT Neil MacGregor and the British Museum have chosen the final SAT object for A History of the World in 100 Objects. Radio 4 SAT will reveal it to the nation on 14th October. Before that SAT announcement, Evan Davis has been to the museum to see what SAT objects were considered for the short list to be the 100th, SAT and from which the final object was selected. Can something SAT made in 2010 really speak to future generations of the SAT challenges and ingenuity of our time? Evan Davis finds out. SAT SAT 09:05 Saturday Live b00v697m (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by Editor of The Lady Rachel Johnson. SAT The poet is Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00v697p (Listen) SAT British Countryside and Tasmania SAT SAT John McCarthy talks to the chair of The Royal Society for SAT Wildlife Trusts, Michael Allen, about great writing on the SAT British countryside and how the Trusts are encouraging SAT people to get out of town and become involved with SAT conservation pursuits. Journalist Patrick Barkham tells of SAT his love of butterflies and how hunting all the native SAT species leads him to some unexpectedly wild spots in Britain. SAT SAT Women's historian Susanna Hoe is a regular visitor to SAT Tasmania and explores the island from the point of view of SAT some of the significant women in its past, the places SAT associated with them and the burgeoning tourist industry there. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b00v697r (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt turns private eye, investigating the supposed SAT curse of the Crying Boy paintings. The pictures became a SAT tabloid sensation in the 1980s when in a spate of house SAT fires the portraits were often the only items to survive SAT unscathed. SAT SAT 25 years after the story hit the headlines, Punt attempts to SAT get to the bottom of why the paintings didn't perish. Radio SAT 4's dogged detective tracks down one of the mysterious SAT portraits and speaks to former owners, an occultist and fire SAT investigator as well as former Sun editor Kelvin MacKenzie SAT who broke the story nationwide. Finally, Punt sets fire to SAT the the portrait he's acquired - can he make it catch light? SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00v698v (Listen) SAT After three remarkable party conferences and with the SAT Comprehensive Spending Review, a referendum on a new voting SAT system for the Westminster Parliament and elections to the SAT devolved administrations important for all UK political SAT parties in the coming months, Andrew Rawnsley looks at how SAT the main UK parties are positioning themselves in SAT unchartered political waters. He looks at the language and SAT labels of the much-vaunted "new politics". He also discovers SAT what voters in the West Midlands think of the political SAT cross-dressing the parties have indulged in since the SAT general election. And in discussion with former Conservative SAT cabinet minister, Peter Lilley; just-appointed Shadow Work SAT and Pensions Secretary, Douglas Alexander; and the Liberal SAT Democrat deputy leader, Simon Hughes, he explores what is SAT really new in the new politics. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00v699t (Listen) SAT From Our Own Correspondent is in Algeria this morning with a SAT tale about miles of red tape and a missing chest of drawers. SAT SAT But also how, polling day's coming in Burma, a country where SAT no-one under the age of 38 has ever voted in an election. SAT SAT and why in the recent unrest in Indian Kashmir, journalists SAT too have become targets. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00v69bq (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 b00v1rmz (Listen) SAT Series 72, Episode 2 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, SAT Sue Perkins and Andy Hamilton. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00v69bs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00v69c5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00v1rq5 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from City of SAT London Academy, in Southwark, London with questions for the SAT panel including Iain Duncan-Smith, Secretary of State for SAT Work & Pensions, Caroline Flint, Labour MP, David Starkey, SAT historian and Claire Fox, director of the Institute of Ideas. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00v69ck (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 b00g8n5s (Listen) SAT Theremin by Melissa Murray SAT SAT Leon Theremin, gifted inventor and reluctant spy, is forced SAT to find a way to bug the US Embassy in London. Now he has to SAT save himself and his former lover from both the CIA and the SAT KGB. SAT SAT Theremin: Tom Hollander SAT Alex: Kate Ashfield SAT Olga: Ania Sowinski SAT Will: Trystan Gravelle SAT Sergei/Ambassador: Stephen Critchlow SAT Boss: Malcolm Tierney SAT Ambassador's wife/Waitress: Janice Acquah SAT Bart: Jonathan Tafler SAT News seller/Man 2: Chris Pavlo SAT Bellboy/Man 1: Dan Starkey SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00v1pk9 (Listen) SAT Series 10, The Emperor SAT SAT Majestic and moving in equal measure, Beethoven's fifth and SAT final piano concerto, The Emperor, is this week's Soul Music. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00v69f9 (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00v69fc (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines with Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00v1rg1 (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 advertising, SAT branding and lifestyle management discuss viral videos, SAT social networking and some of the other methods companies SAT now employ to reach out to their customers. SAT SAT The panel also discusses positive thinking. Is better to be SAT optimistic in business, or realistic? SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Alex Cheatle, chief SAT executive of the lifestyle management company Ten Group; SAT Jasmine Montgomery, co-founder of branding consultancy Seven SAT Brands; Robin Wight, president of communications group SAT Engine. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00v69fp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00v69gx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00v69lj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00v6by2 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00v6by4 (Listen) SAT Yvette Cooper, Shadow Foreign Secretary SAT SAT For this week's BBC Radio 4 Profile, Mary Ann Sieghart SAT focuses on Yvette Cooper, recently announced as the new SAT Shadow Foreign Secretary. SAT SAT Yvette Cooper became an MP in 1997 and became politically SAT close to Gordon Brown. She's held a number of Ministerial SAT roles, introducing sometimes controversial legislation and SAT facing controversy herself during the MPs' expenses SAT investigation. She has juggled high profile jobs with SAT bringing up three young children and she won this week's SAT shadow cabinet elections - by a large margin. SAT SAT So how did Yvette Cooper manage to become so popular so SAT quickly? And with this latest promotion, where might her SAT political future take her in Ed Miliband's new Labour Party? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00v6by6 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00v6by8 (Listen) SAT The Death of the Battleaxe SAT SAT Theatre director Jude Kelly takes a personal look at the SAT demise of "the battleaxe", from her birth as a comic SAT stereotype in the Victorian music-hall to her death from SAT political correctness. With the help of some loud and SAT familiar voices from the archives, she argues the case for SAT the return of the battleaxe - a woman cruelly joked-about by SAT men, but whose disappearance has left the world a duller SAT place. SAT SAT With contributions from writers such as George Orwell, SAT Jeanette Winterson and Stan Barstow, as well as actresses SAT like Thora Hird, Kathy Staff, Peggy Mount and Patricia SAT Routledge, Jude's history of the battleaxe is not just a SAT parade of glorious comic characters; it sets out a thesis SAT about the role of the "Ena Sharples" stereotype, both in SAT drama and in real life. SAT SAT Kelly argues that the white, northern battleaxe disappeared SAT from our comedy culture when her real life counterpart SAT stopped being a threat to the male ego; but no sooner had SAT she stumped off the stage than other domineering women took SAT her place, such as the Asian mother or the bossy SAT social-worker. In the end, Jude Kelly concludes, it's not SAT about whether women can laugh at themselves - it's about SAT who's writing the jokes. SAT SAT Producer: Peter Everett. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00v14v4 (Listen) SAT Goodbye to Berlin, Episode 1 SAT SAT Isherwood's dramatic eyewitness account of Berlin in the SAT early 30s, the book that inspired Cabaret. SAT SAT Living in Berlin as a young man, Isherwood encountered a SAT range of vibrant characters both ordinary and extraordinary SAT whose daily lives reflect a city and its people at a very SAT particular time in history. He observed at first hand how SAT ordinary people, at every level of society, became sucked SAT into the new era of Hitler and his kind. SAT SAT Christopher Isherwood ..... James Norton SAT Natalia Landauer ..... Nicola Schoessler SAT Fraulein Schroder/Sally Bowles ..... Leslie Malton SAT Fraulein Mayr ..... Julia Reznik SAT Herr Landauer ..... Matthias Horn SAT Bernhard Landauer ..... Andre Kaczmarczyk SAT Otto Nowak ..... Tilmar Kuhn SAT SAT Sound design: Eloise Whitmore SAT Pianist: Paulette Marla Schmidt SAT Producer/Director: Polly Thomas SAT A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00v6c1p (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b00v1qtl (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 3 SAT SAT Mariella and her guests share their thoughts this week on SAT the best way of breaking bad news to children. If you have SAT to tell your kids that you're separating how honest should SAT you be with them? Do we tell our children too much, even SAT treat them as "best friends" at times to the detriment of SAT their emotional well-being? When it comes to bad news in the SAT media - should we let them see everything or should we SAT censor what they hear and see? SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00v1nhj (Listen) SAT (10/12) The teams from the North of England and the South of SAT England return for a revenge fixture, in the game of SAT fiendish connections and lateral thinking. The SAT questionmaster is Tom Sutcliffe. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00v157m (Listen) SAT Roger McGough goes through the Poetry Please requests to SAT find poems about the things that make a house a home. SAT Listeners suggest poetry evoking memories of home as a SAT mercurial place of light and shade changing as we grow SAT older. There are poems by AA Milne, UA Fanthorpe, RL SAT Stevenson which together go beyond the mere bricks and SAT mortar into unique places and spaces for childhood and SAT growth, for nourishment, for bereavement and decline. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 OCTOBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00v6cl9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00j0gd7 (Listen) SUN Abroad, Hesitation SUN SUN Series of three edgy tales of people abroad, by Virginia SUN Gilbert. SUN SUN A husband on holiday with his wife is tested to the limit by SUN the tantrums of a young boy he just cannot help being SUN annoyed by. When the boy gets into difficulties one evening SUN in the pool, the husband's hesitancy to rush to his aid SUN forces his wife to look at him in a new light. Read by SUN Philip Jackson. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v6clc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v6clf (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v6clh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00v6clk (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00v6cqq (Listen) SUN The bells of St Michael's, Cornhill, City of London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00v6by4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00v6clm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00v6cty (Listen) SUN This week's programme celebrates the effectiveness of fables SUN and asks why they are still considered such powerful SUN teaching tools. SUN SUN Most of the major faiths use stories to illustrate morals, SUN philosophy or ideas. Mark asks why is this perceived as such SUN a good way of making religious or ethical points and how SUN stories have become such a staple of great preaching for SUN thousands of years. He looks for the type of the great fable SUN or parable and finds some teaching stories that have a SUN lasting effect on the way we behave and why. SUN SUN The programme draws on readings from The Bible, the SUN Panchatantra and the novelists Javier Marios, George Orwell SUN and Rabih Alahmeddine as well as poetry by Whitman and SUN Herbert. Music includes works by Mahler, Alfven and the SUN Soweto String Quartet. