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SAT SATURDAY 25 DECEMBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wqhwg (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wqhwj (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wqhwl (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00wqhwn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wqhy4 (Listen) SAT with Canon Patrick Thomas. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00wqhy6 (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 b00wqhwq (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00wqhws (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00wqj4n (Listen) SAT Mistletoe SAT SAT Owen Sheers is in Worcestershire to learn about the Druidic SAT custom of gathering in the mistletoe. Each year it is SAT harvested and blessed at the Mistletoe Festival in the town SAT of Tenbury Wells. SAT SAT Producer: Maggie Ayre. SAT SAT Druid blessing the mistletoe (Getty Images) SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00wqj4q (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin SAT Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00wqhwv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Food and Farming Awards b00w22nz (Listen) SAT Sheila Dillon presents a special programme, to announce the SAT winners of this year's BBC Food & Farming Awards - along SAT with food celebrities including Raymond Blanc, Angela SAT Hartnett, Alex James and Mark Hix. SAT SAT Producer Dan Saladino. SAT SAT 08:00 Excess Baggage b00wqj4s (Listen) SAT Peter Curran presents the Excess Baggage special quiz with SAT John McCarthy and Sandi Toksvig with their special guests SAT Benedict Allen and Lucy Porter. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 08:30 Cabin Pressure b00wqj4v (Listen) SAT Cabin Pressure at Christmas SAT SAT Bing-bong merrily on high! It's Xmas morning on board MJN SAT Air, but when Carolyn schedules an extra stop-off to the SAT Hawaiian island of Molokai, Arthur has just seven minutes to SAT celebrate Xmas. How can Douglas and Martin make this the SAT best Xmas Arthur's ever had when all they have on board are SAT some custard creams and a Russian oligarch... SAT SAT With special guest Ben Willbond ("Horrible Histories") SAT SAT Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ..... Stephanie Cole SAT 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ..... Roger Allam SAT Capt. Martin Crieff ..... Benedict Cumberbatch SAT Arthur Shappey ..... John Finnemore SAT Mr. Alyakhin ..... Ben Willbond SAT SAT Written by John Finnemore SAT Produced & directed by David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 09:00 Christmas Service b00wqj4x (Listen) SAT For All the World - Worship for Christmas Morning from St SAT Martin-in-the-Fields in the heart of London led by the Revd SAT Nicholas Holtam with the Revd Simon Buckley and the Choir of SAT St Martin's and St Martin's High School Elite Gospel Choir SAT directed by Andrew Earis and Njabulo Madlala. The service SAT will draw on the experiences of the diverse community which SAT makes up this iconic Central London church, famed for its SAT work with the homeless and its stunning musical tradition. SAT Producer: Stephen Shipley. SAT SAT 10:00 Saturday Live b00wqj4z (Listen) SAT Fi Glover unwraps a bumper selection of festive treats, with SAT musician Gary Kemp. SAT SAT 12:00 The iPod Series b00wqj51 (Listen) SAT Charles Dickens' iPod SAT SAT Charles Dickens wrote and performed songs all his life. As a SAT little boy, his mother stood him on the table in the local SAT pub to sing; as a successful writer he sang to his guests SAT after dinner. He also wrote the libretto for an opera. SAT SAT For Christmas Day, David Owen Norris re-imagines his SAT favourite songs, beginning with his party piece as a little SAT boy ending with the carol in 'A Christmas Carol'. Recorded SAT on location in Dickens' drawing room, with biographers SAT Claire Tomalin and Michael Slater and actor and writer Simon SAT Callow. With singers Gwyneth Herbert, Thomas Guthrie and SAT Laura Crowther. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00wqgn3 (Listen) SAT Series 32, Episode 6 SAT SAT The Now Show team take a satirical look back at the year SAT through the medium of pantomime. SAT SAT Starring Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis, with Mitch Benn, Marcus SAT Brigstocke, Jon Holmes and Laura Shavin. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00wqhwx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 With Great Pleasure b00wqhm5 (Listen) SAT James Naughtie SAT SAT Political journalist and Today programme presenter James SAT Naughtie shares with an audience some of the pieces of prose SAT and verse which have entertained and inspired him over the SAT years. The readers are Alison Steadman, Bill Paterson and SAT David Haig. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT 14:00 Woman's Hour b00wqj75 (Listen) SAT Christmas Cracker SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. A celebration of some of the great SAT musical talent and live performances from the programme. SAT Cyndi Lauper explains why she's got the blues, Marina and SAT the Diamonds sings about her favourite fizzy tipple, there's SAT music from Macy Gray, the Dale Divas of Derbyshire, SAT Venezuelan pianist Gabriela Montero, and mezzo soprano Karen SAT Cargill, and Annie Lennox tops it all off with her version SAT of a classic Christmas carol. SAT SAT 15:00 HM The Queen b00wqjb0 (Listen) SAT The Queen's Christmas message to the Commonwealth and the SAT nation, followed by the national anthem. SAT SAT 15:05 News b00x9ckm (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:15 Pat and Margaret b00wqjb2 (Listen) SAT Pat and Margaret SAT by Victoria Wood SAT adapted for radio by John Foley SAT SAT "When you deal with me, Claire, think icon." SAT SAT Pat is the glamorous face of an American soap opera; SAT Margaret, a waitress in a motorway cafe in Lancashire. SAT Sisters who've not seen each other for 27 years. Brought SAT together in the glare of a popular TV show, they have no SAT choice but to seem thrilled. But a darker past lies behind SAT their reunion. SAT SAT Pat ..... Tracy-Ann Oberman SAT Margaret ..... Sarah Lancashire SAT Maeve ..... Imelda Staunton SAT Claire ..... Claire Skinner SAT Jim ..... Andrew Dunn SAT Jim's Mum ..... Thelma Barlow SAT Vera ..... Rachel Davies SAT Billy ..... Danny Webb SAT Nosey Neighbour ..... Lynda Baron SAT Stella ..... Joanna Monro SAT Bella ..... Sally Orrock SAT Martin ..... Philip Lowrie SAT Daisy ..... Deeivya Meir SAT Driver ..... Adeel Akhtar SAT Hotel Manager ..... Sam Dale SAT Floor Assistant ..... Ian Batchelor SAT SAT Director: Marion Nancarrow SAT SAT 16:45 Profile b00wqjb4 (Listen) SAT Lady Gaga SAT SAT The numbers are staggering: more than 1 billion music video SAT online hits, record sales of more than 50 million, number 7 SAT on the Forbes List of the world's 100 most influential SAT women. Not bad at all for 24 year old Stefani Germanotta, a SAT girl from New York's Lower East Side whom the world now SAT knows as Lady Gaga. In this week's Christmas day Profile, SAT Stephen Smith follows Germanotta's story from rebellious, SAT classically trained pianist to pop's newest and hottest icon. SAT SAT 17:00 Dave Podmore's History of the Ashes SAT in 100 Objects b00vw79q (Listen) SAT Andy and Pod begin their quest to compile 'Pod's History of SAT the Ashes in 100 Objects' at the British Museum where they SAT meet Neil MacGregor and the lady who yodels at the beginning SAT of the Radio 4 programme. SAT SAT Pod only agrees to continue with Andy's show on the SAT condition he gets to visit Oz and win his attractive wife SAT Jaqcui back from the hairy arms of an Aussie cricketer. On SAT the flight Down Under, Pod shows Andy the historically SAT significant 69 tins of Fosters with which he's just set the SAT all-time England-to-Australia-beer-drinking record. SAT SAT They visit the Brisbane Museum of Cricket where they see the SAT very phone directory Shane Warne used to call up nurses at SAT the Brisbane School of Nursing. Pod and Andy then SAT accidentally create a diplomatic incident by letting slip SAT that both Heartbeat and The Bill have been cancelled in the SAT UK, devastating Australian TV schedules for decades. SAT SAT This upsets the Aussie cricket team who are trying to warm SAT up at the first Ashes Test Match in Brisbane, with the SAT encouragement of a team of cheerleaders led by none other SAT than Pod's wife Jacqui. Pod notes that the pile of vomit he SAT left on the outfield in 1989 is still there and suggests it SAT to Andy as one of the 100 objects, although to be honest SAT he's more interested in the odds that a local bookie is SAT offering on the chances of him and Jacqui getting back together. SAT SAT Pod persuades Jacqui to take him back as the winnings on the SAT bet he's just placed will more than make up for his SAT shortcomings as a lover, a man and a human being. SAT SAT Andy reluctantly returns to England having failed almost SAT completely in the task to collect 100 objects but with a £50 SAT note as his cut of Pod's gambling winnings. SAT SAT Written by Christopher Douglas, Andrew Nickolds and Nick SAT Newman SAT SAT Producer: Monica Long SAT A Hat Trick Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00wqhy6 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00wqhx1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00wqhx3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wqhx5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00wqjdm (Listen) SAT Christmas cheer from Loose Ends as Clive Anderson talks to SAT some very seasonal and special guests. We have some of the SAT best known celebrities who have ever existed, usually SAT unavailable because they are dead or for some other SAT convincing reason. SAT SAT Charles Dickens joins Clive to discuss his extraordinary SAT productivity, including recent blockbusters A Christmas SAT Carol and Bleak House. He also gives Clive the low down on SAT his American lecture tours and his love of Eastenders. SAT SAT Clive is joined by Hollywood siren Marilyn Monroe to SAT exclusively reveal details of her chequered love-life, her SAT involvement with the Kennedy's and her most prolific assets. SAT SAT Author Jane Austen is in the studio to defend her literary SAT credentials and discuss the Hampshire singles scene. SAT Alex Ferguson gives a rare interview in which he discusses SAT his stormy relationship with David Beckham and his SAT controversial new signing, "magic mid-fielder" Patricia Routledge. SAT SAT And Emma Freud gets her stockings inspected by the man of SAT the moment, Father Christmas, who bears a striking SAT resemblance to a certain Italian head of state. SAT SAT With music from special guests The Ketchup Boys and WU2. SAT Plus Tim Minchin gives a magical rendering of his festive SAT word-of-mouth hit, White Wine in the Sun. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Pick of the Year b00wqjk5 (Listen) SAT Nicholas Parsons makes his selection of the best BBC radio SAT of the past year. SAT SAT Producer: Cecile Wright. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00wv96h (Listen) SAT Fitzroy MacLean: To Russia with Love SAT SAT Sir Fitzroy Maclean was Churchill's man in the East, a SAT member of the SAS and close friends with Field Marshall Tito SAT of Yugoslavia. Brian Wilson presents the archive of his SAT remarkable and colourful life. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00wnyd1 (Listen) SAT I, Claudius, Caligula SAT SAT Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' entertaining SAT histories of Imperial Rome. SAT SAT When the Emperor Tiberius dies, the young and popular SAT Caligula succeeds his Uncle. Claudius will be the first to SAT learn his secret. SAT SAT Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Tiberius ..... Tim McInnerny SAT Caligula ..... Samuel Barnett SAT Herod Agrippa ..... Zubin Varla SAT Antonia ..... Christine Kavanagh SAT Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock SAT Drusilla ..... Deeivya Meir SAT Macro ..... Tony Bell SAT Agrippinilla ..... Claire Harry SAT Thrasyllus ..... Sean Baker SAT Doctor ..... Adeel Akhtar SAT Gaoler ..... Iain Batchelor SAT Senator ..... Lloyd Thomas SAT SAT Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SAT Directed by Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT 22:00 Humph Celebration Concert b00tj5qp (Listen) SAT Humphrey Lyttelton's son Stephen introduces an evening in SAT celebration of his father, the acclaimed jazz musician, band SAT leader and much-loved host of Radio 4's perennial antidote SAT to panel games 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'. SAT SAT An all-star cast of friends and admirers drawn from the SAT worlds of music and comedy includes Wally Fawkes, Stacey SAT Kent, Tim Brooke-Talyor, Graeme Garden, Barry Cryer, Tony SAT Hawks, Andy Hamilton, Sandi Toksvig, Jeremy Hardy, Rob SAT Brydon, Jack Dee, Elkie Brooks, Jools Holland, Charlie Watts SAT the Humphrey Lyttelton Band. SAT SAT Producer: Jon Naismith SAT The Humph Trust production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00wp5h6 (Listen) SAT (9/17) Four more contestants join questionmaster Russell SAT Davies at London's BBC Radio Theatre, for the latest heat in SAT the general knowledge quiz. This week's quartet hail from SAT Pevensey in East Sussex, High Wycombe, Cheltenham and the SAT Rhondda. One of them will win a place in the series SAT semi-finals in the new year. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00wnygy (Listen) SAT Series 11, The Gate of the Year SAT SAT The Gate of the Year: Peggy Reynolds hears the story behind SAT the poem King George VI quoted in his first Christmas SAT broadcast on 25th December 1939, written by the unknown SAT Minnie Louise Haskins. It takes her from an unassuming SAT suburb of Bristol to Sandringham, via the correspondence SAT pages of The Times and the hand of Queen Elizabeth the Queen SAT Mother, and it has popped up at the opening of two world SAT wars and on countless teatowels, Internet sites and books of SAT inspirational verse. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 26 DECEMBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00wqjl6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Christmas Meditation b00wqkrn (Listen) SUN Cambridge University's Professor of Evolutionary SUN Palaeobiology Simon Conway Morris reflects on the mystery of SUN the incarnation from perspectives of science and faith. SUN Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0093bdf (Listen) SUN Love in the Afternoon, A Voice from the Past SUN SUN By Penny Vincenzi. SUN SUN When Anna befriends Rose - a grand and very stylish resident SUN of her grandfather's nursing home - she finds herself SUN enchanted by vivid tales from a racy past. Atmospheric short SUN story by the bestselling romantic novelist Penny Vincenzi. SUN SUN Read by Joanna Lumley. SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wqjl8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wqjlb (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wqjld (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00wqjlg (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00wqkrq (Listen) SUN The bells of Worcester Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00wqjb4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 16:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00wqjlj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00wqkt5 (Listen) SUN Childhood Innocence SUN SUN Jonathan Charles considers the innocence of children and SUN reflects on the charm of those adults who still retain SUN something of the child within. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davies SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00wqkth (Listen) SUN Adam Henson visits a dairy farm in the USA that milks over SUN three thousand cows three times a day. There are plans for SUN similar sized farms in the UK and Adam asks whether such SUN farms could be a viable option for farmers in this country. SUN Presented by Adam Henson and produced by Martin SUN Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00wqjll (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00wqjln (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00wqkv8 (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00wqkvb (Listen) SUN Street Child Africa SUN SUN Martin Bell presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Street Child Africa. SUN SUN Donations to Street Child Africa should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Street Child Africa. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN You can also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Street Child Africa SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners without SUN a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1074832. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00wqjlq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00wqjls (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00wqkvd (Listen) SUN The Revds. Ricky Yates and Petra Elsmore lead a service from SUN St Clement's Church, close by Wenceslas Square in Prague, SUN reflecting on the life and death of St Stephen and also of SUN Wenceslas, tenth century Duke of Bohemia, who became known SUN as St Vaclav, patron saint of the Czech Republic. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00wqkvl (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00wr4hv (Listen) SUN Written by: Carole Simpson Solazzo SUN Directed by: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... Will Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00wr4hx (Listen) SUN Sandie Shaw SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the singer Sandie Shaw. SUN SUN With her melodic, velvety voice, bare feet and Sassoon bob SUN she was the epitome of everything that was swinging about SUN the '60s. SUN SUN She was just 17 when she first topped the charts with Always SUN Something There to Remind Me and went on to become Britain's SUN first Eurovision winner with Puppet on a String. She loathed SUN the song at the time, but has recently come to terms with it SUN after recording a new version which is, she says, rather SUN forlorn. SUN SUN Along with the highs have been terrible lows - years that SUN she calls her dark ages, when, without money or creative SUN freedom, she felt hopeless. It was Buddhism that turned her SUN fortunes around and became central to her life. Now, she SUN says, she cannot believe the journey life has taken her on SUN and she is preparing for a final flourish as a performer. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Les Kelly's Heroes b00wp7tq (Listen) SUN In this one-off special, host Les Kelly (Kevin Bishop) gives SUN a little tinselly attention to the unsung heroes who make SUN Britain great. Les is his usual opinionated, sincere, stupid SUN self. The guests are mostly either mad, bad or tragic. This SUN is the show that captures the 'we're in this together' SUN culture, adds a bit of 'the big society' and some SUN Seventies-style schmaltz. The 'real people' on the show SUN include a campanologist who plays Away In A Manger with only SUN one bell, a man campaigning for guide dogs for sighted SUN people, and a lollipop lady with OCD. SUN SUN also featuring: SUN Dave Lamb SUN Vicki Pepperdine SUN Julian Dutton SUN Laurence Howarth SUN SUN Written by Bill Dare with Julian Dutton. SUN Produced by Bill Dare. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00wr4hz (Listen) SUN The Danish chef Rene Redzepi of Noma, the "World's Best SUN Restaurant", forages for food in Lapland and London. SUN SUN He's become one of the most influential chefs in the world SUN because of his use of wild ingredients, foraged from the SUN Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and SUN Sweden. SUN SUN With dishes that revive lost food traditions, that use SUN unfamiliar ingredients like mosses, lichen, spruces as well SUN as native fruits. fish and fungi he has succeeded in putting SUN a part of Europe ignored for its cuisine on the gastronomic SUN map. SUN SUN The idea of chefs and restaurants sourcing ingredients from SUN the wild is not new, some already employ foragers but SUN according to Joe Warwick, food writer, restaurant expert and SUN the programme's reporter, Rene Redzepi has taken that SUN approach to sourcing to whole new level. SUN SUN For anyone sceptical about the abundance of wild foods in SUN Britain suited to the needs of a restaurant Redzepi goes on SUN a foraging trip to north London's Hampstead Heath. There he SUN finds a new ingredient, the service berry. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00wqjlv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00wr4j1 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Mandela in His Own Words b00wr4j3 (Listen) SUN Nelson Mandela wrote a letter every day of his life. He also SUN wrote diaries, kept notebooks, scratched out ideas for SUN speeches and doodled his thoughts and meditations on scraps SUN of paper. SUN SUN In this programme Fergal Keane takes a journey through this SUN special archive, which was bequeathed to the Nelson Mandela SUN Foundation in 2009 and published by Macmillan in the book SUN 'Conversations With Myself' in October 2010. SUN SUN The archive reveals surprises, painful reminders and SUN unanswered questions and offers insight into the experiences SUN which led to Mandela's daily disciplines, life lessons and SUN to the moral and political vision which inspired and SUN continues to inspire so many. SUN SUN We hear the voice of someone who is communicating not SUN necessarily to a particular audience but who is laying out SUN his personal thoughts. We are also given snatches of audio SUN archive - conversations between Mr Mandela and one of his SUN closest friends and colleagues, Ahmed Kathrada speaking on a SUN range of subjects from lessons on how to fire a rifle, to SUN Tracy Chapman. SUN SUN We hear Mandela's reflections as an activist with the ANC in SUN the 1960s. We hear his voice at the moment he is told he SUN will be sent to Robben Island, and in more personal moments, SUN recalling dreams about his wife Winnie and his children, SUN during his years apart from his family. We hear diary SUN excerpts written on the night of his release from Pollsmoor SUN in February 1990, and drafts of his very early speeches as SUN leader of the ANC. And we hear extracts from letters and SUN diaries written during his years in retirement, as he SUN observes the ongoing political struggles of his country. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Cuddon SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00wr4j5 (Listen) SUN Boxing Day Postbag Edition SUN SUN A mighty get-together of all the Gardeners' Question Time SUN panellists. A look back at the GQT year and of course a SUN selection of varied and entertaining gardening queries. SUN SUN This programme features Bob Flowerdew, Christine Walkden, SUN Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood, Matthew SUN Biggs, Anne Swithinbank, Chris Beardshaw and Rosie Yeomans SUN of Sparsholt College. SUN The programme is chaired by Eric Robson. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Bus Pass Road Trips b00wvbtl (Listen) SUN Episode 5 SUN SUN Dominic Arkwright meets people who've used their bus passes SUN to take on adventurous road trips. SUN Today he meets the lifeboatman who took on a national tour SUN of RNLI stations. SUN SUN Bill Walton travelled around the UK on his free bus pass to SUN raise money for the RNLI. Dressed as a lifeboat man the SUN whole way, he took 23 days to complete the journey. With an SUN average travelling time of 7 hours per day, he caught 124 SUN buses and clocked up 2250 miles. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00wr4j7 (Listen) SUN I, Claudius, Claudius SUN SUN Robert Graves' wickedly enjoyable histories of Imperial SUN Rome, dramatised by Robin Brooks. SUN SUN How the Sibyl's prophecy came true, for the most unwilling SUN Emperor of them all. SUN SUN Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Caligula ..... Samuel Barnett SUN Herod Agrippa ..... Zubin Varla SUN Messalina ..... Jessica Raine SUN Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock SUN Cassius Chaerea ..... Jude Akuwudike SUN Gratus ..... Sam Dale SUN Cornelius ..... Iain Batchelor SUN Bassus ..... Lloyd Thomas SUN Asiaticus ..... Sean Baker SUN Lupus ..... Henry Devas SUN Sentius ..... Tony Bell SUN The Executioner ..... Adeel Akhtar SUN SUN Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SUN Directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00wr4j9 (Listen) SUN In a special edition of the programme, Barry Humphries talks SUN to Mariella Frostrup about five of his favourite books. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00wr4jc (Listen) SUN Series 11, The Wreck of the Hesperus SUN SUN Peggy Reynolds continues her Adventures in Poetry by asking SUN why one of the most popular poems of the 19th century 'The SUN Wreck of the Hesperus' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, has SUN since fallen out of favour. The ballad of a reckless sea SUN captain who takes his young daughter on a voyage despite SUN warnings of an approaching storm, the poem was recited in SUN parlours across the English speaking world, and learnt by SUN every schoolchild in America for decades. Peggy explores the SUN poem with Jay Parini, who has made a study of Longfellow; SUN talks to the former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo; SUN and to Linda Greenlaw, a sea captain who sails the same sea SUN as the captain in the poem. With them, she uncovers the SUN events in Longfellow's life which inspired the poem and SUN discovers that it still retains the power to terrify and SUN move its readers. SUN Producer: Jane Greenwood. SUN SUN 17:00 Listen to the Word! b00wqcnd (Listen) SUN It is as modern as Marconi, as global as Coca-Cola, as SUN race-blind as Benetton and as troubling to authority as SUN Marxism once was. Pentecostalism is a religion that is, very SUN simply, beating modernity at its own game. The Richard SUN Dawkins of this world may think of religion as some SUN throwback to earlier times but Pentecostalism was invented SUN at the beginning of the twentieth century and is the very SUN model of a modern Christianity - disturbing not only to SUN hard-line atheists but even to the Catholic Church and the SUN Chinese Communist Party. SUN SUN Nearly one quarter of the 2 billion Christians in the world SUN are Pentecostals - and counting... This feature will explore SUN just what it is that has made Pentecostalism the SUN indispensable form of today's Christianity. SUN SUN Presenter Philip Dodd explores its extraordinary global SUN reach - from the backstreets of Yorkshire's Grimethorpe to SUN Korea's Seoul, home of the largest Pentecostal church in the SUN world, from Sao Paolo to Washington. He also explores its SUN love affair with modernity - not for nothing was it founded SUN in Los Angeles the same year Marconi experimented with a SUN wireless voice; not for nothing is the mobile phone how it SUN recruits and keeps its believers. SUN SUN The programme also highlights its challenge to the SUN rationalism of the Enlightenment through its loyalty to SUN people's experience of God, unmediated by either the SUN authority of the Word or the reason of secularism. Along SUN with Disney, Pentecostalism is a central part of the SUN contemporary 'experience economy'. SUN SUN Above all, this programme will show that, no less than radio SUN itself, Pentecostalism is committed to the absolute power of SUN the voice. SUN SUN Presenter: Philip Dodd SUN Producer: Simon Hollis SUN A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00wqjb4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 16:45 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00wqjlx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00wqjlz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wqjm1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00wr4jr (Listen) SUN Gerry Northam makes his selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00wr5hm (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00wr5hp (Listen) SUN An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping SUN America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion SUN and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00jzwnp (Listen) SUN Red Herrings, The Difference SUN SUN Chilling short story by master crime writer, Reginald Hill. SUN SUN A winter funeral prompts an elderly lawyer to reflect upon a SUN troubling case from his past. SUN SUN Read by David Ryall. SUN Producer Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00wqgmq (Listen) SUN Tim Harford introduces "A More or Less Christmas Carol". SUN SUN 20:30 Midlife Relaunch b00vcms2 (Listen) SUN Is it possible to start a new career in your fifties? Is it SUN feasible to escape the nine till five straight jacket and SUN find greater fulfilment? Midlife Relaunch asks people who've SUN tried. SUN SUN When Denise and Paul from Portsmouth returned from a summer SUN holiday they felt they couldn't face another winter SUN commuting to their accounting and teaching jobs. They SUN decided to move - to Cyprus. SUN SUN "We realised we didn't want what we'd always had - to be SUN living in the same old house doing the same old stuff. There SUN came this point where I thought: I want to do this before my SUN hips go- so it's now or never really." SUN SUN Christine and Stuart from Nottingham gave up steady jobs and SUN the prospect of generous pensions to set up a B&B and SUN furniture making business, 500 miles north in the Scottish SUN Highlands. SUN SUN But, Christine