20 November, 2009

Radio 4 Listings for 21/11/2009 - 27/11/2009

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SAT SATURDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2009 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00nwt1q (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00ny29t (Listen) SAT Stirred But Not Shaken: The Autobiography, Episode 5 SAT By Keith Floyd, with James Steen. SAT Keith Floyd was one of the first chefs to become a SAT celebrity and led the way in filming cookery programmes on SAT location. With trademark bow tie and glass of wine in SAT hand, he inspired a generation to cook. SAT Keith was beginning to hate food and his excessive SAT drinking was about to take its toll. SAT Read by Michael Cochrane. SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier. SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nwt1s (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nwt1v (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nwt1x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00nwt1z (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nwt22 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00nwt24 (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00nwt26 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00nwt28 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00nwvx2 (Listen) SAT The Hanbury Crater SAT In the Staffordshire countryside, just a few miles from SAT Burton-on-Trent, a wire fence surrounds a deep crater SAT measuring over half a mile wide. Nearby signs warn passers SAT by of the sudden drop and that the land contains SAT unexploded bombs which, in the event of an explosion, SAT could cause injury or death. This is where what is widely SAT believed to be the UK's largest explosion occurred on SAT November 27th 1944 when an underground ammunition store at SAT nearby Fauld blew up detonating 3-4,000 tons of explosives SAT and devastating acres of countryside, killing 70 people, SAT hundreds of sheep and cattle and completely obliterating a SAT nearby farm. The Cock Inn in Hanbury was so badly damaged SAT that it had to be SAT On the 65th anniversary of the explosion, Helen Mark SAT visits Hanbury, the scene of this wartime tragedy, and SAT talks to local people and survivors about their memories SAT of that day and how the explosion changed their lives and SAT the landscape around them forever. For over 40 years, SAT nothing would grow in what became known to locals as the SAT 'bomb hole' until slowly nature began to reclaim the SAT Hanbury Crater. Helen is joined by the Time Team's SAT Professor Mick Aston and together they visit the crater SAT and go underground at Fauld Gypsum Mine, which dates back SAT to Roman times. The mine was connected to the ill-fated SAT ammunitions store by the reservoir supplying the steam to SAT operate a nearby plastic factory. The gre SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00nwy31 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT Rural crafts like hedge laying, thatching and dry-stone SAT walling have recently been on the decline, leaving a SAT shortage of workers experienced in countryside skills. SAT Anna Hill hears that more young people are taking to a SAT career in rural Britain and are breathing new life into SAT these dying traditions. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00nwyqd (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00nwyqg (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00nwyqj (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. SAT Fi Glover is joined by the actor Robert Lindsay. SAT With poetry from Kate Fox. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00nwyql (Listen) SAT John McCarthy explores the relationship between human SAT rights and travel - what should the responsible tourist be SAT aware of whilst journeying? Has the water supply in the SAT hotel deprived a local community of theirs? Is your guide SAT adequately equipped when he leads you up a mountain? Are SAT you intruding by taking photographs of local people going SAT about their business? John is joined by lawyer Baroness SAT Kennedy and Tourism Concern's Tricia Barnett to discuss SAT whether the freedom of the traveller infringes the SAT liberties of the host. SAT After the White House, Elvis Presley's mansion, Graceland, SAT is America's most visited house. But there is lot more to SAT Memphis musical pilgrimages than replicas of Heartbreak SAT Hotel. John talks to two music writers, Patrick Humphries SAT and Garth Cartwright, about the attraction of Mississippi SAT and Tennessee for those interested in whether juke joints SAT still exist, whether 'country' means 'commercial' and the SAT survival of the soulful sounds of Stax. John follows the SAT heritage trail of Highway 61. SAT SAT 10:30 Payola, The Pluggers and the Father of Rock and Roll SAT b00nwyqn (Listen) SAT Continuing his fascination with maverick American radio SAT DJs, Nick Barraclough tells the story of Alan Freed, the SAT Pluggers and the Payola scandal which blew up in the late SAT 1950s. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00nwyqq (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley examines claims that the Queen's Speech was SAT more about scoring political points than ensuring good SAT government. She asks if the appointment of an EU President SAT has lived up to expectations; and she hears about the help SAT being offered to people who wish to stand as INDEPENDENT SAT candidates in the general election. There are also SAT reflections to mark the 20th anniversary of the arrival of SAT the television cameras in the House of Commons. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00nwyqs (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT You couldn't make it up! Hugh Sykes, who is just back from SAT Kabul, says the story of the linkage between the Taleban, SAT Afghanistan and Pakistan would sound far-fetched even in a SAT novel. He adds that the Americans and British are SAT supporting a country, Pakistan, which has elements who are SAT supporting the movement that's killing British and SAT American troops. SAT 'It's déjà vu all over again!' Jeremy Bowen quotes an SAT American baseball star as he looks at the building of SAT settlements on occupied land in Jerusalem - one of the SAT issues dogging President Obama as he tries, with little SAT apparent success, to make progress down the path towards SAT Middle East peace. SAT A lighter look at Jerusalem, and in particular at living SAT in within the city's old walls, comes from Heather Sharp. SAT She conjures up the characters in her neighbourhood: the SAT cats, the smells and the noises in this labyrinth of SAT ancient stone alleyways. SAT 'A town as shrouded in layers of forgetting and denial as SAT it is in wet leaves and November mists.' That's the view SAT of Tim Whewell, who has been to the Polish town of SAT Radzilow, the scene of a massacre of Jews, burned to SAT death, in 1941. His account centres on a local man SAT determined to uncover the truth about who exactly was SAT responsible, however painful and shameful that truth might SAT be. SAT The scientists were once very excited about Java Man. When SAT his bones were uncovered in Indonesia they were convinced SAT he was the 'missing link' between the apes and mankind. SAT But then another so-called missing link was discovered. SAT And then another. Christine Finn has been to the riverbank SAT in Indonesia where Java Man, now the forgotten hero of SAT science, was found amid great excitement. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00nwyqv (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00nws6r (Listen) SAT Series 69, Episode 9 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The SAT panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Carrie Quinlan SAT and Sue Perkins. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00nwyqx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00nwyqz (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00nws6t (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the live debate from SAT Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, with questions from the SAT audience for the panel including: leader of the House SAT Harriet Harman; former leader of the Liberal Party Lord SAT Steel; the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury Philip SAT Hammond; and historian Tristram Hunt. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00nwyr1 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in SAT response to this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00nwz36 (Listen) SAT The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial SAT In 1925, the same year that Franz Kafka's The Trial was SAT published, one of the most unusual trials ever seen in a SAT United States courtroom took place. Earlier that year, the SAT state of Tennessee had passed the Butler Act, which made SAT the teaching of evolution illegal. In the stifling July SAT heat, and in a courtroom hung with banners proclaiming SAT 'Read Your Bible Daily', 24-year-old teacher John Scopes SAT stood trial. SAT Adapted from the original trial transcript by Peter SAT Goodchild. SAT John Scopes ...... Neil Patrick Harris SAT William Jennings Bryan ...... Edward Asner SAT Dudley Field Malone ...... Stacy Keach SAT Clarence Darrow ...... John de Lancie SAT Judge John Raulston ...... Jerry Hardin SAT Attorney General Stewart ...... Rob Nagle SAT Arthur Garfield Hays ...... Arye Gross SAT Howard Morgan ...... Tirosh Schneider SAT Mr Riley ...... David Selby SAT Mr Robinson ...... James Gleason SAT Mr White ...... David Alan Novak SAT Court Usher ...... Matt Gaydos SAT Directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT 15:30 The Inner World of Music b00nvdvc (Listen) SAT Composer Matthew King discovers how the extraordinary SAT abilities of musical savant Derek Paravicini are unlocking SAT the secret of how we all makes sense of music. SAT Pianist Derek Paravicini is a phenomenon, possessor of a SAT truly extraordinary musical mind. His abilities are SAT renowned: he can play virtually any piece, in any style SAT you wish, in any key, and identify complex chords of more SAT than a dozen notes in split seconds. He has wowed crowds SAT from London to Las Vegas, performed at Ronnie Scott's and SAT Queen Elizabeth Hall, and been the subject of media SAT attention across the world. SAT Yet Derek was born totally blind, with severe SAT developmental and learning disabilities. He finds everyday SAT tasks difficult, and requires 24-hour support. Derek is a SAT musical 'savant' - owner of a talent that far transcends SAT his disability, like the autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire SAT or Dustin Hoffman's character Raymond Babbitt in the film SAT Rain Man. Over the last three decades Derek has stunned SAT experts with his seemingly effortless musical SAT understanding, an innate ability to know what 'fits' in SAT any musical context, from classical to jazz to rock. SAT Prof Adam Ockelford has been Derek's friend and mentor SAT since he was a small child. Now one of the UK's leading SAT experts in music psychology, Prof Ockelford believes that SAT Derek's remarkable abilities may hold the key to SAT understanding how humans make sense of music, and the SAT unique effect it has on us all. SAT Matthew King explores the world of the musical savant, SAT meeting Derek Paravicini to try and find out how his brain SAT processes, understands and remembers music. The programme SAT features contributions from Dr Darold Treffert, adviser on SAT Rain Man and the world's most renowned expert on savant SAT syndrome, and the parents of a young autistic girl with SAT remarkable musical gifts. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00nwzhv (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Weekend Woman's Hour with Jane Garvey. SAT Vampires and their allure; the on-line mums putting SAT politicians through their paces; the iconic style of SAT Audrey Hepburn's wardrobe; the rights of couples who SAT cohabit; doulas and their role in pregnancy and SAT childbirth; and those washday blues - is it time to ditch SAT the dryer? SAT SAT 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nwzzg (Listen) SAT 21st November 1989 SAT Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SAT years ago. SAT In El Salvador, as rebels continue to occupy the Sheraton SAT Hotel, the manager tells the BBC that everything is under SAT control; MPs relish their day in the limelight as TV SAT cameras are permitted in the House of Commons. SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00nx0cw (Listen) SAT Saturday PM SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Glen SAT Campbell, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00nw3rx (Listen) SAT Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top business guests to SAT discuss creative accounting; do companies try to make SAT their books look better than they are? And from the SAT featureless to the funky, what is it that makes a SAT productive office workplace? SAT Evan is joined by Ian Powell, UK chairman of SAT PricewaterhouseCoopers, one of the world's biggest SAT accountancy firms; Mark Dixon, the chief executive of SAT Regus, a global provider of serviced office space; John SAT Hitchcox, chairman of Yoo, an international design and SAT property development company. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nx0cy (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00nx0d0 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nx0d2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00nx0d4 (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT He is joined by actresses Alison Steadman and Meera Syal SAT and the restaurateur and television chef Raymond Blanc. SAT Allegra McEvedy talks to David Quantick about the SAT dangerous period of a man's life: middle age! SAT With comedy from satirical double act The Black Sheep and SAT music from singer-songwriter Pete Molinari and rock group SAT Marillion. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00nx0d6 (Listen) SAT Series 7, Jam Today? SAT Series in which writers create a fictional response to the SAT week's news. SAT In the week in which Transparency International published SAT their Corruption Perceptions Index, citing the MPs' SAT expenses scandal as a key factor in the UK's lowest SAT placing yet, DJ Britton tells the story of a young SAT politician hoping to land a safe seat in the next election. SAT With Anne-Marie Duff, Rory Kinnear and John Biggins. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00nx0d8 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by novelist Linda Grant, literary SAT editor Boyd Tonkin and writer and critic Matthew Sweet to SAT discuss the cultural highlights of the week - featuring SAT bad habits and good ones. SAT The latest film from the Coen Brothers, A Serious Man, SAT tells the story of an ordinary man's search for clarity in SAT a universe where Jefferson Airplane is on the radio and SAT F-Troop is on TV. It is 1967, and Larry Gopnik, a physics SAT professor at a quiet Midwestern university, has just been SAT informed by his wife Judith that she is leaving him. SAT Larry's unemployable brother Arthur is sleeping on the SAT couch, his son Danny is a discipline problem and a shirker SAT at Hebrew school, and his daughter Sarah is filching money SAT from his wallet in order to save up for a nose job. How SAT will Larry cope? SAT Poet WH Auden had some bad habits but you would have to SAT balance that against his unbreakable urge to write poetry. SAT It's one of the subjects of Alan Bennett's new play, The SAT Habit of Art, which centres around an extraordinary SAT meeting between Auden and composer Benjamin Britten. SAT Vladimir Nabokov couldn't shake the creative compulsion SAT either, continuing to work on a new novel even in during SAT his final illness. He wanted the results destroyed but 30 SAT years on, his son Dmitri has published it as The Original SAT of Laura - a novel in fragments. SAT Cast Offs is a new Channel Four drama series that presents SAT itself as an unusual twist on reality programming. The SAT drama features disabled actors sent to a deserted island, SAT but none of them are acting their disability and the drama SAT is shaped so that the struggles of life in the wild are SAT intercut with the struggles of life in a world shaped for SAT the able bodied. SAT The Water Table, by Philip Gross, shortlisted for the TS SAT Eliot Prize, is a collection of poetry with water at its SAT heart. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00nx0db (Listen) SAT Politics Between the Covers SAT From The West Wing to The Thick of It, politics lends SAT itself to high drama. Politicians themselves often write SAT thinly-disguised versions of their own experiences as SAT fiction, and films and TV are awash with fictionalised SAT versions of the political world. Does it really represent SAT a truthful portrayal of the machinations of government, SAT and to what extent can powerful fiction influence those in SAT positions of power? SAT Mark Lawson delves into the seamier side of politics to SAT consider the fascinating line where fact meets fiction. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00nshqr (Listen) SAT Fair Stood The Wind For France, Episode 1 SAT Dramatisation by Maddy Fredericks of HE Bates' classic SAT tale of danger, suspense and romance in Second World War SAT France. SAT When a British aircrew ditch over Occupied territory in SAT the summer of 1942, injury and suspicion dog their SAT attempts to survive and escape. SAT Franklin ...... Rory Kinnear SAT O'Connor ...... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Francoise ...... Louise Brealey SAT Grandmother ...... Ellie Haddington SAT Father ...... Bruce Alexander SAT Doctor ...... Ewan Hooper SAT With Kate Layden and Kenneth Collard. SAT Directed by Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b00nx0dd (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00nvx6v (Listen) SAT Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions SAT behind the week's news. Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor, SAT Melanie Phillips and Michael Portillo cross-examine SAT witnesses. SAT Australia's Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has apologised to SAT the thousands of child migrants taken from the UK to SAT Australia after the war, often without their parents' SAT consent. No one in the current government was involved in SAT the policy, which ended in 1970 and Kevin Rudd wasn't even SAT born when it started. For some, such declarations are at SAT best meaningless and at worst offensive. By expressing SAT contrition for other people's behaviour, does it make a SAT mockery of the very notion of apology? SAT From politicians to celebrities, the culture of the public SAT apology has been gaining ground. But how do we measure the SAT value of these gestures? When should we say sorry and what SAT should we apologise for? SAT With: SAT Douglas Murray SAT Author and commentator SAT Professor Aaron Lazare SAT Author of On Apology, Psychiatrist and Psychotherapist SAT Professor Kathryn Ecclestone SAT Professor of Education and Social Inclusion SAT Laurie Humphries SAT A child migrant - sent from the UK to Australia in 1947. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00nv7j5 (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the sixth heat of the perennial SAT general knowledge contest, with contestants from the north SAT of England. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00nshqw (Listen) SAT Series 10, To My Dear and Loving Husband SAT Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting SAT appeal of some well-loved poems. SAT Anne Bradstreet's poem has been anthologised in nearly SAT every collection of love poetry published. How did a SAT near-invalid woman, who had to endure not only the SAT privations of migrating to the New World but also the SAT strict Puritan ethic established there, manage to write SAT something so warm and personal that it still speaks to us SAT today? SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2009 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00nx0vp (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Original Shorts b008pvmx (Listen) SUN Series 3, Sarah SUN New short stories by well-known authors. SUN Actress Gemma Jones reads her own heartfelt story of an SUN impoverished young 1880s farm girl who lives a surprising SUN fantasy life. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx0vr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx0vt (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx0vw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00nx0vy (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00nx0w0 (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Mary's Church in Lymm, Cheshire. SUN SUN 05:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nvx6x (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our SUN lives but which are little known outside the legal world. SUN The case of Reginald Woolmington, a young farm labourer SUN who shot his wife dead with a sawn-off gun in 1934. But SUN had he intended to kill, and thus was it murder? The case SUN against him seemed strong, but Woolmington's legal battle SUN eventually reinforced the presumption of innocence for all SUN defendants. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00nx0w2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00nx0w4 (Listen) SUN An Opinion of Dignity SUN Mark Tully explores the meaning of dignity. For some, SUN dignity is an innate and noble quality of humanity, for SUN others it is a meaningless notion, and for Dr Johnson it SUN is a complicating factor in human relationships. SUN The readers are Janice Acquah and Nicholas Boulton. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00nx14y (Listen) SUN Dartford Warbler SUN Dartford warbler numbers were reduced to only 20 pairs in SUN Britain during the 1960s, thus becoming an iconic emblem SUN of conservation. Lionel Kelleway visits the Arne RSPB SUN reserve in Dorset in an attempt to see one of these rare SUN and secretive little birds for himself. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00nx150 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00nx152 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00nx154 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton discusses the religious and ethical news of SUN the week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, SUN both familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00nx156 (Listen) SUN Children in Need SUN Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need. SUN Donations: BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000, SUN London W12 7WJ, or you can give online at SUN bbc.co.uk/pudsey, or call 0345 733 2233 (Calls to 03 SUN numbers are charged at no more than UK geographic rates SUN (as for 01 and 02 numbers) and will be included as part of SUN any inclusive minutes. This applies to calls from any SUN network including mobiles. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00nx158 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00nx15b (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00nx15d (Listen) SUN A service from St Andrew's Church in Balligan, County SUN Down, led by Canon John Bowley. SUN Preacher: Canon Noel Battye. SUN With the Balligan Consort. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00nws6w (Listen) SUN Clive James reflects on the revelation of the identity of SUN Belle de Jour, the author of The Diary of a London Call SUN Girl. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00nx15g (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00nx15j (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00nx7mk (Listen) SUN Sir Stuart Rose SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Sir Stuart Rose. SUN As the boss of Marks and Spencer, he has held a national SUN institution - and the nation's knickers - in his hands. SUN After seeing off a hostile takeover bid and revamping its SUN tired image, he is regarded by many as the store's SUN saviour. Now, after five years in one of the top jobs on SUN the high street, his successor has been announced and, in SUN this timely interview, Sir Stuart looks to the future and SUN considers where life might take him next. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00nv8ng (Listen) SUN Series 52, Episode 1 SUN The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the Old SUN Vic Theatre in London, with Jack Dee taking over the SUN chairman's role. SUN Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor SUN are joined by Rob Brydon. SUN With Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00nx7rh (Listen) SUN 30th Anniversary: Business SUN As the Food Programme celebrates 30 years of broadcasting, SUN Sheila Dillon looks at the impact of some of the SUN pioneering food businesses featured on the programme over SUN the years and assesses their impact on the food world. SUN Fair trade, organic, local, authentic - all are concepts SUN launched as food products during this time, in the form of SUN the likes of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, Yeo Valley yogurt, SUN the Village Bakery artisan bread and Green and Black's SUN ethical chocolate. SUN So what challenges do food entrepreneurs face when success SUN beckons? How easy is it to grow big enough to supply our SUN increasingly large retailers, and what role do private SUN equity investors have in progressing small entrepreneurial SUN businesses into the big time? We talk to Langholm Capital SUN who did just that with Dorset Cereals and Tyrrell's SUN crisps. And we ask if it matters when food businesses that SUN set out to change the world are themselves consumed by the SUN industry's behemoths; is anything crucial lost? SUN With the help of recordings from the archive, programme SUN finds out how these companies have fared and why food SUN entrepreneurs matter to the future food industry. With SUN studio guest William Kendall: entrepreneur, farmer, and SUN formerly of Green and Blacks. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00nx7rk (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00nx7rm (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 13:30 What Became of the Bank Manager? b00mgz1m (Listen) SUN Clive Anderson, whose father was a bank manager, SUN investigates the demise of the traditional face of our SUN high street banks. SUN For decades these reliable Captain Mainwarings kept our SUN money safe, were prominent in the Rotary Club and made it SUN their business to know every detail of the local economy. SUN Yet over the years they were gradually phased out, as cash SUN machines and credit cards changed banking for ever, and SUN their risk-averse DNA stood at odds with the desire to SUN sell, sell, sell. SUN Clive goes in search of the reasons why his father's SUN profession no longer exists, and asks how this change SUN reflects on today's consumer society and the banking SUN industry's rush to lend money. SUN Interviewees include Duncan Bannatyne, multi-millionaire SUN of Dragon's Den fame, whose branch bank manager set him on SUN the road to a fortune; Sid Brittin, a former old-style SUN Lloyds bank manager, who describes how he had a nervous SUN breakdown under the pressure to meet new targets; John SUN Hackett, HSBC's Chief Operating Officer of Retail, who SUN says that banks are now far more responsive to their SUN customers' needs. SUN A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nws6k (Listen) SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a 'postbag' edition of the programme SUN from Sparhsolt College in Hampshire. SUN Pippa Greenwood, John Cushnie and Anne Swithinbank answer SUN questions sent in via post and email. SUN Plus an update on the slug trials set up at our garden SUN party in Harlow Carr; how have our lettuces faired since SUN September? SUN Including Gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Brother Mine b00cm7hb (Listen) SUN Sibling Rivalry SUN Julian Lloyd Webber explores different social and cultural SUN attitudes towards siblings. SUN From the Bible to modern times, sibling rivalry has always SUN been present in society. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00nx8k4 (Listen) SUN Fair Stood The Wind For France, Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Maddy Fredericks of HE Bates' classic SUN tale of danger, suspense and romance in Second World War SUN France. SUN John Franklin, a wounded British airman, is finally fit SUN and planning his escape from France. He could go the fast SUN way - or the slow way. SUN Franklin ...... Rory Kinnear SUN Francoise ...... Louise Brealey SUN Grandmother ...... Ellie Haddington SUN Father ...... Bruce Alexander SUN Boat Man ...... Kenneth Collard SUN O'Connor ...... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN With John Biggins, Kate Layden, Rhys Jennings and Piers SUN Wehner. SUN Directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00nx8k6 (Listen) SUN Mariella's guests include the novelist James Meek, who SUN talks about his passion for Tolstoy. As a new translation SUN of some of the Russian master's shorter fiction is SUN published, Meek explains how a man best known for writing SUN epic works including War and Peace was also one of the SUN supreme geniuses of the short story. SUN Novelists often dedicate their work to friends, relatives SUN or lovers. Marlene Wagman-Geller, the author of a new book SUN which uncovers some of the surprising stories behind these SUN dedications, and Peter Kemp, fiction editor of the Sunday SUN Times, reveal some of the secrets hidden by writers in SUN their inscriptions. SUN Five years before the coup which brought him to power in SUN France, Napoleon Bonaparte penned a romantic novella. As SUN the full text is published in English for the first time, SUN Michele Roberts joins Mariella to discuss what this SUN unexpected piece of fiction reveals about the sometime SUN Emperor of the French. SUN And Mariella talks to the author of one of the year's most SUN unusual books, a novel masquerading as an auction SUN catalogue. Its author Leanne Shapton explains why she SUN decided to tell the story of a relationship through the SUN medium of photographs of the couple's possessions. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00nx8k8 (Listen) SUN Series 10, Mending Wall SUN Peggy Reynolds explores the background, effect and lasting SUN appeal of some well-loved poems. SUN Robert Frost's Mending Wall gave us the epigram 'good SUN fences make good neighbours'. They don't, of course, but SUN we still need our walls and hedges. Peggy meets sheep SUN farmers, wall artists and poetry enthusiasts as she SUN explores the stories behind the poem. SUN SUN 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nx8kb (Listen) SUN 22nd November 1989 SUN Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 SUN years ago. SUN Lebanon's President Muawad is killed, 17 days after being SUN elected; in Prague the snow falls and rumours sweep SUN through the tens of thousands who continue their protest SUN for the sixth successive day in Wenceslas Square. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00nvhlg (Listen) SUN With record gold prices stimulating demand, Jenny Cuffe SUN reports from the Democratic Republic of Congo on the scale SUN of illegal mining and asks if the industry does enough to SUN ensure that gold supplies aren't being used to fund SUN conflict. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00nx0d6 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Jam Today? SUN Series in which writers create a fictional response to the SUN week's news. SUN In the week in which Transparency International published SUN their Corruption Perceptions Index, citing the MPs' SUN expenses scandal as a key factor in the UK's lowest SUN placing yet, DJ Britton tells the story of a young SUN politician hoping to land a safe seat in the next election. SUN With Anne-Marie Duff, Rory Kinnear and John Biggins. SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00nx8kd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00nx8kg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00nx8kj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00nx8kl (Listen) SUN Clive Coleman introduces his selection of highlights from SUN the past week on BBC radio. SUN Bleak Expectations - Radio 4 SUN Stirred But Not Shaken - An Autobiography - Radio 4 SUN Payola, the Pluggers and the Father of Rock and Roll - SUN Radio 4 SUN The Inner World of Music - Radio 4 SUN The Probate Game - Radio 4 SUN Simpson Returns - Radio 4 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN Parting Shots - Radio 4 SUN Politics Between the Covers - Radio 4 SUN Laura Solon - Talking and Not Talking - Radio 4 SUN The Loop - Radio 4 SUN Front Row - Radio 4 SUN Journeys to Glory - The Spandau Ballet Story - Radio 2 SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00nx8t8 (Listen) SUN The old traditions are the best for Phil. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00nx92n (Listen) SUN Matt Frei presents an insider guide to the people and the SUN stories shaping America today. Combining location reports SUN with lively discussion and exclusive interviews, the show SUN provides new and surprising insights into contemporary SUN America. SUN As Sarah Palin kicks off her book tour around the nation, SUN Americana takes time to learn more about the women that SUN represent America as well as the women who work each day SUN to make it run. Although females account for over 50 per SUN cent of the population, women in the United States are SUN under-represented in the halls of Congress and the SUN boardrooms of corporate America. Matt Frei talks to SUN National Public Radio's senior news analyst Cokie Roberts. SUN She's the author of the best-selling book We Are Our SUN Mothers' Daughters, and helps to highlight the week's top SUN news as well as the many views and characterizations of SUN women's lives in the United States. SUN Matt Frei talks with Democratic Congresswoman Loretta SUN Sanchez of California and Republican Congresswoman Marsha SUN Blackburn of Tennessee about the challenges of working in SUN positions of political power and representing diverse SUN constituencies. American women from around the nation SUN weigh in on the challenges of the glass ceiling or lack SUN thereof. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b008020s (Listen) SUN Sputnik, Doors SUN A selection of stories celebrating the Russian satellite SUN which started the space race in 1957. SUN By Andrew Smith, read by Trevor White. SUN Sputnik might be in space but here on earth Ron Paget's SUN automated garage door has gone beserk. Is it a Communist SUN plot or might it have something to do with his neighbour? SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00nw3ws (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes SUN and policy. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00nws6m (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have SUN recently died. The programme reflects on people of SUN distinction and interest from many walks of life, some SUN famous and some less well known. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00nwyqv (Listen) SUN Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SUN finance. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00nx156 (Listen) SUN Children in Need SUN Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need. SUN Donations: BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000, SUN London W12 7WJ, or you can give online at SUN bbc.co.uk/pudsey, or call 0345 733 2233 (Calls to 03 SUN numbers are charged at no more than UK geographic rates SUN (as for 01 and 02 numbers) and will be included as part of SUN any inclusive minutes. This applies to calls from any SUN network including mobiles. SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00nvdgd (Listen) SUN Divorcing Europe SUN What would happen if Britain chose to leave the European SUN Union? The new Lisbon Treaty contains a clause whch sets SUN out the exit process for the first time. But, as Chris SUN Bowlby reports, the final deal between Britain and its SUN former EU partners would depend a lot on the mood of their SUN 'divorce' - amicable or acrimonious. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00nx92q (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00nx92s (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN The Cases That Changed Our World. SUN SUN 23:00 1989: Day by Day Omnibus b00nx92v (Listen) SUN Week ending 21st November 1989 SUN A look back at the events making the news 20 years ago, SUN with Sir John Tusa. SUN Bulgaria witnesses its biggest demonstrations in 40 years, SUN Lebanon's President Muawad is killed 17 days after being SUN elected and in Prague, protesters call for reforms and the SUN ousting of the Czech leadership. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00nx0w4 (Listen) SUN An Opinion of Dignity SUN Mark Tully explores the meaning of dignity. For some, SUN dignity is an innate and noble quality of humanity, for SUN others it is a meaningless notion, and for Dr Johnson it SUN is a complicating factor in human relationships. SUN The readers are Janice Acquah and Nicholas Boulton. SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN MON MONDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2009 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00nx96s (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00nvwg6 (Listen) MON In a series of special programmes in association with the MON Open University, Laurie Taylor explores the subject of MON white collar crime. MON Is it right that middle-class offenders should spend more MON of their sentence in open prisons? Should the loss of a MON professional position be taken into account when MON sentencing white collar criminals? Is our prison system MON set up to cope with professionals who offend? Laurie MON concludes his exploration of white collar crime and talks MON to past offenders including Jonathan Aitken, leading MON criminologist Michael Levi, and the former Director of MON Public Prosecutions, Sir Ken MacDonald, about the MON punishment of white collar criminals. MON Is it time we changed our attitude to crime in the MON workplace? Should we put more effort into enforcing the MON law and detecting white collar crime? MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00nx0w0 (Listen) MON The sound of bells from St Mary's Church in Lymm, Cheshire. MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx98v (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9qp (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx9p4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00nx9wf (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxclg (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00nxcrx (Listen) MON The first commercially available 100 per cent British loaf MON will be sold in January 2010. Anna Hill finds out why, for MON the past 160 years, it's been impossible to use completely MON home-produced wheat in bread. MON Also, British food which isn't quite British - Farming MON Today hears more demands for the laws over food labelling MON to be tightened up. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00ny7jy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00nxd1v (Listen) MON With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00ny7k0 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr finds out how much faith and science can tell MON us about identity with Tariq Ramadan and Sir Mark Walport; MON historian Jonathan Phillips explores the relevance of the MON Crusades, and curator Kate Bush on finding the next Young MON British Artist. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00nxd1x (Listen) MON Family Britain, All Madly Educative MON Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and MON intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the MON letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary MON people. MON The Festival of Britain heralds the beginning of the end MON of austerity. MON Abridged by Jane Greenwood. MON A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd7d (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON The Inquiry into the Iraq War is imminent and one of its MON priorities is to hear from families of British service MON personnel killed in the conflict. Rose Gentle's son Gordon MON aged 19, a Royal Highland Fusilier, was killed when the MON Land Rover in which he was travelling was hit by a MON roadside bomb. She describes her campaign for information MON about his death and for the inquiry into the war. MON Approximately 350,000 children are born worldwide every MON day. In the UK the registration of every birth is taken MON for granted, and with it the recognition of every child. MON Yet there are around 51 million children born every year MON across the globe who do not officially exist. The MON children's charity Plan International has just completed a MON five-year campaign for Universal Birth Registration, MON managing to register 40 million children who did not MON exist. So why is registration so important? MON Within the past two decades bras have become big news. MON Retailers now talk about customers having a 'bra wardrobe' MON containing the average woman's sports bras, fashion bras, MON T-shirt bras, nude bras, gel bras, sexy bras and more. But MON despite this wealth of choice an estimated 80 per cent of MON women are still wearing the wrong sized bra. Why are we MON all still so confused about bras? MON A new BBC drama claims married ballerina Margot Fonteyn MON enjoyed a passionate affair with her gay dance partner, MON Rudolf Nureyev, 19 years her junior. Their electric MON onstage partnership transformed the fortunes of the ageing MON Fonteyn, extending her career by 17 years. Jane is joined MON by Anne-Marie Duff, the BAFTA nominated Shameless actor MON who is playing the title role in the film, and Meredith MON Daneman, a former student at the Royal Ballet School and MON Margot Fonteyn's biographer. MON MON 11:00 1989: The '89 Generation b00ny7k2 (Listen) MON Anne McElvoy meets British politicians to find out what MON impact the revolutions of 1989 had on them and on the MON worldview they use to govern us. MON She compares notes with culture secretary Ben Bradshaw, MON who at the time was a BBC reporter in West Berlin, and MON plays him archive of his younger self