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SAT SATURDAY 23 OCTOBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00vcr63 (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 b00vcqvb (Listen) SAT The World of Our Making (1914 - 2010 AD), SAT Solar-powered lamp and charger SAT SAT The very last episode in Neil MacGregor's history of SAT humanity as told through the things that time has left SAT behind. The director of the British Museum in London has SAT spent the past year choosing objects from the museum's vast SAT collection to represent a two million year story of humanity. SAT Throughout this week he has been with objects that that SAT speak of the great shifts in human organisation and thinking SAT in the modern world. Here he describes the object that he SAT has picked as his last; it's a solar-powered lamp and SAT charger that he believes can revolutionise the lives of poor SAT people around the globe. The portable panel can provide up SAT to 100 hours of light after just 8 hours of direct sunlight. SAT It can also charge mobile phones and help bring power to SAT millions of people around the world who have no access to an SAT electrical grid. Simple, cheap and clean - this is SAT revolutionary technology for the future. Nick Stern, the SAT expert on the economics of climate change, describes the SAT potential impact of new solar technology. Neil explains why SAT he has chosen a solar-powered lamp and charger as his final SAT object - with examples of how it is already being used in SAT rural Bengal and urban Kenya. SAT SAT Producer: Anthony Denselow. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vcr65 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vcr67 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vcr69 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00vfhm0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vg3x4 (Listen) SAT With Canon Stephen Shipley. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00vg3xv (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 b00vcr6c (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00vcr6f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00vg3zt (Listen) SAT Series 16, Episode 6 SAT SAT Clare Balding walks through the magnificent Glasgow SAT Necropolis, a green oasis in the heart of the city. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00vg7tf (Listen) SAT People living in the countryside could be hit harder by the SAT spending cuts announced this week, according to a SAT think-tank. The Plunkett Foundation says historically SAT spending cuts have disproportionately affected rural SAT communities because of the higher costs of delivering SAT services there. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith heads to Barford in Warwickshire to find out SAT how people there think it will impact their housing, travel, SAT businesses and farms and how they plan to cope. With 80 SAT volunteers manning the community shop they have plenty of SAT enthusiasm to make David Cameron's 'Big Society' idea work SAT but will other rural towns and villages be in the same SAT position? SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00vcr6h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00vg88h (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00vg8bh (Listen) SAT Saturday Live's guest presenter is news anchor Mishal SAT Husain. She's joined by physicist Professor Jim Al-Khalili, SAT poet Matt Harvey and expert negotiator Stuart Diamond. SAT SAT The producer is Simon Clancy. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00vg8c0 (Listen) SAT John MCarthy talks to journalist Clive Aslet about the SAT nature of British villages, how they've changed and whether SAT they have become places to visit rather than to live and SAT work in. He tells John some of the stories associated with SAT them and where to find the most attractive villages in the SAT country. SAT The academic Rachel Hewitt looks at the landscape as it has SAT been mapped by the Ordnance Survey, the history of the SAT organisation and it's impact on our appetite for rambling SAT and hiking. SAT Rural Finland offers peace and quiet which just to the SAT businessman John Murolo's taste. A regular visitor to the SAT country he tells John why it is one of the last unspoiled SAT places within easy reach of the UK and how he became such a SAT fan of Finland. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Christie's Through the Looking Glass b00vg8fg (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT In the second of this two-part series Miranda Sawyer catches SAT a glimpse of high Art, high society and high prices as she SAT explores the contemporary auction market at London's oldest SAT auctioneers. SAT SAT As some of the most expensive and rare privately owned SAT artworks in the world are presented to an international SAT audience for a week of sales in London, we ask who buys SAT what, and why? We discover how the auction house has adapted SAT its sales to survive the recession and discuss where this SAT barometer of the art market is going next. SAT SAT Producer: Eleanor Thomas SAT A Harcourt Films production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00vs6ds (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent reviews a defining week in SAT the life of the coalition government. SAT SAT The Chancellor, George Osborne, has unveiled his SAT long-awaited package of spending cuts - amounting to £81 SAT billion and predicted to cut half a million people from the SAT public sector workforce. SAT Hailed as an 'unavoidable' way of cutting the deficit , the SAT package has aroused fears from Labour that unemployment will SAT grow and that the economic recovery will be stifled. SAT Here , Geoffrey Howe, a former Conservative chancellor with SAT experience of imposing highly unpopular cuts, debates the SAT coalition's approach with a very recent former chancellor, SAT Labour's Alistair Darling. SAT SAT Some critics suspect the Tories are using the deficit as an SAT excuse to get what they want anyway - a smaller state. How SAT far is David Cameron an ideologue in the mould of Margaret SAT Thatcher? Or is he simply pragmatic? A topic here for one SAT of his speechwriters, Ian Birrell, and the general secretary SAT of the Fabian Society, Sunder Katwala. SAT SAT The Liberal Democrats, the coalition's junior partner, have SAT been feeling the heat in the opinion polls - which the BBC's SAT Editor of Political Research, David Cowling, has been SAT closely following. Here, he puts the pollsters' findings to SAT the party's deputy leader, Simon Hughes . SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00vg8gv (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00vg8h9 (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 b00vcr38 (Listen) SAT Series 72, Episode 5 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy SAT and Bridget Christie. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00vcr6k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00vcr6m (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00vcr4h (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from the SAT University of Derby with questions for the panel including SAT Christine Blower, General Secretary of the NUT, Fraser SAT Nelson, Editor of the Spectator and Hilary Benn, Shadow SAT Leader of the Commons, and Treasury minister Justine Greening. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00vg8tr (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 b00c4flv (Listen) SAT Beat the Dog in His Own Kennel SAT SAT by Gary Brown SAT SAT In recently released secret documents it was revealed there SAT was a plot initiated in the Middle East to kill the British SAT Foreign Secretary just after the Second World War. In this SAT fictionalised account, East End market trader Harry becomes SAT caught up in these events and quickly finds himself out of SAT his depth as he comes under the spell of a mysterious SAT visitor from Palestine. SAT SAT Harry - Jonathan Tafler SAT Dov - Richard Katz SAT Thompson - Robert Lister SAT Sarah - Amy Shindler SAT Joey - Dan Crow SAT Avi - Stephen Greif SAT Len - Ben Crowe SAT SAT DirectorPeter Leslie Wild. SAT SAT 15:30 Peggy Seeger: In Her Prime b00vcpbf (Listen) SAT Sara Parker presents a radio portrait of Peggy Seeger, the SAT American folksinger and political activist who was Ewan SAT MacColl's long-time partner. SAT SAT This year, Peggy returns to live once again in Britain, to SAT be near her extended family and to explore new creative SAT avenues. For many years her own 'song-making', as she calls SAT it, was overshadowed by MacColl's, with whom she lived for SAT three decades in this country. Together they produced three SAT children, countless recordings (including the iconic 'First SAT Time Ever I Saw Your Face' with MacColl wrote for her) and, SAT with Sara Parker's father Charles, the celebrated 'Radio SAT Ballads'. SAT SAT Her creative life has also been lived in relation to the SAT success of her folk-singer brothers, Pete and Mike, and SAT partly in the shadow of her parents, the avant-garde SAT composer Ruth Crawford Seeger and the ethnomusicologist SAT Charles Seeger. SAT SAT Now, in her prime, she tells Sara what's brought her to this SAT point, about her growing and creatively energetic family, SAT how she feels about the loss of loved ones and about the SAT strength she gets from her new partner, the Irish singer SAT Irene Pyper-Scott. SAT SAT Producer: Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00vg8ws (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00vg8xl (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00vcqr6 (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 farming, SAT packaging and investment discuss the importance of raw SAT materials - and how the price of commodities affects their SAT companies. SAT SAT The panel also discusses emotion. Evan asks his guests how SAT 'touchy feely' they are, as they consider whether business SAT is a place for emotion and sentimentality. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by William Chase, farmer and SAT entrepreneur; Miles Roberts, chief executive of FTSE250 SAT packaging company DS Smith; Colin Melvin, chief executive of SAT Hermes Equity Ownership Services. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00vcr6p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00vcr6r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vcr6t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00vg903 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the King of Chat Sir Michael Parkinson, SAT who recalls some of his greatest heroes, characters and SAT moments from over two thousand of the world's most famous SAT names he has interviewed over his career. SAT SAT Queen of Reggae Marcia Griffiths talks about her career as SAT the biggest selling female reggae singer of all time. From SAT Bob and Marcia and their hit 'Young, Gifted and Black' to a SAT member of the I-Threes, who performed with Jamaica's first SAT supergroup, Bob Marley and The Wailers. SAT SAT And Crown Prince of stage and screen, Rufus Sewell, this SAT time plays a humble builder in Channel 4's bid to compete SAT with the X-Factors and Strictlys of Saturday Night SAT television - Pillars of the Earth. A twelfth century epic SAT based in the turbulent, war torn years of The Anarchy, with SAT an all star cast and plenty of sex, blood and sweat. SAT SAT Arthur Smith talks to the font of all knowledge Simon SAT Garfield. From Ariel and Comic Sans to Times New Roman and SAT Baskerville, Simon's looked at them all and tells Arthur SAT what your choice of typeset reveals about you. SAT SAT Music comes from the California coast with the Grammy award SAT winning all-American rock band Train performing a special SAT acoustic version of their single If It's Love. SAT SAT And with soaring harmonies and rootsy swagger, Glasgow's SAT acoustic foot stompers Kassidy play a track from their SAT forthcoming release, The Rubbergum EP Volume 3. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00vg905 (Listen) SAT Glenn Beck SAT SAT Glenn Beck, the provocative tv and radio talk show host, SAT represents the polarised politics of American media. Those SAT who like him describe him as an 'inspiration' and those that SAT don't call him 'toxic'. His TV show on Fox News averages a SAT daily audience of two million viewers. SAT SAT Beck doesn't shy away from controversy, recently describing SAT progressivism as "the cancer in America eating our SAT Constitution" and referring to President Obama as having "a SAT deep-seated hatred for white people or the white culture". SAT Along with Sarah Palin, he's often invoked as a spiritual SAT leader by the Tea Party Movement SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart looks at the man who grew up in small town SAT America as a Catholic, became a disc jockey in his home town SAT of Mount Vernon at the age of 13, converted to mormonism and SAT now runs a multimedia empire. SAT . SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00vg907 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00vg909 (Listen) SAT Playing the Dane SAT SAT In anticipation of his own stage Hamlet in 2011, Michael SAT Sheen looks back at classic productions of the play and the SAT many different interpretations of a young actor's most SAT coveted role. SAT SAT The last few years have seen a glut of high-profile Hamlets SAT in the British theatre, culminating recently with Rory SAT Kinnear at the National Theatre in London and John Simm at SAT Sheffield Crucible. SAT SAT Michael Sheen, who is due to play the role at the Young Vic SAT in 2011, asks why Shakespeare's play remains very much the SAT thing for 21st century audiences. SAT SAT He considers the rich archive of Hamlets from the theatre, SAT cinema and radio archives, starting with Sir Herbert SAT Beerbohm Tree in 1908 and journeying to the present-day, SAT taking in the interpretations of John Gielgud, Laurence SAT Olivier, Richard Burton, Jonathan Pryce, Kenneth Branagh and SAT David Tennant, as well as female Hamlets, Sarah Bernhardt SAT and Frances de la Tour. SAT SAT Michael explores the challenges of a role that has become a SAT rite-of-passage for leading actors, arguing that Hamlet is SAT the most dangerous play that exists, but that our culture SAT has made it safe. SAT SAT He examines the changing political, social and psychological SAT interpretations of the role that holds a mirror up to SAT history, from the Edwardian stage through Freud, Modernism SAT and two World Wars, to Thatcherism and New Labour. SAT SAT Michael is joined by other famous Hamlets, who reflect on SAT the challenges of bringing something fresh and unexpected to SAT some of the most famous lines in English literature. SAT SAT Produced by Emma Harding. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00vc55y (Listen) SAT Moby Dick, Episode 1 SAT SAT Stef Penney, author of the critically acclaimed The SAT Tenderness of Wolves, has adapted this well known American SAT novel by Herman Melville. SAT SAT Moby Dick is a story, she says, that gets its hooks into SAT you, even though it's one of the strangest books you'll ever SAT read. It has very little narrative, no character development SAT to speak of, and there's no dramatic conflict for over five SAT hundred pages. And yet it's completely compelling, like a SAT fevered dream or a horror film, and, of course, as soon as SAT Moby Dick is mentioned, you know where you're going to end SAT up. For anyone who has ever longed to escape, it is the SAT ultimate trip - and the ultimate morality tale of why you SAT shouldn't go! Captain Ahab is all our darknesses SAT personified; not an evil figure, but a decent, intelligent, SAT could-have-been-ordinary man who gives in to the tyranny of SAT an obsessive dream, or in this case, nightmare. SAT SAT In Episode 1, Ishmael, now in middle age, looks back on his SAT younger self and remembers how this voyage of a lifetime SAT began. SAT SAT Ishmael ..... Trevor White SAT Young Ishmael ..... PJ Brennan SAT Captain Ahab ..... Garrick Hagon SAT Peter Coffin ..... Howell Evans SAT Queequeg ..... Sani Muliaumaseali'i SAT Peleg ..... Mark Meadows SAT Elijahh/Captain Mayhew ..... Dorian Thomas SAT Starbuck ..... Richard Laing SAT Stubb ..... Simon Lee Phillips SAT Archy ..... Adam Redmayne SAT Daggoo ..... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith SAT SAT Specially composed music by Stuart Gordon. SAT Directed at BBC/Cymru Wales by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00vkmtv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00vcq7k (Listen) SAT After months of warnings, the UK's "age of austerity" will SAT begin in earnest with the government's announcement of the SAT results of its Spending Review. This week the Moral Maze SAT asks, if we've got so little money, should we continue to SAT give state benefits to those who don't really need the SAT money? If it's morally justified to cut child benefit for SAT higher rate tax payers to protect the poor in society, what SAT other universal benefits should we look at? Is it time to SAT make the welfare state just for the poor? Will an age of SAT austerity help us to ask more fundamental questions about SAT our own and society's priorities; to re-set our moral SAT compass. Or will it inevitably lead to judgementalism and SAT scapegoating? Combative, provocative and engaging live SAT debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Clifford Longley, SAT Matthew Taylor, Claire Fox and Melanie Philips. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00vcn9n (Listen) SAT (12/12) The last contest of the 2010 series pits Northern SAT Ireland against The Midlands. By Round Britain Quiz SAT tradition, all of the questions in the last edition are SAT provided by listeners. Tom Sutcliffe is the questionmaster, SAT with Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney playing for Northern SAT Ireland, opposite Stephen Maddock and Rosalind Miles for The SAT Midlands. Can anyone catch the Welsh in the race for the SAT series title? SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00vc57m (Listen) SAT From the cradle to the grave: Roger McGough introduces SAT requests for poems that mark life's major transitions and SAT turning points. There are works that celebrate the arrival SAT of new life, while others mark childhood, adolescence, SAT middle and old age. Tessa Nicholson and Alun Raglan read a SAT rich selection of poems by William Blake, Arthur Rimbaud, SAT Christina Rossetti and others. SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 24 OCTOBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00vhk6j (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00kdvmb (Listen) SUN Lost and Found, The Undertaker's Tale SUN SUN Series of three short stories by major writers which have SUN only recently come to light. SUN SUN By Mark Twain. SUN SUN Newly published in the book 'Who Is Mark Twain?' and The SUN Strand Magazine, Twain's tale about the funeral industry had SUN lain undiscovered for 130 years. Twain tackles the same SUN problems that we are challenged with today and pokes fun at SUN the same type of characters that inhabit our present-day SUN world. SUN SUN This world broadcast premiere is read by Hector Elizondo. SUN SUN A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhk6l (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhkbg (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhkgz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00vhkh1 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00vh99q (Listen) SUN The bells of Minster Church of St Peter, Howden, East SUN Yorkshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00vg905 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00vhkh3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00vh99s (Listen) SUN In this week's Something Understood, Serbian writer Vesna SUN Goldsworthy asks how emigres and exiles find their voices in SUN a foreign country. Vesna left her home in what was then SUN Yugoslavia in the late 80s, following love to a rainy SUN London. She has lived in England ever since, but it took her SUN many years to feel truly at home in the English language. As SUN a poet, she felt her dislocation from Eastern Europe to the SUN UK meant she had lost her internal voice. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00vh9bw (Listen) SUN Alex James visits a salmon farmer in the Isle of Mull. Geoff SUN Kidd the Marine Farm Manager at Loch Spelve is the second SUN shortlisted finalist in this year's BBC Farming Today Farmer SUN of the Year Category for the Food Awards. Alex James and SUN fellow judge, Michael Jack, find out how Geoff tries to mass SUN produce salmon in an environmentally sensitive way by SUN attempting to control sealice and pollutants leaving the SUN farm. Geoff also hand vaccinates all the fish and hand feeds SUN the local smolts. SUN Producer: Fran Barnes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00vhkn8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00vhknb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00vhdm0 (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN Google and the Dead Sea Scrolls. A multi-million dollar deal SUN will soon put one of the most important archaeological SUN discoveries of the last century online. Edward speaks to SUN Scrolls scholar Dr James Charlesworth from Princeton SUN Theological Seminary. SUN SUN The Ultra-orthodox community in Israel has for many years SUN devoted itself to study of the Torah. But as the population SUN grows its becoming a major economic problem for the state. SUN Matthew Bell reports from Jerusalem. SUN SUN The Vatican newspaper this week claimed Homer Simpson as SUN part of its flock. However the producers of the show were SUN quick to deny that interpretation of Mr Simpsons' faith. But SUN why would any church want to lay claim to the Simpsons? Ed SUN speaks to author Mark Pinsky. SUN SUN The Bishop of Fulham, The Rt Rev John Broadhurst will tell SUN Ed why he is leaving the Anglican Church to become a Roman SUN Catholic. SUN SUN And how will the Comprehensive Spending Review affect one of SUN the poorest areas in Britain. Kevin Bocquet spends the day SUN in Pendle, Lancashire to find how people are preparing for SUN the biggest cuts in a generation. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00vhdm2 (Listen) SUN Family Holiday Association SUN SUN Ruth Rendell presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN Family Holiday Association. SUN SUN Donations to the Family Holiday Association should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Family Holiday Association. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide the Family Holiday Association with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 800262. SUN SUN The Family Holiday Association SUN SUN Your donation will help the Family Holiday Association send SUN a family on holiday to the seaside. For a family who are SUN struggling with domestic violence or long term illness, this SUN can be a really valuable time to relax together and enjoy SUN some time away from their troubles and create some shared SUN happy memories. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00vhknd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00vhllk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00vhdm4 (Listen) SUN Streams of Living Water SUN SUN 'Streams of Living Water' - The Revd Dr Ian Bradley and the SUN Revd John Barr reflect on the spiritual significance of SUN water in a service from the Priory Church in Great Malvern, SUN famous for the purity of its springs bubbling up through the SUN hills. SUN SUN Director of Music: David Iliff; Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00vcr4k (Listen) SUN Conspicuous Consumption SUN SUN Sarah Dunant reflects on public attitudes to conspicuous SUN consumption and looks back at attempts to police it in SUN previous centuries by means of "sumptuary laws." While the SUN rules curbing showing off were hopelessly ineffectual, are SUN they a useful reminder of the antagonism that the flaunting SUN of wealth can cause, especially in times of austerity? SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00vhdm6 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00vhdm8 (Listen) SUN Written by: Simon Frith SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Holly ..... Maya Barcot. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00vhdmb (Listen) SUN Nick Clegg SUN SUN Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joins Kirsty Young to SUN choose his Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00vcnbx (Listen) SUN Series 6, Episode 4 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 Chris Addison, Susan Calman, Rufus Hound and Armando SUN Iannucci are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate SUN inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Clocks, Funerals, SUN Goldfish and Joseph Stalin. 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 b00vhdmd (Listen) SUN Student Food SUN SUN What food do students have access to, what do they eat? SUN Sheila Dillon investigates the catering provided for SUN students across the country in these financially SUN straightened times. She talks to industry expert Chris Druce SUN about the big catering companies and their expansion into SUN higher education. She visits a food co-op at the School of SUN African and Oriental Studies; Dan Saladino visits Plymouth SUN University on the day it hosts its first farmers market and SUN talks to stall holders, students and Slow Food UK about its SUN efforts to enrol students in its philosophy and approach to SUN food. SUN SUN Producer: Lucinda Montefiore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00vhllm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00vhdrk (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Cumbria: After the Flood b00vhdrm (Listen) SUN When Carlisle was flooded in 2005 it was declared a once in SUN a lifetime event. Yet four years later in November 2009 SUN flooding of an even greater magnitude swallowed up vast SUN areas of Cumbria and swept them out to sea leaving a wake of SUN devastation. SUN SUN During the following year Colin Blane has been revisiting SUN the areas badly affected to hear how the communities have SUN been recovering and charting the progress of rebuilding both SUN the damage in the towns, and the famous bridges. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Adam. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00vcr25 (Listen) SUN Gardening experts Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa SUN Greenwood answer questions in Fakenham, Norfolk. Eric Robson SUN is the chairman. SUN SUN What is threatening the health of our inner city trees? SUN Matthew Wilson presents the first in our Urban Forest series. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 How The Mighty Have Fallen b00tg273 (Listen) SUN Depictions of Obesity SUN SUN "Let me have men about me that are fat" - Shakespeare's SUN Julius Caesar. SUN SUN Continuing his series on the history of obesity, Dr Hilary SUN Jones investigates how corpulence has been portrayed over SUN the millennia in art, music and books. SUN SUN Obese stereotypes often reveal social attitudes of the day. SUN In literature, they range from Shakespeare's Falstaff and SUN Dickens' 'Fat Boy', Joe, to the most famous fat character of SUN all: Billy Bunter, from the immensely prolific pen of Frank SUN Richards. SUN SUN In art, some of the earliest sculptures in existence are SUN small prehistoric statuettes of naked obese 'Venuses'. SUN Cartoons of corpulence were used for satirical effect in the SUN prints of Hogarth and Gillray - and for bawdy humour in SUN seaside postcards. SUN SUN Music includes vintage recordings of the 'Too Fat Polka' and SUN 'Nobody Loves A Fat Man'. SUN SUN There are readings, archive clips, and a visit to Tate SUN Britain's Rude Britannia exhibition. Contributors include Dr SUN Fiona Haslam, a writer on Hogarth, Prof Stephan Rossner of SUN the Karolinska Institute in Sweden, and Bunter expert Dr SUN Peter McCall. 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 b00vhdrp (Listen) SUN Moby Dick, Episode 2 SUN SUN Herman Melville's classic tale of adventure on the high SUN seas. In this last episode Ishmael comes to the end of the SUN story of what he witnessed as a young man, a story that has SUN haunted him ever since. Captain Ahab, himself now rarely SUN sleeping or eating, ignores the need of the crew for rest SUN and presses on in his obsessive quest for the white whale. SUN After The Pequod is battered by a ferocious typhoon, first SUN mate Starbuck is presented with an opportunity to prevent SUN what seems an inevitable tragedy. To succeed he must SUN overcome his milder nature and steel his nerve. But, in the SUN end, it is Ahab's will that is the stronger, and it seems SUN that nothing can prevent the boiling, wrenching climax, as SUN the maddened whale turns on the ship. SUN SUN Adapted by Stef Penney, winner of the Costa Award for Best SUN First Novel and overall Costa Best Novel Award in 2007 with SUN her first novel The Tenderness of Wolves. SUN SUN Cast: 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 Captain Boomer ..... Mark Meadows SUN Captain Mayhew ..... Dorian Thomas SUN Starbuck/Gabriel ..... 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 Produced and Directed at BBC/Cymru Wales by Kate McAll. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00vhdrr (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to acclaimed novelist Paul Auster, SUN best known for his postmodern classic, The New York Trilogy. SUN He joins Mariella to discuss his latest book, Sunset Park, SUN which chronicles the fortunes of four twenty-something New SUN Yorkers in the wake of the 2008 economic collapse. SUN SUN Also on the programme, nature writer Richard Mabey on a very SUN unlikely source of literary inspiration - weeds. He SUN describes how this humble plant has made it on to the page SUN courtesy of Shakespeare, John Wyndham, John Clare and many SUN more. SUN SUN Producer: Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00vhdrt (Listen) SUN 'Scotland small?' is the title of an indignant poem by Hugh SUN MacDiarmid which sets the tone of this selection of requests SUN for poems about Scotland. Stella Gonet and Jimmy Yuill read SUN a varied selection of works by Scottish poets ancient and SUN modern, from Sir Walter Scott to Liz Lochhead. In this SUN programme Roger McGough also introduces requests for some SUN poems by the internationally acclaimed Scottish poet Edwin SUN Morgan who died aged 90 in August. SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00vcpfb (Listen) SUN Foundation Hospitals: An Acute Crisis? SUN SUN The drive to make acute hospitals more prudent and SUN independent through foundation trust status was meant to SUN usher in a new era of prudent spending for the whole of the NHS. SUN SUN But now the process is faltering, as a series of foundation SUN trusts hit grave financial, managerial or care quality SUN problems. SUN SUN And though the NHS was meant to be ring-fenced from the deep SUN cuts now hitting the rest of the public sector, a number SUN foundation hospital trusts are facing bed closures and SUN serious job losses. SUN SUN In some cases emergency measures have been adopted to turn SUN failing trusts around by bringing in highly paid crisis SUN managers. But these have alienated staff and unions and SUN seemingly pushed some hospitals further into the red. SUN SUN So where does this leave the Government's plans for all SUN hospitals to be run by foundation trusts? Julian O'Halloran SUN reports. SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00vg905 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00vhlxs (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00vhlxv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vhwds (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00vhdsl (Listen) SUN Christopher Douglas makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio 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 b00vhdt1 (Listen) SUN Harry's new flatmate is causing problems and Kenton's at a SUN loose end. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00vhdvl (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 Michelle Malkin SUN SUN Michelle Malkin, one of America's most prolific right-wing SUN blogger journalists talks about the conservative movement SUN today. SUN SUN Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson SUN SUN Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson discuss their experiences with SUN the Central Intelligence Agency and the film that tells SUN their story, Fair Game. SUN SUN Fly Fishing in America SUN SUN Fly fisherman Lefty Kreh, who has fished alongside Ernest SUN Hemingway and Fidel Castro, tries to teach presenter Matt SUN Frei a thing or two about catching and casting in the waters SUN of the eastern United States. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00s6t4m (Listen) SUN Come Away, Come Away!, Peanut Butter and Cello SUN SUN A young girl from the favela carries an unexpected burden on SUN a cross-city journey. SUN SUN Melody Grove reads 'Peanut Butter and Cello' by Geraldine SUN McCaughrean. SUN SUN Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. SUN SUN To mark 150 years since J M Barrie's birth, three leading SUN writers for young people contribute new stories inspired by SUN a chapter title from 'Peter Pan'. The authors have been set SUN the task of exploring the joys and the terrors of childhood SUN without sentimentality, much as Barrie did in his original SUN text. SUN SUN Geraldine McCaughrean has been awarded the Carnegie Medal, SUN the Whitbread Prize and the Guardian Fiction Award for her SUN books written for all ages. In 2004 she fought off fierce SUN competition to be selected by the Trustees of Great Ormond SUN Street Hospital to write an official sequel to 'Peter Pan'. SUN Her novel, 'Peter Pan In Scarlet', was published to critical SUN acclaim in 2006. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00vcqzg (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton challenges the Chairman of the BBC Trust over SUN the new licence fee deal. SUN SUN How well will new editorial guidelines safeguard the SUN impartiality of radio reporting? A History of the World in SUN 100 objects - it's all over but was it worth it? SUN SUN Do Desert Island Discs castaways have to take a religious SUN book with them? And cuts overkill - how a trail for Radio 4 SUN coverage invaded the airways at the wrong time. SUN SUN Email the team: feedback@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00vcr27 (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Benoit Mandelbrot, the unconventional mathematician who SUN developed fractals - a way of bringing order to descriptions SUN of everything from the universe to a cauliflower. SUN SUN Also the Hungarian voice teacher Vera Rozsa who worked with SUN many of the world's greatest opera singers. SUN SUN Bob Guccione the flamboyant publisher of Penthouse magazine, SUN who made and lost a fortune in the pornography industry. SUN SUN And Samuel Burke, one of the few Indians to rise to the top SUN of the Indian Civil Service under British rule, who went on SUN to be an ambassador for Pakistan and a respected historian. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00vg8h9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00vhdm2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00vcndx (Listen) SUN Turkey: staying secular insha'Allah SUN SUN Turkey's increased economic and political importance makes SUN it a place which outsiders need to understand. SUN SUN Since 2002, the nation has been governed by the AKP, a SUN political party with Islamist roots. The AKP's time in power SUN has coincided with improvements in Turkey's economic SUN management, the rise of its international influence and a SUN dramatic decline amongst its citizens of support for sharia SUN law. SUN SUN Outsiders tend to see Turkey as wrestling with a choice SUN between Islamism and secularism. However the nation seems SUN able to live with - even prosper under - the apparent SUN contradiction of a government with Islamist origins and a SUN secular constitution. SUN SUN Edward Stourton attempts to unravel the complicated reality SUN of Turkish politics and get beyond the usual Western SUN obsession with whether Turkey's loyalties lie with the West SUN or the Islamic world. He investigates the new elites that SUN are shaping the country's future. Will they help Turkey SUN fulfil its dream of becoming a global power and the West's SUN dream of a model Muslim democracy? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00vhwfh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00vhdvn (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00vhdvq (Listen) SUN Episode 24 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 George Parker of The SUN Financial Times takes the chair and the editor is Catherine SUN Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00vcr29 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock hosts part two of her discussion with three SUN screenwriters, including The Full Monty and Slumdog SUN Millionaire scribe Simon Beaufoy, Hilary And Jackie writer SUN Frank Cottrell Boyce and Moira Buffini, who adapted Tamara SUN Drewe and Jane Eyre for the big screen SUN SUN Archivist and director Kevin Brownlow discusses his honorary SUN Oscar which he will receive next month SUN SUN Nigel Floyd on the award-winning Possession with Sam Neill SUN and Isabelle Adjani SUN SUN Colin Shindler turns back the clock and reveals what critics SUN really thought of Saturday Night And Sunday Morning. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00vh99s (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 25 OCTOBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00vhwk9 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00vcptj (Listen) MON Global higher education - Homophobia and football MON MON Laurie Taylor examines some new research about homophobia MON and football and talks to Professor Ellis Cashmore from MON Staffordshire University about how fans, players and MON management respond to the issue. They're joined by writer MON and broadcaster David Goldblatt who has a strong interest in MON sport. MON MON Laurie also discusses the growth of global higher education MON and talks to Ben Wildavsky whose new book charts the MON development of academic migration across the world- looking MON at the cross border movement of students, academics, MON faculties and the development of new universities in places MON like China, Asia and The Middle East. MON MON Producer Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00vh99q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhwkc (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhwzl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhwzn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00vhwzq (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vhdz0 (Listen) MON With Canon Stephen Shipley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00vhdz2 (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin Poyntz MON Roberts. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00vhwzs (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00vhdzj (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 b00vhf1s (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the Scottish writer and artist, MON Alasdair Gray about his life through the story of his MON paintings. While the director Josie Rourke brings to life MON the tough reality of 1930s Glasgow, in her staging of the MON play, Men Should Weep. David Starkey explores the history of MON the monarchy, showing its resilience but also fragility, MON over the last two thousand years. And James Stirling is MON considered one of the greatest British architects - Alan MON Berman celebrates his radical buildings while asking why the MON general public rarely appreciate what architects revere. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00vjl1f (Listen) MON The Fry Chronicles, Episode 1 MON MON This is the intriguing, hilarious and utterly compelling MON story of how Stephen Fry arrived at Cambridge on probation: MON a convicted fraudster and thief, an addict, liar, fantasist MON and failed suicide, convinced that at any moment he would be MON found out and flung away. MON MON Instead, university life offered him love, romance and the MON chance to stand on stage and entertain. He began his iconic MON relationship with Hugh Laurie, befriended Emma Thompson MON among a host of household names, and emerged as one of the MON most promising comic talents in the country. MON MON After leaving Cambridge Stephen began to make his presence MON felt as he took his first tentative steps in the world of MON television, journalism, radio, theatre and film. Shameful MON tales of sugar, shag and champagne jostle with insights into MON credit cards, classic cars and conspicuous consumption, MON Blackadder, Broadway and the BBC. MON MON For all its trademark wit and verbal brilliance, The Fry MON Chronicles is a book that is not afraid to confront the MON aching chasm that separates public image from private feeling. MON MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vhf5t (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Lucinda Lambton visits The Queen's MON Dolls' House at Windsor Castle.. MON MON Returning to paid work after having children MON MON With women’s unemployment rising faster than men’s and tough MON cuts in the predominantly female public sector, it’s a MON particularly challenging time for mothers who want to return MON to the workplace. Whether it’s been a gap of six months or MON six years, the hurdles - both practical and psychological - MON can be daunting. Jane Garvey speaks to Karen Mattison, CEO MON of Women Like Us and Sally Russell, co-founder of Netmums. MON MON Tasmin Little MON MON Tasmin Little is one of the world’s top violinists. She MON gained critical acclaim as one of the few violinists to have MON ever mastered Ligeti’s challenging violin concerto. MON With a repertoire of over 50 concertos she began playing at MON the age of seven, winning a place at the prestigious Yehudi MON Menuhin School. Two years ago, she brought classical music MON to a much wider audience with free downloads through the MON hugely successful ‘Naked Violin’ project’. Her new album is MON a recording of Elgar’s Violin Concerto, which was first MON performed 100 years ago. She joins Jane to discuss. MON MON Pre-eclampsia MON MON Pre-eclampsia affects one in ten pregnant women, with MON 7,000-12,000 women getting it in severe forms. This week, MON several media outlets announced that the cause of this MON mysterious disease has been found. Jane Garvey speaks to MON Dr. Margaret Macdonald, C.E.O of Action on Pre-eclampsia MON about the new research, whether the cause has actually been MON found, and the progress in Pre-eclampsia treatment. Jane MON also speaks to Nifa McLaughlin, Editor of Gurgle.com and a MON mother with first hand experience of the trauma of MON Pre-eclampsia. MON MON The Queen's Dolls' House MON MON The Queen's Dolls' house is one of the real wonders of the MON royal collection. Created for Queen Mary, it is housed at MON Windsor Castle and was built on a scale of 1" to one foot. MON The resulting building stands over one and a half metres MON high and nearly 3m wide and houses an astonishing collection MON of objects including 750 works of art by the key artists of MON the day, hundreds of tiny books by the leading authors MON including Conan Doyle and Kipling, and over a thousand MON bottles of the world's finest champagne, wine and spirits. MON As a new guide to the dolls' house is being published, it's MON author, the historian Lucinda Lampton, took Jane on a tour MON of the house. MON The Queen's Dolls' House by Lucinda Lambton is published MON today by Royal Collection Publications. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vhf5w (Listen) MON So Much For That, Episode 1 MON MON A dramatisation of Lionel Shriver's unflinching new novel MON which portrays the economic and emotional fall-out of MON serious illness. MON MON Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the MON Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to a MON remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But just as the MON Afterlife is about to become a reality, his wife Glynis MON reveals that she has cancer. MON MON They soon discover that their health insurance won't cover MON anything like the total cost of the treatment Glynis needs, MON and this once well-off couple are sent hurtling towards MON bankruptcy. They are both forced to face the uncomfortable MON question: how much money is one life worth? MON MON Narrator ..... Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio MON Shep ..... Henry Goodman MON Glynis ..... Debora Weston MON Carol ..... Elizabeth McGovern MON Jackson ..... Stuart Milligan MON Flicka ..... Sasha Pick MON Dr Knox/Gabe ..... Peter Marinker MON MON Adapted for radio by Penny Leicester MON Directed by Emma Harding MON MON 11:00 The Seven Car Parks of Croydon b00vk2fx (Listen) MON Sue Perkins revisits her former home-town of Croydon to ask MON just how South London's 'Mini-Manhattan' became the butt of MON so many jokes, mocked by comedians from the great Morecambe MON and Wise to Basil Brush. MON MON With a skyline made up of 60's brutalist office blocks and MON re-clad 80's ones, Croydon's aesthetics are hard to love, MON but whether you're heading to town from Gatwick Airport, MON commuting from the South Coast, or a new immigrant MON registering at the Home Office's Lunar House, Croydon is MON your welcome to London. MON MON With a powerful sense of nostalgia tinged with panic, Sue, MON who's joined by fellow comedian Steve Punt, lurks on the MON stairwells and top storeys of seven car parks in Croydon, MON trying to get a new perspective on local planning decisions, MON past and present. She hears historic tales of Elizabeth the MON First and punk svengali Malcolm McLaren, Bridget Riley - MON Queen of OpArt - and the emergence of the hottest current MON urban music Dubstep. MON MON Vincent Lacovara, fan of Croydon, and its current urban MON planner believes these concrete viewing platforms can MON provide a fresh vantage point from which the history and MON super-future of Croydon can be laid out before Sue - so that MON she can see all the possibilities it had to offer her, and MON which she missed growing up. The great architectural MON commentator Nikolaus Pevsner said Croydon's skyline was MON 'thrilling from a distance' but maybe that's the problem - MON up close it takes a trained or loving eye to appreciate the MON uniqueness of Croydon - and after all we can't all come from MON the Cotswolds. MON MON 11:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00vhf5y (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON MON July & August. School's out for Barack Obama, Frank McCourt MON and Emma Thompson. 