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SAT SATURDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00yjtgz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00yl3yh (Listen) SAT The 33, Episode 5 SAT SAT The 33 by Jonathan Franklin SAT SAT In 2010, the world turned towards Chile when the collapse of SAT a copper mine left 33 men to survive underground for almost SAT 3 months, the longest time in history. Journalists flocked SAT to the San Jose mine and the family's settlement 'Camp Hope' SAT to follow the rescue mission, to see if the impossible could SAT be achieved. SAT SAT In this insightful and gripping account, Jonathan Franklin SAT reveals what life was really like for the 33 men underground SAT and how complex the rescue mission actually was. A story of SAT courage and camaraderie, it reveals the toll on minds and SAT bodies trapped almost half a mile beneath the surface of the SAT earth. SAT SAT Jonathan Franklin is an award-winning journalist published SAT in 30 languages around the world. He regularly reports for SAT The Guardian, Washington Post, Dagbladet, Der Spiegel, SAT Jerusalem Post, Sydney Morning Herald and Rolling Stone SAT magazine, among many others. SAT SAT He was one of the only journalists to have security access SAT to the heart of the rescue team. SAT SAT Read by Trevor White SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton SAT Produced by Lucy Collingwood. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yjth1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yjth3 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yjth5 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00yjth7 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00yjth9 (Listen) SAT Sharon Grenham-Toze SAT SAT With the Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00yjthc (Listen) SAT "One can touch it, smell it, hear it." Listeners explain SAT their love of trees, as iPM visits an ambitious volunteer SAT project to return wild woodland to the borders of Scotland. SAT Also, James Reynolds reads Your News. With Eddie Mair and SAT Becky Milligan. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00yjthf (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00yjthh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00ym4yg (Listen) SAT Series 17, Lancaster SAT SAT Broadcaster, journalist and keen walker Stuart Maconie SAT continues this series of Ramblings, finding walks that are SAT perfect for short winter days and which offer skyline views SAT of British cities. Today, he's setting out from the village SAT of Slyne in Lancashire and heading to look over the SAT historical city of Lancaster. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00ym5f2 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT There are too many horses for the number of good quality SAT homes available for them in the UK, according to the SAT country's biggest horse charity Redwings. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith speaks with horse riders in North SAT Warwickshire about the financial strain of keeping the SAT animal. Anna Hill visits World Horse Welfare in Norfolk who SAT have taken in 230 horses in the last year. SAT SAT Horse owners, carers and riders in Britain spend more than SAT £7 billion per year in gross output terms, Charlotte visits SAT the London Equestrian Centre in Barnet to see if it is still SAT in the current economic climate. SAT SAT Also, we hear from Stephen Potter who runs an abattoir in SAT Taunton about the possibility of selling horses for meat and SAT French chef Michel Lemoine describes what horse steak tastes SAT like. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma SAT Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00yjthk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00ym5f4 (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00ym5f7 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with dancing queen Arlene Phillips and poet Kate SAT Fox; an interview with a pair of identical twins separated SAT at birth who found each other again quite by chance when one SAT recognised her sister in a movie poster, an I Was There SAT feature with a man who lived in the flat below Freddie SAT Mercury and listened to the musical musings that were to SAT become Bohemian Rhapsody, a Sound Sculpture about SAT freewheeling and actor Om Puri shares his Inheritance SAT Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00ym5f9 (Listen) SAT Woods and trees - Iceland and the Scottish Islands SAT SAT John McCarthy explores British Woodland and meets a fan of SAT travelling in cold landscapes. He hears about ancient woods SAT across the country and about Iceland and the Scottish SAT islands. And he examines myths associated with trees and SAT woods in Anglo-Saxon England and some relating to the SAT Icelandic sagas. SAT SAT Producer Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Britain in a Box b00ym5fc (Listen) SAT Series 4, Men Behaving Badly SAT SAT Paul Jackson continues his series that explores social and SAT cultural history through the television programmes that SAT defined their time. SAT SAT This week, a sitcom that started life on ITV, lost its star SAT after the first series and was cancelled when the ratings SAT dipped for the second - but which crossed over to the other SAT side to become one of the BBC's most successful sitcoms of SAT the 1990s. 'Men Behaving Badly' made its cast and writer SAT famous, became indelibly associated with "lad culture", and SAT finally bowed out with a much-complained about Christmas SAT special. SAT SAT The show features interviews with stars Martin Clunes, SAT Leslie Ash and Harry Enfield, writer Simon Nye, and producer SAT Beryl Vertue, as well as comedy writer/executive Paul SAT Mayhew-Archer, and Simon Donald, the co-creator of Viz. SAT SAT Producers: Ed Morrish and Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00ym6ck (Listen) SAT Peter Riddell looks behing the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT The marathon battles in the House of Lords have come to end SAT and there will now be a referendum on changing the voting SAT system on May 5th. SAT Two former Lord Chancellors, Lords Mackay and Falconer, have SAT been very engaged in the debates of the past weeks, and here SAT they consider what changes have come about in the Lords SAT since the formation of the coalition government. SAT SAT The campaign on the AV voting system has now begun in SAT earnest, but how much does the general public know about it, SAT and what can we expect from the campaign? SAT Anthony Wells of the UK Polling Report, and Neil O'Brien of SAT the think tank Policy Exchange, look at the situation so SAT far. SAT SAT There was more disquiet in the House of Commons this week SAT over the European Court of Human Rights ruling on the SAT register of sex offenders. David Cameron promised a SAT commission to look into a British Bill of Rights. Chris SAT Bryant Labour and Bernard Jenkin Conservative consider the SAT proposal. SAT SAT Neal Lawson of the left of centre campaign group Compass is SAT changing its membership rules to allow Liberal Democrats to SAT join. He and Julian Astle of the Liberal Democrat think tank SAT CentreForum talk about how British politics is adapting to SAT coalition politics. SAT The editor was Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00ym6cm (Listen) SAT The roots of the rage that has rocked the tiny kingdom of SAT Bahrain. SAT SAT How an "age of recklessness" ruined Ireland. SAT SAT The ancient North-South division that still splits hearts SAT and minds in Italy. SAT SAT And one of the big questions confronting southern Sudan as SAT it prepares for independence -- "what to do about the SAT cows".... SAT SAT All across the Arab world the revolutionary storm continues SAT to play itself out. And its force is now being felt by the SAT king of Bahrain. In the streets beyond his palace gates SAT there have been tear gas and gunfire....and demonstrators SAT are mourning their dead. Before this explosion of violence, SAT my colleague Bill Law spent time in Bahrain. He watched its SAT tensions mount, and he's well placed to explain sudden SAT upsurge of anger that has so badly shaken the island ... SAT SAT And the demonstrators on that roundabout in Manama....and SAT the angry crowds all over the Middle East....have drawn huge SAT inspiration from what they saw unfold in Cairo. The people SAT of Egypt showed that it was possible to bring down even the SAT most tenacious of rulers. But the euphoria on the Nile is SAT subsiding now. And Paul Adams has been watching the country SAT begin to come to terms with the challenges and opportunities SAT thrown up by the revolution.... SAT SAT Ireland is in the run-up to what looks like being a SAT momentous election. From Galway Bay to Dublin Bay....from SAT Cork to Donegal....the nation's troubles are being aired -- SAT and there are many. Ireland has been engulfed by economic SAT disaster. The great boom that raised it out of centuries of SAT poverty suddenly collapsed. The impact was shattering, and SAT Europe and the International Monetary Fund had to come to SAT the rescue. But so vast are Ireland's debts that many years SAT of pain and austerity lie ahead... Fergal Keane has been SAT reflecting on what led his country down the road to ruin.... SAT SAT The bones of the Roman Empire are scattered all over Italy. SAT And when you wander around places like the Colosseum, and SAT the ruins of Pompeii it's easy to feel that the land is SAT steeped in a magnificent, ancient past. And indeed it SAT is....but actually, the Italian state, the Republic that we SAT know today is quite a recent idea -- only SAT a-hundred-and-fifty years old. And as the nation marks the SAT anniversary of its coming together, Robin Lustig has been SAT assessing the mood of modern Italy. SAT SAT Africa's largest country...Sudan...is splitting in two. The SAT South has voted to break-away....it'll become independent in SAT the summer. And so now what amounts to a divorce on a grand SAT scale is being negotiated. This is the complicated process SAT of untangling the new country from the old. It's about SAT agreeing the rules of a completely new relationship. And SAT Martin Plaut says that as tricky as any of the issues on the SAT table is what to do about the great herds of cattle.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00ym6cp (Listen) SAT On Money Box today/tomorrow SAT SAT Why are car insurance premiums going up - if road accidents SAT have been going down? SAT Plus: the winners and losers from the welfare and benefits SAT shake up announced this week SAT And: how the taxman may take more of your redundancy pay out SAT - leaving you no choice but to claim it back. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00yjt91 (Listen) SAT Series 73, Episode 7 SAT SAT Welfare, WMD, and Woodland. Sandi Toksvig hosts Radio 4's SAT topical panel show, in the week that Ian Duncan Smith SAT launched his bill to reform the welfare state; Rafid Al SAT Janabi, the "Curveball" informant claimed responsibility for SAT the war in Iraq; and the UK coalition government passed a SAT milestone - their first U-turn. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, SAT Paul Sinha, Imran Yusuf and Fred Macaulay. Neil Sleat reads SAT the news. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00yjthm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00yjthp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00yjtg2 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from King's SAT Norton Boys' school in Birmingham with a panel including SAT environmental campaigner George Monbiot, former Dragons' Den SAT investor Doug Richard, media entrepreneur Kelvin MacKenzie SAT and Susan Greenfield, Professor of Pharmacology at SAT University of Oxford. SAT SAT Producer: Rachel Simpson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00ym6cr (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 b00ym6ct (Listen) SAT Classic Chandler, Farewell My Lovely SAT SAT By Raymond Chandler SAT Dramatised by Robin Brooks SAT SAT When Philip Marlowe sees a huge, loudly dressed man casually SAT throwing a bouncer out onto the the pavement as he goes into SAT a bar, he knows it's time to walk away, so he follows him SAT inside. The big guy is Moose Molloy, recently released from SAT an eight year prison sentence and now on the hunt for his SAT old sweetheart, a red-haired nightclub singer named Velma SAT Valento. SAT SAT Marlowe follows a trail which includes a stick-up, SAT blackmail, an irresistible blonde, a psychic, drugs and SAT murder, and it leads him all the way to the top of a corrupt SAT state of California. SAT SAT Farewell My Lovely was the second of Chandler's novels SAT featuring Marlowe. It was adapted for the big screen three SAT times. SAT SAT Philip Marlowe ..... Toby Stephens SAT Moose Malloy ..... Richard Ridings SAT Mrs Grayle ..... Madeleine Potter SAT Morrison ..... Pat Starr SAT Randall ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT Nulty/ Amthor ..... Sean Baker SAT Jessie Florian ..... Joanna Monro SAT Galbraith ..... Lloyd Thomas SAT Marriott ..... Iain Batchelor SAT Ann Riordan ..... Claire Harry SAT Sonderborg ..... Adeel Akhtar SAT Laird Brunette/ Second Planting ..... Sam Dale SAT SAT Directed by Mary Peate SAT Adapted by Robin Brooks SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00ym83k (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Sixties' legend Marianne Faithfull SAT on high heels and that voice. Jo Brand discusses her dislike SAT of crying in public. As part of our Women in Business SAT series, we explore whether women are less likely to take SAT risks than male counterparts. Men who abuse their wives or SAT partners can be offered places on programmes to prevent SAT domestic abuse: we ask what's the evidence that they work. SAT Dramatic weight loss and the unforeseen impact on people's SAT lives - one dieter describes how it led to separation from SAT her husband. And pets in bed - would you share yours? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00ym83m (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00z684n (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 hyperconnectivity - the idea that there are more devices in SAT use around the world than there are people actually using SAT them. How do the panel cope with the sheer mass of incoming SAT information, and devices to carry it? Does more technology SAT mean better communication, or just less time to think? SAT SAT They also talk about the role of intuition in making SAT important decisions. Is there still room in modern business SAT for the good old-fashioned hunch, or do decisions these days SAT always need to be backed up by solid analysis? SAT SAT Stephanie is joined in the studio by Dominic Taylor, chief SAT executive of payment services company PayPoint; Rita SAT Clifton, chairman of branding consultancy Interbrand; Sir SAT Michael Rake, chairman of telecoms company BT Group. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00yjthr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00yjtht (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yjthw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00ym83r (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive Anderson is joined by Neil Morrissey, one of SAT television's most recognised faces - starring in Men SAT Behaving Badly, Waterloo Road and, of course, the voice of SAT Bob the Builder. The actor and real ale enthusiast spills SAT the beans on his life for audiences around the UK with his SAT new show 'Neil Morrissey: Celebrities Stripped Bare'. SAT SAT Presenter and comedian Griff Rhys Jones is an avid art SAT collector and enthusiast. Griff ventures to remote corners SAT of the globe in search of ancient cultural art, the impulses SAT that underpin it and how it has been affected over time. The SAT first trip for his new BBC Two series looks at the sacred SAT and tribal art of Australia, with the splendour, magical and SAT religious energy behind African and Indian art following on SAT subsequent Friday evenings. SAT SAT Edward Fox is a stalwart of the acting profession having SAT appeared in Day of the Jackal, A Bridge Too Far and Edward SAT and Mrs. Simpson. He returns to the stage to celebrate the SAT life and work of the Victorian novelist Anthony Trollope in SAT his new one-man show 'Edward Fox: Trollope in Barsetshire'. SAT SAT Robin Ince talks to writer and producer Robert Popper whose SAT new Channel 4 comedy series Friday Night Dinner is inspired SAT by his own family life and background. The show stars Black SAT Books Tamsin Greig and Inbetweeners Simon Bird. SAT SAT With their blissful blend of panoramic, alternative pop, SAT music comes from Newcastle collective Sharks Took The Rest. SAT SAT And folk bluesman Charlie Parr hot foots it back from SAT Brussels to perform 1922 Blues on his twelve string guitar, SAT live in the Loose Ends studio. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00ym844 (Listen) SAT Sachin Tendulkar SAT SAT "I have seen God. He bats at No 4 for India in Tests". Rob SAT Bonnet profiles Sachin Tendulkar, possibly the most SAT worshipped cricketer in the world. He has broken records SAT galore in Test and One-day international cricket. In India SAT he's revered more than Bollywood stars and politicians. And SAT his name and face are used to promote eveything from luxury SAT cars to soft drinks. Yet off the field he is one of the most SAT reclusive players. As the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011 gets SAT underway in Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka, Profile SAT discovers how Tendulkar has become India's cricket God. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Rippon SAT Presenter: Rob Bonnet. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00ym8b8 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelists Terence Blacker and SAT Deborah Moggach and theatre writer David Benedict review the SAT week's cultural highlights including Anna Nicole. SAT SAT Anna Nicole is a new opera by Mark-Anthony Turnage and SAT Richard Thomas, starring Eva-Maria Westbroek as Anna Nicole SAT Smith - the Texan waitress and Playboy pin-up who acheived SAT fame and notoriety when she married an 89 year old oil SAT billionaire. SAT SAT Tim Pears' novel Disputed Land is narrated by Theo, looking SAT back on a childhood Christmas when his entire family was SAT summoned to his grandparents' house in Shropshire for SAT reasons which were not immediately obvious. SAT SAT The jumping off point for Enda Walsh's play Penelope is the SAT fate of the suitors who were vying for the hand of SAT Odysseus's wife in Homer's epic poem. Here there are four of SAT them remaining, with expanding waistlines and receding SAT hairlines, occupying an empty swimming pool ouside SAT Penelope's house and wooing her via CCTV. SAT SAT Robert Popper's new comedy on Channel 4 - Friday Night SAT Dinner - stars Tamsin Greig and Paul Ritter as parents who SAT are joined every Friday evening by their twentysomething SAT sons played by Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal for an uneasy SAT and fractious meal. SAT SAT Watercolour at Tate Britain is an exhibition which spans 800 SAT years and brings together over 200 works including pieces by SAT historic artists such as William Blake, Thomas Girtin and SAT JMW Turner, through to modern and contemporary artists SAT including Patrick Heron, Peter Doig and Tracey Emin. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00ym8bb (Listen) SAT Freeman's World SAT SAT "Tighter, tighter!". This, the television producer Hugh SAT Burnett tells Sue MacGregor, was a typical instruction to SAT cameramen on the BBC series Face to Face which ran from 1959 SAT to 1962. SAT SAT Face to Face was Burnett's idea and it was simple. Each SAT week, a public figure would join the presenter John Freeman SAT for a half hour interview. SAT SAT Fifty years on the programmes still shine, remarkable for SAT their relentless camera close-ups and Freeman's forensic SAT questioning, bringing celebrities to television screens as SAT never before. SAT SAT In Freeman's World, Sue MacGregor and Hugh Burnett look back SAT on the series, beginning with its interrogation of Tony SAT Hancock - "There's something troubling you about the world SAT and I should like to know what it is". Critics rounded on SAT Freeman for the tough line he took. In fact, the two men SAT became firm friends. SAT SAT Perhaps the most enduring Face to Face image is Gilbert SAT Harding in distress as he's asked about seeing someone die SAT (Freeman didn't know Harding's mother had just passed away). SAT But Harding didn't cry, reveals Hugh Burnett. He was SAT sweating under the lights. Moreover, Burnett says, he knew SAT he was in for "a public beating." SAT SAT Face to Face made John Freeman a celebrity, to his distaste. SAT But his face was almost never seen, only the back of his SAT head. And interviewing was just part of a life in which he SAT has been soldier, MP, magazine editor, TV executive and SAT high-ranking diplomat. SAT SAT Freeman's World also features Bertrand Russell, Carl Jung, SAT Dame Edith Sitwell and Sir Stirling Moss. And then there's SAT Evelyn Waugh, aloof and ill at ease in the studio. Asked by SAT John Freeman why he's agreed to appear on Face to Face, SAT Waugh replies "Poverty. We've both been hired to talk in SAT this deliriously happy way." SAT SAT Producer: Chris Ledgard. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00yhv3b (Listen) SAT The Moonstone, Episode 4 SAT SAT Paul Rhys as Franklin Blake, Kenneth Cranham as Sergeant SAT Cuff, Bill Paterson as Mr Bruff and Jasmine Hyde as Rachel SAT Verinder star in Episode Four of Doug Lucie's dramatisation SAT of Wilkie Collins's detective masterpiece. SAT SAT Franklin Blake returns from abroad determined to get to the SAT bottom of the mystery of the missing diamond and persuade SAT Rachel to talk to him again. In Yorkshire he makes a SAT shocking discovery at the quicksand and then sets up an SAT amazing re-enactment of the fatal night a year ago. SAT SAT Opium plays an important part in the re-enactment as it was SAT used widely for killing pain in mid-Victorian England and in SAT Blake's case by accident to help him sleep after stopping SAT smoking cigars. A strange medical man called Ezra Jennings SAT enters the story and movingly describes how opium has helped SAT him to combat a disease for many years (which sounds like SAT cancer but is never explained). SAT SAT After finally discovering who stole the diamond, the action SAT moves back to London as the Indians have reappeared just as SAT the Moonstone is likely to leave the Bank at the end of the SAT year's pledge. A chase to a pub in the East End of London SAT ends tragically for a man in disguise and the final SAT postscript from Mr Murthwaite tells of the diamond's final SAT resting place back in the forehead of the Indian deity. SAT SAT Franklin Blake ..... Paul Rhys SAT Rachel Verinder ..... Jasmine Hyde SAT Betteridge ..... Steve Hodson SAT Sergeant Cuff ..... Kenneth Cranham SAT Mr Bruff ..... Bill Paterson SAT Ezra Jennings ..... Peter Marinker SAT Mr Luker ..... Stephen Critchlow SAT Rosanna Spearman ..... Alison Pettitt SAT Mr Murthwaite ..... Paul Bhattacharjee SAT Lucy ..... Rachel Atkins SAT Gooseberry ..... Harrison Webb 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 b00yjthy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00yjcp0 (Listen) SAT "Who should be allowed to marry?" It may sound a strange SAT question, but that's exactly the issue raised by reports SAT that the government is considering allowing gay "weddings" SAT in churches and other places of worship. If that isn't SAT contentious enough in recent weeks we've also had SAT heterosexual couples demanding the right to have civil SAT partnerships, plans to give co-habiting couples the same SAT rights as those who are married and 24 hour Las Vegas style SAT wedding chapels could be coming to a street near you soon. SAT We've come a long way from the days of the Biblical SAT understanding of the sacrament of marriage as the union of a SAT man and a woman. But does it matter? Perhaps not if you see SAT marriage as just another contractual arrangement like buying SAT a car or a house. But historically we've viewed marriage as SAT uniquely valuable to society - the building block on which SAT families are made and children are raised - which is why SAT it's the only sexual relationship in which the state is SAT entitled to have a say in giving it special status and SAT privileges. A relaxed and laissez faire attitude to marriage SAT may reflect our current society, but what's it doing to our SAT moral climate? When all the data suggests that married SAT people and their children are happier and have better mental SAT health shouldn't the state be actively encouraging marriage? SAT Or is the problem the link between marriage and religion? Is SAT it time we abandoned state sanctioned religious ceremonies SAT in favour of a universal civil marriage? SAT SAT Chaired by Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Claire Fox, SAT Kenan Malik and Clifford Longley. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00yj3mn (Listen) SAT (17/17) SAT Russell Davies chairs the 2011 Final of the evergreen SAT general knowledge contest. The Finalists are from Northwich SAT in Cheshire, Prescot in Lancashire, Beeston in SAT Nottinghamshire, and Winchester. All have come through heats SAT and semi-finals to face this last hurdle for the silver SAT trophy and the title Brain of Britain, in the 58th contest SAT since the programme was devised. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THE FINAL SAT SAT JOHN BEYNON, a gardener from Northwich in Cheshire; SAT MARK KERR, a chartered surveyor from Prescot in Lancashire; SAT DR IWAN THOMAS, a freelance science editor from Beeston in SAT Nottinghamshire; SAT ANDY TUCKER, a consultant and former diplomat from SAT Winchester. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00yhv3g (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry requests to SAT stir the senses; from the contemporary to the canonical, SAT read by John Sessions and Catherine Cusack. SAT SAT With work by Coleridge, Cavafy, Larkin and Plath, as well as SAT less familiar names like the American Chase Twichell seeking SAT solace in the company of trees. There's a mysterious story SAT about an exiled aristocrat by Robert Graves, and a blast of SAT fresh air from Vicki Feaver. There's also an evocative poem SAT by Robert Minhinnick, where the recollection of the feeling SAT of holding a bird in the palm of the hand provokes a SAT powerful question. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00ym9f3 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00ls1vk (Listen) SUN Three Women in a Motorhome, Pam's Story SUN SUN Part 1 of 3 stories by Sue Teddern about three women who SUN take a short but eventful trip in a motorhome. Pam's story SUN is read by Lynda Bellingham. SUN SUN Pam's husband died recently. The couple had just bought a SUN motorhome and dreamt of enjoying their retirement on the SUN open road, but ever since his death 'The Sedona' has been SUN parked on the driveway - too symbolic to sell, too precious SUN to use. Pam is cajoled by her daughter into taking it for a SUN trip along The Severn, and on the way they pick up an SUN eccentric elderly relative. Pam is grieving, but also SUN learning to assert herself with a daughter whose concern SUN manifests as control. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00ym9f5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00ym9f7 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00ym9f9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00ym9fc (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00ym9ff (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary Redcliffe, Bristol. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00ym844 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00ym9fh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00ym9fk (Listen) SUN Time Has Told Me SUN SUN Fergal Keane reflects on the importance of real life SUN experience - wisdom gained not from books but from the SUN world. SUN SUN Like Shakespeare's Cleopatra, who remembers her salad days SUN as a time when I was green in judgment, cold in blood, lack SUN of life experience can cause us to rush in where angels fear SUN to tread. Or where a more mature person might hesitate. SUN Which is the better weapon for life? SUN SUN Fergal will draw on the work of W.B. Yeates, Fleur Adcock SUN and the Indian writer Radhika Jha to explore this notion. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Sadovy and Aiden Mcardle. SUN SUN Presenter: Fergal Keane SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00ym9fm (Listen) SUN Ptarmigan SUN SUN The high plateaus of the Scottish highlands are mainland SUN Britain's piece of Arctic tundra, especially the high slopes SUN of the Cairngorm mountain range. Here, on the "roof of SUN Scotland" the vegetation of the heathland changes from one SUN which is good for grouse to another that best suits the SUN Arctic grouse, Ptarmigan. In winter this hardy bird acquires SUN white plumage and nothing short of a set of snow boots! SUN SUN Lionel Kelleway joins Cairngorm Mountain Head Ranger Nic SUN Bullivant on the snow fields of Caringorm looking for the SUN Ptarmigan in their harsh and open mountain-scape. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Polly Procter. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00ym9fp (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00ym9fr (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00ym9ft (Listen) SUN Jane Little with the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar and SUN unfamiliar. SUN SUN The teaching of Religious Edcuation in schools in crisis. It SUN has been omitted from the new English Baccaluareate and a SUN recent survey found that a third of all secondary schools SUN will cut it from their curriculum. We'll discuss what has SUN happened to an academic subject in which the UK is SUN considered a world leader; with Professor Trevor Cooling, SUN Reverend Jan Ainley and Dr Phillip Barnes. SUN SUN Ireland is about to go to the polls. Are people - amid the SUN anger, pain and desolation of financial meltdown - striving SUN for non-materialistic help? Irish Journalist David Quinn SUN SUN Homosexual couples could soon ne allowed to marry in church SUN while straight couples could be given the right to a civil SUN partnership. We ask why some religious groups are opposed to SUN the consultation process. SUN SUN Algeria, Libya, Bahrain, Iran and Yemen have all seen big SUN and small protests over the last few days. What does this SUN mean for the Arab world and will more regimes in that part SUN of the world collapse? Fawaz Gerges is the Director of the SUN Middle East Centre at London School of Economics SUN SUN Our reporter Kevin Bocquet looks into the issue of Child SUN Protection in Madrassahs SUN SUN The Industral Revolution brought a boom in the number of SUN temporary churches or Tin Tabernacles to cater for a devout SUN but transient people. Geoff Bird visted one in Staffordshire SUN to hear how they have remained part of worship for so many SUN people SUN SUN Father Christopher Jamison reviews the new film 'The Rite', SUN released next week in the UK. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00ym9fw (Listen) SUN HOPE HIV SUN SUN Wendy Wall presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity HOPE HIV. SUN SUN Donations to HOPE HIV should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope HOPE HIV. 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 HOPE HIV 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: 1079385. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00ym9fy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00ym9g0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00ym9g2 (Listen) SUN The Healing of Fear SUN SUN Writer on spirituality Dr Michael Ford and the Rev Andrew SUN Martlew, an ex army chaplain who served in Iraq, explore how SUN faith can contribute in the healing of life's traumas. Live SUN from Emmanuel Church Didsbury, with the Manchester Chamber SUN Choir. Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00yjtg4 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Canopy SUN SUN 1/20. If you walk into a rainforest you are immediately met SUN by quite literally a forest of trees. All the tree trunks SUN look like cathedral pillars, smooth and wet from the rain. SUN Not a single branch emerges from the trunk for tens of SUN metres - and when they do you see a breath-taking SUN interlocking jungle of branches and leaves, ferns and SUN flowers and all number of creatures great and small. The SUN canopy is a bonanza of tropical forest life, in the bright SUN light and gentle breeze - a far cry from the dark and humid SUN underworld of the forest floor. Not surprising then that SUN David Attenborough knew this would be a perfect place to SUN film wildlife. SUN SUN Written and presented by David Attenborough SUN Produced by Julian Hector. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00ym9ls (Listen) SUN News, views and discussion about the big stories of the SUN week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00ym9lv (Listen) SUN Written by: Joanna Toye SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00ym9lx (Listen) SUN Lawrence Dallaglio SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the former England rugby captain SUN Lawrence Dallaglio. SUN SUN He was capped 85 times for England, played in three Lions SUN tours and led his club side, Wasps, to the top of the SUN premiership five times. SUN SUN Yet, he says, he only started playing rugby seriously after SUN the death of his sister, Francesca. She died in the SUN Marchioness disaster on the Thames when he was 16 and her SUN death, he says, blew his world apart. SUN SUN "Losing my sister was devastating. It made me more SUN determined to do something to bring my parents together. SUN When I first took up rugby, I took it up not for sporting SUN reasons, I needed something to grab onto, I needed an olive SUN branch." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00yj3sn (Listen) SUN Series 59, Episode 2 SUN SUN Popular long running panel game, hosted by Nicholas Parsons. SUN The panellists this week are Paul Merton, Sheila Hancock, SUN Sue Perkins and Marcus Brigstocke. Subjects include "Twenty SUN Four Hour News" and "Emergency Stop" in which a Kitten is SUN hypothetically run over. SUN No REAL animals were harmed in the making of this programme. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00ym9lz (Listen) SUN Andrew Lansley on Food and Obesity SUN SUN Food and the coalition. How does the government intend to SUN change the way Britain eats? Sheila Dillon interviews Health SUN Secretary Andrew Lansley. SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00ym9g4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00ym9m1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, with an in-depth SUN look at events around the world. To share your views email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Mind Changers b00ymjpr (Listen) SUN Series 5, Walter Mischel's Marshmallow Study SUN SUN The psychologist Walter Mischel made his name with his SUN ground-breaking book, Personality and Assessment, in 1968. SUN He followed up with a classic experiment which is still SUN running today. SUN SUN Seeking to understand how the impulsive behaviour of his own SUN three daughters at age 3 became increasingly regulated and SUN planned by age 4 or 5, Mischel set up his experiment in SUN delayed gratification at the Bing Nursery at Stanford SUN University. Over 6 years he asked more than 300 4-year-olds SUN to decide whether to have one marshmallow right now, or wait SUN and get two, and he examined the cognitive processes which SUN enabled some children to wait. SUN SUN Hearing by chance how these 4-year olds were getting on in SUN high school years later, Mischel realized that whether or SUN not they'd been able to resist eating one marshmallow in SUN order to get two was now showing a strong correlation with SUN their achievements at school, and even with whether or not SUN they were over-weight. Following the same cohort at 10-year SUN intervals, he's shown that those who were able to hang on SUN for two marshmallow were less likely to drop out of college, SUN use cocaine, or even go to prison. SUN SUN Now the original Marshmallow Test children are middle-aged SUN and still being followed up in one of psychology's SUN longest-running studies. Coordinated by Ozlem Ayduk at SUN Berkeley and Ian Gotlib at Stanford, many have returned to SUN Stanford for fMRI scans and have completed tests on laptops SUN mailed out to them all over the US and even abroad. SUN SUN Claudia Hammond meets Walter Mischel and hears from his SUN former colleagues at Stanford, Al Bandura and Gordon Bower. SUN Also from Mischel's current collaborator, BJ Casey at SUN Cornell, and former student Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton, and from SUN one of the original subjects, now a Professor of Psychology SUN herself, Carolyn Weisz. SUN SUN UPDATE: SUN SUN Episode 1 of Mind Changers Series 5 was postponed because of SUN extended coverage of the events in Egypt. SUN SUN The series will now start with Walter Mischel's Marshmallow SUN Study on Sunday 20 February and you'll be able to hear SUN Elizabeth Loftus and Eye Witness Testimony on Sunday 17 SUN April. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00yjqs8 (Listen) SUN Cheshire SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel are joined by guest panellist Paul SUN Peacock in Cheshire. SUN Paul advises on creating a herbaceous border with year-round SUN interest. SUN SUN Bunny Guinness visits Emma Morris in her garden in SUN Shrewsbury. Part of the Listeners' Gardens series. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Completists b00yn83l (Listen) SUN Episode 5 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 b00yn83n (Listen) SUN Show Boat, Episode 1 SUN SUN By Edna Ferber SUN Dramatised by Moya O'Shea SUN Part One SUN When Magnolia Hawks climbs aboard the Cotton Blossom SUN Floating Palace Theatre a whole new world opens up and so SUN her remarkable life begins ... SUN SUN Kim.....................Lysette Anthony SUN Magnolia..............Samantha Spiro SUN Parthy..................Laurel Lefkow SUN Andy....................Morgan Deare SUN Young Magnolia....Shahrazad Matthews SUN Gaylord................Ryan McCluskey SUN Julie.....................Samantha Dakin SUN Steve....................Henry Devas SUN Elly.......................Leah Brotherhead SUN Schultzy................Jude Akuwudike SUN Jo.........................Nonso Anozie SUN Queenie................Tracy Ifeachor SUN Sophy...................Joanna Monro SUN Windy...................Sean Baker SUN Pete......................Mark Caven SUN Mr. Mowson...........Iain Batchelor SUN SUN The Music by Neil Brand and the Banjo Played by Mike Hammond SUN SUN Directed by Tracey Neale SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00yn83q (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to first time novelist Sarah Winman SUN and investigates the rise of debut fiction this year. SUN SUN Authors Muriel Zagha and John Baxter discuss how the the art SUN of writing about sensuality is poles apart in French and SUN English literature. SUN SUN And we look back at the radical series of Penguin modern SUN classics, now classics themselves at fifty. SUN SUN Producer: Sally Spurring. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00yn83s (Listen) SUN Roger McGough with a magical mix of poetry requests, SUN including work by Hilaire Belloc, DH Lawrence and Imtiaz SUN Dharker. The readers are John Sessions and Catherine Cusack. SUN Imtiaz Dharker also joins the programme to read her own poem SUN about the miraculous daily arrival of thousands of tiffin SUN boxes to their correct destinations in the city of Mumbai. SUN There's a mesmerising rendition from 1932 of The Tarantella SUN by Hilaire Belloc (which many will know from its opening SUN refrain of 'Do you remember an inn, Miranda?') Also, Roger SUN reads one of his own most well liked poems 'At Lunchtime', SUN and DH Lawrence considers the more sedentary affairs of SUN tortoises. SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00yj96f (Listen) SUN Shaken Babies? SUN SUN Each year, around 250 parents and carers are accused of SUN killing or injuring children by shaking them or inflicting SUN some other form of head injury. But an acrimonious SUN scientific debate over the theory behind so-called Shaken SUN Baby Syndrome, has turned toxic among the expert witnesses SUN whose evidence is so critical in determining guilt or SUN innocence. SUN Andrew Hosken examines claims of a campaign of dirty tricks SUN to discredit those who question the orthodoxy and hears SUN calls from one of the country's leading pathologists for an SUN inquiry. SUN SUN Producer Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00ym844 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00ym9g6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00ym9g8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ym9gb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00yn83v (Listen) SUN Steve Hewlett makes his selection from the past seven days SUN 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 Little green men from mars, Mac The Knife - do you know SUN where that song comes from? The Chilean Miners - what was it SUN really like down there? Brighton's nudist beach, David SUN Attenborough's pulley system for inspecting the rainforest SUN canopy, Johnny Morris - not just funny animal voices, Face SUN to Face with John Freeman, Berthold Brecht, Valentine's Day SUN and Camilla takes the Ambridge biscuit ...that's pick of the SUN week with Steve Hewlett SUN SUN The Archers Radio - Radio 4 SUN Leaving Mr Wrong - Radio 4 SUN You and Yours - Radio 4 SUN Not Just Funny Animal Noises - Radio 4 SUN Archive on 4: Freeman's World - Radio 4 SUN David Attenborough's Life Stories - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN The 33 - Radio 4 SUN The Priest, the Badger and the Little Green Men from Mars - SUN Radio 4 SUN Song Stories - Radio 2 SUN The Call - Radio 4 SUN It's Your Round - Radio 4 SUN In Living Memory - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00yn83x (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00yn83z (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an 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 b00lpp9g (Listen) SUN Stories with Latitude, Scott Hardy's Queensway Sessions SUN SUN Photographer Reuben Cantarini becomes obsessed with the work SUN of a brilliant musician called Scott Hardy, whose music only SUN exists on the internet until Reuben clandestinely tapes a SUN private session. When Hardy's death is announced, his cult SUN following grows. Reuben never divulges the existence of his SUN bootleg recording until an email from another music SUN collector starts to unravel the mystery of his hero's death. SUN SUN Producer Sara Davies. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00yjt8v (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton visits in Salford with Feedback listeners SUN Heather Howarth and Delphine Price to explore the Media City SUN UK development. He asks them if moving more programmes to SUN BBC North will make them more representative of northern SUN life and whether they actually care where their programmes SUN come from. SUN SUN And down the road in Manchester, Mark Radcliffe and Stuart SUN Maconie are preparing to shift their popular evening banter SUN on Radio 2 to an afternoon slot on 6 Music. Roger talks to SUN the station's controller Bob Shennan about his decision and SUN asks him if he's doing enough for older Radio 2 listeners. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00yjt8x (Listen) SUN John Wilson presents Radio 4's obituary programme. SUN SUN We retrace Sir George Shearing's jazz journey from Battersea SUN to Birdland - pianist Julian Joseph demonstrates the secret SUN of Shearing's keyboard technique. SUN SUN The Right Reverend Derek Rawcliffe was known as Britain's SUN first gay Bishop after he outed himself on Newsnight. SUN SUN How former Liverpudlian milkman and docker Brian Jacques SUN became one of the biggest selling children's authors in the SUN world. SUN SUN Sociologist Daniel Bell's big ideas included a prediction of SUN the internet - three decades before it was invented. SUN SUN And how actor TP McKenna became a familiar face on stage on SUN screen. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00ym6cp (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00ym9fw (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00yj3xx (Listen) SUN The Big Society SUN SUN The "big society" - the idea that volunteers should take SUN over some of the functions of the state - is the most SUN over-used policy phrase of the moment. But how will the SUN theory work in practice? SUN SUN Chris Bowlby looks at the big society on the ground in SUN Oxford - from the affluent streets of the City's North to SUN the deprived estates of Blackbird Leys - and tries to figure SUN out the consequences of expecting communities to do more for SUN themselves. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00yn8kz (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 b00yn8l1 (Listen) SUN Episode 40 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 Steve Richards of The SUN Independent takes the chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00yjt8z (Listen) SUN Francine Stock meets Simon Pegg and Nick Frost to discuss SUN Paul. A homage to the sci-fi films of their childhood, the SUN film sees the pair embark on a road trip across America SUN where they meet a real life alien. SUN SUN Neil Brand is here to give a musical guide through the world SUN of dreams in film. SUN SUN Iranian director Rafi Pitts discusses The Hunter, a SUN metaphorical meditation on the current political situation SUN of his home country. SUN SUN Liverpudlian Geoff Woodbridge is a big fan of horror films. SUN He's just watched one a day for the last year. He explains SUN why and picks out a couple of favourites. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00ym9fk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00yqg7d (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00yjcnt (Listen) MON Islam and capitalism - Sex before the sexual revolution MON MON Sexual Intercourse began in I963, according to Philip MON Larkin's 'Annus Mirabilis'. But what of the dark ages before MON the sexual revolution? A new study shows them to be not MON quite as repressed, unfulfilled and pitiable as many have MON been keen to cast them. In this edition Laurie talks to Kate MON Fisher and Simon Szreter about their illuminating MON exploration of intimate life in England between 1918 and MON 1963, which involved them speaking frankly and in depth to MON almost a hundred people about their sex lives in the period. MON Also, Charles Tripp talks about the relationship between MON Islam and capitalism, and some Muslim societies' reactions MON to what are seen as the dangers of a rapacious and socially MON destructive force. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00ym9ff (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yqg7g (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yqg7j (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yqg7l (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00yqg7n (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00yy7jn (Listen) MON With the Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00yqg7q (Listen) MON The grower of the worlds hottest chilli tells us what MON happened when he ate it. MON Also, according to food industry experts, high end and niche MON food seems impervious to the economic downturn, we find out MON why. MON And this weekend marked the 10th anniversary of the MON country's biggest foot and mouth outbreak, Louise Walter MON talked to a selection of children in the South West of MON England who were affected. MON Producer: Ruth Sanderson MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00yqg7s (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00yrkys (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 b00yqg7v (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to Simon Wessely about the mental health MON of soldiers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan, and explores MON why British personnel appear to have fared so much better MON than their American counterparts. The historian John Stubbs MON revels in the antics of the Cavaliers - the 17th century MON dandies and political intriguers, loyal to the king. The MON experimental physicist Athene Donald argues that science is MON as creative as the arts, and describes how studying the MON texture of yoghurt could help the treatment of dementia. And MON Simon Sebag Montefiore studies the texture of a city - MON Jerusalem. His epic 3000 year history is a chronicle of MON faith and power, diversity and co-existence. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00y5dc3 (Listen) MON To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 1 MON MON "By trekkers' standards our party is small and swift: a MON guide, a cook, a horse-man, myself. We move scattered above MON the river, while loan traders pass us the other way, leading MON their stocky horse and mule-trains between lonely villages. MON They look fierce and open, and laughingly meet your eyes. MON The delicacy of the plains has gone..." MON MON Renowned travel writer Colin Thubron is about to climb Mount MON Kailis in Tibet, one of the holiest places in the world and MON hardly visited by westerners. Its slopes are rugged, MON glacial, and peopled by the toughest types alive. Its slopes MON are also full of stories: Hindu and Buddhist tales of MON struggle, devotion and intrigue. But on from these lower MON reaches, Kailis' s peak rises sacrosanct. Forbiddingly MON distant. And it is here that Thubron casts his gaze, then MON walks towards, as listeners can discover in his new account. MON MON 1. In the first of five episodes, abridged by Penny MON Leicester, MON the author begins his ascent of Mount Kailas with trusty MON guide MON and cook in tow. But what exactly lies ahead?, he asks MON himself. MON MON Reader Stephen Boxer. MON Producer Duncan Minshull. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yqhrc (Listen) MON Jenni Murray presents: Women and Westerns. From the cowboy MON to the bandit, the gunslinger to the sheriff, Westerns are MON often thought of as galleries of very macho characters. In MON this world women might be pure householders in need of MON protection, or good time gals working the Saloons, and not MON much in between. But has that always been the case? We look MON at rising unemployment amongst women and also examine MON proposals by the Afghan government to take control of the MON country's 11 women's shelters. And the story of Lucie MON Blackman the English girl working as a nightclub hostess in MON Tokyo who was found dismembered in a seaside cave. We talk MON to journalist Richard Lloyd Parry who's written a book about MON the case and to Sophie Blackman, Lucie's sister. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yqhrf (Listen) MON Far Pavilions, Episode 16 MON MON M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy MON Catherine. British attention turns to Afghanistan, and the MON Guides need the services of a man who could pass for a MON Shinwari. MON MON Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi MON Ash ..... Blake Ritson MON Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker MON Cavagnari ..... Sam Dale MON Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes MON Battye ..... Jude Akuwudike MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 11:00 The Chaplin Archive b00yqhrh (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON An exclusive look into Charlie Chaplin's life through his MON personal archives. Some of this material has never been MON revealed before so it's a wonderful opportunity for the MON Radio 4 audience. MON MON In 1952 America turned it's back on Charlie Chaplin. His had MON been the classic American story: from rags to riches and MON from street boy to millionaire. But, in the McCarthy era, MON Chaplin wasn't regarded as patriotic enough for some and he MON decided to leave. He chose exile in Vevey, Switzerland where MON he lived on the shores of Lake Geneva, seeking sanctuary MON from the hostile atmosphere of Hollywood. Vevey was where he MON brought up his children and found peace but always waiting MON for the America's authorities to realise the mistake they MON had made. He died on Christmas Day in 1977 and is buried on MON the slopes above the lake. However his archival remains are MON there too - letters, photos, scripts, recordings, MON scrap-books - the written legacy of one of the iconic MON figures of the 20th century. MON MON Writer, broadcaster and film buff Matthew Sweet travels to MON Vevey in Switzerland where he meets Chaplin's son, Michael, MON to explore the house and get unprecedented access to some of MON the amazing revelations of the archive. We hear recordings MON of Chaplin composing and Michael Chaplin shows Matthew a MON document, found in a locked drawer after his death, which MON could lead experts to revise one of the most basic MON assumptions made about his famous father. MON MON Helping to guide us and explain the significance of these MON discoveries through Chaplin's music, his Victorian Poverty MON and his women are Timothy Brock, composer, conductor and MON restorer of Chaplin's music, Dinah Birch, historian and Neil MON Brand, a respected authority on Chaplin. MON MON 11:30 Brian Gulliver's Travels b00yqhrk (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON by Bill Dare MON MON Brian Gulliver, a seasoned presenter of travel MON documentaries, finds himself in a hospital's secure unit MON after claiming to have experienced a succession of bizarre MON adventures. This week we hear about his travels in Gelbetia, MON a country run by doctors. MON MON Brian ..... Neil Pearson MON Rachel ..... Mariah Gale MON Brendal ..... Katherine Jakeways MON Dr Malik ..... Paul Bhattacharjee MON Nurse Hill ..... Sean Baker MON Judge ..... Sam Dale MON Juror ..... Nyasha Hatendi MON Cliptin ..... Jane Whittenshaw MON Nurse Suzy ..... Sally Orrock MON MON Produced by Steven Canny MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00yqhrm (Listen) MON We'll be looking at the introduction of new regulations for MON timeshare and holiday club holidays, and we'll be asking if MON they'll stamp out the problems rogue traders have caused in MON the industry in the past. MON MON We'll be investigating whether a fashionable new hair MON treatment is safe. Brazilian hair smoothing treatments MON promise to transform frizzy hair into smooth glossy locks MON for up to 12 weeks. But some of the products have been MON banned elsewhere in the world. MON MON And why more of us are visiting the shops to research our MON purchases before spending our money online instead. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00yqg7x (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00yy7sj (Listen) MON National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty MON minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To MON share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 The 3rd Degree b00yqhrp (Listen) MON Southampton MON MON Coming this week from the University of Southampton, host MON Steve Punt quizzes Biology students and Mathematics dons MON alike on dachshunds, Dante, and Doctor Who. So if you've MON ever wondered whether "The Golgi Apparatus" refers to part MON of a eukaryotic cell or is merely a little-read Robert MON Ludlum novel then this is the show for you. MON MON "The 3rd Degree" is a funny, lively and dynamic new quiz MON show aimed at cultivating the next generation of Radio 4 MON listeners whilst delighting the current ones. It's recorded MON on location at a different University each week, and it pits MON three Undergraduates against three of their Professors in a MON genuinely original and fresh take on an academic quiz. Being MON a Radio 4 programme, it of course meets the most stringent MON standards of academic rigour - but with lots of facts and MON jokes thrown in for good measure. MON MON Together with host Steve Punt, the show tours the (sometimes MON posh, sometimes murky, but always welcoming!) Union MON buildings, cafés and lecture halls of six universities MON across the UK. MON MON The rounds vary between Specialist Subjects and General MON Knowledge, quickfire bell-and-buzzer rounds and the MON 'Highbrow & Lowbrow' round cunningly devised to test not MON only the students' knowledge of current affairs, history, MON languages and science, but also their Professors' awareness MON of television, film, and Lady Gaga... In addition, the MON Head-to-Head rounds, in which students take on their MON Professors in their own subjects, were particularly lively, MON and offered plenty of scope for mild embarrassment on both MON sides... MON MON The resulting show is funny, fresh, and not a little bit MON surprising, with a truly varied range of scores, friendly MON rivalry, and moments where students wished they had more MON than just glanced at that reading list... MON MON Producer: David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00yn83x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00yqhrr (Listen) MON Market, Eclipse MON MON Carrie runs a flower stall. She also has a birthmark on her MON face. Maybe that's the reason she has never married. But Mrs MON Kaminsky knows she has an ardent admirer. A tender romantic MON comedy by Sharon Oakes. MON MON Carrie.....Michelle Holmes MON Gordon....Andrew Westfield MON Mrs Kaminski....Melissa Jane Sinden MON Maurice......Ian Champion MON Lisa.........Claire Lever MON MON Original Music by Steven D Reid MON Produced by Gary Brown MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00ym8bb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Against the Grain b00yqj8p (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON A series featuring five people who have defied their culture MON or tradition to stand up for what they believe in or to MON follow a dream. Programme one features pig farmer, Irayne MON Paikin, who comes from a traditional Jewish background in MON Hampstead but has discovered a passion for pigs and sausage MON production at her farm in the Cotwolds. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00ym9lz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00yqj8r (Listen) MON Nuns MON MON Discussion programme in which guests from different faith MON and non-faith perspectives debate the challenges of today's MON world. MON MON 17:00 PM b00yqj8t (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yqg7z (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00yqj8w (Listen) MON Series 59, Episode 3 MON MON Long running comedy panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. MON This week the panellists are Paul Merton, Ross Noble, Tony MON Hawks and Liza Tarbuck. Subjects include 'On Valentine's MON Day, I recieved...'. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00yqj8y (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00yqjj1 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including a review of the Australian film MON Animal Kingdom, the tale of a teenage boy who finds himself MON caught up in a criminal family in Melbourne. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yqhrf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Designing Camelot b00yqjtg (Listen) MON When Jacqueline Kennedy arrived at the White House as the MON new First Lady in 1961, she initiated a complete redesign of MON the whole house. It became a national project, the subject MON of an Emmy-winning documentary and the model for the MON historic restoration of houses all over the world. MON MON In the process, she redefined what the White House meant to MON the nation, provided a living history of American design, MON and established the foundations of the Camelot image with MON which the administration would always be associated. MON MON Katty Kay looks back at the this transformation, and talks MON to some of the people who made it happen. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00yqjtj (Listen) MON The Orange Book: Clegg's Political Lemon? MON MON The Orange Book, published in 2004, is a collection of MON political essays by leading Liberal Democrats. Although the MON writers come from a range of viewpoints, the book has been MON seen as an attempt by party right wingers to reclaim the MON party's economic liberal origins in the nineteenth century MON and give it a new modern emphasis. But for some leading MON Liberal Democrats these ideas are now closer to tenets of MON Conservative thought. So will the Orange Bookers bind the MON coalition ever closer together or lead to fractures and even MON splits in Liberal Democrat ranks? MON MON Edward Stourton talks to one of the leading Orange Book MON Liberal Democrats, David Laws MP, about the philosophy MON behind the book and why they were so keen to publish it. He MON discusses the consequences for the party of the gap which MON has now emerged between public perceptions of where the MON party stands on major issues and where its leadership's MON inclinations lie. And he discusses what the longer-term MON implications of the Orange Bookers' relationship with David MON Cameron's Conservatives will be. MON MON Among those he talks to are the former Conservative Shadow MON Home Secretary, The Rt. Hon. David Davis, MP; the historian MON and newly-elected Labour MP, Tristram Hunt; the expert on MON political leadership, Professor Peter Clarke; and the former MON Liberal Democrat policy director and Orange Book sceptic, MON Richard Grayson. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00yjs49 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. Could severe flooding in the UK in MON 2000 have been caused by climate change? Quentin finds about MON the latest research which suggests that greenhouse gases, MON produced by humans, are to blame. Quentin also discusses the MON largest solar flare for four years & asks what effects it MON might have on electronics and telecommunications. He also MON discovers why Vincent van Gogh's sunflowers are turning MON brown, and he hears about new images that are providing MON novel insights into the physical structure of comets. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Human impact on flooding MON MON Scientists have discovered that green house gases have MON significantly increased the risk of extreme rainfall. One MON research group used real-world data and computer models to MON prove the link between greenhouse emissions and the increase MON in extreme rains in the Northern Hemisphere. Another MON research group showed that greenhouse warming made the UK MON floods of 2000 more likely. Dr Richard Allan and Professor MON Mark Maslin join Quentin to explain more. MON MON Van Gogh’s fading paint MON MON X-ray analysis has been used to explain why the bright MON yellows in his paintings have faded to brown over time.... MON and it could help protect not only some of Van Gogh’s most MON famous works but those by other late 19th century artists. MON Quentin talks to Professor Koen Janssens, from the MON University of Antwerp, who led the research. MON MON Tempel 1 MON MON On February 14th NASA’s Stardust-NExT mission hooked up with MON the Tempel 1 Comet, which back in 2005 had been subject to a MON vicious and unprovoked assault by another NASA probe, Deep MON Impact. The damage from that attack – an 800lb slug was MON fired into it from almost point blank range – was clearly MON visible in some of the high resolution images. Quentin talks MON to Professor Alan Fitzsimmons from Queen’s University, MON Belfast. MON MON Solar flare MON MON The largest solar flare in four years has erupted from the MON sun. The eruption, called an X-flare is the strongest type MON and can affect communications on Earth. The British MON Geological Survey (BGS). has issued a geomagnetic storm MON warning. Observers also might be able to see aurora from the MON northern UK. Dr Alan Thompson from the BGS joins Quentin to MON explain more. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00yqg7v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00yqg81 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00yy898 (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 b00yqjtl (Listen) MON Flush, Episode 1 MON MON 1/5 Virginia Woolf's delightfully whimsical biography of the MON Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning's beloved spaniel, MON Flush, is read by Jenny Coverack. Flush was given to Miss MON Barrett by a family friend, and the young spaniel very MON quickly became the poet's devoted companion and constant MON atttendant at her bedside in her father's house in Wimpole MON Street. In this first episode, Flush must learn to forget MON his early life in the country, and become used to days spent MON in an invalid's bedroom. MON MON Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. MON MON 23:00 Within These Walls b0076cb2 (Listen) MON The Ministry of Justice has recently announced that the MON prison in Lancaster Castle is to close. When that happens it MON will bring to an end a period of more than 900 years of the MON castle being used as a jail. MON MON Lancaster Castle has held Pendle witches, Catholic priests, MON Jacobite rebels, 18th century Quakers, lunatics and MON prisoners of war. It's reputed to have sentenced more people MON to hang than anywhere else outside London and, more MON recently, held the trial of The Birmingham Six. The MON courtroom dock is still in use for modern trials, though it MON contains a branding iron. MON MON In recent times it has also been home to 240 convicted MON offenders - housed in a way which required the authorities MON to combine the latest techniques with an ancient MON environment. Ironically the continued use of the Castle as a MON prison - meaning that the public has been barred from seeing MON inside - has meant that large parts Lancaster have remained MON undisturbed for centuries - for example the underground cell MON which held 9 people accused in the Lancashire Witch trials MON of 1612. MON MON So what will happen if the law abiding lancastrians are MON allowed access to the building which towers over their city MON once the Ministry of Justic move out? MON MON In 2003 History Professor and Lancaster resident Jeffrey MON Richards was given exclusive access to the castle for Radio MON 4 and in the light of the latest news that the prison is to MON close, we're repeating the programme he made. MON MON 23:30 The Write Stuff b00q3lcy (Listen) MON Series 9, Arthur Conan Doyle MON MON James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary MON correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are MON joined by Mark Billingham and John O'Farrell. The author of MON the week and subject for pastiche is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, MON and the reader is Beth Chalmers. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00yqjcd (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00y5dc3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yqjcg (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yqjcj (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yqjcl (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00yqjcn (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00yqmn8 (Listen) TUE Sharon Grenham-Toze TUE TUE With the Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00yqmnb (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00yqmnd (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00yqn6q (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland takes the long view of royal weddings, TUE comparing the marriage between Prince William and Kate TUE Middleton with the romance between King Edward IV and TUE Elizabeth Woodville who fell in love and married in the 15th TUE century. TUE TUE In 1464 Edward pursued and secretly married Elizabeth TUE Woodville against the counsel of his royal advisors who were TUE negotiating a dynastic union for the dashing young king. TUE When word of the wedding got out it was billed as a marriage TUE for love - a dramatic break with royal tradition. And TUE eyebrows were also raised at Elizabeth's social status - her TUE father was a member of the gentry rather than the TUE aristocracy. TUE TUE Jonathan is joined by veteran royal reporter James Whitaker, TUE writer and commentator Peter York and columnist Polly TUE Toynbee to discuss how so-called 'commoners' have won the TUE hearts of royalty. TUE TUE Producer: Paula McGinley. TUE TUE 09:30 The Call b00yqn6s (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made life-changing TUE phone calls. TUE TUE Following a failed suicide attempt, Duncan Irvine made a TUE phone call to the Samaritans that saved his life. TUE TUE In the 1970's Duncan lived in a small village in the TUE Scottish borders with his mother, who was suffering from TUE mental health problems. TUE TUE "She started hearing voices, and told me that the TV was TUE talking to her. She would write down strange things like car TUE numbers and putting them in my pocket. I got no help from TUE our local doctor and I thought not helping her was my TUE fault." TUE TUE Duncan was also struggling with the realisation that he was TUE gay. TUE TUE "I felt guilty and ashamed about it all, and was afraid of TUE speaking to anyone. I was depressed but no-one used that TUE word then. Depressed was how you felt when Rangers lost at TUE Ibrox." TUE TUE One day at work, the pressure overwhelmed him and he tried TUE to cut his wrists. When that didn't work, he thought about TUE throwing himself into the sea. As he walked the streets of TUE Edinburgh, he saw a poster for the Samaritans and decided to TUE give them a call. TUE TUE "Everything had been going round in my head and it seemed so TUE big I couldn't cope with it....Talking through it made me TUE realise maybe there are some things I can do about this a TUE little bit at a time." TUE TUE Duncan now runs a pub in London and volunteers for the TUE Samaritans. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00yqn6v (Listen) TUE To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2. During the ever rockier ascent of Kailas, the author TUE with his guide and cook must enlist the help of Dhabu, TUE who has horses to help the cause... TUE Read by Stephen Boxer. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yqn6x (Listen) TUE Jenni Murray presents: Including withdrawal of rape TUE allegations, new guidelines for judges. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yqn6z (Listen) TUE Far Pavilions, Episode 17 TUE TUE M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy TUE Catherine. Ash's reports from Afghanistan seem to fall on TUE deaf ears, and he wonders whether the British have any TUE desire to avoid conflict. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi TUE Ash ..... Blake Ritson TUE Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua TUE Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker TUE Cavagnari ..... Sam Dale TUE Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes TUE Battye ..... Jude Akuwudike TUE Zarin ..... Chris Simpson TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 Bosphorus b00yqp5s (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Istanbul is, famously, the only city in the world to TUE straddle two continents - Europe and Asia. The dividing line TUE is the Bosphorus and Edward Stourton has been exploring the TUE life and rich history of this 19 mile long stretch of water. TUE The Bosphorus gives Istanbul its unique character, but, as TUE he discovers in this, the last of the series, having a foot TUE in both Europe and Asia forces the people who live there to TUE ask themselves interesting questions about their identity TUE and the future of Turkey. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Pegum TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00yqp5v (Listen) TUE Psychiatrist and writer Oliver James with his favourite TUE texts. His readers are William Chubb and Susan Jameson. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00yqp5x (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE More people are in debt than ever before at a time when TUE support for those in financial trouble is under threat. With TUE more than half of UK families struggling to repay loans and TUE the cost of living likely to rise further there are fears TUE things could get even worse. TUE TUE Are you in debt with no where to turn to? Are you worried if TUE interest rates go up you will no longer be able to afford TUE your mortgage? Have you or are you considering taking a pay TUE day loan or going online to borrow at eye-watering interest TUE rates? With both the National Debtline and Citizen's Advice TUE Bureau facing cuts where do we now go to get help? Should TUE there be regulation to make borrowing more affordable? TUE TUE Join Julian Worricker on Call You&Yours and take the TUE opportunity to contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00yqjcq (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00yy8b5 (Listen) TUE National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty TUE minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To TUE share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 The Foghorn: A Celebration b00yqp5z (Listen) TUE Peter Curran celebrates the humble foghorn's powerful role TUE in music, literature and film. TUE TUE The foghorn was invented in 1855 by Robert Foulis, a TUE Scotsman living in northern Canada who heard the low notes TUE (but not the high notes) of his daughter's piano playing TUE whist walking far from the family's fog-shrouded coastal TUE cottage, thus inspiring the first steam powered fog horn. TUE But beyond the sea, it's 'whale-like' sound has inspired TUE artists writers and musicians to use the foghorn both as TUE symbol and instrument. TUE TUE Peter Curran hears from Foghorn composer Alvin Curran, the TUE 'fogmeister' Jason Gorski who used to conduct illegal TUE foghorn concerts in San Francisco Bay, and takes a tour of TUE Portland Bill lighthouse the set of the almighty Victorian TUE fog horn of Poseidon like qualities. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00yqj8y (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jxyrh (Listen) TUE Two Pipe Problems, Episode 1 TUE TUE By Michael Chaplin TUE TUE We return to The Old Beeches, a retirement home for elderly TUE thespians, in the company of William and Sandy; two actors TUE who still nurse a certain affectionate animosity towards one TUE another since they starred as Holmes and Watson in a 1960s TUE television series. Our two elderly thespian residents of the TUE Old Beeches home for retired members of the Acting TUE profession become embroiled in making sure the course of TUE true love DOES run smooth. TUE TUE It all begins with a proposal, leading swiftly to a wedding, TUE involving two residents - a Shakespearian knight called Sir TUE Trelawney Hope and an ex-nightclub chanteuse called Dolores TUE Sweet, with William as Trelawney's best man and Sandy giving TUE Dolores away. But as the old couple stand there, Trelawney TUE drops a bombshell - he no longer wishes to go through with TUE it. There's uproar, Trelawney strides away, refusing to say TUE any more. Our two heroes are once again pressed into service TUE to solve a mystery; just why does the bridegroom suddenly TUE call the wedding off? TUE TUE Sandy Boyle ..... Stanley Baxter TUE William Parnes ..... Richard Briers TUE Dolores Sweet ..... Julia McKenzie TUE Sir Trelawney Hope ..... John Rowe TUE Godfrey ..... Joseph Mydell TUE Mary Winter ..... Jillie Meers TUE Isadora Klein ..... Susan Wooldridge TUE Hugo ..... Stephen Critchlow TUE TUE Saxophonist ..... Julie Hodge TUE TUE Producer/Director: Marilyn Imrie TUE A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00yqp77 (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 b00yqp9k (Listen) TUE A Few More Actors' Words, An Elephant at Trincomalee TUE TUE The latest series of short stories by actors features James TUE Wilby, Sarah Winman and Kerry Shale reading their own work. TUE From the jungles of 1970s Sri Lanka (when it was Ceylon) to TUE a luxury boutique hotel in Seville, from the devastation a TUE death causes - and comfortable lives confronted by something TUE shocking - to the adventure of following a wild elephant, TUE these stories are as varied as the performers who have TUE written and read them. TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Against the Grain b00yrj63 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Protestant politician Ivan Cooper is best known for his role TUE leading the Bloody Sunday civil rights march. As a Catholic TUE sympathiser and civil rights activist, he took up the TUE nationalist cause and became a hate figure for Unionists in TUE Northern Ireland. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00yqp9m (Listen) TUE Joshua Rozenberg looks at the legal issues behind the TUE Wikileaks story. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00yqshz (Listen) TUE Ian Hislop, Jan Etherington TUE TUE Ian Hislop, editor of Private Eye and star of Have I Got TUE News For You, talks about his enduring love of the spoof TUE history 1066 and All That. Jan Etherington, writer of TUE comedies such as Next of Kin, and Second Thoughts, chooses TUE Waterlog by Roger Deakin as the book that inspires her. And TUE presenter Kate Saunders introduces them to a forgotten TUE classic - Auntie Mame by Patrick Dennis. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00yqsj1 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair brings you the top stories of the day. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yqjcs (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00yqsj3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Girls and Boys TUE TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. TUE TUE With Rudy about to tie the knot, it's party time - Adam TUE style. Adam has created a wedding spreadsheet, and it's down TUE to Richie to intervene to ensure that both the Stag Do, and TUE Doreen's hen night, go off with a Rudy Sharpe Sizzle. 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 b00yqjd9 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00yvv11 (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including a review of the film West Is TUE West, a sequel to the successful 1999 film East Is East, TUE about an immigrant from Pakistan running a fish and chip TUE shop in Salford, and trying to control his large family. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yqn6z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00yqsph (Listen) TUE Airport Woes TUE TUE Business travel and Christmas holidays were ruined for TUE hundreds of thousands of people by snow. While many airports TUE abroad bounced back quickly from bad weather, some in TUE Britain began to resemble refugee camps. But discontent TUE among passengers and airlines goes well beyond winter TUE readiness. TUE Julian O'Halloran asks how one operator BAA, justifies its TUE grip on no fewer than half a dozen British airports? And TUE questions whether government and regulators need to take TUE more control over the industry in order to prevent further TUE damage to Britain's image abroad.. TUE Producer : Samantha Fenwick. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00yqspk (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00yqspm (Listen) TUE Epilepsy TUE TUE Dr Mark Porter discusses epilepsy. He talks to doctors who TUE are treating and researching this diverse brain condition TUE and hears from people who are living with epilepsy or have TUE been cured of it. Advances in brain surgery mean an TUE increasing number of people can be cured with an operation. TUE However, surgery is not an option for the majority of adults TUE and children. Mark finds out about the latest approaches to TUE preventing epileptic seizures with drugs, and a special TUE high-fat diet which helps to reduce the severity of the TUE condition in some children. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00yqn6q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00yqjcv (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00yy8b7 (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 b00yqspp (Listen) TUE Flush, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/5 Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett TUE Browning's devoted spaniel, Flush, is read by Jenny TUE Coverack. Flush has abandoned the memories of his early days TUE in the country, and is now Miss Barrett's constant companion TUE in her father's house in Wimpole Street. However, when his TUE beloved owner embarks on a very special correspondence, TUE Flush senses change is in the air. His fears are confirmed TUE with the arrival of a new visitor to the invalid's bedroom. TUE When Flush realises he longer occupies the most important TUE place in Miss Barrett's affections, he decides to make his TUE feelings about the usurper Mr Browning clear in the only way TUE he knows. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. TUE TUE 23:00 Wondermentalist Cabaret b00yqspr (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE 4 of 4. Matt Harvey concludes this pilot series of TUE Wondermentalist - his warm-hearted poetry cabaret - in the TUE company of fellow poets Les Barker, Pete Hunter and Jude TUE Simpson. Supported by one man house band, Jerri Hart, they TUE vie for the audience's approval at the Comedy Box, Bristol, TUE in the Dead Poets' Slam, wooing us with the deathless words TUE of their best-loved poets from the past. The audience too TUE play their part, composing their own crowd-sourced poem (the TUE subjects of which can vary wildly, from reflecting on the TUE delights and demerits of cheese, to Sunday mornings, and the TUE winter habits of gerbils). TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 The Write Stuff b00qcjwq (Listen) TUE Series 9, Irvine Welsh TUE TUE James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary TUE correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are TUE joined by Jane Thynne and Christopher Brookmyre. The author TUE of the week and subject for pastiche is Irvine Welsh, and TUE the reader is Beth Chalmers. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00yqjcx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00yqn6v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yqjcz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yqjd1 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yqjd3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00yqjd5 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ysklp (Listen) WED Sharon Grenham-Toze WED WED With the Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00yqsq8 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. WED WED 06:00 Today b00yqp8b (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00yqsqb (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00yqsx4 (Listen) WED To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 3 WED WED 3 Colin Thubron strides forth into majestic desolation and WED one early morning awakes face to face with a local beast. WED Meanwhile, Mt Kailas looms ever nearer for him... WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yqsx6 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents: Spooks and Outcasts star Hermione WED Norris. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yqn79 (Listen) WED Far Pavilions, Episode 18 WED WED M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy WED Catherine. Ash's increasing sense of his own difference from WED his friends and fellow soldiers drives him to make a move. WED WED Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi WED Ash ..... Blake Ritson WED Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker WED Zarin ..... Christopher Simpson WED Colonel Jenkins ..... Sean Baker WED Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b00yqsx8 (Listen) WED Series 13, Episode 2 WED WED Zero Tolerance. Chris Ledgard visits New York to explore the WED origins of zero tolerance policing, arguably responsible for WED cutting New York's murder rate by half in the 1990's. But WED can such spectacular results in the fight against violent WED crime really be traced back to tackling litter, broken WED windows and graffiti? WED WED Zero tolerance policing has its origins in the WED criminological theory know as "broken windows." According to WED this theory, serious crime can be tackled at grass roots WED level by improving the quality of life of a community. WED George Kelling, academic and architect of "broken windows" WED talks to Chris Ledgard about the origins of the idea, and WED the way it was used in the fight against crime in the 1980's WED and 1990's. WED WED Chris also meets William Bratton, onetime head of the NYPD WED and hailed as America's top cop when his zero tolerance WED policing appeared to cut New York's murder rate by half. But WED did clamping down on street traders and squeegie men really WED tackle serious crime, or was something else happening to the WED Big Apple? WED WED 11:30 Ballylenon b00yqtqm (Listen) WED Series 8, Crime Fiction 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 b00yqtqp (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00yqjd7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00yy8bk (Listen) WED National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty WED minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To WED share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00yqtqr (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 b00yqjd9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jxfql (Listen) WED Two Pipe Problems, Have You Come Far? WED WED We return to The Old Beeches, a retirement home for elderly WED thespians, in the company of William and Sandy; two actors WED who still nurse a certain affectionate animosity towards one WED another since they starred as Holmes and Watson in a 1960s WED television series. WED WED Sandy appears in the honours list but a trip to Buckingham WED Palace to collect his award provides another mystery for the WED veteran sleuths to solve. WED WED Sandy Boyle ..... Stanley Baxter WED William Parnes ..... Richard Briers WED Karen ..... Tracy Wiles WED Postman ..... David Shaw-Parker WED Charles, Equerry to HRH ..... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Doctor Mortimer ..... Geoffrey Whitehead WED Marvin ..... Stephen Critchlow WED Elsie ..... Linda Broughton WED WED Producer/Director: Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00yqvjt (Listen) WED If you have a question about finding suitable financial WED advice you can talk to Vincent Duggleby and guests on WED Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED Making decisions about your financial future can be WED daunting, with so many products, providers and types of WED advice on offer. WED WED So how can you find financial advice you can trust ? And WED what are your rights when things go wrong? 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 b00yrpys (Listen) WED A Few More Actors' Words, It's Chinatown WED WED The latest series of short stories by actors features James WED Wilby, Sarah Winman and Kerry Shale reading their own work. WED From the jungles of 1970s Sri Lanka (when it was Ceylon) to WED a luxury boutique hotel in Seville, from the devastation a WED death causes - and comfortable lives confronted by something WED shocking - to the adventure of following a wild elephant, WED these stories are as varied as the performers who have WED written and read them. WED WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Against the Grain b00yrjg7 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Naz Nureen is an Asian woman bodybuilder from Birmingham. WED She is also a Muslim. She explains why she believes her WED passion for her sport is not in conflict with her religion. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00yqvjw (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00yqspm (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00yqvjy (Listen) WED Eddie Mair brings you the top stories of the day. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yqjdc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Showstopper b00yqvk0 (Listen) WED Episode 6 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 b00yqjdw (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00yvv1h (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. WED WED Producer Ekene Akalawu. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yqn79 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00yqvk2 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, WED Claire Fox and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b00yqvk4 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Egyptian author Ahdaf Soueif describes how the anti-Mubarak WED protests have allowed Egyptians to reconnect with thousands WED of years of history and regain their sense of self. WED WED She describes a civilised and sophisticated protest which WED has shown Egyptians that they can rise above the divisions WED ascribed to them over the past 30 years. And she says WED whatever the outcome of the current political instability, WED this cultural change is permanent. 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 Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00yqvk6 (Listen) WED The Real Eco Warriors? WED WED According to senior military figures, by the time a gallon WED of fuel reaches the frontline in Afghanistan its cost has WED increased to £250. Add in the cost of escorting those WED tankers in terms of lives and you have a pretty powerful WED incentive for the military to cut down its fuel consumption. WED Top officials in the United States and in the UK are taking WED this message seriously, investing in research into WED alternative fuels, portable battlefield power systems and WED energy reduction strategies. WED WED There's already a company of US Marines operating in WED Afghanistan with solar powered communications systems whilst WED back home military chemists are working on fuels from algae. WED Their ultimate aim is for frontline military bases to WED produce their own vehicle fuel from on-site tanks of algae, WED completely eliminating the need for long convoys of fuel WED tankers. One British company is building enormous WED fuel-efficient airships that will spend weeks in the air WED patrolling Afghanistan whilst another builds generators that WED turn frontline waste into power for military camps. WED WED Could all this military effort be just the tonic that WED civilian green technology needs? Could the military's cash, WED expertise and sense of urgency push forward the stagnant WED technology of solar, wind and alternative fuels? Tom Heap WED investigates the real eco-warriors in this week's 'Costing WED the Earth'. WED WED Producer: Alasdair Cross. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00yqsqb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00yqjdf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00yy8c5 (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 b00yqvk8 (Listen) WED Flush, Episode 3 WED WED 3/5 Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett WED Browning's devoted spaniel, Flush, is read by Jenny WED Coverack. Miss Browning's constant companion Flush has been WED stolen by a gang of dog snatchers who hold their canine WED victims to ransom - and exact a fearful retribution if the WED price is not paid. Flush finds himself imprisoned in WED dreadful conditions in Whitechapel, while Miss Barrett WED becomes increasingly anxious in Wimpole Street. When her WED father tries to prevent her securing Flush's return, and WED even dear Mr Browning advises her against giving in to WED blackmail, she leaves her sickroom and takes matters into WED her own hands. WED WED Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. WED WED 23:00 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00yqvkb (Listen) WED Series 2, Team Building WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a WED 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where WED settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as WED important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. WED WED This week Mordrin is convinced by Councillor Campbell to WED take part in a team building exercise. WED WED Featuring and co-written by Scottish stand up David Kay, and WED starring Gordon Kennedy and Jack Docherty with this week's WED guest star Brian Pettifer. Mordrin McDonald mixes the WED magical with the mundane and offers a hilarious take on the WED life of a modern day Wizard. WED WED Mordrin ..... David Kay WED Geoff ..... Gordon Kennedy WED Councillor Campbell ..... Callum Cuthbertson WED Pete The Pict ..... Brian Pettifer WED Heather ..... Hannah Donaldson WED WED Producer/Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Bob Servant Emails b00yqvkd (Listen) WED The Hunt for Jerren Jimjams 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, and Felix Dexter as WED Mamadou Kouassi, Youssou Ba and Randy Whyting. WED WED 23:30 The Write Stuff b00qj216 (Listen) WED Series 9, Anton Chekhov WED WED James Walton presides over another episode of the literary WED quiz. John Walsh and Lynne Truss return as team captains WED with guests Peter Kemp and Tibor Fischer. WED WED The author of the week and subject for pastiche is Anton WED Chekhov and the reader is Beth Chalmers. WED WED PRODUCER SAM MICHELL. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00yqjdh (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00yqsx4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yqjdk (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yqjdm (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yqjdp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00yqjdr (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ysklr (Listen) THU Sharon Grenham-Toze THU THU With the Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00yqvqr (Listen) THU Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 06:00 Today b00yqp8d (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00yqvqt (Listen) THU The Taiping Rebellion THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Taiping Rebellion. THU THU In 1850 a Chinese Christian convert, Hong Xiuquan, THU proclaimed himself leader of a new dynasty, the Taiping THU Heavenly Kingdom. He and his followers marched against the THU ruling Qing dynasty, gathering huge support as they went. THU The ensuing civil war lasted fourteen years; around twenty THU million people lost their lives in a conflict which THU eventually involved European as well as Chinese soldiers. THU THU The Taiping Rebellion was arguably the most important event THU to befall China in the 19th century. Chinese nationalists THU and communists alike have been profoundly influenced by it, THU and historians believe it shaped modern China in the same THU way as the First World War shaped modern Europe. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00yqy5w (Listen) THU To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 4 THU THU 4. Few westerners make it to Mount Kailas and its majestic THU lakes.Then THU the author hears about the remarkable explorer Sven Hedin THU and his THU adventures thereabouts in 1907... THU Reader Stephen Boxer. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yqy5y (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents: Getting more women onto boards - what THU chances have been missed? THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yqn7c (Listen) THU Far Pavilions, Episode 19 THU THU M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy THU Catherine. The British Mission is welcomed to Kabul, but - THU it transpires - on a false premise. THU THU Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi THU Ash ..... Blake Ritson THU Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker THU Official ..... Kaleem Janjua THU Cavagnari ..... Sam Dale THU Jenkyns ..... Sean Baker THU Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes THU Ambrose ..... Iain Batchelor THU Nakshband Khan ..... Mozaffar Shafeie THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00yqz6g (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Bring On the Clowns b00yrfw5 (Listen) THU Clowning is one of the oldest forms of entertainment. We THU have been laughing at their physical antics and outlandish THU make-up and costume for generations. If there is ever a THU crisis in a circus performance, the cry goes out-"Send in THU the clowns!" -and that function of clowning to heal awkward, THU embarrassing and sometimes painful situations is THU particularly resonant in contemporary society. THU THU But what role does clowning have today? Traditionally THU associated with the circus ring, clowns are now often THU relegated to children's parties and as mascots in THU advertising promotions in car parks and burger bars. Do they THU still have the power to transform people (not just children) THU with laughter, wonder and fun? THU THU A common definition of a clown is "an innocent abroad in a THU malevolent world" in which the clown takes a child-like THU approach to problems and events in an often-hostile social, THU political and natural environment. In the face of changing THU audiences, tastes and forms of entertainment, how has THU British Clowning adapted and what can it offer? It is often THU street performances and community arts projects that are the THU vanguard of urban regeneration and community renewal. And THU does clowning still retain its power to subvert through THU anarchic comedy and to transform our emotions through THU laughter? THU THU The programme looks at the working lives of a number of THU contemporary clowns who inhabit the world of circus, rock THU festivals and church , street theatre and children's party, THU and whose work can take them into hospital wards and to the THU violent streets of Iraq. What role do they play in a world THU of economic downturn? Can their slapstick comedy beat THU depression in a recession? THU THU Presenter: Tony Lidington THU Producer: Mike Greenwood. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00yrfw7 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00yqjdt (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00ysh0z (Listen) THU National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty THU minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To THU share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00yqvk6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00yqjdw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00ysqsm (Listen) THU The Bail-Out THU THU On Feb 24th 2011 (the Eve of the Irish General Election) we THU flashback to the end of November 2010, when Taoiseach, Brian THU Cowen, made an announcement that confirmed the nation's THU spectacular decline from economic miracle to European THU basket-case. A decade of mismanagement and barefaced THU corruption had left the economy in freefall. THU The Bailout chronicles the resignations, the rancour, the THU public fury and the gradual dissolution of a parliament THU barely able to ratify the IMF loan before it collapses in THU disarray at the end of January 2011. And we follow events as THU they unfold right up to the eve of the general election on THU 25th February the day after our broadcast. THU Using an urgent, fast-moving drama-documentary approach, The THU Bail-Out follows 3 months of tumult - which leaves the THU British listener thinking, there but for the grace of THU God..... THU Karen Ardiff, Richard Dormer, Pat Fitzsymons and Ali White THU star as two couples one in Dublin and one in London, who are THU forced to come to terms with the collapse of what they THU realise was an illusion of prosperity, and must decide what THU the hell they are going to do now. With Mark Lambert as THU Professor Culloty a Professor of Economics and Niall Cusack THU as a campaigning journalist, Ger McQuaid. THU Director Eoin O'Callaghan THU Writer Hugh Costello and producer Eoin O'Callaghan have a THU proven track record when it comes to interrogating the THU shibboleths of modern Ireland. Their recent Radio 4 THU collaborations include Smoke and Daggers, which exposed the THU amoral underbelly of the Celtic Tiger, and What the Bishops THU Knew, which shone a revealing light on the Catholic church's THU inept response to the abuse crisis. THU THU Annie Clancy - Karen Ardiff THU And Niall Clancy - Patrick Fitzsymons THU Colm Keating - Richard Dormer THU Lorraine Keating - Ali White THU Eamon Cullotty -Mark Lambert THU Ger McQuaid - Niall Cusack THU The Radio Presenter - Miche Doherty THU And a Woman in street - Aine McCartney THU THU Producer - Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00ym4yg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00ym9fw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00ysfpn (Listen) THU A Few More Actors' Words, The Scent of Washing Powder and THU Care THU THU The latest series of short stories by actors features James THU Wilby, Sarah Winman and Kerry Shale reading their own work. THU From the jungles of 1970s Sri Lanka (when it was Ceylon) to THU a luxury boutique hotel in Seville, from the devastation a THU death causes - and comfortable lives confronted by something THU shocking - to the adventure of following a wild elephant, THU these stories are as varied as the performers who have THU written and read them. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Against the Grain b00yrjht (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Classical musician Paul Gladstone Reid explains why his THU strict Jamaican background in the Seventh Day Adventist THU Church was at odds with his desire to pursue a career in THU music and why he was ex communicated by the church because THU it did not approve of his musical leanings. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00yn83q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00yrfwc (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week THU and speaks to scientists who are making headlines. THU THU 17:00 PM b00yrfwf (Listen) THU Eddie Mair brings you the top stories of the day. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yqjdy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b00yrfwh (Listen) THU Episode 4 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 four, Tom asks why we still bother with estate THU agents. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00yqjfg (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00yvtzp (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reviews the National Theatre THU production of Frankenstein, staged by the Oscar-winning THU director Danny Boyle, with a cast including Benedict THU Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yqn7c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b00yqp9m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00yrfwk (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Debating Animals b00yrfwm (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU They're both on the wanted list, dead rather than alive, and THU they're both classed as Vermin, but there's a world of THU difference between our national attitudes to the Fox and the THU Rat. THU Once again Rod Liddle sets out to find out why we think and THU react as we do to these creatures. What are we to make of THU the statistics that periodically terrify newspaper readers THU as rats threaten to over-run our cities. But this debate is THU moving all the time. Twenty years ago the Fox was the emblem THU of the put-upon. The hounded beauty standing between the THU Toff and his stirrup cup it was always hard work for the THU hunting fraternity to persuade us of their menace. But with THU urban attacks and foxes scavenging on every street corner THU the tide is turning against 'the foxy whiskered gentleman'. THU Rod takes to the field and lane with experts involved with THU both animals and he seeks guidance from literature and THU history as he debates our reaction to The Rat and The Fox. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00yqvqt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00yqjf0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00ysfpq (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00yrfwp (Listen) THU Flush, Episode 4 THU THU 4/5 Virginia Woolf's lighthearted biography of poet THU Elizabeth Barrett Browning's spaniel, Flush, is read by THU Jenny Coverack.Flush's life changes dramatically as his THU mistress and her new husband leave Wimpole Street behind THU them and travel to Italy. As the Brownings begin their THU married life in Florence, Flush too finds a new lease of THU life amid the rich sensations and smells of the Florentine THU alleys and fields. Once again, however, a new arrival THU threatens to disturb the enjoyable routine. THU THU Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. THU THU 23:00 It's Your Round b00yrfwr (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU "It's Your Round" is the comedy panel show where the format THU is simple: there is no format. Instead, each of the THU panellists has brought along their own round for the others THU to play, meaning that each show is unique, untried, and THU unpredictable. THU THU This episode Andy Parsons, Rebecca Front, Miles Jupp and THU prog-rock legend, Rick Wakeman battle it out to see who can THU beat each other at their own games. THU THU Enjoy the hilarity that ensues when each of them play the THU games they've brought along. Can the teams guess the concept THU for Rick's new prog rock album in his "What's The Concept?" THU round? And what happens when the teams have to play Andy's THU inventively titled "It's Not Your Round"? And would Rebecca THU Front like to marry Prince William? Find out the answers to THU these questions and more in this show. THU THU Angus Deayton is the host valiantly trying to make sure THU everyone comes out of it with their reputations intact. THU THU Writers: Angus Deayton and Paul Powell THU Devised by Benjamin Partridge THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 The Write Stuff b00qpq1x (Listen) THU Series 9, Nancy Mitford THU THU James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary THU correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are THU joined by John O'Farrell and Mark Billingham. The author of THU the week and subject for pastiche is Nancy Mitford, and the THU reader is Beth Chalmers. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 FEBRUARY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00yqjf2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00yqy5w (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00yqjf4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00yqjf6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00yqjf8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00yqjfb (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00yrg1g (Listen) FRI Sharon Grenham-Toze FRI FRI With the Revd Sharon Grenham-Toze. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00yrg1j (Listen) FRI Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Melvin Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00yqp8h (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00ym9lx (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00yrg1l (Listen) FRI To a Mountain in Tibet, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5.Near the top of Mt Kailas, the air thins, the pilgrims FRI cluster, and FRI there is a cry of 'victory to the gods'... FRI FRI Read by Stephen Boxer. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00yrg1n (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 b00yqn7f (Listen) FRI Far Pavilions, Episode 20 FRI FRI M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Lucy FRI Catherine. The Guides' heroic last stand at the British FRI Mission in Kabul is watched helplessly by an imprisoned Ash. FRI FRI Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi FRI Ash ..... Blake Ritson FRI Cavagnari ..... Sam Dale FRI Anjuli ..... Ayesha Dharker FRI Jenkyns ..... Sean Baker FRI Wally ..... Jonathan Forbes FRI Ambrose ..... Iain Batchelor FRI Nakshband Khan ..... Mozaffar Shafeie FRI Hassan Gul ..... Sagar Arya FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 Hardeep Singh Kohli's Alternative Census b00yrg1q (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Inspired by the 2011 Census that takes place on the 27th of FRI March, Hardeep Singh Kohli brings his own questionnaire to FRI households across the United Kingdom. FRI FRI Combining questions based upon the official census along FRI with some of his own, he takes on the challenge of FRI chronicling and comparing the hopes, fears, joy, sadness, FRI struggles, achievements and everyday experiences that make FRI us who we are. FRI FRI In programme one, Hardeep knocks on doors in Liverpool, FRI Belfast and Mallaig in the Scottish Highlands, to talk FRI candidly and sincerely to, amongst others, a single mother FRI of three, a grandmother and a husband who looks after the FRI croft of his late father. FRI FRI With questions that range from the intimate to the FRI irreverent, from the factual to the emotional, Hardeep's FRI curiosity takes him beyond the box-checking to gather the FRI motivations and manners, opinions and feelings that define FRI people as individuals rather than as statistics. FRI FRI Producer: Katie Burningham FRI A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Spread A Little Happiness b00z09bn (Listen) FRI Series 2, What are we going to do about Maria? FRI FRI Written by John Godber and Jane Thornton. FRI FRI Debra Stevenson plays Hope, newly divorced and helping her FRI old schoolfriend Jodie with her new project, bringing FRI designer sandwiches to the hinterland of Hull. But Hull FRI seems more interested in bumper breakfast baps than smoked FRI salmon bagels, and Jodie's had to go to Portugal in a hurry, FRI leaving Hope to hold the fort. So the arrival of Hope's FRI cousin Maria, from Dagenham (Nicola Duffett) is a bonus, FRI until she starts bringing her southern ideas to a northern FRI makeover, and her advice to Hope's relationship with FRI ex-husband Gavin. FRI FRI Jodie's husband Dave is none too pleased with the makeover FRI either, but comes round when Hope and Maria agree to look FRI after his Mam while he plumbs in toilets in Goole. Add in a FRI persistent swain in the form of passionate roadmender Ray , FRI triumphant divorcee and anxious would-be poet Jenny, posh FRI restaurant reviewer Anita and Hope's moody teenage daughter FRI Carrie, and you have all the ingredients for six episodes of FRI radio bliss. FRI FRI Hope ..... Debra Stevenson FRI Maria ..... Nicola Duffett FRI Dave ..... Neil Dudgeon FRI Mam ..... Anne Reid FRI Ray ..... Shaun Prendergast FRI Gavin ..... Ralph Brown FRI Jenny ..... Sarah Moyle FRI Anita ..... Sherry Baines FRI Carrie ..... Elizabeth Godber FRI Eve ..... Helen Longworth FRI Bob ..... Ben Crowe FRI Monty ..... Stephen Critchlow FRI Blinds man ..... James Weaver FRI FRI Producer/Director: Chris Wallis FRI An Autolycus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00yrg1s (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00yqjfd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00ysfrl (Listen) FRI National and international news from BBC Radio 4. Thirty FRI minutes of intelligent analysis, comment and interviews. To FRI share your views email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00yrg1v (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 b00yqjfg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00yrfw9 (Listen) FRI The Burning Times FRI FRI Written by Helena Thompson. FRI FRI Esme lives on her own in a condemned block of flats with FRI only her plants for company. An easy target for the local FRI girl gang who think the 'old witch' is hiding some cash. FRI FRI Or so thinks Rhiannon as she bursts into Esme's flat to rob FRI her. Esme is not going to give up so easily and events take FRI a sinister turn as Rhiannon begins to fear that Esme may FRI actually be using Witchcraft after all. Can words really FRI make stuff happen? FRI FRI Rhiannon might get hold of the money but with the flat FRI crumbling around them and the gang outside becoming louder FRI and more dangerous, it becomes harder to distinguish who is FRI the victim and who is the bully. FRI FRI Hayley Carmichael and Danielle Vitalis star in this modern FRI Gothic drama. It is recorded on location with an electro FRI acoustic sound design reminiscent of the BBC Radiophonic FRI Workshop of the 1960's and 70's. FRI FRI Cast: FRI Esme ..... Hayley Carmichael FRI Rhiannon..... Danielle Vitalis FRI Joanne ..... Chloe Watkinson FRI FRI Other parts played by Alexia Khadime and Joanne Gale FRI FRI Sound and music by Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques FRI FRI Producer/Director: FRI A Boz Temple Morris production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00yrg1x (Listen) FRI Cobham, Surrey FRI FRI Horticultural problem-solving in Cobham, Surrey. Peter Gibbs FRI is joined by panel-members: Pippa Greenwood, Matthew Biggs FRI and Anne Switihinbank. FRI FRI In addition, Matthew Biggs attends the biggest community FRI seed swap in the UK. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Against the Grain b00yrjk5 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Phoebe Buckley is training for the equestrian events at the FRI 2012 Olympic Games. Unlike many professional horsewomen, she FRI does not come from a background of wealth and privilege. FRI Phoebe is a Romany gypsy and has broken with tradition to FRI follow her dreams. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00yrg1z (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 b00yrg21 (Listen) FRI Ahead of Sunday's Oscar ceremony, Francine Stock talks to FRI nominees and looks across the categories to see who might FRI walk away with the coveted statuettes. FRI FRI Producer: Craig Smith. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00yrg23 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair brings you the top stories of the day. Plus FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00yqjfj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00yrg25 (Listen) FRI Series 73, Episode 8 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week are Jeremy Hardy, FRI Roisin Conaty, Dominic Holland and Susan Calman. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00yrg27 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00yvv2g (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson, who focuses on the making of the film The FRI King's Speech, ahead of Sunday's Academy Award ceremony, FRI where it heads the field with 12 Oscar nominations. Mark FRI talks to members of the cast and production team, including FRI Colin Firth, Helena Bonham Carter and director Tom Hooper. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00yqn7f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00yrg3d (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the Rotary FRI Club of Aylsham in Norfolk with questions for the panel FRI including the Secretary of State for Health Andrew Lansley. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00yrg3g (Listen) FRI Series 2, Kiwi FRI FRI 2/20. David Attenborough tells us New Zealand had several FRI species of flightless bird living across the islands, all of FRI which are now extinct, bar one. The Kiwi has become one of FRI those species iconic of the country, like the Koala to FRI Australia, the Giraffe to Africa and the Alpaca to South FRI America. Historically, New Zealand didn't have ground FRI predators such as wild cats and stoats - which allowed birds FRI to exploit living on the ground. Being flightless in New FRI Zealand was a good way to be a bird. David Attenborough FRI filmed Kiwis and in this Life Story he muses on the niche FRI the Kiwi occupies on the ground. He argues the Kiwi behaves FRI more like a mammal than a bird, but what mammal do you FRI think, in Attenborough's view, the Kiwi most resembles? FRI FRI Written and presented by David Attenborough FRI Produced by Julian Hector. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00yrh7c (Listen) FRI Conclave FRI FRI Gripping drama by Hugh Costello. FRI FRI After the short reign and mysterious death of Pope John Paul FRI I, the election of a new Pope takes place in an atmosphere FRI of high tension between opposing factions within the FRI Vatican, including those who want to elect the first FRI non-Italian Pope for over four hundred years. FRI FRI Cardinal Franz Koenig ...... David Calder FRI Hannah Popper ...... Alison Reid FRI Cardinal Giovanni Benelli ...... Nicholas Le Prevost FRI Cardinal Karol Wojtyla ...... Andrew Hilton FRI Cardinal Jean Villot ...... Nigel Anthony FRI Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider ......Paul Humpoletz FRI Cardinal Giuseppe Siri ...... Paul Nicholson FRI Cardinal John Krol ...... Christian Rodska FRI Monsignor Virgilio Noe ...... Jonathan Nibbs FRI Cardinal Johannes Willebrands ...... Bill Wallis FRI Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns ...... David Collins FRI Uli Melzer ...... Paul Dodgson FRI FRI With John Sandeman and Kristian Phillips. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00yqjfl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00yy8c2 (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 b00yrgzc (Listen) FRI Flush, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5/5 Virginia Woolf's biography of Elizabeth Barrett FRI Browning's beloved spaniel, Flush, is read by Jenny FRI Coverack. FRI The Brownings have settled happily in Florence, their little FRI boy is growing up, and Flush is growing old. He can't FRI understand his mistress's new enthusiasm for summoning the FRI spirits, and he's lost his old passion for roaming the FRI streets and fields of Florence. It's time for him to lie in FRI the shade of a market stall and remember the good times he's FRI lived through. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Sara Davies. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00yqshz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 The Write Stuff b00qvnjh (Listen) FRI Series 9, John Donne FRI FRI James Walton takes the chair for the game of literary FRI correctness. Team captains John Walsh and Lynne Truss are FRI joined by Jane Thynne and Christopher Brookmyre. The author FRI of the week and subject for pastiche is John Donne, and the FRI reader is Beth Chalmers. FRI
19 February, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 19/02/2011 - 25/02/2011
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