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SAT SATURDAY 08 OCTOBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b015ct6c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b015j7l1 (Listen) SAT The Castrato and His Wife, Episode 5 SAT SAT Helen Berry's astonishing new portrait of Giusto Ferdinando SAT Tenducci, the celebrated 18th century castrato, and his love SAT affair with a young Irish girl, Dorothea Maunsell. SAT SAT In today's episode, Giusto and Dorothea Tenducci begin a new SAT life in Italy, but their marriage soon comes under strain. SAT SAT Read by Greta Scacchi SAT Abridged by Viv Beeby SAT Produced by Emma Harding SAT SAT 'The Castrato and His Wife' is published by Oxford SAT University Press. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015ct6f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015ct6h (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015ct6k (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b015ct6m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015cvgp (Listen) SAT with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b015cvyh (Listen) SAT "I don't know what prison is for!" A convict's wife on SAT punishment and rehabilitation. A listener's partner was SAT found guilty of a £1m fraud, but is imprisonment good for SAT society? Also, Robert Peston reads Your News. With Eddie SAT Mair. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b015ct6p (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b015ct6r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b015mqp2 (Listen) SAT Series 19, Discovering Kent from Chilham to Wye SAT SAT In the fourth in a series of listener suggestions for SAT Ramblings, Clare Balding walks part of the ancient track of SAT the Pilgrim's Way in Kent. Often thought of as a 'corridor', SAT the county that travellers pass through en route to SAT somewhere else, the Kent countryside has much to offer, as SAT Clare discovers . SAT SAT Clare joins a group of friend who, since retiring, meet SAT regularly to walk some of the 4,000 miles of footpaths that SAT Kent has to offer. To date, the group have walked around SAT half of these and today they follow the ancient Pilgrim's SAT Way over the North Downs from Chilham to Wye. The Pilgrim's SAT Way is the historic route supposed to have been taken by SAT pilgrims from Winchester in Hampshire, to the shrine of SAT Thomas Becket at Canterbury in Kent. Visited by tourists SAT worldwide, Chilham is located in the valley of the Great SAT Stour river. It is well known for its beauty and has been SAT the location of choice for several film locations and tv SAT dramas. The walk then goes on to Kings Wood, home in spring SAT to the 'best bluebells in Kent' and also the location in the SAT past for the HQ of England's secret underground army, the SAT auxiliary units before ending at the historic village of SAT Wye. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b015mqp4 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b015ct6t (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b015mqp6 (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b015ms3m (Listen) SAT Sian Williams with Gyles Brandreth, poet Elvis McGonagall, a SAT woman who was experimented on by the British Eugenics SAT Society, and a man from Oxford who's had a shark sticking SAT out of his roof for the past 25 years. There's a Crowdscape SAT from Broadstairs and Inheritance Tracks from Old Grey SAT Whistle Test legend Bob Harris. SAT SAT Producer Simon Clancy. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b015ms3p (Listen) SAT John McCarthy discusses travel biography at the Cheltenham SAT Literature Festival with eminent writers in the field; Sir SAT Christopher Ondaatje, Sara Wheeler and Alexander Maitland. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Lord Gnome Aged 49 and Three Quarters b015ms3r (Listen) SAT Private Eye magazine was first published on 25 October 1961 SAT and became part of the 'satire boom'. As Private Eye's 50th SAT anniversary approaches, its fortnightly combination of SAT cartoons, jokes, journalism and gossip makes it Britain's SAT best-selling current affairs magazine. SAT Michael Crick traces Private Eye's origins back to SAT Shrewsbury School in the mid-1950s, when four of its key SAT figures - Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton, Christopher SAT Booker and Paul Foot - wrote the school magazine. Booker was SAT the first editor of Private Eye until Ingrams took over in SAT 1963. The present editor, Ian Hislop, succeeded Ingrams in SAT 1986. SAT Michael Crick asks how Private Eye has survived despite its SAT many costly legal battles, notably those against James SAT Goldsmith and Robert Maxwell. Has Private Eye won a deserved SAT reputation for speaking truth unto power by its irreverence SAT and investigative journalism? Or is it now becoming SAT something of a national institution? And will it survive the SAT new challenge from bloggers and other online journalism? SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b015ms3t (Listen) SAT With the party conference season over, MPs are preparing to SAT return to Westminster for the start of a new political year. SAT Yet despite the efforts of their spin doctors and the SAT apparent confidence of their members, Andrew Rawnsley SAT discovers that all of the main political parties at SAT Westminster face problems with their political strategies. SAT SAT For the Conservatives, the hope that the pain of austerity SAT early in the Parliament would soon give way to growth and SAT prosperity is fading as clouds gather once again over the SAT global economy. For Labour, there are doubts whether the SAT leadership's apparent positioning of the party to the left SAT of its Blairite and Brownite past will resonate with voters. SAT And for the Liberal Democrats, there is uncertainty about SAT whether efforts to differentiate themselves from their SAT partners in government will end up destabilising the SAT coalition. SAT SAT "Beyond Westminster" asks how the parties can tackle these SAT problems successfully in the coming months - and how SAT well-disposed to them all the voters are likely to be. SAT SAT Producer Simon Coates. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b015ms3w (Listen) SAT Why two crumpled pieces of paper are among the most precious SAT reminders Lyse Doucet has of her reporting trip to SAT beleaguered Syria; Nick Danziger's been back to Kabul and SAT wonderd why the voices of Afghan women are too often SAT ignored; Steve Evans in Berlin on the row surrounding the SAT return of twenty skulls to Namibia; building a new nation is SAT never easy but now Rosie Goldsmith tells us that South Sudan SAT faces an additional challenge: introducing English as the SAT official language; and Hugh Schofield in Paris on how new SAT technology has breathed fresh life into the ghosts of SAT Montparnasse. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b015ms3y (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b015ctwn (Listen) SAT Series 75, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig with panellists Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Andy SAT Hamilton and Bob Mills. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b015ct6w (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b015ct6y (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b015cvcr (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a topical discussion of news and SAT politics from the Cheltenham Literary Festival with Minister SAT for the Cabinet Office, Francis Maude; Shadow Secretary of SAT State for Energy and Climate Change, Caroline Flint; SAT historian and author, Sir Max Hastings; and associate SAT director of the think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy SAT Research, Will Straw, SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b015ms40 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b015ms42 (Listen) SAT Classic Chandler, The High Window SAT SAT By Raymond Chandler SAT Dramatised by Robin Brooks SAT SAT When rare gold coin is stolen from her collection, Mrs SAT Murdoch hires private eye Philip Marlowe to find it. The SAT tough matriarch is convinced about the identity of the SAT thief, but Marlowe's own enquiries lead him elsewhere. He's SAT soon caught in the crossfire of a family at war with itself. SAT SAT Philip Marlowe . . . . . Toby Stephens SAT Mrs Murdoch . . . . . Judy Parfitt SAT Merle Davis . . . . . Jessica Raine SAT Leslie Murdoch . . . . . Patrick Kennedy SAT Detective Breeze . . . . . Joe Montana SAT Alex Nash . . . . . Stuart Milligan SAT Linda Conquest . . . . . Susie Riddell SAT Elisha Morningstar . . . . . Peter Polycarpou SAT Apartment Manager . . . . . Gerard McDermott SAT Lou Vannier . . . . . Carl Prekopp SAT Lois Nash . . . . . Alex Tregear SAT George Philips . . . . . James Lailey SAT Mr Shaw . . . . . Sean Baker SAT Delmar Hench . . . . . Alun Raglan SAT John . . . . . Simon Bubb SAT SAT Directed by Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Produced by Claire Grove SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b015ms44 (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b015ms46 (Listen) SAT With Ritula Shah. A fresh perspective on the day's news with SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b015crks (Listen) SAT Startups and Mistakes SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Evan asks his panel if it's getting easier to create a new SAT business in the wired world, or does a lower barrier to SAT entry mean it's more difficult to get noticed? They also SAT consider how good businesses are built on the back of SAT mistakes. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Matt Brittin, managing SAT director of Google, UK and Ireland; Lara Morgan, founder of SAT Pacific Direct and Company Shortcuts; Luke Johnson, serial SAT entrepreneur and chairman of Risk Capital Partners. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b015ct70 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b015ct72 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015ct74 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b015mscz (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT The 'Young One' Adrian Edmondson comes to the Loose Ends SAT Studio and this time he's herding in his musical flock, The SAT Bad Shepherds with members Troy Donockley and Andy Dinan. SAT The folk band have released two successful albums and played SAT many festivals across Europe and are now about to embark on SAT a 21-date 'First Farewell Tour'. SAT SAT Adrian was also a member of another band 'The Comic Strip' SAT and joining him in the studio will be fellow stripper Peter SAT Richardson. Originally partnered with Nigel Planer, Peter SAT setup 'The Comic Strip' comedy club in London which led to SAT The Comic Strip Presents.... a series of comedy films for SAT Channel 4. Peter talks about writing, directing and SAT appearing in his latest effort 'The Hunt For Tony Blair' and SAT its all star cast. SAT SAT David Baldacci is an international author with over 20 best SAT selling novels with over 100million copies in print. (The SAT most famous copy is probably the one photographed in former SAT President, Bill Clinton's hands!) David tells us about his SAT latest thriller 'The Sixth Man'. SAT SAT Plié, heel turn, cha-cha-cha and relax. Nikki Bedi has been SAT practicing and is now ready to welcome Louie Spence, famous SAT for his Pineapple Dance studios and accompanying TV series. SAT Nikki talks to Louie about which leg warmers to buy and his SAT new autobiography 'Still Got It, Never Lost It!'. SAT SAT Bringing some fun folk to the studio is Adrian Edmondson SAT with his band The Bad Shepherds who play I Fought The Law. SAT And some funny musical tales from the virtuoso pianist, SAT rapper and all round entertainer Chilly Gonzales who plays SAT 'Oregano/Dot Medley' from his latest album 'The Unspeakable SAT Chilly Gonzales'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b015msd1 (Listen) SAT Lord Justice Leveson SAT SAT Claire Bolderson profiles Lord Justice Leveson, the judge SAT who is leading the public inquiry into the phone hacking SAT scandal and relationships between politicians, journalists SAT and police officers. Brian Leveson was born and brought up SAT in Liverpool and worked there, as a young barrister, for a SAT number of years before becoming a QC. His later career SAT involved some of the biggest commercial trials of the time - SAT among them BCCI, Polly Peck and Barings. He also prosecuted SAT Ken Dodd on behalf of the Inland Revenue and, in a rare SAT setback, he lost the case. And he's turned his hand to the SAT criminal bar and prosecuted one of the UK's most infamous SAT serial killers - Rosemary West. If he handles the public SAT inquiry into phone hacking successfully, many believe he SAT will be one step closer to the ultimate legal prize - the SAT position of Lord Chief Justice. SAT SAT Contributors SAT Judge Henry Globe SAT Dominic Carman SAT Sasha Wass QC SAT SAT Producers: SAT Rosamund Jones SAT Linda Pressly. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b015msd3 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights with Tom SAT Sutcliffe. SAT SAT The Marriage of Figaro SAT SAT The Marriage of Figaro directed by Fiona Shaw is playing in SAT rep at the English National Opera, London from 5 October to SAT 10 November SAT SAT Tyrannosaur SAT SAT Tyrannosaur, directed by Paddy Considine, is released on SAT Friday 7 October, certificate 18 SAT SAT The Veil SAT SAT The Veil by Conor McPherson is playing in rep at that SAT National Theatre in London until 11 December SAT SAT Gerhard Richter SAT SAT Gerhard Richter: Panorama is at Tate Modern until 8 January SAT 2012 SAT SAT The Iliad SAT SAT The Iliad, translated by Stephen Mitchell is published by SAT Free Press SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b015msd6 (Listen) SAT The Parting Glass: The Story of Irish Migration SAT SAT Ireland's long and tragic history of emigration is examined SAT in Archive on Four, presented by acclaimed Dublin journalist SAT Fintan O'Toole. SAT SAT For 200 years, Ireland's hardest and greatest export was its SAT people: Poverty, unemployment and famine forced generation SAT after generation to go abroad in search of new opportunities SAT and better lives. SAT SAT In the mid-1990s Ireland transformed itself into the 'Celtic SAT Tiger' economy and the country believed it had consigned SAT mass migration to the history books. But the collapse of the SAT Irish banking system and the appalling level of debt foisted SAT onto this small country has brought migration back into SAT Irish life, with an estimated 1,000 people leaving every SAT week. SAT SAT Using BBC archive and material from other sources, Irish SAT Times columnist Fintan O'Toole examines the legacy of Irish SAT migration, from Queenie Mulvey, who left her rural Irish SAT family for Leeds in 1949 with a shilling in her pocket, to SAT John F Kennedy, whose great grandfather escaped the potato SAT famine in Wexford for Boston. He explores its affect on the SAT Irish at home and the way that long journey, stretching back SAT centuries, has helped build the rest of the planet, from SAT Boston to Birmingham and onto Adelaide. Irishmen abroad SAT helped shape Australia's national character; gave America SAT some of its finest presidents and played a key role in SAT rebuilding Britain after the Nazi bombs of the Second World SAT War. SAT SAT Fintan looks at the root causes of the decades of migration SAT and asks why does it keep returning for Ireland's new SAT generations? SAT SAT Produced by Martin McNamara SAT A Loftus Audio Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b015brn6 (Listen) SAT Neglected Classics - Nightingale Wood, Episode 1 SAT SAT by Stella Gibbons. Dramatised for radio by Christopher SAT William Hill SAT 1/2 SAT On either side of Nightingale Wood through one idyllic year SAT in the late 1930s, hearts beat and minds scheme, as the SAT dowdy Wither family tries to compete with the glittering SAT Springs. Bookish Tina Wither is in love with Saxon, her SAT father's handsome and aloof chauffeur. Her shopgirl SAT sister-in-law, Viola, has fallen for Victor Spring, the lord SAT of the manor. And Madge is in love with a dog. With Stella SAT Gibbons as an artful fairy godmother, might things just turn SAT out for the best? SAT SAT Tina ..... Victoria Hamilton SAT Mother/Nellie ..... Dinah Stabb SAT Father/Falger ..... Paul Moriarty SAT Viola ..... Francine Chamberlain SAT Victor ..... Simon Bubb SAT Saxon ..... Adam Billington SAT Edna/Fawcuss ..... Adjoa Andoh SAT Hetty ..... Alex Rivers SAT Phyllis ..... Joan Walker SAT Spurrey/Phillips ..... Ian Masters SAT Madge ..... Victoria Inez Hardy SAT Miss Cattyman ..... Judith Coke SAT SAT Directed by Marion Nancarrow. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b015ct76 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b015cnys (Listen) SAT Human Rights Act SAT SAT It's blamed for everything it seems from stopping us SAT deporting terrorists to allowing prisoners the right to SAT watch sport on TV. Looking at the press the Human Rights Act SAT could do with a new PR agency. The act enshrines the SAT European Convention on Human Rights into UK law. And Home SAT Secretary Theresa May is the latest to fire a broadside at SAT it. The Act should be scrapped and replaced with a British SAT Bill of Rights she says and this week she announced plans to SAT change the law so that foreign criminals may no longer be SAT able to avoid deportation by claiming a "right to family SAT life." The coalition has set up a commission to report on SAT the possibility of bringing in a Bill of Rights for the UK SAT to replace the Human Rights Act, by the end of the year. Is SAT the Act protecting and promoting our fundamental rights and SAT liberty? Or is it a criminal's charter that makes a mockery SAT of British justice? How should we best balance the public SAT good and the private entitlement? How would we in Britain SAT define human rights differently from the European SAT Convention? Are rights granted by the state or grounded in SAT more fundamental values such a religion? With the changing SAT nature of society and the moral values that it holds dear, SAT is their even such a thing as an inalienable human right? SAT SAT Witnesses SAT James Bartholomew - Author of "The welfare state we're in" SAT Shami Chakrabarti - Director of Liberty SAT Jonathan Cooper QC - Human Rights Lawyer at Doughty Street SAT Chambers SAT David Conway - Professor of Philosophy at the University of SAT Essex SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik, Melanie SAT Phillips and Michael Portillo. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b015bxq8 (Listen) SAT (8 of 12) SAT What should you change in order to make an Italian SAT broadcaster tell you about the state of the economy - and SAT why could a further change be painful? SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe posed this teaser at the end of the previous SAT edition of Round Britain Quiz, and he returns today with the SAT answer - along with many more convoluted puzzles to test the SAT ingenuity of the panel. This week the Scots, Alan Taylor and SAT Michael Alexander, take on the Midlands team of Rosalind SAT Miles and Stephen Maddock. SAT SAT As always, the questions require the teams to dredge their SAT memory banks for everything from Classical mythology to SAT popular music, and from literature to sport. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b015brnb (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces a varied selection of poetry SAT requests read by Paul Mundell and Alison Reid. Michael SAT Longley reads a beautiful poem marking his grandson's first SAT visit to his beloved Carrigskeewaun in County Mayo. Roger SAT considers the pros and cons of having an active social life SAT with help from Philip Larkin, Wendy Cope and Owen Sheers. SAT Clare Pollard also recalls the haze of overindulgence at a SAT thirtieth birthday party. Poems from one end of the cynical SAT spectrum to the other, with work by Gerard Manley Hopkins, SAT and a vitriolic piece by Baudelaire. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 09 OCTOBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b015jj37 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00grgnv (Listen) SUN Wrestling Angels, Once I Was Dead SUN SUN The subject of one of Jesus's most famous and divisive SUN miracles finds that resurrection is not all that it is SUN cracked up to be. The first of Fraser Grace's three stories SUN which re-tell biblical tales. SUN SUN Read by James Fleet SUN SUN Produced by Marilyn Imrie SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015jj39 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015jj3c (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015jj3f (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b015jj3h (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b015msns (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints in Maidstone, Kent. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b015msd1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b015jj3l (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b015msnv (Listen) SUN Walking Backwards to God SUN SUN "We advance to the truth by experience of error; we succeed SUN through failures - we walk to heaven backward." SUN The words of Cardinal Newman, academic and leader of the SUN Oxford Movement, provide the starting point for this edition SUN of Something Understood, in which Mark Tully asks how best SUN we should learn from our mistakes. SUN SUN "Make a mistake learn from it and move on" is common advice, SUN but what does that actually mean? When do we stop making SUN mistakes - and should we be actively trying to make them? SUN Newman's assertion is tested in conversation with the writer SUN Canon Stephen Cherry from Durham Cathedral and with the help SUN of literary work by Robbie Burns and James Fenton and SUN musical works by Frank Loesser, Shirley MacLaine and the SUN Choir of Kings College, Cambridge. SUN SUN The readers are Adjoa Andoh and Alistair McGowan. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b015msnx (Listen) SUN Adam Henson meets the first finalist in the BBC Radio 4 SUN Farmer of the Year category in the Food and Farming Awards. SUN Andrew Hughes shows Adam around his farm near Andover. SUN SUN Andrew has a mixed farm. He grows wheat, barley and oilseed SUN rape and keeps a herd of White Park cattle. SUN SUN Alongside his farming activities, Andrew is heavily involved SUN in conservation and takes steps to encourage wildlife onto SUN his farm. He also hosts educational visits from schools to SUN help connect children with food production. SUN SUN Presenter: Adam Henson SUN Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b015jj3n (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b015jj3q (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b015msnz (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b015msp1 (Listen) SUN Mildmay International SUN SUN Archbishop Dr John Sentamu presents the Radio 4 Appeal on SUN behalf of Mildmay International. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 292058 SUN SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the SUN envelope: Mildmay International SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Mildmay International SUN SUN Mildmay International is a Christian HIV charity SUN specialising in quality care and treatment, prevention, SUN rehabilitation, training and education, and strengthening SUN health systems in sub-Saharan Africa, the UK and other SUN resource-limited settings. SUN SUN Mildmay has been providing care for people living with HIV SUN since 1988, when the charity responded quickly to the SUN escalating crisis by opening Europe’s first dedicated AIDS SUN hospice in London. Mildmay was soon called upon to extend SUN its expertise to areas of the world hardest hit by HIV and SUN AIDS. SUN SUN We currently offer a range of HIV programmes in Uganda, SUN Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Zimbabwe, working with children SUN and young people, women and families, prisoners, SUN HIV-positive healthworkers, and in partnership with many SUN clinics and communities. Our London unit is Europe’s only SUN specialist HIV rehabilitation centre and offers tailored SUN care to people with very complex symptoms. SUN SUN Mildmay’s vision is of a world in which everyone with HIV SUN can have life in all its fullness. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b015jj3v (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b015jj3z (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b015msp3 (Listen) SUN A service live from St. David's Uniting Church in SUN Pontypridd, South Wales, anticipating World Mental Health SUN Day on Monday, exploring the light and darkness of human SUN experience reflected through the prism of faith. Worship is SUN led by the Rev Simon Walkling, the Preacher is Beverley SUN Humphreys, chair of the Mental Health Project; Growing SUN Space. The BBC National Chorus of Wales is directed by SUN Adrian Partington and the organist is Jeffrey Howard. SUN Producer: Sian Baker. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b015cvct (Listen) SUN Why Prisons Fail SUN SUN Will Self sees an urgent need to reform the prison system SUN and deplores what he sees as a lack of political will to SUN tackle its present failings. "Not only does prison, for the SUN vast majority of those who endure it not work - either as SUN punishment or as rehabilitation - but there is no escaping SUN the conclusion that it functions as a stimulant to crime, SUN rather than its bromide". SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b015msp5 (Listen) SUN With Paddy O'Connell. News and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b015msp7 (Listen) SUN Written by: Nawal Gadalla SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass 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 Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Usha Franks ..... Souad Faress SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b015msp9 (Listen) SUN Vidal Sassoon SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the veteran hairdresser Vidal SUN Sassoon. SUN SUN He developed the architecturally precise bobs and cropped SUN styles that were a defining look of the 1960s. Mary Quant, SUN Mia Farrow and Twiggy were among the glamorous clients who SUN came to his salons in London and Beverly Hills. SUN SUN His scissors and ambition lifted him out of the grinding SUN poverty of his childhood - he spent six years in an SUN orphanage because his mother could not afford to keep him at SUN home. Now aged 83, he says: "I've had the best adventure you SUN could possible have, for a kid that started from nowhere." SUN SUN Producer: Isabel Sargent. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b015bxql (Listen) SUN Series 4, Carr, Bellos, Stavrakopoulou SUN SUN The Museum of Curiosity is, as ever, hosted by the Professor SUN of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd SUN (now with added C.B.E). For this, the fourth series, he is SUN joined by the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman as his SUN Curator. Dave is the latest in a line of illustrious Museum SUN curators: Bill Bailey, Sean Lock and Jon Richardson. SUN SUN The Museum of Curiosity has a unique method for collecting SUN exhibits. Once a week it welcomes three luminaries from SUN widely different specialist fields and asks them to bring SUN with them their most treasured items to donate. SUN SUN The Museum's collection already boasts The Big Bang When It SUN Was The Size Of A Grapefruit; A Pineapple; A Yard Of SUN Silence; Nothing; A British Railways Bridge Plate; A SUN Telepathic Sheep; A Chimpanzee Rain Dance; An Impossible SUN Rabbit; A Gay Bomb; A Choir Of Singing Sand Dunes; National SUN Ignorance Day (of which we know nothing); and An Icelandic SUN Volcano (long before they were fashionable). SUN SUN In the first of the new series, John and Dave are joined by SUN comedian Jimmy Carr; documetary maker, theologian (and SUN atheist) Francesca Stavrakapoulou; and the mathematician, SUN Guardian South America correspondent and football author SUN Alex Bellos. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b015mspc (Listen) SUN LA's street food scene SUN SUN Richard Johnson travels to Los Angeles, a city where many of SUN the world's food trends begin. SUN SUN With the US economy in crisis LA's "food truck" scene is SUN growing. People who have lost jobs are finding new careers SUN by serving street food from trucks with relatively small SUN start up costs. SUN SUN These new businesses work well in LA because generations of SUN immigration have created a diverse food culture and it's so SUN close to one of the biggest farming regions in the United SUN States. SUN SUN Richard Johnson meets these street food pioneers, tastes a SUN "cheese trilogy" and asks the city's most famous chefs and SUN food writers what else the food future might hold. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b015jj49 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b015mspf (Listen) SUN With Shaun Ley. The latest national and international news, SUN with an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Post Hackgate: Journalism at the Crossroads b015msph (Listen) SUN The News International affair has shaken the British SUN establishment, and British journalism, to the core. SUN SUN In truth the storm had been brewing for 5 years, ever since SUN rumours started of private investigators being used by the SUN paper to hack in to the mobile phones of public figures. SUN SUN A police investigation led to two 'rotten apples' being SUN jailed, but despite a stream of allegations, mainly from the SUN Guardian newspaper, pointing to an endemic hacking culture SUN at the newspaper, News International continued to maintain SUN it had been an isolated incident. SUN SUN Then in July this year the dam broke. The revelation that SUN the murder victim Milly Dowler's phone had been hacked led SUN to a national outcry. SUN SUN John Lloyd conducts his own investigation into the affair SUN and asks what impact the scandal will have on the future of SUN journalism and the media in the UK. SUN SUN He talks to leading industry figures, academics and scandal SUN mongers about how the Murdoch empire has shaped SUN relationships between politicians and the press. Former SUN Cabinet minister David Mellor accuses all Prime Ministers SUN since Margaret Thatcher of prostrating themselves before the SUN popular press; while Greg Dyke, ex director general of the SUN BBC, suggests that the influence of Murdoch was always SUN exaggerated but is now at an end. SUN SUN John also examines the theory that the scandal is the final SUN nail in the coffin of a tabloid press already battling SUN falling circulation figures and an increasingly vibrant SUN online infotainment industry. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b015ctwg (Listen) SUN Stoke Poges SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs this gardening discussion from SUN Buckinghamshire with Bob Flowerdew, Pippa Greenwood and SUN Christine Walkden. SUN SUN Pippa Greenwood visits two local Poinsettia growers to find SUN out how to turn them red in time for Christmas. SUN Matthew Wilson invites us to observe how he transforms his SUN new, family, urban garden. SUN SUN Also, why you should plant your roses in cardboard boxes, SUN and never add fresh woodchip to your beds. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Picturing Britain b015mvs4 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Beyond the Security Fence SUN SUN In Picturing Britain, Adil Ray explores British life through SUN the lens of some of the country's photographers. SUN SUN Urban explorers creep through tunnels and drains, scale SUN cooling towers and climb into abandoned buildings to get SUN into parts of the country that are off-limits. Adil joins Li SUN as he photographs a derelict military site, clambering SUN through nettles and decaying buildings to document a hidden SUN side of Britain. Although unusually Li has permission to SUN photograph, Adil is still on his guard, tiptoeing through SUN the crumbling ruins and jumping at every sound. SUN SUN By day Li works with architects constructing buildings. But SUN at night he dons his black clothes and grabs his camera and SUN torch to record their demise. He sees himself as a modern SUN day historian, safeguarding Britain's heritage by SUN photographing buildings before they are torn down or SUN collapse. SUN SUN Urbexers, as they call themselves, emphasise that they have SUN huge respect for the buildings they enter - and that they SUN frown upon theft and leave nothing but footprints. Adil SUN examines the ethics of trespass with Li as he photographs SUN ivy bursting through a window, showing the beauty of decay SUN and allure of peeling paint. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Bowen. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b015mvs6 (Listen) SUN Neglected Classics - Nightingale Wood, Episode 2 SUN SUN by Stella Gibbons dramatised for radio by Christopher SUN William Hill SUN SUN 2/2. In this sparkling pre-war comedy of manners, the young, SUN widowed and pretty Viola Wither finally has the chance to SUN escape her stifling in-laws in Essex. Whilst they are SUN spending a month in the Lakes, she and her sister-in-law SUN Tina escape to Stanton on Sea. Viola is still pining for the SUN dashing Victor Spring - who has kissed her - and Tina for SUN the beautiful chauffeur, Saxon - likewise. But is it all SUN hopeless? SUN SUN Tina ..... Victoria Hamilton SUN Mother/Nellie ..... Dinah Stabb SUN Father/Falger ..... Paul Moriarty SUN Viola ..... Francine Chamberlain SUN Victor ..... Simon Bubb SUN Saxon ..... Adam Billington SUN Edna/Fawcuss ..... Adjoa Andoh SUN Hetty ..... Alex Rivers SUN Phyllis ..... Joan Walker SUN Spurrey ..... Ian Masters SUN Madge ..... Victoria Inez Hardy SUN Uncle Frank ..... James Lailey SUN Miss Cattyman ..... Judith Coke SUN Mr Brodhurst/Cotton ..... Gerard McDermott SUN SUN Director/producer Marion Nancarrow. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b015mvs8 (Listen) SUN Robert Harris discusses his latest novel The Fear Index SUN SUN Robert Harris talks about his latest book The Fear Index SUN with Mariella Frostrup and discusses why he wanted to base SUN it around the money orientated world of Swiss Hedge Fund SUN managers, why this type of trading completely surprised him SUN and why he's doing the screenplay for the film version of SUN this book himself. SUN SUN The Iliad, attributed to the Greek poet Homer, is one of the SUN most influential books of the last two thousand seven SUN hundred years. This epic poem takes place over just a few SUN weeks during the final months of the decade long siege of SUN Troy. With three new translations to choose from and two new SUN books based on this story just published, we discover the SUN Iliad's unprecedented appeal. SUN SUN The winner of the prestigious Man Booker prize will be SUN announced on the 18th October and this year the shortlist SUN has raised a few eyebrows as two of the six finalists are SUN debut novels - Pigeon English by Stephen Kelman and SUN Snowdrops by AD Miller. Suzi Feay discusses if this is the SUN place for new writing and how to find that great first SUN novel. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b015mvsb (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a weekly selection of favourite SUN poetry requested by listeners, read by Bill Paterson and SUN Catherine Harvey. SUN SUN The poetry requests this week take us up a mountain at two SUN o'clock in the morning, and strolling back through time down SUN pathways with Edward Thomas and UA Fanthorpe. And Dylan SUN Thomas takes us wandering under the apple boughs at 'Fern SUN Hill.' Roger also introduces requests for the work of SUN Elizabeth Jennings and Anne Ridler, who both died 10 years SUN ago, and he re-visits an archive recording of Sorley MacLean SUN reading his lament 'Hallaig' SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b015ck9v (Listen) SUN Energy Prices SUN SUN Household gas and electricity bills are set to soar, leaving SUN millions at risk of 'fuel poverty' and vulnerable to cold as SUN winter approaches. SUN The government's hopes for recovery in UK manufacturing SUN industry are also threatened in key sectors by rocketing SUN energy prices. Some small and medium-sized businesses have SUN already been pushed into liquidation and there are fears SUN that others will follow. SUN Politically, attention is now focusing on the behaviour of SUN the so-called Big Six energy companies which supply 99% of SUN the gas and electricity used in British homes. SUN The regulator OFGEM accuses them of 'complex and unfair SUN pricing policies'. It wants to increase competition by SUN making it simpler for customers to decide to switch SUN suppliers. It finds that prices go up like a rocket but fall SUN like a feather. And it wants greater disclosure of corporate SUN accounting systems, to check for excessive profits. SUN Gerry Northam examines claims from some industry insiders SUN that the Big Six are behaving as the banks did before the SUN credit crunch - threatening economic recovery while SUN believing they are too big to fail. SUN Producer: Samantha Fenwick. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b015msd1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b015jj4k (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b015jj4m (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015jj4r (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b015mvsd (Listen) SUN AL Kennedy makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Pick of the Week this week will be making a number of late SUN night excursions. Juliet Stevenson will be getting creative SUN in sleepless nights, Jekyll and Hyde will be enjoying a good SUN fight and Conservative Party Conference delegates will be SUN getting a little tired and emotional. Music and geography SUN will combine for Ricky Ross of Deacon Blue and in SUN recollections of David Fanshawe's work as a controversial SUN world music collector and synthesist. There's extraordinary SUN and moving new drama from Nicola Baldwin and a reminder of SUN why "Catch 22" is a modern classic. Add in some caring SUN robots, 4,000 Lucille Ball enthusiasts, the Sex Pistols and SUN an excursion to Machu Picchu for the revelation of an SUN audacious fraud and you'll understand why A.L.Kennedy had so SUN much fun making her week's selection. SUN SUN The World Tonight, 3.10.11 - Radio 4 SUN Funny Gals: Lucille Ball - Radio 2 SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - Radio 4 SUN Lyrical Journey - Radio 4 SUN Home from Home: Mumbai - Radio 4 SUN The Darkest Hour - Radio 3 SUN Book at Bedtime: Catch 22 - Radio 4 SUN Start The Week - Radio 4 SUN Sounds Of The 20th Century: 1977 - Radio 2 SUN Robots That Care - Radio 4 SUN Stephen Nolan - Radio 5live SUN The Wire: Seven Scenes - Radio 3 SUN The World In His Ear - Radio 4 SUN Who Found Machu Picchu? - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b015mvsg (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b015mvsj (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN SUN John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular SUN guest on The Now Show and popper-up in things like Miranda SUN and That Mitchell and Webb Look returns with half an hour of SUN his own sketches, each funnier than the last. Although, hang SUN on, that system means starting the whole series with the SUN least funny sketch. Might need to rethink that. OK, it's a SUN new show filled with sketches written and performed by John SUN Finnemore, but now no longer arranged in strict order of SUN funniness. Also, he's cut the sketch that would have gone SUN first. SUN SUN This week's show features some musical interludes from the SUN zoo, and a sketch that only a fool wouldn't find funny. SUN SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SUN John Finnemore. It also features Carrie Quinlan (The News SUN Quiz, The Late Edition), Lawry Lewin (The Life & Times of SUN Vivienne Vyle, Horrible Histories) and Simon Kane (Six SUN Impossible Things). SUN SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 The Time Being b015mvsl (Listen) SUN Series 5, Fripperies SUN SUN Written by Rupert Smith. SUN SUN The latest season of The Time Being brings another showcase SUN for new voices, none of whom have been previously broadcast. SUN Previous series have brought new talent to a wider audience SUN and provided a stepping stone for writers who have since SUN gone on to enjoy further success both on radio and in print, SUN such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and SUN Submarine author and National Short Story judge Joe SUN Dunthorne. SUN SUN He was a good chef with a Michelin-star restaurant, but when SUN his narcolepsy got worse things began to go wrong. SUN Recovering at home, he tries to teach his daughter his SUN favourite family dish between sleeps. SUN SUN Rupert Smith is an actor and award-winning poet, and most SUN recently a mature graduate from the University of Kent with SUN an MA in creative writing. He is currently undertaking a SUN PGCE to teach secondary level English and lives with his SUN family in Kent. SUN SUN Reader: James Fleet SUN Producer Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b015ctwb (Listen) SUN "Inane", "patronising" and "cultural vandalism" are just a SUN few of the comments you have made about the recent changes SUN to the BBC Radio 3 schedule. This week Roger puts your SUN concerns to controller Roger Wright, discussing new SUN programmes including Essential Classics, and listener SUN criticism that breakfast is sounding more like Classic FM. SUN SUN As the results of the "Delivering Quality First" SUN consultation are finally announced, we'll be finding out SUN what this cost-cutting strategy is going to mean for SUN listeners. Roger will analyse the announcement with Torin SUN Douglas and then discuss it's impact with Lord Patten, chair SUN of the BBC Trust. SUN SUN And we introduce a brand new feature: the Feedback Listening SUN Club. We are looking for small groups of Feedback listeners SUN to select a BBC radio programme, listen to it, and then get SUN together for a recorded discussion of their thoughts on SUN their chosen programme. First up is 'Open Book'. If you're SUN interested and would like more information, please email SUN feedback@bbc.co.uk SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b015ctwj (Listen) SUN Radio 4's obituary programme with Matthew Bannister asks SUN SUN What made Steve Jobs tick? We review a life that changed our SUN world with his friend and advisor of forty years. SUN SUN Also Bert Jansch - the guitarists' guitarist whose style SUN ranged from jazz and blues to traditional folk. His SUN collaborator Beth Orton pays tribute. SUN SUN Professor Ralph Steinman, who won the Nobel Prize for SUN Medicine for his work on the immune system.. SUN SUN And Robert Whitaker, official photographer to the Beatles SUN who was wounded in Vietnam. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b015ms3y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b015msp1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b015bxqv (Listen) SUN Aid or Immigration? SUN SUN Despite a general policy of austerity and cut backs, the SUN budget for development aid has been ring fenced by the SUN coalition government. Frances Cairncross asks whether a more SUN relaxed immigration policy might be a better way for the UK SUN to help the developing world. SUN SUN The official aid budget is dwarfed by a private form of help SUN for the developing world: remittances sent home by SUN immigrants working in richer countries. SUN SUN So should governments keen to help the developing world SUN encourage migration and remittances as a replacement for SUN state-funded aid? "They have the key advantage that the SUN people who send them know the people who are supposed to be SUN receiving them... There's less opportunity for corruption SUN and for waste... and they might have lower overhead costs," SUN argues Owen Barder of the Center for Global Development. SUN SUN Frances Cairncross, rector of Exeter College, Oxford and SUN former managing editor of The Economist, explores the limits SUN of this free market alternative to state-funded development SUN aid. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b015mvsn (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 b015mvsq (Listen) SUN Episode 73 SUN SUN Iain Martin of The Daily Mail analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b015ctwl (Listen) SUN Francine Stock travels to Manhattan for an extended SUN interview with the supreme exponent of screen neurosis in SUN the 1970s and beyond, Woody Allen, currently enjoying his SUN biggest box office success in years with Midnight in Paris. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b015msnv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 10 OCTOBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b015jj6h (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b015cnnt (Listen) MON Surnames - War, Politics and comic strip Superheroes MON MON Laurie Taylor talks to Marc DiPaolo and Matthew Sweet about MON the relationship between war, politics and comic strip MON superheroes. He also examines the importance of surnames, MON especially for children, exploring a new article by Dr MON Hayley Davies from Kings College London. MON MON Producer Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b015msns (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015jj6k (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015jj6p (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015jj6r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b015jj6t (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b015mzkk (Listen) MON with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b015mzkm (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Produced by Clare Freeman. Presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b015jj6w (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b015mzkp (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b015mzkr (Listen) MON Empire with Jeremy Paxman and Richard Gott MON MON Andrew Marr looks at the lasting impact of the British MON Empire with Jeremy Paxman and Richard Gott. Paxman reflects MON on how our imperial past still has the power to influence MON everything from Prime Ministers' decisions to send troops to MON war, to the way we view adventurers of the past. While Gott MON argues against any residual belief that the Empire was an MON imaginative and civilising enterprise, and reveals the MON brutality at its heart. The social entrepreneur Mariéme MON Jamme believes it's time for Africa to leave behind its MON colonised past, and with Africa's share of global trade on MON the rise, she asks whether this is her continent's decade. MON China's Empire once ruled over a third of the world's MON population, and the film-maker Suyun Sun is embarking on a MON major history series on China which she hopes will cast new MON light on the country. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b015mzkt (Listen) MON Arguably, Believe Me - It's Torture MON MON In 'Believe Me - It's Torture', journalist Christopher MON Hitchens confronts the issue of whether waterboarding is MON torture, by being waterboarded himself. MON MON Christopher Hitchens is a British-born political journalist MON and reviewer, who has been based in the USA for over 25 MON years (he is now a US citizen). His journalism, invariably MON polemical, has appeared in a variety of publications, mainly MON in the USA, but in the UK too. Arguably is the fifth MON collection of his journalism - the columns defined as MON 'Essays' in the book. MON MON Written by Christopher Hitchens. MON Abridged by Pete Nichols MON Read by Roger Allam MON Producer: Gordon House MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b015mzkw (Listen) MON Cliff Richard; postnatal depression; work-life balance MON MON Jane Garvey talks to Cliff Richard about surviving in the MON modern world, his lasting sex appeal, and his lost family; a MON discussion about what to do about postnatal depression; Jane MON asks how do you maintain a work-life balance when running MON your own business; and the history of the kettle. MON MON Sir Cliff Richard MON MON British pop legend Cliff Richard joins Jane to talk about MON surviving in the modern world, his lasting sex appeal, his MON lost family and the inspiration for his new album MON ‘Soulicious’. MON MON “Soulicious” is released on 10th October and a UK stadium MON tour starting on 15th October. MON MON Women in business: Work life balance MON MON Many entrepreneurs set up their own companies in the hope of MON having more control over their lives … only to find MON themselves working round the clock, seven days a week. So, MON how do you achieve a good work-life balance when you're MON running your own company? Jane is joined by Juliette Joffe, MON co-founder of the Giraffe chain of restaurants, and Julie MON Hall who set up business website and networking group, MON womenunlimited. MON MON Suffering in Silence – Why don’t more women seek help for MON postnatal depression? MON MON A report from the charity, 4Children, says that a chronic MON lack of awareness of the symptoms of postnatal depression is MON leading to as many as 35,000 women suffering in silence each MON year. Forty nine percent of women affected did not seek any MON professional treatment at all. Thirty-three said that they MON were too scared to tell anyone because they were afraid of MON what might happen to themselves or their child. Jane is MON joined by Dr Clare Gerada, Chair of the Royal College of GPs MON and Tessa Baradon, from the parent/infant programme at The MON Anna Freud Centre, London. MON MON The Kettle MON MON The Science Museum in London has a gallery 'The Secret Life MON of the Home' which is filled with domestic appliances from MON all eras that are now standard in our homes. As part of a MON series looking at what these gadgets have meant for women’s MON lives, Judi Herman visited the gallery in the company of the MON curator, Helen Peavitt to look at early electric kettles. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015mzky (Listen) MON On the Edge, Ralph MON MON An ex-geography teacher with a passion for the Edge, Ralph MON meets his nemesis in the shape of the Dudley and District MON Fantasy Book Club. But could his tour end with more serious MON consequences than a set of unhappy Garner fans? MON MON This Woman's Hour drama from Bafta-winning writer Neil McKay MON is set on the famous Alderley Edge sandstone escarpment and MON unfolds over one long day in late summer. When a body is MON discovered in a cave, the area is sealed off and all MON witnesses herded together in the Wizard Pub. One by one they MON are called to give their version of events to Detective MON Sergeant Lynch. But when you're on the edge, nothing is MON quite as it seems. An unlikely group including a jogger, MON some juveniles, a deranged farmer, and a Geography teacher MON are rounded up and questioned. Who fired the shotgun? Why is MON young Leah covered in blood? And who is responsible for the MON dead body? MON MON As the characters' stories unfold, the events of the day MON gradually converge. All the characters believe they are in MON some way linked to the dead body. It turns out they are all MON wrong. It's a funny old place, Alderley Edge. The course of MON events of that day change the characters forever and force MON them to face some uncomfortable truths. MON MON The area has fascinated writer Neil McKay for years, not MON only for its influence on the stories of Alan Garner, but MON also as a beauty spot that attracts a great diversity of MON people. The drama was recorded on Alderley Edge at the MON Wizard Tea Rooms and in the woods, with an ensemble cast. MON MON Ralph ...... Jeffrey Longmore MON D. S. Lynch ..... Renny Krupinski MON Saurabh ...... Darren Kuppan MON Yusuf & Carl ...... Conor Alexander MON Janice & Honky ...... Fiona Clarke MON MON Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore MON Original music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch MON Producer: Melanie Harris MON A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b015mzl0 (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 1 MON MON "Ten years work gone in one night". MON MON On Monday, 8th August, 2011, Siva's shop, "The Clarence MON Convenience Store" in the heart of Hackney, London, fell MON prey to looters during the riots that swept UK city centres. MON A Tamil refugee, Siva had spent a decade building up the MON small shop in Clarence Road, which was destined, one hot MON summer night, to become the 'front-line' in a battle between MON police and rioters. MON MON Over the days and weeks that followed, presenter Alan Dein MON talked to Siva and others affected by the turmoil in this MON area of north London, for this first programme in the new MON series of Lives in a Landscape. MON MON Immediately after the attack, pictures of Siva's shop, a MON whirlwind of wreckage created by a dark carnival of looters, MON were circulated across the globe by social media. Siva was MON left devastated - his was no chain store selling trainers or MON electrical goods. This was a small business, with no MON contents insurance. Bewildered by the attack, he was left MON wondering how he'd ever get his life and business back MON together. MON MON But locals, determined that this would not be the end of the MON road for a popular local trader, got together to raise money MON and get help to rebuild his shop, and the Help Siva fund was MON born. MON In the new series of "Lives in A Landscape" Alan Dein MON follows the immediate aftermath of the disturbances, meeting MON the people whose lives, for one night, were turned upside MON down and shaken violently. MON MON Producer: Sara Jane Hall MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b0140l7g (Listen) MON Series 2, It Was a Dark and Stormy Night MON MON Ronnie Corbett and the writers of his hit sitcom Sorry, Ian MON Davidson and Peter Vincent, return for a second series of MON this popular sitcom about Sandy Hopper, a granddad happily MON growing old along with his dog Henry and his lodger, Dolores MON (Liza Tarbuck). MON MON Dolores rashly plunges into an oral history project which MON reveals the yawning chasms which divide the Hopper family. MON Even in the small matter of the history of a picnic they MON can't agree. Sandy says one thing, Lance another and Blake MON another. Is it possible that Henry the dog can settle the MON argument? MON MON Ronnie Corbett ...... Sandy MON Liza Tarbuck ...... Dolores MON Sally Grace ...... Mrs Pompom MON Tilly Vosburgh ...... Ellie MON Jonathan Aris ...... Blake MON Philip Bird ...... Lance MON Daniel Bridle ...... Tyson MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b015mzl2 (Listen) MON Chris Tarrant on dramatic pauses MON MON Why the correct answer is not always right in the UK MON Citizenship test. MON MON Whether cars can ever achieve the Miles Per Gallon figures MON advertised by car manufacturers. MON MON How Shameless is breaking new ground in how people with MON learning disabilities are represented on television. MON MON And Chris Tarrant on dramatic pauses on television - are MON they getting longer? MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker. Produced by Alex Lewis. MON MON 12:57 Weather b015jj74 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b015mzl4 (Listen) MON With Martha Kearney. National and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b015mzl6 (Listen) MON (9/12) MON Wales take on the North of England in the latest contest of MON cryptic connections, in Round Britain Quiz. Joining chairman MON Tom Sutcliffe are the regular Welsh team of David Edwards MON and Myfanwy Alexander, and playing for the North of England MON are Jim Coulson and Diana Collecott. MON MON They'll need all their powers of lateral thinking, and will MON have to marshal their knowledge of science, literature, MON sport, history, music and popular culture in order to tackle MON the programme's notoriously contorted questions. MON MON As usual, there are question ideas from Round Britain Quiz MON listeners among them - and you can find out how to send in MON your own suggestions for questions to outwit the regulars. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b015mvsg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b015mzl8 (Listen) MON A Time To Dance MON MON In July 1518 a terrifying and mysterious plague struck the MON medieval city of Strasbourg. By the time the epidemic MON subsided, heat and exhaustion had claimed many lives, MON leaving thousands bewildered and bereaved. MON MON The South Bank, London. 2011. Is it happening again? MON MON By Julian Simpson. Based on an original idea by Anita MON Sullivan. MON MON With MON Robin Lustig MON Jim Libby MON Jana Carpenter MON Tom Salinsky MON Deborah Frances White MON Matt Banister MON Jessica Pidsley MON Jessica Regan MON MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b015msd6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Bitten by the Bug b015mzz6 (Listen) MON The Field Trip MON MON In the first of this series of five programmes exploring the MON aims and enthusiasms of society members, Brett Westwood gets MON to the heart of our natural history societies and finds that MON here in the UK they are in surprisingly good shape. The MON first programme takes him to the Somerset Levels with the MON Botanical Society, where he joins a field meeting studying MON aquatic plants. Field trips are the life-blood of any MON society and a tour of the dykes and ditches produces not MON only the smallest flowering plant in the UK, but also the MON largest cells of any British plant. MON MON Presented and Produced by Brett Westwood. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b015mspc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Click On b015mzz8 (Listen) MON Series 9, Episode 1 MON MON Simon Cox returns with a new series of Radio 4's guide to MON the digital world. In this first programme, as the UK enters MON the last phase of digital switchover all eyes are turning to MON the mobile technologies that will use the radio frequency MON spectrum previously taken up by analogue TV. Will it deliver MON the "broadband in your pocket" speeds we're being promised MON and more importantly when will get it? MON MON Simon also looks into the other technologies that will MON connect us in the future including a revolutionary new MON approach using visible light. MON MON 17:00 PM b015mzzb (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015jj7d (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b015mzzd (Listen) MON Series 4, Linehan, Sutherland, Scales MON MON Hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of MON Buckingham John Lloyd C.B.E. and comedian Dave Gorman. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b015mzzg (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b015n01b (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports from Tate Modern as Tacita MON Dean reveals a new work for the vast space of the Turbine MON Hall. MON MON Producer Georgia Mann. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015mzky (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 In Defence of Politics b015n05j (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON Prof Matthew Flinders questions the drive to decry politics MON and exclude politicians from certain decisions. He explores MON the obstacles for those who might want a career in politics. MON And he argues that politics is a force for good. MON MON Interviewees include Tony Blair, Boris Johnson, John Bercow, MON John Redwood, William Waldegrave and Alastair Campbell. MON MON Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics at Sheffield MON University. This is the third part of his series in which he MON presents his personal viewpoint challenging political MON cynicism and defending the role of politics in our society. MON MON Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b015n05l (Listen) MON Hezbollah MON MON Owen Bennett-Jones asks whether Western politicians of both MON left and right have misunderstood the nature of the Lebanese MON shi'ite movement Hezbollah. MON MON 21:00 Material World b015crkj (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he MON discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science. MON MON Producer: Fiona Roberts MON MON The Nobel for Medicine or Physiology MON MON The Nobel for Medicine or Physiology was won by Bruce MON Beutler and Jules Hoffmann for their work identifying MON receptor proteins that recognize bacterial attacks and MON activate the body’s defences. Ralph Steinman, who died three MON days before the announcement, was allowed to be posthumously MON awarded the other half of the prize for discovering the MON dendritic cells which regulate the immune system and clear MON micro-organisms from the body. Quentin talks to Professor MON Caetano Reise e Sousa, Head of Immunology at the Cancer MON Research Institute in the UK, who has worked with all three MON prizewinners, about how these cells and receptors work in MON the body. MON MON The Nobel Prize for Physics MON MON The Nobel Prize for Physics was won by three physicists who MON worked out that the expansion of the Universe is not slowing MON down, due to gravity, but rather speeding up because of MON mysterious dark energy. Brian Schmidt and Adam Reiss's team MON raced against Saul Perlmutter's group to compare light MON measurements and distances of supernovae to discover the MON mass of the Universe and the speed it was expanding. MON Fundamental physicist, Professor Carlos Frenk, at the MON University of Durham explains the profound discovery their MON work has revealed and talks about their ongoing projects to MON find out more about dark energy. MON MON The Nobel Prize for Chemistry MON MON The Nobel Prize for Chemistry was unusually awarded to just MON one person, Daniel Shechtman, for his discovery of MON quasicrystals. This controversial discovery in 1984 found MON the some metal alloy crystals did not obey the expected laws MON of symmetry. But repeated themselves in a much more complex MON way - some called it 'forbidden symmetry" Science writer MON Phil Ball explains these beautiful patterns and talks to MON Quentin about the properties of such materials and how they MON may be applied. MON MON So You Want To Be A Scientist? MON MON Adam Rutherford catches up with last year's finalist John MON Rowlands who investigated noctilucent clouds. He finds out MON whether his work on these high flying, night shining clouds MON is leading to new atmospheric research. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b015mzkr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b015jj7l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b015n05n (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015n05q (Listen) MON The Cat's Table, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Michael Ondaatje. MON MON The Cat's Table follows the course of a 21 day voyage from MON Colombo to Tilbury on a luxury passenger ship called the MON Oronsay. MON MON It is the early nineteen-fifties and the eleven year old MON Michael whose parents' turbulent marriage has resulted in MON his mother living in England for the past three or four MON years, is being sent to join her in London. He becomes MON friends with two other young boys - Cassius and Ramadhin who MON are also seated at the table, dubbed the Cat's Table by one MON of their fellow diners, which is the lowliest of the low, MON the other end of the scale from The Captain's Table. For the MON next three weeks these children have the run of the boat, MON they are invisible to authority, literally and emotionally MON feral. They feel their way amongst the adult world, MON observing and being baffled by the overheard conversations MON and secret glances. It is a journey towards an understanding MON of maturity, a journey which forges friendships and lays the MON foundations of love as well as of betrayal. MON MON Among their fellow passengers are the exuberant travelling MON pianist Mr Mazappa; a botanist transporting a miraculously MON exotic garden of powerful and dangerous plants all growing MON in the hold of the ship; the enigmatic Ms Lasqueti and her MON prize pigeons; a troupe of acrobatic performers with MON remarkable powers of discernment and the mysterious and MON terrifying prisoner whose nightly exercise is observed by MON the breathless boys. The lives of all those on board become MON entwined in a compelling narrative whose events have an MON impact which ripples out into the future and the world of MON adulthood. MON MON Abridged by Jill Waters MON Read by Sam Dastor MON Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00sp1rs (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan's first radio series is MON about his progression from working-class Herbert to MON middle-class intellectual and being caught awkwardly between MON the two. His story is told through reflective interviews, MON but mainly, Micky's acclaimed stand up comedy. Micky's MON transition from the mean streets of the East End to the MON leafy lanes of Dulwich is a fascinating story, with each MON episode focusing on a different decade of Micky's life. MON MON In this episode Micky takes us through this last decade, MON which he has spent settling down with a middle class woman MON "she's been ski-ing and everything" and building a career as MON a stand up comedian. In the documentary segments, Micky MON chats to his parents about turning to stand up and discusses MON comedy and class with the brilliant comic mind that is Sean MON Lock. MON MON The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan. MON The Producer is Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b015n05s (Listen) MON The day's top news stories from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 11 OCTOBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b015jj92 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b015mzkt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015jj96 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015jj98 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015jj9b (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b015jj9d (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01611st (Listen) TUE with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b015n3b3 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Clare Freeman. Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b015n3b5 (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in TUE Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b015n3b7 (Listen) TUE Paul Nurse TUE TUE Their work is changing the world we live in, but what do we TUE really know about their lives beyond the lab? TUE TUE Each week on The Life Scientific, Jim Al-Khalili, Professor TUE of Physics at Surrey University, invites a leading scientist TUE to tell us about their life and work. He wants to get under TUE their skin and into their minds; to find out what first TUE inspired them towards their field of research and what TUE motivates them to keep going when the evidence seems to be TUE stacking up against their theories. And he'll ask what their TUE ideas and discoveries will do for us. TUE TUE He'll talk to Nobel laureates as well as the next generation TUE of beautiful minds, finding out what inspired them to do TUE science in the first place and what motivates them to keep TUE going. The programme will also feature short drop-ins from TUE fellow scientists. Some will comment on our guest's early TUE career, the implications of their discoveries, or offer TUE alternative perspectives. TUE TUE In this first programme, Jim talks to geneticist Paul Nurse, TUE arguably the most powerful scientist in Britain today. TUE Nurse's interest in science was sparked by the early days of TUE the space race, when one night as a boy, he chased Sputnik TUE down the road in his pyjamas, in a vain attempt to catch up TUE with the Russian satellite as it passed overhead. TUE TUE Nurse, a Nobel Laureate and President of the Royal Society TUE is now firmly part of the science establishment but his TUE upbringing and early academic life was far from TUE conventional. Brought up by working class parents, in North TUE London, Nurse struggled at first to even get accepted by any TUE University. According to one of his tutors (who we'll hear TUE from in the programme) Nurse didn't exactly shine as an TUE undergraduate, either. But these experiences taught him to TUE be self reliant, determined and not afraid of failure. TUE TUE It was a attitude that paid off. In 2001, Nurse shared the TUE Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his research on TUE how cells divide, a process which is not only fundamental to TUE all living things but has major implications for TUE understanding and treating diseases like cancer. TUE TUE His rise was, some say, meteoric. But it's not how he sees TUE it, especially in the early days: " I did have a lot of TUE trouble getting a proper job". Now President of one of the TUE oldest and most respected scientific institutions in the TUE world, Nurse's career has been far from predictable, and at TUE times, controversial. Yet the same could be said for his TUE personal life, when in his 50s, he was hit with a major TUE revelation that would change forever how he viewed his past. TUE TUE Confirmed guests on future programmes include the cognitive TUE scientist Stephen Pinker; Astronomer Jocelyn Bell-Burnell; TUE the brains behind the Human Genome Project, John Sulston; TUE Epidemiologist Michael Marmot, neuroscientist Colin TUE Blakemore and Molly Stevens, a tissue engineer whose work TUE growing bones could mean the end of metal pins for broken TUE legs; TUE TUE Producers: Anna Buckley and Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b015n3b9 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE One to One is a new series of interviews on Radio 4 in which TUE well respected broadcasters follow their personal passions TUE by talking to the people whose stories interest them most. TUE TUE The first set of interviews will be presented by Lyse TUE Doucet. TUE TUE Lyse Doucet has a long-standing connection to the country TUE and people of Afghanistan; she's reported from there for TUE over 20 years. TUE TUE Over the next four weeks Lyse will be in conversation with TUE Afghans - young and old, living at home and abroad - to hear TUE their remarkable stories. This month marks the 10th TUE anniversary of the American-led invasion of Afghanistan, a TUE good time to reflect on recent history and consider the TUE future. TUE TUE Masood Khalili is Afghanistan's Ambassador to Spain, but TUE he's also a poet who says his life is "10% about politics TUE and 90% about culture". TUE TUE On the 9th of September 2001, he was the only survivor of an TUE Al Qaeda suicide bomb attack which killed his friend and TUE legendary military leader, Ahmad Shah Masood. An attack TUE which is regarded as a pre-cursor to 9/11. TUE TUE Khalili's injuries were so severe that he was lucky to live TUE and can no longer endure the dry, dusty conditions of his TUE homeland. Lyse Doucet went to see him in Madrid where he TUE described the bomb blast and the impact it has had on him. TUE TUE He also talked about his occasional visits to, and memories TUE of, his beloved garden near Kabul. That garden is a metaphor TUE for the way he regards his country - TUE TUE "I see a flower there and it's blossoming and I say my TUE country will be ok. my country will be like that flower". TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b015qzt0 (Listen) TUE Arguably, Let Them Eat Pork Rinds TUE TUE Written by Christopher Hitchens TUE Abridged by Pete Nichols TUE Read by Roger Allam TUE Producer: Gordon House TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b015n3bc (Listen) TUE Cook the perfect coq au vin with Joyce Molyneux; the rise in TUE arthritis in young women; is zero waste ever possible and TUE what's the enduring appeal of Georgette Heyer. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015p5p3 (Listen) TUE On the Edge, Saurabh TUE TUE Saurabh ....... Darren Kuppan TUE D.S. Lynch ....... Renny Krupinski TUE Yusuf & Carl ....... Conor Alexander TUE Ian ...... Matt Andrews TUE Janice & Honky ...... Fiona Clarke TUE Ralph ...... Jeffrey Longmore TUE Leah ...... Rachel Caffrey TUE TUE Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore TUE Original music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch TUE Producer: Melanie Harris TUE A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b015n3bf (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 21 TUE TUE 21/30 The Bar-Headed Goose, according to research biologist TUE Lucy Hawkes, "is at the limit of what a goose can do". Lucy TUE Hawkes, from Bangor University, studies this remarkable bird TUE on its breeding grounds in Outer Mongolia on the grassy TUE plateaus. Her work has largely been concerned with how they TUE get back and forth to their breeding grounds from their TUE south Indian wintering areas. But how does studying the TUE migration of the Bar-Headed Goose help inform their TUE conservation. Lucy, recently back from the field in the TUE Himalayas is in the Saving Species studio. TUE TUE Also in the programme: The re-introduction of the Fen Raft TUE Spider into a restored marshland in Suffolk. Chris Sperring TUE went to see the spiderlings "lowering themselves from their TUE test tube [home] by a thread" into the wild. A wonderful TUE story of animal husbandry, habitat restoration ands the TUE science of re-introduction. TUE TUE And where has Chris the Cuckoo ended up, or is he still TUE heading south. We'll have the BTO live in the programme to TUE bring us up to date with the Cuckoos on the move. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Curb your Judaism b015n6q1 (Listen) TUE Comedian and writer David Schneider investigates why British TUE Jewish comedy has lagged behind compared to its much more TUE self-confident American equivalent. Mention Jewish humour in TUE this country and the first names that spring to mind would TUE most likely all be American: Mel Brooks, Woody Allen, Jackie TUE Mason, Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld and so on. TUE TUE It's been well-documented how Jews have dominated the US TUE entertainment industry but in the UK, says Schneider, it's TUE been a different story. He investigates why Jewish comics TUE and writers have lagged behind and whether, with the airing TUE of two new Jewish sitcoms on British television, 'Grandma' TUE House' and 'Friday Night Dinner', the tide is finally TUE turning. Does this mean a greater sense of self-confidence TUE for British Jewish comic identity and for the community as a TUE whole, or just a greater acceptance of Jewishness in TUE mainstream media? TUE TUE Schneider speaks to Robert Popper, the writer of 'Friday TUE Night Dinner', and to Dan Swimer who co-wrote 'Grandma's TUE House' about how both shows were keen to avoid Jewish TUE stereotypes and portray families with universal appeal. TUE Writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran talk about their TUE difficulties in getting a Jewish sitcom commissioned in the TUE past and how they decided to write Jewish characters TUE instead, such as Dorian in 'Birds of a Feather'. TUE TUE Meera Syal discusses the contrast with British Asian comedy TUE and why it's been so successful, while David Baddiel TUE considers how political correctness has impacted on Jewish TUE comedy in this country. Finally Schneider speaks to one of TUE Britain's most successful Jewish comedians Matt Lucas, who TUE says he's now ready to explore his own ethnicity further TUE with his sitcom project 'Four Generations'. TUE TUE Presented by David Schneider TUE Producer: Simon Jacobs TUE A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b015n6q3 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b015jj9g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b015vdvy (Listen) TUE With Martha Kearney. National and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 The Thing about Hank b015n6wd (Listen) TUE He influenced a generation of guitarist players with his TUE wide grin, black specs and red Stratocaster. Hank Marvin TUE changed the way we see the guitar and in 'The Thing About TUE Hank' we hear how. The programme explores Marvin's unique TUE sound which Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page reveals, he tried to TUE emulate as a teenager. Page was not the only aspiring guitar TUE hero adapting Hank's style Mark Knopfler (Dire Straits front TUE man) goes back to his schooldays explaining how he and his TUE pals learnt the Shadows tunes after class. TUE TUE No programme exploring the music of Hank and The Shadows TUE would be complete without comments from Britain's answer to TUE Elvis, Cliff Richard. As we hear it was Cliff who purchased TUE Hank's first Fender Stratocaster imported from America. Roxy TUE Music's Phil Manzanera believes that "Strat" guitar was TUE crucial to the Hank Marvin sound that became a key feature TUE of The Shadows success. The guitar with its red polished TUE body and tremolo arm became a signature instrument for the TUE young Marvin. Later two models would bear Hank's name "The TUE Burns Marvin" and the "Stratocaster Hank Marvin" model. Hank TUE Marvin talks about this accolade and explores some of the TUE Shadows best known tunes, 'Apache', 'Wonderful Land" and TUE 'Footapper'. Hank also talks us through The Shadows 'Walk" TUE which British teenagers copied when ever a Shadows tune hit TUE the airways. TUE TUE Presented by John Sugar TUE Producer: John Sugar TUE A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b015mzzg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b009mtcf (Listen) TUE Goldfish Girl TUE TUE By Peter Souter TUE TUE What if you couldn't remember a single minute of the ten TUE years you'd spent with the love of your life? Joe can TUE remember everything about Ally; Ally remembers nothing about TUE Joe. TUE TUE Joe ..... Alex Jennings TUE Ally ..... Juliet Stevenson TUE TUE Directed by Gordon House. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b015p5fw (Listen) TUE A new series of 'Making History'. Tom Holland, Helen Castor TUE and Fiona Watson share the workload as we sift through TUE listener's questions and research and turn to some of our TUE leading historians for some answers. TUE TUE Each week, the Making History team: tackles listeners TUE questions; hears about the latest research and puts the TUE Radio 4 audience at the heart of historical debate. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b015p5fy (Listen) TUE Cheltenham Festival Readings, Meg Rosoff: The Fisherman and TUE His Wife TUE TUE Meg Rosoff, whose prize-winning books are enjoyed by TUE children and adults alike, gives her own very modern twist TUE to the classic fairy tale of The Fisherman and His Wife. TUE TUE Recorded in front of an audience at the Cheltenham TUE Literature Festival. TUE TUE Meg Rosoff's first novel, How I Live Now, was an instant TUE success, and her most recent is There Is No Dog. TUE TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 15:45 Bitten by the Bug b015p5g0 (Listen) TUE The Identification Workshop TUE TUE In the second of this series of five programmes exploring TUE the aims and enthusiasms of their members, Brett Westwood TUE gets to the heart of our natural history societies and finds TUE that here in the UK they are it is in surprisingly good TUE shape. The Dipterist's Forum was established to study the TUE 7000 and more species of two-winged flies which occur in the TUE UK, from bluebottles to mosquitoes. At a field centre in TUE Shrewsbury he learns how to navigate his way around a fly, TUE pursues winter gnats over a garden compost-heap and gets to TUE grips with the finer points of fungus gnats, a bewildering TUE group of several hundred species most of which are less than TUE 5mm long. TUE TUE 16:00 Tracing Your Roots b0169pfw (Listen) TUE Series 6, What Happens Next: Part 2 TUE TUE The accidental tourist who turned out to be a full blooded TUE revolutionary. The family tale of Queen Alexandra attempting TUE suicide. And finding the POW father who returned to Germany TUE after the war. Sally and Nick discover new information and TUE lasting repercussions as they revisit three of their TUE favourite Tracing Your Roots stories. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b015p5g2 (Listen) TUE Mary Beard at The Cheltenham Literature Festival TUE TUE Classicist Mary Beard and writer Bidisha talk to Harriett TUE Gilbert about their favourite books, in an edition recorded TUE in front of an audience at the Cheltenham Literature TUE Festival. TUE TUE Bidisha's choice is Margaret Atwood's bestseller The TUE Handmaid's Tale. TUE TUE Harriett's is a definite crowd-pleaser: Cold Comfort Farm by TUE Stella Gibbons. TUE TUE Mary Beard's is bolder and perhaps more controversial - she TUE puts up a passionate and persuasive case for the pleasures TUE of reading The Odyssey, by Homer. TUE TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b015p5g4 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015jj9j (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Hard to Tell b015p5g6 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Thanks to a bike accident that's landed him in A&E, Tom TUE Sheffield is about to go for a pizza with Ellen, a woman TUE with the most noble of foreheads and - it turns out - the TUE most attentive of dads. TUE TUE Hard To Tell is a four part relationship comedy which sees TUE Jonny Sweet (Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2009) TUE make his debut in radio comedy writing. TUE TUE In Hard To Tell, Jonny Sweet conjures up characters TUE depicting every relationship from father and daughter to the TUE mirror in the bathroom and the feller hiding at a party; TUE from the stalker and the stalked to dog owners and their TUE dogs, and from lifelong friends to long term partners and TUE their dearly departed - weaving them into a four part, half TUE hour romantic comedy. TUE TUE The series revolves around Tom Sheffield (played by Jonny TUE himself), his immediate family (Getting On's Vicki TUE Pepperdine, The Thick Of It's Alex MacQueen and Not Going TUE Out's Katy Wix), plus Tom's longed-for-and-lusted-after new TUE girlfriend, Ellen (played by Charlotte Ritchie), her best TUE friend Hermione (Him & Her's Sarah Solemani) and Ellen's TUE zealously protective father (Simon Greenall). TUE TUE Tim Key and Tom Basden both make deliciously awkward cameo TUE appearances. TUE TUE Recorded on location, Hard To Tell's naturalistic, TUE contemporary and conversational style brings new meaning to TUE pub toilets, themed parties, early morning phone calls and TUE Christmas Editions of Jonathan Creek. TUE TUE Tom ...... Jonny Sweet TUE Paul ...... Simon Greenall TUE Ashley ...... Alex MacQueen TUE Lesley ...... Vicki Pepperdine TUE Hermione ...... Sarah Solemani TUE Ellen ....... Charlotte Ritchie TUE Maeve ...... Katy Wix TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Armitage TUE A Tiger Aspects Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b015n6wg (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b015p5p1 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including a review of the Australian film TUE Sleeping Beauty, a modern and adult take on the familiar TUE fairytale. TUE TUE Producer Claire Bartleet. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015p5p3 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b015p62t (Listen) TUE With the Government's controversial reforms under fire from TUE countryside campaigners, Allan Urry investigates radical TUE changes to the planning system. TUE TUE Ministers insist more housing is needed, fuelling fears of TUE greenfield sites being bulldozed. But as they begin to slim TUE down bureaucracy to speed up development, how many more TUE homes are actually getting built? TUE TUE Under the localism agenda, communities are being told TUE they'll get much more say about who builds what in their TUE neighbourhood. But what happens if it's a waste incinerator TUE or a power station? The programme reveals how local TUE objections are likely to been given much less consideration. TUE Presenter Allan Urry TUE Producer: Rob Cave. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b015p62w (Listen) TUE The 50th Birthday Party audience in the Radio Theatre get TUE their chance to question the guests. What's it really like TUE being a character in a Soap ? How's the programme catering TUE for a younger audience ? But will it be Alright on the Night TUE ? Denis Norden hopes so. Plus more music from Mali duo TUE Amadou and Mariam. TUE TUE 21:00 Romanian Orphanage Babies: 21 Years On b015p62y (Listen) TUE After the fall of Nicolai Ceausescu in Romania, news of how TUE babies and children were treated in Romanian orphanages TUE horrified the world. TUE TUE Images of infants, silent and malnourished, rocking in their TUE cots, hosed down with cold water, prompted an outburst of TUE collective outrage and thousands of would-be parents rushed TUE to adopt. TUE TUE But little was known then, in 1990, about the long-term TUE effects of such extreme, early deprivation: how would the TUE babies and toddlers who had been denied basic human contact TUE and care, adapt and recover when they were transfered to TUE their new, loving and caring families? TUE TUE Twenty one years on, and scientists who have been tracking TUE the progress of these children in the English and Romanian TUE Adoptees study, have made some astonishing discoveries. TUE TUE Claudia Hammond talks to Professor Sir Michael Rutter and TUE his team about this "unique and natural experiment", which TUE enabled scientists to pinpoint, exactly, when severe TUE deprivation ended and good parenting began. TUE TUE She discovers just how quickly these babies and toddlers TUE caught up with their English peers and hears encouraging TUE evidence about the capacity of human beings to recover from TUE the most appalling early treatment. TUE TUE But she finds out too, that for some of these children, the TUE sobering reality is that their impairments appear to be TUE long-lasting. TUE TUE Cindy and Anthony Calvert from Northallerton in North TUE Yorkshire describe bringing 18-month old Adi back from an TUE orphanage in the north of Romania. She was dehydrated, with TUE tiny, wrinkled, dry hands and a terror of flies. She TUE flourished in her new home, but was so fearful of being TUE thirsty, she would drink water whenever she could. And her TUE early experience of being held under freezing cold water to TUE wash her, she admits, has left her with a life-long fear of TUE swimming. TUE TUE And Will Moult, now 21 years old, who's training to be a TUE primary school teacher, tells Claudia about his early life TUE in one of Romania's most notorious institutions, Orphanage TUE Number One, in Bucharest. He knows he had very little human TUE contact as a baby, until he was adopted and brought to TUE London when he was 18 months old. Uncomforted and alone, TUE he'd rubbed a bald patch on the back of his head from TUE holding onto the bars of his cot. But now Will wants to TUE write a book about his experiences in order to help other, TUE adopted children. TUE TUE Both Adi and Will are both testament to the remarkable TUE resilience shown by so many of the babies and toddlers who TUE were adopted from these Romanian institutions. And it's TUE finding out why children like these appear to have overcome TUE the most traumatic of early years, while others continue to TUE struggle, that makes the long-term ERA study so important. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b015n3b7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b015jj9n (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b015p630 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015qzt2 (Listen) TUE The Cat's Table, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Michael Ondaatje. TUE TUE Abridged by Jill Waters TUE Read by Sam Dastor TUE Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Wondermentalist Cabaret b015p632 (Listen) TUE Matt Harvey presents a comedy-infused, musically-enhanced, TUE interactive poetry cabaret, joined by one man house band TUE Jerri Hart, fellow poet AF Harrold, and musical comedian, TUE Helen Arney. The Cheltenham Literary Festival audience will TUE contribute a crowd-sourced poem on a theme of their own TUE choice. In past shows it's ranged from the delights of TUE gerbils to garden sheds. What will they choose? TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b015p634 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 12 OCTOBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b015jjc6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b015qzt0 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015jjcb (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015jjcd (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015jjcg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b015jjcl (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01611td (Listen) WED with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b015p85r (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b015p85t (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday WED in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b015p85w (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b015r0jc (Listen) WED Arguably, The Vietnam Syndrome WED WED Written by Christopher Hitchens. WED Abridged by Pete Nichols WED Read by Roger Allam WED Producer: Gordon House WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b015p85y (Listen) WED A phone-in on mixed marriages. Presented by Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015p860 (Listen) WED On the Edge, Janice WED WED Janice ...... Fiona Clarke WED D.S.Lynch ...... Renny Krupinski WED Saurabh ...... Darren Kuppan WED Yusuf ...... Conor Alexander WED Ian ...... Matt Andrews WED Leah ...... Rachel Caffrey WED WED Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore WED Original music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch WED Producer: Melanie Harris WED A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Hook, Line and Singer b015p862 (Listen) WED Cerys Matthews' love affair with angling started about ten WED years ago. Just off tour with Catatonia and heavily pregnant WED with her first child, she returned to Pembrokeshire. "You WED have a long wait towards the end of your first pregnancy WED where you're not sure what to do, so I went off mackerel WED fishing. Rocking on the sea was the best way to get through WED those last days." WED WED In this programme Cerys journeys to the River Usk in Wales. WED She muses as she fishes for trout and salmon. "I like the WED stillness. The sinking into the tiniest piece of universe." WED She considers the relationship between her songwriting and WED angling and describes how hours on the water have inspired WED her. She also visits Sweet's Fishing Tackle shop, an WED eccentric place where the fishermen of Usk gather. WED WED But there's another dimension to her obsession and that's WED the less well known, physically demanding and sometimes WED dangerous sport of shark fishing. Many people will be WED surprised to hear that there are blue sharks and porbeagle WED sharks off the coast of West Wales. Cerys takes a boat out WED from Milford Haven. The sea is rough and the prospect of WED catching a shark is thrilling and frightening. She points WED out, "There's a strict catch and release policy with shark WED fishing. We remove the hook quickly and release the fish WED back into the sea." The wait can be long but when she does WED get a tug on her line the struggle is a long one. "You don't WED know what it is to start with. There's that adrenalin WED pumping feeling that it could be anything. It might not be a WED fish at all." WED WED Produced by Sarah Cuddon WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 A Case for Paul Temple b015p864 (Listen) WED In Which Paul Temple Meets Valentine WED WED Episode 8 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. WED WED From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave WED amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve WED solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures WED survive in the archives. WED WED In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to WED life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and WED Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and WED recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the WED production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to WED sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have WED done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so WED popular that it was soon followed with equal success by two WED more revivals, Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery and Paul WED Temple and Steve. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of A Case for Paul Temple, in WED which Paul and Steve brave great danger to reveal the WED identity of the mysterious West End drug dealer known only WED as 'Valentine'... WED WED Episode 8: In Which Paul Temple Meets Valentine WED WED Paul and Steve return to the Esplanade Hotel for a final WED showdown with a ruthless enemy. WED WED Paul Temple CRAWFORD LOGAN WED Steve GERDA STEVENSON WED Sir Graham GARETH THOMAS WED Major Peters GREG POWRIE WED Supt. Wetherby RICHARD GREENWOOD WED Sheila Baxter MELODY GROVE WED Mary ELIZA LANGLAND WED Charles Kelvin NICK UNDERWOOD WED Serg. Hodson JOHN PAUL HURLEY WED Supt. Bradley SIMON TAIT WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in WED Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He one of the most successful WED novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his day. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b015p866 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b015jjcx (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b015p868 (Listen) WED With Martha Kearney. National and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b015p86b (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b015n6wg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b015p86d (Listen) WED The Artist Is Thinking WED WED In an intriguing murder mystery in the art world, Mark WED Lawson pursues a theme which for him holds particular WED fascination; the desire of the artist to remain illusive and WED anonymous behind work which is heavily codified and WED seemingly impenetrable. WED WED When a brilliant young art historian flies in the face of WED the received wisdom regarding the work of the reclusive WED Anderson Perrine, the artist feels a distinct invasion of WED his privacy. He sets about laying a series of false trails WED but her pursuit of him is unrelenting and he is obliged to WED take radically evasive action. WED WED Emmie Callaghan ..... Hattie Morahan WED Anderson Perrine ..... Joss Ackland WED Professor Black's commentary ..... Miche Doherty WED Radio Arts Presenter ..... Mark Lawson WED Gallery Announcer ..... Robin Read WED And the Visitors to the Gallery: WED Aine McCartney, BJ Hogg and Mark Lambert WED WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan and WED produced in Belfast for Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b015p86g (Listen) WED Discussion and advice on personal finance. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b015p86j (Listen) WED Cheltenham Festival Readings, Joe Dunthorne: Carl WED Inglestone, Life Model WED WED Joe Dunthorne reads his new short story Carl Inglestone: WED Life Model to an audience at the Cheltenham Literature WED Festival. His hilarious coming-of-age novel Submarine, set WED in Swansea, was made into one of this year's biggest indie WED hit films. WED WED Producer: Beth O'Dea. WED WED 15:45 Bitten by the Bug b015p86l (Listen) WED Bookham Common WED WED In the third of this series of five programmes exploring the WED aims and enthusiasms of their members, Brett Westwood gets WED to the heart of our natural history societies and finds that WED here in the UK they are in surprisingly good shape. In 2011 WED the London Natural History Society celebrates 70 years of WED studying one place, Bookham Commons in Surrey. The results WED of the findings, which include purple emperor butterflies WED and 1800 species of beetle, have influenced the way the WED National Trust manages the site for people and wildlife. WED Brett joins a beetle hunt with Stuart Cole of the London WED Natural History Society and Ian Swinney from the National WED Trust and discovers the jewel-like mint leaf-beetle as well WED as the value of keeping a donkey on site. WED WED Produced and Presented by Brett Westwood. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b015p86n (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 Romanian Orphanage Babies: 21 Years On b015p62y (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b015v5qk (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015jjd3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Write Stuff b015p86q (Listen) WED Cheltenham Literature Festival Special WED WED James Walton is joined once again by team captains, WED Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh, and special guest WED panellists, Rachel Johnson, editor of The Lady, and WED children's author, Sue Limb, as they tackle a special WED edition of The Write Stuff, recorded at this year's WED Cheltenham Literature Festival. WED WED The "Author of the Week" for this one-off programme is the WED prolific creator of such childhood mainstays as The Famous WED Five, The Secret Seven and Noddy, one of the world's WED best-selling authors ever: Enid Blyton. WED WED The teams, as ever, answer questions on her life and work as WED well as reading out pastiches they've prepared in her style WED for a rousing finale to the show. WED WED Reader: Beth Chalmers WED Producer: Sam Michell. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b015p86s (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b015p86v (Listen) WED With John Wilson, who meets Noel Gallagher, who found fame WED as the main songwriter for Oasis, and is now releasing his WED first solo album. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015p860 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b015p86x (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b015p86z (Listen) WED Social anthropologist Kate Fox argues that we need to WED re-learn much of what we think we know about the effects of WED alcohol. WED WED Alcohol does not make us disinhibited, violent or WED anti-social, she says. Many cultures around the world, some WED of which drink more than we do, have none of these problems. WED So what causes them here? WED WED Kate Fox argues that it is down to what we believe alcohol WED will do to us. And while she cites science and sociology, it WED is her conclusions about how we fight the harm currently WED caused by our mistaken beliefs which are so far-reaching. WED Out, she says, should go the approach which says alcohol WED causes bad behaviour free of responsibility, with a focus WED instead on taking responsibility and normalising alcohol. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front WED of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the WED stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b015p871 (Listen) WED Gold of the Conquistadors WED WED Five hundred years ago the Spanish Conquistadors enslaved WED the population of South America in their desperate efforts WED to squeeze more gold and silver from the mines of Peru, WED Chile and Mexico. WED WED Today the industry is booming again, driven by the global WED demand for copper and the rising price of precious metals. WED New technology has made the industry safer for workers but WED the sensitive environment of the Andes is under threat from WED the rapacious water demands of the mining process. WED WED In 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap asks if the modern mining WED companies are helping to end poverty in Central and South WED America or acting like modern-day conquistadors. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b015p85w (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b015jjd9 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b015p873 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015r0jf (Listen) WED The Cat's Table, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Michael Ondaatje. WED WED The Cat's Table follows the course of a 21 day voyage from WED Colombo to Tilbury on a luxury passenger ship called the WED Oronsay. WED WED On board the ship that is taking them all to London, our WED narrator - Michael, and his two new friends Ramadhin and WED Cassius, continue to explore the adult world around them. WED WED Abridged by Jill Waters WED Read by Sam Dastor WED Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b015p875 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Neil's new trilby hat is a flashpoint for an argument. WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? Sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner. A masterclass in the great art of WED arguing. Starring Frank Skinner and Katherine Parkinson. WED WED Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted WED comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each WED week, our couple fall out over another apparently trivial WED flashpoint - a text from a friend, a trilby and a bad WED night's sleep. Each week, the stakes mount as Neil and Kim WED battle with words. But these are no ordinary arguments. The WED two outdo each other with increasingly absurd images, WED unexpected literary references (Androcles and the Lion pop WED up at one point) and razor sharp analysis of their beloved's WED weaknesses. WED WED Producer/Director: Polly Thomas WED An Avalon UK production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Music Teacher b00sgbh0 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Written by Richie Webb. WED WED Another tough week shut away in a tiny windowless practice WED room enduring challenging pupils for music teacher Nigel WED Penny, in this new musical comedy written by and starring WED 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb. Featuring WED Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda. WED WED Episode 4 sees Nigel faced with the usual bizarre array of WED pupils: the midlands answer to Bob Dylan, a homemade WED keyboard hobbyist and a singing dog prove to be fairly hard WED going. But it is Arts Centre manager Belinda - so usually WED the cause of much of his misery - who offers Nigel the WED chance of a lifetime: to write a jingle advertising the Arts WED Centre to feature on local radio. This is the chance Nigel WED has been looking for. This is his way out. This is his WED ticket to the fame and fortune that he so nearly tasted as a WED Young Musician of the Year Finalist in 1975. If only he WED could get The Beatles 'Eight Days A Week' out of his head WED he'd be fine. But he can't. And the deadline is approaching WED fast. WED WED Nigel Penny ...... Richie Webb WED Belinda ...... Vicki Pepperdine WED Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson. WED WED Produced by Richie Webb WED Directed by Nick Walker WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b015p877 (Listen) WED The day's top news stories from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 13 OCTOBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b015jjfl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b015r0jc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015jjfn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015jjfq (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015jjfv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b015jjfx (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01611ts (Listen) THU with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b015p8by (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte THU Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b015p8c0 (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in THU Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b015p8c2 (Listen) THU The Ming Voyages THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ming Voyages. In the THU first quarter of the fifteenth century, a Chinese admiral, THU Zheng He, led seven naval expeditions of discovery. They THU were astonishing in their ambition, travelling as far afield THU as India and the Persian Gulf and involving hundreds of THU ships. They also marked a truly significant moment in the THU history of China. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b015r0xc (Listen) THU Arguably, The Swastika and the Cedar THU THU Written by Christopher Hitchens. Abridged by Pete Nichols THU Read by Roger Allam THU Producer: Gordon House THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b015p8c4 (Listen) THU Katherine Jenkins performs in the studio; the care and THU treatment of miscarriage; adoption parties. Presented by THU Jane Garvey. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015p8c6 (Listen) THU On the Edge, Leah THU THU Leah ...... Rachel Caffrey THU D. S. Lynch ...... Renny Krupinski THU Ian ...... Matt Andrews THU Janice ...... Fiona Clarke THU THU Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore THU Original music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch THU Producer: Melanie Harris THU A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b015pb02 (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 After the Flood b015pb04 (Listen) THU From the Isles of Scilly to Brittany and Cardigan Bay, tales THU of hearing drowned bells tolling beneath the sea at certain THU tides are common to many of Europe's shorelines. One of the THU best known is of Suffolk's Dunwich bells. Once a major sea THU port, it was swept away by a great storm in the thirteenth THU century. THU THU The Norfolk-based writer and poet Kevin Crossley-Holland THU meets fellow East Anglians who together bring alive his THU short story 'Sea Tongue' about the Dunwich bells. Among the THU people he speaks to are storyteller Hugh Lupton, the Bishop THU of Dunwich, and the bellringers and residents of the Norfolk THU village of Happisburgh, some of whose houses are tumbling THU into the North Sea. Happisburgh church has stood there like THU a beacon, looking out over sea and land for over 600 years, THU yet it's predicted that it'll be claimed by the waves in 50 THU years time. THU THU After the Flood is a meditation on the sound of bells THU tolling through the centuries across land and sea, and man's THU shifting relationship with the two. THU THU Producer: Mark Smalley. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b015pb06 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b015jjg5 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b015pb08 (Listen) THU With Martha Kearney. National and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b015pb0b (Listen) THU Environmental investigation series. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b015p86s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b015pb0d (Listen) THU The Last Free Hours of Charlie Radcliffe THU THU To the outside world Charlie Radcliffe was an esteemed THU businessman and philanthropist. But Charlie knew that he had THU swindled billions over decades from his wealthy clients and THU he knew that one day the game would be up. Now in prison, THU Charlie tells the story of his last hours of freedom to new THU inmate Sam. Drew Pautz's drama inspired by the crisis in the THU financial world examines the gaps between facts, finance, THU conscience and confidence. THU THU CHARLIE.....Henry Goodman THU SAM.....Ashley Kumar THU THOMPSON.....Conrad Nelson THU SIMPSON.....Graeme Hawley. THU TONY.....Kevin Harvey THU FRANKLIN.....Chris Jack THU THU Produced by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b015mqp2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b015msp1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b015pb0j (Listen) THU Cheltenham Festival Readings, Andrew Miller: Jewel Thieves THU on Their Day Off THU THU Andrew Miller, reads his new short story, the intriguingly THU titled Jewel Thieves on Their Day Off, in front of an THU audience at the Cheltenham Literature Festival. THU THU His first novel, Ingenious Pain, told the extraordinary THU story of a man born unable to feel pain. It was published to THU great acclaim and won several prizes. He's also the writer THU of Casanova, Oxygen, The Optimists and One Morning Like A THU Bird. THU THU Producer: Beth O'Dea. THU THU 15:45 Bitten by the Bug b015pb0l (Listen) THU The Bryologists and the Book THU THU In the fourth of this series of five programmes exploring THU the aims and enthusiasms of their members , Brett Westwood THU gets to the heart of our natural history societies and finds THU that here in the UK they are in surprisingly good shape. THU Members of the British Bryological Society study mosses and THU liverworts and their travels in search of these delicate and THU very beautiful plants take them into some of the most remote THU and spectacular landscapes. Brett joins expert bryologists THU Mark Lawley and Sam Bosanquet in mid-wales where they find a THU liverwort called Spotty Fingers, discover the delights of THU "grotting" and talk about their editorship of a new THU photographic field guide to mosses and liverworts, an THU achievement of which the Society is very proud. THU THU Presented and Produced by Brett Westwood. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b015mvs8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b015pb0n (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science. THU THU Producer: Julian Siddle. THU THU 17:00 PM b015v5vy (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015jjg9 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b00sg13n (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 3 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show that revels THU in glorious failure. He is joined for this edition by comics THU Richard Herring and Holly Walsh plus Iain Morris - the THU writer of hit TV sitcom 'The Inbetweeners'. THU THU 'So Wrong It's Right' is a comedy contest to give the THU wrongest answer to each of Charlie's challenges. The worst THU idea for an internet business (including Richard Herring's THU 'life comparison' website ranking the entire human race in THU order of success), and the problem with Richard Hammond are THU just two of targets that come under the wrong examination in THU this edition. THU THU The host of 'So Wrong It's Right', Charlie Brooker, also THU presents BBC4's award - winning series 'Newswipe' and 'You THU Have Been Watching' on Channel 4 - plus writing for 'The THU Guardian'. He won 'Best Newcomer' at the British Comedy THU Awards 2009 and 'Columnist of the Year' at the 2009 British THU Press Awards for his column. THU THU Produced by Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b015pb0q (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b015y6fy (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with documentary THU maker Morgan Spurlock, whose new film about product THU placement is funded by product placement. THU THU Producer Georgia Mann. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015p8c6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b015pb0s (Listen) THU Shale gas THU THU With shale gas production contributing to a reduction in gas THU prices in the US, Simon Cox investigates what Britain can THU expect from potentially large reserves in the UK. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b015pb0v (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b015n3bf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b015pb0x (Listen) THU The Ming Voyages THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ming Voyages. In the THU first quarter of the fifteenth century, a Chinese admiral, THU Zheng He, led seven naval expeditions of discovery. They THU were astonishing in their ambition, travelling as far afield THU as India and the Persian Gulf and involving hundreds of THU ships. They also marked a truly significant moment in the THU history of China. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 21:58 Weather b015jjgp (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b015pb0z (Listen) THU With Ritula Shah. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015r0xf (Listen) THU The Cat's Table, Episode 4 THU THU The Cat's Table by Michael Ondaatje charts the 21 day sea THU voyage of three 11 yr old boys from Ceylon. It is the early THU 1950s and they are insatiable in their curiosity about the THU adults around them, particularly when they learn of the THU reason why the wealthy Sir Hector de Silva is travelling on THU the same ship. THU THU Abridged by Jill Waters THU Read by Sam Dastor THU Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Tonight b015pb11 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU A new age of austerity, riots on our streets, phone hacking, THU the prospect of global economic meltdown...not since the THU 1980s has Britain needed its sharp-tongued satirists to pour THU a healthy dollop of scorn on these uncertain and tumultuous THU times. THU THU And who better to do that than the country's most well-known THU satirical impressionist, Rory Bremner? He hosts Tonight, a THU brand new topical satire show for Radio 4. THU THU Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of THU things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then THU will people laugh at the truth. So expect a blend of THU stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and THU incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who THU really know what they're talking about. THU Regular performers will include Political Animal veteran THU Andy Zaltzman and the multi-talented impressionist Kate THU O'Sullivan with a special guest each week. THU THU Presenter: Rory Bremner THU THU Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling THU A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b015pb13 (Listen) THU The day's top news stories from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 14 OCTOBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b015jjj5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b015r0xc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b015jjj7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b015jjj9 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b015jjjf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b015jjjh (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01611v3 (Listen) FRI with Rabbi Dr Naftali Brawer. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b015pbh2 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte FRI Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b015pbh4 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b015msp9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b015sz8r (Listen) FRI Arguably, Flaws of Gravity FRI FRI Written by Christopher Hitchens FRI Abridged by Pete Nichols FRI Read by Roger Allam FRI Producer: Gordon House FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b015pbh6 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Sheila McClennon. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015pbh8 (Listen) FRI On the Edge, Ian FRI FRI Ian ..... Matt Andrews FRI D. S. Lynch ...... Renny Krupinski FRI Ralph & Kevin ...... Jeffrey Longmore FRI Saurabh ...... Darren Kuppan FRI Janice ...... Fiona Clarke FRI Leah ..... Rachel Caffrey FRI FRI Sound designer: Eloise Whitmore FRI Original music by Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch FRI Producer: Melanie Harris FRI A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 The Bridge b015pbhb (Listen) FRI Long before 'The Angel of the North' strutted ostentatiously FRI over the A1, the North East already had a towering image FRI that embodied the history, pride and ambition of the region: FRI The Transporter Bridge on Teeside. It's reputation is such FRI that when TV show Auf Wiedersehen Pet ran a story-line that FRI the bridge was being sold to America, there was an outcry. FRI FRI Now, as the bridge marks its centenary, its role is FRI increasingly uncertain. Passenger numbers have plummeted FRI while maintenance costs have increased. The bridge is now FRI council owned, so how can it survive the public sector FRI savings? Presenter Nigel Thompson finds out what this bridge FRI means today, to those who love it and those who maintain it. FRI FRI 11:30 Clare in the Community b015pbhd (Listen) FRI Series 7, Debt of Honour FRI FRI Clare is being plagued by Brian's marriage proposals. Her FRI driving lessons lead to an unexpected encounter and there is FRI an unveiling of a piece of public art at the Sparrowhawk FRI Family Centre. FRI FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. FRI FRI A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering FRI in other people's lives on both a professional and personal FRI basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and FRI heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of FRI discomfort to her. FRI FRI Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS FRI Brian: ALEX LOWE FRI Megan / Nali: NINA CONTI FRI Ray / Nick Powell: RICHARD LUMSDEN FRI Helen/ Lady Mayoress/Carol Morley: LIZA TARBUCK FRI Simon / Frankie 'The Fruitcake' Finnigan: ANDREW WINCOTT FRI Libby: SARAH KENDALL FRI Spartacus /'James Naughtie': GERARD McDERMOT FRI FRI Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI Producer Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b015pbhg (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b015jjjt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b015pbhj (Listen) FRI With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b015pbhl (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 b015pb0q (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b015pbhn (Listen) FRI Bad Faith - Series 2, Opiate of the Masses FRI FRI by Peter Jukes FRI FRI Opiate Of The Masses FRI FRI Six months into his secondment, Jake is still living at the FRI homeless shelter with his best friend Tony. FRI FRI Thrown into a hostage crisis and an exorcism, with FRI suspicions about the circumstances of his father's death and FRI allegations of drug dealing by his friend swirling around, FRI Jake finds all his demons are coming home at the same time. FRI FRI Jake Thorne ..... Lenny Henry FRI Tony Wingard ..... Clive Russell FRI Chief Supt Sufiq Khan ..... Vincent Ebrahim FRI Kevin Stanhope ..... Conrad Nelson FRI Marianne Brown ..... Claire Benedict FRI Sakina Bellingham ..... Vineeta Rishi FRI Jesse Thorne ..... Ray Fearon FRI Isaac Thorne ..... Oscar James FRI Amanda Copley ..... Alex Tregear FRI Nurse/Radiologist ..... Susie Riddell FRI FRI directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b015pc03 (Listen) FRI Wiltshire FRI FRI Eric Robson joins Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank and Bob FRI Flowerdew in a horticultural Q&A. FRI Christine Walkden advises on maximising autumn colour in the FRI garden. Katie Bradbury makes a guest appearance to visit the FRI Eastman garden near Bristol. Part of the Listeners' Gardens FRI series. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Bitten by the Bug b015pc05 (Listen) FRI Sorby and the Future of Natural History Societies FRI FRI In the last of this series of five programmes exploring the FRI aims and enthusiasms of their members, Brett Westwood gets FRI to the heart of our natural history societies and finds that FRI here in the UK they are in surprisingly good shape. FRI FRI The Sorby Natural History Society, based around Sheffield, FRI is one of the largest and most active such societies in the FRI UK, with groups covering every single aspect of British FRI natural history. They are particularly keen to encourage the FRI naturalists of the future. Brett meets Derek Whiteley, the FRI Society's secretary and Val Clinging, the mammal recorder, FRI to discuss the importance of involving as many people as FRI possible in field trips and identification workshops. One of FRI the highlights of the Sorby calendar is a late-winter count FRI of the local mountain hares which were introduced for FRI hunting in the 19th Century, but have thrived on the moors. FRI Surrounded by hares and heather, Derek and Val are FRI optimistic about the growth of amateur natural history in FRI the future. FRI FRI Presented and Produced by Brett Westwood. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b015pc07 (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b015pc09 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock shines a spotlight on American cinema from FRI 1971. FRI FRI Producer; Craig Smith. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b015v5tg (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b015jjk0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b015pdbs (Listen) FRI Series 75, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig with panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Sarah FRI Millican and Paul Sinha. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b015pdbv (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b015pdbx (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b015pbh8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b015pdbz (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a debate about news and politics FRI from St Mary's School, Ascot. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b015pdc1 (Listen) FRI Will Self reflects on a topical issue FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00nz946 (Listen) FRI Shirleymander FRI FRI By Gregory Evans. FRI FRI A tragic comedy about hubris and political manipulation, FRI depicting the principal events of Shirley Porter's time as FRI 'The Westminster Whirlwind' in the 1980s. FRI FRI Leader ..... Tracy Ann Oberman FRI Wet ..... Maggie Steed FRI Senior Council official ..... Joseph Cohen-Cole FRI Exec Director ..... Piers Wehner FRI Deputy ..... Stephen Hogan FRI The Doctor ..... Sagar Arya FRI District Auditor ..... Bruce Alexander FRI QC, Father ..... Ewan Hooper FRI Chairman, Tesco ..... Philip Fox FRI Labour Councillor ..... John Biggins FRI Female interviewer ..... Tessa Nicholson FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b015jjk4 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b015pdc3 (Listen) FRI With Robin Lustig. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b015v46r (Listen) FRI The Cat's Table, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Michael Ondaatje. FRI FRI The Cat's Table follows the course of a 21 day voyage from FRI Colombo to Tilbury on a luxury passenger ship called the FRI Oronsay. FRI FRI The ship arrives at the port of Aden and the three boys FRI manage to persuade Mr Daniels to be the 'responsible adult' FRI supervising them on shore. FRI FRI Abridged by Jill Waters FRI Read by Sam Dastor FRI Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b015p5g2 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b015pdc5 (Listen) FRI News from Westminster. FRI
07 October, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 08/10/2011 - 14/10/2011
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