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SAT SATURDAY 22 JANUARY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00xj20c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00xk1zj (Listen) SAT Stranger in the Mirror, Episode 5 SAT SAT The Stranger in the Mirror is Jane Shilling's memoir about SAT middle age, and looks both backwards and forwards to new SAT adventures. Today austere times lie ahead after Jane's SAT working life as a freelance journalist receives a blow. SAT SAT Jane Shilling is a journalist who writes on books for the SAT Daily Telegraph, Sunday Telegraph and Daily Mail, and on SAT television for the Evening Standard. This is her second SAT book. She lives in Greenwich with her son. SAT SAT Read by Samantha Bond SAT Abridged by Julian Wilkinson SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xj20f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xj20h (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xj20k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00xj20m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xj20p (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00xj20r (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00xj20t (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00xj20w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00xnyn7 (Listen) SAT Portbury Wharf SAT SAT Portbury Wharf lies on the land between Portishead and Royal SAT Portbury Dock, adjacent to the Severn Estuary. Helen Mark SAT visits the area's newest developing nature reserve and SAT discovers how local residents are making a unique investment SAT to their natural habitat. Look one way and you'll see a new SAT housing construction, look the other and your eyes will be SAT met with acres of grazing marsh land, hay meadows, and SAT hedgerows rich in insect life stretching out to the Gordano SAT Valley. The two are not only linked by their proximity but SAT also by what is thought to be a first of it's kind SAT investment arrangement. In signing up to live in the new SAT Portbury Wharf housing development, residents are also SAT signing up to pay an annual levy that buys them a stake in SAT the nature reserve on their doorstep. The residents SAT contribution allows Avon Wildlife Trust to employ a warden SAT and a community officer to pass on wildlife knowledge and SAT organise activities for the Portishead community. But not SAT everyone wants to pay the levy and there's a fine line SAT between encouraging public use and preserving natural SAT habitats. Helen Mark meets the local residents who are SAT getting muddy down on the reserve and keeps a look out for SAT traces of their wildlife neighbours including the water vole SAT - Britain's most nationally threatened animal. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00xnyn9 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin SAT Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00xj20y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00xnync (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00xnynf (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with business guru Deborah Meaden and poet Elvis SAT McGonagall. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00xnynh (Listen) SAT South America 'Wild coast' - Volunteering abroad SAT SAT John McCarthy explores the wild coasts of Suriname, French SAT Guiana and Guyana in South America and examines the SAT pleasures and pitfalls of travelling and volunteering SAT abroad. SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 In Search of the Holy Whale b00xnynk (Listen) SAT In this sequel to In Search Of The Holy Quail, broadcaster SAT Marc Riley and two more friends from the world of popular SAT music, Richard Hawley and Jarvis Cocker, set out on a quirky SAT quest to find some of the world's most spectacular and SAT elusive sights. SAT SAT Riley's whale-watching passion has taken him from Baja, SAT Mexico to Iceland but in 2003 he discovered that some of the SAT most amazing sights could be seen right on our doorstep in SAT Skibereen, Ireland. SAT SAT Keen to share his discovery, Marc persuades his curious SAT friends to set sail on the very rough seas in the hope of an SAT exhilarating encounter with these elusive creatures. As they SAT struggle to find their sea legs our intrepid three SAT contemplate life, the universe and the most important SAT questions - how do you stop your glasses falling off and why SAT shouldn't you sing to whales? SAT SAT Producer: John Leonard SAT A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00xnynm (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00xnynp (Listen) SAT The despair in blue-collar America as it watches the SAT economic rise and rise of China. SAT SAT A city in the Horn of Africa rises from the ruins of war. SAT SAT The story of an extraordinary Englishman who's immersed SAT himself in Afghan tribal life. SAT SAT And a correspondent makes a very important purchase - with a SAT herd of cows - in South Africa. SAT SAT Rarely has America seemed less self-assured than it does SAT right now. Much of the old confidence, the swagger, is no SAT longer there. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have been SAT grim. The economy is in serious trouble. Many Americans are SAT struggling to get by in the hardest times they've ever SAT known. Nowhere is all this felt more deeply than in the SAT decaying industrial heartlands of the Midwest. And as Justin SAT Rowlatt has been finding out, many there believe that most SAT of their problems are, quite literally, 'Made in China'. SAT SAT Justin Rowlatt on the slow death of the American way in SAT Ohio. And there's no doubt at all that the situation is SAT extremely difficult. But it's maybe worth remembering that, SAT across the sweep of its history, America has known even SAT darker hours. Think of the Civil War, the Great Depression, SAT Pearl Harbour. But it's almost always been a mistake to bet SAT against the US of A. It has a way of re-inventing itself and SAT rising again. And as Mike Wendling explains, some of that SAT old American spirit is still very much alive and well in the SAT brightest of the country's youth. SAT SAT Way back in 1960, a small nation emerged on the Horn of SAT Africa, and then, after just a few days, disappeared. SAT British colonial rule in Somaliland ended on June the 26th. SAT It was independent for only four days, and then - on July SAT 1st - became part of the much larger state that we now know SAT as Somalia. But for the people of Somaliland this has not SAT been a happy union. They want to break away, and they've SAT declared their semi-desert region on the Gulf of Aden to be SAT independent. The rest of the world refuses to accept this. SAT But as Mary Harper has been finding out, Somalilanders SAT remain determined to go their own way. SAT SAT Now there aren't that many BBC people who've left their mark SAT on the Pashtun homeland, that mountainous, often lawless SAT terrain which straddles the border between Afghanistan and SAT Pakistan. But one who has is John Butt. He's the man who SAT inspired a radio soap opera about life in a Pashtun village. SAT It's a sort of Ambridge of the Hindu Kush and it's been SAT beamed into homes there, via the BBC World Service, every SAT week for 14 years. Butt made this rugged part of the world SAT his home after setting out from England on the hippy trail SAT some four decades ago. Nadene Ghori caught up with him in SAT another part of the sub-continent, the Indian state of Uttar SAT Pradesh. SAT SAT Nadine Ghoury on the remarkable John Butt, who's steeped SAT himself in every aspect of Afghan life. And in a very SAT different setting, halfway around the world, another SAT colleague, Christian Parker, a cameraman, has begun to do SAT something rather similar. In the most personal way possible, SAT he's been immersing himself in the local culture in South SAT Africa. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00xnynr (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00xj145 (Listen) SAT Series 73, Episode 3 SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, SAT Francis Wheen and Andy Hamilton. SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00xj210 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00xj212 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00xj18d (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from Poole Grammar SAT School with questions for the panel including Eric Pickles, SAT Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government; SAT Katharine Birbalsingh, the teacher who made her name at the SAT Conservative Conference last year after describing a SAT "culture of excuses" in state education; the Labour MP David SAT Lammy; and the Director of the Catholic Church's National SAT Office for Vocation and author of Finding Happiness, Father SAT Christopher Jamison. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00xnynt (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 b00xnynw (Listen) SAT Payback SAT SAT 6th October 1973. Golda Meir has become Prime Minister of SAT Israel in her seventies. Syrian and Egyptian troops are SAT massing on Israel's borders, but despite eleven warnings of SAT impending war in the past month, the Israeli cabinet have SAT not called up the reserve. In Florida, Richard Nixon awaits SAT the final verdict of the Washington Appeal court on his SAT objections to surrendering the Watergate Tapes. In New York, SAT Henry Kissinger is about to be woken at his room in the SAT Waldorf Astoria, with news of a new Middle East War. SAT Jonathan Myerson's play investigates how domestic and SAT international politics were about to combine, to change the SAT Middle East forever. SAT SAT Henry Kissinger ..... Henry Goodman SAT Richard Nixon ..... Peter Marinker SAT Golda Meir ..... Sara Kestelman SAT Simcha Dinitz/Al Haig ..... Kerry Shale SAT Anatoly Dobrynin ..... Ewan Bailey SAT James Schelsinger ..... Sam Dale SAT Jacob Javits ..... Sean Baker SAT with Christine Kavanagh. SAT SAT Producer/Director Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT 15:30 The Bell Boys b00nk2xt (Listen) SAT Their sounds have marked history's turning points: American SAT victory in the Civil War, the death of monarchs, the SAT collapse of governments. These are the bells of the SAT Whitechapel Bell Foundry, still standing proud in the heart SAT of London's East End, and with a list of head craftsmen SAT going back over five centuries. Big Ben was their greatest SAT ever challenge, so large that the Tower of Westminster had SAT to be built around this giant of instruments. Built to the SAT clockmaker's specification, and contrary to Whitechapel's SAT blueprint, the bell cracked almost immediately (the SAT resulting bodged repair with the Victorian equivalent of SAT Polyfilla gives it the characteristic 'bong' we have come to SAT love.) SAT SAT But many of Whitechapel's stories are much more earthbound. SAT Harold Rogers must be one of the UK's oldest bell ringers. SAT Aged 90, he still rings regularly at the church in SAT south-west London where he met his bell-ringing wife. And SAT thanks to the skills of the Whitechapel workforce he's about SAT to become reacquainted with some very old friends. At the SAT outbreak of WW2 Harold was one of the regular ringers at the SAT church of St-Magnus-the-Martyr, whose bells were taken down SAT for safety in the war and subsequently sold for scrap. 60 SAT years later, replacements are finally being cast by SAT Whitechapel, and Harold is perhaps the only man who will SAT know for sure whether the new bells sound as good as the SAT old. SAT SAT As the new bells are cast we meet the colourful characters SAT behind this typically proud East-end institution. There's SAT Nigel who masterminds the moulding, always ready to leap to SAT safety should disaster strike during the pouring of molten SAT metal. Steve and his young apprentice prefer the relative SAT tranquillity of the handbell workshop, full of the delicate SAT sounds of miniature bells being tuned to perfection. And SAT leading them all is Alan, the Master Founder, who inherited SAT the business from his father and his grandfather before him. SAT Through him we hear about the foundry's unique work during SAT the war, turning its skills to the production of submarine SAT detection equipment for the Admiralty. And from the SAT foundry's safe Alan pulls some remarkable documents charting SAT the foundry's history, including the inside story on what SAT really went wrong with Big Ben. SAT SAT As for Harold, he doesn't just get the chance to hear the SAT bells of St Magnus ring once again, but grabs the SAT opportunity to join the ringing team. And at the end of the SAT rope is a special bell, dedicated to his late wife who rang SAT with him in the same tower 60 years earlier. It's a moving SAT moment, a piece of Whitechapel magic, a reminder of the SAT power of bells to bring us all a little closer together. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00xnyny (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. The tyranny of clothes sizes - we SAT peek into the fitting rooms to ask why they vary so much. SAT Parental leave might be getting more generous but there's an SAT argument that women who take it harm their careers - we look SAT at the evidence. Mikhail Gorbachev's grand-daughter SAT discusses his political legacy and Raisa's influence as a SAT role model for Russian women. The contraceptive pill and its SAT legacy. The harp but not as you know it. Surrogacy - should SAT laws here be changed to make it easier for prospective SAT parents? Seville oranges - why there's more to them than SAT marmalade. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00xnyp0 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00xj20r (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00xj214 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00xj216 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xj218 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00xnyp2 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by one of Britain's favourite comics, Lenny SAT Henry. He's also a popular voice on Radio 4, from the SAT downtrodden son in Rudy's Rare Records to documentaries on SAT South African Music. His passion for Shakespeare led him to SAT an English degree at the Open University and a West End role SAT in Othello, and on television he's performed in his own SAT sketch shows, acted and presented - most recently in BBC SAT One's The Magicians. Lenny's latest outing is a musical SAT journey, Cradle to Rave, which tours the UK until May. SAT SAT Alastair Campbell reveals more about the Blair years and New SAT Labour as the former Director of Communications and Strategy SAT at Number 10 joins Clive to delve into his latest volume of SAT diaries, Power and the People 1997-1999. SAT SAT Issues of power and people also preoccupy Clive's next guest SAT as This Week and Daily Politics presenter Andrew Neil SAT discusses the return of the privately educated and SAT privileged to the Westminster establishment. All, he claims, SAT due to the decline of the grammar school, and all in his BBC SAT Two documentary Posh and Posher. SAT SAT Justin Lee Collins embarks on a documentary of a very SAT different kind, experiencing culture shock in Japan. Nikki SAT Bedi finds out how television's most enthusiastic presenter SAT fared as a Manzai comic, became top of the class in Love SAT College and whether a tiny pooch called Nobu cured Justin of SAT his fear of dogs. SAT SAT With music from Ben Ottewell, the voice behind the Mercury SAT award-winning Gomez, and his newly released solo debut album SAT Shapes and Shadows. SAT SAT Plus contemporary folk from the Anglo-Australian quartet SAT Emily Barker and The Red Clay Halo perform Calendar from SAT their third album, Almanac. SAT SAT Producer: Laura Northedge. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00xnyp4 (Listen) SAT Andy Coulson SAT SAT Emma Jane Kirby profiles Andy Coulson. He has resigned as SAT the Prime Minister's Head of Communications, blaming SAT coverage of the News of the World phone hacking scandal. SAT Producer: Smita Patel. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00xnyp6 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00xnyqf (Listen) SAT Going to the Flicks, Part II SAT SAT Continuing his two-part survey of the changing experience of SAT British cinema-going over the last century, Barry Norman SAT starts with cinema at a low ebb in the 1970s and moves up to SAT the exciting innovations of the present. SAT SAT Barry Norman is one of the best-loved critics of film in SAT Britain but for this series he explores not the pictures on SAT the screen but the changing experience of participating in SAT one of the most popular cultural activity of all - simply SAT going to the cinema. SAT SAT He starts in the 1970s, when film was at a particularly low SAT ebb and ticket sales had fallen to an all-time low. In SAT conversation with Sir David Puttnam, he recalls his own SAT pessimism about the future of cinema at the time. Moving SAT onto the 1980s, Barry explores the impact of an American SAT import - the Multiplex - on Britain. He then moves onto the SAT challenge of videos and DVDs in the 1990s and is ultimately SAT surprised to find how positive the picture now looks as SAT British cinemas embrace 3D and other innovations and SAT attendance figures continue to rise. SAT SAT Featuring archive never broadcast before, this series SAT attempts for the first time ever to survey the changing SAT experience of cinema-going in Britain over the last century. SAT SAT Producer: Beaty Rubens. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00xgs4c (Listen) SAT Neglected Classics - Miss Mackenzie, Episode 2 SAT SAT By Antony Trollope SAT Dramatised by Martyn Wade SAT Part Two SAT A woman with a fortune is an attractive proposition to a SAT would-be suitor and so Margaret Mackenzie finds herself SAT receiving not one but two marriage proposals. She has turned SAT down the first but what will her answer be to the second? 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 Mr. Slow.......................Sean Baker SAT SAT Directed by Tracey Neale. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00xj21b (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00xhj84 (Listen) SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor, Claire SAT Fox and Clifford Longley. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00xhcns (Listen) SAT (13/17) SAT The semi-final stage of the 2011 general knowledge contest SAT gets under way, with competitors from Lancashire, SAT Buckinghamshire, Lincolnshire and Leicestershire vying for a SAT place in the Final. Russell Davies asks the questions. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT MARK KERR, a chartered surveyor from Prescot in Lancashire; SAT STUART RUDD, a retired teacher from High Wycombe in SAT Buckinghamshire; SAT IAN WELHAM, a retired teacher from Middle Rasen in SAT Lincolnshire; SAT ANGELA WILSON, a voluntary worker from Ibstock in SAT Leicestershire. SAT SAT 23:30 Lost Voices of Afghanistan b00xgswb (Listen) SAT BBC Correspondent Jonathan Charles explores the new war SAT poetry written by Afghanistan's civilians with vivid stories SAT to tell. SAT SAT When Jonathan Charles made an appeal on BBC World Service SAT for Afghan civilians to send in their war poetry, little did SAT he anticipate the flood of writing it would inspire. Here, SAT he explores a selection of those poems and interviews the SAT authors. SAT SAT Producer: Laura Parfitt SAT A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 23 JANUARY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00xn9r9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00hd3rq (Listen) SUN The Treasure Chest, Tales of Cunning 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 soldier gets married while on sentry duty; and Dr SUN Rapunzius sells some amazing toothache pills. 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 Producer David Blount. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xn9rc (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xn9rf (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xn9rh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00xn9rk (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00xphj2 (Listen) SUN The bells of York Minster. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00xnyp4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00xn9rm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00xp0rf (Listen) SUN Freedom From Control SUN SUN As an antithesis to the previous Something Understood, Mark SUN Tully considers that, for some, creativity is only possible SUN when normal controls are abandoned. To jettison the SUN boundaries which shape our sense of reality and of ourselves SUN involves a great deal of risk and, for most of us, this SUN sounds like a dangerous path to follow. But Mark looks at SUN the artists, writers and composers who have done just that, SUN and assesses whether, in his opinion, their creativity has SUN been enhanced or obstructed by lack of control. SUN SUN Imagine being given licence to do, say and create anything SUN you wanted, unhindered by what others will think, or how it SUN will affect them. Is there a truth that you might have SUN within you that might be freed this way, and what would you SUN create to express that truth? SUN SUN And is this where genius abides, or madness? Or both? Can we SUN function as humans and as societies if this kind of thinking SUN is developed, or will we always just tolerate the few SUN "crazy" artists who push our boundaries for us, while we SUN remain safe and enclosed? SUN SUN Presented by Mark Tully SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00xp0rh (Listen) SUN Ten years on from the Foot and Mouth crisis, Caz Graham SUN visits two farming brothers whose lives went in opposite SUN directions after they lost their animals to the disease. The SUN 2001 outbreak cost the lives of 6 million animals, at a cost SUN to the UK of £8 billion. Cumbria was hardest hit and Les and SUN Brian Armstrong's farm was effectively closed for a year. SUN With plenty of time to think, they split up their SUN partnership of 30 years, Les turned the farm into a dairy SUN unit, and Brian, moved by the huge emotional weight the SUN outbreak placed on farmers, began working for Farm Crisis SUN network. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham. Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00xn9rp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00xn9rr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00xp0rk (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00xp0rm (Listen) SUN Meningitis Research Foundation SUN SUN Michael Rosen presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Meningitis Research Foundation. SUN SUN Donations to Meningitis Research Foundation should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Meningitis Research Foundation. Credit cards: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00xp1f3 (Listen) SUN Psalms for Life SUN SUN Award-winning composer of radio, TV and film scores Steven SUN Faux explores the range of emotions in music he has composed SUN for the Psalms, live from Bath Abbey. With Prebendary Edward SUN Mason and the Bath Abbey Girls' and Boys' choirs. Choirs SUN directed by Steven Faux and Shean Bowers; organ played by SUN Marcus Sealy. Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00xj18g (Listen) SUN The ecological sublime SUN SUN Alain de Botton gives a philosopher's take on our ecological SUN dilemmas. He argues that fear of environmental destruction SUN has changed for ever our relationship with nature. Far from SUN being a threat, it is now something to be pitied and SUN protected. There are also changes in the way we view SUN ourselves. As we take a trip to Florence to see some Titians SUN or run water to brush our teeth, we're being asked to SUN reconceeve of ourselves as unthinking killers. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00xp1f7 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00xp1f9 (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Keri Davies SUN Directed by ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00xp1fc (Listen) SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the veteran Coronation Street SUN actress Betty Driver. SUN SUN For more than 40 years she's been pulling pints and dishing SUN up her hot pot in the Rovers Return. But her career in SUN showbusiness started decades before she took up residence on SUN Britain's most famous street. SUN SUN She was a child when her mother put her on the stage and she SUN toured the country with an act that showcased her stunning SUN singing voice - it brought success but not happiness. "I did SUN it for over 20 years," she says, "and hated every day of SUN it." Although she has been working now for an incredible 80 SUN years, she says: "I just love work and I will never retire. SUN They'll have to shoot me to get rid of me!" SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00xhd7x (Listen) SUN Series 54, Episode 4 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a return SUN visit to the Hawth Theatre in Crawley. Regulars Barry Cryer, SUN Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel SUN by Ross Noble, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN attempts piano accompaniment. SUN SUN Producer ..... Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00xp1ff (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon investigates the appeal of shellfish - SUN bivalves and molluscs - from the point of view of taste and SUN sustainability and asks why we don't eat them more in SUN Britain. She finds out what has happened to the marine SUN environment in Lyme Bay since a scallop dredging ban was SUN introduced in part of it and about the implications of a SUN proposed mussel farm there. She discovers why whelk fishing SUN is a big export industry with low environmental impact and SUN oysters are ecologically friendly. Chef Mark Hix shows what SUN can be done with the lesser used varieties like whelks and SUN razor clams. SUN SUN Producer: Harry Parker. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00xn9ry (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00xp1fh (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Pocket Cinema b00xp1fk (Listen) SUN We've come a long way since French scientist, Phillipe Kahn, SUN accidentally discovered that he could use his mobile phone SUN to send pictures of his new born baby to relatives back in SUN 1997; and yet, as Matthew Sweet finds out, we're only just SUN scratching the surface of what can be done with film and SUN phones. SUN SUN These are exciting times for pocket film. Matthew hears from SUN artists, film studios and advertisers about how films either SUN made on or viewed on mobile phones are opening a host of SUN possibilities and shaping a new future for the moving image. SUN SUN At the centre of the programme is a specially commissioned SUN "Pocket Film" by director Gurinder Chadha, which will be SUN available to view via the Film Season's BBC webpage. SUN SUN We visit the Paris Pocket Film Festival and join a group of SUN children at a film-making workshop in London's East End on a SUN mission to shoot a fashion video on their phones. We trail SUN artist film-maker, Sylvie Prasad as she uses her mobile SUN phone to shoot a film about, with and for her mother who has SUN Alzheimer's and we hear from director Clio Barnard about her SUN reasons for choosing a mobile phone to shoot her film "Dark SUN Glass" about the unconscious and family memories. SUN SUN Matthew talks to the people behind a land-mark road safety SUN campaign film which was both shot on a mobile phone and SUN illustrates the perils to pedestrians in doing - well, just SUN that. He meets with John Maclean, whose film "Man on a SUN Motorcyle", starring Michael Fassbender, was shot on a SUN mobile phone, and finds out why the mobile film is here to SUN stay, even though, now that you can shoot in HD on many SUN smart phones, the low-res, pixelated aesthetic quality that SUN used to characterise mobile films is a thing of the past. SUN SUN What does the future hold for "pocket cinema"? We hear from SUN an exec at Babelgum, a pioneering company behind most of the SUN film/mobile link-ups we've seen with for example Sally SUN Potter's "Rage", a film that premiered not in cinemas but on SUN mobile phones. Hailed as the 'first independent online SUN television company to cross over into full mobile internet', SUN Babelgum is part of a network of companies at the coalface SUN of exciting "transmedia" projects, bringing immersive video SUN and films using geotagging to mobiles and other pocket SUN device, and set to transform the pocket film...all over SUN again. SUN SUN Producers: Susan Marling and Hannah Rosenfelder SUN A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Clip SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00xj13z (Listen) SUN Warrington, Cheshire SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw, Bunny Guinness and Matthew Biggs join SUN call-centre staff in Warrington, Cheshire for a SUN horticultural Q&A. Eric Robson is the chairman. SUN SUN In addition, we take a look at the gardening potential of SUN office buildings. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Completists b00xp1fm (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN The word 'completist' was coined in the 1950s and was SUN originally applied to collectors who aspired to own an SUN entire set of records by a particular artist (usually a jazz SUN musician). But now completists come in many different forms SUN with different ambitions. Ian Marchant meets five SUN "completists" - each of them driven by the need to tick off SUN the entire collection. SUN The internet has revolutionised everything for this group SUN dragging them out of their cellars, kitchens, bedrooms and SUN sheds and into web forums, specialist chatrooms and onto the SUN blogosphere to exchange opinions, tips and secrets with SUN whole tribes of fellow completists. The opportunities to SUN complete their goal are more available because of global SUN communication but the logistics are harder and the goal SUN posts are higher. SUN Ian Marchant, a former Charing Cross Road bookseller, is an SUN old friend and admirer of completists. He recalls the story SUN of one book collector who regularly asked for a particular SUN volume habitually adding '...but you won't have it.' When SUN the book (at last and amazingly) turned up, the collector SUN refused to buy it because, once he owned it, he'd no longer SUN have a reason to live. SUN Ian's completism? He owns all the records of Brinsley SUN Schwarz. It took him ten years to find a copy of their first SUN album and it turned out to be lousy. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00xp2cs (Listen) SUN The Moonstone, Episode 1 SUN SUN Doug Lucie's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins' detective SUN masterpiece from 1868, starring Eleanor Bron as Lady SUN Verinder and Kenneth Cranham as Sergeant Cuff, Paul Rhys as SUN Franklin Blake and narrated by Steve Hodson as Betteridge. SUN SUN Described by T.S. Eliot as the first and best of English SUN Detective novels, The Moonstone, involves a huge diamond SUN stolen from the forehead of an Indian deity, plundered in a SUN siege and finally given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth SUN birthday. It is said to carry a curse and mysteriously SUN disappears on the night of the celebrations. SUN SUN Are the Indian jugglers who were at the house earlier to SUN blame? Why are they hanging around the property with a SUN little boy they appear to be able to hypnotise? When the SUN local police get nowhere, one of the new detective police is SUN called for from London, and quickly finds a clue, but what SUN is it going to tell him? Has the curse of the Moonstone SUN brought with it suspicion and superstition to poison the SUN happy Verinder household on the Yorkshire coast? SUN SUN Lady Verinder ..... Eleanor Bron SUN Rachel Verinder ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Betteridge ..... Steve Hodson SUN Franklin Blake ..... Paul Rhys SUN Sergeant Cuff ..... Kenneth Cranham SUN John Herncastle ..... Stephen Critchlow SUN Rosanna Spearman ..... Alison Pettitt SUN Godfrey Ablewhite ..... Mark Straker SUN Penelope ..... Clare Corbett SUN Mr Murthwaite ..... Paul Battacharjee SUN Khan/Indian..... Narinder Samra SUN Housemaid ..... Carolyn Pickles SUN Boy ..... Alex Miller SUN SUN Recorded on location by Lucinda Mason Brown SUN Original Music by David Chilton SUN Dramatised by Doug Lucie SUN SUN Producer: Janet Whitaker SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00xp2j4 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to author of Salmon Fishing in the SUN Yemen, Paul Torday about his new book. SUN SUN Sue Arnold reviews the latest crop of audio books from SUN Faberge eggs to Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. SUN SUN And novelist Jay Parini discusses the life and death of SUN Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick and Billy Budd, which SUN he has re-created in his new novel. SUN SUN PRODUCER: Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00xp2j6 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough returns with a new series of your poetry SUN requests, including work by Bertolt Brecht, Rudyard Kipling SUN and Kate Scott. There's something of a food-related theme to SUN the edition, with William Carlos Williams' evocative poem SUN describing the chilled plums he's raided from the fridge. SUN Kipling's poem 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' weighs a British SUN soldier's life against that of his adversaries, and his own SUN officers. The readers are Jon Strickland and Phyllida Nash. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00xhh70 (Listen) SUN Bitter Medicine SUN SUN Legal aid has been withdrawn from a long-running case SUN against a pharmaceutical giant. Children born with severe SUN disabilities, including spina bifida, were suing the SUN manufacturer of an anti-epilepsy drug which their mothers SUN took during pregnancy and which they blame for causing birth SUN defects - a claim the company denies. SUN SUN After years of legal proceedings which the claimants' SUN solicitors say have so far cost £3.25m, the Legal Services SUN Commision refused a much smaller sum to take the case to SUN trial, just weeks before hearings were due to start. As a SUN result, more than a hundred claimants are left with no SUN chance of their day in court. SUN SUN Their case was not deemed strong enough to pass the standard SUN test which requires them to prove that the drug doubled (at SUN least) the risk of harm. This test is called into question SUN by experts in cases against pharmaceutical companies in SUN Britain and the USA. A lower level of proof is needed in SUN American courts. SUN SUN The government has announced that future patients in England SUN and Wales alleging clinical negligence or personal injury SUN can expect to have their applications for legal aid refused SUN under its programme of spending cuts. SUN SUN No such change of policy is planned in Scotland. A case is SUN proceeding there with support from legal aid by a patient SUN who took another drug, for relieving arthritis, which is SUN blamed for increasing the risk of heart attacks and strokes SUN - again this is denied by the company concerned. Patients in SUN England and Wales who took the same drug and suffered heart SUN attacks have been turned down for legal aid funding and have SUN shelved their cases. SUN SUN Will government cuts effectively put wealthy pharmaceutical SUN companies beyond challenge in the civil courts? SUN SUN Reporter: Gerry Northam SUN Producer: Gail Champion. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00xnyp4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00xn9s0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00xn9s2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xn9s4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00xp2kd (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00xp2lt (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00xp2lw (Listen) SUN An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping SUN America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion SUN and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00hk1cq (Listen) SUN The First Person, The Child SUN SUN Series of three quirky short stories by Ali Smith. SUN SUN A woman shopper finds her trolley occupied by someone else's SUN baby. When she tries to persuade others that the child is SUN not hers, no one believes her and she is forced to take the SUN peculiar child home. Read by Jackie Morrison. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00xj13v (Listen) SUN Note: The 21 January 2011 edition of More or Less was SUN truncated. This copy reflects the content of the full SUN programme broadcast on 23 January 2011. SUN SUN Health check SUN SUN The Health Secretary says you're twice as likely to die from SUN heart disease in the UK than in France. And World Health SUN Organisation figures support his claim. But do those numbers SUN tell the whole story? SUN SUN George Osborne's credit card SUN SUN The Chancellor George Osborne said this week that he's SUN working hard to "pay off the nation's credit card". SUN Presumably Mr Osborne is alluding to his plans for reducing SUN the deficit. But that's not the same as paying off debt. In SUN fact, as we explain, he's merely trying to reduce the rate SUN at which the nation's credit card bill is growing. SUN SUN The unemployment riddle SUN SUN Journalists reported this week that unemployment has gone up SUN by 49,000 to 2.5 million people, over the three months to SUN November, but the unemployment rate had remained unchanged SUN at 7.9%. More or Less solves the riddle. SUN SUN Words and numbers SUN SUN Tim Harford, Rachel Riley and Alex Bellos discuss their SUN favourite maths books. Rachel chose Michio Kaku's Physics of SUN the Impossible, Alex chose Oliver Byrne's version of SUN Euclid's Elements and Tim chose Douglas Hofstader's Godel SUN Escher Bach. SUN SUN Blue Monday SUN SUN The Blue Monday formula, which claims to identify the most SUN depressing day of the year, and which first infected the SUN British media in 2005, strikes again. SUN SUN Producer: Richard Knight. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00xj141 (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN General Vang Pao, leader of the Hmong people of Laos who was SUN funded by the CIA to fight against a communist takeover. SUN SUN The footballer Nat Lofthouse who spent his career at Bolton SUN Wanderers and was capped 33 times for England. SUN SUN The literary critic and editor John Gross who had a SUN wide-ranging knowledge and a taste for high class gossip. SUN SUN The versatile actress Susannah York who starred in films and SUN plays from Superman to Shakespeare. SUN SUN And Stu Smith, the stock car racing world champion from SUN Rochdale - known as "The Maestro". SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00xnynr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00xp0rm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00xj0r4 (Listen) SUN A New Capitalism SUN SUN In this week's In Business, one of the world's best-known SUN management gurus issues a challenge to the way capitalism SUN works. Professor Michael Porter from Harvard Business School SUN tells Peter Day about the radical changes he thinks SUN companies have to make in order in order to survive. SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00xp2mj (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn talks to the Political Editor of The SUN Independent, Andrew Grice, about the big stories at SUN Westminster including the resignations of Labour's Alan SUN Johnson as Shadow Chancellor and David Cameron's SUN communications chief Andy Coulson. SUN SUN Our MPs panel this week consists of the Conservative Matthew SUN Hancock and Labour's Rachel Reeves. They debate the issues SUN dominating the Westminster agenda and preview the week's SUN political events SUN SUN The former Conservative MP Rob Hayward talks to Carolyn SUN about the government's plans to reduce the number of SUN Parliamentary constituencies. Mr Hayward is an expert on SUN constituency boundaries and has advised the Conservatives on SUN cutting the number of seats in the House of Commons. SUN SUN We have a report on the forthcoming referendum in Wales to SUN increase the powers of the National Assembly at Cardiff. We SUN hear from campaigners on both sides of the argument - those SUN who support increased powers for the Assembly and those who SUN are opposed. An expert on Welsh politics and the head of a SUN Cardiff think tank provide expert comment. SUN SUN Programme Editor: Terry Dignan. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00xp2p1 (Listen) SUN Episode 36 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 Hugo Rifkind takes the SUN chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00xj143 (Listen) SUN Inspired by stories of listeners staging their own SUN site-specific screenings, Francine Stock tries to set up her SUN own pop-up cinema. Along the way, Francine asks the help of SUN various experts and societies about what you really need to SUN organise a cinematic happening. But of course, what she SUN needs most is a director who's willing to show their film SUN and take part in the event. Will Ken Loach, the new patron SUN of the British Federation Of Film Societies, be her knight SUN in shining armour ? SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00xp0rf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 JANUARY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00xn9s6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00xhj80 (Listen) MON Committing crime in West Belfast carries a double jeopardy. MON As well as the police, there are the paramilitaries to look MON out for. Between 1973 and 2007 there were two and a half MON thousand shootings and beatings attributed to republican MON paramilitaries as punishment attacks. Young people have been MON 'tarred and feathered', had their legs broken, hundreds have MON been 'knee-capped' and a few have been 'executed' - i.e. MON murdered - in response to what they are assumed to have MON done. For three years at the height of this practice Heather MON Hamill lived and worked in the Catholic Community of West MON Belfast to research the pseudo-judicial process administered MON by the IRA. As punishment attacks are growing again, this MON time at the hands of dissident republican groups, she MON discusses paramilitary punishment attacks with Laurie and MON the criminologist Dick Hobbs. MON Also on the programme today, Hanna Zagefka discusses her MON report which shows why people give more money to natural MON disasters like the Asian Tsunami than human ones like the MON crisis of Darfur. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00xphj2 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xn9s8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xn9sb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xn9sd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00xn9sg (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xphk0 (Listen) MON with Dr Edward Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of MON Abrahamic Faiths. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00xphk2 (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00xn9sj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00xphl1 (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, MON Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00xpj0w (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to John Gray about our delusional quest MON for immortality, from Victorian séances to embalming Lenin's MON corpse to uploading our minds in cyberspace. Equally MON ambitious has been the quest to create the ultimate living, MON thinking robot, and the anthropologist Kathleen Richardson MON assesses how far machines could take over the earth. The MON science fiction writer Paul McAuley imagines a utopian world MON in the hostile environs of Jupiter and Saturn, based on a MON system of favours and patronage. And Dai Smith offers up an MON alternative history of his native South Wales, which brings MON together the events, people and writings that have shaped MON its unique culture. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00xpjwr (Listen) MON The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 1 MON MON Seven year old Ailsa Dunn's Ma is prettier than all the MON other mothers and her Da is the most handsome man in the MON world but when alcohol intrudes unpredictability reigns and MON when the man with the briefcase comes to call she senses the MON family is in trouble. MON MON Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir set in MON the Glasgow of the late 1960s. MON MON Producer: Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xpk18 (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents: Bedbugs - are they on the rise in the MON UK? MON MON Don't let the bedbugs bite MON MON New York has suffered an epidemic of bedbugs and there's MON evidence they are now crossing the Atlantic. Bedbugs MON proliferate in huge numbers, they feed off blood, and they MON are extremely hard to get rid of. Ariel Leve, a journalist MON from New York, who experienced an infestation in her own MON flat, and David Cain, Director of Bed Bugs Limited join Jane MON to explain how to make sure the bedbugs don't bite. MON MON Beeban Kidron - Devadasi MON MON Beeban Kidron has spent the last 30 years directing feature MON films, television dramas and documentaries. She first heard MON about the devadasi - Hindus who are married to god in MON childhood, and at puberty sold for sex - listening to a MON feature on Woman’s Hour. She knew instantly that it was a MON story she was going to tell. She travelled to India five MON times in one year to investigate this little understood MON community. Beeban joins Jane to talk about the resulting MON documentary, Sex Death and the Gods and why, despite her MON success in directing big budget movies, she is still MON prepared to work on a shoestring in order to telll stories MON about people’s lives. MON MON Siblings of twins and multiple births MON MON Imagine you’re 9 years old and your parents suddenly MON announce they’re expecting quads; or you have a 12 month old MON and then discover you’re expecting triplets! How do you MON prepare older children for the forthcoming event, and keep MON their lives as smooth as possible? To discuss the effects MON of multiple births on older siblings, Jane is joined by MON Araminta Hall, author of Everything and Nothing, and the MON eldest in a family with quads; the comedian Jackie Clune, MON who is mother of triplets and author of Extreme Motherhood, MON The Triplet Diaries; and the family therapist, Audrey MON Sandbank, who is mother of twins and author of Twins and the MON Family. MON MON Women's Pensions MON MON Plans to increase the retirement age for women to 65 by 2018 MON and to 66 years by 2020 could leave many women now in their MON 50s seriously short of pension provision. We talk to the MON Director General of Saga Magazine and financial expert, Ros MON Altmann about her fears that increasing the retirement age MON for women so quickly will disadvantage those who already MON struggle to get adequate pension provision after breaks and MON part-time working to look after children. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xpkw3 (Listen) MON Writing the Century 16: Three Women Across the Century, MON Episode 1 MON MON Writing the Century. 'Three Women Across the Century". Ep 1. MON Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal. MON MON Catherine Thackray, faces a terminal illness. She wants to MON put her life in order and to create a family history for own MON grandchildren. In so doing, she takes up her mother, MON Marjory's memoir, and weaves it into her story. MON MON Catherine Thackray...Eleanor Bron MON Lawrence Thackray...Will Tacey MON Becca Thackray...Julia Rounthwaite MON Marjory Sharp...Suzanne Bertish MON Tom Sharp...Drew Carter-Cain MON Doctor....Lloyd Peters MON MON Produced in Manchester by Gary Brown MON Music by Nicolai Abrahamsen MON MON 11:00 The Glasgow Effect b00xpkw5 (Listen) MON Glasgow- the sick man of Europe- still isn't feeling so MON good. Iain Macwhirter explores why Glasgow suffers from MON mortality rates higher that even expected from the levels of MON deprivation in the city. MON MON Iain has his own vested interest. Having suffered from heart MON disease, and had consultants shrug their shoulders and MON declare it was a result of being Scottish, Iain wants to MON know whether his health has been impacted by this effect. MON MON Glasgow has been overtaken in the health stakes by Eastern MON European cities struggling to shrug off the legacy of MON communism. It's being left behind by the statistics from MON Liverpool and Manchester, which show, like-for-like, MON Glasgow's citizens are dying younger, whatever their wealth. MON MON Can we get to the bottom of what's making Glaswegians die? MON MON Produced by Lucy Lloyd. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00xpkw7 (Listen) MON Series 7, Become a Successful Writer 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 This week sees Ed enrolled on a writing course which MON endeavours to teach him how to 'write successfully'. He MON naturally feels he's already mastered this art, as testified MON to in the 1976 issue of Films and Filming, and the fact that MON he teaches his own course at the local leisure centre. MON However, much persuasion by Ping and the mention of free MON food and drink for three days finally sways Ed into MON attendance. In the event, Ed does learn a thing or two about MON setting up his very own 'Script Doctor' service at £25 a MON consultation. MON MON Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas MON Mort Rich ..... Henry Goodman MON Dave Wang ..... Geoff McGivern MON Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Municipal woman ..... Nicola Sanderson MON Sorting Officer ..... Martin Hyder MON Pearl ..... Rita May MON Olive ..... Stephanie Cole MON Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00xpljr (Listen) MON Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:53 Brief Encounters b00xplkq (Listen) MON Episode 6 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. MON MON Today he is in the Vester Vov Vov cinema, in Copenhagen, set MON in the former red-light district. Now an "arts cinema" MON showing mainly avant-garde Danish films, the cinema once had MON a more colourful past - and it female projectionist was very MON much part of that story. MON MON Producers: Neil George. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00xn9sl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00xnbfj (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00xplrm (Listen) MON (14/17) MON Russell Davies welcomes a further four semi-finalists to BBC MON Maida Vale to contest a place in the 2011 Brain of Britain MON Final. This week's contenders come from Widnes in Cheshire, MON Bakewell in Derbyshire, Northwich in Cheshire and Sutton in MON Surrey. MON MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00xp2lt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00xpn9y (Listen) MON Market, Loco Parentis MON MON Jim can't sleep cos his daughter's left for uni, his MON business is going belly up, and his father is going gaga. MON Oh, and to top it all he suspects his wife is having an MON affair with her boss. He needs to escape - but where to? A MON bitter sweet empty nester comedy by Gary Brown. MON MON Jim...Reece Dinsdale MON Market Manager...Gerard Fletcher MON Ken...Bobby Knutt MON Lisa...Sue Kelly MON Robin...Kathryn Hunt MON Jenny...Ellie Meigan-Rose MON Steve...Joncie Elmore MON Nurse...Szilvi Naray Davey MON Student...Sam Hevicon MON MON Original Music by Steven D Reid MON Produced by Peter Leslie Wild MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00xnyqf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xpnd2 (Listen) MON If It Moves, Shoot It MON MON Critic and writer David Thomson continues his journey MON through cinema and considers its enduring love affair with MON violence. Episode 6: If it Moves, Shoot It. MON MON "There is violence in the medium. It begins with being in MON the dark, monopolized and compelled by the light. There is a MON kind of imprisonment. It is then increased by the way film MON can cut. And cut is a very appropriate word." MON MON Producer: Mark Burman. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00xp1ff (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00xpnd4 (Listen) MON Ayodhya MON MON Ernie Rea chairs Radio 4's religious discussion programme in MON which 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 the programme, Ernie and his guests discuss the disputed MON site of Ayodhya in India. Hindus and Muslims have been in MON conflict for more than a century over the Babri mosque in MON Ayodhya, a town in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. MON Hindus claim the site was the birthplace of one of their MON most revered deities, Lord Ram, and that a mosque was built MON after the destruction of a Hindu temple by a Muslim, Babur, MON in the sixteenth century. MON MON After decades of legislation, an Indian court ruled last MON year that the site should be split three ways between MON Hindus, Muslims and the Nirmohi Akhara Hindu sect. MON MON Beyond Belief examines why this site is important to both MON Hindus and Muslims and asks whether the legal judgement is MON workable in modern secular India. MON MON Ernie is joined by Dr Raj Pandit Sharma, President of the MON Hindu Priest Association and Executive Officer of the Hindu MON Council UK; Kashif ul Huda, editor of Twocircles.net, an MON Indian Muslim news website; and Dr John Zavos, Lecturer in MON South Asian Studies at the University of Manchester and MON editor of the journal, Contemporary South Asia. MON MON 16:55 Brief Encounters b00xn7kh (Listen) MON Episode 13 MON MON Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas around the MON world with a series of short features eavesdropping on their MON stories, their characters and occasionally trying the MON snacks. MON MON In this edition, we are going to the Yara cinema in central MON Havana. A great white-and-red art deco state-funded barn MON built before the 1959 revolution, most of the films it now MON shows are pirated DVDs, projected on the enormous screen. MON But there are some home grown films and signs of a MON re-emerging local film industry. MON MON Producer: Neil George. MON MON 17:00 PM b00xplm2 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xn9sn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00xpnd6 (Listen) MON Series 54, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Central MON Theatre in Chatham. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and MON Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, MON with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the MON piano. MON MON Producer ..... Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00xpnd8 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00xpln5 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including a review of Tangled, Disney's MON new animated version of the Rapunzel story. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xpkw3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b00xpng0 (Listen) MON The Imam of Peace MON MON Nadene Ghouri profiles John Butt, an Englishman who MON travelled to South Asia on the hippy trail, converted to MON Islam and trained as an imam. For the last few decades his MON mission has been to spread a message of peace and tolerance MON across Pakistan and Afghanistan. He set up a series of radio MON stations across the Swat Valley in Northern Pakistan and MON established a madrassa in Jalalabad in Afghanistan, MON preaching his own version of a moderate inclusive Islam. Now MON this work is getting tougher. The Swat operation was hit by MON last year's flooding while militants attacked his madrassa, MON burning down a building. The jihadist threat means it is too MON dangerous for John Butt to travel to the Swat Valley or to MON visit his project in Jalalabad. Nadene Ghouri asks who's MON winning - John or the extremists? MON Producer: Bill Law. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00xnxl4 (Listen) MON Trust MON MON Trust was the subject of moral philosopher Professor Onora MON O'Neill's acclaimed Reith Lectures in 2002. Enron, political MON sleaze, the foot and mouth crisis, the Bristol heart babies MON scandal and the collapse of Equitable Life had contributed MON to a perception - challenged by Professor O'Neill - that we MON were living through a crisis of trust in our institutions. MON MON Eight years on, the subject is no less topical and so MON Professor O'Neill returns to Radio 4 to be interviewed about MON her latest reflections on trust by Edward Stourton. MON MON The intervening years have seen no let-up in the stream of MON highly publicised political scandals, financial crises and MON blunders by state officials. Yet levels of trust have MON remained remarkably consistent. Furthermore, argues MON Professor O'Neill, the public debate about building trust MON misses the point: we should be more concerned about levels MON of trustworthiness rather than levels of trust in society. MON Attempts to restore trust in certain professions or MON organisations do little to help individuals with the MON practical difficulty of placing and refusing trust wisely. MON In addition, she points to clumsy "accountability" schemes MON designed to raise levels of trust but which in fact MON encourage an increase in untrustworthy behaviour. MON MON Edward Stourton discusses these notions with Onora O'Neill MON and explores their topicality. Her arguments are also MON commented on and challenged by John Haldane, Professor of MON Philosophy at St Andrews University and current chairman of MON the Royal Institute of Philosophy. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00xhzj9 (Listen) MON Swine flu deaths - how autopsies on flu victims can help MON doctors improve treatments for the disease; as MON insecticide-resistant bed bugs spread and defeat pest MON control firms, Quentin hears of a new genetic study that may MON give alternative approaches; and how getting science MON students outdoors can help them engage in the classroom. MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON UK Swine flu autopsies MON MON As swine flu is still an ongoing concern in the UK, Quentin MON looks at the latest reports from autopsies of last winter's MON UK swine flu deaths and how the research may help with MON earlier diagnosis. He hears from Professor Sebastian Lucas MON who examined case studies of 68 swine flu victims and from MON Dr Imogen Stephens, Clinical Director from Centre for MON Maternal and Child Enquires who carried out research on MON maternal mortality from swine flu. MON MON Genetic study of bedbugs MON MON Bed bugs have plagued us since prehistoric times, but MON pesticide-resistant strains have now taken over New York and MON threaten to spread across the planet. Now, the first genetic MON study of bed bugs promises to find the root causes of that MON resistance, and a lot more about the bugs' remarkable MON biology. Quentin talks to the study’s co-author Dr Susan MON Jones, Assistant Professor of Entomology at Ohio State MON University and Mike Siva-Jothy, Professor of Entomology at MON Sheffield University. MON MON Science out of the classroom MON MON How do we get more children interested in science? A report MON from the Association for Science Education claims that if we MON want pupils to become enthusiastic about science then you MON have to take them out of the classroom. Marianne Cutler the MON Executive Director of the Association for Science Education MON joins Quentin to explain why open spaces can stimulate MON learning. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00xpj0w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00xn9sq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00xpng2 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00xpnx1 (Listen) MON The Meeting Point, Episode 1 MON MON When Euan and Ruth Armstrong set off with their young MON daughter, Anna, to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an MON experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night MON they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind the missionary MON work Euan has planned and feels her world start to crumble. MON She starts to question her faith - in Euan, in their MON marriage, and in all she has held dear. MON MON With Euan so often away, Ruth is confined to their guarded MON compound with her neighbours and, in particular, Noor, a MON troubled teenager recently returned to Bahrain to live with MON her father. Confronted by temptations and doubt, both Ruth MON and Noor must make choices that could change all of their MON lives forever. MON MON Episode 1: Ruth, Euan and their young daughter arrive in MON Bahrain to carry out some missionary work in the country. As MON they settle into their new life, Ruth discovers that Euan MON hasn't told her the whole truth regarding the reason for MON their stay. MON MON The readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige. MON MON The Meeting Point was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced MON by Heather Larmour. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00xhh2n (Listen) MON We have thousands of words that mean 'I approve' and MON thousands more that mean 'I disapprove'. Michael Rosen sets MON out to discover why we need so many. MON MON Producer: Peter Everett. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xpnxz (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 JANUARY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00xn9ss (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00xpjwr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xn9sv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xn9sx (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xn9sz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00xn9t1 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xpnyc (Listen) TUE with Dr Edward Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of TUE Abrahamic Faiths. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00xphm2 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Fran Barnes. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00xphks (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, TUE Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Hollywood b00xpnz4 (Listen) TUE The Sequel TUE TUE Francine Stock asks if we're witnessing the end of Hollywood TUE as we know it. In the second of two documentaries about the TUE rise and fall of this American empire, she considers whether TUE the digital revolution will mean the USA is losing its grip TUE on the global market. TUE TUE Francine will hear from Sally Potter who made her latest TUE drama, Rage, on a telephone and premiered it on the web, and TUE from Tim Bevan, chair of both the Film Council and Working TUE Title, Britain's most financially successful production TUE company, who have a special relationship with a Hollywood TUE studio. TUE TUE Francine visits the offices of Clare Binns, who's been TUE described as one of the most powerful women in British film, TUE because she personally chooses which movies are screened in TUE the Picturehouse chain that spans the country. TUE TUE Ken Loach calls for cinemas to be put in the hands of the TUE public, like municipal theatres, while Steven Soderbergh, TUE Joe Wright, Peter Weir and Sam Mendes all agree that it's TUE tougher than ever to make mid-budget, intelligent movies for TUE an adult audience. TUE TUE The Full Monty scribe Simon Beaufoy considers whether TUE cheaper films means that film-makers no longer have to fix TUE one eye on the global market, and if this will result in a TUE return to a form of national cinema. TUE TUE Ultimately, Francine discusses whether the death of TUE Hollywood has been greatly exaggerated, as the empire fights TUE back with 3D. TUE TUE Produced by Stephen Hughes. TUE TUE 09:30 Top of the Class b00x93vf (Listen) TUE Series 2, Lord Digby Jones TUE TUE Lord Digby Jones grew up in the Midlands and as a youngster, TUE won a scholarship to Bromsgrove Public School. There, he TUE represented the school at rugby and cricket and took part in TUE the debating society. He was head boy and was about to leave TUE school with a glowing report until he was expelled for TUE streaking around the quadrangle for a bet. TUE TUE John Wilson meets Digby Jones back at his old school with TUE his former English teacher and school friend. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00xpnx3 (Listen) TUE The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 2 TUE TUE Seven year old Ailsa Dunn adores her handsome Da and her TUE pretty Ma but when alcohol intrudes chaos reigns and she and TUE her sister are removed from home and taken to an orphanage. TUE This is the Glasgow of the late 1960s and the strict regime TUE is fiercely resented by the two feisty girls. Confused and TUE unhappy Ailsa loses her bearings until she meets an TUE inspirational teacher and timidly asks if he will teach her TUE to play the piano. TUE TUE Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. TUE TUE Producer: Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xpp1s (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents: How will family finances change with TUE new benefits being introduced? TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xyc25 (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 16: Three Women Across the Century, TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Catherine feels inadequate when she compares her life to her TUE mother's. Her husband Larry and daughter Becca worry that TUE her obsession with her mother's diaries is detrimental to TUE her frail health. TUE TUE Catherine Thackray...Eleanor Bron TUE Lawrence Thackray...Will Tacey TUE Becca Thackray...Julia Rounthwaite TUE Marjory Sharp...Suzanne Bertish TUE Tom Sharp...Drew Carter-Cain TUE Children...Eva Grace, Isaac Whitmore TUE TUE Produced in Manchester by Gary Brown TUE Music by Nicolai Abrahamsen TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00xnxlj (Listen) TUE Episode 39 TUE TUE 39/40. Much of the world is farmed and in Britain it's TUE argued that upward of 90% of the land surface, excluding TUE people's gardens, is farmed in one form or another. And this TUE figure, although large worldwide, nevertheless has a ring of TUE truth about it - wilderness is disappearing. There are many TUE arguments justifying the importance of wilderness - and they TUE have all been touched upon in one edition or another of TUE Saving Species. TUE TUE In this programme we have our final "Memories" piece TUE remembering the past abundance of the tenacious predators, TUE stoats and weasels. And through the Narrow-headed Ant we TUE discover the dangers of fragmenting heathland. TUE TUE And we hope to be in Sri Lanka very close to the largest TUE animal both alive today and that has ever lived - the Blue TUE Whale. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00xpp1v (Listen) TUE Zoe Ball TUE TUE DJ Zoe Ball showcases some of her favourite pieces of TUE writing. The readers are Hattie Morahan and Blake Ritson, TUE with a guest appearance by Johnny Ball. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00xpp1x (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 b00xn7dg (Listen) TUE Episode 8 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. Today, China. 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 It's said that three new cinemas open everyday in China, but TUE the Broadway Cinémathèque Moma in Beijing, stands out for TUE its ingenious design and wide range of films on offer, world TUE cinema as well as blockbusters. We hear from Wu Jing who has TUE seen the cinema industry transform within her lifetime. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00xn9t3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00xnbdy (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Tales from the Stave b00xpp1z (Listen) TUE Series 6, Episode 2 TUE TUE Frances Fyfield and her guests examine the Eric Coates' TUE manuscript score of The London Suite for this week's Tales TUE From the Stave. With Frances in the Royal College of Music TUE library are the conductor and orchestrator, John Wilson, TUE music presenter, Rob Cowan and handwriting expert, Ruth TUE Rostron. Librarian Peter Horton keeps careful watch over the TUE manuscript. TUE TUE Eric Coates began his music career by playing the viola TUE professionally. He excelled at the Royal Academy of Music TUE and eked out a living perfoming in various orchestras. His TUE first love though was composition and his desire was to TUE write popular music enjoyed by all. A founding member of the TUE Performing Rights Society which collects revenues on behalf TUE of composers and others, he eventually became one of best TUE loved popular light music composers and earned a very good TUE living from his writing. His gift for melody leaves a legacy TUE of tunes which are instantly recognisable today. Perhaps his TUE best known piece for Radio 4 listeners is 'By the Sleepy TUE Lagoon' which is the theme tune for 'Desert Island Discs'. TUE TUE Yet he did not always enjoy a positive relationship with the TUE BBC, and later in his career he felt the organisation was TUE discriminating against his music when programming the Proms. TUE He wrote "I think (and many musicians agree with me) that TUE the BBC is absolutely wrong in its attitude towards the best TUE in light music, for it is fostering an insidious from of TUE musical snobbery amonth listeners, teaching them to despise TUE melody." TUE TUE Join Frances and her guests as they look at the craft of TUE Coates, his skill and excellence and assess The London TUE Suite. TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Taylor. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00xpnd8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00g0nnq (Listen) TUE Miracle Worker TUE TUE Hannah Bradley's only 17, but she's a spiritual healer. It TUE doesn't seem strange to her; it's what she was brought up to TUE be. She's healed many people; but maybe there's one person TUE she really needs to heal. TUE TUE Hannah....................................Beth Palmer TUE Maxine......................................Sue Jenkins TUE Sam..........................................Lucy-Jo Hudson TUE Lucy..........................................Kate Crossley TUE Paul...........................................Daniel Pape TUE Robbie........................................Luke Broughton TUE TUE Producer/Director Gary Brown. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00xpp37 (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 b00xpp4v (Listen) TUE Travelling Light, Shopping TUE TUE At five in the morning, Emily makes her shopping forays. But TUE although June approaches, outside it is getting darker. TUE TUE The writer and artist Tove Jansson is best known as the TUE creator of the Moomin stories, which were first published in TUE English sixty years ago and have remained in print ever TUE since. She turned her attention to writing for adults when TUE she was in her fifties. TUE TUE With the deceptively light prose that is her hallmark, TUE 'Travelling Light' reveals to us the precariousness of a TUE journey and the unease we feel at being placed outside of TUE our milieu. TUE TUE Reader: Claire Rushbrook TUE TUE Produced by Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xpp4x (Listen) TUE The Look of Love TUE TUE Critic and writer David Thomson continues his personal TUE journey through the power and meaning of cinema in search of TUE longing and romance. Episode 7: The Look of Love. TUE TUE We got to the movies for many things, including spectacle, TUE thrills and wonder, but many go to fall in love - again and TUE again - with the thrill of romance and a kiss as big as a TUE house. Thomson wonders how love blows us apart. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Burman. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00xpp66 (Listen) TUE Between the newspaper reporter and the readers sits a TUE shadowy figure - the sub-editor. It's the sub who thinks up TUE the punning headline and crafts the catchy intro. Michael TUE Rosen joins the 'back bench' as the presses get ready to TUE roll. TUE TUE Producer: Peter Everett. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00xpp68 (Listen) TUE Series 23, Mary Stott TUE TUE The writer Katharine Whitehorn chooses Mary Stott, the great TUE campaigning journalist and the first editor of the Guardian TUE women's page. She's the journalist who more than anyone TUE started the revolution in women's journalism since the TUE 1950's. Matthew Parris presents. TUE TUE 16:55 Brief Encounters b00xn7db (Listen) TUE Episode 7 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 Humayoun is a young Afghani actor who dreams of one day TUE being a film star. He talks of the reopening of Kabul's TUE cinemas since the departure of the Taliban, and the very TUE first time he saw the 'big screen'. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00xpllr (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xn9t5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00xpp6b (Listen) TUE Series 3, It's A Family Affair 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 b00xpp6d (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00xplmx (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reports on this year's Academy Award TUE nominations, announced today. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xyc25 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00xppmm (Listen) TUE Homes but no loans TUE TUE Homes but no loans. Despite the threat of a new slide in TUE house prices and rising levels of negative equity, the TUE number of property-buyers having their homes repossessed has TUE declined over the past year. But now many economists predict TUE interest rates will rise in the course of 2011, fuelling TUE fears that Britain's housing market could be facing a double TUE dip. With banks chasing profits and affordable mortgages TUE harder to find. Michael Robinson asks what impact the new TUE housing freeze will have on Britain's already battered TUE economy. TUE Producer: Andy Denwood. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00xppmp (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00xppmr (Listen) TUE Glaucoma TUE TUE Glaucoma is an eye disease in which fluid pressure is TUE raised. It causes irreversible damage to the optic nerve and TUE loss of vision. Dr Mark Porter visits Moorfields Eye TUE Hospital in London and finds about a new test for glaucoma, TUE which will lead to earlier diagnosis He also hears about the TUE latest research into the genetics of the optic nerve. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 21:30 Hollywood b00xpnz4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00xn9t7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00xpngr (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00y269d (Listen) TUE The Meeting Point, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2: Still reeling from Euan's confession, Ruth is TUE visited by her new neighbours, among them a shy teenager TUE named Noor, who, like Ruth, is also trying to come to terms TUE with a new life in Bahrain. TUE TUE The readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige. TUE TUE The Meeting Point was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced TUE by Heather Larmour. TUE TUE 23:00 Rhyme and Reason b00xppmt (Listen) TUE Billy Bragg TUE TUE Mr Gee presents the final programme in the four part series, TUE Rhyme and Reason. TUE This week he is joined by musician and activist Billy Bragg TUE to talk about how poetry has played a major role in his TUE life. Billy Bragg tells of how he's used music and poetry to TUE express his feelings at pivotal points in his life. We hear TUE readings of his favourite poetry and music from his back TUE catalogue going back over 25 years. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xppn4 (Listen) TUE Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 JANUARY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00xn9t9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00xpnx3 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xn9tc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xn9tf (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xn9th (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00xn9tk (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xw0gf (Listen) WED with Dr Edward Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of WED Abrahamic Faiths. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00xphlr (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00xw0gh (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 b00xw0gk (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including actor Greg Hicks. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00xpnx7 (Listen) WED The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 3 WED WED Removed from the care of loving but alcoholic parents and WED placed in a strict Glasgow orphanage, Ailsa Dunn is WED struggling to cope. Then she meets Mr Shaugnessy and WED inspired by his piano playing she asks for lessons. WED Encouraged by his praise, she discovers a talent she never WED dreamt she had. WED WED Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. WED WED Producer: Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xppnb (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents: The Government's plans to enhance the WED role of the health visitor. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xw14s (Listen) WED Writing the Century 16: Three Women Across the Century, WED Episode 3 WED WED Catherine tries to make sense of a strange and moving event WED in her mother's life. WED WED Catherine Thackray...Eleanor Bron WED Lawrence Thackray...Will Tacey WED Becca Thackray...Julia Rounthwaite WED Marjory Sharp...Suzanne Bertish WED Tom Sharp...Drew Carter-Cain WED Mick...Joncie Elmore WED WED Produced in Manchester by Gary Brown WED Music by Nicolai Abrahamsen WED WED 11:00 The Secret History of Social Networking b00xw14v (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED In the first instalment of a three-part series, Rory WED Cellan-Jones traces the roots of social networking from the WED counterculture of the 1970s through early bulletin board WED systems such as California's The WELL and the first networks WED on the World Wide Web, finding out how a geeky hobby became WED a mass phenomenon. WED Forty years ago, hippies and hackers came together to WED produce the first attempts at online community. Rory visits WED the scene of perhaps the first computer social network open WED to the general public. Community Memory was a series of WED terminals in Berkeley and the San Francisco Bay area which WED opened for business in 1973. WED It never picked up more than a handful of users, but as WED personal computers became more common in the 1980s, a host WED of online bulletin board systems sprang up around the world WED - although The WELL was perhaps the most influential. An WED offshoot of the Whole Earth Catalog, The WELL's discussion WED forums interested journalists as well as computer nerds and WED showed how computer networks might impact offline life. WED And Rory follows the trend through to the arrival of the WED World Wide Web, the thing that turned a mass audience on to WED the internet and online social networking. WED Millions signed up for early sites like SixDegrees and WED Friendster. But the lack of digital cameras and ubiquitous WED internet access in its late-90s heyday limited the WED usefulness of SixDegrees as a networking tool. And WED Friendster's sheer popularity in the early 2000s caused tech WED problems that the company struggled to overcome. It wouldn't WED be too long, however, before social networking hit the WED mainstream. Part 1 of 3. WED WED 11:30 Ballylenon b00xw14x (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 1 WED WED Ballylenon, County Donegal. Pop. 1,999 was founded by St WED Lenon of Padua, when he fell into the river at this spot in WED 953. Ballylenon is situated on the shores of Lough Swilly WED with entrancing views of Muckish Mountain, in the Diocese of WED Derry and Raphoe. (Note: Ballylenon is a fictional name, but WED the other landmarks are identifiable.) WED WED In this society, there exists an uneasy balance of WED interests. Communication has all the appearances of power, WED and in Ballylenon, communication means the local Telephone WED Exchange and Post Office. Both these are firmly in the WED control of sisters, Vera and Muriel McConkey, who in cahoots WED with hotelier and funeral undertaker, Phonsie Doherty, would WED seek to rule the roost in Ballylenon. However, other forces WED have their own guiding principles, and where the McConkey WED sisters and Mr Doherty, aided by The Vindicator, would WED dominate reactionary thinking, a dangerous liberal tendency WED is championed by Vivienne and Rev. Samuel Hawthorne, and the WED somewhat unlikely, Guard Gallagher. The antagonism between WED these camps is only ever thinly veiled. WED WED In this brand new series, Christopher Fitz-Simon takes a WED jocose but jaundiced look at 1960's Ireland, where we WED discover Muriel McConachie , 62. Spinster remnant of a WED family once active in politics, Muriel inherited the corner WED shop and, due to her Councillor father's influence, has the WED Post Office franchise. Known as the eyes of Ballylenon, WED Muriel, the Honouree Secretary of the Development WED Association, has a long-term 'understanding' with its Chair, WED Phonsie Doherty. She is a gentle personality, but misses WED nothing and can see a midge on a mare's arse in Tyrone. WED WED We also discover, Vera McConachie, 61, Muriel's younger and WED more forthright spinster sister who runs the 10-line manual WED Telephone Exchange and is known as the Ears of Ballylenon. WED Every call goes through her switchboard, its content noted, WED discussed and any necessary action taken. She also writes WED the Horoscope anonymously for the Donegal Vindicator. WED WED The McConkey's closest confidant is Phonsie [Alphonsus] WED Doherty. 58. Phonsie is a widower, proprietor of the Swilly WED Arms Hotel and of Doherty's Estate Agency and Funeral WED Furnishers and Chair of the Development Association. Up to WED the present is politically 'in' and therefore in the way of WED knowing what grants and subsidies are available for all WED manner of projects. His relationship with Muriel McConachie WED is proprietorial rather than romantic. WED WED If there is a thorn in the side of this trio it is, Vivienne WED Hawthorne, 30, the former Miss Boal. Bright, breezy, busy WED primary schoolteacher. Organist and choir-mistress of the WED Presbyterian congregation. Though seemingly rationalist, WED Vivienne is secretly much influenced by horoscopes. She is WED supporter of cultural causes like the music festival and WED architectural conservation. And though apparently WED straightforward, she achieves certain aims by devious means. WED WED Ballylenon by Christopher Fitz-Simon WED WED Muriel McConkey -Margaret D'Arcy WED Vera McConkey -Stella McCusker WED Phonsie Doherty -Gerard Murphy WED Mrs Vivienne Hawthorne -Aine McCartney WED Rev. Samuel Hawthorne -Dermot Crowley WED Kevin 'Stumpy' Bonnar - Gerard McSorley WED Guard Gallagher -Frankie McCafferty WED Daniel O'Searcaigh - James Greene WED Monsignor McFadden - Niall Cusack WED Aubrey Frawley - Chris McHallem WED Polly Acton - Joanna Munro WED Eamonn Doyle - Patrick Fitzsymons WED Mr Boylan - Derek Bailey WED WED Directed By Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00xw14z (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:53 Brief Encounters b00xplks (Listen) WED Episode 12 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. In this episode he is in the WED Carib cinema, in Kingston Jamaica. Located in Cross Roads in WED Kingston, with supermarkets, car dealerships, furniture WED stores and fast food joints, but above all these rises what WED was once the largest building on the island - a white cliff WED of 1930s concrete with a carved figure on the front: Venus WED rising from stylised banks of waves. The 1,750-seater cinema WED was once decorated to give the impression of being submerged WED under the sea - but that illusion has gone. WED WED Once the great reggae stars played in this building - and WED that is just one part of the relationship between cinema and WED Jamaican culture, as Matthew discovers WED WED Producers: Sara Jane Hall & Neil George. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00xn9tm (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00xnbf0 (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00xw151 (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 b00xpp6d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00fhqn1 (Listen) WED My Year Off WED WED In 1995 Robert McCrum was an admired novelist and editorial WED director at Faber and Faber. He was also a reporter who had WED travelled to some of the most dangerous war-torn places in WED the world. 42 and married barely two months to New York WED Times journalist Sarah Lyall, the future looked great. WED WED But overnight his world shifted. With a war correspondent's WED intrepidness and a writer's desire to communicate his WED experience to others, Robert chose to chronicle what quickly WED became a surreal and extraordinary new journey into a WED parallel world of the sick and helpless. WED WED This programme is a bold and intimate account of McCrum's WED experience of having a stroke. In this adaptation McCrum's WED narrative is interpolated with extracts from diaries that he WED and Sarah Lyall kept during his long and difficult WED convalescence. What follows is terrifying, heartbreaking, WED intimate, funny and ultimately life affirming. WED WED Robert McCrum ..... Alex Jennings WED Sarah Lyall ..... Madeline Potter WED Doctor/Dentist/Occupational Therapist ...... Richard Laing WED Paramedic/Speech Physiotherapist ..... Rachel Atkins WED WED Sound Design ..... David Thomas WED Adapted by Karen Rose WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00xw153 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer your questions about borrowing WED and debt. You can call the programme when lines open on WED Wednesday at 1330 GMT. The number to call is 03700 100 444. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00xsfk6 (Listen) WED Travelling Light, Foreign City WED WED An old man, his memory fading, is on his way to visit his WED grandson when he breaks his flight at an unknown city. His WED son has arranged the journey, but the old man becomes WED confused and events carry him on a different path. WED WED The writer and artist Tove Jansson is best known as the WED creator of the Moomin stories, which were first published in WED English 60 years ago and have remained in print ever since. WED She turned her attention to writing for adults when she was WED in her fifties. WED WED With the deceptively light prose that is her hallmark, WED 'Travelling Light' reveals to us the precariousness of a WED journey and the unease we feel at being placed outside of WED our milieu. WED WED Read By Timothy West WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xw155 (Listen) WED Happy Endings WED WED Critic and writer David Thomson goes in search of happiness WED on the big screen in his personal history of cinema. WED Episode 8: Happy Endings. WED WED Escaping into the world of flickering dreams, finding WED happiness over the rainbow, and realizing that everything is WED going to be all right in the end is one of cinema's most WED powerful allures. But is the chase more appealing than the WED pay off? WED WED Producer: Mark Burman. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00xw157 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00xppmr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:55 Brief Encounters b00xn7fm (Listen) WED Episode 10 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. Today Matthew is in the WED Bey-oh-loo Cinema - hidden inside a genteel-looking shopping WED arcade in Istanbul where the public lap up home-grown films. WED A decade ago Turkey was struggling to produce ten movies a WED year. Last year, Turkish cinemas screened 70 new home-grown WED films, mostly funded by the government. But what happens WED when film meets religion? WED WED Producers: Sara Jane Hall and Neil George. WED WED 17:00 PM b00xpllt (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xn9tp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Showstopper b00xw15c (Listen) WED Episode 2 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 b00xpp6n (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00xplmz (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xw14s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00xw1t9 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Matthew WED Taylor and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 What the Minister Saw b00x3pcm (Listen) WED Becoming a Minister has many perks, but one they can see WED every day is the art hanging in their office, often borrowed WED from the Government Art Collection. Art historian Philip WED Mould speaks to new ministers about what they chose and why WED they chose it, and he asks what it says about them. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Thin Air b00xnxmy (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED On August 16th 1960 at 7AM, Joe Kittinger was hanging in the WED sky twenty miles above New Mexico. He was so high that the WED sky seemed black and he could see the luminous glow of the WED atmosphere, curving away around the planet beneath him. Had WED his pressure suit failed, he would have died. As it was, he WED moved to the edge of the gondola beneath his helium-filled WED balloon . and jumped. For four minutes and 37 seconds, he WED fell free; at first with little sensation of motion, from WED near-vacuum to the coldest air around. Then, as the rushing WED air began to slow him, he entered the troposphere, where all WED the clouds, weather and life resides. His parachute opened, WED bringing him home to a desert that, after where he'd been, WED seemed like the Garden of Eden. WED WED On the way down, he crossed the ozone layer, where a story WED of serendipity and surprise was later to unfold; an example WED of the fragility of the air, our blindness to our actions WED and our resourcefulness in recognising and then fixing a WED problem. By the time British scientists spotted that there WED was a hole in the ozone layer above Antarctica so big that WED space scientists hadn't noticed it, it was almost too late. WED WED Gabrielle Walker follows Kittinger's short journey through WED the upper atmosphere and discovers how it protects us from WED the radiation of space and reflects our radio messages WED around the planet. She travels to the Arctic to witness the WED ultimate high-altitude aerial battleground between space and WED atmosphere: the Northern Lights. WED WED Producer: Martin Redfern. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00xw0gk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00xn9tr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00xpngt (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00xw1tf (Listen) WED The Meeting Point, Episode 3 WED WED Episode 3: Introduced to Noor's family, Ruth meets Dr. WED Hussain, Noor's father, and her cousin, Farid. Ruth has WED longed to visit the Tree of Life but when she accompanies WED Noor and Farid on an excursion to the site, she discovers, WED that it, like Euan, is not all she had believed and hoped it WED to be. WED WED The readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige. WED WED The Meeting Point was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced WED by Heather Larmour. WED WED 23:00 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00xw1th (Listen) WED Series 2, Billirock The Black WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a WED 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where WED settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as WED important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. WED WED Step into the magically mundane world that is the life of WED 21st century wizard Mordrin McDonald. An isolated WED 2000-year-old sorcerer with enough power in his small finger WED to destroy a town, yet not even enough clout to get his bins WED emptied on time by the local council. Even for such a WED skilful sorcerer - modern life is rubbish! WED WED Mordrin is deadpan, dry and makes delicious jams. He WED initially set up as a plc for income tax relief, but has WED found it a useful vehicle to help him bolster his Wizard WED skill set and his range of services. (Even a wizard has to WED diversify). WED WED He's been running Fruity Potions from his cave for the past WED few years, in between completing the odd quest as instructed WED by the Wizard Council. In the past his services were to help WED kings in battles of good and evil, or as he prefers to put WED it, 'assisting with neighbour disputes.' WED WED In this episode Mordrin is recruited to help re-capture evil WED sorcerer Billirock the Black who has escaped from his prison WED under Stirling Castle and is hell-bent on exacting his WED revenge. WED WED Mordrin ..... David Kay WED Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty WED Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy WED Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson WED Jill ..... Katrina Bryan WED Billirock The Black ..... Greg Hemphill WED WED Producer/Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Bob Servant Emails b00xw1tk (Listen) WED Olga, Sasha and the Jamaica Lakers WED WED Born and bred in Dundee, Servant sees himself as a people's WED champion. His extraordinary self-belief stems largely from WED his dominant position in Dundee's notorious Cheeseburger WED Wars of the early 1980s - a period of riotous appreciation WED for the traditional American snack that caused madness on WED the streets and lined Servant's pockets. He continued his WED Midas touch in the 1990s by running what he often claims to WED have been the 'largest window cleaning round in Western WED Europe'. And now, he's taking on the internet spammers of WED the world. WED WED Starring Brian Cox as Bob Servant, Lewis Macleod as Sasha WED Malikov, and Laura Solon as Olga Goldovsky. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xw1tm (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 JANUARY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00xn9tt (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00xpnx7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xn9tw (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xn9ty (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xn9v0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00xn9v2 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xw20y (Listen) THU with Dr Edward Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of THU Abrahamic Faiths. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00xphlt (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie THU Bullock. THU THU 06:00 Today b00xphkv (Listen) THU Including at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am Sports Desk. 6.05am, THU 6.57am, 7.57am Weather. 6.45am Yesterday in Parliament. THU 7.48am Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00xw210 (Listen) THU Aristotle's Poetics THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Aristotle's Poetics. THU Written in the fourth century BC, this work of scholarship THU is one of the foundations of Aristotle's philosophy. In it THU Aristotle examines Greek drama, analysing how plots and THU characters have their effect. It has remained one of the THU most influential books of classical antiquity; today it THU remains a standard text for would-be Hollywood THU screenwriters. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00xpnx9 (Listen) THU The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 4 THU THU Ailsa's older sister has been sent away from the orphanage THU for being too disruptive and now Ailsa has to brave the THU playground alone. But after winning a piano competition in THU Glasgow her piano teacher has entered her for the Saturday THU school at the Glasgow Academy of Music and she throws all THU her energies into her new found passion. THU THU Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. THU THU Producer: Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xppng (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents: Including women playing Hamlet. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xw212 (Listen) THU Writing the Century 16: Three Women Across the Century, THU Episode 4 THU THU Writing the Century. Three Women Across the Century. Ep 4. THU Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal. THU THU Catharine remembers Marjory's final days and gains comfort THU from it. THU THU Catherine Thackray...Eleanor Bron THU Lawrence Thackray...Will Tacey THU Becca Thackray...Julia Rounthwaite THU Marjory Sharp...Suzanne Bertish THU THU Produced in Manchester by Gary Brown THU Music by Nicolai Abrahamsen THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00xw21q (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Honest Musician's Fear of Accidental Plagiarism THU b00xw21s (Listen) THU Many musicians have found themselves accused of stealing THU from another artist. It's every songwriter's biggest fear - THU that really great phrase or lyric you thought was all your THU own creation turns up in another song. There are few THU musicians who would admit to stealing even if caught red THU handed, but what happens if the theft was unintentional? And THU what if you heard lines from one of your songs in someone THU else's work? Would you immediately reach for the lawyers THU phone number or would you let it go without complaint if the THU offending writer 'fessed up? Musicians assimilate what is THU around them and even the finest tunesmiths derive THU inspiration by drawing on and re-adapting existing popular THU music. So is any song really original? THU THU As Noel Gallagher put it rather bluntly when confronted THU about his musical influences: "There's twelve notes in a THU scale and 36 chords and that's the end of it. All the THU configurations have been done before." THU THU Singer and songwriter Guy Garvey, with the help of fellow THU songwriters Sir Tim Rice, Paul Heaton and John Bramwell, THU explores the legal pitfalls that can befall the honest THU musician and how to avoid them. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00xw21v (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00xw21x (Listen) THU Islamophobia THU THU lslamophobia: Are sections of the British press increasing THU tensions within communities by publishing negative stories THU about Muslims? John Waite investigates the link between THU inaccurate anti-Muslim stories and the increased membership THU of the English Defence League. The organisation, which THU claims to oppose Islamic extremism, has been inspired by one THU long-running story: the Winterval myth - the unfounded claim THU that councils are rebranding or renaming Christmas to THU appease Muslims. And it's threatened to visit any town or THU city that bans Christmas. So why are newspapers publishing THU distorted, islamophobic stories that provoke far-right THU extremists? Should the Press Complaints Commission impose THU tougher sanctions? Or do editors need to take more THU responsibility for the consequences of what they print? THU THU 12:53 Brief Encounters b00xplkv (Listen) THU Episode 14 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 - today Sydney, Australia. THU THU From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the THU most remote locations on Earth, the act of going to the THU cinema speaks volumes. This series captures the passions, THU problems and popcorn habits of film goers as they indulge in THU an activity that unites the planet. THU THU In this edition, the story of a thousand seater cinema, The THU Ritz, built in the 1930's and standing just a mile from THU Sydney's Bondi Beach. Bought by a property developer it THU nearly suffered the fate of so many old picture houses, but THU this one survived, just! THU THU Producer: Sara Jane Hall. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00xn9v4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00xnbf2 (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00xw26y (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 b00xpp6n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00xw270 (Listen) THU Ursula and Boy THU THU Inspired by the true story of Ursula Kemp whose eight THU year-old son testified against her for witchcraft in St. THU Osyth, Essex, in 1582. THU THU In Elizabethan England, Jean Bodin, a French aristocrat THU brings news to Queen Elizabeth of 'Sorcieres and Wytches' THU abroad in her country. The luminaries of her court - and THU those who wanted to find favour - set out to root out THU witches within their wards. Brian Darcy, Justice of the THU Peace in St. Osyth, arrives in the town of his birth. He is THU here to do his duty, and at church on Sunday he watches the THU women of the town with a sharp eye. THU Some days later, Grace Thurlowe, arrives in his drawing room THU with the news he is hoping for. Ursula Kemp, a local THU apothecary, has bewitched Grace's family. She sent familiars THU into Grace's house to rock the cradle where her ten-month THU old baby lay - the child fell, smashing her head on the THU stone floor. And now the child is dead. Ursula cursed Grace, THU and now Grace is lame. Ursula will have to pay. THU THU Ursula's illegitimate son, does not know his name, or who THU his father is. His mother will not tell him. So he imagines THU instead. And his wild imaginings fuel the fire underneath THU Ursula. Ursula is bought before Brian Darcy. And Darcy THU presents her with an impossible choice. THU THU Abigail Docherty won the Tron Open.Stage Playwriting THU Competition 2010 for her play Sea, Land and Sky. THU This is ten year old Austin Moulton's radio debut. Natalie THU Press is best known for playing the lead in Andrea Arnold's THU Oscar-winning short Wasp. She also appears in Arnold's Red THU Road and in Pawel Pawlikowski's My Summer of Love with Emily THU Blunt. THU THU Boy: Austin Moulton THU Ursula: Natalie Press THU Grace: Meg Fraser THU Sound Design: Nigel Lewis THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Lu Kemp. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00xnyn7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00xp0rm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00xsg1y (Listen) THU Travelling Light, The Gulls THU THU Arne has had a breakdown so with his wife Elsa, they escape THU to a remote island so he can recuperate. But there is THU nothing peaceful about this wild and untamed landscape. THU THU The writer and artist Tove Jansson is best known as the THU creator of the Moomin stories, which were first published in THU English 60 years ago and have remained in print ever since. THU She turned her attention to writing for adults when she was THU in her fifties. THU THU With the deceptively light prose that is her hallmark, THU 'Travelling Light' reveals to us the precariousness of a THU journey and the unease we feel at being placed outside of THU our milieu. THU THU Read By Alice Coulthard THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xw272 (Listen) THU The Last Flight THU THU Critic and writer David Thomson nears the end of his journey THU through the power of cinema. Episode 9: The Last Flight. THU THU Flight begins almost at the same moment as the motion THU picture camera cranks into life and many of its early THU directors had themselves taken to the air to experience the THU tumult of the clouds. Flying on film, the camera swooping THU through space, promise escape. It is close to a dream. The THU dream of total immersion as we enter the screen and lose THU ourselves, perhaps forever. THU THU Producer: Mark Burman. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00xp2j4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00xw274 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU Producer: Roland Pease. THU THU 16:55 Brief Encounters b00xhbd3 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located THU around the world with a series of short features, THU eavesdropping on the stories, the characters and THU occasionally trying the snacks. Today a cinema in Beirut THU that nearly didn't open at all. THU THU From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the THU most remote locations on Earth, the act of going to the THU cinema speaks volumes. This series captures the passions, THU problems and popcorn habits of film goers as they indulge in THU an activity that unites the planet. But the story of cinema THU now is also the story of the political and cultural tensions THU 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 b00xpllw (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xn9v6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00xw276 (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 4 THU THU Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas, entertains the blue-sky THU political policy suggestions of the public. THU THU This week's agenda: THU THU 1) Civil Partnerships to be Made Available to Heterosexual THU Couples THU THU 2) Introduce a Government Department for Externalities THU THU 3) A Traffic Ban During Rush-Hour THU THU Plus a wide range of "Any Other Business" suggestions from THU the studio audience. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00xpp6q (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00xpln1 (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who talks to cellist Steven Isserlis and THU composer Anne Dudley about their collaboration on a new work THU for younger listeners. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xw212 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00xw4xk (Listen) THU As petrol prices reach record levels at the pumps, the THU government is coming under increasing pressure to ease the THU motorists' pain. Amid the growing anger, Michael Buchanan THU takes to the road to investigate: should anything be done or THU are the days of cheap fuel long gone? THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00xw4xm (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00xnxlj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00xw210 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00xn9v8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00xpngw (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00xxr08 (Listen) THU The Meeting Point, Episode 4 THU THU Episode 4: Noor is overwhelmed by Ruth's kindness and visits THU regularly to help her look after Anna. Ruth, for her part, THU is lonely and welcomes the girl's company, but she cannot THU shake the memory of the visit to the Tree of Life with Farid THU THU The readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige. THU THU The Meeting Point was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced THU by Heather Larmour. THU THU 23:00 Spread A Little Happiness b00l13n0 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire THU sandwich bar. THU THU Jodie and Dave try to get a little quality time with a rare THU night out, but there is no hiding place - not even in a THU small kebab. THU THU Hope ...... Suranne Jones THU Jodie ...... Susan Cookson THU Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon THU Gavin ...... Ralph Brown THU Eve ...... Joanne Froggatt THU THU Directed by Chris Wallis. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xw4xr (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 JANUARY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00xn9vb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00xpnx9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xn9vd (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xn9vg (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xn9vj (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00xn9vl (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xw4xy (Listen) FRI with Dr Edward Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of FRI Abrahamic Faiths. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00xphlw (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00xphkx (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 b00xp1fc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00xw4y0 (Listen) FRI The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 5 FRI FRI Overwhelmed by both the atmosphere and the other confident FRI students at the Academy of Music, Ailsa has not been FRI attending her Saturday classes. But when the people at the FRI orphanage find out and tell her beloved music teacher she is FRI desperate to make amends. FRI FRI Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. FRI FRI Producer: Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00xppnn (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents: Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xw4y2 (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 16: Three Women Across the Century, FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Writing the Century. Three Women Across the Century. Ep 5. FRI Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal. FRI FRI Catharine fondly revisits her time at Greenham Common. And FRI Becca faces the Millennium as her own woman. FRI FRI Catherine Thackray...Eleanor Bron FRI Lawrence Thackray...Will Tacey FRI Becca Thackray...Julia Rounthwaite FRI FRI Produced in Manchester by Gary Brown FRI Music by Nicolai Abrahamsen FRI FRI 11:00 Teenage Kicks b00xw5lb (Listen) FRI In Teenage Kicks, Aasmah Mir explores the sexual pressures FRI faced by teens in Britain today. At a time when young people FRI are more exposed than ever to extreme sexual and violent FRI behaviour, we hear about the work being done on the FRI front-line, with kids who are growing up too fast. We hear FRI from teenage boys on why sharing girls together is not just FRI 'gang rape', but a way of life. And we'll find out how gang FRI culture is pervading teens' ideas of how relationships work. FRI Aasmah looks into the factors that mean sexual violence is FRI on the increase in the early teens. And meets youth workers FRI at the sharp end. How do you teach a 14 year old, who's used FRI his mobile phone to film a girl performing a sexual act, FRI about the complex nature of 'consent'? What if his frames of FRI reference come from pornography on mobile phones at school? FRI Teenage Kicks asks those working with youth, and teenagers FRI themselves - what can be done to help young people have FRI healthy relationships? FRI Producer Lizz Pearson. FRI FRI 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00nrrd5 (Listen) FRI Series 3, A Sort of Fine Life De-Niced Completely FRI FRI Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. FRI FRI Pip Bin strives to improve working conditions in his Bin FRI factory, and to end poverty once and for all using Harry FRI Biscuit's anti-poverty cannon. But will his quest distract FRI him from a dastardly plan to steal London and sell it to the FRI French? FRI FRI Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson FRI Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen FRI Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head FRI Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman FRI Mr Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland FRI Pippa ...... Susy Kane. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00xw5ld (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:53 Brief Encounters b00xplkx (Listen) FRI Episode 9 FRI FRI Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located FRI around the world with a series of short features, FRI eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and FRI occasionally trying the snacks. FRI FRI From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the FRI 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 Today we meet Yto Barrado who saved the Rif Cinema in FRI Tangiers. Once strictly the preserve of men, and one of FRI Pedro Almodovar's favourite Moroccan hang outs, it has now FRI had something of a facelift - and women are welcome. So is FRI talking in the cinema, even shouting! FRI FRI Producer: Sara Jane Hall. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00xn9vn (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00xnbf4 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00xw5lg (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI As the new series of Feedback begins, Radio 4 is settling FRI into having a new controller. Will we begin to notice Radio FRI 4 developing a new sound? Will 'The Archers' go urban and FRI 'Just A Minute' take an extra 30 seconds? Keep your ear to FRI the ground and let us know what you think of what you hear. FRI FRI This is the place to hear those at the top of BBC radio FRI justifying their decisions. If you hear something that riles FRI you, let us know and we will take your opinions right to the FRI top. FRI FRI We will also be digging down into the mystery of the FRI programme makers world. Getting an idea of why things turn FRI out the way they do, and giving you a chance to comment and FRI offer suggestions on the way things are done. FRI FRI So, get in touch. If you have a complaint about a programme FRI anywhere on BBC Radio, or perhaps thoughts on how something FRI could be handled better, let us know. Equally, if you've FRI heard something brilliant, tell us. FRI FRI We are also interested in your general views about how FRI broader BBC decisions affect your experience as a listener. FRI You can contact us about everything from programme FRI scheduling to management pay. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI So email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00xpp6q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00xw5ll (Listen) FRI Red Enters the Eye FRI FRI Written by Jane Rogers. FRI FRI When idealistic young volunteer Julie sets off for Nigeria, FRI she's a bundle of nerves. Her project is to teach sewing FRI skills to women in a refuge in Jos; but what if they don't FRI like her - or feel patronised by her attempts to teach them? FRI FRI Once Julie's in Jos, her anxieties evaporate. Sewing class FRI is a roaring success, and Julie's only problems are the FRI stupid caution and lack of enthusiasm of refuge director FRI Fran, and the incomprehensible tensions surrounding the FRI silent Muslim woman, Mathenneh. FRI FRI Inspired by a plan to help the women make money from their FRI sewing, ready to really make a difference to their lives, FRI Julie is on a roll ... blithely unaware that there may be FRI consequences, unimaginable and terrible, to her failure to FRI play by Fran's rules. FRI FRI Yewande .... Adjoa Andoh FRI Fran ... Penny Downie FRI Julie ... Sian Brook FRI Sarah .... Demi Oyediran FRI Hanatu ... Adura Onashile FRI Simon ... Chuk Iwuji FRI Rifkatu ... Aisha Karr FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00xw5ls (Listen) FRI Sparsholt College, Postbag edition FRI FRI Following December's Arctic spell, it's time to face your FRI garden and its surviving plants. What is salvageable and FRI what's not? FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel answer a selection of questions FRI you have sent us via post and email. FRI Based in Sparsholt College, this week's panellists are Bunny FRI Guinness, Matthew Biggs and Anne Swithinbank. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Life at 24 Frames a Second b00xw5mw (Listen) FRI Fade to Black FRI FRI For the past two weeks the film critic and writer David FRI Thomson has taken his own highly idiosyncratic journey FRI through the power and magic of cinema. But now he considers FRI whether, under the relentless spread of visual media, and in FRI the age of instant delivery, the dream palaces are places to FRI dream anymore. Episode 10: Fade to Black. FRI FRI Producer: Mark Burman. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00xw5nb (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 b00xw5nd (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to actors Donald Sutherland and Paul FRI Giamatti. FRI FRI 16:55 Brief Encounters b00xpll3 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI Matthew Sweet transports listeners into cinemas located FRI around the world with a series of short features, FRI eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and FRI occasionally trying the snacks. FRI FRI From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the FRI 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 Today we hear about the childhood cinema experience of FRI Apichatpong Weerasethakul - who won the Palme D'or at Cannes FRI in 2010 with his film Uncle Boonmee, as he remembers the FRI outdoor cinemas of Thailand. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Jane Hall. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00xplly (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xn9vq (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00xw5ng (Listen) FRI Series 73, Episode 4 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, FRI Paul Sinha and Andy Hamilton. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00xpp6z (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00xpln3 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00xw4y2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00xw5nl (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from FRI Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School in Grantham, FRI Lincolnshire with questions for the panel including David FRI Blunkett, former Cabinet minister, and the Conservative MP FRI and novelist Louise Bagshaw. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00xw5nq (Listen) FRI Alain de Botton with his topical reflections. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00xwl2s (Listen) FRI Y.T. and the Soprano FRI FRI Film maker Penny Woolcock makes her radio writing and FRI directing debut in this romantic comedy set in the FRI contrasting back stage worlds of grime rap and opera. She FRI brings international hip hop artist Sway together with FRI rising young soprano Claire Watkins. FRI FRI Sway plays rapper Y.T. sent to collect a debt from a FRI conductor at the opera house. He hears Gabrielle sing the FRI beautiful aria 'Signore, ascolta' from Puccini's Turandot FRI and falls in love. But she's fixated on the conductor and is FRI appalled when Y.T. pursues her down the street, rapping to FRI beats on his phone. FRI FRI Desperate, he steals a recording of her aria and mixes a FRI club tune that becomes a huge underground hit. Clubbers FRI demand more opera! He persuades her to sing on his radio FRI show, and as their music collides, Puccini never sounds FRI quite the same again. But gangster brother Honey Monster FRI casts a long shadow over the young lovers. He wants his FRI money back, and he's not choosy about his methods. FRI FRI Y.T. and the Soprano was recorded on location, with a FRI specially composed soundtrack by Sway, featuring the voice FRI of Claire Watkins. FRI FRI Cast: FRI Y.T. ..... Sway FRI Gabrielle ..... Claire Watkins FRI Scoobs ..... Ashley Gerlach FRI Honey Monster ..... Mark Monero FRI Lily ..... Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Adam ..... Marc Warren FRI FRI Sound design by Eloise Whitmore. FRI Producer: Melanie Harris FRI Director: Penny Woolcock FRI A Crosslab Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00xn9vs (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00xpngy (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00xxr0b (Listen) FRI The Meeting Point, Episode 5 FRI FRI Episode 5: With an increasing gulf growing between herself FRI and Euan, Ruth finds herself spending more time with Farid. FRI FRI The readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige. FRI FRI The Meeting Point was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced FRI by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00xpp68 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00xwl3p (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI
21 January, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 22/01/2011 - 28/01/2011
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