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SAT SATURDAY 05 FEBRUARY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00yrt24 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00y6r2w (Listen) SAT Periodic Tales, Episode 5 SAT SAT Hugh Aldersey-Williams concludes his examination of what SAT lies beyond the Periodic table with a look at elemental SAT discoveries and element tourism. SAT SAT Reader : Michael Maloney SAT SAT Abridged and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yrw41 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yrw54 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xwl6n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00yrw4r (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y2yy3 (Listen) SAT With Sister Gemma Simmonds. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00y2yy5 (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 b00yrw63 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00yrw65 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00y48fg (Listen) SAT Series 17, Episode 1 SAT SAT Journalist and passionate hiker, Stuart Maconie hosts this SAT series of Ramblings on Radio 4, embarking on the first of SAT six city skyline walks, perfect for first time walkers or SAT for those who don't want to venture too far on these short SAT winter days, but who still want to enjoy the fresh air. In SAT this first programme, Stuart takes in the stunning views on SAT the Bath Skyline Walk with a group of serving and former SAT police officers who call themselves the Bath Beat. They SAT walk the popular National Trust Bath Skyline walk, a six and SAT a half mile circular route around the city. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00y48n9 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00yrw6r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00y48nc (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00y4cjd (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with presenter and paralympian Ade Adepitan and SAT poet Matt Harvey; interviews with a young man who went to SAT Ecuador in search of adventure and found it, and with a SAT woman whose parents swapped partners with the couple next SAT door. There's a Daytrip with singer-songwriter Beth Orton SAT and Dame Edna creator Barry Humphries shares his Inheritance SAT Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00y4cjg (Listen) SAT Romania - Rowing across the Indian Ocean SAT SAT John McCarthy explores Romania with William Blacker who SAT lived there for some years and Lucy Mallows who wrote the SAT first travel guide to Transylvania. He also meets Sarah SAT Outen, who rowed 4,000 miles single handed across the Indian SAT Ocean. SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Britain in a Box b00y4cjj (Listen) SAT Series 4, World in Action SAT SAT Paul Jackson returns with the series that does much more SAT that celebrating innovative television programmes - it uses SAT them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and SAT social history. In the spotlight over the next four weeks SAT will be: the laddish antics of Simon Nye's first ever SAT comedy, 'Men Behaving Badly'; 'Driving School' the SAT observational documentary that possibly gave us the first SAT Reality TV celebrity; and the dulcet tones of whispering Bob SAT Harris and the Old Grey Whistle Test. SAT SAT But first off, Paul Jackson assesses the impact and legacy SAT of the current affairs programme that launched the SAT television career of John Pilger and helped free the SAT Birmingham 6. 'World In Action' first appeared on our SAT screens in 1963 and finally bowed out in 1998, by which time SAT it had become a watch-word for tough journalism, graphic SAT visuals and public impact. Paul is joined by journalists who SAT worked on the programme, politicians who provided part of SAT the focus of its attention and television executives who had SAT to keep it in line whilst defending its journalism - SAT including John Pilger, Chris Mullin, Lord Douglas Hurd, Sir SAT Jeremy Isaacs, Dorothy Byrne, Steve Anderson and Ray SAT Fitzwalter. SAT SAT Producers: Paul Kobrak & Ed Morrish. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00y4cjl (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00y4cjn (Listen) SAT With Egypt in tumoil we discover what President Mubarak's SAT sense of timing says about his character. SAT SAT How the dreams of migrants die on the streets of Athens. SAT SAT Why a Chinese chicken farmer is ruffling feathers in a SAT Zambian market. SAT SAT And the bare-knuckle brawlers who fight for honour and glory SAT in rural South Africa. SAT SAT The looming presence of the Pyramids on the edge of Cairo SAT are a constant reminder of just how ancient civilisation is SAT in that place. They've been doing politics on that stretch SAT of the Nile for thousands of years. But in all that time, SAT there can't have been very many weeks more tense and SAT uncertain than the one that's just passed. We're still a SAT long way from knowing exactly what all the upheaval will SAT mean for Egypt, and the wider Middle East, but Kevin SAT Connolly is watching the story as it unfolds. SAT SAT Right now, today and every day, on roads out of Africa and SAT Asia, ragged bands of migrants will be making long, SAT difficult journeys in the direction of Europe. They've SAT abandoned desperately poor towns and villages back home. SAT They're chasing dreams of something better in what they SAT imagine to be a land of plenty. But as Malcolm Brabant has SAT seen for himself, some of those who make it to Greece are SAT quickly stripped of their illusions. SAT SAT China's big, booming economy is constantly hungry. It needs SAT to be fed all the time with oil, iron ore, copper and much SAT else. And we're used to watching China go hunting for these SAT things all over Africa. But it isn't only doing big deals SAT for resources there. An army of Chinese traders has fanned SAT out across the continent looking to settle and do business SAT on a much smaller scale - and as Justin Rowlatt has been SAT finding out, their presence is not always entirely welcome. SAT SAT I've never eaten truffles, myself, but I'm told that after SAT you've been engulfed by their aroma, you're treated to a SAT taste that somehow brings together the flavours of the SAT finest mushrooms and chocolate. Connoisseurs regard truffles SAT as an extraordinary delicacy - and they're prepared to pay SAT big money for them. So much so that, as Chris Bockman SAT explains, in the fields of France, skulduggery and truffle SAT poaching is a problem. SAT SAT They say it began long ago in friendly rivalry between SAT herdsmen who shared a watering hole in South Africa's SAT Limpopo Province. They would get into brawls over whose SAT cattle would drink first. But over time the fights became a SAT regular event - a kind of violent, local festival, known as SAT "Musangwe Boxing". It's a big occasion for the people of the SAT sleepy countryside not far from the border with Mozambique. SAT And Hamilton Wende has been watching some of the bloody, SAT bare-knuckle bouts, in which much pride and honour is at SAT stake. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00y4cjq (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00y2xnj (Listen) SAT Series 73, Episode 5 SAT SAT Crime mapping, co-habiting, and crystal cloaks. In the week SAT that the UK government launched a crime mapping database, SAT cohabitees rights came under scrutiny, and scientists from SAT the University of Birmingham revealed the beginnings of an SAT invisibility cloak, Sandi Toksvig hosts another edition of SAT the popular Radio 4 panel game. Panellists this week are SAT Jeremy Hardy, Jo Brand, Andrew Lawrence and Susan Calman. SAT Corrie Corfield reads the news. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT Clip SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00yrw76 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00yrw78 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00y2xnn (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from St SAT Giles' Church in Wrexham, North Wales with questions for the SAT panel including Helen-Mary Jones, Plaid Cymru assembly SAT member and health spokesman, Jesse Norman, Conservative MP, SAT Peter Hain, Shadow Welsh Secretary and the writer James SAT Delingpole. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00y4cvd (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 b00y4cvg (Listen) SAT Classic Chandler, The Big Sleep SAT SAT In 1939 Raymond Chandler created a different kind of SAT detective, the fast-talking, trouble seeking Californian SAT private eye Philip Marlowe, for his great novel The Big SAT Sleep. Marlowe's entanglement with the Sternwood family - SAT respectable sister with gambling addiction, younger sister SAT with drink/drug problem and an attendant cast of colourful SAT underworld figures - is enshrined in the iconic film version SAT with Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. Toby Stephens plays SAT Philip Marlowe in a landmark series bringing all Chandler's SAT ground breaking Philip Marlowe novels to Radio 4. SAT SAT Philip Marlowe.....Toby Stephens SAT Vivien Sternwood.....Kelly Burke SAT Agnes Lozelle.....Barbara Barnes SAT Mona Mars.....Madeleine Potter SAT Carmen Sternwood.....Leah Brotherhead SAT Joe Brody.....Sam Dale SAT General Sternwood.....Sean Baker SAT Lash Canino.....Iain Batchelor SAT Eddie Mars.....Henry Devas SAT Cronjager.....Jude Akuwudike SAT SAT Dramatised by Robin Brooks SAT Directed by Claire Grove SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00y4yj5 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Fifty years of Fenella Fielding, SAT from Carry On to Nancy Mitford. The first so-called "saviour SAT sibling", born to save his sister. Westminster: one woman's SAT campaign to drag parliament into the 21st century and banish SAT the image of the old boys' club. Depression and the SAT treatment of women. How lesbians are portrayed on stage and SAT screen. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00y4yj7 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00y4yj9 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT This week, Evan asks his panel of top business executives SAT how they manage to adapt their companies and remain relevant SAT in the modern world. What do you do when technology changes, SAT or fashions move against you? What are the challenges of SAT rejuvenating and transforming a mature business to keep SAT ahead of the curve? SAT SAT The panel also discusses which laws get in the way of SAT running a business smoothly and reveal which ones they would SAT most like to scrap. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Anne Murphy, UK managing SAT director of frozen foods company Birds Eye; Norbert SAT Teufelberger, chief executive of online gaming firm Bwin; SAT Efrat Peled, chief executive of the fund Arison Investments. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00yrw7b (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00yrw7n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yrsl2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00y4yjc (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by one of the leading lights in British SAT Reggae - record producer and musician Dennis Bovell. Dennis SAT features in the BBC Four documentary Reggae Britannia which SAT explores and celebrates the impact of reggae on British SAT music and culture. He is also the musical director of Reggae SAT Britannia at the Barbican on Saturday 5th February - the SAT sold out concert will also be broadcast on BBC Four. SAT SAT Gemma Chan has played opposite Benedict Cumberbatch in SAT Sherlock and David Tennant in Dr Who. Next week she can be SAT seen in a much raunchier role as she joins the cast of ITV's SAT Secret Diary of a Call Girl in which she stars as Charlotte SAT - arch nemesis to Billie Piper's character Belle du Jour. SAT SAT And Ewan McGregor's uncle Denis Lawson makes a welcome SAT return to the Loose Ends studio to tell Clive about his SAT latest role in the gripping ITV drama series 'Marchlands'. SAT Apparently, the last time he appeared on Loose Ends his SAT mobile phone went off on air. Let's hope it does again and SAT we'll make him take the call! SAT SAT Nikki Bedi talks to Shooting Star's resident score keeper, SAT mobile caterer and reluctant comedian Angelos Epithemiou, SAT who embarks on a UK tour with his show 'Angelos Epithemiou SAT and Friends'. SAT SAT During his time on the road with Super Furry Animals, Gruff SAT Rhys claims to have amassed a total of 555 bottles of SAT shampoo, 28 sewing kits, 22 razors, 26 packets of shoe SAT polish, 36 toothbrushes, 121 shower caps, 27 combs or SAT brushes, five pairs of slippers, 13 nail files, one bottle SAT of olive oil and two keys. No wonder then, his third solo SAT album is called 'Hotel Shampoo' and from it, he plays SAT 'Sensations in the Dark' SAT SAT And Cosmo Jarvis is our balladeer as he performs his latest SAT single 'Gay Pirates' a graphic, tragic but moving love song SAT about forbidden love on the high seas. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00y4yjf (Listen) SAT Craig Oliver SAT SAT What makes Craig Oliver the best choice for David Cameron's SAT new Director of Communications? Jane Dodge profiles the SAT career journalist taking over at the Number 10 press office. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00y4ylw (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00y4zd1 (Listen) SAT Decimal Day - What's That in Old Money? SAT SAT Forty years ago, Britain "went decimal". Two thousand years SAT of everyday currency history was overthrown overnight as the SAT country woke up to "new money" on February 15th 1971 and SAT said goodbye to coins such as the crown, the florin and the SAT shilling. SAT SAT Few economic events have affected the entire country so SAT immediately and Peter Day delves into the archives to SAT examine how the country prepared for and responded to D Day. SAT It was Harold Wilson's Labour government that began the SAT process of decimalisation in the 1960s after many years of SAT discussion. Then cabinet minister Tony Benn recalls how SAT changing Britain's money fitted in with the modernising SAT ideology of the time, while former Chief Secretary to the SAT Treasury Dick Taverne remembers the passion of the "Save our SAT Sixpence" campaign. SAT SAT Economists Peter Jay and Will Hutton discuss whether SAT decimalisation contributed to the double-digit inflation of SAT the 1970s alongside archive stories of price rises and SAT "rounding up", as earnest commentators worried about how SAT 'the housewife' would cope. Did we lose something, SAT culturally and intellectually, when we embraced new money? SAT SAT Oxford Professor of Mathematics Marcus du Sautoy considers SAT whether "thinking in tens" is really the best way to go SAT about things. And Peter visits The Kings' Head pub in North SAT London where the landlord's tills charged in pounds, SAT shillings and pence for some three decades after D-Day. He SAT also talks to Sir Patrick Moore - patron of the Metric SAT Martyrs campaign - about his love of imperial measures. SAT SAT Britain may have been successful in decimalising its SAT currency in 1971 but why was the movement towards full SAT metrication - begun at the same time - never completed? SAT Finally Peter asks, if you're old enough to remember, is it SAT still possible to think in "old money"? SAT SAT Producers: Simon Jacobs and Phil Smith SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00y2041 (Listen) SAT The Moonstone, Episode 2 SAT SAT Kenneth Cranham as Sergeant Cuff, Paul Rhys as Franklin SAT Blake, Eleanor Bron as Lady Verinder and Steve Hodson as SAT Betteridge star in the second episode of Doug Lucie's SAT dramatisation of Wilkie Collins's detective masterpiece. SAT SAT Sergeant Cuff begins his investigation into the missing SAT diamond, with Betteridge the butler acting as his sidekick. SAT The once happy household on the Yorkshire coast is thrown SAT into disarray as the servants feel themselves suspected, SAT especially poor Rosanna Spearman who is a reformed thief. Is SAT she guilty just because she behaves oddly and what is it she SAT appears to have hidden in the dreadful quicksand? Sergeant SAT Cuff seems to think the real guilt lies elsewhere but has he SAT any evidence? What is Rachel Verinder hiding as she refuses SAT to speak to either the Detective or even her mother? And SAT where is her Moonstone now? A tragedy is about to happen as SAT the pressure of suspicion mounts. SAT SAT Sergeant Cuff ..... Kenneth Cranham SAT Lady Verinder ..... Eleanor Bron SAT Rachel Verinder ..... Jasmine Hyde SAT Betteridge ..... Steve Hodson SAT Franklin Blake ..... Paul Rhys SAT Rosanna Spearman ..... Alison Pettitt SAT Godfrey Ablewhite ..... Mark Straker SAT Penelope ..... Clare Corbett SAT Mrs Yolland ..... Carolyn Pickles SAT SAT Recorded on location by Lucinda Mason Brown SAT Music by David Chilton SAT Dramatised by Doug Lucie SAT SAT Produced by Janet Whitaker SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00yrw7q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00y2snp (Listen) SAT Is it morally justifiable to tolerate or support unpleasant, SAT authoritarian, undemocratic regimes because we feel the SAT likely alternatives might prove worse for the citizens of SAT Egypt. With hundreds of thousands of protestors on the SAT streets of Egyptian cities and calls for a general strike, SAT President Mubarak's stranglehold on power looks to be SAT weakening. The authoritarian leaders of a number of other SAT countries in the region will be looking on nervously - as SAT will leaders in the West who've ploughed billions of dollars SAT in to keeping President Mubarak in power and the region SAT stable. It's not just a question of better the devil you SAT know - Mubarak has been a key ally in the Arab Israeli peace SAT process. SAT SAT Is democracy a morally unambiguous value? Should we always SAT be on the sides of the masses regardless of the consequences SAT to them and our national interests? Or is preserving life a SAT greater moral imperative than promoting freedom - even if SAT that means in the short term backing the stability of SAT authoritarian rulers? Is democracy only ever the means to an SAT end and should the only moral imperative for us in the West SAT be to always safeguard our interests? SAT SAT Chaired by Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips, SAT Michael Portillo and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00y28qc (Listen) SAT (15/17) SAT Competitors from Walsall, London, Cardiff and Beeston in SAT Notts join Russell Davies for the third semi-final of the SAT 2011 contest. The winner will go through to the Final in two SAT weeks' time. As ever, a listener has the chance to win a SAT prize by outwitting the contenders with his or her own SAT ingenious questions, in 'Beat the Brains'. SAT SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT IAN CASSIDY, a writer and lecturer from Walsall; SAT RAYMOND EATON, a postman from London; SAT MICHAEL PARSONS, a malware researcher from Cardiff; SAT DR IWAN THOMAS, a freelance science editor from Beeston in SAT Notts. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00y2156 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces requests for TS Eliot's SAT groundbreaking modernist poem The Waste Land. First SAT published in 1922, the programme draws upon existing SAT recordings of the work by Eliot himself and Ted Hughes, with SAT a new recording read by Lia Williams. The effect is to SAT semi-dramatise this extremely influential work which SAT extended the range of the dramatic monologue. Known for its SAT almost deliberate obscurity in places, what the listener SAT hears in this version is instead a clear, intriguing SAT interpretation of the poem, intercutting between the SAT different voices. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 06 FEBRUARY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00y4zqv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00k3yh5 (Listen) SUN A Friend of the Family, Just One of the Girls SUN SUN A Friend of the Family 2/3 SUN SUN Just One of the Girls SUN SUN A new story for radio SUN by Chrissie Gittins SUN SUN Read by Phyllida Nash SUN Producer Christine Hall SUN SUN Milly's death deprives Dan of a wife and Rich of a valued SUN friend. After all, not every man has a companion who'll help SUN him choose a new dress. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00y4zqx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00y4zqz (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00y4zr1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00y4zr3 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00y4zr5 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Margaret's, Dunham Massey, Cheshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00y4yjf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00y4zr7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00y4zr9 (Listen) SUN Blunt Speaking SUN SUN Alastair Campbell tries to persuade us that his reputation SUN for blunt speaking is not entirely accurate, as Mark Tully SUN explores the pros and cons of saying exactly what you think. SUN As a guest on the programme, Campbell suggests he has a SUN 'feline' side which enabled him to be subtle in his work as SUN Tony Blair's Director of Communications, and that blunt SUN speaking need not necessarily be aggressive. SUN SUN Mark Tully invites us to make up our own minds on whether we SUN believe Campbell, before examining the nature of speaking SUN plainly, as we see it. And it's this last phrase which Tully SUN sees as important: blunt speakers may only be voicing an SUN opinion that can often be hurtful and stand in the way of SUN dialogue and understanding. But can withholding an honest SUN opinion be just as obstructive to real communication? SUN Perhaps the answer lies in the sentiments of one of the SUN groups of musicians featured in the programme, Tama, who SUN state "There are three truths in Africa: my truth, your SUN truth, and the truth itself. Whoever is right is right, SUN whoever imposes their reason is wrong". SUN SUN Presented by Mark Tully SUN SUN Produced by Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00y4zrc (Listen) SUN Arctic charr SUN SUN On a cold but perfect winters day Lionel Kelleway travels to SUN Lake Windermere in the Lake District where he meets Ian SUN Winfield from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, who is SUN the current maintainer of a long term research project into SUN one of our rarest fish, the Arctic charr. This research SUN project began in the early 1930's when charr numbers were SUN much higher, and has been maintained every year since. In SUN doing so this study provides a unique and extremely valuable SUN continuum of data into this pioneering fish of the Ice Age. SUN And with the advent of global warming studies, this long SUN term study of both fish numbers and water quality is SUN providing valuable evidence of lake waters warming. SUN SUN Here in the Lake District the Arctic charr is at the SUN southern end of its range, being a species more likely to be SUN found, as its name suggests, in the cold Arctic seas further SUN north. It arrived here at the end of the last Ice Age as a SUN pioneer species colonising lakes and rivers as the ice SUN retreated. Although once abundant, today numbers are greatly SUN reduced as witnessed by Lionel as he ventures onto the lake SUN in a research vessel where only one Arctic charr is found on SUN this trip. So what of the future, is the Arctic charr SUN destined to become extinct in Britain? Or will the SUN continuity of research on England's largest lake, will help SUN scientists preserve this species for the future. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00y4zrf (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00y4zrh (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00y4zwl (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00y4zwn (Listen) SUN Peace Brigades International SUN SUN Julie Christie presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Peace Brigades International. SUN SUN Donations to Peace Brigades International should be sent to SUN FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your SUN envelope Peace Brigades International. Credit cards: SUN Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide Peace Brigades International with your full SUN name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 1101016. SUN SUN Peace Brigades International SUN SUN Peace Brigades International is a human rights charity whose SUN volunteers accompany human rights defenders who are SUN threatened because of the work they do. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00y4zrk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00y4zrm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00y505w (Listen) SUN Journeys on the edge of faith SUN SUN The Salvation Army International Staff Songsters live from SUN the Salvation Army church in Staines draw hope for today SUN from some great biblical journeys of faith. Preacher: Lt Col SUN George Pilkington; Leaders: Majors Stephen and Christine SUN Perkins; Director of Music: Dorothy Nancekievill; Producer: SUN Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN The International Staff Songsters (ISS) are a Salvation Army SUN Songster Brigade (choir) based at the UK Territorial SUN Headquarters in London. Their purpose is to communicate the SUN gospel of Jesus Christ, particularly through music, bring SUN glory to God and people into a knowledge of His love. Since SUN their inauguration in 1980 they have travelled throughout SUN the UK leading services and presenting religious concerts. SUN Overseas visits have also been made to Europe, America, SUN Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Zimbabwe and South Africa, SUN and most recently to Holland in 2010. All are selected from SUN Salvation Army corps (churches) and give of their time SUN voluntarily. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00y2xvh (Listen) SUN In Praise of the Nanny State SUN SUN Alain de Botton asks why the idea of a nanny state is so SUN unappealing. He says complete freedom - left totally to our SUN own devices - is rarely what we want. He says there's a lot SUN to be said for the odd paternalistic nudge in the right SUN direction. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00y50qf (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00y50qh (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Directed by ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00y50qk (Listen) SUN Howard Jacobson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer Howard Jacobson. SUN SUN After many years of swiping at literary prizes, last October SUN he walked off with the biggest one going, the Man Booker. SUN His book, The Finkler Question, was a study of what it meant SUN to be Jewish in England. It's a subject that has been very SUN near to Howard Jacobson's heart. He says: "My sense of SUN myself has always meant being on the outside. On the outside SUN as a Jew, looking into gentile England, but also on the SUN outside of Jewishness too. I have always felt myself to be SUN on the outside of everything." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00y2bnz (Listen) SUN Series 54, Episode 6 SUN SUN Back for a second week at the Central Theatre in Chatham, SUN regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, with Jack Dee in the SUN chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. SUN SUN Producer ..... Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00y50qm (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the future of cooking and food SUN preparation in the school curriculum. SUN SUN Producer: Harry Parker. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00y4zrp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00y50qp (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Celebrity Activists b00y50qr (Listen) SUN Celebrities loom ever larger in our culture, and their roles SUN as campaigners and lobbyists become more central as they do SUN so. Greta Scacchi, who has herself campaigned on a number of SUN causes, explores the world of celebrity activists. Do they SUN over-simplify complex problems, do they detract from the SUN seriousness of the issue, or do they help focus attention SUN where it is needed? SUN SUN From full-time celebrity managers at charities to the SUN consultancies helping high profile celebs choose the right SUN charities for them, the business of celebrity activism is SUN often pretty hard-nosed. Greta speaks to political insiders, SUN charity heads and her fellow celebs to paint a picture of SUN how it works, and asks how it can be done better. SUN SUN She hears from the critics, who believe celebs debase the SUN quality of the debate, compromise where none is needed and SUN divert attention from worthy causes to those which are SUN 'sexy'. And she speaks to others who believe the celebrities SUN they work with perform invaluable work in sometimes SUN difficult conditions. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00y2xn8 (Listen) SUN Lavenham, Suffolk SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs this Q&A from the scenic village of SUN Lavenham, Suffolk. He is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew SUN Biggs and Bob Flowerdew. SUN SUN In addition, Anne Swithinbank visits Jennie Eastman, one of SUN our listeners taking part in our Listeners' Gardens series. SUN How are her new beds looking? SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Completists b00y517j (Listen) SUN Episode 3 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 b00y51cp (Listen) SUN The Moonstone, Episode 3 SUN SUN Eleanor Bron as Lady Verinder, Bill Paterson as Mr Bruff, SUN and Marcia Warren as Miss Clack star in Episode Three of SUN Doug Lucie's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins' detective SUN masterpiece. SUN SUN Sergeant Cuff has failed to find either the Moonstone or who SUN stole it as the story moves to London. There, Miss Clack, a SUN poor relation of Lady Verinder takes up the story of the SUN missing diamond. SUN SUN Miss Clack, played by Marcia Warren, is one of Wilkie SUN Collins' best comic characters as her determination to save SUN souls irritates everyone whom she tries to give her tracts SUN to on subjects such as 'Satan in the Hairbrush'. SUN SUN This is light relief from the intensity of the search for SUN the thief of the Moonstone in Yorkshire. The diamond is now SUN thought to have been put in pledge to a money lender in SUN London who has deposited it for a year in the bank, although SUN no one knows how it got there, Sergeant Cuff having been SUN called off the case. Heartbroken, Franklin Blake has gone SUN abroad. Meanwhile Rachel is still refusing to say anything SUN about what happened that night and throws herself into an SUN engagement but is it out of despair? SUN SUN Miss Clack ..... Marcia Warren SUN Lady Verinder ..... Eleanor Bron SUN Rachel Verinder ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Godfrey Ablewhite ..... Mark Straker SUN Mr Bruff ..... Bill Paterson SUN Ablewhite Snr .....Geoffrey Whitehead SUN Penelope ..... Clare Corbett SUN Mr Murthwaite ..... Paul Bhattacharjee SUN Indian..... Narinder Samra SUN Aunt Ablewhite ..... Carolyn Pickles SUN SUN Recorded on location by Lucinda Mason Brown SUN Original Music by David Chilton SUN Dramatised by Doug Lucie SUN SUN Produced by Janet Whitaker SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00y51qw (Listen) SUN Tim Butcher SUN SUN James Naughtie and a group of readers talk to journalist Tim SUN Butcher about his bestselling travel book Blood River. SUN SUN When Tim Butcher was appointed the Daily Telegraph's SUN correspondent to South Africa in 2000, he became obsessed SUN with the Democratic Republic of Congo. This vast country SUN dominated a map of Africa on his office wall and he began to SUN plan a journey following in the footsteps of a famous SUN predecessor - Henry Stanley. Stanley, of Dr Livingstone SUN renown, had travelled along the route of the River Congo in SUN 1876-77 whilst Africa correspondent for the same newspaper. SUN SUN Tim Butcher says in Bookclub that he lost all rationality - SUN people who knew the country well told him his proposed trip SUN was suicidal. The DR Congo stretches the same distance as SUN Paris to Moscow and is one of Africa's most dangerous SUN countries. Although it has immense economic resources, the SUN DR Congo has been at the centre of what could be termed SUN Africa's world war, and this has left it in the grip of a SUN humanitarian crisis. SUN SUN Part adventure story, part travelogue and part history, SUN Blood River tells the account of Tim's own journey along the SUN river in 2004. We hear about the hardships and generosity of SUN the people he met, as well as the fear and the practical SUN difficulties of travelling in a country that has been SUN ravaged by war and neglected for so long. SUN SUN A group of readers quiz Tim about his experience, and James SUN Naughtie chairs the programme. SUN SUN March's Bookclub title: SUN Refugee Boy by Benjamin Zephaniah SUN SUN Producer: Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00y57lr (Listen) SUN The greatest of all musician-poets was Orpheus, the lyre SUN player and lyricist who charmed even the birds and the SUN beasts, but went to hell and back in pursuit of his enduring SUN love, Eurydice. Of course, he ignored the injunctions SUN against glancing back at her whilst leaving Hades, and lost SUN her for all time. It's a myth that has captured the SUN imagination of poets since time immemorial. In this edition SUN of Poetry Please Roger McGough introduces requests for poems SUN that shed unexpected, many-angled light upon this vital, SUN evergreen tale, with works by , Carol Ann Duffy, CK Williams SUN and others. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00y2d8r (Listen) SUN Tolerating the Intolerant? SUN SUN Reporter Jenny Cuffe investigates claims that one of the SUN groups behind the blasphemy law in Pakistan is also active SUN in the UK. The religious extremists are accused of spreading SUN a hate message against members of other Islamic sects who SUN they regard as infidels. One group that's been targeted SUN accuses the authorities of not doing enough to protect them SUN - and says political correctness has resulted in Britain SUN tolerating the intolerant. SUN Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00y4yjf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00y4zrr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00y4zrt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00y4zrw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00y57lt (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00y57lx (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00y57lz (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 b00hk1jc (Listen) SUN The First Person, The First Person SUN SUN Series of three quirky short stories by Ali Smith. SUN SUN A couple debate and fabricate possible scenarios for their SUN life together. Read by Ali Smith. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00y2c31 (Listen) SUN Peter Horrocks, the BBC's director of global news, talks SUN through the implications of massive cuts to the World SUN Service. SUN SUN Plus your concerns about changes to music programming SUN nationally and locally as Radio 2 moves Stuart Maconie and SUN Mark Radcliffe across to 6 Music to make way for Jo Whiley. SUN Are there too many American voices on Radio 4? And you SUN suggest alternative futures for Nigel Pargetter in The SUN Archers. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN So email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00y2xnb (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Penny Feiwel who volunteered as a nurse in the Spanish Civil SUN war and was badly wounded. SUN SUN The Welsh operatic soprano Dame Margaret Price, known for SUN her interpretations of Mozart, Verdi and German Lieder. SUN SUN The Ugandan gay rights campaigner David Kato who was SUN murdered in his own home. SUN SUN Malcolm Lyell, who sold British shotguns to kings, princes SUN and maharajahs as well as rich Americans. SUN SUN And film composer John Barry - best known for Bond music - SUN but who won five Oscars for his scores for other movies. SUN SUN 21:00 How Did We Get Here...? Egypt b00ytyfk (Listen) SUN Stephen Sackur and a group of experts uncover the hidden SUN history behind the political upheaval in Egypt. How did SUN President Mubarak rise to power and what were the factors SUN that finally threatened his iron grip? Are there clues in SUN Egypt's modern history to help us understand what finally SUN brought the protestors out on the street? SUN Producer: Natalie Morton. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00y4zwn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00y2bwz (Listen) SUN Radical Economics: Yo Hayek! SUN SUN Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with SUN the system rather than a mere failure of policy? SUN SUN Over two weeks, Analysis investigates two schools of SUN economics with radical solutions. SUN SUN This week, Jamie Whyte looks at the free market Austrian SUN School of FA Hayek. The global recession has revived SUN interest in this area of economics, even inspiring an SUN educational rap video. SUN SUN "Austrian" economists believe that the banking crisis was SUN caused by too much regulation rather than too little. The SUN fact that interest rates are set by central banks rather SUN than the market is at the heart of the problem, they argue. SUN Artificially low interest rates sent out the wrong signals SUN to investors, causing them to borrow to spend on SUN "malinvestments", such as overpriced housing. SUN SUN Jamie Whyte is head of research and publishing at Oliver SUN Wyman, a management consulting firm. He is a former lecturer SUN in philosophy at Cambridge University and the author of Bad SUN Thoughts: A Guide to Clear Thinking. SUN SUN Producer : Rosamund Jones SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00y57rg (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00y57rj (Listen) SUN Episode 38 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 journalist has a wry look at how the SUN broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories in SUN Westminster and beyond. This week Mehdi Hasan of The New SUN Statesman takes the chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00y2xnd (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets with Dame Helen Mirren who stars in SUN Rowan Joffe's adaptation of Graham Greene's Brighton Rock, SUN set in the 1960s era of mods and rockers. SUN SUN Director Stephen Frears discusses his love of Howard Hawks SUN and focuses on Only Angels Have Wings from 1939, starring SUN Cary Grant and Rita Hayworth. SUN SUN Critic Nigel Floyd considers two films from the 1960s - SUN Morgan: A Suitable Case for Treatment and A Blonde in Love - SUN both from Czech-born directors, Karel Reisz and Milos SUN Forman. SUN SUN John Cameron Mitchell - director of Hedwig and the Angry SUN Inch and Shortbus - talks about his latest, Rabbit Hole, SUN starring Nicole Kidman and Aaron Eckhart as a couple coming SUN to terms with the loss of a child. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00y4zr9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 07 FEBRUARY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00y4zfn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00y2sj7 (Listen) MON Britain and Ireland have always lagged far behind the rest MON of Western Europe in terms of second home ownership. But, MON MPs apart, there is a relentless upsurge in people owning MON more than one residence. In a new report Chris Parks has MON analysed the effect of the increase of home ownership on MON British and Irish society and compared it with other parts MON of the world. He discusses his findings with Susan Smith and MON Laurie Taylor. MON Also, Laurie talks to the writer Iain Sinclair about his MON examination of the culture of the urban cyclist. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00y4zr5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00y4zfq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00y4zfs (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00y4zfv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00y4zfx (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y5bj9 (Listen) MON With Sister Gemma Simmonds. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00y5bq3 (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma MON Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00y4zfz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00y5ckz (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00y5d57 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the British film-maker Mike Figgis MON about directing Donizetti's most psychologically profound MON opera, Lucrezia Borgia. Professor Jocelyn Bell Burnell looks MON to the end of the world as the Mayans believed it, to MON discuss the communication of science. The businesswoman MON Margaret Heffernan asks how and why individuals and society MON as a whole choose to turn a blind eye to the uncomfortable MON truth. And society is also under the spotlight from the MON historian Edward Higgs, who champions the on-going MON importance of the census. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00ybxhd (Listen) MON Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Episode 1 MON MON The daughter of Chinese immigrants, Amy Chua raised her own MON daughters in America: starting from the premise that the MON Chinese parenting model got better results than its Western MON counterpart. Given that Sophia and Louisa (Lulu) were MON polite, interesting and helpful girls with perfect school MON marks and exceptional musical abilities, this seemed to be MON borne out. But what happens when you won't tolerate MON disobedience, and yet your daughter still says no? MON MON Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother is not a child-rearing MON manual but a tale of culture clash and what happens when MON your own convictions are seriously challenged. MON MON Encouraged by the young Sophia's musical precocity, Amy MON turns her attentions to Lulu. But when she sits her down at MON the piano -things don't turn out quite the way she planned. MON MON Amy Chua is the John M Duff Professor of Law at Yale Law MON School. Her first book World on Fire: How Exporting Free MON Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability MON was a New York Times bestseller, was selected by both the MON Economist and the Guardian as one of the Best Books of 2003 MON and translated into eight languages. Her second book, Day of MON Empire: How Hyperpowers Rise to Global Dominance - and Why MON They Fall was a critically-acclaimed Foreign Affairs MON bestseller. Her writings have appeared in the New York MON Times, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Harvard MON Business Review and the Wilson Quarterly. She lives with her MON husband, two daughters and two Samoyeds in New Haven, MON Connecticut. MON MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON Reader: Liz Sutherland MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y5hth (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents. Author Daisy Waugh on silent screen MON idol Rudolph Valentino. Should you take your husband's name MON after marriage? And should you keep it after divorce? We ask MON Sheryl Gascoigne, Times columnist Sarah Vine and actress MON Kate Hardie what informed their decisions. The Conservative MON MP Claire Perry is campaigning for internet porn to be MON regulated by encouraging service provider to adopt an 'opt MON in' system rather than easy universal access. And we ask if MON couples who choose to live together rather than getting MON married should have the same rights? MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y5htk (Listen) MON Far Pavilions, Episode 6 MON MON M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana MON Ahmad. Ash returns to camp with the stolen carbines and is MON given a new mission which will transform his life. MON MON Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi MON Ash ..... Blake Ritson MON Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua MON Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai MON Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee MON Biju Ram ..... Inam Mirza MON Colonel ..... Sam Dale MON Battye ..... Jude Akuwudike MON Ambrose ..... Iain Batchelor MON Clerk ..... Adeel Akhtar MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 11:00 The Truth about the Roma b00y5htm (Listen) MON Nicolas Sarkozy has got into deep trouble with the EU for MON deporting Roma families, accusing them of drug trafficking, MON exploitation of children and prostitution. With less MON publicity, Sweden has also been expelling its Roma, and the MON Finnish prime minister has urged the public not to give MON money to Roma beggars. The impression is that, since MON European citizens got the right to travel freely, countries MON have seen an influx of Roma, often accompanied by MON criminality. MON But how much of what we hear about them is urban myth and MON prejudice, and how much solid fact? MON Jolyon Jenkins visits Roma communities in Britain to find MON out why they came here, and what life holds for them in the MON UK. With restrictions on work, and without automatic rights MON to benefits, many live in poverty. Increasingly Roma now MON sell the Big Issue magazine to make ends meet, and even MON small villages now have their resident 'Eastern European" MON Big Issue vendor. MON But the Roma, who come from countries like Romania, MON Slovakia, and Bosnia have a distinctive culture and can be MON hard to reach. Persecution and discrimination in their home MON countries has left a legacy of mistrust. And in turn poverty MON leaves them open to exploitation by criminal gangs in their MON own community, as recent court cases involving benefit fraud MON and child trafficking have shown. MON Do these cases represent a true picture of Roma life, or are MON they a small minority? Who are the people who claim to speak MON for the Roma? Are Roma victims of historic persecution who MON have fled to the EU because of their appalling treatment at MON home? Are projects such as the EU "Decade of Roma Inclusion" MON having any effect, or is it all window dressing? MON Producer Liz Carney. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00y5hvy (Listen) MON Series 7, Writer in Residence MON MON Episode 5: MON "Writer In Residence" 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 Fed up with everything on the radio originating from MON Cambridge, Ed decides to immerse himself in popular culture MON and retunes away from Radio Four. The new outlook on the MON world that Radios 1, 2 and 5 bring to Ed proves fortuitous MON when his daughter, Eli, manages to secure him an interview MON at her husband's university. So it is that Ed finds himself MON 'Writer in residence' with all the benefits that this MON affords, including discussing the merits of the worst Lady MON Gaga wardrobe malfunction of the year. MON MON Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas MON Professor Judith ..... Rachel Atkins MON Announcer ..... Lewis Macleod MON Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Felix ..... John Fortune MON Eli ..... Lisa Coleman MON Bill ..... Darren Boyd MON Pearl ..... Rita May MON Olive ..... Stephanie Cole MON Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00y5jdp (Listen) MON Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. Housing minister MON Grant Shapps is to meet mortgage lenders to hear why they MON are giving first time buyers such a hard time and what they MON are going to do to give them a better chance of getting on MON the housing ladder. MON MON The founder of The Internet Movie Database website - or MON IMDB.com - tells us how he created one of the world's top MON internet sites and how it is funded it when you can access MON it for free. MON MON And how important is the layout of stores in encouraging you MON to part with your money- new research shows they are a key MON to encouraging even the most hardened shoppers into MON submission. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00y4zg1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00y5jdr (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00y5jdt (Listen) MON (16/17) MON Russell Davies asks the questions of four more competitors, MON who have come successfully through the heats to fight for MON the last remaining place in the 2011 Final. MON MON This week's quartet are from Merstham in Surrey, Malvern in MON Worcestershire, Warrington in Cheshire, and Winchester. Just MON one of them will get to join the winners of the three MON previous semi-finals, in competing to be named the 58th MON Brain of Britain. MON MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00y57lx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00y5jdw (Listen) MON Market, The Joey MON MON Sean's family own a fish stall down the market. Except Sean MON doesn't want to join them. He's become a 'Joey' for his best MON friend Darren who's a highly paid footballer. A Joey is a MON sort of friendly factotum, a 'Go to Guy'. No way is he MON dogsbody. A comedy by Jim Poyser. MON MON Sean.... John Catterall MON Darren.... Greg Wood MON Tony.....Ben Crompton MON Shaneice/Sharon.... Danielle Henry MON Dad/Halibut.....Peter Slater MON Ronny....Bernard Wrigley MON MON Original Music by Steven D Reid MON Produced by Gary Brown MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00y4zd1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 On Your Bike b00yqg3z (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON The 19th century velocipedes were heavy, slow and expensive MON before an English engineer James Starley developed the high MON bicycle or penny farthing which overcame the difficulties of MON gearing and weight. Although these 'high bicycles' were MON dangerous and unstable they were eagerly taken up by MON fashionable young men who formed cycle clubs and took to the MON open road with gusto. MON MON In the 1880's the safety bike arrived, it was very similar MON to the bikes of today, with a chain drive and smaller wheels MON anyone who could afford it could easily ride. The women who MON defied the dress codes of the day to ride in culottes or MON bloomers contributed to the emerging movement for women's MON suffrage and liberation. MON MON Artists, musicians and writers found inspiration on two MON wheels and the socialist Clarion Cycle Club cycled to spread MON their message. Then, in World War One, cycle battalions went MON to France with bikes adapted to carry kit and rifles to the MON front. Between the wars mass production delivered bikes MON cheap enough for everyone and fuelled by the outdoor and MON fitness movements cycling entered into a golden age, the MON working classes now had the freedom of the open road. MON MON After the war people once again took the road in freedom on MON the only transport available in the years of frugality. The MON 1960's brought prosperity, mass car ownership and a MON fascination with modernity and speed that didn't include MON cycling and bikes were left unused and rusting in garden MON sheds. Then a group of young people in California developed MON the mountain bike and again cycling became fashionable. A MON fashion for fitness was back on the agenda and there were MON the added incentives to reduce pollution and congestion in MON cities and seek more environmentally friendly ways of MON getting about. Today the bicycle is once again in the MON ascendency. MON MON Presenter: Martin Ellis MON Producer: Simon Evans MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00y50qm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00y6p65 (Listen) MON Ernie Rea chairs Radio 4's discussion programme in which MON guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives MON debate the challenges of today's world. MON MON Each week a panel is assembled to represent a diversity of MON views and opinions, which often reveal hidden, complex and MON sometimes contradictory understandings of the world around MON us. MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00y6p67 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00y4zg3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00y6p69 (Listen) MON Series 59, Episode 1 MON MON The first show in a brand new series of Just a Minute. MON Panellists are Paul merton, Gyles Brandreth, stand-up MON comedienne Shappi Khorsandi and rock musician Rick Wakeman MON making his debut on the show. Nicholas Parsons guides them MON through subjects such as 'Dear Listener' and 'How Bankers MON Could Restore Their Reputation', with lots of fun in MON between. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00y6qt4 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00y6qt6 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including a review of the film Paul, MON starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost, who enjoy a close MON encounter with an alien during a visit to the USA. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y5htk (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b00y6qt8 (Listen) MON Skiing for Ghana MON MON Six years ago, Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong strapped on a set of MON skis for the first time. Fast forward to 2010 and he's the MON first Ghanaian to take part in the Winter Olympics. This is MON an incredible achievement, but ultimately Kwame has a MON greater goal: to bring Skiing to Ghana. MON MON Ghana is famous for cocoa production, Kofi Annan and the MON extraordinary national football team. Ski resorts are not on MON the list. However, Kwame Nkrumah-Acheampong wants to build MON the first ever artificial ski slope just a few degrees north MON of the equator. MON MON He's the first ever Ghanaian to compete in the Winter MON Olympics and he wants others to follow. The lack of snow in MON his native land won't stop him. He's gained the approval of MON the tribal chief in Mamfe where the slope is to be situated MON and initial work will begin next year against the MON picturesque backdrop of Ghana's Akuapem Hills. MON MON Kwame is taking the task very seriously; "I want to remove MON the stigma of sport in Africa, where too often it's MON considered something that dummies do," he says. "Education MON can go hand-in-hand with leisure and recreation. It doesn't MON have to be a choice of one or the other. I want people to MON see that.". MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00y6qtb (Listen) MON Radical Economics: escaping credit serfdom MON MON The role of credit in the build up to the global financial MON crisis is well known - but what has our reliance on credit MON been doing to the wider economy and to human behaviour? MON MON The expansion of consumer credit has been encouraged by MON social democratic as well as centre right governments. But MON some on the left believe that the growth of the financial MON sector has given birth to a novel form of capitalism and MON with that a new kind of worker exploitation. MON MON Paul Mason meets the economists of "financialisation" who MON believe that credit has become the defining relationship MON between workers and employers, citizens and public services. MON MON Paul Mason is Economics Editor of Newsnight and the author MON of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00y2w4n (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell MON research. MON MON Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Cyclone Yasi MON MON Cyclone Yasi – the strongest cyclone in a century - has MON battered the state of Queensland in north-eastern Australia, MON leaving a trail of destruction. There have been no reports MON of deaths or serious injuries so far, although two people MON are missing. Quentin is joined by Dr. Nicholas Klingaman, a MON tropical research scientist from the University of Reading, MON to talk about Australia’s extreme weather. MON MON Extra solar system MON MON The team from the Kepler Space Mission have announced the MON discovery of a remarkable extrasolar system consisting of a MON Sun-like star called Kepler-11 with six transiting planets. MON Few stars have more than one known transiting planet, which MON makes Kepler-11 and its planetary system very unusual. MON Quentin talks to one of the projects co-investigators, Jack MON Lissauer and Dr Alan Penny from St Andrews University to MON find out more. MON MON Sir William Ramsay - Blue Plaque MON MON English Heritage are dedicating a blue plaque to chemist and MON nobel prize winner Sir William Ramsay. Discoverer of noble MON gases, Sir William has been described as the greatest MON chemical discoverer of his time. Dr Susan Skedd, historian MON from English Heritage’s Blue Plaque scheme, joins Quentin to MON discuss how scientists are commemorated. MON MON Lake Vostok MON MON A Russian drilling team are metres away from reaching the MON water surface of Lake Vostok, the largest and deepest of the MON freshwater lakes beneath Antarctica's huge ice sheet. The MON project, launched more than 20 years ago, has been MON repeatedly delayed by technical glitches and concerns from MON the international community. Quentin talks to Dr Andy Smith MON from the British Antarctic Survey. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00y5d57 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00y4zg5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00y6qtd (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00y6qtg (Listen) MON Caribou Island, Episode 1 MON MON Caribou Island is the second novel from David Vann, whose MON groundbreaking first book, Legend of a Suicide, has become a MON best-seller around the world and has just won the 2010 Prix MON Medicis Etranger. It will be broadcast just after MON publication. MON MON Caribou Island is again set in Vann's native Alaska, amid MON the icy, glacier fed lakes and the remote islands covered in MON alder and Sitka spruce. And it is on such island, far from MON any habitation, that Gary, a medievalist who fled to Alaska MON thirty years ago with his young wife Irene, in search of an MON idyll, is now determined to begin once again. He will build MON a simple cabin there and at last find peace. Irene joins him MON in his endeavour but there are costs. MON Meanwhile her daughter Rhoda dreams of marriage with Jim, a MON dentist, who is about to enter his own 'mid-life crisis'. MON MON Fluid, often funny and sometimes raw, David Vann explores MON the depths an unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes MON the young still entertain. MON MON In the first episode of Caribou Island Gary and Irene load MON up with logs and set out to build their own piece of MON paradise. MON The reader is William Hope MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON Caribou Island is published by Viking. MON MON 23:00 Out of the Vortex b00y6qtj (Listen) MON According to a study by Kay Redfield Jamison, poets are MON thirty times more likely to undergo a depressive illness MON than the rest of the population, and twenty times more MON likely to be committed to an asylum. MON MON It is the unconscious that drives poetry, the jumps and MON sudden lurches that forge new connections with things not MON connected before, new ways of seeing. And it is also in the MON unconscious that the voices of the irrational lurk. MON MON In 'Out of the Vortex', Irish poet Matthew Sweeney chooses MON poetry that speaks to him, from the classics of John Clare MON and Emily Dickinson to that of contemporary writers. Poets MON Kit Wright and Jean Binta Breeze read their own work and MON Jean Binta Breeze tells Matthew how voices on the radio MON influenced her magnificent dub poem Riddym Ravings. MON MON Perhaps surprisingly for listeners the poems cover a range MON of moods - humour as well as gloom, calm as well as chaos MON - and show that mental disorder, rather than being a MON condition suffered by a few, can approach and invade very MON many lives. As Matthew Sweeney himself has experienced, the MON act of writing can help offset the advance of chaos, shaping MON it into the order of words. MON MON Producer: Merilyn Harris MON A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y6qtl (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 08 FEBRUARY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00y5bmg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00ybxhd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00y5bmj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00y5bml (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00y5bmn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00y5bmq (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y5bqf (Listen) TUE With Sister Gemma Simmonds. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00y5bms (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00y5ckq (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am. TUE Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00y6qv5 (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland with the history series which finds the TUE past behind the present and explores a moment in history TUE which throws light on a contemporary debate. TUE TUE At the Battle of Naseby in 1645, the King's enemies captured TUE carriages containing his private papers. Brought to London TUE for decoding and publication, the documents laid bare the TUE King's secret negotiations with foreign armies, revelations TUE that were immensely damaging to the Royalist cause. In the TUE era of WikiLeaks, cyber attacks, phone-hacking and calls for TUE ever-greater transparency, Jonathan and his guests compare TUE seventeenth and twenty-first century attitudes towards state TUE secrets and freedom of information. TUE TUE Producer: Julia Johnson. TUE TUE 09:30 The Call b00y8tzn (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made or received TUE life-changing phone calls. TUE TUE Alex Evans was shopping in an Aberystwyth DIY store with his TUE mum when he took a call from his friend Mark Corbett. Mark TUE said he was on board a ship in the Caribbean and that it was TUE sinking. The radio wasn't working and the only number he TUE could remember was his best friend's. TUE TUE Alex grabbed a till receipt, borrowed a pen from his mum, TUE and started to take down the details. Both are volunteers TUE for the RNLI, but when Alex heard the name of the vessel in TUE distress there was a moment of hesitation. TUE TUE "When he said the yacht was called Titanic, I did have to TUE ask if this was a wind-up. But there was real panic in his TUE voice, so I knew it was the real thing.". TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00ydbm0 (Listen) TUE Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Amy Chua. The Suzuki method of teaching musical TUE instruments requires a parent to attend all lessons and TUE supervise practice at home. Both daughters are making rapid TUE progress, but Amy is more than up to the challenge. TUE TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE Reader: Liz Sutherland TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y8tzq (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents. Women and their fascinating TUE relationship with shoes. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y8tzs (Listen) TUE Far Pavilions, Episode 7 TUE TUE M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana TUE Ahmad. The wedding party continues its journey. Ash finds TUE that once again, he is saving the life of a Karidkote TUE prince. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi TUE Ash ..... Blake Ritson TUE Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker TUE Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua TUE Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai TUE Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee TUE Biju Ram ..... Inam Mirza TUE Shushila ..... Deeivya Meir TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 Bosphorus b00y8tzv (Listen) TUE Programme 1 TUE TUE Flowing through the heart of Istanbul, in Turkey, the TUE Bosphorus has been a flash point between cultures, religions TUE and imperial powers for thousands of years; from the Roman TUE and Byzantine Empires, to the clash between Islam and TUE Christianity and the Cold War between the super powers of TUE the East and West. The Bosphorus has a rich and bloody TUE history that's inspired poets, writers and artists from TUE around the world. In this programme Edward Stourton looks at TUE that rich history and how the Bosphorus works today. 50,000 TUE vessels make their way through the narrow straits every year TUE - everything from small fishing boats to giant oil and gas TUE tankers battles through the treacherous currents making it TUE one of the busiest and most dangerous international TUE waterways in the world. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Pegum TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00y8tzx (Listen) TUE Simon King, the natural history film-maker and presenter, TUE presents some of the pieces of writing - and birdsong - TUE which reflect his passion for the natural world. Michael TUE Byrne and Siân Phillips are his readers. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00y8v0r (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 12:57 Weather b00y5bmv (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00y8v0t (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 The Music That Melted b00y8v0w (Listen) TUE Every year on a frozen fjord in Norway, musicians gather TUE under the full moon, and a canopy of Northern Lights, to TUE perform ice music. Over a weekend, instruments are carved TUE from blocks of ice, and music played in an arena of carved TUE ice blocks to a well wrapped audience, who arrive on cross TUE country skis. Sometimes standing in flurries of snow, TUE sometimes in the light of flame torches, under the northern TUE lights, they listen spellbound (and a bit chilly) to the TUE magical sounds produced by instruments with a short life TUE span - each one as unique and short-lived as a sandcastle. TUE TUE Richard Coles, ex band member of the 90's pop group The TUE Communards, meets the people who play these instruments, TUE which last only as long as the temperature stays below zero, TUE and has a go himself. TUE TUE Bill Covitz is the expert ice sculptor who makes a different TUE range of instruments each festival. This year he is TUE creating, for the first time, an Isleik, an ice version of a TUE langeleik, the traditional harp of Norway. TUE Musicians come from across the globe to try their hands at TUE instruments which require, more often than not, fingerless TUE gloves and good circulation; the ice-sculpted instruments TUE giving off surprising sounds that vary according to the TUE quality of the ice and the temperature. TUE TUE Richard Coles joins the preparations, to see the creation TUE and the destruction of the music that melted. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00y6qt4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00d9nqc (Listen) TUE Blue Sky Thinking TUE TUE A psychological thriller about love and identity by Ben TUE Lewis. Karen's counting down the days to her wedding. But TUE when a scrawny-looking stranger turns up her happy life TUE begins to fall apart. TUE TUE Karen...........Nicola Stapleton TUE Vinnie..........Samuel Roukin TUE Stuart...........Freddy White TUE Siobhan...........Catherine Shepherd TUE Jean...........Sandra Voe TUE Dave................Ben Lewis TUE Director: Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00y8v95 (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 b00y8v97 (Listen) TUE Womanly Wiles, Ties That Bind TUE TUE American star Kathleen Turner reads this specially TUE commissioned story of family tension. TUE TUE After the death of her husband, a New York writer decides to TUE move to Cape Cod where her younger sister has a house on the TUE Bay. Their mother lives in a nearby assisted-living TUE facility. Neither sister has children; the father died many TUE years ago. Only the three women are left. How nice, our TUE storyteller feels, for them to regain some of the closeness TUE of former years; to recapture the fun and memories of TUE childhood summers - when the family had happily vacationed TUE there. TUE TUE But what if ties that are supposed be binding turn out to be TUE less than secure - even fraying at the edges? What if a TUE house-purchase becomes problematic? And where are the TUE difficulties actually coming from? Mother? Or the sisters? TUE Could 'family', perhaps, exist only in the mind? TUE TUE Producer/Director: Rosalind Ayres. TUE TUE 15:45 On Your Bike b00yfq5f (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Hobby Horses, velocipedes and penny farthings, the early TUE evolution of the bicycle brought about by Victorian TUE ingenuity and the developing engineering industry. TUE TUE Presenter: Martin Ellis TUE TUE Producer: Simon Evans TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Europe: Driving on the Right b00y8vk4 (Listen) TUE Scandanavia TUE TUE Chris Bowlby investigates how the far right is influencing TUE mainstream European politics. He travels to Scandinavia TUE where anti-immigration parties are increasingly powerful. TUE The Danish People's Party has cleverly used its hold on the TUE balance of power to introduce harsh measures. And the Sweden TUE Democrats have rapidly increased their share of the vote, TUE claiming that public services are being swamped by TUE immigrants. Chris analyses the consequences for centrist TUE parties in both countries. TUE Producer: Daniel Tetlow. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00y8vk6 (Listen) TUE Rebecca Abrams, Matt Ridley TUE TUE In the first of a new series, science writer Matt Ridley, TUE author of The Rational Optimist, talks about his love of My TUE Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell. The writer TUE Rebecca Abrams, author of Touching Distance, is passionate TUE about the novels of Elizabeth Taylor, and selects the one TUE she considers to be the finest. And presenter Kate Saunders TUE sings the praises of Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens, TUE which she considers to be the greatest novel in the English TUE language. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00y8vk8 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00y5bmx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00y8vkb (Listen) TUE Series 3, Rudy's Rare Record TUE TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. TUE TUE With the discovery on one of the rarest records ever TUE recorded on a dusty shelf at the back of the shop, Rudy, TUE Adam and Richie each allow themselves to imagine what life TUE would really be like if they were that rich. Turns out, TUE their dreams are a bit premature... TUE TUE Adam ...... Lenny Henry TUE Rudy ...... Larrington Walker TUE Richie ...... Joe Jacobs TUE Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey TUE Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon TUE Doreen ...... Claire Benedict TUE TUE Written by Danny Robins TUE Produced by Lucy Armitage. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00y8vkd (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00y8vkg (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with the musician P TUE J Harvey, whose new disc Let England Shake includes songs TUE inspired by wars and conflict. TUE TUE Producer Philippa Ritchie. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y8tzs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00y8vkj (Listen) TUE Shaken Babies? TUE TUE The Crown Prosecution Service has issued new guidelines TUE regarding so called shaken baby cases. It comes at a time TUE when the scientific debate between some medical experts TUE appears as divided as ever. Those acting for the prosecution TUE say the so called triad of internal head injuries is a TUE strong pointer to a baby having been deliberately shaken, TUE while defence experts say there can be other accidental or TUE natural causes. TUE Andrew Hosken investigates the science behind the debate and TUE uncovers concerns that experts on both sides may be deterred TUE from acting in court cases because of the continuing TUE controversy around the issue. TUE Producer: Paul Grant. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00y8vsg (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00y8vsj (Listen) TUE Radiotherapy TUE TUE Dr Mark Porter looks at the latest developments in TUE radiotherapy. He reviews its origins with the pioneering TUE research of Marie Curie one hundred years ago and he talks TUE to doctors, radiologists and patients about the modern TUE practise and experience of harnessing radiation to kill TUE malignant tissue. Radiotherapy is sometimes described as the TUE 'Cinderella' of cancer treatment. Its public profile is TUE lower than the new generation of anti-cancer drugs. Yet TUE doctors are continually finding ways of improving the TUE effectiveness and accuracy of radiotherapy. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00y6qv5 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00y5bmz (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00y8vsl (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00yc8dm (Listen) TUE Caribou Island, Episode 2 TUE TUE Today: Gary's first shot at building the log retreat of his TUE dreams is already having consequences. Meanwhile Jim, the TUE dentist, is conjuring his own fantasy. TUE TUE The reader is William Hope TUE The abridger is Sally Marmion TUE The producer is Di Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Wondermentalist Cabaret b00y8vsn (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE 2 of 4. Poet, performer, enemy of all that's difficult and TUE upsetting, Matt Harvey presents this comedy-infused, TUE musically-enhanced, slightly interactive poetry cabaret. TUE Recorded in front of an audience at the Swindon Arts Centre, TUE he's joined by the poet and musician Zena Edwards and one TUE man house band Jerri Hart. Fellow poets AF Harrold and Kate TUE Fox battle it out with Zena in a Dead Poets' Slam, while the TUE audience compose their own highly flavoured poem on the TUE subject of cheese. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y8vsq (Listen) TUE Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 09 FEBRUARY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00y5bn1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00ydbm0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00y5bn3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00y5bn5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00y5bn7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00y5bn9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y5bqh (Listen) WED With Sister Gemma Simmonds. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00y5bnc (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b00y5cks (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am. WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00y8xc1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00ydbmb (Listen) WED Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Episode 3 WED WED By Amy Chua. Music is getting serious for the Chua family. WED Amy must help Sophia prepare to perform at Carnegie Hall and WED Lulu to audition for the Pre-College programme at Juilliard WED College. WED WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED Reader: Liz Sutherland WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y8v9y (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents. The launch of Women in Business 2011. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y8vb6 (Listen) WED Far Pavilions, Episode 8 WED WED M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana WED Ahmad. As the journey continues, and Ash and Anjuli's love WED grows, they dread their imminent arrival in Bhithor. WED WED Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi WED Ash ..... Blake Ritson WED Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker WED Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua WED Biju Ram ..... Inam Mirza WED Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai WED Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee WED Shushila ..... Deeivya Meir WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 The Secret History of Social Networking b00y8xdv (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED The social networking game isn't over yet - Rory WED Cellan-Jones looks at the sites of the future and asks where WED the phenomenon is heading. WED The power of social networks has taken off in recent years. WED Now, there are more than half a billion Facebook users, but WED does that mean that one site will dominate social networking WED in the future? Rory visits the headquarters of microblogging WED site Twitter, where a new way of sharing information is WED being developed. WED With the explosive growth of Facebook has come vigorous WED debate about privacy, sharing information online, and about WED what online social networking is doing to our relationships. WED Today, some young entrepreneurs think they've spotted gaps WED in the market where Facebook is vulnerable. WED New sites are springing up all the time. The future of WED social networking could lie in localised sites geared WED towards specific interests, in limiting your online circle WED to your closest friends, or in sites that allow users to WED keep control of their personal information. WED Finally, Rory returns to the social networking pioneers of WED the 70s and 80s. How do the hippies and hackers who created WED the first social network think their revolution has turned WED out? Part 3 of 3. WED WED 11:30 Ballylenon b00y8xdx (Listen) WED Series 8, More News Than Is Fit to Print 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 b00y8xdz (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00y5bnf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00y8vbj (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00y8xf1 (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 b00y8vkd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00y8yjd (Listen) WED The Continuity Man WED WED A new comedy by Stephen Keyworth. WED WED Nitin Ganatra is fed up with playing the 'good family man' WED Masood. He feels there is more to him as an actor than WED playing the nice guy, the good husband. On the advice of his WED agent, Crawford Bunch, he sets about making his profile a WED little more 'edgy' in order to convince Hollywood producers WED that he really has what it takes to play the baddie. WED WED But unfortunately Nitin is just too nice. And he get's more WED than he bargained for when he finds himself head to head WED with 'The Continuity Man'. WED WED A comedy about getting yourself into deep water and trying WED to find your way out again. WED WED Nitin Nitin Ganatra WED OliverBen Lewis WED Amy Julia Innocenti WED Crawford Karl Johnson WED SallySally Orrock WED WED Directed by Lu Kemp. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00y8yjg (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00y9yc2 (Listen) WED Womanly Wiles, The Weighing Up WED WED Reader: Gemma Jones WED Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 On Your Bike b00ybzn2 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Pneumatic tyres and the development of the safety bicycle WED allow the wealthier middle classes to take to the road in WED the bicycling craze of the late 19th century. WED WED Presenter: Martin Ellis WED Producer: Simon Evans WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00y8yjj (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00y8vsj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00y8yjl (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00y5bnh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Showstopper b00y8yjn (Listen) WED Episode 4 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 b00y8yjq (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00y8yjs (Listen) WED Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews and an interview with WED the architect David Chipperfield, winner of the 2011 RIBA WED Gold Medal. WED WED Producer Nicki Paxman. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y8vb6 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00y8yjv (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Kenan Malik, Claire Fox WED and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b00y9rrz (Listen) WED On Joining the Constitution WED WED Peter Hennessy gives the second of a new series of talks on WED Radio 4. He discusses joining what he has spent a lifetime WED writing about: the British constitution. WED WED At a time of constitutional upheaval, what does the second WED house still provide? He argues that expertise, in rare WED supply elsewhere in the political system, is abundant in the WED Lords, and offers a great deal to a system currently held in WED low esteem. WED WED Four Thought combines big ideas and evocative storytelling WED in a series of personal viewpoints - speakers take to the WED stage ready to air their latest thinking on the trends, WED ideas, interests and passions that affect our culture and WED society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00y8yjx (Listen) WED Arctic Dreams WED WED The melting of the Arctic is sparking a goldrush, bringing WED energy and mineral companies north in search of oil, gas and WED minerals. To the people of the north it's a confusing time. WED New business and industry can offer jobs and money but they WED threaten the pristine environment and seem certain to WED further dilute the native culture. WED WED In this second programme on the future of the melting north WED Tom Heap visits Arctic Canada to find out more about the WED impact of development on flora, fauna and the native people. WED WED He hears how the Inuit have taken up semi-western lifestyles WED only in the last fifty years. They were persuaded by the WED Canadian government to leave behind a life of small family WED groups following the seasonal movements of caribou, seal and WED whale in return for subsidised lives in new settlements WED scattered across the north. Their children were taken away WED from their parents to residential schools hundreds of miles WED away. The separation and inevitable abuse destroyed families WED and turned a proud, independent culture into one of WED dependence. Communities are still dealing with the fall-out, WED suffering the worst rates of suicide, alcoholism, violence WED and premature death in Canada. WED WED In recent years the Inuit have gradually come to take more WED control over their own destiny. Today they have the power to WED say 'yes' or 'no' to miners and oil prospectors. A new WED generation of native leaders is determined that any money to WED be made from the natural resources will go toward turning WED around their communities. WED WED Tom Heap meets local people to find out how they want WED development to proceed and hears from politicians and WED academics how the native people fit into the international WED picture. Will the Inuit really have a voice when the US, WED Russia and Canada begin squabbling over the region's WED resources? WED WED Producer: Alasdair Cross. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00y8xc1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00y5bnk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00y8yjz (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ybw73 (Listen) WED Caribou Island, Episode 3 WED WED Today: As Gary grapples with the very foundations of his WED dream, Jim is entering a world of delight, and deceit, far WED from his dentist's chair. WED WED The reader is William Hope WED The abridger is Sally Marmion WED The producer is Di Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00y8yk1 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Dating Wizard 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 This week Mordrin decides to join a Wizard dating website WED after the being convinced by Bernard the Blue, but fails to WED read the full terms and conditions. WED WED Mordrin ..... David Kay WED Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty WED Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy WED Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson WED Molly ..... Fiona Morrison WED Duchess of Bedlam ..... Susan Calman WED WED Producer/ Director ..... Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Bob Servant Emails b00y8yk3 (Listen) WED Bob and the Postie 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, Laura Solon as Jean WED Kitson, and Felix Dexter as Tim Sanderson. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y8yk5 (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00y5bnm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00ydbmb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00y5bnp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00y5bnr (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00y5bnt (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00y5bnw (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y5bqk (Listen) THU With Sister Gemma Simmonds. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00y5bny (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie THU Bullock. THU THU 06:00 Today b00y5ckv (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am. THU Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00y9283 (Listen) THU The Nervous System THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the nervous system. THU THU Most animals have a nervous system, a network of nerve THU tissues which allows parts of the body to communicate with THU each other. In humans the most significant parts of this THU network are the brain, spinal column and retinas, which THU together make up the central nervous system; less generally THU known to the layperson, but equally important, are the THU peripheral and enteric systems. Together, these complex THU organs allow us to experience sensation, control our limbs THU and - often unwittingly - our bodily functions. But how do THU these systems work and fit together, and who were the THU scientists who helped us understand them? THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00ydbml (Listen) THU Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Episode 4 THU THU By Amy Chua. After an ill-fated concert in Budapest, THU relations between Amy and Lulu are under strain. Amy fears THU she is losing some control over her younger daughter. THU THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU Reader: Liz Sutherland THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y8vb0 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents a phone-in programme about Women in THU Business. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y8vb8 (Listen) THU Far Pavilions, Episode 9 THU THU M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana THU Ahmad. On the last leg of the journey, Ash confronts an old THU enemy. Once in Bhithor, he has a new battle to fight. THU THU Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi THU Ash ..... Blake Ritson THU Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker THU Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua THU Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai THU Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee THU Biju Ram ..... Inam Mirza THU Emissary ..... Lloyd Thomas THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00y92gm (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 I Heart Milton Glaser b00yb2v8 (Listen) THU It was 1977 and New York State needed a new ad campaign. THU Crime was rampant and the city's coffers were empty. THU Businesses (and their employees) were leaving the city in THU droves, and tourism was suffering. The State turned to THU Madison Avenue, who, in turn looked to young graphic THU designer Milton Glaser. THU THU Expecting it only to 'be a three-month campaign', Glaser THU donated his back of a taxi doodle for free; 'it was like one THU of those things you bang out because it didn't seem to merit THU any more attention'. THU THU Skip forward nearly 25 years, and the I (Heart) NY design THU remains one of the most recognizable pieces of design in the THU world. Still cited on licensed and unlicensed merchandise THU across the city and internationally, it's has taken on a THU life of its own. THU THU In this Radio 4 programme the art critic Alastair Sooke THU heads to New York to meet Milton Glaser, who is the THU personification of American graphic design. As Alastair THU discovers Glaser has designed everything from a 1967 Bob THU Dylan Greatest Hits Album cover, to the DC Bullet adorning THU every DC comic for nearly 25 years, yet he still finds THU himself remembered for the aching simplicity of the I THU (Heart) NY design. THU THU Speaking to some of Glaser's contemporary graphic designers THU and critics, I Heart Milton Glaser explores a form of art THU that surrounds us every day and traces our society's THU relationship with a design that became one of the most THU iconic images we know. THU THU Producer: Jo Meek THU An All Out Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00y92gr (Listen) THU Consumer news with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00y92gt (Listen) THU Northern Ireland Water THU THU John Waite investigates what wrong at Northern Ireland THU Water. Why were tens of thousands of people left without THU running water over the holidays, some for over a week? And, THU why is the company is expected to hand back millions of THU pounds to the government while blaming underinvestment for THU part of its problems. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00y5bp0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00y8vbl (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00y8yjx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00y8yjq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00f3x93 (Listen) THU A Killing THU THU A story about the excitement of making money in industrial THU quantities - a gladiatorial world in which only the fittest THU survive. THU THU Ewen, Meredith, Tim and Harry are four, sassy, THU thirty-something traders who, tired of making money for THU others, combine to launch an aggressive new Hedge Fund. THU THU Hopes are high for the group's philosophy is to play it THU straight, with minimal risk, and to remain realistic in THU ambition. THU THU But impatience and a sense that others are stealing a march THU on them encourages two of the four, Ewen and Meredith, to THU break ranks and take a very big and very stupid risk. THU THU They quickly make a massive and very noticeable profit - a THU fact not lost on the Regulator, nor on Tim and Harry, the THU other partners who are aggrieved that the entire enterprise THU has been compromised by their greed and arrogance. THU THU But Ewen's obsession with Meredith, and her determination to THU succeed, have upset some very major players in the City. THU They may ride out this particular storm but there is more THU trouble ahead. And as an indicator of just how bad things THU might get, Ewen gets himself arrested. THU THU Ewen was played by James MacPherson THU Tim was Benedict Wong THU Meredith ..... Laurel Lefkow THU Harry ..... Nicholas Boulton THU Carmody ..... Richard Howard THU Angela ..... Jill Cardo THU THU Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00y48fg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00y4zwn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00yb2s6 (Listen) THU Womanly Wiles, Mrs Windermere THU THU Reader: Sarah Badel THU Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 On Your Bike b00yfq5h (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Cycling, suffragettes and socialism, the new political THU pioneers of the open road as freedom of movement brings THU political freedom and the ability to campaign for your THU cause. THU THU Presenter: Martin Ellis THU Producer: Simon Evans THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00y51qw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00y92m6 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b00y92m8 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00y5bp2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b00y92mb (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Through the medium of four open letters, the comedian Tom THU Wrigglesworth investigates the myriad examples of corporate THU lunacy and maddening jobsworths in modern Britain. In this THU series his subjects range from traffic wardens to estate THU agents, with Tom recalling his own funny and ridiculous THU experiences as well as recounting the absurd encounters of THU others. THU In episode two, Tom muses on just how the bankers keep THU getting away with it. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00y92md (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00y92mg (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reviews Keira Knightley and Elisabeth THU Moss, who plays Peggy Olson in the TV drama Mad Men, in a THU new production of Lillian Hellman's play The Children's THU Hour. THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y8vb8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00y92mj (Listen) THU Consumer credit is growing ever tighter. Prices are rising, THU wages are being frozen, jobs being lost. Times are tough and THU increasingly people who are finding themselves short of cash THU are heading to the internet to secure quick and easy but THU very, very expensive short term loans. Cyberspace has proved THU the perfect breeding ground for smart young loan THU entrepreneurs who are capitalizing on lax regulation and THU consumer need to build a multi million pound industry. And THU with interest rates running as high as nearly 3000% APR, a THU new generation of online borrowers, many from the middle THU class, are slipping ever deeper into debt. Phil Kemp THU investigates the growing market for high-cost lending amid THU growing calls for the industry to face tougher regulation. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00y92ml (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 In Denial - Climate on the Couch b00y92mn (Listen) THU Something strange is happening to the climate - the climate THU of opinion. On the one hand, scientists are forecasting THU terrible changes to the planet, and to us. On the other, THU most of us don't seem that bothered, even though the THU government keeps telling us we ought to be. Even climate THU scientists and environmental campaigners find it hard to THU stop themselves taking holidays in long haul destinations. THU THU So why the gap between what the science says, and what we THU feel and do? In this programme Jolyon Jenkins investigates THU the psychology of climate change. Have environmentalists and THU the government been putting out messages that are actually THU counterproductive? Might trying to scare people into action THU actually be causing them to consume more? Are images of THU polar bears actually damaging to the environmentalists' case THU because they alienate people who don't think of themselves THU as environmentalists - and make climate change seem like a THU problem that's a long way off and doesn't have much THU relevance to normal life? Does the message that there are THU "simple and painless" steps we can take to reduce our carbon THU footprint (like unplugging your phone charger) THU unintentionally cause people to think that the problem can't THU be that serious if the answers are so trivial? THU THU Jolyon talks to people who are trying to move beyond the THU counterproductive messages. On the one hand there are THU projects like Natural Change, run by WWF Scotland, which try THU to reconnect people with nature using the therapeutic THU techniques of "ecopsychology" - intense workshops that take THU place in the wilderness of the west of Scotland, and which THU seem to convert the uncommitted into serious greens. On the THU other, there are schemes that try to take the issue out of THU the green ghetto and engage normal people with climate THU change. Jolyon visits a project in Stirling which has set THU itself the ambitious challenge of talking face to face with THU 35,000 people, through existing social groups like rugby THU clubs, knitting circles and art groups. It wants to sign up THU these groups to carbon cutting plans, and make carbon THU reduction a social norm rather than something that only THU eco-warriors bother with. THU THU And he attends a "swishing party" in London, which tries to THU replicate the buzz women get from clothes shopping, but in a THU carbon neutral way. Can the green movement find substitutes THU for consumerism that are as fun and status-rich, that will THU deliver carbon reduction but without making people feel they THU have signed up to a life of grim austerity? And even if the THU British and Europeans shift their attitudes, can the THU Americans ever be reconciled to the climate change message? THU Producer Jolyon Jenkins. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00y9283 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00y5bp4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00y92p2 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ybw75 (Listen) THU Caribou Island, Episode 4 THU THU Today: Rhoda surprises Jim with unexpected guests and Gary THU faces another hurdle in the construction of his cabin home. THU THU The reader is William Hope THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Spread A Little Happiness b00lbky7 (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU THU Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire THU sandwich bar. THU THU Hope is in great demand. If only all these people wanted to THU buy a sandwich, apart from the one that does. THU THU Hope ...... Suranne Jones THU Jodie ...... Susan Cookson THU Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon THU Gavin ...... Ralph Brown THU Eve ...... Joanne Froggatt THU Carrie ...... Elizabeth Godber THU Ray ...... Shuan Prendergast THU THU Directed by Chris Wallis. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y92p4 (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00y5bp8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00ydbml (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00y5bpb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00y5bpg (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00y5bpl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00y5bpn (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y5bqm (Listen) FRI With Sister Gemma Simmonds. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00y5bpq (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00y5ckx (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am. FRI Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00y50qk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00ydbn9 (Listen) FRI Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Amy Chua. After a difficult time for the family the Chuas FRI go on holiday to Russia. But in Red Square, tensions between FRI Amy and Lulu come to a head. Can things carry on as before? FRI FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI Reader: Liz Sutherland FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y8vb2 (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 b00y8vbb (Listen) FRI Far Pavilions, Episode 10 FRI FRI M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana FRI Ahmad. Ash is caught in a dilemma. He cannot bear the FRI thought of losing Anjuli, and yet must negotiate her wedding FRI price. FRI FRI Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi FRI Ash ..... Blake Ritson FRI Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker FRI Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai FRI Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee FRI Guard ..... Adeel Akhtar FRI Rana ..... Kaleem Janjua FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 Rebuilding Afghanistan b00y9tbs (Listen) FRI Territorial Army Major Will Robson gives a rare insider FRI insight into the British Army's mission to rebuild FRI Afghanistan as he embarks on six weeks as a temporary FRI regular officer to Afghanistan. FRI FRI The focus on Afghanistan is now clearly on reconstruction. FRI Whilst fighting continues out of Forward Operating Bases, FRI the British Army is now working closely with various NGOs, FRI as well as the Foreign Office and the UK's Department for FRI International Development. FRI FRI In this programme, Robson visits a variety of projects in FRI Helmand Province, drops in on the training of Women Police FRI officers, and observes the work of the counter-narcotics FRI team. He also meets one of Afghanistan's best-known FRI musicians Farhad Darya, as he prepares for a triumphant FRI debut performance in Lashkar Gah, and talks candidly to FRI serving officers and soldiers about the daily intensity of FRI life in Helmand Province. FRI FRI Producer: David Prest FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00nyy8s (Listen) FRI Series 3, An Evil Life Sort of Explained FRI FRI Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. FRI FRI Pip Bin, Harry Biscuit and Gently Benevolent find themselves FRI trapped in the vast emptiness of space. As their doom looks FRI increasingly inevitable, Mr Benevolent finally explains just FRI why it is that he is so very very evil. FRI FRI Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson FRI Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen FRI Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head FRI Lovely Benevolent ...... Jane Asher FRI Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman FRI Hardthrasher/Sternbeater/Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey FRI Whitehead FRI Miss Christmasham ...... Sarah Hadland FRI Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00y95kn (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00y5bps (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00y8vbn (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00y9tbv (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 This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00y92md (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00htgzs (Listen) FRI A City Killing FRI FRI Tim, Meredith and Harry are three sassy, thirty something FRI traders who, tired of making money for someone else, combine FRI to launch an aggressive new hedge fund. But it doesn't take FRI long before they get seriously above themselves, losing a FRI small fortune and making some pretty heavy enemies in the FRI City markets. FRI FRI Facing financial meltdown, Harry is deputed to exploit a FRI family connection with Bob Glass of Glassworks. Glass is the FRI doyen of Wall Street. Friend to charities and movie stars. FRI The biggest, boldest, safest investor on the block. FRI FRI In New York, Harry makes a good impression. Glass takes to FRI him like a son. This is the coup the young hedge fund has FRI needed. With Glass's name, confidence will flourish and FRI further, major investments will follow. FRI FRI But Harry has no sooner touched down at Heathrow, than news FRI breaks of Glass's arrest by the FBI. His convoluted FRI investment structure has collapsed. Billions have been lost FRI by individuals, by charities and by burgeoning hedge funds, FRI just like Harry's. Harry, Tim and Meredith have lost FRI 1.2billion and rising. Glass, the most feared, loathed and FRI admired man on Wall Street was just a simple confidence FRI trickster though on a mammoth scale. FRI FRI Now it's time to face the investors, and the fact that their FRI credibility is virtually nil. This is a £1.2billion hole FRI they aren't going to crawl out of. FRI FRI Harry Towers was played by Nicholas Boulton FRI And Bob Glass by Nathan Osgood FRI Tim was played by David Tse FRI Meredith by Janice Acquah FRI Sarah Towers ..... Pam Miles FRI Trevor Marks ..... Jonathan Tafler FRI And Carmody ..... Sam Dale FRI FRI The Director was Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00y9tbx (Listen) FRI Alnwick Castle FRI FRI Eric Robson and the team are in the magical surroundings of FRI Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. FRI Chris Beardshaw explores Alnwick's treacherous Poison FRI Garden. FRI FRI Meanwhile, Bunny Guinness is perched in a treetop, inside FRI one of the largest treehouses in the world: 'A How To' on FRI building treehouses. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 On Your Bike b00yfq80 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Elgar, Vaughan Williams and Percy Grainger all drew FRI inspiration in the saddle along Conan Doyle whose detective FRI Sherlock Holmes could identify a suspect by his tyre tread FRI FRI Presenter: Martin Ellis FRI Producer: Simon Evans FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00y9tbz (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 b00y9tc1 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Keira Knightley about Never Let Me FRI Go. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00y9tc3 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00y5bpv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00y9tc5 (Listen) FRI Series 73, Episode 6 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy FRI and Fred Macaulay. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00y9tc7 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00y9tc9 (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who reports on a new stage version of the FRI classic French musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. FRI FRI Producer Philippa Ritchie. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y8vbb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00y9v01 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Red FRI Maids School in Bristol. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00y9v03 (Listen) FRI On marriage FRI FRI Alain de Botton muses on why a bookish life is a poor FRI preparation for marriage! He says Western literature's FRI obsession with unrequited love means the average love story FRI is of help only to the lovelorn. And he argues that the FRI blandness of the word marriage hides a "welter of intensity FRI and depth that put to shame the most passionate works of FRI literature". FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00ydg75 (Listen) FRI Last Night, Another Soldier FRI FRI By Andy McNab FRI FRI A gripping story from the frontline of Afghanistan. Eighteen FRI year old Briggsy is just three weeks into his first posting FRI and he's thrilled to be part of the action. But when his FRI Rifle Section loses a man in battle, Briggsy is forced to FRI confront the realities of war. FRI FRI Briggsy - Russell Tovey FRI Si - Lloyd Thomas FRI Flash - Paul Rider FRI Toki - Damian Lynch FRI Mackenzie/John - Stephen Hogan FRI Mum/Helicopter pilot/Radio Operator - Janice Acquah FRI Emma/Tannoy - Caroline Guthrie FRI Newsreader/Cookie - Matt Addis FRI FRI Produced by Vernee Samuel. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00y5bpx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00y9v05 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ybw77 (Listen) FRI Caribou Island, Episode 5 FRI FRI Today: Jim's dreams are dashed while Irene wonders if hers FRI were ever realistic. FRI FRI The reader is William Hope FRI The abridger is Sally Marmion FRI The producer is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00y8vk6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y9vsb (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI
04 February, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 05/02/2011 - 11/02/2011
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