interviewing MON Berliners selling bits of the Wall to tourists. MON German-born Labour MP Gisela Stuart talks about the MON emotional impact of watching the Wall fall, on TV in MON Birmingham. And Conservative Party Chairman Eric Pickles MON tells Anne how in 1968 he was a teenage communist, but was MON so angry at the sight of Soviet tanks crushing the Prague MON Spring that he joined the Tory Party. He talks about his MON feelings on watching the final overthrow of communism in MON Prague 21 years on. MON Anne brings together former London Mayor Ken Livingstone MON and shadow schools secretary Michael Gove, who spent part MON of the winter of 1989 as a picket, to compare notes about MON the impact of 1989 on their personal politics. MON Shadow Cabinet member David Willetts recalls how prime MON minister Margaret Thatcher stunned guests at a lunch held MON by his think-tank in December 1989. When the Wall fell she MON responded with joy, but a few weeks later she was greeting MON the prospect it opened up - a united Germany - with MON vehement hostility. MON Anne also talks to foreign secretary David Miliband, his MON Conservative shadow William Hague and Liberal Democrat MON leader Nick Clegg about the impact that the death of MON communism still has today on British foreign policy, our MON involvement in global turbo-capitalism and what our MON political parties are for. MON MON 11:30 Tickets Please b00ny7k4 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Comedy drama by Mark Maier about the ongoing trials of the MON staff and passengers on an intercity rail service. MON The 9.27 London to Exeter emotional rollercoaster MON continues as the staff's personal embroilments deepen, and MON a member of a wedding party joins in the melee. And why MON are there fingerholes in the muffins? MON Robin ...... Jeremy Swift MON Nadine ...... Alex Kelly MON Peter ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Carol ...... Tessa Nicholson MON Carl ...... Nicholas Boulton MON Diana ...... Melissa Advani MON Linda ...... Kate Layden MON Keith ...... Stephen Hogan MON Other parts played by Piers Wehner, Philip Fox and Joseph MON Cohen-Cole. MON Directed by Peter Kavanagh. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00nxd9s (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00nxdb5 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00nxgd1 (Listen) MON National and international news with Shaun Ley. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00ny7k6 (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the seventh heat of the perennial MON general knowledge contest. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00nx8t8 (Listen) MON The old traditions are the best for Phil. MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bvz91 (Listen) MON Girl from Mars MON Eleanor's sister Amy disappeared five years ago. She MON simply walked out of her house and into the records of the MON 'missing'. Lucy Caldwell's play explores her family's MON attempts to come to terms with the loss of a daughter and MON sister. MON Eleanor ...... Alana Kerr MON Chris ...... Joe Armstrong MON Judith ...... Maggie Cronin MON James ...... Kieran Lagan MON Darryl ...... Andy Moore MON Eleanor aged 15 ...... Hannah R Gordon MON Eleanor aged 5 ...... Martha Gordon MON Amy aged 10 ...... Naomi Fearnon MON Jake aged 5 ...... Harry Robinson MON Jake aged 15 ...... Connor Williamson MON Amy/Air hostess ...... Nikki Doherty MON Police officer/Pilot ...... Patrick Fitzsymons MON Police officer/Directory Enq ...... Fo Cullen MON Senora Garcia ...... Mary Kelly MON Directed by Heather Larmour. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00nx0db (Listen) MON Politics Between the Covers MON From The West Wing to The Thick of It, politics lends MON itself to high drama. Politicians themselves often write MON thinly-disguised versions of their own experiences as MON fiction, and films and TV are awash with fictionalised MON versions of the political world. Does it really represent MON a truthful portrayal of the machinations of government, MON and to what extent can powerful fiction influence those in MON positions of power? MON Mark Lawson delves into the seamier side of politics to MON consider the fascinating line where fact meets fiction. MON MON 15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nxhhy (Listen) MON Whisky MON To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir MON explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate MON the Scottish contribution to the world. MON Aasmah finds out if whisky is still as popular a drink MON among Scots as its vital contribution to the economy might MON suggest. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00nx7rh (Listen) MON 30th Anniversary: Business MON As the Food Programme celebrates 30 years of broadcasting, MON Sheila Dillon looks at the impact of some of the MON pioneering food businesses featured on the programme over MON the years and assesses their impact on the food world. MON Fair trade, organic, local, authentic - all are concepts MON launched as food products during this time, in the form of MON the likes of Ben and Jerry's ice cream, Yeo Valley yogurt, MON the Village Bakery artisan bread and Green and Black's MON ethical chocolate. MON So what challenges do food entrepreneurs face when success MON beckons? How easy is it to grow big enough to supply our MON increasingly large retailers, and what role do private MON equity investors have in progressing small entrepreneurial MON businesses into the big time? We talk to Langholm Capital MON who did just that with Dorset Cereals and Tyrrell's MON crisps. And we ask if it matters when food businesses that MON set out to change the world are themselves consumed by the MON industry's behemoths; is anything crucial lost? MON With the help of recordings from the archive, programme MON finds out how these companies have fared and why food MON entrepreneurs matter to the future food industry. With MON studio guest William Kendall: entrepreneur, farmer, and MON formerly of Green and Blacks. MON MON 16:30 Debating Animals b00jj13p (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Rod Liddle examines our differing responses to related MON animal species and tries to establish what those responses MON tell us not merely about the animals but about ourselves. MON As the millenium turned a few years back there was MON another, less trumpeted shift in emphasis in Britain. MON After years, perhaps thousands of years, of ascendancy as MON man's favoured domestic animal, the dog gave way to the MON cat. It is now cat and dog, literally, at the top of the MON popular pet league, and Rod Liddle takes a long, hard MON stare at this stand-off and what it tells us about MON ourselves. MON Cats are the ultimate urban companion. The old debate is MON whether you own them or they own you. Independent, brimful MON of attitude and well equipped to operate in a semi-feral MON environment. MON Dogs, on the other hand, spent thousands of years being MON honed as servants. They might be perfect for the hunt, for MON herding, for guarding or simply for companionship, but MON what they never achieved was a capacity for going it MON alone. Own a dog and you have to be ready to sacrifice MON your time for them. MON So is it just a simple question of 21st-century Britain MON indulging itself rather than taking on the duties required MON of dog ownership? And what are the costs of this shifting MON balance? Dogs eat what dogs are given to eat. Cats eat MON that and half the urban wildlife around them. MON Peter Purves, Ann Widdecombe and Sir David Attenborough MON are among those informing this domestic animal debate. MON MON 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxq (Listen) MON 23rd November 1989 MON Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 MON years ago. MON Demonstrations in Prague continue to gather pace and the MON Conservative Party faces a leadership challenge as MON Margaret Thatcher announces that she is happy to contest MON two more elections. MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 17:00 PM b00ny46z (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ny48d (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00ny7n8 (Listen) MON Series 52, Episode 2 MON The perennial antidote to panel games comes from the Old MON Vic Theatre in London, with Jack Dee taking over the MON chairman's role. MON Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined by Rob Brydon. MON With Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00nxgf2 (Listen) MON Lilian's patience is tested to the limit. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00ny497 (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an MON interview with writer Dave Eggers about his screenplay for MON Where the Wild Things Are, based on Maurice Sendak's MON renowned book. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5pn (Listen) MON Our Mutual Friend, Episode 11 MON Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic MON novel. MON Bella visits her parents and tries her hand at cooking, MON with mixed results. MON Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings MON John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp MON Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard MON Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts MON Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins MON Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh MON Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew MON Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy MON Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis MON Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross MON Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan MON Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler MON Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman MON Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke MON Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah MON Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox MON Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler MON Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin MON Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider MON Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler MON Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney MON Music by Roger Goula MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer MON This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as MON part of the Series Catch-up Trial. MON MON 20:00 Document b00ny7nb (Listen) MON Mike Thomson presents the series using documentary MON evidence to throw new light on past events. MON Mike investigates Britain's role during the 1970 coup in MON oil-rich Oman. History records that it was a family MON affair, but documents reveal London's hidden hand. MON Offically, the architect of the coup was the Sultan's son, MON but in papers seen by the programme, Britain is seen to be MON calling the shots. Worried that the country's faltering MON regime could fall to communism and so threaten its vital MON oil interests, London decided to act. Formerly secret MON documents clearly show British civil servants and military MON leaders plotting regime change in Oman, by the use of MON force if necessary. They concealed their plans and only MON now can the real story be told. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00nvz74 (Listen) MON The Congo Connection MON Peter Greste investigates whether Rwandans in France and MON Germany are controlling a deadly African militia. For the MON last 15 years, the rebels of the FDLR have enforced their MON control through a series of brutal atrocities. Now MON Crossing Continents has secret intelligence suggesting MON that they were taking orders from political leaders living MON openly in Europe. MON MON 21:00 Frontiers b00ny7nd (Listen) MON British physicists are about to start the next phase of MON their search for dark matter. Sue Nelson joins them down MON the UK's deepest mine and asks why they need to set up MON their experiment underground. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00ny7k0 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr finds out how much faith and science can tell MON us about identity with Tariq Ramadan and Sir Mark Walport; MON historian Jonathan Phillips explores the relevance of the MON Crusades, and curator Kate Bush on finding the next Young MON British Artist. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00ny644 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00ny655 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00ny6vq (Listen) MON Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, Mrs MON Griffiths and the Carol Singers MON Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of MON linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on MON the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the MON fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding. MON Abridged by Sara Davies. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00nvfg8 (Listen) MON In a special edition of the programme for Radio 4's 1989 MON season, Michael Rosen talks to playwright David Edgar MON about the rise and fall of the language that became MON synonymous with communism - from the hyperbole of MON Ceaucescu's Romania ('General Secretary, President, MON President of the State Council, Chairman of the National MON Defence Council, Chairman of the Supreme Council for MON Socio-Economic Development' was his own job description) MON to phrases that have passed into the very definition of MON the Marxist-Leninist dialectic. The demolition of the MON Berlin Wall led to dramatic changes not only in the MON political and economic lives of those living in the former MON Eastern Bloc, but also to the l MON Also, political journalist Anne McElvoy tells of her MON lingustic adventures in East Germany both before and after MON 1989, and Dr Zoran Milutinovic examines how Serbo-Croat MON has changed since the break-up of the former Yugoslavia. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny701 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Sean Curran. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2009 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00nx94t (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00nxd1x (Listen) TUE Family Britain, All Madly Educative TUE Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and TUE intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the TUE letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary TUE people. TUE The Festival of Britain heralds the beginning of the end TUE of austerity. TUE Abridged by Jane Greenwood. TUE A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx96v (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9p6 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx98x (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00nx9qr (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxcj2 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00nxclj (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00nxcrz (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 The Choice b00ny8f6 (Listen) TUE Michael Buerk interviews people who have made TUE life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole TUE process, from the original dilemma to living with the TUE consequences. TUE Michael talks to Cathy O'Dowd about the terrible choice TUE she had to make when she came across a dying climber on TUE Everest. TUE TUE 09:30 Pilots That Never Flew b00g633l (Listen) TUE Comedy Performers TUE Series in which Director of the National Youth Theatre TUE Paul Roseby examines the laborious process of creating TUE successful pilot programmes. TUE Paul talks to comedy performers Alistair McGowan, Bea TUE Holland and Samantha Sanns about unsuccessful pilots they TUE have made. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00p298n (Listen) TUE Family Britain, Family Favourites TUE Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and TUE intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the TUE letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary TUE people. TUE Deference, respectability, conformity, restraint and trust TUE - the core values of family and society begin to fray at TUE the edges. TUE Abridged by Jane Greenwood. TUE A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd3l (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend. TUE TUE 11:00 1989: Restitching the City b00ny9y2 (Listen) TUE Rosie Goldsmith goes underground in Berlin, searching out TUE the men and women involved in reunifying the city below TUE street level, examining how the tubes, telephone, water TUE and electricity systems of east and west were reconnected TUE after the fall of the Wall. TUE When the Berlin Wall fell in November 1989, the world saw TUE images of ecstatic Berliners celebrating a new freedom of TUE movement across their city. But after the jubilation had TUE died down, council chiefs were faced with a task without TUE precedent in any city in the world. Public transport in TUE the two halves of the city was in chaos and the main TUE arteries of Berlin became clogged with polluting Trabants; TUE using the telephone was an infuriating experience; utility TUE companies faced similar problems trying to bring together TUE two systems which had developed completely separately. TUE The great symbolism of the fall of communism had been TUE replaced by a more practical but no less crucial question TUE - how to reunite the infrastructure and fabric of a vast TUE city that had been divided for nearly 30 years. TUE Rosie speaks to the key figures involved in the hugely TUE costly task of restitching the city - among them former TUE West Berlin mayor Walter Momper - as well as ordinary TUE Berliners who recall everyday life in the city after the TUE fall of the Wall. City officials knew that rebuilding TUE their infrastructure was vital to making citizens feel TUE that they were part of a city - and a country - that was TUE physically as well as symbolically reunited. TUE TUE 11:30 Fallout from the Shore b00ny9y4 (Listen) TUE Libby Purves considers the impact of On the Beach, Stanley TUE Kramer's groundbreaking film which 50 years ago reduced TUE cinema-goers to tears with its bleak vision of a TUE post-apocalyptic world. TUE Based on Nevil Shute's novel and starring Gregory Peck and TUE Ava Gardner, On the Beach tells the story of a group of TUE Third World War survivors awaiting death from radiation TUE from the northern hemisphere moving inexorably towards TUE them. The on-screen drama was matched off screen when TUE Shute and Kramer clashed over changes the filmmaker made TUE to appease his backers and the mainstream audience. TUE The programme hears from Shute's daughter and Kramer's TUE widow, who describe the impact of the row on both men and TUE the difficulties getting the film made in the first place. TUE Although not universally acclaimed, On the Beach was TUE considered a brave film to make and, judging by audience TUE reaction at the time, it was a terrifying warning to the TUE world. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00nxd7g (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00nxd9v (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00nxg9v (Listen) TUE National and international news with Shaun Ley. TUE TUE 13:30 Nightingale of the Nile b00ny9y6 (Listen) TUE Singer-songwriter, record producer and world music expert TUE Justin Adams travels to Cairo, where he grew up, to tell TUE the story of the woman whose voice dominated the culture TUE and politics of the Middle East in the 20th century, Umm TUE Kulthum. TUE Once described as a combination of 'Ella Fitzgerald, TUE Eleanor Roosevelt and Elvis Presley', her radio broadcasts TUE often brought the entire Arabic world to a standstill. Her TUE incredible voice and skilful handling of the media quickly TUE made her the most prominent celebrity in the Arab world at TUE the time, and her close friendship with both the royal TUE circle of King Farouk I before the revolution, and TUE President Nasser in its wake, gave her unprecedented TUE political influence. TUE Justin Adams is Robert Plant's songwriting partner, record TUE producer for the Tuareg desert blues band Tinariwen, among TUE others, and an ex-collaborator with Jah Wobble. As the son TUE of a British diplomat, Justin grew up in Cairo during TUE Kulthum's golden age. Now he travels back, talking to TUE those that knew her to discover more about this icon of TUE the Arabic world. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00nxgf2 (Listen) TUE Lilian's patience is tested to the limit. TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b008z61b (Listen) TUE Cobwebs TUE Psychological drama by David Hodgson. TUE Greg Drake is just getting his life back together after TUE the death of his wife. But then his house is broken into TUE when he is asleep. Nothing is taken, but his peace of mind TUE is destroyed. TUE Greg ...... Kevin Doyle TUE Cathy ...... Fiona Clarke TUE Louise ...... Helen Longworth TUE Jenny ...... Beth Palmer TUE PC Morgan ...... Roy Carruthers TUE Denny ...... Mark Winstanley. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00nybx4 (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about the natural world and our impact on it. TUE 'Eagled-eyed' implies an ability to spot objects at a TUE great distance, but perhaps a more extraordinary skill is TUE shown by another bird of prey, the osprey. It can spot TUE fish underwater despite the reflected glare of the African TUE Sun, and then pick them off with pinpoint accuracy. We TUE find out how they manage such a feat and whether we humans TUE could learn a trick or two from them. TUE Ospreys also use all four limbs - two wings and two legs - TUE to pursue and then grab their prey but what is so special TUE about the number four. Why do all land vertebrates have TUE four limbs? TUE We also feature a round up of our warm, wet and windy TUE autumn, the key environmental issues. And puzzle over why, TUE when we have the same technological know how, Californians TUE can buy powerful and versatile electric cars that are TUE unavailable to the British consumer. 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 b00nyby7 (Listen) TUE An Important Passenger, Miss Pearman Takes the Train TUE Series of three crime stories celebrating and inspired by TUE the 75th anniversary of the publication of Agatha TUE Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. TUE By Christobel Kent, read by Anna Massey. TUE Artemis Pearman is a spinster of a certain age, with a TUE fondness for detective stories. Setting off on a weekend TUE to Paris, reading Murder on the Orient Express and TUE observing her fellow passengers, she lets her mind wander. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nz9x8 (Listen) TUE Golf TUE To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir TUE explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate TUE the Scottish contribution to the world. TUE Aasmah visits the Open golf championship at Turnberry to TUE discover if the sport invented by Scots is still a valid TUE theme for celebration in the Scottish year of Homecoming. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00nycby (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen investigates coded language. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00nycc0 (Listen) TUE Sue MacGregor talks to poet Kate Clanchy and zoologist and TUE director of the Natural History Museum Michael Dixon about TUE their favourite books, featuring an acclaimed poetry TUE anthology and the novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by TUE Paul Torday. TUE TUE 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxg (Listen) TUE 24th November 1989 TUE Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 TUE years ago. TUE The Czech leadership are forced to resign and Alexander TUE Dubcek makes his first pubic appearance in Prague for 21 TUE years. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00ny443 (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 b00ny471 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Jo Caulfield Won't Shut Up! b00nycc2 (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE She came, she saw, she criticised: stand-up comedian Jo TUE Caulfield holds forth with a glorious mixture of bitchy TUE friendliness and foot-in-mouth populism. TUE In this episode, Jo fails to shut up about about Scotland TUE in general, Scotsmen in particular and a little tea shop TUE in Dundee. TUE With Zoe Lyons, Nick Revell and Paul Sneddon. TUE Written by Jo Caulfield and Kevin Anderson, with TUE additional material by Michael Beck, Dan Evans TUE Brian Mitchell, Joseph Nixon, Matt Ross, and Paul Sneddon. TUE A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00nxgd3 (Listen) TUE Ian gets an exercise in diplomacy. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00ny48h (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, including the TUE announcement of the shortlists for the 2009 Costa Book TUE Awards. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5nm (Listen) TUE Our Mutual Friend, Episode 12 TUE Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic TUE novel. TUE Rogue Riderhood comes face to face with fate on a dark TUE Thames night. TUE Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings TUE John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp TUE Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard TUE Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts TUE Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins TUE Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh TUE Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew TUE Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy TUE Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis TUE Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross TUE Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan TUE Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler TUE Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman TUE Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke TUE Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah TUE Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox TUE Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler TUE Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin TUE Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider TUE Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler TUE Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney TUE Music by Roger Goula TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer TUE This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as TUE part of the Series Catch-up Trial. TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00nycc4 (Listen) TUE With around 8,000 people waiting for an organ transplant TUE in the UK, hospitals are having to use organs from the TUE elderly, smokers, cancer sufferers and drug abusers. Gerry TUE Northam examines the dilemmas posed for doctors and TUE assesses the risks to transplant patients. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00nycc6 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00nycc8 (Listen) TUE The wisdom of adopted children having ongoing contact with TUE their birth family has achieved axiomatic status in TUE adoption and fostering services, but some professionals TUE are now challenging the current orthodoxy. When children TUE aren't told the full truth about their early maltreatment, TUE they argue, ongoing contact amounts to a 'grievous TUE mistake'. Claudia Hammond talks to adopting and fostering TUE families about the harm they believe was caused by their TUE child maintaining a relationship with their birth TUE families, and hears why some professionals think the TUE policy should be re-thought. TUE TUE 21:30 The Choice b00ny8f6 (Listen) TUE Michael Buerk interviews people who have made TUE life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole TUE process, from the original dilemma to living with the TUE consequences. TUE Michael talks to Cathy O'Dowd about the terrible choice TUE she had to make when she came across a dying climber on TUE Everest. TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00ny61k (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00ny646 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00nzwsj (Listen) TUE Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, The TUE Auspicious Meeting TUE Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of TUE linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on TUE the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the TUE fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding. TUE A chance meeting in a country lane brings together two TUE keen but lonely musicians. When they are joined by a TUE visiting genealogist with a bassoon, the Famous TUE Notwithstanding Wind Quartet is well on its way to TUE formation. TUE Abridged by Sara Davies. TUE TUE 23:00 Vent b00nyccb (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE Comedy series by Nigel Smith about a man in a coma, TUE travelling through the distinctly odd landscape of his own TUE unconscious mind. TUE Ben makes the ambulance journey home to begin life in a TUE wheelchair. On the way he remembers an argument about TUE cheesecake, invents a panel game and meets Buzz Aldrin. TUE Ben ...... Neil Pearson TUE Mary ...... Fiona Allen TUE Mum ...... Josie Lawrence TUE Blitz ...... Leslie Ash TUE Nurse ...... Jo Martin TUE Derek ...... Stephen Frost TUE Marley ...... Spencer Brown TUE Chairman ...... Robert Webb TUE Buzz ...... Peter Banks TUE Announcer ...... Bruce Alexander TUE Bea ...... Scarlett Milburn-Smith TUE Directed by Nigel Smith. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny6zq (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with Susan Hulme. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2009 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00nx94y (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00p298n (Listen) WED Family Britain, Family Favourites WED Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and WED intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the WED letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary WED people. WED Deference, respectability, conformity, restraint and trust WED - the core values of family and society begin to fray at WED the edges. WED Abridged by Jane Greenwood. WED A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx96x (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9p8 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx98z (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00nx9qt (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxcj4 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00nxclm (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00nxcs1 (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00nycw1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00p298q (Listen) WED Family Britain, God Save Our Queen WED Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and WED intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the WED letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary WED people. WED While the country is spellbound by the Coronation of 1953, WED another royal soap opera is about to unfold. WED Abridged by Jane Greenwood. WED A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd3n (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend. WED WED 11:00 The Herschel Space Telescope b00nycw3 (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Following the engineers and astronomers working on the WED biggest telescope ever sent to space, in one of the most WED important missions in the history of European spaceflight. WED Jonathon Amos joins Professor Matt Griffin of Cardiff WED University and his international team as they aim to peer WED through the areas in space that are invisible to other WED telescopes. This is the story of their aim to solve the WED mystery of how galaxies and stars were formed, and how WED these processes eventually gave rise to life-bearing WED planets like Earth. WED In this episode, the telescope is blasted into space; can WED the team's 20-year project bring discovery and future WED promise for the waiting astronomers back on Earth? WED WED 11:30 Ballylenon b00nydb9 (Listen) WED Series 7, Episode 1 WED Comedy drama series by Christopher Fitz-Simon, set in the WED 1950s in a Donegal town. WED It is 1959. When Muriel experiences a 'miraculous WED apparition' on pilgrimage to Lourdes, Phonsie Doherty is WED quick to seize on its business potential for Ballylenon. WED Muriel Maconchy ...... Margaret D'Arcy WED Vera Maconchy ...... Stella McCusker WED Phonsie Doherty ...... Gerard Murphy WED Vivienne Hawthorne ...... Annie McCartney WED Rev Samuel Hawthorne ...... Miche Doherty WED Stumpy Bonner ...... Gerard McSorley WED Pianist: Michael Harrison WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan WED This episode is available until 11.30am on 6th January WED 2010 as part of the Series Catch-up Trial. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00nxd7j (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00nxd9x (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00nxg9x (Listen) WED National and international news with Shaun Ley. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00nyf2k (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00nxgd3 (Listen) WED Ian gets an exercise in diplomacy. WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00fl092 (Listen) WED Flaw in the Motor, Dust in the Blood WED Exploration of life with bipolar disorder by Trevor WED Preston. When Thomas dreams, he's in the world of the WED crime thriller; his daily life is rather less glamorous. WED Thomas ...... Rory Kinnear WED Dr Klein ...... Susan Engel WED Amy ...... Fenella Woolgar WED Lizzie ...... Janice Acquah WED Peter ...... Paul Rider WED Dr Beard ...... Jonathan Tafler WED Nita ...... Manjeet Mann WED Ratched ...... Inam Mirza WED Directed by Toby Swift. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00nyf2m (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of answer calls on renting WED and letting. WED Guests: WED Simon Gordon, chair, National Landlords Association WED John Gallagher, principal solicitor, Shelter WED Tracey Bloom, barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, WED specialist in housing law. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p27f1 (Listen) WED An Important Passenger, The Plymouth Express WED Series of three crime stories celebrating and inspired by WED the 75th anniversary of the publication of Agatha WED Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. WED By Agatha Christie, read by Tim Pigott-Smith. WED When a murdered woman's body is found hidden in the WED first-class compartment of the Plymouth Express, Hercule WED Poirot is once more called to investigate a perplexing WED murder on a train. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nz9x0 (Listen) WED Great Minds WED To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir WED explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate WED the Scottish contribution to the world. WED Scottish inventors have made a huge contribution to the WED world, from the steam engine to the telephone; but what WED has Scotland done for the world lately? Aasmah finds out WED if Scotland still has the spirit of invention. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00nyfhk (Listen) WED Barack Obama famously used new technologies in his 2008 WED election campaign. Could those same techniques be used to WED reinvigorate the next UK general elction in the same way WED it did for Obama's Web 2.0 campaign? From MySpace and WED Facebook, text messages to email, will new media transform WED the election in the same way it did for America? Or is the WED UK too party political for digital technology to have the WED same impact? Laurie Taylor discusses with Rachel Gibson, WED Professor of Political Science at the University of WED Manchester. WED Also, how musicians performing can give new insights into WED negotiation, learning and decision making. Howard S WED Becker, professional jazz player and acclaimed WED sociologist, joins Laurie to discuss what jazz and music WED can teach the rest of the world. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00nycc8 (Listen) WED The wisdom of adopted children having ongoing contact with WED their birth family has achieved axiomatic status in WED adoption and fostering services, but some professionals WED are now challenging the current orthodoxy. When children WED aren't told the full truth about their early maltreatment, WED they argue, ongoing contact amounts to a 'grievous WED mistake'. Claudia Hammond talks to adopting and fostering WED families about the harm they believe was caused by their WED child maintaining a relationship with their birth WED families, and hears why some professionals think the WED policy should be re-thought. WED WED 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxj (Listen) WED 25th November 1989 WED Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 WED years ago. WED In Czechoslovakia, demonstrators keep up the pressure for WED free elections, while schoolchildren in Buckinghamshire WED organise a protest against Nestle for its promotion of WED dried milk in the Third World. WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 17:00 PM b00ny445 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn WED Quinn. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ny473 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Laura Solon: Talking and Not Talking b00nywl0 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED Perrier Award-winning comedian Laura Solon presents a WED series of sketches, monologues and one-liners. WED Olga the ex-tyrant takes on a British Post Office, a man WED tries to buy his mother a gift in an expensive department WED store and Sandrine, the Parisian radio host, chats about WED why French culture is much better then the culture of, WED say, Britain. WED With Ben Moor, Rosie Cavaliero and Ben Willbond. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00nxgd7 (Listen) WED Lynda has some lessons in parenting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00ny48k (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. Including a review WED of the stage version of Terry Pratchett's book Nation, WED adapted for the National Theatre by Mark Ravenhill. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5np (Listen) WED Our Mutual Friend, Episode 13 WED Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic WED novel. WED Silas Wegg is determined to find a copy of old Harmon's WED will. WED Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings WED John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp WED Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard WED Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts WED Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins WED Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh WED Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew WED Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy WED Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis WED Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross WED Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan WED Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler WED Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman WED Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke WED Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah WED Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox WED Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler WED Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin WED Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider WED Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler WED Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney WED Music by Roger Goula WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer WED This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as WED part of the Series Catch-up Trial. WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00nywwg (Listen) WED Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions WED behind the week's news. Michael Portillo, Matthew Taylor, WED Melanie Phillips and Clifford Longley cross-examine WED witnesses. WED WED 20:45 The Cases That Changed Our World b00nywwj (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED Clive Coleman tells the stories of cases that shaped our WED lives but which are little known outside the legal world. WED Clive revisits Donohue vs Stevenson, better known as The WED Case of the Paisley Snail. Finding a snail (or was it a WED slug?) in a bottle of ginger beer may seem a minor upset, WED but the resulting case in 1932 produced the first WED comprehensive definition of neglect in tort law and WED established the meaning of the 'duty of care'. WED WED 21:00 The Eureka Years b00cmb4q (Listen) WED Series 4, 1893 - The Internal Combustion Engine WED Adam Hart-Davis explores spectacular years in the history WED of science. WED Henry Ford builds his first car, Karl Benz constructs his WED first four-wheeler and Gottlieb Daimler succeeds in WED putting his new engines in horseless carriages. The WED internal combustion engine, hailed as the answer to WED London's pollution problem, is born. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00nycw1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 21:58 Weather b00ny61n (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00ny648 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00nzwsl (Listen) WED Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, The WED Happy Death of the General WED Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of WED linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on WED the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the WED fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding. WED Although he has dressed himself carefully, as always, for WED his shopping trip into town, there is one thing the WED General has forgotten. WED Abridged by Sara Davies. WED WED 23:00 The Ladies b00g3dtz (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED Series of comedy sketches by Emily Watson Howes set in a WED ladies' public toilet, featuring various female characters WED as they come and go. WED An unattended bag left by the sinks causes panic and WED confusion, and Lisa tries to deal with her pushy mother. WED With Emily Watson Howes, Kate Donmall, Fran Moulds. WED A Hat Trick production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 All Bar Luke b00d75p4 (Listen) WED Series 3, The Date WED Poignant comedy drama series by Tim Key. WED Luke tries to move on from Hayley by going on a dinner WED date with an older woman. WED An Angel Eye Media production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny6zs (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with David Wilby. WED WED THU THURSDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2009 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00nx951 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00p298q (Listen) THU Family Britain, God Save Our Queen THU Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and THU intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the THU letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary THU people. THU While the country is spellbound by the Coronation of 1953, THU another royal soap opera is about to unfold. THU Abridged by Jane Greenwood. THU A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx96z (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9pb (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx991 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00nx9qw (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxcj6 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00nxclp (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00nxcs3 (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in THU Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00nyxvr (Listen) THU A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and THU Declan Kiberd discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young THU Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing THU up in Catholic Ireland. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00p298s (Listen) THU Family Britain, Brisk Buying and Selling THU Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and THU intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the THU letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary THU people. THU A new era of affluence is fuelled by a boom in advertising THU and the arrival of commercial television. THU Abridged by Jane Greenwood. THU A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd3q (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00nyxvt (Listen) THU A Small Town in Mississippi THU In 1995, four people were murdered in Winona, Mississippi. THU The black man charged with their murders is now facing his THU sixth trial. Racial tensions helped lead to three THU convictions being overturned and two trials were THU deadlocked by hung juries. Tom Mangold visits the Deep THU South to investigate and to speak to those most closely THU involved. What he discovers says much about whether the THU high hopes of an increasingly race-neutral America are THU still justified at the close of the first year of Barack THU Obama's presidency. THU THU 11:30 It Was A Dark and Stormy Night b00nyxvw (Listen) THU Ian Peacock reveals the dark and gothic life of the THU Victorian writer Edward Bulwer-Lytton, who coined the THU archetypally gothic opening line, 'It was a dark and THU stormy night'. THU We may no longer be familiar with his novels, nor with his THU scientific theories, but thanks largely to the Snoopy THU cartoons, The Goon Show and sundry other borrowers and THU mockers, everyone can quote part of Bulwer-Lytton's famous THU opening sentence: 'It was a dark and stormy night; the THU rain fell in torrents - except at occasional intervals, THU when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept THU up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), THU rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the THU scanty flame of the lamps that struggled against the THU darkness'. THU San Jose University in California now run a very popular THU Dark and Stormy Night competition - the winner is charged THU with writing the opening sentence to the worst of all THU possible novels. THU But Ian Peacock has a sneaking suspicion that there is THU more to Bulwer-Lytton than being simply the patron saint THU of Victorian gothic kitsch. He was hugely popular in his THU lifetime; Dickens and Mary Shelley were both fans, as was THU Wagner, who used one of Lytton's novels as the basis for THU his early opera Rienzi. THU Works like Pelham and The Last Days of Pompeii made THU Bulwer-Lytton a literary star. And he was fascinated by THU scientific discovery, as well as the spookier side of life THU - his novel The Coming Race is still popular among the THU science fiction community. It was in this book that he THU created Vril, electro-magnetic energy which fuels flying THU machines and automata and even makes telepathy possible. THU Add Vril to bovine and you end up with the popular THU beef-tea energy drink Bovril - another Bulwer-Lytton THU legacy. THU He also coined the phrases 'the great unwashed' and 'the THU almighty dollar'. And as if that wasn't enough for one THU life, Bulwer-Lytton became an outrageous dandy, served as THU an MP, dabbled in the occult and had a wife who publicly THU heckled and libelled him for decades. THU Ian explores the writer's stormy life, his work and his THU popularity among his contemporaries. He visits Knebworth THU Hall, Lytton's home for many years and the source of some THU of his darker writing, and talks to Professor John THU Sutherland to judge Lytton's literary merits. Sutherland THU describes him as, among other things, 'the father of the THU English detective novel, science fiction, the fantasy THU novel and the thriller'. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00nxd7l (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00nxd9z (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00nxg9z (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00ny8fz (Listen) THU Last Orders THU With pubs all over Britain closing at a rate of 52 per THU week, the role of the public house is called in to THU question by three writers who have spent many hours THU propping up the bar. Ian Marchant went on a nationwide pub THU crawl and wrote a book about his adventures, Simon THU Fanshawe remembers winding up the locals in 1970s THU Brighton, and Melissa Cole, who is also a professional THU beer taster, deconstructs one of the key phrases in THU drinking culture: 'fancy a pint?' Presented by Dominic THU Arkwright. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00nxgd7 (Listen) THU Lynda has some lessons in parenting. THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00b4jd0 (Listen) THU Far North THU By Louis Nowra. THU A boy and his young mother take to the road across THU Australia in search of the freedom and love she craves. THU Directed by Jane Ulman. THU A Corporation for Independent Media production for BBC THU Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00nwvx2 (Listen) THU The Hanbury Crater THU In the Staffordshire countryside, just a few miles from THU Burton-on-Trent, a wire fence surrounds a deep crater THU measuring over half a mile wide. Nearby signs warn passers THU by of the sudden drop and that the land contains THU unexploded bombs which, in the event of an explosion, THU could cause injury or death. This is where what is widely THU believed to be the UK's largest explosion occurred on THU November 27th 1944 when an underground ammunition store at THU nearby Fauld blew up detonating 3-4,000 tons of explosives THU and devastating acres of countryside, killing 70 people, THU hundreds of sheep and cattle and completely obliterating a THU nearby farm. The Cock Inn in Hanbury was so badly damaged THU that it had to be THU On the 65th anniversary of the explosion, Helen Mark THU visits Hanbury, the scene of this wartime tragedy, and THU talks to local people and survivors about their memories THU of that day and how the explosion changed their lives and THU the landscape around them forever. For over 40 years, THU nothing would grow in what became known to locals as the THU 'bomb hole' until slowly nature began to reclaim the THU Hanbury Crater. Helen is joined by the Time Team's THU Professor Mick Aston and together they visit the crater THU and go underground at Fauld Gypsum Mine, which dates back THU to Roman times. The mine was connected to the ill-fated THU ammunitions store by the reservoir supplying the steam to THU operate a nearby plastic factory. The gre THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00nx156 (Listen) THU Children in Need THU Terry Wogan appeals on behalf of Children in Need. THU Donations: BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000, THU London W12 7WJ, or you can give online at THU bbc.co.uk/pudsey, or call 0345 733 2233 (Calls to 03 THU numbers are charged at no more than UK geographic rates THU (as for 01 and 02 numbers) and will be included as part of THU any inclusive minutes. This applies to calls from any THU network including mobiles. THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00p27dv (Listen) THU An Important Passenger, Death By Elocution THU Series of three crime stories celebrating and inspired by THU the 75th anniversary of the publication of Agatha THU Christie's Murder on the Orient Express. THU By Malcolm Pryce, read by Sandra Duncan. THU A strangely familiar collection of characters - Laura THU Jesson and Dr Harvey from Brief Encounter, Noel Coward, a THU soldier and a parson - find themselves on a train journey. THU Their conversation is interrupted by a hideous voice - THU then there's a scream. THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nz9x2 (Listen) THU Ancestry THU To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir THU explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate THU the Scottish contribution to the world. THU Scottish immigrants have had an impact all over the world; THU now, more and more of their descendents are returning to THU rediscover their roots - especially in this special year THU of Homecoming. Aasmah talks to those visiting for the THU celebrations to find out if their image of Scotland is THU realistic or one clouded by myth and romance. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00nx8k6 (Listen) THU Mariella's guests include the novelist James Meek, who THU talks about his passion for Tolstoy. As a new translation THU of some of the Russian master's shorter fiction is THU published, Meek explains how a man best known for writing THU epic works including War and Peace was also one of the THU supreme geniuses of the short story. THU Novelists often dedicate their work to friends, relatives THU or lovers. Marlene Wagman-Geller, the author of a new book THU which uncovers some of the surprising stories behind these THU dedications, and Peter Kemp, fiction editor of the Sunday THU Times, reveal some of the secrets hidden by writers in THU their inscriptions. THU Five years before the coup which brought him to power in THU France, Napoleon Bonaparte penned a romantic novella. As THU the full text is published in English for the first time, THU Michele Roberts joins Mariella to discuss what this THU unexpected piece of fiction reveals about the sometime THU Emperor of the French. THU And Mariella talks to the author of one of the year's most THU unusual books, a novel masquerading as an auction THU catalogue. Its author Leanne Shapton explains why she THU decided to tell the story of a relationship through the THU medium of photographs of the couple's possessions. THU THU 16:30 Material World b00nyy8q (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper dissects the week's science. THU THU 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxl (Listen) THU 26th November 1989 THU Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 THU years ago. THU Czechoslovakia's prime minister has his first meeting with THU the country's leading dissident, Vaclav Havel; Lady THU Mosley, Sir Oswald's wife, talks to Sue Lawley on Desert THU Island Discs. THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 17:00 PM b00ny447 (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 b00ny475 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Bleak Expectations b00nyy8s (Listen) THU Series 3, An Evil Life Sort of Explained THU Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. THU Pip Bin, Harry Biscuit and Gently Benevolent find THU themselves trapped in the vast emptiness of space. As THU their doom looks increasingly inevitable, Mr Benevolent THU finally explains just why it is that he is so very very THU evil. THU Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson THU Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen THU Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head THU Lovely Benevolent ...... Jane Asher THU Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman THU Hardthrasher/Sternbeater/Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey THU Whitehead THU Miss Christmasham ...... Sarah Hadland THU Miss Sweetly Delightful ...... Raquel Cassidy. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00nxgd9 (Listen) THU Helen's insecurities come to the fore. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00ny48n (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with John Wilson. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5nr (Listen) THU Our Mutual Friend, Episode 14 THU Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic THU novel. THU Lizzie Hexam and Bella Wilfer meet at last, at a funeral THU in a country churchyard. THU Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings THU John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp THU Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard THU Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts THU Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins THU Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh THU Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew THU Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy THU Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis THU Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross THU Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan THU Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler THU Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman THU Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke THU Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah THU Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox THU Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler THU Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin THU Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider THU Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler THU Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney THU Music by Roger Goula THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer THU This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as THU part of the Series Catch-up Trial. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00nyz7j (Listen) THU Current affairs series which combines original insights THU into major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00nz005 (Listen) THU Unlimited Company THU In a world where banks and conventional companies have THU taken a big battering in the recession, perhaps there are THU better ways of running an business. Peter Day listens to THU some people who are trying to do things completely THU differently. THU THU 21:00 Leading Edge b00nyz7n (Listen) THU Geoff Watts examines the impact of Darwin's On The Origin THU of Species on science, society and religion, then and now, THU on the 150th anniversary of its publication. THU He visits an international conference in Egypt that brings THU together scientists and religious thinkers from east and THU west to discuss how ideas about evolution have informed THU biological science, but also have been hijacked to support THU prejudice. He also looks into some of the big questions THU being asked of evolution today. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00nyxvr (Listen) THU A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Roy Foster, Jeri Johnson and THU Declan Kiberd discuss A Portrait of the Artist as a Young THU Man, James Joyce's groundbreaking 1916 novel about growing THU up in Catholic Ireland. THU THU 21:58 Weather b00ny61q (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00ny64b (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00nzwsn (Listen) THU Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, Rabbit THU Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of THU linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on THU the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the THU fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding. THU The major, his wife and Leafy Barkwell have a THU heartbreaking encounter on an evening walk. THU Abridged by Sara Davies. THU THU 23:00 Bespoken Word b00n56sw (Listen) THU Special edition of Radio 4's performance poetry show from THU Cardiff University. Featuring Brit School graduate Laura THU Dockrill, who regularly gigs with Kate Nash and has just THU published her second book, Ugly Shy Girl, which looks at THU the experiences of the sixth-form loner girl, the kind who THU feels 'like a tiny speck of dust that the Hoover has THU forgotten to suck up'. Plus the winner of the Radio 4 THU Poetry Slam competition Dizraeli, who makes you listen to THU rap with new ears, and Siadwell from the TV comedy series THU Naked Video. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny6zv (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Sean Curran. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2009 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00nx953 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00p298s (Listen) FRI Family Britain, Brisk Buying and Selling FRI Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and FRI intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the FRI letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary FRI people. FRI A new era of affluence is fuelled by a boom in advertising FRI and the arrival of commercial television. FRI Abridged by Jane Greenwood. FRI A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00nx971 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00nx9pd (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00nx993 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00nx9qy (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00nxcj8 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Peter Baker. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00nxclr (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00nxcs5 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Food and Farming Awards b00nz1bf (Listen) FRI Announcing the 2009 winners of Radio 4's annual FRI competition. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00p298v (Listen) FRI Family Britain, A Pretty Mess FRI Dominic West reads from David Kynaston's vivid and FRI intimate history of Britain in the 1950s, drawing on the FRI letters, diaries and memories of well-known and ordinary FRI people. FRI An increasingly affluent and confident Britain is rocked FRI by the Suez crisis. FRI Abridged by Jane Greenwood. FRI A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00nxd3s (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Our Mutual Friend. FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00nz1bh (Listen) FRI Series 5, The Maryfield Writers FRI Alan Dein goes to Northern Ireland to talk to former Royal FRI Ulster Constabulary officers who have formed a writing FRI group. The Maryfield Writers meet once a month to share FRI and discuss their work. Alan spends time with three of FRI them to understand why they write about their chosen FRI subjects and finds that each of them deals with the past FRI in different ways. FRI Bob has made a clean break with his police past. He served FRI for 22 years, was shot at, had bombs placed under his car FRI and was forced to move house a number of times. He chooses FRI to write children's stories about fantasy and escape and FRI has had a number of books published. Keith is working on FRI screenplays which fall into the police-procedural genre FRI but avoid autobiographical references. Not entirely at FRI ease with modern Northern Ireland, Keith spends a lot of FRI time at home, writing. Teresa spent 20 years in Juvenile FRI Liaisons and, as a Catholic, was in a minority in the RUC. FRI Her poetry has allowed her some catharsis as years of FRI difficult experiences during the Troubles have now found a FRI creative outlet. FRI They each reflect on their motivations for joining the FRI police and the importance of their new lives as writers in FRI post-Troubles Northern Ireland. FRI FRI 11:30 The Richest Man In Britain b00nz1bk (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI Sitcom by Nick Hornby and Giles Smith about an ageing rock FRI star and his search for fulfilment. FRI Trillionnaire rocker Dave Mabbutt contemplates the FRI purchase of an African village to complement his FRI afternoons-only radio station. FRI Dave Mabbutt ...... Mark Williams FRI Dom ...... Russell Tovey FRI Naomi, the Charity Worker ...... Ayesha Antoine FRI Dave's Mum ...... Lynda Bellingham FRI Ken, the Maintenance Man ...... Phil Cornwell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00nxd7n (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00nxdb1 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00nxgb1 (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00nz1bm (Listen) FRI Roger Bolton airs listeners' views on BBC radio programmes FRI and policy. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00nxgd9 (Listen) FRI Helen's insecurities come to the fore. FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00nz2n9 (Listen) FRI Number 10, The Visigoths Are Coming... FRI Series of plays by Jonathan Myerson depicting life inside FRI Downing Street. FRI The Angolan Navy have occupied the British territory of St FRI Helena. After six days, the PM and the Angolan Ambassador FRI are locked in talks to try to prevent a declaration of FRI war. But who has prompted this seemingly mad act of FRI aggression? FRI Adam ...... Antony Sher FRI Steve ...... Stephen Mangan FRI Genoveva ...... Adjoa Andoh FRI Angolan Ambassador/Virgilio, Angolan Military Attache FRI ...... Ray Fearon FRI Paul, US Deputy Secretary of State ...... Colin Stinton FRI Simon Laity ...... Damian Lewis FRI Merlin Helicopter Pilot ...... Theo Fraser FRI Command HQ ...... Scott Cherry FRI Directed by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00nz93r (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. FRI Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Matt Gibbs answer FRI questions posed by gardeners in Mayfield, East Sussex. FRI With Christmas just around the corner, the team give their FRI top tips for which new books to buy, and Bunny Guinness FRI checks out some new gadgets and gizmos that might be FRI making an appearance in your garden some time soon. FRI Including Gardening weather forecast. FRI FRI 15:45 A Very Scottish Homecoming b00nz9x4 (Listen) FRI Robert Burns FRI To celebrate Scotland's year of Homecoming, Aasmah Mir FRI explores five themes that have been chosen to encapsulate FRI the Scottish contribution to the world. FRI Scotland's year of Homecoming has been inspired by the FRI 250th anniversary of Robert Burns' birth. Aasmah asks what FRI Burns' real legacy is - his body of work or the social FRI principles he celebrated? FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00nz93v (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 b00nz93y (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Ken Russell about his adventures FRI in motion pictures. FRI FRI 16:56 1989: Day by Day b00nxhxn (Listen) FRI 27th November 1989 FRI Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 FRI years ago. FRI Margaret Thatcher defends her record on the BBC's Panorama FRI and Michael Buerk reports from Ethiopia, where millions FRI are facing starvation. FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00ny449 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00ny477 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00nz940 (Listen) FRI Series 29, Episode 1 FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of FRI the week's news, with help from Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin, FRI Jon Holmes and Shazia Mirza. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00nxgdc (Listen) FRI A new guest books in at Ambridge Hall. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00ny48q (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. Including the FRI announcement of the contenders for the BBC National Short FRI Story Award. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00ny5nt (Listen) FRI Our Mutual Friend, Episode 15 FRI Adaptation by Mike Walker of Charles Dickens' classic FRI novel. FRI Impetuous and headstrong Bella Wilfer finally takes a FRI stand. FRI Charles Dickens ...... Alex Jennings FRI John Rokesmith ...... Carl Prekopp FRI Bella Wilfer ...... Daisy Haggard FRI Lizzie Hexam ...... Lizzy Watts FRI Mr Boffin ...... Jason Watkins FRI Betty Higden ...... Lynn Farleigh FRI Sloppy ...... Benjamin Askew FRI Eugene Wrayburn ...... Patrick Kennedy FRI Mortimer Lightwood ...... Matt Addis FRI Silas Wegg ...... Lee Ross FRI Aenus Venus ...... Stephen Hogan FRI Pleasant Riderhood ...... Annabelle Dowler FRI Rogue Riderhood ...... Jamie Foreman FRI Bradley Headstone ...... Neil Stuke FRI Abbey Potterson ...... Janice Acquah FRI Pa Wilfer ...... Philip Fox FRI Ma Wilfer ...... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jenny Wren ...... Nicola Miles-Wildin FRI Jenny's Father ...... Paul Rider FRI Solomon Riah ...... Jonathan Tafler FRI Organ Grinder ...... Malcolm Tierney FRI Music by Roger Goula FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Jeremy Mortimer FRI This episode is available until 7.45pm on 11th December as FRI part of the Series Catch-up Trial. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00nz942 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Tidworth FRI in Wiltshire. The panellists include Timothy Garton Ash, FRI Professor of European Studies at Oxford University. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00nz944 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Clive James. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00nz946 (Listen) FRI Shirleymander FRI Tragic comedy by Gregory Evans depicting the principal FRI events of Shirley Porter's time as leader of Westminster FRI city council in the 1980s. FRI Leader ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman FRI Wet ...... Maggie Steed FRI Senior Council Official ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole FRI Exec Director ...... Piers Wehner FRI Deputy ...... Stephen Hogan FRI The Doctor ...... Sagar Arya FRI District Auditor ...... Bruce Alexander FRI QC/Father ...... Ewan Hooper FRI Chairman, Tesco ...... Philip Fox FRI Labour Councillor ...... John Biggins FRI Female interviewer ...... Tessa Nicholson FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00ny61s (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00ny64d (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Robin FRI Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00nzwsq (Listen) FRI Notwithstanding: Stories from an English Village, The FRI Broken Heart FRI Hugh Bonneville reads from Louis de Bernieres' new book of FRI linked stories which cast an affectionate but acute eye on FRI the vanishing charms and eccentric characters of the FRI fictional Surrey village of Notwithstanding. FRI When Obadiah Oak sells up and moves away from FRI Notwithstanding, he leaves his heart behind. FRI Abridged by Sara Davies. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00nycc0 (Listen) FRI Sue MacGregor talks to poet Kate Clanchy and zoologist and FRI director of the Natural History Museum Michael Dixon about FRI their favourite books, featuring an acclaimed poetry FRI anthology and the novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by FRI Paul Torday. FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00ny6zx (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI