08 January, 2010

Radio 4 Listings for 09/01/2010 - 15/01/2010

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SAT SATURDAY 9 JANUARY 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00pm0j8 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00pmbw8 (Listen) SAT The Last Matchmaker, Episode 5 SAT Dermot Crowley reads from the memoir by traditional Irish SAT matchmaker Willie Daly. Telling tall tales of true love, SAT this is a fascinating journey through modern rural Ireland SAT and its recent past. SAT A salutary tale warning against messing with the path of SAT true love. SAT Abridged by David Jackson Young. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pm0kp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pm0kr (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 SAT resumes at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pm0kt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00pm0kw (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pm1d0 (Listen) SAT Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Michael Ford. SAT SAT 05:45 A Box of Wittgensteins b00g215j (Listen) SAT The Moody Genius SAT Margaret Stonborough, the great-niece of philosopher SAT Ludwig Wittgenstein, talks to artist and historian Michael SAT Huey as she delves into six boxes of newly-inherited SAT family archives. As she digs deeper into the talented but SAT tortured lives of the Wittgensteins she finds her cramped SAT London house becoming ever more crowded with her SAT larger-than-life forbears. SAT At the end of the First World War, letters and artefacts SAT show that the surviving Wittgensteins were attempting to SAT pick up their lives but they are rarely far from tragedy. SAT Within a few years, the family history of suicide loomed SAT over them once again. SAT The readers are Sarah Finch, Nicholas Rowe and Dan Starkey. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00pm1d2 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00pmdct (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00pn25d (Listen) SAT Purbeck SAT In May 2008, a huge fire swept across Godlingston Heath SAT National Nature Reserve in Purbeck, Dorset, devastating SAT acres of heathland rich in wildlife, rare reptiles and SAT birds. It was estimated that the landscape could take up SAT to 30 years to recover. Yet, in the right circumstances, SAT fire is still used as a means of controlling the landscape SAT to ensure a healthy environment for plants and wildlife. SAT Helen Mark discovers more about the various forces at work SAT in our nature reserves and begins by tracking down the SAT increasing population of sika, the small Japanese deer SAT that have taken up home on the moors and heaths. Left SAT unmanaged, the deer can cause problems both for the SAT heathland and for neighbouring farmers and so are now SAT being monitored and managed through a programme of culling. SAT Helen visits the scene of the devastating fire at SAT Godlingston Heath to meet the people who dealt with the SAT aftermath and who are still working to restore the SAT landscape. She then canoes out onto freshwater Littlesea SAT Lake in search of the invasive crassula plant, which can SAT grow to a meter thick, taking oxygen from the water and SAT suppressing other wild plants. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00pn25g (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT The UK has seen a week of freezing temperatures and heavy SAT snow and the severe weather looks set to continue. Cath SAT Mackie visits a farm on the Worcestershire-Warwickshire SAT border to investigate how farmers are coping with the SAT conditions and their impact on cattle, sheep and crops. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00pn25j (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00pn25l (Listen) SAT With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in SAT Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00pn25n (Listen) SAT Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues SAT that matter to them. Katie Derham is joined by Chris SAT Addison. With poetry from Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00pn25q (Listen) SAT John McCarthy celebrates travelling in a winter landscape SAT with two writers, one in Wales and one in Scotland, and SAT talks to crime writer Barbara Nadel about the lure of SAT Istanbul. SAT Related Links SAT * The Foreign & Commonwealth Office's (FCO) SAT (www.fco.gov.uk) SAT * Papa Stour is one of the Shetland Islands in Scotland SAT (en.wikipedia.org) SAT * Gudrid of Iceland (en.wikipedia.org) SAT * Istanbul (en.wikipedia.org) SAT * Princes’ Islands (en.wikipedia.org) SAT SAT 10:30 What's So Great About ...? b00pn346 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Maths SAT Lenny Henry questions the iconic status of people or SAT things held dear by many. SAT Lenny, like so many in the UK, has always found maths SAT tough going, but was he simply badly taught or has he got SAT some sort of number blindness? Defending the art of SAT arithmetical analysis and the joys of number-crunching are SAT Countdown maths maestro Carol Vorderman and former SAT government 'Maths Tsar' Celia Hoyles. SAT At a national conference on how to make maths more fun and SAT engaging for children, Lenny teams up with a group of SAT primary maths teachers to play number games and fold paper SAT into right-angled triangles, squares, parallelograms and SAT other usefully geometrical shapes - and enjoys it. SAT On the scientific front, down in his testing room at SAT London's University College neurology department, SAT Professor Brian Butterworth puts Lenny's number ability on SAT trial. Brian has done field-leading work on the way the SAT