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SAT SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00vhhq2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00vh958 (Listen) SAT The Fry Chronicles, Episode 5 SAT SAT Today Stephen reveals the origins of his enduring love of SAT technology and his great friendship with Douglas Adams. SAT SAT The Fry Chronicles is a book that is not afraid to confront SAT the aching chasm that separates public image from private SAT feeling. SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhhq4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhhq6 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhhq8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00vhhqb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vjkdh (Listen) SAT With Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for SAT Hindu Studies. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00vjkdk (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 b00vhhqd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00vhhqg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00vkjf9 (Listen) SAT Helen Mark visits Pluckley, a village with the reputation as SAT the most haunted in Britain. While genuine ghosthunters, SAT with an interest in all things paranormal, bring with them a SAT welcome boost to local businesses, this reputation is not SAT without problems. In recent years the village has seen an SAT increased police presence due to the sheer number of SAT visitors, particularly around the time of Halloween. There SAT have been problems of anti-social behaviour which last year SAT led to the parish council cancelling the Halloween SAT festivities. SAT SAT For this week's Open Country Helen meets some of the SAT villagers, both believers and sceptics, about their SAT experiences in Britain's most haunted village and the impact SAT this has on village life. During the course of one evening, SAT Helen chats with several residents and finds out about the SAT 12 ghosts that are said to haunt Pluckley before heading SAT back to her hotel room at the haunted Elvey Farm Hotel. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00vkkx9 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anne Marie Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00vhhqj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00vkkyz (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00vkkzt (Listen) SAT The Reverend Richard Coles is joined by satirist John Lloyd SAT and poet Kate Fox. SAT SAT The producer is Debbie Kilbride. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00vkl0g (Listen) SAT John McCarthy meets Dr Lavinia Byrne who leads tours to the SAT ancient sites of Syria and tour operator Amelia Stewart who SAT has started to offer trips there and talks to them about why SAT the many layers of its past make it so rewarding for those SAT fascinated by history. The Greeks and Romans, the early SAT Christians, Islam and even the French have all left a mark SAT on this multi-layered country that is beginning to attract SAT more western tourists who now see it as a much less SAT dangerous destination. SAT SAT And broadcaster Steve Blacknell tell John about his fondness SAT for the smallest Channel Island of Sark and how its peace SAT and quiet and lack of motor cars really mean you can get SAT away from it all. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Oktoberfest! b00vkl0j (Listen) SAT John F. Jungclaussen, UK correspondent for German newspaper SAT Die Zeit, travels to Munich to join the millions of SAT revellers celebrating 200 years of the Oktoberfest- the SAT largest folk festival in the World. When he was a student, SAT Jungclaussen spent three years working at the festival SAT selling cigarettes in one of the big beer tents- an SAT experience he describes as 'somewhat traumatic'. He was born SAT in the northern city of Hamburg and found Bavaria to be an SAT alien land- a place of strange customs where people wear SAT lederhosen and dirndl dresses, drink beer out of huge mugs SAT and where brass bands play Oom-pah music. SAT SAT In this programme, Jungclaussen returns to the festival to SAT ask what it means for Bavarian identity and why over 6 SAT million tourists come from across the globe to join in. He SAT speaks to Prince Luitpold of Bavaria whose SAT great-great-great-grandfather King Ludwig I founded the SAT Oktoberfest in 1810 and who has had a long argument with the SAT city of Munich over his right to sell beer at the festival. SAT He also meets a tent owner who sells thousands of litres of SAT beer for 12 hours a day to increasingly inebriated SAT party-goers. SAT SAT He speaks to locals who come with their families dressed in SAT traditional clothing and are very proud of their distinctive SAT culture. He goes inside the beer tents and meets tourists SAT from many different countries and from the rest of Germany - SAT many of whom also come in traditional dress. He asks how SAT Bavarian symbols and customs have come to represent the SAT German stereotype and considers why many are still wary of SAT celebrating their national and local identity since the War. SAT SAT Producer: Susie Warhurst SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00vkl40 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00vkl5q (Listen) SAT We explore the ruined heart of an American city, laid waste SAT by economic collapse. SAT SAT The hotel in Nairobi that's become a little piece of SAT Somalia. SAT SAT From a South African prison -- an inspiring tale of guilt SAT and redemption. SAT SAT And our correspondent struggles to embrace America's passion SAT for Halloween.... SAT SAT President Obama's job may be just about to get even SAT tougher... His Democrat allies in Congress are expected to SAT take a beating in Tuesday's mid-term elections.... The major SAT cause of Mr Obama's troubles is the persistently dire state SAT of the economy. Unemployment, poverty, and the repossession SAT of homes are making a mockery of the American Dream... And SAT Paul Mason has been to a city at the centre of the storm... SAT SAT It's hard to think of any country more broken than SAT Somalia... Nearly twenty years of war, famine and disease SAT have taken up to a million lives. Huge numbers of Somalis SAT have been forced into exile. And Mary Harper has been the SAT exploring the world that some of them have built, just SAT across the border, in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.... SAT SAT Nelson Mandela knows more than enough about prison life... SAT He has said that you don't really understand a nation, until SAT you've seen inside its jails. And the prisons in Mr SAT Mandela's homeland are indeed a grim reflection of South SAT Africa's troubles. They suffer from chronic overcrowding. SAT And as in so many countries, they're frightening violent SAT places. But as Hamilton Wende has been finding out, even in SAT that brutal environment, it is still possible to find a SAT better path... SAT SAT Istanbul is on show this year. It's enjoying its spell as SAT Europe's officially declared "capital of culture". It's a SAT fine chance to focus attention on the art emerging in the SAT vibrant new Turkey. The number of galleries has mushroomed SAT in recent years, and the city's modern artists have never SAT had it so good.... But as Rosie Goldsmith explains, in old SAT Istanbul....not everyone approves.... SAT SAT It's that time of year when...to many outsiders at SAT least.....Americans seem to go a little mad. It's SAT Halloween....a time for dressing up as witches and SAT werewolves, and generally celebrating scary things. This SAT oddest of festivals has it roots very much in ancient, SAT pagan, Europe. And David Willis has been wondering why it's SAT managed to gain such a grip on the imagination of modern, SAT Christian America.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00vklh3 (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00vhf48 (Listen) SAT Series 72, Episode 6 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy SAT and Ronni Ancona. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00vhhql (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00vhhqn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00vhf4g (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from St SAT Mary's Parish Church in Leeds, with questions for the panel SAT including the Chairman of the Conservative Party, Sayeeda SAT Warsi and the columnist Peter Hitchens. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00vklnd (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 b00vklng (Listen) SAT The Vanishing SAT SAT Tim Krabbe's cult novella dramatised by Oliver Emanuel. SAT SAT Rex and Saskia stop at a petrol station. Saskia goes in to SAT buy drinks and is never seen again. SAT SAT Eight years later, Rex is so haunted by her disappearance SAT that he sets out to discover what happened to her, SAT regardless of the cost. SAT SAT A chilling love story that takes us to the heart of the SAT perfect crime. SAT SAT Rex ... Samuel West SAT Saskia ... Melody Grove SAT Lieneke ... Ruth Gemmell SAT Lemorne ... Liam Brennan SAT Denise...Natasha Watson SAT Cashier/Woman ... Claire Knight SAT Jean-Pierre Gallo/Manager ... Robin Laing SAT SAT Directed by Kirsty Williams SAT SAT Producer Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT 15:30 Rosa and Leos b00vhg35 (Listen) SAT In 1926, the Czech composer Leos Janacek was in Britain on a SAT short visit. Addressing the Czechoslovak Club in London, he SAT thanked the person who had been responsible for inviting SAT him, discovering his music and championing him in Britain - SAT not a conductor or a performer, but an elderly Englishwoman SAT named Rosa Newmarch. SAT SAT Although little known today, Rosa Newmarch was a pivotal SAT figure in making concert-goers in early 20th century Britain SAT appreciate and understand new music from Czechoslovakia, SAT Russia and Finland. She travelled extensively abroad, SAT hearing new works performed and later getting them played in SAT English concert halls. She was friends with composers such SAT as Sibelius and Elgar and she wrote copious programme notes SAT and books on musical trends abroad. SAT SAT In 1920 Rosa visited Prague for the first time and was SAT immediately taken with the music of Leos Janacek. She SAT eventually met the composer in person and, on her return to SAT England, she began writing about him. She also began SAT mounting performances of his work. In 1926, she managed to SAT persuade Janacek to come to London. Rosa booked the Wigmore SAT Hall and planned an ambitious programme of her friend's SAT music. However, the visit coincided with the beginning of SAT the General Strike. Although the concert of Janacek's work SAT took place, there was little publicity surrounding it, as SAT there were no newspapers being printed. Still, it was an SAT introduction for concert-goers. Rosa had also planned SAT excursions for Janacek which couldn't take place because of SAT the lack of transport. But he did manage to get to London SAT Zoo, where he took down notes of the noises that the monkeys SAT made. SAT SAT The friendship between Janacek and Rosa continued until his SAT death two years later and was cemented when he dedicated his SAT well-loved "Sinfonietta" to her. SAT SAT In this programme, music writer and lecturer Peter Avis SAT tells the remarkable and unknown story of Rosa Newmarch and SAT her friendship with Leos Janacek. With contributions from SAT Rosa's grand-daughter, musical experts and extracts from SAT correspondence of the time, he re-evaluates the significance SAT of Rosa's place in musical history. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00vklpt (Listen) SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00vklqg (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00vhgfr (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 spirits, SAT security and digital publishing discuss the special SAT relationship between the two people at the top of a company: SAT the chairman and chief executive. Is it a recipe for SAT tension, or a sensible balancing of responsibilities? SAT SAT The panel also discusses the merits of youth versus SAT experience in the workplace. What qualities do young people SAT bring to a business compared with their older colleagues - SAT or is there no difference? SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Séamus McBride, President SAT and Chief Executive of spirits company Bacardi Ltd; Nick SAT Buckles, Chief Executive of security company G4S; Anthony SAT Habgood, Chairman of digital publisher Reed Elsevier and the SAT hotel, coffee shop and restaurant company Whitbread. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00vhhqq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00vhhqs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vhhqv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00vklr1 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by the artist and author Molly Parkin who SAT reveals all in her memoir Welcome to Mollywood . Top Gear's SAT James May is on a mission to save modern men - teaching them SAT vital skills he feels they've lost in his new BBC Two series SAT Man Lab. His book, How to Land an A330 Airbus, is on a SAT similar theme...... SAT SAT And Geoffrey Robertson QC has written the afterword to the SAT special edition of 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' to mark the SAT 50th Anniversary of the obscenity trial against Penguin for SAT publishing DH Lawrence's controversial novel. SAT SAT Allegra McEvedy returns to Loose Ends and does a bit of SAT improv with one of the founders of The Comedy Store Players, SAT Richard Vranch as the troupe celebrate their twenty-fifth SAT year. SAT SAT With comedy from Edinburgh Comedy Award 2010 nominee Josie SAT Long. SAT SAT And music from bluegrass folk troupe The Southern Tenant SAT Folk Union and the western swing trio Hot Club of Cowtown. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00vklsd (Listen) SAT Series 9, Octopus's Garden by the Sea SAT SAT Series in which writers create an imaginative response to a SAT story from the week's news. SAT SAT With a new brand of austerity on the horizon, playwright SAT Lavinia Murray takes a bizarre look into the future. SAT SAT Producer - Pauline Harris. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00vklsp (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Kevin Jackson and David SAT Aaronovitch and novelist Dreda Say Mitchell review the SAT cultural highlights of the week including The Kids Are Alright. SAT SAT In Lisa Cholodenko's film The Kids Are Alright, Julianne SAT Moore and Annette Bening play a couple whose children track SAT down the anonymous sperm donor who is their biological SAT father. When he enters the picture the family implodes. SAT SAT Men Should Weep is a 1947 play by Ena Lamont Stewart which SAT portrays the tough life of a family in a Glasgow tenement SAT during the Depression. Josie Rourke's revival at the SAT National Theatre in London stars Sharon Small and Robert SAT Cavanah as the parents trying to make ends meet. SAT SAT Brian Turner served in the US Army for seven years and his SAT experiences during a year-long tour of duty in Iraq provide SAT the subject matter for many of the poems in his collection SAT Phantom Noise. SAT SAT The British Art Show is staged every five years and aims to SAT provide a snapshot of what is happening in British SAT contemporary art. Its seventh incarnation - subtitled In the SAT Days of the Comet - has opened in Nottingham. It will also SAT travel, in 2011, to London, Glasgow and Plymouth. SAT SAT Michael Winterbottom's six part BBC2 series The Trip stars SAT Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon essentially playing themselves. SAT Coogan has been asked to review some restaurants in the SAT north of England and takes Brydon along for company. SAT Beautiful landscapes, exquisite food and duelling impressionists. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00vkmt0 (Listen) SAT El Tren Fantasma SAT SAT Ride the Ghost Train from Los Mochis to Veracruz, and travel SAT across country, coast to coast, from the Pacific to SAT Atlantic, on an acoustic journey through the heart of Mexico SAT on board one of the most exciting, beautiful and dynamic SAT engineering projects the country has ever known, but which SAT has now passed into history. SAT SAT It's more than a decade since the Mexican State Railway SAT System operated its last continuous passenger service across SAT the country. Sound recordist Chris Watson spent a month on SAT board the train with some of the last passengers to travel SAT this route. In this sound portrait, based on his original SAT recordings, we recreate the journey of the 'ghost train'; SAT evoking memories of a recent past, capturing the atmosphere, SAT rhythms and sounds of human life and wildlife along the SAT tracks of one of Mexico's greatest engineering projects. SAT SAT Our journey begins on the west coast at Los Mochis. From SAT here the track rises to an altitude of around 2,500 metres SAT (over 8,000 ft) travelling through truly spectacular scenery SAT as it sweeps through the Copper Canyon. The Tarahumara SAT people, descendants of the Aztecs, still live a simple life SAT in these canyons, as they have done for thousands of years. SAT From here, we descend into Chihuahua City, and pause in the SAT goods yard of the station, eavesdropping on an industrial SAT symphony of metallic sounds. Further south, near the city of SAT Durango, we swap railway coach for stage coach and travel to SAT La Joya, the ranch once owned by the actor, John Wayne. Then SAT it's back on the train, and onwards to the silver mines of SAT Zacatecas. The dangers of working here are legendary. The SAT ghost train travels on .. a gentle breeze sighs through the SAT pine forest along the track side, and then, further south, SAT the sounds of the Mariachi bands greet the train as it SAT travels through Mexico city. In the vast landscape of shanty SAT towns, the tracks are used as commuter routes by the locals. SAT Cattle are even driven along them. But such practices can be SAT fatal; in these suburbs, the trains don't stop. Then there's SAT a diversion to El Tajin; here the descendants of the Mayans SAT spin from tall poles and play games where the winner faces a SAT sacrificial death. The end of the journey approaches; the SAT ghost train thunders on towards the east coast, the Gulf of SAT Mexico and our destination, Veracruz, where ship hooters in SAT the harbour compete with the deafening screech of the train SAT horn. SAT SAT The recordings used in this programme were originally made SAT by Chris Watson whilst in Mexico with a film crew for the SAT BBC Television programme, Great Railways Journeys: Mexico. SAT Sadly, since these recordings were made, the artist Phil SAT Kelly has died (August 2010). SAT SAT Narrator Chris Watson SAT Producer Sarah Blunt. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00vhdrp (Listen) SAT Moby Dick, Episode 2 SAT SAT Herman Melville's classic tale of adventure on the high SAT seas. In this last episode Ishmael comes to the end of the SAT story of what he witnessed as a young man, a story that has SAT haunted him ever since. Captain Ahab, himself now rarely SAT sleeping or eating, ignores the need of the crew for rest SAT and presses on in his obsessive quest for the white whale. SAT After The Pequod is battered by a ferocious typhoon, first SAT mate Starbuck is presented with an opportunity to prevent SAT what seems an inevitable tragedy. To succeed he must SAT overcome his milder nature and steel his nerve. But, in the SAT end, it is Ahab's will that is the stronger, and it seems SAT that nothing can prevent the boiling, wrenching climax, as SAT the maddened whale turns on the ship. SAT SAT Adapted by Stef Penney, winner of the Costa Award for Best SAT First Novel and overall Costa Best Novel Award in 2007 with SAT her first novel The Tenderness of Wolves. SAT SAT Cast: 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 Captain Boomer ..... Mark Meadows SAT Captain Mayhew ..... Dorian Thomas SAT Starbuck/Gabriel ..... 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 SAT Produced and Directed at BBC/Cymru Wales by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00vhhqx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00vhhn4 (Listen) SAT The thousands of secret documents published by Wikileaks SAT detail an horrific catalogue of torture, friendly fire SAT deaths and casual killings and have given us an insight into SAT the brutal chaos after the fall of Saddam Hussein and how SAT ill prepared the allies were to deal with it. But at what SAT cost? The American and British governments say the leaks are SAT grossly irresponsible and risk endangering the lives of SAT soldiers. Some argue the revelations will even encourage SAT more terrorist attacks against the West. SAT SAT So how do we balance the right to know the truth against the SAT damage that might be caused by publishing it? Are the SAT leakers champions of freedom, liberty and democracy against SAT Big Brother states, or just conspiracy theorists who've set SAT themselves up as unaccountable arbiters of truth? Is SAT transparency the disinfectant that will keep us all clean SAT and pure or are the endless demands for transparency and SAT freedom of information a substitute for searching out the SAT truth? Will an endless cascade of disclosure with no context SAT undermine our trust in civic society and if so, what will SAT replace it? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging live debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, Claire SAT Fox and Clifford Longley. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00vhf7m (Listen) SAT Russell Davies welcomes the first competitors in the latest SAT series of the long-running general knowledge quiz, to find SAT who will be crowned the 58th Brain of Britain. SAT SAT As ever, 48 of the brightest quiz contestants from around SAT the UK will be joining Russell for the knockout competition. SAT Each of the twelve heats sends a winner forward to the SAT semi-finals, where they will be joined by the four SAT highest-scoring runners-up of the series. SAT SAT This year's contestants include civil servants, teachers and SAT IT professionals alongside a novelist, a gardener and a SAT postman. Most are completely new to the contest, while one SAT or two are having another go after being pipped at the post SAT in previous years. Only one of them can be named the 58th SAT Brain of Britain, at the end of the Final which will be SAT broadcast in the new year. SAT SAT THIS WEEK'S COMPETITORS SAT SAT WILLIAM DE'ATH, a business analyst from Redhill in Surrey; SAT SARAH DUNCAN, a novelist from Bath; SAT JACK NEWBY, a civil servant from London; SAT ANGELA WILSON, a voluntary worker from Ibstock in SAT Leicestershire. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00vhdrt (Listen) SAT 'Scotland small?' is the title of an indignant poem by Hugh SAT MacDiarmid which sets the tone of this selection of requests SAT for poems about Scotland. Stella Gonet and Jimmy Yuill read SAT a varied selection of works by Scottish poets ancient and SAT modern, from Sir Walter Scott to Liz Lochhead. In this SAT programme Roger McGough also introduces requests for some SAT poems by the internationally acclaimed Scottish poet Edwin SAT Morgan who died aged 90 in August. SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 31 OCTOBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00vhjrg (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 b00vhjrj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhjrl (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhjrn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00vhjrq (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00vkn6p (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's Church, Ilmington, Warwickshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Should We Listen to Philosophers? b00vhhn6 (Listen) SUN In a barrel, in a think tank or in a cave? We have lots of SUN different ideas about the right place for a philosopher to SUN be but do we listen to philosophers enough, too much, or in SUN the right way? Julian Baggini, Editor in Chief of the SUN Philosopher Magazine, asks "Should we listen to philosophers?". SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00vhjrs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00vknht (Listen) SUN Mike Wooldridge explores the decision of the conscientious SUN objector. SUN SUN What drives the decision not to take up arms, often taken in SUN the face of punishment, hostility and broken relationships? SUN SUN He asks Oscar Wallis, a Quaker who refused to bear arms in SUN the Second World War, and Charles Yeats, the first Anglican SUN to refuse the call-up to the South African Defence Force, SUN why they did what they did, and if they would do the same SUN today? SUN SUN Presented by Mike Wooldridge SUN SUN Producer: Eley McAinsh SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00vknmf (Listen) SUN Alex James is in Kent visiting one of the country's biggest SUN orchards. Fruit producer, Paul Mansfield, of FW Mansfield SUN and Son, is a finalist in this year's BBC Farmer of the Year SUN category. Paul farms around 3000 acres and harvest SUN approximately 15,000 tonnes of apples and pears. The company SUN developed from a 20 acre smallholding 40 years ago to now be SUN the largest apple and cherry producer in the country. Alex SUN James and fellow judge, Michael Jack, discover if mass SUN production can be done environmentally sensitively and why SUN so many apples are imported when the UK could be entirely SUN self-sufficient in them. SUN Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00vhjrv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00vhjrx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00vknmh (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN We take a look at the growth of gaming shops and bookies in SUN poorer areas. Critics say that bookmakers are closing shops SUN in more affluent areas, and then exploiting legal loopholes SUN to open more store in the poorest areas. Bookmakers say that SUN they are providing a service and that the amount of shops in SUN the country has been more or less static over the last 5 SUN years. Trevor Barnes reports on the cost of gambling to the SUN poorest areas of the country. SUN SUN Is Britain an anti-Christian country? Have our diversity SUN regulations undermined our Christianity or do we still SUN respect organised religion too much? Matthew Parris & Peter SUN Hitchens debate. SUN SUN Americans go to the polls on Tuesday for Mid-Term Elections SUN that are expected to propel dozens of new conservative SUN Christian "tea party" candidates into office. A survey SUN published earlier this month revealed that half of those who SUN identify with the tea party movement, also see themselves as SUN members of the Religious Right, a force in American politics SUN that many believed was in sharp decline. So how have SUN religious conservatives returned in such numbers to the SUN culture war battlefield? Matt Wells reports from Kentucky. SUN SUN As Halloween becomes more commercial The Dean of Hereford is SUN urging all parishioners to throw a party on the last Sunday SUN of this month and have a good time its time for churches to SUN reclaim Halloween (All Hallows Eve) which is the evening SUN before All Saints' day and make it part of the Christian SUN Festival. SUN SUN A Legal challenge for the rights of gay couples to marry and SUN straight couples to be able to have civil partnerships takes SUN place on Tuesday. Reverend Sharon Ferguson of Lesbian & Gay SUN Christian Movement will go along and apply for a marriage SUN licence as the first of four couples to challenge the law. SUN Edward asks Reverend Ferguson what they hope to achieve. SUN SUN The first steps towards the renovation of Bethlehem's Church SUN of the Nativity began this week and it is expected to take SUN several years and millions of dollars. This is the first SUN comprehensive restoration project of the church since it was SUN completed in the fourth century. Edward speaks to Samir SUN Qumsieh from Bethlehem. SUN SUN Charles Carrol reports from Wembley on Diwali, the Hindu SUN festival of lights. What does it mean and how is it celebrated? SUN SUN Bishop of Dudley David Walker talks to Edward about the SUN effects of the new Housing Benefit system and the Church SUN will have to play a big role in helping people who have been SUN displaced. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00vknmk (Listen) SUN LEPRA Health in Action SUN SUN Fergus Walsh presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity LEPRA Health in Action. SUN SUN Donations to LEPRA should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope LEPRA. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00vknpy (Listen) SUN A Celebration of Wholeness and Healing SUN SUN Members of local churches in South Belfast come together for SUN a live service in St Nicholas' Church. SUN SUN Director of Music: Andrea Rea; Organist: Neale Agnew; SUN Producer: Bert Tosh. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00vhf4j (Listen) SUN Tribute to Teachers SUN SUN Sarah Dunant pays tribute to outstanding women teachers who SUN inspired her own generation of schoolgirls to achieve SUN through education as well as any boy. She remembers, in SUN particular, her headmistress and her art teacher, who SUN deserve credit for the part they played in the fight for SUN women's equality. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00vknq1 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00vknq3 (Listen) SUN Written by: Tim Stimpson SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Kate Madikane ..... Kellie Bright SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00vknrn (Listen) SUN Lang Lang SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Chinese pianist Lang Lang. SUN SUN He was five years old when he gave his first public recital SUN in front of an audience of 800 people. It was a pivotal SUN moment and from that point on it was clear where his future SUN lay. His parents were both musical too but, during the SUN cultural revolution, had not been able to pursue their own SUN ambitions. Lang Lang was born under the one-child rule and SUN so he was, he says, their only chance. Their aim was that he SUN should become the No.1 pianist in China and in the years SUN that followed, family life was sacrificed to that end. SUN SUN Still only 28 years old, he is a phenomenon in the classical SUN music world - he played to a global audience of four and a SUN half billion people for the opening ceremony of the Beijing SUN Olympics and, when he returns to China, he says he is mobbed SUN in the streets. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b00vhfb8 (Listen) SUN Series 6, Episode 5 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 Tony Hawks, Arthur Smith, Henning Wehn and Graeme Garden are SUN the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate inaccuracy on SUN subjects as varied as: Noses, Apples, Fishing and Lord SUN Byron. 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 b00vkns1 (Listen) SUN In these hard economic times does a Private Members Bill SUN introducing new standards for the food sourced by public SUN bodies stand a chance of becoming law? Simon Parkes visits SUN Nottingham, where some hospital meals and all school dinners SUN are procured this way, to look at what such a change might SUN mean in practice. SUN SUN Producer: Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00vhjs3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00vkns7 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 The Gorbals Vampire b00rmt00 (Listen) SUN Glasgow's Southern Necropolis is an eerie place at the best SUN of times but when two local policemen answered a call there SUN in September 1954 they encountered a bizarre sight. Hundreds SUN of local children, ranging in ages from 4 to 14, were SUN crammed inside, roaming between the crypts. They were armed SUN with sharpened sticks, knives stolen from home and stakes. SUN They said they were hunting down "A Vampire with Iron Teeth" SUN that had kidnapped and eaten two local boys. SUN The policemen dispersed the crowd, but they came back at SUN sundown the next night and the next. The local press got SUN hold of the story and it soon went national. There were no SUN missing boys in Glasgow at that time, and press and SUN politicians cast around for an explanation. They soon found SUN one in the wave of American Horror comics with names like SUN "Astounding Stories" and "Tales from the Crypt" which had SUN recently flooded into the West of Scotland. Academics SUN pointed out that none of the comics featured a vampire with SUN iron teeth, though there was a monster with iron teeth in SUN the bible (Daniel 7.7) and in a poem taught in local SUN schools. Their voices were drowned out in a full-blown moral SUN panic about the effect that terrifying comics were having on SUN children. Soon the case of the "Gorbals Vampire" was SUN international news. SUN The British Press raged against the "terrifying, corrupt," SUN comics and after a heated debate in the House of Commons SUN where the case of Gorbals Vampire was cited, Britain passed SUN the Children and Young Persons (Harmful Publications) Act SUN 1955 which, for the first time, specifically banned the sale SUN of magazines and comics portraying "incidents of a repulsive SUN or horrible nature" to minors. SUN Writer Louise Welsh explores how the Gorbals Vampire helped SUN bring the censorship of comic books onto the statute books. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00vh9jp (Listen) SUN Ashcott Garden Club, Somerset SUN SUN Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and Matthew Biggs are SUN guests of the Ashcott Garden Club in Somerset. Peter Gibbs SUN is the chairman. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson presents the second half of our Urban Forest SUN series. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 How The Mighty Have Fallen b00tj826 (Listen) SUN Diets Through The Ages SUN SUN "He that dieteth himself, prolongeth his life" - SUN Ecclesiastes. SUN SUN Dr Hilary Jones continues his series on the history of SUN obesity with a look at diets and dieting through the ages. SUN SUN "It is very injurious to health to take in more food than SUN the constitution will bear, when at the same time, one uses SUN no exercise to carry off this excess" - Hippocrates, SUN millennia ahead of his time, defining the energy balance SUN equation. Plutarch, in 1AD, recognised the link between SUN weight and health: "thin people are generally the most SUN healthy; we should not therefore indulge our appetites with SUN delicacies or high living, for fear of growing corpulent". SUN SUN Twenty years on from the Battle of Hastings, William the SUN Conqueror grew too large to ride his horse, and decided to SUN lose weight by consuming nothing but alcohol. Other historic SUN diets include Cheyne's lettuce diet, Fletcherising - "nature SUN will castigate those who don't masticate", and Banting. SUN William Banting lost almost a quarter of his weight in a few SUN weeks by adopting a diet "low in farinaceous food" - a SUN precursor of the modern low-carbohydrate diet. His 1863 diet SUN book was a top-seller. SUN SUN And we hear about the extraordinary exploits of the Great SUN Eater of Kent, a "Tugmutton" who could eat an entire sheep SUN in one sitting. There are interviews with Dr Susan Jebb of SUN MRC Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge, and Prof David SUN Haslam of the National Obesity Forum, plus readings and SUN music - a popular song from 1929 encapsulating the new craze SUN in America: the grapefruit diet. 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 b00vkp4q (Listen) SUN The Ramayana, Part One SUN SUN By Amber Lone. A distinctive modern version of an ancient SUN Indian epic and one of the world's most popular love SUN stories. Teenage Sita sees the most beautiful stranger in SUN the street. She'll marry him or die. He is Prince Rama, heir SUN to the throne but his stepmother wants Rama sent into exile. SUN SUN Sita...Manjinder Virk SUN Rama...Lloyd Thomas SUN Lakshman...Adeel Aktar SUN Ravan...Paul Bhattacharjee SUN Surparnaka...Sasha Behar SUN Dasarath...Jude Akuwudike SUN Sister...Deeivya Meir SUN Bharat...Saikat Ahamed SUN SUN Music composed by Niraj Chag SUN Directed by Claire Grove SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00vkp4s (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the historian Amanda Foreman SUN about her new book, A World on Fire, which examines SUN Britain's role in America's Civil War. Foreman's previous SUN book, a biography of Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, SUN became an instant bestseller, making her a rarity amongst SUN historians. She discusses the art of making history SUN compelling reading, and why feels she has to fall in love SUN with her subjects in order to write about them. SUN SUN Also on the programme - fifty years after the death of Boris SUN Pasternak, a new translation of his most famous book, Doctor SUN Zhivago, is being published. Two of his descendants, Ann SUN Pasternak-Slater and Anna Pasternak, who have researched his SUN life and work, join Mariella to re-examine the novel which SUN won him the Nobel Prize. SUN SUN Plus - the second part of the memoirs of Germany's most SUN acclaimed living writer, Gunter Grass. Treading the line SUN between autobiography and fiction, Grass writes in the voice SUN of his eight children and reflects on the decades of SUN literary success which followed the publication of his most SUN famous novel, The Tin Drum, in 1959. Novelist Lawrence SUN Norfolk, an enthusiast of Grass's writings, joins Mariella SUN to give the Open Book verdict. SUN SUN 16:30 The Electric Polyolbion b00vkp4v (Listen) SUN Part poetry and part national topological survey with a rich SUN seam of encounters along the way, The Electric Polyolbion SUN will be poet and broadcaster Paul Farley's reimagining of SUN Michael Drayton's sprawling, extraordinary Poly-Olbion, SUN first published in 1612. SUN SUN The term Poly-Olbion suggests 'many Albions', the plurality SUN of place, and Drayton described his own project as "...a SUN chorographicall [sic] description of tracts, rivers, SUN mountains, forests, and other parts of this renowned isle... SUN with intermixture of the most remarkable stories, SUN antiquities, wonders, rarities, pleasures and commodities of the same." SUN SUN Drayton's Poly-Olbion is a remarkable poem: 30,000 lines, SUN arranged in 30 sections or 'songs', describing the geography SUN and history of England and Wales county by county. SUN References to place are clear and precise. SUN SUN The Electric Poly-Olbion will follow and explore the same SUN topographies as Drayton's work, and Paul Farley will use its SUN precursor to create a new version out of our contemporary SUN landscape that incorporates and synthesizes historical, SUN scientific, political, literary, pop-cultural and SUN autobiographical dimensions into the imaginative region of SUN the long poem. SUN SUN As he travels the country Farley writes his own long form SUN verse in and around the places and references of Drayton's SUN original: the same landscapes, two wildly different time SUN frames. Paul has a lovely ease of style in conversation, and SUN he'll meet other local writers along the way. SUN SUN Presenter: Paul Farley SUN SUN Producer: Simon Hollis SUN A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00vhgpl (Listen) SUN A Taxing Dilemma SUN SUN While the government axes public spending to try to cut the SUN deficit, Michael Robinson investigates loopholes which let SUN big businesses slash their UK tax bills. SUN This month George Osborne said he plans to make Britain the SUN most attractive corporate tax regime in the G20. But some SUN companies have already moved abroad for tax reasons. And for SUN others able to operate on a global scale, there are many SUN ways for them to reduce their tax liability. So how does the SUN Government square the tax circle? SUN Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00vklsd (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00vhjs5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00vhjs7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vhjs9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00vkp4x (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN The League of Gentlemen encounter ghosts, Stephen Fry SUN encounters Stephen Sondheim, the inmates of Louisiana State SUN Penitentiary pit themselves against raging bulls, Sue SUN Perkins revisits the car parks of her youth and Frank SUN McCourt embraces life in paradise in that peculiarly Frank SUN McCourt fashion. To Malawi to meet musicians, coast to coast SUN across Mexico, a thrilling investigation in India, up the SUN Blackpool Tower and home on the ghost train ... Join Liz SUN Barclay for Pick of the Week.... SUN SUN Archive On 4: El tren Fantasma - Radio 4 SUN The Ghost Trains of Old England - Radio 4 SUN The League of Gentlemen's Ghost Chase - Radio 4 SUN Afternoon Play: The Climb - Radio 4 SUN The Seven Car Parks of Croydon - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week: The Fry Chronicles - Radio 4 SUN The Strand - World Service SUN Afternoon Play: Severed Threads - Radio 4 SUN Rosa and Leos - Radio 4 SUN Inside the Cage - Radio 4 SUN From Our own Correspondent - Radio 4 SUN Sunday Feature: The Romans in Britain - Radio 3 SUN Leading Ladies - Radio 4 SUN Analysis - Radio 4 SUN Craig Brown's Lost Diaries - Radio 4 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 b00vkp5h (Listen) SUN Jolene shares her concerns and Harry enters the Twilight SUN Zone. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00vkp6k (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 Gerrymandering or Redistricting SUN SUN Once every ten years, U.S. Census figures are updated and SUN American politicians have the opportunity to draw crooked SUN lines to map out districts of political supporters to their SUN advantage. The abuse of power is called gerrymandering. The SUN honest practice is called redistricting. SUN SUN Americana talks to Kathay Feng, Executive Director of SUN California Common Cause. The group is campaigning to reform SUN the redistricting process and take it out of the hands of SUN elected officials. Meanwhile Professor Bernard Grofman, from SUN the University of California Irvine, explains what impact SUN that reform could have on the democratic process. SUN SUN Garry Wills SUN SUN Garry Wills discusses his new book, "Outside Looking In: SUN Adventures of an Observer." The political historian reflects SUN on the moments and people who helped define him through his SUN life. SUN SUN Rita Dove SUN SUN Matt Frei talks to former poet laureate Rita Dove about how SUN to define the culture of a nation through poetry. She shares SUN some of the words that are meaningful to her. SUN SUN Rita Dove reads Sing Song SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00s6t4p (Listen) SUN Come Away, Come Away!, Daredevil SUN SUN A reckless challenge leads to a dark discovery in a tale of SUN nature and brotherhood. SUN SUN James Bryce reads 'Daredevil' by Michael Morpurgo. SUN SUN Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00vh9hf (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton asks whether this was the best week for the SUN Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg to wash up on Kirsty SUN Young's Desert Island Discs. SUN SUN As Peggy learns to cut and paste on The Archers, Roger SUN examines the BBC's role in Government backed education campaigns. SUN SUN And after Richard Herring's endorsement - listeners are SUN desperate to know how to get hold of this season's must have SUN Radio 4 hoodie. 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 b00vh9kb (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN The British aid worker Linda Norgrove - killed during an SUN American military operation to rescue her from her captors. SUN In an emotional interview her parents talk about her SUN childhood, her determination to help those less fortunate SUN than herself and the tragic violence of her death. SUN Also children's'writer Eva Ibbotson, who imagined a mystery SUN platform at King's Cross station long before JK Rowling. SUN Reggae singer Gregory Isaacs - famous for his romantic SUN ballads - he fought a battle with cocaine addiction. SUN And Mary Malcolm - BBC announcer in the early days of SUN television. We hear from her on screen colleague Sylvia Peters. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00vklh3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00vknmk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00vhfl2 (Listen) SUN The secret history of Analysis SUN SUN Analysis celebrates its 40th birthday by making its own SUN history the subject of its trademark examination of the facts. SUN SUN The Director General of the BBC, Mark Thompson, recently SUN told the New Statesman that in decades past the SUN organisation's current affairs output had displayed a left SUN wing bias. He could not have had in mind the early years of SUN Analysis. "We tried to avoid received opinion like the SUN plague," says the programme's founder editor George Fischer. SUN He required his producers to look at issues from scratch and SUN to go beyond the bien pensant agenda. SUN SUN In doing so they spotted issues that others missed. Amongst SUN the themes they identified as important were the depth of SUN the Thatcherite project before the term Thatcherism was SUN coined; the tensions likely to emerge in the feminist SUN movement; and the potential for disaster in Zimbabwe if SUN expectations over land reform were not fulfilled. The SUN programme's willingness to question fashionable assumptions SUN attracted some accusations of political bias. Was that fair? SUN Michael Blastland, an Analysis producer from the 1990s and SUN now a regular presenter, looks back at the programme's SUN history and meets some of its early staff and contributors. SUN Follow Analysis on Twitter: @R4Analysis SUN SUN Contributors: SUN George Fischer, founder editor of Analysis SUN Ian McIntyre, founder presenter of Analysis, later SUN Controller of Radio 4 SUN Rt Hon Tony Benn SUN Gillian Reynolds, radio critic, The Daily Telegraph SUN Michael Green, former Analysis producer, later controller of SUN Radio 4 SUN Caroline Thomson, former Analysis producer, now Chief SUN Operating Officer for the BBC SUN Fraser Steel, former Analysis producer SUN Hugh Chignell, Associate Professor of Broadcasting History, SUN Bournemouth University SUN Lord Griffiths SUN SUN Producer: Linda Pressly. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00vhjsc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00vw0w3 (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00vkp7y (Listen) SUN Episode 25 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 Jan Moir of The Daily SUN Mail takes the chair and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00vhdr1 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Lisa Cholodenko, director of The SUN Kids Are All Right, starring Annette Bening and Julianne SUN Moore as a couple whose relationship begins to founder when SUN their children track down their biological father. SUN SUN Screenwriters Moira Buffini, Frank Cottrell Boyce and Simon SUN Beaufoy reveal the secrets of a good ending SUN SUN Olivier Assayas, the director of Carlos, discusses SUN geo-politics, international terrorism and the reason why his SUN five and a half hour epic is not eligible for an Oscar. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00vknht (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 NOVEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00vhjsp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00vhhjm (Listen) MON Happy families? - Science's first mistake MON MON Was there ever a golden age of the family? Political debates MON about the family often invoke a norm of family life in which MON marriages lasted and children thrived. But a new report MON suggests that pre-marital sex, cohabitation, single MON parenthood and illegitimacy have been rife for two MON centuries. It's the post war period from 1945-1970 which is MON unusual for its high rates of enduring marriages. Many MON people in the past didn't ever marry because of the problems MON in obtaining or affording a divorce. The historian Professor MON Pat Thane discusses families, real and ideal, with Laurie MON Taylor. Also, are most scientific claims little more than MON delusions? The Professor of Information Systems, Ian Angell MON talks about his co-authored book 'Science's First Mistake' MON which critiques science's claims to 'truth'. MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Pat Thane MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00vkn6p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhjsr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhjst (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhjsw (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00vhjsy (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vkpbv (Listen) MON With Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for MON Hindu Studies. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00vkpbx (Listen) MON Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anna Varle. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00vhjt0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00vkpk2 (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 b00vkpk4 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr looks at what the future holds for Ireland after MON the financial crisis, with the cultural commentator, Fintan MON O'Toole, who argues for wholesale reform of the political MON system. While the Conservative MP, Nick Boles puts forward MON his blueprint for a new Britain. The fate of Deborah MON Cadbury's family firm was sealed when it was bought out by MON an American company. But she looks back at a chocolate MON dynasty that mixed sweet success with bitter rivalry. And MON the cellist Steven Isserlis is on a mission to enhance the MON reputation of the much-maligned composer, Saint-Saens. MON MON Producer: Eleanor Garland. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00vkpk6 (Listen) MON Letters to Monica, Episode 1 MON MON Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of MON their relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's MON death in 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones MON died in 2001, when nearly two thousand letters were MON discovered in Larkin's house in Hull. This never previously MON published correspondence, edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers MON a unique insight into Larkin's most intimate thoughts. MON MON Philip Larkin writes to Monica about his poetry, his lack of MON inspiration, his mundane life in Belfast and then Hull, his MON relationship with her, with his friends (notably Kingsley MON Amis), his parents and with his other lover Maeve. They MON often discuss books and reading, writers and writing, and MON their shared love of animals and Beatrix Potter. Larkin's MON letters are infused with the music he's listening to, the MON work he's immersed in, his general domesticity, the food MON he's eaten, the sounds from the flats below: they paint a MON vivid picture of the real world that inspired his poetry. MON MON Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in ITV's MON Downton Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence. He has previously MON played Larkin in Love Again on BBC 2. MON MON In Episode 1, the letters are introduced by Anthony Thwaite, MON a close friend of Larkin and the editor of the collection MON Letters to Monica. MON MON It was abridged by Miranda Davies and produced by Lucy MON Collingwood. MON MON Episode 1: MON Larkin arrives in Belfast to take up his new job as MON librarian at the University and struggles to self- publish a MON collection of poetry. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vkpk8 (Listen) MON Presented by Jenni Murray. The number of women over 50 who MON are HIV positive is rising. We ask why. Stephen Wynn talks MON about his new book 'Two Sons in a War Zone' - an account of MON being a father with two boys on active service. We debate MON the merits of walking versus running and discuss the rising MON hemline; the catwalks say below the knee - but will that be MON enough to end the reign of the high street mini? MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vkpkb (Listen) MON So Much For That, Episode 6 MON MON Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the MON Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to MON Pemba, a remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But just MON as Shep was about to put the Afterlife into action, his wife MON Glynis revealed that she had cancer. MON MON In today's episode, Shep watches his once substantial MON savings continue to evaporate as he funds the elements of MON Glynis' treatment not covered by their health insurance. He MON also faces care home costs for his elderly father, who has MON broken his leg. Meanwhile, his best friend Jackson copes MON with the marital and financial fall-out of his botched MON penis-enlargement surgery. 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 Grayson on His Bike b00vkw55 (Listen) MON Turner Prize winning artist Grayson Perry takes his teddy MON bear and childhood hero, Alan Measles, across Bavaria on a MON highly decorated Kenilworth AM1 motorcycle. MON MON Grayson spent a troubled childhood in suburban Essex MON creating a fantasy life where he fought off the brutish MON invading Germans, under the command of his teddy bear Alan MON Measles, a plucky wartime Resistance leader who became his MON hero, a sort of personal God and the embodiment of MON everything that was good about masculinity. MON MON Now Grayson Perry has commissioned a highly decorative MON Kenilworth AM1 motorcycle, with a shrine on the back for his MON teddy bear, whose inaugural voyage, Ten Days of Alan, takes MON them across Bavaria, on a mission of reconciliation with MON their old enemies. MON MON Starting out from their hometown of Chelmsford, Grayson and MON Alan Measles' journey takes in the 1920s Nurburgring MON racetrack and religious icons like the Isenheim Altar by MON Matthias Grunewald and the church in Wies, where a peasant MON saw tears in the eyes of a flagellated Christ figure in MON 1738. They visit Mad King Ludwig's fantastically Rococo MON Schloss Neuschwanstein where much of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang MON was filmed,the Steiff Teddy bear factory in Giengen and end MON up in Backnang, Chelmsford's twin town, to hand over a MON message of goodwill to the local Mayor. MON MON As they go, Grayson and Alan reflect on the nature of art MON and pilgrimage, shared memories of childhood and the speed MON of their motorbike on Tyrolean mountain passes. Come MON sunshine ? Or rain. MON MON Producer: Nicki Paxman. MON MON 11:30 Craig Brown's Lost Diaries b00vkw57 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 MON MON September & October. Autumn brings gloom for Syliva Plath, MON Thomas Hardy and Max Clifford. 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 b00vkw59 (Listen) MON As You and Yours celebrates its 40th Birthday - Julian MON Worricker takes a look how energy has shaped the past four MON decades. MON MON In 1970 an electricians' strike brought power cuts, a former MON National Coal Board adviser was warning that the UK was MON over-reliant on fossil fuel and Prince Charles caused MON controversy by warning about harming the environment. MON MON "Natural Gas" was being introduced to homes for the first MON time and bringing down domestic fuel bills and one of the MON biggest North Sea oilfields was first discovered.You and MON Yours investigates how attitudes to energy policy have MON changed during the lifetime of Radio 4's midday consumer MON programme. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00vhjt2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00vkw5m (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00vkwcq (Listen) MON (2/17) The contestants in the second heat of the nationwide MON general knowledge contest are from Derbyshire, West MON Yorkshire and the West Midlands. Russell Davies is in the chair. MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00vkp5h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vkwcs (Listen) MON Number 10, Episode 2 MON MON Written by Jonathan Myerson. A leaked consultation document MON has the PM suggesting the armed forces budget should be cut MON in half. The Chief of General Staff declares war on the PM. MON MON It's a minority Tory government and they need Lid Dem MON support to get their Health Bill through - Whitman (LD Whip) MON wants imposed industry regulation, whilst the Tories want it MON to be voluntary. MON MON The good news is that they have just signed a huge armaments MON deal with Saudi Arabia- securing factories and jobs - which MON Hugo, the Deputy Prime Minister, did all the hard work on. MON But suddenly a journalist says that Hugo took a bribe while MON there - in the form of a prostitute.... MON MON But obscuring all this is the news that the new Sheriff of MON Essex - controlling police and prisons - is cutting costs by MON getting convicted criminals to stand outside the Lakeside MON Thurrock wearing placards proclaiming their crime such as MON 'Thief'". She is determined to stick to it putting her in MON direct confrontation with the PM. MON MON PM (Simon Laity) .....Damian Lewis MON Nathan ..... Mike Sengelow MON Hugo ..... Julian Glover MON Georgie ..... Gina Mckee MON Amjad ..... Arsher Ali MON Whitman ..... Christian Rodska MON Alan ..... John Hollingworth MON Sally Tyler..... Jane Slavin MON Sheriff ..... Hannah Waddingham MON Whitecross ..... Theo Fraser Steele MON Thief ..... Harry Smith MON Journalists ..... Theo Fraser Steele, Kate Gilbert, Kate MON Lamb MON MON Produced and Directed by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00vkmt0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's MON Escape to the Country b00s8djt (Listen) MON Healing in the Open Air MON MON In the wake of the unprecedented horrors of the First World MON War, the countryside, far from the brutality of MON industrialized cities, came to be seen as a place of MON healing: moral, physical and spiritual. Movements such as MON the Woodcraft Folk, established by Leslie Paul in 1925, MON aimed for peace and solidarity and sought to heal the MON fragmentation of society by conflict, proselytizing a strong MON pagan and anti-capitalist ethos that embraced the natural MON world. MON MON Like the Scout movement but with a less militaristic MON emphasis, the Woodcraft Folk emphasized education of the MON young, rearing a new generation of nature-savvy, MON outdoor-loving young people edified by their proximity to nature. MON MON We base this programme at the Stroud regional camp to survey MON the 'innocent pleasures' of the countryside as interpreted MON and enjoyed by Woodcraft Folk. Contributors include Camila MON Batmanshelidjh and Richard Maybey. MON MON Producer: Lucy Greenwell MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00vkns1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b00vkwdp (Listen) MON Series 7, Episode 3 MON MON Simon Cox presents Radio 4's guide to the latest MON developments in the digital world. MON MON 17:00 PM b00vkwf0 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vhjt4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b00vkwg9 (Listen) MON Series 6, Episode 6 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 Rhod Gilbert, Kevin Bridges, Tom Wrigglesworth and Lucy MON Porter are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Bells, Donkeys, The MON Police and Mrs Beeton. 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 b00vkwgc (Listen) MON Helen experiences a new sensation and Tom's got his eye on MON profit margins. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00vkwhl (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who talks to PD James as her only book MON about a true crime - The Maul and the Pear Tree - is MON republished. MON MON Producer Gavin Heard. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vkpkb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Sack 'Em b00vkwk6 (Listen) MON Winifred Robinson explores what it means to get sacked. MON MON Is it true that almost nobody gets sacked in the public MON sector? Are businesses forced to pay incompetent people off MON rather than sack them? And does the compensation culture MON really mean that people who deserve to be sacked get MON thousands of pounds when they take their employers to court? MON MON Winifred sets out to answer all these questions. Along the MON way she meets businessmen, employment lawyers, trade MON unionists, and people who have been sacked. She finds out MON what it means to be sacked, and asks whether as a country we MON are too casual about the impact of sacking someone - or too MON cautious. She hears about recent changes to employment law, MON and asks whether more are needed. And she finds surprising MON common ground between businesses and trade unionists about MON the tribunal system. MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00vkwk8 (Listen) MON Defence: no stomach for the fight? MON MON To take successful military action, you do not only need MON soldiers, aircraft or warships. The support of the society MON and political leadership is crucial in sustaining armed MON action. Yet public involvement in current debates about the MON future of the military has been very limited, as old ideas MON of 'leaving it to the professionals' prevail. MON MON So what happens when society becomes divorced from the MON business of defending itself? In liberal Britain, some MON sections of society seem more and more alienated from MON military action. Using force clashes with modern concerns MON about human rights and risk-avoidance. New forms of media MON have cut through the more sanitised portrayal of war in the MON mainstream media, adding to public concern. And politicians, MON scarred by the unpopularity of recent military actions, MON noting the grief which every single casualty prompts, are MON likely to be ever more wary of future warfare. MON MON Within the military too there is change, and friction. New MON technology is taking armed action further away from old MON ideas of heroism and codes of conduct. These days lawyers MON sit in army headquarters challenging military decisions. MON Many in the military appear frustrated by what they see a MON lack of popular and political understanding of their role. MON MON In this programme Dr Kenneth Payne, military specialist at MON King's College London, explores how deep these tensions run, MON and what they mean for Britain's military future. He asks MON too whether Britain's experience is different from that of MON other countries, such as the US. Contributors include former MON head of the British army General Sir Richard Dannatt, MON distinguished military historian and commentator Hew MON Strachan, and former marine and senior politician Lord Ashdown. MON MON Producer: Chris Bowlby. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00vhg9y (Listen) MON Indonesian disasters: Quentin hears from the experts about MON the causes of this week's Sumatran earthquake and tsunami, MON and the latest eruption of Mount Merapi on Java, and how MON science can help. MON MON Also, after the last in the series A History of the World in MON a Hundred Objects celebrates the latest in electrical MON gadgetry, Quentin sees the humble glass electrical valve MON that kick started the whole electronic revolution. The first MON electronics. MON MON And pollution from space travel. As the world's richest line MON up for the first private flights into space, experts warn MON that rocket exhausts could exacerbate the problem of global MON warming. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00vkpk4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00vhjt6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00vkwlz (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 b00vkwm1 (Listen) MON Crimson China, Episode 6 MON MON By Betsy Tobin. Wen is desperate to get a new passport so he MON can leave the UK - whilst Lili is trying to avoid Johnny's MON urgent phonecalls. 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 The A-Z of Dr Johnson: MON Words, Words, Words b00mkgn1 (Listen) MON Comedian Sue Perkins explores the house of Dr Johnson, MON author of the great English dictionary, which would set the MON standard for all future dictionaries and yet still led to MON his being sent to debtor's prison. MON MON The towering figure of Dr Johnson has dominated the MON classification of English. The publication in 1755 of his MON dictionary has traditionally been seen as the starting point MON of the defining of our language, but this was by no means MON the first dictionary. MON MON Sue gets her hands on a precious first edition of the MON Johnson's Dictionary and, along with biographer Henry MON Hitchings, meets the editor of the Oxford English MON Dictionary, John Simpson, to find out how Johnson set about MON his monumental task, which he completed in just nine years. MON Sue also visits the British Library in the company of MON antiquarian book seller Karen Thomson, who gives her a MON whirlwind tour of our earliest dictionaries, with all their MON attendant quirks and oddities. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vkwm3 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 02 NOVEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00vrv3z (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00vkpk6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhjt8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhjtb (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhjtd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00vhjtg (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vkwrl (Listen) TUE With Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for TUE Hindu Studies. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00vkwrn (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00vkwrq (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 b00vkwrs (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 09:30 Africa at 50: Wind of Change b00vkwrv (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE When Kenya gained its independence from Britain in December TUE 1963, young Zarina Patel had great hopes for the future. TUE TUE Everyone felt it was going to be a united Kenya and there TUE would be no differences between Africans and Asians. Zarina TUE Patel is a third generation Kenyan Asian. Her grandfather TUE Alibahi Mulla Jivanjee, came to Kenya from Karachi in 1890, TUE and established himself as the most prosperous Asian TUE businessman of his day. Zarina grew up during colonial rule, TUE and today she's a prominent writer and human rights TUE activist, and in which her research has revealed that many TUE Asians played an important part in the fight for Kenya's TUE independence. TUE TUE "Looking back at history we are amazed at the role Asians TUE played", she says. Their involvement in Kenya's independence TUE struggle through the East African National Congress, was set TUE up by her grandfather and modelled on Indian National TUE Congress. Many other Asians were influential in the Trades TUE Union movement and supplied weapons to the Mau Mau movement TUE through their links to India. TUE TUE Despite this involvement, after independence many East TUE African Asians found themselves 'surplus to requirements', TUE as politicians whipped up 'anti-Asian' sentiment. "That TUE forced me to think about my identity and my role and rights TUE here in Kenya", says Zarina. TUE TUE Producer: Ruth Evans TUE A Ruth Evans Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00vkwrx (Listen) TUE Letters to Monica, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2: Larkin gives Monica feedback on her TUE conversational style, meets EM Forster and ponders the TUE difficulty of writing a new novel. TUE TUE Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of TUE their relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's TUE death in 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones TUE died in 2001, when nearly two thousand letters were TUE discovered in Larkin's house in Hull. This never previously TUE published correspondence, edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers TUE a unique insight into Larkin's most intimate thoughts. TUE TUE Philip Larkin writes to Monica about his poetry, his lack of TUE inspiration, his mundane life in Belfast and then Hull, his TUE relationship with her, with his friends (notably Kingsley TUE Amis), his parents and with his other lover Maeve. They TUE often discuss books and reading, writers and writing, and TUE their shared love of animals and Beatrix Potter. Larkin's TUE letters are infused with the music he's listening to, the TUE work he's immersed in, his general domesticity, the food TUE he's eaten, the sounds from the flats below: they paint a TUE vivid picture of the real world that inspired his poetry. TUE TUE Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in Downton TUE Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence and played Larkin in Love TUE Again on BBC 2. TUE TUE It was abridged by Miranda Davies and produced by Lucy TUE Collingwood. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vkwrz (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and TUE entertaining women with news, views and interviews of TUE topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vkws1 (Listen) TUE So Much For That, Episode 7 TUE TUE Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the TUE Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to TUE Pemba, a remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But just TUE as Shep was about to put the Afterlife into action, his wife TUE Glynis revealed that she had cancer. TUE TUE In today's episode, Glynis appears not to realise the TUE severity of her condition. Meanwhile Shep faces up to the TUE fact that, despite their medical insurance, the costs of TUE Glynis' treatment are sending them hurtling towards bankruptcy. 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 b00vkws3 (Listen) TUE Episode 27 TUE TUE 27/40 We're planning this programme to be full of geese. The TUE UK is a wonderland for wintering wildfowl and it's the TUE spectacle of wintering geese we want to focus on in this TUE programme. We're planning to be in Norfolk with Joanna TUE Pinnock and Pink Footed Geese and Islay with Michael Scott TUE edging ever closer to Greenland-White Front Geese and TUE Barnacle Geese. The conservation of these birds is a great TUE saving species success story which links the UK with the TUE Arctic and the geese, with other wildfowl, provide one of TUE the great animal spectacles of the world. TUE TUE 11:30 Tom, Michael And George b00vkws5 (Listen) TUE Toby Jones marks the 50th anniversary of notorious British TUE horror film 'Peeping Tom' and examines the effect of this TUE disturbing tale of 'glamour photographer turned serial TUE killer' on the careers of two people - the director Michael TUE Powell and real-life glamour photographer George Harrison TUE Marks. TUE TUE Condemnation of 'Peeping Tom' was almost universal, with TUE Sunday Times critic Dilys Powell describing the film as TUE "essentially vicious" and other critics being less generous TUE in their views - " the sickest and filthiest film I can TUE remember seeing" was a fairly typical response. TUE TUE Anglo-Amalgamated, who had financed the film, were alarmed TUE at the furore and curtailed the film's UK distribution, TUE selling it on. The film resurfaced in the United States and TUE Europe a couple of years later but in a cut version. When TUE the film arrived at the BBFC in 1960, seven cuts were made TUE in order to allow the film to be classified at 'X'. TUE TUE For Michael Powell, the hostile reaction to this movie TUE effectively ended his long and illustrious career - which at TUE its height included 'The Red Shoes' and 'A Matter of Life TUE and Death'. TUE TUE The movie was only recognised as a masterpiece in the late TUE 1970s, thanks to the efforts of Martin Scorsese. Conversely, TUE for Harrison Marks, a consultant on the film (which utilised TUE his sets and model/partner Pamela Green) this boosted his TUE career, leading to the first British feature film to include TUE nudity (under the guise of a "documentary" about naturism). TUE TUE With contributions from Columba Powell, Shirley Anne Field TUE and Michael Winner. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00vkwsw (Listen) TUE "Kosovo-style social cleansing" is how the Mayor of London TUE Boris Johnson described the possible effect of changes to TUE housing benefits - families will be driven out of parts of TUE the county as they'll no longer be able to afford rents. TUE TUE Housing Minister Grant Shapps says such claims are "complete TUE nonsense," and that "rents will almost certainly fall," as a TUE result of the changes. TUE TUE As debate around changes to housing benefit, and just what TUE you can get for £400 a week, continues we want your TUE experience of renting. TUE TUE How easy is it to find somewhere to rent, somewhere TUE affordable and the right size? TUE TUE Are you a landlord, either reluctantly so, or a buy to let TUE speculator? TUE TUE Or do you think its time we revaluated our attitudes to TUE renting? TUE TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am on Tuesday). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00vhjtj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00vkwtb (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Beat It: The World of The Modern Drummer b00vkwvc (Listen) TUE When John Lennon was asked if Ringo was the best drummer in TUE the world he quipped " He wasn't even the best drummer in TUE the Beatles". Lennon's natural put-down is typical of the TUE way drummers are belittled within music circles. TUE TUE Presenter Phill Jupitus challenges this notion with the help TUE of a cross-section of musicians to discover how they have TUE gained this reputation? TUE TUE We hear from Clem Burke (drummer with Blondie) and Dr. TUE Marcus Smith who together have proven scientifically that TUE Clem burns a similar amount of calories during a concert as TUE a premiership footballer. Phil Collins (Genesis) and Stewart TUE Copeland (The Police), explain how they cope with the TUE physical demands of performing and how these veterans react TUE to the negative image of the drummer. TUE TUE Having established the physical demands made on drummers TUE does this exclude women? Dame Evelyn Glennie thinks not as TUE she believes the physicality is not an obstacle. The TUE programme also hears from Kenny Jones (The Small Faces, The TUE Faces and The Who) who still features a drum solo in his set TUE but has the drum solo had its day? Has the modern drummer TUE discarded this indulgence and settled for keeping time at TUE the back? If so why? TUE TUE For many, the drummer is the joker in the group, Phil Selway TUE of Radiohead explains within the ranks of Britain's moodiest TUE band, there is not too much light hearted banter but he does TUE see his role as a supporting one for the others to be TUE creative. TUE TUE This whimsical programme hears its fair share of drummer TUE jokes which happily filter through this engaging half hour TUE and yes we discover what Phil Collins thought of the gorilla TUE crashing his way through 'In The Air Tonight" for that TUE famous chocolate TV commercial. TUE TUE Producer: John Sugar TUE A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00vkwgc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vkwvf (Listen) TUE Setting a Glass TUE TUE by Nick Warburton TUE TUE Mike ..... James Fleet TUE Ellie ..... Hannah Pierce TUE TUE Directed by Peter Kavanagh TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00vkxh5 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Presenter: Richard Daniel TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00vkxh7 (Listen) TUE Red Herrings, Unwanted Presence TUE TUE "Unwanted Presence" by Lynda La Plante. TUE TUE Read by Rory Kinnear. TUE TUE Crime writing at its twisted best... Leading authors Lynda TUE La Plante, Brian McGilloway and Andrew Taylor tackle the red TUE herring - that most effective weapon in the crime writer's TUE arsenal - in a series of new short stories specially written TUE for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's TUE Escape to the Country b00sbcdh (Listen) TUE Gertrude Jekyll and the Suburban Countryside TUE TUE Gertrude Jekyll might come as a surprise in Laurence TUE Llewelyn-Bowen's series about the countryside, given that TUE she is loved for her colourful borders rather than any grand TUE landscape. But Jekyll did something that profoundly TUE contributed to our idea of the British countryside - she TUE transformed the garden from a lawn and parterres into a TUE microcosm of the natural world. TUE TUE Just when the wilds of Kent or Berkshire or her own beloved TUE West Surrey were being invaded by the city, her action was TUE to protect, to encase nature, to bring it, in all its wild TUE unevenness, into our gardens. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Greenwell TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00vkxh9 (Listen) TUE Military justice TUE TUE The case of Baha Mousa, an Iraqi hotel worker who died in TUE the custody of British troops in 2003, exposed not just TUE abusive behaviour by some British soldiers but a failure of TUE the military justice system to adequately investigate and TUE punish those responsible. TUE TUE Other cases have raised doubts about the independence of the TUE military police and prosecution authorities. TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg asks whether recent reforms to the military TUE justice system are sufficient to restore confidence in the TUE way the armed forces deal with crimes committed by their own TUE troops. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00vkxhc (Listen) TUE Mike Brearley, Julie Welch TUE TUE There's a sporting tie that links this week's guests on A TUE Good Read. Mike Brearley captained the England cricket team TUE in the early 1980s, later retraining as a psychoanalyst. He TUE discusses a Graham Greene novel set in the Congo, while TUE sports writer Julie Welch chooses a book by the other TUE Elizabeth Taylor - the novelist, not the film star. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00vkxj2 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vhjtl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Write Stuff b00vkxj4 (Listen) TUE Stephanie Meyer TUE TUE Bestselling writer of the "Twilight" series, Stephenie TUE Meyer, is this week's "Author of the Week". TUE TUE The teams set about answering questions about her life and TUE work as well as solving other literary conundrums. They will TUE as ever finish with one of their own pastiches of Meyer's TUE work - this time imaginig what the twilight series might TUE have sounded like had it been set in a typical British comp. TUE TUE Guest panellists are bestselling crime writer and "Tom TUE Thorne" creator, Mark Billingham, and "Horrid Henry" author, TUE Francesca Simon. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00vkxjv (Listen) TUE Lilian keeps an eye on her investment and Ed is fuming. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00vkxjx (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with Brett Anderson TUE and Mat Osman from the re-formed band Suede. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vkws1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00vkxkc (Listen) TUE Jenny Cuffe investigates how British-based Somalis are being TUE lured into fighting for the al-Qaeda-linked Islamists of TUE al-Shabaab. TUE TUE There have been consistent rumours that dozens, perhaps TUE scores of British-based Somali men have travelled to TUE Somalia to join the militant Islamist group which was banned TUE by the British Government earlier this year. TUE TUE In September the rumours were given new urgency when the TUE Director of MI5, Jonathan Evans, warned it was only a matter TUE of time before the UK suffered an act of terrorism committed TUE by al-Shabaab-trained Britons. TUE TUE File on 4 explores the techniques used by Al-Shabaab to TUE persuade young members of the 250,000-strong British Somali TUE community to sign up for Jihad in Somalia. Members of the TUE close-knit and reticent British Somali community tell Jenny TUE Cuffe of their fears that youngsters are being seduced TUE through the internet and by shadowy recruiting sergeants for TUE the Horn of Africa's most feared military force. TUE TUE And the programme travels to the state of Minnesota to see TUE how a vigorous FBI investigation and cooperation from the TUE Somali community have laid-bare a pipeline which first TUE lured, then transported young American Somalis to the TUE training camps and battlefields of Somalia. TUE TUE Producer: Andy Denwood. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00vkxkf (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00vkxm2 (Listen) TUE The mental health of the UK's armed forces has been analysed TUE before they go to war and then, tested again when they TUE return home. But until now, there's been scant evidence TUE about the psychological health of the Army, Air Force and TUE the Navy while they're actively deployed in a war zone. TUE Now Claudia Hammond reports on the first-ever UK study of TUE military personnel in a theatre of war, in Iraq, which TUE guages levels of psychological distress, Post Traumatic TUE Stress Disorder and general health. TUE One of the report's authors, Professor Simon Wessely, TUE Director of the King's Centre for Military Health Research, TUE describes the mental health lessons being learned from the TUE front line. TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00vkwrs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00vhjtn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00vkxm4 (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 b00vkxm6 (Listen) TUE Crimson China, Episode 7 TUE TUE By Betsy Tobin. Wen gets a job tending to Miriam's garden TUE but is still terrified about being found by the Snakeheads - TUE whilst Lili gets a glimpse of the trouble her brother may TUE have been in. 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 b00vkxm8 (Listen) TUE The Traitor of the Zazalcara 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. This week Nat TUE explores the difficult life of a Uruguayan footballer who TUE made an ingenious attempt to counter one of world football's TUE worst scandals. With Contributions from Andrew Sachs, Javier TUE Marzan, Kevin Eldon, David Sant, Sean Baker, Tony Bell and TUE Iain Batchelor. TUE TUE Produced by Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vkxmb (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 NOVEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00vl259 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 America Votes b00vkxn3 (Listen) WED Coverage of the US mid-term elections. WED WED 05:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vv7z6 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhjtv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00vhjtx (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vl2gd (Listen) WED With Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for WED Hindu Studies. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00vl2gg (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin Poyntz WED Roberts. WED WED 06:00 Today b00vl2gj (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; WED Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00vl2gl (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00vkxn5 (Listen) WED Letters to Monica, Episode 3 WED WED Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of WED their relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's WED death in 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones WED died in 2001, when nearly two thousand letters were WED discovered in Larkin's house in Hull. This never previously WED published correspondence, edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers WED a unique insight into Larkin's most intimate thoughts. WED WED Philip Larkin writes to Monica about his poetry, his lack of WED inspiration, his mundane life in Belfast and then Hull, his WED relationship with her, with his friends (notably Kingsley WED Amis), his parents and with his other lover Maeve. They WED often discuss books and reading, writers and writing, and WED their shared love of animals and Beatrix Potter. Larkin's WED letters are infused with the music he's listening to, the WED work he's immersed in, his general domesticity, the food WED he's eaten, the sounds from the flats below: they paint a WED vivid picture of the real world that inspired his poetry. WED WED Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in Downton WED Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence and played Larkin in Love WED Again on BBC 2. WED WED It was abridged by Miranda Davies and produced by Lucy WED Collingwood. WED WED Episode 3: Larkin successfully gains the Head Librarianship WED in Hull, has his collection 'The Less Deceived' published WED and is frustrated by his new neighbours. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vkxp2 (Listen) WED Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women with news, views and interviews of WED topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vkxp4 (Listen) WED So Much For That, Episode 8 WED WED Shep Knacker has been saving all his working life for 'the WED Afterlife' - his retirement escape route from Brooklyn to WED Pemba, a remote island off the coast of Zanzibar. But just WED as Shep was about to put the Afterlife into action, his wife WED Glynis revealed that she had cancer. WED WED In today's episode, an exhausted Glynis reflects on the real WED achievements of her life. Meanwhile, Jackson's many problems WED are coming to a head and, unable to see a plausible means of WED escape, he makes a decision that will impact on everyone. 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 Doc Martens at 50 b00vkxqw (Listen) WED An iconic pair of boots turns fifty this year: the Doc WED Martens. WED WED Sarfraz Manzoor tells a story which weaves through British WED politics, fashion and music. WED WED Originally designed as practical footwear for workers such WED as postmen or policemen, Doc Martens were to capture the WED imagination of the many waves of British youth. As they were WED adopted by different sub cultures across the UK, so they WED came to represent what it meant to be young, urban and WED British in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. Even today they WED retain their popularity and prized status, one of the few WED things still worn despite all changes in fashion and youth WED culture. WED WED In the programme, Pete Townshend, one of the first people to WED wear Doc Martens on the stage in 1967, reflects on what they WED meant to him. "I bought a white boiler suit and these WED working boots. I remember on the label it said something WED like, 'the soles of these shoes will resist all kinds of WED dangerous chemicals'. As soon as I put them on I felt WED released from psychedelia and all the nonsense that went with it." WED WED Presenter Sarfraz Manzoor also meets up with members of the WED band Madness, talking to them about their use of Doc Martens WED and the skinhead following that came in their wake in the WED 1980s. He'll look at rebellion, Thatcherism, and urban life WED in Britain. Sarfraz also meets an unexpected fan of the WED boots in Tony Benn, who valued the fact that they were so WED tough when he went on many political marches. WED WED The last word is with Pete Townshend. "There would sometimes WED be a couple of things I would take to bed with me, other WED than what you'd expect a rock star would take to bed. One WED would be a cognac bottle and the other would be a Doc Marten WED boot. I was extremely fond of my boots.". WED WED 11:30 The Secret World b00t4qm8 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 5 WED WED Prince Charles is asked by his driver to help move some WED furniture. Arch Bishop Rowan Williams is upset that he never WED gets invited to go out drinking with the other Bishops. Ray WED Winstone is terrified of pins and needles. William Hague has WED an overnight guest he can't get rid of. Find out how they WED all cope in another handful of strange tales from the WED private lives of public people. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00vkxqy (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00vhjtz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00vl3tz (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00vl3ws (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00vkxjv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j751w (Listen) WED Miss St Andrews WED WED By Mike Bartlett. Old grudges resurface as Miss St Andrews WED 1961 meets her old rival for the university Charities Queen WED title nearly 50 years later. WED WED Young Robert ...... Joe McFadden WED Jenny ...... Ellie Haddington WED Young Jenny ...... Tracy Wiles WED Robert ...... Tom Mannion WED Judy ...... Sandy Walsh WED Holly ...... Caroline Guthrie WED WED Directed by Claire Grove. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00vl3xk (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00vkxr0 (Listen) WED Red Herrings, In Pursuit of the Uneatable WED WED Crime writing at its twisted best... The red herring - that WED most effective weapon in the crime writer's arsenal - WED inspires this series of new short stories by leading WED exponents of the genre. WED WED "In Pursuit of the Uneatable" by Brian McGilloway. Read by WED Eugene O'Hare. WED WED A new case for McGilloway's detective hero Inspector WED Benedict Devlin. Protesters get more than they bargained for WED at a fox hunt on the Irish borderland. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's WED Escape to the Country b00sf8ky (Listen) WED The Brotherhood of Ruralists WED WED Fed up with the frenzy of Swinging London, the artist Peter WED Blake founded the Brotherhood of Ruralists on 21st March WED 1975, having decamped from London to the countryside near WED Bath. With his former wife, Jan Haworth, Blake converted the WED disused Wellow railway station into a house, which soon WED became the bustling hub of the Ruralists' activities. WED Infused by a quasi-hippie faith in the inspirational WED qualities of Mother Nature, the Ruralists turned to the WED countryside to fulfil one of its ancient functions - that of WED a Muse. WED WED The Ruralists aimed to revive and update the tradition of WED imaginative painting of romantic figures in idyllic rural WED settings. Blake and his cohorts brought a realism and WED precision to depicting the compendium of myths, folk tales WED and legends associated with the countryside. Thus Blake's WED series of paintings from Alice In Wonderland, that WED quintessential text of eccentric English imagination, see WED Alice and her surreal encounters depicted as though Blake WED had been there to see them. The Ruralists' paintings WED crystallized their intuition that in the country there lies WED a potent source of inspiration and imagery that they as WED artists should not ignore. WED WED Presented by Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen. WED Producer: Kate Bland WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00vkxr2 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00vkxm2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00vl3ys (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vhjv1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 What Went Wrong with the Olympics? b00vkxsy (Listen) WED Episode 2 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, icepicks and blowtorches). 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. 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 Writers Ian Hislop (Have I Got News For You) & Nick Newman WED (Dave Podmore) are the writing team behind News At Bedtime, WED Murder Most Horrid and My Dad's The Prime Minister. WED WED Producer: Lucy Armitage WED A Tiger Aspect production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00vkxt0 (Listen) WED Pat tries to take her mind off her worries and Lynda's panto WED casting reaches crisis point. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00vkxxt (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including interviews with Dawn French, as WED she publishes her first novel A Tiny Bit Marvellous, and WED with jazz singer Cleo Laine. WED WED Producer Robyn Read. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vkxp4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00vkxxw (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging live debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Kenan Malik, Claire Fox WED and Melanie Philips. WED WED 20:45 The AA Bible b00vr78f (Listen) WED For millions of alcoholics around the world, Alcoholics WED Anonymous's basic text - informally known as the Big Book - WED is the Bible. After being hidden away for nearly 70 years WED the original manuscript by AA co-founder Bill Wilson is WED about to become public for the first time complete with WED evidence of re-writes that reveal a profound debate in 1939 WED about how overtly to talk about God. WED WED Literary critic John Sutherland, himself a member of AA and WED a distinguished textual analyst, turns his textual critic's WED eye to the Wilson manuscript. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00vkxy0 (Listen) WED Is a new personalised drug for skin cancer a new revolution WED in cancer medicine? In the first of a new series of WED Frontiers, Geoff Watts finds out about a new cancer drug WED that has had dramatic results in a previously almost WED untreatable type of skin cancer. Based on our knowledge of WED the human genome, he finds out how the drug works and what WED hope it offers for the future of cancer medicine . WED WED The molecule, PLX 4032 made headlines earlier this year when WED it was shown to dramatically shrink tumours in people with a WED type of skin cancer whose prognosis was previously very WED poor. Melanomas can be treated successfully by surgical WED removal if they are caught early enough but once tumours WED have spread to other parts of the body, or become metastatic WED melanoma is notoriously hard to treat. The current WED chemotherapy treatment hasn't been improved on since the WED 1970s and only shrinks tumours in 10 - 15% of patients. WED WED But is a new, experimental drug set to change this? In WED initial clinical trials, the molecule, sometimes called WED PLX4032, sent a wave of excitement through the cancer WED community both for oncologists, doctors and their WED patients,when it was shown to dramatically shrunk tumours in WED 80% of patients who had a particular gene mutation. WED WED The drug isn't on the market yet, and is still going through WED the process of more clinical trials but it could, once WED trails are finished spell a sea change in the treatment of WED this kind of skin cancer. But could this kind of drug also WED pave the way for more personalised medicine in the treatment WED of other, more common cancers? WED WED The drug is the result of an ongoing effort by scientists WED since the sequencing of the human genome to understand the WED molecular and genetic underpinning for all cancers. In 2002 WED Professor Mike Stratton, Director of the Wellcome Trust WED Sanger Institute discovered that a particular gene, BRAF is WED mutated in more than half of malignant melanomas and is WED responsible for the cancer's growth. And it was this WED knowledge of the genetic basis for this particular cancer WED which led to the search for a drug to target it and WED ultimately, 5 years later to the creation of PLX 4032. WED WED But is it enough to know the gene in involved in a WED particular cancer, to then find a drug that can successfully WED target it? Unfortunately it's not that simple. Not all genes WED will have suitable drugs, many cancers become resistant to WED the drugs that were once effective and drug discovery is a WED time consuming and expensive process. This drug has already WED shown signs of resistance as is by no means a cure. But as WED more cancer genes are identified and the mechanisms for WED resistance understood will these hurdles, one day, be overcome? WED WED What will this mean for treatment, ultimately? Some WED scientists hope we could soon see the day when routine WED sequencing of cancer genomes will ensure a patient's WED treatment is tailored to the mutations present. Will we by WED the end of this decade be using the genome sequence as the WED natural diagnostic for cancer and is the sequencing of the WED human genome finally fulfilling its promise? WED WED Producer: Pam Rutherford. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00vl2gl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00vhjv3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00vl3yv (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 b00vkxy2 (Listen) WED Crimson China, Episode 8 WED WED By Betsy Tobin. Lili finally discovers that Wen - her WED brother - is not dead. But it's too late - the Snakeheads WED have found Wen. 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 b00vkxy4 (Listen) WED Molly Naylor was already a successful up-and-coming writer WED and performer when she, together with her boyfriend, was on WED a London Underground train which was blown up on 7 July WED 2005. This was seven-seven, and coming so close to such an WED outrage would change anybody. WED WED With a poet, particularly one with the talent of the young WED Naylor, it resulted in a period of going off the rails WED followed by a deepening of her creativity. Her appearance on WED Bespoken Word includes a piece inspired by the experience. WED WED Molly has performed at events and festivals all over the WED world including Latitude, Glastonbury, Palabra y Musica, The WED Big Chill, Poet in the City, Edinburgh Fringe, Hull Truck, WED Purple Ronnie's Stand Up Poetry Club, Shunt, Soho Theatre WED and many more. She has a Masters in Creative Writing from WED the University of East Anglia. WED Her solo spoken word show- Whenever I Get Blown Up I Think WED Of You is produced by Sarah Ellis and Apples & Snakes. WED WED Bespoken Word is Radio 4's performance poetry series. It was WED the first programme on British radio and television devoted WED to performance poetry, and is now in its seventh year. WED WED Producer: Graham Frost WED A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00vkxy6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Written by Andrew McGibbon. Phil Cornwell brings six new, WED edgy comic characters to life in a brand new series of The WED Cornwell Estate starring Jill Halfpenny, Roger Lloyd Pack, WED Simon Greenall and Ricky Champ. WED WED Jimmy leaves the Cornwell Estate for his native Newcastle to WED restart his career as a stand up comedian. But that's not WED all he's come back to do. WED WED Jimmy Baker ..... Phil Cornwell WED Sargeant Paul Farris ..... Simon Greenall WED Emma Baker ..... Jill Halfpenny WED Terry ..... Andrew McGibbon WED Malkey Robey ..... Paul Brennen WED WED Created by Phil Cornwell and Andrew McGibbon with additional WED material by Nick Romero WED WED Director/Producer: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vkxy8 (Listen) WED All the news from the Commons and the Lords including this WED week's PMQs. WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 NOVEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00vl3zh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00vkxn5 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhjv5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhjv7 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhjv9 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00vhjvc (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vl3zm (Listen) THU With Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for THU Hindu Studies. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00vky4j (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin THU Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00vky4l (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; THU Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00vky4n (Listen) THU Women and Enlightenment Science THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the role played by women THU in Enlightenment science. During the eighteenth century, the THU opportunities for women to gain a knowledge of science were THU minimal. Universities and other institutions devoted to THU research were the preserve of men. Yet many important THU contributions to the science of the Enlightenment were made THU by women, ranging from translation of key texts (such as THU Newton's Principia) to the major discoveries made by the THU British astronomer Caroline Herschel. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00vky4q (Listen) THU Letters to Monica, Episode 4 THU THU Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of THU their relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's THU death in 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones THU died in 2001, when nearly two thousand letters were THU discovered in Larkin's house in Hull. This never previously THU published correspondence, edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers THU a unique insight into Larkin's most intimate thoughts. THU THU Episode 4: THU Larkin works on his poem about 'An Arundel Tomb' which he THU first saw with Monica and ponders the nature of their THU relationship. THU THU Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in Downton THU Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence and played Larkin in Love THU Again on BBC 2. THU THU It was abridged by Miranda Davies and produced by Lucy THU Collingwood. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vky4s (Listen) THU Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vky4v (Listen) THU So Much For That, Episode 9 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 was about to put the Afterlife into action, his wife Glynis THU revealed that she had cancer. THU THU In today's episode, Shep and Glynis face imminent THU bankruptcy, having spent their once substantial savings on THU the aspects of Glynis' cancer treatment not covered by their THU health insurance. But when Shep learns about Jackson, he THU decides to make his best friend proud, by transforming THU himself from Mug to Mooch. 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 b00vky73 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. THU THU 11:30 He Belonged to Glasgow - THU The Will Fyffe Story b00vky75 (Listen) THU Born in Dundee in 1885, Will Fyffe became synonymous with a THU different city when his song 'I Belong To Glasgow' captured THU the nation's hearts. THU THU After spending his formative years in touring theatre, Will THU Fyffe switched to comedy and music hall, and became a THU headline act throughout Scotland. Along with his THU contemporary Harry Lauder, his humour transcended the THU regional stage and appearances all over Britain led to five THU Royal Variety performances. THU THU A leading film star of the 1930s and 40s, he made one THU Hollywood film, although put this burgeoning career on hold THU as war broke out and he returned to entertain the troops. THU THU An accident in 1947 led to his untimely death, but his body THU of work lives on through his songs, sketches and films. THU THU Singer-songwriter and Deacon Blue frontman Ricky Ross looks THU at Fyffe's life, career and legacy with family, film THU historians and music hall experts, including Professor THU Jeffrey Richards, and Will Fyffe's daughter, Eileen. THU THU Producer: Elizabeth Foster. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00vky77 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. A survey of 350 GPs THU is claiming that up to one in four has an investment with a THU private provider of NHS services in their local area. There THU is concern, that in the light of the Government's THU commissioning plans for the health service, this could lead THU to a conflict of interest. THU THU Since the 1970s, people have talked about the imminent THU arrival of the paperless office , but it appears to have THU remained tantalisingly out of reach for all but a few THU progressive firms. Despite growing environmental awareness, THU we still get through 700,000 tonnes of cut-size paper a year THU in the UK, so is the paperless office just a futurist's THU dream? THU THU 12:57 Weather b00vhjvf (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00vl4lv (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00vky79 (Listen) THU Living Cheap THU THU "My name is David Collins. I'm 69 years old and I live in an THU almshouse." THU THU Everyone tells us we are living in tough times, so three THU guests explain what that means for them. David Collins is an THU actor who has found a medieval sounding solution - an THU almshouse - to the big squeeze. Laurie Penny is a 23 THU year-old recent graduate who writes for free on her blog THU Penny Red, and until recently was living in a house she THU described as a scene from 'Withnail and I.' And Pauline THU Black, the lead singer of the Selector, resists the charge THU that it was her baby boomer generation that has spent all THU the money and messed up the economy for everyone else. THU THU Fresh, provocative writing and fiery debate. The presenter THU is Dominic Arkwright, the producer Miles Warde. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00vkxt0 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b008dqgt (Listen) THU Boniface and Me THU THU By Gillian Plowman THU THU A recently divorced woman begins to write to an African THU child she met on a trip to Zimbabwe. Soon, she is THU corresponding with several children and their grateful headmaster. THU THU In a series of beautifully observed and accurately captured THU letters, she finds more love, support and wisdom from their THU friendship than she does from her own materialistic and THU egregious offspring. THU THU Nell Porter ..... Harriet Walter THU Boniface Katambo ..... Jude Akuwudike THU Enock ..... Tonderai Munyevu THU Tawanda ..... Denver Issac THU Wilson ..... Denton Chikura THU Portia ..... Diane Findlay THU Pertunia ..... Gracy Goldman THU THU Director: Annie Castledine THU THU Producer: Catherine Bailey THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00vkjf9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00vknmk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00vky9y (Listen) THU Red Herrings, Catch 13 THU THU "Catch 13" by Andrew Taylor. THU THU Read by James Fleet. THU THU Last in a series of short stories inspired by the red THU herring - that most effective weapon in the crime writer's arsenal. THU THU Andrew Taylor won the 2009 Crime Writer's Association's THU Cartier Diamond Dagger, awarded for sustained excellence in THU crime writing. In "Catch-13", specially written for Radio 4, THU Taylor displays his pedigree with a brilliant story that THU twists and turns its way to a stimulating conclusion. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's THU Escape to the Country b00shgb5 (Listen) THU The Brotherhood of Ruralists THU THU John Seymour's philosophy was a deceptively simple one. "It THU is time to cut out what we do not need so we can live more THU happily. Good food, comfortable clothes, serviceable housing THU and true culture - those are the things that matter." THU Seymour thus gave voice to the idea that there is more to THU life than a 9-5 job, and that a better way of living can be THU found in the countryside. THU THU In many ways, he catalyzed our contemporary fascination with THU the negative impacts of human interaction with the natural THU world, and was one of the first people to take stock of the THU ever- increasing impact of an industrialising, urbanising THU humanity on its host planet. He was an influential figure THU right up until his death in 2004. THU THU Seymour is best known today for The Complete Book of Self THU Sufficiency, first published in 1976. It became a vital THU resource for disillusioned city dwellers seeking a more THU wholesome existence in the countryside, and included tips on THU everything from animal husbandry to recycling. This book THU became a Bible for disaffected downsizers of the 70s, THU flooding from the cities into the countryside, and THU eventually Seymour set up the School of Self-Sufficiency. THU THU Producer: Kate Bland THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00vkp4s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00vkybc (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b00vkycg (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 b00vhjvh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective b00vkycj (Listen) THU Dolly the Sheep THU THU Comedian Richard Herring reclaims those things we've grown THU to hate. In the final show of the series Richard reclaims THU Dolly the sheep as he examines why we are fearful and THU suspicious of the idea of cloning without really understanding it. THU Richard talks to a genetics professor about how cloning THU works and what it was like to meet Dolly. Richard also asks THU science writer Dr Ben Goldacre whether evil scientists exist THU and whether he is allowed to clone Dr Who assistant Amy THU Pond. THU The show was recorded in front of an audience. Producer THU ..... Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00vkycl (Listen) THU Lynda does some creative thinking and Jazzer tries a new THU experience. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00vkycn (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Australian THU poet Les Murray about his latest collection Taller When Prone. THU THU Producer Gavin Heard. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vky4v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00vkxh9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00vkyjh (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00vkws3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00vky4n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00vhjvk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00vhgj4 (Listen) THU European leaders debate changes to the Lisbon Treaty.Would THU it mean a referendum in some countries including Britain? THU THU Boris Johnson retracts his charge of 'Kosovo' style THU expulsion over the government's planned caps for housing benefit. THU THU Standards of publishing are falling for want of Editors.We THU invistigate THU THU with David Eades. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00vkyjk (Listen) THU Crimson China, Episode 9 THU THU By Betsy Tobin. Lili discovers the existence of Angie and THU her relationship with her brother Wen. Together they THU desperately hope to hear from him after his abduction by the THU Snakeheads. 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 b00qld0x (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. THU THU Someone is determined to kill Jodie; can Charles stop them THU before it's too late? THU THU Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy THU Jodie ...... Martine McCutcheon THU Frances ...... Suzanne Burden THU Maurice ...... Jon Glover THU Juliet ...... Tilly Gaunt THU Nick ...... Rhys Jennings THU Elspeth ...... Kate Layden THU Terry ...... Philip Fox THU Yvonne ...... Avril Clark THU THU Directed by Sally Avens. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vkyjm (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 NOVEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00vl4m7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00vky4q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vhjvp (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vhjvr (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vhjvt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00vhjvw (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vl4mh (Listen) FRI With Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for FRI Hindu Studies. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00vkyys (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Martin Poyntz FRI Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00vl4n4 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; FRI Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00vknrn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00vkyyv (Listen) FRI Letters to Monica, Episode 5 FRI FRI Philip Larkin's Letters to Monica span the forty years of FRI their relationship from 1946 when they met, until Larkin's FRI death in 1985. They only came to light after Monica Jones FRI died in 2001, when nearly two thousand letters were FRI discovered in Larkin's house in Hull. This never previously FRI published correspondence, edited by Anthony Thwaite, offers FRI a unique insight into Larkin's most intimate thoughts. FRI FRI Episode 5: Larkin looks back at his life leading up to his FRI fiftieth birthday and despite the success of The Whitsun FRI Weddings, wonders if he has achieved all that he set out to. FRI Anthony Thwaite concludes the episode. FRI FRI Read by Hugh Bonneville, who recently appeared in Downton FRI Abbey and BBC TV's The Silence and played Larkin in Love FRI Again on BBC 2. FRI FRI In Episode 5, the letters are concluded with comment from FRI Anthony Thwaite, a close friend of Larkin and the editor of FRI the collection Letters to Monica. FRI FRI It was abridged by Miranda Davies and produced by Lucy FRI Collingwood. FRI FRI Philip and Monica on the Isle of Sark, October 1960 FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00vl4n6 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vkyyx (Listen) FRI So Much For That, Episode 10 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. FRI FRI In today's episode, an unexpected change of fortunes FRI convinces Shep to take drastic action. 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 Elephant Mind b00qxgzw (Listen) FRI Everyone knows that elephants are clever but science is only FRI now beginning to reveal just how smart they are. Andrew FRI Luck-Baker joins British and Kenyan researchers on the East FRI African savannah who are revealing the depths of the FRI elephant mind with the help of a huge loudspeaker in the FRI back of a Land Rover. FRI FRI 11:30 Safety Catch b00vkyz1 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Better the Devil You Know FRI FRI Simon McGrath is a generally nice chap who just happens to FRI be an arms dealer. It's not something he planned, he just FRI fell into it, and despite all his best intentions he just FRI doesn't seem to be able to leave because he has to pay his FRI mortgage like everyone else. Of course his real love is FRI electronic music and this is just a stop gap until he finds FRI the perfect outlet for his music - okay so the gap has FRI lasted five years but that's not the point. Once he can get FRI himself motivated he'll be out of there and, as his ever FRI supportive mum says, people will always want to kill each FRI other. So that's alright then. FRI FRI This series sees Simon going to some bizarre lengths to FRI excuse his profession: his attempt at gaining redundancy FRI when an American firm puts in a takeover bid somehow winds FRI up with his promotion; he desperately attempts to give FRI himself compassion fatigue so he won't have to feel guilty FRI about all the bloodshed in the world; he unsuccessfully FRI tries to seek forgiveness and he finally tries to FRI self-motivate himself to sit down in front of a keyboard to FRI compose his electronic masterpiece. His personal life is as FRI unsatisfactory as his work life and not only do he and Anna FRI have to try and find reasons why they love each other but FRI they have to survive a visit from her parents and his mum's FRI new job at Heathcote Sanders and, as Judith eloquently puts FRI it, to have one member of the family working in the arms FRI trade may be regarded as misfortune, to have two looks like FRI genetic wickedness. FRI Simon McGrath ...... Darren Boyd FRI Anna Grieg ...... Joanna Page FRI Boris Kemal ...... Lewis Macleod FRI Judith McGrath ...... Sarah Smart FRI Angela McGrath ...... Brigit Forsyth FRI Madeleine Turnbull ...... Rachel Atkins FRI Charles ...... John Schwab FRI Written by Laurence Howarth FRI Produced By Dawn Ellis. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00vkyz3 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00vhjvy (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00vl4n8 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00vkyz5 (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 b00vkycl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00vkyz7 (Listen) FRI Gracey and Me FRI FRI Written by Gillian Plowman FRI Kate returns to South Africa to meet Gracey, the woman she FRI betrayed twenty-five years ago when she was a ten year old FRI staying with her godparents in a luxury suburb of FRI Johannesburg during the height of apartheid. FRI FRI The repercussions of that betrayal have profoundly affected FRI both women, psychologically and physically. FRI The play takes Kate on a journey into her past. She has FRI hired a private detective to track down Gracey who she FRI betrayed as a child. He meets her in Johannesburg and they FRI set out to find her. FRI FRI Kate ..... Harriet Walter FRI Gracey ..... Jenny Jules FRI Peter van Tonder ..... Henry Goodman FRI Katie ..... Lauren Mote FRI Beauty ..... Lakechia Jeanne FRI Godmother ..... Hannah Boyde FRI Stanley ..... Denton Chikura FRI FRI Directed by Annie Castledine FRI FRI Producer: Catherine Bailey FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00vkyz9 (Listen) FRI Eric Robson and the panel are guests of the Sussex U3A FRI Regional Association. The panel this week are Christine FRI Walkden, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood. FRI FRI They return to Brighton to visit the rooftop allotmenteers FRI involved in the Listeners' Gardens series. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen's FRI Escape to the Country b00skxgk (Listen) FRI Villadom in the Cotswolds FRI FRI Laurence Llewelyn Bowen visits Chedworth Villa to compare FRI notes on country living with Pliny the Younger. FRI FRI The Roman villa near Cirencester is the ultimate, ancient FRI rural retreat from the city. Laurence compares villa life in FRI the Cotswolds today, where there are numerous second homes, FRI with Pliny's life near Rome. He also considers what is the FRI ideal countryside. FRI FRI With Roger Scruton and Alun Howkins he analyzes ideas of the FRI rural idyll and the reveals that, since the 12th century, FRI there has always been a sense that it is under threat. FRI FRI Producer: Kate Bland FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00vkyzc (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 b00vkz0b (Listen) FRI In an extended interview, Francine Stock talks to Mike Leigh FRI about his latest drama, Another Year. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00vl4nb (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 b00vl4nd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00vkz0d (Listen) FRI Series 72, Episode 7 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week are Jeremy Hardy, Fred FRI Macaulay, Justin Moorhouse and Andy Hamilton. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00vkz0g (Listen) FRI Written by: Carole Simpson Solazzo FRI Directed by: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe 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 Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00vkz36 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with the actor FRI Andrew Lincoln, who talks about his role in the US TV series FRI The Walking Dead. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00vkyyx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00vkz3b (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from St FRI Bryce Kirk in Kirkcaldy, Fife, with questions for the panel FRI including the novelist Ian Rankin, secretary of state for FRI Scotland, Michael Moore, Labour MP Jim Murphy and the FRI American academic and Republican, Colleen Graffy. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00vl4ns (Listen) FRI Sarah Dunant with her topical reflections FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects: FRI Omnibus b00vpdxw (Listen) FRI Another chance to hear Neil MacGregor, the director of the FRI British Museum in London, continue his global history as FRI told through objects from the Museum's collection. FRI FRI In this episode he focuses on Europe's expanding maritime FRI empire which created the world's first global economy. FRI Spanish pieces of eight were used as currency from the new FRI world of the Americas to Japan. The Dutch East India Company FRI was a multinational conglomeration transporting goods from FRI the Far East to a European market. Different cultures were FRI brought into contract for the first time with varying FRI results. When Spanish explorers arrived in Mexico it led to FRI the destruction of the Aztec Empire. In contrast, the FRI relationship between the Portuguese and the kingdom of Benin FRI was mutually beneficial, with Portuguese sailors providing FRI much-desired brass in exchange for ivory and palm oil. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00vhjw0 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00vl4nv (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 b00vkz3d (Listen) FRI Crimson China, Episode 10 FRI FRI By Betsy Tobin. Wen escapes from the Snakeheads but knows he FRI must make reparation if he is to have any chance of FRI survival. 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 b00vhgjr (Listen) FRI Judith Kerr, Matthew Kneale FRI FRI Judith Kerr is known to generations of young readers for her FRI celebrated series of Mogg books and her FRI semi-autobiographical novel, When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit, FRI a child's view of the rise of Nazism in pre-war Germany. Now FRI 86 and hard at work on her next book, she has chosen to FRI discuss a powerful graphic novel, Maus by Art Spiegelman, FRI which describes his father's wartime experiences as a FRI Holocaust survivor. FRI FRI Alongside Judith will be her son, Matthew Kneale, whose FRI novel English Passengers won the Whitbread Book of the Year FRI Prize in 2000. He's discussing one of the great works of FRI reportage, Ryszard Kapuscinski's account of the fall of the FRI Ethiopian dictator, Haile Selassie. Meanwhile, they also FRI discuss Sue MacGregor's choice, Jane Austen's Sense and FRI Sensibility. FRI Producer: Mark Smalley. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00vkz3g (Listen) FRI Mark D'arcy presents a round up of the week's parliamentary FRI news. FRI
29 October, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 30/10/2010 - 05/11/2010
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