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SAT SATURDAY 08 JANUARY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00x3wch (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00x7b5c (Listen) SAT The Winter of Our Disconnect, Episode 5 SAT SAT By Susan Maushart. SAT SAT The end of the experiment is nigh. What has everyone SAT learned? And has a techno-free life changed their ways SAT forever? The whole family contemplate this as they rush en SAT masse for their computers...... SAT SAT Reader: Haydn Gwynne SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x3wck (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x3wcm (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x3wcp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00x3wcr (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x44qq (Listen) SAT With the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00x44qs (Listen) SAT "They look in the mirror and they're disgusted.They don't SAT like themselves." Former beautician Penny explains to Eddie SAT Mair how she offers friendship, support and make-up tips to SAT transsexuals. Also, listener Christina - who nominated Penny SAT for the iPM New Year's Honour - speaks about living SAT unhappily as a man, and how after 60 years she is beginning SAT a new life as a woman. IPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00x3wct (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00x3wcw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00x87bf (Listen) SAT High Speed Rail SAT SAT Richard Uridge travels the route proposed for high speed SAT rail in Buckinghamshire to find out what is so special about SAT the countryside there that inspires people to battle to SAT protect it. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00x87bh (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00x3wcy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00x886m (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00x886p (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with cook Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and poet SAT Kate Fox. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00x886r (Listen) SAT Middle East - Paris/Normandy SAT SAT John McCarthy explores Paris with Independent Newspaper SAT correspondent John Lichfield and The Lebanon with SAT photographer Max Milligan and historian Philip Mansel. SAT Producer Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 The Politics of Ambridge b00x886t (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT The second of two programmes in which the author Michael SAT Dobbs considers the sixty-year relationship between The SAT Archers and the real political world. This week he looks at SAT how the series has tried to reflect changing social SAT attitudes over the decades, tackling issues such as racism, SAT snobbery, and the role of contentious country sports like SAT fox-hunting. SAT SAT Along the way we revisit memorable clips from the archives, SAT and hear contributions from prominent political fans, the SAT cast, and the editor of The Archers, Vanessa Whitburn. SAT SAT Producer: John Beesley. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00x886w (Listen) SAT In Search of the Big Society SAT SAT This year the coalition government will put into practice SAT one of the most radical political ideas in a generation. It SAT hopes that The Big Society will see the withdrawal of the SAT state from many aspects of life beyond Westminster and the SAT encouragement of voluntary organisations, local government SAT and individuals to involve themselves in community care in a SAT totally new way. Mary Ann Sieghart finds out how it might be SAT put into practice across Britain .... and will it cost. SAT SAT Presenter: Mary Ann Sieghart SAT Producer: Sue Davies. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00x886y (Listen) SAT From Our Own Correspondent takes the sea view today - from SAT Baku on the shores of the Caspian Sea and from a remote SAT Indian Ocean island which has brought together a group of SAT scientists, a hundred thousand turtles, some stranded Somali SAT pirates and a BBC correspondent. SAT SAT Khosar market in Islamabad is a delightful place to go SAT shopping. You can find a small wooden jewellery box there or SAT perhaps a couple of Afghan brass horses, even a few packets SAT of Weetabix. The market is an open area with so little SAT traffic you can hear the birdsong. But now it's associated SAT with something else - the murder of the governor of Punjab SAT Salman Taseer. An amusing liberal and very rich man, larger SAT than life, he met death at the hands of one of his own SAT bodyguards after speaking out against the country's strict SAT blasphemy laws. Many leading Pakistanis have condemned the SAT assassination, but a surprising number have praised the SAT killer, Malik Mumtaz Hussein Qadri. Orla Guerin has been SAT asking if extremism is slowly gaining control of Pakistan. SAT SAT The United Nations has for years now deployed thousands of SAT troops in Ivory Coast with a couple of broad objectives - SAT keep the peace and support democracy. Both objectives are SAT now under threat. The incumbent leader there Laurent Gbagbo SAT is still refusing to accept what the rest of the world sees SAT as his defeat in the Presidential elections held in late SAT November. His opponent Allason Ouatarra has been holed-up in SAT a hotel protected by UN peacekeepers. Mark Doyle lived in SAT the Ivory Coast commercial capital Abidjan with his family SAT in the 1990s. He's just been back to report on the post SAT election crisis. SAT SAT Baku in Azerbaijan was one of the early oil boom towns and SAT to this day the stuff literally oozes from the ground around SAT the city - and now a big new offshore gas field has been SAT discovered in the Caspian Sea not far from the coast. The SAT find has fuelled yet more interest from international SAT investors in what is the fastest growing republic in the SAT Caucasus. But Jonathan Fryer's been finding out that behind SAT the euphoria generated by the country's rapid economic SAT development, many of its people are marked by a pervading SAT sense of loss. SAT SAT It's generally agreed that Brazil's new president, Dilma SAT Roussef, has a tough act to follow. Her predecessor Luiz SAT Inacio Lula da Silva remains a highly popular figure - but SAT after two terms - as the constitution requires - he has SAT stepped down and Ms Roussef was inaugurated on New Year's SAT Day. Her backers say she will replace charisma with SAT managerial competence and she began by signalling that SAT maintaining economic growth and low inflation are among her SAT top priorities. But Justin Rowlatt, who was recently in Rio SAT de Janeiro, says the Brazilian boom can, at times, seem a SAT little fragile. SAT SAT It's not only in the Antarctic where scientists hang out in SAT remote, cut-off communities with only each other for SAT company. In a quiet corner of the Indian Ocean, six hundred SAT miles southwest of the Seychelles, a group of research SAT scientists are studying a vast pristine coral atoll that is SAT home to an extraordinary collection of plants and animals. SAT Besides a hundred thousand giant tortoises,there is the SAT occasional stranded Somali pirate and that's about it. SAT Except for our Tim Ecott. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00x8870 (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00x44qd (Listen) SAT Series 73, Episode 1 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week are Jeremy Hardy, Sue SAT Perkins, Phill Jupitus and Francis Wheen. SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00x3wd0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00x3wd2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00x45c7 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Hinde SAT St Methodist Church in Marylebone, London with questions for SAT the panel including Michael Portillo, former Tory MP, Ken SAT Livingstone, Labour's candidate for London mayor, Matthew SAT Parris, columnist and writer and the designer Dame Vivienne SAT Westwood. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00x8872 (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00x88bs (Listen) SAT To Catch a Thief SAT SAT David Dodge's novel is a fast-paced, entertaining SAT page-turner that was subsequently turned into a memorable SAT film by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Cary Grant and Grace SAT Kelly. Now, Jean Buchanan's dramatisation brings it to SAT radio. American John Robie is living quietly in the South of SAT France, trying to put his career as a notorious jewel thief SAT behind him. However, when a series of huge jewel thefts SAT begins on the Riviera, targeting rich Americans, the police SAT immediately suspect he's returned to his old ways. To prove SAT his innocence, and trap the real thief, Robie must resort to SAT subterfuge. But his plans go awry when the daughter of one SAT of the rich American tourists takes rather too close an SAT interest in him - and his past. SAT SAT John Robie..........Jeff Harding SAT Francie Stevens......Jennifer Lee Jellicorse SAT Mrs Stevens...........Laura Brook SAT Paul...............Alun Raglan SAT Bellini..........Simon Armstrong SAT Danielle..........Aurelie Amblard SAT French Extras..........Martin Sorrell SAT SAT Director: Sara Davies. SAT SAT 15:30 Still Points, Turning Worlds b00sj5z5 (Listen) SAT When WH Davies wrote his celebrated poem 'Leisure' a century SAT ago, the myriad stimuli assaulting people's senses now and SAT the demands that sap humanity's powers of concentration in SAT the digital age were unimaginable. But he rightly gauged the SAT detrimental impacts to the human spirit of failing to find SAT moments of peace in a busy world: 'a poor life this, if, SAT full of care, we have no time to stand and stare'. SAT SAT In this 'composed feature', producer Alan Hall embroiders SAT together the experiences of a range of people for whom still SAT points and daydreaming provide an escape from the SAT increasingly invasive nature of the turning world about us SAT and offer a foundation for reflection, rejuvenation and SAT creativity. SAT SAT Hearing from Canon Lucy Winkett of St Paul's in the heart of SAT the City of London, an installer of 'energy pods' that offer SAT 'corporate fatigue solutions', an hypnotherapist, staff and SAT pupils from a school that champions 'the Pause' and Kieran SAT MacFeely, a singer-songwriter from the world of pop music SAT (or 'high-end racket') who sought out the peace of the SAT countryside. SAT SAT 'Still Points, Turning Worlds' relishes moments of reverie SAT in an attempt to reclaim the powers of concentration. SAT SAT Producer: Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00x88dv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. The Victorians and their SAT fascination with murder. With New Year diets in full-swing SAT we ask do they ever work? Arabella Weir remembers her SAT seventies' cottage cheese diet and we hear from you. One SAT woman's experience of un-plugging her family from games SAT technology for six months. Swine flu and young children - we SAT hear from the NHS on its vaccination programme. Creative SAT writing and why picking up the pen still wins out over the SAT computer keyboard for one author. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00x88dx (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00x44qs (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00x3wd4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00x3wd6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x3wd8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00x88mf (Listen) SAT Peter Curran is in the Loose Ends chair this week, and next, SAT with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Joining Peter is the American comic, singer and writer SAT described as a true force of nature, Sandra Bernhard. SAT Combining rock 'n' roll, comedy and controversy she returns SAT to London's West End with her live show based on her album, SAT Whatever it Takes. SAT SAT We have another political comedy firebrand in the form of SAT Mark Thomas. He's taken up Extreme Rambling. No mere Land's SAT End to John O' Groats for him. He has walked the full length SAT of the 750 kilometre Israeli Separation Barrier - and got SAT jokes out of it for his new tour. He's also bringing the SAT latest instalment of his Manifesto to BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT And hailing from Peter's own neck of the woods is the SAT Godfather of Ulster Punk Terri Hooley. The legendary Belfast SAT figure has a book and a new film cataloguing his SAT extraordinary life - he founded Good Vibrations records, SAT brought The Undertones to national attention, punched John SAT Lennon and enjoyed drinking binges with Bob Dylan. SAT SAT Emma Freud talks to the actress Sian Phillips about her SAT evening of songs, Crossing Borders, coming to Wilton's Music SAT Hall in London. SAT SAT Music comes in the form of the sensual broodings of Anna SAT Calvi, shortlisted in this year's BBC Sound of 2011 poll. SAT SAT And breezy acoustic pop from Pearl and the Puppets. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00x88mh (Listen) SAT Profile this week is Facebook co-founder and Chief SAT Executive, Mark Zuckerberg. With new investment by Goldman SAT Sachs, the company is now valued at 50 billion dollars. But SAT how much do we know about the man behind it all? Is he SAT really the character portrayed in recent film, The Social SAT Network? And what next for the 26-year-old now thought to be SAT the world's youngest billionaire? SAT Reporter: Morland Sanders SAT Producer: Rob Cave. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00x88mk (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00x88mm (Listen) SAT Breaking the Mould SAT SAT Shaun Ley recalls the dramatic rise and fall of the SDP SAT during the 1980s. The party never quite made a breakthrough, SAT but did it change British politics? Is the SDP's legacy its SAT impact on the other main parties? SAT SAT In January 1981 four former cabinet ministers announced that SAT they were about to leave the Labour Party. Over the SAT subsequent two years, dozens of MPs joined them; it appeared SAT as if the fledgling party might, as Roy Jenkins put it, SAT "break the mould". But the electoral breakthrough never SAT happened, partnership with the Liberals ended in acrimony, SAT and in a final humiliation, the SDP polled fewer votes than SAT the representative of the Monster Raving Loony Party in a SAT by-election. It was a failure. SAT SAT Or was it? In 'Breaking the Mould', Shaun Ley draws on sound SAT archive and fresh contributions with key players to consider SAT whether the SDP has had a bigger impact than is generally SAT recognised. Was the SDP "a Labour saving device", because it SAT gave Labour a severe shock, without which it would never SAT have modernised sufficiently to win office again? And did SAT the SDP's ideas eventually triumph, not just in the Liberal SAT Democrats, but also in the counsels of New Labour and even SAT inside Conservative Party headquarters? Was the triumph of SAT the SDP exemplified by the formation of the Coalition SAT Government in 2010? - the present Government includes former SAT SDP-ers, and not just among the Liberal Democrats. SAT SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00x3pcp (Listen) SAT I, Claudius, Messalina SAT SAT Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' great SAT histories of first century Rome. SAT SAT The ageing Emperor Claudius works to restore the Republic. SAT But his beautiful young wife Messalina has other plans. SAT SAT Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Messalina ..... Jessica Raine SAT Narcissus ..... Robin Soans SAT Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock SAT Burrhus ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT Britannicus ..... Ryan Watson SAT Euodus ..... Adeel Akhtar SAT Asiaticus ..... Sean Baker SAT Frontinus ..... Tony Bell SAT Tacitus ..... Sam Dale SAT Callistus ..... Henry Devas SAT Agrippinilla ..... Claire Harry SAT Soldier ..... Iain Batchelor SAT SAT Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SAT Directed by Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00x3wdb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00x41nn (Listen) SAT Trade Unions SAT SAT With strikes apparently back in fashion, Unreliable Evidence SAT explores the law relating to trades unions and industrial SAT action. SAT SAT Wildcat strikes and secondary picketing are now illegal, and SAT new legislation imposes complex rules on how and when SAT strikes can be called. Clive Anderson and guests, including SAT a judge and the assistant general secretary of one of SAT Britain's largest unions, discuss why both employers and SAT trades unions are now, increasingly, fighting each other in SAT the courts. SAT SAT Also taking part are the senior barristers who have SAT represented either side in the ongoing British Airways cabin SAT staff dispute. Alleged irregularities in the strike SAT balloting process have already resulted in a series of court SAT hearings, injunctions and high court appeals. SAT SAT Both the TUC and the CBI are calling for reform of trades SAT union law, but whom does the law currently favour - the SAT bosses or the workers? SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00x3sx4 (Listen) SAT (11/17) SAT Russell Davies welcomes another four competitors to the BBC SAT Radio Theatre in London, for the penultimate heat in the SAT quest for the 2011 Brain of Britain champion. This week's SAT contenders are from London, Surrey and Worcestershire. A SAT listener also gets the chance to win a prize by suggesting SAT questions to outwit the participants, in 'Beat the Brains'. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT NICHOLAS COMFORT, a freelance journalist from London; SAT ELIZABETH MANNING, a lexicographer from Malvern; SAT MARK WALTON, a sales manager from London; SAT JOHN WATSON, retired, from Sutton in Surrey. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00x3pvc (Listen) SAT Series 11, Journey of the Magi SAT SAT "A cold coming we had of it, / Just the worst time of the SAT year / For a journey, and such a long journey ..." TS SAT Eliot's poem for Epiphany, "Journey of the Magi", is one of SAT his most popular poems. Yet it is deceptively complex and, SAT as Peggy Reynolds discovers, takes us on our own journey to SAT somewhere very far removed from the simple certainties of SAT the Three Wise Men at the manger. SAT SAT Producer Christine Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 09 JANUARY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00x89f0 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00hd3jd (Listen) SUN The Treasure Chest, Tales of Life and Death SUN SUN Written by Johann Peter Hebel. SUN SUN An enduring classic of German literature, The Treasure Chest SUN by Johann Peter Hebel (pub.1811) is a collection of pithy SUN comic anecdotes, mysteries and moral tales full of sanity, SUN wit and good humour. Mark Williams dips into The Treasure SUN Chest and reads a selection of Hebel's best stories this SUN Sunday on BBC Radio 4. The tales are translated by John SUN Hibberd and abridged by Roy Apps. SUN SUN As its title promises, The Treasure Chest contains some real SUN gems of imaginative fiction. Hebel developed a spontaneous SUN and accessible style for these stories - which he originally SUN wrote for inclusion in a popular almanac - for the SUN entertainment and instruction of the ordinary, working SUN people of the small, German state of Baden, where he was a SUN schoolteacher and Lutheran preacher. SUN SUN Since its publication in 1811, The Treasure Chest has drawn SUN generations of admirers including Goethe, Tolstoy, SUN Wittgenstein, and Herman Hesse. . SUN SUN The reader, Mark Williams, is well known as one of the stars SUN of the BBC TV comedy sketch show, The Fast Show ("Suits you, SUN sir..!!") and for the role of Ron Weasley's father in the SUN Harry Potter films. SUN SUN Translated by John Hibberd and abridged by Roy Apps. SUN Read by Mark William SUN Producer/Director: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x89f2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x89f4 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x89f6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00x89f8 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00x89fb (Listen) SUN The bells of St Martin's Church, Desford, Leicester. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00x88mh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00x89fd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00x89fg (Listen) SUN The Horse: A Special Gift to Mankind SUN SUN Mark Tully looks at the spiritual, symbolic and personal SUN appeal of horses in 'The Horse: A Special Gift to Mankind'. SUN SUN When God wanted to create the horse, he said to the South SUN Wind, "I want to make a creature of you. Condense." And the SUN Wind condensed. - Emir Abd-el-Kader SUN SUN The horse is an animal with which we have a special SUN relationship- an object of worship, the cornerstone of SUN military culture for a thousand years and powerhouse of SUN agriculture in many cultures for far longer. SUN SUN Pet, worker, gambler's darling and symbol of beauty and SUN power: this is an exploration of the spiritual appeal of the SUN horse. Mark talks to art historian Tamsin Pickeral and meets SUN her horse, William. We hear readings from Siegfried Sassoon, SUN contemporary poet James Wright and the Koran, as well as SUN music by Aaron Copeland, Randy Newman and Paul Reade. SUN SUN Read by Derek Jacobi and Isla Blair. SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00x89fj (Listen) SUN Anna Varle visits a Devon entrepreneur who is helping 30 SUN struggling farms stay in business. The land around Tiverton SUN is an old-fashioned patchwork of family farms, but not all SUN are managing to make a go of it in the current financial SUN climate. Peter Grieg has helped change that, by sharing his SUN work around to help keep local food and small family farms SUN alive. SUN SUN On Your Farm visits Pipers Farm, where pigs snuffle in the SUN cider apple orchards, and chicken, lamb and crops from the SUN surrounding farms arrive to fuel a food production line. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00x89fl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00x89fn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00x89fq (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton presents a special edition of Sunday to mark SUN the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00x89fv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00x89fx (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Radio 4 Appeal b00x89fs (Listen) SUN Orbis Charitable Trust SUN SUN Toby Young presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Orbis Charitable Trust. SUN SUN Donations to Orbis Charitable Trust should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Orbis Charitable Trust. Credit cards: Freephone SUN 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Orbis Charitable Trust with your full name SUN and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. SUN The online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1061352. SUN SUN 08:15 King James Bible b00x8f2d (Listen) SUN Readings, Episode 1 SUN SUN The King James Bible is one of the great works of English SUN literature. For centuries it has had an extraordinary SUN influence on the English language and culture. To mark its SUN 400th anniversary, Radio 4 is broadcasting readings SUN throughout the day from the King James Bible and essays to SUN celebrate its language, imagery, poetry and storytelling. SUN SUN This first collection of readings from the Book of Genesis SUN is introduced by the historian Simon Schama. SUN 0815 Samuel West ........Creation SUN 0830 Emilia Fox .............Noah and the Ark SUN 0845 Dan Stevens ..........Sodom and Gomorrah SUN SUN Abridgers: Amanda Hancox and Richard Hamilton SUN Producers: Mark O'Brien and Elizabeth Allard SUN Editor: Christine Morgan. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00x8f2g (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00x8f2j (Listen) SUN Written by: Mary Cutler SUN Directed by: Vanessa Whitburn SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Amy Franks ..... Vinette Robinson SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00x8f2l (Listen) SUN Gyles Brandreth SUN SUN A former Conservative MP, he is also a some-time actor, SUN broadcaster and prolific writer who has authored SUN biographies, diaries, stage plays and mysteries. SUN SUN Pursuing a political career has been, he says, the SUN over-riding ambition of his life. However the happiest SUN moment came not from politics, but when he was performing in SUN a West End show that he had written himself. These days, his SUN ambitions are to return to the stage and the role he wants SUN to take on is Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. SUN SUN "I have no complaints" he says; "my life has been one long SUN series of tomato and marmite sandwiches. I've always had SUN what I wanted." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00x3tvr (Listen) SUN Series 54, Episode 2 SUN SUN The 54th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment SUN for the young at heart, as the programme pays a return visit SUN to the Town Hall in Leeds. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme SUN Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the SUN panel by Phill Jupitus, with Jack Dee in the chair. Regular SUN listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless SUN revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN Producer ..... Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00x8f2n (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon, with the help of some famous food lovers SUN (including Giorgio Locatelli, Cyrus Todiwala, Fuchsia Dunlop SUN and Bee Wilson) hears about their favourite kitchen gadgets. SUN From a 300 year clockwork roasting spit to a 21st century SUN thermal blender, what are the must-have qualities of these SUN kitchen necessities? And how do you choose from the ever SUN increasing plethora of expensive all-singing-all-dancing SUN gizmos on sale in large kitchenware departments. SUN Producer: Dilly Barlow. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00x89fz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00x8f2q (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 King James Bible b00xc8dl (Listen) SUN Readings, Episode 2 SUN SUN The author, David Lodge, introduces readings of sacrifice SUN and betrayal from the Book of Genesis. SUN 1330 Hugh Bonneville ......Abraham and his son Isaac SUN 1345 Emma Fielding ......Joseph and his multi-coloured coat. SUN SUN Abridger: Amanda Hancox SUN Producers: Elizabeth Allard, Lucy Collingwood and Mark SUN O'Brien SUN Editor: Christine Morgan. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00x44q2 (Listen) SUN Bradford SUN SUN The GQT panel meet members of the Grow Organic project in SUN Bradford. Eric Robson is in the chair. SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew meets the Bangladeshi and SUN Pakistani women taking part in the Grow Organic outreach SUN programme. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Snowdrop Mania b00r33y5 (Listen) SUN Last year a single snowdrop bulb was auctioned for more than SUN £150. But even that figure is a small price to pay for the SUN growing band of snowdrop collectors who are caught up in the SUN contemporary equivalent of 17th-century Holland's tulip SUN mania. Kerry ten Kate looks into the passions, the SUN jealousies and the murky underworld of snowdrop mania with SUN the enthusiasts who have a big obsession with a small plant. SUN SUN Producer: Gwenan Pennant Jones. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00x8fwv (Listen) SUN 'Neglected Classics' SUN Miss Mackenzie SUN By Anthony Trollope SUN Dramatised by Martyn Wade SUN Part One SUN Miss Mackenzie, a woman past the bloom of youth, inherits a SUN fortune and is then beset by suitors. But whom will she SUN choose? SUN SUN Anthony Trollope.....David Troughton SUN Miss Mackenzie.....Hattie Morahan SUN John Ball.....Philip Franks SUN Lady Ball.....Margaret Tyzack SUN Mr. Maguire.....Stephen Critchlow SUN Mr. Rubb.....Lloyd Thomas SUN Tom Mackenzie.....Sam Dale SUN Sarah Mackenzie.....Joanna Monro SUN Susanna Mackenzie.....Leah Brotherhead SUN Mr. Slow.....Sean Baker SUN Miss Todd.....Claire Harry SUN Mrs. Stumfold.....Christine Kavanagh SUN Rev. Stumfold.....Henry Devas SUN SUN Directed by Tracey Neale SUN SUN 16:00 King James Bible b00xc8dn (Listen) SUN Readings, Episode 3 SUN SUN The author Kamila Shamsie introduces a selection of stories SUN about some of the most well known figures from the Old SUN Testament. SUN SUN 1602 Toby Stephens ......... Moses in the Bullrushes SUN 1615 Henry Goodman ........the escape of Moses and the SUN Israelites from captivity. SUN 1630 Niamh Cusack ..........Samson and Delilah SUN 1645 Olivia Williams ......... the story of Ruth. SUN SUN Abridgers: Viv Beeby and Richard Hamilton SUN Producers: Lucy Collingwood, Elizabeth Allard and Mark SUN O'Brien SUN Editor: Christine Morgan. SUN SUN 17:00 King James Bible b00xc8zd (Listen) SUN Readings, Episode 4 SUN SUN Stories from the King James Bible about power, lust, SUN adultery and suffering are introduced by the playright SUN Howard Brenton. SUN SUN 1702 Rory Kinnear ..........King David and Bathsheba SUN 1715 Miriam Margoyles....the story of Solomon SUN 1730 Hugh Quarshie........reads from the Book of Job SUN 1745 Bill Paterson ..........reads from the Book of SUN Ecclesiastes. SUN SUN Abridgers: Amanda Hancox, Richard Hamilton and Viv Beeby SUN Producers: Mark O'Brien and Elizabeth Allard SUN Editor: Christine Morgan. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00x89g1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00x89g3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x89g5 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00x8fwx (Listen) SUN Caz Graham makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 18:56 Radio 4 Appeal b00x89fs (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 08:10 today] SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00x8fy6 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 King James Bible b00xc9wc (Listen) SUN Readings, Episode 5 SUN SUN Dr Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, introduces SUN the last of the Old Testament and the first of the New SUN Testament readings from the perspective of a poet and SUN theologian. SUN SUN 1915 Rory Kinnear and Adjoa Andoh...........Song of Solomon SUN 1930 Miriam Margoyles .............................Daniel SUN 1945 Emma Fielding .................................The SUN Birth of Jesus SUN 2000 Samuel West ...................................The SUN Baptism of Jesus SUN SUN Author Joanne Harris introduces readings from the life of SUN Jesus. SUN SUN 2015 Toby Stephens .................................The SUN Temptation and Sermon on the Mount SUN 2030 Emilia Fox ....................................... SUN Jesus' miracles SUN 2045 Niamh Cusack ................................. The SUN Death of John the Baptist SUN SUN Abridgers: Amanda Hancox,Richard Hamilton, Viv Beeby SUN Producers: Mark O'Brien, Elizabeth Allard SUN Editor: Christine Morgan. SUN SUN 21:00 King James Bible b00xc9wf (Listen) SUN Readings, Episode 6 SUN SUN Will Self introduces the account of Jesus' death and SUN resurrection from the King James Bible to mark it's 400th SUN anniversary. SUN SUN 2100 Dan Stevens.....Entry into Jerusalem SUN 2115 Adjoa Andoh.....The Last Supper SUN 2130 Rory Kinnear.....The Crucifixion SUN 2145 Olivia Williams...The Road to Emmaus SUN SUN Abridgers: Amanda Hancox, Richard Hamilton SUN Producers: Mark O'Brien, Simon Vivian SUN Editor: Christine Morgan. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00x8gf0 (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00x8gf2 (Listen) SUN Episode 34 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week John Kampfner takes the SUN chair. SUN SUN Journalist, author and filmmaker John Kampfner was Editor of SUN the New Statesman from 2005-2008. SUN SUN He has won numerous awards including the Foreign Press SUN Association award for Film of the Year, Journalist of the SUN Year and the British Society of Magazine Editors Current SUN Affairs Editor of the Year. SUN SUN 23:00 King James Bible b00xc9wh (Listen) SUN Readings, Episode 7 SUN SUN The author Frank Cottrell Boyce introduces the last of the SUN readings from the King James Bible. SUN SUN 2300 Henry Goodman......Pentecost SUN 2315 Bill Paterson...........The Conversion of Paul SUN 2330 Hugh Quarshie........The First Letter of Paul to the SUN Corinthians SUN 2345 Hugh Bonneville...... readings from the Book of SUN Revelation SUN SUN Abridgers: Viv Beeby, Richard Hamilton, Amanda Hancox SUN Producers: Elizabeth Allard, Lucy Collingwood, Mark O'Brien SUN Editor: Christine Morgan. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 10 JANUARY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00x8hdd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00x41nd (Listen) MON Softer masculinity in the sixth form - Dr Who MON MON The Daleks are obsessed with racial purity and dedicated to MON a policy of genocide: They represent the Nazis. The MON Jagrafess is a loathsome alien purveying useless information MON - which he has censored, rewritten and controlled: he MON represents a modern day media mogul. This is the theory of MON the US academic Marc Edward DiPaolo who has analysed the MON political content of five decades of Doctor Who. He finds MON that the Time Lord is a liberal, bohemian, pacifist MON environmentalist, and definitely anti-American. Is Doctor MON Who a closet radical? Laurie and Marc discuss the contention MON with journalist, broadcaster and some-time Dr Who MON script-writer Matthew Sweet. MON Also on the programme: Softening Masculinities. New research MON by Mark McCormac finds that British secondary school boys MON are far less restrictive in their behaviour than they used MON to be. It is okay to use conditioner, comment on someone's MON clothes, and even give each other a hug? MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00x89fb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x8hdg (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x8hdj (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x8hdl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00x8hdn (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x8hdq (Listen) MON Leslie Griffiths MON MON With the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00x8hds (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma MON Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00x8hdv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00x8hdx (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 b00x8hdz (Listen) MON In the first Start the Week of the New Year Andrew Marr asks MON what has gone wrong in the West. The economist Dambisa Moyo MON charts 50 years of economic folly and argues that only MON radical changes in policy will stem permanent decline, while MON Lord Lawson, the former Chancellor, exposes the myths MON surrounding economic thinking. The journalist Stephen Kinzer MON calls on the US and UK to ditch its present allies in the MON Middle East - Saudi Arabia and Israel - and look to Iran and MON Turkey for support. And Labour's former Home Secretary, MON Charles Clarke, explores those seemingly intractable MON problems, with a series of debates drawn from the "too MON difficult" box. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00xcd9n (Listen) MON The Invention of Murder, Episode 1 MON MON By Judith Flanders. MON MON "We are a trading community - a commercial people. Murder MON is, doubtless, a very shocking offence; nevertheless, as MON what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out MON of it." Punch, 1842 MON MON Over the course of the nineteenth century, murder - in MON reality a rarity - became ubiquitous: transformed into MON novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and MON melodrama. Seeing therein the foundation of modern notions MON of crime, "The Invention of Murder" explores this MON fascination with deadly violence by relating some of the MON century's most gripping and gruesome cases and the ways in MON which they were commercially exploited. MON MON The Ratcliffe Highway murders of 1811 were particularly MON dreadful: two separate sets of killings in which seven MON people lost their lives. It was a case that shocked the MON nation - this was half as many people as had been murdered MON in the entire previous year throughout England and Wales - MON and forced the establishment to rethink the policing of MON major cities. MON MON Read by Robert Glenister. MON Abridged by David Jackson Young. MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00x8hnc (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Including - how often should you MON change your bedsheets? MON MON Prostitution: Does the law need to be addressed? MON MON Britain’s Prostitute’s – Life on the Edge, first broadcast MON on Dec 31st at 9.30pm, looked at the dangers faced by women MON working as prostitutes in Britain. After the murders of MON three sex workers in Bradford, Chris Buckler speaks to women MON who continue to work on the streets despite the dangers. MON Jane discusses the issues with Deputy Chief Constable Simon MON Byrne, ACPO's (Association of Chief Police Officers)lead on MON prostitution and Shelly Stoops of Armistead Project in MON Liverpool, who go out offering support, condoms and leaflets MON of ‘ugly mugs’, mug shots of men who have been identified as MON a potential threat to sex workers. MON MON Sustainability & Consumerism: The Secret Life of Stuff MON MON Our human relationship with stuff has always been complex, MON and none more so than in the present era of throwaway MON consumerism. Shopping can be a chore, a pleasure or a MON luxury, but is now a necessity. Knowing whether what we are MON buying is good for us or the earth has become an ever more MON present concern. And worrying about where the stuff we have MON used goes when we have finished with it, has led to MON transform our recycling and waste habits. Julie Hill has MON worked for environmental organisations for 25 years. Her MON book, The Secret Life of Stuff, suggests a future where we MON control our waste from the outset - sofas are leased rather MON than bought and discarded, food is grown at home, and MON manufacturers are legislated to make their very creation MON process environmentally sound. She will join Jane with MON Claire Fox, Director of the Institute of Ideas, to discuss MON whether there is any need for this vision, or whether we can MON sit back and rely on our own innovation to solve it for us. MON MON The Secret Life of Stuff is published by Vintage. ISBN: MON 978-0-099-54658-0 MON MON Conviction: Betty Anne Waters MON MON Jane talks to the inspiration behind the new Hilary Swank MON film Conviction - out this Friday. Betty Anne Waters was MON convinced that her brother Kenny was innocent of murder when MON he was sentenced to life in prison in 1983. When appeals MON against Kenny's convictions failed, and funds for lawyers MON dwindled, Betty Anne decided to go to college and law school MON to get the qualifications so she could fight for his MON release. MON MON How often do you change the bedsheets? MON MON Making the bed so your guests can lie in it. You’re round at MON a friend’s house. You’ve enjoyed a terrific dinner party, MON and after lots of merriment it’s time to lay your head. Upon MON inspection, however, you realise the sheets have not been MON changed from the last person to sleep there! Does this MON prompt disgust – or are you sympathetic to the strains of MON hosting? Jan Etherington and Lowri Turner, along with Jane, MON guide us through the politics of bed making. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x90y9 (Listen) MON TwilightBaby.com: Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON by Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo MON MON Cass Mason blogs about being a mother MON again age 47. Somehow it's a lot harder MON when you're old enough to be a grandmother. MON MON Cass ..... Jenny Éclair MON Ken ..... Kevin Eldon MON Penny ..... Felicity Montagu MON Library Manager ..... Sean Baker MON Barbara ..... Christine Kavanagh MON MON Producer ..... Sally Avens MON MON 11:00 Lords a Living b00x9235 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Ruth McDonald accompanies members of the House of Lords to MON the titular land of their peerages to meet the communities MON who live there now. Does reality match-up to expectation for MON a peer who hasn't visited "home" in several decades, or MON never been there at all, and what will "home" make of them? MON MON In this second programme, Ruth takes Baroness Richardson of MON Calow back to the village in North Derbyshire. A life baron MON since 1998 it's been 52 years since Kathleen Richardson last MON lived here but Calow has left its mark on her. In the place MON where her faith was awakened, its impact has proved pivotal MON to her career as a Methodist trailblazer - first female MON minister, bishop, and president of the Methodist conference. MON But as she has changed and moved on, how has the village MON that shaped her altered? MON MON From a catch-up at the United Reform Church where old faces MON and memories come flooding back, to the story of how the NHS MON rescued a former mining area, Baroness Richardson meets the MON people who live out their lives in Calow, including a MON session knotting with the scouts and bowling with the over MON 65s... And as she sizes them up, the locals contemplate the MON arrival of their hitherto largely unknown peer: just what MON will Calow make of the Baroness and what will she glean from MON them? MON MON Producer: Regina Gallen. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00x9237 (Listen) MON Series 7, In The Current Climate MON MON Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, MON complete with his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his MON never ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever MON scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and MON cat together. MON MON Inevitably he finds himself once more battling through the MON week encountering the numerous 12-year olds who run the MON media; teaching the lively bunch of pensioners who can teach MON him a thing or two about money making schemes, frugal living MON and having a good time thank you very much, and regular MON run-ins with the rather successful Jaz Milvane, director of MON Ed's only ever book-to-screen adaptation. MON MON As we renew our acquaintance with Ed austerity has hit hard. MON Jaz is eating at austerity themed restaurants, Ping is MON drawing in socking seams with magic marker and Ed is picking MON blackberries from the canal towpath for his breakfast. MON However, things may be looking up as episode 1 sees Ed MON working with the most disturbingly fresh and mesmerizingly MON compelling voice of his generation, Ben Herbert. Ben has a MON three book deal and no time to write them all, so Ed has MON been drafted in to help him write one of the books - 'How to MON Survive With Like No Cash'. Surely a match made in heaven. MON MON Ed Reardon....Christopher Douglas MON Jaz Milvain....Philip Jackson MON Cliff...Geoff McGivern MON Ray...Simon Greenall MON Ping...Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Felix.......John Fortune MON Ben Herbert.....Tom Price MON Pearl.....Rita May MON Olive....Stephanie Cole MON Stan....Geoffrey Whitehead MON Functionary..Henry Devas MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00x9239 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON A lone pensioner has taken on the might of an American MON private equity fund. The 71 year old investor turned up at MON an FSA hearing to put his case in the presence of the MON combined board of the Kent Reliance Building Society and US MON equity firm JC Flower. MON MON If you are counting on an inheritance from family based MON abroad be prepared for a long haul before you can get your MON hands on your bequest. MON MON A small record company has invented a gizmo that some in the MON record industry believe could save the concept of the MON 'album' which is suffering as fans cherry pick tracks rather MON than complete works in ever great numbers. The 'playbutton' MON is a badge that plays an album and it will be launched by MON its New York based inventor Nick Dangerfield next month. MON MON As power bills and debt to energy companies rise, a local MON council has blundered by fitting some of its affordable MON houses with heating systems that cost more to run that those MON that they replaced. MON MON We are not all in it together, says commentator Matthew MON Parris - and nor should we be. He believes in the clash of MON political philosophies there are always losers and in the MON challenging economic climate the poor are bound to shoulder MON a disproportionate amount of the financial burden. Send us MON your comments ahead of Tuesday's Call You and Yours. MON MON And the Black Cabs that are all the rage in Paris. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00x8hf1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00x923c (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00x923f (Listen) MON (12/17) MON The quest for the 2011 Brain of Britain champion reaches the MON twelfth and last heat, with Russell Davies in the MON questionmaster's chair. Today's contest will decide who MON completes the line-up in the semi-finals which begin next MON week. The programme comes from Manchester, with contenders MON from Liverpool, Kidderminster, Leicester and Beeston in MON Notts. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00x8fy6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00x923h (Listen) MON Believe Me by Stephanie Dale MON MON When art teacher Rachel bumps into chef Tyrone on his first MON day in London it is the start of a sunny, passionate love MON affair, an affair that will take them into much darker MON places. MON MON Rachel ... Noami Frederick MON Tyrone ... Alex Lanipekun MON Tasha ... Leah Brotherhead MON WPC ... Sally Orrock MON Policeman ... Lloyd Thomas MON Prosecutor ... Sean Baker MON MON Director: David Hunter MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00x88mm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Europeans on the Edge b00xgd61 (Listen) MON Spain MON MON Lucy Ash profiles Jose Miguel, one of several students on a MON journalism course at the Universitad de Navarra in Spain MON who've come up with their own survival guide for the MON economic crisis. All of them are worried about finding a job MON when the graduate but their guide called 'Soluciones', which MON they are distributing free in the northern city of Pamplona, MON features inspiring stories about people who've overcome MON troubles in the past. MON Producer: Mark Savage. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00x8f2n (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00x923k (Listen) MON Suicide MON MON Ernie Rea chairs Radio 4's discussion programme in which MON guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives MON 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 MON us. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00x923m (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x8hf3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00x92y3 (Listen) MON Series 54, Episode 3 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a MON first-time visit to the Hawth in Crawley. Regulars Barry MON Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the MON panel by Ross Noble, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON provides piano accompaniment. MON MON Producer ..... Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00x92y5 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00x92y7 (Listen) MON Mark Lawson reviews Seth Rogen in The Green Hornet, the MON latest film based on a comic-book superhero, and interviews MON novelist Paul Bailey. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x90y9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Last Refuge b00x92y9 (Listen) MON We go inside refuges for men who experience domestic MON violence from their female partners. There are only fifty MON refuge places for men in England and Wales, compared to MON seven thousand five hundred for women. We ask whether refuge MON provision for men is the best way forward. With incidents MON against men on the rise, we also look at society's more MON critical response to men who are victims of domestic abuse. MON Normally bigger, stronger and with more financially MON independent than their partners, why do men succumb to this MON violence and what are the complex issues that make them stay MON in an abusive relationship. MON MON The Respect Phoneline MON MON The Respect Phoneline provides information and advice to MON people who are abusive to their partners and want to stop. MON Contact them on 0845 122 8609 or follow the link to their MON website. MON MON Mankind MON MON Mankind is a charity that offers specialist support services MON in the South East of England to men who have experienced MON childhood sexual abuse and/or adult sexual assault at any MON time in their lives. They also offer support to family MON members or anyone affected by the sexual assault of males. MON You can contact them on 01273 510447 or follow the link to MON their website. MON MON The Men's Advice Line MON MON The Men's Advice Line offers freephone advice for men MON experiencing domestic violence, including men in MON heterosexual or same-sex relationships. Contact them on MON 0808 801 0327. MON MON The Everyman Project MON MON The Everyman Project aims to help men to change their angry, MON violent or abusive behaviour with respect and dignity for MON every man, every woman and child. Contact them by phone on MON 0207 263 8884 or follow the link to their website. MON MON The Mankind Initiative MON MON The Mankind Initiative is a national charity that provides MON confidential help and support for male victims of domestic MON abuse and domestic violence. Contact the helpline on 01823 MON 334244 or follow the link to their website. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00wr9v8 (Listen) MON Palliative Care in India MON MON It's estimated that nearly one million Indians with MON conditions like cancer die in acute, unnecessary pain MON because of the lack of palliative care. Restrictions on MON morphine prescription are being lifted, but too slowly. MON MON One of the most sophisticated systems of palliative care in MON the developing world has been established in the Indian MON state of Kerala. The grassroots movement to create a MON much-valued and effective palliative care system in Kerala MON has been called a silent revolution. Every week, thousands MON of volunteers across the state give up their time to go and MON tend to those who are dying. They may cook food, help with MON chores, or simply provide a listening ear. Hundreds of MON thousands more people in Kerala belong to Palliative Care MON Societies. They donate money regularly - even just a few MON rupees - to help support this kind of outreach. The hope is MON that people will not die alone, and in pain, without any MON support. MON MON Linda Pressly travels to Kerala, which has more palliative MON care centres than the rest of the country put together, and MON ask whether this is a model to treat the dying that could be MON rolled out in other nations, as well as other parts of MON India. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00x44f3 (Listen) MON 2011 is the International Year of Chemistry: Quentin hears MON about the largest molecule, how legitimate research on MON neurochemicals was subverted by designer-drugs makers, the MON value of rare earth elements, and green chemistry. MON MON The producer is Roland Pease. MON MON International Year of Chemistry MON MON Chemists have designated 2011 as the year to celebrate their MON diverse achievements. Chemistry popularisers Martyn MON Poliakoff and Andrea Sella extol their topic and the virtues MON of that roadmap to chemistry, the periodic table. MON MON The downside of neurochemistry MON MON Neurochemist David Nichols was shocked when he learned that MON research he’d done into neurotransmitters had been mis-used MON by marketers of ‘designer’ drugs. He tells Quentin about his MON experience, and the lessons he’s learned. MON MON The largest Molecule MON MON Polymer chemist Dieter Schlüter has created what he calls MON the largest synthesised molecule with a defined size and MON structure. Containing around 17 million atoms, it’s as large MON as some viruses. He explains what drove him to create this MON molecular monster, and how it might be used. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00x8hdz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00x8hf5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00x92yc (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 b00xb1tl (Listen) MON Snowdrops, Episode 6 MON MON By A.D. Miller. It's deep mid-winter in Moscow and Nick's MON neighbour Oleg is more and more anxious about the fate of MON his friend Konstantin. Nick offers to help. MON MON Reader: Stephen Mangan MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00x3yjn (Listen) MON In January 1961 in New York's Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan MON was beginning a career that would revolutionise MON song-writing. Michael Rosen lends an ear to the last fifty MON years of the song-lyric. MON MON Dylanologist Michael Gray explains why Bob matters. A MON sceptical David Quantick argues that Dylan's influence was MON not entirely helpful to rock music. And singer-songwriter KT MON Tunstall pays tribute to one of her biggest influences. MON MON Producer: Peter Everett. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00x92yf (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 11 JANUARY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00x93tx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00xcd9n (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x93tz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x93v1 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x93v3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00x93v5 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x93v7 (Listen) TUE With the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00x93v9 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00x93vc (Listen) TUE Including 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports Desk. 6.05, 6.57, 7.57 TUE Weather. 6.45 Yesterday in Parliament. 7.48 Thought for the TUE Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Haiti and the Truth about NGOs b00xcc0k (Listen) TUE A year after the earthquake, Edward Stourton returns to TUE Haiti to look at problems in the aid industry. How far has TUE the way we help gone bad? TUE TUE Aid workers have already baptised the earthquake in Haiti a TUE "historical disaster". But despite more than an estimated TUE 10,000 relief agencies flooding the country in the wake of TUE the emergency, the rescue operation has become notorious for TUE the slowness with which aid reached the victims. TUE TUE More than one million people are marking the anniversary of TUE the quake still living in refugee camps. How can that be TUE when Haiti has attracted billions of dollars in donations TUE and aid pledges? TUE TUE Critics say foreign aid groups were out of control - that TUE they failed to coordinate and were therefore ineffective; TUE that they swamped some areas leaving others untouched. One TUE NGO evaluation described a 'wild west' situation. TUE TUE In Haiti, Edward talks to UN officials responsible for TUE coordinating the humanitarian response, to local aid TUE watchdogs about how aid is failing to meet needs, and to TUE Haitian grassroots NGOs about a different way to deliver TUE help where and how it is needed. TUE TUE Is what has happened in Haiti symptomatic of a wider crisis TUE of humanitarianism? TUE TUE Insiders say many aid agencies have been compromised by TUE business imperatives and increasing political ties. Inside TUE the sector there is growing concern about previously taboo TUE issues of aid corruption and abuse, and ways to improve weak TUE accountability and deliver relief that local people really TUE want. TUE TUE An insight into the aid industry as it faces challenging TUE times. TUE TUE Producer: Eve Streeter TUE A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00x8hl2 (Listen) TUE The Invention of Murder, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Judith Flanders. TUE TUE Read by Robert Glenister. TUE Abridged by David Jackson Young. TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00x93vj (Listen) TUE Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Dale Templar on the new TUE BBC One series The Human Body. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x93vl (Listen) TUE TwilightBaby.com: Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo. TUE TUE Cass's grown up children pay a visit TUE to their baby sister but seem in no hurry TUE to leave. TUE TUE Cass ..... Jenny Éclair TUE Ken ..... Kevin Eldon TUE Katie ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan TUE Charlie ..... Joe Coen TUE Heather ..... Christine Kavanagh TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00x95h4 (Listen) TUE Episode 37 TUE TUE 37/40 South America is famous for its parrots and the TUE largest parrots in South America are the Macaws. There were TUE four species and now there are only two species free-living TUE in the wild. Parrots and Macaws have fallen foul of the pet TUE trade, populations being decimated as chicks were abducted TUE from their nests and sold in the exotic pet industry. Across TUE South America there are various moves to protect the species TUE from the illegal pet trade. Mark Brazil visits the Brazilian TUE corner of the Pantanal, one of the world's most glorious TUE wetlands across three countries. At a tourist lodge he TUE discovers how the new burgeoning tourism industry is helping TUE to restore the populations of Hyacinth Macaw to levels of TUE decades ago. Again, it seems, wildlife tourism is an avenue TUE of hope for endangered species and especially these iconic TUE birds of Americana Latina. TUE TUE Also in the programme, our long-legged friends from Eastern TUE Germany on the Somerset Levels. We catch up on the success, TUE or not, of the captive born and released European Cranes TUE we've been following over the year. TUE TUE And we have the third episode of our special Ladybird Book TUE Britain series with Chris Sperring. It's Autumn - what has TUE changed in the 50 years since the publication of the first TUE editions? TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 What We Leave We Carry: The Legacy of John la Rose TUE b00x95h6 (Listen) TUE When John La Rose died in 2006 the poet Linton Kwesi Johnson TUE wrote in his obituary, 'the depth and breadth of his TUE contribution to the struggle for cultural and social change, TUE for racial equality and social justice, for the humanisation TUE of society, is unparalleled in the history of the black TUE experience in Britain'. Hundreds crammed into his funeral. TUE TUE In 1966 John La Rose founded New Beacon Books, at first TUE selling Caribbean and African literature from his north TUE London home, and then began publishing himself, becoming the TUE first black publishing house in Britain. The shop and TUE publishing house are still active today. In the early 1980s TUE he organised - with others - the International Book Fair of TUE Radical Black and Third World Books. TUE TUE But his whole life was one of activism and political and TUE cultural involvement. He was a trades unionist in Trinidad, TUE and in the mid-1950s, he co-authored, with Raymond Quevedo TUE (Atilla the Hun), an early study of calypso. With poets TUE Andrew Salkey Kamau Brathwaite, he co-founded the Caribbean TUE Artists Movement; he was chairman of the Institute of Race TUE Relations; in response to the classification of some black TUE children as 'educationally sub-normal' he became involved in TUE the Black Education Movement and he founded the George TUE Padmore Supplementary School for West Indian children in TUE 1969. He was Chair of the committee that mobilised 20,000 TUE people to march in protest through London after the arson TUE attack in New Cross in 1981 in which 13 young black people TUE died. TUE TUE Poets, novelists, theologians, campaigners, sculptors and TUE musicians - all gathered around the kitchen table of this TUE erudite and generous man, liming and planning campaigns. TUE Around that same table the actor and director Burt Caesar, TUE who was himself influenced by John La Rose, joins his TUE partner Sarah White and old friends Linton Kwesi Johnson, TUE the poet and musician, Margaret Busby, founder of Britain's TUE second black publishing house, the visiting Trinidadian TUE scholar Susan Craig-Jones and Professor Gus John, who in TUE Hackney in the 1980s, became the first black Director of TUE Education in the country. They gather to tell his story, and TUE consider the legacy of John La Rose. TUE TUE Burt Caesar also visits the bookshop itself, the streets of TUE New Cross and the chambers of Ian MacDonald, who as a young TUE lawyer allied himself with La Rose and his causes. And from TUE the recording of the memorial event held at the South Bank TUE Centre in London, BBC archive material and, not least, TUE calypso and reggae associated with him, he tells the story TUE of this remarkable man and assesses his influence and TUE importance today. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00x95h8 (Listen) TUE 2011 kicked off with another hike in petrol prices and rail TUE fairs; food prices are set to go up, not to mention the vat TUE increase, and while private sector workers get pay rises TUE this year, these are not in line with inflation. The pay TUE disparity in the UK is at its widest since 1918, yet pay for TUE bosses has increased again, and the next round of bankers TUE bonuses promises to earn them 'billions.' TUE TUE Julian Worricker asks: are we - as George Osborne announced TUE when delivering his austerity measures - "all in this TUE together"? TUE TUE Are you affected by the squeeze, or are you a high earner TUE paying high taxes? TUE TUE Email youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines TUE open at 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00x93vn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00x95hc (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Music in the Dark Years b00x95hf (Listen) TUE Stephen Johnson explores how Paris's vibrant musical scene TUE survived - and flourished - through the 'dark years' of Nazi TUE Occupation. TUE TUE On 14th June 1940, Germans tanks rolled into a humbled and TUE deserted Paris. The Nazi war machine had abruptly plunged TUE the celebrated "City of Light" into darkness, condemning the TUE city to four long years of Occupation. TUE TUE Yet these 'dark years' were not to be ones of silence. TUE Within weeks, musical life in the French capital - TUE previously perhaps Europe's most vibrant and eclectic TUE cultural hub - had resumed. Opera houses, jazz clubs, TUE cabaret theatres, concert halls - before long, all were TUE playing again to packed houses of German soldiers and French TUE music-lovers alike. TUE TUE As the continent tore itself apart, Paris's unique and TUE strange renaissance suited both occupier and occupied. The TUE Nazis were happy to provide cultural distractions for the TUE subjugated French - not to mention their own battle-weary TUE soldiers - whilst the French proudly showed off that TUE whatever happened, their musical spirit had not been TUE defeated. From Maurice Chevalier to Francis Poulenc, Django TUE Reinhardt to Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet to Alfred Cortot - TUE the city rang once more to the sound of some of Europe's TUE most brilliant musical figures. TUE TUE But was this cultural co-habitation appropriate at a time of TUE war? What exactly were the moral duties of France's great TUE composers and musical celebrities? And were musicians TUE 'saving' or 'betraying' France by performing and creating TUE new work? TUE TUE Broadcaster and music journalist Stephen Johnson travels to TUE Paris some seven decades after the city's fall, to untangle TUE the mythology of "la France resistante musicale" - telling TUE the story of this brief firework of brilliant - and TUE controversial - period of frenetic musical activity.and its TUE bitter aftermath. TUE TUE In the second and final programme, Stephen explores the TUE world of French popular music and jazz - and how French TUE icons like Maurice Chevalier, Edith Piaf and Charles Trenet TUE juggled pressure to stand up and celebrate their unique TUE Francophone culture with accusations of collaboration and TUE kowtowing to the Nazi enemy. He also looks at how the TUE popular songs of the period reflected the mood of a TUE vanquished nation - from sad chansons about departed lovers TUE and a lost golden age to ditties that exhorted all good TUE Frenchmen to work with the Vichy government and co-exist TUE with their enemy. TUE TUE Stephen also visits the famous bar "Le Chope Des Puces" in TUE North-West Paris for some live jazz and a celebration of the TUE life of the extraordinary gypsy jazz guitarist Django TUE Reinhardt, who despite being 'undesirable' to the Nazi TUE regime - and having only three fingers on one hand - became TUE one of the most famous and revered musical celebrities in TUE all of France. He also investigates the remarkable cultural TUE phenomenon of the "Zazous" - disaffected, jazz-loving youths TUE with attitude that infuriated German officials (not to TUE mention their own parents) with their flagrant lack of TUE conformity. TUE TUE Contributors include the French popular music and chanson TUE expert Philip Sweeney, jazz writers Anne Legrand and Michael TUE Dregni and author and cultural historian Alan Riding. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00x92y5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00x44l6 (Listen) TUE I Before Bee TUE by Chris Wilson TUE TUE A comic and heartwarming play about teenager Michael Croxley TUE whose stammer has contributed to his fear of public TUE speaking. To his horror, Michael finds that he's competing TUE in the national school spelling bee's; when the girl he TUE adores, Lynne Hargreaves, reads a composition of his in TUE double English and discovers he's a whizz with words and his TUE spelling is stupendous she asks him to be part of the school TUE spelling-bee team. How can he refuse? He accepts gallantly. TUE Secretly he sobs to his nana terrified at the prospect. His TUE Scottish Nana comes to the rescue with the help of Robert TUE The Bruce. TUE TUE Michael ....... Mykola Allen TUE Lynne ....... Sophie McShera TUE Nana............Maureen Beattie TUE Michael Senior....Paul Copley TUE Serena ....... Poppy Rush TUE Andre ...... Jack Ryan TUE Moderator.....Seamus O'Neill TUE Speech Consultant....Sue Addlestone TUE TUE Producer/Director - Pauline Harris TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00x95hh (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 b00mk71d (Listen) TUE Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The Coming of Mr Quin TUE TUE Martin Jarvis reads a trio of stories starring Agatha TUE Christie's personal favourite character - a certain Mr TUE Harley Quin. TUE TUE When guests at a house party recall the suicide of the TUE previous owner, a mysterious stranger arrives who throws TUE unexpected light on the case. But another mystery remains - TUE who actually is Mr Quin himself? TUE TUE Producer/Director : Rosalind Ayres TUE A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Europeans on the Edge b00xp0w1 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Lucy Ash profiles citizens from Italy, Germany, France, TUE Spain and Ireland whose lives reflect the crisis in the TUE European economy. TUE Producer: Mark Savage. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00x95hk (Listen) TUE In 1861, Johann P. Reis announced that he'd invented the TUE microphone. To celebrate 150 noisy years, Michael Rosen is TUE joined by John Liffen, Curator of Communications at the TUE Science Museum, the social historian, Clare Langhamer, and TUE 'digital futurologist', Peter Cochrane. TUE TUE Steve Punt, meanwhile, reports from an alternative universe TUE where the microphone was never invented. TUE TUE Producer: Peter Everett. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00x95hm (Listen) TUE Series 23, JB Priestley TUE TUE Barry Cryer nods to his Yorkshire roots in choosing JB TUE Priestley, the Bradford born author of The Good Companions TUE and An Inspector Calls. Barry knew JB for the last ten years TUE of his life, and fondly recalls visiting a man he loved with TUE two members of Monty Python. Other memories include a trip TUE to the Cafe Royal, and thoughts on Priestley's notorious TUE love of women. TUE TUE Martin Wainwright, northern editor of the Guardian, TUE presenter of last year's radio documentary about the TUE Postscripts, also brings to life a prolific writer nearly TUE killed in World War One. Some say he wrote so much to avoid TUE the memories of that war. Recorded in front of an audience TUE at the Arnolfini in Bristol, the programme includes TUE colourful clips of JB Priestley and also Priestley's son, TUE Tom. The only discordant note is raised by presenter Matthew TUE Parris: "It's awfully watchable, awfully readable ... but TUE where's the magic ? Is Priestley really very good ?" TUE TUE The producer is Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00x95hp (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x93vq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 My Teenage Diary b00x95hr (Listen) TUE Series 2, Meera Syal TUE TUE Rufus Hound invites Meera Syal to read embarrassing extracts TUE from her teenage diary and read it out in public for the TUE very first time. TUE TUE Producer: Victoria Payne TUE A TalkbackThames production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00x95ht (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00x95hw (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with poet Jackie TUE Kay. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x93vl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Children Who Kill b00x95hy (Listen) TUE The programme examines how society tackles youngsters TUE accused of a range of crimes, particularly those involved in TUE serious offences. With unique access to the police cells in TUE Hull, Winifred Robinson charts what happens from the moment TUE of arrest and examines how demands for justice are TUE reconciled with the need to protect society by changing TUE offending behaviour TUE TUE The two young brothers who beat and tortured another pair of TUE boys in Doncaster raised concerns about what happens longer TUE term to those who offend at a very young age. These concerns TUE have been heightened by the re-arrest of Jon Venables and TUE the case of Learco Chindamo, who was rearrested just four TUE months after serving his sentence for the murder of TUE headmaster Philip Lawrence. TUE TUE The Coalition government has agreed plans to drastically cut TUE the prison population through community penalties overseen TUE by charities and the private sector. To assess how changes TUE will affect young offenders Winifred examines restorative TUE justice schemes and initiatives including the one undertaken TUE in Hull, where youth justice workers maintain a round the TUE clock presence in the custody suite. TUE TUE The programme follows access granted for earlier documentary TUE programmes in some of the country's secure children's units. TUE Winifred follows up youngsters released from these "child TUE prisons" and examines what more could be done in terms of TUE preventing reoffending. TUE TUE Producer: Susan Mitchell. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00x95j0 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Follow the Leader b00x95j2 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/2 Carolyn Quinn examines the psychology of leadership. TUE Once you've secured your position as leader, how do you deal TUE with the demands at the top? TUE TUE The level of media attention across all sectors, from TUE politics to football, means that today's leaders are under TUE more scrutiny than ever before. In the last episode, Carolyn TUE explores the challenges of modern leadership, from stepping TUE up to the top job, to stepping down. TUE TUE She talks to psychologists about the dos and don'ts of TUE successful leadership and finds out how leaders create and TUE change their image to attract followers. TUE TUE The gender gap in leadership is still large. According to TUE the 2010 Female FTSE report, produced annually by Cranfield TUE University, female appointments to corporate boards in the TUE UK's top companies have stalled at around 12 percent. TUE TUE Research by Prof Michelle Ryan, from Exeter University, has TUE also shown that women are more likely to be given top TUE positions in organisations that are doing badly, when there TUE is more chance of failure. TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin. TUE TUE 21:30 Haiti and the Truth about NGOs b00xcc0k (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00x93vs (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00x95j4 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00xb1tn (Listen) TUE Snowdrops, Episode 7 TUE TUE By A.D. Miller. Not everything goes smoothly for Nick in the TUE purchase of Tatiana Vladimirovna's flat and his worlds TUE collide when his mother decides to visit Moscow. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Rhyme and Reason b00x95j6 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Mr Gee presents the second programme in a four part series, TUE Rhyme and Reason. TUE He is joined by American pianist and singer-songwriter Tori TUE Amos, to talk about how poetry and music has influenced her TUE life. Throughout the programme we hear music from Tori's TUE back catalogue and readings of her favourite poetry. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00x95j8 (Listen) TUE Rachel Byrne reports on the day's events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 12 JANUARY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00x95q2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00x8hl2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x95q4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x95q6 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x95q8 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00x95qb (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x97hh (Listen) WED With the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00x97hk (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b00x97hm (Listen) WED Including 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports Desk. 6.05, 6.57, 7.57 WED Weather. 6.45 Yesterday in Parliament. 7.48 Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00x97hp (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00xcdk9 (Listen) WED The Invention of Murder, Episode 3 WED WED By Judith Flanders. WED WED Read by Robert Glenister. WED Abridged by David Jackson Young. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00x97hr (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Marine Le Pen's role in WED French politics. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x97ht (Listen) WED TwilightBaby.com: Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED By Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo. WED WED Cass has a baby to bring up and has rather let herself go WED but would Ken really contemplate an affair? WED WED Cass ..... Jenny Éclair WED Ken ..... Kevin Eldon WED Penny .....Felicity Montagu WED Margaret ..... Sally Orrock WED WED 11:00 Vines on the Front Line b00x97hw (Listen) WED " The message from a glass of Lebanese wine should be WED tolerance and openness between civilizations. It's more than WED fermented grape juice." Ramzi Ghosn, Massaya Wines. WED WED For Radio 4, the BBC's Middle East Editor, Jeremy Bowen, WED takes time out from reporting conflicts to give vinophiles a WED new perspective on an ancient story. Lebanon is not a place WED you naturally associate with winemaking. WED WED It is a Middle Eastern country nestled between Arab WED neighbours whose religion forbids them to drink alcohol. It WED is also a country that has been scarred by war, from the WED 15-year civil war from 1975-1990, to the recent WED Israeli-Lebanon conflict in 2006. WED WED But Lebanon is also an ancient civilisation, a country of WED merchants and traders - its history dating back to Noah, the WED first winemaker in the Bible. Fittingly the Temple of WED Bacchus, an impressive tribute to the God of wine, is WED situated amongst the ruins of Balbek, in the Bekaa Valley, a WED region these days better known for Hezbollah than hedonism. WED But the temple, like Lebanese wine, has survived centuries WED of war and the winemakers of the Bekka are optimistic wine WED will outlive war. WED WED Sharing stories with the wine makers who, in defiance and WED dedication to their craft, continue to grow their vines so WED close to the frontline, Jeremy delves into the cultural and WED ethnic mosaic of this unstable but extraordinary country. WED WED Producer: Gemma Newby WED An All Out Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00x97hy (Listen) WED Series 6, Gone Fishing WED WED On a fishing trip to Spiggy Lakes with long suffering WED friends, Sally, Geoffrey and Wilf, things start to go awry WED for Arthur after he 'finds' a rowing boat. WED WED He thinks may give him the edge in their £5.10 per head WED sweepstake based on who will catch the most fish, and sets WED out into the lake unaccompanied. WED WED Cast: WED Steve Delaney WED Alastair Kerr WED Dave Mounfield WED Mel Giedroyc 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 b00x97j0 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00x95qd (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00x97j2 (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00x97j4 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00x95ht (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00xgdhb (Listen) WED My Haunted Expression by Helen Clohessy WED WED Sue dreams of living by the sea and leaving their tough WED housing estate behind but husband Finn earns little and WED won't borrow. An offbeat 21st Century urban love story. WED WED Sue ... Rosie Cavaliero WED Finn ... John Dougall WED Lisa ... Sally Orrock WED Mick ... Tony Bell WED JJ ... Daniel Cooper WED Milly ... Deeivya Meir WED Derek ... Jude Akuwudike WED WED Director: David Hunter WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00x97j6 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mp4fv (Listen) WED Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The Soul of the WED Croupier WED WED Martin Jarvis reads this compelling tale set amidst the WED roulette tables of Monte Carlo, starring Agatha Christie's WED personal favourite character, Harley Quin. WED WED Holidaying in the South of France, Mr Satterthwaite WED encounters a beautiful Russian Countess with a mysterious WED past. But with the sudden arrival of Mr Quin, secrets are WED about to be revealed. Can they solve a conundrum concerning WED her and a brash young American? WED WED Producer/Director : Rosalind Ayres WED A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Europeans on the Edge b00xj9yy (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Lucy Ash profiles citizens from Italy, Germany, France, WED Spain and Ireland whose lives reflect the crisis in the WED European economy. WED Producer: Mark Savage. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00x97j8 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Follow the Leader b00x95j2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00x97jb (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x95qg (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Shappi Talk b00wsr2x (Listen) WED Series 2, Politics WED WED In the first series of Shappi Talk, Shappi looked at a WED variety of subjects close to her Iranian heart. WED WED For this second four part series Shappi broadens her outlook WED and takes a wry comedic look at four diverse personal WED subjects. During the series she and her guests will be WED looking at Divorce, Addiction, History and Politics. WED WED Producer: Paul Russell WED An Open Mike production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00x9x9y (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00x9xb0 (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including a report on the latest WED exhibition from the long-standing double-act Gilbert and WED George. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x97ht (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00x9xb2 (Listen) WED Law of the Sea WED WED Clive Anderson and some of the country's top legal minds WED discuss the law of the sea, examining the problems of trying WED to achieve justice over three-quarters of the earth's WED surface in the face of competing national interests. WED WED Are the high seas a legal wild west, or can national and WED international law be brought together to address such WED complex issues as piracy, oil spills, fishing quotas and WED Arctic seabed mining rights? WED WED And even if adequate law exists, who is responsible for WED seeing that it is enforced? WED WED Guests include Britain's former judge at the International WED Tribunal of the Law of the Sea, David Anderson, and legal WED experts on piracy and environmental law. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 It Happened Here b00sb25g (Listen) WED House of Commons WED WED Continuing his series about how places have shaped political WED events, Peter Hennessy, the leading historian of post-war WED Britain, visits the Office of the Prime Minister in the WED House of Commons which has been a little-known cockpit of WED war planning since 1950. WED WED He first discusses what is special about the Office and why WED it has been so important to successive prime ministers on WED defence issues. He then considers how prime minister Clement WED Attlee and his Cabinet decided to handle Anglo-American WED tensions over the Korean War in 1950 that had been WED heightened by provocative remarks made by the US general, WED Douglas MacArthur, on the use of nuclear weapons. WED WED Peter goes on to reveal the significance of the Office in WED the history of Britain's decision to develop the hydrogen WED bomb and then describes its pivotal role in the 1956 Suez WED Crisis and the abortive premiership of Conservative leader, WED Sir Anthony Eden. WED WED Finally, we learn about the part played by the Office in the WED dramatic events of the spring of 1982 as prime minister WED Margaret Thatcher evaluated with her closest advisers the WED prospects for re-taking the Falkland Islands following the WED Argentine invasion. WED WED Producer: Simon Coates. WED WED 21:00 Thin Air b00x9xb4 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED We not only live in the air, we live because of it. And air WED is about much more than just breathing. It is a transformer WED and a protector, though ultimately also a poison. At ground WED level, photosynthesis transforms air miraculously into solid WED food without which every creature on Earth would starve. It WED wraps our planet in a blanket of warmth. It brings us wind WED and rain and fire. It sustains our bodies and at the same WED time it burns them up, slowly, from the inside. The WED atmosphere provides a floating mirror for intercontinental WED radio signals and its outer layers soak up flares of deadly WED radiation from the Sun. WED WED In the first episode, Gabrielle Walker experiences air - and WED weighs it. At ground level, the air is not as 'thin' as we WED might imagine. The Royal Albert Hall, in its day one of the WED largest volumes of air enclosed in a single span may seem to WED be full of nothing, but in fact, the air inside weighs 30 WED tons! On the other hand, not much further away than the next WED city, the air is so tenuous as to be unbreathable! That is WED in the 'up' direction. In between is a gaseous ocean in WED which Gabrielle takes a swim - floating on air, flying a WED glider and chasing the storm clouds that bring us our WED weather. WED WED Producer: Martin Redfern. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00x97hp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00x95qj (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00x9xb6 (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 b00xccx2 (Listen) WED Snowdrops, Episode 8 WED WED By A.D. Miller. As the city approaches spring, the truth WED begins to unravel for Nick, both in his job and his WED relationships with Masha. WED WED Reader: Stephen Mangan WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 iGod b00x9xb8 (Listen) WED Episode 5 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 a different WED parallel world is accidentally wiped out by an ordinary WED bloke called Ian (Simon Day). With a full-range of sound WED effects and wonderfully funny and surreal twists, iGOD will WED be a true aural extravaganza. WED WED In this week's episode, a parallel Earth is obliterated when WED a lazy Ian decides to take the afternoon off. WED WED Cast: WED SIMON DAY as IAN WED DAVID SOUL as 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 My Teenage Diary b00x9xbb (Listen) WED Series 2, Rob Deering WED WED Rufus Hound invites Rob Deering to read embarrassing WED extracts from his teenage diary and read it out in public WED for the very first time. WED WED Producer: Victoria Payne WED A TalkbackThames production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00x9xbd (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the first Prime WED Minister's Questions of 2011. WED WED THU THURSDAY 13 JANUARY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00x9xd4 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00xcdk9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x9xd6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x9xd8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x9xdb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00x9xdd (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x9xdg (Listen) THU With the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00x9xdj (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b00x9xfp (Listen) THU Including 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports Desk. 6.05, 6.57, 7.57 THU Weather. 6.45 Yesterday in Parliament. 7.48 Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00x9xjb (Listen) THU Random and Pseudorandom THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss mathematical randomness THU and pseudorandomness. THU THU A sequence of numbers is random if it is unpredictable and THU displays no pattern. Random numbers are vital to games of THU chance: for instance, an unbiased roulette wheel will THU produce a sequence of random numbers between 0 and 36. THU Mathematicians also talk of 'pseudorandom' numbers - those THU which appear to be random but are not. Pseudorandomness has THU become enormously important in recent years, with uses in THU computing, cryptography and the modelling of complex THU phenomena, from climate change to weather systems. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00xf8nz (Listen) THU The Invention of Murder, Episode 4 THU THU By Judith Flanders. THU THU Read by Robert Glenister. THU Abridged by David Jackson Young. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00x9ycz (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Including Louisa May Alcott and THU her family's obsession with a naturalistic cult. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x9yd1 (Listen) THU TwilightBaby.com: Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU By Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo. THU Cass can't cope and attempts to employ THU a nanny. THU THU Cass ..... Jenny Éclair THU Ken ..... Kevin Eldon THU Magda ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan THU Jacob ..... Stephen Hogan THU Michaela ..... Christine Kavanagh THU Polyamorous nanny ..... Sally Orrock THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00x9yd3 (Listen) THU Cambodia: Country for Sale THU THU The paddy fields of impoverished Cambodia have suddenly THU become a prime slice of global real estate. But will the THU rural poor pay the price? This tiny Asian nation has just THU begun to recover after dictator Pol Pot's reign of terror, THU in which around 2 million Cambodians died, and the brutal THU civil war that followed. But now a very different story is THU unfolding in the agricultural heartland which once became THU notorious as the "killing fields." In a world plagued by THU food shortages, Cambodia is suddenly awash with global THU investors keen to snap up its cheap fertile land. The global THU financial elite see it as a recession-proof investment, and THU the government is desperate to invite in money and THU development. But it's driving a surreal land boom in the THU poorest villages: an estimated 15% of the country is now THU leased to private developers and stories are filtering in THU from the country's most impoverished farmers who tell of THU fear, violence and intimidation as private companies team up THU with armed police to force them from their land. In this THU week's Crossing Continents, Mukul Devichand samples the THU heady atmosphere of Cambodia's business elite, uncovers a THU lawless reality and investigates the claims of corruption THU and violence visited on the poor. He tells the stories of THU three very different men, Cambodian and foreign, who have THU very different plans for Cambodia's land: and asks what's THU really happening as one of rising Asia's poorest nations THU struggles to catch up. THU Producer: Jo Mathys. THU THU 11:30 Imelda Marcos, Dictator of Taste? b00x9yd5 (Listen) THU During her time as First Lady of the Philippines, Imelda THU Marcos was an enthusiastic patroness of the arts. She has THU now become an object of inspiration to musicians and artists THU across the globe, with Imelda-inspired works including an THU elaborate song cycle, photographs, a film and a musical. THU THU Mark Ellen explores the emergence of Imelda Marcos as an THU unlikely modern icon as David Byrne, Norman Cook and other THU artists and musicians inspired by her life consider why THU Imelda has mutated into a modern muse and whether she THU deserves such broadly sympathetic treatment. THU THU Producer: Julia Johnson. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00x9yd7 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00x9z74 (Listen) THU Food speculation THU THU Two years ago spiralling prices of wheat, corn and rice THU caused riots in more than 30 countries worldwide as many THU families struggled to feed themselves. A number of THU organisations, including representatives at the UN, believe THU that it wasn't just a supply and demand issue, but that THU financial firms and other speculators entered the food THU markets to profit from short term changes in price. As food THU prices begin to rise again, John Waite investigates whether THU speculators are to blame, and if tighter regulation is THU needed. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00x9xdl (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00x9z76 (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00x9z78 (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson continues his sparkling series of THU Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to THU those intriguing questions of every day 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 b00x9x9y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00x9z7b (Listen) THU Escape from Gaza THU THU By Justin Butcher and Ahmed Masoud. A small private odyssey. THU In summer 2009, Ahmed Masoud left his pregnant wife to visit THU his sick mother. An everyday occurrence for most, but THU Ahmed's family live in Gaza. THU THU Ahmed Masoud ... Adeel Akhtar THU Mahmoud ... Sam Dastoor THU Father ... Kevork Malikyan THU Mohammed ... Saikat Ahamed THU Mother ... Souad Faress THU Heather ... Claire Harry THU Alex ... Leah Brotherhead THU Dudo ... Deeivya Meir THU Tariq ... Lloyd Thomas THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00x87bf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00x89fs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 08:10 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mp4fj (Listen) THU Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, At the Bells and THU Motley THU THU Martin Jarvis reads another story concerning investigations THU by the mysterious Mr Quin. For Mr Satterthwaite, a punctured THU car tyre on a cold winter's evening is the start of another THU mystery-solving encounter with the enigmatic Mr Harley Quin. THU THU Taking refuge at a country inn Mr Satterthwaite discovers THU his friend Mr Quin, who invites him to re-examine the THU strange case of a wealthy young local woman and her new THU husband's disappearance. Was it murder? Or is there some THU other game afoot? THU THU Producer/Director : Rosalind Ayres THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Europeans on the Edge b00xj9z0 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Lucy Ash profiles citizens from Italy, Germany, France, THU Spain and Ireland whose lives reflect the crisis in the THU European economy. THU Producer: Mark Savage. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00x9zdb (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to American author Michael THU Cunningham, author of the The Hours, adapted into a film THU starring Nicole Kidman. Cunningham discusses his new novel, THU By Nightfall, which follows the story of a New York based THU couple. THU THU PRODUCER: SALLY SPURRING. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00x9zdd (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU Producer: Roland Pease. THU THU 17:00 PM b00x9zdg (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x9xdn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00x9zdj (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 2 THU THU Tonight's agenda: THU 1. 