acknowledges it's certainly not an idyllic SUN dream: "This is the hardest we've ever worked in our lives SUN and we'll never be money rich. But we have a wonderful SUN quality of life here with a welcoming community with people SUN who have time to care. We gave up our pensions to come up SUN here, so we have to continue - our motto is 'adapt or die'." SUN SUN Fiona from Derbyshire dreamed of working with cows but found SUN herself stuck working in a housing association. Now in her SUN 50's she's running a dairy farm in Ayrshire. SUN SUN "I have no regrets about my midlife decision to leave a SUN well-paid job for these long days with little money - but I SUN just wish I'd made it earlier in life." SUN SUN Producers: Kim Normanton and Elizabeth Burke SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 21:00 Almanacs: The Oldest Guides SUN to Everything b00t2mhs (Listen) SUN Ben Schott charts the history of the most influential form SUN of mass publication in the 16th and 17th centuries. At their SUN height, apart from the bible, almanacs were the bestselling SUN books on the market, with over 400,000 sold annually. SUN SUN Behind the scenes at The British Museum, Dr Irving Finkel SUN outlines the almanac tradition from Babylonian clay tablet SUN to Gutenberg's earliest printed material. The British SUN Library's Moira Goff lets Ben loose in the archives to SUN peruse The Kalender of Shepherdes and the oldest Old Moore's SUN Almanack. SUN SUN Combining the characteristics of calendar, self-help manual SUN & pocket encyclopaedia, almanacs contained utilitarian SUN information on just about everything: feast days, when to SUN sow crops, let blood, how to write an IOU, even advice on SUN amateur surgery and DIY abortion. They also included SUN dramatic astrological prophesies about the likelihood of SUN plague, famine and war. Passages were read to boost SUN soldiers' morale in battle and by MPs in the House of Commons. SUN SUN Almanac compilers were arrested & grilled by parliamentary SUN committees. Did one actually predict the Great Fire of SUN London? Professor Bernard Capp assesses their powerful role SUN in revolutionary politics. SUN SUN Almanacs played a central part in spreading knowledge, SUN literacy, popular journalism and advertising. Ben digs up SUN early adverts for pills, potions and all manner of quackery. SUN But they were also mocked in all kinds of ways, as Dr Adam SUN Smyth explains. SUN SUN The blank pages inserted into almanacs were used for SUN jottings of accounts and personal memos, so they also gave SUN us the personal written diary. SUN SUN The statistical has replaced the astrological but its SUN influence lingers on. SUN SUN Producer: Tamsin Hughes SUN A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00wqfnj (Listen) SUN Asia Bling SUN SUN New places are leaping to prominence in the pampered world SUN of luxury. Peter Day hears from some of the people behind SUN the extraordinary hunger for luxury in Asia. SUN Producer : Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00wqjm3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 News Review of the Year b00wr5ht (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn looks back on a year when so much changed but SUN a few things didn't. 2010 heralded a "new politics" and a SUN coalition government for the first time in generations. The SUN Labour Party was beset by brotherly conflict and austerity SUN hit home. We learnt that we would wait longer for our SUN pensions, maybe lose our jobs and definitely lose our SUN benefits. There were riots in London but bigger ones abroad SUN - protestors in Athens & Paris took to the streets. BP SUN became reviled in the US where President Obama tried - and SUN failed - to cool down the Tea Party. Travellers were delayed SUN by an Icelandic ash cloud and 33 miners waited to be rescued SUN in Chile. Floods caused widespread despair in Pakistan and - SUN no surprise this perhaps - England returned defeated from SUN the vuvuzela roar in South Africa. SUN Producer : Rosamund Jones. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00wqgmx (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Brokeback Mountain star Jake SUN Gyllenhaal about his new comedy Love And Other Drugs. SUN SUN Produced by Stephen Hughes. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00wqkt5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 27 DECEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00wqjn4 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00wr5mw (Listen) MON Class at Christmas MON MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society MON works. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00wqkrq (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wqjn6 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wqjn8 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wqjnb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00wqjnd (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wr5n0 (Listen) MON With Steve Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical MON Alliance. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00wr5py (Listen) MON Winter on the Farm 1/5. Sarah Swadling meets David and Julie MON Hewitt as they cope with an unstoppable flow of eggs. They MON have to feed, water, and pick up after five thousand free MON range hens on their farm near Wadebridge in Cornwall. MON Presenter and Producer: Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00wqjng (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00wr5q0 (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 b00wr5rr (Listen) MON Andrew Marr celebrates 40 years of Start the Week. When MON Richard Baker first presented the show in 1970 it was a MON lively and often chaotic, mix of chat and celebrity knitted MON together by a weekly theme. Cookery demonstrations, and MON dancing with Wayne Sleep, rubbed shoulders with Roald Dahl MON and Sophia Loren discussing what frightens them, and Idi MON Amin playing the accordion. It was Melvyn Bragg who MON reinvented the programme 18 years later to make it a forum MON for ideas. He challenged his guests to explain their views MON and when guests like Maya Angelou, Francis Crick, Tom MON Stoppard and Salman Rushdie sat round his table together the MON debate sparkled. Andrew Marr who has been at the helm for MON the last 8 years is joined by Richard Baker and Melvyn Bragg MON to discuss four decades of Start the Week. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00wr5sq (Listen) MON Proust's Overcoat, Episode 1 MON MON By Lorenza Foschini. In this fascinating story of literary MON detection a cast of late 19th and early 20th century MON Parisians is led by Jacques Guerin the handsome heir to a MON successful perfume business. MON MON Supporting roles in the story are played by Dr Robert Proust MON - brother to the famous author, his disappointed and MON homophobic wife, Marthe, the shady bric-a-brac dealer Werner MON and of course Marcel Proust himself. Jean Genet (who was MON offerred a home by Guerin when he was released from prison) MON Jacques Cousteau and Picasso all have walk-on parts. MON MON Guerin's passion for the work of Marcel Proust was perhaps MON fuelled by the fact that they were both homosexual, but he MON was also a passionate collector and bibliophile even as a MON young man. And it was as a young man that he first MON encountered the Proust family when he was treated by Dr MON Robert Proust. Visiting the doctor in his study he was told MON that the desk and bookshelves had belonged to the late MON author. The doctor opened the bookshelf to show the young MON man the handwritten notebooks in which his brother had MON drafted and re-drafted his great work. MON MON A chance visit to a second-hand book dealer some years later MON reconnected Guerin with the Proust family and led to his MON meeting with the man who was clearing out the apartment of MON the late Robert Proust. His wife, Marthe Proust, had MON apparently instructed that all trace of the abominable MON Marcel should be removed and burnt. She had even gone MON through published volumes, tearing out Marcel's dedicatory MON signature. And so began Guerin's pursuit of the manuscripts MON and belongings of his hero which were eventually to lead him MON to the fur lined overcoat which had accompanied Proust MON throughout most of his life including as a bedspread on the MON brass bed where he wrote 'In Search Of Lost Time'. MON MON Producer: Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wr5ss (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Revisiting the best international MON stories and guests of 2010. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5sv (Listen) MON Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 1 MON MON Prunella Scales and Anne Reid star in this fractious festive MON 11th series of the Radio 4 comedy favourite Ladies of MON Letters. By Carole Hayman & Lou Wakefield. MON MON It's Christmas and the Ladies of Letters are busy stu-ffing MON home made turkey sausages, adding hot pepper to their mulled MON wine and giving each other totally unsuitable Christmas MON presents. As family descend on them both, pressure mounts MON dangerously and the inevitable Christmas chaos ensues. MON MON As Vera returns from a festive trip to the Holy Land, she MON faces homelessness when a heartless bank buys up her home. MON Irene meanwhile is inundated with guests and annoyed that MON Vera seems too caught up in her own concerns to give her any MON attention. MON MON Vera ... Anne Reid MON Irene ... Prunella Scales MON MON Directed by Liz Webb. MON MON 11:00 Plumbers and Penguins b00wr6qk (Listen) MON In the summer of 2009, British Antarctic Survey very MON publicly recruited 43 plumbers, carpenters, mechanics, MON electricians and doctors to spend 18 months working on their MON most southerly research stations - promising "the most MON exhilarating experience of a lifetime". MON MON Now we hear what actually happened to the new recruits. MON MON Almost 2000 tradesman applied to be parted from their white MON vans and sent into whiteout conditions. There was to be no MON back up at the builders' yard, no disappearing off the job MON for several weeks, and no copy of The Sun in the cab. MON Doctors were also hired to care for their welfare in such MON extreme conditions. MON MON In "Plumbers and Penguins", Chris Eldon Lee follows the MON frozen fortunes of two of the new recruits and their equally MON adventurous companions. MON MON Mark Green, a 48-year-old Bristol plumber, was sent to MON Halley Research Station on the eastern side of the Antarctic MON Peninsula. His job is to keep water supplies flowing at MON temperatures of minus 50 Celsius. 30-year-old Claire Lehman, MON a recently qualified Wiltshire GP, was posted to Rothera, on MON the western shore of the Peninsula. MON MON Like everybody else in Antarctica, both have had to learn MON brand new skills to help keep their Bases going. Mark finds MON himself abseiling down precipitous crevasses and learning to MON be a sea-ice driver's mate. Claire is refuelling planes and MON supplying all the field scientists with freshly baked MON Christmas Cakes. MON MON The programme follows the Antarctic year from Burns Night MON (in high summer), through the long dark winter to the June MON 21st Mid Winter Solstice, back into daylight and on towards MON the Christmas preparations. MON MON What remarkable things have they experienced in the past 12 MON months? How are they handing their long distant MON relationships? And why have they all developed such a MON passion for penguins? MON MON Produced by Chris Eldon Lee MON A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Jeeves in Manhattan b00wx6rn (Listen) MON Martin Jarvis performs 'Jeeves and the Unbidden Guest', the MON second of two of P.G. Wodehouse's celebrated 'New York' MON stories, starring blithe Bertie Wooster and his urbane valet MON Jeeves. It was recorded in front of a live audience - a MON packed house at the Everyman Theatre - as a highlight of the MON 2010 Cheltenham Festival of Literature. MON MON In this one-man tour de force, as well as the characters of MON Jeeves and Wooster, Jarvis also portrays chinless wonder MON Lord Pershore and his lordship's formidable mother Lady MON Malvern. As her ladyship and her son arrive in New York MON expecting hospitality from Bertie (and therefore Jeeves) the MON situation becomes electric. MON MON After Lord Pershore sets about to misbehave his way around MON the night clubs of Manhattan it is left to Jeeves to seek a MON solution. Wodehouse wrote these sparkling stories in 1925 MON during the period when he was living in Manhattan and MON enjoying great success as a lyric writer for American MON musicals. The tales provide a brilliantly humorous MON perspective for Jeeves and Bertie Wooster on how to deal MON with eccentric Americans, plus how to cope with the Brits MON abroad. MON MON Producer/Director: Pete Atkin MON A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00wr6qp (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00wqjnj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00wr6qr (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00wr6qt (Listen) MON (10/17) Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair for MON the tenth heat in the current series. At stake is another MON automatic place in the semi-finals, which begin in the new MON year. This week's competitors are from Widnes, Coventry, MON Chesterfield and Greater Manchester. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00wr5hm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 On Mardle Fen b00wr6qw (Listen) MON Series 3, The Dancing Stone MON MON By Nick Warburton. Comedy drama starring Trevor Peacock as MON inspirational chef Warwick Hedges . MON Warwick discovers a large, flat stone with strange marking MON half buried in a clump of trees on the edge of Mardle Fen. MON He wants to display it in the restaurant but odd-job man MON Samuel says he moves the stone at his peril. MON MON Warwick Hedges...Trevor Peacock MON Jack...Sam Dale MON Marcia...Kate Buffery MON Samuel...John Rowe MON Zofia...Helen Longworth MON Fay...Christine Kavanagh MON Bernard...Tony Bell MON MON Directed by Claire Grove. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00wv96h (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Woman's World b00wr6r0 (Listen) MON The Primary School MON MON "I felt awkward going to school - it was only women who did MON - it just wasn't a man thing. It didn't seem right." Colin, MON a parent at Sanquhar Primary School in Dumfries and MON Galloway, reflects on how he used to feel about going into school. MON MON The series on men with jobs in female workplaces begins with MON the story of Alex Douglas, the only man in the staff room. MON Alex talks about his battle to get men like Colin to engage MON with the school. Five years ago - after only one man turned MON up for a parents' evening - he set up a Dads' club. Alex MON explains how he persuaded Sanquhar Dads to join the club (he MON drew on his background as a professional photographer) and MON then managed to keep it going. MON MON "In most primary schools, because it's a female environment, MON the female view takes precedence", he argues. "When my MON children were at primary school, I was available to help out MON during the day, and not once was I asked. But my wife was." MON MON Chris Ledgard meets Sanquhar staff, parents and children who MON talk about how Mr Douglas' good idea changed a school MON culture. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00wr4hz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00wr6r2 (Listen) MON The three wise-men MON MON Ernie Rea chairs Radio 4's theological discussion programme MON in which guests from different faith and non-faith MON perspectives debate the challenges of today's world. MON MON Each week a panel is assembled to represent a diversity of MON views and opinions, which often reveal hidden, complex and MON sometimes contradictory understandings of the world around us. MON MON In this programme, Ernie Rea and guests discuss the story of MON the visit of the Magi, or Wise-men to the infant Jesus told MON in St Matthew's account of the Nativity. MON MON Who could the Magi have been? From where did they travel, MON having seen a star in the east and why would they have MON recognised it as a significant sign? Is there more to this MON story than a colourful image on a Christmas card and the MON inspiration for a well known carol? MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00wr6r4 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wqjnl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:15 15 Minute Musical b00wr6r6 (Listen) MON Series 6, The Lying King MON MON 15 Minute Musical gets its musical teeth back into easily MON identifiable public figures and gives them a West End MON Musical make-over. MON MON Tonight the spotlight is on the Coalition in 'Lying King' a MON magical musical that follows the journey of young lion cub MON Cleggba as he meets the wily Scarmeron and follows him to MON the elephant's graveyard. MON MON Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Jess Robinson MON Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick MON Music by: Richie Webb MON Music Production: Matt Katz MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00wr6r8 (Listen) MON Series 54, Episode 1 MON MON The 54th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more quality, desk-based entertainment MON for all the family, as the series starts its run from the MON Town Hall in Leeds. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and MON Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Phill Jupitus, MON with Jack Dee as the programme's reluctant chairman. Regular MON listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless MON revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON Producer ..... Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00wr6rb (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00wr6rd (Listen) MON Front Row Special - Hitchcock's Women MON MON Mark Lawson focuses on how director Alfred Hitchcock worked MON with women, including interviews with Tippi Hedren, star of MON The Birds and Marnie; Marli Renfro, the body-double in MON Psycho; Jean Marsh, who appeared in Frenzy; and Terry MON Johnson, author of the play Hitchcock Blonde. MON MON Producer Ella-mai Robey. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5sv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Pakistan After the Deluge b00wr6sp (Listen) MON The floods of the summer of 2010 were the worst natural MON disaster Pakistan has ever faced. Yet the political MON consequences could be disastrous too. MON MON Lyse Doucet travels across Pakistan to assess how the MON landscape of power has shifted. The central government was MON exposed as weak, ineffective and corrupt. The Islamic MON political parties tried hard to make capital out of the MON situation, but there is evidence that they were not as MON effective as is sometimes said. The real power came from the MON army, which showed itself as the only organised force in MON Pakistani society. MON MON What will be the long-term consequences for this crucial MON pivotal state? MON Producer: Mark Lobel. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00wqdcc (Listen) MON It is called "Laamb" or "La Lutte Sénégalaise". Originating MON in the countryside as a test of strength for farmers and MON fishermen, Senegalese wresting moved to the city with the MON migrants. It took on punching to become "La Lutte avec MON frappe". It involves special charms, singers, drummers and MON excited crowds, with the champions now earning huge amounts MON of money. In Crossing Continents David Goldblatt examines MON how wrestling has become Senegal's most popular sport, MON deposing even football. MON Producer: John Murphy. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00wqfn4 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell MON research. MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00wqkvb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00wr5rr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00wqjnn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00wr6tl (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 b00wr6tn (Listen) MON Jamaica Inn, Episode 6 MON MON Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. MON Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths MON MON Tamsin Greig reads episode six of Daphne Du Maurier's dark MON and intriguing gothic tale. MON MON After the death of her mother, Mary Yellan has gone to live MON with her Aunt Patience and Uncle Joss at Jamaica Inn, MON situated amidst the bleak Cornish landscape. Mary has learnt MON the true nature of her vicious Uncle's business and has MON found a confidant in the vicar Francis Davey. She discovers MON that she's attracted to her Uncle's younger brother Jem but MON is unsure if he's involved with his brother's violent MON smuggling activities or not and as a result has mixed MON feelings about him. In this episode Mary takes a trip to MON Launceston with Jem but it ends unexpectedly. MON MON Producer: Alison Crawford. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00wqbdv (Listen) MON Michael Rosen begins a new series by exploring the British MON Library's first ever exhibition on the history of English. MON The exhibition is called "Evolving English", and Michael's MON guests include David Crystal, the author of the book of the MON same name. Comics, adverts, text messages and trading MON records have all been used by the British Library to chart MON the development of English from a language spoken on a small MON island to the global language we know today. The curators MON explain how they chose the exhibits, including the earliest MON surviving copy of Beowulf, the King James Bible, and the MON poem "Essay to Miss Catharine Jay", which contains the MON phrase "I wrote 2 U B 4", printed well over a hundred years MON before the advent of text messaging. MON MON 23:30 Mandela in His Own Words b00wr4j3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] MON MON TUE TUESDAY 28 DECEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00wr5hw (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:15 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00hkrbb (Listen) TUE Astronomy for Dummies TUE TUE Award winning comedian, Josie Long (BBC New Comedy Awards, TUE if.comedy Best Newcomer 2006) presents her first radio TUE series, in which she aims to explore all of the planet's TUE wonders (in detail) over four 14 minute episodes. TUE TUE This comedy series is all about Long's desire to better TUE herself through learning and her enjoyment of discovering TUE things in reference books. TUE TUE Josie is joined by Irish comedian, Maeve Higgins, and by a TUE variety of comedic guests -Robin Ince, Chris Neill, Daniel TUE Harkin, Henning Wehn and Isy Suttie, plus the occasional TUE actual expert. TUE TUE Each episode is anchored by Josie and Maeve in the studio, TUE with Josie presenting her essay on the week's given subject TUE and Maeve helping with questions, illustrations and TUE interruptions. The guests help to play extra characters or TUE to provide specialist advice. TUE TUE This week, Josie uses the book "Astronomy for Dummies" to TUE try and unravel the greater mysteries of the cosmos. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00wr5sq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wr5hy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wr5j0 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wr5j2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00wr5j4 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wr7p1 (Listen) TUE With Steve Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical TUE Alliance. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00wr7p3 (Listen) TUE Winter on the Farm 2/5 TUE Winter vegetables should be in abundance at this time of TUE year for warming stews and roast dinners but in extremes the TUE weather can ruin the crop. Caz Graham visits Stockley Farm TUE in Warrington as they battle sub zero temperatures to supply TUE and deliver their organic vegetable boxes. The vegetables TUE lie frozen into the ground under a layer of snow and ice TUE which can threaten the harvest and makes it a tough job for TUE those involved. TUE Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00wr7rc (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Fry's English Delight b00wr7rf (Listen) TUE Winter Special: Word Games TUE TUE Is English an innately playful language? Are word games good TUE for you? Do we divide into number and word players? Sudoku TUE and Sudon't ku? In this special winter programme, Stephen TUE examines word games in diverse formats, and challenges his TUE audience to play some unusual ones. We'll hear some familiar TUE voices playing unfamiliar games - Sheila Dillon from the TUE Food Programme plays Font or Cheese against miscellanist Ben TUE Schott, who typesets his own books. Phill Juptitus talks TUE about his personal word game habits. And we'll remember the TUE late Humphrey Lyttleton's scurrilous account of Una Stubbs TUE on Give Us A Clue, the TV version of Charades. TUE TUE At the heart of the programme a question about English - the TUE original language of the best word games like Scrabble and TUE crosswords. But is English by its nature a language that TUE encourages word play, and therefore shapes English-speaking TUE culture? Does its size and diversity make it somehow playful? TUE TUE We'll travel deep inside the mind of puzzlemaster Chris TUE Maslanka, who helps put diverse word games into categories. TUE And we'll examine an extraordinary claim - that the fashion TUE for increasingly cryptic crosswords helped save the free TUE world from Nazi domination. TUE TUE The psychology of word games is also considered. Pondering TUE over words requires a special kind of relaxation. Word TUE association games used to bring to mind an old cliche. TUE Supposedly they revealed your innermost thoughts, usually to TUE psychiatrists sat alongside chaises longues. Now they're TUE more the preserve of improvised comedy, so we visit the TUE Comedy Store in London to experience the lightning reflexes TUE of some top word-athletes. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Baker TUE A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:30 Top of the Class b00wr7rh (Listen) TUE Series 2, Marcus du Sautoy TUE TUE John Wilson meets Professor Marcus du Sautoy in the first of TUE a new series of Top of the Class. Marcus went to Gillots TUE Comprehensive School in Henley and whilst he was there, he TUE excelled academically, particularly in maths and playing the TUE trumpet. TUE TUE When he was 13, his maths teacher, Mr. Bailson, asked him to TUE step outside for a chat whilst he smoked his mid-morning TUE break cigar. Marcus thought he was in trouble and was TUE mightily relieved when instead, Mr. Bailson chose the break TUE time to talk about the beauty of maths and of the text books TUE Marcus should look at outside of the normal secondary school TUE curriculum. TUE TUE The chat has stayed with Marcus and he describes it now as a TUE formative moment when he was enthralled by the possibilities TUE of mathematics. Professor Du Sautoy is currently the Simonyi TUE Professor for the Public Understanding of Science and he TUE takes the morning off from his calculations to go back to TUE his old school with John Wilson who reunites him with Mr. TUE Bailson and his best friend from school and fellow TUE trumpeter, Helen Brind. TUE TUE Helen has brought along her photo album from the time which TUE shows Marcus in all his thespian glory and Marcus has found TUE his old school report. TUE TUE Join John Wilson as Marcus and Mr. Bailson walk to the spot TUE where the "cigar" moment took place and Marcus' best friend TUE Helen flicks through her photo album. And more importanly, TUE don't miss Helen and Marcus playing their trumpets together TUE again - thirty years later. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00wr5s4 (Listen) TUE Proust's Overcoat, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Lorenza Foschini. The family history of Marcel Proust was TUE not a particularly happy one. Following the death of Robert TUE Proust his widow, Marthe, seizes her chance to get rid of TUE everything relating to her celebrated brother in law. TUE TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wr7rk (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. A programme to celebrate age, TUE wisdom and experience featuring Vanessa Regrave. Joining TUE Jane, the actress Sylvia Syms and the writer Jane Miller who TUE share their own experiences of getting older, love, TUE laughter, work and death. And they reflect on contributions TUE from this year's inspiring guests including Joan Rivers, TUE oceanographer Sylvia Earle, writer Diana Athill and the TUE Taylor Maids. TUE Producer: Dianne McGregor. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5v6 (Listen) TUE Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 2 TUE TUE Prunella Scales and Anne Reid star in this fractious festive TUE 11th series of the Radio 4 comedy favourite Ladies of TUE Letters. By Carole Hayman & Lou Wakefield. TUE TUE Irene has to hold back on her grievances with Vera's TUE selfishness when Vera's daughter Karen has a serious TUE health scare. TUE TUE Vera ..... Anne Reid TUE Irene ..... Prunella Scales TUE TUE Directed by Liz Webb. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00wr7rm (Listen) TUE Episode 35 TUE TUE 35/40 Saving Species sent Matthew Hill to India to TUE investigate a story about tiger conservation. The story has TUE a direct link to Bristol, the home city of the BBC Natural TUE History Unit, in Mr Ash Pawade - a retired heart surgeon. TUE Ash Pawade has set up a charity "Hands for Life" which takes TUE volunteer NHS surgeons to Anandwan Hospital in his home TUE state of Chandrapur to provide operations for the poor. It TUE was when operating on people after alleged tiger attacks TUE that Ash, and Saving Species, learnt about the struggle TUE conservationists are having in the area to conserve tigers, TUE where tigers clearly have the potential to be the neighbours TUE from hell. Matthew Hill discovers a remarkable story of TUE education and forest conservation driven by the very same TUE people that Ash Pawade treats through his charity. These are TUE the rural poor, who turned away a million Rupees per family TUE from a mining company to keep a forest and live next door to TUE one of the most iconic predators on earth. Journalist TUE Matthew Hill investigates. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsty Henderson TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 A House for the End of Life b00wr7rp (Listen) TUE Once upon a time architects made magnificent buildings in TUE the name of health and wellbeing. The Greeks built spas TUE around the great theatres, the medievals made cathedrals of TUE their hospitals and opened them to pilgrims. TUE TUE In this programme Susan Marling looks at work architects are TUE doing now to dramatically enhance small healthcare buildings TUE - especially Maggie centres which are for cancer sufferers TUE and hospices for people with life-shortening diseases. Many TUE of these buildings are inspirational. They show the power of TUE good design and beautiful gardens in lifting the human TUE spirit and restoring to the patient a sense of dignity and TUE individuality. TUE TUE Susan speaks to leading architects Rem Koolhaus, Zaha Hadid TUE and Richard Murphy . She visits the award winning St TUE Oswald's hospice in Newcastle, and the Maggie centre by TUE Frank Gehry in Dundee. Julia Neuberger talks about our TUE contemporary attitude to death and ways in which architects TUE are confronting it. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Marling TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00wr7rr (Listen) TUE Is the Traditional family still alive ? Tell us how the TUE breakdown of a relationship or a divorce has changed the way TUE you spend the holidays. How difficult do you find it to TUE please everyone from kids to in-laws to former partners and TUE members of the step family. How has the modern family TUE influenced the way you view this time of year and how you TUE choose to celebrate it. TUE TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. on 03700 100 444 TUE (lines open at 10am on the day) or email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00wr5j6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00wr7rt (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 The British Reggae Revolution b00wr7rw (Listen) TUE In the late 1970s there was an explosion of bands that TUE completely connected with disenchanted youth all over TUE Britain. They sang about isolation and rejection from a TUE society that didn't understand them. But it wasn't punk TUE music, it was reggae. Groups like Aswad, Steel Pulse, TUE Matumbi and Misty in Roots were formed by first generation, TUE British-born blacks who eloquently voiced the fear and TUE anguish of growing up in a predominantly white society. TUE Brought up on British pop and their parents' records, they TUE combined a punk attitude with a Jamaican reggae sound. Their TUE efforts to become successful mirrored thousands of young TUE black kids across the UK who were coping with a right-wing TUE backlash to the influx of Caribbean immigrants. The National TUE Front were stirring up racial hatred and the government's TUE SUS law resulted in hundreds of black people stopped and TUE searched on the mere suspicion of committing a crime. It TUE wasn't long before there was rioting in the streets. The TUE British reggae bands provided the soundtrack to that struggle. TUE Back then Don Letts - now a Grammy Award winning film maker TUE - was the resident DJ at the infamous Roxy Club, credited TUE with turning the punks on to reggae. A first generation, TUE British-born black himself, he had a front row seat watching TUE this burgeoning scene produce hit making artists. From the TUE politicised heavy roots of bands like Steel Pulse to the TUE smooth pop hits of Lovers' Rock, Don examines how Britain TUE produced its very own reggae revolution. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00wr6rb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00wwbzj (Listen) TUE The Darkness of Wallis Simpson TUE TUE A play imagining the last days of Wallis Simpson, Duchess of TUE Windsor, the woman for whom King Edward VIII gave up the TUE throne of England in 1936. Wallis is now 79 years old. TUE Edward has been dead for fourteen years. TUE TUE The play pivots upon a single dramatic conceit: that Wallis, TUE now entering the darkness of approaching death, has TUE forgotten every single thing about Edward. Her entire part TUE in what an American journalist once called "the greatest TUE story since the Resurrection" has completely gone from her TUE mind. Other moments in her life she can vividly recall, but TUE the world-shaking events at the heart of it are lost to her TUE - apparently forever. TUE TUE She lies bedridden in her house in Paris. A lawyer friend, TUE Maitre Suzanne Blum has taken charge of her care. But, TUE believing that Wallis has deliberately chosen to forget her TUE "role in history", Blum is determined to force her to TUE remember this vital bit of the past, before she dies. TUE TUE Cast: TUE Wallis Simpson ..... Elizabeth McGovern TUE Maitre Blum/ Grandmother..... Miriam Margolyes TUE Ernest Simpson ..... Joseph Kloska TUE Wallis' Mother ..... Barbara Barnes TUE Cecil Beaton ..... Nigel Anthony TUE Win Spencer ..... John Chancer TUE TUE Original Music by David Chilton TUE TUE Producer: Gordon House TUE A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00wr8pg (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00wr8pj (Listen) TUE The Victorian Clown: The Circus Memories of TUE James Frowde, Beginnings TUE TUE James Frowde's memoirs - taken from the book 'The Victorian TUE Clown' by Jacky Bratton and Ann Featherstone and adapted for TUE radio and performed by Tony Lidington - represent the TUE closest we have to a first-hand, vernacular description of TUE the daily life of a British circus clown in the mid TUE Nineteenth Century. TUE TUE At that time, circus people and pantomime artists were on TUE the lowest rung of the cultural ladder, just a step above TUE vagrants and beggars; indeed they were viewed with suspicion TUE and fear by those who aspired or achieved more stable, TUE residential lives. Few people travelled very far in those TUE days, so this was an era when the circus and fairground were TUE glimpses into an exotic, thrilling world, which lay beyond TUE the parish or county boundaries. Strange people performing TUE strange feats, crazy antics which defied convention and TUE expectation, wild animals tamed, colour and glitter, music TUE and movement - all for a day and then gone, overnight, like TUE a dream. TUE TUE Here is the life of an ordinary, workaday, Victorian clown, TUE whose tricks and antics prepared the ground for the TUE comedians and wits we love today. Basil Fawlty, Tony TUE Hancock, Stan & Olly, Paul Whitehouse & Harry Enfield all TUE have their roots in the itinerant lives and familiar TUE material of the comedians who plied their trade in circus TUE rings and wooden fit-ups in the early years of Queen TUE Victoria's reign - before even the music halls came of age. TUE TUE Frowde remembers starting work doing menial jobs at TUE Hengler's Circus - owned by his grandfather. TUE TUE Adapted and read by Tony Lidington. TUE Producer: David Blount TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Woman's World b00wr8pl (Listen) TUE The Nail Bar TUE TUE The series on men with jobs in female workplaces continues TUE with the story of Gareth Apajee, a nail bar worker from TUE Swansea. Gareth tells Chris Ledgard why he decided to train TUE in the beauty industry and discusses the reaction of his TUE family, colleagues and customers. Chris visits Gower College TUE in Swansea and hears that men are starting to take up places TUE on beauty therapy courses, but are still in a very small TUE minority. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00wr8pn (Listen) TUE Christmas is over and now the TV ads are all about holidays. TUE Michael Rosen considers the language of travel and tourism. TUE TUE At the World Travel Market he collects the adjectives that TUE are used to sell holidays, then discusses them with a TUE professor of linguistics who specialises in the subject. TUE Travel journalist Simon Calder adds some travel trade jargon. TUE TUE Producer: Peter Everett. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00wr8pq (Listen) TUE Series 23, Sammy Davis Jr TUE TUE Lionel Blair chooses his friend and dancing partner Sammy TUE Davis Jr. Puerto Rican, Jewish, with only one eye - and one TUE of the greatest all-round entertainers of all time. Lionel TUE danced and sang with Sammy in a dazzling performance on the TUE stage at the Royal Variety Performance in 1961, and he TUE revisits that memory through an evocative archive recording. TUE Paul Gambaccini is on hand to help presenter Matthew Parris TUE draw out the contradictions and triumphs of Sammy Davis Jr's TUE great American life. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00wr8ps (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wr5j8 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:15 15 Minute Musical b00wr8pv (Listen) TUE Series 6, Mary Poppin-up-at-the-last-minute-to-score-the-winner TUE TUE The fun-size yet satisfying musicals take an easily TUE identifiable public figure and give them a West End Musical TUE make-over. TUE TUE Mary Poppin-thebackofthenet is a 15 Minute Musical about a TUE man struggling with his errant boys. So, Fabio Capello TUE engages a new coaching assistant to sort them out - Mary TUE Poppin-thebackofthenet TUE TUE Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Jess Robinson TUE Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick TUE Music by: Richie Webb TUE Music Production: Matt Katz TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00wqj4v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 08:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00wr6rq (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00wr6s7 (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5v6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Amnesty at 50 b00wr8px (Listen) TUE As it reaches its 50th year, John Tusa reflects on the TUE distinguished past of an organization awarded the Nobel TUE Peace Prize in 1977 but which has recently attracted TUE criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most TUE committed activists. Has Amnesty lost its way? And what will TUE be its future role? TUE TUE Producer: Merilyn Harris TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00wr8pz (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00wr8q1 (Listen) TUE A Night in ER TUE TUE Dr Mark Porter discovers the difference between the TUE old-style Casualty and a modern hospital Emergency TUE Department like Southampton's - where the latest technology TUE is used to rapidly assess and treat everything from TUE suspected strokes and heart attacks to febrile convulsions TUE and broken limbs. TUE TUE As well as running the busy Southampton ED - which treats TUE 90,000 patients every year - Dr John Heyworth is also TUE President of the College of Emergency Medicine. He says the TUE discipline has managed to evolve - from one which provided a TUE surgical "fixing" service 25 years ago - to today's, TUE providing rapid support for an increasing number of TUE critically ill patients. The complex needs of our ageing TUE population puts extra demands on the staff - and Southampton TUE has a consultant in the ED until midnight, every day of the TUE week to provide the best possible care. TUE TUE Specialist staff including Emergency Nurse Practitioners are TUE on hand as a guide through how children are assessed and TUE treated in a separate areas, the triage system and the TUE infamous 4 hour waits. As well as a resuscitation area, the TUE ED is close to the Cath Lab - where a balloon is used to TUE widen blocked arteries. If a heart attack is suspected, a TUE troponin blood test will be carried out quickly by the ED to TUE give a definitive answer, giving a safe and timesaving TUE outcome for patients. TUE TUE Mark Porter asks how the ED in Britain compares with the TUE rest of the world - and how emergency care will fare in TUE these straitened times. TUE Producer: Paula McGrath. TUE TUE 21:30 Fry's English Delight b00wr7rf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00wr5jb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00wr8q3 (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 b00wr8q5 (Listen) TUE Jamaica Inn, Episode 7 TUE TUE Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. TUE Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths TUE Reader: Tamsin Greig TUE TUE Mary is unwillingly drawn into the dark deeds of Joss and TUE his accomplices. And, as she struggles with events beyond TUE her control, Mary is further thrown by her feelings for a TUE man she dare not trust. TUE TUE Producer: Alison Crawford. TUE TUE 23:00 The Phone b00wr8q7 (Listen) TUE Tourist Trap TUE TUE By Jon Sen. TUE TUE A series of late night thrillers, each connected by a TUE mysterious mobile phone. When Charlotte picks up the wrong TUE suitcase at the airport, a mini-break on a Greek island soon TUE becomes a holiday from hell. TUE TUE Sophie . . . . . Kellie Shirley TUE Charlotte . . . . . Lydia Wilson TUE Andreas . . . . . Harry Katsari TUE Doctor . . . . . Chris Pavlo TUE Voice . . . . . Sean Baker TUE TUE Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 23:30 All Bar Luke b00pg5dh (Listen) TUE Christmas Special TUE TUE Luke ferries Lee and Hayley between Christmas dinners with TUE their parents nursing family conflict, marital breakdown and TUE his own broken heart in typically fumbling style. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 29 DECEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00wr5jd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:15 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00hqhzh (Listen) WED The Enlightenment WED WED This week, Josie explores the history of collecting things WED and discovers the Enlightenment. She tries to defy her WED arty-student past, by becoming more scientific and takes WED controversial anatomist and Bodyworks impresario, Professor WED Gunther von Hagens to task for being a "demon with ready WED access to plasticine." WED WED Playing Professor Von Hagens in this episode is German WED stand-up comedian Henning Wehn. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00wr5s4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wr5jg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wr5jj (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wr5jl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00wr5jn (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wr9pc (Listen) WED With Steve Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical WED Alliance. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00wr7pc (Listen) WED The Norfolk farmer who will spend Christmas looking after WED 4,000 sheep. Jim Fletcher's sheep are spread over a 20 mile WED radius in The Fens. While many people will spend the WED festivities in the warmth inside, Jim will be braving the WED relentless wind feeding and tending his sheep. But he still WED believes he has the best job in the world. WED Presenter: Anna Hill WED Producer: Fran Barnes. WED WED 06:00 Today b00wr7pw (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; WED Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00wr9pf (Listen) WED Libby Purves is reunited with four guests who were on WED Midweek a decade ago. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00wr5s6 (Listen) WED Proust's Overcoat, Episode 3 WED WED By Lorenza Foschini. Guerin is determined to salvage all he WED can from the house clearance, but Werner is not as WED forthcoming as he might be. WED WED Producer: Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wr9ph (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women with news, views and interviews of WED topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5v8 (Listen) WED Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 3 WED WED Prunella Scales and Anne Reid star in this fractious festive WED 11th series of the Radio 4 comedy favourite Ladies of WED Letters. By Carole Hayman & Lou Wakefield. WED WED Vera and Irene have a major falling out after Vera's WED theories about Irene's relations cause family uproar. WED WED Vera ..... Anne Reid WED Irene ..... Prunella Scales WED WED Directed by Liz Webb. WED WED 11:00 Where England Meets Wales b00wr9pk (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED The Border between England and Wales wiggles its way from WED the Dee just south of Liverpool to the Severn at Chepstow. WED It's 160 miles long and Hardeep Singh Kohli journeys down it WED in two programmes, exploring its turbulent past, and its WED changing present. Since devolution, it has a new WED significance, with the Welsh Assembly implementing policies WED which add interest, and sometimes, confusion, to those WED living around the Border. But Hardeep also has time to WED explore its rich heritage, from the massive castles left by WED the invading Normans and English, to the areas of WED outstanding beauty from the Brecon Beacons to the Forest of Dean. WED WED In the first programme Hardeep arrives at Flint Castle, the WED hefty stone marker put down by Edward I when he decided that WED the Welsh needed to be brought to heel. The Labour peer Lord WED Barry Jones has lived in the Flint and Deeside area all his WED life, and talks to Hardeep about the industrial crash in the WED 80's and the new developments. WED WED A Welsh Assembly priority was to put the Welsh language WED literally on the map. Its bilingual policy is evident in the WED road signs, as Hardeep meets a group of Welsh speakers. The WED Borders have fewer Welsh speakers, but with Welsh a WED compulsory language up to GCSE, 'Hello' is becoming 'Bored'. WED WED Hardeep also encounters two massive artefacts- first the WED Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, built in the early 19th century, and WED the much earlier earthwork, the dyke masterminded by King WED Offa 1200 years ago. The dyke only survives in chunks these WED days, but, says expert Ian Bapty, 'We all have Offa's Dyke WED within us!' WED WED In the second programme Hardeep continues southwards meeting WED Border people, who may relish their history, but find WED themselves entangled in policies now separating the place WED 'Where England meets Wales'. WED WED Producer: Richard Bannerman WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00wv6cd (Listen) WED Series 6, Tour Guide WED WED After meeting a Tour Operator in the street whilst doing his WED daily chores, Arthur joins a Tour Bus giving guided journeys WED around the city - and is, as only Arthur can be, hugely WED disappointed with his experience. WED WED Misunderstandings and misinformation abound, and after a WED stop to buy some pies from the market Arthur heads to the WED Shoulder of Mutton to talk through his annoyance at the WED day-so-far with Jack. WED WED He comes up with a plan to develop his very own and much WED improved tours of the city and, not having a bus at his WED disposal, decides to conduct walking tours. WED WED Whilst starting this new venture in earnest, Artrhur's WED best-laid plans, as usual, don't quite go as he'd hoped... WED WED Count Arthur Strong ..... Steve Delaney WED Woman/Market Trader/ WED Shop Assistant/Old Woman ..... Melanie Giedroyc WED Tour Operator/Official/ WED Jack/Old Man ..... Dave Mounfield WED Announcer/Tour Guide/ WED Man/Aussie ...... Alastair Kerr WED WED Producers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe & John Leonard WED A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for WED BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00wr9pm (Listen) WED Consumer affairs. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00wr5jq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00wr9pp (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00wr9pr (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett and guests discuss the biggest media stories WED of the year. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00wr6rq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00g50lh (Listen) WED Hong Kong by Night WED WED by In-Sook Chappell. WED WED Locked out of her apartment, Poppy can either wait for dawn WED in the lobby, or accept Arthur's invitation to explore Hong WED Kong by night... A love story about loneliness and belonging WED from an award-winning young writer. WED WED Arthur ..... Oliver Williams WED Poppy ..... Liz Sutherland WED Alice/Waitress ..... Nina Kwok WED WED Director: Abigail le Fleming. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00wr9pt (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00wr9pw (Listen) WED The Victorian Clown: The Circus Memories of WED James Frowde, Tenting & Travelling WED WED Frowde remembers performing as a contortionist known as the WED 'Duke of Limbs'. WED WED Adapted and read by Tony Lidington. WED WED Producer: David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Woman's World b00wr9py (Listen) WED The Midwife WED WED The series on men with jobs in mainly female workplaces WED continues with the story of Andy Yelland, a male midwife. WED Andy and his wife Mandy - who is also a midwife - discuss WED attitudes towards men in their profession. "It is an odd job WED for a man to do" says Andy, "there's no doubt about it". His WED route into the job was unusual - he had previously been a WED geologist. Chris Ledgard talks to Andy's colleagues at St WED Michael's Hospital in Bristol to find out what they think of WED his work, and hears about occasions when patients have asked WED to be looked after by a woman. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00wr9q0 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor talks to Professor Russell Jacoby, Professor WED Ash Amin, Professor Barbara Graziosi and The Bishop of WED Whitby, Martin Warner, about whether we can imagine 'utopia' WED in the 21st century. In an age that some describe as filled WED with anxiety and uncertainty, are we breeding a kind of WED fatalism towards the future that excludes any notion of WED utopia? How indeed might we define and describe utopia? Can WED utopian ideas be not only practical and pragmatic but also WED democratic? When considering utopia where does religious WED faith and thinking intertwine with the secular world? Can we WED even talk about commonly held utopian ideals or are we WED condemned to imagine utopia only as fantasy, as an WED intellectual or artistic excerise that is, ultimately, futile. WED WED producer. Chris Wilson. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00wr8q1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00wr9q2 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00wr5js (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:15 15 Minute Musical b00wr9q4 (Listen) WED Series 6, Thoroughly Modern Miliband WED WED Beautifully crafted with astronomically high production WED values 15 Minute Musical does for your ears what chocolate WED does for your taste buds. All in fifteen minutes! WED WED Thoroughly Modern Miliband is a 15 Minute Musical about Ed WED Miliband and the Labour leadership battle. WED WED Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Jess Robinson WED Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick WED Music by: Richie Webb WED Music Production: Matt Katz WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell WED WED 18:30 Shappi Talk b00x23w5 (Listen) WED Series 2, Addiction WED WED Shappi Khorsandi delves into the controversial world of WED addiction revealing her own personal experiences in the WED third of this four part series. Having herself struggled WED with food disorders, Shappi reveals what it's like to have WED an addictive personality but being able to have a laugh WED along the way. WED With this insight, Shappi has relaxed chat with TV host WED Trisha Goddard, someone who has herself experienced WED addictions throughout her adult life. Comedian Mike Gunn WED uses his drug experience to wittily debunk a few myths. WED Duncan Oakley will also provide a comic song. WED Producer: Paul Russell WED An Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00wr6rs (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00wr6s9 (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5v8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00wr9q8 (Listen) WED Legal Aid WED WED Clive Anderson and some of the country's top lawyers and WED judges discuss legal issues of the day. WED WED The second programme in the series explores the state of our WED legal aid system and examines how our access to justice WED could be affected by proposed Government cuts. Guests WED include Justice Minister, Jonathan Djanogly, who is WED responsible for the Government's legal aid policy, and the WED Bar Council chairman, Nicholas Green QC, who is a major WED critic of the cuts. WED WED Widespread concern has been expressed about plans to cut WED nearly a third of the total legal aid budget. It will mean WED that civil legal aid would only be routinely available in WED cases where life or liberty is at stake, or where there is a WED risk of serious physical harm or loss of home. Funding for a WED wide range of disputes, including some divorce cases and WED clinical negligence, is to be axed. WED WED The programme examines Justice Secretary, Kenneth Clarke's WED assertion that there is a "compelling case for going back to WED first principles in reforming legal aid". Will the cuts WED reduce access to justice, closing the law to all but those WED with money? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 The Good Conductor b00ww59f (Listen) WED Bernard Hare, former social worker and author of the cult WED classic "Urban Grimshaw and the Shed Crew" tells a moving WED tale of the power of human compassion. He recounts a story WED from his younger years, of a night when he was desperate to WED get from London to his home town of Leeds to see his mother WED on her deathbed. He had no money, and the train schedule WED meant it looked like he could not get home in time. Then WED came the saintly intervention of the man Bernard calls "The WED Good Conductor." WED WED The story, and the lesson taught by The Good Conductor, is WED one that Bernard himself regularly tells to the young people WED he cares for as an unofficial social worker: "Pass it down WED the line." WED WED Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. WED WED 21:00 Schrodinger's Quantum Kittens b00wr9qb (Listen) WED Robin Ince examines Schrodinger's Cat, the paradox at the WED heart of quantum physics, and discovers its influence on WED science and popular culture. Fifty years after the death of WED Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger, the quantum mysteries of WED his cat-in-a-box paradox still continue to drive physicists WED in research today. Can a living thing be both alive and dead WED at the same time? WED WED Schrodinger's experiment was an almost playful creation, but WED one that stabbed at the heart of the 1930s physics WED establishment. By the 1950s, US physicist Hugh Everett WED concluded that, indeed, both a dead cat and an alive cat can WED exist, but in separate universes. His 'Many Worlds' theory WED inspired authors, from Philip K Dick to Philip Pullman. WED WED Robin follows in the Austrian physicist's footsteps to WED Oxford University, where Schrodinger was once a fellow, and WED unearths some original archive at Magdalen College. WED Physicist Sir Roger Penrose speaks about its impact on WED quantum theory to this day. Why has Schrodinger's Cat gained WED such currency not just in science but popular culture? WED Writer Alan Moore tells how it created a new wave of 1960s WED sci-fi literature. WED WED So why has Schrodinger's Cat caught the imagination of WED non-scientists? How is it misinterpreted and used to explain WED mankind's many unknowns? What is its place at the cutting WED edge of quantum physics? Robin meets today's physicists and WED thinkers who still tangle with the idea. And we find, no WED doubt, that Schrodinger's Cat (in all probability) is very WED much alive today. WED WED Producer: Dominic Byrne WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00wr9pf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00wr5jv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00wr9qs (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 b00wr9qv (Listen) WED Jamaica Inn, Episode 8 WED WED Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. WED Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths WED Reader: Tamsin Greig WED WED Mary recovers from her ordeal and escapes to seek help. WED WED Producer: Alison Crawford. WED WED 23:00 iGod b00wwc1r (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED iGOD is a highly original and funny new late-night comedy WED series for Radio 4. It stars Simon Day (The Fast Show) and WED David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) and