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 b00vhf7h (Listen) MON The Marine Stewardship Council's blue tick logo was set up MON 10 years ago to help consumers know what they were getting MON when they went to buy fish. The Logo certifies fish as being MON sustainable so the idea is that if you buy products with MON their logo on you can be confident that you are not MON depleting fish stocks. But now some scientists are arguing MON that the logo is actually misleading consumers. MON MON We begin a series looking at the Quangos that were recently MON disbanded. We ask will they be missed and who does the work MON now. First in the series is the Hearing Aid Council MON MON A new website has been launched that connects students in MON the developed world with teachers in the developing world. MON But can language websites really be a substitute for the MON classroom? MON MON The appointment of a new Chief Coroner in England and Wales MON was supposed to speed up coroners' courts, making them more MON consistent and ensuring families need not wait longer than MON absolutely necessary for an inquest into a loved one's MON death. Peter Thornton QC was appointed to the post in MON February....but now the government's said his services won't MON be needed. It's bitterly disappointing for campaigners who MON have long been calling for a shake-up of the system and fear MON other reforms will be ineffective without a Chief Coroner at MON the helm. MON MON And the Midlife Crisis is starting earlier than ever before MON with the 35 - 44 year olds being the most unhappy. Charlotte MON Smith has had hers and has emerged stronger, wiser and yes MON older. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00vhwzv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00vhf7k (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00vhf7m (Listen) MON Russell Davies welcomes the first competitors in the latest MON series of the long-running general knowledge quiz, to find MON who will be crowned the 58th Brain of Britain. MON MON As ever, 48 of the brightest quiz contestants from around MON the UK will be joining Russell for the knockout competition. MON Each of the twelve heats sends a winner forward to the MON semi-finals, where they will be joined by the four MON highest-scoring runners-up of the series. MON MON This year's contestants include civil servants, teachers and MON IT professionals alongside a novelist, a gardener and a MON postman. Most are completely new to the contest, while one MON or two are having another go after being pipped at the post MON in previous years. Only one of them can be named the 58th MON Brain of Britain, at the end of the Final which will be MON broadcast in the new year. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00vhdt1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vjwjf (Listen) MON Number 10, Episode 1 MON MON Jonathan Myerson's political drama set at the heart of MON Downing Street. MON MON Simon Laity- the new Tory PM - is trying to enforce MON across-the-board spending cuts but his ministers have all MON gone native. Then it's leaked that he has commissioned a MON report which calculates the gain to be made by slashing the MON armed services budget in half. The Chief of General Staff MON goes ape. MON MON Meanwhile they are interviewing companies to run the Number MON 10 coffee bar, and Amjad from Crown Appointments wants Simon MON to choose a new bishop for Yeovil. MON MON And then there's a British woman now married to a suspected MON senior Al-Qaeda terrorist who has just entered the country. MON She turns out to be here for an NHS kidney transplant. The MON hospital goes on strike. MON MON Simon Laity ..... Damian Lewis MON Connie ..... Haydn Gwynne MON Nathan ..... Mike Sengelow MON Hugo ..... Julian Glover MON Amjad ..... Arsher Ali MON MON Lord Copple ..... Ruper Vansittart MON Coffee Exec ..... Grant Gillespie MON Staff Nurse Melford ..... Rebecca Saire MON Zamyad ...... Ayman Hamdouchi MON MON Producer/Director: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00vg909 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's MON Escape to the Country b00rql6f (Listen) MON Humphry Repton MON MON This series is an account of how, through history, people MON have moved from the town to the country and taken with them MON powerful ideas about what the countryside should be. Each MON age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the MON pre-occupations of the day. The last two centuries have seen MON the countryside shaped for personal aggrandisement, for MON moral improvement, for the reflection of a new industrial MON wealth, as the creation of an 'ideal' landscape, as a place MON of health and healing and as a refuge from (and comment on) MON the pace, nature and stress of contemporary urban life. MON These ideas find many echoes in our current attitudes to the MON countryside, but the ambition through the series is to visit MON and scrutinise specific movements and representations and MON let the ripples of recognition make their own way into the MON listeners' minds. MON MON Our tendency to idealise the countryside hasn't always MON reflected the reality of rural life. But it provides a MON fascinating glimpse of our dreams and fears as a society. MON MON The first programme focuses on the first landscape designer, MON Humphry Repton who brought the countryside in from the cold. MON He loved to frame a view over rolling hills and farm workers MON in their comfortable cottages, that could be seen from the MON grand terraces and mud free paths close to the big house. MON MON Repton's career spanned 30 bristling years in British MON history, from 1789 to 1818 - a time of huge social and MON economic transformation. His predecessor Capability Brown MON had worked for the large aristocracy, landscaping their MON parks to express their wealth and status, while Repton, a MON generation later, set out to redefine this profession, MON working more modestly and for a range of clients including MON dukes, lawyers, bankers and manufacturers. Repton was MON effectively a makeover artist. MON MON The producer is Kate Bland. This is a Just Radio production MON for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00vhdmd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b00vhfb4 (Listen) MON Simon Cox is looking at how the past comes back to haunt us. MON When we pass on we leave behind an online legacy- Simon MON questions what happens to our social networking pages, our MON online real estate and whether it is worthwhile passing on MON our passwords to companies to safeguard them until our next MON of kin need access. MON MON 3D cinema has strong showing this year, and now it's a big MON push for us to put 3D TVs in our living rooms. Is this the MON next big thing? Caz Graham takes a tour of 3D history in the MON National Media Museum to discover just how futuristic it is. MON MON Simon hears about some very clever bins, and discovers what MON it's like to live with a teen addicted to their computer, MON and the therapy set up to cure them of their habit. MON MON Produced by Lucy Lloyd. MON MON 17:00 PM b00vhfb6 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vhwzx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00vhfb8 (Listen) MON Series 6, Episode 5 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden are MON the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on MON subjects as varied as: Noses, Apples, Fishing and Lord MON Byron. 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 b00vhfbb (Listen) MON Jamie faces a frustrating day and Brian prepares for the big MON debate. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00vhfhp (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor MON Christopher Plummer, whose film career includes The Sound of MON Music and an Oscar nomination in 2010 for The Last Station, MON at the age of 80. MON MON Producer Philippa Ritchie. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vhf5w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Cumbria: After the Flood b00vhdrm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00vhfl2 (Listen) MON The secret history of Analysis MON MON Analysis celebrates its 40th birthday by making its own MON history the subject of its trademark forensic examination of MON the facts. MON MON The Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, recently MON told the New Statesman that in decades past the MON organisation's current affairs output had displayed a left MON wing bias. He could not have had in mind the early years of MON Analysis. The programme was founded in the cold war era by MON men of a conservative bent. The broadcasts in its first 10 MON years reflected their obsessions: the Soviet threat; the MON power of the trade unions; and increasing dependence upon MON "the nanny state". Its journalists understood in depth the MON Thatcherite project even before the term "Thatcherite" was MON coined. MON MON Michael Blastland, an Analysis producer from the 1990s and MON now a regular presenter, looks back at the programme's MON history. He assesses how accurately it managed to predict MON the future and to what extent its obsessions and biases MON clouded its judgement. MON MON When Fischer met Wilson MON MON George Fischer describes his meeting with Harold Wilson and MON the political words of wisdom he received. MON MON GEORGE FISCHER MON MON The first producer of Analysis, George Fischer, escaped MON Hungary as Soviet tanks rolled in to quell the revolution of MON 1956. Contacts in Vienna, a fortuitous bet with a Times MON Journalist in Budapest and a talent for basketball all MON helped him along his journey to a new life in Britain. MON MON He began his BBC career in the Hungarian Section of the MON World Service in 1963, and then secured an attachment in MON Broadcasting House. MON MON In the late 1960s he was summoned to the office of the MON Controller of Radio 4. He feared he might lose his job. MON Instead he was offered the role of producer on a new MON programme that would have, "a very sharp cutting edge" and MON be aimed at, "people who read the quality dailies". It was MON George Fischer's idea to call the programme Analysis. MON MON When McIntyre met Bhutto MON MON In 1972, Analysis went to interview Pakistan Zulfikar Ali MON Bhutto - who much to his press agent's alarm - spoke very MON openly about how he like to have a good time. MON MON IAN MCINTYRE MON MON Cambridge graduate Ian McIntyre started out as a broadcaster MON on Radio 3. He spent much of the 1960s working for the MON Conservative Party in Scotland, and stood unsuccessfully as MON a Member of Parliament. MON MON He returned to the BBC as a freelancer making documentaries MON around the world. At the tail end of the 1960s, his old MON friend and colleague Tony Whitby - then controller of Radio MON 4 - asked him to present a new series of current affairs MON programmes. The brief was simple - “make them challenging, MON make them interesting, and make them amusing if you can". MON This was Analysis. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00vcqls (Listen) MON Science Minister David Willetts tells Quentin Cooper and a MON panel of experts about the effects of the spending review on MON the research budget. MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON Science & the Spending Review MON MON Compared with some areas, science seems to have got off MON lightly in the spending review, though there will still be MON reductions in real terms. Quentin asks Science and MON Universities Minister David Willetts how he managed to plead MON a special case for science and how he expects to get his MON money back in terms of the benefits to the economy of MON science and technology innovation. And what is the best way, MON with limited funds, to ensure that the best ideas get the MON support they need? Should research be directed towards clear MON technological goals with obvious financial returns, or is MON there an even greater need for 'blue skies' research that MON may be more creative but for which the returns may not yet MON be apparent? MON MON Joining Quentin and the Science Minister to discuss these MON issues are: the mathematician Sir Martin Taylor, author of a MON Royal Society report on the ROOTS OF CURIOSITY; Dr Mark MON Downs, Chief Executive of the Society of Biology; Professor MON Laurence Eaves of Nottingham University; and Professor MON Stuart Haszeldine, whose chair at Edinburgh University is MON supported by Scottish Power for research into carbon capture MON and storage. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00vhf1s (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00vhx1g (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00vhfl8 (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 b00vhfns (Listen) MON Crimson China, Episode 1 MON MON By Betsy Tobin. On a freezing night in February, a woman MON wades into the waters of Morecambe Bay in a drunken bid to MON commit suicide. Braced for death, she finds herself instead MON saving a man's life-a young Chinese cockle picker, one of MON the only survivors of a tragic mass drowning. MON MON For Wen- now missing, presumed dead-Angie provides an MON unexpected sanctuary. They share neither language nor MON experience, but she agrees to let him stay with her and MON 'disappear'. Within a short time their unlikely pairing MON blossoms into something darkly passionate. MON MON But Wen's past soon catches up with him. He is still in debt MON to the snakeheads who brought him out of China. And when his MON sister, Lili, travels to Britain in search of his memory, MON she unwittingly seals his fate. MON MON Crimson China is a novel that traps the reader and listener MON at the outset, shining a light on a tragic, hidden world MON that runs in parallel to our own. It is a story of identity MON and culture, of the irrepressibility of the human spirit, MON and the powerful undertow of love. MON MON Betsy Tobin was born in the American Midwest and moved to MON England in 1989. She is the author of three other novels, MON Bone House, Ice Land & The Bounce. MON MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Read by Penny Downie and Elizabeth Tan MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Great Unanswered Questions b00vhfnv (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 6 MON MON On the One Show Jason Manford has many questions to ask but MON none can be as informative, educating or entertaining as the MON questions he attempts to answer on this show with fellow MON comedian Colin Murphy. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vhfnx (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 26 OCTOBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00vhxfd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00vjl1f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhxfg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhxgm (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhxgp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00vhxh6 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vhfq4 (Listen) TUE With Canon Stephen Shipley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00vhfq6 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin Poyntz TUE Roberts. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00vhfq8 (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 b00vhfwr (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland with the series which searches for the TUE past behind the present, exploring a moment in history which TUE illuminates a contemporary debate. TUE TUE Recent leaks from inside the military questioned the way the TUE war in Afghanistan is being run. Jonathan Freedland looks at TUE the case of a 19th Century officer who challenged British TUE strategy in India. TUE TUE What does the military establishment do when confronted by a TUE leak from the inside? Jonathan Freedland looks at the story TUE of a 19th century intelligence officer, Sir Charles TUE MacGregor, who, although a serving soldier, published his TUE concerns about British troop levels in India and on the TUE North West Frontier. Jonathan looks at the story of TUE MacGregor, who feared that British intelligence was poor and TUE that British troops would not be able to withstand an TUE onslaught from the Russians. The programme also looks at the TUE challenge the military establishment faces now when TUE information is much more easily released into the public TUE domain, and as the war in that region continues. TUE TUE Producer: Joanne Cayford. TUE TUE 09:30 Africa at 50: Wind of Change b00vhfwt (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Kwame Nkrumah's Ghana gained independence in 1957 and Julius TUE Nyerere's Tanganyika followed in 1961. Nkrumah wanted TUE immediate unity of the continent; Nyerere wanted political TUE independence first, as half of Africa was still under TUE colonial rule. He called for a candle to be lit on TUE Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain, as a beacon for the TUE liberation of the rest of Africa. TUE TUE Some of the 53 African countries gained independence through TUE peaceful negotiations with the colonial power, and some had TUE to fight for independence. Tanzania played a key part as a TUE frontline state hosting and supporting many of the southern TUE African liberation movements. TUE TUE In Part 3 of Africa at 50: The Wind of Change, retired TUE Brigadier General Hashim Mbita reflects on his country's TUE role in the liberation struggle. As a civil servant, army TUE officer and journalist, he was central to many of the key TUE events of the time. As Chief Executive of the OAU TUE Coordinating Committee for the Liberation of Africa, which TUE was based in Dar es Salaam, he played a pivotal part in the TUE funding and training of the armed struggles for independence TUE where it was not granted through negotiation. TUE TUE Producer: Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00vjl10 (Listen) TUE The Fry Chronicles, Episode 2 TUE TUE Stephen Fry has a curious encounter with Stephen Sondheim TUE and becomes the literary critic of Tatler. TUE TUE The Fry Chronicles is a book that is not afraid to confront TUE the aching chasm that separates public image from private TUE feeling. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vhfww (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Sarah Gristwood on the 50th TUE anniversary of Breakfast at Tiffany's. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vhfwy (Listen) TUE So Much For That, Episode 2 TUE TUE Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the TUE Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to a TUE remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But just as Shep is TUE about to put the Afterlife into action, his wife Glynis TUE reveals that she has cancer. In today's episode, the couple TUE begin to face up to realities of Glynis' diagnosis and the TUE frustrations of the American healthcare system. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio TUE Shep ..... Henry Goodman TUE Glynis ..... Debora Weston TUE Carol ..... Elizabeth McGovern TUE Jackson ..... Stuart Milligan TUE Flicka ..... Sasha Pick TUE Dr Knox/Gabe ..... Peter Marinker TUE TUE Adapted for radio by Penny Leicester TUE Directed by Emma Harding TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00vhfx0 (Listen) TUE Episode 26 TUE TUE 26/40 We hope to bring in fresh reports from Nagoya where TUE governments and conservation organisations from across the TUE world have been meeting in Japan (COP 10) to discuss new TUE biodiversity targets. It's been widely reported that the TUE world has 10 years to arrest the decline in species - but is TUE it as stark and as simple as that? Simon Stuart, Chair of TUE the Species Survival Commission for the International Union TUE for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is in Nogoya and TUE we'll talk to him live in the programme. TUE TUE And In Britain, a few days after the comprehensive spending TUE review announcements, are there winners and losers in the TUE world of wildlife conservation? We ask the CEO of the TUE charity The Wildlife Trusts, who run nature reserves in TUE every county of the UK, how paying for the up keep of nature TUE reserves looks to them. TUE TUE Chris Sperring has his eye on Fallow Deer and brings you the TUE spectacle of their rut on Exmoor together with their impacts TUE of woodland. TUE TUE Presenter - Brett Westwood TUE Producer - Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor - Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Leading Ladies b00vhg2z (Listen) TUE Theatre director and artistic director of the Southbank TUE Centre Jude Kelly marks the 350th anniversary of the first TUE performance by the first English professional actress. TUE TUE Before the restoration and the reopening of the theatres TUE after years of Puritan rule, boys and men had played women's TUE roles. However, when Charles II came to the throne he TUE requested that women be allowed on stage and the course of TUE theatre history was changed forever when a woman took the TUE stage in the role of Desdemona on 8th December 1660. TUE TUE Although little is known about who she was, Jude Kelly TUE pieces together a picture of what life would have been like TUE for the first generation of actresses. She visits the real TUE tennis court at Hampton Court Palace to find out what the TUE first performance would have been like, takes Celia Imrie to TUE the site of where the first performance took place and tours TUE the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in search of Nell Gwynn. TUE TUE Were the first actresses' victims of exploitation or women TUE who exploited the situation to their own advantage? Were TUE they whores or pioneers? TUE TUE Producer: Benjamin Partridge TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00vhg31 (Listen) TUE What's the future for the public sector after the TUE government's spending review? Half a million jobs could go - TUE that's one in ten of Britain's state workforce - as a result TUE of the cuts announced by the Chancellor, George Osbourne, on TUE Wednesday. Millions more will have to take a pay cut or TUE reduce their hours as part of the efforts to tackle the TUE deficit. Private sector staff have been doing that already - TUE so is it time that workers funded by the taxpayer should TUE tighten their belts? Or are public servants being used as TUE scapegoats for last year's financial crisis? What's the TUE future for those who work in the state and those who depend TUE on them? What will the cuts mean for you? TUE TUE Call You and Yours with Winifred Robinson. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Call 03700 100 444 TUE (lines open at 10am on the day) or email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00vhxj5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00vhg33 (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Rosa and Leos b00vhg35 (Listen) TUE In 1926, the Czech composer Leos Janacek was in Britain on a TUE short visit. Addressing the Czechoslovak Club in London, he TUE thanked the person who had been responsible for inviting TUE him, discovering his music and championing him in Britain - TUE not a conductor or a performer, but an elderly Englishwoman TUE named Rosa Newmarch. TUE TUE Although little known today, Rosa Newmarch was a pivotal TUE figure in making concert-goers in early 20th century Britain TUE appreciate and understand new music from Czechoslovakia, TUE Russia and Finland. She travelled extensively abroad, TUE hearing new works performed and later getting them played in TUE English concert halls. She was friends with composers such TUE as Sibelius and Elgar and she wrote copious programme notes TUE and books on musical trends abroad. TUE TUE In 1920 Rosa visited Prague for the first time and was TUE immediately taken with the music of Leos Janacek. She TUE eventually met the composer in person and, on her return to TUE England, she began writing about him. She also began TUE mounting performances of his work. In 1926, she managed to TUE persuade Janacek to come to London. Rosa booked the Wigmore TUE Hall and planned an ambitious programme of her friend's TUE music. However, the visit coincided with the beginning of TUE the General Strike. Although the concert of Janacek's work TUE took place, there was little publicity surrounding it, as TUE there were no newspapers being printed. Still, it was an TUE introduction for concert-goers. Rosa had also planned TUE excursions for Janacek which couldn't take place because of TUE the lack of transport. But he did manage to get to London TUE Zoo, where he took down notes of the noises that the monkeys TUE made. TUE TUE The friendship between Janacek and Rosa continued until his TUE death two years later and was cemented when he dedicated his TUE well-loved "Sinfonietta" to her. TUE TUE In this programme, music writer and lecturer Peter Avis TUE tells the remarkable and unknown story of Rosa Newmarch and TUE her friendship with Leos Janacek. With contributions from TUE Rosa's grand-daughter, musical experts and extracts from TUE correspondence of the time, he re-evaluates the significance TUE of Rosa's place in musical history. TUE TUE Producer: Emma Kingsley. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00vhfbb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vcqld (Listen) TUE The Climb TUE TUE A feel good drama about three men who venture on a climb of TUE their lives. TUE Ropes, crampons, grappling irons at the ready; D-day has TUE arrived. Frankie, John and Bud are ready, well as ready as TUE they'll ever be . But this is not a mountain, nor a great TUE hill they are preparing to climb tonight - it's Blackpool TUE Tower. Furthermore, Frankie has Down's syndrome, John is TUE blind and Bud is only 3'6". It was Frankie's idea as he TUE wants to follow in the footsteps of his hero Sherpa Tensing. TUE The men are forced to pull together as a team in a race TUE against time in an attempt to reach the top as the police TUE try to intercept their highly dangerous (and highly TUE illegal!) deed. TUE TUE Frankie ........... Tommy Jessop TUE Bud ........... Warwick Davis TUE John ....... Liam O'Carroll TUE Frankie's Mum ......Olwen May TUE Policeman ........ Gerard Fletcher TUE TUE Producer/Director - Pauline Harris TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00vhgcc (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listener's questions and research help TUE offer new insights into the past. TUE TUE You can send us questions or an outline of your own TUE research. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Original Shorts b00vhgcf (Listen) TUE Series 4, Angels TUE TUE Adam Thorpe's intriguing story, specially written for TUE Original Shorts, is set within a monastery in the French TUE Alps. Brother Dominique wakes from a powerful dream - almost TUE certain he has had a vision of an angel. TUE TUE Those wings seemed very persuasive as they descended, TUE beating in a golden blur. But when the local blacksmith and TUE his son come up the mountain to repair the great oak cross TUE that stands at the top of the pasture, the monk begins to TUE have doubts. TUE TUE What was the real meaning of his dream? Did it represent TUE something more worrying? The answer is surprising and, in TUE Adam Godley's heartfelt reading, strangely moving. TUE TUE Director: Martin Jarvis TUE A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's TUE Escape to the Country b00rvzb9 (Listen) TUE William Wordsworth and the Sublime Landscape TUE TUE This series is an account of how, through history, people TUE have moved from the town to the country and taken with them TUE powerful ideas about what the countryside should be. Each TUE age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the TUE pre-occupations of the day. The last two centuries have seen TUE the countryside shaped for personal aggrandisement, for TUE moral improvement, for the reflection of a new industrial TUE wealth, as the creation of an 'ideal' landscape, as a place TUE of health and healing and as a refuge from (and comment on) TUE the pace, nature and stress of contemporary urban life. TUE These ideas find many echoes in our current attitudes to the TUE countryside, but the ambition through the series is to visit TUE and scrutinise specific movements and representations and TUE let the ripples of recognition make their own way into the TUE listeners' minds. TUE TUE Our tendency to idealise the countryside hasn't always TUE reflected the reality of rural life. But it provides a TUE fascinating glimpse of our dreams and fears as a society. TUE TUE William Wordsworth wasn't the first, nor the last to escape TUE from the infernal hell of the city and take refuge in the TUE countryside, but he managed to express in his poetry an TUE unequivocal and compelling sense of nature's transcendent TUE powers that has influenced the way we think about the TUE countryside ever since. TUE TUE For Wordsworth, the Lake District, England's most dramatic TUE landscape, evoked a sense of the Sublime. He responded to TUE the magnitude of this rugged, ancient, wild, unruly expanse TUE of nature with a mixture of awe bordering on terror. TUE TUE The producer is Lucy Greenwell, and this is a Just Radio TUE production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00vhgfp (Listen) TUE Interview with Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP TUE TUE Rt Hon Kenneth Clarke MP, the new Justice Secretary, is TUE interviewed in front of an audience at Gray's Inn by TUE presenter Joshua Rozenberg. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00vhgjr (Listen) TUE Judith Kerr, Matthew Kneale TUE TUE Judith Kerr is known to generations of young readers for her TUE celebrated series of Mogg books and her TUE semi-autobiographical novel, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, TUE a child's view of the rise of Nazism in pre-war Germany. Now TUE 86 and hard at work on her next book, she has chosen to TUE discuss a powerful graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, TUE which describes his father's wartime experiences as a TUE Holocaust survivor. TUE TUE Alongside Judith will be her son, Matthew Kneale, whose TUE novel English Passengers won the Whitbread Book of the Year TUE Prize in 2000. He's discussing one of the great works of TUE reportage, Ryszard Kapuscinski's account of the fall of the TUE Ethiopian dictator, Haile Selassie. Meanwhile, they also TUE discuss Sue MacGregor's choice, Jane Austen's Sense and TUE Sensibility. TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00vhgjt (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vhxmn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Write Stuff b00vhgjw (Listen) TUE The Beats TUE TUE Once again the team captains are joined by special guests - TUE poet and musician, Ian McMillan and broadcaster, writer and TUE journalist, Francis Wheen - as they set out to solve yet TUE more book-based brainteasers, set to them by Write Stuff TUE chairman, James Walton. TUE TUE As ever, there is an "Author of the Weeek" whose life and TUE work provides a focus for the show. This time, however, TUE there isn't just one author the teams'll be examining, but TUE three as they look into the lives and work of Jack Kerouac, TUE William S. Burrough II and Allen Ginsberg - or "The Beats" TUE as they were known. TUE TUE For the pastiches that each panellist has prepared for the TUE end of the show the teams must imagine a nursery rhyme or TUE fairy tale as a member of "The Beats" might have written it... TUE TUE PRODUCER: Sam Michell. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00vhgk8 (Listen) TUE Lynda fights for her cause at the village hall and Ed has a TUE bone to pick with Will. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00vhgpj (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including the verdict on Burke and Hare, a TUE comedy horror film from John Landis with Simon Pegg and Andy TUE Serkis in the title roles as the Edinburgh grave robbers. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vhfwy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00vhgpl (Listen) TUE A Taxing Dilemma TUE TUE While the government axes public spending to try to cut the TUE deficit, Michael Robinson investigates loopholes which let TUE big businesses slash their UK tax bills. TUE This month George Osborne said he plans to make Britain the TUE most attractive corporate tax regime in the G20. But some TUE companies have already moved abroad for tax reasons. And for TUE others able to operate on a global scale, there are many TUE ways for them to reduce their tax liability. So how does the TUE Government square the tax circle? TUE Producer: Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00vhgpn (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Sugaring the Pill b00vhgpq (Listen) TUE In the past few years NHS-funded schemes have sprung up, TUE offering financial incentives in the form of shopping TUE vouchers to encourage people to be more healthy. TUE TUE The schemes target a whole range of behaviours, from TUE quitting smoking and eating less to getting teenagers to TUE turn up for a Chlamydia test or a vaccine. TUE TUE Mexico, the US and parts of Europe have already used TUE financial incentives to promote health. Now NICE is seeking TUE views from the British public on whether we think it's TUE acceptable for the NHS to do the same. TUE TUE But does paying people to be healthy work? Claudia Hammond TUE assesses the evidence and makes a discovery that astonishes TUE her. TUE TUE In one completely unexpected area of healthcare - drug TUE addiction - shopping vouchers are proving to be not only TUE effective, but cost effective too. TUE TUE But a Department of Health spokesperson has said that TUE financial incentives 'should only be used as a last resort' TUE to promote health. TUE TUE The Director of the National Addiction Centre, Professor TUE John Strang, disagrees. When it comes to addiction, 'it's TUE bordering on negligent not to be willing to do that'. TUE TUE Producer: Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00vhfwr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00vhxmq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00vhgsc (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 b00vhgsf (Listen) TUE Crimson China, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Betsy Tobin. Lili arrives in London from China and begins TUE to try to find out what happened to her brother Wen - while TUE in Morcambe Bay, Angie has to work out what to do with the TUE man she rescued from the waves. TUE TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE Read by Penny Downie and Elizabeth Tan TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Beautiful Dreamers b00vhgsh (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE By James Lever and Nat Segnit. TUE TUE In this series documentary maker Nat Segnit investigates the TUE untold stories of visionary mavericks including; the creator TUE of the first animal orchestra; a billionaire planning to TUE freefall from space; an ex-con New York junkie bridge TUE jumper; the first swimmer of the River Europe and the TUE 'Jonahs' who offer themselves to be swallowed by whales. TUE TUE This week Nat explores the life and work of Artur Mistek, TUE founder of Musica Zoologika. With contributions from Charlie TUE Higson, Toby Jones, Eleanor Bron, Peter Marinker and Zeb TUE Soanes. TUE TUE Music by David Pickvance TUE Produced by Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vhgsk (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster and beyond. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 27 OCTOBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00vhgp4 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00vjl10 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhgq3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhgq5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhgq7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00vhgq9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vhgr0 (Listen) WED With Canon Stephen Shipley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00vhgrn (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin Poyntz WED Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b00vhgrq (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; WED Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00vhgs3 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Alan Titchmarsh. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00vjl0g (Listen) WED The Fry Chronicles, Episode 3 WED WED Stephen Fry reveals how a call out of the blue led to him he WED becoming a poster boy for, of all things, celibacy. WED WED The Fry Chronicles is a book that is not afraid to confront WED the aching chasm that separates public image from private WED feeling. WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vhh8l (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Including the Bollywood superstar WED Preity Zinta. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vhh8n (Listen) WED So Much For That, Episode 3 WED WED Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the WED Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to a WED remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But just as Shep is WED about to put the Afterlife into action, his wife Glynis WED reveals that she has cancer. In today's episode, the couple WED begin to face up to realities of Glynis' diagnosis and the WED frustrations of the American healthcare system. WED WED Narrator ..... Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio WED Shep ..... Henry Goodman WED Glynis ..... Debora Weston WED Carol ..... Elizabeth McGovern WED Jackson ..... Stuart Milligan WED Flicka ..... Sasha Pick WED Dr Knox/Gabe ..... Peter Marinker WED WED Adapted for radio by Penny Leicester WED Directed by Emma Harding WED WED 11:00 The Ghost Trains of Old England b00vhhcf (Listen) WED Just one train a week runs between Stockport and WED Stalybridge. It never returns. "There is no service from WED Stalybridge to Stockport", says a platform sign, WED cryptically. The Stockport-Stalybridge service is what's WED known as a "parliamentary train" and exists only so that the WED rail company can avoid going through formal closure WED proceedings. Running the single weekly service costs only WED £50, but to close it down would cost far more. Of the WED intermediate stops on the line, Network Rail notes: "Data WED collection including observation has been unable to record WED any use of these stations". WED WED In this programme, Ian Marchant travels these little used WED lines and forgotten stations. There is Teesside Airport WED station, the least-used stop in Britain, with just 44 WED passengers a year. It has only one train a week, is a 20 WED minutes walk from the airport (a journey which involves WED negotiating a locked gate), and the airport has a different WED name anyway. WED WED Then there is the train that goes from Manchester to WED Brighton - except that since the Manchester to Brighton WED direct service has been abolished, a semi-secret replacement WED bus travels once a week from Ealing Broadway to Wandsworth WED Road, two stations that were never on the WED Manchester-Brighton route anyway. WED WED Most bizarre is the case of Newhaven Marine, a station which WED is technically open, and is served by one train a day. But WED the station is behind a locked fence and passengers are WED forbidden to get on the train, which does not appear on any WED timetable. The company offers to provide a taxi service to WED any passenger "in possession of a valid ticket". But it is WED impossible to buy a ticket. WED Who are the people who use these secret trains which are WED also buses and taxis? Mostly rail enthusiasts and hobbyists WED who collect rail tickets. But occasionally a real passenger WED stumbles across a service and uses it almost by accident. WED And what does it say about the British attitude to rules WED that we stick within the letter of the law while entirely WED subverting their intention? WED WED 11:30 The Secret World b00t2xcw (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 4 WED WED Ringo Starr wants to get back with his old band - The WED Shadows. Beckham wants to buy a real T Rex from Spielberg. WED Al Pacino is still stalking John Humphrys. Abu Hamza and Boy WED George continue their unspoken romance. Alan Titchmarsh WED reveals his darker side... All this and more as we take a WED look at the secret world of public people. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00vhhcy (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00vjd6j (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00vhhfp (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00vhhfr (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00vhgk8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vvx21 (Listen) WED Severed Threads, Episode 1: God's Clothing Firm WED WED Jim Nostrand, proprietor of Cheap Threads, a church-owned WED clothing firm in Minnesota, becomes the scapegoat when WED news-reports implicate the company in a child-labour scandal. WED WED Four thousand miles away, in a boarding school in the WED British countryside, troubled twelve-year-old loner Ben, WED seems obsessed with school-shootings and vengeance. WED WED In India, British/Asian journalist Prem Sharma is making a WED radio documentary for the BBC about children working in WED factories. But after rescuing a young boy and taking him WED back to his village, the reception he gets there is not what WED he expected. WED WED Over three episodes, these three stories interweave and WED revolve around each other revealing connections and layers WED as they build to one climatic resolution. WED WED Cast: WED Jim ..... Brian d'Arcy James WED Prem ..... Ameet Chana WED Ben ..... Hugo Docking WED WED US Cast: WED Ruth ..... Marsha Dietlein WED Faith ..... Amanda Scot Ellis WED Pastor McGiven ..... Tom Tammi WED Kyle ..... Matt Bennett WED Sheila ..... Janet Foster WED News Anchor ..... John Leonard Thompson WED Billy ..... Jacob Knoll WED Harry ..... Craig Bockhorn WED Casey/Waitress ..... Felicity Jones WED Prison Priest ..... Miles Chapin WED WED India Cast: WED Rahul ..... Ankur Vikal WED Amit .....Vijay Yadav WED Amit's mother ..... Ayesha Raza WED Amit's brother ..... Sagar Shinde WED Welfare Officers ..... Veruschka Menon, Pushan Kripalani WED Dr Khunna ...... Shaikh Sami Usman WED Factory Owner ..... Kenneth Desai WED Factory Workers ..... Rupa Kasbe, Jyoti Reddy, Shabana WED Sheikh, WED Rita John, Neeta Chavan, Eisy T. John, Pramod Yedke WED WED and children from the Akanksa Foundation, Mumbai WED WED UK Cast: WED Fiona .... Natasha Little WED Timms ..... Henry Goodman WED Elgood ..... Francois Testory WED Jones ..... Gethin Anthony WED Psychologist ..... Kate Fitzgerald WED Travel Agent ..... Joanne Ferguson WED Heyward ..... Daniel Bridle WED Boy .....Callum Francis WED WED Production Team: WED India Line Producer ..... Nadir Khan WED Assistant Director ..... Tasneem Fatehi WED India Sound ..... Ayush Ahuja WED WED US Producer ..... David Rapkin WED US Line Producer ..... Kim Moarefi WED US Casting ..... Janet Foster WED US Sound ..... Frederick Greenhaigh WED WED UK Broadcast Assistant ..... Sarah Tombling WED UK Production Assistant ..... Lucy Howe WED Music ..... Sacha Puttnam WED WED Written and Directed by John Dryden WED A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00vhhgg (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Original Shorts b00vhhgj (Listen) WED Series 4, Keeping Mum WED WED Jill Gascoine gives a funny and touching performance as WED Brenda, in Rob Green's specially written short story. WED WED Brenda is a kind, careworn woman of uncertain years who has WED been caring for her demanding old Mother for most of her WED life. But Brenda's a romantic and she's still hoping that WED her own life might begin sometime, somehow. WED WED She'd love to find her 'Rock'. Perhaps Tom, a porter from WED the local hospital, could fit the bill? Not if Mum has WED anything to do with it. Hang on, though, does Mum have a WED hidden agenda? WED WED Director: Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's WED Escape to the Country b00rzmkj (Listen) WED The Sporting Estate WED WED "The Sporting Estate" WED WED From 1800, the remote, bleak, cold country hall or mansion, WED complete with its shivering, long-faced hounds was given a WED makeover - often acquired with new money, it became a place WED for ladies and gentlemen from the city to congregate and WED socialise. The country estate was a fantastic place to spend WED time together, to network, show off your political WED connections, along with the fine crystal and bespoke china. WED WED It was the heyday of Victorian foxhunting, with increasing WED numbers of visitors flocking from all over Britain and WED overseas to hunt in the Shires that were a "sea of grass" at WED that time. WED WED Queen Victoria and Prince Albert began regular visits to WED Balmoral from 1848 and grouse shooting became a passion for WED the newly wealthy. Their son Edward Albert, actually bought WED Sandringham to develop drive shooting.a pleasure the chubby WED king could enjoy sitting down. WED WED This programme explores how field sports changed the WED appearance of the countryside and contributed to the idea of WED the country house as a 'seat of social and political power'. WED WED With Lady Carnarvon at Highclere Castle and Oliver Pope at WED the Wrackleford Estate, Dorchester. WED WED The producer is Kate Bland, and this is a Just Radio WED production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00vhhjm (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Sugaring the Pill b00vhgpq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00vhhjp (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vjd6l (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 What Went Wrong with the Olympics? b00vhhjr (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Spoof documentary set in 2014, looking back at the fiasco WED that WAS the London Olympics, by Ian Hislop & Nick Newman. WED WED The preparation for the London Olympics is a huge and very WED funny developing story. Eleven thousand people are now WED employed on the Olympic site to ensure everything is in WED place, on time. One and a half million tons of East End soil WED have been washed. Lorries, arriving on site at the rate of WED one per minute, are subjected to the same rigorous WED timetabling that applies at Heathrow Airport. Visitors WED undergo extensive security checks and are issued with a list WED of over sixty prohibited items (amongst them, animal WED stunners, ice picks and blowtorches). WED WED It's an exciting race against time; the most important race WED of all being the one to get a memorable Olympic programme on WED air. This 4x 30 minutes documentary series is all fired up WED and ready to go. On your marks. WED WED Introduced from the standpoint of 2014 by controversial WED reporter Sylvester Halloran (Kevin Eldon), 'What Went Wrong WED With The Olympics?' combines contemporary news reports, WED archive footage, stupid "audio graphics", live interviews WED and fisticuffs in the studio with the key figures WED responsible. We sift through the cock-ups and the WED conspiracies in a tough and revealing probe into the reality WED of what makes Britain run - not very fast. WED WED Starring Kevin Eldon (Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, Harry & WED Paul, The I.T.Crowd, Big Train), the cast also features WED Vicky Pepperdine (Getting On), Adrian Scarborough WED (Psychoville, Gavin & Stacey), Lewis MacLeod (Dead Ringers, WED The Life Of Hattie Jacques, Harry & Paul) and the real Brian WED Perkins. WED WED Sylvester Halloran ..... Kevin Eldon WED Toby Morrison ..... Adrian Scarborough WED Lloyd Waterhouse ..... Dan Tetsell WED Caroline Grant ..... Vicki Pepperdine WED WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00vhhjt (Listen) WED Kathy misjudges the situation and Harry's a hit with Jill WED and Peggy. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00vhhn2 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vhh8n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00vhhn4 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging live debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, Claire WED Fox and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 Should We Listen to Philosophers? b00vhhn6 (Listen) WED In a barrel, in a think tank or in a cave? We have lots of WED different ideas about the right place for a philosopher to WED be but do we listen to philosophers enough, too much, or in WED the right way? Julian Baggini, Editor in Chief of the WED Philosopher Magazine, asks "Should we listen to philosophers?". WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00vhhn8 (Listen) WED Spring Forwards, Fall Backwards WED WED On October 31st we'll all dutifully turn our clocks back by WED one hour, plunging our evenings into premature darkness. WED There's mounting evidence that this annual ritual has a real WED environmental cost. Alice Roberts takes a look at the WED arguments from the Greenwich Meridian to Cornwall and the WED Western Isles to find out who could benefit and who might WED suffer from a change in the way we set our clocks. WED WED Alice joins Greenway Ferry manager Helen Meacock on the WED River Dart WED WED The Greenway Ferry has to stop operating after dark. An WED extra hour of daylight in the evening, Helen says, would be WED good for her company and for the whole Devon tourist WED industry. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00vhgs3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00vjd6n (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00vhhnb (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 b00vhhnd (Listen) WED Crimson China, Episode 3 WED WED By Betsy Tobin. Lili gets a job in a language school in WED London - whilst Angie and Wen take tentative steps towards WED communicating in a language they can both understand. WED WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED Read by Penny Downie and Elizabeth Tan WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Bespoken Word b00vhhng (Listen) WED Bespoken Word returns for a new series with a bang. WED WED The first episode features current star performance poet, WED Kate Tempest. It's not hard to see why this former winner of WED the Nuyorican Poetry Slam in New York and who has been the WED hit of festivals Glastonbury, Latitude and Big Chill in 2010 WED is the name on everyone's lips in performance poetry. Her WED unique style blending incredible lyrics with hip hop rhythms WED is a hit with all age groups across the country. WED WED She shares the Bespoken Word bill with Martin Visceral of WED the Pen-Ultimate Collective based in Manchester, which is WED being specially featured in this series. WED WED Bespoken Word was the first programme on British radio or WED television devoted to performance poetry. It's now in its WED seventh year. WED WED Producer: Graham Frost WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00vhhnj (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Created by Phil Cornwell and Andrew McGibbon. Six new, edgy WED comic characters are brought to life in a brand new series WED of The Cornwell Estate, starring Jill Halfpenny (Strictly WED Come Dancing, Eastenders), Roger Lloyd Pack (Only Fools and WED Horses, Vicar of Dibley), Simon Greenall (Alan Partridge) WED and Ricky Champ (Him and Her, BBC3). WED WED Colin Oberon is a primary school English teacher determined WED to teach his class anything but how to speak English. He WED wants them to learn his new language "Globe-ish" The school WED and governors are not impressed. WED WED Colin Oberon ..... Phil Cornwell WED Head Teacher ..... Mia Soteriou WED School Govenor ..... Cyril Nri WED Parents ..... Damola Adelaja, Lashana Lynch, Daniel York, WED Amy Ip, Tom Reed, Harvey Virdi WED WED Written and directed by Andrew McGibbon WED Additional material by Nick Romero WED WED Producer: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vhhnl (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on PMQs and the rest of the day's events WED at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 28 OCTOBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00vhf80 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00vjl0g (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhf9g (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhf9j (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhf9l (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00vhf9n (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vhfbn (Listen) THU With Canon Stephen Shipley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00vhfbq (Listen) THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00vhfc9 (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; THU Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00vhfdf (Listen) THU The Unicorn THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the unicorn. Several THU ancient civilisations believed in the existence of a THU single-horned horse-like creature, often invested with THU magical powers. The unicorn became an important symbol in THU the middle ages, frequently represented in art; and THU scientists believed that they had proved its existence when THU explorers bought back narwhal tusks, which they believed to THU be examples of the animal's horn. Although now known to be THU a creature of the imagination, the story of the unicorn THU offers a fascinating insight into the evolution of myth and THU science. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00vjl06 (Listen) THU The Fry Chronicles, Episode 4 THU THU Stephen Fry talks about his early love of radio and his THU first forays into broadcasting on Radio 4. THU THU The Fry Chronicles is a book that is not afraid to confront THU the aching chasm that separates public image from private THU feeling. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vhfg2 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Kirstie Allsopp talks about her THU new book on home crafts. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vhfj0 (Listen) THU So Much For That, Episode 4 THU THU Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the THU Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to a THU remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But just as Shep THU is about to put the Afterlife into action, his wife Glynis THU reveals that she has cancer. In today's episode, the couple THU watch their substantial savings rapidly consumed by the THU exorbitant costs of Glynis' treatment, while their friend THU Jackson has his own medical worries. THU THU Narrator ..... Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio THU Shep ..... Henry Goodman THU Glynis ..... Debora Weston THU Carol ..... Elizabeth McGovern THU Jackson ..... Stuart Milligan THU Flicka ..... Sasha Pick THU Dr Knox/Gabe ..... Peter Marinker THU THU Adapted for radio by Penny Leicester THU Directed by Emma Harding THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00vhfj2 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. THU THU 11:30 The League of Gentlemen's Ghost Chase b00vhfjn (Listen) THU For the first time in over five years The League of THU Gentlemen comedy team reunite for a real life paranormal THU adventure spending the night in one of Britain's most THU haunted houses. THU THU Although this quartet of comedy writers and performers has THU been influenced by horror in book, stage and screen, they THU all remain skeptical concerning the existence of ghosts. THU THU By carrying out their own investigation they will either THU challenge or confirm their beliefs. THU THU Reece Shearsmith hosts the evening as he takes the team to THU Gloucestershire to visit The Ancient Ram Inn, a favourite THU location among ghost hunting groups. THU THU The League of Gentlemen explore the reputedly haunted rooms THU of the house and take part in their very first ouija board THU session. Meeting a spirit medium, a psychic investigator and THU working with scientific equipment they examine the House's THU reputation and invite the spirits to appear - but would the THU spooks show up? THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00vhfk7 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00vhfkr (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00vhg5p (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00vhhn8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00vcptq (Listen) THU William's learnt about Emma's pregnancy from Jennifer. He THU rants at Clarrie and Eddie for not telling him and storms THU out. Ed's not fit to be a father and he feels sorry for the THU baby. Clarrie didn't think he'd take the news that badly. THU Eddie reckons he'll soon calm down and they agree that Nic THU will probably talk him round. THU THU Over a pizza with Jamie, Kenton mentions the fire in the THU hide and the barn dance. Kenton explains that Jamie's antics THU are no big deal to him, it's his attitude he's concerned THU about. Jamie gets defensive and explains that everyone seems THU to be coming down on him, especially since he bunked off THU school. Kenton points out the importance of doing well at THU school, but he agrees that Kathy taking and picking him up THU is a bit bonkers. THU THU Kenton gets Jamie home on time. He tells Kathy that he's THU talked to Jamie about bunking off school, and hopes it's got THU through to him. He wants to help with the school run, and THU offers to pick Jamie up tomorrow so that they can hang out THU together again. Kathy's a bit taken aback but it would give THU her a break, so agrees that it's fine. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vhg5r (Listen) THU Severed Threads, Episode 2: If Thy Hand Offend Thee THU THU Second part of John Dryden's epic story of inter-connected THU lives, set on three continents. THU THU When journalist Prem Sharma rescues a child working in a THU textile factory outside Delhi, seven thousand miles away in THU Minnesota, Jim Nostrand, proprietor of church-owned clothing THU firm Cheap Threads, becomes the scapegoat. Meanwhile, in a THU private boarding school in England, troubled twelve-year-old THU Ben seems obsessed with school-shootings and vengeance. THU THU Cast: THU Jim ..... Brian d'Arcy James THU Prem ..... Ameet Chana THU Ben ..... Hugo Docking THU THU US Cast: THU Ruth ..... Marsha Dietlein THU Faith ..... Amanda Scot Ellis THU Pastor McGiven ..... Tom Tammi THU Kyle ..... Matt Bennett THU Sheila ..... Janet Foster THU News Anchor ..... John Leonard Thompson THU Billy ..... Jacob Knoll THU Harry ..... Craig Bockhorn THU Casey/Waitress ..... Felicity Jones THU Prison Priest ..... Miles Chapin THU THU India Cast: THU Rahul ..... Ankur Vikal THU Amit .....Vijay Yadav THU Amit's mother ..... Ayesha Raza THU Amit's brother ..... Sagar Shinde THU Welfare Officers ..... Veruschka Menon, Pushan Kripalani THU Dr Khunna ...... Shaikh Sami Usman THU Factory Owner ..... Kenneth Desai THU Factory Workers ..... Rupa Kasbe, Jyoti Reddy, Shabana THU Sheikh, THU Rita John, Neeta Chavan, Eisy T. John, Pramod Yedke THU THU UK Cast: THU Fiona .... Natasha Little THU Timms ..... Henry Goodman THU Elgood ..... Francois Testory THU Jones ..... Gethin Anthony THU Psychologist ..... Kate Fitzgerald THU Travel Agent ..... Joanne Ferguson THU Heyward ..... Daniel Bridle THU Boy .....Callum Francis THU THU Production Team: THU India Line Producer ..... Nadir Khan THU Assistant Director ..... Tasneem Fatehi THU India Sound ..... Ayush Ahuja THU THU US Producer ..... David Rapkin THU US Line Producer ..... Kim Moarefi THU US Casting ..... Janet Foster THU US Sound ..... Frederick Greenhaigh THU THU UK Broadcast Assistant ..... Sarah Tombling THU UK Production Assistant ..... Lucy Howe THU Music ..... Sacha Puttnam THU THU Producer/Director: John Dryden THU A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00vg3zt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00vhdm2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Original Shorts b00vhg8x (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 1 THU THU Martin Jarvis reads Christopher Matthew's specially written THU story of old school rivalry. THU THU Why should John Small pretend he was at school with Tim THU Slingsby? And why are Slingsby and Tony Fobbing so keen that THU Small should attend the Old Melburian's Dinner? Are there THU old scores to settle? And who, actually, will be settling them? THU THU Christopher Matthew's witty take on what could happen when THU so-called old school friends meet in later life. Can we ever THU leave our schooldays totally behind? There's a possible THU answer in the story's surprising climax. THU THU Read by Martin Jarvis THU THU Director: Rosalind Ayres THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's THU Escape to the Country b00s1pds (Listen) THU Feargus O'Connor and the Chartist Land Plan THU THU This series is an account of how, through history, people THU have moved