21 August, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 22/08/2009 -28/08/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 22 AUGUST 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00m463q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00m82yy (Listen) SAT My Father's Places, Episode 5 SAT Sian Thomas reads from Aeronwy Thomas' memoir of her SAT childhood in Laugharne on the south Wales coast with her SAT father, Dylan Thomas, and mother Caitlin. SAT The cracks in Dylan and Caitlin's marriage begin to show SAT and Aeronwy feels the effects. SAT Abridged by Jane Marshall. SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m463s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m463v (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m463x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00m463z (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m4641 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa. SAT SAT 05:45 Backstreet Business b008pxt0 (Listen) SAT Episode 5 SAT Nicola Heywood Thomas visits five small businesses. Peter SAT Nardi invents conjuring tricks and produces the equipment SAT for them at his workshop in Kent. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00m4643 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00m52st (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00m52sw (Listen) SAT Cumbrian Power SAT One of the proposed sites for the new generation of SAT nuclear power stations is farmland near the villages of SAT Kirksanton and Silecroft on the Cumbrian coast. Helen Mark SAT finds people there fighting the plans, but also some who SAT support the idea. SAT Kirksanton lies south of Sellafield, and many in this SAT rural community, which nestles between the most southerly SAT fells of White Combe and Black Combe, were shocked to hear SAT of the plans. Many villagers believe that the development SAT would destroy the tranquility and beauty of the area they SAT love. Others welcome the plans and the opportunity they SAT may bring to reinvent the Millom area as a centre for SAT excellence in the nuclear industry, providing jobs, SAT improving infrastrucure and ensuring young people have a SAT future in the area. SAT Helen considers what would be gained and what would be SAT lost. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00m52vk (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Ready meals are here to stay, whether you think it's the SAT height of laziness or a way to feed a time-pressed SAT population. We eat more than 800 million of them each year SAT in the UK, and there is huge variety of them, from a basic SAT frozen lasagne to a fancy risotto. SAT Charlotte Smith finds out who is now buying ready meals, SAT what's in them and how much of the contents is, or could SAT come, from British farms. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00m52vm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00m52vp (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00m535p (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by Madness frontman Suggs. With poetry SAT from Kate Fox. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00m535r (Listen) SAT Sandi Toksvig explores Iraq, Greece, Turkey and Egypt in SAT the footsteps of Greek historian Herodotus, who died SAT around 2,500 years ago, and finds out what India, Tibetan SAT singing bowls and a computerised piece of music lasting SAT 1,000 years have in common. SAT SAT 10:30 I Want to Work in... b00m535t (Listen) SAT Laurie Taylor - himself a former careers master at a SAT comprehensive school - takes an affectionate look back at SAT 50 years of careers advice. SAT He goes back to the time when careers were really only for SAT middle-class boys; girls and the lower orders were SAT expected to make do with mere jobs. This was reflected in SAT the inadequate careers advice handed out at the time by SAT school careers masters and by the often patronising SAT schools TV films about everything from working in SAT insurance to the distinctive pleasures of shelf-filling in SAT a supermarket. How much was anyone helped by such sources SAT of information? SAT Laurie finds out how different the situation is today, SAT when fewer and fewer children follow in their parents' SAT career footsteps and when even the notion of a 'career' SAT itself is under attack by the proponents of the SAT 'portfolio' society. He talks to experts and visits a jobs SAT fair for graduates, and asks if, over the past 50 years of SAT careers advice, anybody has taken a blind bit of notice. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00m535w (Listen) SAT Looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster SAT parliament. In the wake of voters' anger with their SAT elected representatives over expenses, Ben Wright explores SAT the growth of direct democracy and asks whether it can SAT ever work on a large scale. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00m535y (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT Including a rare visit to a Catholic shrine in Northern SAT Sri Lanka, why Uganda and Kenya are threatening to go to SAT war over a tiny speck of land, and an Arabic lesson in SAT Damascus. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00m5360 (Listen) SAT Coping with the Recession, Episode 2 SAT Penny Haslam examines how we are coping with the SAT recession. The economic crisis is not just about money and SAT paying bills; it is also about dealing with the SAT psychological pressures of the downturn. Penny SAT investigates whether we focus too much on the negatives SAT when many people will end up better off. SAT SAT 12:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00m44s1 (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two SAT teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The SAT show asks both the big and the little questions, and SAT provides thoroughly silly answers to both. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00m53q8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00m53qb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00m45d0 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Middle SAT Wallop, Hampshire. The panellists are writer Kate Mosse, SAT environmental campaigner Jonathon Porritt, writer and SAT broadcaster James Delingpole and lawyer Mark Stephens. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00m53qd (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair takes listeners' calls and emails in response SAT to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00m53qg (Listen) SAT Slow Boat to Leningrad SAT Black comedy by David Pownall following events of August SAT 1939, when the British and French were seriously SAT out-manoeuvred by Stalin and Hitler when they unexpectedly SAT agreed to sign a non-aggression pact. SAT Doumenc ...... Keith Drinkel SAT Drax/Chamberlain ...... Geoffrey Whitehead SAT Burnett ...... Ian Masters SAT Ribbentrop ...... Nicholas Boulton SAT Hitler ...... Michael Maloney SAT Stalin ...... Michael Jayston SAT Voroshilov/Churchill ...... Christian Rodska SAT Molotov ...... Jonathan Tafler SAT Directed by Martin Jenkins SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Luting the Past b00m17qg (Listen) SAT Celebrated soprano Emma Kirkby tells the story of a unique SAT musical instrument, a 400 year old lute whose ancient wood SAT presents a vivid window into a golden age of music making. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00m552d (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00m56dt (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00m56dw (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m552g (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00m552j (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m552l (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00m56dz (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, SAT music and comedy from the Edinburgh Festival, in front of SAT an audience at The Pleasance Theatre. SAT He is joined by writer, actor and broadcaster Griff Rhys SAT Jones, cultural maverick Malcolm McLaren and actress Diana SAT Quick. SAT Arthur Smith talks to agony aunt Virginia Ironside. SAT With comedy from Wilson Dixon and music from Edwyn Collins SAT and Camille O'Sullivan. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00m552n (Listen) SAT Neil Morrissey SAT Jonathan Maitland profiles the actor Neil Morrissey, who SAT was rescued from an introverted childhood by the stage and SAT television. SAT He captured a global market with Bob the Builder and SAT invested his money in property, with rather less success. SAT As his latest play, Rain Man, opens in Bath, he has found SAT himself having to promise his creditors that he will avoid SAT bankruptcy in order to pay them back. SAT Featuring contributions from Martin Clunes, his business SAT partner Richard Fox and the producers of Men Behaving SAT Badly and Bob The Builder. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00m552q (Listen) SAT Inglourious Basterds, a title with inventive spelling, is SAT the new film by director Quentin Tarantino. Set during the SAT first year of the Nazi occupation of France, a Jewish SAT girl, Shosanna, witnesses the execution of her family by a SAT Nazi colonel. She escapes and flees to Paris where she SAT forges a new identity as the owner of a cinema. Meanwhile SAT a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as The Basterds SAT are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the SAT Third Reich by brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon SAT cross paths with Shosanna and target her cinema, with SAT explosive results. SAT Outbreak 1939 is an ITV documentary, accompanied by an SAT exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, marking 70 years of SAT the radio announcement that informed the nation that SAT Britain was at war. The documentary uses the words of SAT those who were there and footage from the time to tell the SAT story, hour by hour, of the day that Britain declared war SAT on Nazi Germany, 3rd September 1939. SAT The Outbreak 1939 special exhibition at the Imperial War SAT Museum explores the build-up and preparations for war, an SAT overview of the key events of 3rd September and an account SAT of the early months of conflict. SAT Living with the Infidels is a new online comedy short SAT series about a gang of Bradford-based Muslim extremists SAT who share a flat and spend their days incompetently SAT plotting a huge terror outrage. Created by Aasaf Ainapore SAT with the support of the Muslim Council of Britain, it has SAT already received criticism from reviewers for its SAT controversial storyline. SAT The latest book by novelist Diana Evans explores a young SAT man's search for meaning. Lucas grew up on a narrowboat, SAT believing all children who had lost their parents lived on SAT water. At 25, he still lives there with his sister and is SAT now desperate to find his 'own stride'. Before he can SAT progress, however, he needs to delve into the past and the SAT strange disappearance of his charismatic Jamaican father, SAT the founder of a famous black dance company. The narrative SAT shifts between west London and Kingston, Jamaica, and SAT between generations, as Lucas learns about the events that SAT led to his father's final disappearance. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00lxsrj (Listen) SAT Meeting Myself Coming Back, Michael Grade SAT High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson, SAT replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a SAT re-examination of their lives. SAT Michael Grade reflects on the soundtrack to his life drawn SAT through over 30 years of the BBC sound archives. SAT From his earliest job as a sports writer on the Daily SAT Mirror to his varied career as controller of BBC One, SAT chief executive of Channel 4 and now in charge of ITV, his SAT life has been a very public one. Coming from a SAT showbusiness family, with an agent for a father and uncles SAT Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont in theatre and television, SAT Grade has seen at first hand how the language of variety SAT and vaudeville can work. SAT In his six-year career at the Daily Mirror, as 'Mike SAT Grade', he had a sports column and learned how to work SAT with the press. His move into TV came in the 1970s, and SAT from the 1980s he was a major player in BBC television, SAT becoming controller of BBC One. SAT He hears the sound archive of his life and ponders what he SAT has learned and how he has developed, from his earliest SAT writings to his return to the BBC in 2004 and his SAT subsequent move to ITV. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00m0jvz (Listen) SAT Ruth, Episode 3 SAT Dramatisation by Ellen Dryden of the novel by Elizabeth SAT Gaskell. SAT The unexpected return of Bellingham presents real danger, SAT and a distant connection from Ruth's past threatens to SAT reveal the truth about Leonard. Meanwhile Mr Bradshaw's SAT two eldest children face very different dilemmas. SAT Ruth ...... Laura Rees SAT Benson ...... Anton Lesser SAT Faith ...... Anne Reid SAT Bellingham ...... Rory Kinnear SAT Bradshaw ...... David Schofield SAT Sally ...... Marcia Warren SAT Jemima ...... Amy Ewbank SAT Mrs Bradshaw ...... Abigail Thaw SAT Farquhar ...... Gus Brown SAT Mrs Pearson ...... Anna Francolini SAT Dr Davies ...... Tim Hardy SAT Leonard ...... Jordan Clarke SAT Directed by Ellen Dryden. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00m552s (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Atheist and the Bishop b00m1nlm (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to SAT apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people SAT they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion. SAT Public debates between those who believe in God and those SAT who resolutely do not appear more polarised than ever, SAT often obscuring central human questions about how we SAT should live and how modern ethics should work. SAT In this programme, atheist philosopher Dr Miranda Fricker SAT and Lord Harries of Pentregarth, the former Bishop of SAT Oxford, tackle suffering and death. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00m107y (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring teams from Wales and Northern Ireland. SAT SAT 23:30 The Bard of Salford b00b4wtl (Listen) SAT Paul Morley traces the life and works of Manchester punk SAT poet John Cooper Clarke. SAT Paul looks back at the punk movement in the mid 1970s, its SAT DIY ethic and popular appeal and how Cooper Clarke, as the SAT poet of the people, fit into the scene. SAT Through exclusive new interviews with Cooper Clarke, Paul SAT delves into the most significant moments of his life and SAT career, from his first job as a lab technician at Salford SAT University to touring with some of the world's most famous SAT punk bands, his domestic partnership and shared heroin SAT addiction with Nico, the use of one of his songs in The SAT Sopranos, his signing to the same label as Bob Dylan and SAT his appearance in a Sugar Puffs advert. SAT Cooper Clarke has continued to tour and write new work for SAT 30 years and despite being exasperated by the 1980s' SAT flamboyant reaction to punk's DIY ethic, his influence SAT today should not be underestimated. Jarvis Cocker, Noel SAT Gallagher, Alex Turner of the Arctic Monkeys, Lily Allen SAT and Kate Nash have all cited Clarke as an influence, as SAT his distinctive style continues to pervade popular music. SAT Contributors include Mark E Smith, Pete Shelly, Kate Nash, SAT Phill Jupitus and Clarke himself. SAT An All Out production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 23 AUGUST 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00m5qz2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0081193 (Listen) SUN Cheltenham Festival Readings, Tommy Sparkle's Bright Ideas SUN Five stories from the 2007 Cheltenham Literature Festival. SUN Mother starts praying when father comes up with another SUN bright idea. Written and read by Biyi Bandele. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5qz4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5qz6 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5qz8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00m5qzb (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00m5qzd (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Andover. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00m552n (Listen) SUN Neil Morrissey SUN Jonathan Maitland profiles the actor Neil Morrissey, who SUN was rescued from an introverted childhood by the stage and SUN television. SUN He captured a global market with Bob the Builder and SUN invested his money in property, with rather less success. SUN As his latest play, Rain Man, opens in Bath, he has found SUN himself having to promise his creditors that he will avoid SUN bankruptcy in order to pay them back. SUN Featuring contributions from Martin Clunes, his business SUN partner Richard Fox and the producers of Men Behaving SUN Badly and Bob The Builder. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00m5qzg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00m5qzj (Listen) SUN Laugh and the World Laughs With You SUN The ability to laugh can help us through the best and SUN worst of times. Irma Kurtz reflects on laughter and its SUN importance to spiritual wellbeing. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00m5rbt (Listen) SUN Heath Fritillary SUN The Heath Fritillary butterfly was on the verge of SUN extinction in Exmoor in 2001. Now, thanks to some targeted SUN conservation work between the National Trust and Butterfly SUN Conservation, this checkerboard-marked rare butterfly is SUN increasing in numbers. Lionel Kelleway heads to a valley SUN near Dunkery Beacon in the north of Exmoor National Park SUN in search of one of Britain's rarest butterflies. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00m5rrd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00m5rrg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00m5rrj (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton discusses the religious and ethical news SUN of the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00m5rrl (Listen) SUN Blood Pressure Association SUN Timothy West appeals on behalf of the Blood Pressure SUN Association. SUN Donations to the Blood Pressure Association should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of SUN your envelope BPA. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide BPA with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation. The online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity No:1058944. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00m5rrn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00m5rrq (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00m5rrs (Listen) SUN Faith, Hope and Love SUN Faith, Hope and Love: Royal School of Church Music choir SUN members celebrate St Paul's words in choral works from SUN across the world and throughout the ages in Bath Abbey. SUN Canon Robert Jones, RSCM course chaplain, leads the SUN service. The preacher is Prebendary Edward Mason, Rector SUN of Bath Abbey. Director of Music: Geoff Weaver. Organist: SUN Stephen Grahl. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00m45d2 (Listen) SUN Faking Fossils SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN Sir David recalls a key moment in his life, when he broke SUN open a piece of Leicestershire limestone and there in his SUN hand was an ammonite. Over the intervening years, fossils SUN have fascinated him and he has become a great collector, SUN even of the odd fake. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00m5rrv (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00m5rrx (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00m5rrz (Listen) SUN Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group SUN of people intimately involved in a moment of modern SUN history. SUN Sue reunites some of those involved in the great cricket SUN split caused by the launch of World Series Cricket by SUN Australian business tycoon Kerry Packer in 1977. She is SUN joined by former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, SUN Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson, Tony Greig, who was SUN England captain at the time, Mike Denness, team manager SUN for Packer's World Series, and the commentator and writer SUN Christopher Martin-Jenkins, who reported the story as it SUN broke SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00m10h9 (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 4 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The SUN panellists are Paul Merton, Shappi Khorsandi, Gyles SUN Brandreth and Kit Hesketh-Harvey. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00m5rs1 (Listen) SUN Chefs' Choices Number 3: Raspberries SUN Chef and food writer Jeremy Lee indulges his passion for SUN raspberries by returning to his native Scotland to meet SUN raspberry growers, pickers, processors and breeders. He SUN explains how a mysterious combination of soil, rainfall, SUN temperature and sunshine has produced the 'terroir' that SUN makes Scotland the perfect place for that particular crop. SUN In the 1950s, the Raspberry Express train brought SUN Perthshire 'rasps' every day from Fife to Covent Garden in SUN London, but since those days the growers have faced SUN competition from eastern Europe and from Spanish varieties SUN as well as the ever-present threat of root disease. SUN How have the growers adapted to changing markets? Jeremy SUN finds optimism in the air, as demand for home-grown SUN raspberries continues to grow. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00m5rs3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00m5rs5 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 The Political Club b00ljqf5 (Listen) SUN Michael Crick reveals how politicians are increasingly SUN becoming a professionalised and separate class, who use SUN their status to channel taxpayers' money into the coffers SUN of their parties. SUN The recent scandal over MPs' expenses has revealed how SUN politicians are spending taxpayers' money on themselves, SUN but what has not been revealed - until now - is how much SUN public money is being diverted to political parties, or SUN how that development is intimately related to the rise of SUN a new club of professional politician. Michael reveals the SUN extent - and cost - of this development, and what it means SUN for our democracy. SUN He speaks to former cabinet ministers and members of both SUN local councils and the European Parliament to find out why SUN this has happened, what it means, and whether it is SUN inevitable. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00m44rv (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Pippa Greenwood, Bob Flowerdew and Bunny Guinness answer SUN questions posed by members of Much Marcle, near Ledbury in SUN Herefordshire. SUN Bunny draws inspiration from a medieval knot garden, SUN adapting forgotten gardening techniques to the modern SUN kitchen garden, and Bob wanders the ancient woodland of SUN Hallwood, investigating the wealth of native British SUN trees. Also, Peter gives his definitive guide to SUN micro-climates, with examples from the Hereford area. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 The Tribes of Science b00m8plt (Listen) SUN The Botanists SUN Peter Curran visits members of the many and varied SUN disciplines of science, from astronomy to zoology, to SUN explore their habitat, customs, rituals and beliefs. SUN Peter meets the botanists who won the lottery. Seed SUN conservation used to be rather marginal to the main SUN scientific activity at The Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew. SUN That is, until, the scientists who preserve seeds for SUN future generations asked for and received 30 million SUN pounds. SUN At the Millenium Seed Bank in Sussex, the gentle world of SUN botany and the rude world of commerce come together in a SUN rampant hybrid. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00m5sr5 (Listen) SUN Two on a Tower, Episode 1 SUN Dramatisation by Jon Sen of Thomas Hardy's tragic tale of SUN star-crossed lovers in the West Country. SUN When Lady Viviette Constantine discovers the handsome SUN young astronomer Swithin St Cleeve on the lonely tower on SUN her estate, a story of passion and sacrifice begins. SUN Lady Constantine ...... Maggie O'Neill SUN Swithin St Cleeve ...... Blake Ritson SUN Parson Torkingham ...... Conrad Nelson SUN Tabitha Lark ...... Amy Humphreys SUN Fellows ...... Stephen Tomlin SUN Granny Martin ...... Pauline Jefferson SUN Louis ...... Richard Heap SUN Joshua ...... Carter Dowland SUN Directed by Stefan Escreet. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00m5t0p (Listen) SUN Muriel Gray talks to novelist Iain Banks, whose latest SUN book, Transition, brings together science fiction and the SUN contemporary concerns of terrorism and global financial SUN collapse. Plus biographer Paula Byrne discussing the SUN eccentric family who inspired Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead SUN Revisited. SUN SUN 16:30 Poems for Infant Minds b0076p8n (Listen) SUN Nigel Forde looks at the development of children's poetry, SUN from the finger-wagging moral tales of the 18th and 19th SUN centuries, which warned girls and boys against the dangers SUN of being naughty, to the zany nonsense of the last SUN century. Has the moral message wrapped in verse really SUN changed all that much? Featuring writing by the Taylor SUN sisters, Lear, Stevenson, De La Mere and Dr Seuss. SUN SUN 17:00 An Interior Life b00m6y96 (Listen) SUN The story of Bernard, an 86-year-old gay man who lives in SUN south London. SUN Bernard has been alone for five years following the death SUN of his long-term partner, Ron. As he follows his regular SUN routine making breakfast, watching television and feeding SUN the birds, Bernard reflects on how life has changed since SUN his loss. He has become increasingly confined to his home SUN and expresses the profound sense of loneliness and SUN isolation with which he has been afflicted over the last SUN five years. SUN Bernard charts his life story, recounting his childhood in SUN the 1920s and 30s and, as manhood approached, the inner SUN struggle to accept his homosexuality at a time when sex SUN between men was illegal. He describes the great loves of SUN his life: his first partner George, Ron and classical SUN music. SUN But just as Bernard's situation becomes desperate, his SUN life takes yet another twist and the chance of an end to SUN his isolation emerges. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00m552n (Listen) SUN Neil Morrissey SUN Jonathan Maitland profiles the actor Neil Morrissey, who SUN was rescued from an introverted childhood by the stage and SUN television. SUN He captured a global market with Bob the Builder and SUN invested his money in property, with rather less success. SUN As his latest play, Rain Man, opens in Bath, he has found SUN himself having to promise his creditors that he will avoid SUN bankruptcy in order to pay them back. SUN Featuring contributions from Martin Clunes, his business SUN partner Richard Fox and the producers of Men Behaving SUN Badly and Bob The Builder. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00m5ts4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00m5ts6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m5w45 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00m5w47 (Listen) SUN Ian McMillan introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN Programmes featured this week were: SUN Gold - World Service SUN Fry's English Delight - Radio 4 SUN Luting The Past - Radio 4 SUN How To Write An Instruction Manual - Radio 4 SUN Henry Cyril Paget: Lord of the Dance - Radio 4 SUN My Father's Places - Radio 4 SUN Tea and Biscuits - Radio 4 SUN Dave Podmore's Ashes - Radio 4 SUN The Strand - World Service SUN Travels Through France and Italy - Radio 4 SUN Ayres on the Air - Radio 4 SUN A Problem with Noise - Radio 4 SUN Written in Stone - Radio 4 SUN In Tune - Radio 3 SUN Flesh and Blood - Radio 4 SUN Bells on Sunday - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00m5w49 (Listen) SUN Ian shows his PR skills. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00m5w4c (Listen) SUN Kevin Connolly meets a woman who was rejected by Dragon's SUN Den but made it big with her invention in America. SUN He also hears drag racers' thoughts on the future of the SUN American car industry, and discovers the perennial appeal SUN of Julia Child, the woman who turned America on to the SUN joys of French cooking. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008dk9l (Listen) SUN An Audience with Max Wall, Cracks in the Wall SUN Tony Lidington plays the entertainer Max Wall in this SUN series of shows recorded before an invited audience at the SUN Concert Artistes' Association in Covent Garden. SUN Max describes his tempestuous relationship with his mother SUN Stella. When war breaks out in 1939, Max becomes a SUN wireless operator in the RAF, but continues to entertain. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00m44rq (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the team test the reliability of swine flu SUN data and speak to one of the creators of the 'financial SUN weapons of mass destruction' which, two years ago, led to SUN the credit crisis. SUN An Open University co-production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00m44rx (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 Face the Facts b00m5w4f (Listen) SUN Losing out to Lehman's SUN John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. SUN When the Wall Street bank Lehman Brothers collapsed in SUN September 2008, thousands of UK investors were shocked to SUN learn that the financial products they had bought from SUN other companies were tied up with the humbled financial SUN giant. SUN As John Waite discovers, many of those who now stand to SUN lose their life savings had never been told their SUN investments were backed by Lehman Brothers. Now they want SUN their money back, claiming they had no idea that their SUN capital could be at risk. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00m5rrl (Listen) SUN Blood Pressure Association SUN Timothy West appeals on behalf of the Blood Pressure SUN Association. SUN Donations to the Blood Pressure Association should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of SUN your envelope BPA. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide BPA with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on SUN your donation. The online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity No:1058944. SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00m40wj (Listen) SUN Battery Power SUN The world may soon need huge supplies of the lightest SUN metal, lithium, if plug-in cars really are a future SUN replacement for the internal combustion engine. Half the SUN world's supplies of lithium are high up in the Andes in SUN the landlocked country of Bolivia. Peter Day asks if SUN Bolivia really could become what experts are calling 'the SUN Saudi Arabia of lithium'. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00m5w4h (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00m5w4k (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN The Public Meeting. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00m44rz (Listen) SUN Pedro Almodovar explains why he remade Women On The Verge SUN Of A Nervous Breakdown as part of his new film, Broken SUN Embraces. The outlandish comedy was Pedro's breakthrough SUN hit in the 1980s and the director describes the profound SUN effects of turning the clock back 20 years. SUN 97-year-old cinematographer Wolfgang Suschitzky looks back SUN at a career that took him from mining documentaries to Get SUN Carter. SUN Mark Gatiss buffs up another neglected gem of British SUN cinema. SUN Critic Jane Graham struts her stuff on the subject of SUN dance in the movies. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00m5qzj (Listen) SUN Laugh and the World Laughs With You SUN The ability to laugh can help us through the best and SUN worst of times. Irma Kurtz reflects on laughter and its SUN importance to spiritual wellbeing. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 AUGUST 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00m5w7j (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00m1nlh (Listen) MON Tom Rees has conducted research into religion and personal MON insecurity in 50 countries. Using figures on how much MON people pray and how unequal income is in each of them, he MON claims to have found evidence to show that the most MON religious societies are the most unequal, and concludes MON the inequality leads to religion. Is it fear and hardship MON that makes people of one country more religious than MON another, or is there a mysterious third factor that can MON explain why some nations pray so much more than others? MON Laurie Taylor talks to Tom Rees about his findings, and to MON sociologist of religion David Voas. MON What are the key factors the underlie acceptance to Oxford MON University? New research explores the influence of MON cultural factors on the decisions that admissions tutors MON make at the elite university. After allowing for exam MON results and for cultural knowledge, Alice Sullivan tells MON Laurie that men were twice as likely to get a Science MON place than women and that some ethnic minorities faced an MON even greater disadvantage. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00m5qzd (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Mary's Church, Andover. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w8r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbt (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5wb9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00m5x5d (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5xgw (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00m5xgy (Listen) MON The Birds and the Bees MON Birds of prey are thriving, while 20 per cent of the UK's MON bees died in the winter of 2008. The bee parasite Verroa MON is one of the reasons for the decline, and Charlotte Smith MON reports on ways to tackle it. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00m66k3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00m5xnx (Listen) MON With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Peston and the Money Men b00m67vv (Listen) MON Jim Chanos MON As the first anniversary of the 2008 global financial MON meltdown approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert MON Peston talks to four key individuals who were in the eye MON of the storm. Why did they fail to see the warning signs MON of economic catastrophe and what are the long term MON consequences? MON Hedge fund managers and 'short-sellers': evil market MON manipulators who contributed to the financial mess, or MON canny soothsayers who predicted what politicians and MON bankers wouldn't or couldn't see? MON Jim Chanos is a hedge fund pioneer. He made his fortune MON spotting and exposing irregularities in companies like MON Enron and gambling that their share price would collapse. MON He offers an insight in the psychology of short selling MON and why it allowed people like him to see what others did MON not. MON MON 09:30 The Call b00m67vx (Listen) MON The Win MON Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made MON life-changing phone calls. MON Some people cry, some feel sick, some throw a 24-hour MON party, and some are millionaires already. Winning the MON lottery can be a traumatic event, but what is it like for MON the operators on the other end of the line? MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tzf (Listen) MON When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 1 MON Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said MON Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. MON Confident that his absent father will one day lead a MON revolution, young Said is content to join in the struggle MON - until he finds that the rules extend to boycotting MON certain foods. The more his mother tells him that it is MON shameful to eat grapes because capitalists are not giving MON farm workers their rights, the more succulent the MON forbidden fruit seems. MON Abridged by Francois Smit. MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m62j0 (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON Jane talks to author Amanda Craig and the Founder of MON Netmums Siobhan Freegard about why boredom in children may MON not be such a bad thing, and whether unsupervised play is MON actually good for them. MON The England Women's Football team are due to play Italy in MON their first match of the UEFA European Women's MON Championship 2009, being held in Finland. Jane is joined MON by England's captain Faye White and goalkeeper Rachel MON Brown to discuss the team's chances and how the women's MON game has developed in recent years. MON In India, there have long been warnings that the country MON faces a demographic crisis because of the practice of MON aborting female foetuses. It was made illegal in 1994, but MON studies since then have consistently shown that far fewer MON girls are born in the country than boys. Now, research MON endorsed by the local government in Delhi has announced MON that in 2008, more girls were born in the city than boys. MON The government has attributed the change to a new scheme MON whereby parents are given a cash bonus for every female MON child. Jane discusses the issues and finds out whether MON this new scheme is proving successful. MON At the age of 44, and the mother of two young children, MON Sarah Gabriel was diagnosed with MON breast cancer. She has inherited a genetic mutation from MON her mother, who herself died of cancer. Sarah joins Jane MON in the studio to talk about her experience of the disease. MON From the Women of the Qu'ran series: listener feedback on MON the issue of whether men should wear tight or loose MON swimming shorts. MON MON 11:00 Love At First Site b00m67vz (Listen) MON Sarfraz Manzoor explores the world of matrimonial websites MON aimed at the Asian diaspora around the world and the MON alternative they present to the traditional arranged MON marriage. MON Arranged marriages may have traditionally been a part of MON Asian culture, but these days who is doing the arranging? MON Sarfraz examines the new market for Asian marriage MON websites, which allow the users to choose their potential MON partners based on such factors as their profession and MON height. MON MON 11:30 The Maltby Collection b00m67w1 (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 1 MON Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. MON Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Walter Brindle ...... Geofrey Palmer MON Prunela Edgecumbe ...... Rachel Atkins MON Susie Maltby ...... Margaret Cabourn-Smith MON Julian Crumb-Loosely ...... Ben Willbond MON Wilf Arbuthnot ...... Geoff McGivern MON Eva Tattle ...... Juklia Deakin MON Des Wainwright ...... Michael Smiley MON Stelios Constantinopoulis ...... Chris Pavlo MON Gloria Brindle ...... Helen Atkinson Wood. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00m64c8 (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00m64dp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00m64f2 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00m67w3 (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring teams from the north of England and the south of MON England. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00m5w49 (Listen) MON Ian shows his PR skills. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m67w5 (Listen) MON Dog Dazed Afternoon MON By Ben Crompton. MON Liam and Mickey's dog-walking scheme looks set to fail MON when, amid stolen cars and local gangsters, they lose MON their first client. With their friendship at breaking MON point, their only hope is Mickey's skill in kung fu. MON Liam ...... Carl Rice MON Mickey ...... Graeme Hawley MON Alan ...... James Quinn MON Sheila ...... Siobhan Finneran MON Hayley ...... Sara Sadeghi MON Wonky ...... Ryan Pope MON Alison ...... Sally Carman MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00lxsrj (Listen) MON Meeting Myself Coming Back, Michael Grade MON High-profile figures, in conversation with John Wilson, MON replay their own sound archive and use it as a basis for a MON re-examination of their lives. MON Michael Grade reflects on the soundtrack to his life drawn MON through over 30 years of the BBC sound archives. MON From his earliest job as a sports writer on the Daily MON Mirror to his varied career as controller of BBC One, MON chief executive of Channel 4 and now in charge of ITV, his MON life has been a very public one. Coming from a MON showbusiness family, with an agent for a father and uncles MON Lew Grade and Bernard Delfont in theatre and television, MON Grade has seen at first hand how the language of variety MON and vaudeville can work. MON In his six-year career at the Daily Mirror, as 'Mike MON Grade', he had a sports column and learned how to work MON with the press. His move into TV came in the 1970s, and MON from the 1980s he was a major player in BBC television, MON becoming controller of BBC One. MON He hears the sound archive of his life and ponders what he MON has learned and how he has developed, from his earliest MON writings to his return to the BBC in 2004 and his MON subsequent move to ITV. MON MON 15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m64n9 (Listen) MON Arrivals on the Long White Cloud MON Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival MON of the British on the indigenous Maori people after MON Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the MON European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches MON this new world had to offer. MON Dan considers the arrival of both the Maori and Captain MON Cook on the land first known as Aotearoa or The Long White MON Cloud. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00m5rs1 (Listen) MON Chefs' Choices Number 3: Raspberries MON Chef and food writer Jeremy Lee indulges his passion for MON raspberries by returning to his native Scotland to meet MON raspberry growers, pickers, processors and breeders. He MON explains how a mysterious combination of soil, rainfall, MON temperature and sunshine has produced the 'terroir' that MON makes Scotland the perfect place for that particular crop. MON In the 1950s, the Raspberry Express train brought MON Perthshire 'rasps' every day from Fife to Covent Garden in MON London, but since those days the growers have faced MON competition from eastern Europe and from Spanish varieties MON as well as the ever-present threat of root disease. MON How have the growers adapted to changing markets? Jeremy MON finds optimism in the air, as demand for home-grown MON raspberries continues to grow. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00m67w7 (Listen) MON Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world, MON teasing out the hidden and often contradictory truths MON behind the experiences, values and traditions of our lives. MON MON 17:00 PM b00m64xr (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 b00m64zh (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00m67w9 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 5 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game, recorded at MON the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The panellists include Paul MON Merton and Sue Perkins. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00m64gk (Listen) MON Lynda and Elizabeth take gardening underground. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00m662d (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with director MON Judd Apatow about his new film Funny People. Plus critic MON and writer John Carey on William Golding. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m662g (Listen) MON The Quest, Episode 1 MON By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir MON Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. MON King Arthur has been mortally wounded, and talks to Merlin MON as death approaches. MON Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss MON Percival ...... Mark Meadows MON Morgan Le Fay ...... Jasmine Hyde MON Lancelot ...... Stephen Noonan MON Leodegrance ...... Paul Mundell MON Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain MON Lot ...... David Collins MON Directed by Tim Dee. MON MON 20:00 It's My Story b00m68c0 (Listen) MON Accepting Jack - Six Years On... MON In 2003, Kim Normanton spoke to a set of parents coming to MON terms with having a child with special needs. She revisits MON them to see how their stories have developed. MON In the original programme Kevin, father to Jack who has MON Down's Syndrome, felt unable to celebrate his son's birth. MON Now Kevin is a secondary school teacher and talks MON regularly to his students about his son. Jack, now eight, MON has two siblings and several good friends in his MON mainstream school. MON In the original programme Jo, mother to Briony who was MON born with learning difficulties and is partially deaf, MON couldn't bring herself to even hold her daughter, fearing MON that she wouldn't be able to bear the pain of losing her. MON Brionny is now a healthy 15-year-old and a day pupil at a MON school for deaf children. She has a close relationship MON with her mother, who works for Mencap and champions the MON cause of families with children with special needs. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00m36bj (Listen) MON Afghanistan MON Eight years into the war in Afghanistan, many fear it is MON unwinnable. In response, the US-led international force MON has decided to adopt a counter-insurgency strategy, MON abandoning 40 years of military doctrine. It emphasises MON security and development for the civilian population MON rather than simply battling the Taliban. MON Lyse Doucet investigates if the US army can embrace a MON radical new strategy and if it will be successful. MON MON 21:00 Who Knows What the Dogs Nose Knows? b00h6xlk (Listen) MON Sue Broom investigates the world of the sniffer dog. She MON visits Bas Wood and his golden labrador Hattie, one of 16 MON Fire Investigation Dog Units operating in the UK. Hattie MON can find a drop of petrol in a burnt-out house, making the MON investigation of possible cases of arson rapid and MON relatively indisputable. She finds out if any dog can be MON trained as a detection dog, or whether it takes a special MON breed or individual to make the grade. MON MON 21:30 Peston and the Money Men b00m67vv (Listen) MON Jim Chanos MON As the first anniversary of the 2008 global financial MON meltdown approaches, the BBC's business editor Robert MON Peston talks to four key individuals who were in the eye MON of the storm. Why did they fail to see the warning signs MON of economic catastrophe and what are the long term MON consequences? MON Hedge fund managers and 'short-sellers': evil market MON manipulators who contributed to the financial mess, or MON canny soothsayers who predicted what politicians and MON bankers wouldn't or couldn't see? MON Jim Chanos is a hedge fund pioneer. He made his fortune MON spotting and exposing irregularities in companies like MON Enron and gambling that their share price would collapse. MON He offers an insight in the psychology of short selling MON and why it allowed people like him to see what others did MON not. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00m66dv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00m66fk (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g30 (Listen) MON A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 1 MON Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte MON to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal. MON The difficulties of hiring the perfect coach and four, MON especially when you are distracted by a beautiful MON unaccompanied woman. MON Abriged by Robin Brooks. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00m17ql (Listen) MON The Plain English Campaign is 30 years old this summer, MON but are they champions of common sense and clarity, or a MON self-appointed censor? Chris Ledgard talks to their MON founder and gets some lessons in language. MON MON 23:30 Lives in a Landscape b00fgpt5 (Listen) MON Series 4, Stars, Stripes and Chalfont St Giles MON Documentary series telling original stories about real MON lives in Britain today. MON Alan Dein meets members of the Chiltern American Women's MON Club, a 200-member club which caters for expat women whose MON husbands have been seconded to work in the UK. The club MON ensures that there is something to do almost every day of MON the week, from newcomers' coffees with advice on how to MON drive around roundabouts and use UK washing machines, to MON organised hikes in the local countryside and volunteering MON for the annual charity bazaar. Alan follows the lives of MON the club's president, Louise Fortier, and some of the MON newcomers who have yet to fully settle into their MON temporary life in the UK. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 AUGUST 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00m5w65 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00m0tzf (Listen) TUE When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 1 TUE Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said TUE Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. TUE Confident that his absent father will one day lead a TUE revolution, young Said is content to join in the struggle TUE - until he finds that the rules extend to boycotting TUE certain foods. The more his mother tells him that it is TUE shameful to eat grapes because capitalists are not giving TUE farm workers their rights, the more succulent the TUE forbidden fruit seems. TUE Abridged by Francois Smit. TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w7l (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbc (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5w8t (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00m5x47 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5x5g (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00m5xh1 (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00m5xj2 (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Fry's English Delight b00m68s5 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Hallo! TUE Stephen Fry explores the highways and byways of the TUE English language. TUE Hallo! Stephen says 'goodbye' with a programme about TUE 'hallo', and how it came to be one of the world's TUE favourite words. TUE TUE 09:30 Lost, Stolen or Shredded b00m68s7 (Listen) TUE Has Anybody Seen a Copy of Et Tu Healy? TUE Series of programmes in which antiquarian book dealer Rick TUE Gekoski tells the stories that lie behind five very TUE different missing works of art. TUE Written by James Joyce in 1891 when he was just nine years TUE old as a protest at the death of the Irish nationalist TUE leader Charles Parnell, the poem Et Tu Healy was printed TUE by his proud father and distributed to friends and family; TUE even the Pope was sent a copy. TUE But it was never published, and, apart from three lines, TUE no copy of it has ever been found. Rick Gekoski asks where TUE might one be, and, if one were to be found, how much it TUE might be worth. TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tpq (Listen) TUE When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 2 TUE Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said TUE Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. TUE Said, now aged ten, and his mother move from Brooklyn to TUE Pittsburgh and into a squalid apartment. While she attends TUE Socialist Workers Party meetings, a lonely Said faces the TUE terrors of strange noises and eerie shadows which only the TUE TV can keep at bay. So when his mother hides the cord to TUE the TV set, he is bereft. TUE Abridged by Francois Smit. TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m8qnm (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: The Quest. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00m68s9 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Restoring Heathlands TUE Brett Westwood investigates the potential for restoring TUE large areas of heathland that could be unlocked by the TUE thinning of Forestry Commission woodlands. TUE Made famous by Thomas Hardy and purple with heather in TUE late summer, lowland heaths are some of the UK's rarest TUE habitats and are home to some of our most specialised TUE wildlife including sand lizards, insectivorous plants and TUE the strange nightjar. They have steadily declined over the TUE last century, but a new open habitats consultation could TUE spell the restoration of large tracts of heathland from TUE Forestry Commission woodland. TUE Brett talks to foresters and conservationists about the TUE possibilities that opening up our woods present for people TUE and for wildlife. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00m69jw (Listen) TUE Clive Stafford Smith TUE Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. TUE Lawyer and human rights activist Clive Stafford Smith TUE chooses a selection of the writing which has inspired, TUE amused or uplifted him. TUE In 1999 Clive founded the pressure group Reprieve, which TUE fights for the human rights of prisoners. TUE Clive's readers for the programme, which was recorded in TUE front of an audience in Dorset, are Pippa Haywood and TUE Peter Marinker. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00m62ys (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00m64cb (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00m64dr (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Train Tracks b00m69ws (Listen) TUE Pianist and broadcaster Simon Townley samples the many TUE different ways in which trains and railways have inspired TUE composers and songwriters and what it is about this TUE particular form of travel that makes it so inspiring. TUE They may be a shadow of their former infrastructural TUE selves, but railways still hold a curiously affectionate TUE place in our national life. Nowhere is this more true than TUE in the world of music, where chuffing, whistling, steaming TUE and clackety-clacking have been the inspiration for TUE hundreds of songs. Simon has never described himself as a TUE railway enthusiast, but he has always had an ear for the TUE things that inspire composers and songwriters. TUE He explores the rhythms, themes and metaphorical uses of TUE the train in music, from Honneger's Pacific 231 to TUE American blues tracks such as Love in Vain and Freight TUE Train Blues. TUE Country and western star Laura Cantrell, music professor TUE Alan Moore and composer Richard Rodney Bennett contribute TUE their thoughts on this mass transit system which has TUE provided such a rich seam of inspiration over the last 200 TUE years. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00m64gk (Listen) TUE Lynda and Elizabeth take gardening underground. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m69wv (Listen) TUE The Incomplete Works of Dave McCabe TUE Romantic comedy, with music, by Nick Underwood. TUE Singer-songwriter Dave is given the opportunity to meet TUE his muse and woo her with a song. But he has a problem: he TUE cannot get past the opening lines. TUE Dave ...... Simon Donaldson TUE Mike ...... Sandy Grierson TUE Malena ...... Claire Knight TUE Lola ...... Lorraine M McIntosh TUE Queenie ...... Ann Scott-Jones TUE Frank ...... Finlay Welsh TUE Directed by Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00m69wx (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the world we inhabit and our interaction with it, TUE from astronomy to geology, biology to environmental TUE science. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m69wz (Listen) TUE Comic Fringes, May Contain Nuts TUE Series of short stories written and performed by leading TUE new comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as TUE part of the Festival Fringe. TUE A woman glimpses her own mortality when she calculates TUE that only 27 years separate her from her cantankerous TUE father. TUE By Janey Godley. TUE TUE 15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m84p6 (Listen) TUE Better Relations with the Natives TUE Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival TUE of the British on the indigenous Maori people after TUE Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the TUE European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches TUE this new world had to offer. TUE Dan is ferried out to sea, to a cove where Cook TUE encountered friendly and inquisitive Maori, and both sides TUE learned from each other. TUE TUE 16:00 A Small Business b00m6b04 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Liz Barclay travels the UK meeting the passionate owners TUE of the small businesses which keep our economy running. TUE Starting up in a recession. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00m6c3y (Listen) TUE Series 19, Freya Stark TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Travel writer Dervla Murphy discusses the life of another TUE fearless woman traveller, Freya Stark. Stark roamed across TUE Arabia and Persia, frequently risking her life, and during TUE the Second World War set up a pro-British intelligence TUE network in Cairo. She was brave but also infuriating, and TUE was liable to make impossible demands on her friends, such TUE as John Murray, who joins the discussion. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00m64t9 (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 b00m64xt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00m6bhh (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 1 TUE Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert TUE Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland. TUE Featuring an orthopaedic supplies company with its very TUE own trans-galactic portal, the secret of how Saturday TUE night TV shows are invented and a mysterious discovery at TUE the Institute of Creatures. Plus some old ladies with TUE something very important to say. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00m64g3 (Listen) TUE The honeymooners sail into Ambridge. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00m657v (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson. Including a review of Pedro Almodovar's TUE new film Broken Embraces with Penelope Cruz. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m9gft (Listen) TUE The Quest, Episode 2 TUE By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir TUE Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. TUE King Arthur has fallen for the wrong girl; there will be TUE trouble ahead. TUE Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss TUE Morgan Le Fay/Agravain ...... Jasmine Hyde TUE Lancelot ...... Stephen Noonan TUE Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain TUE Galahad ...... Paul Mundell TUE Directed by Tim Dee. TUE TUE 20:00 Says Who? The Rise of the Community Leader b00m6c40 (Listen) TUE Playwright and actor Kwame Kwei-Armah investigates the TUE changing role of the community leader. The media turns to TUE them to respond to the latest crisis and they are happy to TUE oblige, but on whose authority do community leaders speak? TUE Kwame visits Birmingham to meet leaders from the Muslim TUE and Afro-Caribbean communities. He discovers how these TUE individuals are selected to voice the concerns of others, TUE finds out how their agendas have responded to our TUE increasingly diverse society and questions whether the TUE idea of 'community' is still realistic in a world of TUE multiplying lifestyles and opinions. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00m6c42 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00m6c44 (Listen) TUE IVF TUE Dr Mark Porter visits a fertility clinic to learn about TUE the latest developments in the field of TUE in-vitro-fertilisation (IVF), and clarifies what the NHS TUE now offers, and to whom. TUE TUE 21:30 Forbidden Families b00d0sj8 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Bettany Hughes tells the stories of remarkable women TUE denied their families by the march of history. TUE Brilliana Harley was an aristocrat whose husband's TUE Parliamentarian sympathies led to her being besieged in TUE her own castle home on the Shropshire borders during the TUE English Civil War. She died emaciated and ill, but wrote TUE 375 letters, smuggled out in vegetable boxes, describing TUE her hopes, her frustrations and her faith in her absent TUE husband and son. Throughout her ordeal, her faith in the TUE power of love and the delight of having a family never TUE wavered. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00m6675 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00m66dx (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g32 (Listen) TUE A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 2 TUE Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte TUE to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal. TUE Yorick encounters Smelfungus and is pressed to hire a TUE French manservant while meeting a man mourning for the TUE death of his donkey. TUE Abriged by Robin Brooks. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b00bzdgj (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 5 TUE Victoria Coren chairs the programme which challenges TUE established ideas. Guests are Sue Perkins, Rev Richard TUE Coles and Simon Evans. TUE TUE 23:30 The Hollow Men b008crlg (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 4 TUE Comic sketch show written and performed by David Armand, TUE Rupert Russell, Sam Spedding and Nick Tanner, with Katy TUE Brand. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 AUGUST 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00m5w67 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00m0tpq (Listen) WED When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 2 WED Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said WED Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. WED Said, now aged ten, and his mother move from Brooklyn to WED Pittsburgh and into a squalid apartment. While she attends WED Socialist Workers Party meetings, a lonely Said faces the WED terrors of strange noises and eerie shadows which only the WED TV can keep at bay. So when his mother hides the cord to WED the TV set, he is bereft. WED Abridged by Francois Smit. WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w7n (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbf (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5w8w (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00m5x49 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5x5j (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00m5xh3 (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b00m5xj4 (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Between Ourselves b00m6dfq (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 4 WED Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together WED two people who have had profound and similar experiences, WED to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term WED effects on each of their lives. WED Olivia talks to two barristers, prosecutor Nicholas WED Hilliard and defence lawayer Dexter Dias, about whether WED justice can be bought by getting a good barrister, if WED their reputation for arrogance is deserved and the cases WED that still haunt them. WED WED 09:30 Very Amazing: Behind the Scenes at the V and A WED b00m6f4k (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Rosie Goldsmith goes behind the scenes at London's WED Victoria and Albert Museum as it attempts to transform WED itself from 'the nation's attic' to a 'very amazing' WED modern museum. WED Rosie finds out how an exhibition is put together, from WED concept to reality. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tps (Listen) WED When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 3 WED Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said WED Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. WED Said has a treasured photo of his father giving a speech, WED which hangs above his bed. It is blurred and eventually WED Said conflates his father's image with that of another WED hero his mother tells him about: Che Guevara. One night WED his mother receives a rare phone call from her estranged WED husband and is so distraught that she takes the phone off WED its hook every night. Just as Said feels that his father WED has abandoned them, he receives a letter from him. Oddly, WED his dad congratulates him for selling a record number of WED Militants at a demonstration but Said, at ten, is too WED young to have been given such a task, although now he WED badly wants to make money for the revolution. WED Abridged by Francois Smit. WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m8qnp (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Quest. WED WED 11:00 Rebooting RBS b00mbvy1 (Listen) WED After the catastrophic collapse of the Royal Bank of WED Scotland, Douglas Fraser goes inside the bank that came to WED symbolise the worst of the financial crisis to discover WED if, and how, the new management are turning the brand, and WED the bank, around. WED WED 11:30 Ayres on the Air b00m6f4m (Listen) WED Series 3, In the Doghouse WED Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, WED anecdotes and sketches. WED Poems include Toaster, about Pam's son's dog and its WED phobia, I'm the Dog Who Didn't Win a Prize, written by Pam WED after she was asked to be a judge at a competition, and WED Tippy Tappy Feet, about the things you miss when your best WED friend goes to the great kennel in the sky. WED Pam is joined on stage by actors Geoffrey Whitehead and WED Felicity Montagu for sketches about what dogs talk to each WED other about and how a new puppy can cause more excitement WED in some families than a new baby. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00m62yv (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00m64cd (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00m64dt (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00m6f4p (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00m64g3 (Listen) WED The honeymooners sail into Ambridge. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m6gg7 (Listen) WED My Lovely Man WED Comedy by Paul Watson about the world of the 'blue blood' WED debutantes, set in 1958. WED Jemima Courtney's parents advise her in her bid to secure WED a match with Claude, son of the ageing Viscount Tudely. WED Unfortunately, however, there are many others in the WED cattle market who are competing for a noble but crumbling WED pile garlanded with the title Viscountess, the Lady Tudely. WED Jemima ...... Honeysuckle Weeks WED Claude ...... Bertie Carvel WED Viscount Tudely ...... David Collings WED Viviane Courtney ...... Jemma Redgrave WED Coral ...... Sarah Kants WED Sarah Jane ...... Lydia Leonard WED Sally/Victoria ...... Amanda Ryan WED Margaret Pownall ...... Sarah Badel WED Madame Vacani/Boues ...... Rachel Atkins WED Plant/Butler ...... Keith Drinkel WED Stanley ...... Daniel Weyman WED Daddy/General ...... Guy Henry WED Henry ...... Samuel Yeomans WED Directed by Paul Watson. WED WED 15:00 Money Box b00m5360 (Listen) WED Coping with the Recession, Episode 2 WED Penny Haslam examines how we are coping with the WED recession. The economic crisis is not just about money and WED paying bills; it is also about dealing with the WED psychological pressures of the downturn. Penny WED investigates whether we focus too much on the negatives WED when many people will end up better off. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m8qc4 (Listen) WED Comic Fringes, The Hair of The Dead WED Series of short stories written and performed by leading WED new comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as WED part of the Festival Fringe. WED By Sarah Millican. Kitty does the hair of the dead. Just WED the front. WED WED 15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m84nt (Listen) WED Wars, Treaties and Missionaries WED Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival WED of the British on the indigenous Maori people after WED Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the WED European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches WED this new world had to offer. WED Dan takes on the complex task of explaining the WED Inter-Tribal and Land Wars that almost decimated the Maori WED and ended in a confusing treaty that was misinterpreted WED and misunderstood. He visits an ancient Pa site, a Mission WED House and also does some fish spotting. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00m6gg9 (Listen) WED In a special edition of the programme, Laurie Taylor WED discusses the life and work of leading cultural WED commentator Richard Hoggart, asking why his time is coming WED again. WED Hoggart's evidence in the Lady Chatterley trial changed WED censorship for ever, his influence on the Pilkington WED Committee established the norms of public service WED broadcasting still in operation today and his academic WED work led to the invention of cultural studies in the UK. WED He is considered a titan of contemporary culture and his WED famous book The Uses of Literacy combined sociology with WED literature and biography, going on to have a huge WED influence on the way popular culture was viewed. That WED influence has been on the wane in recent decades but now a WED new edition of Hoggart's book is about to be published, a WED biography is being written and a recent conference was WED dedicated to his work. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00m6c44 (Listen) WED IVF WED Dr Mark Porter visits a fertility clinic to learn about WED the latest developments in the field of WED in-vitro-fertilisation (IVF), and clarifies what the NHS WED now offers, and to whom. WED WED 17:00 PM b00m64tc (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m64xw (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00m6ggc (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Sketch show show for anyone who is beginning to find this WED exciting new century a bit too much like all the rubbish WED previous centuries. WED With Stephen K Amos, Jason Byrne, Justin Edwards and WED Katherine Parkinson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00m64g5 (Listen) WED David puts Eddie out to grass. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00m657x (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson. Including interviews with American WED novelist Nicholson Baker and Lee Hall, the playwright WED behind Billy Eliot. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m9gfw (Listen) WED The Quest, Episode 3 WED By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir WED Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. WED Mordred, the result of King Arthur's ill-judged frolic WED with his half sister, comes to call. WED Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss WED Percival ...... Mark Meadows WED Lancelot ...... Stephen Noonan WED Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain WED Galahad ...... Paul Mundell WED Mordred ...... Samuel Barnett WED Baron the First ...... David Collins WED Directed by Tim Dee. WED WED 20:00 The Atheist and the Bishop b00m6ggf (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Series in which an atheist and a bishop come together to WED apply their own philosophies to the experiences of people WED they meet, with Jane Little chairing the discussion. WED Public debates between those who believe in God and those WED who resolutely do not appear more polarised than ever, WED often obscuring central human questions about how we WED should live and how modern ethics should work. WED Here, Professor AC Grayling and Lord Harries of WED Pentregarth, the former Bishop of Oxford, visit a faith WED school and then meet the organiser of an atheist summer WED camp to explore where we get our values from and whether WED you need God to be Good. WED WED 20:45 The Public Meeting b00mbhyk (Listen) WED Sparsely attended, frequently heckled, the public WED political meeting fell out of favour in the television WED age. John Beesley investigates the contribution of public WED meetings to our democracy, and asks whether they are due a WED resurgence. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00m68s9 (Listen) WED Series 3, Restoring Heathlands WED Brett Westwood investigates the potential for restoring WED large areas of heathland that could be unlocked by the WED thinning of Forestry Commission woodlands. WED Made famous by Thomas Hardy and purple with heather in WED late summer, lowland heaths are some of the UK's rarest WED habitats and are home to some of our most specialised WED wildlife including sand lizards, insectivorous plants and WED the strange nightjar. They have steadily declined over the WED last century, but a new open habitats consultation could WED spell the restoration of large tracts of heathland from WED Forestry Commission woodland. WED Brett talks to foresters and conservationists about the WED possibilities that opening up our woods present for people WED and for wildlife. WED WED 21:30 Between Ourselves b00m6dfq (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 4 WED Olivia O'Leary presents the series which brings together WED two people who have had profound and similar experiences, WED to hear their individual stories and compare the long-term WED effects on each of their lives. WED Olivia talks to two barristers, prosecutor Nicholas WED Hilliard and defence lawayer Dexter Dias, about whether WED justice can be bought by getting a good barrister, if WED their reputation for arrogance is deserved and the cases WED that still haunt them. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00m6678 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00m66dz (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g34 (Listen) WED A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 3 WED Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte WED to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal. WED Upon stepping into a glove seller's to ask directions, WED Yorick is so enchanted by the glove seller that he feels WED compelled to buy several pairs, whether they fit him or WED not. WED Abriged by Robin Brooks. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Cowards b00776sr (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED Sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key WED and Lloyd Woolf. WED WED 23:30 Kicking the Habit b007wjxh (Listen) WED Series 1, Old Spots Before the Eyes WED Comedy drama by Christopher Lee, set in a Carmelite WED monastery where the brown habit is no protection against WED the problems and temptations of the modern world. WED Unholy writ states that, 'Pig movements must be WED accompanied by a completed AML2 document. The movement WED must be reported by the recipient of the animals to their WED Local Authority within three days of the movement taking WED place using the appropriate AML form.' And that applies as WED much to Carmelite friars as to anyone else. WED Father Bertie ...... Alfred Molina WED Brother Martin ...... Roy Dotrice WED Father Michael ...... Martin Jarvis WED Brother Luke ...... Darren Richardson WED Mave ...... Rosalind Ayres WED Pilgrims and Friars ...... Kenneth Danziger, Alan WED Shearman, Tracy Pattin, and Moira Quirk. WED Directed by Pete Atkin WED A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 AUGUST 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00m5w69 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00m0tps (Listen) THU When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 3 THU Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said THU Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. THU Said has a treasured photo of his father giving a speech, THU which hangs above his bed. It is blurred and eventually THU Said conflates his father's image with that of another THU hero his mother tells him about: Che Guevara. One night THU his mother receives a rare phone call from her estranged THU husband and is so distraught that she takes the phone off THU its hook every night. Just as Said feels that his father THU has abandoned them, he receives a letter from him. Oddly, THU his dad congratulates him for selling a record number of THU Militants at a demonstration but Said, at ten, is too THU young to have been given such a task, although now he THU badly wants to make money for the revolution. THU Abridged by Francois Smit. THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w7q (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbh (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5w8y (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00m5x4c (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5x5l (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00m5xh5 (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00m5xj6 (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00m6zpk (Listen) THU Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the THU odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of THU fields. THU Peter meets British fashion designer Betty Jackson. THU Although it is often reported in the press that she lost THU one of her legs in a car accident when she was 21, she THU actually had her leg amputated when she was just six years THU old. She describes how difficult it must have been for her THU parents to make the decision to have her leg removed and THU why she is thankful they took that decision. THU Betty led an active and normal life with her artificial THU leg, but when she had a serious car accident aged 21, she THU then developed walking difficulties and medical THU complications which left her unable to have children. THU For Betty, having only one leg is irrelevant to how she THU does her job and to her success. She does confess, though, THU that rather than being a role model for disabled people THU coming into the fashion world, she counsels caution: it is THU fine for them to become pattern cutters or designers, but THU the catwalk is not the place they should aspire to. THU THU 09:30 Islam, Mullahs and the Media b00m6zpm (Listen) THU Changing Perceptions THU Writer Kenan Malik explores how perceptions of Islam have THU been shaped by the media. THU Kenan considers how our perceptions of Muslims have THU changed over the years. What has been the effect of events THU such as 9/11 and their coverage by the media? THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tpv (Listen) THU When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 4 THU Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said THU Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. THU It is the time of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis and Said THU is bullied at school because he says that the American THU diplomats were spies. Out of the blue, his mother leaves THU the Socialist Workers Party and devotes herself to writing THU magazine stories, which are all rejected. One night Said THU discovers that she has taken all her medication but he is THU able to get her to a doctor, even as she repeatedly tells THU him she does not want to live. THU Abridged by Francois Smit. THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m8qnr (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Quest. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00lyrb4 (Listen) THU Bihar THU David Goldblatt reports from a small town in the Indian THU state of Bihar that has turned into something of an THU academic hothouse. More than 50 students from the poor THU weaving community of Patwatoli have gained entry to the THU IITs, India's scientific equivalent of Oxbridge, in the THU last ten years. It is the week before the annual entrance THU exam, and the tension among the students is mounting. THU THU 11:30 When Harry Met Sally At 20 b00m6zpr (Listen) THU Film critic Sarah Churchwell celebrates the classic THU romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally on its 20th THU anniversary. The film famously asked whether a man and a THU woman can really be friends. Sarah looks back at its THU iconic scenes which saw Meg Ryan and Billy Crystal spar THU and flirt over issues of gender politics, and considers THU how things have changed over the past two decades. THU Featuring contributions from the film's writer Nora THU Ephron, producer and fan of the film Dan Mazer, agony aunt THU Irma Kurtz, novelist Ava Rice and historian of the THU romantic comedy Frank Krutnik of Sussex University. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00m62yx (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. Including THU Face the Facts, presented by John Waite. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00m64cg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00m64dw (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00m6zpt (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from THU everyday life. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00m64g5 (Listen) THU David puts Eddie out to grass. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m721l (Listen) THU A Pattern in Shrouds THU By Christopher Lee. On August 27th 1979, two linked THU terrorist attacks by the IRA assassinated Earl Mountbatten THU and killed 18 British soldiers. Two days later, and in THU utmost secrecy, three Whitehall grandees discuss how the THU tragedy is likely to resonate down the years. THU Sir Richard Coke ...... Ian Ogilvy THU George Lothbury ...... Jared Harris THU Henry ...... Alfred Molina THU Other parts played by Kenneth Danziger, Matthew Wolf and THU Shay Duffin. THU Directed by Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis and Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00m52sw (Listen) THU Cumbrian Power THU One of the proposed sites for the new generation of THU nuclear power stations is farmland near the villages of THU Kirksanton and Silecroft on the Cumbrian coast. Helen Mark THU finds people there fighting the plans, but also some who THU support the idea. THU Kirksanton lies south of Sellafield, and many in this THU rural community, which nestles between the most southerly THU fells of White Combe and Black Combe, were shocked to hear THU of the plans. Many villagers believe that the development THU would destroy the tranquility and beauty of the area they THU love. Others welcome the plans and the opportunity they THU may bring to reinvent the Millom area as a centre for THU excellence in the nuclear industry, providing jobs, THU improving infrastrucure and ensuring young people have a THU future in the area. THU Helen considers what would be gained and what would be THU lost. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00m5rrl (Listen) THU Blood Pressure Association THU Timothy West appeals on behalf of the Blood Pressure THU Association. THU Donations to the Blood Pressure Association should be sent THU to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of THU your envelope BPA. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. THU If you are a UK tax payer, please provide BPA with your THU full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on THU your donation. The online and phone donation facilities THU are not currently available to listeners without a UK THU postcode. THU Registered Charity No:1058944. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00m8qbt (Listen) THU Comic Fringes, Gone Phishing THU Series of short stories written and performed by leading THU new comedians at The Pleasance Theatre in Edinburgh as THU part of the Festival Fringe. THU By Jon Richardson. A tale of love and betrayal set in a THU remote village in the Yorkshire Dales. THU THU 15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m84nw (Listen) THU The Whale Rider, The Meeting House and the Haka THU Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival THU of the British on the indigenous Maori people after THU Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the THU European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches THU this new world had to offer. THU Dan visits a traditional Maori Meeting House and the THU village where Pikea, the legendary Whale Rider, was said THU to have come ashore. He also watches a modern-day Haka, THU warning young men to take responsibility for children they THU have fathered and neglected. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00m5t0p (Listen) THU Muriel Gray talks to novelist Iain Banks, whose latest THU book, Transition, brings together science fiction and the THU contemporary concerns of terrorism and global financial THU collapse. Plus biographer Paula Byrne discussing the THU eccentric family who inspired Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead THU Revisited. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00m721n (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper hears about the English astronomer who THU spotted an extraordinary solar eruption that in September THU 1859 created the most brilliant and extensive auroras ever THU witnessed on Earth, and which put out of action the THU newly-built telegraph networks. The impact of such a storm THU on today's telecommunications infrastructure could be huge. THU THU 17:00 PM b00m64tf (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m64xy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 4 At the Fringe b00m721q (Listen) THU Micky Flanagan introduces comedy and music from the THU Edinburgh Festival Fringe, recorded at the Pleasance THU Theatre and featuring Russell Kane, Rich Hall, Fred THU MacAulay and Ali McGregor. THU Each year the Edinburgh Fringe hosts some of the best THU comedians from Britain and around the world, and in 2009 THU there are over 750 comedy productions being staged. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00m64g7 (Listen) THU Alan and Usha camp it up with the neighbours. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00m657z (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang. Including an interview with Scottish THU actor Alan Cumming as he starts a stand-up tour. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m9gfy (Listen) THU The Quest, Episode 4 THU By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir THU Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. THU Merlin worries he is losing his mind. Star Trek might be THU to blame. THU Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt THU Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss THU Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain THU Galahad ...... Paul Mundell THU Teenager ...... Samuel Barnett THU Sir Kay ...... David Collins THU Welsh King ...... Mark Meadows THU Directed by Tim Dee. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00m721s (Listen) THU Babies are big business: more than 35,000 women undergo THU fertility treatment in the UK each year. With many couples THU facing a postcode lottery for free IVF treatment on the THU NHS, some have turned to an illegal market in fertility THU drugs to make the process affordable. Nadene Ghouri THU investigates the trade and examines claims that it could THU lead to women taking big risks with their health. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00m721v (Listen) THU Squeaky Clean THU WD40 is one of those rare products that users deeply THU identify with. In San Diego, Peter Day investigates the THU company's secret formula and finds out how to run an THU international business by using the promise of the THU original brand to navigate into the future. THU THU 21:00 The Great Climate Change Hijack b00m721x (Listen) THU The BBC's environment correspondent Richard Black THU investigates if climate change is diverting attention away THU from other environmental problems such as air pollution, THU acid oceans and species extinction. THU Talk about climate change is everywhere, from the THU classroom to the UN. It is undoubtedly an important issue, THU but has our enthusiasm for tackling climate change led us THU to neglect other pressing and arguably more immediate THU environmental concerns, such as poor air quality in our THU major cities? Why has climate change attracted so much THU political attention and the loss of plant and animal THU species so little? THU Far from being an 'inconvenient truth', could the climate THU change debate actually be rather politically covenient? THU THU 21:30 No Triumph, No Tragedy b00m6zpk (Listen) THU Peter White talks to disabled people who have bucked the THU odds and achieved outstanding success in a variety of THU fields. THU Peter meets British fashion designer Betty Jackson. THU Although it is often reported in the press that she lost THU one of her legs in a car accident when she was 21, she THU actually had her leg amputated when she was just six years THU old. She describes how difficult it must have been for her THU parents to make the decision to have her leg removed and THU why she is thankful they took that decision. THU Betty led an active and normal life with her artificial THU leg, but when she had a serious car accident aged 21, she THU then developed walking difficulties and medical THU complications which left her unable to have children. THU For Betty, having only one leg is irrelevant to how she THU does her job and to her success. She does confess, though, THU that rather than being a role model for disabled people THU coming into the fashion world, she counsels caution: it is THU fine for them to become pattern cutters or designers, but THU the catwalk is not the place they should aspire to. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00m667b (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00m66f1 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g36 (Listen) THU A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 4 THU Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte THU to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal. THU After checking into a hotel, Yorick is struck by the THU prettiness of his chambermaid; although nothing would THU induce him to consider anything improper. Moments later, THU however, he is given an advanced lesson in the art of THU begging. THU Abriged by Robin Brooks. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00dkzls (Listen) THU Series 1, Paul Daniels THU Marcus Brigstocke invites Paul Daniels to try new THU experiences. THU THU 23:30 Jon Ronson On b007lz6n (Listen) THU Series 3, The Internet Date from Hell THU Journalist Jon Ronson investigates the extraordinary story THU of Mary Turner Thompson, who experienced the worst THU internet date ever which lasted seven years and was to THU cause the total devastation of her life. THU Edinburgh-based Mary met and married a man who told her he THU was a CIA agent. Jon visits her in Scotland and hears the THU incredible twisting and turning love story of Will and THU Mary. Will carried a gun and had to dash off to Israel at THU a moment's notice; Mary was left holding the baby, never THU knowing when he would come back, and was unable to contact THU him. She even feared a terrorist attack on her home. But THU the most bizarre twist was still to come. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 AUGUST 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00m5w6c (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00m0tpv (Listen) FRI When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 4 FRI Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said FRI Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. FRI It is the time of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis and Said FRI is bullied at school because he says that the American FRI diplomats were spies. Out of the blue, his mother leaves FRI the Socialist Workers Party and devotes herself to writing FRI magazine stories, which are all rejected. One night Said FRI discovers that she has taken all her medication but he is FRI able to get her to a doctor, even as she repeatedly tells FRI him she does not want to live. FRI Abridged by Francois Smit. FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00m5w7s (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00m5wbk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00m5w90 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00m5x4f (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00m5x5n (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Shaykh Michael Mumisa. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00m5xh7 (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00m5xj8 (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b00m5rrz (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor presents the series which reunites a group FRI of people intimately involved in a moment of modern FRI history. FRI Sue reunites some of those involved in the great cricket FRI split caused by the launch of World Series Cricket by FRI Australian business tycoon Kerry Packer in 1977. She is FRI joined by former West Indies captain Clive Lloyd, FRI Australian fast bowler Jeff Thomson, Tony Greig, who was FRI England captain at the time, Mike Denness, team manager FRI for Packer's World Series, and the commentator and writer FRI Christopher Martin-Jenkins, who reported the story as it FRI broke FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00m0tpx (Listen) FRI When Skateboards Will Be Free, Episode 5 FRI Josh Hamilton reads from American-Iranian writer Said FRI Sayrafiezadeh's funny and touching memoir. FRI Now grown up, Said takes a job in the corporate offices of FRI the lifestyle expert Martha Stewart. He loves buying FRI designer accoutrements for his tiny apartment and falls in FRI love with a co-worker, Karen. His mother comes to visit FRI and asks if he has heard from his father. He has not, but FRI he reminisces about the last time they met. He was 17 and FRI it was a very uncomfortable meal. He hugs his now frail FRI mom and rides away on the subway with Karen. FRI Abridged by Francois Smit. FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00m8qnt (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: The Quest. FRI FRI 11:00 It's My Story b00lb2cq (Listen) FRI The 99 FRI DJ Bobby Friction tells the story of Dr Naif Al-Mutawa, FRI the psychologist and businessman who has created the first FRI collection of Muslim comic book superheroes - The 99 - FRI that are sweeping the Arab world, and arriving soon in FRI Europe. Based on the 99 attributes of Allah in the Koran, FRI the cartoons are not without controversy. Bobby visits FRI Naif in Kuwait on the eve of the opening of The 99's first FRI theme park, and tells the story of his quest to become FRI known as 'the Walt Disney of the Arabic world'. FRI FRI 11:30 The Pickerskill Reports b00j67mn (Listen) FRI Harry Hindle-Rand FRI By Andrew McGibbon. Dr Henry Pickerskill, the FRI highly-respected, now retired, English master of FRI Haunchurst School for boys. He looks back on his favourite FRI pupils and their fortunes in the adult world based on FRI their school reports and their letters to him after they FRI left. FRI Harry Hindle-Rand, an apparently saintly pupil and school FRI chorister, secretly encourages one of the masters' FRI weakness for altar wine in exchange for answers to end of FRI term exams. While the boy may be a heavenly singer, FRI Pickerskill uncovers Hindle Rand's darker motives and FRI predicts correctly that he will become successful as an FRI adult. Just not in the way he might have expected. FRI Dr Henry Pickerskill ...... Ian McDiarmid FRI Harry Hindle Rand ...... Thamas Sangster FRI Lefty Rogers ...... Tony Gardener FRI The Chaplain ...... Mike Feast FRI The Colonel ...... Richard Johnson FRI Elfyn Wynn Thomas Evans ...... Philip Madoc FRI Collyer ...... Tom Kane FRI Stealgroynes ...... Louis Williams FRI Directed by Andrew McGibbon FRI A Curtains for Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00m62yz (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00m64cj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00m64dy (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00m74g6 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00m64g7 (Listen) FRI Alan and Usha camp it up with the neighbours. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00m74g8 (Listen) FRI The Last Tsar FRI Ian Curteis's drama examines an enduring mystery of the FRI First World War - the apparent refusal of King George V to FRI give sanctuary in England to his cousin Tsar Nicholas and FRI his young family after the Tsar had been forced to FRI abdicate following the Russian Revolution. FRI King George V ...... Derek Jacobi FRI Queen Mary ...... Phyllida Law FRI Lord Stamfordham ...... David Hargreaves FRI Lloyd George ...... Owen Teale FRI Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00m74gb (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Pippa Greenwood answer FRI questions posed by gardeners in Hertfordshire. FRI Anne Rowe, a landscape historian at Cambridge University, FRI discovers the lost gardens of Hertfordshire. Pippa FRI Greenwood is joined by a leading bulb expert to reveal FRI next year's exciting daffodil trends, and wildlife author FRI Michael Clarke offers specialist advice on protecting FRI those bulbs from persistent pests. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 Cruickshank on New Zealand b00m84ny (Listen) FRI Walking Backwards to the Future FRI Dan Cruickshank explores the consequences of the arrival FRI of the British on the indigenous Maori people after FRI Captain Cook's arrival in New Zealand in 1769, and how the FRI European settlers adapted and exploited the many riches FRI this new world had to offer. FRI Dan hears from the Maori about their attitude to the past, FRI what they hope for in the future and how they are coming FRI to terms with the threat to their land and culture set in FRI train by Cook's arrival 240 years ago. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00m74n4 (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 b00m74rm (Listen) FRI Matthew Sweet talks to Peter Capaldi about In The Loop, FRI which is being released on DVD. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00m64th (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00m64y0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 I Guess That's Why They Call It The News b00m74rp (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI Fred MacAulay chairs a topical panel show in which two FRI teams play games inspired by the week's headlines. The FRI show asks both the big and the little questions, and FRI provides thoroughly silly answers to both. With Andy FRI Parsons and Justin Edwards. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00m64g9 (Listen) FRI Fallon changes her allegiance. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00m6581 (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00m9gg0 (Listen) FRI The Quest, Episode 5 FRI By Jonathan Holloway. Loosely based on the works of Sir FRI Thomas Malory and Alfred, Lord Tennyson. FRI Galahad meets an angel and Arthur meets his end. FRI Arthur ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Merlin ...... Mark Gatiss FRI Guinevere ...... Eleanor Tremain FRI Galahad ...... Paul Mundell FRI Percival ...... Mark Meadows FRI Mordred ...... Samuel Barnett FRI Angel ...... Jasmine Hyde FRI Directed by Tim Dee. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00m74rr (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Chipping FRI Norton, Oxfordshire. The panellists are former FRI Conservative deputy leader Lord Heseltine, former Labour FRI cabinet minister Tony Benn, columnist Yasmin Alibhai-Brown FRI and Professor Colin Mayer, Dean of Oxford University's FRI Saïd Business School. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00m74rt (Listen) FRI Coelacanth FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI The Coelacanth is a primitive bony fish thought to be an FRI important ancestor to all back-boned animals that ventured FRI onto land. David Attenborough brought to television the FRI first film of a living fish in Life on Earth. But is it FRI the living fossil it was claimed to be? FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00m74rw (Listen) FRI The Black Bono FRI By Gabriel Bisset-Smith. Gideon Gordon, film star and FRI celebrity campaigner for human rights, is murdered in FRI Africa, and the main suspect is his brother Ken. What can FRI have driven the brothers apart? FRI Christine Giddis ...... Chipo Chung FRI Simon Giddis ...... Gabriel Bisset-Smith FRI Gideon Gordon ...... Kobna Holdbrook-Smith FRI Ken Gordon ...... Jude Akuwudike FRI Juliet Gordon ...... Clare Perkins FRI Peter Champion ...... Philip Fox FRI Detective Bolton ...... Paul Rider FRI Danni/African Woman ...... Janice Acquah FRI Sian ...... Caroline Guthrie FRI With Matt Addis, Stephen Hogan, Jonathan Tafler. FRI Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00m667f (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00m66f3 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00m9g38 (Listen) FRI A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, Episode 5 FRI Bill Nighy reads from Laurence Sterne's 1768 comic riposte FRI to his contemporary Tobias Smollett's travel journal. FRI Forced to take refuge in a roadside inn, Yorick is forced FRI to share a bedroom with a stranger and her maid. The FRI precautions for managing such a situation border on the FRI Baroque. FRI Abriged by Robin Brooks. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00m6c3y (Listen) FRI Series 19, Freya Stark FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI Travel writer Dervla Murphy discusses the life of another FRI fearless woman traveller, Freya Stark. Stark roamed across FRI Arabia and Persia, frequently risking her life, and during FRI the Second World War set up a pro-British intelligence FRI network in Cairo. She was brave but also infuriating, and FRI was liable to make impossible demands on her friends, such FRI as John Murray, who joins the discussion. FRI FRI 23:30 Listen Against b00fgt0r (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 1 FRI Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes take a satirical look back FRI over the past week of radio. FRI FRI FRI