is written by one of the WED head writers of the BAFTA award-winning The Thick Of It, WED Sean Gray and produced by Simon Nicholls (Ed Reardon's Week WED / News At Bedtime). WED WED We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and WED environmentalists speak in apocalyptic terms everyday. iGOD WED says that trying to predict the end of the world is as WED pointless as moisturising an elephant's elbow. WED WED In each episode, an unnamed, all-seeing narrator (David Soul WED - Starsky and Hutch) shows us that it is stupid to be WED worrying, as he looks back at some of the most entertaining WED apocalypses on parallel Earths. Each week our case study is WED a normal bloke called Ian (Simon Day) who manages to WED accidentally initiate the apocalypse of a different parallel WED world through a seemingly harmless single act (telling a WED lie, being lazy, cooking some lambshanks). A succession of WED comic vignettes ensue that escalate to the end of a parallel WED world. WED WED With a full-range of sound effects and wonderfully funny and WED surreal twists, iGOD will be a true aural extravaganza. WED WED SIMON DAY ..... IAN WED DAVID SOUL .....THE NARRATOR WED with WED ROSIE CAVALIERO WED ALEX MACQUEEN WED DAN TETSELL WED WED Written by WED SEAN GRAY WED Produced by WED SIMON NICHOLLS. WED WED 23:15 Afternoon Reading b00m8qbt (Listen) WED Comic Fringes, Gone Phishing WED WED Series of short stories written and performed by leading new WED comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as part of WED the Festival Fringe. WED WED By Jon Richardson. A tale of love and betrayal set in a WED remote village in the Yorkshire Dales. WED WED 23:30 The League of Gentlemen's Ghost Chase b00vhfjn (Listen) WED For the first time in over five years The League of WED Gentlemen comedy team reunite for a real life paranormal WED adventure spending the night in one of Britain's most WED haunted houses. WED WED Although this quartet of comedy writers and performers has WED been influenced by horror in book, stage and screen, they WED all remain skeptical concerning the existence of ghosts. WED WED By carrying out their own investigation they will either WED challenge or confirm their beliefs. WED WED Reece Shearsmith hosts the evening as he takes the team to WED Gloucestershire to visit The Ancient Ram Inn, a favourite WED location among ghost hunting groups. WED WED The League of Gentlemen explore the reputedly haunted rooms WED of the house and take part in their very first ouija board WED session. Meeting a spirit medium, a psychic investigator and WED working with scientific equipment they examine the House's WED reputation and invite the spirits to appear - but would the WED spooks show up? WED WED THU THURSDAY 30 DECEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00wr5jx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:15 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00htxbs (Listen) THU Obscure animal facts THU THU This episode features appearances from comedian Chris Neill, THU Josie's Dad, Geoff Long and host of Jordan, Jesse Go! and THU The Sound of Young America, "America's Radio Sweetheart," THU Jesse Thorn. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00wr5s6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wr5jz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wr5k1 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wr5k3 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00wr5k5 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wr9r5 (Listen) THU With Steve Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical THU Alliance. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00wr7pf (Listen) THU Winter in the farm: Willow harvesting on the Somerset THU Levels. Sarah Swadling visits farmer Richard Roberts, and THU basket maker, Darrell Hill, as they gather this year's crop THU at Bussex Farm near Westonzoyland. The Somerset Levels are THU the last remaining area in England where willow is grown THU commercially for basket making. THU THU Presenter: Sarah Swadling. Producer: Sarah Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b00wr7py (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; THU Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00wr9r7 (Listen) THU Consequences of the Industrial Revolution THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the far-reaching THU consequences of the Industrial Revolution. After more than a THU century of rapid technological change, and the massive THU growth of its urban centres, Britain was changed forever. THU The effects were both social and intellectual, as thinkers THU originated theories to deal with the new realities of urban THU living, mass production and a consumer society. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00wr5s8 (Listen) THU Proust's Overcoat, Episode 4 THU THU By Lorenza Foschini. The overcoat which Marcel Proust wore THU for most of the last decade of his life and which he used as THU a bedspread has a powerful hold over Guerin. THU THU Producer: Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wr9v6 (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5vb (Listen) THU Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 4 THU THU Prunella Scales and Anne Reid star in this fractious festive THU 11th series of the Radio 4 comedy favourite Ladies of THU Letters. By Carole Hayman and Lou Wakefield. THU THU Vera's daughter Karen tries to get Vera and Irene back on THU speaking terms after their vitriolic falling out. THU THU Vera ... Anne Reid THU Irene ... Prunella Scales THU Karen ... Mia Soteriou THU THU Directed by Liz Webb. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00x44dx (Listen) THU Syrian corruption THU THU orruption in Syria is commonplace. You can see it almost THU everywhere you go: from a small tip for a government worker THU to process paperwork, to customs officials requiring THU payments to allow goods into the country. The single-party THU government says it's stamping out corruption and that it's THU determined not to let it stand in the way of the country's THU economic development. But with economic reforms opening THU Syria up to foreign investment, it's claimed corruption is THU getting worse. And those who raise the issue in public can THU find themselves thrown in jail. THU The BBC's Damascus correspondent Lina Sinjab investigates THU the impact of corruption and bribery in the country, and THU looks at whether Syria's drive to modernise is being THU hampered by the millions of dollars lost in graft. THU THU Producer: Duncan Crawford. THU THU 11:30 The Israeli Madonna b00wr9vb (Listen) THU The writer and music critic Pete Paphides tells the story of THU Ofra Haza, dubbed 'The Israeli Madonna' who rose from her THU poor roots in the Yemenite community to global recognition. THU THU Pete Paphides first heard the voice of Ofra Haza on the THU Eurovision Song Contest in 1983. It was an extraordinary THU voice and belonged to a woman with extraordinary talent and THU presence. Her life and career were tragically cut short when THU she died of an AIDS-related disease. Here, Pete talks to her THU life-long manager and father figure Bezalel Aloni and THU musicians who worked with her - Ben Mandelson, Yair Nitzani, THU Ishar Ashdoth, Roger Armstrong, and producer Wally Brill. THU THU It's ten years since the death of Israel's most well-loved THU pop star Ofra Haza (Feb 2000). Until succumbing to THU AIDS-related complications, Haza enjoyed an iconic status in THU her own country. Though described as 'the Israeli Madonna', THU her importance exceeded even those comparisons. Having grown THU up the youngest of nine children in the deprived Hatikva THU Quarter of Tel Aviv, she became a teen pop sensation in her THU own country. Haza's international break came in 1983 when THU she represented Israel in the Eurovision Song Contest with THU Hi - a song whose chorus, 'Israel is alive' took it within a THU whisker of overall victory. THU THU Her breakthrough album, recorded in 1985, was Yemenite Songs THU - a piercingly beautiful collection of traditional songs THU from her own upbringing, gently updated, whilst at the same THU time retaining key aspects of the old instrumentation (tea THU trays, petrol cans). As well as cementing her status in her THU own country, Yemenite Songs was a word-of-mouth sensation THU across Europe. The a cappella intro of Im Nin Alu was THU sampled by Coldcut, which in turn prompted the song to THU become a British hit. THU THU Producer: Laura Parfitt THU A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 UK Confidential b00wv9lp (Listen) THU On the day that previously secret government files from 1980 THU are released to the public, Martha Kearney and guests THU discuss what they reveal about government thinking at the time. THU THU It was a year of government cutbacks, high unemployment and THU economic gloom. The newly-released papers highlight the THU astonishing resonance with today. THU THU Martha and guests will examine the Prime Minister's personal THU papers, complete with handwritten notes in the margins, and THU memos from trusted aides; transcripts of conversations THU between Margaret Thatcher and other world leaders; and vivid THU accounts of arguments in cabinet that show what individual THU Ministers were really thinking. THU THU As well as shedding light on what we know happened, the THU papers also reveal what didn't happen, as we hear accounts THU of policies or actions that were considered but later THU abandoned. THU THU It was the year that Polish workers won trade union rights, THU while in the UK steel workers went on strike. The government THU failed to secure a boycott of the Olympic games in Moscow, THU and Zimbabwe elected a new leader: Robert Mugabe. THU THU War broke out between Iran and Iraq and a group of American THU hostages in Tehran remained in captivity. President Jimmy THU Carter lost out to Ronald Reagan in the American elections THU and Michael Foot became leader of the Labour Party. THU THU These are just some of the stories that dominated 1980. This THU programme will reveal the issues that dominated the minds of THU Ministers at the time. THU THU Producer: Deborah Dudgeon THU A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00wr5k7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00wr9vd (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00wr9vg (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson continues his sparkling series of THU Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to THU those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by THU current events and popular culture. THU THU Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed THU and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled THU collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. THU THU How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? How do you know THU if a volcano is extinct? This is the programme which answers THU listener questions on just about everything. THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00wr6rs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00kdttk (Listen) THU Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, THU Old Unhappy Far-Off Things THU THU By John Mortimer. THU THU A Christmas treat for all Rumpole fans and all Radio 4 THU listeners who love a good whodunit with a cracking court THU case thrown in for good measure. THU THU Benedict Cumberbatch, plays the young, feisty, devastatingly THU acute legal eagle Horace Rumpole in his first big murder THU case, where he defends for the first time "alone and without THU a leader" in the case which was to make his name; and of THU course the story also marks the beginning of his life-long THU liason with "She who must be obeyed"; as we hear, recalled THU through the memoirs of the older Rumpole, how young Rumpole THU found himself engaged and married without being absolutely THU sure that he had in fact proposed in the first place! THU THU It is the fifties, a short decade after the end of the war, THU and two war heroes have been shot dead. The only suspect is THU Simon Jerrold, the son of one of the victims, and he faces THU the death penalty. Defending him is deemed hopeless, so the THU case is handed to a novice. But the novice's superiors THU didn't count on the tenacity and wit of the young and hungry THU Horace Rumpole THU THU Elder Horace Rumpole ..... Timothy West THU Young Horace Rumpole ..... Benedict Cumberbatch THU CH Wystan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Albert ..... Andy De La Tour THU Simon Jerold ..... Ewan Bailey THU Daisy ...... Emma Fielding THU Hilda Wystan ...... Jasmine Hyde THU Reggie Proudfoot ..... Stephen Critchlow THU Bonny Bernard ..... Matthew Morgan THU Judge Cookson ..... Karl Johnson THU Lord Jessop ..... David Shaw-Parker THU THU Adapted by Richard Stoneman THU Producer/Director ..... Marilyn Imrie THU A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00wqj4n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00wqkvb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00wr9vj (Listen) THU The Victorian Clown: The Circus Memories of James Frowde, THU Beasts & Clowning THU THU Frowde recalls working with a particularly wilful monkey; THU and injuring himself during a difficult horseback trick. THU THU Adapted and read by Tony Lidington. THU Producer: David Blount THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Woman's World b00wr9vl (Listen) THU The WRVS THU THU Graham Clarke tells Chris Ledgard about running a WRVS lunch THU club. The charity no longer uses its full title - the THU Women's Royal Voluntary Service - and has been taking on THU male volunteers for many years. The chief executive Lynne THU Berry discusses the balance between respecting the WRVS's THU history as a women's organisation, and establishing its new THU image in the modern world of big charity. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00wr4j9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00wr9vn (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper catches up with the four finalists of the So THU You Want to Be a Scientist talent search that was featured THU in Material World across the summer. Have they continued to THU do research and think about science? 