from the town to the country and taken with them THU powerful ideas about what the countryside should be. Each THU age 'invents' the countryside to chime with the THU pre-occupations of the day. The last two centuries have seen THU the countryside shaped for personal aggrandisement, for THU moral improvement, for the reflection of a new industrial THU wealth, as the creation of an 'ideal' landscape, as a place THU of health and healing and as a refuge from (and comment on) THU the pace, nature and stress of contemporary urban life. THU These ideas find many echoes in our current attitudes to the THU countryside, but the ambition through the series is to visit THU and scrutinise specific movements and representations and THU let the ripples of recognition make their own way into the THU listeners' minds. THU THU Our tendency to idealise the countryside hasn't always THU reflected the reality of rural life. But it provides a THU fascinating glimpse of our dreams and fears as a society. THU THU Out of the insurrection and radicalism of the 1840s came the THU idea of the countryside as a place of freedom and THU independence from the squalor and sweat of industrial THU servitude. In 1842 Feargus O'Connor, the charismatic leader THU of the Chartists, drew up the Land Plan, which showed how THU ordinary people across Britain, could plough their own THU furrow.For O'Connor a plot of rural land had the capacity to THU deliver financial independence and social dignity to the THU poor - an idea that captivates us today. THU THU The producer is Kate Bland, and this a Just Radio production THU for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00vhdrr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00vhg9y (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper examines the science behind the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b00vhgbj (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 b00vhgbl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective b00vhgc7 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Comedian Richard Herring reclaims those things we have given THU a bad name to. This week he's reclaiming the English THU National Flag from any associations with far right THU extremists. Why does the man and woman on the street have no THU idea when St George's day is? Who is St George? Richard asks THU a vexillologist (flag expert) about how flags have come to THU symbolise nations.He also talks to anthropologist Kate Fox THU who has studied the behaviour of the English, about why the THU English are not natural flag waving patriots. The show was THU recorded in front of an audience. Producer ..... Alison THU Vernon-Smith ". THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00vhgc9 (Listen) THU Jennifer is feeling the strain and Pip looks to the future. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00vhgcz (Listen) THU With John Wilson, including an interview with THU singer-songwriter Elvis Costello, as he releases a new album THU called National Ransom, with a title track inspired by the THU recent financial crises. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vhfj0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00vhgfp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00vhgfr (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00vhfx0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00vhfdf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00vhgft (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00vhgj4 (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 b00vhgj8 (Listen) THU Crimson China, Episode 4 THU THU By Betsy Tobin. Lili persuades a friend to take her to THU Morecambe Bay where she thinks her brother died - whilst THU Angie buys Wen an English Language Course. THU THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU Read by Penny Downie and Elizabeth Tan 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 b00qf6t4 (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU By Jeremy Front THU Based on the novel by Simon Brett THU Episode Two THU Charles goes fishing and finds a dead body. 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 THU Producer - Sally Avens THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vhgl1 (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports on the day's events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 29 OCTOBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00vh91j (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00vjl06 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vh92h (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vh92k (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vh938 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00vh93j (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vh916 (Listen) FRI With Canon Stephen Shipley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00vh954 (Listen) FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Martin Poyntz FRI Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00vh956 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; FRI Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00vhdmb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00vh958 (Listen) FRI The Fry Chronicles, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today Stephen reveals the origins of his enduring love of FRI technology and his great friendship with Douglas Adams. FRI FRI The Fry Chronicles is a book that is not afraid to confront FRI the aching chasm that separates public image from private FRI feeling. FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vh99d (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 b00vh99g (Listen) FRI So Much For That, Episode 5 FRI FRI Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the FRI Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to a FRI remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But just as Shep FRI was about to put the Afterlife into action, his wife Glynis FRI revealed that she had cancer. In today's episode, Shep FRI watches his once substantial savings evaporate with alarming FRI speed, while his best friend Jackson copes with the fall-out FRI of his botched penis-enlargement surgery. FRI FRI Narrator ..... Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio FRI Shep ..... Henry Goodman FRI Glynis ..... Debora Weston FRI Carol ..... Elizabeth McGovern FRI Jackson ..... Stuart Milligan FRI Flicka ..... Sasha Pick FRI Dr Knox/Gabe ..... Peter Marinker FRI FRI Adapted for radio by Penny Leicester FRI Directed by Emma Harding FRI FRI 11:00 Inside the Cage b00tf9fc (Listen) FRI Cage fighting? An honourable sport of skill and strategy, a FRI safety valve for nature's wrestling instinct, proving FRI manhood in recessionary times, or a pantomime of thuggery? FRI The diminutive dancer and broadcaster Felicity Finch FRI explores the phenomenal rise of mixed martial arts from FRI inside the cage and finds some surprising connections to her FRI own training as a dancer, except for the fact she never FRI knowingly knocked anyone out before. FRI FRI She encounters debut pro fighter Mike Wood at his mate's gym FRI in Farnborough and within 5 minutes of their first meeting FRI they are rolling around on the mat. Mike is training for FRI BAMMA 3, the third international contest of the British FRI Association of Mixed Martial Arts which is being held at FRI Birmingham's LG arena with Katie Price and Alex Reid in FRI attendance. FRI FRI Through Mike and his trainer Andy Roberts she learns about FRI the phenomenal appeal of the sport, the guts it takes to FRI enter the cage, the ongoing moves to regulate it and the FRI money that can be made for the lucky few. FRI FRI However, from Mike's 7 year old son Joe, and Dr Peter FRI Maguire of the British Medical Association she also learns FRI about the dark side. Whilst making the programme another FRI debut professional fighter, Michael Kirkham dies after being FRI knocked out in the cage and not regaining consciousness. FRI FRI Mike Wood's partner Gill is a nurse. Tensions run high. FRI Mike's training is intense, he has given up his day job and FRI is collecting their son from school with two black eyes and FRI painted toenails, but that is another story. FRI FRI Inside the Cage provides unique access to the exciting FRI razzmatazz of a high octane world and the gentle heart of FRI one of its adherents. FRI FRI Producer: Jane Ray FRI A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Psmith in the City b00dsr3b (Listen) FRI Psmith Arranges His Future 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's powers of persuasion are put to the test when Mike FRI is dismissed from the bank. FRI FRI P.G. Wodehouse ..... Simon Williams FRI Psmith ..... Nick Caldecott FRI Mike Jackson ..... Inam Mirza FRI John Bickersdyke ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Mr Gregory ..... Chris Pavlo FRI Jo Jackson ..... Dan Starkey FRI FRI Produced by Abigail le Fleming. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00vh9g4 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs programme. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00vh9gz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00vh9hc (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00vh9hf (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 b00vhgc9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vh9hx (Listen) FRI Severed Threads, Episode 3: The Reckoning FRI FRI Vengeance is all that's on schoolboy Ben's mind as he pieces FRI together the events surrounding his father's death. Four FRI thousand miles away in India, journalist Prem is drawn FRI deeper into a dangerous world of exploitation and FRI corruption. In the US, as Jim's life takes a nose-dive and FRI he is gradually stripped of all he holds dear, his FRI unquestioning faith turns to simmering rage. As these three FRI stories converge, they build towards a terrifying and FRI climatic resolution. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00vh9jp (Listen) FRI Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and Matthew Biggs are FRI guests of the Ashcott Garden Club in Somerset. Peter Gibbs FRI is the chairman. FRI FRI Matthew Wilson presents the second half of our Urban Forest FRI series. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's FRI Escape to the Country b00s54j7 (Listen) FRI Octavia Hill FRI FRI Octavia Hill, one of the founders of the National Trust, FRI lived at Crockham Hill in Kent. Not by chance it was exactly FRI the kind of countryside she wanted to preserve: a short FRI train ride from the centre of the fast-expanding city. In FRI her passion to conserve outdoor spaces, she bought nearby FRI Toyes Hill and slapped a conservation order on it. FRI FRI In this episode of Escape to the Country, Laurence Llewelyn FRI Bowen visits Toyes Hill, the first area of land to be held FRI in Trust for the nation, to explore Octavia Hill's idea that FRI the countryside offered vital "pure earth, clean air and FRI blue sky" for ordinary, working people. FRI FRI Producer: Lucy Greenwell FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00vh9kb (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 b00vhdr1 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Lisa Cholodenko, director of The FRI Kids Are All Right, starring Annette Bening and Julianne FRI Moore as a couple whose relationship begins to founder when FRI their children find their biological father. Produced by FRI Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00vhdrw (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 b00vhf46 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00vhf48 (Listen) FRI Series 72, Episode 6 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy FRI and Ronni Ancona. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00vhf4b (Listen) FRI Written by: Tim Stimpson FRI Directed by: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Alan Franks ..... John Telfer FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright FRI Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright FRI Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Holly ..... Maya Barcot. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00vhf4d (Listen) FRI In Belfast with Paul Muldoon and Colin Bateman FRI FRI With Mark Lawson in Belfast, including interviews with poet FRI Paul Muldoon, and with writer Colin Bateman, whose first FRI play is a comedy which focuses on an attempt to write a FRI national anthem for Northern Ireland. FRI FRI Producer Ella-Mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vh99g (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00vhf4g (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from St FRI Mary's Parish Church in Leeds, with questions for the panel FRI including the Chairman of the Conservative Party, Sayeeda FRI Warsi and the columnist Peter Hitchens. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00vhf4j (Listen) FRI Tribute to Teachers FRI FRI Sarah Dunant pays tribute to outstanding women teachers who FRI inspired her own generation of schoolgirls to achieve FRI through education as well as any boy. She remembers, in FRI particular, her headmistress and her art teacher, who FRI deserve credit for the part they played in the fight for FRI women's equality. FRI FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00vhf4l (Listen) FRI Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum in FRI London, continues his global history as told through objects FRI from the Museum's collection. FRI FRI In about 1450 a string of great empires dominated the world. FRI The Ottoman Turks were threatening Europe with invasion. FRI Asia was dominated by Ming China and the Timurid Empire, but FRI the world's largest state was the Inca Empire in South FRI America. Europe, in contrast, was a patchwork of squabbling FRI powers. Yet there were the first signs of a shift towards a FRI connection of all the world's continents by European FRI exploration that would mark the beginning of a recognisably FRI modern world. These new maritime empires brought Europe's FRI fragmented kingdoms great wealth. The rhinoceros that FRI inspired Durer's iconic print was a present from an Indian FRI Sultan to a Portuguese governor. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00vhf4n (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00vhf4q (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 b00vhf6n (Listen) FRI Crimson China, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Betsy Tobin. Lili moves in with Adrian and May whilst Wen FRI becomes concerned that the Snakeheads who smuggled him into FRI England for a huge fee - may have tracked him down. FRI FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI Read by Penny Downie and Elizabeth Tan FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00vcpbr (Listen) FRI Edwina Currie, Colin Tweedy FRI FRI Former Conservative minister Edwina Currie joins Sue FRI MacGregor to discuss her paperback choice - Zoe Heller's FRI recent account of faith and politics, The Believers. FRI Meanwhile, Colin Tweedy, Chief Executive of Arts and FRI Business, chooses Kenneth Clark's influential landmark work, FRI Civilisation. FRI Producer: Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vhf6q (Listen) FRI Mark D'arcy presents a round up of the week's parliamentary FRI news. FRI
22 October, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 23/10/2010 - 29/10/2010
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