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SAT SATURDAY 16 OCTOBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00v6pzh (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 b00v73z9 (Listen) SAT Mass Production, Mass Persuasion (1780 - 1914 AD), SAT Suffragette-defaced penny SAT SAT Neil MacGregor's world history told through objects from the SAT British Museum in London. The objects he has chosen this SAT week have reflected on mass production and mass consumption SAT in the 19th century. Today' he is with the first object from SAT the 20th century, a coin that leads Neil to consider the SAT rise of mass political engagement in Britain and the SAT dramatic emergence of suffragette power. It's a penny coin SAT from 1903 on which the image of King Edward V11 has been SAT stamped with the words "Votes for Women". The programme SAT explores the rise of women's suffrage and the implications SAT of the notorious suffragette protests. The human rights SAT lawyer and reformer Helena Kennedy and the artist Felicity SAT Powell react to this defaced penny coin. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v6pzk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00v6pzm (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v6pzp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00v6pzr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vc19d (Listen) SAT With Bishop Dr Joe Aldred. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00vc19g (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00v6pzt (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00v6pzw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00vc1dc (Listen) SAT Series 16, Pentlands SAT SAT Clare Balding walks with a group of friends in the Pentland SAT Hills near Edinburgh, a group who've been walking together SAT for twenty years and who share a love of what the writer SAT Robert Louis Stevenson referred to as 'the hills of home'. SAT SAT The group walked out from the Loganlea Reservoir, up SAT Carnethy and on to Turnhouse and Flotterstone before SAT climbing Castlelaw Hill. Another steep climb to Allermuir is SAT rewarded by great views of Edinburgh, the Firth of Forth and SAT down the coast to Berwick on Tweed, before descending to SAT Hillend for the finish of the walk. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00vc1df (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Fran Barnes. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00v6pzy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00vc1fy (Listen) SAT Presented by Sarah Montague and Justin Webb. Including SAT Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00vc1hh (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by singer songwriter Edwyn Collins and SAT his wife Grace Maxwell, poet Susan Richardson, Florence SAT Terry who used to beat her husband and now runs anger SAT management courses, and Welshman Clive Nicol who's a SAT household name in Japan and has been named 'sexiest SAT foreigner in jeans'. There's a Sound Sculpture about a SAT coffee grinder and Inheritance Tracks from writer Colm Toibin. SAT SAT The producer is Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00vc1j0 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy talks to Doreen Tayler who explored northwest SAT India visiting places featuring in Rudyard Kipling's novel SAT Kim. The trail lead her to places that defied her SAT expectations, from strange rituals on the Pakistan border to SAT the summer capital of the Raj and she discovered the best SAT places are not always the most visited. SAT SAT Modern computer technology is making its mark on the way we SAT travel and John meets Rough Guides founder Mark Ellingham SAT who is now producing guide 'apps' for mobile phones and Paul SAT Smith a writer and blogger who journeyed to New Zealand SAT relying entirely on offers made on the phone message SAT service, Twitter. He asks them if the traditional guide book SAT is dying. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Christie's Through the Looking Glass b00vc1k9 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT In this two-part documentary Miranda Sawyer takes an SAT intriguing peep behind the scenes at London's oldest Fine SAT Art auction house. Christie's operates as an influential SAT barometer of the Art market. In these recessionary times we SAT follow the preparations for their most important sale season SAT of the year. SAT SAT In this first programme we are introduced to specialists SAT renowned for their discretion and expertise and the dealers, SAT collectors and investors who populate this glittering world. SAT We investigate how artworks come to be sold and values SAT established in the most public marketplace in the Art world. SAT SAT Producer: Eleanor Thomas SAT A Harcourt Films production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00vc1l0 (Listen) SAT Political analysis. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00vc1lb (Listen) SAT An Iranian Presidential visit exposes Lebanon's old SAT divisions. SAT SAT How the harsh realities of life in Ukraine took the shine SAT off democracy. SAT SAT One man's bizarre, record breaking quest to escape poverty SAT in Nepal. SAT SAT And tales of despair and survival from the Hungarian village SAT that drowned in a torrent of sludge. SAT SAT Some world leader's generate very much more interest than SAT others....and President Ahmedinajad of Iran is certainly one SAT of them. His visit to Lebanon was always going to be closely SAT watched. He's an implacable enemy of Israel, and in the SAT hills of south Lebanon he'd almost be within touching SAT distance of Israeli territory.... But how did the coming of SAT Mr Ahmedinajad play out among the Lebanese themselves...? SAT Jeremy Bowen has been guaging the mood in Beirut... SAT SAT Ukraine straddles a major cultural and political faultline. SAT Not long ago it seemed to be leaning westwards -- towards SAT the European Union, and a more open, democratic style. But SAT now things are different. There's a sense that Ukraine is SAT increasingly being drawn to the east, and the Russian way of SAT doing things... Our Humphrey Hawksley has been finding out SAT what lies behind this significant shift... SAT SAT India's pride took a battering just recently as Delhi SAT prepared to host the Commonwealth Games. There was an SAT embarrassing scramble to get ready in time.... But the SAT coming of the Games did help to speed up the building of one SAT of the world's most impressive urban railway systems. And SAT nobody's been more delighted by this than my colleague..and SAT railway nut.Sam Miller. SAT SAT Take a wander through the lists of world record holders, and SAT you find yourself in the strangest company. There's the SAT "most tattooed man on earth", for example....and the chap in SAT Texas who decided to sit in a bath with eighty SAT rattlesnakes.... Around the world people clamour to have the SAT oddest stunts, and peculiarities officially recognised as SAT record-breaking. And as Joanna Jolly explains...in a place SAT like Nepal, some people are after more than just a mad SAT moment of fame... SAT SAT It'll be a long time before anything like normal life SAT returns to a place called Kolontar, in Hungary. It was one SAT of those villages engulfed in a raging, rust-red tide of SAT sludge. Eight people....including two little SAT girls....drowned in the poisonous torrent that burst out of SAT a reservoir at a nearby chemical plant... It was a major SAT disaster, and the grimmest sort of event to cover. But Nick SAT Thorpe says that despite everything, even this story had its SAT lighter moments... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00vc1ls (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 b00v7413 (Listen) SAT Series 72, Episode 3 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, SAT Susan Calman and Andy Hamilton. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00v6q00 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00v6q02 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00v7448 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Radley SAT College in Oxfordshire with questions for the panel SAT including the Ed Vaizey, Minister for Communication, Culture SAT and the Creative Industries, Jacqui Smith, former Home SAT Secretary, the historian Lisa Jardine and the Director of SAT the London School of Economics, Howard Davies. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00vc1mf (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 b00ldh51 (Listen) SAT Utz SAT SAT A British academic travels to 1960s Prague to research the SAT art collection of Rudolf II. A historian friend introduces SAT him to the eccentric and utterly dogged porcelain collector, SAT Kaspar Joachim Utz. From this encounter an extraordinary SAT story of obsession and survival emerges: for Utz has SAT protected his vast collection of Meissen figurines from SAT Nazis, Stalinist ideologues and the demands of Communist SAT museum curators. SAT SAT After the Soviet invasion of 1968, all contact between the SAT men ceases and Utz dies. In the last part of the play, our SAT narrator returns to Prague in the late 1980s- as the SAT Communist system is in its death-throes- to learn what SAT became of Utz's collection. Was it appropriated by the SAT State, or sold off to some secret enthusiast? SAT SAT Is it conceivable that the porcelain figurines were SAT destroyed to prevent such eventualities? The Englishman SAT interviews several figures from Utz's life as he tries to SAT piece together the puzzle of the man and his vanished SAT achievement. Where is the collection now? And who, really, SAT was Utz's maid, Marta, to the deceased? For it may be (as SAT the narrator speculates among blacklisted writers turned SAT garbage men) that human love came to eclipse his priceless SAT objects d'art in the heart of Kaspar Utz. SAT SAT This is the twist in the final minutes of the play. Although SAT the marriage to his servant was undertaken in 1952 for SAT purely selfish reasons (Utz had to be married in order to SAT keep his home), over the decades that followed Marta fought SAT off her more attractive rivals- for Utz, we also learn, was SAT devastatingly attractive to a particular kind of woman- and SAT finally cemented her status as the central figure in his SAT life. This dramatisation by Gregory Norminton of Chatwin's SAT last novel is an intriguing and comic mystery story. SAT SAT Utz/Janitor ..... Jack Klaff SAT Marta ..... Pam Ferris SAT Dr Orlik/Curator ..... Sam Kelly SAT Narrator ..... Daniel Weyman SAT Oxford Don/Man/ Head Waiter ..... Gregory Norminton SAT Elena/Teresa Kryl ..... Michaela Stonisova SAT Ana/Photographer ..... Dolya Gavanski SAT SAT Producer: Marilyn Imrie SAT A Corporation for Independent Media production for BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 15:30 The Carl Rosa Opera b00v71w6 (Listen) SAT When the German born Karl Rose launched his opera company in SAT 1873 at the Princess' Theatre London, he had no intention of SAT becoming a musical institution running for over a hundred SAT years. A concert violinist, his original motivation was to SAT provide a platform for his wife, the wonderfully named SAT singer Euphrosyne Parepa, but on her premature death he SAT decided to continue his operatic ambitions. Changing his SAT name to Carl Rosa he set about bringing opera to British SAT audiences in English. And rather than rely on a London SAT season he wanted to take his company, full orchestra, SAT chorus, sceneary and soloists on the road. SAT SAT Keel Watson tells the story of Rosa's success, including the SAT British Premier of Puccini's La Boheme and Madame Butterfly, SAT the former in Manchester. He finds out about the years after SAT Rosa's death and between the wars when the company had its SAT own train at Liverpool Street station and sometimes had SAT three groups on the road at the same time. The tradition, SAT established by Rosa himself, of commissioning new work by SAT British composers, of using local singers and of providing SAT full scale productions complete with elaborate scenery and SAT effects was also maintained, and with Dame Eva Turner, they SAT produced a genuine operatic superstar. SAT SAT But after the second world war keeping the company going SAT proved increasingly difficult. SAT Keel hears from the singer Joseph Ward who actually toured SAT with them in the 1950's until the final performance in SAT Nottingham in 1956. He also talks to Kenneth Rear, one of SAT the many people introduced to opera by the Rosa's annual SAT visits, in his case to the Lyceum Theatre Shefffield, and to SAT Peter Malloy who runs the much smaller scale Carl Rosa SAT company of today. SAT SAT Keel address the challenges that Rosa faced and many opera SAT enthusiasts still face today, of bringing opera to audiences SAT outside the major Metropolitan centres in a form which SAT doesn't undermine its natural scale and spectacle. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00vc1ph (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00vc1rm (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00v8lns (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 electronic SAT components, online groceries and information technology SAT discuss the exacting science of business logistics. SAT SAT The panel also discusses customer service. Just how high SAT should a company aim in trying to satisfy its consumers? SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Tim Steiner, co-founder and SAT chief executive of online supermarket Ocado; Nick Wilson, SAT managing director of Hewlett-Packard UK; Ian Mason, chief SAT executive of electronic components company Electrocomponents. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00v6q04 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00v6q06 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00v6q08 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00vc1rp (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the Man Booker Winner Howard Jacobson, SAT who fresh from winning the prize with his novel The Finkler SAT Question, delves into our own prudery in art for Channel 4's SAT Genius of Art series on Sunday night. SAT SAT BBC Radio 2 Breakfast and One Show host Chris Evans talks SAT about being a 'Fruitcake' in the second part of his memoirs. SAT SAT The man who has been described as the greatest stage actor SAT of his generation, Simon Russell Beale, talks to Clive about SAT the death trap he's in at the moment. SAT SAT Tim Willis gossips to Jo Bunting about Fleet Street's SAT legendary diarist, Nigel Dempster and the comedian Adam SAT Hills Messes Around in the studio. SAT SAT Amit Chaudhuri is another award winning novelist but has a SAT parallel career as a classical singer of traditional SAT Hindustani music blending raga, jazz, rock and blues. He SAT performs with his band from his new album. SAT SAT And New Yorker's The Duke & The King bring some rock, folk SAT and vintage soul to the Loose Ends studio. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00vc1ry (Listen) SAT Iain Duncan Smith, Work and Pensions Secretary SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Iain Duncan Smith whose Work and SAT Pensions Department will be hit during next week's Spending SAT Review. His proposed welfare reforms have been described as SAT 'the biggest since the war-time work of Beveridge' and a SAT white paper is expected after the Spending Review. SAT SAT Iain Duncan Smith started out briefly in industry after SAT leaving the army where he served twice in Northern Ireland. SAT His father was a famous World War II flying ace & his mother SAT a ballerina. SAT SAT In the 1990s, he was best-known as one of the Tory party's SAT most strident euro-sceptic MPs. His short two year SAT leadership of the Conservative party was mostly SAT unsuccessful. The "quiet man" was unable to unite his party. SAT But it was during this time that Iain Duncan Smith began to SAT see the need for welfare reform. After he was ousted from SAT the leadership he set up the Centre for Social Justice and SAT is credited with forming much of David Cameron's social SAT agenda. SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart talks to his political allies & foes, SAT long-standing friends and the people who began to change his SAT political direction. SAT SAT Producer : Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00vc28b (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00vc2vn (Listen) SAT The Man Behind the Mountains SAT SAT It's 80 years since the fell walker Alfred Wainwright first SAT visited the Lake District. SAT SAT For a boy brought up amongst mill chimneys, noisy factories SAT and dirty canals it was a magical revelation, love at first SAT sight. He would go onto write more than 40 guidebooks and SAT persuade millions to follow in his footsteps. SAT SAT Wainwright was a recluse - on the surface curmudgeonly and SAT intolerant. The mysteries and rumours that surrounded this SAT elusive character added to the personality cult that made SAT his Pictorial Guides to the Fells international best sellers. SAT SAT 30 years ago Gardeners Question Time presenter Eric Robson SAT made five series with Wainwright for the BBC. They remained SAT friends until Wainwright's death in 1991. SAT SAT Before Wainwright, people stood in the valley bottom and SAT said we can't get up there; we can't do it. Then they'd see SAT his way of dissecting mountains, for Eric he's every bit as SAT clever as the man who invented the London Underground. He SAT took a mountain, he filleted it, turned it into a SAT two-dimensional image and made it more understandable. SAT SAT Despite recent TV series following his walks, Robson SAT believes Wainwright is misunderstood by the majority of his SAT readers. It's time to re-evaluate Wainwright's character and SAT legacy - to give him credit for championing radical ideas of SAT environmental protection, and sustainability, decades before SAT they became the fashionable buzz words. SAT SAT Eric has an extensive personal collection of archive SAT material of Wainwright in conversation which reveals an SAT unfamiliar side to this complex character SAT SAT Producer: Barney Rowntree SAT A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00v6g34 (Listen) SAT Goodbye to Berlin, Episode 2 SAT SAT 1931 and Berlin is changing fast. Isherwood finds his old SAT friends struggling with the hardships of poverty and the new SAT restrictions that the Nazis impose on society. SAT SAT The poignancy of those who are able to flee and those who SAT have no choice but to stay is reinforced by Isherwood's SAT dilemma: can he remain in the city he once loved as it falls SAT totally under Hitler's power? 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 Contributions from Peter Leonhard Braun and Radio SAT Berlin-Brandenburg SAT SAT Producer/Director: Polly Thomas SAT A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00v6q0b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b00v72r1 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT SAT Where has it all gone wrong with children and food? The SAT previous Labour Government spent nearly £2 billion over ten SAT years attempting to tackle childhood obesity levels. Now SAT more than one in three British children aged 5 to 13 are in SAT the over-weight or obese category. Yet according to the SAT latest research, parents of over-weight children don't even SAT recognise that their children are too heavy to qualify as SAT healthy. Mariella and her guests debate the tricky issue of SAT raising healthy children. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00v6khk (Listen) SAT (11/12) The 2010 series reaches the penultimate contest, SAT with Scotland badly needing a win and Wales going all-out SAT for their fourth victory out of four. Tom Sutcliffe asks the SAT questions, with Alan Taylor and Michael Alexander appearing SAT for Scotland, and Myfanwy Alexander and David Edwards SAT representing Wales. SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00v6gnn (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces a miscellany of requested poems. SAT Autumn. Rain storms. Migrant birds. Anton Lesser and Eleanor SAT Tremain read. SAT SAT The curious Victorian poet James Henry begins the programme. SAT Elizabeth Jennings and Edwin Muir follow. Peter Reading's SAT radio poem Maritime is at the heart of the edition: blending SAT three stories, the desperate attempts of Odysseus to get SAT home from Troy, a ship wreck in the Atlantic in 1609 and his SAT own birdwatching memories from Hilbre Island. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 17 OCTOBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00v94pc (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00j18p9 (Listen) SUN Abroad, Sisters SUN SUN Series of three edgy tales of people abroad, by Virginia SUN Gilbert. SUN SUN When two sisters take a holiday together, the memory of a SUN childhood incident causes older sister May to gradually SUN recognise the truth of her standing with her younger sister. SUN Read by Sorcha Cusack. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v94pf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vdhdy (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v94ph (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00vc2z0 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00vc2z2 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Augustine, West Monkton, Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00vc1ry (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00v94pk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00vc30b (Listen) SUN Sleeping On It SUN SUN In 'Sleeping On It', Mark Tully asks how real problem SUN solving is best achieved: by the unconscious or by rational SUN thought. SUN SUN How can we use contemplation, meditation or objective SUN reasoning to solve our immediate problems and what is the SUN best way to achieve that distance or objectivity that best SUN helps us find solutions. SUN SUN Mark asks why Archimedes was best able to solve his famous SUN mathematical problem in the bath, why Mozart was happiest SUN composing on a walk and how it is that he himself finds SUN solutions in a traffic jam. He discusses Eureka Moments, SUN logical thought and wasting time with Professor Guy Claxon, SUN author of 'Hare Brain, Tortoise Mind'. SUN SUN Readings include the work of Sufi master, Rumi, and the SUN poetry of Eammon Grennan and music ranges from Bizet to SUN Johnny Nash. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00vc32h (Listen) SUN Alex James travels to Hertfordshire to meet the first of SUN three shortlisted finalists for this year's BBC Farmer of SUN the Year. Jon Birchall has put the environment at the heart SUN of the mixed farm he manages in Hitchin. Alex teams up with SUN fellow judge, former Conservative MP and previous Chair of SUN EFRA Select Committee, Michael Jack to find out whether Jon SUN has what it takes to win the title of BBC Farming Today SUN Farmer of the Year. SUN SUN As well as farming rare breed cattle, sheep and pigs, Jon SUN has introduced environmental measures to improve the SUN biodiversity on the farm. From sewing specific grass seed SUN mixes, to planting over 100 oak trees. Pilkington Farm has SUN not only developed its wildlife but also makes a profit. SUN Alex James and Michael Jack discover how and ask whether SUN more farmers could and should follow suit. SUN SUN Producer: Fran Barnes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00v94pm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00v94pp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00vc32k (Listen) SUN This weekend thousands of Australians are set to gather in SUN Rome for the Canonisation of their first saint, Mary SUN McKillop. Born in 1842, Mary became a Catholic Nun and SUN Teacher. She was excommunicated briefly after denouncing a SUN paedophile priest. Willam Crawley talks to Father Brian SUN Lucas from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference about SUN her life. SUN SUN There's a growing trend to leave presents at the gravesides SUN of loved ones. It's causing problems in many cemeteries. Our SUN reporter Charles Carroll looks at the issues involved. SUN SUN A special Synod of Roman Catholic Bishops is currently SUN taking place in Rome at the Vatican. On the agenda, the SUN declining number of Christians in the Middle East. Williams SUN speaks to the Archbishop of Liverpool, Patrick Kelly, who's SUN the Representative of the Bishops Conference (of England and SUN Wales) on the International Co-ordination of the Roman SUN Catholic Church for the Holy Land. SUN SUN Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, is from the Tombura-Yambio SUN diocese in South Sudan. He's leading a call for the SUN international community to take action to resolve the SUN problem of Joseph Kony's Lords Resistance Army who have SUN terrorised his people. He talks to William about his fears SUN of a return to violence, in the run-up to January's SUN referendum on the possible secession of South Sudan. SUN SUN Massive cuts are on the cards in next week's Government SUN Spending Review. But one area which will be protected is in SUN the field of International Development Aid. Their 7.3 SUN billion pound a year budget has been ring-fenced. But is SUN 'Aid Money' the right solution for helping some of the SUN poorest countries in the world, will they really benefit ? SUN Justin Byworth, the CEO of World Vision UK and Alec Van SUN Gelder, Project Director of Trade and Development at the SUN International Policy Network discuss the issue. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00vc32m (Listen) SUN WaterAid SUN SUN Jonathan Dimbleby presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN the charity WaterAid. SUN SUN Donations to WaterAid should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope WaterAid. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give SUN online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00vc33l (Listen) SUN From All Souls Church, Langham Place, London SUN SUN The Third Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization opens SUN today in Cape Town, with participants from 200 nations. This SUN service from All Souls Church, Langham Place, with voices SUN from Cape Town, celebrates that 'God was in Christ, SUN reconciling the world to himself' (2 Cor 5:19). Leader: The SUN Revd Hugh Palmer (Rector); Preacher: The Revd Dr Chris SUN Wright. Music Director: Oliver Nicolson; Organist: Craig SUN Hudson. Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00v744b (Listen) SUN Baby Boomers SUN SUN Sarah Dunant owns up to being a member of the greediest SUN generation - the baby boomers. She wonders if after asking SUN for a range of personal freedoms, they are now asking for SUN the freedom to choose when to die? SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00vc4zh (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00vc4zk (Listen) SUN Written by: Simon Frith SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ... Felicity Finch 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 Peggy Woolley ... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ... Dan Ciotkowksi SUN William Grundy ... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ... Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy ... Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker ... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ... Rachel Atkins SUN Hayley Tucker ... Lorraine Coady SUN Phoebe Tucker ... Lucy Morris SUN Brenda Tucker ... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary ... Ryan Kelly SUN Alan Franks ... John Telfer SUN Harry Mason ... Michael Shelford. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00vc504 (Listen) SUN Michael Mansfield SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the barrister Michael Mansfield. SUN SUN He is one of Britain's leading QCs - the Birmingham six, the SUN Marchioness disaster, the Stephen Lawrence trial and the SUN death of Jean Charles de Menezes are only a handful of the SUN high profile cases he's been involved in. SUN SUN He describes himself as a 'radical lawyer' and says he's SUN been educated by the cases he's taken on. He has become, he SUN says, increasingly angry and radical over the years. "I do SUN feel that reputation, standing up for principle, is one of SUN the few ways in which a difference can be made.". SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00v6l9y (Listen) SUN Series 6, Episode 3 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. SUN SUN In this edition, recorded at the 2010 Edinburgh Fringe, Rhod SUN Gilbert, Kevin Bridges, Tom Wrigglesworth and Lucy Porter SUN are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Spiders, Mushrooms, SUN Eggs and Edinburgh. 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 b00vc508 (Listen) SUN The Sandwich SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the past, present and future of the SUN sandwich. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00v94pw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00vc51f (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 In Search of a Shtetl b00vc51h (Listen) SUN Here begins an extraordinary journey to Lithuania and SUN Belarus for broadcaster and writer Michael Freedland and his SUN son, Guardian journalist and best-selling author, Jonathan. SUN SUN These two countries once thronged with Jewish life, a life SUN that was all but extinguished by successive regimes- Russian SUN Czarists, Soviets and then the Nazis who, with the help of SUN some Lithuanians, managed to totally decimate many towns and SUN villages, or shtetls. Knowing that their forebears settled SUN in the UK in the late 19th century they set off to try to SUN find any trace of the Freedlands who came from Baisogala in SUN Lithuania and the Mindels from Dunilovichy in Belarus. As SUN the journey progresses, it becomes a broader search- a SUN search for Jewish life. They are taken to Janova and SUN Kedainiai, both once busy shtetls, alive with Jewish SUN businesses, shops and culture. Sadly in such places where SUN there was once a high proportion of Jews, few now remain and SUN synagogues have disappeared or fallen into disrepair. SUN SUN In Kaunas, an interview with Professor Egidius SUN Aleksandrovicius lays out the entire history of Jewry in SUN Lithuania. In Vilnius, the family focus is re-established as SUN they visit the National Archives where they learn a lot SUN about the Freedlands and the Mindels, discovering crumbling SUN nineteenth century archives that refer to what could be SUN Michael's ancestors. The trail now points clearly to SUN Baisogala, what was once a tiny shtetl in the Lithuanian SUN countryside. Simon the guide knows of a Jewish cemetery on SUN the outskirts, but it's a cemetery he hasn't seen for ten SUN years, as it's been flooded for a reservoir, but by an SUN amazing stroke of luck, the team tries a wooded hillside SUN and...there it is, remnants of old and mostly illegible SUN Jewish tombs, where, no doubt, Michael and Jonathan's SUN ancestors are buried. SUN SUN Producer: Neil Rosser SUN A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00v740x (Listen) SUN Eric Robson is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and SUN Bob Flowerdew in Hulme, Manchester. SUN Bob Flowerdew discovers a group of gardeners working in a SUN rather unusual site in Manchester city. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 How The Mighty Have Fallen b00td9fr (Listen) SUN The Exhibitors SUN SUN "I believe no Age did ever afford more Instances of SUN Corpulency than our own." Physician Thomas Short, writing in 1727. SUN SUN Today the language may be less quaint, but the sentiments SUN are echoed repeatedly in the media, in Government and in SUN medical reports all over the world. The obesity epidemic has SUN arrived - but obesity is as old as mankind, and in a new SUN four-part series, Dr Hilary Jones looks back into its SUN history, and asks what can we learn today from the mistakes SUN and successes of our overweight ancestors. SUN SUN We start with an investigation of the immensely corpulent SUN individuals who put themselves on show to the public. SUN SUN It begins in Stamford - scene of the death and extraordinary SUN burial of Daniel Lambert, hailed in 1809 as "the most SUN corpulent man in the history of the world". Prof Vanessa SUN Toulmin, of the National Fairground Archive, and Prof David SUN Haslam, Chair of the National Obesity Forum, explore the SUN world of the circus fat folk. SUN SUN And from America, we hear a snatch of the Strates Carnival SUN in 1941, featuring Big Bertha and Slim Jim, "the world's SUN strangest married couple". SUN SUN Times have changed, and nowadays the idea of obese SUN individuals exhibiting in freak shows is highly SUN uncomfortable. But is the portrayal of obesity in SUN sensationalist, prurient tabloid articles, and on TV, the SUN modern-day equivalent of the freak show? SUN SUN Future programmes focus on depictions of obesity in art, SUN music and literature; diets through the ages; and the weird, SUN wonderful and downright dangerous obesity remedies of the SUN past. SUN SUN Readings by Toby Longworth & Michael Fenton-Stevens. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Kenyon SUN A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00vc55y (Listen) SUN Moby Dick, Episode 1 SUN SUN Stef Penney, author of the critically acclaimed The SUN Tenderness of Wolves, has adapted this well known American SUN novel by Herman Melville. SUN SUN Moby Dick is a story, she says, that gets its hooks into SUN you, even though it's one of the strangest books you'll ever SUN read. It has very little narrative, no character development SUN to speak of, and there's no dramatic conflict for over five SUN hundred pages. And yet it's completely compelling, like a SUN fevered dream or a horror film, and, of course, as soon as SUN Moby Dick is mentioned, you know where you're going to end SUN up. For anyone who has ever longed to escape, it is the SUN ultimate trip - and the ultimate morality tale of why you SUN shouldn't go! Captain Ahab is all our darknesses SUN personified; not an evil figure, but a decent, intelligent, SUN could-have-been-ordinary man who gives in to the tyranny of SUN an obsessive dream, or in this case, nightmare. SUN SUN In Episode 1, Ishmael, now in middle age, looks back on his SUN younger self and remembers how this voyage of a lifetime SUN began. SUN SUN Ishmael ..... Trevor White SUN Young Ishmael ..... PJ Brennan SUN Captain Ahab ..... Garrick Hagon SUN Peter Coffin ..... Howell Evans SUN Queequeg ..... Sani Muliaumaseali'i SUN Peleg ..... Mark Meadows SUN Elijahh/Captain Mayhew ..... Dorian Thomas SUN Starbuck ..... Richard Laing SUN Stubb ..... Simon Lee Phillips SUN Archy ..... Adam Redmayne SUN Daggoo ..... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith SUN SUN Specially composed music by Stuart Gordon. SUN Directed at BBC/Cymru Wales by Kate McAll. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00vc560 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to bestselling writer Ken Follett SUN about his new book 'Fall of Giants' which follows five SUN connected families through the dramatic events of the First SUN World War, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for votes SUN for women. SUN SUN She's also joined in the studio by novelists Rebecca Hunt SUN and Tim Lott, who discuss the challenges of portraying SUN depression in fiction. Rebecca Hunt's debut novel, Mr SUN Chartwell, is the story of a giant black dog who stalks SUN sufferers of depression, in particular Winston Churchill. SUN Tim Lott is the author of an acclaimed memoir about his own SUN depression, The Scent of Dried Roses. SUN SUN Plus - how and why do publishers decide to bring a book back SUN in to print? Spurred on by an Open Book listener's query on SUN the subject, Mariella speaks to Tom Tivnan of the Bookseller SUN magazine to find out more. SUN SUN Producer Aasiya Lodhi. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00vc57m (Listen) SUN From the cradle to the grave: Roger McGough introduces SUN requests for poems that mark life's major transitions and SUN turning points. There are works that celebrate the arrival SUN of new life, while others mark childhood, adolescence, SUN middle and old age. Tessa Nicholson and Alun Raglan read a SUN rich selection of poems by William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, SUN Christina Rossetti and others. SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00v72js (Listen) SUN Insolvency Practitioners SUN SUN Do Insolvency Practitioners measure up to the high standards SUN expected of them when they are called in to a stricken SUN business? Allan Urry examines concerns that some IP's don't SUN always act in the best interests of creditors who are owed SUN money when companies fail. Are landlords right to complain SUN they've been getting a raw deal because some corporate SUN undertakers side too much with their retail paymasters, who SUN are pushing for reduced rents because their businesses are SUN in trouble. SUN SUN The Office of Fair Trading is calling for far reaching SUN reforms amid concerns about high fees and low recovery rates SUN for some creditors. So is there proper oversight of a SUN profession which takes a billion pounds in fees each year, SUN but isn't subjected to much public scrutiny? SUN SUN PRODUCER: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00vc1ry (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00v94py (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00v94q0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vc58d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00vc59g (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN In this week's Pick of the Week, saluting "La Stupenda" - SUN John Waite hears tributes to the great soprano Dame Joan SUN Sutherland who died earlier this week. There are highlights, SUN too, from a very different musical legacy - the virtuoso SUN trumpet playing of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong. From a satchel SUN mouth . to a penny-black nose: find out why Adolf Hitler had SUN a "nasal welcome mat" in the middle of his face. And . a SUN nation of addicts. John investigates the domestic drug that SUN we've probably all dabbled in, and asks "Why are the British SUN hooked ... on tea?" Perhaps make yourself a pot, and settle SUN in to listen to "Pick of the Week". SUN SUN The Man Behind The Mountains - Radio 4 SUN Jazz Junctions - Radio 2 SUN Choice: Mandela in his own Words - World Service SUN Africa at 50: Wind of Change - Radio 4 SUN Parting Shots - Radio 4 SUN Start the Week - Radio 4 SUN Richard Herring's Objective - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Play: Every Child Matters - Radio 4 SUN The Carl Rosa Opera - Radio 4 SUN In Tune - Radio 3 SUN Words and music - Radio 3 SUN A History of the World in 100 Objects - Radio 4 SUN Beyond the Blitz - Radio Coventry and Warwickshire 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 b00vc5y0 (Listen) SUN Things get heated at Grange Farm and Jazzer makes himself at SUN home. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00vc5y2 (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 Baseball and American History SUN SUN Historian John P. Rossi of La Salle University in SUN Pennsylvania bats around the relationship between Americans SUN and baseball. He explains how and when baseball became so SUN deeply intertwined with America’s national identity. SUN SUN Heroes of the Game SUN SUN Author and sports commentator Frank Deford has been voted SUN Sportswriter of the year six times. He reflects on the SUN heroes of baseball and the glory of the game. SUN SUN Music From a Baseball Bat SUN SUN National Symphony Orchestra musician Glenn Donnellan is an SUN avid fan of baseball but was never quite good enough to make SUN it to the Major Leagues. Instead he created a SUN baseball-centric instrument, a "batolin,†which he now plays SUN at Washington National’s professional baseball games. He SUN shares a few tunes and tips with presenter Matt Frei. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00js5t8 (Listen) SUN Penelope's People, Pills SUN SUN In Pills by Eric Pringle, we meet Alice Black, a dancer SUN whose career came to an abrupt end when she was still a SUN young woman. Now, trapped in a loveless marriage, she SUN occasionally feels bitter and resentful that her life has SUN not fulfilled its early promise. SUN SUN But the determination that first drove her to pursue a SUN career on the stage gives her strength as she faces a very SUN uncertain future. SUN SUN Reader: Penelope Keith SUN Producer: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00v73zk (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton investigates why hundreds of you are up-in-arms SUN over changes to the BBC radio message boards. SUN SUN As the Commonwealth Games athletes head home armed with SUN medals some Feedback listeners wonder if the BBC's coverage SUN has been too negative. SUN SUN The World Service is rumoured to be facing a 25% cut in its SUN budget - but should we be funding a global network? SUN SUN As the world is gripped by the Chilean miners' rescue, some SUN listeners ask - were there too many BBC reporters there? SUN SUN And as You and Yours celebrates its 40th birthday, we ask SUN what makes a successful long-running radio programme and SUN find out which ones you think are past their sell-by date. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00v740z (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN Agony aunt Claire Rayner. We hear how her terrible childhood SUN left her determined to solve the personal problems of SUN others. SUN Also: the acclaimed operatic soprano Dame Joan Sutherland SUN We have a moving tribute from her husband and musical mentor SUN Richard Bonynge. SUN We also celebrate the great English pudding as we remember SUN the traditional cook and writer Mary Norwak SUN And hear how the psychologist Gerald S. Lesser made the TV SUN show "Sesame Street" both enjoyable and instructive. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00vc1ls (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00vc32m (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00v6lkp (Listen) SUN The Spirit Level: the theory of everything? SUN SUN The Spirit Level is a book that aims to change the way you SUN see the world. SUN SUN It has impressed politicians on both sides of politics, with SUN David Cameron and Ed Milliband taking note of its message. SUN SUN Packed with scattergrams and statistics, the book argues for SUN more equal societies. The authors, epidemiologists Richard SUN Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, make the case that countries SUN with higher income inequality tend to have more health and SUN social problems. Equality, they say, is better for everyone. SUN SUN But The Spirit Level has been accused of imbalance itself. SUN SUN Critics from the right have launched a scathing attack, SUN saying the books methods and arguments are flawed. SUN SUN So who is correct? Mukul Devichand examines the evidence. SUN SUN He speaks to: Professors Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett, SUN authors of The Spirit Level; Professor Peter Saunders, SUN author of Beware False Prophets; Professor John Goldthorpe SUN of Nuffield College, Oxford; Professor George Kaplan of SUN Michigan University; Professor Angela Clow, of the SUN University of Westminster. SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00v94q2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00vc66l (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00vc66n (Listen) SUN Episode 23 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 Rachel Johnson of The SUN Lady takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN Featured Presenter: Rachel Johnson SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00v7411 (Listen) SUN The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire writer Simon Beaufoy, SUN 24 Hour Party People and Welcome To Sarajevo scribe Frank SUN Cottrell Boyce, and Tamara Drewe adapter Moira Buffini SUN reveal some secrets of screenwriting. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00vc30b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 18 OCTOBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00vcr74 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00v820t (Listen) MON Economic migration and happiness - Hairdressing and emotional labour MON MON Laurie Taylor asks whether migrants who move to another MON country for economic reasons are likely to increase their MON levels of happiness with higher incomes. Using the USA as a MON focus for his research, Dr David Bartram from Leicester MON University uncovers evidence that casts doubt on this MON assertion and he's joined by Bristol University researcher MON Dr Michaela Benson who has written widely about migration MON and happiness. MON MON Laurie's second topic for discussion is 'being paid to be MON happy'. Rachel Cohen is a Senior Research Fellow at the MON University of Warwick and her research paper "When it pays MON to be friendly: Employment Relationships and Emotional MON Labour in Hairstyling" is discussed by Laurie and by writer MON Michael Bywater, who explores the broader notion of being MON paid to be friendly. MON MON Producer. Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00vc2z2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v94q4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vc6g2 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v94q6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00vc6s3 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00v94q8 (Listen) MON With Bishop Dr Joe Aldred. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00vc6s5 (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin MON Poyntz-Roberts. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00v94qb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00vcmp5 (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00vcmp7 (Listen) MON In a special programme, Start the Week discusses morality, MON religion and politics. The philosopher Mary Warnock, in her MON latest book, Dishonest To God, argues that religion has no MON place in politics, and that it's a mistake to believe that MON religion has a monopoly on morality. To debate these issues MON Andrew Marr is joined by Stanley Hauerwas, named 'America's MON Best Theologian' by Time magazine, the philosopher, humanist MON and former Professor of Geriatric Medicine Raymond Tallis, MON and the former Conservative MP John Gummer, now Lord Deben, MON who converted to Catholicism in 1994. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcmq0 (Listen) MON The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD), MON Russian revolutionary plate MON MON Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through things MON that time has left behind. Throughout this closing week he MON is examining some of the major social and political MON movements that have helped shape our contemporary landscape. MON Today he tells the remarkable story of a Russian plate. It MON was made in 1901 in the Imperial Porcelain Factory in St MON Petersburg. Twenty years later it was painted over as a MON propaganda tool for the new Communist Revolution - decorated MON in the same factory that had become the State Porcelain MON Factory and in a city renamed as Petrograd. The director of MON the State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, Mikhail MON Piotrovsky, and the great historian of modern Russia, Eric MON Hobsbawn, help piece together this momentous history. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vcmq2 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Fashionista Gok Wan on his MON autobiography "Through Thick and Thin". MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vcmq4 (Listen) MON Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 6 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 Orphaned at 10 but now aged 17, Phoebe Moorhouse continues MON to live with her brother Arthur and his wife Bel. But all is MON not well in the Moorhouse home as Bel hears that her MON sister-in-law Sophia is moving up the social scale to the MON newly developing West End of Glasgow. Bel reckons that for MON Phoebe's sake at least they should be living on the better MON side of town, but can Arthur afford a move? MON MON Phoebe Moorhouse........Helen McAlpine MON Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan MON Henry Hayburn..............John Kielty MON Mrs. Hayburn................Lesley Mackie MON Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate MON Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing MON Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson MON David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson MON Wee Arthur...................Cameron McNee MON MON Other parts played by members of the cast. MON Producer/director: David Ian Neville. MON MON 11:00 Midlife Relaunch b00vcms2 (Listen) MON Is it possible to start a new career in your fifties? Is it MON feasible to escape the nine till five straight jacket and MON find greater fulfilment? Midlife Relaunch asks people who've MON tried. MON MON When Denise and Paul from Portsmouth returned from a summer MON holiday they felt they couldn't face another winter MON commuting to their accounting and teaching jobs. They MON decided to move - to Cyprus. MON MON "We realised we didn't want what we'd always had - to be MON living in the same old house doing the same old stuff. There MON came this point where I thought: I want to do this before my MON hips go- so it's now or never really." MON MON Christine and Stuart from Nottingham gave up steady jobs and MON the prospect of generous pensions to set up a B&B and MON furniture making business, 500 miles north in the Scottish MON Highlands. MON MON But, Christine acknowledges it's certainly not an idyllic MON dream: "This is the hardest we've ever worked in our lives MON and we'll never be money rich. But we have a wonderful MON quality of life here with a welcoming community with people MON who have time to care. We gave up our pensions to come up MON here, so we have to continue - our motto is 'adapt or die'." MON MON Fiona from Derbyshire dreamed of working with cows but found MON herself stuck working in a housing association. Now in her MON 50's she's running a dairy farm in Ayrshire. MON MON "I have no regrets about my midlife decision to leave a MON well-paid job for these long days with little money - but I MON just wish I'd made it earlier in life." MON MON Producers: Kim Normanton and Elizabeth Burke MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00vcms4 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON May & June. As the summer heats up passions rise for Barbara MON Cartland and Edwina Currie. MON MON Satirist Craig Brown dips into the private lives of public MON figures from the 1960's to the present day. 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 b00vcn9j (Listen) MON Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. MON MON People who live in areas liable to flooding are facing huge MON increases in their home insurance premiums because the MON insurance industry does not believe that the government is MON investing enough in flood defences. Presently the extra risk MON of floods is spread across all home policies but the MON insurers now say they'll end this practice which could lead MON to premiums in flood risk areas rising fourfold. MON MON Energy produced by renewable technology has fallen for the MON second quarter running. A shortfall in rain and wind this MON year has been blamed as output from renewable sources MON contributed 5.9% of energy consumed compared to 6.5% last MON year. Critics say it demonstrates the need to boost our mix MON of energy sources. Supporters of an expanded renewables MON sector say the drop is to be expected at this stage of MON development of capacity. The Government is legally bound to MON produce 15% of the UK's energy from renewable sources by MON 2020. MON MON The boss of a traffic penalty tribunal says that local MON authorities must stop penalising motorists unfairly for MON misdemeanours like being inches over a yellow line or for MON displaying meter tickets and disabled parking badges upside MON down on the dashboard. MON MON Who are the middle class? It is an important question as the MON government considers how it should go about clawing back the MON billions of pounds of debt run up by the nation as a result MON of the banking crisis. David Phillips from the Institute for MON Fiscal Studies gives his analysis of Household Income in the MON UK and, in cash terms, where the middle class begins and MON ends. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00v94qd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00vcn9l (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00vcn9n (Listen) MON (12/12) The last contest of the 2010 series pits Northern MON Ireland against The Midlands. By Round Britain Quiz MON tradition, all of the questions in the last edition are MON provided by listeners. Tom Sutcliffe is the questionmaster, MON with Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney playing for Northern MON Ireland, opposite Stephen Maddock and Rosalind Miles for The MON Midlands. Can anyone catch the Welsh in the race for the MON series title? MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00vc5y0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vcn9q (Listen) MON Wind, Sand and Stars MON MON by Antoine de Exupery MON dramatised by Rod Wooden MON MON The autobiographical tale of Antoine de Exupery's plane MON crash in the Libyan desert in 1936 and his miraculous survival. MON MON Exupery ..... Paul Rhys MON Prevot ..... Adeel Akhtar MON Bedouin ..... Sean Baker MON MON Director: David Hunter MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00vc2vn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht42h (Listen) MON Ignatius Sancho MON MON Can you imagine who you might have been if you had lived at MON a different point in history? MON MON That's exactly what the presenters of My Alter Ego have been MON asked to do. Each programme in the series is presented by MON someone whose life, career, or mind-set shares some MON similarities with a character from history. MON MON Programme 1: Mobo award winning musician, Soweto Kinch, MON tells the forgotten story of Ignatius Sancho. Supposedly MON born on a slave ship bound for the West Indies in the 1720s, MON Ignatius was orphaned and brought to London. There he was MON given to three spinster sisters and grew up as a MON child-slave. However he had a curious mind and a love of MON learning and these attributes combined with sheer force of MON personality, meant he broke through into London's literary MON and artistic circles forging friendships with the actor MON David Garrick and the author Laurence Sterne. He became a MON prolific letter writer, and a gentleman composer, while MON running a grocery shop which attracted many of his MON aristocratic and artistic friends. Soweto Kinch has long MON been fascinated by the life of Ignatius Sancho, and even MON though he was born almost two hundred years after Sancho MON into a very different world, he recognises certain parallels MON with his own life: his engagement with education, his MON passion for music and his relationship with his heritage. MON Illustrated with readings from Ignatius's letters and MON musical compositions, Soweto explores the life of Ignatius MON Sancho in My Alter Ego. MON MON Producer: Karen Gregor. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00vc508 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b00vcnbg (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 2 MON MON Mouse fingers at the ready... Simon Cox explores the week's MON most exciting IT stories, hearing about the latest MON developments in the digital world and uncovering the MON multitude of ways in which new technology affects our lives. MON MON 17:00 PM b00vcnbj (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vcnbl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00vcnbx (Listen) MON Series 6, Episode 4 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 Chris Addison, Susan Calman, Rufus Hound and Armando MON Iannucci are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Clocks, Funerals, MON Goldfish and Joseph Stalin. 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 b00vcnds (Listen) MON Kathy stands her ground and Ed seeks advice from Mike. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00vcndv (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, MON Producer Gavin Heard. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcmq0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Graduate b00t6y65 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON John, Mohsin, Caroline and Fiona are four graduates from MON Leeds University and Leeds Metropolitan University who MON completed their degrees in June last year. MON MON Six months in, programme two catches up with the group to MON see whether or not they have been able to find work, and MON introduces us to two new graduates, Samantha Del Core and MON Lauren Hughes. MON MON Samantha graduated from Leeds Metropolitan University with a MON degree in Interior Architecture and had planned to set up MON her own business. But as Sam faces competition on the MON horizon from 2010's cohort of eager young graduates, will MON her entrepreneurial spirit carry her through? MON MON And Lauren, an aspiring journalist, questions whether the MON seemingly endless round of work experience placements she MON has been doing will get her any where. MON MON 2010 was the previous Government's benchmark for getting 50% MON of all school leavers into Higher Education. By widening MON participation and increasing access to students from MON disadvantaged backgrounds, universities were seen as way of MON increasing social mobility. MON MON But as entry to the top professions, such as law and MON medicine, continues to be dominated by those from the most MON affluent families, Sarfraz Manzoor asks whether a degree MON alone can enable someone to realize their aspirations. 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 Producer: Katie Burningham MON A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00vcndx (Listen) MON Turkey: staying secular insha'Allah MON MON Turkey's increased economic and political importance makes MON it a place which outsiders need to understand. MON MON Since 2002, the nation has been governed by the AKP, a MON political party with Islamist roots. The AKP's time in power MON has coincided with improvements in Turkey's economic MON management, the rise of its international influence and a MON dramatic decline amongst its citizens of support for sharia MON law. MON MON Outsiders tend to see Turkey as wrestling with a choice MON between Islamism and secularism. However the nation seems MON able to live with - even prosper under - the apparent MON contradiction of a government with Islamist origins and a MON secular constitution. MON MON Edward Stourton attempts to unravel the complicated reality MON of Turkish politics and get beyond the usual Western MON obsession with whether the Turkey's loyalties lie with the MON West or the Islamic world. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00v730s (Listen) MON Stem cell trials - Geron's spinal cord therapy starts after MON years of regulatory wrangles. Human remains and archaeology MON - researchers complain of burdensome regulations. And a MON brief encounter with a comet chaser MON NASA's Deep Impact space probe is closing in on the Comet MON Hartley 2; Quentin hears about the science astronomers hope MON to learn from the encounter. MON MON Stem Cell Trials MON MON Geron in the United States has started the world's first MON trial of a treatment using human embryonic stem cells. But MON they only got to start after filing 21,000 pages of MON documentation to the regulatory authorities, at a cost of MON $45 million. Quentin asks biologist Anthony Hollander and MON lawyer James Lawford Davies whether the balance between law MON and science is right, or whether regulation is holding up MON medical progress. MON MON Archaeology and human remains MON MON Over-zealous application of rules is stifling archaeological MON research, according to two practicing archaeologists. Duncan MON Sayer and Mike Pitts say it's becoming harder to run digs MON that involve human remains. Quentin asks them why. MON MON Encounters of the interplanetary kind MON MON NASA's Deep Impact mission is about to fly past Comet MON Hartley 2, giving astronomers a rare chance of a close up MON view of an icy visitor to the inner solar system. Meanwhile, MON the Stardust space probe is gearing up for a look at Comet MON Tempel 1. And Hubble pictures reveal that two asteroids MON collided last year, creating a comet-like cloud dust in the MON asteroid belt. Astronomer Alan Fitzsimmons brings Quentin up MON to date. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00vcmp7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00v94qg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00vcndz (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 b00vcnf1 (Listen) MON The Lifted Veil, Episode 1 MON MON The Lifted Veil is a novella by George Eliot, first MON published in 1859. Quite unlike the realistic fiction for MON which Eliot is best known, The Lifted Veil explores themes MON of extrasensory perception, the essence of physical life, MON the possibility of life after death, and the power of fate. MON The novella is a significant part of the Victorian tradition MON of horror fiction. MON MON Latimer recalls the first time he knew for certain he could MON see in to the future. MON MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Read by Nigel Cooke MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Great Unanswered Questions b00vcnfr (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON MON Is it only the bone idle that have time to ponder ridiculous MON questions? Maybe it is an early sign of madness! Colin MON Murphy's excuse is that it informs, educates and entertains? MON Judge for yourself when comedians Craig Hill, Colin Murphy MON and resident nerds Dr David Booth and Matthew Collins MON attempt to answer questions such as why can some people sing MON and others can't? MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vcnft (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports as MPs return to Westminster after the MON conference season. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 19 OCTOBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00vcr7b (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 b00vcmq0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v94qj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vdl5c (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v94ql (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00vdl8f (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vcnp9 (Listen) TUE With Bishop Dr Joe Aldred. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00vcnpc (Listen) TUE Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anna Varle. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00vcnpf (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00vcnph (Listen) TUE The world of sport is reeling from another blow to its TUE fundamental philosophy - that what you see in a sporting TUE encounter is the best competitors, trying their utmost and TUE winning because, on the day, they were the best. Now, it TUE seems, gambling on the outcome of that contest is corrupting TUE the contest itself. The public, even those who enjoy TUE betting, are faced with the possibility that those involved TUE in sporting contests may not be giving their all. Indeed it TUE may be that their actions are just as likely to be for TUE personal gain as they are for victory. The result - the TUE honourable sporting spirit is exposed as a sham and the TUE sporting authorities are desperate to find a way of TUE preserving and maintaining their good name and the good name TUE of their sports. TUE TUE That's the story today after the Spot Fixing allegations TUE facing three Pakistani cricketers surfaced in the News of TUE the World Newspaper. But it was also a crisis that faced the TUE hugely popular sport of bare knuckle prize fighting in 18th TUE and 19th century Britain. TUE TUE Jonathan Freedland takes The Long View of sports' uneasy TUE relationship with the gambling business. Back in the early TUE days of fighting, and indeed cricket, gambling was the TUE engine that drove sport. Prize fighters could expect no fee TUE other than money gathered from the various bets made prior TUE to their fights. While the spirit of noble combat prevailed TUE all was well, but it wasn't long before fighters started TUE responding directly to those making the bets or simply TUE bending the rules to suit their own ends. TUE TUE How the boxing promoters of the day dealt with the problem TUE and how the Cricketing and sporting authorities in general TUE are dealing with it today is the subject of this edition of TUE the Long View. TUE TUE Joining Jonathan are the historian and one time Olympic TUE medallist Peter Radford, the former cricketer and now TUE commentator and analyst Simon Huges, and the sports TUE promoter, Barry Hearn. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 09:30 Africa at 50: Wind of Change b00vcnpk (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Earlier this month, Nigeria celebrated 50 years as an TUE independent nation after a long period of colonial rule by TUE Britain. On October 1st 1960, the Union Jack was lowered and TUE the green-white-green of Nigeria hoisted, signalling a new TUE dawn for Africa's most populous country. It was one of the TUE main events of 1960- Africa's year. TUE TUE Nigeria was the largest- 30 million people gained their TUE right to self-governance, and the number of countries TUE gaining independence was to double over the next three TUE years, as the wind of change swept through Africa. TUE TUE Adewale Maja-Pearce was seven at the time of independence TUE and remembers his father's elation as newly elected Prime TUE Minister Alhaji Tafawa Balewa assumed leadership of the TUE government with a promise of a bright future for Nigeria. TUE TUE Born in London in 1953 to Yoruba and British parents, TUE Maja-Pearce grew up in Lagos, and returned there after being TUE educated in the UK. He's written a great deal about modern TUE Nigeria, and many of his views are outspoken and TUE controversial. Despite the early euphoria of independence, TUE and despite the fact that he's chosen to make Lagos his TUE home, he is personally very pessimistic about the future of TUE his country. TUE TUE Maja-Pearce reflects on 50 years of Nigeria's independence, TUE on the country's failure to build a shared sense of national TUE identity, on corruption and the curse of oil, and questions TUE the viability of modern Nigeria. TUE TUE Presented by journalist Adam Lusekelo TUE TUE Producer: Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcnq6 (Listen) TUE The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD), TUE Hockney's In the Dull Village TUE TUE This week Neil MacGregor's history of the world is examining TUE the forces that helped shape our way of life and ways of TUE thinking today. He began with the political revolution that TUE exploded In Russia in the 1920s and today he moves on to the TUE sexual revolution of the 1960s. He explores the emergence of TUE legally enshrined human rights and the status of sexuality TUE around the world. He tells the story with the aid of a David TUE Hockney print, one of a series that was made in 1966 as the TUE decriminalisation of homosexuality was being planned, at TUE least in Britain. We hear from David Hockney on the spirit TUE of the decade and from Shami Chakrabarti, the director of TUE the human rights group Liberty TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vcp3v (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and TUE entertaining women with news, views and interviews of TUE topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vcp3x (Listen) TUE Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 7 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 Henry Hayburn has taken a shine to young Phoebe but will his TUE mother approve of the liason? Meanwhile in Ayrshire TUE relations between Mungo and Miss Ruanthorpe - the Laird's TUE daughter - are put under strain when her favourite horse is TUE badly injured. TUE TUE Phoebe Moorhouse........Helen McAlpine TUE Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan TUE Henry Hayburn..............John Kielty TUE Mrs. Hayburn................Lesley Mackie TUE Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate TUE Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing TUE Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson TUE David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson TUE Wee Arthur...................Cameron McNee TUE TUE Other parts played by members of the cast. TUE Producer/director: David Ian Neville. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00vcp4c (Listen) TUE Episode 25 TUE TUE 25/40. In the northern hemisphere autumn is upon the world TUE and the skies are busy with air traffic of the feathered TUE variety. Bird migration is one of the great natural wonders TUE of the living planet and this is peak time for northern TUE hemisphere birds to head south. And we're interested in the TUE birds bound for Africa. Swifts and Swallows, Martins and TUE Warblers, Cuckoos and Nightingales are some of the birds TUE that head for sub-Sahara Africa to winter. Many have arrived TUE and are living under African skies. TUE TUE We'll be in London at one of the most historic bird TUE observatories with a special "memories" piece reflecting on TUE a time when London's skies were busy with south-bound avian TUE migrants. TUE TUE And we'll have a special piece from a sacred forest in TUE Ethiopia, a unique wooded island refuge in a desert of over TUE tilled land - a forest protected by a church and its TUE followers. We hear from Claire Ozanne from Roehampton TUE University as she and colleagues conduct the first ever TUE wildlife survey of this refuge. The biologists discover a TUE new bird for Ethiopia and involve the local children in TUE their discoveries. And we take on the bigger picture; what TUE contribution does religion make to nature conservation at a TUE global level? We have Martin Palmer, CEO of The Alliance of TUE Religion and Conservation (ARC) in the studio. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Paul Celan in Mapesbury Road b00vcpb7 (Listen) TUE What brought one of the most compelling modern European TUE poets to a perfectly ordinary street in North London? Who TUE did he visit there? And what made him write a poem about the TUE experience? The writer, Toby Litt, investigates this most TUE improbable of brief encounters between Paul Celan, the TUE master elegist of 20th century Jewish experience and Britain TUE at the end of the Sixties. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00vcpb9 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Call 08700 100 444 TUE (lines open at 10am on the day) or email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00v94qn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00vcpbc (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Peggy Seeger: In Her Prime b00vcpbf (Listen) TUE Sara Parker presents a radio portrait of Peggy Seeger, the TUE American folksinger and political activist who was Ewan TUE MacColl's long-time partner. TUE TUE This year, Peggy returns to live once again in Britain, to TUE be near her extended family and to explore new creative TUE avenues. For many years her own 'song-making', as she calls TUE it, was overshadowed by MacColl's, with whom she lived for TUE three decades in this country. Together they produced three TUE children, countless recordings (including the iconic 'First TUE Time Ever I Saw Your Face' with MacColl wrote for her) and, TUE with Sara Parker's father Charles, the celebrated 'Radio TUE Ballads'. TUE TUE Her creative life has also been lived in relation to the TUE success of her folk-singer brothers, Pete and Mike, and TUE partly in the shadow of her parents, the avant-garde TUE composer Ruth Crawford Seeger and the ethnomusicologist TUE Charles Seeger. TUE TUE Now, in her prime, she tells Sara what's brought her to this TUE point, about her growing and creatively energetic family, TUE how she feels about the loss of loved ones and about the TUE strength she gets from her new partner, the Irish singer TUE Irene Pyper-Scott. TUE TUE Producer: Alan Hall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00vcnds (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vcpbh (Listen) TUE My Own Private Gondolier TUE TUE In Bethan Roberts' first play for radio, Peggy Guggenheim's TUE troubled daughter, Pegeen, leaves her three children behind TUE when she travels to Venice to spend the summer with her TUE mother. Pegeen is in retreat from a marriage that has TUE failed. She is determined to be an artist, and she shuts TUE herself up in the dank basement, trying to paint. TUE Meanwhile, her mother, Peggy, is much more concerned with TUE the English sculptor who has come to visit; she wants a TUE piece of his work to add to her collection and will use TUE everything at her disposal to achieve her aim. She'll even TUE try to inveigle her daughter into the plan if she thinks it TUE will get her what she wants. Peggy is well known as a TUE collector of men, as well as art. As the summer progresses, TUE and the strains between mother and daughter grow, it's only TUE Gianni, Peggy's personal Gondolier, who can provide a TUE welcome diversion. TUE TUE Peggy Guggenheim..Fiona Shaw TUE Pegeen HÃ(c)lion.........Hattie Morahan TUE Jack Vernon............Brendan Charleson TUE Gianni.....................Francois Pandolfo TUE Nurse......................Laurel Lefkow TUE TUE The music is Vedro con mio diletto from Vivaldi's Giustino, TUE sung by Philippe Jaroussky. TUE TUE Producer: Kate McAll, BBC Cymru Wales. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00vcpbk (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners' questions and research help TUE offer new insights into the past. TUE TUE Presenter: Vanessa Collingridge TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00vcpbm (Listen) TUE Cassandra's Good Food Guide, Episode 1 TUE TUE "Cassandra" (Bill Connor) was a Fleet Street legend during TUE the Daily Mirror's heyday, with his column running non-stop, TUE not counting global hostilities, for 35 years until 1967. TUE TUE He could often be cantankerous and comically opinionated in TUE what was described as his "polished-up barrack room" style TUE of writing. Some of Cassandra's best columns, however, were TUE not about people or institutions he wanted to admonish, but TUE humorous personal tales about eating and drinking. TUE TUE Read by Roger Lloyd Pack TUE TUE Producer: Neil Cargill TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht5cn (Listen) TUE Eliza Vestris TUE TUE Can you imagine who you might have been if you'd lived at a TUE different point in history? TUE TUE That's exactly what the presenters of My Alter Ego have been TUE asked to do. Each programme in the series is presented by TUE someone whose life, career, or mind-set shares some TUE similarities with a character from history. TUE TUE Programme two: Burlesque artiste, Kirsty Allan, chooses TUE Eliza Vestris as her Alter Ego. Eliza was a trail-blazing TUE theatrical performer who took many risks in 19th century TUE theatre-land. Not only did she dare to reveal her lower TUE legs, and just a little bit of thigh, but she became the TUE first woman to run her own theatre. Eliza started off as an TUE opera singer, but made her mark as one of the first stars of TUE burlesque. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00vcpbp (Listen) TUE What next for the family courts? TUE TUE The family justice system has been criticised from all TUE angles. It's been described as a slow, bureaucratic system TUE that is bursting at the seams leaving families torn apart by TUE its unfriendly and adversarial nature. In the first of a new TUE series of Law In Action Joshua Rozenberg speaks to the Head TUE of the Family Court Division Sir Nicholas Wall about what TUE the future holds and how the sytem can be changed to help TUE those caught up in it. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00vcpbr (Listen) TUE Edwina Currie, Colin Tweedy TUE TUE Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie joins Sue TUE MacGregor to discuss her paperback choice - Zoe Heller's TUE recent account of faith and politics, The Believers. TUE Meanwhile, Colin Tweedy, Chief Executive of Arts and TUE Business, chooses Kenneth Clark's influential landmark work, TUE Civilisation. TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00vcpf2 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vdld1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Write Stuff b00vcpf4 (Listen) TUE Marcel Proust TUE TUE This week the teams investigate the life and work of Marcel TUE Proust. With team captains, John Walsh and Sebastian Faulks. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00vcpf6 (Listen) TUE Vicky bids a fond farewell and Emma spreads her good news. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00vcpf8 (Listen) TUE Composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim, who celebrated his TUE 80th birthday this year, reflects on his career, in TUE conversation with Mark Lawson, in a programme recorded at TUE the Cheltenham Literature Festival. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcnq6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00vcpfb (Listen) TUE Foundation Hospitals: An Acute Crisis? TUE TUE The drive to make acute hospitals more prudent and TUE independent through foundation trust status was meant to TUE usher in a new era of prudent spending for the whole of the NHS. TUE TUE But now the process is faltering, as a series of foundation TUE trusts hit grave financial, managerial or care quality TUE problems. TUE TUE And though the NHS was meant to be ring-fenced from the deep TUE cuts now hitting the rest of the public sector, a number TUE foundation hospital trusts are facing bed closures and TUE serious job losses. TUE TUE In some cases emergency measures have been adopted to turn TUE failing trusts around by bringing in highly paid crisis TUE managers. But these have alienated staff and unions and TUE seemingly pushed some hospitals further into the red. TUE TUE So where does this leave the Government's plans for all TUE hospitals to be run by foundation trusts? Julian O'Halloran TUE reports. TUE TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00vcpfd (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 The Dog and the Whale b00vcpfg (Listen) TUE Radio 4 spends a day on a motor boat with Tucker the sniffer TUE dog and a team of zoologists in search of killer whale dung, TUE floating in the waters off the North American Pacific coast. TUE TUE Tucker is a black Labrador. He is one of an elite team of TUE detection dogs, trained to find the faeces of threatened TUE animals in the cause of conservation. TUE TUE Producer/presenter: Andrew Luck-Baker. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00vcnph (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00v94qq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00vcpfj (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 b00vfxfg (Listen) TUE The Lifted Veil, Episode 2 TUE TUE Nigel Cooke reads George Eliot's disturbing tale of TUE clairvoyance and mind-reading. TUE TUE Latimer's brother has fallen in love with Bertha. Her TUE thoughts though are the only ones Latimer cannot read. TUE TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Shappi Talk b00lszhj (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Shappi is joined with black comedian Ava Vidal who'll be TUE looking back at her unusual childhood. Shappi also chats TUE with another 'related' guest- and this week she talks to TUE author Ben Okri who reveals some amazing story from his TUE childhood with a very alternative father and some childhood TUE challenges. TUE TUE There'll also be a chance for Shappi to chat with the TUE audience and there'll be a song from Hils Barker. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Russell TUE An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vcpfs (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster and beyond. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 20 OCTOBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00vcvvk (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 b00vcnq6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v94qs (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vdlt7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v94qv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00vdlt9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vcpgt (Listen) WED With Bishop Dr Joe Aldred. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00vcpgw (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marrie Bullock. WED WED 06:00 Today b00vcpgy (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00vcpkw (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcpky (Listen) WED The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD), Throne of Weapons WED WED The history of humanity - as told through one hundred WED objects from the British Museum in London - is drawing to an WED end. Throughout this week Neil MacGregor, the director of WED the British Museum in London, has been with things that help WED explain the modern world. He has explored political and WED sexual politics and freedoms and now reflects on the impact WED of guns and weapons in the modern world - especially in WED Africa where thousands of children have been participants in WED brutal conflicts. He tells the story through a work of art - WED a sculptured throne made from decommissioned guns like the WED ubiquitous AK47. We hear from Kester, the artist from WED Mozambique who created the Throne of Weapons and test the WED reaction to the piece of Kofi Annan, the former WED Secretary-General of the United Nations. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vcpl0 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Audrey Niffeneger on her new WED novel "The Night Bookmobile". WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vcpl2 (Listen) WED Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 8 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 Henry Hayburn has taken a shine to young Phoebe but will his WED mother approve of the liason? Meanwhile in Ayrshire WED relations between Mungo and Miss Ruanthorpe - the Laird's WED daughter - are put under strain when her favourite horse is WED badly injured. WED WED Phoebe Moorhouse........Helen McAlpine WED Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan WED Henry Hayburn..............John Kielty WED Mrs. Hayburn................Lesley Mackie WED Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate WED Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing WED Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson WED David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson WED Wee Arthur...................Cameron McNee WED WED Other parts played by members of the cast. WED Producer/director: David Ian Neville. WED WED 11:00 William Quilliam b00vcpqf (Listen) WED Exploring the life of one of the most extraordinary WED Victorians- William 'Abdullah' Quilliam, who established the WED first community of English Muslims in Liverpool in the WED 1890s. WED WED Born in 1856 he established himself as a successful and WED politically radical solicitor, and was active in both WED Unitarian and Temperance circles. In 1882 he visited both WED Morocco and Algeria, and he developed a deep fascination WED with Islam. He converted in 1887, taking the name Abdullah, WED and two years later he established Britain's earliest mosque. WED WED Quilliam saw Liverpool's social ills 'poverty, prostitution, WED alcoholism' as a sign that Christian culture had failed. He WED used the mosque to provide a free Christmas breakfast for WED the poor, and his Temperance speeches introduced audiences WED to a religion that banned alcohol. WED WED His short book The Faith of Islam (1889) became a WED best-seller, and his weekly paper, the Crescent, came to be WED known throughout the Muslim world. He even adapted Christian WED hymns for Muslim worship. He pulled no punches in his WED critique of Christian theology, which he regarded as a WED mixture of the sentimental and the ridiculous. His mosque, WED needless to say, was often attacked by Liverpool mobs. WED WED Quilliam was recognised by Muslim rulers around the world, WED and the Ottoman Sultan conferred on him the title of 'Sheikh WED al Islam of Great Britain'. Quilliam supported the idea of WED world Islamic government centred on Constantinople, and he WED attacked British foreign policy in Muslim lands such as WED Sudan and the Balkans. Many came to view him as a traitor. WED In 1908 he was found guilty of rigging the evidence in a WED divorce case, and he left Britain in disgrace- eventually WED returning under an assumed name. WED WED Presenter/Producer: Mark Whitaker WED A Square Dog Radio production for Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Secret World b00t0g9y (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED David Beckham wants to buy a raindbow from film director WED James Cameron. Alan Bennett responds to all junk mail with a WED personally crafted letter. Richard Dawkins tries to join Amy WED Winehouse as a backing singer. Then he tries to join Chas of WED Chas and Dave. These are the strange and covert stories WED which unfold during the course of one day. Surely John Inman WED and Morrissey could never appear in the same scene? Well, WED they do. Sort of. This is a repeat of a new kind of WED impression show. WED WED The Secret World features some of the best vocal performers WED around including Lewis MacLeod, Jon Culshaw, Duncan Wisbey, WED Julian Dutton, Jess Robinson and Margaret Cabourn-Smith. WED WED The show is written by Bill Dare and Julian Dutton with WED Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris and Rufus Jones & Dan Skinner. WED WED The producer/creator is Bill Dare. WED WED 12:00 The Spending Review b00vj9ky (Listen) WED George Osborne's Comprehensive Spending Review Statement in WED the House of Commons. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00vcpf6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vcprb (Listen) WED Stone, The Night WED WED Detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst. Written by WED James Rye. WED WED DCI John Stone investigates the sexual assault of the wife WED of one of his team and uncovers a dark secret. WED DI Tanner's wife Karen finds herself in a dodgy hotel after WED a night out remembering nothing of the night before; she has WED been assaulted and Stone suspects she has been given WED Rohypnol. I would seem that this is just the beginning of WED something bigger and as Stone investigates further he WED uncovers a dark secret. WED WED Stone.....Hugo Speer WED Tanner.....Craig Cheetham WED Sue.....Deborah McAndrew WED Karen.....Kaye Wragg WED Louisa.....Eva Pope WED Gould.....Greg Wood WED Sammy.....Kevin Harvey WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00vcptd (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00vcptg (Listen) WED Cassandra's Good Food Guide, Episode 2 WED WED Personal tales about eating and drinking from the WED cantankerous and comically opinionated Fleet Street legend WED "Cassandra" - Bill Connor. WED WED Connor reveals his first food memory: Miss Cowie's uneatable WED porridge. WED WED Read by Roger Lloyd Pack WED Producer: Neil Cargill WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht5cq (Listen) WED George Augustus Sala WED WED Can you imagine who you might have been if you'd lived at a WED different point in history? WED WED That's exactly what the presenters of My Alter Ego have been WED asked to do. Each programme in the series is presented by WED someone whose life, career, or mind-set shares some WED similarities with a character from history. WED WED Programme 3: George Augustus Sala was a Victorian WED journalist, one of the best known writers of the day, whose WED career took off when Charles Dickens spotted his talent and WED published his work in 'Household Words'. Sala joined the WED Daily Telegraph shortly after its launch in the mid 1800s WED becoming a prolific leader writer and an adventurous and WED well-travelled foreign correspondent. He reported on the WED American Civil War (where his southern sympathies made him WED an unpopular figure) and the Franco-Prussian war (where he WED was arrested and thrown into jail, accused of being a spy). WED He would never travel anywhere without a revolver, a WED corkscrew, and a 'little huswife full of pins, needles and WED buttons'. it doesn't really compare with the Blackberry, WED mobile phone, and flak jacket needed by today's foreign WED correspondents, but despite this, Con Coughlin (the Daily WED Telegraph's Executive Foreign Editor) sees many parallels WED with his career and Sala's. In the third programme in this WED series Con Coughlin explores those parallels, while telling WED the colourful life-story of his Victorian alter ego. WED WED Producer: Karen Gregor. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00vcptj (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b00vcpqm (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b00vcptl (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vdltc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 An Audience with Ed Reardon b00vcptn (Listen) WED This August at the Edinburgh Festival, Radio 4's most WED celebrated impoverished author came before a privileged few WED to present selections from his favourite prose and poetry. WED Yes, the nation's favourite author, cat-lover, scrimper and WED saver invited people to attend 'An Audience With Ed Reardon'. WED WED Ed would like to describe this event as "a celebration of WED his career", and so it is that rather like 'With Great WED Pleasure', Ed introduces a selection of his favourite prose WED and poetry. WED WED Anyone familiar with the goings on of Ed Reardon's Week will WED know that Ed is the author of several plays, television WED dramas, many works of non-fiction and letters to the WED newspapers about the pitiful decline in standards of WED literature, and so it is that the works chosen are WED justifiably all from his own canon, albeit that much of it WED has appeared under the names of others. So it is that he WED presents excerpts from the ghost-written 'Jane Seymour's WED Household Hints', the acclaimed novel 'Who Would Fardels WED Bear', his numerous radio plays, his jeu d-espirit about WED celebrity cats and dogs, 'Pet Peeves' and, of course, his WED now infamous episode of 'Tenko'. WED WED Ed is helped in his endeavour by two actors - Andi Osho and WED Iain Robertson - who read out the excerpts, despite the fact WED he could easily done the readings himself and pocketed their WED fees. WED WED Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas WED Performed by Christopher Douglas, Andi Osho and Iain WED Robertson WED Produced by Dawn Ellis. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00vcptq (Listen) WED Will's feeling out of the loop and Kenton hangs out with WED Jamie. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00vcq7h (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including a report on how today's Spending WED Review announcement will affect our museums, galleries and WED theatres. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcpky (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00vcq7k (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Clifford Longley, Matthew Taylor, Claire WED Fox and Melanie Philips. WED WED 20:45 Learning to Love Risk b00vcq7m (Listen) WED When travel writer Nick Thorpe met a Frenchman on a bus in WED South America he was persuaded to join an expedition which WED transformed his attitude to risk. Here he reflects on our WED cultural and personal attitudes to taking risks. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00vcq7p (Listen) WED Grapes of Wrath WED WED Wine drinkers face an uncertain future. A decade of great WED vintages, plentiful supplies and cheap prices could be about WED to come to a shuddering halt. WED WED In the classic wine regions of Europe there are huge WED concerns over climate change and land use. Burgundy's WED greatness is based upon the relatively low temperatures that WED allow its chardonnay and pinot noir grapes to ripen slowly. WED Gradually rising temperatures in the region are ripening the WED grapes more quickly, increasing sugar and therefore alcohol WED levels. The subtle flavours are threatened and, given the WED strict geographical rules of the French system, the very WED existence of Burgundy wine could be under threat. WED WED Meanwhile, in Germany's Mosel Valley construction has WED already started on a motorway and spectacularly ugly bridge WED that will cut across the vineyards. Local winemakers fear WED that the delicate geology of the region will be shattered WED forever, altering the conditions that create the world's WED finest riesling. WED WED The New World doesn't escape the environmental problems WED facing the industry. In Australia decades of WED over-abstraction and drought have denuded vital water WED supplies whilst climate change could make many of the WED wine-making regions inhospitable to all but the hardiest grapes. WED WED Tom Heap considers the threats to the world's wine and asks WED what can be done to protect our best vineyards from WED environmental change. WED WED Producer: Alasdair Cross. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00vcpkw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00v94qz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00vcq93 (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 b00vfxhb (Listen) WED The Lifted Veil, Episode 3 WED WED Nigel Cooke reads George Eliot's disturbing tale of WED clairvoyance and mind-reading. WED WED Latimer has had a clairvoyant vision that he will marry his WED brother's wife, Bertha. But how can that possibly be? WED WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Ida Barr: Artificial Hip Hop b00vcq95 (Listen) WED Transparency 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. For the WED last in the series, Ida's topic of choice is "Transparency". WED WED Produced by Claire Grove WED WED 23:15 A Series of Psychotic Episodes b00vcq97 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Slightly skewed sketch comedy from comedian Miriam Elia. WED WED Artist Vivian Vivian previews her new work, and Darwinian WED Families launch a new toy range. WED WED Written by Miriam Elia & Ezra Elia 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 b00vcq99 (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne reports on PMQs and all the rest of the news WED from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 21 OCTOBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00vcvv9 (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 b00vcpky (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v94r1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vdmbm (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v94r3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00vdmbp (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vcqcq (Listen) THU With Bishop Dr Joe Aldred. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00vcqcs (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin Poyntz THU Roberts. THU THU 06:00 Today b00vcqcv (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00vcqcx (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of logic. THU Logic, the study of reasoning and argument, first became a THU systematic discipline through the work of Aristotle. Since THU then it has been refined and reinvented by a succession of THU great thinkers. Today it is a subtle system with uses in THU fields as diverse as mathematics, philosophy, linguistics THU and computing. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcqcz (Listen) THU The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD), Credit card THU THU Neil MacGregor's history of the world as told through THU things. Throughout this week he is examining objects that THU speak of the great shifts in human organisation and thinking THU in the modern world - objects that raise questions about THU human lives, the environment and global resources. So far THU this week he has chosen things that deal with political and THU sexual revolution and that confront the disaster of global THU arms proliferation. In today's episode he considers the THU morality of modern global finance and its implication for THU the future. He tells the story with a credit card that is THU compliant with Islamic Sharia law - what does that mean and THU how does it work? He talks to the Governor of the Bank of THU England, Mervyn King, and to Razi Fakih of the HSBC bank. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vcqgk (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Including celebrity photographer THU Mary McCartney. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vcqj9 (Listen) THU Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 9 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 Having refused Henry Hayburn's proposals of marriage Phoebe THU is left confused. However she is distracted from her own THU worries when Arthur reveals that the City Bank has collapsed THU threatening to bring financial disaster to many families and THU businesses. THU THU Phoebe Moorhouse........Helen McAlpine THU Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan THU Henry Hayburn..............John Kielty THU Mrs. Hayburn................Lesley Mackie THU Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate THU Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing THU Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson THU David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson THU Wee Arthur...................Cameron McNee THU THU Other parts played by members of the cast. THU Producer/director: David Ian Neville. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00vcqjc (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Really Happening! b00vcqjf (Listen) THU Fifty years ago the Happening was what was really happening, THU on the international visual art scene. Instead of people THU visiting galleries to look at art objects, audiences became THU involved in a series of events that made no distinction THU between observer and observed, and sometimes didn't seem to THU have a beginning, middle or end. Happenings paved the way THU for perfomance art and live art. And the 60s wouldn't have THU been half as groovy without them. Early Happenings, like THU Allan Kaprow's 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, Claes Oldenburg's THU Snapshots From A City and Al Hansens' Requiem For W.C. THU Fields, inspired a generation of young artists, and grabbed THU the attention of the public. In this programme, Bob THU Dickinson re-imagines the Happening with contemporary THU artists and writers including RoseLee Goldberg, Ilana THU Mitchell, Andrea Cusmano, and Lorenzo Fusi. Dickinson also THU investigates the way Happenings travelled around the world, THU to Asia and Europe, thanks to Nam June Paik in Korea and THU Japan, Adrian Henri in Liverpool, the Viennese Aktionists, THU Joseph Beuys in Germany, and Yves Klein in France. THU As Happenings became part of popular culture, they became THU increasingly spectacular, and in 1967 Britain's biggest ever THU example of the activity was staged at Alexandra Palace in THU London - the 24 Hour Technicolour Dream. It was a THU high-point, in more ways than one, for the hippie THU counterculture, but it also marked the point when Happenings THU stopped being art. We meet an eye-witness. Now, half a THU century after Happenings transformed the art scene, some THU contemporary artists, such as Tanya Brughera, from Cuba, are THU revisiting and reviving several of Allan Kaprow's classic THU Happenings for a new audience - and we find out what happens THU when she tries them out on the streets and shops of THU Liverpool. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00vcqjh (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00v94r5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00vcqlb (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00vcq7p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00vcptq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00nk9j5 (Listen) THU Ivan and the Dogs THU THU Based on the extraordinary true story of a boy adopted by a THU pack of wild dogs on the streets of Moscow. THU THU Of all the stories that came out of Russia during THU perestroika this is one of the strangest. Ivan Mishukov THU walked out of his drunken, arguing parents flat aged 4 and THU went to live on the streets of Moscow. There he was adopted THU by a pack of wild dogs and with them he spent two winters on THU the streets. When the play begins Ivan is now 11 and has THU never told anyone of his time with the dogs until one night THU his foster mother promises another dog if he will tell his THU story. THU THU The story takes us though the backstreets of Moscow at a THU time when the idea of life itself was being devalued and THU where we meet glue-sniffing children who fight for their THU territory in underground sewers and drunks who will freeze THU to death in the winter. Amidst this human catastrophe Ivan THU learns that only his dogs can really be trusted and embarks THU on an extraordinary relationship of mutual need. THU THU Ivan: Tom Glenister THU Cellist: Sarah Moody THU THU Producer/Director: Paul Dodgson THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00vc1dc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00vc32m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00vcqlg (Listen) THU Cassandra's Good Food Guide, Episode 3 THU THU Personal tales about eating and drinking from the THU cantankerous and comically opinionated Fleet Street legend THU "Cassandra" - Bill Connor. THU THU Read by Roger Lloyd Pack THU Producer: Neil Cargill THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht5cs (Listen) THU Kathleen Raine THU THU Can you imagine who you might have been if you'd lived at a THU different point in history? THU THU That's what the presenters of My Alter Ego have been asked THU to do. Each programme in the series is presented by someone THU whose life, career, or mind-set shares some similarities THU with a character from history. THU THU Kathleen Raine was one of the outstanding poets of the 20th THU century. Born in 1908, and dying at the age of 95 in 2003, THU she produced a large and critically acclaimed body of work. THU Philip Larkin said of her 1956 book of collected poems: 'Her THU work lacks every quality traditionally associated with the THU title poetess: there is no domesticity, no cosiness, and THU love poems of a personal nature, the introduction tells us, THU have also gone, what remains is the vatic and universal'. THU The poet Katrina Porteous can identify with much of Kathleen THU Raine's life and work: they share Scottish roots, a THU Cambridge education, and a connection with Northumberland THU where Kathleen was evacuated during the 1st World War, and THU where Katrina has chosen to live. Kathleen had a deep, but THU ultimately unhappy friendship with the author Gavin Maxwell. THU She was devoted to him, and inspired by him, regarding him THU as a muse, but their chaste friendship broke-down and THU Kathleen blamed herself for this. Katrina Porteous was given THU the autobiographies of Kathleen Raine by a friend who THU recognised similarities between Kathleen's sources of THU inspiration and something Katrina herself had experienced. THU On today's My Alter Ego, Katrina discusses the connections THU in life and poetry - between her and Kathleen Raine. THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00vc560 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00vcqls (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper investigates what impact the comprehensive THU spending review may have on science. THU THU Producer: Roland Pease. THU THU 17:00 PM b00vcqm5 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at THU 5.57pm Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vdmcd (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective b00vcqm7 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU In this new series Richard Herring reclaims objects that we THU fear and hate because of what they have come to symbolise. THU This week it is the hoodie. How has a track suit top with a THU hood attached to it come to inspire fear in modern Britain THU and is it actually used as an excuse to demonise the young? THU Are the country's teenagers all out of control THU knife-wielding, drug-taking, promiscuous, trouble-makers or THU are they mainly quite pleasant, if somewhat self-obsessed, THU easily bored and angst-ridden individuals? And is a hood THU actually any scarier than a pair of mittens? THU Richard explores what our fear is actually all about through THU stand up, vox pops and interviews - this week a THU criminologist who has studied the moran panic about hoodies THU and the organisers of a hoodie festival. THU THU Producer Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00vcqr2 (Listen) THU Jamie's illusions are shattered and Helen is full of good THU advice. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00vcqr4 (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. THU THU Producer Gavin Heard. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcqcz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00vcpbp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00vcqr6 (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00vcp4c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00vcqcx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00v94r7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00vcqr8 (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 b00vfxkv (Listen) THU The Lifted Veil, Episode 4 THU THU Nigel Cooke reads George Eliot's disturbing tale of THU clairvoyance and mind-reading. THU THU After his brother's death, Latimer realises that his THU chilling premonition may just come true... THU THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 A Charles Paris Mystery: THU Cast in Order of Disappearance b00q43nx (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU by Jeremy Front based on the novel by Simon Brett THU Bill Nighy returns as actor, dipsomaniac and amateur sleuth. THU A vampire film is claiming victims on set and off. THU THU CHARLES PARIS....BILL NIGHY THU JODIE.........MARTINE MCCUTCHEON THU FRANCES.......SUZANNE BURDEN THU MAURICE.......JON GLOVER THU JULIET.........TILLY GAUNT THU ELSPETH........KATE LAYDEN THU ZOE.........TESSA NICHOLSON THU DJ..........PIERS WEHNER THU Producer - Sally Avens THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vcqrq (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 22 OCTOBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00vcvvc (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 b00vcqcz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00v94r9 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vdmg5 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00v94rc (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00vdmg7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vcqs1 (Listen) FRI With Bishop Dr Joe Aldred. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00vcqv6 (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin FRI Poyntz-Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00vcqv8 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00vc504 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcqvb (Listen) FRI The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD), FRI Solar-powered lamp and charger FRI FRI The very last episode in Neil MacGregor's history of FRI humanity as told through the things that time has left FRI behind. The director of the British Museum in London has FRI spent the past year choosing objects from the museum's vast FRI collection to represent a two million year story of humanity. FRI Throughout this week he has been with objects that that FRI speak of the great shifts in human organisation and thinking FRI in the modern world. Here he describes the object that he FRI has picked as his last; it's a solar-powered lamp and FRI charger that he believes can revolutionise the lives of poor FRI people around the globe. The portable panel can provide up FRI to 100 hours of light after just 8 hours of direct sunlight. FRI It can also charge mobile phones and help bring power to FRI millions of people around the world who have no access to an FRI electrical grid. Simple, cheap and clean - this is FRI revolutionary technology for the future. Nick Stern, the FRI expert on the economics of climate change, describes the FRI potential impact of new solar technology. Neil explains why FRI he has chosen a solar-powered lamp and charger as his final FRI object - with examples of how it is already being used in FRI rural Bengal and urban Kenya. FRI FRI Producer: Anthony Denselow. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vcqw5 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vcqw7 (Listen) FRI Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, Episode 10 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 The full extent of the bank collapse is beginning to come to FRI light. Henry Hayburn has been hit by a double tragedy: the FRI family business is ruined and his mother has died - possibly FRI of shock. Phoebe is moved to make a life changing decision. FRI FRI Phoebe Moorhouse........Helen McAlpine FRI Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan FRI Henry Hayburn..............John Kielty FRI Mrs. Hayburn................Lesley Mackie FRI Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate FRI Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing FRI Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson FRI David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson FRI Wee Arthur...................Cameron McNee FRI FRI Other parts played by members of the cast. FRI Producer/director: David Ian Neville. FRI FRI 11:00 Sidelined...Our Asian Footballers FRI Are Missing! b00vcqyp (Listen) FRI The first comprehensive study of football among Asian FRI communities was undertaken in 1995, when the FA helped to FRI fund a report by the Asian Football Forum wryly entitled FRI "Asians Can't Play Football." Its main conclusions included FRI [1] "Football was extremely popular among young Asians" and FRI [2] "many people in football viewed Asians as either not FRI interested or unsuitable." A decade of dialogue and FRI initiatives followed, only for the report's authors to FRI conclude that: "Sadly, despite the warm welcome, to date the FRI FA has made too few meaningful attempts to address, FRI directly, the recommendations..." FRI FRI Yasmeen speaks with Brendon Batson, consultant to the FA to FRI ask what they and are putting in place to try and change FRI things? She visits Chelsea FC and Arsenal FC, to learn how FRI clubs and academies work within their communities, to make FRI football accessible to all. Away from the game, what are FRI Asian family attitudes towards football as a career? If FRI other communities can break through, what is stopping FRI British Asians? FRI FRI We hear from the Asian Football Network, a grassroots FRI initiative that is designed to open pathways for anyone FRI interested in the future of Asians in football. Yasmeen also FRI speaks with the London Tigers, a community project that FRI helps young players with training, leagues and even going so FRI far as to take aspiring players to and from training at FRI academies. And Yasmeen tracks down one of the rare British FRI Asian professional footballers, Zesh Rehman, to discover how FRI he managed to buck the trend, and what he thinks young FRI aspiring players need to do to get into the game they love FRI so much. FRI FRI Producers: Neil Gardner and Yasmeen Khan FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Psmith in the City b00dp7lw (Listen) FRI Stirring Times with Comrade Waller 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 Psmith and Mike discover the secret passion of the kindly FRI Head of Cash. FRI FRI P.G. Wodehouse ..... Simon Williams FRI Psmith ..... Nick Caldecott FRI Mike Jackson ..... Inam Mirza FRI Edward Waller ..... Ryan Watson FRI Mr Waller ..... Jonathan Tafler FRI Comrade Prebble ..... Chris Pavlo FRI Bill ..... Dan Starkey FRI Ada ..... Jill Cardo FRI Plebeian ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Plebeian ..... Robert Lonsdale FRI FRI Produced by Abigail le Fleming. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00vcqyt (Listen) FRI In 1970 the Chronically Sick and Disabled Persons Act FRI defined the rights of disabled people for the first time. FRI But campaigners said the measures were not tough enough and FRI passed on responsibilities to local authorities which FRI councils could not afford to implement. Peter White looks at FRI what has and hasn't changed to disability rights in the four FRI decades the programme has been broadcasting.We'll be FRI speaking to the architect of the 1970 law - Labour Peer Lord FRI Morris - as well as assessing its long-term impact and how FRI disability rights may develop in the next 40 years. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00v94rf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00vcqzd (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00vcqzg (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 b00vcqr2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j6bbn (Listen) FRI The Road Wife FRI FRI BY EOIN MCNAMEE FRI FRI Edward Coyle is a truck driver. Delivering a cargo of fish FRI on a new route in Ireland he comes across a woman who lives FRI her life, and makes her living on the road, moving from one FRI truck to another. The Road Wife. FRI FRI A gripping radio drama debut from acclaimed writer Eoin FRI McNamee. FRI FRI Cast includes STUART GRAHAM (Hunger, Omagh), SU-LIN LOOI FRI (Bugs, Holby), ALISON MCKENNA (The Actors, The Ambassador), FRI GERARD MCSORLEY (Veronica Guerin, The Constant Gardener, FRI Omagh) and SAMANTHA HEANEY (soon to be seen in Pumpgirl, 2009) FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00vcr25 (Listen) FRI Gardening experts Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa FRI Greenwood answer questions in Fakenham, Norfolk. Eric Robson FRI is the chairman. FRI FRI What is threatening the health of our inner city trees? FRI Matthew Wilson presents the first in our Urban Forest series. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 My Alter Ego b00ht5cv (Listen) FRI Varaztad Kazanjian FRI FRI Can you imagine who you might have been if you'd lived at a FRI different point in history? FRI FRI That's exactly what the presenters of My Alter Ego have been FRI asked to do. Each programme in the series is presented by FRI someone whose life, career, or mind-set shares some FRI similarities with a character from history. FRI FRI Programme 5: FRI One of the heroes of the First World War was an American FRI surgeon who was posted with the British army. His name was FRI Varaztad Kazanjian and as an Armenian refugee he had escaped FRI the massacre of his people in Turkey in 1895. He settled in FRI Worcester, Massachusetts and - along with many other FRI Armenians - took a job in the local wire factory. There he FRI worked long, hot hours but was determined to make a better FRI life, and dedicated himself to years of evening classes. FRI Eventually he decided to try for a career as a dentist, and FRI in 1902 was accepted by Harvard Dental School, qualifying in FRI 1905. He was happily married and successfully running his FRI own dental practice when the First World War broke out, but FRI he volunteered to join the Harvard Medical Corps, posted to FRI a huge tented hospital complex in northern France. There he FRI began to treat some of the worst injuries suffered in trench FRI war-fare - jaws, noses, cheeks and skulls shattered by FRI bullets and grenades. Although he wasn't a qualified FRI surgeon, he had become known for treating the kind of facial FRI injuries and disfigurements neglected by the general medical FRI community, and he brought this passion and expertise to bear FRI in France. Many soldiers, who would otherwise have suffered FRI dreadful scarring and lifelong pain, had their injuries FRI expertly treated by Kazanjian. It was said that he advanced FRI the field of plastic surgery by 50 years during the four FRI years he served the British army. He received an honorary FRI knighthood from King George the Vth, and became one of the FRI most respected reconstructive facial surgeons in the world. FRI (At one stage treating Sigmund Freud, whose jaw had been FRI eaten away by cancer). FRI FRI Telling the story of Varaztad Kazanjian is Professor Iain FRI Hutchison. He is founder and Chief Executive of The Facial FRI Surgery Research Foundation and is one of the world's FRI leading reconstructive facial surgeons. His mother was a FRI Jewish doctor who escaped the Nazis in Austria; his first FRI career was in dentistry, before specialising in oral and FRI maxillo-facial surgery; and - like Kazanjian - he has FRI operated on some of the most difficult cases of facial FRI injury and disfigurement, all the while advancing and FRI developing this particular area of surgery. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Gregor. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00vcr27 (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 b00vcr29 (Listen) FRI Film magazine. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00vcr2k (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at FRI 5.57pm Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vcr36 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00vcr38 (Listen) FRI Series 72, Episode 4 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy FRI and Bridget Christie. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00vcr3n (Listen) FRI Written by: Simon Frith FRI Directed by: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford FRI Holly ..... Maya Barcot. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00vcr4f (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, who takes the temperature of new visual FRI art in the UK, in the light of the British Art Show, which FRI is held every five years and tours to four cities. FRI FRI Producer Robyn Read. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vcqvb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00vcr4h (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from the FRI University of Derby. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00vcr4k (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00vcr4m (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 Orphaned at 10 but now aged 17, Phoebe Moorhouse continues FRI to live with her brother Arthur and his wife Bel in Glasgow. FRI But all is not well in the Moorhouse home as Bel hears that FRI her sister-in-law Sophia is moving up the social scale to FRI the newly developing West End of Glasgow. Bel reckons that FRI for Phoebe's sake at least they should be living on the FRI better side of town, but can Arthur afford a move? The FRI Moorhouse's successful cheese wholesale business also faces FRI tougher times when a financial crisis hits Glasgow. FRI FRI Phoebe Moorhouse........Helen McAlpine FRI Mungo Moorhouse.........Liam Brennan FRI Henry Hayburn..............John Kielty FRI Mrs. Hayburn................Lesley Mackie FRI Bel Moorhouse..............Louise Ludgate FRI Arthur Moorhouse..........Robin Laing FRI Sophia..........................Lucy Paterson FRI David Moorhouse...........Duncan Anderson FRI Wee Arthur...................Cameron McNee. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00v94rh (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00vcr4y (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 b00vfxmc (Listen) FRI The Lifted Veil, Episode 5 FRI FRI Nigel Cooke reads George Eliot's disturbing tale of FRI clairvoyance and mind-reading. FRI FRI As Latimer begins to lose his mind-reading powers - an old FRI friend persuades him to take part in an extraordinary FRI experiment. FRI FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00vcpbr (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vcr50 (Listen) FRI Mark D'arcy presents a round up of the week's parliamentary FRI news. FRI
15 October, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 16/10/2010 - 22/10/2010
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