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SAT SATURDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00y9yd3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00ydbn9 (Listen) SAT Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Episode 5 SAT SAT By Amy Chua. After a difficult time for the family the Chuas SAT go on holiday to Russia. But in Red Square, tensions between SAT Amy and Lulu come to a head. Can things carry on as before? SAT SAT Abridged by Jeremy Osborne SAT Reader: Liz Sutherland SAT SAT Producer: Rosalynd Ward SAT A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00y9yd5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00y9yd7 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00y9yd9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00y9ydc (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y9ydf (Listen) SAT presented by writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00y9ydh (Listen) SAT 'Terry the Lollipop Man is in danger,' according to listener SAT Jane Watt. Jane's council is seeking savings and school SAT crossing patrols are earmarked to go, but plans for SAT volunteers to take over would require a change in the law. SAT Also BBC Breakfast presenter Sian Williams reads Your News, SAT the bulletin sent in by listeners. With Eddie Mair and Becky SAT Milligan. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00y9ydk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00y9ydm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00yd8mv (Listen) SAT Series 17, Episode 2 SAT SAT Journalist and keen walker Stuart Maconie is presenting this SAT series of Ramblings and is setting out to find accessible SAT walks that offer great city views, perfect for people who SAT want to get out and walk on these short, dark winter days. SAT Among the cities he has in his sights are Belfast, Bath and SAT Cardiff. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00yd8mx (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The price of lamb in the shops has reached record highs in SAT the last year and sheep farmers are reporting good prices at SAT market. However those lambing now and preparing for others SAT in March and April have had to contend with some serious SAT challenges. Some were left tupping during the heavy snow of SAT last December - which can affect the ram's performance and SAT the ewe's ovulation, grass used to graze the sheep was SAT destroyed and the price of feed has rocketed. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith visits a family in Garway in Herefordshire SAT who've been taking shifts through the night to tend the SAT lambs being born and through the crucial early hours. She SAT helps with the birth of a new arrival and finds out whether SAT the cost to rear it will mean profit when it comes to SAT market. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00y9ydp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00yd8mz (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00yd8n1 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with Eden Project founder Tim Smit and poet Salena SAT Godden; interviews with a man who lived with a stammer for SAT 20 years before learning to control it, and a tube driver SAT whose life became involved with that of the person who SAT killed themselves under his train. There's a Guerilla Report SAT on mix tapes and Stephen Fry shares his Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT studio guest :: tim smit SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00yd8n3 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy talks to travel writer Colin Thubron about SAT hiking up a sacred mountain in Tibet and to members of an SAT expedition that explored communities around the Atlantic SAT Ocean's coast, from Africa to the United States. SAT SAT Producer Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Britain in a Box b00yd8n5 (Listen) SAT Series 4, The Old Grey Whistle Test 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 b00ydbtz (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT The internal debate within the Liberal Democrats about the SAT wisdom of forming a coalition with the Tories is not often SAT heard on the airwaves. In particular, the grassroots fear SAT they will be bracketed in the public mind with the SAT Conservatives when elections come. Here, the former MP, SAT Sandra Gidley, demands a greater emphasis on party identity SAT in conversation with a current MP Stephen Gilbert. SAT SAT Ed Balls was at the despatch box this week in his new job as SAT shadow Chancellor. There's been much speculation that he SAT will provide a tough opponent to the Chancellor, George SAT Osborne. But how far do these parliamentary clashes really SAT count? The former Tory chancellor, Lord Lawson, and The SAT Observer's senior economics commentator, William Keegan SAT contrast and compare. SAT SAT The cuts are coming. More were announced this week. Here, SAT two MPs with senior local government experience, the SAT Conservative's Bob Blackman and Labour's Heidi Alexander, SAT debate the room for savings in Town Halls - and the SAT political cost. SAT SAT Everyone may be talking about 'The Big Society'. Some, not SAT very politely. But who knows what it really means? Some SAT answers here from two enthusiasts: Matthew Taylor who used SAT to work for Tony Blair in Downing Street, and the SAT Conservative, Jesse Norman. SAT SAT Finally, a huge majority of MPs made clear this week that SAT they wanted no truck with giving prisoners the vote. A more SAT rebellious House of Commons than usual? Very much so, SAT according to Philip Cowley, Professor of Parliamentary SAT Government at Nottingham University. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ydbv1 (Listen) SAT There's a frightening glimpse inside the machinery of Hosni SAT Mubarak's police state. An introduction to the colourful, SAT confusing and surprisingly musical world of political SAT protest in Thailand. And our correspondent chances her arm SAT at a sport which brings traffic to a standstill in the SAT Republic of Ireland. SAT SAT The question of Mr Mubarak's immediate future isn't the only SAT one awaiting answer in Egypt. The role of the military in SAT this unfolding drama is another. What of the huge security SAT apparatus which has kept the president in power for three SAT decades? Rupert Wingfield Hayes has had an unexpected look SAT inside the state security system. SAT SAT The events in Egypt continue to exercise the White House. SAT The United States may have been a major ally - but it too SAT has been finding it hard to forecast what exactly's going to SAT happen next. President Obama has domestic concerns as well. SAT He has an important budget speech to deliver on Tuesday. It SAT comes at a time when this famously optimistic country is SAT trying to recover from its worst economic crisis in decades. SAT Justin Webb, our former North America editor, has just SAT returned to the US after a year and a half away and admits SAT that distance has given him a fresh perspective. SAT SAT It's nine months now since the centre of Bangkok was brought SAT to a standstill by an anti-government protest that cost more SAT than eighty lives. Since then pressure on the government of SAT Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva has continued with regular SAT demonstrations by the so-called 'red shirt' protestors and SAT their rivals the 'yellow shirts'. Neil Trevithick joined one SAT group of demonstrators and soon discovered the Thais have SAT their own way of disagreeing with each other. SAT SAT Now parents the world over worry constantly: are they SAT bringing up their children the right way? In recent times, SAT the trend in developed countries has been towards greater SAT liberalism, give children the freedom to express their SAT individuality. But this approach has been called into SAT question by the book, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by SAT Amy Chua. It explores the world of Chinese parenting. That, SAT it seems, is all about strict discipline, constant hard work SAT and an emphasis on academic success. These ideas may be SAT controversial in the West but Michael Bristow in Beijing SAT says in China, they're just common sense. SAT SAT The Republic of Ireland likes its sport. It's a force to be SAT reckoned with in rugby and in football. Its golf courses are SAT among the best in the world, and not just because they are SAT heavily watered by rain sweeping in from the Atlantic Ocean! SAT The country also has its own distinctive sports little SAT played elsewhere like Gaelic football and hurling. And SAT there's a form of bowls which requires no covered alley, no SAT skittles and very little in the way of specialised SAT equipment. Trish Flanagan has been finding out how it's SAT played entirely on the public roads. SAT SAT And with Trish Flanagan showing them how it's done over SAT there on the roads of County Cork, we've reached the end of SAT this edition of From Our Own Correspondent. I'm Tony Grant. SAT The producer is Oliver Hawkins. And we'll be here again soon SAT - on the BBC World Service. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00ydbv5 (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00y9tc5 (Listen) SAT Series 73, Episode 6 SAT SAT In the week that the UK Government voted to retain a ban on SAT prisoners voting; NHS Direct was said to be replacing the SAT GP's receptionist; and Belgian MPs wives were encouraged to SAT withhold conjugal rights until a coalition could be formed; SAT Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular SAT topical panel show. Making up the panel are Danielle Ward, SAT Sue Perkins, Jeremy Hardy and Fred Macaulay. Harriet Cass SAT reads the news. SAT SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00y9ydr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00y9ydt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00y9v01 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Red SAT Maids' School in Bristol with Defence Secretary Liam Fox, SAT Labour MP Tristram Hunt, columnist Polly Toynbee and writer SAT Harry Mount. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00ydd13 (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 b00yddnm (Listen) SAT Classic Chandler, The Lady in the Lake SAT SAT Derace Kingsley, a wealthy businessman, hires Marlowe to SAT find his estranged wife Crystal. Kingsley fears that rich, SAT reckless Crystal may have got herself into a scandal and the SAT last place she was known to have been was a resort called SAT Little Fawn Lake.Toby Stephens plays Philip Marlowe in a SAT landmark series bringing all Raymond Chandler's Philip SAT Marlowe novels to Radio 4. SAT SAT Philip Marlowe...Toby Stephens SAT Derace Kingsley...Sam Dale SAT Mildred...Barbara Barnes SAT Degarmo..Steve Toussaint SAT Bill Chess...Nathan Osgood SAT Adrienne...Claire Harry SAT Lavery...Lloyd Thomas SAT Sheriff Patton...Sean Baker SAT SAT Dramatised by Stephen Wyatt SAT Directed by Claire Grove SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00yfjf9 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Launch of our Women in Business SAT series - meet the three we're following as we find out what SAT it takes to succeed in these challenging times and hear SAT listeners' experiences of building up their own companies. SAT 'Tiger Mother' Amy Chua defends her parenting style and SAT describes how she raised her American daughters the Chinese SAT way. Beryl Bainbridge: biographer Michael Holroyd and writer SAT Kate Mosse on the Man Booker's posthumous award. We explore SAT the politics of the divorce name game: better to go back to SAT your own than hang on to your ex's or do you never take your SAT husband's name in the first place? The importance and value SAT of war-time experiences in writing for children. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00yfjfc (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00yhs5x (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented this week by SAT Stephanie Flanders, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, SAT statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the SAT business world, through discussion with people running SAT leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT This week, Stephanie and her panel of top executives discuss SAT the impact of political instability on the way they do SAT business. SAT SAT They also talk about their employees - many chief executives SAT will say their workers are the company's "most valuable SAT asset", but is it really true? SAT SAT Stephanie is joined in the studio by Tim Watkins, vice SAT president of the western arm of Chinese telecommunications SAT company Huawei; Richard Fenning, chief executive of global SAT security consultancy Control Risks; Vineet Nayar, chief SAT executive of Indian IT services company HCL Technologies. SAT SAT Producer: Caroline Bayley. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00y9ydw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00y9ydy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00y9yf0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00yhs5z (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by comedian, actor and former presenter of SAT Have I Got News for You - Angus Deayton. Angus brings his SAT hosting skills to a new panel game for Radio 4 'It's Your SAT Round'. The show has a simple format - there isn't one. Each SAT comedy panellist has to invent their own round for the SAT others to play. Miles Jupp asks his adversaries What Does My SAT Dad Know? SAT SAT James Fleet is well known for appearing in many a Richard SAT Curtis project - Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill SAT and for being the nice but dim Hugo in The Vicar of Dibley. SAT Now he plays a much sterner part in Richard Bean's play The SAT Heretic at the Royal Court Theatre, a black comedy exploring SAT the divisive issues around climate change and orthodox SAT science. SAT SAT From one former barrister to another, Clive talks to the SAT BAFTA award winning writer Peter Moffat. His latest SAT primetime BBC One drama 'Silk' staring Maxine Peake and SAT Rupert Penry-Jones explores the lives, loves and hard cases SAT of barristers in the front line of criminal law. SAT SAT Comedy writer and performer Andrew McGibbon talks to Emma SAT Freud about his new book 'I Was Douglas Adams's Flatmate'. A SAT collection of interviews with friends or collaborators of SAT some the the 20th century's most elusive and notorious SAT figures - Jon Canter's time with the Hitchhikers Guide SAT Creator, the tailor who created the 'Man in Black' image for SAT Johnny Cash and even Andrew's own spell as the drummer for SAT Morrissey. SAT SAT On Valentine's Weekend, one of Stateside's finest SAT country-soul-rock bands Drive-By Truckers play a special SAT acoustic performance of Everybody Needs Love from their SAT eleventh album, Go-Go Boots. SAT SAT And the 21 year old described by The Guardian as 'Major Star SAT Alert' Caitlin Rose performs Own Side Now from her SAT critically acclaimed album of the same name. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00yhs61 (Listen) SAT Arianna Huffington SAT SAT Arianna Huffington has had a rich and prolific career. A SAT best selling author and TV presenter, her political SAT transformation saw her first stand as a Republican candidate SAT before switching to the Democrats, as she sought high public SAT office. After setting up the highly sucessful internet SAT newspaper, The Huffington Post, which championed "citizen SAT journalism", this week she agreed a buyout by media giants SAT AOL. But who is Arianna Huffington and what makes her tick? SAT In this week's Profile, Emma Jane Kirby, looks into the life SAT of America's latest media mogul and asks what next for the SAT woman who's been described as "the most upwardly mobile SAT Greek since Icarus". SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00yhs63 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00yhs65 (Listen) SAT A Mystery in the Village SAT SAT On 5 June 1981 the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report in SAT Atlanta published the mysterious deaths of 5 young gay men SAT in LA from a rare pneumonia. A link was made with similar SAT deaths from a rare cancer in New York. This was the start of SAT an epidemic: AIDS. Simon Garfield, who has written about the SAT epidemic since the 1980s, unravels the earliest clues and SAT follows the trail from America to the UK and the largest SAT ever peace-time public health education campaign. SAT SAT AIDS was first reported in the UK in December 1981, but the SAT government response was slow. The gay community - still SAT enjoying the freedoms won with the de-criminalisation of SAT homosexuality in 1967 - looked after its own. The Terence SAT Higgins Trust was formed after one of the earliest AIDS SAT deaths in 1982, and Gay Switchboard promulgated 'safer sex'. SAT In 1984 a test for the newly-discovered virus, HIV, became SAT available. SAT SAT By December 1984 two heterosexuals had died of AIDS in the SAT UK - both haemophiliacs who had been given contaminated SAT blood products. With the spread to intravenous drug users, SAT it became obvious that the UK was following the same pattern SAT as the US, where cases were doubling every 6-8 months. SAT Something had to be done. SAT SAT Secretary of State for Health, Norman Fowler, launched an SAT information campaign in November 1986. TV adverts featured SAT tombstones and icebergs, and leaflets dropped though 23 SAT million letterboxes. SAT SAT Thirty years after the start of AIDS, Simon Garfield reviews SAT the early years, hearing from Norman, now Lord, Fowler, Lisa SAT Power of THT, Professor Anthony Pinching - an immunologist SAT who was an early expert on AIDS, and Jonathan Grimshaw - SAT diagnosed with HIV in 1984 and founder of Body Positive. SAT SAT Producer: Marya Burgess. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00y51cp (Listen) SAT The Moonstone, Episode 3 SAT SAT Eleanor Bron as Lady Verinder, Bill Paterson as Mr Bruff, SAT and Marcia Warren as Miss Clack star in Episode Three of SAT Doug Lucie's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins' detective SAT masterpiece. SAT SAT Sergeant Cuff has failed to find either the Moonstone or who SAT stole it as the story moves to London. There, Miss Clack, a SAT poor relation of Lady Verinder takes up the story of the SAT missing diamond. SAT SAT Miss Clack, played by Marcia Warren, is one of Wilkie SAT Collins' best comic characters as her determination to save SAT souls irritates everyone whom she tries to give her tracts SAT to on subjects such as 'Satan in the Hairbrush'. SAT SAT This is light relief from the intensity of the search for SAT the thief of the Moonstone in Yorkshire. The diamond is now SAT thought to have been put in pledge to a money lender in SAT London who has deposited it for a year in the bank, although SAT no one knows how it got there, Sergeant Cuff having been SAT called off the case. Heartbroken, Franklin Blake has gone SAT abroad. Meanwhile Rachel is still refusing to say anything SAT about what happened that night and throws herself into an SAT engagement but is it out of despair? SAT SAT Cast: SAT Miss Clack ..... Marcia Warren SAT Lady Verinder ..... Eleanor Bron SAT Rachel Verinder ..... Jasmine Hyde SAT Godfrey Ablewhite ..... Mark Straker SAT Mr Bruff ..... Bill Paterson SAT Ablewhite Snr .....Geoffrey Whitehead SAT Penelope ..... Clare Corbett SAT Mr Murthwaite ..... Paul Bhattacharjee SAT Indian..... Narinder Samra SAT Aunt Ablewhite ..... Carolyn Pickles SAT SAT Recorded on location by Lucinda Mason Brown SAT Original 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 b00y9yf2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00y8yjv (Listen) SAT If the government cutbacks hadn't already done so, the Prime SAT Minister David Cameron looks as if he's finally closed the SAT door on state-sponsored multiculturalism; as he defined it SAT "where different cultures have been encouraged to lead SAT different lives." The argument that we have been too SAT tolerant of other lifestyles, cultures and values was an SAT interesting one to make when the English Defence League took SAT to the streets of Luton this weekend. I don't suppose the PM SAT had them in mind when he called for a new "muscular SAT liberalism" but the fact that the EDL claimed the speech SAT reflected their concerns shows how difficult this subject SAT has become in modern Britain. SAT SAT Is the fight against racism and prejudice, which also SAT celebrates multiculturalism and the hyper diversity of our SAT country, also an essential element of the tolerance we like SAT to take pride in? Or is multiculturalism part of the SAT problem? Rather than tolerating difference it makes an issue SAT of it at every point - institutionalising identity politics, SAT creating cultural walls that stand in the way of SAT integration. Without a collective identity and shared sense SAT of values how can we hope to build a strong society that can SAT withstand extremism? But who's values and should the state SAT ever get involved in trying to shape and define the identity SAT of specific communities? SAT SAT Chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Kenan Malik, SAT Claire Fox and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00y5jdt (Listen) SAT (16/17) SAT Russell Davies asks the questions of four more competitors, SAT who have come successfully through the heats to fight for SAT the last remaining place in the 2011 Final. SAT SAT This week's quartet are from Merstham in Surrey, Malvern in SAT Worcestershire, Warrington in Cheshire, and Winchester. Just SAT one of them will get to join the winners of the three SAT previous semi-finals, in competing to be named the 58th SAT Brain of Britain. SAT SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS PROGRAMME SAT SAT WILLIAM DE ATH, a business analyst from Merstham in Surrey; SAT ELIZABETH MANNING, a lexicographer from Malvern; SAT DEREK MOODY, a planning and logistics manager from SAT Warrington; SAT ANDY TUCKER, a consultant and former diplomat from SAT Winchester. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00y57lr (Listen) SAT The greatest of all musician-poets was Orpheus, the lyre SAT player and lyricist who charmed even the birds and the SAT beasts, but went to hell and back in pursuit of his enduring SAT love, Eurydice. Of course, he ignored the injunctions SAT against glancing back at her whilst leaving Hades, and lost SAT her for all time. It's a myth that has captured the SAT imagination of poets since time immemorial. In this edition SAT of Poetry Please Roger McGough introduces requests for poems SAT that shed unexpected, many-angled light upon this vital, SAT evergreen tale, with works by , Carol Ann Duffy, CK Williams SAT and others. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00yhsfq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00k3yh7 (Listen) SUN A Friend of the Family, Going to Ireland SUN SUN A Friend of the Family 3/3 SUN SUN Going to Ireland SUN SUN A new story for radio SUN Written and read by Frank Dunne SUN SUN Marcia the cleaner is brilliant for her employer's writer's SUN block but brings disaster in her wake. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yhsfs (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yhsfv (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yhsfx (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00yhsfz (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00yhsg1 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Petrock, South Brent, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00yhs61 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00yhsg3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00yhsg5 (Listen) SUN Spiritual Energy SUN SUN Mark Tully draws on music and literature inspired by the SUN concept of a "Creator Spirit" to ask if spiritual energy SUN exists, where it might be found, and how we can tap into it. SUN SUN From Mahler's setting of the hymn "Veni Creator Spiritus", SUN and Olivier Messiaen's Psalmody of Ubiquity Through Love, to SUN the dances of Whirling Dervishes and the flute music of SUN Northern Plains Native Americans, Tully seeks for ways in SUN which we can be inspired by some kind of sacred energy. SUN SUN And through literature from Greece, the USA, Britain, France SUN and India, he examines the metaphors - fire, a 'great SUN heart', light, electricity, and breath - that have been used SUN in an attempt to describe this illusive but attractive idea. SUN SUN Produced by Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00yhsg7 (Listen) SUN Yew Trees SUN SUN 16/18. All yew trees are steeped in remarkable natural SUN history. For this Living World, Lionel Kelleway visits two SUN very different yew trees in Scotland. The Fortingall Yew is SUN possibly the oldest living thing in Europe - it's estimated SUN to be at least 5000 years old. Lionel Kelleway meets Mike SUN Strachan of the Forestry Commission by the Fortingall Yew in SUN Perthshire, Scotland, and discovers that though the tree has SUN fragmented over the centuries it is - remarkably - still SUN going strong. SUN SUN Scientist and broadcaster Aubrey Manning has a Great Yew SUN tree in his garden in East Lothian. In comparison with the SUN Fortingall Yew, the Ormiston Yew is intact making it, in SUN many ways, far more impressive to visit than the Fortingall SUN Yew. Though it looks like a 'green mound' from the outside, SUN Lionel and Aubrey venture inside the tree and are filled SUN with wonder at what they find. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Polly Procter. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00yhsg9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00yhsgc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00yhsgf (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 b00yhsgh (Listen) SUN SeeAbility SUN SUN Clarissa Dickson Wright presents the Radio 4 Appeal on SUN behalf of the charity SeeAbility. SUN SUN Donations to SeeAbility should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio SUN 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SeeAbility. SUN Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give SUN online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax SUN payer, please provide SeeAbility with your full name and SUN address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The SUN online and phone donation facilities are not currently SUN available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 255913. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00yhsgk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00yhsgm (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00yhv2t (Listen) SUN The Song of God's Love SUN SUN A service live from the Chapel of Worcester College, Oxford SUN for the Eve of St Valentine's Day exploring one of the most SUN fascinating texts about love in the Bible, the Song of SUN Songs. Led by the Chaplain, the Revd Dr Jonathan Arnold with SUN Dr Susan Gillingham and the two chapel choirs directed by SUN Kathleen McDermott and accompanied by Edward Turner. SUN Producer: Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00y9v03 (Listen) SUN On marriage SUN SUN Alain de Botton muses on why a bookish life is a poor SUN preparation for marriage! He says Western literature's SUN obsession with unrequited love means the average love story SUN is of help only to the lovelorn. And he argues that the SUN blandness of the word marriage hides a "welter of intensity SUN and depth that put to shame the most passionate works of SUN literature". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00yhv2w (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00yhv2y (Listen) SUN Catch up on the week's events in Ambridge with the omnibus SUN edition of the long-running series. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00yhv30 (Listen) SUN Celia Imrie SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actress Celia Imrie. SUN SUN Immediately recognisable as one of Britain's most versatile SUN actresses, she's worked in television, theatre and films SUN over the past four decades. While she's taken roles at the SUN Royal Shakespeare Company and in big budget films, it's her SUN instinct for TV comedy - working alongside Victoria Wood and SUN Julie Walters - that has made her a household name. SUN SUN Audiences loved the spoof soap opera Acorn Antiques and she SUN won an Olivier Award for her role in the stage production. SUN In the early days, though, she remembers the camera crews SUN were unsure what was going on. "I do remember the cameramen SUN watching what had been a very slick show up until Acorn SUN Antiques and then just thinking, 'Why is this bit so bad? SUN Why is the scenery swaying in the background?'" SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00y6p69 (Listen) SUN Series 59, Episode 1 SUN SUN The first show in a brand new series of Just a Minute. SUN Panellists are Paul Merton, Gyles Brandreth, stand-up SUN comedienne Shappi Khorsandi and rock musician Rick Wakeman SUN making his debut on the show. SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons guides them through subjects such as 'Dear SUN Listener' and 'How Bankers Could Restore Their Reputation', SUN with lots of fun in between. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00yhv32 (Listen) SUN What Is Milk? SUN SUN Filtered, homogenised, standardised, raw, full fat, low fat SUN - what is milk? Sheila Dillon teases out this seemingly SUN simple question with Professor Peter Atkins, author of SUN Liquid Materialities: A History of Milk, Science and the SUN Law, who charts the changing stuff that we call milk. SUN SUN Today's milk reflects today's interests, charted by Mintel SUN in their most recent intelligence report on milk and cream, SUN particularly the success of filtered milk Cravendale (Arla), SUN and the 1% pioneered by Robert Wiseman Dairies, and widely SUN copied since. Sheila visits the Arla Dairy in Stourton, SUN Leeds, to find out about the many processes today's milk SUN goes through to suit our current tastes. SUN SUN The success of the 1% milk has been driven by the FSA SUN campaign to reduce saturated fats. But as Professor Ian SUN Givens Director of the University of Reading's Centre for SUN Dairy Research explains, the evidence connecting milk SUN consumption with cardiovascular disease shows a slight SUN reduction in higher milk drinkers from lower milk drinkers. SUN SUN Raw milk, despite being banned in Scotland and sold with a SUN health warning in England and Wales, has seen sales growth SUN recently, a result of farmers markets, online sales, and the SUN beliefs of many that raw milk straight from the cow is a SUN fundamentally different substance. Dr Natasha Campbell SUN McBride advocates raw milk for many of her patients for a SUN range of conditions, including lactose intolerance. To find SUN out about modern raw milk production Sheila visited Hook & SUN Son, who sell online and through farmers markets. SUN SUN Producer: Rebecca Moore. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00yhsgp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00yhv34 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Mind Changers b00yhv36 (Listen) SUN Series 5, Elizabeth Loftus and Eye Witness Testimony SUN SUN Elizabeth Loftus is the highest-ranking female in the list SUN of top 100 psychologists. She's gained world-wide renown for SUN her experiments showing that memory, far from being an SUN accurate record, is influenced by subsequent exposure to SUN information and events and is re-constituted according to SUN the biases these create. SUN SUN Claudia Hammond meets the creator of several classic SUN experiments, who broke new ground with the filmed SUN simulations of road accidents she showed to subjects in the SUN 1970s. These studies revealed that witness reports of the SUN same incident varied according to the wording used by the SUN questioner, giving rise to the development of the 'cognitive SUN interview' - witness-led it avoids questioner-bias. Loftus' SUN work has changed the way witnesses are dealt with throughout SUN the legal system. SUN SUN Having shown that existing memories can be altered, Loftus SUN was inspired to try to implant a whole false memory by the SUN rise in cases of 'recovered' memories of violence and abuse SUN in childhood. Her 'Lost in the Mall' and 'Bugs Bunny' SUN studies proved that she could - in 30% of subjects - make SUN them believe something that had never happened was part of SUN their childhood history. SUN SUN Loftus has inspired much work in the field of memory, SUN including that of Barbara Tversky, on how memory reflects SUN the spin put on a story. SUN SUN Lorraine Hope, of Portsmouth University, has used the SUN Cognitive Interview to develop the Self-Administered SUN Interview (SAI), trialled by Greater Manchester Police. SUN Steve Retford of their Major Incident Team is convinced of SUN its benefits. SUN SUN Loftus' former friends and teachers at Stanford - Gordon SUN Bower, Lee Ross and Brian Wandell - remember a fun-loving SUN and forceful young woman, while Gillian Cohen reviews her SUN influence in the UK. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00y9tbx (Listen) SUN Alnwick Castle SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team are in the magical surroundings of SUN Alnwick Castle, Northumberland. SUN Chris Beardshaw explores Alnwick's treacherous Poison SUN Garden. SUN SUN Meanwhile, Bunny Guinness is perched in a treetop, inside SUN one of the largest treehouses in the world: 'A How To' on SUN building treehouses. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Completists b00yhv38 (Listen) SUN Episode 4 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 b00yhv3b (Listen) SUN The Moonstone, Episode 4 SUN SUN Paul Rhys as Franklin Blake, Kenneth Cranham as Sergeant SUN Cuff, Bill Paterson as Mr Bruff and Jasmine Hyde as Rachel SUN Verinder star in Episode Four of Doug Lucie's dramatisation SUN of Wilkie Collins's detective masterpiece. SUN SUN Franklin Blake returns from abroad determined to get to the SUN bottom of the mystery of the missing diamond and persuade SUN Rachel to talk to him again. In Yorkshire he makes a SUN shocking discovery at the quicksand and then sets up an SUN amazing re-enactment of the fatal night a year ago. SUN SUN Opium plays an important part in the re-enactment as it was SUN used widely for killing pain in mid-Victorian England and in SUN Blake's case by accident to help him sleep after stopping SUN smoking cigars. A strange medical man called Ezra Jennings SUN enters the story and movingly describes how opium has helped SUN him to combat a disease for many years (which sounds like SUN cancer but is never explained). SUN SUN After finally discovering who stole the diamond, the action SUN moves back to London as the Indians have reappeared just as SUN the Moonstone is likely to leave the Bank at the end of the SUN year's pledge. A chase to a pub in the East End of London SUN ends tragically for a man in disguise and the final SUN postscript from Mr Murthwaite tells of the diamond's final SUN resting place back in the forehead of the Indian deity. SUN SUN Franklin Blake ..... Paul Rhys SUN Rachel Verinder ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Betteridge ..... Steve Hodson SUN Sergeant Cuff ..... Kenneth Cranham SUN Mr Bruff ..... Bill Paterson SUN Ezra Jennings ..... Peter Marinker SUN Mr Luker ..... Stephen Critchlow SUN Rosanna Spearman ..... Alison Pettitt SUN Mr Murthwaite ..... Paul Bhattacharjee SUN Lucy ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Gooseberry ..... Harrison Webb SUN SUN Recorded on location by Lucinda Mason Brown SUN Original Music by David Chilton SUN Dramatised by Doug Lucie SUN Produced by Janet Whitaker SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00yhv3d (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the award-winning novelist Hanif SUN Kureishi about his newly published collected essays, which SUN span the past twenty-five years. SUN SUN Novelists Barbara Erskine and John Lanchester explore the SUN whys and wherefores of adding new technology to their SUN fiction. SUN SUN Plus, Orange Prize founder Kate Mosse offers an alternative SUN list of literary heroes and heroines, following a hearty SUN response from Open Book listeners to the programme's recent SUN interview with Sebastian Faulks about his television series, SUN Faulks on Fiction. SUN SUN PRODUCER: AASIYA LODHI. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00yhv3g (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requests to SUN stir the senses; from the contemporary to the canonical, SUN read by John Sessions and Catherine Cusack. SUN SUN With work by Coleridge, Cavafy, Larkin and Plath, as well as SUN less familiar names like the American Chase Twichell seeking SUN solace in the company of trees. There's a mysterious story SUN about an exiled aristocrat by Robert Graves, and a blast of SUN fresh air from Vicki Feaver. There's also an evocative poem SUN by Robert Minhinnick, where the recollection of the feeling SUN of holding a bird in the palm of the hand provokes a SUN powerful question. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00y8vkj (Listen) SUN Bent Cops SUN SUN Are police doing enough to tackle corruption in their ranks? SUN Following a number of high profile trials in which officers SUN have been jailed, Allan Urry investigates the crimes they SUN committed and asks if more could have been done to stop SUN them. A constable given a life sentence earlier this month SUN for a series of sex attacks on vulnerable women he met while SUN on duty, had previously been put on trial for rape, during SUN his time in the army. Why didn't the police service know SUN this when they agreed to employ him? SUN How was a police sergeant able to live a double life as a SUN respected bobby and as the leader of a ruthless underworld SUN crime gang, dealing drugs, laundering money, and SUN intimidating witnesses? SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00yhs61 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00yhsgr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00yhsgt (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yhsgw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00yhv92 (Listen) SUN Frank Cottrell Boyce makes his 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 Pick of the Week treats your ear drums to a symphony of rare SUN and unusual sounds. We've got the first snort of a new born SUN lamb, the discreet sibilance of a genius sucking his teeth, SUN and the giggles that you get when you're nibbled by fish. SUN The Reverend Richard Coles treats us to the sound of music SUN made out of ice; the Tiger Mother sings her Battle Hymn, and SUN the Surgery brings us the devastating silent music of tears SUN withheld. SUN SUN Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother - Radio 4 SUN Music Planet - Radio 3 SUN Meanings of Mountains - Radio 3 SUN The Music That Melted - Radio 4 SUN Endnotes: David Foster Wallace - Radio 3 SUN Out of the Vortex - Radio 4 SUN Farming Today - Radio 4 SUN Shaun Keaveny - 6 Music SUN The Secret History of Social Networking - Radio 4 SUN On Your Bike - Radio 4 SUN In Denial: Climate on the Couch - Radio 4 SUN Fred McCauley - Radio Scotland SUN The Surgery - Radio 1. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00yhv94 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00yhv96 (Listen) SUN Matt Frei with the insider's guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today, featuring location reports, SUN lively discussion and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00lp15r (Listen) SUN Stories with Latitude, I Drink Nothing SUN SUN Emma Kennedy's memories of accompanying her parents to hear SUN the Rolling Stones at a rock festival when she was nine SUN offer a hilarious child's eye-view of the event, from the SUN sanitary facilities and the inaccessibility of the ice-cream SUN van to the motley crowd of festival goers, the sight of a SUN male streaker and the thrilling arrival of Mick Jagger SUN strutting onto the stage. SUN SUN Producer Sara Davies. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00y9tbv (Listen) SUN Radio 4 is being encouraged to reach beyond its largely SUN white, better off, southern audience by the BBC Trust. But SUN you say don't change a thing. Roger Bolton unpicks the BBC SUN Trust's report on Radio's 3, 4 and 7. SUN SUN Listener Sasha Lubetkin visits the British Museum and the SUN BBC's pronunciation unit to find out more about the BBC's SUN role as defender of the English language. SUN SUN Are The Archers getting too cosy with the Palace? SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00y9tbz (Listen) SUN On Last Word with John Wilson this week: SUN SUN Test Match star Trevor Bailey is remembered, both at the SUN crease and in the commentary box, by his friend Henry SUN Blofeld. SUN SUN Dr Ernest McCulloch pioneered stem-cell research which led SUN to the first bone-marrow transplants. SUN SUN John Paul Getty III lost his ear to kidnappers, was snubbed SUN by his billionaire grandfather and suffered a crippling SUN stroke. We hear the story of massive wealth and family SUN tragedy. SUN SUN And rock star Greg Lake tells us how, when he was putting SUN together a new band, blues guitarist Gary Moore passed the SUN audition simply by 'tuning up'. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00ydbv5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00yhsgh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00y6qtb (Listen) SUN Radical Economics: escaping credit serfdom SUN SUN The role of credit in the build up to the global financial SUN crisis is well known - but what has our reliance on credit SUN been doing to the wider economy and to human behaviour? SUN SUN The expansion of consumer credit has been encouraged by SUN social democratic as well as centre right governments. But SUN some on the left believe that the growth of the financial SUN sector has given birth to a novel form of capitalism and SUN with that a new kind of worker exploitation. SUN SUN Paul Mason meets the economists of "financialisation" who SUN believe that credit has become the defining relationship SUN between workers and employers, citizens and public services. SUN SUN Paul Mason is Economics Editor of Newsnight and the author SUN of Meltdown: The End of the Age of Greed. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00yhv98 (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 b00yhv9b (Listen) SUN Episode 39 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 Sarfraz Manzoor is in the SUN chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00y9tc1 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Hailee Steinfeld the young actress SUN who stars with Jeff Bridges and Matt Damon in The Coen SUN Brothers' remake of True Grit. Sir Christopher Frayling is SUN also on hand to give an assessment of the modern Western. SUN SUN Keira Knightley discusses her role in the adaptation of SUN Kazuo Ishiguro's novel Never Let Me Go. SUN SUN Author Jonathan Coe looks at the career of Japanese SUN filmmaker Kenji Mizoguchi, seen as one of the first SUN 'feminist' directors. SUN SUN Director David O. Russell talks family politics in real-life SUN boxing tale The Fighter. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00yhsg5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00yhvq3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00y8yjj (Listen) MON With a culture which equated health with beauty, Brazil has MON developed the biggest cosmetic surgery industry in the MON world. Public clinics often offer classic cosmetic MON procedures for free and 'La Plastica' is the realisable aim MON of people who can sometimes not afford the bus fair to make MON their consultation. How has plastic surgery become such an MON important part of the Brazilian culture and economy, and why MON is beauty seen as a 'right' for people who may not have MON electricity or running water. Laurie talks to Monica Figuero MON from Newcastle University and Alex Edmonds who's written on MON this subject. MON Also on the programme, Alan Dolan on how working class MON masculine culture in Britain puts men's health at risk. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00yhsg1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yhvq5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yhvq7 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yhvq9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00yhvqc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00yhyj2 (Listen) MON presented by writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00yhvqf (Listen) MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00yhvqh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00yhynt (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 b00yhynw (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to David Attenborough as he goes on the MON trail of the elephant bird. Fifty years ago he was given MON pieces of its egg on a visit to Madagascar, now he returns MON to find out what this giant ostrich-like creature can tell MON us about the balance between survival and extinction. A MON journey of a different kind for Sheila Hancock who goes in MON search of the often over-looked artist of the watercolour. MON The writer David Shields heralds the death of the realist MON novel, as he advocates blending fiction and non-fiction in a MON kind of 'lyric essay', but he does it by plagiarising other MON authors in a form of 'creative sampling'. And poet Andrew MON Motion meditates on crossing the borders between fact and MON fiction. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00yhys1 (Listen) MON The 33, Episode 1 MON MON The 33 by Jonathan Franklin MON MON In 2010, the world turned towards Chile when the collapse of MON a copper mine left 33 men to survive underground for almost MON 3 months, the longest time in history. Journalists flocked MON to the San Jose mine and the family's settlement 'Camp Hope' MON to follow the rescue mission, to see if the impossible could MON be achieved. MON MON In this insightful and gripping account, Jonathan Franklin MON reveals what life was really like for the 33 men underground MON and how complex the rescue mission actually was. A story of MON courage and camaraderie, it reveals the toll on minds and MON bodies trapped almost half a mile beneath the surface of the MON earth. MON MON Jonathan Franklin is an award-winning journalist published MON in 30 languages around the world. He regularly reports for MON The Guardian, Washington Post, Dagbladet, Der Spiegel, MON Jerusalem Post, Sydney Morning Herald and Rolling Stone MON magazine, among many others. MON MON He was one of the only journalists to have security access MON to the heart of the rescue team. MON MON Read by Trevor White MON Abridged by Richard Hamilton MON Produced by Lucy Collingwood. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yj18h (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents. Anna Nicole Smith was the waitress who MON became a Playboy pin-up and octogenarian billionaire's wife, MON before dying penniless at 39. Is her story which has now MON been turned into an opera a modern day morality tale? We MON talk to Dame Fiona Reynolds, head of the National Trust MON about plans to sell off the nation's forests. Many people MON report that having a good cry makes them feel better. But MON for some shedding a tear is so hard. The comedian Jo Brand MON talks about her new documentary, 'For crying out loud', she MON goes in search of the secrets behind the tears, and why it MON appears we are all crying in public now. And Jane talks to MON two Michelin-starred chefs: Angela Hartnett, chef-patron of MON Murano and the York and Albany, both in London; and to Skye MON Gyngell, who's just won her first star as head chef of MON Petersham Nurseries. MON MON Dame Fiona Reynolds MON MON Over a hundred years old, the National Trust has an MON unrivalled portfolio of over 350 historic houses, gardens MON and ancient monuments as well as miles and miles of MON coastland, islands, castles, nature reserves, farmland and MON villages. But how happy is the general public with the MON National Trust? Is it too elitist or is it, at some critics MON claim, trying too hard in its outreach programme and MON becoming “Disneyfied†in the process. And what does it have MON to say about the government’s proposals to sell off 637,000 MON acres of woodland? Dame Fiona Reynolds who has just MON celebrated her tenth year as director general of the MON National Trust, joins Jane in the studio. MON MON Female Chefs MON MON This year’s awarding of Michelin stars saw a record total go MON to women chefs: 11. But that is still from a total of 143. MON Is the profession really changing – becoming more MON women-friendly? Are different ways of cooking and of MON running a restaurant being recognised – or should more women MON be prepared to take the full-on heat in the kitchen? Jane MON talks to two Michelin-starred chefs: Angela Hartnett, MON chef-patron of Murano and the York and Albany, both in MON London; and to Skye Gyngell, who’s just won her first star MON as head chef of Petersham Nurseries – news which came as a MON surprise to her. MON MON Anna Nicole: the opera – A modern morality tale for women MON today? MON MON Anna Nicole Smith was the waitress who became a Playboy MON pin-up and octogenarian billionaire's wife, before dying MON penniless at 39. Her story has been turned into an opera, MON commissioned by the Royal Opera House. How much is the MON story of Anna Nicole a modern morality tale for women of our MON time? Jane will be joined Fiona Maddocks, Music Critic of MON the Observer and Kathryn Flett a journalist and broadcaster. MON MON Crying MON MON Many people report that having a good cry makes them feel MON better. But for some shedding a tear is so hard. The MON comedian Jo Brand can laugh but she can’t cry. In a new MON documentary, ‘For crying out loud’, she goes in search of MON the secrets behind the tears, and why it appears we are all MON crying in public now. Jane is joined by Jo Brand and Dr MON Thomas Dixon, Senior Lecturer in History at Queen Mary, MON University of London and Director of the Centre for the MON History of the Emotions and the clinical psychologist Dr MON Cecilia d'Felice. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yj26c (Listen) MON Far Pavilions, Episode 11 MON MON M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy MON Catherine. Leaving the Karidkote party, Ash rejoins the MON Guides in Rawalpindi. MON MON Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi MON Ash ..... Blake Ritson MON Jhoti ..... Joseph Samrai MON Kaka-Ji Rao ..... Paul Bhattacharjee MON Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes MON Zarin ..... Christopher Simpson MON Khoda-Daad ..... Sam Dastor MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 11:00 Leaving Mr Wrong b00yj3bz (Listen) MON Imagine planning to leave your marriage two weeks into it MON and waiting over twenty years to do it. It happens more MON commonly than you might think as divorce rates show more MON women than men petitioning for divorce in their fifties and MON sixties. Neatly countering the schmaltz of Valentine's day, MON in Leaving Mr Wrong, Roisin McAuley speaks with women who MON left husbands and a husband who was left. MON But is this really a case of 'empty nesters' looking for a MON new challenge or have significant legal and social changes MON and the women's liberation movement contributed to the MON number of wives who are opting to strike out alone in search MON of an independent life? MON Leaving Mr Wrong will make you laugh and cry at the same MON time as Roisin finds out what really makes women leave MON marriages that seem, on the outside, to be functioning MON perfectly well. MON Producer Rachael Kiddey. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00yj2g9 (Listen) MON Series 7, Summer of '76 MON MON Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back, complete with MON his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his never ending MON capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever scraps his MON agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and cat MON together. MON MON Ed has embraced the online age and subscribed to Facebook MON but finds he has opened up a Pandora's box of so-called MON friends that he's never actually met. That is until one MON Fiona Templeton pops up and he's reminded of the events of MON 1976 when he was a hot new writer and she a hot young model. MON Should an old acquaintance be renewed or should Ed leave MON well enough alone? MON MON Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas MON Recycling Man ..... Paul Sharma MON Pearl ..... Rita May MON Olive ..... Stephanie Cole MON Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON Fiona ..... Jenny Agutter MON Jaz Milvane ..... Philip Jackson MON Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Cliff ..... Geoff McGivern MON Ray ..... Simon Greenall MON MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00yj3ml (Listen) MON Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00yhvqk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00ykvnn (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00yj3mn (Listen) MON (17/17) MON Russell Davies chairs the 2011 Final of the evergreen MON general knowledge contest. The Finalists are from Northwich MON in Cheshire, Prescot in Lancashire, Beeston in MON Nottinghamshire, and Winchester. All have come through heats MON and semi-finals to face this last hurdle for the silver MON trophy and the title Brain of Britain, in the 58th contest MON since the programme was devised. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00yhv94 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00yj3mq (Listen) MON Market: Castaway by Michael Stewart MON MON Andrew is proud of his beard and his liberal attitudes. Then MON Akram Khan buys some computers off his stall. He is a MON successful businessman, he lives in a house Andrew admires. MON Andrew is sanguine about this - until he fits a wi-fi router MON in Mr Khan's house. MON MON Andrew.....Kevin Eldon MON Tom.........Marshall Lancaster MON Sarah.......Deborah McAndrew MON Akram......Ian Aspinall MON Mrs Khan...Balvinder Sopal MON MON Original Music by Steven D Reid MON Produced by Gary Brown MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00yhs65 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 On Your Bike b00yhxbm (Listen) MON Episode 6 MON MON The bicycle is pressed into service in then Boer War and MON again in 1914 when thousands sign up to join Cyclist MON battalions who rode them to the front with full kit and MON rifles MON MON Presenter: Martin Ellis MON Producer: Simon Evans MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00yhv32 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00yj3sl (Listen) MON Faith Schools MON MON Ernie Rea chairs Radio 4's discussion programme in which MON guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives MON debate the challenges of today's world. MON MON Each week a panel is assembled to represent a diversity of MON views and opinions, which often reveal hidden, complex and MON sometimes contradictory understandings of the world around MON us. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00yjvxn (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yhvqm (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00yj3sn (Listen) MON Series 59, Episode 2 MON MON Popular long running panel game, hosted by Nicholas Parsons. MON The panellists this week are Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, MON Sue Perkins and Marcus Brigstocke. Subjects include "Twenty MON Four Hour News" and "Emergency Stop" in which a Kitten is MON hypothetically run over. MON No REAL animals were harmed in the making of this programme. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00yj3sq (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00yj3ss (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on a major new exhibition MON which aims to make us reassess watercolours, with a range of MON images from the past 800 years. MON MON Producer Ella-mai Robey. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yj26c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Power of Scotland b00yj3ww (Listen) MON Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond wants his country to MON become the green energy capital of Europe. MON But are his goals feasible? David Miller, BBC Scotland's MON Environment correspondent, tests the evidence. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00yj3xx (Listen) MON The Big Society MON MON The "big society" - the idea that volunteers should take MON over some of the functions of the state - is the most MON over-used policy phrase of the moment. But how will the MON theory work in practice? MON MON Chris Bowlby looks at the big society on the ground in MON Oxford - from the affluent streets of the City's North to MON the deprived estates of Blackbird Leys - and tries to figure MON out the consequences of expecting communities to do more for MON themselves. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00y92m6 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to a leading Egyptian MON scientist about the state of research in the country under MON the current regime and finds out if a change in leadership MON will help academia and industry. Also in the programme: how MON alien marine life is costing the UK taxpayer more than £2bn MON a year and how the country will need to adapt its MON infrastructure to the changing climate. Quentin also MON discovers how fleas jump. MON MON Science in Egypt MON MON As the protests continue in Egypt, Quentin talks to MON Professor Hassan Azzazy, from the American University in MON Cairo about how the regime has effected science and research MON and how he hopes that a regime change may benefit Egyptian MON scientists in the future. MON MON Marine Invaders MON MON A host of seaweeds, sea squirts, crustaceans and molluscs MON from all over the world have quietly taken advantage of our MON increasing maritime activity and made UK shores their home. MON These invasive or “alien†species are a serious threat to MON conservation efforts and are estimated to cost the UK MON taxpayer over £2 billion per year. Dr. Elizabeth Cook, MON co-ordinator of the Marine Aliens project, joins Quentin to MON explain more. MON MON Adapting UK infrastructure to climate change MON MON Engineering the Future (EtF) is an alliance of the UK’s MON leading engineering and technological institutions. On 8 MON February they published a report, commissioned by DEFRA, on MON the challenges of adapting the UK’s infrastructure to the MON threat of climate change. The EtF group warns of the cost MON of tackling such issues as: Electrification of transport, MON flooding from sea-level, rise and extreme weather, Greening' MON of buildings. Infrastructure, Engineering and Climate Change MON Adaptation: Ensuring services in an uncertain future also MON examines the vulnerability to the effects of climate change MON in different sectors of UK infrastructure; the modifications MON needed to increase resilience; and the lessons we need to MON learn from overseas. MON MON Flea Jumping MON MON Scientists from Cambridge University have solved the mystery MON of how fleas jump. Professor Malcolm Burrows and Dr. Gregory MON Sutton have discovered that fleas jump by pushing off with MON the toes instead of their ‘hips’. How they jump has been the MON subject of much debate since 1967 when Henry Bennet-Clark MON and Miriam Rothschild came up with competing hypotheses, but MON neither had access to the high speed recording equipment MON that could resolve the problem. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00yhynw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00yhvqp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00yrg4p (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 b00yhxk0 (Listen) MON Caribou Island, Episode 6 MON MON Caribou Island is set in David 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 mediaevalist who fled to Alaska MON thirty years with his young wife Irene, in search of an MON unattainable idyll, is now determined to begin once again. MON He will build a simple cabin there and at last find peace. MON Irene joins him in his endeavour, understanding, unlike her MON husband, that 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 and sometimes raw, David Vann explores the depths an MON unravelling marriage can sink to and the hopes the young MON still entertain. MON MON Today: Irene's headaches seem to have no physical cause. Can MON it be the strain of the cabin project? And can it really be MON that small? Meanwhile without Monique, Jim plans to make it MON up to Rhoda and make a new life plan. MON MON The reader is William Hope MON The abridger is Sally Marmion MON The producer is Di Speirs. MON MON 23:00 The Art of Breaking Apart b00yj3yk (Listen) MON Stuart Maconie explores the art of the 'break-up' album, MON with the help of some fellow writers and musicians. MON MON When their long-term relationships fall apart, it's only MON natural for pop and rock artists to channel their emotions MON into songs, and the resulting albums have in many cases been MON hailed as artistic highlights of their careers. From Bob MON Dylan on 'Blood On The Tracks', to Marvin Gaye on 'Here My MON Dear', and Fleetwood Mac during the double partnership MON collapse that formed the backdrop to 'Rumours', records MON written and performed in emotional turmoil have proved MON heartfelt and enduring. MON MON In a bitter-sweet twist on the spirit of Valentine's Day, MON Stuart explores which are the best of the many pop albums on MON this theme, and hears the stories behind them, from those MON who made them or were close to the artistic process. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00yhygz (Listen) MON Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00yhvr4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00yhys1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yhvr6 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yhvr8 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yhvrb (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00yhvrd (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ylw4n (Listen) TUE presented by writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00yhvrg (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Fran Barnes. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00yhyj4 (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 b00yj5vb (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. In this edition TUE he looks at the history of the debate over who should own TUE England's forests. TUE TUE Producer: Joanne Cayford. TUE TUE 09:30 The Call b00yj5vd (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE The 33 by Jonathan Franklin TUE TUE In 2010, the world turned towards Chile when the collapse of TUE a copper mine left 33 men to survive underground for almost TUE 3 months, the longest time in history. Journalists flocked TUE to the San Jose mine and the family's settlement 'Camp Hope' TUE to follow the rescue mission, to see if the impossible could TUE be achieved. TUE TUE In this insightful and gripping account, Jonathan Franklin TUE reveals what life was really like for the 33 men underground TUE and how complex the rescue mission actually was. A story of TUE courage and camaraderie, it reveals the toll on minds and TUE bodies trapped almost half a mile beneath the surface of the TUE earth. TUE TUE Jonathan Franklin is an award-winning journalist published TUE in 30 languages around the world. He regularly reports for TUE The Guardian, Washington Post, Dagbladet, Der Spiegel, TUE Jerusalem Post, Sydney Morning Herald and Rolling Stone TUE magazine, among many others. TUE TUE He was one of the only journalists to have security access TUE to the heart of the rescue team. TUE TUE Read by Trevor White TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Lucy Collingwood. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00yl3xg (Listen) TUE The 33, Episode 2 TUE TUE The 33 by Jonathan Franklin TUE TUE Read by Trevor White TUE Abridged by Richard Hamilton TUE Produced by Lucy Collingwood. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yj185 (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents: Celebrating, informing and TUE entertaining women with news, views and interviews of TUE topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yj25z (Listen) TUE Far Pavilions, Episode 12 TUE TUE M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy TUE Catherine. Confronting the bigotry of a fellow officer lands TUE Ash in trouble, and he is sent away to Gujerat to cool his TUE heels. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi TUE Ash ..... Blake Ritson TUE Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua TUE Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes TUE Stiggins ..... Sean Baker TUE Commander ..... Sam Dale TUE Gobind ..... Sam Dastor TUE Raikes ..... Jude Akuwudike TUE Sarji ..... Sagar Arya TUE Crimpley ..... Iain Batchelor TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 Bosphorus b00yj5vg (Listen) TUE Programme 2 TUE TUE For thousands of years travellers have made their way to TUE Istanbul, drawn by tales of its cosmopolitan and exotic TUE delights. The city's unique culture has grown out of its TUE place at the heart of three empires - the Roman, Byzantine TUE and Ottoman - and the strategic importance of the Bosphorus TUE that flows through it. Despite waves of conquest Istanbul TUE has always managed to retain a diverse religious mix, until TUE relatively recently that is, as Edward Stourton discovers on TUE the latest of his journeys along The Bosphorus. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Pegum TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00yj5vj (Listen) TUE The incomparable Joan Bakewell with some favourite pieces of TUE prose and poetry. Her readers are Samuel West and Harriet TUE Walter. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00yj885 (Listen) TUE Should Britain ignore the European Court of Human Rights and TUE continue to ban convicted prisoners from voting in TUE elections? On Thursday, MPs voted overwhelmingly to defy TUE Europe's ruling that inmates in England, Wales and Northern TUE Ireland must be given the right to vote. Ministers now have TUE a few months to decide what to do next - or face paying TUE prisoners millions of pounds in compensation for breaching TUE their human rights. The Prime Minister, David Cameron, says TUE those who are jailed for committing a crime should not be TUE allowed to take part in elections. But others argue that TUE prisoners should be encouraged to be active citizens and TUE take part in the democratic process. So is Britain right to TUE ignore its legal obligation under the European Convention on TUE Human Rights? Or do we risk appearing hypocritical when we TUE lecture other countries on their human rights' record? TUE If you'd like to share your views, email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines are open TUE on Tuesday morning at 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00yhvrj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00ykvnq (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Bleep Bleep Bloop: Music and Video Games b00yj887 (Listen) TUE Games Designer Paul Bennun explores the growing popularity TUE and ambition of music composed for video games. TUE TUE Video games now have the resources to match that of the big TUE Hollywood orchestral film scores. But it's not just TUE commercially that video game soundtracks are taken TUE seriously. Composers are becoming more interested in it TUE artistically and BAFTA and the Ivor Novellos have recently TUE recognised the form with their own award categories. TUE TUE Bennun traces the development of this new genre and finds TUE out how it is changing the way music is made and consumed. TUE Has it now left behind bleeps and bloops and arrived at the TUE brink of artistic respectability? TUE TUE Producer: Russell Finch. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00yj3sq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00g4zh1 (Listen) TUE Mr. Luby's Fear of Heaven TUE By John Mortimer TUE TUE When Lewis Luby comes to late at night in an Italian TUE hospital he finds himself lying under the monstrous big toe TUE of God. Surely some mistake: Luby, who has never for one TUE moment believed in the immortality of the soul, cannot TUE possibly be in heaven ! TUE TUE Lewis Luby................... Jeremy Irons TUE Tommy Fletcher.............Stephen Critchlow TUE Sophie Luby..................Marsha Fitzalan TUE Doctor..........................Chris Pavlo TUE Miss Waterlow................Donnla Hughes TUE English Guide................Dan Starkey TUE Italian Guide/Nun............Flaminia Cinque TUE Directed by Jeremy Mortimer TUE TUE This production was first broadcast on the 31st December TUE 2008. TUE TUE John Mortimer had the idea for Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven when TUE he first visited the Santa Maria della Scala hospital in TUE Siena and saw patients lying in beds under ceilings TUE decorated with 15th century frescoes depicting Heaven and TUE Hell. TUE TUE Mr Luby's Fear of Heaven was first produced for BBC Radio 3 TUE in 1976, with John Gielgud in the title role. Later that TUE year it was presented on stage as part of a double bill TUE 'Heaven and Hell', with Denholm Elliot as Luby. TUE TUE John Mortimer wrote for BBC Radio for more than 50 years. TUE His first radio play, The Dock Brief, was broadcast on the TUE Third Programme in May 1957. His best known stage play 'A TUE Voyage Round My Father' was originally written for radio. He TUE is the creator of Horace Rumpole, and his most recent radio TUE Rumpole 'The Anti-social behaviour of Horace Rumpole' was TUE broadcast on Radio 4 in May 2008. John Mortimer died in TUE January 2009. TUE TUE Jeremy Irons and John Mortimer first worked together on the TUE Granada Television adaptation of Brideshead Revisited (1981) TUE in which Jeremy Irons played Charles Ryder. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00yj88c (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 b00yj88f (Listen) TUE Mrs Dalloway's Party, Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street TUE TUE by Virginia Woolf TUE Abridged by Miranda Davies TUE Read by Sylvestra Le Touzel TUE Produced by Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE Fascinated and preoccupied by the idea of this social TUE event,Virginia Woolf wrote this story sequence around the TUE same time as writing the novel Mrs Dalloway. In each of TUE these three stories written in Woolf's distinctive style, TUE the listener is offered glimpses into each character's inner TUE most thoughts and emotions. Woolf depicts the intriguing TUE social world of Mrs Dalloway's party in microscopic detail. TUE TUE This story, 'Mrs Dalloway in Bond Street', follows Mrs TUE Dalloway as she runs errands and prepares for the party TUE she's hosting. TUE TUE 15:45 On Your Bike b00yhxbp (Listen) TUE Episode 7 TUE TUE The fitness and outdoor movements of the 1930's coupled with TUE the advent of cheaper mass produced bicycles brought the TUE freedom of the open road to the working classes TUE TUE Presenter: Martin Ellis TUE Producer: Simon Evans TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Europe: Driving on the Right b00yj924 (Listen) TUE Austria and Germany TUE TUE A new kind of politics is reverberating across Europe: a TUE shock to the status quo. Chris Bowlby travels to Vienna for TUE a personal meeting with Heinze-Christian Strache, the TUE charismatic new leader of the Austrian Freedom Party. HC TUE Strache prides himself as a smoker-cum-rapper-cum-disco TUE dancer. In the recent local Viennese elections in 2010 his TUE party came in second, winning 26% of the vote. TUE TUE Chris then travels to Cologne in Germany, where the Freedom TUE Party is now planning to spread its international influence, TUE especially in campaigning against the building of mosques. TUE He meets the Pro-Koeln party, which is trying to stop the TUE building of the new city mosque, and also finds TUE representatives from the Vlaams Blok party of Belgium and TUE the Freedom Party of Austria in attendance. Some see the TUE beginnings of a new European far right alliance - in 'suits' TUE and not 'boots'. So will these new European populist parties TUE continue to increase their influence over the European TUE political mainstream, or will the mainstream take a stand? TUE TUE Producer: Daniel Tetlow. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00yj92b (Listen) TUE Anne McElvoy, Matt Wolf TUE TUE Anne McElvoy, Policy Editor of the Economist, and theatre TUE critic Matt Wolf talk to Kate Saunders about the books they TUE most admire. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00yjvxb (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yhvrl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00yj2hq (Listen) TUE Series 3, Lights Out TUE TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. TUE TUE Rudy is determined to prove to his girlfriend Doreen that TUE she's finally met her match. He's even persuaded Adam to TUE keep out of the way while he cooks Doreen a romantic meal TUE for her birthday. The power supply across the West Midlands, TUE however, has even more surprising treats in store. 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 and Paula Hines TUE Produced by Lucy Armitage. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00yj96c (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00yjz5l (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yj25z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00yj96f (Listen) TUE Bent Cops TUE TUE Are police doing enough to tackle corruption in their ranks? TUE Following a number of high profile trials in which officers TUE have been jailed, Allan Urry investigates the crimes they TUE committed and asks if more could have been done to stop TUE them. A constable given a life sentence earlier this month TUE for a series of sex attacks on vulnerable women he met while TUE on duty, had previously been put on trial for rape, during TUE his time in the army. Why didn't the police service know TUE this when they agreed to employ him? TUE How was a police sergeant able to live a double life as a TUE respected bobby and as the leader of a ruthless underworld TUE crime gang, dealing drugs, laundering money, and TUE intimidating witnesses? TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00yj96h (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00yj96k (Listen) TUE The Pancreas TUE TUE Every year about 8000 people in the UK are diagnosed with TUE pancreatic cancer and the five year survival rate remains TUE depressingly low. Dr Mark Porter investigates. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00yj5vb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00yhvrn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00yrgxh (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 b00yhxk2 (Listen) TUE Caribou Island, Episode 7 TUE TUE Today: Rhoda ponders on love and marriage and the TUE hopelessness of Jim, while, on the island as the first storm TUE of winter rages, Gary communes with his Viking heroes. 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 b00yj96p (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE 3 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 Royal Seven Stars in TUE Totnes, South Devon, he's joined by the poet Murray Lachlan TUE Young and one man house band Jerri Hart. Fellow poets Liv TUE Torc and Nathan Filer battle it out with Murray in a Dead TUE Poets' Slam, while the audience compose their own poem on TUE the subject of gerbils. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00yhxlk (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00yhvmb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00yl3xg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yhvmd (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yhvmg (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yhvmj (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00yhvml (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ylv15 (Listen) WED presented by writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00yhvsf (Listen) WED Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma WED Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00yhyj6 (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 b00yj974 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Sian Williams and WED guests including David Morrissey. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00yl3xk (Listen) WED The 33, Episode 3 WED WED The 33 by Jonathan Franklin WED WED Read by Trevor White WED Abridged by Richard Hamilton WED Produced by Lucy Collingwood. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yj187 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents: Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women with news, views and interviews of WED topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yj261 (Listen) WED Far Pavilions, Episode 13 WED WED M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy WED Catherine. Ash's peace is shattered by news from Bhithor, WED where the Rana is dangerously ill. WED WED Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi WED Ash ..... Blake Ritson WED Street Vendor ..... Kaleem Janjua WED Bukta ..... Adeel Akhtar WED Commissioner ..... Sam Dale WED Gobind ..... Sam Dastor WED Sarji ..... Sagar Arya WED Manilal ..... Christopher Simpson WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b00yhvmn (Listen) WED Series 13, Episode 1 WED WED In 1980, Brighton was the first major resort in Britain to WED set aside a section of seafront for naturists. At the time a WED local debate raged over what might happen if people were WED allowed to take all their clothes off in such a public WED place. "A flagrant exhibition of mammary glands" was how one WED councillor described the future, and others expressed WED concerns that the beach would attract exhibitionists and WED perverts. WED WED Over thirty years on, the beach has lost much of its WED intrigue and controversy. But what does this 200-yard WED stretch of shingle say about Brighton's self-image, and the WED future of naturism in a traditionally buttoned-up Britain? WED WED Local councillors, naturists, reporters and residents all WED have their say as Chris Ledgard tells the story of WED Brighton's naturist beach. WED WED 11:30 Ballylenon b00yj976 (Listen) WED Series 8, Agroturismo In Irlande WED WED by Christopher Fitz-Simon WED WED Muriel McConkey -Margaret D'Arcy WED Vera McConkey -Stella McCusker WED Phonsie Doherty -Gerard Murphy WED Mrs Vivienne Hawthorne -Aine McCartney WED Rev. Samuel Hawthorne -Dermot Crowley WED Kevin 'Stumpy' Bonnar - Gerard McSorley WED Guard Gallagher -Frankie McCafferty WED Daniel O'Searcaigh - James Greene WED Monsignor McFadden - Niall Cusack WED Aubrey Frawley - Chris McHallem WED Polly Acton - Joanna Munro WED Eamonn Doyle - Patrick Fitzsymons WED Mr Boylan - Derek Bailey WED WED Directed By Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00yj978 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00yhvmq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00ykvp3 (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00yj97d (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 b00yj96c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00yj97j (Listen) WED Like an Angel Passing through My Room WED WED This is a story about love. The unconditional love of a WED devoted fan. Summer 2006: Christopher Green meets Anni-Frid WED Lyngstad aka Frida from Abba. He is the after dinner WED entertainment. She is a dinner party guest. What starts as a WED 'I'm your biggest fan' conversation turns into a long chat WED about the nature of loving someone you've never met. From WED Olivier award-winning writer Christopher Green. WED WED Himself...Christopher Green WED Herself...Anni-Frid Lyngstad WED Actor...Lloyd Thomas WED Actress...Leah Brotherhead WED WED Directed by Claire Grove WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00yjcnp (Listen) WED You can put your questions about year end tax planning to WED Vincent Duggleby and guests on Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED Maybe you want to take advantage of this year's tax free WED allowances and exemptions? Or perhaps you have a question WED about tax changes happening in April? WED WED To get your tax affairs in order and make sure you don't WED overpay, why not call the experts on Wednesday. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00yjcnr (Listen) WED Mrs Dalloway's Party, Together and Apart WED WED by Virginia Woolf WED Read by Emma Fielding WED Abridged and produced by Lucy Collingwood WED WED 15:45 On Your Bike b00yhxbr (Listen) WED Episode 8 WED WED With petrol rationing during WW2 the bicycle came into its WED own again to be followed by a golden age of cycling in the WED 1950's as the nation emerges from the darkness of war WED WED Presenter: Martin Ellis WED Producer: Simon Evans WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00yjcnt (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00yj96k (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00yjvxd (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with the day's top stories. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yhvms (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Showstopper b00yjcnw (Listen) WED Episode 5 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 b00yjcny (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00yjz5b (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including an interview with songwriter and WED campaigner Bob Geldof, whose new album is called How To WED Compose Popular Songs That Will Sell. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yj261 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00yjcp0 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, Kenan Malik WED and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b00yjcp2 (Listen) WED Guerilla Urbanism Comes to Town WED WED David Goldblatt argues that current models of urban WED redevelopment are broken, and need replacing. He draws a WED contrast between developments: the multi-million pound WED apartments of One Hyde Park in London, and Stoke's Croft in WED Bristol, with its 'don't develop Stoke's Croft, let Stoke's WED Croft develop' ethos. WED WED He argues that big developers are more interested in making WED life comfortable for the already comfortable and that a WED development like Stoke's Croft, with individuals taking the WED initiative when landowners and government have failed to WED act, is a far more positive model. 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 Recorded live at the RSA in London, these talks are WED unscripted, thought-provoking and entertaining, with a WED personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00yjcp4 (Listen) WED Digging Up Britain WED WED The Staffordshire and Frome Hoards are just two of the most WED exciting archaeological finds in recent years. Both were WED found by amateur treasure hunters in the UK using metal WED detectors. A good news story in these tough times but what WED is the real affect of legions of unqualified diggers on WED Britain's heritage and landscape? WED WED The growing popularity of metal detectors has meant big WED finds in the past few years but a new detector has been WED produced which triples the depth at which small objects can WED be detected. So far detecting has been tolerated in Britain WED on the basis that it only digs up land to plough depth and WED therefore doesn't exacerbate disturbance of historically WED significant sites. WED WED This new development adds fuel to what is already a heated WED debate. Archaeologists feel that treasure hunters take WED valuable finds from sites which should be excavated WED properly, archaeology is all about context they argue and WED once artefacts are removed our heritage is lost. The WED Countryside Alliance is warning landowners not to allow WED metal detectors on their land in order to avoid disputes but WED many detectors have signed up to a voluntary code designed WED to minimise their impact on farmland. WED WED The detectors argues that without their valuable help WED today's agrochemicals will destroy a base metal object WED within a few years of it being in the ground. Coins have WED been destroyed in the last 50 years which have been in the WED ground for millennia. Stone implements are also broken with WED today's modern mechanical ploughs. WED WED There are 30,000 metal detectorists today. They started WED detecting landmines after the war but will they continue to WED offer a service to the landscape and its heritage or simply WED take what it has to offer. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00yj974 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00yhvmv (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00yrgy6 (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 b00yhxmj (Listen) WED Caribou Island, Episode 8 WED WED Today: Jim finally has a question for Rhoda, but is it too WED late? And is it too late, as the storm rages round the WED island, for Gary and Irene to succeed? 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 b00yjcp6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Birthday Magic WED WED This week Mordrin takes on childminding duties for his WED neighbour Jill, but inadvertently gives Tracey a special WED Wizard edition of Treasure Island to read with disastrous WED results. WED WED Featuring and co-written by Scottish stand up David Kay, and WED starring Gordon Kennedy and Jack Docherty with guest star WED Arnold Brown. Mordrin McDonald mixes the magical with the WED mundane and offers a hilarious take on the life of a modern WED day Wizard. WED WED Mordrin ..... David Kay WED Bernard The Blue ..... Jack Docherty WED Jill ..... Katrina Bryan WED Tracey ..... Rosemary Hollands WED WED Producer/ Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Bob Servant Emails b00yjcp8 (Listen) WED Bob's Granny Surprise 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 Natalia WED Romovsky and Tatyana Romovsky. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00yhxml (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne reports on events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00yhvws (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00yl3xk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yhvwv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yhvwx (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yhvwz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00yhvx1 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ylv17 (Listen) THU presented by writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00yhvx3 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin THU Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00yjvs4 (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 b00yjqz3 (Listen) THU Maimonides THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the work and influence THU of Maimonides. THU THU Widely regarded as the greatest Jewish philosopher of the THU medieval period, Maimonides was also a physician and THU rabbinical authority. His writings include a 14-volume work THU on Jewish law, the Mishneh Torah, which is still widely used THU today, and the Guide of the Perplexed, a central work of THU medieval philosophy. THU THU Although undoubtedly a titan of Jewish intellectual history, THU Maimonides was also profoundly influenced by the Islamic THU world. He exerted a strong influence on later Islamic THU philosophy, as well on thinkers ranging from Thomas Aquinas THU to Leibniz and Newton. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00yl3xx (Listen) THU The 33, Episode 4 THU THU The 33 by Jonathan Franklin THU THU Read by Trevor White THU Abridged by Richard Hamilton THU Produced by Lucy Collingwood. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yj189 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents: Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yj263 (Listen) THU Far Pavilions, Episode 14 THU THU M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy THU Catherine. Ash's plan is diverted at the last minute, and he THU has to decide whether pity justifies the same terrible deed THU as love. THU THU Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi THU Ash ..... Blake Ritson THU Bukta ..... Adeel Akhtar THU Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker THU Gobind ..... Sam Dastor THU Sarji ..... Sagar Arya THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00yjyzq (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Priest, the Badger and the Little Green Men THU b00yhvx5 (Listen) THU Durning the late 1950's and early 60's, The Rev Lionel THU Fanthorpe wrote over 150 pulp fiction novels under various THU names for Badger Books. THU THU His methods of writing are almost as bizarre as the books THU themselves. While hiding under a rug, Fanthorpe would let THU stream of consciousness dictate the fate of his characters. THU While good always prevailed, heroes would sometimes meet a THU sticky end, only to reappear, mind and body intact, some THU chapters further down the line. THU THU Through incredible padding illusions and herculean feats of THU literacy (aided at all times by his trusty thesaurus, just THU how many ways can you describe Black space?), Rev Fanthorpe, THU aka Karl Ziegfried, a.k.a, Bron Fane a.k.a John E.Muller, THU a.k.a Leo Brett, a.k.a Pel Torro, wrote 89 of his books in a THU three year period. That's one every 12 days, while holding THU down a teaching job. THU THU Featuring readings from Fanthorpe himself and dramatic THU recreations of his most interesting and memorable work, The THU Vicar, The Badger and the little Green Men from Mars - How THU one man, armed with a mind like a mental grasshopper, a THU dictaphone and a good rug became the most prolific sci-fi THU author on the planet. THU THU Producer: Rob Alexander THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00yjr0x (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00yhvx7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00ykvnz (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00yjcp4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00yjcny (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00yjs45 (Listen) THU Jesus, the Devil and a Kid Called Death THU THU by Carolyn Scott-Jeffs THU THU Well-meaning drama teacher Mrs Woodhouse takes a gamble when THU she casts the school bad boy as Jesus in The Harrowing of THU Hell for the town's Mystery Cycle. What's more, the Devil is THU being played by the extremely well-behaved Chrissy. THU Meanwhile Chrissy's kid brother is not very happy about THU being left out and invents a character all of his own. THU Romantic comedy by Carolyn Scott-Jeffs about one teacher's THU belief in the redemptive power of drama. THU THU Dan . . . . . Connor Doyle THU Nick . . . . . James Rastall THU Chrissy . . . . . Leah Brotherhead THU Mrs Woodhouse . . . . . Alison Belbin THU THU Directed by Peter Leslie Wild THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00yd8mv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00yhsgh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00yjs47 (Listen) THU Mrs Dalloway's Party, The New Dress THU THU by Virginia Woolf THU Abridged by Miranda Davies THU Read by Amanda Root THU Produced by Lucy Collingwood THU THU In 'The New Dress', Mabel chooses a new yellow dress of a THU different style to wear to Mrs Dalloway's party. However, THU the moment she arrives she feels wishes she hadn't. THU THU 15:45 On Your Bike b00yhxbt (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU THU Increasing prosperity and car ownership displaced the THU bicycle in the 1960's and foreign holidays replaced cycling, THU campsites and youth hostels. Bicycles belong to the past THU THU Presenter: Martin Ellis THU Producer: Simon Evans THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00yhv3d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00yjs49 (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 The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00yjvxg (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yhvx9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b00yjs4c (Listen) THU Episode 3 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 three, Tom wonders why we still need estate THU agents. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00yjs4f (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00yjz5d (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with novelist and THU poet Sophie Hannah. THU THU Producer Ella-mai Robey. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yj263 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00yjs4h (Listen) THU Midwives have been in short supply in England for years. Why THU aren't there enough and what effect is this having on THU hospitals and pregnant women? THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00yjs4k (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Scientists of the Subprime b00yjs4m (Listen) THU Could an understanding of biology have prevented the credit THU crunch? The complex world of banking evolved - and profited THU - thanks to the work of analytically gifted maths and THU science graduates. But when the crash came, something new THU was needed. Now banking regulators are turning to a THU different kind of science, asking if an understanding of THU ecosystems or the spread of infectious disease could help THU reform world finance. Ehsan Masood examines the role of THU science in the City. THU THU Producer Monise Durrani. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00yjqz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00yhvxc (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00yrg4f (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00yhyfw (Listen) THU Caribou Island, Episode 9 THU THU Today: In a powerful and uncompromising episode, as the THU cabin nears its faltering completion, Irene understands how THU alone she really is. THU The reader is William Hope THU The abridger is Sally Marmion THU The producer is Di Speirs. THU THU 23:00 It's Your Round b00yjs4p (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU "It's Your Round" is a new comedy panel show where the THU format is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the THU panellists brings along their own round for the others to THU play. So each show is untried, unpredictable and unique. THU THU The panel for this first episode is Rufus Hound, Miles Jupp, THU Sara Pascoe and Adam Hills. Find out what hilarity ensues THU when each of them play the rounds they've brought along, THU entitled "Them Next Door", "What Does My Dad Know?", "Come THU To Romford!" and "Newspaper Headline or Cryptic Crossword THU Clue". THU THU Angus Deayton is the host trying to keep the show together, THU under difficult circumstances. The first of six episodes. THU THU Writers: Angus Deayton, Ged Parsons and Paul Powell THU Devised by Benjamin Partridge THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00yhxd1 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00yhvxr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00yl3xx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yhvxt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yhvxw (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yhvxy (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00yhvy0 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ylv19 (Listen) FRI presented by writer and broadcaster, Anna Magnusson. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00yhvy2 (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00yjvs6 (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 b00yhv30 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00yl3yh (Listen) FRI The 33, Episode 5 FRI FRI The 33 by Jonathan Franklin FRI FRI Read by Trevor White FRI Abridged by Richard Hamilton FRI Produced by Lucy Collingwood. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yj18c (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 b00yj265 (Listen) FRI Far Pavilions, Episode 15 FRI FRI M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy FRI Catherine. Safe and with the woman he loves, Ash cannot work FRI out how to marry her. FRI FRI Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi FRI Ash ..... Blake Ritson FRI Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua FRI Bukta ..... Adeel Akhtar FRI Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker FRI Stiggins ..... Sean Baker FRI Zarin ..... Christopher Simpson FRI Mrs Viccary ..... Joanna Monro FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 Not Just Funny Animal Voices b00yjt8q (Listen) FRI Johnny Morris became a household name thanks to the FRI much-loved children's TV programme Animal Magic. FRI FRI From 1962 to 1983 he created comic voices for the creatures FRI which appeared on the show. In the 1970s he was joined by FRI the then unknown Terry Nutkins, who'd been discovered FRI working at a safari park and offered the role as Johnny's FRI side-kick. Johnny became Terry's mentor and close friend; a FRI friendship which lasted until Johnny's death in 1999. FRI FRI Now, for this programme, Terry explores Johnny's life and FRI work, and explains that what made him unique was 'Not Just FRI Funny Animals Voices' but a colourful life and broadcasting FRI career stretching back to 1946. FRI FRI Terry revisits the Animal Magic studio for the first time in FRI years and recalls how Johnny would offer him a small measure FRI of gin from a flask he kept in his dressing room. It was FRI Johnny's ways of calming his nerves. FRI FRI Of course, one of the major events in Johnny's life was when FRI Animal Magic ended in 1983. For the first time the man who FRI axed that programme - the former head of the BBC Natural FRI History Unit, John Sparks - speaks about making that FRI decision and how he broke the news to Johnny. FRI FRI Johnny was discovered by Desmond Hawkins (who founded the FRI Natural History Unit). They met in their local pub where FRI Johnny would hold court, spinning characterful yarns. FRI Hawkins spotted his talent and asked him to write short FRI stories for the Home Service. FRI FRI One of his producers was Tony Soper, who tells Terry Nutkins FRI about working with Johnny on radio programmes like Pass the FRI Salt, and one-offs like a short film about a cormorant FRI called Plapp. Johnny wasn't keen on Plapp because, according FRI to Tony, Johnny only liked 'soppy animals'. Nevertheless FRI they made the film, despite shooting it on a 'toy' camera FRI which only recorded for 30 seconds at a time. FRI FRI Tony also recalls working with Johnny on Animal Magic when FRI it first began, and describes the tension between them - FRI Tony wanted to make 'straight nat-hist' films and wasn't FRI keen on Johnny's anthropomorphic approach. Of course it was FRI this idiosyncratic style which led to Animal Magic being FRI taken off air in 1983. FRI FRI Also on the programme, Mirielle Farrow - a close friend of FRI Johnny's - discusses his marriage to a much older woman and FRI wonders whether his passion for cats was a substitute for FRI never having children of his own. FRI FRI Presenter: Terry Nutkins. Producer: Karen Gregor. FRI FRI 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00p3380 (Listen) FRI Series 3, Lives Lost, Ruined, Wrecked and Redeemed FRI FRI Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. FRI FRI Pip and Ripely find themselves facing a vast and evil undead FRI army. England has only one hope - that Miss Sweetly FRI Delightful can melt Mr Benevolent's cruel, undead heart. FRI FRI Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson FRI Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen FRI Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head FRI Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman FRI Bishop Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Ripely Bin ...... Sarah Hadland FRI Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy FRI The Duke of Chelsea ...... Mark Evans. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00yjt8s (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00yhvy4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00ykvp7 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00yjt8v (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 b00yjs4f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00yj889 (Listen) FRI Children's Crusade: Memoirs of a Teenage Radical FRI FRI by Philip de Gouveia FRI FRI Evie, a phenomenally bright but socially marginalised FRI fifteen year-old, has had it with Western Civilization. FRI Self-educated in the ideas of the Luddites, Mao and T.E. FRI Lawrence, she wants to launch a mission against technology FRI and the damage she believes it has wrought on the human FRI race. She's taken a look at human history and decided it's FRI time things changed. For good. But can she get her FRI mobile-addicted classmates to join with her? FRI FRI Evie ..... Leah Brotherhead FRI Mikey ..... Luke Treadaway FRI Carlton ..... Nathan Stewart-Jarrett FRI Kathy ..... Georgia Groome FRI Heather ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI Stuart ..... Nicholas Boulton FRI Eve ..... Sally Orrock FRI Adam ..... Iain Batchelor FRI FRI Directed by Rosalynd Ward FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00yjqs8 (Listen) FRI Cheshire FRI FRI Eric Robson and the panel are joined by guest panellist Paul FRI Peacock in Cheshire. FRI Paul advises on creating a herbaceous border with year-round FRI interest. FRI FRI Bunny Guinness visits Emma Morris in her garden in FRI Shrewsbury. Part of the Listeners' Gardens series. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 On Your Bike b00yhxbw (Listen) FRI Episode 10 FRI FRI The mountain bike arrives from California and coincides with FRI a new fashion for fitness and concerns for the environment. FRI Bikes are back in fashion for work and pleasure FRI FRI Presenter: Martin Ellis FRI Producer: Simon Evans FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00yjt8x (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 b00yjt8z (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Simon Pegg about Paul. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00yjvxj (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yhvy6 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00yjt91 (Listen) FRI Series 73, Episode 7 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, FRI Fred Macaulay and Imran Yusuf. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00yjt93 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00yjz5g (Listen) FRI In a programme recorded before an audience in Sheffield, FRI Mark Lawson interviews dramatist David Hare, as Sheffield FRI Theatres stage a season of his plays. FRI FRI Producer Ekene Akalawu. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yj265 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00yjtg2 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from King's FRI Norton Boys' school in Birmingham. FRI FRI Producer: Rachel Simpson. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00yjtg4 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Canopy FRI FRI 1/20. If you walk into a rainforest you are immediately met FRI by quite literally a forest of trees. All the tree trunks FRI look like cathedral pillars, smooth and wet from the rain. FRI Not a single branch emerges from the trunk for tens of FRI metres - and when they do you see a breath-taking FRI interlocking jungle of branches and leaves, ferns and FRI flowers and all number of creatures great and small. The FRI canopy is a bonanza of tropical forest life, in the bright FRI light and gentle breeze - a far cry from the dark and humid FRI underworld of the forest floor. Not surprising then that FRI David Attenborough knew this would be a perfect place to FRI film wildlife. FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00mrzrm (Listen) FRI I Am Emma Humphreys FRI FRI Dramatisation by Shelley Silas of the true story of Emma FRI Humphreys, who in 1985, aged 16, murdered her pimp, Trevor FRI Armitage, who had found her homeless on the streets of FRI Nottingham. FRI FRI Emma's case changed the law and may yet contribute to FRI further controversial changes in the defence laws for FRI murder. FRI FRI Emma Humphreys ...... Joanne Froggatt FRI Trevor Armitage ...... Stephen Critchlow FRI Stuart ...... Delroy Brown FRI Vera Baird ...... Susan Jameson FRI Harriet Wistrich ...... Lynne Verrall FRI Lord Justice Hirst ...... David Hargreaves FRI Nottingham Judge ...... Stephen Hogan FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00yhvy8 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00yrg3x (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 b00yhygl (Listen) FRI Caribou Island, Episode 10 FRI FRI Today: While Rhoda fears for her parents on the island and FRI tries to find a way reach them, Irene confronts her FRI loneliness and finds a stark and uncompromising solution. 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 b00yj92b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00yhxdr (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI
11 February, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 12/02/2011 - 18/02/2011
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