26 September, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 26/09/2009 - 02/10/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00mrzz2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00mq4m1 (Listen) SAT Elizabeth's Women, Episode 5 SAT Emma Fielding reads from Tracy Borman's biography of SAT Elizabeth I, which explores the relationships she had with SAT the women in her life. These women brought out the best SAT and the worst of Elizabeth, who could be loyal and kind SAT but also cruel and vindictive. They all influenced SAT Elizabeth's carefully-cultivated image as Gloriana, The SAT Virgin Queen. SAT In the final years of her reign, Elizabeth begins to lose SAT her grip on matters at court. This state of affairs is SAT reflected in the loosening morals of her newer and younger SAT Ladies-in-Waiting, who she fittingly terms her 'flouting SAT wenches'. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mrzz4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mrzz6 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mrzz8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00ms0b0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00ms0b2 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00ms0b4 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00ms0b6 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00mtm8x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b00mtm8z (Listen) SAT Series 13, Episode 2 SAT Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in SAT Northumberland. SAT The second section of the route takes Clare from Belford SAT to Beadnell in the company of Iain Robson and Tom SAT Cadwallender, who guide Clare through the highlights of SAT this stretch of the route. Iain and Tom both help to SAT maintain the area for the Northumberland National Park, SAT and the two long-distance paths on their patch help to SAT ensure that a steady stream of enthusiastic walkers visit SAT the county. SAT St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy SAT Island in the north, alog the stunning Northumberland SAT coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's SAT Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St SAT Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early-seventh SAT century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity SAT to his people. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00mtm91 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Charlotte Smith investigates why more people are buying SAT food locally. Since 2006, the numbers buying 'local' food SAT has more than doubled. Research suggests 27 per cent of SAT people buy local, and more than 50 per cent say they would SAT if they could. So why isn't more available? SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00mtm93 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00mtm95 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00mtm97 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover is joined by broadcaster, novelist, journalist SAT and gardener Alan Titchmarsh. Kevin Duncan tells us why he SAT is fascinated by volcanoes. Sarah Graham is intersex and SAT explains how she found out. Biddy Carr's sound sculpture SAT is her mother's sewing machine. Poet John Hegley reveals SAT his inheritance tracks. The poet is Susan Richardson. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00mtm99 (Listen) SAT John McCarthy asks travel writer and historian William SAT Dalrymple what place mysticism has in modern India and SAT hears about some of the characters who are trying to keep SAT it alive - like the maker of bronze idols whose son wants SAT to work in computer engineering. SAT JB Priestley's classic 1934 book 'English Journey' SAT describes a trip through depression-hit England, from SAT Southampton to Newcastle and back to London. On its SAT republishing, John speaks to Tom Priestley, JB's son, SAT about the impact the book had at the time and how places SAT have changed since then. SAT Also in the early 1930s, poet John Betjeman helped start SAT the Shell Guides to Britain. His daughter Candida Lycett SAT Green follows the family tradition of pointing out the SAT beautiful and the interesting when she tells John McCarthy SAT about her 100 favourite places amongst the small towns, SAT buildings and landscapes in England. SAT SAT 10:30 The Oxbridge Murder b00mtm9c (Listen) SAT To mark Cambridge University's 800th anniversary, David SAT Baddiel investigates the events which led to its SAT foundation and trace its origins to a crime committed in SAT the 13th century. SAT With the help of Cambridge University archivist Dr Patrick SAT Zutshi, medieval historian Henrietta Leyser and Detective SAT Inspector Ted East, David discovers that the reason for a SAT mass exodus of scholars from Oxford to Cambridge can be SAT traced back to a murder. He walks the very streets where SAT the murder took place and visits Oxford Castle, where some SAT believe those accused of the murder were hanged. SAT He then takes a punt up the River Cam, where he is joined SAT by members of the Cambridge Historical Society for a SAT discussion about town and gown rivalry and also some of SAT the amusing myths surrounding the university's foundation. SAT Finally, David visits St Mary's Church, where Cambridge's SAT new student body met for their first lectures and SAT ceremonies. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00mtm9f (Listen) SAT Andrew Rawnsley investigates how radically the nation's SAT defences will be reshaped when public money is tight. SAT The parties face internal splits over Trident and future SAT strategy, while service votes and the jobs of contractors SAT across the UK mean that politicians tread carefully when SAT it comes to defence spending. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00mtm9h (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00mtm9k (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT Up to 40 per cent of our private pensions are swallowed up SAT in fees - are you paying too much? SAT A savings boost for ISA savers over 50, but does your SAT local savings branch know? SAT And you may be offered a tax rebate of several hundred SAT pounds, but don't be fooled by the latest scam. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00mrzmw (Listen) SAT Series 69, Episode 1 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The SAT panellists include Andy Hamilton, Mark Steel and Jeremy SAT Hardy. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00mtnpg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00mtnpj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00mrzmy (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Wells in SAT Somerset. The panellists are the secretary of state for SAT culture, media and sport Ben Bradshaw, shadow defence SAT secretary Liam Fox, the Liberal Democrats' home office SAT spokesperson Chris Huhne, and businesswoman Deborah SAT Meaden, from the TV show Dragons' Den. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00mtnpl (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 b007t4zn (Listen) SAT The Shocking Tale of Margaret Seddon SAT John Fletcher's Edwardian murder story is based on real SAT events. SAT Frederick and Margaret Seddon take wealthy Mrs Barrow into SAT their Islington home as a lodger. The summer of 1911 SAT proves scorchingly hot and when Mrs Barrow dies, leaving SAT all her money to Fred, suspicions are aroused. Was her SAT death caused by the heatwave, or the 'English Cholera' - SAT or could the arsenic-laced fly papers have something to do SAT with it? SAT Margaret Seddon ...... Lynne Seymour SAT Fred Seddon ...... Bertie Carvel SAT Miss Barrow ...... Annette Badland SAT Hook/Attorney General Isaacs ...... Dick Bradnum SAT Benny/Vicar ...... Brendan Charleson SAT Dr Sworn/Hangman ...... Dorien Thomas SAT Maggie ...... Anwen Carlisle SAT Ada ...... Isabel Lewis SAT Directed by Nigel Lewis. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00mr2wr (Listen) SAT Series 8, You've Got a Friend SAT Series exploring famous pieces of music and their SAT emotional appeal. SAT Written by Carole King and made famous by James Taylor, SAT You've Got a Friend won a Grammy Award in 1971. In this SAT programme people tell how this song has affected their SAT life. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00mtnpn (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Weekend Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. SAT Including Shirley Williams on the childhood that infuenced SAT her career as a politician; an interview with the forensic SAT psychiatrist who assessed Joseph Fritzl; why the glass SAT ceiling into the boardroom is proving difficult to crack; SAT the nostalgic foods of the sixties and seventies that are SAT proving to be perennials; are mums or dads stricter when SAT it comes to disciplining children; and music from one of SAT the country's leading mandolin players. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00mtnpq (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 Bottom Line b00mrw7w (Listen) SAT Evan Davis and his guests discuss managing the SAT expectations of customers and shareholders, and meetings - SAT what makes them effective, and who needs to be in the room? SAT His guests are Andrew Cosslett, chief executive of SAT Intercontinental Hotels (owners of chains including SAT Holiday Inn), Allan Cook chief executive of international SAT defence and aerospace company Cobham, and leading SAT architect Rafael Vinoly. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mtnpv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00mtnpx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mtnpz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00mtnq1 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson is joined by comedy actress June Whitfield, SAT infectiously enthusiastic presenter Justin Lee Collins and SAT architectural historian Dan Cruickshank. SAT Emma Freud talks to the actor Shaun Williamson. SAT With music from best-selling opera star Andrea Bocelli and SAT Sheffield crooner Richard Hawley. SAT Comedy from the singing stand up Isy Suttie. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00mtnq3 (Listen) SAT Keir Starmer SAT Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is in SAT the spotlight. As the DPP announces new guidelines on SAT assisted suicide, Clive Coleman traces Starmer's SAT progression through the legal ranks, and looks at his SAT blue-collar origins, unashamed political commitments and SAT passion for football. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00mtnq5 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00mtnq7 (Listen) SAT Self on Ballard SAT Will Self explores the imagination and work of writer JG SAT Ballard, who he came to know in his final years. Will SAT draws on the many telling interviews that Ballard gave SAT throughout his working life and on Self's own tapes of his SAT encounters with him. SAT From his life of suburban anonymity, Ballard charted the SAT realms of innerspace and the madness of the modern world SAT with a cool eye and visionary prose. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00mpn0q (Listen) SAT The Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War, Episode 1 SAT Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel, SAT the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley. SAT When word reaches The Department that Soviet missiles are SAT being installed close to the West German border, they SAT seize the opportunity to relive former glories. SAT Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid SAT George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SAT Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy SAT Haldane ...... Philip Jackson SAT Woodford ...... David Hargeaves SAT Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar SAT Control ...... John Rowe SAT Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler SAT Taylor/Sutherland ...... Philip Fox SAT Peersen ...... Stephen Hogan SAT Lansen ...... Matt Addis SAT Girl ...... Lizzy Watts SAT Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann SAT Directed by Marc Beeby SAT This episode is available until 3.00pm on 4th October as SAT part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00mtnqy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Iconoclasts b00mrd9g (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 3 SAT Edward Stourton chairs a live discussion series in which SAT guests set out their strong views on a subject, before SAT being challenged by a panel of experts. SAT Cambridge lawyer, Prof John Spencer, says that we should SAT make it legal for young teenagers to have sex. He says the SAT age of consent, fixed at 16 by the Sexual Offences Act SAT 2003, makes criminals of half the population. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00mqhqw (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, SAT featuring teams from Scotland and the Midlands. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00mpndq (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents listeners' requests for works with SAT an environmental theme, including Alan Brownjohn's SAT deceptively simple, unsettling poem from the 1960s, We Are SAT Going to See the Rabbit, and two of Jo Shapcott's Mad Cow SAT poems, written in response to the BSE crisis. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00mtnvf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b0088w2d (Listen) SUN Telling the World, Tortoise and Hunter SUN Series of stories from cultures and folklore around the SUN world. SUN Jan Blake tells a tale from Ghana which serves as an SUN uncompromising warning to those who refuse to hear what SUN their ears are telling them. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mtpd0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mtpd2 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mtpd4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00mtpd6 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00mtpd8 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from the Parish Church of St Thomas in SUN Hazel Grove, Stockport. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00mtnq3 (Listen) SUN Keir Starmer SUN Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is in SUN the spotlight. As the DPP announces new guidelines on SUN assisted suicide, Clive Coleman traces Starmer's SUN progression through the legal ranks, and looks at his SUN blue-collar origins, unashamed political commitments and SUN passion for football. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00mtpdb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00mtpdd (Listen) SUN A Precious Commodity SUN Silence is something many of us crave in a world full of SUN clamour, but, as Fergal Keane discovers, it means much SUN more than the mere absence of noise. SUN The readers are Ian Masters and Liza Sadovy. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00mtq2c (Listen) SUN Elinor Goodman meets the Devon farmer who has decided to SUN embrace the predictions of warmer and wetter summers by SUN climate change experts to grow a diverse range of crops. SUN On Otter Farm, Mark Diacono grows guavas, grapes, olives, SUN apricots, grinding pepper, kiwis and loquats. He believes SUN that not only will growing more exotic foods be possile in SUN the future, but by providing these crops from this country SUN rather than abroad we will cut down on air miles. SUN Elinor finds out how he is getting on and tries to find SUN some fruit to taste. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00mtq2f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00mtq2h (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00mtq2k (Listen) SUN Pope Benedict is expected to come to Britain in September SUN 2010 - we discuss how the landscape has changed since his SUN predecessor's visit nearly 30 years earlier. SUN The nation's political officianados are busy at party SUN conferences; the Communities and Local Government SUN secretary, John Denham, talks to Sunday about the part SUN faith groups can play in building community cohesion. SUN And what does the discovery of the Staffordshire hoard SUN tell us about the relationship between paganism and SUN Christianity? SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00mtq2m (Listen) SUN Primary Trauma Care Foundation SUN Sir Terence English appeals on behalf of Primary Trauma SUN Care Foundation. SUN Donations to Primary Trauma Care Foundation should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of SUN your envelope PTC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Primary Trauma SUN Care Foundation with your full name and address so they SUN can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1116071. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00mtq2p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00mtqcb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00mtqcd (Listen) SUN From Broomhill Parish Church, Glasgow, with the SUN congregation and choir and members of the Paisley SUN Philharmonic Choir. SUN Led by Rev Bill Ferguson. SUN Preacher: Rev Valerie Watson. SUN Musical Director: Ian Anderson. SUN Organist: William Ritchie. SUN SUN 08:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mrzn0 (Listen) SUN Adam's Face SUN Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural SUN histories of creatures and plants from around the world. SUN What are human eyebrows for? Possibly to allow SUN communication without the use of words. Testing the value SUN of eyebrow communication came into its own when David SUN Attenborough met the men of an aboriginal tribe in New SUN Guinea where there was no other common language. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00mtqcg (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 Archers Omnibus b00mtqcj (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00mtqyr (Listen) SUN Barry Manilow SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Barry Manilow. SUN He has been a hugely successful performer for more than 30 SUN years but, in this intimate interview, he describes how it SUN was never the career he intended to have. He always knew SUN he would be a musician, but thought his future lay behind SUN the scenes, not at the front of the stage. Brought up by SUN his mother and grandparents in Brooklyn, money was always SUN scarce and family life often difficult - but when there SUN was music playing in their apartment, he says, the home SUN was a happy one. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00mr0rl (Listen) SUN Series 55, Episode 9 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. The SUN panellists are Tony Hawks, Pam Ayres, Sue Perkins and Tim SUN Rice. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00mtqyt (Listen) SUN Slow Cheese SUN Sheila Dillon travels to Italy to meet producers of rare SUN and unusual cheeses from around the world. The biennial SUN event, organised by Slow Food, is aimed at keeping SUN traditional cheese making alive. SUN Among the hundreds of cheese producers who travelled to SUN the northern Italian town were three farmers still making SUN artisan Somerset Cheddar. It is a cheese which is still SUN made using raw milk, with a traditional starter and is SUN crafted by hand and matured in lard soaked muslin. SUN As Sheila finds out, the Somerset Cheddar makers have SUN travelled to Bra in a bid to rescue the name of Cheddar SUN from the world of industrial block cheeses now produced SUN all over the world. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00mtqyw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00mtqyy (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Billy Liar: Fifty Years On b00lvh1c (Listen) SUN Fifty years after the publication of Keith Waterhouse's SUN Billy Liar, writer Blake Morrison goes in search of the SUN world it evokes - the north of England on the cusp of the SUN 1960s. The story of a frustrated young man in a northern SUN town who escapes from reality into vivid fantasies of SUN power and glory, Billy Liar captured the public SUN imagination. It became a play, a film, a musical and even SUN a TV series. SUN Blake travels to Leeds to explore the way in which SUN Waterhouse's life there overlaps with Billy's story, and SUN talks to long-term residents and local historians about SUN how the city, and the society depicted in the novel, has SUN changed. The programme also features contributions from SUN Barbara Taylor Bradford, Barry Cryer and Sir Gerald SUN Kaufman MP. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mrzf7 (Listen) SUN The second of two programmes recorded at the annual SUN Gardeners' Question Time garden party, held at RHS Harlow SUN Carr in North Yorkshire, GQT's base in the north. SUN Peter Gibbs chairs and the panel are Anne Swithinbank, SUN Pippa Greenwood and John Cushnie. SUN Peter explores how Harlow Carr is addressing the problems SUN posed by future climate change. Pippa puts the fun into SUN fungi, and Anne launches the GQT slug deterrent trial. SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Food For Thought b00mtvgt (Listen) SUN Elevenses With Nigella Lawson SUN Series of conversations in which journalist Nina Myskow SUN discovers how attitudes to food affect individual lives. SUN At home in her kitchen, cookery writer Nigella Lawson SUN recalls her early experiences of food - as a chamber maid SUN in Italy, whisking white sauces for her mother and making SUN veal stew and rabbit with prunes on a teenage visit to SUN France. She tells Nina how they transformed her from a SUN quiet, introverted child who resisted her mother's appeals SUN to eat at mealtimes into a passionate cook with a lust for SUN food and an incredibly healthy appetite. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00mtvgw (Listen) SUN The Complete Smiley - The Looking Glass War, Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Shaun McKenna of John le Carre's novel, SUN the fourth to feature spymaster George Smiley. SUN As Leiser's clandestine mission into East German territory SUN proceeds, it soon becomes clear that nothing is quite what SUN it seems. SUN Leclerc ...... Ian McDiarmid SUN George Smiley ...... Simon Russell Beale SUN Avery ...... Patrick Kennedy SUN Haldane ...... Philip Jackson SUN Fred Leiser ...... Piotr Baumann SUN Jack Johnson ...... Ben Crowe SUN Anna ...... Ania Sowinski SUN Sarah ...... Fenella Woolgar SUN Control ...... John Rowe SUN Carol ...... Annabelle Dowler SUN Official ...... Philip Fox SUN Soldiers ...... Matt Addis, Benjamin Askew SUN Directed by Marc Beeby SUN This episode is available until 3.00pm on 4th October as SUN part of the Series Catch-up Trial. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00mtwd1 (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup celebrates fiction from Down Under, in SUN conversation with some of Australia's best-known writers. SUN Richard Flanagan, the author of the cult bestseller SUN Gould's Book of Fish, explains how the sometimes painful SUN history of his native Tasmania became the subject of his SUN latest novel Wanting. SUN Tim Winton, whose books include Dirt Music and Breath, SUN describes the Western Australian landscape that has SUN inspired most of his work. SUN And Thomas Keneally, the Booker-winning author of SUN Schindler's Ark, joins the Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright SUN to discuss a major new anthology of Australian literature SUN with the collection's editor, Nicholas Jose. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00mtwd4 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces requests for Lewis Carroll's SUN surreal poem, The Hunting of the Snark, told not in verses SUN but in eight distinctive 'fits'. Includes archive SUN recordings by Ken Campbell and Alec Guinness. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00mr4w5 (Listen) SUN As the government's strategy for combating extremism is SUN revised to focus on white racist groups as well as Islamic SUN radicals, Allan Urry assesses the threat of attacks by SUN right-wing extremists and fears that they could lead to a SUN rise in racial tensions. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00mtnq3 (Listen) SUN Keir Starmer SUN Keir Starmer, the Director of Public Prosecutions, is in SUN the spotlight. As the DPP announces new guidelines on SUN assisted suicide, Clive Coleman traces Starmer's SUN progression through the legal ranks, and looks at his SUN blue-collar origins, unashamed political commitments and SUN passion for football. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00mtz44 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00mv0lk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mv0lm (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00mv0lp (Listen) SUN Stuart Maconie introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN Programmes featured this week: SUN Calvin and Hobbes - Radio 4 SUN Nature - Radio 4 SUN That Mitchell and Webb Sound - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Houdini - Radio 4 SUN Passing the Hat - Radio 4 SUN Chain Reaction - Radio 4 SUN The House I Grew Up In - Radio 4 SUN The Essay - The Scientist and the Naturalist - Radio 3 SUN I am Emma Humphreys - Radio 4 SUN Bowling for Love - Radio 4 SUN The Stanley Baxter Story - Radio 2 SUN Drama on 3 - Slaughterhouse Five - Radio 3 SUN Archive on 4 - Self on Ballard - Radio 4 SUN Book of the Week - Elizabeth's Women - Radio 4 SUN Graham Coxon's Tracks of My Years - Ken Bruce - Radio 2. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00mv0lr (Listen) SUN Ed receives some birthday wisdom. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00mv0lt (Listen) SUN Kevin Connolly talks to veteran CBS journalist and SUN anchorman Bob Shieffer about how President Obama and his SUN predecessors have trimmed their foreign policy initiatives SUN to better suit cold reality. SUN Imagine Mayor Luke Ravenstahl's delight when he got a call SUN from President Obama's office asking whether the city of SUN Pittsburgh could host the 2009 G20 summit. Kevin Connolly SUN talks to the mayor about how this former steel town is SUN handling the influx of guests while emerging from a SUN collapsed economy. SUN Like The Archers, the American soap opera Guiding Light SUN has held a loyal following for many years. Now, 72 years SUN since its first radio broadcast, the programme goes off SUN the air. Executive director Ellen Wheeler and actor Robert SUN Newman talk about the legacy of this radio, then SUN television, soap. They explore the good, the bad and the SUN supernatural, and what place scripted drama has in the SUN changing media landscape. SUN American folk culture is about apple pie, grilled cheese SUN sandwiches and how to pack a suitcase. That's according to SUN The Old Farmer's Almanac, anyway. Inside its covers are SUN scarily accurate weather reports as well as tips, tricks SUN and legends which could make toes curl. Kevin Connolly SUN picks up some age-old wisdom from Almanac's editor, Janice SUN Stillman. SUN Kevin Connolly takes a stroll among the war memorials of SUN Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to sample American views on the SUN war in Afghanistan. Is the president is on the right SUN track, or could the conflict become the next Vietnam? SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008mb9p (Listen) SUN Granta Stories, Never Never Land SUN Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most SUN prestigious literary magazine. SUN By Rodrigo Fresan. SUN A fascinating story of how the tragic childhood of JM SUN Barrie inspired the creation of his most famous work, SUN Peter Pan. SUN Translated by Natasha Wimmer. Read by Peter Guinness. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00mrygc (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton asks the editor of PM to answer charges that SUN the programme is turning into a light entertainment show, SUN valuing listeners' opinions more than its own journalists' SUN reporting. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00mrzf9 (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series. Including: SUN Ultrasound pioneer John Wild - Dr John Reid and Professor SUN Kit Hill pay tribute; scriptwriter Troy Kennedy Martin SUN remembered by producers Ted Child and Michael Dealey and SUN by writer Keith Dewhurst; a picture of French photographer SUN Willy Ronis by his agent Kathleen Grosset and friend Paul SUN Ryan; Patti Smith shares her memories of punk poet Jim SUN Carroll; and radio producer Leonie Cohn - a tribute from SUN her son Paul Finlay and colleague Judith Bumpus. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00mtm9k (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN Up to 40 per cent of our private pensions are swallowed up SUN in fees - are you paying too much? SUN A savings boost for ISA savers over 50, but does your SUN local savings branch know? SUN And you may be offered a tax rebate of several hundred SUN pounds, but don't be fooled by the latest scam. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00mtq2m (Listen) SUN Primary Trauma Care Foundation SUN Sir Terence English appeals on behalf of Primary Trauma SUN Care Foundation. SUN Donations to Primary Trauma Care Foundation should be sent SUN to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of SUN your envelope PTC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Primary Trauma SUN Care Foundation with your full name and address so they SUN can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and SUN phone donation facilities are not currently available to SUN listeners without a UK postcode. SUN Registered Charity No: 1116071. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00mr16g (Listen) SUN In Defence of Targets SUN As NHS targets fall out of political fashion, journalist SUN Michael Blastland argues that they could be good for our SUN health. SUN Targets, once seen by New Labour as the key to improving SUN public services, look as if they may be on the way out. SUN The devolved health services of Wales and Scotland have SUN already retreated from their previous target regimes, the SUN Conservative Party has pledged to scrap them in England SUN and there are signs that some of Gordon Brown's ministers SUN are losing faith in them, too. SUN Why then does Michael believe that there is still a case SUN for targets? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00mv0m8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00mv0nf (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00mrzmt (Listen) SUN Atonement director Joe Wright on the effect of the SUN recession on Hollywood, and why he wouldn't be able to SUN make The Soloist now, even though it was only filmed last SUN year. SUN Sally Potter on Jude Law in drag and why the love of SUN celebrity has become an epidemic. SUN Francine Stock makes Neil Brand an offer he can't refuse: SUN to play the theme tune from The Godfather. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00mtpdd (Listen) SUN A Precious Commodity SUN Silence is something many of us crave in a world full of SUN clamour, but, as Fergal Keane discovers, it means much SUN more than the mere absence of noise. SUN The readers are Ian Masters and Liza Sadovy. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00mvbvl (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00mrc8l (Listen) MON Many of us will exchange intimate details of our lives MON with our hairdesser or chat to the person on the same MON train platform as us every morning on the way to work, but MON we probably don't think of either as a friend. Laurie MON Taylor discusses the role of acquaintances, and why the MON people who are neither friend nor stranger are incredibly MON important. MON He talks to sociologist David Morgan and anthroplogist MON Henrietta Moore about the role of acquaintances in our MON lives and finds out why, without them, the very fabric of MON society could break down. MON Also in the programme, why more than one million tea rooms MON opened in the early 20th century and gave American women MON their first taste of business and financial freedom. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00mtpd8 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from the Parish Church of St Thomas in MON Hazel Grove, Stockport. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxb (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc9s (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvc4r (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00mvcdr (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvckm (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00mvcl0 (Listen) MON Schools should be doing more to incorporate farming into MON the national curriculum. That's according to a recent MON study. Charlotte Smith finds out why many children do not MON get first hand experience of life on a farm and whether MON the recent scare over E.coli will deter more schools from MON taking pupils to farms. MON Also, the British farmer who sprayed thousands of litres MON of milk on her fields explains why she took this protest MON action. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00mvr2p (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00mvct1 (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 A History of Private Life b00mvr2r (Listen) MON A History of Private Life: Discussion MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs a discussion with historian Amanda MON Vickery, Simon Jenkins of the National Trust, MON anthropologist Daniel Miller and sociologist Elizabeth MON Silva. Responding to Amanda Vickery's new series about the MON history of private life, they debate the meaning of home MON today. MON Together they look at the concerns which have dominated MON life inside the home for hundreds of years. Why are MON tussles over who rules the roost a persistent theme? Are MON modern homes increasingly atomised, separated from local MON communities and housing an army of home-workers and MON divorcing couples unable to afford to sell their houses? MON Or are they predominantly a safe refuge from which MON householders can show off their exquisite taste and MON treasured possessions, while leading harmonious and MON socially integrated lives? MON The panel examine which of these and many other views MON might shape how historians of the future will view the MON private lives we lead at the beginning of the 21st century. MON MON 09:30 Einstein's Fiddle b008fcf4 (Listen) MON Physicist Brian Foster explores the role of music in the MON life of Albert Einstein. MON Although best known for his towering scientific MON achievements, Einstein was a fine amateur violinist and MON occasionally played in public. Indeed, he once said that MON he got the most joy in his life from playing the violin. MON When he was due to receive his Nobel Prize in 1922, he was MON in Japan, not only meeting other physicists but also MON giving performancesof the Kreuzer Sonata, one of the most MON challenging pieces in the repertoire. MON Music also played a role in his work as a physicist. He MON would often break off from a particularly difficult piece MON of work to play his violin in the hope of seeking MON inspiration. And he found parallels between the beauty and MON harmony he saw in scientific laws and the music of MON composers such as Mozart, which he felt reflected the MON inner beauty of the universe itself. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00mvct3 (Listen) MON Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 1 MON Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. MON Williams' early life and the enormous influence of her MON mother, Vera Brittain, and her father, George Caitlin - MON not to mention the permanent house guest, Winifred Holtby. MON Abridged by Polly Coles. MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvczr (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. Including: MON According to a survey by the Association of Teachers and MON Lecturers (ATL), nearly a quarter of school and college MON staff have endured physical violence from a student, and MON just under 40 per cent have been confronted by an MON aggressive parent or guardian. Whilst there are many MON schools who don't suffer these problems, teachers in MON schools that do appear powerless in the face of ongoing MON classroom challenges, pushing some to breaking point. So MON do teachers need more powers to discipline children? Jane MON is joined by Christine Blower, General Secretary of the MON NUT, and journalist Allison Pearson. MON Delhi's first single sex train serving a growing number of MON female commuters has recently been introduced, with eight MON more planned for other major Indian cities. Since India MON began economic reforms in the early 1990s, women have MON entered the urban work force, initially as government MON office workers, but now increasingly as employees in the MON booming services sector or in professional jobs. Overall, MON the number of working women has roughly doubled in 15 MON years. But what effect does this increase have on the MON traditional family structure and how do working mothers MON cope with juggling a demanding job and childcare MON responsibilities? Radhika Chopra is a sociologist from the MON University of Delhi and Rupa Jha is a BBC Hindi MON The English marriage has a long and eccentric history. MON Long after the rest of Europe and neighbouring Scotland MON reformed their marriage laws, England continued to stick MON to the chaotic laws of the medieval Church making it all MON too easy to enter into a marriage, and virtually MON impossible to end an unhappy one. Until the second half of MON the 19th century, when a woman married, she gave up her MON legal rights and literally became the property of her MON husband. With a few notable exceptions, people very rarely MON married for love. Social historian and author Maureen MON Waller talks to Jane about her latest book, The English MON Marriage, that covers the fascinating story of marriage's MON evolution from medieval times right up until t MON Lynne Truss, the best-selling author of Eats, Shoots and MON Leaves, talks about her new book, Get Her off the Pitch. MON MON 11:00 Bristol: Cycling City b00mx6bc (Listen) MON In 2008 Bristol won the bid to be the demonstration MON 'Cycling City' for the rest of the country, despite having MON lots of hills, narrow roads and a huge level of car MON dependency. MON A year into the launch of Cycling City, Miles Warde bikes MON round Bristol to find out how the initiative is working on MON the streets, where the 22.8 million pounds that has been MON ringfenced for the project is going, and the chances of MON reaching the highly ambitious target of doubling the MON number of cyclists in the area within three years. MON He hears from a range of cyclists, some of the people MON responsible for the budget, and a couple of cycling MON visionaries who sense that a better world is within our MON grasp. MON MON 11:30 The Maltby Collection b00mvr2w (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 6 MON Sitcom by David Nobbs, set in a museum. MON Walter continues to be suspicious of his wife's attempts MON at reconciliation, and the Crumb-Looselys' long-distance MON relationship steers towards the rocks. MON Rod Millet ...... Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Walter Brindle ...... Geoffrey Palmer MON Prunella 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 Vicar ...... Stephen K Amos. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00mvd1r (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00mvd46 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00mvd4x (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00mvs8r (Listen) MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, MON featuring Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern MON Ireland, versus Patrick Hannan and Peter Stead of Wales. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00mv0lr (Listen) MON Ed receives some birthday wisdom. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mw15p (Listen) MON Hoffnung - Drawn to Music MON Comedy by Alan Stafford exploring the bizarre world of MON musical humorist Gerard Hoffnung. MON It is 1956, and the fruity-voiced raconteur, tuba player MON and occasional Quasimodo impersonator Gerard Hoffnung is MON about to unveil his latest madcap scheme, a Hoffnung Music MON Festival: a full-scale symphonic concert that will bring MON many of his cartoon creations to life and poke fun at the MON pomposities of classical music. Will he succeed in filling MON the Royal Festival Hall with laughter, or will the whole MON enterprise come crashing to earth like a barrel of bricks? MON Gerard Hoffnung/Psychiatrist 2 ...... Matt Lucas MON Annetta Hoffnung ...... Gina McKee MON Donald Swann/Ian Messiter ...... Stephen Boswell MON Malcolm Arnold/Bean ...... Nicholas Jones MON John Amis/Roy Plomley/Richard Dimbleby ...... Jon Glover MON Arthur Drummer ...... Hugh Bonneville MON Susan Drummer/Announcer ...... Felicity Montagu MON Annetta Hoffnung (present day) ...... Herself MON Directed by Lissa Evans MON An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00mtnq7 (Listen) MON Self on Ballard MON Will Self explores the imagination and work of writer JG MON Ballard, who he came to know in his final years. Will MON draws on the many telling interviews that Ballard gave MON throughout his working life and on Self's own tapes of his MON encounters with him. MON From his life of suburban anonymity, Ballard charted the MON realms of innerspace and the madness of the modern world MON with a cool eye and visionary prose. MON MON 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvf9x (Listen) MON The Bed MON Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals MON the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on MON first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of MON which have never been heard before. Including songs which MON have been specially recorded for the series. MON The series begins at the very heart of private life: in MON the deep comfort of the matrimonial bed, curtains drawn MON round the four-poster. What happened next is revealed by MON 16th-century diaries - 'curtain lectures', in which the MON wife gave her husband a good talking to, and the pleasure MON of making up afterwards. MON Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly MON and Simon Tcherniak. MON Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David MON Owen Norris at the keyboard. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00mtqyt (Listen) MON Slow Cheese MON Sheila Dillon travels to Italy to meet producers of rare MON and unusual cheeses from around the world. The biennial MON event, organised by Slow Food, is aimed at keeping MON traditional cheese making alive. MON Among the hundreds of cheese producers who travelled to MON the northern Italian town were three farmers still making MON artisan Somerset Cheddar. It is a cheese which is still MON made using raw milk, with a traditional starter and is MON crafted by hand and matured in lard soaked muslin. MON As Sheila finds out, the Somerset Cheddar makers have MON travelled to Bra in a bid to rescue the name of Cheddar MON from the world of industrial block cheeses now produced MON all over the world. MON MON 16:30 Tracing Your Roots b00mw15r (Listen) MON Series 4, Episode 5 MON Sally Magnusson presents the series exploring the practice MON of researching family history. MON Researching the life of an adoptive relative, living or MON deceased, is often challenging. Sally and resident MON genealogist Nick Barratt hear listeners' stories about the MON emotional process of searching for biological roots and MON offer advice on how best to proceed. MON MON 17:00 PM b00mvgcl (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00mvgfq (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00mw196 (Listen) MON Series 55, Episode 10 MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Featuring MON Graham Norton and Paul Merton on how to outdo the other MON panellists, Gyles Brandreth on the subject of pretentious MON vocabulary, and Pauline McLynn on junk mail. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00mvdwq (Listen) MON Jim's charms don't wash with Kathy. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00mvj30 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an MON interview with Ricky Gervais about his film The Invention MON of Lying, which he has co-written and co-directed. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvkd0 (Listen) MON Craven, Episode 1 MON Police drama by Amelia Bullmore. MON DCI Sue Craven's new job starts with a new partner, DS MON Watende Robinson, and a burnt-out corpse. But before the MON day is out her secret past starts to become a professional MON problem that isn't going to go away. MON DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake MON DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora MON Macca ...... Jack Deam MON DI Bird ...... David Crellin MON DSI Price ...... James Quinn MON Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi MON Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward MON A Red production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:00 Morecambe: Chill Winds on the Bay b00mw25h (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON Following 12 months in the life of the seaside town of MON Morecambe as it fights a decline into deprivation and MON neglect in the teeth of recession. Millions of pounds of MON public money is being spent and private investors are MON staking their futures on a revival, but will their gamble MON pay off? MON Preparations for the make-or-break 2009 holiday season. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00mw2nh (Listen) MON Who's Afraid of the BNP? MON With the BNP hitting the headlines over their 2009 success MON in the European elections, Kenan Malik asks what the MON liberal response should be. Is it simply enough to MON demonise this far-right party, or has the time arrived for MON us all to open up to a more sophisticated debate which MON allows for a greater understanding of what the BNP stands MON for? MON MON 21:00 Costing the Earth b00mw2nk (Listen) MON The Great Mineral Heist MON Over the past 70 years the levels of crucial minerals in MON our basic foods have declined significantly. This is bad MON news for consumers in the west, but potentially deadly MON news for those in the developing world who cannot afford a MON perfectly balanced diet. MON Alice Roberts sets out to uncover the culprit and find a MON solution. Do we need to shorten our food chains, MON de-intensify our agriculture, or simply turn to the MON varieties of fruit and veg enjoyed by our grandparents? MON In Perthshire, Moira and Cameron Thomson spread their own MON mixture of compost and rock dust onto their poor Highland MON soils. They are convinced that the rock dust is replacing MON the lost minerals from the soil, resulting in enormous and MON very tasty broccoli, parsnips and carrots. MON Meanwhile at the University of Nottingham, Dr Martin MON Broadley uses a combination of mathematics and applied MON biology to find a way to breed crop roots that extract MON more of the minerals that are available in the soil. MON From the Cotswold kitchen of food writer Diane Purkiss to MON the world's largest potting shed at the National Soil MON Archive in Aberdeen, Alice compares and contrasts the MON diet, soils and plants of the 1930s and the present day in MON her search for the world's lost minerals. MON MON 21:30 A History of Private Life b00mvr2r (Listen) MON A History of Private Life: Discussion MON Tom Sutcliffe chairs a discussion with historian Amanda MON Vickery, Simon Jenkins of the National Trust, MON anthropologist Daniel Miller and sociologist Elizabeth MON Silva. Responding to Amanda Vickery's new series about the MON history of private life, they debate the meaning of home MON today. MON Together they look at the concerns which have dominated MON life inside the home for hundreds of years. Why are MON tussles over who rules the roost a persistent theme? Are MON modern homes increasingly atomised, separated from local MON communities and housing an army of home-workers and MON divorcing couples unable to afford to sell their houses? MON Or are they predominantly a safe refuge from which MON householders can show off their exquisite taste and MON treasured possessions, while leading harmonious and MON socially integrated lives? MON The panel examine which of these and many other views MON might shape how historians of the future will view the MON private lives we lead at the beginning of the 21st century. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00mvm0l (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmhg (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00mvmq6 (Listen) MON Fathers and Sons, Episode 1 MON Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First MON published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from MON university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, MON shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of MON the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older MON generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was MON both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing MON times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of MON the eternal difficulties between generations. MON Arkady returns to his doting father and uncle in the MON country. But the guest he brings with him looks set to MON ruffle feathers. MON Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. MON MON 23:00 With Great Pleasure b00d0wns (Listen) MON Jude Kelly MON Guest performers select their favourite pieces of writing. MON Jude Kelly, artistic director of London's refurbished MON Southbank Centre, where this programme is recorded, uses MON extracts from her favourite poetry and literature to argue MON the case for the central role of creativity and the arts MON in society. Readers are Diana Quick and John Shrapnel. MON MON 23:30 Black Screen Britain b00jhpj7 (Listen) MON Reclaiming Our Image MON Burt Caesar explores how British film and television drama MON portrayed post-war African-Caribbean migrants and created MON opportunities for pioneering black actors such as Earl MON Cameron, Cy Grant and Mona Hammond. MON In the 1970s, a growing number of black writers and film MON makers started to challenge the prevailing stereotypes of MON black people and to tell their own stories. Burt examines MON some of the landmark screen dramas that presented an MON alternative view of black lives in Britain. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00mvbqv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00mvct3 (Listen) TUE Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 1 TUE Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. TUE Williams' early life and the enormous influence of her TUE mother, Vera Brittain, and her father, George Caitlin - TUE not to mention the permanent house guest, Winifred Holtby. TUE Abridged by Polly Coles. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbvn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc4v (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00mvc9v (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvcdt (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00mvckp (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00mvcq2 (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The House I Grew up In b00mw5n3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Jonathan Aitken TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken, TUE convicted of perjury in 1999, takes Wendy to Dublin to TUE talk about his childhood there, where he remembers his TUE unconventional early home - a hospital ward run by TUE Catholic nuns for children with TB. They also visit his TUE second home in Halesworth in Suffolk, where Jonathan TUE learned to walk again, as did his father, who had been TUE severely injured during the Second World War. TUE TUE 09:30 The Good Samaritan b00mw5n5 (Listen) TUE The Butterfields' Story TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have lent a helping TUE hand, with varying consequences. TUE Jane and Ashley Butterfield used to organise railway tours TUE of India. Distressed by the sight of children living rough TUE near railway lines, they set up their own charity to run a TUE home for girls on the outskirts of Delhi. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00mzsvp (Listen) TUE Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 2 TUE Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. TUE During the Second World War, Williams and her brother are TUE sent to America as evacuees. When she returns, she is one TUE of the first young people to visit war-shattered Germany. TUE Abridged by Polly Coles. TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvcxc (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Craven. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00mw5n7 (Listen) TUE Series 3, In Search of Jenny TUE Gorillas first came to the attention of the western world TUE in 1847 when the missionary, Thomas Savage, travelling in TUE west Africa, was shown a skull he was convinced belonged TUE to a new species of ape. Eight years later gorillas TUE remained little known; only a few people had even glimpsed TUE them in the wild and the species was recognised only from TUE its bones. But, unknown to anyone, was a young gorilla TUE already living anonymously in England? TUE In 1855, Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie exhibited a TUE chimpanzee called Jenny. Jenny was not kept with the other TUE wild beasts but lived in her own apartment. She had her TUE own governess and was dressed in human clothes. Was Jenny TUE a chimpanzee or was she, in reality, a gorilla? Karen TUE Partridge goes in search of the evidence. TUE Jenny's journey out of Africa a little over 150 years ago TUE marked the beginning of our tortuous and often misguided TUE association with gorillas. In this International Year of TUE the Gorilla, Karen Partridge uncovers Jenny's story and TUE explores our changing relationship with gorillas, both in TUE captivity and in the wild. TUE TUE 11:30 Morpurgo's Islands of Inspiration b00mwl6s (Listen) TUE Children's writer Michael Morpurgo travels to the Isles of TUE Scilly to explore their myths and legends, and how they TUE have been a huge source of inspiration to his writing. TUE He reluctantly visited Scilly for the first time over 30 TUE years ago, but the experience was a revelation to him as TUE he discovered that, 'every rock and wreck has a story to TUE tell'. Morpurgo speaks to Scillonians about life there and TUE considers the islands' exceptional natural beauty, rich TUE history and sense of community. TUE He also investigates some of the local stories which have TUE provided source material for some of his best known TUE novels, including Why the Whales Came. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00mvczt (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00mvd1t (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00mvd48 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00mw5v5 (Listen) TUE Series 8, Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs TUE Series exploring famous pieces of music and their TUE emotional appeal. TUE Richard Strauss was 84 when he completed his last work. It TUE was the Four Last Songs, which, although about death, TUE convey a sense of calm acceptance. It was written of its TUE time in 1948, but it still touches the hearts of many TUE listeners today. TUE As the soprano voice delves ever deeper into the richness TUE of the music, interviewees tell how the Four Last Songs TUE have brought calm and beauty at key moments in their lives. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00mvdwq (Listen) TUE Jim's charms don't wash with Kathy. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00byn74 (Listen) TUE Dickens Confidential, Gangs of London TUE Series of plays looking at how Charles Dickens, as the TUE head of a daily paper, would have tackled bringing the TUE news to the masses. TUE By Mike Walker. TUE New criminal gangs are active on the streets of London. A TUE mugging of their financier Joseph Paxton points Dickens TUE and his investigative team to a connection between the TUE gangs and a plot to rock the very heart of the financial TUE world. TUE Charles Dickens ...... Dan Stevens TUE Agnes Paxton ...... Eleanor Howell TUE Jack Marshall ...... Freddy White TUE Daniel Parker ...... Andrew Buchan TUE Joseph Paxton ...... John Dougall TUE Mickey's Jim ...... Gerard Murphy TUE Iron Billy ...... John Rowe TUE Gasman ...... Ben Crowe TUE Harry ...... Stephen Critchlow TUE Thug ...... Chris Pavlo TUE Woman ...... Liz Sutherland TUE Directed by David Hunter. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00mw7dq (Listen) TUE Sea levels are rising. Its a slow rise on a human scale TUE but inexorable. Within a few decades we are likely to see TUE significant amounts of coastal land disappear. But just TUE what will this mean for the ecology of the Earth. Will a TUE more watery world have a radically different climate? Will TUE it become a soggier place to live overall? TUE A wetter world might make it harder to get around but TUE until that happens, one Home Planet listener wants to put TUE trucks and lorries under curfew to reduce the congestion TUE on our busy roads. Is this a good idea and will it really TUE make it easier to travel? TUE We return to the thorny issue of disposing of unwanted TUE wood. Isn't it, asks one listener, a good idea to bury it TUE in landfill and lock the carbon it contains safely away TUE from the atmosphere? And we look again at hemp. It seems TUE that much has happened in the few short weeks since we TUE last discussed the potential of this plant. TUE On the panel are planning expert Professor Yvonne Rydin, TUE sustainable development specialist Dr Ros Taylor and TUE Professor Philip Stott, an environmental scientist from TUE the University of London. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mwcyy (Listen) TUE Welsh Rarebits, Golden Swirls TUE Series of new short stories from Wales by established and TUE lesser-known authors. TUE By Anna Smith, read by Matthew Gravelle. TUE Seventeen-year-old Gavin does not enjoy being a carpet TUE fitter - especially when he has to placate Mrs Leopold, an TUE unsatisfied customer with a swirly coffee-coloured carpet. TUE But when they feel the wool/nylon mix beneath their bare TUE feet, both are surprised at where it leads them. TUE TUE 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvfp9 (Listen) TUE Things That Go Bump in the Night TUE Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals TUE the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on TUE first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of TUE which have never been heard before. Including songs which TUE have been specially recorded for the series. TUE Outside the home, dark forces gathered: witches and TUE ghosts, who came through the windows and doors at night TUE and threatened people in bed. Testimonials from witchcraft TUE trials reveal people's darkest fears and fantasies about TUE what happened outside at night, and how their homes TUE protected them. TUE Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly TUE and Simon Tcherniak. TUE Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David TUE Owen Norris at the keyboard. TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 From Abacus to Circle Time: A Short History of the TUE Primary S b00mwm63 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE Education journalist Mike Baker traces the controversial TUE changes to the ways we have educated our youngest children TUE over the past 150 years, from the rigidity of the TUE Victorian age to the occasionally anarchic, experiential TUE learning of the progressive 1970s. TUE Mike explores the parallels between the Victorian TUE 'payment-by-results' approach and the pressures of league TUE tables and the national test targets set by Tony Blair's TUE New Labour government. It reveals how teachers lost the TUE trust of government and how politicians 'nationalised' TUE teaching. Calling on vivid views and reminiscences of TUE parents and teachers, the programme hears how some TUE welcomed the new focus on a centralised curriculum and TUE test targets while others hated it. TUE Through interviews with key policy makers and experts, TUE including David Blunkett, Sir Tim Brighouse and Prof Robin TUE Alexander, the programme explains why arguments over TUE curriculum, teaching methods and testing are deeply rooted TUE in our ideas about the nature, development and role of TUE young people in society. TUE The former Chief Inspector of Schools in England, Chris TUE Woodhead, who helped devise the national curriculum, TUE reveals that he now thinks that a centrally-set timetable TUE is the wrong approach. Instead, he advocates a market TUE system based on parental vouchers. After several swings of TUE the pendulum between the extremes of formality versus TUE informality, facts versus skills and basics versus TUE creativity, the programme asks where the balance should TUE lie now and in the future. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00mwm65 (Listen) TUE Series 19, Rudyard Kipling TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE John Major discusses the life of Rudyard Kipling, poet to TUE the British Empire. They are joined by Kipling biographer TUE Andrew Lycett. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00mvgb5 (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 b00mvgcn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mwm67 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Episode 6 TUE Comedy sketch show starring David Mitchell and Robert TUE Webb, with Olivia Colman, James Bachman and Sarah Hadland. TUE Including Britain's top police tortoise, why you need to TUE eat an enormous amount of yoghurt, the short-lived history TUE of the Tudor salad, and a panel of old ladies give David TUE and Robert some career advice. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00mvddk (Listen) TUE The battle lines are drawn for Neil and Lynda. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00mvgfs (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews. Kirsty Lang reports from Tate TUE Modern on Pop Life, a new exhibition about the TUE relationship between art, money and fame. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvk4s (Listen) TUE Craven, Episode 2 TUE Police drama by Amelia Bullmore. TUE DCI Sue Craven and DS Watende Robinson unite against TUE bigotry and rising racial tensions, both in the office and TUE on their murder cases, as things get personal and TUE compromised. TUE DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake TUE DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora TUE Macca ...... Jack Deam TUE DI Bird ...... David Crellin TUE DSI Price ...... James Quinn TUE Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi TUE Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward TUE A Red production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00mwms4 (Listen) TUE Following criticism of the NHS over the system failures TUE which allowed a man with schizophrenia to kill two people, TUE Miriam O'Reilly investigates claims of widespread problems TUE in community mental health services which are allowing TUE dangerous patients to commit violent offences or to harm TUE themselves. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00mwms6 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Adults With Autism b00mwms8 (Listen) TUE With an estimated half a million adult autistics in this TUE country, Mike Embley explores the autistic mind and asks TUE why so many people are diagnosed later in life. He finds TUE out about the help and support available as well as the TUE latest scientific research, from the investigation of TUE genes and hormones to MRI scans to look inside the TUE autistic brain. TUE TUE 21:30 The House I Grew up In b00mw5n3 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Jonathan Aitken TUE Wendy Robbins presents a series revisiting the childhood TUE neighbourhoods of influential Britons. TUE Former Conservative cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken, TUE convicted of perjury in 1999, takes Wendy to Dublin to TUE talk about his childhood there, where he remembers his TUE unconventional early home - a hospital ward run by TUE Catholic nuns for children with TB. They also visit his TUE second home in Halesworth in Suffolk, where Jonathan TUE learned to walk again, as did his father, who had been TUE severely injured during the Second World War. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00mvm0b (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmh4 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n10jm (Listen) TUE Fathers and Sons, Episode 2 TUE Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First TUE published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from TUE university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, TUE shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of TUE the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older TUE generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was TUE both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing TUE times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of TUE the eternal difficulties between generations. TUE The powerful influence that Arkady's new friend Bavarov TUE exerts on the young graduate, and the radical views he TUE holds, begin to become clear to both Arkady's doting TUE father, Nikolay, and his fastidious uncle, Pavel. TUE Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. TUE TUE 23:00 Child's Play b00mwr6b (Listen) TUE Comedy by Lucy Clarke, set in a children's nursery. TUE After an indiscretion involving OAPS, MRSA and mint TUE humbugs, Harry, a chirpy City boy, is banished to the TUE country by his boss and told to turn a village nursery TUE into a money-making machine, or face the sack. There, he TUE comes head to head with Pen, who used to run the nursery TUE before her husband sold it and ran off to South America TUE with a stripper. TUE Pen ...... Olivia Colman TUE Harry ...... Nicholas Burns TUE Ruth ...... Daisy Haggard TUE Rex ...... Matthew Holmes TUE Vicar ...... Rachel Atkins TUE Rabbi ...... Geoffrey McGivern TUE Catholic priest/Imam ...... Ewan Hooper TUE Joanne ...... Barbara Smith TUE Darren ...... Bradley Ford. TUE TUE 23:30 Another Case of Milton Jones b007gyxy (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE Milton Jones bestrides the globe as an expert in his TUE field, with no ability whatsoever. TUE This programme finds him in the guise of a world-famous TUE jockey who begins his career on the sands of Blackpool TUE beach and ends in a thrilling photo-finish in Dubai. TUE Also starring Tom Goodman-Hill, Dave Lamb and Lucy TUE Montgomery. TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00mvbqx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00mzsvp (Listen) WED Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 2 WED Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. WED During the Second World War, Williams and her brother are WED sent to America as evacuees. When she returns, she is one WED of the first young people to visit war-shattered Germany. WED Abridged by Polly Coles. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbvq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc4x (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00mvc9x (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvcdw (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00mvckr (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00mvcq5 (Listen) WED With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00mwrh7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Timothy Knatchbull. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00mzsv5 (Listen) WED Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 3 WED Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. WED In 1964, Williams is elected as Labour MP for Hitchin. She WED examines the difficulties facing a woman MP, many of which WED continue even today. WED Abridged by Polly Coles. WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvcxf (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Craven. WED WED 11:00 Calling Hereford b00mwrh9 (Listen) WED For the last 30 years, staff at the world's largest earth WED satellite station in Herefordshire have watched global WED news unfold - immediate, uncensored and unedited. Foreign WED correspondent Hugh Sykes visits the site and meets the WED workers who have seen world history in the raw. WED WED 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00jf3hl (Listen) WED Series 3, Fife Circle WED Series of three comic plays starring Stanley Baxter. WED Two elderly brothers meet at Waverley station and set out WED on a journey of discovery involving lost mothers, fathers, WED brothers and sisters, and learn just whom they really WED belong to. WED By Michael Chaplin. WED Sir Hugh Dundas/Alex Kelly ...... Stanley Baxter WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00mvczw (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00mvd1w (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00mvd4b (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00mwrhc (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00mvddk (Listen) WED The battle lines are drawn for Neil and Lynda. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bw6vp (Listen) WED Take One Night WED By Rachel Joyce. WED On the eve of their son's 10th birthday, Alan and Alice WED start work assembling his present. The only instruction WED they can find simply says, 'Take one night'. WED Alan ...... Robert Bathurst WED Alice ...... Felicity Montagu WED William ...... Charlie Rowe WED Directed by Jeremy Mortimer. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00mwrhf (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mwfcc (Listen) WED Welsh Rarebits, Moving On WED Series of new short stories from Wales by established and WED lesser-known authors. WED By Catrin Gerallt, read by Sara McGaughey. WED Now that Gareth has left, Bethan is on her own again, WED quietly terrified at finding herself in the category WED 'newly single mother-of-two'. But an encounter in an Irish WED bar makes her realise that life is full of possibilities. WED WED 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvg03 (Listen) WED The State in Miniature WED Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals WED the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on WED first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of WED which have never been heard before. Including songs which WED have been specially recorded for the series. WED The hierarchy within the home was supposed to reflect the WED well-ordered society outside it. That was the theory, WED anyway. But what do letters and diaries from the 16th and WED 17th centuries tell us about who was really in charge? WED Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly WED and Simon Tcherniak. WED Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David WED Owen Norris at the keyboard. WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00mwrhh (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor discusses the language of crime and the WED codes of criminal communication with Diego Gambetta, mafia WED scholar and criminal sociologist. He finds out why, in WED order to survive in the criminal underworld, language WED requires subtle, coded and sometimes gruesome modes of WED communication. WED From horses heads in bed to scars and tattoos, Laurie WED finds out why the language of the criminal underworld is WED often written in code. WED WED 16:30 Adults With Autism b00mwms8 (Listen) WED With an estimated half a million adult autistics in this WED country, Mike Embley explores the autistic mind and asks WED why so many people are diagnosed later in life. He finds WED out about the help and support available as well as the WED latest scientific research, from the investigation of WED genes and hormones to MRI scans to look inside the WED autistic brain. WED WED 17:00 PM b00mvgb7 (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 b00mvgcq (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Chain Reaction b00mwrhk (Listen) WED Series 5, Alistair McGowan WED Chat show in which the one week's interviewee becomes the WED following week's interviewer. WED Alastair Campbell interviews impressionist, comedian and WED actor Alistair McGowan. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00mvddm (Listen) WED Tony feels usurped at Home Farm. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00mvgfv (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including a review WED of a new stage version of Breakfast at Tiffany's, starring WED Anna Friel. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvk4v (Listen) WED Craven, Episode 3 WED Police drama by Amelia Bullmore. WED Craven risks exposure as Robinson gets nearer to the WED intimate truth of the Fenton murder case. As Craven WED promises to look into racial harassment by the force in WED the past, DI Bird's sloppy policing threatens its future. WED DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake WED DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora WED Macca ...... Jack Deam WED DI Bird ...... David Crellin WED DSI Price ...... James Quinn WED Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi WED Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward WED A Red production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:00 From Abacus to Circle Time: The Primary School WED Debate b00mws3r (Listen) WED Following education journalist Mike Baker's three-part WED series on the history of primary schools, Jane Garvey WED chairs a debate on the future of education for the under WED 11s. WED 2009 sees a critical and uncertain time in primary WED schooling. The 'root and branch reform' of the curriculum WED promised by schools secretary Ed Balls has led to the WED publication of Sir Jim Rose's review. The wider-ranging WED Cambridge Primary Review, led by Prof Robin Alexander, is WED also due. Add to the mix a possible change of political WED leadership before the new system is implemented in WED September 2011, and the only real certainty is that major WED change will come to a primary school near you. WED The programme is recorded at the Institute of Education in WED London, in front of an audience. The expert panel, made up WED of primary practictioners, educationalists and parents, WED take questions and comments from the audience and set out WED to address the question, 'What is the purpose of primary WED education, and how can we best provide it?'. WED WED 20:45 Peace In Our Time - And What Followed It b00mws3t (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED It is 40 years since the Troubles started and ten since WED they stopped, but has that decade brought Northern Ireland WED ten years closer to normality? Is the news agenda now WED about race, health and education issues, or is terrorism a WED black hole from which the headlines can never fully escape? WED Reporter Tara Mills finds out how journalists and WED politicians have made the leap from being feted by WED presidents and prime ministers to having to deal with the WED backlog of 'normal' politics. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00mw5n7 (Listen) WED Series 3, In Search of Jenny WED Gorillas first came to the attention of the western world WED in 1847 when the missionary, Thomas Savage, travelling in WED west Africa, was shown a skull he was convinced belonged WED to a new species of ape. Eight years later gorillas WED remained little known; only a few people had even glimpsed WED them in the wild and the species was recognised only from WED its bones. But, unknown to anyone, was a young gorilla WED already living anonymously in England? WED In 1855, Wombwell's Travelling Menagerie exhibited a WED chimpanzee called Jenny. Jenny was not kept with the other WED wild beasts but lived in her own apartment. She had her WED own governess and was dressed in human clothes. Was Jenny WED a chimpanzee or was she, in reality, a gorilla? Karen WED Partridge goes in search of the evidence. WED Jenny's journey out of Africa a little over 150 years ago WED marked the beginning of our tortuous and often misguided WED association with gorillas. In this International Year of WED the Gorilla, Karen Partridge uncovers Jenny's story and WED explores our changing relationship with gorillas, both in WED captivity and in the wild. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00mwrh7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests including Timothy Knatchbull. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00mvm0d (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmh6 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n10jf (Listen) WED Fathers and Sons, Episode 3 WED Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First WED published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from WED university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, WED shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of WED the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older WED generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was WED both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing WED times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of WED the eternal difficulties between generations. WED Increasingly irritated by Bavarov's dismissal of the older WED generation and all they stand for, Pavel Petrovich WED determines to have a set-to with him - but the results are WED not as he would have hoped. WED Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. WED WED 23:00 Cowards b007jf0x (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 6 WED Sketch comedy from Tom Basden, Stefan Golaszewski, Tim Key WED and Lloyd Woolf. WED WED 23:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: Dead Side of The Mic WED b00g4zgx (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Dramatised by Jeremy Front from the novel by Simon Brett. WED Charles comes face to face with the murderer in the BBC WED sound effects store. WED Charles Paris ...... Bill Nighy WED Frances Paris ...... Suzanne Burden WED Juliet Paris/Pixie ...... Tilly Gaunt WED Maurice ...... Jon Glover WED Tom McLeish ...... Nicky Henson WED Jamie ...... Alex Lanipekun WED Toby ...... Paul Rider WED Steph Kennett ...... Emily Raymond WED Edwin Palmer ...... Chris Pavlo WED Directed by Sally Avens. WED WED THU THURSDAY 1 OCTOBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00mvbqz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00mzsv5 (Listen) THU Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 3 THU Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. THU In 1964, Williams is elected as Labour MP for Hitchin. She THU examines the difficulties facing a woman MP, many of which THU continue even today. THU Abridged by Polly Coles. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbvs (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc50 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00mvc9z (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvcdy (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00mvckt (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00mvcq7 (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00mwsly (Listen) THU Akhenaton THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Elizabeth Frood, Richard Parkinson THU and Kate Spence discuss Akhenaton, the ruler who brought THU revolutionary change to ancient Egypt. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00mzsv7 (Listen) THU Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 4 THU Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. THU The launch of the Social Democratic Party in 1981. THU Determined not to be seen as merely a London initiative, THU the four new leaders went on a whirlwind tour of the THU country. It looked like the dawning of a new political age. THU Abridged by Polly Coles. THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvcxh (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Craven. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00mwsm0 (Listen) THU Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Encore! b00mw5nc (Listen) THU Singer Guy Garvey explores the development of the musical THU encore, from the spontaneous demand for a repeat THU performance to the predictable delivery of a closing party THU piece. THU Speaking to fellow performers and hearing from historians, THU he discovers how the encore has progressed over time. In THU the 17th and 18th century orchestras would be applauded THU after each movement of a symphony, often repeating the THU most popular movements a number of times before moving on THU the rest of the concert. The demand for more seemed to be THU spontaneous and unexpected. Nowadays, however, all encores THU are saved for the end of an evening and are hardly, if THU ever, a repeat of what has been heard before. THU Guy asks how acts choose their encores, if there is an art THU to the good encore and if there are any artists today who THU are trying to breath new life into the practice. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00mvczy (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00mvd1y (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00mvd4d (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00mw2nk (Listen) THU The Great Mineral Heist THU Over the past 70 years the levels of crucial minerals in THU our basic foods have declined significantly. This is bad THU news for consumers in the west, but potentially deadly THU news for those in the developing world who cannot afford a THU perfectly balanced diet. THU Alice Roberts sets out to uncover the culprit and find a THU solution. Do we need to shorten our food chains, THU de-intensify our agriculture, or simply turn to the THU varieties of fruit and veg enjoyed by our grandparents? THU In Perthshire, Moira and Cameron Thomson spread their own THU mixture of compost and rock dust onto their poor Highland THU soils. They are convinced that the rock dust is replacing THU the lost minerals from the soil, resulting in enormous and THU very tasty broccoli, parsnips and carrots. THU Meanwhile at the University of Nottingham, Dr Martin THU Broadley uses a combination of mathematics and applied THU biology to find a way to breed crop roots that extract THU more of the minerals that are available in the soil. THU From the Cotswold kitchen of food writer Diane Purkiss to THU the world's largest potting shed at the National Soil THU Archive in Aberdeen, Alice compares and contrasts the THU diet, soils and plants of the 1930s and the present day in THU her search for the world's lost minerals. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00mvddm (Listen) THU Tony feels usurped at Home Farm. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bfyc8 (Listen) THU A Wedding in Krakow THU Ewa Banaszkiewicz's tender story offers a fresh THU perspective on the lives of Polish people living in THU England. THU Staszek returns to Krakow for his daughter's wedding. He THU has been dreading the visit, having abandoned his pregnant THU girlfriend 20 years before. Not only is he tortured by THU guilt at having never lived up to being a father, he also THU has a secret that he would like to keep. THU Staszek ...... Peter Czajkowski THU Sandra ...... Helen Longworth THU Zuza ...... Aneta Piotrowska THU Wojtek ...... Sebastian Palka THU Ela ...... Joanna Kanska THU Stefan ...... Wojtek Piekarski THU Maria ...... Ruth Posner THU Directed by Pam Marshall. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b00mtm8z (Listen) THU Series 13, Episode 2 THU Clare Balding walks the length of St Oswald's Way in THU Northumberland. THU The second section of the route takes Clare from Belford THU to Beadnell in the company of Iain Robson and Tom THU Cadwallender, who guide Clare through the highlights of THU this stretch of the route. Iain and Tom both help to THU maintain the area for the Northumberland National Park, THU and the two long-distance paths on their patch help to THU ensure that a steady stream of enthusiastic walkers visit THU the county. THU St Oswald's Way is a 97-mile route, running from Holy THU Island in the north, alog the stunning Northumberland THU coast before heading inland to Heavensfield and Hadrian's THU Wall. The path links some of the places associated with St THU Oswald, the King of Northumbria in the early-seventh THU century, who played a major part in bringing Christianity THU to his people. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00mtq2m (Listen) THU Primary Trauma Care Foundation THU Sir Terence English appeals on behalf of Primary Trauma THU Care Foundation. THU Donations to Primary Trauma Care Foundation should be sent THU to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of THU your envelope PTC. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. THU If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Primary Trauma THU Care Foundation with your full name and address so they THU can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and THU phone donation facilities are not currently available to THU listeners without a UK postcode. THU Registered Charity No: 1116071. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00mwfcf (Listen) THU Welsh Rarebits, Hurry On Sundown THU Series of new short stories from Wales by established and THU lesser-known authors. THU By Dan Anthony, read by Iestyn Jones. THU In a police cell, Cliff tries to work out just what is THU worst about his situation - the fact that he is about to THU be charged for drunk and disorderly behaviour or that he THU appears to have time-travelled nearly 40 years. THU THU 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvfzz (Listen) THU Into the Closet THU Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals THU the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on THU first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of THU which have never been heard before. Including songs which THU have been specially recorded for the series. THU By the 17th century, privacy meant withdrawing into a THU closet - a tiny private space in the corner of a room. THU There people could pray, read, play music and escape from THU the rest of the household. For women, it was often their THU only private space, as revealed by the shocking diary of a THU woman married to a psychopath, who managed to lock herself THU into her closet to escape from him. THU Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly THU and Simon Tcherniak. THU Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David THU Owen Norris at the keyboard. THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00mtwd1 (Listen) THU Mariella Frostrup celebrates fiction from Down Under, in THU conversation with some of Australia's best-known writers. THU Richard Flanagan, the author of the cult bestseller THU Gould's Book of Fish, explains how the sometimes painful THU history of his native Tasmania became the subject of his THU latest novel Wanting. THU Tim Winton, whose books include Dirt Music and Breath, THU describes the Western Australian landscape that has THU inspired most of his work. THU And Thomas Keneally, the Booker-winning author of THU Schindler's Ark, joins the Aboriginal writer Alexis Wright THU to discuss a major new anthology of Australian literature THU with the collection's editor, Nicholas Jose. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00mwtcn (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper and guests dissect the week's science. THU THU 17:00 PM b00mvgb9 (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 b00mvgcs (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00gd4sy (Listen) THU Series 4, Alf Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmare THU Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur THU Strong is an expert in everything from the world of THU entertainment to the origins of the species, all false THU starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a THU delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance. THU After Gerry takes a tumble over a bucket mysteriously left THU in his cafe, Arthur steps in and offers to 'do an Alf THU Ramsey' by running the cafe in Gerry's absence. Culinary THU experimentation, customer service... Arthur's a natural. THU Or is he...? THU With Steve Delaney, Sue Perkins, Dave Mounfield and THU Alastair Kerr. THU A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for THU BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00mvddp (Listen) THU Mike gives Brenda a mixed blessing. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00mvgfx (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including an THU interview with the leading bass-baritone Bryn Terfel. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvk4x (Listen) THU Craven, Episode 4 THU Police drama by Amelia Bullmore. THU Happiness is short-lived as Craven is blamed in the press THU for DI Terry Bird's failings. Robinson discovers Craven's THU secret relationship with a witness, compromising both the THU investigation and her job. THU DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake THU DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora THU Macca ...... Jack Deam THU DI Bird ...... David Crellin THU DSI Price ...... James Quinn THU Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi THU Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward THU A Red production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00mwtcq (Listen) THU Sarah Rainsford investigates the mysterious disappearance THU of The Arctic Sea, the Russian-operated cargo ship which THU went missing off the coast of Britain. THU Was it the first modern case of piracy in Europe? Was the THU vessel part of a smuggling operation by the Russian mafia? THU Or was it an arms shipment on the way to the Middle East? THU Sarah explores the different theories as she retraces the THU ship's journey. THU THU 20:30 Bottom Line b00mwty5 (Listen) THU Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs THU and company bosses talk about the issues that matter to THU their companies and their customers. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00mwwgc (Listen) THU If two unknown young scientists came to the funding THU agencies today and said they wanted to try building wire THU models of molecules, would they get support? Unlikely THU perhaps, but in 1952, the young Crick and Watson were THU supported for just that and, as everyone knows, they went THU on to discover the secret of life: the structure of DNA. THU Today, the chief executive of Britain's Medical Research THU Council is Sir Leszek Botysiewicz, and he tells Geoff THU Watts about his prorities for funding basic research. THU They discuss if there is a place among all the urgent THU needs of clinical medicine for fundamental research that THU may not bear practical fruit for decades. Sir Leszek also THU describes his own research into viral immunity, which is THU already bringing very practical health gains in the form THU of one of the world's first anti-cancer vaccines. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00mwsly (Listen) THU Akhenaton THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Elizabeth Frood, Richard Parkinson THU and Kate Spence discuss Akhenaton, the ruler who brought THU revolutionary change to ancient Egypt. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00mvm0g (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmh8 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n10jh (Listen) THU Fathers and Sons, Episode 4 THU Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First THU published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from THU university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, THU shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of THU the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older THU generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was THU both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing THU times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of THU the eternal difficulties between generations. THU Arkady and Bavarov abandon the older generation for the THU delights of town, the governor's ball and independent THU women. THU Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. THU THU 23:00 Poetry Slam b00mx3y7 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU The second of two semi-finals from the Radio 4 poetry THU competition, in which spoken word performers from all THU around the country battle it out for the title of Radio 4 THU Slam Winner 2009. Hosted by poetry performer Dreadlock THU Alien and recorded at the South Street Arts Centre in THU Reading. THU Nine contestants from all around the country battle it out THU for three places in the final. THU For free tickets for the recording of the Poetry Slam THU final, at the Conservatoire in Birmingham on Tuesday 6th THU October at 7pm, please visit the Birmingham Book Festival THU website or ring 0121 303 2323. THU THU 23:30 Jon Ronson On b0076pzj (Listen) THU The Comfort of Strangers THU Jon Ronson collects a series of extraordinary stories to THU illuminate the human condition. THU Jon talks to Abdullah Redpath, who found and then lost the THU love of his life in a remarkable 12-hour period. Comedian THU Danny Robins tries to make new friends in Amsterdam and THU Miranda Sawyer interviews Mark Pilkington, who hitch-hiked THU and found himself in the company of helpful strangers who THU turned out to be criminals. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 2 OCTOBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00mvbr1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00mzsv7 (Listen) FRI Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 4 FRI Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. FRI The launch of the Social Democratic Party in 1981. FRI Determined not to be seen as merely a London initiative, FRI the four new leaders went on a whirlwind tour of the FRI country. It looked like the dawning of a new political age. FRI Abridged by Polly Coles. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00mvbvv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00mvc52 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00mvbxl (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00mvcb1 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00mvcf0 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Edward Kessler. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00mvckw (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00mvcqb (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00mtqyr (Listen) FRI Barry Manilow FRI Kirsty Young's castaway is Barry Manilow. FRI He has been a hugely successful performer for more than 30 FRI years but, in this intimate interview, he describes how it FRI was never the career he intended to have. He always knew FRI he would be a musician, but thought his future lay behind FRI the scenes, not at the front of the stage. Brought up by FRI his mother and grandparents in Brooklyn, money was always FRI scarce and family life often difficult - but when there FRI was music playing in their apartment, he says, the home FRI was a happy one. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00mzsv9 (Listen) FRI Climbing the Bookshelves, Episode 5 FRI Shirley Williams reads from her autobiography. FRI Despite its initial huge promise, the SDP finally wound FRI down and merged with the Liberal Party in 1988 to form the FRI Liberal Democrats. FRI Abridged by Polly Coles. FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00mvcxk (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Craven. FRI FRI 11:00 Black Men Can't Swim b00mvr2t (Listen) FRI Actor, comedian and non-swimmer Matt Blaize investigates FRI why fewer black people swim in the UK than the population FRI as a whole. FRI He examines physiological theories and training methods FRI and assesses the effect of cultural influences. Is it a FRI case of 'can't swim' or 'don't swim'? Does the lack of FRI role models dampen the desire to succeed at this sport FRI rather than at football or basketball, for example? FRI Matt travels to the United States to meet black swimmer FRI and Beijing Olympic gold medallist Cullen Jones, and, at FRI the age of 39, starts to learn to swim himself. FRI FRI 11:30 The Adventures of Inspector Steine b00mx6bf (Listen) FRI Separate Tables FRI Comedy drama series by Lynne Truss set in 1950s Brighton. FRI Brunswick has been sent undercover indefinitely in the FRI hope that it will make him forget his deadly grudge FRI against Inspector Steine. But Mrs Groynes seems more FRI interested in Twitten's criminal records. FRI Inspector Steine ...... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm FRI Constable Twitten ...... Matt Green FRI Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro FRI Unknown Villain ...... Adrian Bower FRI Ventriloquist Vince ...... Ewan Bailey FRI BBC Announcer/Tony ...... David Holt. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00mvd00 (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00mvd20 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00mvd4g (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00mx8rf (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00mvddp (Listen) FRI Mike gives Brenda a mixed blessing. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00mx8rh (Listen) FRI Love in A Glass Jar FRI Comedy by Nancy Harris. FRI Eve and Patrick are two strangers who begin chatting on a FRI dating website and agree to meet face-to-face in a hotel FRI room in order to carry out an unofficial sperm donation. FRI They both know why they are there, but do they know what FRI they want? FRI Eve ...... Niamh Cusack FRI Patrick ...... Lorcan Cranitch FRI Seamus Kenny ...... Stephen Hogan. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00mx963 (Listen) FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Matthew Biggs, Bunny Guinness and John Cushnie answer FRI questions posed by the gardeners of New Waltham, near FRI Grimsby. FRI John meets some of the characters behind Grimsby in Bloom, FRI including the man responsible for galvanising the FRI community into gardening action. FRI Jeffrey Bates from the RHS offers some tips on how your FRI town or village could enter next year's Britain in Bloom FRI campaign. FRI Pippa Greenwood meets some green-fingered kids in FRI Hampshire who are taking part in the Tree Council's Seed FRI Gathering Season. FRI And Matthew explains how simple it is to sow green manure FRI and so avoid exposing the bare earth to winter weather. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 A History of Private Life b00mvg01 (Listen) FRI Every Man's Home is His Castle FRI Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals FRI the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on FRI first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of FRI which have never been heard before. Including songs which FRI have been specially recorded for the series. FRI Elaborate rituals of locking up at night protected the FRI house from burglars. Records from Old Bailey trials reveal FRI how widespread burglary was, and how the law enshrined FRI that, 'the Englishman's home is his castle'. FRI Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly FRI and Simon Tcherniak. FRI Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David FRI Owen Norris at the keyboard. FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00mx965 (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 b00mydlf (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to French film-maker Agnes Varda FRI about her career, from the French New Wave to her latest FRI documentary, The Beaches of Agnes. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00mvgbc (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 b00mvgcv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00mydlh (Listen) FRI Series 69, Episode 2 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Mark Steel, Francis Wheen and FRI Sue Perkins. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00mvddr (Listen) FRI Jack goes on a downward spiral. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00mvgfz (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews. John Wilson talks to artist Damien FRI Hirst as he paints at his easel, cooks in his kitchen, and FRI visits the Wallace Collection in London, where his FRI paintings will hang along with Old Masters. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00mvk4z (Listen) FRI Craven, Episode 5 FRI Police drama by Amelia Bullmore. FRI With Robinson demanding Craven's resignation and refusing FRI to work with her, Craven and DI Bird are forced into an FRI uncomfortable pretence at teamwork to solve the JJ case. FRI With Macca's trust betrayed, can Craven's mistakes, past FRI and present, ever be forgiven? FRI DCI Sue Craven ...... Maxine Peake FRI DS Watende Robinson ...... Michael Obiora FRI Macca ...... Jack Deam FRI DI Bird ...... David Crellin FRI DSI Price ...... James Quinn FRI Michael Chambers ...... Reece Noi FRI Aaron Trent ...... Marcquelle Ward FRI A Red production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00mydlk (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair chairs the topical debate from Altrincham in FRI Cheshire. The panellists include Jo Swinson, Liberal FRI Democrat junior spokesperson on foreign affairs, and Eric FRI Pickles, chairman of the Conservative Party. FRI FRI 20:50 David Attenborough's Life Stories b00mydlm (Listen) FRI Amber FRI Series of talks by Sir David Attenborough on the natural FRI histories of creatures and plants from around the world. FRI As a boy, David Attenborough had a piece of amber in which FRI lay a blood-sucking fly; he still has it today. Would it FRI be possible to extract the DNA from one of these insects FRI caught in the resin and, maybe, recreate a dinosaur? FRI FRI 21:00 A History of Private Life: Omnibus b00mydlq (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI Omnibus edition of Prof Amanda Vickery's series revealing FRI the hidden history of home over 400 years, drawing on FRI first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of FRI which have never been heard before. Including songs which FRI have been specially recorded for the series. FRI The search for privacy, safety and comfort in the 16th and FRI 17th centuries. FRI The readers are Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine FRI Brolly and Simon Tcherniak. FRI The singers are Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with FRI David Owen Norris at the keyboard. FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00mvm0j (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00mvmhb (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00n10jk (Listen) FRI Fathers and Sons, Episode 5 FRI Douglas Hodge reads from the novel by Ivan Turgenev. First FRI published in 1862, this story of a young man's return from FRI university, accompanied by his radical friend Bavarov, FRI shocked its early readers. Turgenev's characterisation of FRI the outspoken young nihilist who criticises the older FRI generation of 'romantics' and rejects 'everything' was FRI both an alarmingly realistic depiction of the changing FRI times he saw around him and an uncomfortable reflection of FRI the eternal difficulties between generations. FRI Arkady and Bavarov carry out their proposed visit to Anna FRI Sergeyevna Odintsova's country estate and find that time FRI flies in good company. FRI Translated by Peter Carson and abridged by Sally Marmion. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00mwm65 (Listen) FRI Series 19, Rudyard Kipling FRI Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which FRI his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. FRI John Major discusses the life of Rudyard Kipling, poet to FRI the British Empire. They are joined by Kipling biographer FRI Andrew Lycett. FRI FRI 23:30 Misfits in France b00f4prv (Listen) FRI Broken in Berneval, Soaked in the Sea FRI Series in which Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee explore the FRI connections between a group of Victorian writers and FRI artists who crossed the English Channel for different FRI reasons. FRI Julian and Hermione travel to the north coast of France, FRI where, in the late 1860s, the poet Algernon Swinburne FRI spent time, as did the exiled Oscar Wilde some 30 years FRI later. They examine French attitudes to the life and work FRI of both men and the religious themes that link their FRI writing. FRI In the summer of 1868, local fishermen saved a drunken FRI Swinburne from drowning off the cliffs of Etretat. The FRI bizarre lunch to celebrate his survival was attended by FRI the teenage French writer Guy de Maupassant. FRI In 1897, an exiled Oscar Wilde held a fete for the locals FRI in Berneval and invited friends including Ernest Dowson to FRI distract him from working on his poem, The Ballad of FRI Reading Gaol. But as Wilde became progressively more FRI lonely, he started corresponding once more with Lord FRI Alfred Douglas. FRI Oscar Wilde ...... Simon Russell Beale FRI Algernon Swinburne ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI Guy de Maupassant ...... Stephen Critchlow. FRI FRI FRI