50% Minimum Participation in Elections THU 2. Convert Fast Food into Renewable Gas THU 3. Earning Cap of £30k on All Bank Employees THU Plus any other business from our studio audience. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00x9zdl (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00x9zdn (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x9yd1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00x9zdq (Listen) THU The revelation that the man responsible for Sweden's first THU suicide bombing had lived and studied in Luton provided the THU latest link between the Bedfordshire town and terrorist THU activity. THU THU The accusation that Luton has become a 'hotbed of extremism' THU dates back to the late 1990s, when it was claimed that one THU of the men alleged to be involved with a terrorist plot in THU Yemen in 1998 had lived in the town. Links with Luton have THU also been cited in other major planned terrorist atrocities THU since, including the fertiliser bomb plot of 2003 which THU aimed to blow up British nightclubs and shopping centres, THU and the July 7th London bombings. The Report investigates THU whether Luton has a problem with militant Islam and if it is THU doing enough to stop its young residents from being THU radicalised. THU THU The programme will also ask why Luton has also proved THU fertile territory for the extreme right. The English Defence THU League was born in Luton in the spring of 2009 in response THU to the abuse faced by members of the Royal Anglian Regiment THU who had returned from a tour of duty in Afghanistan by a THU small group of extremist Muslim protestors. THU THU Phil Kemp will speak to community leaders who reject the THU impression painted of their town as a divided place. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00x9zds (Listen) THU All at Sea THU THU It is a long time since Britain ruled the maritime world, THU and North Sea oil has peaked. But ocean transport is still a THU vital UK activity and wind and water power are making big THU waves around our shores. Peter Day takes the helm of a THU container ship to find out what British seapower means THU today. THU THU Producer : Jo Mathys. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00x95h4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00x9xjb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00x9xdq (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00x9zqr (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 b00xccxn (Listen) THU Snowdrops, Episode 9 THU THU By A.D. Miller. A trip to Odessa with Masha helps Nick THU suspend reality, but it's becoming ever more difficult for THU the English lawyer justify his actions. THU THU Reader: Stephen Mangan THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Spread A Little Happiness b00knp6s (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire THU sandwich bar. THU THU Another day at the breadface, but now Jodie's anxieties THU aren't just about her sandwich business. Though she rather THU likes having Hope around, her husband Dave isn't so keen. THU THU Hope ...... Suranne Jones THU Jodie ...... Susan Cookson THU Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon THU Milkman ...... Shaun Prendergast THU Workman ...... Ben Crowe THU THU Directed by Chris Wallis. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00x9zqt (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports on the day's events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 14 JANUARY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00xb0rg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00xf8nz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xb0rj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xb0rl (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xb0rn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00xb0rq (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xb0rs (Listen) FRI With the Revd Dr Leslie Griffiths. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00xb0rv (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00xb0rx (Listen) FRI Including 6.25, 7.25, 8.25 Sports Desk. 6.05, 6.57, 7.57 FRI Weather. 6.45 Yesterday in Parliament. 7.48 Thought for the FRI Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00x8f2l (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00xf9t2 (Listen) FRI The Invention of Murder, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Judith Flanders. FRI FRI Read by Robert Glenister. FRI Abridged by David Jackson Young. FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xb0rz (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Including the enduring role of FRI Carmen. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xb0s1 (Listen) FRI TwilightBaby.com: Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Jenny Eclair and Julie Balloo. FRI Cass throws a birthday party for Flo FRI in a building site FRI FRI Cass ..... Jenny Éclair FRI Ken ..... Kevin Eldon FRI Magda ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Jacob ..... Stephen Hogan FRI Penny ..... Felicity Montagu FRI Charlie ..... Joe Coen FRI FRI 11:00 Wheels Coming off at the Rotary? b00xb0s3 (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI The Rotary Club was established in Chicago in 1905 as a FRI place where businessmen could meet, network and along the FRI way put something back into the community. Though there were FRI originally just four members the idea spread across first FRI America, and then the world at a phenomenal rate, so that by FRI the 1920s the Rotary was as firmly established in British FRI life as it was across the Atlantic. By now it is the largest FRI organisation of volunteers in the world. FRI FRI Though never especially fashionable with the intelligentsia, FRI for generations it has provided local businessmen with a FRI place to meet on a weekly basis and try to make a FRI difference, both at the local and international level - one FRI of its most successful campaigns saw it lead the drive to FRI stamp out polio from the planet. FRI FRI In spite of this success, however, Rotary is now seeing its FRI membership drop as its image has become shop-worn and FRI society has changed around it, making it harder for people FRI to make the kind of commitment in terms of time and effort FRI that the organisation typically requires. Rotary itself says FRI it is facing a 'demographic time-bomb', as it struggles to FRI attract younger members to local clubs where the majority of FRI the members are typically much older than them. FRI FRI In 'Wheels Coming off At The Rotary?' Allan Beswick travels FRI to clubs around the country and finds there are significant FRI efforts afoot to turn things around, with newer clubs FRI springing up where formalities are more relaxed and the FRI meetings more accommodating to a younger age-group with less FRI time to offer. He also visits the more traditional clubs FRI where the members reluctantly recognise the need for things FRI to move on, even if it means they are left to wither on the FRI vine. FRI FRI 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00ngz6q (Listen) FRI Series 3, A Lovely Life Re-Kippered Again Once More FRI FRI Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. FRI FRI Pip Bin's happiness is shattered once again. Fog-filled FRI streets, murders, and ghastly apparitions from beyond the FRI grave abound, and through it all echoes the terrible FRI menacing coo of a possessed and evil pigeon. FRI FRI Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson FRI Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen FRI Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head FRI Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman FRI Inspector Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland FRI Pippa ...... Susy Kane. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00xb0s5 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00xb0s7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00xb0s9 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00xb0sc (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the team look behind the numbers in the FRI news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00x9zdl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00xb0sf (Listen) FRI Incredibly Guilty: A Comic Moral Fable FRI FRI by Marcy Kahan FRI Ed Hanson didn't mean to put Penhaligon Rhinehart into a FRI coma; after all he's a National Treasure. FRI Now Ed's life is about to change forever. FRI FRI Ed Hanson ..... Stephen Mangan FRI Lucinda ..... Naomi Frederick FRI Penhaligon Rhinehart ..... Sean Baker FRI Marion Spooner ..... Joanna Monro FRI Sanjay Patel ..... Adeel Akhtar FRI Bella McFadden ..... Naomi Sheldon FRI Rhett Rhinehart ..... Lloyd Thomas FRI Nick ..... Iain Batchelor FRI Kitty ..... Deeviya Meir FRI Ed's Mother ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00xb0sh (Listen) FRI Central London FRI FRI Eric Robson leads the panel in a lively horticultural FRI discussion in Central London. He also tours the UK's FRI grandest collection of gardening books at RHS Lindley FRI Library. FRI FRI Then it's back up north to Nottingham where we revisit Grace FRI in her garden: part of our Listeners' Gardens series. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Europeans on the Edge b00xj9z2 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Lucy Ash profiles citizens from Italy, Germany, France, FRI Spain and Ireland whose lives reflect the crisis in the FRI European economy. FRI Producer: Mark Savage. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00xb0sk (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 b00xb0sm (Listen) FRI Francine Stock looks ahead to Radio 4's Film Season, asking FRI for listeners' diaries of their movie watching habits over FRI January. The result will be a snapshot of the nation's FRI viewing preferences - where we watch films (on television, FRI computer or in the cinema) and on what format - DVD or FRI download. Francine will try to find out if the digital FRI revolution has finally arrived or is it just a media myth, FRI and to discern what we are watching, whether its new FRI releases or old favourites. Plus, Francine will be FRI publishing a record of her own viewing habits via Twitter FRI during the season. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00xb0sp (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 b00xb0sr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00xb0zx (Listen) FRI Series 73, Episode 2 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, FRI Susan Calman and Andy Hamilton. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00xb0zz (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00xb101 (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang with arts news, reviews and an interview with FRI comedy performer and writer Richard Herring. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xb0s1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00xb103 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Sexey's FRI School in Bruton, Somerset with questions for the panel FRI including Education minister Sarah Teather and Executive FRI Director of the Fairtrade Foundation Harriet Lamb. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00xb105 (Listen) FRI Alain de Botton with his topical reflections. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00xb107 (Listen) FRI Ob'owa FRI FRI Ob'owa is the story of when eight-year-old Francesca and her FRI brother six-year-old Joseph are kidnapped by their father to FRI their parents' homeland of Nigeria, life is very different FRI to they one they had in Peckham. Thirty years later, it's FRI time to return to Nigeria. FRI FRI As Francesca reveals the story of their kidnap and life at FRI their Grandfather's house in Benin City with his three wives FRI and his many children, it's clear many adjustments had to be FRI made to survive in a world where everyone looks like you but FRI are so very foreign. Peckham could not have prepared the FRI children for the mosquitoes, lizards and sweltering heat of FRI sub-Saharan Africa; the slaughter of animals in the FRI backyard; a diet consisting of yam, yam and more yam and the FRI painful ritual of tribal markings carved with a razor blade FRI into young flesh. FRI FRI Ob'owa is inspired by real events. Created by Director, FRI Christiana Ebohon and Writer, Moya O'Shea. The play examines FRI themes of belonging and home. Is home the place where your FRI family originates or where you were born? It is told in FRI present day, with flashbacks to the 70s and that fateful FRI trip to Nigeria. FRI FRI The cast stars Rhiannon Baccus, Jayden Jean-Paul-Denis, FRI Tracey Ifeachor (Welcome to Thebes), Nonso Anozie (Death and FRI the King's Horseman), Kobna Holdbrook-Smith (Death and the FRI King's Horseman), May Owen, Susan Agbabi, Isobel Akpobire, FRI Abi Enola and Lorcan Bolger. FRI FRI The play was partly recorded on location in Lagos, Nigeria FRI FRI Producer: Frank Stirling FRI An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00xb0st (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00xb12v (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 b00xc3wk (Listen) FRI Snowdrops, Episode 10 FRI FRI By A.D. Miller. In Moscow the snow has melted and, for Nick, FRI it spells the end of the affair. FRI FRI Reader: Stephen Mangan FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00x95hm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xb12x (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
07 January, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 08/01/2011 - 14/01/2011
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