2010 has also been a THU year when the Royal Society aimed to engage the public more THU with science, through the events that were part of its Year THU of Science. What impact have these activities had? THU THU Producer: Pamela Rutherford. THU THU 17:00 PM b00wr9vq (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 b00wr5k9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:15 15 Minute Musical b00wr9vs (Listen) THU Series 6, Just the Two Tone of Us THU THU Enjoy a West End Musical experience for a fraction of the THU cost - well, actually for no cost at all. THU THU Tonight in "Just the Two Tone of Us" artistic licence is THU well and truly taken and stretched as Ant and Dec's story is THU moulded and squeezed into a West End musical. THU THU Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Jess Robinson THU Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick THU Music by: Richie Webb THU Music Production: Matt Katz THU Producer: Katie Tyrrell THU THU 18:30 Old Harry's Game b00wr9vv (Listen) THU Ring In The New THU THU The sitcom set in hell. Satan runs his infernal world with THU the assistance of his chief demon, Scumspawn. Amongst those THU he torments are Edith, a murdered historian, and Thomas, the THU most repellent human who ever lived. THU THU Full of jokes and broad comedy the show is also a THU philosophical study of the human condition, asking such THU questions as whether man is inherently good or evil. THU THU In this episode Satan decides he needs a holiday. THU THU Satan ..... Andy Hamilton THU Edith ..... Annette Crosbie THU Scumspawn ..... Robert Duncan THU Thomas ..... Jimmy Mulville THU THU Written by Andy Hamilton THU Producer: Paul Mayhew-Archer. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00wr6rv (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00wr6sc (Listen) THU Mark Lawson reports on the temptations of the pre-quel and THU the sequel, including interviews with writers Bret Easton THU Ellis and Scott Turow. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5vb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00wr9vx (Listen) THU Current affairs investigation. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00wr9vz (Listen) THU Back on the Road THU THU The United States auto industry has just limped through the THU biggest industrial car crash in history. The Ford Motor THU Company has an industry outsider, Alan Mulally, at the helm THU as its new chief executive. He tells Peter Day how he THU changed the way Ford works and it is now back in the THU business of selling cars. THU THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00wr7rm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00wr9r7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00wr5kc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00wr9w1 (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00wr9w3 (Listen) THU Jamaica Inn, Episode 9 THU THU Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. THU Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths THU THU Tamsin Greig reads episode 9 of Daphne Du Maurier's dark and THU intriguing gothic tale. THU THU After being forced to experience the horror of a wrecking THU trip, Mary has escaped from Jamaica Inn determined to seek THU help and finally bring her uncle and his associates to THU justice. When she discovers the vicar of Altarnun away from THU home, Mary decides to turn to Squire Bassat for assistance. THU On her return to the inn, Mary makes a shocking discovery. THU THU Producer: Alison Crawford. THU THU 23:00 UK Confidential b00wv9lp (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 today] THU THU FRI FRIDAY 31 DECEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00wr5kf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:15 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00j0pp8 (Listen) FRI Propriety, plants, grandparents, and growing your own FRI FRI This week, Josie presents a show about propriety, plants, FRI grandparents, being connected to the world around you and FRI growing your own. FRI FRI This programme features a guest appearance from actress / FRI comedian Isy Suttie. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00wr5s8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00wr5kh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00wr5kk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00wr5km (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00wr5kp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00wrbrj (Listen) FRI With Steve Clifford, General Director of the Evangelical FRI Alliance. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00wr7ph (Listen) FRI Looking after wildlife on a winter farm. Charlotte Smith FRI revisits farmer Richard Haynes who has gone the extra mile FRI to encourage birds and bugs onto his Buckinghamshire farm. FRI As they take a tour of the farm, Richard shows the FRI importance of looking after Britain's native species during FRI the cold winter months and how he is using money through the FRI Higher Level Stewardship scheme to fund the creation of FRI natural habitats. FRI Presenter: Charlotte Smith FRI Producer: Fran Barnes. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00wr7q0 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00wr4hx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00wr5sb (Listen) FRI Proust's Overcoat, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Lorenza Foschini. Jacques Guerin offers up his collection FRI to the world and the author opens a cardboard box. FRI FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00wrbrl (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5vd (Listen) FRI Ladies of Letters Go Crackers, Episode 5 FRI FRI Prunella Scales and Anne Reid star in this fractious festive FRI 11th series of the Radio 4 comedy favourite Ladies of FRI Letters. By Carole Hayman & Lou Wakefield. FRI FRI Irene discovers her daughter-in-law's awful secret plan. FRI Meanwhile Vera and her family face leaving their home FRI without sufficient finances to ensure their future. FRI FRI Vera ... Anne Reid FRI Irene ... Prunella Scales FRI FRI Directed by Liz Webb. FRI FRI 11:00 Widower's Tales b00wrbrn (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI For many men the transformation after losing a partner and FRI being left alone is dramatic. We hear moving inspiring FRI stories about finding a new direction late in life. FRI FRI Guy de Mowbray, 85, started to cook after his wife died, to FRI entertain new friends. He loved the cooking so much he went FRI on to write a couple of cookery books and to speak at food FRI festivals. FRI FRI Barry, who lost his wife at 58, decided that since that FRI since the worst had already happened he would do other FRI things he'd been afraid of - among them, learning to swim FRI and learning to drive. "You get this chance. It's tragic in FRI one way but you can't stand still. And you can change your FRI life. She'd be amazed to see me now..." FRI FRI Widowers are vulnerable, but some men are determined not to FRI succumb and to build a new independent life. FRI FRI "I discovered predatory women, yes I did. I had different FRI relationships, not very well advised. I wasn't seeking sex. FRI I wanted comfort. So I think I succeeded in making one or FRI two women quite unhappy." FRI FRI We hear the stories of four men who are in the process of FRI having to rebuild their lives alone. On New Year's Eve they FRI look forward to a future they could never have anticipated. FRI FRI Producers: Elizabeth Burke and Kim Normanton FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Electric Ink b00wrbrq (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. FRI FRI A comic satire set in the struggling world FRI of newspapers. Freddy punctures FRI Maddox's literary pretensions and uncovers FRI a scandal. FRI FRI Maddox ..... John Sessions FRI Oliver ..... Alex Jennings FRI Freddy ..... Stephen Wight FRI Carol ..... Polly Frame FRI Masha ..... Debbie Chazen FRI Miles Deanbrook ..... Sean Baker FRI Waiter ..... Adeel Akhtar FRI Producer ..... Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00wrbrs (Listen) FRI At 12.30, the last in our series featuring Bob Servant FRI "Willie's Inidan Pallace" - an adaptation of "Delete This At FRI Your Peril - the Bob Servant E-Mails," in which the hero FRI takes revenge on the internet spammers of the world by FRI actually replying tto their correspondence! FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00wr5kr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00wrbrv (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00wrbrx (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the team look behind the numbers in the FRI news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00wr6rv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00kjhgj (Listen) FRI Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders, FRI Alone and Without a Leader FRI FRI By John Mortimer FRI FRI Young Horace Rumpole defends a young man, accused of murder, FRI maintaining that he is innocent until proved guilty. He FRI faces opposition from the establishment and support from FRI unexpected quarters. FRI FRI Elder Horace Rumpole ..... Timothy West FRI Young Horace Rumpole ..... Benedict Cumberbatch FRI C.H. Wystan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Albert ..... Andy De La Tour FRI Simon Jerold ..... Ewan Bailey FRI Daisy ...... Emma Fielding FRI Hilda Wystan ...... Jasmine Hyde FRI Reggie Proudfoot ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Bonny Bernard ..... Matthew Morgan FRI Judge Cookson ..... Karl Johnson FRI Lord Jessop ..... David Shaw- Parker FRI FRI Adapted by Richard Stoneman FRI Producer/Director ..... Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00wrbrz (Listen) FRI Alnwick Castle FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel explore the fantastical landscape FRI of Alnwick Castle, most commonly known as 'Hogwarts' FRI [location for the Harry Potter film shoots]. FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw guides us through the Alnwick Poison FRI Gardens. Bunny Guinness reports from the treetops, perched FRI in one of the largest treehouses in the world. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Woman's World b00wrbs1 (Listen) FRI Women's Studies FRI FRI Professor Jeff Hearn talks to Chris Ledgard about his FRI relationship with the academic world of Women's Studies. FRI After a group of female staff at Bradford University set up FRI the UK's second Women's Studies postgraduate course in the FRI early 1980s, Jeff Hearn was asked to teach on it. Professor FRI Hearn - who describes himself as a profeminist - found FRI himself, he says, "on an ambiguous margin of Women's FRI Studies." Now a professor of Gender Studies in Sweden, he FRI and his colleagues discuss his work as a man on the fringe FRI of academic feminism. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00wrbsr (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00wrbst (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Oscar winning scribe Simon Beaufoy, FRI writer of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire, about 127 FRI Hours. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00wrbsw (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 b00wr5kt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:15 15 Minute Musical b00wrbsy (Listen) FRI Series 6, QuadraQueenia FRI FRI With over thirty musicals selling out in the West End night FRI after night - the British public (and the Radio 4 audience) FRI cannot get enough of them, therefore. FRI FRI Her Majesty the Queen has had an enormous year - here it is FRI squeezed into 15 Minutes with music. FRI FRI Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Jess Robinson and Alex FRI Tregear FRI Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick FRI Music by: Richie Webb FRI Music Production: Matt Katz FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00wrbt0 (Listen) FRI The News Quiz team take a look back at 2010. FRI FRI Sue Perkins, Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, and Francis Wheen FRI make up the panel dissecting the events, people and stories FRI that made this year's headlines. Presented by Sandi Toksvig. FRI FRI Produced by Sam Bryant. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00wr6rx (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00wr6sf (Listen) FRI Front Row Quiz FRI FRI Mark Lawson turns question-master for the night, as he hosts FRI the Front Row Quiz, with two teams facing a test of their FRI arts knowledge of 2010 and beyond. FRI FRI Producer Jack Soper. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00wr5vd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Correspondents Look Ahead b00wrbt2 (Listen) FRI Will the Euro survive? Will Burma move closer to democracy? FRI And how will the Tea Party Movement make its presence felt? FRI FRI Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top FRI correspondents as they give their predictions about what FRI will shape our world next year. FRI FRI Radio 4 listeners can have their say on next year's big FRI stories by joining the 'Listeners Look Ahead' with Stephen FRI in the chair at two o'clock after the programme is repeated FRI on Saturday, 1 January. FRI FRI Producer: Jim Frank. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00wrbt4 (Listen) FRI Dear Diary FRI FRI Joan Bakewell celebrates the art of diary writing by public FRI figures and private individuals whose accounts of everyday FRI life help shape our view of the past. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Pick of the Year b00wqjk5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00wr5kw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00wrbt6 (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 b00x57pb (Listen) FRI Jamaica Inn, Episode 10 FRI FRI Book at Bedtime: Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier. FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI FRI Tamsin Greig reads the final episode of Daphne Du Maurier's FRI dark and intriguing gothic tale. Mary has returned to FRI Jamaica Inn after seeking help to bring her violent Uncle FRI and his associates to justice. After discovering both her FRI Uncle Joss and Aunt Patience murdered, she has been offered FRI refuge in the vicarage while the assailant is tracked down. FRI But Mary soon finds herself on the run and has to make a FRI life-changing decision. FRI FRI Producer: Alison Crawford. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00wr8pq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 The News At Bedtime b00wrbt8 (Listen) FRI Review of the Year FRI FRI Join legendary nurseryland broadcasters John Tweedledum FRI (Jack Dee) and Jim Tweedledee (Peter Capaldi) as they return FRI to Radio Fourtywinks for a one-off special, presenting their FRI review of the year in nurseryland, with the help of roving FRI reporter Mary Mary Quite Contrary (Vicki Pepperderdine), and FRI a very special Thought for the Year with Peter Rabbi and a FRI whole load of other festive treats. FRI FRI Jack Dee - John Tweedledum FRI Peter Capaldi - Jim Tweedledee FRI with FRI Vicki Pepperdine, Lucy Montgomery, Alex MacQueen, Dan FRI Tetsell and Lewis MacLeod FRI FRI Written by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman FRI Produced by Simon Nicholls. FRI
18 December, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 25/12/2010 - 31/12/2010
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