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00v6cv0 (Listen) SUN Getting to the heart of country life with a look at SUN individual farming endeavours. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00v6clp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00v6clr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00v6cv2 (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 b00v6cv4 (Listen) SUN Arthritis Research UK SUN SUN Lysette Anthony presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Arthritis Research UK. SUN SUN Donations to Arthritis Research UK should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Arthritis Research UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 SUN 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Arthritis Research UK with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 207711, SC041153. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00v6clt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00v6clw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00v6dgj (Listen) SUN Did Jesus ever learn anything? SUN SUN from Belhaven Parish Church, Dunbar. SUN With Alison Twaddle, General Secretary of the Church of SUN Scotland Guild. Preacher: the Minister, the Rev Laurence SUN Twaddle. The congregation is joined by Dunbar Choral Society SUN directed by Vaughan Townhill. SUN Organist: Fergus Malcolm. SUN Reading: Matthew 15.21- 28 SUN Music: SUN All people that on earth do dwell (Old 100th) SUN Lord, you have come to the seashore (Pescador de Hombres) SUN Beati quorum (Stanford) SUN Blessing and honour and glory and power (Bonnie George SUN Campbell) SUN Lord of life I come to you (Eriskay Love Lilt) SUN Be Thou my vision. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00v1rq7 (Listen) SUN Student Psyche SUN SUN Sarah Dunant reflects on the character of the new generation SUN of students. Will they swap apathy for political activism SUN once the cuts in higher education and the expected hike in SUN tuition fees are revealed and how are they dealing with the SUN emotional challenge of growing up? SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00v6dmf (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00v6dnn (Listen) SUN Written By ... Nawal Gadalla SUN Directed By ... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ... Helen Monks SUN Pat Archer ... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ... Stephen Kennedy SUN Kate Madikane ... Kellie Bright SUN Matt Crawford ... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ... June Spencer SUN Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ... Dan Ciotkowksi SUN Roy Tucker ... 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SUN SUN Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as: Cake, Shoes, Nudity and Walt Disney. 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 SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00v6dqx (Listen) SUN Northern Apples SUN SUN Scagglethorpe Queening, Ribston Pippin, the Wass - Simon SUN Parkes meets those restoring the orcharding tradition of the SUN north, from the walled community garden at Helmsley to the SUN orchard village of Husthwaite, and samples some of the SUN commercial fruits of these orchards including a new cider SUN brandy from the orchards of Ampleforth Abbey. SUN SUN Dr Joan Morgan, apple expert and author of the seminal New SUN Book of Apples, outlined many of the great northern SUN varieties at the RHS London Autumn Harvest Show. SUN SUN Michael Jack, President of the National Fruit Show, and a SUN BBC Food & Farming Awards judge, samples some of the orchard SUN drinks: Cheshire Apple Juice from Eddisbury Fruit Farm, SUN Husthwaite's cider, and Ampleforth's cider brandy. SUN SUN Producer: Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00v6cly (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00v6dx7 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Africa at 50 b00v6dx9 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN The Democratic Republic of Congo has been independent for 50 SUN years, and endured the most painful, brutal history of any SUN African state. It has survived dictatorship, political SUN assassination and still on-going conflicts. SUN SUN But there are dramatic changes, as the Chinese move in with SUN a controversial barter deal to build roads, hospitals and SUN universities, in exchange for a cut of the country's vast SUN mineral wealth. It is 'win win' according to the Congolese SUN Government and the Chinese Ambassador. But critics say the SUN DRC is getting a raw deal. SUN SUN Robin Denselow reports from the capital, Kinshasa, where the SUN locals say: 'The only rule is there are no rules'. SUN SUN Millions of people struggle to find money for education and SUN health care, and poverty forces 14,000 children to live on SUN the streets. Some are cast out from their families as SUN witches, street girls face the dangers of sexual violence SUN and Robin meets rapper, Djack, who sings against the SUN brutalisation of women. He records his songs, with street SUN children, and with the poorest of the poor in the desolate, SUN and cruelly named, City of Hope. SUN SUN Robin also tracks down legendary musicians and politicians SUN who shaped DR Congo's independence in 1960 and looks at why SUN UN peacekeepers were there then, and are still there now. SUN SUN Producer: Liz Carney SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00v1rlk (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs this programme from Blenhiem Palace, SUN Oxfordshire. He is joined by panellists Christine Walkden, SUN Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs. SUN SUN Emma Morris from our Listeners' Gardens series is at the SUN Malvern Autumn Show, where she is advised on the do's and SUN don't's of plant shopping. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 A View Through a Lens b00v6fzg (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 5 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 5/5. The Invisible Cat. Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison SUN travels to North West Canada in search of lynx. Lynx are SUN wild cats which spend most of their time in forests, so it's SUN rare to see them at all, but with the help of a local SUN tracker, John and his colleagues hope to get close enough to SUN film a lynx for the BBC Natural History television series SUN LIFE. Tracking lynx involves looking for their prints in the SUN snow. Of course lynx prints aren't the only prints found in SUN the snow - and even when you find lynx prints, you have to SUN work out how old they are to know if the owner is nearby. SUN The lynx proves exceptionally elusive, and the team and SUN their tracker try every trick in the book - even smearing SUN smelly stuff on twigs to lure the lynx. But nothing works. SUN Finally a lynx is spotted and John films it. The initial SUN excitement however is somewhat dampened when they realize SUN the lynx is too far away and there just aren't enough shots. SUN Their last hope lies with a local man from the First SUN Nations, called Thomas Joe. John follows this calm and SUN knowledgeable man into the forest, where he fixes a sack of SUN dried pike to a tree trunk. Thomas Joe explains that the SUN lynx will turn up at about 4 o'clock, when the snow is not SUN so crunchy "harder for the rabbit to hear him coming", he SUN says. John follows Thomas Joe as he examines tracks in the SUN snow and they settle down to wait in the snow, hoping for SUN the arrival of the 'invisible cat'. SUN SUN Presented by John Aitchison SUN Produced by Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00v6g34 (Listen) SUN Goodbye to Berlin, Episode 2 SUN SUN 1931 and Berlin is changing fast. Isherwood finds his old SUN friends struggling with the hardships of poverty and the new SUN restrictions that the Nazis impose on society. SUN SUN The poignancy of those who are able to flee and those who SUN have no choice but to stay is reinforced by Isherwood's SUN dilemma: can he remain in the city he once loved as it falls SUN totally under Hitler's power? 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 Contributions from Peter Leonhard Braun and Radio SUN Berlin-Brandenburg SUN Producer/Director: Polly Thomas SUN A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00v6gnl (Listen) SUN In a special edition of the programme from the Cheltenham SUN Literary Festival, Mariella Frostrup talks to Booker of SUN Bookers winner Salman Rushdie about his new novel, Luka and SUN the Fire of Life. A companion piece to his earlier book for SUN children 'Haroun and the Sea of Stories', this book has the SUN same family at its heart but the adventure and magic belong SUN to Haroun's younger brother, Luka. SUN SUN Joining them will be American crime writer James Ellroy who SUN will be talking to Mariella about his memoir "The Hilliker SUN Curse" in which he describes his obsessive pursuit of women SUN following his mother's murder when he was ten. SUN SUN Plus - an appreciation of the work of Alan Garner, author of SUN the classic children's book The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, SUN published 50 years ago. Set in Alderley Edge, the novel SUN follows the story of Colin and Susan and the Wizard who SUN saves them. The literary editor of The Times, Erica Wagner, SUN pays tribute to Garner's arresting and unique imaginative SUN world. SUN SUN PRODUCER: SALLY SPURRING. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00v6gnn (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces a miscellany of requested poems. SUN Autumn. Rain storms. Migrant birds. Anton Lesser and Eleanor SUN Tremain read. SUN SUN The curious Victorian poet James Henry begins the programme. SUN Elizabeth Jennings and Edwin Muir follow. Peter Reading's SUN radio poem Maritime is at the heart of the edition: blending SUN three stories, the desperate attempts of Odysseus to get SUN home from Troy, a ship wreck in the Atlantic in 1609 and his SUN own birdwatching memories from Hilbre Island. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00v1qkq (Listen) SUN The planned withdrawal of British and other foreign troops SUN from Afghanistan relies on the Afghan army and police to SUN take over security duties. SUN Since 2002, the USA has spent $27bn - over half of its total SUN reconstruction fund - training and equipping Afghan forces. SUN The aim is to build up an army of 171,600 people and a SUN police force of 134,000 by October 2011. SUN The Afghan President Hamid Karzai wants national forces to SUN be in complete control of the country by 2014. SUN But these targets, and the loyalty of some personnel, are SUN called into question by recent killings carried out by SUN members of the Afghan security forces: SUN *20 July 2010: two US weapons trainers were shot dead by an SUN Afghan soldier SUN *13 July 2010: three British soldiers were attacked by an SUN Afghan soldier who shot one dead in his bed and fired a SUN rocket-propelled grenade which killed two others SUN *3 November 2009: three British soldiers and two members of SUN the Royal Military Police were shot dead by an Afghan SUN policeman. SUN An investigation published in June 2010 by the US Special SUN Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction found that SUN officials had often overstated the readiness of Afghan SUN forces, rating some units as first class when they were SUN incapable of fighting the Taliban on their own. It also SUN reported high levels of desertion, corruption and drug abuse. SUN Gerry Northam asks if the transition to Afghan control is SUN really on track. SUN SUN Producer: David Lewis Editor: David Ross. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00v6by4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00v6cm0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00v6cm2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00v6cm4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00v6gpk (Listen) SUN Sarah Montague makes her selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN On the programme this week, Alexei Sayle takes us on a tour SUN of Liverpool and John Lennon's childhood home. We go out on SUN a bear hunt with women in Canada. There's musical theatre, SUN the Scissor Sisters in concert and Beethoven's music for the SUN soul. We ponder the nature of forgiveness and redemption. SUN And revel in the honesty of politicians and diplomats.. SUN SUN The Lennon Visitors - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: Return of the Battleaxe - Radio 4 SUN The Musical - Radio 2 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN History of the World in 100 Objects - Radio 4 SUN The Brown Years - Radio 4 SUN Parting Shots - Radio 4 SUN The Ballad of Africa - World Service SUN File on 4 - Radio 4 SUN Woman's Hour - Radio 4 SUN In Concert - Radio 2 SUN Sex, Porn and Teenagers - Radio 4 SUN The Unbelievable Truth - Radio 4 SUN Bob Harris - Radio 2 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 b00v6gq0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from Ambridge. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00v6gr5 (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 b00js5t6 (Listen) SUN Penelope's People, Making Ends Meet SUN SUN Series of monologues performed by Penelope Keith, presenting SUN resourceful characters responding very differently to big SUN changes in their lives. SUN SUN By Cathy Feeny. Lonely widow Cora has been made redundant. SUN Cash is tight, but she still cannot resist the tempting SUN knick-knacks from the mail order catalogues. A chance SUN meeting offers her a way to beat the credit crunch and get SUN out of mounting debt. SUN SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00v1rjw (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00v1rm4 (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN Metropolitan Police Commissioner Sir Robert Mark who cleaned SUN up widespread corruption among the forces detectives SUN Sir Norman Wisdom - whose performances as a lovable underdog SUN stemmed from rejection and poverty in his childhood SUN The influential moral philosopher Philippa Foot who put her SUN principles into action by working for Oxfam SUN Mahinder Singh Pujji - who was thought to be the last SUN remaining Sikh and Indian fighter pilot from the second world war SUN And Gloria Stuart, the Hollywood actress who was nominated SUN for an Oscar for playing a one hundred year old survivor in SUN "Titanic". SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00v69bq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00v6cv4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00v1nlk (Listen) SUN Whatever Happened to the Sisterhood? SUN SUN Women will be hit disproportionately by the Budget cuts SUN already announced by the government: A new study suggests SUN that they will shoulder nearly three quarters of the burden, SUN because they rely more on the state for benefits and are SUN more likely to work in the public sector than men. SUN SUN The state has reduced women's dependency on men, only to SUN install itself as the new patriarch. If the state shrinks, SUN it will be women who will feel the difference SUN SUN Is this what generations of feminists have fought for? SUN Where is the sisterhood now, marching on the treasury? SUN Jo Fidgen goes in search of modern feminism in the rubble of SUN the economy and asks whether being a woman is no longer a SUN political state. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00v6cm6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00v6h63 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00v6h7b (Listen) SUN Episode 22 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 David Aaronovitch of SUN The Times takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00v1rm6 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Oliver Stone about his return to SUN Wall Street for his credit-crunch sequel, Money Never Sleeps. SUN SUN Rhys Ifans reveals why he was worried about ruining the life SUN of his friend Howard Marks by starring in a film of his life SUN SUN Tim Hetherington, the director of Restrepo, discusses his SUN fly-on-the-wall documentary about American soldiers in SUN Afghanistan SUN SUN Critic Pasquale Iannone surveys two new films about Italian SUN politics, past and present. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00v6cty (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 OCTOBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00vcvqp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00v1qrz (Listen) MON Drugs trial calamity - McCarthy stigma MON MON Professor Laurie Taylor looks at new research dealing with MON the McCarthy period in US History when actors and artists MON found themselves unable to work having been denounced or MON charged for having associations with communism. The stigma MON and the effect of the accusations is examined by Elizabeth MON Pontikes, author of 'Stained Red' and she discusses her MON detailed analysis of the work prospects of those associated MON with black listed actors and film workers in the US film MON Industry from 1945 to 1960. Laurie also talks to Professor MON Adam Hedgecoe about his sociological research into a drug MON trial that went disastrously wrong. MON Producer: Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00v6cqq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v6hk1 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v6hk3 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v6hk5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00v6hk7 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v6hnv (Listen) MON With the Rev David Arnott. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00v6hnx (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin MON Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00v6hkc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00v6hnz (Listen) MON Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vhvx9 (Listen) MON The 100th Object MON MON Neil MacGregor and the British Museum have chosen the final MON object for A History of the World in 100 Objects. Radio 4 MON will reveal it to the nation on 14th October. Before that MON announcement, Evan Davis has been to the museum to see which MON objects were considered for the short list to be the 100th, MON and from which the final object was selected. Can something MON from 2010 really speak to future generations of the MON challenges and ingenuity of our time? Evan Davis finds out. MON MON 09:05 Start the Week b00v6hts (Listen) MON In a special programme recorded at the Cheltenham Literature MON Festival Andrew Marr talks to Bernhard Schlink, author of MON 'The Reader', about his latest novel to be translated, which MON pits youthful idealism against the reality of terrorism. MON Margaret MacMillan explores the uses and abuses of history, MON while Peter Snow tries to unpick the man from the legend in MON his biography of Wellington. Sebastian Faulks explores the MON history of the novel, and discusses the challenges in both MON historical and contemporary fiction. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v6htv (Listen) MON Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD), MON Ship's chronometer from HMS Beagle MON MON Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through MON things. Throughout this week he is examining the global MON economy of the 19th century - of mass production and mass MON consumption. Today he is with an instrument that first MON helped Europeans to navigate with precision around the world MON - a marine chronometer. The one Neil has chosen actually MON accompanied Darwin on his great voyage to South America and MON the Galapagos Islands - a journey that was to help lead him MON to his revolutionary theories on evolution. MON The geographer Nigel Thrift and the geneticist Steve Jones MON celebrate the chronometer and the profound changes it MON prompted. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00v6htx (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Tara Palmer Tomkinson on her first MON novel 'Inheritance', her battle with drugs, and eating MON diamonds by mistake. World renowned violinist Anne-Sophie MON Mutter talks about her life and career. We look at Women's MON Rights in Kenya with Baroness Stern of Vauxhall and Mary MON Njeri of the Kenyan NGO the Coalition on Violence Against MON Women and we consider hygiene and toilets in British Schools MON as part of the Global Handwashing Day initiative. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v6jgc (Listen) MON Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 1 MON MON Set partly on an Ayrshire farm and in the boom town of 19th MON Century Glasgow in the 1870s - the story of the Moorhouse MON family through good times and bad. MON From the novel by Guy McCrone, dramatised by Clara Glynn. MON MON Phoebe Moorhouse, aged 10, lives on a farm in Ayrshire, but MON when tragedy strikes her father and stepmother MON the future becomes uncertain. Phoebe's older brother Mungo MON is experienced enough to run the farm, but can he cope with MON bringing up his sister as well? MON MON Phoebe Moorhouse........Natasha Watson MON Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan MON Mrs. Barrowfield............Juliet Cadzow MON Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate MON Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing MON Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson MON David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson MON Sarah...........................Lisa Nicoll MON Struan..........................Jamie Brotherston MON MON Other parts played by members of the cast. MON MON Producer/director: David Ian Neville. MON MON 11:00 Buying Health Care b00v6kbb (Listen) MON "It will turn the NHS upside down" is one description of the MON proposed changes in the Health White Paper published in MON July.GPs are to be put in charge of buying services for MON their patients, a role currently held by the Primary Care MON Trusts. Penny Marshall investigates how this will change the MON NHS and asks what it will mean for patients. MON Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. MON MON 11:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00v6kcr (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON March & April. Satirist Craig Brown dips into the private MON lives of public figures from the 1960's to the present day. MON MON As lambs frolic in meadows Frank McCourt, Alistair Campbell MON and Sharon Osborne contemplate the spring. 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 b00v6kft (Listen) MON Julian Worricker speaks to the Health Secretary Andrew MON Lansley about the biggest shake up of the NHS in England MON since its inception. The union Unison is taking the MON government to court over its white paper on health service MON reform. We find out why, and get reaction from doctors and MON patients. MON MON Plus we visit the Spanish city where new technology is on MON trial allowing you to pay via your mobile phone rather than MON cash or cards. MON MON Our reporter Jon Douglas returns to Alnwick High Street to MON find out if the empty shops he found on his last visit are MON now in use. MON MON We discuss the extent to which people with disabilities MON should be spared the pain of spending cuts. MON MON And, how is money being made from old mobile phones? MON MON 12:57 Weather b00v6hkf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00v6khh (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00v6khk (Listen) MON (11/12) The 2010 series reaches the penultimate contest, MON with Scotland badly needing a win and Wales going all-out MON for their fourth victory out of four. Tom Sutcliffe asks the MON questions, with Alan Taylor and Michael Alexander appearing MON for Scotland, and Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards MON representing Wales. MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00v6gq0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v6klb (Listen) MON Till Jihad do us Part MON MON Meena is not an observant Muslim. She enjoys bacon butties, MON gets a little tipsy from time to time and has had her fair MON share of boyfriends. But she's nearly 30 and the pressure is MON on to settle down. MON MON Written by Shai Hussain in his first drama for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Meena Khatoon ..... Rokhsaneh Ghawam-Shahidi MON Sarwar Hussain ..... Sagar Arya MON Mrs Khatoon .... Nina Wadia MON Jamil ..... Perveen Hussain MON Kaleem .... Kulvinder Ghir MON Frederick ..... Conor Alexander MON MON Sound design by Eloise Whitmore MON Producer: Melanie Harris MON A Crosslab Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00v6by8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Big Bang Day: Five Particles b00d8yw8 (Listen) MON The Electron MON MON Simon Singh examines the significance of five subatomic MON particles in five programmes In the first programme he tells MON the story of the discovery of the electron. MON MON Just over a century ago, British physicist J.J. Thomson MON experimenting with electric currents and charged particles MON inside empty glass tubes, showed that atoms are divisible MON into indivisible elementary particles. But how could atoms MON be built up of these so called "corpuscles"? An exciting 30 MON year race ensued, to grasp the planetary model of the atom MON with its orbiting electrons, and the view inside the atom MON was born. Whilst the number of electrons around the nucleus MON of an atom determines the chemistry of all elements, the MON power of electrons themselves has been harnessed for MON everyday use: electron beams for welding,cathode ray tubes MON and radiation therapy. MON MON Producer Adrian Washbourne. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00v6dqx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b00v6kng (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 1 MON MON Whether it's a device in your pocket, a PC on your desk, or MON components built into nearly every part of the world around MON us, technology is part of the fabric of our daily lives. MON Simon Cox is at the helm for a new series of BBC Radio 4's MON guide to all things digital. MON MON Each week Simon presents a range of stories ranging from the MON latest cutting edge developments to the practical, MON day-to-day ways technology affects all of us. Be it MON exploring the psychology of online behaviour, asking when MON battery technology will catch up with the growing demands on MON our portable devices, or finding out whether 3D's time has MON finally come, Click On will be there to guide you. MON MON 17:00 PM b00v6l9w (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 b00v6hkh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00v6l9y (Listen) MON Series 6, Episode 3 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 In this edition, recorded at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe, Rhod MON Gilbert, Kevin Bridges, Tom Wrigglesworth and Lucy Porter MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Spiders, Mushrooms, MON Eggs and Edinburgh. 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 b00v6lb8 (Listen) MON The latest news from Ambridge. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00v6ldd (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on how Chinese artist Ai MON Weiwei has answered the challenge of creating new work for MON the vast space of the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v6htv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Graduate b00t3vl4 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Jonathan, Mohsin, Caroline, and Fiona are four graduates MON from Leeds University and Leeds Metropolitan University who MON completed their degrees in June last year. They had studied MON hard and paid there fees, and were ready to begin the search MON for that elusive first job. But, along with over 300,000 MON other graduate hopefuls, they were joining the job market in MON the midst of a recession and when the number of students MON going to university was at the highest it had ever been. MON MON From handing out CVs, applying for work experience and MON signing on, to returning home, dealing with rejection and, MON in some cases, finding work, Sarfraz Manzoor pieces their MON year together. MON MON This programme follows the group in their first six months MON as graduates. Like their peers, our graduates believed that MON a degree would be an investment for their futures, with MON higher salaries and rapid career progression being the MON expected returns. But will their much coveted degree MON certificate be a stepping stone to a job, or is it time for MON them to revaluate this traditional narrative, and reconsider MON why they went to university in the first place? MON MON In addition to their encounters and thoughts, Sarfraz MON Manzoor offers insights into the graduate labour market. For MON example, he hears how important graduates are for the growth MON of specialist markets in the UK, yet questions whether they MON are, in fact, up to the task: one company reveals that out MON of 2000 applications, they were unable to find 20 suitable MON candidates. MON MON Combining first-hand testimony with wider analysis, Sarfraz MON Manzoor explores the genuine experience of today's graduate, MON the impact they have on the economy and society, and what MON their futures may hold. MON MON Produced by Katie Burningham MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00v6lkp (Listen) MON The Spirit Level: the theory of everything? MON MON The Spirit Level is a book that aims to change the way you MON see the world. MON MON It has impressed politicians on both sides of politics, with MON David Cameron and David and Ed Milliband all reportedly MON taking note of its message. MON MON Packed with scattergrams and statistics, the book argues for MON more equal societies. The authors, epidemiologists Richard MON Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, make the case that countries MON with higher income inequality tend to have more health and MON social problems. Equality, they say, is better for everyone. MON MON But The Spirit Level has been accused of imbalance itself. MON MON Critics from the right have launched a scathing attack, MON saying the book's methods and arguments are flawed. MON MON So who is right? Mukul Devichand examines the evidence. MON MON Producer: Ruth Alexander. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00v1rbd (Listen) MON With a new batch of Nobel Prizes in Medicine, Chemistry and MON Physics announced this week, Quentin Cooper assesses the new MON Laureates' impact on science. MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00v6hts (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:05 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00v6hkk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00v6llv (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00v6ln8 (Listen) MON Mr Chartwell, Episode 6 MON MON Written by Rebecca Hunt MON MON Black Pat continues to lay siege to Esther and Beth issues MON an invitation to a lunch party. 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 b00v6lnb (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON MON Sometimes there isn't an obvious answer to an obvious MON question but this won't stop comedians Ardal O' Hanlon and MON Colin Murphy pressing resident nerds Dr David Booth and MON Matthew Collins to find out the answers to questions such MON as; why do people kiss? Why do pizzas come in a square box? MON And, do snails think slowly? You may not get the answers you MON were expecting but you'll certainly have a few laughs. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00v6lnd (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports as MPs return to Westminster after the MON conference season. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00vcvrv (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 b00v6htv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v6lv6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v6lv8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v6lvb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00v6lvd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v6lvg (Listen) TUE With the Rev David Arnott. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00v6lxb (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00v71p1 (Listen) TUE Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vhvxy (Listen) TUE The 100th Object TUE TUE Neil MacGregor and the British Museum have chosen the final TUE object for A History of the World in 100 Objects. Radio 4 TUE will reveal it to the nation on 14th October. Before that TUE announcement, Evan Davis has been to the museum to see what TUE objects were considered for the short list to be the 100th, TUE and from which the final object was selected. Can something TUE made in 2010 really speak to future generations of the TUE challenges and ingenuity of our time? Evan Davis finds out. TUE TUE 09:05 The Long View b00v71p4 (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland compares the present public spending TUE review with the 'Geddes Axe' of 1921-22. TUE TUE In the early 1920s, in the face of mounting economic and TUE political pressure, Prime Minister David Lloyd George TUE committed the government to massive public spending cuts. TUE Then as now it was a coalition government faced with the TUE challenge of driving through savings. Lloyd George appointed TUE the Geddes Committee to decide where the axe should fall. TUE TUE Jonathan and guests draw on the lessons of the early 20s to TUE debate the difficulties of delivering economies in public TUE spending and the potential political fallout. TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 09:30 Africa at 50: Wind of Change b00v71qp (Listen) TUE This year is very special for Africa: Seventeen African TUE states that gained political independence in 1960 are TUE celebrating 50 years of existence as self-governing TUE nation-states. And the number of countries gaining TUE independence was to double over the next three years, as the TUE wind of change swept through Africa. TUE TUE In Africa at 50: The wind of Change, Tanzanian journalist TUE Adam Lusekelo presents some personal reflections and TUE reminiscences from five Africans living through those TUE momentous events in five former British colonies. TUE TUE We hear from Elizabeth Ohene who was 12 years old when the TUE Gold Coast achieved independence from Britain in 1957. As TUE Africa's first post- independence leader, Kwame Nkrumah TUE became a hero to millions all over the continent, inspiring TUE others in their struggles against colonial powers. Ghana was TUE the forerunner in the race to independence, which for many TUE other countries was just beginning as the wind of change TUE swept through Africa. TUE TUE But Elizabeth's father remained unimpressed. He opposed the TUE union of the British protectorate of Togoland with the TUE newly-independent state of Ghana, and kept the young TUE Elizabeth home from school so that she could not take part TUE in independence celebrations. As a result she was suspended TUE from school- the first of many run-ins she would TUE subsequently have with authorities. TUE TUE Elizabeth Ohene describes how by 1960, Ghana had become a TUE magnet for many other would-be independence movements, and TUE several future leaders found inspiration and funding in Accra. TUE TUE Producer: Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans production for Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v71qr (Listen) TUE Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD), TUE Early Victorian tea set TUE TUE This week Neil MacGregor's history of the world is looking TUE at how the global economy became cemented in the 19th TUE century, a time of mass production and mass consumption. He TUE tells the story of how tea became the defining national TUE drink in Britain - why have we become so closely associated TUE with a brew made from leaves mainly grown in China and TUE India? The object he has chosen to reflect this curious TUE history is an early Victorian tea set, made in Staffordshire TUE and perfectly familiar to all of us. The historian Celina TUE Fox and Monique Simmonds from Kew gardens find new meaning TUE in the ubiquitous cuppa. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00v71rc (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Why is it important for children TUE to wash their hands? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v71v1 (Listen) TUE Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 2 TUE TUE Set partly on an Ayrshire farm and in the boom town of 19th TUE Century Glasgow in the 1870s - the story of the Moorhouse TUE family through good times and bad. TUE From the novel by Guy McCrone, dramatised by Clara Glynn. TUE TUE Following the death of her parents, Phoebe Moorhouse aged TUE 10, moves to Glasgow to live with her brother Arthur and his TUE wife Bel. But how will free spirit and country girl Phoebe TUE adapt to life in the bustling city and to life with her TUE 'new' parents? TUE TUE Phoebe Moorhouse........Natasha Watson TUE Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan TUE Mrs. Barrowfield............Juliet Cadzow TUE Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate TUE Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing TUE Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson TUE David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson TUE Sarah...........................Lisa Nicoll TUE Struan..........................Jamie Brotherston TUE TUE Other parts played by members of the cast. TUE Producer/director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00v71v3 (Listen) TUE Episode 24 TUE TUE 24/40. In earlier episodes of Saving Species we followed the TUE life and times of British seabirds on the Isle of May and TUE the Cliffs near Tain, both in Scotland. We reported good TUE news and bad news in a number of seabird species from both TUE sites at the time they were rearing their chicks: Puffins TUE seemed to be doing alright, Fulmars not so, Kittiwakes not TUE good - but shags in places have had a good year. Over recent TUE weeks lots of data has been crunched and we have TUE ornithologist Bob Swann telling us how Fulmars, Kittiwakes, TUE Puffins and Shags and other seabirds have done in various TUE places around the UK - and in particular from two colonies TUE he has been monitoring for upwards of 40 years in Scotland. TUE TUE And we take the plight of British birds story further. TUE Biologists from Oxford University have been studying the TUE decline in British birds and have come up with work that TUE indicates that bird decline in the UK is an indicator of TUE wider mass extinctions over the world. What exactly does TUE this mean? And how can British birds inform us about the TUE rest of the world? We will find out. TUE TUE Also, bees. We report new research looking at what the Honey TUE Bee waggle dance tells us about nectar sources in gardens TUE and the countryside. And to a great source of autumn nectar, TUE Ivy, and the Ivy Bee. Kelvin Boot hunts down this Euro Bee - TUE one of the new visitors to this country linked, we're told, TUE to warmer winters and a super-abundance of Ivy in southern TUE England. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Shapes of Things: BB Remembered b00v71w4 (Listen) TUE Kate Best looks back at the life and work of 'B.B.' - the TUE pen-name of the writer and illustrator Denys TUE Wakins-Pitchford. Best known for his children's books which TUE include a much-loved classic, The Little Grey Men, B.B. also TUE wrote prolifically about the countryside, documenting the TUE wildlife which was his lifelong obsession. Kate Best visits TUE some of his Northamptonshire haunts and talks to those who TUE knew him - and fans including Ian Mcmillan and Philip Ardagh TUE explain his lasting appeal. With readings by Sir Derek TUE Jacobi. TUE TUE Producer: Thomas Morris. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00v7tt5 (Listen) TUE How much does Britain need foreign workers from outside the TUE EU? TUE TUE The coalition's policy to limit migrant numbers from outside TUE Europe has been criticised by British employers who say it's TUE leaving them without the skilled staff they need. This TUE summer, the coalition imposed a temporary limit to visa TUE applications for non-EU migrants. The full immigration cap TUE will be introduced in April next year, but already there are TUE concerns that it's damaging the British economy. TUE TUE So if you're an employer, tell us why it's so important to TUE recruit staff from outside the EU. What are those special TUE skills that others don't have? Is it time we trained our TUE home-grown talent instead of looking outside? TUE TUE Or are they vital to maintain Britain's position on the TUE global stage? TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00v6lvj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00v7xff (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 The Carl Rosa Opera b00v71w6 (Listen) TUE When the German born Karl Rose launched his opera company in TUE 1873 at the Princess' Theatre London, he had no intention of TUE becoming a musical institution running for over a hundred TUE years. A concert violinist, his original motivation was to TUE provide a platform for his wife, the wonderfully named TUE singer Euphrosyne Parepa, but on her premature death he TUE decided to continue his operatic ambitions. Changing his TUE name to Carl Rosa he set about bringing opera to British TUE audiences in English. And rather than rely on a London TUE season he wanted to take his company, full orchestra, TUE chorus, sceneary and soloists on the road. TUE TUE Keel Watson tells the story of Rosa's success, including the TUE British Premier of Puccini's La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, TUE the former in Manchester. He finds out about the years after TUE Rosa's death and between the wars when the company had its TUE own train at Liverpool Street station and sometimes had TUE three groups on the road at the same time. The tradition, TUE established by Rosa himself, of commissioning new work by TUE British composers, of using local singers and of providing TUE full scale productions complete with elaborate scenery and TUE effects was also maintained, and with Dame Eva Turner, they TUE produced a genuine operatic superstar. TUE TUE But after the second world war keeping the company going TUE proved increasingly difficult. TUE Keel hears from the singer Joseph Ward who actually toured TUE with them in the 1950's until the final performance in TUE Nottingham in 1956. He also talks to Kenneth Rear, one of TUE the many people introduced to opera by the Rosa's annual TUE visits, in his case to the Lyceum Theatre Shefffield, and to TUE Peter Malloy who runs the much smaller scale Carl Rosa TUE company of today. TUE TUE Keel address the challenges that Rosa faced and many opera TUE enthusiasts still face today, of bringing opera to audiences TUE outside the major Metropolitan centres in a form which TUE doesn't undermine its natural scale and spectacle. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00v6lb8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v72fk (Listen) TUE Swings and Roundabouts TUE TUE By Dana Fainaru and James O'Neill. Comedy drama about TUE first-time parenthood. Abi has been taken hostage - by her TUE baby. But neither her husband nor the other shell-shocked TUE parents in the playground seem to have noticed. TUE TUE Abi ..... Lucy Liemann TUE David ..... Mark Bonnar TUE Niamh/Lucy ..... Tessa Nicholson TUE Eleanor ..... Tina Gray TUE Julie ..... Christine Kavanagh TUE Sam ..... Leah Brotherhead TUE Jordan ..... Lloyd Thomas TUE Peter ..... Tony Bell TUE TUE Directed by Abigail le Fleming. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00v7y3b (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents more of your stories that TUE change the way we see the past. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00v72fm (Listen) TUE Cheltenham Festival: Stories on Stage, Episode 1 TUE TUE Three best-selling writers take to the stage at this week's TUE Cheltenham Literature Festival in an event showcasing the TUE art of the short story. The first of the three is Susan TUE Hill, who has won major prizes for her short stories, her TUE novels and children's books, and is a respected reviewer, TUE critic, broadcaster and editor. In 'Sand' two middle-aged TUE sisters return to their mother's house after her funeral and TUE remember an incident in their childhood that has remained TUE unspoken and unexplored until now. TUE TUE 15:45 Big Bang Day: Five Particles b00d8ywd (Listen) TUE The Quark TUE TUE Simon Singh examines the significance of five subatomic TUE particles 2) The Quark. TUE TUE "Three Quarks for Master Mark! Sure he hasn't got much of a TUE bark." James Joyce's Finnegans Wake left its mark on modern TUE physics when physicist Murray Gell Mann proposed this name TUE for a group of hypothetical subatomic particles that were TUE revealed in 1960 as the fundamental units of matter. Basic TUE particles, such as protons and neutrons, it seems, are made TUE up of even more basic units called quarks that make up 99.9% TUE of visible material in the universe. But why do we know so TUE little about them? Quarks have never been seen as free TUE particles. They are inextricably bound together by the TUE Strong Force that in turn holds the atomic nucleus together. TUE This is the hardest of Nature's fundamental forces to crack, TUE but recent theoretical advances mean that the properties of TUE the quark are at last being revealed. TUE TUE Producer: Adrian Washbourne. TUE TUE 16:00 Tracing Your Roots b00v72fp (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 5 TUE TUE The last programme of the series ties in with the History of TUE the World in 100 Objects. Sally Magnusson and resident TUE genealogist Nick Barratt track down the stories behind TUE fascinating objects and family heirlooms. All the objects TUE featured in the programme are also featured on the History TUE of the World website, where listeners are also encouraged to TUE upload their own treasured heirloom. TUE TUE When listener Sarah Bailey inherited a pearl necklace and a TUE letter written at the time of Marie Antoinette, she TUE contacted the History of the World Website. Now she'd like TUE to know which of her ancestors was at the French court and TUE how she came to be there. TUE TUE There's a very personal heirloom in the shape of a beautiful TUE hand drawn book created by an illustrator, Carrie Solomon, TUE whose baby was born when her husband was away fighting in TUE WWI. She kept a daily record of their baby growing and TUE developing and gave it to him on his return. Now her TUE descendants hope to find examples of her professional work TUE as an illustrator of children's books. TUE TUE WWII soldier Kenneth Curley sent audio discs back to his TUE family while he was away fighting, and his great TUE granddaughter Becky Rowe has inherited some of them. She and TUE her family would dearly love to hear what's on the discs, TUE but no-one can play them. That is until they got in touch TUE with the Tracing Your Roots team. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00v72fr (Listen) TUE Tim Mackintosh-Smith, Philip Norman TUE TUE Philip Norman, who has written the best-selling biographies TUE of John Lennon and the Rolling Stones - currently writing TUE that of Mick Jagger - discusses Truman Capote's novella, TUE Breakfast at Tiffany's, while Tim Mackintosh-Smith, an TUE accomplished Arabist and travel writer, chooses Adam TUE Nicholson's account of his love affair with a remote pair of TUE Scottish islands, the Shiants. For her part, Sue MacGregor TUE chooses Youth by JM Coetzee. TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00v7y3s (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 b00v6lvl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Write Stuff b00v72ft (Listen) TUE Series 10, Tennessee Williams TUE TUE This week the "Author of the Week" is American playwright TUE and twice Pulitzer Prize-winner, Tennessee Williams. The TUE teams answer questions about his immensely colourful life TUE and work, as well as solve the usual literary brain-teasers TUE as posed to them by Write Stuff host, James Walton. TUE TUE Joining Sebastian Faulks on his team this week is TUE bestselling children's author and "Horrid Henry" creator, TUE Francesca Simon. Opposite them, on John Walsh's team will be TUE award-winning crime writer, Mark Billingham. TUE TUE The show will end, as ever, on the hilarious pastiches that TUE the panellists have written of Williams' work. This week TUE their brief is to imagine what Williams' plays might be like TUE if he had set them, not in the American Deep South, but in TUE the British Home Counties. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00v72jq (Listen) TUE Vicky means business and Kate takes offence. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00v7ygl (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reports on visions of Venice, as TUE painted by Canaletto and his rivals in the 18th century, and TUE now brought together in a new exhibition. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v71qr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00v72js (Listen) TUE Do Insolvency Practitioners measure up to the high standards TUE expected of them when they are called in to a stricken TUE business? Allan Urry examines concerns that some IP's don't TUE always act in the best interests of creditors who are owed TUE money when companies fail. Are landlords right to complain TUE they've been getting a raw deal because some corporate TUE undertakers side too much with their retail paymasters, who TUE are pushing for reduced rents because their businesses are TUE in trouble. TUE TUE The Office of Fair Trading is calling for far reaching TUE reforms amid concerns about high fees and low recovery rates TUE for some creditors. So is there proper oversight of a TUE profession which takes a billion pounds in fees each year, TUE but isn't subjected to much public scrutiny? TUE TUE PRODUCER: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00v7ygn (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 The Gizmo Games b00v72jv (Listen) TUE In sport, the technological race is on and British sports TUE scientists are at the top of their game. Chris Ledgard heads TUE to the laboratory to find out about the gadgetry behind our TUE Olympic sports preparations and examines the ethical TUE dilemmas that 21st century competition creates. It's a TUE fascinating world of intelligence, espionage, fluid TUE dynamics, radar tracking technology, wireless body sensors, TUE and missile identification lasers. London 2012 will, more TUE than ever, be the Gizmo Games. TUE TUE Because of the stakes it's also a secret and protected TUE world. Team GB don't want the Americans, the Australians or TUE the Germans finding out what space age material our bicycles TUE are made of or the revolutionary style of sled our Skeleton TUE team are training with. They can't know know how we've TUE developed a wireless body sensor to perfect running style, TUE rowing posture and tumble-turn perfection. These TUE developments in sports technology make the difference TUE between a place on the podium or sporting oblivion. Britain, TUE purportedly, has the finest team in the laboratories and a TUE budget of £1.5 million per year to play with. TUE TUE Presenter and journalist Chris Ledgard, himself a TUE competitive distance runner, visits the laboratories of TUE Imperial College London, Southampton University and BAE TUE Systems. He visits to the Bob Skeleton practice track at TUE Bath University to talk to coach Andreas Schmidt and Olympic TUE gold medalist Amy Williams to reveal the science behind her TUE sporting success and looks at the ethical implications for TUE today's athletes compared to the technology and competition TUE of 50 years ago. Can an unsuccessful sportsman now blame his TUE tools? TUE TUE Producer: Ali Serle. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00v71p4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:05 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00v6lvn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00v72jx (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00v7ygq (Listen) TUE Mr Chartwell, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written by Rebecca Hunt TUE TUE Saturday 25th July 1964: Esther and Corkbowl are both TUE preparing for the trip to Chartwell. But Esther is dreading TUE Sunday for other reasons. TUE TUE The reader is Miriam Margolyes. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Shappi Talk b00lpmz7 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Comedy series in which Shappi Khorsandi examines what it is TUE like growing up in multi-cultural families. TUE TUE Joining Shappi is Benghali comic Paul Sinha sharing his TUE experiences of religion in his family. Shappi will also be TUE joined by another 'related' guest- and she chats to ex Mayor TUE of London Ken Livingstone. TUE TUE There'll also be a chance for Shappi to chat with the TUE audience and 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 b00v77rt (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster and beyond. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 OCTOBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00vcvrn (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 b00v71qr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v6py0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v6py2 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v6py4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00v6py6 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v6py8 (Listen) WED With the Rev David Arnott. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00v72n0 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne Varle. WED WED 06:00 Today b00v72n2 (Listen) WED Presented by Sarah Montague and Evan Davis. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vhw2z (Listen) WED The 100th Object WED WED Neil MacGregor and the British Museum have chosen the final WED object for A History of the World in 100 Objects. Radio 4 WED will reveal it to the nation on 14th October. Before that WED announcement, Evan Davis has been to the museum to see what WED objects were considered for the short list to be the 100th, WED and from which the final object was selected. Can something WED made in 2010 really speak to future generations of the WED challenges and ingenuity of our time? Evan Davis finds out. WED WED 09:05 Midweek b00v72n4 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v72n6 (Listen) WED Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD), WED Hokusai's The Great Wave WED WED The history of humanity - as told through one hundred WED objects from the British Museum in London - is once again in WED Japan. This week Neil MacGregor, the museum's director, is WED looking at the global economy in the 19th century - at mass WED production and mass consumption. Today he is with an image WED that rapidly made its way around the world - Hokusai's WED print, The Great Wave, the now familiar seascape with a snow WED topped Mount Fuji in the background that became emblematic WED of the newly emerging Japan. Neil explores the conditions WED that produced this famous image - with help from Japan WED watchers Donald Keene and Christine Guth. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00v72n8 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Including June Spencer, the WED actress who plays Peggy Archer. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v72nb (Listen) WED Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 3 WED WED Set partly on an Ayrshire farm and in the boom town of 19th WED Century Glasgow in the 1870s - the story of the Moorhouse WED family through good times and bad. WED From the novel by Guy McCrone, dramatised by Clara Glynn. WED WED Now aged 13, Phoebe, enjoys living in Glasgow and helping to WED look after her 3 year old nephew Wee Arthur. But 19th WED Century Glasgow is a city of contrasts: from the socially WED rising West side to the deprived and desperate slums. On a WED journey home from visiting grandma tragedy befalls Wee Arthur. WED WED Phoebe Moorhouse........Natasha Watson WED Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan WED Mrs. Barrowfield............Juliet Cadzow WED Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate WED Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing WED Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson WED David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson WED Sarah...........................Lisa Nicoll WED Struan..........................Jamie Brotherston WED WED Other parts played by members of the cast. WED Producer/director: David Ian Neville. WED WED 11:00 Parting Shots b00v72nd (Listen) WED Series 2, The sun sets on Empire WED WED Despatches from diplomats in the last outposts of Empire WED capture the dying days of British rule. With Matthew Parris. WED WED The valedictory despatch - an open letter to the Foreign WED Secretary which for decades British diplomats would send WED before leaving an overseas post - was often a platform for WED bittersweet reflection about the past. WED WED During the period of decolonisation, many Ambassadors and WED High Commissioners expressed misgivings about the manner in WED which Britain was shedding its imperial role. In this WED programme, diplomats from the old school argue the case for WED the Empire as a force for good, and bemoan the unseemly WED haste with which Britain hauled down the flag in colonies WED across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. WED WED Producer: Andrew Bryson. WED WED 11:30 The Secret World b00sxkv8 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED With naturalistic performances from Jon Culshaw, Lewis WED MacLeod and others, take a fly-on-the-wall position and WED listen in as the great and the good become embroiled in the WED bizarre and ridiculous. Repeat of Series 2, Episode 2. WED WED Sir David Attemborough is asked by the BBC diversity unit to WED put more disabled animals in his show - in positive WED circumstances. WED Ian Paisley meets Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour and WED insists that the band perform at his cousin Hugo's sixtieth WED birthday party. WED Alan Bennett replies to every bit of junk mail personally WED and with great style. WED Professor Richard Dawkins persues his career as a pop singer WED - auditioning for Lady Gaga. WED WED The producer/creator is Bill Dare. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00v81yh (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Peter White. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00v6pyb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00v72ng (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00v81zb (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00v72jq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v72qx (Listen) WED Stone, The Bridge WED WED Detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst. Written by WED Cath Staincliffe. WED WED When university student Matt falls to his death from a WED railway bridge DCI Stone and his team embark on a murder WED investigation. Matt's best friend Liam and ex-girlfriend WED Holly are distraught. But when Liam's flat is set on fire WED and he subsequently goes missing, Stone if forced to WED consider whether these events might be linked. WED WED Stone.....Hugo Speer WED Sue.....Deborah McAndrew WED Tanner.....Craig Cheetham WED Alan.....David Fleeshman WED Liam.....Oliver Lee WED Holly.....Jemima WED Varney.....Nick Moss WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00v820r (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00v72qz (Listen) WED Cheltenham Festival: Stories on Stage, Episode 2 WED WED Sarah Dunant is a novelist, broadcaster and critic whose WED most recent book, Sacred Hearts, was serialised on Woman's WED Hour last year. Her story Wings of Desire is set in WED Florence, where an English couple are hoping the romance of WED the city may help them conceive the child they both long WED for. A missed turning leads to a church and an encounter WED with an unexpectedly human Angel Gabriel. WED WED 15:45 Big Bang Day: Five Particles b00d8ywj (Listen) WED The Antiparticle WED WED Simon Singh looks at the stories behind the discovery of WED five of the universe's most significant subatomic particles. WED 3) The Antiparticle. WED WED It appears to be the stuff of science fiction. Associated WED with every elementary particle is an antiparticle which has WED the same mass and opposite charge. Should the two meet and WED combine, the result is annihilation - and a flash of light. WED Thanks to mysterious processes that occurred after the Big WED Bang there are a vastly greater number of particles than WED anti-particles. So how could their elusive existence be WED proved? At CERN particle physicists are crashing together WED subatomic particles at incredibly high speeds to create WED antimatter, which they hope will finally reveal what WED happened at the precise moment of the Big Bang to create the WED repertoire of elementary particles and antiparticles in WED existence today. WED Producer: Adrian Washbourne. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00v820t (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Gizmo Games b00v72jv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00v820w (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 b00v6pyd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Maltby Collection b00cdd4x (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 6 WED WED Julian Rhind-Tutt and Geoffrey Palmer star in series 2 of WED the Reginald Perrin writer David Nobbs' museum-based sitcom. WED WED The day of Julian and Prunella's wedding dawns, with WED break-ups, proposals and ghostly appearances. 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 The 3rd Mrs Wainwright ... Liz Sutherland WED Julian's Mother ... Helen Atkinson Wood WED Charlie Tattle ... Barry Cryer WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00v70f4 (Listen) WED There's an embarrassing encounter at the school gates for WED Kathy and Will makes his feelings known. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00v820y (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including the first-night verdict on WED Robert Lindsay's portrayal of the tycoon Aristotle Onassis, WED in a new play by Martin Sherman. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v72n6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b00v72r1 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 4 WED WED Where has it all gone wrong with children and food? The WED previous Labour Government spent nearly £2 billion over ten WED years attempting to tackle childhood obesity levels. Now WED more than one in three British children aged 5 to 13 are in WED the over-weight or obese category. Yet according to the WED latest research, parents of over-weight children don't even WED recognise that their children are too heavy to qualify as WED healthy. Mariella and her guests debate the tricky issue of WED raising healthy children. WED WED Producer: Sarah Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Martin Bell: Was Tatton Worth it? b00vcprl (Listen) WED In 1997 Martin Bell stood for parliament in Tatton, and was WED elected as an independent MP. At the time his successful WED campaign was portrayed as a crusade against sleaze. What WED followed was the parliamentary expenses scandal. Does he now WED think it was worth it? WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00v72r3 (Listen) WED Aquatic Plastic WED WED Climate change has already claimed its first victims. WED Displaced people from the Carteret Islands, Bangladesh, WED Ethiopia, Kenya and the Niger delta have already become WED climate refugees but from whom can they seek refuge or even WED compensation? WED WED Environmental Justice Foundation is calling for legally WED binding agreements to protect those displaced and there are WED various legal cases in action that could set a precedent for WED compensation. WED WED 400 Alaskan residents are suing energy companies for WED creating a public nuisance and for conspiracy (in funding WED research to 'prove' there is no link between climate change WED and human activity). Tuvalu, the low lying nation in the WED pacific, has threatened to sue Australia and the United WED States for their contributions to climate change and in the WED latest and most high profile case Katrina victims are taking WED the big oil companies BP, Shell, Chevron Exxonmobile, to WED court. WED WED So far displaced people have not been defined as refugees so WED they have no legal rights but countries could be expected to WED take a number of migrants equivalent to their contribution WED or compensate victims for their loss. WED WED Myles Allan of Oxford University has set up models to WED predict how much climate change attributable to man has WED caused extreme weather conditions like the flooding here in WED the UK in 2000. Sophisticated modelling could make it easier WED to attribute blame and a recent ruling in the European Court WED means that victims of environmental crime should find it a WED lot easier to take their cases to court. Big insurance WED companies are already warning their clients to expect WED compensation suits but there is still some way to go before WED precedent has been set in the case of climate change and WED nobody knows what will happen once these floodgates have WED opened. WED WED Tom Heap talks to victims of Katrina who are already taking WED lawsuits and flood victims in the UK on the anniversary of WED the 2000 flooding to find out whether the courts can really WED offer compensation where international governments have WED failed to act. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00v72n4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:05 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00v6pyg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00v8210 (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00v8212 (Listen) WED Mr Chartwell, Episode 8 WED WED Written by Rebecca Hunt WED WED Clementine Churchill takes a stand. Beth and Big Oliver host WED Sunday lunch. WED WED The reader is Miriam Margolyes. WED 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 b00v72r5 (Listen) WED Diversity WED WED By Christopher Green. WED Ida Barr is a music hall singer who has embraced hip hop and WED rap, reflecting the cultural diversity of London's East End, WED where she has been living in retirement for several decades. WED Ida has a genuine love of talking to people so each week she WED investigates a new topic and creates a unique brand of WED music-hall, hip-hop fusion with beat boxer Shlomo. This WED week, the topic is "Diversity". WED WED Produced by Claire Grove WED WED I23:15 A Series of Psychotic Episodes b00v72rf (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Slightly skewed sketch comedy from comedian Miriam Elia. WED WED Fleur and Apple take a Gap Year in Africa, and Postman Pat WED finds out that his life so far is based on a lie. 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 b00v785f (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports as David Cameron faces the new Labour WED leader at PMQs. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 OCTOBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00vcvrq (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 b00v72n6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v6pyj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v6pyl (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v6pyn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00v6pyq (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v6pys (Listen) THU With the Rev David Arnott. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00v72s4 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin THU Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00v72s6 (Listen) THU Presented by John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00v72x6 (Listen) THU Sturm und Drang THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the 18th-century German THU artistic movement known as Sturm und Drang, whose best-known THU exponents included Goethe and Schiller. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v72x8 (Listen) THU Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD), THU Sudanese slit drum 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 b00v72xb (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. The veil is now compulsory in some Muslim THU schools. Is it right? THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v72xd (Listen) THU Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 4 THU THU Set partly on an Ayrshire farm and in the boom town of 19th THU Century Glasgow in the 1870s - the story of the Moorhouse THU family through good times and bad. THU From the novel by Guy McCrone, dramatised by Clara Glynn. THU THU Following the disappearance of Wee Arthur aged 3, his THU parents Arthur and Bel Moorhouse are desperate to find him. THU As Arthur tries to propel the Glasgow police into action, THU unkown to him his younger sister Phoebe has gone into the THU slums on her own mission to find the boy. THU THU Phoebe Moorhouse........Natasha Watson THU Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan THU Mrs. Barrowfield............Juliet Cadzow THU Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate THU Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing THU Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson THU David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson THU Sarah...........................Lisa Nicoll THU Struan..........................Jamie Brotherston THU THU Other parts played by members of the cast. THU Producer/director: David Ian Neville. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00v72xg (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 In Search of Faust b00v72xj (Listen) THU The story of Faust, who sold his immortal soul to the devil THU in exchange for ultimate knowledge, has been re-imagined in THU a thousand different ways by writers, painters, film-makers THU and composers. Poet and singer Twm Morys investigates why we THU have been fascinated by this unlikely hero for the last five THU centuries. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00v8ljv (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Peter White. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00v6pyv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00v72xl (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00v72r3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00v70f4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hx63q (Listen) THU This Repulsive Woman THU By Christopher Reason THU THU The first of two linked dramas about a fictional high THU profile court case. Deborah Hurst has been tried and THU convicted of an offence under the Protection of Children Act THU 1978. For the general public, hanging would be too good for THU her. She is awaiting sentence and is now considered the most THU notorious woman in the country. In this real-time drama a THU probation officer conducts his assessment of 'This Repulsive THU Woman'. THU THU Deborah Hurst.....Maxine Peake THU Tony Jukes.....Neil Dudgeon THU THU Directed by Stefan Escreet THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00v6957 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00v6cv4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00v72yk (Listen) THU Cheltenham Festival: Stories on Stage, Episode 3 THU THU Louise Doughty is a novelist, playwright, broadcaster and THU critic whose latest book, Whatever You Love, was published THU this summer. Three Things I Remember is an unexpected love THU story about a woman police officer who falls for the husband THU of a murder victim. THU THU 15:45 Big Bang Day: Five Particles b00d8ywn (Listen) THU The Neutrino THU THU Simon Singh looks at the stories behind the discovery of THU five of the universe's most significant subatomic particles. THU 4) The Neutrino. THU It's the most populous particle in the universe. Millions of THU these subatomic particles are passing through each one of THU us. With no charge and virtually no mass they can penetrate THU vast thicknesses of matter without any interaction - indeed THU the sun emits huge numbers that pass through earth at the THU speed of light. Neutrinos are similar to the more familiar THU electron, with one crucial difference: neutrinos do not THU carry electric charge. As a result they're extremely THU difficult to detect . But like HG Wells' invisible man they THU can give themselves away by bumping into things at high THU energy and detectors hidden in mines are exploiting this to THU observe these rare interactions. But they can give THU themselves away by bumping into things at high energy, and THU detectors hidden in mines are exploiting this to see inside THU stars for the very first time THU Producer: Adrian Washbourne THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00v6gnl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00v730s (Listen) THU Brief encounter with a comet chaser. THU Next week, Comet Hartley 2 will come within just a few THU million miles of Earth, possibly becoming visible to the THU naked eye. Meanwhile, NASA's Deep Impact space probe is THU itself closing in on the Comet. Quentin hears about the THU science astronomers hope to learn from the encounter. THU Producer, Roland Pease. THU THU 17:00 PM b00v8ljx (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 b00v6pyx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective b00v730v (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU The first in a new series in which Richard Herring reclaims THU objects that we've grown to hate. This week he's reclaiming THU the toothbrush moustache on behalf of comedy - taking it THU back from Hitler to give to it's rightful owner Charlie THU Chaplin. Based on his Edinburgh show Richard examines why a THU particular piece of facial hair can evoke revulsion in all THU who see it when in fact the person first associated with it THU was one of the funniest people on the planet. He grows his THU own toothbrush moustache and hears what passers by make of THU it, talks to a German moustache expert about Hitler's vanity THU and descibes how wearing it on the day after the BNP won THU seats in the last European election strengthened his resolve THU to continue his campaign. The show was recorded in front of THU an audience. THU THU Producer ..... Alison Vernon-Smith. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00v70g9 (Listen) THU Kenton gives a helping hand and Peggy decides to branch out. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00v8lk9 (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v72x8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00v8lnq (Listen) THU Original insights into major news stories and topical THU investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00v8lns (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00v71v3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00v72x6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00v6pyz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00v8lpw (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 b00v8lpy (Listen) THU Mr Chartwell, Episode 9 THU THU Written by Rebecca Hunt THU THU Sunday afternoon : Churchill's study is the scene of a THU delicate conversation. THU THU The reader is Miriam Margolyes. THU THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Music Group b00v73km (Listen) THU Comedian, broadcaster and GP Dr Phil Hammond asks three THU guests to play the track of their choice for the delight or THU disdain of the others. So what does their choice say about THU them? How will the other guests react? THU THU Producer: Tamsin Hughes THU A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00v7qcg (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne with all the news from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 OCTOBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00vcvrs (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 b00v72x8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v6pz1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v6pz3 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v6pz5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00v6pz7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v6pz9 (Listen) FRI With the Rev David Arnott. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00v73ll (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Fran Barnes. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00v73mt (Listen) FRI Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00v6dnq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v73z9 (Listen) FRI Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD), FRI Suffragette-defaced penny FRI FRI Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects from the FRI British Museum in London. The objects he has chosen this FRI week have reflected on mass production and mass consumption FRI in the 19th century. Today' he is with the first object from FRI the 20th century, a coin that leads Neil to consider the FRI rise of mass political engagement in Britain and the FRI dramatic emergence of suffragette power. It's a penny coin FRI from 1903 on which the image of King Edward V11 has been FRI stamped with the words "Votes for Women". The programme FRI explores the rise of women's suffrage and the implications FRI of the notorious suffragette protests. The human rights FRI lawyer and reformer Helena Kennedy and the artist Felicity FRI Powell react to this defaced penny coin. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00v73zc (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Can artificial flowers ever FRI measure up to the real thing? FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00v73zf (Listen) FRI Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 5 FRI FRI Set partly on an Ayrshire farm and in the boom town of 19th FRI Century Glasgow in the 1870s - the story of the Moorhouse FRI family through good times and bad. FRI From the novel by Guy McCrone, dramatised by Clara Glynn. FRI FRI Following her heroic attempt to rescue Wee Arthur, Phoebe is FRI physically and mentally exhausted. Sent to recuperate at the FRI family farm in Ayrshire, Phoebe finds her diffident brother FRI Mungo is attracting the attention of the Laird's daughter. FRI FRI Phoebe Moorhouse........Natasha Watson FRI Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan FRI Mrs. Barrowfield............Juliet Cadzow FRI Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate FRI Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing FRI Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson FRI David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson FRI Sarah...........................Lisa Nicoll FRI Struan..........................Jamie Brotherston FRI FRI Other parts played by members of the cast. FRI Producer/director: David Ian Neville. FRI FRI 11:00 It's My Story b00t1xdy (Listen) FRI Glad to be Grey? FRI FRI A generation of gay people have seen the decriminalisation FRI of homosexuality, the lowering of the age of consent, and FRI the introduction of civil partnerships but now many are FRI having to hide their sexuality as they work out their living FRI arrangements as they get older. Jane Hill asks - are elderly FRI residential homes an option right now if you're gay? FRI FRI Age UK has reported that older gay men and lesbians are five FRI times less likely to access services for older people than FRI the general population. In "Glad to be Grey?" we hear older FRI gay men and lesbians talk about their experiences and FRI concerns about the future particularly if they have to go FRI into a residential retirement home. Some have experienced FRI outright hostility from staff or fellow residents in FRI residential care or sheltered housing. Others simply don't FRI expect the straight people they're living with to understand FRI the culture that has formed such an important part of their FRI lives. Having fought the battles for equality do they face FRI the prospect of being marginalised in old age? BBC News FRI presenter Jane Hill examines a subject which has been FRI largely unexplored up until now. FRI FRI 11:30 Psmith in the City b00dl0jx (Listen) FRI The Haunting of Mr Bickersdyke FRI 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 The indomitable Psmith hatches a plan to take revenge on FRI bullying manager Mr Bickersdyke. FRI FRI P.G. Wodehouse ..... Simon Williams FRI Psmith ..... Nick Caldecott FRI Mike Jackson ..... Inam Mirza FRI John Bickersdyke ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Mr Rossiter ..... Chris Pavlo FRI Mr Waller ..... Jonathan Tafler FRI Pleasure Seeker ..... Dan Starkey FRI Bannister ..... Robert Lonsdale FRI FRI Produced by Abigail le Fleming. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00v8m4x (Listen) FRI 40 years ago Concorde was being tested prior to going into FRI commercial service but already prompting complaints about FRI noise from those who lived under its flight path. The Boeing FRI 747 "Jumbo Jet" undertook its first commercial flight and FRI one package tour operator was offering a four day break in FRI Majorca for just £18. Today the internet has left the FRI package holiday industry on its knees, airlines are accused FRI of charging unsustainable fares, Concorde has ceased flying FRI and the Jumbo is being replaced by a generation of even FRI bigger aircraft. You and Yours marks its fortieth birthday FRI this month with a look back at the travel industry of 1970 FRI and of the future. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00v6pzc (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00v73zh (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00v73zk (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place for listeners FRI to air their views on the things heard on BBC Radio. FRI FRI Email the team: feedback@bbc.co.uk FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00v70g9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00v73zm (Listen) FRI Every Child Matters FRI FRI The second linked drama dealing with the fall out of the FRI case of Debbie Hurst who was vilified as the most repulsive FRI woman in Britain for allowing her ten year old daughter to FRI dance semi-naked on the internet for paedophiles. It is six FRI months since the case exploded on to the red tops and Joanne FRI was the social worker who took the flak. She feels as though FRI she was hung out to dry and wants to know why. FRI FRI Joanne.....Sarah Lancashire FRI David.....George Costigan FRI FRI Producer Gary Brown FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00v740x (Listen) FRI Eric Robson is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and FRI Bob Flowerdew in Hulme, Manchester. FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Big Bang Day: Five Particles b00d8yws (Listen) FRI The Next Particle FRI FRI Simon Singh looks at the stories behind the discovery of FRI five of the universe's most significant subatomic particles. FRI 5) The Next Particle. FRI FRI The "sparticle" - a super symmetric partner to all the known FRI particles could be the answer to uniting all the known FRI particles and their interactions under one grand theoretical FRI pattern of activity. But how do researchers know where to FRI look for such phenomena and how do they know if they find FRI them? A whole repertoire of particles could be detected with FRI the new Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Geneva. Simon Singh FRI concludes his series looking at how the discovery of super FRI symmetric particles could rewrite the physics books and help FRI in completing physics' Grand Theory of Everything. FRI FRI Producer Adrian Washbourne. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00v740z (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 b00v7411 (Listen) FRI Neil Brand joins Francine Stock to play and discuss the work FRI of composer Max Steiner. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00v8m4z (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 b00v8m51 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00v7413 (Listen) FRI Series 72, Episode 3 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, FRI Susan Calman and Andy Hamilton. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00v70gm (Listen) FRI Written by ... Simon Frith FRI Directed by ... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ... Felicity Finch 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 Peggy Woolley ... June Spencer FRI Jolene Perks ... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ... Dan Ciotkowksi FRI William Grundy ... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Hanson ... Becky Wright FRI Edward Grundy ... Barry Farrimond FRI Mike Tucker ... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ... Rachel Atkins FRI Hayley Tucker ... Lorraine Coady FRI Phoebe Tucker ... Lucy Morris FRI Brenda Tucker ... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ... Carole Boyd FRI Jazzer McCreary ... Ryan Kelly FRI Alan Franks ... John Telfer FRI Harry Mason ... Michael Shelford. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00v8m6l (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang with arts news, reviews and an interview with FRI Simon Pegg, who reflects on his many career choices, FRI including stand-up comedian, screenwriter and Hollywood actor. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00v73z9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00v7448 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from from FRI Radley College in Oxfordshire with questions for the panel FRI including the Culture Minister Ed Vaizey and the Director of FRI the London School of Economics, Howard Davies. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00v744b (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00v744d (Listen) FRI Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Omnibus FRI FRI Set partly on an Ayrshire farm and in the boom town of 19th FRI Century Glasgow in the 1870s - the story of the Moorhouse FRI family through good times and bad. FRI From the novel by Guy McCrone, dramatised by Clara Glynn. FRI FRI Phoebe Moorhouse, aged 10, lives on a farm in Ayrshire, but FRI when tragedy strikes her father and stepmother FRI the future becomes uncertain. Phoebe's older brother Mungo FRI is experienced enough to run the farm, but can he cope with FRI bringing up his sister as well? FRI FRI Phoebe Moorhouse........Natasha Watson FRI Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan FRI Mrs. Barrowfield............Juliet Cadzow FRI Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate FRI Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing FRI Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson FRI David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson FRI Sarah...........................Lisa Nicoll FRI Struan..........................Jamie Brotherston FRI FRI Other parts played by members of the cast. FRI Producer/director: David Ian Neville. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00v6pzf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00v744g (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00v8m6n (Listen) FRI Mr Chartwell, Episode 10 FRI FRI Written by Rebecca Hunt FRI FRI Sunday evening, Esther returns home to find Black Pat FRI waiting for her. FRI FRI The reader is Miriam Margolyes. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00v72fr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00v7qp1 (Listen) FRI Mark D'arcy presents a round up of the weeks parliamentary FRI news. FRI
08 October, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 09/10/2010 - 15/10/2010
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