06 March, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 07/03/2009 - 13/03/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 7 MARCH 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00hwwhg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00hzygf (Listen) SAT The Decisive Moment, Episode 5 SAT Hari Dhillon and Amanda Burton read Jonah Lehrer's SAT exploration of neuroscience and how the human brain makes SAT up its mind. SAT Exploring the certainty trap - a potential hazard for SAT pundits and politicians alike. It feels good to be SAT certain, but this can lead each of us to pretend that our SAT mind is in full agreement with itself, even when it is SAT not. In other words, we trick ourselves into being sure. SAT But is it possible to use our knowledge of the brain to SAT avoid such pitfalls? SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hwwhj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hwwhl (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hwwhn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00hwwhq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hwwhs (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00hwwhv (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00hwwhx (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00hxns1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00hxns3 (Listen) SAT Countryside magazine. Helen Mark visits Scotland's rivers SAT to find that the freshwater pearl mussel, already SAT endangered, now faces new threats from unscrupulous SAT thieves who kill all the mussels they gather in the hope SAT of finding a precious pearl inside. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today This Week b00hxns5 (Listen) SAT News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00hxns7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00hxns9 (Listen) SAT With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather, Thought for the Day, Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00hxnv3 (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Clare Balding is joined by Colonel SAT Bob Stewart, head of the UN peacekeeping forces in Bosnia SAT during the early 1990s. Plus poetry from Kate Fox. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00hxnv5 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores the adventures, frustrations and SAT joys of travel. SAT SAT 10:30 Baseball and Me b00hxv2p (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Simon Schama, who has lived in the United States for 30 SAT years, explores his love of baseball. SAT He first walked into a ballpark in the early 1980s. From SAT the moment he saw the floodlit green of the Fenway Park SAT turf and the theatrical attire of the Boston Red Sox he SAT was smitten. Before then, cricket had been his sport, but SAT all too quickly wickets became bases and bowlers became SAT pitchers. SAT Simon fell in love with baseball - its statistics, SAT language, characters and history. Now he seeks to explain SAT why he, and the United States, are so infatuated with a SAT game that the British so often dismiss. SAT Simon gains behind-the-scenes access to his adopted team, SAT the Boston Red Sox. The lockeroom, the scoreboard operator SAT and, most importantly, the man who sells the famous Fenway SAT Frank hotdog are all players in a pageant that holds a SAT nation in its thrall. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00hxv2r (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster, presented by SAT Jackie Ashley. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00hxv2t (Listen) SAT BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the SAT world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00hxv2w (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT The Bank of England plans to pump up the economy with SAT quantitative easing, but what is it and will it work? What SAT does the latest cut in interest rates mean for savers - SAT are bonds the answer? Plus, thousands still wait for SAT compensation following leisure group XL's collapse. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00hwtj7 (Listen) SAT Series 26, Episode 1 SAT Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, SAT Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura SAT Shavin, Jon Holmes and Jon Richardson. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00hxv2y (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00hxvgb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00hwvf7 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Sutton, SAT Surrey. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00hxvgd (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00hxvm7 (Listen) SAT The Complete Ripley, Ripley Under Ground SAT Second in a series of five plays based on the novels by SAT Patricia Highsmith about the suave and amoral Tom Ripley. SAT With a dead man's money safely stowed in the bank, Tom is SAT living in luxury in a chateau in France with his beautiful SAT French wife. But the clever art forgery which funds Tom's SAT expensive tastes is about to be uncovered. SAT Tom Ripley ...... Ian Hart SAT Heloise ...... Helen Longworth SAT Bernard Tufts ...... Benedict Sandiford SAT Jeff Constant ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Madame Annette ...... Caroline Guthrie SAT Murchison ...... Malcolm Tierney SAT Webster ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT Directed by Claire Grove. SAT SAT 15:30 Sleeve Notes b00htmzr (Listen) SAT Music writer Laura Barton explains her love of the sleeve SAT note, which was once, for many, the cherished gateway into SAT a musical world but has now been diminished by the SAT digitalisation of music. SAT She considers how the sleeve note can act as a declaration SAT of intent from the artist, as epitomised by Johnny Cash's SAT sleeve notes for his classic 1968 live album, At Folsom SAT Prison, or by the inclusion of the founding declaration of SAT the Rock Against Racism movement on the sleeve of Tom SAT Robinson's debut album Power in the Darkness. SAT Poet Simon Armitage talks about being commissioned by Paul SAT Weller to write the sleeve notes for his latest album. SAT SAT 16:00 Weekend Woman's Hour b00hxz1x (Listen) SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT Including the music and life of the Romanian Opera singer SAT Angela Gheorghiu, Heston Blumenthal on his latest SAT television series, Glenys Kinnock discusses her career, SAT Alistair Campbell's partner Fiona Millar, women who pay SAT for sex and and Una Marson, the first black woman to be SAT employed by the BBC. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00hxz1z (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00hxz21 (Listen) SAT Evan Davis challenges his guests on the art - and the SAT complications - of pricing. For once, as recession gloom SAT deepens, bosses of big business discuss the upturn, SAT whenever that might come. SAT Evan meets Sir Moir Lockhead of FirstGroup, one of the SAT world's biggest transport companies, Christina Domecq of SAT leading technology company Spinvox and Tom Purves, chief SAT executive of Rolls Royce Motor Cars. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00hxz23 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00hxz25 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hxz27 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by Weather. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00hxz29 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT comedy and music. He is joined by Stephen Tompkinson, SAT Henry Worsley and Alan Simpson, and Gideon Coe talks to SAT Luke Haines about Britpop. With music from Devon Sproule, SAT Daby Toure and Skip McDonald and comedy from Jon SAT Richardson. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00hxz2c (Listen) SAT Pen Hadow SAT Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Polar explorer Pen Hadow, SAT who is leading the Catlin Arctic Survey to determine the SAT likely meltdown date of the ice cap. The British SAT trailblazer and his team will drag a mobile radar unit SAT more than 1000 kilometres as they trek to the North Pole. SAT Hadow, a self-confessed 'tortured soul', has been SAT criticised by some in the past for his so-called reckless SAT behaviour. But his current trip, he insists, is not about SAT exploration, but about gathering scientific data that SAT could be crucial to our understanding of climate change. SAT Mary Ann hears from friends and family of this enigmatic SAT explorer. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00hxz2f (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the new movie Watchmen, SAT and a recreation of the architect Le Corbusier's SAT Mediterranean hideaway. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00hxz2h (Listen) SAT A Tibetan Odyssey: 50 Years in Exile SAT On the 50th anniversary of the 1959 uprising in Tibet, SAT Isabel Hilton hears the stories of Tibetan communities in SAT exile. SAT The Dalai Lama, as well as refugees in India and Britain, SAT recount their personal experiences and discuss their hopes SAT for the future. Isabel reflects on the journey made by the SAT Dalai Lama's followers over the last 50 years and SAT considers the challenges for these displaced people as SAT they strive to preserve their culture and regain their SAT autonomy. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00hs8xn (Listen) SAT Rendezvous with Rama, Episode 1 SAT Mike Walker's dramatisation of the novel by Arthur C SAT Clarke, set in the 22nd Century. SAT When the mysterious space object known as Rama appears in SAT the solar system, the crew of the SV Endeavour are sent to SAT investigate. SAT William Norton ...... Richard Dillane SAT Li Kwok ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu SAT Pieter Rousseau ...... Jimmy Akingbola SAT Jimmy Pak ...... Robert Lonsdale SAT Aruna Calvert ...... Archie Panjabi SAT Gerry ...... Inam Mirza SAT Ruby Barnes ...... Janice Acquah SAT Laura Ernst ...... Ania Sowinski SAT Indira Gopal ...... Shelley King SAT Erl King ...... Peter Marinker SAT Tamara Ruiz ...... Jill Cardo SAT Tan Sun ...... Jonathan Tafler SAT Henning ...... Paul Rider. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00hxz2k (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00htwhg (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions SAT behind the week's news. With Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, SAT Matthew Taylor and Clifford Longley. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b00htgdx (Listen) SAT Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange SAT of quotations and anecdotes. With guests Catherine SAT Bennett, Michael Dobbs, Sir Antony Jay and John Lahr. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00hs93v (Listen) SAT Roger McGough introduces poems by Ernest Dowson, DH SAT Lawrence, Laurie Lee and popular contemporary poet UA SAT Fanthorpe. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 8 MARCH 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00hy56s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lent Talks b00htwhj (Listen) SUN In No God's Land SUN Six well-known figures explore ideas of the absence of God SUN from their own perspective. Martin Bell reflects on his SUN experience in war zones. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hy5bq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hy5bs (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hy5bv (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00hy5bx (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00hy5bz (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Mary Parish Church, Bishopstoke SUN in Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00hxz2c (Listen) SUN Pen Hadow SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Polar explorer Pen Hadow, SUN who is leading the Catlin Arctic Survey to determine the SUN likely meltdown date of the ice cap. The British SUN trailblazer and his team will drag a mobile radar unit SUN more than 1000 kilometres as they trek to the North Pole. SUN Hadow, a self-confessed 'tortured soul', has been SUN criticised by some in the past for his so-called reckless SUN behaviour. But his current trip, he insists, is not about SUN exploration, but about gathering scientific data that SUN could be crucial to our understanding of climate change. SUN Mary Ann hears from friends and family of this enigmatic SUN explorer. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00hy5c1 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00hy5c3 (Listen) SUN As You Have Lived SUN Mark Tully explores how the way we choose to live our SUN lives reveals our most powerful beliefs and motivations, SUN whether we are conscious of them or not. What happens when SUN our deepest beliefs and motivations prove to be at odds SUN with those we profess? SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00hy5c5 (Listen) SUN Topical farming magazine. Elinor Goodman witnesses the end SUN of an era for a family-run battery farm in Dorset which is SUN scaling down its caged egg production because it is no SUN longer making any money. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00hy5c7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00hy5c9 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00hy5cc (Listen) SUN Discussing the religious and ethical news of the week. SUN Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, both familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00hy5cf (Listen) SUN Iraqi Association SUN Canon Andrew White appeals on behalf of the Iraqi SUN Association. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00hy5y5 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00hy5y7 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00hy5y9 (Listen) SUN Journey into the Imagination SUN Observing Lent through the senses. From St Cuthbert's SUN Church, Carham in Northumberland. With Companions and SUN Friends of the Northumbria Community, a geographically SUN dispersed network of Christians, exploring a new monastic SUN spirituality in a changing postmodern culture. Preacher: SUN Rev Roy Searle. Director of Music: Jeff Sutheran. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00hwvf9 (Listen) SUN Katharine Whitehorn reflects on images of women in the SUN media. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00hy5yc (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00hy5yf (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00hy5yh (Listen) SUN Richard Madeley SUN Kirsty Young invites broadcaster Richard Madeley to choose SUN eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00htgzz (Listen) SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with SUN panellists Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Jack Dee and Josie SUN Lawrence. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00hy5yk (Listen) SUN Recession and Retail SUN Sheila Dillon re-visits some of the finalists from the SUN Food and Farming Awards to see how they are coping as the SUN recession bites ever deeper. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00hy5ym (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 World This Weekend b00hy5yp (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with James Robbins. SUN SUN 13:30 Stand-Up With the Stars b00j0mh5 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN Hugh Dennis follows the fortunes of four Radio 4 SUN presenters - Evan Davis, Libby Purves, Peter White and SUN Laurie Taylor - as they try their hand at stand-up comedy SUN for Comic Relief. They are mentored by comedians Paul SUN Merton, Milton Jones, Josie Long and Shappi Khorsandi in SUN the lead-up to a final live performance at a London comedy SUN club. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardener's Question Time b00hwbpb (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN John Cushnie, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood answer SUN questions posed by gardeners at the Chipstead Flower Show SUN Association in Surrey. SUN Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather SUN forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 My Mile of the River b00hy5yr (Listen) SUN Episode 4 SUN Chris Tally Evans evokes the sights and sounds of the SUN River Wye as it flows yards from his garden in Rhayader in SUN Mid Wales. SUN On a freezing autumn morning, Chris watches at dawn for SUN otters. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00hy5yt (Listen) SUN Rendezvous with Rama, Episode 2 SUN Mike Walker's dramatisation of the novel by Arthur C SUN Clarke, set in the 22nd Century. SUN What is the secret at the heart of the space object known SUN as Rama and why, years after the event, has Commander SUN William Norton never spoken about what he found there? SUN William Norton ...... Richard Dillane SUN Li Kwok ...... Paul Courtenay Hyu SUN Pieter Rousseau ...... Jimmy Akingbola SUN Jimmy Pak ...... Robert Lonsdale SUN Aruna Calvert ...... Archie Panjabi SUN Gerry ...... Inam Mirza SUN Ruby Barnes ...... Janice Acquah SUN Laura Ernst ...... Ania Sowinski SUN Indira Gopal ...... Shelley King SUN Erl King ...... Peter Marinker SUN Tamara Ruiz ...... Jill Cardo SUN Tan Sun ...... Jonathan Tafler SUN Henning ...... Paul Rider. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00hy5yw (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Dame Joan Bakewell, who SUN explains why she has waited until her eighth decade to SUN publish a novel. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00hy60k (Listen) SUN Roger McGough celebrates the work of Vernon Scannell and SUN Stevie Smith, and looks forward to spring in a selection SUN of listeners' requests including the work of MR Peacocke, SUN a keen observer of the natural world. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00htn04 (Listen) SUN Julian O'Halloran investigates claims that overreaction by SUN schools to minor incidents or unproven allegations is SUN ruining the careers of hundreds of innocent teachers. As SUN efforts to protect children from abuse or cruelty are SUN intensified, Julian asks if some safety measures have gone SUN too far? SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00hxz2c (Listen) SUN Pen Hadow SUN Mary Ann Sieghart profiles the Polar explorer Pen Hadow, SUN who is leading the Catlin Arctic Survey to determine the SUN likely meltdown date of the ice cap. The British SUN trailblazer and his team will drag a mobile radar unit SUN more than 1000 kilometres as they trek to the North Pole. SUN Hadow, a self-confessed 'tortured soul', has been SUN criticised by some in the past for his so-called reckless SUN behaviour. But his current trip, he insists, is not about SUN exploration, but about gathering scientific data that SUN could be crucial to our understanding of climate change. SUN Mary Ann hears from friends and family of this enigmatic SUN explorer. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00hy62h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00hy62k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hy62m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4, followed by Weather. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00hy62p (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection of highlights from the past SUN week on BBC radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00hy62r (Listen) SUN Matt keeps a low profile. SUN SUN 19:15 Go4it b00hy665 (Listen) SUN Children's magazine. Barney Harwood finds out how children SUN and opera get along together. He talks to some of the 200 SUN young performers involved in a new choral work, On the Rim SUN of the World, at the Royal Opera House in London. Plus a SUN look at a very different musical venture used in schools, SUN Rockford's Rock Opera, which is neither rock nor opera but SUN a story about the island of Infinity where world's lost SUN creatures live. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b007vhn9 (Listen) SUN Caravan Club, Glad to be Alive SUN Series of short stories celebrating a British institution. SUN A lonely woman's life is changed forever when a boisterous SUN family set up their caravan at the end of a quiet country SUN lane. SUN By Julia Langdon, read by Irene MacDougall. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00hv33g (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00hwtj3 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00hxv2w (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN The Bank of England plans to pump up the economy with SUN quantitative easing, but what is it and will it work? What SUN does the latest cut in interest rates mean for savers - SUN are bonds the answer? Plus, thousands still wait for SUN compensation following leisure group XL's collapse. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00hy5cf (Listen) SUN Iraqi Association SUN Canon Andrew White appeals on behalf of the Iraqi SUN Association. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00hv1f8 (Listen) SUN The Threat of Thrift SUN After decades of easy credit, Chris Bowlby asks if the SUN concept of thrift has lost its moral attraction and if its SUN revival could further damage the economy. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00hy8nh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00hy8nk (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster with Carolyn SUN Quinn. Including The Prime Ministers. SUN SUN 23:02 The Film Programme b00hwtj5 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Julian Fellowes, the actor and SUN Oscar-winning writer of Gosford Park, about his latest SUN script, Young Victoria. Plus director Ole Christian Madsen SUN talks about his popular but controversial war movie, Flame SUN and Citron, which investigates the role of the Resistance SUN movement against the Nazi occupation of Denmark. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00hy5c3 (Listen) SUN As You Have Lived SUN Mark Tully explores how the way we choose to live our SUN lives reveals our most powerful beliefs and motivations, SUN whether we are conscious of them or not. What happens when SUN our deepest beliefs and motivations prove to be at odds SUN with those we profess? SUN SUN MON MONDAY 9 MARCH 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00hycpx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00htwhb (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how MON society works. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00hy5bz (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Mary Parish Church, Bishopstoke MON in Hampshire. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hycrl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hyctz (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hycsy (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00hycx3 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hycyv (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00hyd16 (Listen) MON News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00hzd77 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00hyd1j (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00hzd79 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00hyzgn (Listen) MON The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 1 MON Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in MON Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. MON Yasmin makes an emotional journey from Uganda to Britain, MON just after Idi Amin has seized control of her country. On MON the flight over, as she fends off fellow Ugandans' endless MON offers of food, she begins to reflect on her time in MON Africa through the meals and recipes that have marked her MON life. MON On her arrival in London, though, she is given a stark MON reminder of her status in her new country when she faces MON interrogation over a suitcase full of mangoes. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00hz0b7 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. Guests include Julie Myerson, Jacqueline MON Wilson and Ulrika Jonsson. MON Including drama: MON Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting from Scratch MON Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and MON correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. MON The story of Hazel Taylor, a young woman from Huddersfield MON who dreams of becoming a freelance writer, as England MON struggles through the postwar period of rationing and MON rebuilding. MON Hazel works with her dad in the family shop, but is MON worried that her mother has eyes for someone else. MON Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys MON Hilda ...... Olwen May MON Joe ...... David Fleeshman MON Stan/Policeman ...... James Quinn MON Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson MON Philip ...... Luke Walker MON Mrs Brook ...... Kate Layden MON Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. MON MON 11:00 Walls and Peace b00hzdnd (Listen) MON Gerry Anderson asks if the time has come to pull down the MON 'peace walls' that have divided the Catholic and MON Protestant communities of Belfast for almost 40 years. MON In the years since the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, not one MON wall has been removed - rather, they have been built even MON higher and continue to be erected. Gerry talks to Belfast MON residents to gain a sense of the vast area of the city MON that the walls cover and the impact they continue to have MON on people's daily lives. MON MON 11:30 The Yellowplush Papers b00hzf2h (Listen) MON My Debut in Society MON Series of five comic tales by William Makepeace Thackeray, MON adapted by Stephen Wyatt, recounting the rise and fall of MON early-19th Century footman Charles Yellowplush. MON Charles suddenly finds himself a very rich man. He leaves MON service and embarks on a life of opera, society dinners MON and balls. And goes a little mad. MON Charles Yellowplush ...... Adam Buxton MON Mary Ann ...... Annabelle Dowler MON James ...... Gunnar Cauthery MON Angelina ...... Janice Acquah MON Bareaches ...... Stephen Critchlow MON Silvertop ...... Inam Mirza MON Gazette/Dancing Master ...... Paul Rider MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00hz0g9 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00hz0jc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00hz0jp (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Counterpoint b00hzf58 (Listen) MON Series 23, Episode 1 MON Paul Gambaccini chairs the first heat of the music quiz, MON with contestants from the south of England competing at MON the BBC Radio Theatre in London. Paul puts the questions MON to amateur music lovers Brenda Mortimer from Camberley, MON David Roy from Bushey and Paul Tobin from Taunton. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00hy62r (Listen) MON Matt keeps a low profile. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00hzgp0 (Listen) MON Cry Babies MON Science-fiction drama by Kim Newman, set in the near MON future. MON Busy, successful couple Angela and Barty Flitcroft want a MON child but do not have the time to look after it. The MON solution is a genetically-enhanced daughter, Joy, birthed MON by a surrogate mother and reared to adulthood in a MON cryogenic chamber. MON Joy experiences brief moments 'out of the machine', and as MON time passes each opening brings shocks and surprises as MON her parents and their society undergo incredible changes. MON And for Joy, stuffed with education by the machine but MON denied everyday experiences, life is not just a strange MON new country, but a frightening, confusing and often funny MON one, too. MON Dr Rossiter ...... Alex Jennings MON Angela Flitcroft ...... Natasha Little MON Barty Flitcroft ...... Rupert Degas MON Joy ...... Sia Berkeley MON Roger ...... Colin Morgan MON SleepLearn Machine ...... Sarah Douglas MON Aruna ...... Emma Darwall-Smith MON Jeff ...... Sam Alexander MON Daisy ...... Kirsty Stuart MON Ari ...... Rob Kendrick MON Nurse Marketa/Girl ...... Emma Handy MON Directed by Neil Gardner MON Part of BBC Radio 4's Science Fiction Season. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00hxz2h (Listen) MON A Tibetan Odyssey: 50 Years in Exile MON On the 50th anniversary of the 1959 uprising in Tibet, MON Isabel Hilton hears the stories of Tibetan communities in MON exile. MON The Dalai Lama, as well as refugees in India and Britain, MON recount their personal experiences and discuss their hopes MON for the future. Isabel reflects on the journey made by the MON Dalai Lama's followers over the last 50 years and MON considers the challenges for these displaced people as MON they strive to preserve their culture and regain their MON autonomy. MON MON 15:45 Wildlife and the Marine Bill b00hz1rz (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Kelvin Boot explores how plants, animals and sand habitats MON around Britain could benefit from the proposed new Marine MON and Coastal Access Bill. MON Many habitats and species in Britain are severely MON threatened and the Bill has been hailed as potentially one MON of the most important tools to help conserve the marine MON wildlife. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00hy5yk (Listen) MON Recession and Retail MON Sheila Dillon re-visits some of the finalists from the MON Food and Farming Awards to see how they are coping as the MON recession bites ever deeper. MON MON 16:30 Click On b00hzhw3 (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 1 MON Simon Cox presents the topical magazine series covering MON the latest developments and issues in the world of IT. As MON YouTube continues to cost more than it makes, is Google MON regretting paying nearly 900 million pounds for it? Plus MON Simon discovers what it takes to compose music for a MON top-selling video game. MON MON 17:00 PM b00hz1v3 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hz1wl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4, followed by Weather. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00hzj3w (Listen) MON Series 54, Episode 9 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, with MON panellists Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Sheila Hancock and MON David Mitchell. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00hz193 (Listen) MON Eddie tries the hard sell. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00hz211 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00hz213 (Listen) MON Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting From Scratch, MON Episode 1 MON Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and MON correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. MON The story of Hazel Taylor, a young woman from MON Huddersfield, who dreams of becoming a freelance writer as MON England struggles through the postwar period of rationing MON and rebuilding. MON Hazel works with her dad in the family shop, but is MON worried that her mother has eyes for someone else. MON Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys MON Hilda ...... Olwen May MON Joe ...... David Fleeshman MON Stan/Policeman ...... James Quinn MON Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson MON Philip ...... Luke Walker MON Mrs Brook ...... Kate Layden MON Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. MON MON 20:00 Snow in Libya b00gd3zj (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Broadcaster Peter Snow returns to scenes of his post-war MON childhood in Libya for the first time in 50 years to MON discover how the modern Great Socialist People's Libyan MON Arab Jamahiriya has changed from the place he remembers MON from his youth. MON Peter leaves the city of Benghazi, and his childhood MON memories of Cyrene, to visit Tripoli for the first time, MON and to find out more about how Libya is adapting to the MON modern world. MON MON 20:30 Bottom Line b00hxz21 (Listen) MON Evan Davis challenges his guests on the art - and the MON complications - of pricing. For once, as recession gloom MON deepens, bosses of big business discuss the upturn, MON whenever that might come. MON Evan meets Sir Moir Lockhead of FirstGroup, one of the MON world's biggest transport companies, Christina Domecq of MON leading technology company Spinvox and Tom Purves, chief MON executive of Rolls Royce Motor Cars. MON MON 21:00 Whose Health Is It Anyway? b00hzjml (Listen) MON Barbara Myers examines the health trainers initiative, a MON unique peer-to-peer approach to healthcare that targets MON marginalised people whose lifestyle may be the biggest MON risk to their health. MON The public are repeatedly told on television, in magazines MON and by medical professionals what is and is not good for MON our health. So why can some people still not lose weight, MON stop smoking and get fit? MON Barbara asks if health trainers, a new breed of personal MON health trainers, are the key to a healthier Britain. Set MON up specifically to target marginalised communities, the MON health trainers initiative trains people from those same MON communities to disepense health advice to their peers. MON The programme examines the outcomes of the initiative and MON asks whether this method is more effective than more MON traditional top-down approaches to trying to change MON behaviour that can be harmful to health. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00hzd79 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr sets the cultural agenda for the week. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00hz3sl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00hz3t3 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hz3x7 (Listen) MON Family Money, Episode 1 MON Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller MON which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and MON how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a MON street brawl. MON Fanny's memory plays tricks as she tries to recall the MON brawl. Her grown-up children, Harry and Isabel, struggle MON to come to terms with their changed and frightened mother. MON MON 23:00 Stand-Up With the Stars b00j0mh5 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Hugh Dennis follows the fortunes of four Radio 4 MON presenters - Evan Davis, Libby Purves, Peter White and MON Laurie Taylor - as they try their hand at stand-up comedy MON for Comic Relief. They are mentored by comedians Paul MON Merton, Milton Jones, Josie Long and Shappi Khorsandi in MON the lead-up to a final live performance at a London comedy MON club. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hzcy8 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Susan Hulme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 MARCH 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00hycnh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00hyzgn (Listen) TUE The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 1 TUE Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in TUE Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. TUE Yasmin makes an emotional journey from Uganda to Britain, TUE just after Idi Amin has seized control of her country. On TUE the flight over, as she fends off fellow Ugandans' endless TUE offers of food, she begins to reflect on her time in TUE Africa through the meals and recipes that have marked her TUE life. TUE On her arrival in London, though, she is given a stark TUE reminder of her status in her new country when she faces TUE interrogation over a suitcase full of mangoes. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hycpz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hyct0 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hycrn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00hycv1 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hycx5 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00hycyx (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00hyd18 (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Call Yourself a Feminist b00j022c (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Historian Bettany Hughes presents the first in a series of TUE three discussions tracing the development of feminist TUE ideas from the 1960s onwards. TUE A panel of guests explore the issues which motivated women TUE to join together under the banner of feminism. While TUE activists pursued campaigns involving street protests and TUE fighting through the courts, other women were alienated by TUE their arguments. Both feminists and non-feminists join TUE Bettany to recall key events. TUE Bettany's guests are journalist Ann Leslie, American TUE academic Elaine Showalter, activist and historian Sally TUE Alexander and co-founder of the US National Organisation TUE of Women, Sonia Fuentes. TUE TUE 09:30 The Prime Ministers b00j022f (Listen) TUE Sir Robert Peel TUE BBC Political Editor Nick Robinson explores how Britain's TUE prime ministers have used their power, responded to the TUE challenges of their time and made the job what it is today. TUE Sir Robert Peel, who put the national interest before TUE party interest. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00hz01t (Listen) TUE The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 2 TUE Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in TUE Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. TUE Yasmin recalls her family history, from her parents' TUE meeting to her unconventional childhood in exotic Kampala, TUE where pythons made unexpected intrusions at lavish family TUE picnics. TUE She looks at the history of the Asians in Uganda, many of TUE whom arrived as slaves but went on to become successful TUE entrepreneurs, and in doing so assumed a rather uneasy TUE position between the Europeans and the Africans that would TUE later prove to be their downfall. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00j3hqx (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. TUE Including drama: TUE Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting from Scratch TUE Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and TUE correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. TUE The story of Hazel Taylor, a young woman from Huddersfield TUE who dreams of becoming a freelance writer, as England TUE struggles through the postwar period of rationing and TUE rebuilding. TUE After hearing some devastating news, Hazel waits with her TUE brother Philip for the return of their mother, unaware TUE that her life is about to be turned upside down. TUE Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys TUE Hilda ...... Olwen May TUE Joe ...... David Fleeshman TUE Stan/Policeman ...... James Quinn TUE Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson TUE Philip ...... Luke Walker TUE Mrs Brook ...... Kate Layden TUE Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. TUE TUE 11:00 Adventures in Junk b00j022h (Listen) TUE Alan Dein discovers the surprising history of the TUE adventure playground. The very first adventure playground TUE opened in Emdrup, Denmark in 1943. As resistance grew TUE against the Nazi occupation, two men pioneered a unique TUE space, the children's world turned upside down. TUE They were forged in the ideas of modernist and radical TUE architects and exported to a postwar Britain by the TUE campaigning Lady Allen of Hurtwood. The rubble and rubbish TUE of the nation's shattered cities were now reimagined as TUE spaces for all sorts of adventures. TUE TUE 11:30 What Texting Owes to the Literary Enlightenment TUE b00j0c2c (Listen) TUE Chris Addison explores the links between modern-day TUE text-speak and the language of the 18th-Century Literary TUE Enlightenment. He examines the expressive elements of text TUE language, or 'textese', and how it can be seen to echo a TUE ludic art form that became popular in the Romantic era, TUE via insights found in the letters of Jonathan Swift and TUE later works by Lewis Carroll and James Joyce. TUE Featuring contributions from authors Will Self and Ian TUE Rankin, poet Scott Tyrell and Professors Jeremy Tambling, TUE John Sutherland and David Crystal. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00hz0dp (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00hz0gc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00hz0jf (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00j0c2f (Listen) TUE Series 7, Charlie Parker TUE Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th TUE Century. TUE Ken talks to British jazz musician Soweto Kinch about TUE saxophonist Charlie Parker, one of the founding fathers of TUE the bebop movement. After moving to New York in 1939, he TUE worked with Dizzy Gillespie and helped to push the TUE boundaries of the form. However, his life and career were TUE blighted by a heroin addiction which killed him at the age TUE of just 34. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00hz193 (Listen) TUE Eddie tries the hard sell. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j0gd3 (Listen) TUE Anaesthesia TUE By Richard Holmes. Drawing on original documents and TUE notebooks, the story of the time in 1799 when, in a town TUE house on the banks of the River Avon in Bristol, Humphry TUE Davy, later celebrated for his miners lamp, came within a TUE breath of discovering the anaesthetic powers of nitrous TUE oxide. TUE Humphry Davy ...... Paul Mundell TUE Dr Thomas Beddoes ...... Richard McCabe TUE Mrs Anna Beddoes ...... Eleanor Tremaine TUE The Ostler ...... David Collins TUE The Journalist ...... Kenneth Cranham TUE Mr Coleridge ...... Stephen Noonan TUE Mr Southey ...... Richard Holmes. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00j0gd5 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the environment and the natural world. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00j0gd7 (Listen) TUE Abroad, Hesitation TUE Series of three edgy tales of people abroad, by Virginia TUE Gilbert. TUE A husband on holiday with his wife is tested to the limit TUE by the tantrums of a young boy he just cannot help being TUE annoyed by. When the boy gets into difficulties one TUE evening in the pool, the husband's hesitancy to rush to TUE his aid forces his wife to look at him in a new light. TUE Read by Philip Jackson. TUE TUE 15:45 Wildlife and the Marine Bill b00j3t9g (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE Kelvin Boot explores how plants, animals and sand habitats TUE around Britain could benefit from the proposed new Marine TUE and Coastal Access Bill. TUE The impact that the Bill could have on our declining fish TUE stocks. Could the proposed new conservation zones TUE replenish the numbers of cod, plaice and other fish which TUE have declined by over 90 per cent in the last century? TUE Marine scientists and fishermen give their opinions. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b00j4f1m (Listen) TUE Reporting on the problems faced by governments prosecuting TUE pirates captured at sea. The world's navies have joined TUE forces to fight piracy off the coast of Somalia but cannot TUE agree what to do with the pirates they catch. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00j0gdc (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to film reviewer Angie Errigo and TUE television comedy writer Jesse Armstrong about their TUE favourite books. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00hz1tt (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hz1w4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4, followed by Weather. TUE TUE 18:30 Cabin Pressure b00chy5c (Listen) TUE Cremona TUE Sitcom by John Finnemore about the pilots of a tiny TUE charter airline for whom no job is too small and many jobs TUE are too difficult. TUE Arthur is struck dumb when a film star joins the flight, TUE and Douglas has to disguise 30 knights of Camelot in a TUE hurry. TUE Carolyn Knapp-Shappey ...... Stephanie Cole TUE 1st Officer Douglas Richardson ...... Roger Allam TUE Captain Martin Crieff ...... Benedict Cumberbatch TUE Arthur Shappey ...... John Finnemore TUE Hester Macaulay ...... Helen Baxendale TUE Percival ...... Rufus Jones TUE Gawain ...... Robert Harley TUE Lancelot ...... Ali Amadi. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00hz0qw (Listen) TUE Jazzer heads for sweet disaster. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00hz1yk (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews. Mark Lawson meets writer and TUE director Tony Gilroy whose new film, Duplicity, stars TUE Julia Roberts and Clive Owen. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00j3hy4 (Listen) TUE Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting From Scratch, TUE Episode 2 TUE Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and TUE correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. TUE The story of Hazel Taylor, a young woman from Huddersfield TUE who dreams of becoming a freelance writer, as England TUE struggles through the postwar period of rationing and TUE rebuilding. TUE After hearing some devastating news, Hazel waits with her TUE brother Philip for the return of their mother, unaware TUE that her life is about to be turned upside down. TUE Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys TUE Hilda ...... Olwen May TUE Joe ...... David Fleeshman TUE Stan/Policeman ...... James Quinn TUE Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson TUE Philip ...... Luke Walker TUE Mrs Brook ...... Kate Layden TUE Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00j0gdf (Listen) TUE Simon Cox examines the record of the Royal Military Police TUE in dealing with alleged crimes by British forces both TUE during operations and in peacetime. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00j0gdh (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Am I Normal? b00j0gj7 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Early Menopause TUE Vivienne Parry continues her quest to find out what is TUE normal. TUE As increasing numbers of women delay trying for a baby, TUE will early menopause be recognised more? Vivienne explores TUE the stigma that has surrounded the menopause, from the TUE Greeks to Virginia Woolf, and asks if it still exists TUE today. TUE TUE 21:30 Call Yourself a Feminist b00j022c (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Historian Bettany Hughes presents the first in a series of TUE three discussions tracing the development of feminist TUE ideas from the 1960s onwards. TUE A panel of guests explore the issues which motivated women TUE to join together under the banner of feminism. While TUE activists pursued campaigns involving street protests and TUE fighting through the courts, other women were alienated by TUE their arguments. Both feminists and non-feminists join TUE Bettany to recall key events. TUE Bettany's guests are journalist Ann Leslie, American TUE academic Elaine Showalter, activist and historian Sally TUE Alexander and co-founder of the US National Organisation TUE of Women, Sonia Fuentes. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00hz3ct (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00hz3sn (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hz44b (Listen) TUE Family Money, Episode 2 TUE Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller TUE which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and TUE how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a TUE street brawl. TUE When Fanny is discharged from hospital, her children Harry TUE and Isabel are concerned about how she will cope at home TUE on her own. TUE TUE 23:00 Mastering the Universe b00j0gm8 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE Comedy series starring Dawn French as Professor Joy Klamp, TUE a specialist in the art of spoiling other people's TUE pleasure. TUE Investigating the fun that can be had, at other people's TUE expense, through the gift of children. TUE With Chris Douglas, Sally Grace, Katy Brand, Christopher TUE Douglas, Dan Tetsell, Brian Perkins. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hzcxy (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with David Wilby. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 MARCH 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00hycnk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00hz01t (Listen) WED The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 2 WED Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in WED Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. WED Yasmin recalls her family history, from her parents' WED meeting to her unconventional childhood in exotic Kampala, WED where pythons made unexpected intrusions at lavish family WED picnics. WED She looks at the history of the Asians in Uganda, many of WED whom arrived as slaves but went on to become successful WED entrepreneurs, and in doing so assumed a rather uneasy WED position between the Europeans and the Africans that would WED later prove to be their downfall. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hycq3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hyct2 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hycrq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00hycv3 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hycx7 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00hycyz (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b00hyd1b (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports WED Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00j0h03 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00hz01w (Listen) WED The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 3 WED Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in WED Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. WED Yasmin recalls her happy schooldays, despite turbulence at WED home. Now that the Asians seem to have secured their WED position in Uganda, life is good, and food in particular WED is plentiful and sumptuous. Happiness is measured by the WED thickness of the ghee on their curries. WED But as independence for the Africans looms, and Harold WED Macmillan predicts that a 'wind of change' will blow WED through the continent, the atmosphere begins to darken for WED the Ugandan Asians. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00j3hqz (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. WED Including drama: WED Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting from Scratch WED Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and WED correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. WED The story of Hazel Taylor, a young woman from Huddersfield WED who dreams of becoming a freelance writer, as England WED struggles through the postwar period of rationing and WED rebuilding. WED Just when she thinks that things cannot get much worse, WED Hazel meets a knight in shining armour at a bus stop. WED Granville Wheeler rescues her from an unpleasant fate, and WED she takes Sylvia to see him in an amateur production of WED Merrie England. But Granville is sent off on Army Reserve WED training, and Hazel finds herself alone again. WED Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys WED Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson WED Granville ...... Adrian Grove WED Philip ...... Luke Walker WED Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. WED WED 11:00 Tin Men b00j0h05 (Listen) WED Jolyon Jenkins explores the story of the last working tin WED mine in Cornwall, South Crofty near Redruth, which has WED re-opened for business but is not yet producing ore. WED He meets the businessmen who are committed to once again WED raising tin from Cornish ground, hears from the Cornishmen WED divided on where Cornwall's future lies and why tin WED remains at the heart of Cornish politics. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b00j0h07 (Listen) WED Series 5, It's Good to Talk WED Comedy by Harry Venning and David Ramsden. WED An old university friend visits with a confession to make. WED Clare ...... Sally Phillips WED Brian ...... Alex Lowe WED Helen ...... Liza Tarbuck WED Ray ...... Richard Lumsden WED Megan/Nali ...... Nina Conti WED Irene ...... Ellen Thomas WED Simon ...... Andrew Wincott WED Michael ...... Chris Pavlo WED Carol ...... Donnla Hughes. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00hz0dr (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00hz0gf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00hz0jh (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00j0h09 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00hz0qw (Listen) WED Jazzer heads for sweet disaster. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j0h0c (Listen) WED Homesick WED Comedy by Anita Sullivan. Jeff's mundane life changes when WED he is struck by an actual bolt from the blue. He starts WED hearing a voice in another language and his perspective WED changes. Then he meets a girl and falls in love. But does WED she love him, or the voice in his ear? WED Alien ...... Mark Heap WED Jeff ...... Paul Ritter WED Nicole ...... Maxine Peake WED Pat ...... Susan Jameson WED Hopper ...... Ewan Bailey WED Other parts played by Mai Soteriou WED Directed by Anita Sullivan. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00j0h0f (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby takes listeners' questions on ISAs and WED tax free savings. He is joined by Mark Dampier, head of WED research at Hargreaves Lansdown, Michelle Slade, press WED officer at Moneyfacts and Adrian Lowcock, senior WED investment adviser at Bestinvest. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00j18p9 (Listen) WED Abroad, Sisters WED Series of three edgy tales of people abroad, by Virginia WED Gilbert. WED When two sisters take a holiday together, the memory of a WED childhood incident causes older sister May to gradually WED recognise the truth of her standing with her younger WED sister. Read by Sorcha Cusack. WED WED 15:45 Wildlife and the Marine Bill b00j3t9j (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED Kelvin Boot explores how plants, animals and sand habitats WED around Britain could benefit from the proposed new Marine WED and Coastal Access Bill. WED How wildlife values can be measured against other WED socio-economic services. Kelvin visits the site of a wind WED farm on the Lancashire coast, where the discovery of a WED huge flock of sea-duck has both underlined the potential WED conflicts between users of the seas and offered solutions WED for a way forward. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00j0h9g (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Am I Normal? b00j0gj7 (Listen) WED Series 6, Early Menopause WED Vivienne Parry continues her quest to find out what is WED normal. WED As increasing numbers of women delay trying for a baby, WED will early menopause be recognised more? Vivienne explores WED the stigma that has surrounded the menopause, from the WED Greeks to Virginia Woolf, and asks if it still exists WED today. WED WED 17:00 PM b00hz1tx (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hz1w6 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4, followed by Weather. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00j0h9n (Listen) WED Series 2, Sandi Toksvig WED Sandi Toksvig eats her first pot noodle, wears high heels WED and tries stilt walking - not all at the same time, of WED course. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00hz0r4 (Listen) WED Matt gets a glimmer of hope. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00hz1ym (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a report WED on how comedy shows make the move from radio to television. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00j3hzm (Listen) WED Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting From Scratch, WED Episode 3 WED Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and WED correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. WED The story of Hazel Taylor, a young woman from Huddersfield WED who dreams of becoming a freelance writer, as England WED struggles through the postwar period of rationing and WED rebuilding. WED Just when she thinks that things cannot get much worse, WED Hazel meets a knight in shining armour at a bus stop. WED Granville Wheeler rescues her from an unpleasant fate, and WED she takes Sylvia to see him in an amateur production of WED Merrie England. But Granville is sent off on Army Reserve WED training, and Hazel finds herself alone again. WED Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys WED Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson WED Granville ...... Adrian Grove WED Philip ...... Luke Walker WED Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b00j0hbw (Listen) WED The BBC's Political Editor Nick Robinson shines a light on WED the process by which controversial decisions are reached WED behind closed doors in Whitehall. With a panel of inside WED experts, he examines the problems that future governments WED will face and hear the arguments about how they might be WED resolved. WED WED 20:45 Lent Talks b00j0ndf (Listen) WED Crave for Less WED Six well-known figures explore ideas of the absence of God WED from their own perspective. Richard Holloway searches for WED the reality of God's presence in absence. WED WED 21:00 Chi-Chi: Panda Ambassador b00j0pp6 (Listen) WED Naturalist and journalist Henry Nicholls traces the story WED of Chi-Chi the panda, now stuffed and displayed at the WED Natural History Museum in London, but once celebrated in WED global headlines. WED He learns more from zoologist Desmond Morris, the man WED responsible for bringing the baby panda Chi Chi to London WED Zoo. Henry also travels to Schonbrunn Zoo in Vienna to see WED how pandas are bred today in captivity, and discovers that WED the events of Chi-Chi's life have had global implications WED that go far beyond the panda world. WED Featuring contributions from Polly Parry of the Natural WED History Museum, David Norman of the World Wildlife Fund, WED Eveline Dungl, curator of Schonbrunn Zoo and Wang Tiejun WED of the Chinese panda breeding programme. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00j0h03 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00hz3cy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00hz3sq (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hz44d (Listen) WED Family Money, Episode 3 WED Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller WED which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and WED how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a WED street brawl. WED Harry and Isabel are concerned for Fanny's future when she WED decides to sell up and give some of the proceeds to her WED good friend, and home help, Ivy Trench. Meanwhile, is WED someone watching her? WED WED 23:00 Josie Long: All of the Planet's Wonders b00j0pp8 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Comedy series in which Josie Long attempts to better WED herself through learning from reference books, with help WED from Irish comedian Maeve Higgins and special guests. WED Josie thinks about propriety, plants, grandparents, being WED connected to the world around you and growing your own. WED With special guest, comedian Isy Suttie. WED WED 23:15 One b00771mt (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 4 WED The sketch show where no sketch features more than one WED voice. WED Written by David Quantick and starring Dan Maier, Lizzie WED Roper, Graeme Garden, Deborah Norton, Andrew Crawford, Dan WED Antopolski, Simon Greenall and Kate Gielgud, with Bill WED Oddie and Jeremy Clarkson as themselves. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hzcy0 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Sean Curran. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 MARCH 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00hycnm (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00hz01w (Listen) THU The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 3 THU Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in THU Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. THU Yasmin recalls her happy schooldays, despite turbulence at THU home. Now that the Asians seem to have secured their THU position in Uganda, life is good, and food in particular THU is plentiful and sumptuous. Happiness is measured by the THU thickness of the ghee on their curries. THU But as independence for the Africans looms, and Harold THU Macmillan predicts that a 'wind of change' will blow THU through the continent, the atmosphere begins to darken for THU the Ugandan Asians. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hycq5 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hyct4 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hycrs (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00hycv5 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hycx9 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00hycz1 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00hyd1d (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00j0q53 (Listen) THU The Library of Alexandria THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Simon Goldhill, Serafina Cuomo and THU Matthew Nichols discuss the Library of Alexandria, one of THU the greatest libraries in history. The way knowledge was THU arranged on its shelves still influences our understanding THU of the world today. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00hz01y (Listen) THU The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 4 THU Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in THU Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. THU Yasmin recounts her tumultuous teenage years, in the wake THU of independence in Uganda. After being disowned by her THU father for playing Juliet alongside a black Romeo in her THU high school play, Yasmin finds herself at a political THU bootcamp where she comes face to face with the country's THU future leader, the ruthless Idi Amin. THU Trying to ignore the darkening political situation, Yasmin THU enrols at Makerere University, but when the night raids by THU Amin's henchmen begin and students start to disappear, THU Yasmin realises that life for the Ugandan Asians is THU becoming more precarious than ever. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00j3hr1 (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. THU Including drama: THU Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting from Scratch THU Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and THU correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. THU The story of Hazel Wheeler, a young woman from THU Huddersfield who dreams of becoming a freelance writer, as THU England struggles through the postwar period of rationing THU and rebuilding. THU Hazel becomes Mrs Wheeler, and the happy couple struggle THU to make ends meet. Hazel joins the ranks of temporary THU postal workers at Christmas, and she and Granville go on THU an eventful holiday to Southport. All good material for THU her - so far - unsuccessful writing career. But she THU returns from holiday to find a letter from the BBC. THU Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys THU Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson THU Mr Bellinger/Cook ...... Luke Walker THU Mrs Jowett ...... Kate Layden THU Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00j0q55 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00j0q57 (Listen) THU Les Dennis THU Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. THU Les Dennis introduces an eclectic selection of readings THU reflecting some of the ups and downs of his personal and THU professional life. Readers are Christopher Cazenove and THU Jodie McNee. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00hz0dt (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00hz0gh (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00hz0jk (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00j16kr (Listen) THU Dominic Arkwright chairs a discussion on the theme of THU feeling like an impostor, with guests including THU philosopher Julian Baggini. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00hz0r4 (Listen) THU Matt gets a glimmer of hope. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j16kt (Listen) THU Getting to Zero THU By Sarah Woods. An expert panel sets an average family the THU task of eliminating their carbon footprint in just six THU weeks - and living with the consequences. THU With George Monbiot, Paul Allen, Peter Harper. THU THU 15:02 Open Country b00hxns3 (Listen) THU Countryside magazine. Helen Mark visits Scotland's rivers THU to find that the freshwater pearl mussel, already THU endangered, now faces new threats from unscrupulous THU thieves who kill all the mussels they gather in the hope THU of finding a precious pearl inside. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00hy5cf (Listen) THU Iraqi Association THU Canon Andrew White appeals on behalf of the Iraqi THU Association. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00j18pc (Listen) THU Abroad, The Conversation THU Series of three edgy tales of people abroad, by Virginia THU Gilbert. THU In bed, a husband is disturbed from his sleep by the THU couple in the next room, who are having a conversation THU which gives him pause for thought. His wife is THU uninterested and unaware, wrapped up as she is in her own THU needs. Read by Brian Gilbert. THU THU 15:45 Wildlife and the Marine Bill b00j3t9l (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Kelvin Boot explores how plants, animals and sand habitats THU around Britain could benefit from the proposed new Marine THU and Coastal Access Bill. THU The Bill promises the public the chance to walk around the THU coasts of England, Wales and Scotland. Kelvin assesses the THU potential impact on wildlife and explores the crumbling THU Dorset Heritage Coast, where the Bill will offer solutions THU to the problems of coastal erosion. He also hears from THU landowners and conservationists about the advantages and THU possible drawbacks for wildlife along the route. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00hy5yw (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup talks to Dame Joan Bakewell, who THU explains why she has waited until her eighth decade to THU publish a novel. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00j16kw (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper hears about nature's best kept secret - the THU factory of life. It is well known that genes written in THU DNA are the code of life, carrying information from THU generation to generation. But without a code-reading THU machine, our DNA would be useless. THU Quentin learns about the biological machine that does just THU that in every cell in our bodies, indeed in every cell in THU every living organism - a machine called the ribosome. THU This single, extraordinarily adaptable device manufactures THU every protein in our body, constantly working to keep our THU metabolism and life processes going. When we take THU antibiotics, it is usually to block the ribosomes in THU infectious bacteria. Tiny variations mean that those in THU our cells can keep going. THU Because the ribosome is built out of DNA's simpler cousin THU RNA, this biological constructor provides the strongest THU clue that life developed out of a primordial soup of THU simple reacting RNA molecules. THU THU 17:00 PM b00hz1tz (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hz1w8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4, followed by Weather. THU THU 18:30 Old Harry's Game b00j16ky (Listen) THU Series 7, Episode 4 THU Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. THU Why has a baby ended up in Hell? Only God has the power to THU bring people back to life, but can he be persuaded? THU Satan ...... Andy Hamilton THU Edith ...... Annette Crosbie THU Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan THU Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville THU God ...... Timothy West THU With Felicity Montagu. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00hz0rb (Listen) THU Tom is forced to go back to the drawing board. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00hz1yp (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00j3j26 (Listen) THU Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting From Scratch, THU Episode 4 THU Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and THU correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. THU The story of Hazel Wheeler, a young woman from THU Huddersfield who dreams of becoming a freelance writer, as THU England struggles through the postwar period of rationing THU and rebuilding. THU Hazel becomes Mrs Wheeler, and the happy couple struggle THU to make ends meet. Hazel joins the ranks of temporary THU postal workers at Christmas, and she and Granville go on THU an eventful holiday to Southport. All good material for THU her, so far, unsuccessful writing career. But she returns THU from holiday to find a letter from the BBC. THU Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys THU Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson THU Mr Bellinger/Cook ...... Luke Walker THU Mrs Jowett ...... Kate Layden THU Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. THU THU 20:00 Seven Days b00j17xr (Listen) THU Jenny Cuffe spends seven days at a children's hospice, as THU it supports youngsters with life limiting conditions. Like THU many charities, funding has been hit in the downturn. THU THU 20:30 Analysis b00j17xt (Listen) THU Clever.com THU Kenan explores the reality behind the stereotype of the THU 'Google generation', the young people who have become so THU hooked on the web and computer games that they are unable THU to think, study and concentrate. THU This characterisation is motivated by genuine concerns THU that heavy use of the internet and computer games are THU actually rewiring the brains of young people. They are THU learning and thinking differently to their forebears in a THU massive technological and social experiment. Kenan THU investigates these concerns and asks Stephen Fry, among THU others, whether the rise of the digital generation should THU be a cause for celebration or concern. THU THU 21:00 Oceans: What Lies Beneath b00j1819 (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU Gabrielle Walker explores why we know so little about the THU oceans that make up nearly 80 per cent of our planet. From THU strange new creatures that are only now being discovered THU to the treasures lying hidden in the inky depths, it is no THU wonder that oceanographers are calling this a golden age THU of oceanic discovery. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00j0q53 (Listen) THU The Library of Alexandria THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Simon Goldhill, Serafina Cuomo and THU Matthew Nichols discuss the Library of Alexandria, one of THU the greatest libraries in history. The way knowledge was THU arranged on its shelves still influences our understanding THU of the world today. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00hz3d0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00hz3ss (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hz44g (Listen) THU Family Money, Episode 4 THU Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller THU which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and THU how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a THU street brawl. THU After her house catches fire, Fanny's plans to sell up are THU put on hold. As her neighbours gather in the street as the THU fire is put out, she sees the man from the canal boat in THU the crowd - but why is he there? THU THU 23:00 Inside Alan Francis b00j17xy (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU Comedy series in which comedian Alan Francis explores the THU workings of his own mind in relation to his life, friends THU and long-suffering girlfriend Jane. THU Alan leaves home. THU With Julian Dutton, Barnaby Power, Kali Peacock. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hzcy2 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Sean Curran. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 MARCH 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00hycnp (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00hz01y (Listen) FRI The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 4 FRI Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in FRI Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. FRI Yasmin recounts her tumultuous teenage years, in the wake FRI of independence in Uganda. After being disowned by her FRI father for playing Juliet alongside a black Romeo in her FRI high school play, Yasmin finds herself at a political FRI bootcamp where she comes face to face with the country's FRI future leader, the ruthless Idi Amin. FRI Trying to ignore the darkening political situation, Yasmin FRI enrols at Makerere University, but when the night raids by FRI Amin's henchmen begin and students start to disappear, FRI Yasmin realises that life for the Ugandan Asians is FRI becoming more precarious than ever. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00hycq7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00hyct6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00hycrv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00hycv7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00hycxc (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Sharon Grenham-Toze. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00hycz3 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00hyd1g (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports FRI Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the FRI Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00hy5yh (Listen) FRI Richard Madeley FRI Kirsty Young invites broadcaster Richard Madeley to choose FRI eight records to take to Radio 4's mythical desert island. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00hz020 (Listen) FRI The Settler's Cookbook, Episode 5 FRI Yasmin Alibhai-Brown reads her memoir of her childhood in FRI Uganda and move to Britain in the 1970s. FRI Yasmin arrives in London in 1972 and finds a country rife FRI with industrial unrest and casual racism. Terrified by FRI stories of Amin's reprisals back home and shocked by the FRI sights of fellow Ugandans arriving penniless and FRI bewildered at British ariports, Yasmin hopes to find FRI refuge in the ivory towers of Oxford University. FRI Instead she encounters further prejudice, albeit of a less FRI overt nature. Finally, when her fragile marriage buckles FRI under the hedonistic pressures of the hippy revolution, FRI Yasmin retreats to her cookery books and the recipes that FRI were handed down by her beloved mother. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00j3hr3 (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. FRI Including drama: FRI Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting from Scratch FRI Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and FRI correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. FRI The story of Hazel Wheeler, a young woman from FRI Huddersfield who dreams of becoming a freelance writer, as FRI England struggles through the postwar period of rationing FRI and rebuilding. FRI After hearing good news from the BBC, Hazel travels to the FRI Woman's Hour studio in Leeds with her mother - unaware FRI that there is good news of a different kind on the way. FRI Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys FRI Hilda ...... Olwen May FRI Granville ...... Adrian Grove FRI Stan ...... James Quinn FRI Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson FRI Ray Lakeland/Announcer ...... Stuart Richman FRI Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. FRI FRI 11:00 The Counterfeiter's Tale b00j1dvs (Listen) FRI Historian Tristram Hunt delves into the story of the FRI biggest money counterfeiting operation in history, through FRI its only surviving participant: 93-year-old Adolf Burger. FRI For the last three years of the Second World War, 142 FRI prisoners in the Sachsenhausen concentration camp, north FRI of Berlin, were forced by their captors to forge millions FRI of pounds-worth of British banknotes, which the Nazis FRI planned to use to ruin Britain's wartime economy. Tristram FRI learns more from historians and sees the original FRI counterfeited notes, which are now held in the archives of FRI the Bank of England. FRI FRI 11:30 HR b00j1dvv (Listen) FRI A Leaving Party FRI Comedy drama series by Nigel Williams that charts the FRI misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his FRI trouble-making colleague. FRI Peter and Sam meet on their way to a leaving party - but FRI whose leaving party? FRI Peter ...... Jonathan Pryce FRI Sam ...... Nicholas le Prevost FRI Elevator voice ...... Sam Dale FRI Directed by Peter Kavanagh. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00hz0dw (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00hz0gk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00hz0jm (Listen) FRI National and international news with James Robbins. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00j1dvx (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00hz0rb (Listen) FRI Tom is forced to go back to the drawing board. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00j1dvz (Listen) FRI Mayflies FRI By Mike Maddox. Douglas Scofield has retired from the FRI world of astronomy and, following the death of his wife, FRI now runs a fish farm with his daughter, who is expecting FRI her first child. All he wants is peace and quiet and a FRI chance to write his book about fishing. FRI However, a visit from an old colleague brings news of a FRI message from a distant world, the very sign of life FRI Douglas spent his career searching for. Is it safe to FRI reply? Indeed, should they reply at all - and to what FRI purpose? FRI Douglas Scofield ...... Derek Jacobi FRI Dave ...... Jason Isaacs FRI Lucy ...... Catherine McCormack FRI Mole ...... Danny Webb FRI Moira ...... Sarah Douglas FRI Rob ...... Steven Cree FRI Directed by Neil Gardner. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardener's Question Time b00j1f9c (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI John Cushnie, Chris Beardshaw and Bunny Guinness answer FRI questions posed by gardeners at Chapel-en-le-Frith FRI Gardening Club in Derbyshire. FRI Including the Gardeners' Question Time gardening weather FRI forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 Wildlife and the Marine Bill b00j3t9n (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI Kelvin Boot explores how plants, animals and sand habitats FRI around Britain could benefit from the proposed new Marine FRI and Coastal Access Bill. FRI How the new Bill promises to conserve British coastal FRI wildlife. Should there be quotas for protected areas, and FRI how should we balance the interests of all the other FRI stakeholders in our seas? FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00j1f9f (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have FRI recently died. The programme reflects on people of FRI distinction and interest from many walks of life, some FRI famous and some less well known. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00j1f9h (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Julia Roberts about her new FRI espionage comedy, Duplicity. Plus Shirley Anne Field FRI recalls her role in the ground-breaking 1960 British FRI movie, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00hz1v1 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00hz1wb (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4, followed by Weather. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00j1f9k (Listen) FRI Series 26, Episode 2 FRI Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, FRI Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura FRI Shavin, Jon Holmes and Nick Doody. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00hz0rg (Listen) FRI Matt discovers who his friends are. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00hz1yr (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews, featuring jazz saxophonist Lester FRI Young, who died 50 years ago. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00j3j2z (Listen) FRI Writing the Century 1948-1953: Starting From Scratch, FRI Episode 5 FRI Series exploring the 20th Century through diaries and FRI correspondence of real people, dramatised by Peter Roberts. FRI The story of Hazel Wheeler, a young woman from FRI Huddersfield who dreams of becoming a freelance writer, as FRI England struggles through the postwar period of rationing FRI and rebuilding. FRI After hearing good news from the BBC, Hazel travels to the FRI Woman's Hour studio in Leeds with her mother - unaware FRI that there is good news of a different kind on the way. FRI Hazel ...... Amy Humphreys FRI Hilda ...... Olwen May FRI Granville ...... Adrian Grove FRI Stan ...... James Quinn FRI Sylvia ...... Lucy Jo Hudson FRI Ray Lakeland/Announcer ...... Stuart Richman FRI Directed by Peter Leslie Wild. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00j1f9m (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Londonderry. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00j1f9p (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Katharine FRI Whitehorn. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00j1fdm (Listen) FRI Stone, The Ties That Bind FRI By Damian Wayling. FRI When a body dredged up from a lake implicates an ex-police FRI officer and a respected headteacher, DCI Stone has a FRI difficult decision to make as he discovers the real truth FRI that lies behind the murder. FRI Stone ...... Hugo Speer FRI Catriona ...... Zoe Henry FRI Thomas ...... Rob Pickavance FRI Sally ...... Danielle Henry FRI Tanner ...... Craig Cheetham FRI Chloe/DS Addison ...... Maxine Burth FRI Tyler ...... Reece Noi FRI Wise ...... James Nickerson FRI Piotra/Lawler ...... Greg Wood FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00hz3d6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00hz3sv (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00hz44j (Listen) FRI Family Money, Episode 5 FRI Hannah Gordon reads Nina Bawden's psychological thriller FRI which tells the story of recently-widowed Fanny Pye, and FRI how her life is changed when she intervenes to stop a FRI street brawl. FRI A conversation with Isabel about what happened the night FRI she witnessed the murder of Andrew Hobbes leaves Fanny FRI perturbed. Are her recollections of that night returning? FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00j0gdc (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor talks to film reviewer Angie Errigo and FRI television comedy writer Jesse Armstrong about their FRI favourite books. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00hzcy4 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI