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SAT SATURDAY 15 JANUARY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00xb257 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00xf9t2 (Listen) SAT The Invention of Murder, Episode 5 SAT SAT By Judith Flanders. SAT SAT Over the course of the nineteenth century, murder - in SAT reality a rarity - became ubiquitous: transformed into SAT novels, into broadsides and ballads, into theatre and SAT melodrama. "The Invention of Murder" explores the Victorian SAT fascination with deadly violence by relating some of the SAT century's most gripping and gruesome cases and the ways in SAT which they were commercially exploited. SAT SAT The public imagination was particularly stirred when new SAT technology was used to bring criminals to justice. This SAT episode looks at one such case in which an enterprising SAT railway clerk used the electric telegraph to send a SAT description of a suspected murderer ahead of the train he SAT was travelling on, so that the suspect could be met by SAT police at his journey's end. And, bringing us right up to SAT the final years of the century, how the funeral of an SAT acclaimed actor - and murder victim - was captured on film SAT for posterity. SAT SAT Read by Robert Glenister. SAT Abridged by David Jackson Young. SAT Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xb259 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xb25c (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xb25f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00xb25h (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xb25k (Listen) SAT presented by the Rev Johnston McKay. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00xb25m (Listen) SAT Bankers and Humanitarianism SAT SAT A news programme shaped by the inquisitiveness and SAT experience of the Radio 4 audience. This week we feature a SAT listener's response to the banking crisis. Also in the SAT programme, we visit a homeless shelter and ask what it tells SAT us about the Big Society, and we talk humanitarian SAT intervention with the man in charge of the UN's efforts in SAT Haiti, whose career has spanned thirty years and twelve SAT countries. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00xb25p (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00xb25r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00xgqwz (Listen) SAT Snow, biting winds and a tent made to the design used by SAT nomads in Ulaanbaatar ... but Richard Uridge hasn't SAT travelled to Mongolia for this week's Open Country, he's SAT high up on Exmoor. SAT SAT He meets Hen and Leo - who are braving winter on the moor in SAT pursuit of their dream of a low impact, but not entirely SAT low-tech lifestyle - their pig-farming neighbour and the man SAT who made their yurt. SAT SAT Producer Steve Peacock. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00xgqx1 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT In some agricultural colleges demand for courses have risen SAT by more than 40% compared to last year. At a time of SAT increasing tuition fees Caz Graham meets students and staff SAT at Harper Adams College in Shropshire to hear why studying SAT agriculture is becoming more attractive. SAT SAT Farming Today is following farmers as they move from SAT agricultural college into the world of work. It is a SAT notoriously difficult vocation to get started in. Dan Aries SAT has returned to his family farm in Banbury but has plans to SAT move to New Zealand; Stephen Olley is struggling to find SAT work in Norfolk and thinks that farmers may be SAT discriminating against him because of his disability; and SAT Tom Martindale is back in Hampshire helping out his father SAT Martin with the pigs. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00xb25t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00xgqx3 (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00xgqx5 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with guest Mary Portas and poet Murray Lachlan SAT Young; interviews with the last footman in England and a SAT survivor of the New Cross Fire, a Crowdscape from Nottingham SAT Market and the Inheritance Tracks of Rolf Harris. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00xgqx7 (Listen) SAT Pit villages - Overland with children across Africa SAT SAT John McCarthy explores the Great Northern Coalfield in North SAT East England with writer Peter Crookston and meets the young SAT family who travelled 4,000 miles across Africa in 2 months. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Ship of Spies b00xgqx9 (Listen) SAT Tom Mangold joins a spy-themed cruise around the Caribbean. SAT SAT Outward appearances suggest it's just a regular cruise. But SAT as the MS Eurodam sets sail from Fort Lauderdale in Florida, SAT this vast ship is carrying two men who've been at the very SAT heart of the US intelligence services. Former CIA directors SAT Porter Goss and Michael Hayden are on board for the Spy SAT Cruise, a seven day trip devoted to issues of national SAT security. SAT SAT Passengers have paid to hear and mingle with these senior SAT ex-spooks, as well as a range of other former intelligence SAT and military officers. Whilst other passengers on the ship SAT gamble in the casino, play pool games and try their hand at SAT line-dancing, the spy cruisers are locked into a lecture SAT theatre worrying about the state of global security. SAT SAT Tom Mangold discovers that the cruise is part of an attempt SAT to repair the damaged reputation of the CIA after a string SAT of controversies. In wide-ranging and rigorous interviews, SAT he grills the two ex CIA bosses on extraordinary renditions, SAT enhanced interrogations, water-boarding, and targeted SAT assassinations. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00xgqxc (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley looks behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT The result of the Oldham East and Saddleworth by-election is SAT being sifted for clues. Each party is looking for SAT reassurance in the outcome of this first electoral test SAT since the general election. SAT SAT Here, three observers with a close interest give their SAT views. They are the Conservative MP and secretary of the SAT party's 1922 committee, Mark Pritchard, Labour's Michael SAT Meacher who has a neighbouring Oldham seat and the Liberal SAT Democrat, Chris Davies, now an MEP who once represented the SAT area at Westminster. SAT SAT Multi-million pound bonuses for top staff at the banks, many SAT bailed out by the taxpayer after the credit crunch, blew up SAT as the other big story of the week. Barclays' Bob Diamond SAT thought apologies out of place and out of time. But MPs SAT disagree - as the Conservative Andrea Leadsom and Labour's SAT Chuka Umunna explain. SAT SAT Finally, the expenses scandal is taking its toll. One former SAT MP has been jailed and another MP stood down this week after SAT pleading guilty to fraud. How different is this scandal from SAT many others down the years? The veteran Labour peer and SAT former MP, Bernard Donoughue, reflects. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00xgr0z (Listen) SAT The roots of the rage that's spilled onto the streets of SAT North Africa. SAT SAT Southern Sudan's farmers talk of their dreams of peace in a SAT new nation. SAT SAT The Communists of Laos begin a journey down the path to SAT Capitalism. SAT SAT And we soak up the atmosphere on a holy day in an ancient SAT centre of Jewish mysticism. SAT SAT Tunisia is in turmoil. Extreme economic and political SAT tensions have exploded across the country, and there's been SAT a number of deaths. Smoke and tear gas have hung thick in SAT the air, and only when it finally clears will we see how SAT much - or how little - Tunisia has changed. Neighbouring SAT Algeria has also seen similar, although less intense, SAT outbursts of violence recently. And in the capital, Algiers, SAT Chloe Arnold has been reflecting on the causes of North SAT Africa's troubles. SAT SAT This is a momentous time for the people of southern Sudan. SAT Over the past week they've been voting in a referendum on SAT whether they should break away and form a country of their SAT own. It'll be about a fortnight before the results are SAT declared. But all the signs are that the south will indeed SAT chose to secede - and Africa will soon have a new nation in SAT its midst. Will Ross spent time with villagers as the voting SAT unfolded, and he describes the mood among the region's SAT farmers. SAT SAT When an elderly man called Vang Pao died just recently in SAT California, he was a long way from the land of his birth. He SAT was a leader of the Hmong people of the South East Asian SAT nation of Laos. Back in the 1960s and 70s his forces had SAT formed part of a CIA-sponsored war in Laos. But when the SAT Communists finally came to power, Vang Pao went into exile SAT in the US. His death there has stirred memories of his SAT story, and of his country's very painful past. But as SAT Claudia Hammond has been finding out, in Laos today there is SAT a real desire to move on, and gradual change is coming. SAT SAT In their War of Independence the Americans shed blood to rid SAT themselves of Britain, and the sovereignty of King George SAT the Third. Republicanism sits at the heart of the US SAT political system. From the very start there could never be SAT any room for kings and queens and all that go with them. And SAT yet, as Laura Trevelyan has been finding out, elements of SAT the idea of monarchy - the romance and the fantasy that SAT surround it - continue to captivate some Americans. SAT SAT All over the world you find places that have marked SAT themselves out as spiritual centres, towns and cities that SAT have been the focus of centuries of belief and tradition. SAT Mecca, Jerusalem, Lourdes in France, Varanasi on the Ganges SAT - the list of famous names is long. But there are also many SAT much less well-known sites that have a powerful resonance SAT for followers of certain faiths. And Clive Lawton has been SAT exploring one of them in Galilee. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00xgr11 (Listen) SAT Thousands more pursued for tax after HMRC mistakes: SAT HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) says it will be pursuing SAT another 450,000 people over tax it has failed to collect. SAT SAT These underpayment cases relate to the financial year SAT 2007/08 and are in addition to the 1.4 million people who SAT underpaid through the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system in SAT 2008/09 and 2009/10, which HMRC revealed in September. SAT SAT The problems have been uncovered by a new computer system, SAT installed at HMRC in 2009. SAT SAT The government has also announced that any earlier tax it SAT failed to gather through tax codes for years before 2007/08 SAT will be written off - though any refunds due to people who SAT have paid too much will be made back to 2004/05. SAT SAT And 250,000 people who get the state pension, but whose tax SAT was wrongly calculated in 2008/9 and 2009/10, will also be SAT let off their tax bill. SAT SAT Pensions: SAT The Pensions Bill 2011 started its progress through SAT Parliament this week. SAT SAT It implements the more rapid rise in state pension age (it SAT will be at least 66 for anyone born on or after 6 April SAT 1954), and it will introduce the new workplace pensions that SAT start for some in October 2012, and will apply to everyone SAT at work aged between 22 years and pension age who pays tax, SAT from October 2016 - with full contributions due from October SAT 2017. SAT SAT People will be automatically enrolled in the pension schemes SAT - although it will be possible to opt out. SAT SAT Tom McPhail, from Hargreaves Lansdowne, joins Paul to SAT discuss the consequences of these planned changes, and the SAT potential costs of waiting for the new workplace pensions to SAT come into force. SAT SAT Hidden currency costs: SAT Money Box has discovered that unsuspecting customers could SAT be paying higher charges for currency conversion than they SAT realise. SAT SAT Some banks and businesses have started making up their own SAT currency exchange rates, which can be significantly higher SAT than the Visa and Mastercard spot rates. SAT SAT Paul Lewis speaks to Bob Atkinson, from SAT moneysupermarket.com. SAT SAT Pre-nuptial agreements: SAT The Law Commission has started a three-month public SAT consultation about whether pre-nuptial agreements should be SAT made legally binding. SAT SAT We ask what it might recommend, and how you can protect your SAT financial affairs within a relationship as the law stands SAT now. SAT SAT And we talk to the Justice Minister, Jonathan Djanogly, SAT about his ideas of insuring against divorce costs, and talk SAT to a company that provides divorce insurance. SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00xb0zx (Listen) SAT Series 73, Episode 2 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, SAT Susan Calman and Andy Hamilton. SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00xb25w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00xb25y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00xb103 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Sexey's SAT School in Bruton, Somerset with questions for the panel SAT including Education minister Sarah Teather and Executive SAT Director of the Fairtrade Foundation Harriet Lamb. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00xgr13 (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 b00xgr15 (Listen) SAT Master Harold and the Boys SAT SAT On a wet and windy 1950s afternoon in the St George's Park SAT Tea Room, Port Elizabeth, waiters Sam and Willie are SAT practising their dance steps, unaware that the owner's son, SAT Hally, who grew up with them, is about to change their SAT relationship forever. SAT Athol Fugard's semi-autobiographical play asks who is really SAT the master - and who the boys? SAT Recorded on location in South Africa. SAT SAT Sam ..... Wiseman Sithole SAT Hally ..... Andrew Laubscher SAT Willie ..... Sizwe Msutu SAT SAT Director: Marion Nancarrrow SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00xgr17 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. The family of Louisa May Alcott SAT became obsessed with a naturalistic cult - we hear about SAT Fruitlands, their nineteenth-century search for Utopia. SAT Miriam O'Reilly's lawyer joins the programme to discuss the SAT wider implications for women following the age SAT discrimination ruling. How often should you change your SAT bedlinen? Every week? Before and after guests? We discuss SAT the thorny issue of washing your sheets. Marine Le Pen looks SAT set to take over the mantle of the far right from her father SAT this weekend. So what might her impact be on French SAT politics? Recent news reports have highlighted the SAT prosecution of gangs of predominantly Pakistani men who have SAT groomed and sexually exploited young girls. What is the best SAT way to tackle this crime without stereotyping and dividing SAT communities? The secret life of stuff: would knowing a SAT product has an environmentally sound footprint make you SAT change your shopping habits? And the soprano Heather Shipp SAT talks about the enduring appeal of Carmen. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00xgr19 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00xb25m (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00xb260 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00xb262 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xb264 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00xgr1c (Listen) SAT Peter Curran is in the Loose Ends chair this week with an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Award-winning novelist DBC Pierre talks to Peter about SAT childhood privilege, rebellion and globe trotting. His book SAT 'Vernon God Little' is adapted for the stage and directed by SAT Rufus Norris for the Young Vic. SAT SAT He may be best recognised as Jesus of Nazareth and he is SAT married to Babs from Pan's People. But for another SAT generation of television viewers Robert Powell is best known SAT as Nursing CEO Mark Williams from Holby City. There may not SAT be a dry surgical mask in the country as Mark says farewell SAT to the wards on Tuesday January 24th 2011. Robert Powell SAT then goes on to play the hard living, hard drinking SAT journalist Jeffrey Bernard (who certainly needed some SAT medical treatment in his time) in 'Jeffrey Bernard Is SAT Unwell'. SAT SAT Sudanese former child soldier Emmanuel Jal launched his SAT hip-hop charity anthem 'We Want Peace' just ahead of the SAT Sudan referendum to raise political awareness with a call SAT for peace throughout the turbulent country. He's urging SAT people to support the campaign by visiting the official 'We SAT Want Peace' website and sign up to become 'Peace Soldiers' SAT and his call to action is backed by a host of high profile SAT names including Kofi Annan, Richard Branson, George Clooney, SAT Alicia Keys and Peter Gabriel. SAT SAT How will self help guru and hypnotist Paul McKenna cope with SAT Grumpy Old Man Arthur Smith? He'll have to try some of the SAT techniques from his latest book 'I Can Make You Happy'. SAT Let's see shall we... SAT SAT There's music with a punk Cajun twist from Swiss trio Mama SAT Rosin. SAT SAT And Californian folk pop from Sea of Bees. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00xgr1f (Listen) SAT Colin Firth SAT SAT As Colin Firth is honoured with a star on Hollywood's Walk SAT of Fame, Jonathan Maitland profiles the actor hotly tipped SAT to receive an Oscar for his performance in The King's SAT Speech. SAT SAT Colin Firth is famous for his eclectic roles and campaigning SAT zeal. He first came to prominence in the BBC adaption of SAT Pride & Prejudice. He played Mr Darcy, a performance he SAT claims never to have watched in full. But his break was as a SAT public schoolboy in Another Country. His real life was very SAT different, he went to a state school in Winchester. At home, SAT books and theatre were highly valued. His grandparents were SAT missionaries which might help to explain his involvement in SAT a number of charitable and campaigning organisations. He is SAT particularly interested in supporting indigenous people, SAT fair trade and foreign development. In the past he has SAT supported Labour and came out - briefly - last year for the SAT Lib Dems. SAT SAT His career has mixed serious roles in Tom Ford's A Single SAT Man and Michael Winterbottom's Genoa with Phyllida Lloyd's SAT Mamma Mia and the reprisal of Mr Darcy in the Bridget Jones SAT films. SAT SAT Profile talks to his parents, Shirley and David Firth, the SAT actor, David Morrissey and director Sir Richard Eyre. SAT SAT Producer: Rosamund Jones. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00xgr1h (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writer Paul Morley, novelist SAT Dreda Say Mitchell and broadcaster and cleric Richard Coles SAT review the week's cultural highlights including Blue SAT Valentine. SAT SAT Derek Cianfrance's film Blue Valentine stars Ryan Gosling SAT and Michelle Williams as Dean and Cindy. The narrative jumps SAT between two points in the couple's relationship - the SAT beginning and the apparent breakdown of their marriage SAT several years later. SAT SAT Linda Grant's novel We Had It So Good concerns another SAT couple - Stephen and Andrea. They meet as students at Oxford SAT in 1960s - he's a Rhodes scholar from California, while SAT she's come up from Cornwall. The novel tracks their lives - SAT and their fellow baby boomer friends - through the SAT intervening years to the present. SAT SAT JMW Turner is the subject of Rebecca Lenkiewicz's play The SAT Painter at the Arcola Theatre in London. It explores the SAT artist's relationship with the three key women in his life: SAT his mother who ends up in Bedlam, the prostitute who models SAT for him and the widow with whom he has a child. SAT SAT Gilbert and George have been making work with postcards SAT since the 1970s. They call their latest collection of 564 SAT pieces - created from a combination of sex workers' SAT advertising cards and London tourist postcards - The Urethra SAT Postcard Pictures. 155 of them are on show at the White Cube SAT gallery in London. SAT SAT Laura Linney plays Cathy in the US comedy The Big C which is SAT being broadcast on More 4. Cathy's behaviour towards her SAT family and friends undergoes a radical change - she begins SAT telling them exactly what she thinks and doing exactly what SAT she wants to. What she doesn't tell them is that she has SAT been diagnosed with terminal skin cancer and has refused SAT treatment. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00xgr1k (Listen) SAT Going to the Flicks, Episode 1 SAT SAT Barry Norman is one of Britain's best loved film SAT broadcasters, but for this series he is not so much SAT interested in the films as in exploring how the experience SAT of going to the cinema in Britain has changed over the last SAT one hundred years. In fact, his first surprise is the SAT discovery that people are far more likely to recall the SAT general experience of going to the cinema than the SAT individual films they saw. SAT SAT He draws on BBC archive as well as recordings from the SAT University of Lancaster which have never been broadcast SAT before, and also new interviews to find out how people's SAT experience of this most popular form of entertainment has SAT changed over the decades. SAT SAT The Silent Era, it turns out, was not all that silent, with SAT plenty of chatting and tea-drinking going on, not to mention SAT children reading out the titles to their illiterate parents SAT and grandparents. Barry then moves on to hear how SAT overwhelmed many viewers were by the sheer luxury of the SAT cinemas built in the inter-war years and how these pleasure SAT palaces offered a few hours of escape from lives which were SAT harsh or sometimes simply dull. He himself recalls going to SAT the pictures in the 1950s, which was the golden age of SAT Saturday morning cinema for children. In the 1960s, with the SAT advent of television, Barry finds out about the ultimately SAT failed attempts to introduce novelties such as Cinerama and SAT The Smellies to cinema and hears confessions about just what SAT went on in the back row! SAT SAT With contributions from film expert Annette Kuhn and SAT architectural historian Richard Gray, this first part of SAT Barry Norman's memoir of Going to the Flicks is a heady mix SAT of nostalgia and surprise. SAT SAT Producer : Beaty Rubens. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00x8fwv (Listen) SAT Neglected Classics - Miss Mackenzie, Episode 1 SAT SAT By Anthony Trollope SAT Dramatised by Martyn Wade SAT SAT Miss Mackenzie, a woman past the bloom of youth, inherits a SAT fortune and is then beset by suitors. But whom will she SAT choose? SAT SAT Anthony Trollope.....David Troughton SAT Miss Mackenzie.....Hattie Morahan SAT John Ball.....Philip Franks SAT Lady Ball.....Margaret Tyzack SAT Mr. Maguire.....Stephen Critchlow SAT Mr. Rubb.....Lloyd Thomas SAT Tom Mackenzie.....Sam Dale SAT Sarah Mackenzie.....Joanna Monro SAT Susanna Mackenzie.....Leah Brotherhead SAT Mr. Slow.....Sean Baker SAT Miss Todd.....Claire Harry SAT Mrs. Stumfold.....Christine Kavanagh SAT Rev. Stumfold.....Henry Devas SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00xb266 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00x9xb2 (Listen) SAT Law of the Sea SAT SAT Clive Anderson and some of the country's top legal minds SAT discuss the law of the sea, examining the problems of trying SAT to achieve justice over three-quarters of the earth's SAT surface in the face of competing national interests. SAT SAT Are the high seas a legal wild west, or can national and SAT international law be brought together to address such SAT complex issues as piracy, oil spills, fishing quotas and SAT Arctic seabed mining rights? SAT SAT And even if adequate law exists, who is responsible for SAT seeing that it is enforced? SAT SAT Guests include Britain's former judge at the International SAT Tribunal of the Law of the Sea, David Anderson, and legal SAT experts on piracy and environmental law. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00x923f (Listen) SAT (12/17) SAT The quest for the 2011 Brain of Britain champion reaches the SAT twelfth and last heat, with Russell Davies in the SAT questionmaster's chair. Today's contest will decide who SAT completes the line-up in the semi-finals which begin next SAT week. The programme comes from Manchester, with contenders SAT from Liverpool, Kidderminster, Leicester and Beeston in SAT Notts. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME SAT SAT MARGARET BURKE, a retired legal secretary from Liverpool SAT IAN FENNELL, an IT developer from Kidderminster SAT PHIL HARVEY, a part-time university lecturer from Leicester SAT IWAN THOMAS, a freelance science editor from Beeston in SAT Notts SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00xgr2l (Listen) SAT Series 11, Kubla Khan SAT SAT Peggy Reynolds continues her Adventures in Poetry as she SAT explores Samuel Taylor Coleridge's celebrated poem Kubla SAT Khan. Written in 1797 in a remote farmhouse in the Quantock SAT Hills, the poem came to Coleridge as a vision in an SAT opium-induced dream, which was famously interrupted by a SAT visitor from the nearby village of Porlock. Peggy is SAT fascinated by the fragmentary nature of the poem and the way SAT in which phrases from it have resonated through literature, SAT and even music, ever since. She is joined by Coleridge's SAT biographer Richard Holmes; James Watt, an expert on the real SAT Kubla Khan; Tim Clayton an expert in 18th culture; and by SAT Martyn Ware, a sound artist who has been inspired by the SAT poem to create a new, and vividly evocative soundscape based SAT on the poem. SAT SAT Produced by Jane Greenwood. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 16 JANUARY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00xgs1q (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00hd3rn (Listen) SUN The Treasure Chest, Tales of Wisdom and Common Sense 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. SUN SUN A doctor suggests an effective cure; and a barber's boy gets SUN the better of a terrifying customer. SUN SUN Translated by John Hibberd and abridged by Roy Apps. SUN Read by Mark Williams. SUN SUN Producer/Director: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xgs1s (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xgs1v (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xgs1x (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00xgs1z (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00xgs21 (Listen) SUN The bells of Durham Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00xgr1f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00xgs23 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00xgs25 (Listen) SUN Freedom and Control SUN SUN Mark Tully considers the paradox that boundaries and SUN controls can create a sense of freedom and creativity. A SUN sonnet, or a sonata are bound by prescribed form, but in the SUN hands of Wordsworth, or Beethoven they can transcend the SUN rules they depend on. SUN SUN Using a diverse range of music from Olivier Messiaen, to SUN Ravi Shankar, Humphrey Littleton and the mathematically SUN constructed work of Iannis Xenakis, Mark Tully discovers SUN that structure usually, though not always, allows SUN extemporization which creates something much greater than SUN the original form. SUN SUN And with the help of the words of others like Bertrand SUN Russell and Stephen Fry who have maintained that constraints SUN enable, or are even necessary for creativity; he suggests SUN that rhythm controls not only music and poetry, but the SUN natural world around us, and can also influence our own SUN spiritual lives. SUN SUN So do we all need fixed boundaries within which to operate SUN with free will, and is freedom always dependent on control? SUN SUN This programme is the first of two parts, in the second of SUN which, Freedom From Control , Mark Tully interrogates the SUN opposite view that, for some, true creativity is the result SUN of abandoning all boundaries. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00xgs27 (Listen) SUN Daffodil picking would normally be underway in Cornwall, but SUN because of the recent snow and frost the plants are only SUN just peeping through the soil. The Hosking family have grown SUN daffodils for about 50 years, so James Hosking is SUN philosophical about the delayed harvest. Elsewhere at SUN Fentongollan Farm, his brother Jeremy is busy sowing SUN millions of vegetable seeds. They will be sold as small SUN 'plug plants' to other growers. As he explains, if you pick SUN up a winter cauliflower in a supermarket there's a good SUN chance it will have started life at Fentongollan. SUN SUN Producer and Presenter: Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00xgs29 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00xgs2c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00xgs2f (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN The first Ordinariate for those disaffected Anglicans SUN seeking full communion with Rome has been established for SUN England and Wales. And this weekend three former Anglican SUN Bishops will become its first priests. Our reporter Trevor SUN Barnes takes a look at how Anglicanism arrived at this point SUN and the Most Rev Vincent Nichols, the Catholic Archbishop of SUN Westminster, explains to Jane how the Ordinariate will work SUN in practise. SUN SUN A year on since Haiti's devastating earthquake in which more SUN than a quarter of a million people died, Scotland's most SUN senior Catholic, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, tells our presenter SUN Jane Little about the appalling scenes of poverty that he's SUN recently witnessed there. SUN SUN One male to every four female worshippers, that's the SUN current ratio in many churches according to estimates from SUN the Church of England. Our reporter Kevin Bocquet looks at SUN the reasons why so many men feel dis-engaged from their SUN local parish and the attempts that are being made to redress SUN the balance. SUN SUN The Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks recently clarified where he SUN stands on the issue of organ donation, in particular, how SUN you decide the point of death which determines the moment at SUN which someone's organs can be removed. But not everyone SUN within the Jewish Community agrees with him on that point. SUN David Fry, Registrar of the London Beth Din, the Chief SUN Rabbi's Rabbinical Court and Alexandra Wright, Senior Rabbi SUN of the Liberal Jewish Synagogue at St. John's Wood in London SUN debate the issue. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00xgs2h (Listen) SUN YouthNet UK SUN SUN Founder Martyn Lewis and beneficiary Hannah, present the SUN Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charityYouthNet UK. SUN SUN Donations to YouthNet UK should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN YouthNet UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can SUN also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are SUN a UK tax payer, please provide YouthNet UK with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1048995. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00xgs2k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00xgs2m (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00xgs2p (Listen) SUN Marking the coming Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. Led SUN by the Rev Ian Galloway, Convener of the Church of SUN Scotland's Church and Society Council. Preacher: Rev Bob SUN Fyffe, General Secretary of Churches Together in Britain and SUN Ireland. From Glasgow University Chapel, with the Chapel SUN Choir directed by James Grossmith. Organist: Kevin Bowyer. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00xb105 (Listen) SUN 'News' and concentration SUN SUN Alain de Botton argues that in our mad desire to keep up SUN with what's new, we have lost our ability to concentrate. We SUN are made to feel, he says, that "at any point, somewhere on SUN the globe, something may occur to sweep away old SUN certainties". How was it, he wonders, that for Christians, SUN there has been no news of "world-altering significance to SUN their faith" since 30 AD? He suggests that a period of SUN fasting from our obsession with "news" may be what's needed. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00xgs2t (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00xgs2w (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Mary Cutler SUN Directed by ..... Kim Greengrass 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 Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00xgs41 (Listen) SUN Alex Salmond SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the First Minister of Scotland, SUN Alex Salmond. SUN SUN He has spent his political life campaigning for Scottish SUN independence. As a schoolboy he stood in classroom elections SUN - back then, he won on the canny ticket of half-days for all SUN and replacing the school milk with ice cream. SUN SUN He was a child when he realised he had a knack for public SUN performance - he was a boy soprano who seemed to have a SUN promising career ahead of him. He says: "If you can sing in SUN front of thousands of people when you're ten or eleven then SUN being Scottish First Minister is nothing in comparison." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00x92y3 (Listen) SUN Series 54, Episode 3 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a SUN first-time visit to the Hawth in Crawley. Regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by Ross Noble, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN provides piano accompaniment. SUN SUN Producer ..... Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00xgs43 (Listen) SUN Angela Hartnett's Best Producer Meal SUN SUN Michelin starred chef Angela Hartnett prepares a hearty SUN winter's meal for Sheila Dillon using ingredients from the SUN Best Producer category of the 2010 BBC Food & Farming SUN Awards. SUN SUN On the menu was pumpkin soup, spiced up with a spoonful of SUN chutney from finalists The Tracklements Company, and served SUN with a rather superior cheese on toast made with ciabatta SUN from winner and artisan baker Alex Gooch and cheese from SUN finalist Brenda Leddy's Stichill Jersey cows. SUN SUN For the main course (in Monday's programme), there was a SUN roasted loin of rare breed Gloucester Old Spot pork from SUN Richard Lutwyche, winner of the Derek Cooper category, an SUN example of successful conservation of a breed through SUN consumption of its meat. SUN SUN And for desert, a blow out of lemon posset made using cream SUN from Stichill Jersey cows, and a crostata combining the SUN Tracklement Company's seasonal medlar jelly, with spiced SUN poached pears. A perfect feast for a cold winter's day. SUN SUN Producer: Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00xgs2y (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00xgs45 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Exploding Cinema b00xj2pw (Listen) SUN Exploding Cinema, or 'Exploding' for the initiated, is SUN turning 20 this year and still going strong. A collective of SUN filmmakers and film-lovers, it pledges to screen any film SUN that someone submits. No selection, no censorship, Exploding SUN Cinema holds firmly by the principle that, the question of SUN what's good and what's not, is solely for the audience to SUN decide. SUN SUN Their screening events are legendary. Usually held in some SUN disused warehouse or factory - and never at a cinema - to SUN enter an Exploding Cinema show is to step into a grotto of SUN film. There is colour everywhere, vintage super 8 footage SUN ticking away on a constant lop, covering every bit of wall SUN in shimmering light and images, comedy, horror, animation, a SUN live band playing and, on the main screen, there's a SUN succession of about 20 short films, people sitting on SUN cushions watching them or wandering about chatting and SUN drinking. SUN SUN Asif meets with the founders of Exploding Cinema to rummage SUN through their archive of films and to hear how the group SUN emerged from some strange filmic goings on at a disused SUN suntan oil factory in South London's Brixton neighbourhood - SUN The Cool Tan, which, in the early 90s, a bunch of film SUN makers had claimed as a squat. SUN SUN We hear from filmmakers who currently show their work at SUN Exploding Cinema: interactive filmmaking group Genetic Moo SUN describe their maggot-themed installations which feed off SUN the light emitted from other films, Mucky Puppets talk about SUN their shadow puppet films exploring the darker side of SUN well-known fairy tales, and we follow Ryd Cook as he films SUN the sequel to his "60 Second Documentary About The Stuff SUN What Is In This Room". SUN SUN Now that it is possible for anyone to show pretty much any SUN film online via video sharing websites like YouTube and SUN Vimeo, we ask what that means for a group like Exploding SUN Cinema? Does it still have a place? SUN SUN Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00xb0sh (Listen) SUN Central London SUN SUN Eric Robson leads the panel in a lively horticultural SUN discussion in Central London. He also tours the UK's SUN grandest collection of gardening books at RHS Lindley SUN Library. SUN SUN Then it's back up north to Nottingham where we revisit Grace SUN in her garden: part of our Listeners' Gardens series. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 How The Mighty Have Fallen b00xjwc5 (Listen) SUN Episode 5 SUN SUN "It is very injurious to health to take in more food than SUN the constitution will bear, when, at the same time, one uses SUN no exercise to carry off this excess": Hippocrates, SUN millennia ahead of his time, defining the 'energy balance SUN equation'. Celsus believed "Fat persons should be made SUN thinner by warm bathing, strong exercise, hard beds, little SUN sleep, proper evacuations...and one meal a day". SUN SUN At the start of National Obesity Awareness Week, Dr Hilary SUN Jones continues his survey of the history of obesity with a SUN look at exercise. Various forms of physical activity have SUN been recommended over the millennia; Plutarch suggested SUN reading aloud - "a very healthful exercise"; Socrates SUN advocated dancing - as did FA Hornibrook, whose 1920s book SUN targeted those who "cannot hide their protuberant belly or SUN ponderous buttocks which handicap fat people in their SUN cumbrous waddle through life". SUN SUN But Cardan, in the 16th century, strongly opposed exercise: SUN "Trees live longer than animals, because they never stir SUN from their places". The programme also peruses an intriguing SUN array of early 20th century exercise devices, including the SUN Marvel Violet Ray, and the self-massaging 'Punkt-Roller' - SUN "medically approved for the treatment of OBESITY". SUN SUN There are interviews with Prof Michael Lean, Dr Susan Jebb, SUN Prof David Haslam of the National Obesity Forum, and Neville SUN Rigby, plus readings, music, and archive: a topical song SUN from Band Waggon in 1937 coinciding with the launch of SUN Britain's National Fitness Campaign, and a speech by King SUN George VI. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Kenyon SUN A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00xgs4c (Listen) SUN Neglected Classics - Miss Mackenzie, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Antony Trollope SUN Dramatised by Martyn Wade SUN SUN A woman with a fortune is an attractive proposition to a SUN would-be suitor and so Margaret Mackenzie finds herself SUN receiving not one but two marriage proposals. She has turned SUN down the first but what will her answer be to the second? 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 Mr. Slow.......................Sean Baker SUN SUN Directed by Tracey Neale. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00xgsw8 (Listen) SUN Alistair Campbell's 5 of the Best; A.S.Byatt and Carol Birch SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Alastair Campbell about his five SUN of the best books. SUN SUN And novelists AS Byatt and Carol Birch discuss the merits of SUN a Victorian backdrop to a novel. SUN SUN Producer: Ella-Mai Robey. SUN SUN 16:30 Lost Voices of Afghanistan b00xgswb (Listen) SUN BBC Correspondent Jonathan Charles explores the new war SUN poetry written by Afghanistan's civilians with vivid stories SUN to tell. SUN SUN When Jonathan Charles made an appeal on BBC World Service SUN for Afghan civilians to send in their war poetry, little did SUN he anticipate the flood of writing it would inspire. Here, SUN he explores a selection of those poems and interviews the SUN authors. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Parfitt SUN A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Children Who Kill b00x95hy (Listen) SUN The programme examines how society tackles youngsters SUN accused of a range of crimes, particularly those involved in SUN serious offences. With unique access to the police cells in SUN Hull, Winifred Robinson charts what happens from the moment SUN of arrest and examines how demands for justice are SUN reconciled with the need to protect society by changing SUN offending behaviour SUN SUN The two young brothers who beat and tortured another pair of SUN boys in Doncaster raised concerns about what happens longer SUN term to those who offend at a very young age. These concerns SUN have been heightened by the re-arrest of Jon Venables and SUN the case of Learco Chindamo, who was rearrested just four SUN months after serving his sentence for the murder of SUN headmaster Philip Lawrence. SUN SUN The Coalition government has agreed plans to drastically cut SUN the prison population through community penalties overseen SUN by charities and the private sector. To assess how changes SUN will affect young offenders Winifred examines restorative SUN justice schemes and initiatives including the one undertaken SUN in Hull, where youth justice workers maintain a round the SUN clock presence in the custody suite. SUN SUN The programme follows access granted for earlier documentary SUN programmes in some of the country's secure children's units. SUN Winifred follows up youngsters released from these "child SUN prisons" and examines what more could be done in terms of SUN preventing reoffending. SUN SUN Producer: Susan Mitchell. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00xgr1f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00xgs30 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00xgs32 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xgs34 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00xgswv (Listen) SUN Jenni Murray makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio. SUN SUN In Jenni Murray's Pick of the Week there's the return of Ed SUN Reardon to Radio 4 and Barry Cryer's celebration of another SUN well-known curmudgeon - JB Priestley was his choice in Great SUN Lives. SUN SUN There's Val Doonican, now in his 84th year, looking back on SUN his friendship with the American singer, Burl Ives. Tori SUN Amos recalls the moment she broke away from the strictures SUN of a classical music training and found her own voice and SUN Radio 3 plays Mozart - every note he wrote. SUN SUN Ed Reardon's Week - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Children Who Kill - Radio 4 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN Haiti and the Truth about NGOs - Radio 4 SUN Vines on the Frontline - Radio 4 SUN Believe Me - Radio 4 SUN The Last Refuge - Radio 4 SUN The Invention of Murder - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Val Doonican - Rocking - but Gently - Radio 2 SUN Rhyme and Reason - Radio 4 SUN Outlook - World Service SUN Play Mozart For Me - Radio 3 SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Bernadette McConnell. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00xgswx (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00xgswz (Listen) SUN An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping SUN America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion SUN and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN Libertarianism SUN SUN “Live free or die,†is the slogan found on the license SUN plates of vehicles throughout New Hampshire. It’s America’s SUN most libertarian state. As the nation reels from the shock SUN of the mass shooting in Tucson, Arizona, author and SUN commentator S.E. Cupp and Chris Hayes, the Washington, D.C. SUN Editor of “The Nation,†explain how the American ideals of SUN individualism and freedom, at the foundation of SUN libertarianism, attract followers and debate, from the SUN conservative and liberal sides of the political spectrum. SUN SUN Guest: S. E. Cupp SUN SUN S.E. Cupp is author of the new book "Losing Our Religion: SUN The Liberal Media's Attack on Christianity," which comes out SUN April 27th (Simon & Schuster). She is also co-author of "Why SUN You're Wrong About The Right," which was published by Simon SUN & Schuster in June of 2008. SUN SUN Guest: Christopher Hayes SUN SUN Christopher Hayes is The Nation's Washington, DC Editor. His SUN essays, articles and reviews have appeared in The New York SUN Times Magazine, The Nation,The American Prospect, The New SUN Republic, The Washington Monthly, The Guardian and The SUN Chicago Reader. From 2005 to 2006, Hayes was a Schumann SUN Center Writing Fellow at In These Times. SUN SUN Lincoln’s Letters SUN SUN 150 years after the American Civil War, Harold Holzer’s SUN book, “The Lincoln Mailbag: America Writes to the President, SUN 1861-1865,†offers a look back in time to the criticisms of SUN a U.S. President leading during a differently turbulent SUN time. SUN SUN Eli Wallach SUN SUN Matt Frei talks to actor Eli Wallach about his vibrant SUN career alongside such Hollywood greats as Clint Eastwood, SUN Carey Grant and Marilyn Monroe. This year Eli Wallach will SUN receive an honorary award from the Academy of Motion SUN Pictures Arts and Sciences. He shares stories from a SUN lifetime on the ever-changing American silver screen. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00jzwn5 (Listen) SUN Red Herrings, The Soothmoothers SUN SUN By Ann Cleeves. SUN SUN The tensions and rivalries between three travellers on a SUN business trip to Shetland spark a local woman's curiosity. SUN By dawn the next day, Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez is on SUN the scene, investigating a violent crime. SUN SUN Read by Marnie Baxter. SUN Producer Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00xb0sc (Listen) SUN In More or Less this week: SUN SUN Street grooming SUN SUN The former Justice Secretary Jack Straw says there is a SUN specific problem with Pakistani men "street grooming" SUN under-age white girls. Are there any statistics to support SUN his claim? SUN SUN Loxleygate SUN SUN Last week we calculated the height of Lower Loxley Hall - SUN the ancestral home of the late Nigel Pargetter in The SUN Archers - by timing the length of Nigel's scream as he SUN plunged from its roof. But many of you disputed our SUN findings. So this week we ask Graham Seed, the actor who SUN played Nigel Pargetter, what really happened. SUN SUN Bank tax SUN SUN How much tax do banks pay? Lord Jones, the former trade SUN minister, says 20% (a little less than the 24% he claimed in SUN May). We think the true amount is closer to 12%. SUN SUN Meanwhile in the House of Commons, David Cameron and Ed SUN Miliband have been slugging it out over plans for new bank SUN taxes. We check both their workings out. SUN SUN Debt or deficit SUN SUN Has the union Unite failed to grasp the difference? SUN SUN Five guys named Mohammed SUN SUN And why, despite repeated claims to the contrary, Mohammed SUN is not (yet) the most popular boy's name in Britain. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00xb0sk (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN The multi-millionaire property developer David Hart who SUN played an influential role in Tory politics in the 80s and SUN 90s. We have a tribute from his friend Michael Portillo. SUN SUN Major Dick Winters, the American soldier whose courage SUN during the D-Day landings was featured in the TV mini series SUN Band of Brothers. SUN SUN The children's writer Dick King Smith, who created the SUN sheep-pig Babe. SUN SUN The Czech dissident Jiri Dienstbier who went on to become SUN the country's Foreign minister. SUN SUN And the film director Peter Yates who brought us Steve SUN McQueen's hair-raising car chase in Bullitt. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00xgr11 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00xgs2h (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00x9zds (Listen) SUN All at Sea SUN SUN It is a long time since Britain ruled the maritime world, SUN and North Sea oil has peaked. But ocean transport is still a SUN vital UK activity and wind and water power are making big SUN waves around our shores. Peter Day takes the helm of a SUN container ship to find out what British seapower means SUN today. SUN SUN Producer: Jo Mathys. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00xh98z (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn previews the week's big political stories with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. SUN SUN She asks the Political Correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, SUN James Kirkup, what politicians are telling him in the SUN corridors of Westminster. SUN SUN The Liberal Democrat MP Stephen Williams joins the Labour MP SUN Luciana Berger for a live discussion on the issues likely to SUN dominate the political agenda in the week ahead. SUN SUN We have a report on the referendum due to take place in May SUN on whether a new voting system - the Alternative Vote - SUN should replace First Past The Post for electing MPs to the SUN House of Commons. How does AV work, what are the arguments SUN for and against and what would be the consequences of SUN change? SUN SUN And we hear from an expert on the British National Party, Dr SUN Matthew Goodwin of Nottingham University. We ask him to SUN comment on the BNP's performance in the Oldham East and SUN Saddleworth by election. The party came fifth after UKIP. SUN What impact will this have on Nick Griffin's chances of SUN holding onto the BNP leadership? SUN SUN Programme editor: Terry Dignan. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00xh991 (Listen) SUN Episode 35 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 Iain Martin takes the SUN chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00xb0sm (Listen) SUN Francine Stock looks ahead to Radio 4's Film Season, asking SUN for listeners' diaries of their movie watching habits over SUN January. The result will be a snapshot of the nation's SUN viewing preferences - where we watch films (on television, SUN computer or in the cinema) and on what format - DVD or SUN download. Francine will try to find out if the digital SUN revolution has finally arrived or is it just a media myth, SUN and to discern what we are watching, whether its new SUN releases or old favourites. Plus, Francine will be SUN publishing a record of her own viewing habits via Twitter SUN during the season. SUN SUN Francine talks to award contenders Darren Aronofsky and Ryan SUN Gosling, director of Black Swan and star of Blue Valentine SUN respectively. Plus, actor/director Peter Mullan discusses SUN NEDS, which stands for Non-Educated Delinquents. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00xgs25 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 17 JANUARY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00xh8n2 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00x97j8 (Listen) MON Cosmopolitanism - Dietetics MON MON Many of our global problems - from climate change to MON terrorism - require international not local solutions. Yet MON the world is increasingly fractured by nationalism. The MON political scientist, David Held, has a new book which MON explores cosmopolitan values. He tells Laurie Taylor why we MON should regard ourselves as citizens of the world rather than MON members of nations. Also, should we take responsibility for MON our own health, bodies and nutrition? Steven Shapin, MON Professor of the History of Science, talks about Dietetics - MON a branch of traditional western medicine which sought to MON prevent illness rather than find a cure. Originating in the MON 2nd century it held that good health reflected a virtuous MON life. This moral approach to the body died out with the MON advent of modern science but may now be enjoying a revival. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00xgs21 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xh8n4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xh8n6 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xh8n9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00xh8nc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xhb1x (Listen) MON presented by the Rev Johnston McKay. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00xhb1z (Listen) MON Livestock shouldn't be taken to market in the 21st century, MON according to a former National Farmers' Union MON Vice-President. Caz Graham hears why Paul Temple thinks a MON radical change is needed for better animal health and MON farmers' profits. Also in the programme, the local NHS trust MON warns that the proposed giant dairy farm at Nocton, in MON Lincolnshire, could potentially create public health MON problems. MON MON Presenter: Caz Graham. Producer: Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00xh8nf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00xhb21 (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 b00xhb23 (Listen) MON Start the Week focuses on justice, fairness and ethical MON dilemmas this week. The leading Marxist historian, Eric MON Hobsbawm tells Andrew Marr that the inequalities inherent in MON capitalism has made people question its supremacy, and he MON argues that Marx remains as relevant today as in the last MON century. While the American academic Michael Sandel looks at MON the philosophy that underpins notions of justice, and MON unpicks the sometimes contradictory nature of morality. In MON her new play, Tiger Country, Nina Raine explores medical MON ethics and the huge toll working in a busy hospital takes on MON staff. And Azzam Alwash, an Iraqi water engineer, is seeking MON to right the wrongs of the past and restore the marshlands MON of his homeland to their former glory. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00xhb25 (Listen) MON Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 1 MON MON Jane Shilling's reflective and enquiring memoir is told from MON the perspective of mid life. Today she finds similarities MON between the changes that accompany middle age, and her MON memories of adolescence. MON MON Read by Samantha Bond. MON Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xhb27 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Including singer Wanda Jackson, MON the 'First Lady of Rockabilly'. She is said to be the first MON woman ever to record a rock 'n' roll song. After making a MON name on the 1950s country circuit she was persuaded by her MON friend and tour-mate Elvis Presley to cross over into rock MON 'n' roll and rockabilly. We hear about the fate of Erika MON Gandara the only police officer in the Mexican border town MON of Guadalupe. She was kidnapped when a gang of armed men MON raided her home, and nothing has been heard of her since. As MON more and more male police officers fall victim to the MON violence, women have increasingly taken their place. And MON there's mounting evidence that women are playing a bigger MON role in the drug gangs, too. What to do with Seville oranges MON other than make the traditional marmalade and we consider MON how the Pill has changed women's lives over the last fifty MON years. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xlqtw (Listen) MON The Year They Invented Sex, Episode 1 MON MON By Caroline and David Stafford. Episode 1 MON MON It's 1960 in Birmingham and Lella Florence is looking for MON women to help with trials of the contraceptive pill... MON MON Jeanette- Clare Corbett MON Isobel- Naomi Frederick MON June- Sarah Smart MON Lella Florence- Joanna Monro MON Vicar- Sean Baker MON Produced by Lucy Collingwood. MON MON 11:00 Lords a Living b00xhb2c (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Ruth Mc Donald accompanies Members of the House of Lords to MON the titular land of their peerages to access the communities MON who live there now. Does reality match-up to expectation for MON a peer who hasn't been "home" in several decades, or never MON visited at all, and what will "home" make of them? MON MON In this third and final programme Ruth accompanies Lord MON Brooke to Alverthorpe in West Yorkshire. A life baron since MON 1997 and one of Tony Blair's first life peers, Lord Brooke MON was born into an aspirational working class area on the edge MON of Wakefield. It was where he spent the first twenty-one MON years of his life, but as his life evolved to leading the MON civil service trade unions and now into the House of Lords MON it's clear he's carried some of that working class ethos MON with him. MON MON But as Lord Brooke returns to spend a day in the community MON what will he make of the Alverthorpe of today? From pints in MON the working man's club where the world is set to right, to MON hanging out with local teens and the newly saved community MON centre, he discovers how the community spirit has been MON reignited ...and the Alverthorpians in turn get to meet MON their peer. However, as Lord Brooke's life has evolved to MON take in the higher echelons of government, just how has MON Alverthorpe changed and does he recognise the community he MON left behind some 50 odd years ago? MON MON Producer: Regina Gallen. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00xhbcz (Listen) MON Series 7, From Bean to Cup 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 Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas MON Felix ..... John Fortune MON Jaz Milvane ..... Philip Jackson MON Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Heidi ..... Matilda Ziegler MON Window Cleaner ..... Dan Tetsell MON Pearl ..... Rita May MON Olive ..... Stephanie Cole MON Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON Houseowner ..... Paul Merton MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00xhbd1 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:53 Brief Encounters b00xhbd3 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located MON around the world with a series of short features, MON eavesdropping on the stories, the characters and MON occasionally trying the snacks. Today a cinema in Beirut MON that nearly didn't open at all. MON MON From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the MON most remote locations on Earth, the act of going to the MON cinema speaks volumes. This series captures the passions, MON problems and popcorn habits of film goers as they indulge in MON an activity that unites the planet. But the story of cinema MON now is also the story of the political and cultural tensions MON that divide the world. MON MON We'll be given a front row ticket to an outdoor screening of MON a Kung-fu movie on the wall of a Buddhist temple, hear the MON story of a cinema turned Beirut bombshelter and meet a young MON man as he recalls his first trip to a Kabul cinema since the MON departure of the Taliban. MON MON Producers: Sara Jane Hall and Neil George. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00xh8nj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00xhbd5 (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00xhcns (Listen) MON (13/17) MON The semi-final stage of the 2011 general knowledge contest MON gets under way, with competitors from Lancashire, MON Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire vying for a MON place in the Final. Russell Davies asks the questions. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00xgswx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hc407 (Listen) MON The Need for Nonsense MON MON By Julia Blackburn. The story of the friendship between the MON writer and illustrator Edward Lear and his Greek manservant MON Giorgio, who inspired him to address the painful truths in MON his life. MON MON Edward Lear ...... Andrew Sachs MON Giorgio Kokalis ...... Alexi Kaye-Campbell MON Walter Congreve ...... Mark Meadows MON Hubert Congreve as a boy ...... Ross McKendrick MON Hubert Congreve as a young man ...... James Rastall MON Lady Wortlesham ...... Kim Hicks MON MON Directed by Mary Ward-Lowery. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00xgr1k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xhd7q (Listen) MON In the Dark MON MON David Thomson, author of the Biographical Dictionary of MON Film, takes a highly personal journey through how cinema has MON changed both him and us. Programme One: In the Dark. MON MON Film has changed us. It is all too easy to forget what a MON shock the coming of the moving image was to our world. First MON we could see ourselves and then we could imagine ourselves MON and then we could hear ourselves. How we kissed, fought, MON dreamed and died have all been projected around the world. MON MON David Thomson writes: MON MON "Do you want a map for the dark? By now you either know the MON history of the movies or you have it wrong and all mixed up. MON It doesn't matter, the mixture is in your unconscious and MON your nervous system, and one of the consequences of the MON movies is that we trust nothing and imagine everything. MON That's why the dark is so important." MON MON Producer: Mark Burman. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00xgs43 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00xhd7s (Listen) MON Egypt 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 In this programme, Ernie Rea and guests discuss the MON religious history and make-up of Egypt: what is Coptic MON Christianity? How do Christians, who make up about ten per MON cent of the population, live alongside their fellow Egyptian MON Muslims? What is distinctive about Egyptian Islam? How have MON the two faiths co-existed for 1,400 years and how do we make MON sense of recent tensions between the two communities? MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 16:55 Brief Encounters b00xn6vp (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located MON around the world with a series of short features, MON eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and MON occasionally trying the snacks. From the multiplexes of the MON western world to some of the most remote locations on Earth, MON the act of going to the cinema speaks volumes. This series MON captures the passions, problems and popcorn habits of film MON goers as they indulge in an activity that unites the planet. MON But the story of cinema now is also the story of the MON political and cultural tensions that divide the world. MON Today's cinema is The Regal in Mumbai - where patient queue MON members share their cinematic passions. MON MON Producers: Sara Jane Hall. MON MON 17:00 PM b00xhd7v (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xh8nl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00xhd7x (Listen) MON Series 54, Episode 4 MON MON The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a return MON visit to the Hawth Theatre in Crawley. Regulars Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel MON by Ross Noble, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON attempts piano accompaniment. MON MON Producer ..... Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00xhd7z (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00xhd81 (Listen) MON Morning Glory; Neil Jordan; Film SFX MON MON With Mark Lawson, including BBC Breakfast hosts Sian MON Williams and Bill Turnbull's verdict on Harrison Ford as a MON reluctant US morning show anchor. MON MON The makers of Inception, The Social Network and Harry Potter MON discuss the latest developments in special effects in the MON cinema. MON MON The Crying Game screenwriter Neil Jordan explains his MON parallel lives as both film-maker and novelist and reveals MON his dream future film project. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xlqtw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Young, Muslim and Black b00wntys (Listen) MON More than two thirds of Muslims in Britain are of South MON Asian ancestry, leading many to believe that Islam is the MON preserve of these communities. Yet in the last 2 decades, MON Islam has arguably become the fastest growing religion among MON Black people in Britain and at a time when the UK appears MON more disunited over faith, ethnicity and identity than ever MON before. MON MON In this programme the writer and presenter, Dotun Adebayo, MON explores this phenomenon and asks why is Islam providing MON such an attractive religious alternative to Christianity for MON Black Britons seeking spiritual answers? What do they get MON from Islam that they can't get from their original faith? Is MON this just a rebellion against the family and society? MON MON He will talk to young black people about the reasons for MON their conversion and to Bishop Joe Aldred from the Black MON Churches who explains where he thinks the Black Majority MON Churches are going wrong and why he thinks they need to MON smarten up and get their message across to young people so MON they are comfortable with church. MON MON Conversion to Islam also has a darker side in the shape of MON terrorism. As Dotun Adebayo says "Ever since the penny MON dropped that the Richard Reid, the shoebomber was The MON Richard Reid I had lived with when he was a teenager in MON south London, I have been haunted with the question of MON whether I could have done anything to dissuade my petty MON thieving 'good lad at heart' flatmate from going down the MON route of militant Islam. Twenty years later I have to ask is MON being "young muslim and black" still a "lovely, precious MON dream". MON MON Repeat. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00x9yd3 (Listen) MON Cambodia: Country for Sale MON MON The paddy fields of impoverished Cambodia have suddenly MON become a prime slice of global real estate. But will the MON rural poor pay the price? This tiny Asian nation has just MON begun to recover after dictator Pol Pot's reign of terror, MON in which around 2 million Cambodians died, and the brutal MON civil war that followed. But now a very different story is MON unfolding in the agricultural heartland which once became MON notorious as the "killing fields." In a world plagued by MON food shortages, Cambodia is suddenly awash with global MON investors keen to snap up its cheap fertile land. The global MON financial elite see it as a recession-proof investment, and MON the government is desperate to invite in money and MON development. But it's driving a surreal land boom in the MON poorest villages: an estimated 15% of the country is now MON leased to private developers and stories are filtering in MON from the country's most impoverished farmers who tell of MON fear, violence and intimidation as private companies team up MON with armed police to force them from their land. In this MON week's Crossing Continents, Mukul Devichand samples the MON heady atmosphere of Cambodia's business elite, uncovers a MON lawless reality and investigates the claims of corruption MON and violence visited on the poor. He tells the stories of MON three very different men, Cambodian and foreign, who have MON very different plans for Cambodia's land: and asks what's MON really happening as one of rising Asia's poorest nations MON struggles to catch up. MON Producer: Jo Mathys. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00x9zdd (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell MON research. MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON New body to regulate UK health research MON MON Medical research in the UK is being hampered by bureaucracy MON and burdensome regulation according to a report published MON this week. It can take two years from the time a medical MON trial is approved before the first patient is even MON recruited. Quentin hears from Dr Kate Law, Director of MON Trials at the Cancer Research UK, how damaging the delay can MON be to UK science, and from report author Sir Michael Rawlins MON how things can be improved. MON MON Corruption and Earthquakes MON MON Corruption is the leading cause of death in earthquakes MON according to seismologist Roger Bilham in this week's MON edition of Nature. Corrupt governments fail to enforce MON simple building regulations which could save many lives when MON the ground starts shaking, he argues. While 500 died in MON Chile's earthquake last year, hundreds of thousands were MON killed, injured and displaced by the earlier event in Haiti MON earthquake; Chile ranks high on the global transparency MON index, whereas Haiti is amongst the most corrupt states. MON MON Music Moods MON MON Chills in music arise in the same way as cocaine-fuelled MON highs, according to neuroscientists. Tracking the mental, MON chemical and physiological changes of volunteers hearing MON their favourite music, the researchers found primitive MON 'reward' centres of the brain fire up at moments of peak MON emotion. Valorie Salimpoor, who led the research, reveals MON the ups and downs of the musical experience. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00xhb23 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00xh8np (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00xhdx2 (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 b00xhdx4 (Listen) MON Julian Barnes Stories, Complicity, Part One MON MON Written by Julian Barnes. First part of his story MON 'Complicity'. A gentle love story which also explores the MON connections we make and how we communicate them. MON MON Reader: Julian Barnes MON Producer: Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00x95hk (Listen) MON In 1861, Johann P. Reis announced that he'd invented the MON microphone. To celebrate 150 noisy years, Michael Rosen is MON joined by John Liffen, Curator of Communications at the MON Science Museum, the social historian, Clare Langhamer, and MON 'digital futurologist', Peter Cochrane. MON MON Steve Punt, meanwhile, reports from an alternative universe MON where the microphone was never invented. MON MON Producer: Peter Everett. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xhdx6 (Listen) MON Rachel Byrne with all the news from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 18 JANUARY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00xh8ns (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00xhb25 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xh8nv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xh8nx (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xh8nz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00xh8p2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xhflb (Listen) TUE presented by the Rev Johnston McKay. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00xhgcy (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00xhgd0 (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 Hollywood b00xhgd2 (Listen) TUE The Prequel TUE TUE We all know that Hollywood is the major player in modern TUE cinema, with American movies dominating box offices across TUE the world. Francine Stock examines this early example of TUE globalisation, discovering exactly when and why it happened. TUE TUE In the first of two documentaries about the rise and TUE (possible) fall of this American empire, she looks at the TUE genres that have become Hollywood staples - the thriller, TUE the comedy, the epic - and finds their roots in Europe and TUE elsewhere. TUE TUE If you think the stick-em-up, the rom-com and the TUE sword-and-sandal epic began life in the United States, then TUE think again. The French gave the world a kinetic form of TUE film comedy, and not only did the Danes perfect the art of TUE the thriller, they gave the world its first bona fide movie TUE star, Asta Nielsen, who scandalised cinema-goers everywhere TUE with her erotic dance in 1910's The Abyss (you can still TUE catch a glimpse of it on the internet). TUE TUE Once a force in the world market, Britain introduced colour TUE to cinema as early as 1910, but its power-base crumbled TUE during World War I. TUE TUE Francine will investigate the reasons for this sudden TUE collapse and ask if Hollywood beat the rest of the world TUE simply because they made better movies. TUE TUE Produced by Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 09:30 Top of the Class b00x3x6b (Listen) TUE Series 2, Rachel Portman TUE TUE Radio 4 listeners will be familiar with the music of Rachel TUE Portman as she is one of Britain's most successful film TUE composers. Her scores include the oscar-winning Emma, and TUE she also received nominations for Chocolat and The Cider TUE House Rules. TUE TUE She grew up playing the violin, piano and organ and began to TUE compose at the age of 13. In this edition of Top of the TUE Class, Rachel goes back to the school she attended as a TUE sixth former, Charterhouse. There she was encouraged to take TUE her composition seriously and had her work performed at TUE regular pupil composer concerts. TUE TUE John Wilson meets her there with her former violin teacher TUE and best friend. She brings with her the scores from her TUE very first compositions which were heard at the school TUE concerts. Memories and melodies are rekindled. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00xk1gp (Listen) TUE Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Samantha Bond. TUE Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xhgms (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Including singer Barbara Dickson TUE on her new album and tour. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xlqmn (Listen) TUE The Year They Invented Sex, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Caroline and David Stafford. Episode 2. TUE TUE Three very different women are taking part in the trial of TUE the contraceptive pill. June and Jeanette try and find out TUE what new friend Isobel is keeping from them ... TUE TUE Jeanette ..... Clare Corbett TUE Isobel ..... Naomi Frederick TUE June ..... Sarah Smart TUE Lella Florence ..... Joanna Monro TUE Ray ..... Lloyd Thomas TUE Ron ..... Sam Dale TUE Fancy man .... Henry Devas TUE TUE Produced by Lucy Collingwood. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00xhgp4 (Listen) TUE Episode 38 TUE TUE 38/40 In the line up this week we have the final episode in TUE our special series about "Lady Bird Book Britain". Written TUE over 50 years ago, the what-to look-for series by the TUE publishers Ladybird, were a series of four books, each one a TUE UK season, highlighting the common wildlife at the time. TUE Presenter Chris Sperring takes these books into the TUE countryside and compares then to now. In this programme it's TUE the winter edition, with the joys of swirling starlings, TUE Mistletoe and birds at the bird table. And quite a lot has TUE changed - not all for the worse. Chris will be in the studio TUE talking to Brett about what he has learnt making the series. TUE TUE And we turn our attention to charismatic mega fauna(!) and TUE tourism. With two special reports, one from James Brickell TUE in Australia and another from Mark Brazil in India, we TUE examine how using tourists, however unlikely it might appear TUE to be, are helping with research and protecting Whales and TUE Tigers. And we'll be talking to a prominent geographer about TUE the direction eco-tourism is going and how far can tourists TUE go to protect species. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Isaac Julien's Guide to Artists Filmmaking b00xhh2d (Listen) TUE We hear from leading artists working with the moving image - TUE Christian Marclay whose celebrated 24 hour film Clock, is a TUE play on time. TUE TUE Tacita Dean, committed to the traditional medium of film, TUE describes her roots in pictorial image making and her love TUE of celluloid. TUE TUE Gillian Wearing discusses her ambivalence to narrative and TUE acting in her new cinema film Self Made. We capture the TUE spirit of artist filmmaking at a screening of films on the TUE platform of Hackney Downs station, where the context of the TUE screen is important to the films shown. TUE TUE We also hear how Isaac, originally a cinema film director TUE now shows in gallery spaces, working to break down the TUE barriers that exist between different artistic disciplines - TUE film, dance, photography, music, theatre, painting and TUE sculpture, trying to unite these into something he calls a TUE visual narrative. TUE TUE We discuss the role of the Film Council, BBC and the BFI in TUE working with artists to produce innovative films in Britain. TUE TUE We chart the rise of artists working in film, moving out of TUE the shadow and the constraints imposed cinema film making. TUE TUE Producer: Kate Bland TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00xhh2g (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:53 Brief Encounters b00xn78z (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located TUE around the world with a series of short features, TUE eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and TUE occasionally trying the snacks. TUE TUE From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the TUE most remote locations on Earth, the act of going to the TUE cinema speaks volumes. This series captures the passions, TUE problems and popcorn habits of film goers as they indulge in TUE an activity that unites the planet. But the story of cinema TUE now is also the story of the political and cultural tensions TUE that divide the world. TUE TUE We'll be given a front row ticket to an outdoor screening of TUE a Kung-fu movie on the wall of a Buddhist temple, hear the TUE story of a cinema turned Beirut bombshelter and meet a young TUE man as he recalls his first trip to a Kabul cinema since the TUE departure of the Taliban. TUE TUE Producers: Sara Jane Hall and Neil George. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00xh8p4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00xn7c3 (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Tales from the Stave b00xhh2j (Listen) TUE Series 6, Episode 1 TUE TUE When making plans to celebrate his fiftieth year as a TUE conductor in 1938, the proms founder Sir Henry Wood called TUE on the composer Ralph Vaughan Williams to compose a piece TUE for a special anniversary concert. The resulting 'Serenade TUE to Music' using sixteen of the finest British singers of the TUE day took its place alongside pieces by Bax, Elgar, Wagner TUE and a special guest appearance from the Russian pianist TUE Sergei Rachmaninov. TUE A setting of lines from Shakespeare's 'The Merchant of TUE Venice' it moved both the great Russian composer and the TUE audience to such a degree that rather than being an TUE occasional piece it worked its way into the concert TUE repertoire. It's now one of the highlights of the Vaughan TUE Williams canon and the autograph manuscript resides with Sir TUE Henry Wood's other musical treasures in the library of the TUE Royal Academy of Music. TUE TUE Frances Fyfield is joined at the RAM by the music writer and TUE friend of Vaughan Williams, Michael Kennedy, the TUE mezzo-Soprano Catherine Wyn-Rogers who has twice been TUE selected to record the piece over the last few years, and TUE the Royal Academy's own Jeremy Summerly to examine the TUE hand-written score, complete with the markings of Sir Henry TUE Wood himself, who not only conducted the first performance TUE but recorded it only a few days later at Abbey Road studios. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00xhd7z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hq1z6 (Listen) TUE My Name is Iqbal Masih TUE TUE by Bettina Gracias TUE TUE The extraordinary and tragic story of a young Pakistani boy TUE forced into bonded labour in a carpet factory at the age of TUE four and who became a figurehead for the Bonded Liberation TUE Movement aged eleven. TUE TUE Iqbal ..... Sagar Radia TUE Khan ..... Bhasker Patel TUE Carpet Master ..... Kaleem Janjua TUE Inayat ..... Manjeet Mann TUE Mustaf ..... Inam Mirza TUE Hasim ..... Gagan Sharma TUE Journalist ..... Janice Acquah TUE American ..... Chris Pavlo TUE Policeman/Worker/Pakistani Man ..... Saikat Ahamed TUE TUE Director: David Hunter TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00xhh2l (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 b00jhvcs (Listen) TUE The Burying of Joe Bloggs, Shirley May TUE TUE One of three specially-commissioned stories by Frances TUE Fyfield examining the life of the deceased, from the TUE perspectives of those who knew - or thought they knew - him TUE best: his first love, his wife, and his trusted and shadowy TUE lawyer. TUE TUE Joe Bloggs, or JB, or Joseph Benedict is dead: 'What a TUE pity.' But he was a very different man to each of them, and TUE similarly, the nature of that pity is very different. TUE TUE Shirley May met Joe at an East End funeral and lived with TUE him for ten years before 'he went and married someone else'. TUE He was a man of secrets and 'junk', but in her heart she TUE never really let him go. The week before he died he sent her TUE a key through the post, but the key to what? TUE TUE Readers: Sophie Stanton, Liza Ross and Hugh Ross TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xhff4 (Listen) TUE Fear & Desire TUE TUE David Thomson, author of the Biographical Dictionary of TUE Film, takes a highly personal journey through the lasting TUE impact and power of cinema. Film is many things, but its TUE ability to carry us into the darkest dreams and fiercest TUE desires of its characters via the magic of the score and the TUE sound binds us all in the dark. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Burman. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00xhh2n (Listen) TUE We have thousands of words that mean 'I approve' and TUE thousands more that mean 'I disapprove'. Michael Rosen sets TUE out to discover why we need so many. TUE TUE Producer: Peter Everett. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00xhh2q (Listen) TUE Series 23, Gertrude Bell TUE TUE Gertrude Bell was a British woman who arguably founded the TUE modern state of Iraq. Explorer, mountaineer and TUE archaeologist, this extraordinarily talented woman travelled TUE widely across Arabia in the years preceding the first world TUE war. When war came, her knowledge of the tribes, geography TUE and politics of the area made her a vital asset to British TUE intelligence. In the wake of British victory in Mesopotamia, TUE she became a key figure in the the post-war administration TUE of the turbulent area, as the British grappled with how best TUE to reduce their military commitment while still retaining TUE influence - a situation that was to find strong echoes in TUE post-war Iraq 90 years later. A woman who rose to the top in TUE a man's world, her personal life was beset with ill-starred TUE romance and tragedy. TUE TUE Physicist Jim al-Khalili was born in Iraq at a time when TUE Gertrude Bell was still revered as someone who fought for TUE Iraqi self-determination. With the help of Bell's TUE biographer, Janet Wallach, he explores her remarkable life. TUE Matthew Parris chairs. TUE TUE 16:55 Brief Encounters b00xn7c5 (Listen) TUE Episode 5 TUE TUE Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located TUE around the world with a series of short features, TUE eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and TUE occasionally trying the snacks. TUE TUE From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the TUE most remote locations on Earth, the act of going to the TUE cinema speaks volumes. This series captures the passions, TUE problems and popcorn habits of film goers as they indulge in TUE an activity that unites the planet. But the story of cinema TUE now is also the story of the political and cultural tensions TUE that divide the world. TUE TUE Today the Mario Video Centre in Accra, capital city of TUE Ghana, where the cinema provides shelter, entertainment and TUE a cool breeze for those with no where better to go. TUE TUE Producers: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00xhff6 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xh8p6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00xhh6w (Listen) TUE Series 3, No Richie, No Cry TUE TUE Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record TUE shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real TUE soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if TUE we don't have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the TUE charismatic, irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), TUE reluctantly helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son TUE Adam (Lenny Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly TUE girly goth, Tasha (Natasha Godfrey). TUE TUE Four years ago, Adam was forced to leave behind his life in TUE London after being hit with divorce, redundancy and a TUE nervous breakdown. Now he finds himself trapped in the TUE confines of the dusty old record shop that his father has TUE owned since the 1960s, both of them sharing the miniscule TUE flat upstairs and adapting to occasional sightings of his 18 TUE year old son, Richie (Joe Jacobs), who's also a constant TUE source of worry for Adam. TUE TUE Rudy's lifelong friend Clifton (Jeffery Kissoon) and TUE grandson Richie get on like a house on fire, bonding over TUE music, Guinness and rum, much to Adam's despair. Adam is the TUE odd one out - a classical music fan in a reggae shop; a man TUE who'd rather have a Waitrose sea bass than Jerk chicken. TUE TUE With Rudy's chaotic approach of "if it ain't on the shelf, TUE it's on the floor" clashing with Adam's post-breakdown need TUE for calm and order, the shop becomes a battleground with TUE both men wanting to run things the way they think it should TUE be done. Thankfully, Adam's found himself a supportive ally TUE in the form of Rudy's calm and canny, sixty-something TUE girlfriend, Doreen (Claire Benedict). TUE TUE Forced into finding a way to survive each other's company, TUE Rudy's Rare Records celebrates an old man, a mid-life crisis TUE man and a young man, bickering, snickering, breaking-up and TUE making-up; all day, every day. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00xhh6y (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00xhff8 (Listen) TUE Black Swan, crime fiction round-up, Penelope Curtis on 20th TUE Century British Sculpture TUE TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Penelope TUE Curtis, curator of a major exhibition re-assessing British TUE sculpture in the 20th century, drawing on a wide range of TUE artists including Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Richard TUE Long and Damien Hirst. TUE TUE Jeff Park selects new crime fiction from authors including TUE Ann Cleeves, Martin Cruz Smith and Jo Nesbo. TUE TUE Black Swan, directed by Darren Aronofsky, stars Natalie TUE Portman as a dancer. Adam Mars-Jones reviews. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xlqmn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00xhh70 (Listen) TUE Bitter Medicine TUE TUE Legal aid has been withdrawn from a long-running case TUE against a pharmaceutical giant. Children born with severe TUE disabilities, including spina bifida, were suing the TUE manufacturer of an anti-epilepsy drug which their mothers TUE took during pregnancy and which they blame for causing birth TUE defects - a claim the company denies. TUE TUE After years of legal proceedings which the claimants' TUE solicitors say have so far cost £3.25m, the Legal Services TUE Commision refused a much smaller sum to take the case to TUE trial, just weeks before hearings were due to start. As a TUE result, more than a hundred claimants are left with no TUE chance of their day in court. TUE TUE Their case was not deemed strong enough to pass the standard TUE test which requires them to prove that the drug doubled (at TUE least) the risk of harm. This test is called into question TUE by experts in cases against pharmaceutical companies in TUE Britain and the USA. A lower level of proof is needed in TUE American courts. TUE TUE The government has announced that future patients in England TUE and Wales alleging clinical negligence or personal injury TUE can expect to have their applications for legal aid refused TUE under its programme of spending cuts. TUE TUE No such change of policy is planned in Scotland. A case is TUE proceeding there with support from legal aid by a patient TUE who took another drug, for relieving arthritis, which is TUE blamed for increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes TUE - again this is denied by the company concerned. Patients in TUE England and Wales who took the same drug and suffered heart TUE attacks have been turned down for legal aid funding and have TUE shelved their cases. TUE TUE Will government cuts effectively put wealthy pharmaceutical TUE companies beyond challenge in the civil courts? TUE TUE Reporter: Gerry Northam TUE Producer: Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00xhh72 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00xhh74 (Listen) TUE Experts at Europe's largest liver transplant unit - at TUE King's College Hospital in London - explain how vague TUE symptoms help to keep hepatitis C "hidden" inside the body TUE for years. Dr Mark Porter looks at the latest ways to manage TUE this condition. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Sharp. TUE TUE 21:30 Hollywood b00xhgd2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00xh8p8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00xhffb (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00xn8lk (Listen) TUE Julian Barnes Stories, Complicity, Part Two TUE TUE Written by Julian Barnes. TUE TUE Julian Barnes reads the second part of 'Complicity'; which TUE reveals the unspoken dialogue between two people as they get TUE to know each other. TUE TUE Producer: Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Rhyme and Reason b00xhh76 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Mr Gee presents the third programme of a fourth part series, TUE Rhyme and Reason. TUE His guest is award winning composer and pianist, Tim TUE Rice-Oxley from the indie pop band Keane. Tim talks of his TUE song writing journey, starting out from his hometown of TUE Battle to the success with the chart topping band Keane. We TUE hear readings of Tim Rice-Oxley's favourite poetry and music TUE from his last two albums. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xhffd (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with all the news from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 19 JANUARY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00xh8pb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00xk1gp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xh8pd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xh8pg (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xh8pj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00xh8pl (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xhfld (Listen) WED presented by the Rev Johnston McKay. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00xhft2 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. WED WED 06:00 Today b00xhft4 (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 b00xhhc4 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Janet Street Porter. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00xk1tf (Listen) WED Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 3 WED WED The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's bittersweet WED memoir about middle age and looks both backwards and WED forwards. Today, she considers the highs and lows of single WED parenthood, and a holiday in Crete gives her pause for WED thought. WED WED Jane Shilling writes on books for the Daily Telegraph, WED Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on television for the WED Evening Standard. This is her second book. She lives in WED Greenwich with her son WED WED Read by Samantha Bond. WED Abridged by Julian Wilkinson. WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xhft6 (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Including actor Ruth Jones on her WED portrayal of Hattie Jacques. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xlqp6 (Listen) WED The Year They Invented Sex, Episode 3 WED WED By Caroline and David Stafford. Episode 3. WED WED Inspired by taking part in The Pill trials, June convinces WED Ray to let go of his inhibitions and Jeanette's husbands WED attempts to romance her backfire... WED WED Jeanette- Clare Corbett WED Isobel- Naomi Frederick WED June- Sarah Smart WED Lella Florence- Joanna Monro WED Ray- Lloyd Thomas WED Terence- Iain Batchelor WED WED Produced by Lucy Collingwood. WED WED 11:00 Red Arrow Rookies b00xhhvk (Listen) WED Reports of a mid-air collision and the recruitment of the WED first female pilot to the team mean the Red Arrows have been WED in the news for more than just their extraordinary flying WED displays this year. This programme goes behind the scenes to WED find out what it takes to wear that coveted red flying suit. WED WED 'Red Arrows' pilots are top guns, the best the RAF has to WED offer. Controversial, perhaps, in wartime: some commentators WED think such key RAF resources would be better used in WED Afghanistan. Others regard the morale-boosting and PR WED benefits of the team as a vital tool in the nation's WED armoury. But how do these experienced frontline pilots adapt WED to their new role as stunt artists and RAF ambassadors after WED high-pressure tours of Iraq and Afghanistan? WED WED Aviator Kirsty Moore (code name 'Red Three') and her WED colleagues were due to start the 2010 display season in May WED this year, but the Cyprus crash as well as volcanic ash have WED interrupted their training schedule and the first ten events WED were cancelled. But the fans turn out in force as soon as WED their gruelling summer season starts. At a 'meet the pilots' WED event at RAF Waddington, the crowds are as excited as if WED they were meeting Robbie Williams. And when the pilots WED arrive, the queues of people are not disappointed - those WED red suits and aviator shades send a shiver through the WED throng. WED WED Qualifications for Red Arrow pilots include at least one WED front-line tour of duty as a fast-jet pilot and a minimum of WED 1,500 flying hours. New technology evens up the problems of WED withstanding the extreme G-forces the pilots have to endure. WED It's no accident that most Red Arrow pilots are fitness WED fanatics: they have to be in order to cope with the WED gruelling physical demands of this kind of flying. Pilates WED is easy - every flight is a kind of extreme abs workout, a WED technique the pilots use to help control blood circulation WED and prevent blackout. There's no bunking off on a bad day WED because there are no reserve pilots (the injured pilot has WED been replaced by one of last year's leavers - he's been busy WED training over Lincolnshire with his synchro pair, to catch WED up in time for the summer season). WED WED When summer displays are over, the team fly back to RAF WED Scampton in Lincolnshire (a few miles from the producer's WED home, as it happens) to begin training for the following WED year. Back in green flying suits, they begin a tight WED training schedule with the next batch of rookie pilots. In WED order to maintain and repair any hidden faults each Hawk WED aircraft is stripped down and dismantled in turn by the WED 'Circus': the engineering support staff. Each member of the WED Circus is assigned to a particular pilot and travels with WED him/her to all events in case of breakdown. WED WED There is a cost to becoming part of such an elite: Kirsty WED has been married for four years and has never lived with her WED husband in that time - weekends and holidays are all she WED gets with him. On the other hand she expects her three year WED tour of duty to include a display at the 2012 Olympics. WED WED There's a curious democracy about a Red Arrow flypast - WED anyone can request one - all you have to do is download the WED form, send it in and if they can fit it into a pre-existing WED flight plan, they will try to oblige - although it has to be WED for a public event (they don't do weddings and funerals). An WED actual display costs serious money for the air shows that WED book them - and any overseas displays must be funded WED entirely by sponsors - essential when pressures on Defence WED budgets are only likely to increase in coming years. WED WED This montage profile of the Red Arrows reveals fascinating WED detail and gives a human voice to an extraordinary and WED awe-inspiring team that is supported by a complex culture WED and history. WED WED 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00xhhvm (Listen) WED Series 6, Ship on a Bottle WED WED After problems assembling his model three masted schooner, WED Arthur goes in search of a free gift. After taking a WED well-earned break at Gerry's Cafe he sees an advert in the WED local paper which gives him an idea... WED WED All he has to do is express an interest in a 'no obligation' WED timeshare apartment in the Canary Isles, and the free gift WED is his! What could possibly go wrong? 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 b00xhhvp (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:53 Brief Encounters b00xn7db (Listen) WED Episode 7 WED WED Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located WED around the world with a series of short features, WED eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and WED occasionally trying the snacks.From the multiplexes of the WED western world to some of the most remote locations on Earth, WED the act of going to the cinema speaks volumes. This series WED captures the passions, problems and popcorn habits of film WED goers as they indulge in an activity that unites the planet. WED But the story of cinema now is also the story of the WED political and cultural tensions that divide the world. WED WED We'll be given a front row ticket to an outdoor screening of WED a Kung-fu movie on the wall of a Buddhist temple, hear the WED story of a cinema turned Beirut bombshelter and meet a young WED man as he recalls his first trip to a Kabul cinema since the WED departure of the Taliban. WED WED Producers: Sara Jane Hall and Neil George. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00xh8pn (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00xn7dd (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00xhhw0 (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 b00xhh6y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00xhhw2 (Listen) WED Haunted WED WED By Sally Griffiths. WED WED Professional illusionist, Will Morgan, is to front a TV show WED in which he exposes spiritualist mediums as frauds. Hayley WED Taylor is the spiritualist medium who refuses to back down WED under Will's scrutiny - a challenge Will can't walk away WED from. Both are to have their belief systems sorely tested WED when a voice from one of their pasts refuses to keep silent. WED WED Starring Steffan Rhodri (Gavin and Stacey) as Will and Zoe WED Tapper (Desperate Romantics) as Hayley. WED WED Will..............Steffan Rhodri WED Hayley..........Zoe Tapper WED Yasmina........Vineeta Rishi WED Nick..............Henry Devas WED Callum..........Lloyd Thomas WED The waitress...Joanna Monro WED WED Directed by Gemma Jenkins WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00xhj7y (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00jhvfz (Listen) WED The Burying of Joe Bloggs, Theodora WED WED The second specially-commissioned story by Frances Fyfield WED examining the life of the deceased, from the perspectives of WED those who knew - or thought they knew - him best: his first WED love, his wife, and his trusted and shadowy lawyer. WED WED The 'someone else' Joe married was Theodora. He was her WED fourth husband and they met at an auction house. Curiously, WED Joe never wanted her to throw out the artefacts from her WED previous marriages, all those pictures on the walls of her WED beautiful home. Theodora also has a key ... WED WED Readers: Sophie Stanton, Liza Ross and Hugh Ross WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xhffg (Listen) WED Wired for Sound WED WED David Thomson, author of the Biographical Dictionary of WED Film, takes a highly personal journey through the meaning of WED film and its impact on us. WED WED Programme 3: Wired For Sound. The dream of a universal WED language of film, even one that took place in silence with WED titles, died as Al Jolson sang for his 'mammy' in The Jazz WED Singer (1927). A new age of dreaming and illusion was upon WED us and it had many voices. WED WED Producer: Mark Burman. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00xhj80 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00xhh74 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:55 Brief Encounters b00xn7dg (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED WED Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located WED around the world with a series of short features, WED eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and WED occasionally trying the snacks. WED WED From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the WED most remote locations on Earth, the act of going to the WED cinema speaks volumes. This series captures the passions, WED problems and popcorn habits of film goers as they indulge in WED an activity that unites the planet. But the story of cinema WED now is also the story of the political and cultural tensions WED that divide the world. WED WED We'll be given a front row ticket to an outdoor screening of WED a Kung-fu movie on the wall of a Buddhist temple, hear the WED story of a cinema turned Beirut bombshelter and meet a young WED man as he recalls his first trip to a Kabul cinema since the WED departure of the Taliban. WED WED Producers: Sara Jane Hall and Neil George. WED WED 17:00 PM b00xhffj (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xh8pq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Showstopper b00rbl55 (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is a brand new comedy in WED which the Showstopper team create a hilarious improvised WED musical on the spot - with the songs, plot and characters WED based entirely on suggestions from the live studio audience. WED WED The cast includes Pippa Evans, Ruth Bratt, Dylan Emery, Lucy WED Trodd, Sean McCann and Oliver Senton. WED WED PRODUCED BY SAM BRYANT. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00xhj82 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00xhffl (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including a review of Peter Hall's new WED National Theatre production of Twelfth Night, with a cast WED including his daughter Rebecca Hall in the role of Viola. WED WED With work by Nam June Paik and Gabriel Orozco on display at WED Tate Liverpool and Tate Modern, we explore the issues raised WED by art you can touch, talking to the director of the Hayward WED Gallery Ralph Rugoff and Tate curators. WED WED Producer Robyn Read. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xlqp6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00xhj84 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, Claire WED Fox and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 It Happened Here b00sb9g4 (Listen) WED Lancaster House WED WED In the concluding programme of his series showing how key WED political events have been shaped by where they took place, WED Peter Hennessy, the leading historian of post-war Britain, WED visits Lancaster House in central London. WED WED This imposing town house overlooking Green Park has been the WED venue for successful talks on a range of post-imperial WED problems, most notably the agreement leading to black WED majority rule in Rhodesia and the subsequent creation of the WED independent state of Zimbabwe. But it has also been WED important in the modern history of Northern Ireland and in WED the continuing conflict in Afghanistan. WED WED The programme traces the history of the Lancaster House WED Agreement on Rhodesia in 1979 involving in particular Lord WED Carrington, then British foreign secretary; Ian Smith, then WED Rhodesian prime minister; and the joint leaders of the WED Patriotic Front fighting against white minority rule - WED Robert Mugabe, leader of ZANU and later elected Zimbabwean WED president - and Joshua Nkomo, founder of ZAPU. WED WED Peter Hennessy shows how Lancaster House itself played a WED decisive part in the final agreement, paving the way for WED elections in 1980, and how its association with these WED successful negotiations ensured that it played a part in WED international diplomacy in subsequent decades. WED WED Producer: Simon Coates. WED WED 21:00 Thin Air b00xhjrw (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED We not only live in the air, we live because of it. Air is WED about much more than breathing. It is a transformer and a WED protector, though ultimately also a poison. It wraps our WED planet in a blanket of warmth. It brings us wind and rain WED and fire. It sustains our bodies and at the same time it WED burns them up, slowly, from the inside. In this episode, WED Gabrielle Walker investigates the good side - and the bad - WED of two components of air: carbon dioxide and oxygen. WED WED Carbon Dioxide makes up a tiny fraction of one percent of WED air, yet it at once protects, transforms and threatens life WED on Earth. CO2 is infamous for its contribution to the WED greenhouse effect that is causing global warming. But WED without it we would both freeze and starve. It is also the WED basis of everything we eat. The mass of all plants and hence WED the creatures that feed on them comes from carbon dioxide. WED Billions of years ago, as the young Sun began to warm, WED bacteria and primitive algae began their insulating blanket, WED fossilising the air as limestone, coal and chalk. Now we are WED releasing that carbon to the air again, double-glazing the WED global greenhouse. WED WED The greatest transformer in air is oxygen. It is the giver WED and taker of life. Without it living things cannot be WED vigorous - or larger than a pinhead. Yet it is also the WED bringer of death. When bacteria started releasing it as a WED waste gas, a billion or more years ago, it was the worst WED pollution incident in the history of the planet. Life was WED forced to hide or evolve. Even though we have adapted to WED depend on oxygen, we are playing with fire. In a slow and WED mostly controlled way, oxygen burns up the food we eat. It WED also chars the genes, molecules and cells within us, WED bringing about ageing and, ultimately death. WED WED Producer: Martin Redfern. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00xhhc4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00xh8ps (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00xhffn (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 b00xn8l7 (Listen) WED Julian Barnes Stories, Trespass WED WED Written by Julian Barnes. A dedicated hillwalker shows his WED new girlfriend the delights of the Peak District but she is WED less certain about having everything mapped out for her. WED WED Reader: David Holt WED Producer: Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 iGod b00xhjry (Listen) WED Religion 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. WED WED Each week the population of a different parallel world is WED accidentally wiped out by an ordinary bloke called IAN WED (Simon Day). WED WED In this week's episode a parallel earth is obliterated when WED Ian inadvertently mucks up global religion. WED WED With a full-range of sound effects and wonderfully funny and WED surreal twists, iGOD will be a true aural extravaganza. WED WED 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 WED Produced by WED SIMON NICHOLLS. WED WED 23:15 My Teenage Diary b00xhjs0 (Listen) WED Series 2, Phil Nichol WED WED Rufus Hound invites Phil Nichol 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 b00xhffq (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 20 JANUARY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00xh8pv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00xk1tf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xh8px (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xh8pz (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xh8q1 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00xh8q3 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xhflg (Listen) THU presented by the Rev Johnston McKay. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00xhft8 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma THU Weatherill. THU THU 06:00 Today b00xhftb (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 b00xhz8d (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Mexican Revolution THU of 1910. THU THU After 35 years of dictatorial rule by an autocratic THU president, Porfirio Diaz, Mexico was thrown into turmoil by THU a popular uprising. It took a decade for the country to THU settle down again, as different factions fought for THU supremacy. The conflict completely changed the face of the THU country, and resulted in the emergence of Mexico's most THU celebrated folk hero: Emiliano Zapata. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00xk1wm (Listen) THU Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 4 THU THU The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's personal THU meditation about what it's like to be at the mid point, THU looking both backwards and forwards. Today she explores THU belonging from the perspective of family and place. THU THU Jane Shilling is a journalist, she writes on books for the THU Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on THU television for the Evening Standard. This is her second THU book. She lives in Greenwich with her son. THU THU Read by Samantha Bond THU Abridged by Julian Wilkinson THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xhftd (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Including why do British dress THU sizes vary so much. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xlqpz (Listen) THU The Year They Invented Sex, Episode 4 THU THU By Caroline and David Stafford. Episode 4. THU THU With help from her new friends from the contraceptive pill THU trial, Isobel opens up about her feelings... THU THU Jeanette- Clare Corbett THU Isobel- Naomi Frederick THU June- Sarah Smart THU Lella Florence- Joanna Monro THU Ray- Lloyd Thomas THU THU Produced by Lucy Collingwood. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00xhz8g (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Robinson Crusoe: Rescued Again b00xhz8j (Listen) THU Glenn Mitchell examines the impact of the French television THU series The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe along with its THU extremely popular and iconic music score. THU THU Anyone who was a child in Britain between 1965 and 1981 will THU remember BBC1's The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, based on THU Daniel Defoe's novel - or, at least, they will remember the THU music. The theme tune, with its rumbling introductory notes THU suggesting the rolling waves of the on-screen title THU sequence, remains distinctive, as does the full incidental THU score, comprising numerous cues that in each case represent THU some part of Crusoe's existence. THU THU It was filmed in the Canary Islands as a group of THU mini-series based on classic novels. Unlike most adaptations THU of the novel, this production concentrated not merely on THU events on the island, but incorporated Crusoe's other THU adventures, told in flashback. THU THU In 1964 the series was shown both in Europe and, in an THU English-dubbed edition, on American TV. By the time this THU version was screened on BBC1 in October 1965, it had been THU divided into thirteen 25-minute episodes. The series THU immediately captured the imagination of schoolboys THU everywhere - among them the writer and presenter of this THU programme, Glenn Mitchell. THU THU The programme sets out to track down Crusoe actor Robert THU Hoffman, whose subsequent international career has included THU numerous features and the TV series Dallas. Now in his THU seventies, he still lives in his native Salzburg. THU THU Initial tea-time screenings made way for early-morning THU repeats in every school holiday until 1981. Crusoe had THU become almost a cliché, and few noticed its departure from THU the schedules when black-and-white shows such as these were THU being consigned to skips. THU THU Some claim the BBC prints were simply dumped, and others THU maintain that they were returned to a vault in France in THU 1982. When, after almost two decades, interest was expressed THU in a video release, the only surviving copies proved to be THU this 13-part English edition, in material requiring THU extensive restoration. Crusoe was rescued only from this THU single, fragile source and subsequently released on VHS and, THU more recently, DVD. Of the original French version, nothing THU remained but the first episode, rendered useless by THU Portuguese subtitles. It did, however, reveal that the THU French original had a different, and inferior, music score, THU fortunately replaced by the music of Robert Mellin - THU formerly a hit songwriter in Britain - and Gian-Piero THU Reverberi. THU THU Before the series itself was recovered, the original music THU recordings had been rescued by Mark Ayres, a composer who THU has worked on incidental scores for Dr Who, has remastered THU audio tracks for the commercial release of vintage Who THU episodes, and was involved in the latter days of the BBC THU Radiophonic Workshop. Ayres' work on the few remaining tapes THU produced a CD of the score in 1990, followed by an expanded THU edition in 1997 after composer Mellin had supplied some THU second-generation tapes of the edited cues. THU THU The programme features contributions from fans Lawrence THU Marcus and David West, along with composer's Mark Ayres and THU Gian-Piero Reverberi. THU THU With readings by Barnaby Gordon the programme is produced by THU Stephen Garner THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00xhz8l (Listen) THU Consumer news with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00xhz8n (Listen) THU In September 2010 the property maintenance firm Connaught THU folded leaving 1600 people without work and owing around THU £100m to creditors. So what has been the impact of its THU collapse on a sector that mainly provides social housing? THU John Waite investigates. He talks to former employees, THU subcontractors and sector experts about boxes of unpaid THU invoices, poor business practice and questionable accounting THU policies. THU THU 12:53 Brief Encounters b00xn7fm (Listen) THU Episode 10 THU THU Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located THU around the world with a series of short features, THU eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and THU occasionally trying the snacks. From the multiplexes of the THU western world to some of the most remote locations on Earth, THU the act of going to the cinema speaks volumes. This series THU captures the passions, problems and popcorn habits of film THU goers as they indulge in an activity that unites the planet. THU But the story of cinema now is also the story of the THU political and cultural tensions that divide the world. THU THU We'll be given a front row ticket to an outdoor screening of THU a Kung-fu movie on the wall of a Buddhist temple, hear the THU story of a cinema turned Beirut bombshelter and meet a young THU man as he recalls his first trip to a Kabul cinema since the THU departure of the Taliban. THU THU Producers: Sara Jane Hall & Neil George. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00xh8q5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00xmlkl (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00xhz8q (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 b00xhj82 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00xhzbv (Listen) THU Notes to Self THU THU by Deborah Wain. THU THU Doreen has been in a care home for two years. Her son Robert THU visits but finds it hard to have a meaningful relationship THU with his mother, unlike his partner Karen. A performance at THU the home reveals music to have a powerful effect on Doreen. THU Can it offer an opportunity for Robert to make a new THU connection with her? A drama about Alzheimer's disease based THU on real experiences and interwoven with recordings of music THU sessions carried out in care homes and day centres. THU THU Doreen.....Linda Bassett THU Robert.....Jeff Hordley THU Karen.....Cherylee Houston THU Dor.....Kellie Shirley THU Harry.....William Ash THU Care Assistant.....Ruth Alexander-Rubin THU THU Music performed by David Barnard, James Dinsmore and Rebecca THU Watson with participants in the Lost Chord music session at THU The Linney Centre and residents and carers at the Richmond THU Care Home. THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00xgqwz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00xgs2h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00jhvgr (Listen) THU The Burying of Joe Bloggs, Murray THU THU The third specially-commissioned story by Frances Fyfield THU examining the life of the deceased, from the perspectives of THU those who knew - or thought they knew - him best: his first THU love, his wife, and his trusted and shadowy lawyer. THU THU Joe's trusted lawyer waits for the hearse outside a church THU in the City of London. While the two women put down Joe's THU frequent absences to assumed infidelity, Murray has a THU different take: 'Only two women in a life of fifty-five THU years? Well, that's because he was a man of huge but bridled THU passion.' And Murray and Joe shared a passion, namely, the THU less-than-kosher collecting of fine art and antiques. Murray THU is also waiting for the two women, but which one has the THU right key? THU THU Readers: Sophie Stanton, Liza Ross and Hugh Ross THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xhffs (Listen) THU The Big Kill Off THU THU David Thomson, author of The Biographical Dictionary of THU Film, continues his journey through the power of cinema. THU Episode 4: The Big Kill Off. THU THU Cinema has made us see death and final moments in any number THU of fiendish and inventive ways, but is it a little too in THU love with this shadowy realm? Thomson remembers those who THU lost their celluloid lives and entered our collective THU dreams. THU THU Producer: Mark Burman. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00xgsw8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00xhzj9 (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 16:55 Brief Encounters b00xn7fp (Listen) THU Episode 11 THU THU Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located THU around the world with a series of short features, THU eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and THU occasionally trying the snacks.From the multiplexes of the THU western world to some of the most remote locations on Earth, THU the act of going to the cinema speaks volumes. This series THU captures the passions, problems and popcorn habits of film THU goers as they indulge in an activity that unites the planet. THU But the story of cinema now is also the story of the THU political and cultural tensions that divide the world. THU THU We'll be given a front row ticket to an outdoor screening of THU a Kung-fu movie on the wall of a Buddhist temple, hear the THU story of a cinema turned Beirut bombshelter and meet a young THU man as he recalls his first trip to a Kabul cinema since the THU departure of the Taliban. THU THU Producers: Sara Jane Hall and Neil George. THU THU 17:00 PM b00xhffv (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xh8q7 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00xhzjc (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU THU Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas collates policies suggested THU by the studio audience to add to his the People's Manifesto. THU THU Tonight's Agenda: THU THU 1) To introduce an government department of externalities THU 2) To allow civil partnerships for heterosexual couples THU 3) A traffic ban on local roads around each rush hour THU THU Plus, any other business from our studio audience. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00xhzjf (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00xhffx (Listen) THU Neds, Nina Raine's Tiger Country THU THU John Wilson reviews Nina Raine's new play Tiger Country THU which looks at the pressures of working in a hospital and THU Peter Mullan's film Neds, which depicts Glasgow in the THU 1970s. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xlqpz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00xj0r2 (Listen) THU Bankers' Bonuses THU THU Bankers are on course to collectively receive an estimated THU £7 billion over the next couple of months. David Cameron has THU called on banks to show restraint when awarding themselves THU their annual bonuses, but indications are that the bosses of THU the biggest beasts will not heed his words. And even if THU bonuses are cut, salaries have risen significantly to THU compensate - up to 40% in some cases. Simon Cox asks how THU well bankers have to perform to secure their generous THU awards, and why the Government seems powerless to curb them. THU THU The Coalition is at loggerheads over the failure to deliver THU on its promises: Vince Cable says that 'robust action' must THU be taken to stop large payouts. The Chancellor, George THU Osborne prefers to avoid any aggressive action warning that THU bankers will leave London for jobs in countries with more THU relaxed rules on bonuses. THU THU New European rules have just come into effect, which THU encourage more transparency in the City, but The Report THU reveals that some bankers are using loop holes to by-pass THU that legislation and receive bumper payouts. THU THU Producer: Samantha Fenwick. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00xj0r4 (Listen) THU A New Capitalism THU THU One of the world's most influential business professors THU thinks it is time for companies completely to redefine their THU relationship with society. Prof Michael Porter of Harvard THU Business School tells Peter Day about the radical changes in THU corporate operations and responsibilities he is calling for. THU Producer : Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00xhgp4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00xhz8d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00xh8q9 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00xhffz (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 b00xn8l9 (Listen) THU Julian Barnes Stories, The Fruit Cage, Part One THU THU Julian Barnes reads the first half of a story from his last THU collection 'The Lemon Table'. THU THU The narrator visits his retired parents, both keen THU gardeners, but not everything is as quiet and contented as THU it seems. THU THU Producer: Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Spread A Little Happiness b00ktdb2 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire THU sandwich bar. THU THU A recent jog to work seems to have improved more than Hope THU and Jodie's muscles, judging by the number of breakfast baps THU they are selling. THU THU Hope ...... Suranne Jones THU Jodie ...... Susan Cookson THU Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon THU Ray ...... Shaun Prendergast THU Ben ...... Ben Crowe THU THU Directed by Chris Wallis. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xhfg1 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 21 JANUARY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00xh8qc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00xk1wm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xh8qf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xh8qh (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xh8qk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00xh8qm (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xhflj (Listen) FRI presented by the Rev Johnston McKay. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00xhftg (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00xhftj (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 b00xgs41 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00xk1zj (Listen) FRI Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 5 FRI FRI The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's memoir about FRI middle age, and looks both backwards and forwards to new FRI adventures. Today austere times lie ahead after Jane's FRI working life as a freelance journalist receives a blow. FRI FRI Jane Shilling is a journalist who writes on books for the FRI Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on FRI television for the Evening Standard. This is her second FRI book. She lives in Greenwich with her son. FRI FRI Read by Samantha Bond FRI Abridged by Julian Wilkinson FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xj0vq (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Including the rise of Street FRI Cheer - a mix of street dance and cheerleading. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xhb29 (Listen) FRI The Year They Invented Sex, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Caroline and David Stafford. Episode 5. FRI FRI Major changes occur in the lives of all three women taking FRI part in the contraceptive pill trial FRI FRI Jeanette- Clare Corbett FRI Isobel- Naomi Frederick FRI June- Sarah Smart FRI Lella Florence- Joanna Monro FRI Ray- Lloyd Thomas FRI Lawrence- Henry Devas FRI Kenneth- Rupert Simonian FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Collingwood. FRI FRI 11:00 Wheels Coming off at the Rotary? b00xj0vs (Listen) FRI Episode 2 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 FRI were originally just four members, the idea spread across FRI first America, and then the world at a phenomenal rate, so FRI that by the 1920s the Rotary was as firmly established in FRI British life as it was across the Atlantic. By now it is the FRI largest 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 the two-part series 'Wheels Coming off At The Rotary?' FRI Allan Beswick travels to clubs around the country and finds FRI there are significant efforts afoot to turn things around, FRI with newer clubs springing up where formalities are more FRI relaxed and the meetings more accommodating to a younger FRI age-group with less time to offer. He also visits the more FRI traditional clubs where the members reluctantly recognise FRI the need for things to move on, even if it means they are FRI left to wither on the vine. FRI FRI 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00nkv3r (Listen) FRI Series 3, A Now Grim Life Yet More Grimified FRI FRI Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. Can the spirits of FRI Harvest Festival past, present and future show Pip Bin a way FRI to redemption? FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00xj13s (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:53 Brief Encounters b00xn7kh (Listen) FRI Episode 13 FRI FRI Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the FRI world with a series of short features eavesdropping on their FRI stories, their characters and occasionally trying the FRI snacks. From the multiplexes of the western world to some of FRI the most remote locations on Earth, the act of going to the FRI cinema speaks volumes. This series captures the passions, FRI problems and popcorn habits of film goers as they indulge in FRI an activity that unites the planet. But the story of cinema FRI now is also the story of the political and cultural tensions FRI that divide the world. FRI FRI We'll be given a front row ticket to an outdoor screening of FRI a Kung-fu movie on the wall of a Buddhist temple, hear the FRI story of a cinema turned Beirut bombshelter and meet a young FRI man as he recalls his first trip to a Kabul cinema since the FRI departure of the Taliban. FRI FRI Producers: Sara Jane Hall and Neil George. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00xh8qp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00xn7kk (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00xj13v (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the team look behind the numbers in the FRI news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00xhzjf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00xj13x (Listen) FRI Prenup FRI FRI Playwright Peter Jukes drama looks at the impact on a FRI divorcing couple of recent changes to British prenuptial FRI law. Two academics - British Paul and American Amy - have FRI married in the US with a prenuptial agreement. They did so FRI because Paul's previous marriage ended in a messy divorce, FRI making him wary of future commitment. FRI FRI But Paul loves Amy and was relieved to hear that like him FRI she doesn't want children (access issues round his daughter FRI Iona have greatly complicated his life in recent years.) And FRI because the loss of his house has been traumatic, Amy also FRI generously suggested a 'prenup' to allay his fears of FRI losing more of his property and pension. FRI FRI But now things have gone wrong and Amy has filed for FRI divorce. She has done so in Britain, believing that the FRI agreement they signed before marriage will not take affect. FRI However, the law is about to change... FRI FRI (How will the change in legislation impact on the couple and FRI their futures?) FRI FRI SAM DALE plays Paul and SALLY ORRICK plays Amy. FRI With CHRISTINE KAVANAGH as Paul's wife Coleen, FRI CLAIRE HARRY and ADEEL AKHTAR as their lawyers and FRI DEEVIYA MEIR as their daughter Iona. FRI FRI The director is PETER KAVANAGH. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00xj13z (Listen) FRI Warrington, Cheshire FRI FRI Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs join FRI call-centre staff in Warrington, Cheshire for a FRI horticultural Q&A. Eric Robson is the chairman. FRI FRI In addition, we take a look at the gardening potential of FRI office buildings. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xhfg3 (Listen) FRI You Must Remember This FRI FRI David Thomson, author of The Biographical Dictionary of FRI Film, continues his idiosyncratic journey through the FRI collective dream of cinema. Episode 5: You Must Remember FRI This. "Every movie is about time passing away and memory FRI trying to say it was a story." FRI FRI Producer: Mark Burman. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00xj141 (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 b00xj143 (Listen) FRI Inspired by stories of listeners staging their own FRI site-specific screenings, Francine Stock tries to set up her FRI own pop-up cinema. Along the way, Francine asks the help of FRI various experts and societies about what you really need to FRI organise a cinematic happening. But of course, what she FRI needs most is a director who's willing to show their film FRI and take part in the event. Will Ken Loach, the new patron FRI of the British Federation Of Film Societies, be her knight FRI in shining armour ? FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00xhfg5 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xh8qr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00xj145 (Listen) FRI Series 73, Episode 3 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, FRI Francis Wheen and Andy Hamilton. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00xj147 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00xhfg7 (Listen) FRI Scissor Sisters on Mapplethorpe, Jeremy Dyson on Dahl FRI FRI With Kirsty Lang, including writer Jeremy Dyson on bringing FRI Roald Dahl's adult tales to the stage. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xhb29 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00xj18d (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Poole Grammar FRI School with questions for the panel including Eric Pickles, FRI Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00xj18g (Listen) FRI The ecological sublime FRI FRI Alain de Botton gives a philosopher's take on our ecological FRI dilemmas. He argues that fear of environmental destruction FRI has changed for ever our relationship with nature. Far from FRI being a threat, it is now something to be pitied and FRI protected. There are also changes in the way we view FRI ourselves. As we take a trip to Florence to see some Titians FRI or run water to brush our teeth, we're being asked to FRI reconceeve of ourselves as unthinking killers. FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00xj18k (Listen) FRI The Wild Ass's Skin Reloaded FRI FRI Balzac's classic novel is relocated to contemporary London. FRI Rupert, an unemployed investment banker, is distracted from FRI his suicidal despair by a magic skin which can grant his FRI every wish. Inevitably, there is a price to pay. By Adrian FRI Penketh. FRI FRI Rupert ... Elliot Cowan FRI Pauline ... Naomi Frederick FRI Miss Givings/Glen ... Don Gilet FRI Sebastian ... Chris Porter FRI Shopkeeper/Tom ... Inam Mirza FRI P@Rick ... Lloyd Thomas FRI Stripper ... Sally Orrock FRI Other parts were played by Jude Akuwudike and Christine FRI Kavanagh FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00xh8qt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00xhfg9 (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 b00xn8lc (Listen) FRI Julian Barnes Stories, The Fruit Cage, Part Two FRI FRI Julian Barnes concludes his reading of 'The Fruit Cage': FRI after the startling discovery an announcement is made. FRI FRI Abridged by Jill Waters FRI FRI Producer: Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00xhh2q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xhfgc (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. FRI
15 January, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 15/01/2011 - 21/01/2011
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