brain handles arithmetical concepts, so how will Lenny SAT cope with tests that he admits feel like his worst SAT nightmare from schooldays? SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00pn348 (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Peter Oborne. SAT MPs expenses raised its head again when the Independent SAT Parliamentary Standards Authority published its SAT consultation on MPs allowances and expenses. Will the SAT regulation be tough enough? John Mann (Labour) thinks not, SAT while Nick Harvey (Liberal Democrat) disagrees. SAT The move to unseat Gordon Brown failed, but how does one SAT mount a successful coup? Two people with experience of the SAT rough and tumble of party politics - Lord Donoghue, former SAT adviser to Prime Ministers Harold Wilson and Jim SAT Callaghan, and Derek Conway, a Conservative whip in the SAT Major years - compare notes. SAT The Liberal Democrats are now being wooed by both main SAT parties in the expectation of a hung parliament. Lord SAT Rennard and Chris Huhne assess their suitors. SAT Do political poster campaigns work? Charles Lewington of SAT Hanover PR and formerly John Major's head of SAT communications, talks to Barry Delaney, a former SAT advertising consultant to the Labour Party. SAT Related Links SAT * John Mann MP (www.johnmannmp.com) SAT * Nick Harvey MP (www.nickharveymp.com) SAT * Chris Huhne MP (www.chrishuhne.org.uk) SAT * Charles Lewington (www.hanovercomms.com) SAT * Derek Conway MP (www.derekconway.com) SAT * Lord Renard (www.libdems.org.uk) SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00pn34b (Listen) SAT Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00pn34d (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00pm0dp (Listen) SAT Series 70, Episode 1 SAT Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The SAT panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Sue Perkins, Danielle Ward SAT and Fred Macaulay. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00pn34g (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00pn34j (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00pm0dr (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from the SAT Baitul Futuh Mosque in Morden, London. The panellists are SAT transport minister Sadiq Khan, Conservative MEP Daniel SAT Hannan, Liberal Democrat energy and climate change SAT spokesman Simon Hughes and writer and columnist for The SAT Guardian Polly Toynbee. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00pn34l (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 b00dc4f0 (Listen) SAT Just Between Ourselves SAT Adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's celebrated 1977 stage play, SAT a bitter-sweet comedy about love, marriages and mothers. SAT Dennis ...... Stephen Critchlow SAT Vera ...... Samantha Spiro SAT Marjorie ...... Auriol Smith SAT Neil ...... Chris Pavlo SAT Pam ...... Alison Pettitt SAT Music composed by David Chilton. SAT Directed by Gordon House. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00pn34q (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with SAT Jane Garvey. SAT Ruthie Henshall on Chicago and living with fame; can your SAT relationship ever recover from infidelity?; the American SAT schools' experiment on longer days in school and why it SAT might work here; poet Sinead Morrissey on what inspires SAT her; eavesdropping on dads who do the childcare; and SAT wooing women voters - what would sway how you vote? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00pn34s (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn SAT Quinn, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00pn34v (Listen) SAT The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring SAT online conversation and debate. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00pn34x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00pn34z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pn351 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00pn353 (Listen) SAT Peter Curran and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT Peter is joined by the comedian and bird watcher Bill SAT Bailey, screen writer of The Road Joe Penhall and art SAT historian and presenter Gus Casley-Hayford. SAT Arthur Smith talks to chef and food writer Valentine SAT Warner. SAT With comedy from Pappy's and music from Lawrence Arabia SAT and Lulu and the Lampshades. SAT Bill Bailey SAT Comedian Bill Bailey reveals himself as an avid twitcher SAT in his latest project, an intriguing twist to the quiz SAT show format – celebrity competitive bird watching. ‘Bill SAT Bailey’s Birdwatching Bonanza’ airs on Thursdays at SAT 21.00pm on Sky1. SAT Bill Bailey’s Birdwatching Bonanza SAT Gus Casely-Hayford SAT Historian and art expert Gus Casely-Hayford unearths the SAT little known history of Africa’s ancient civilisations in SAT his BBC Four series. ‘Lost Kingdoms of Africa’. The four SAT programmes are broadcast on Tuesdays at 20.00 pm on BBC SAT Four with episodes available on the BBC iPlayer. SAT Lost Kingdoms of Africa SAT Joe Penhall SAT With television, film and theatre credits including ‘Moses SAT Jones’, ‘Enduring Love’ and ‘Blue/Orange’, playwright and SAT screenwriter Joe Penhall joins Peter to talk about SAT adapting Cormac McCarthy’s post apocalyptic novel ‘The SAT Road’. The film is on general release from Friday 8 SAT January. SAT The Road SAT Valentine Warner SAT Arthur Smith talks to chef and food obsessive Valentine SAT Warner about British ration era cooking, finding out the SAT ingenious cooking techniques housewives used to liven up SAT the tasteless. The one hour special ‘Ration Book Britain’ SAT goes out on Yesterday on Friday 15 January at 17.00pm. SAT Yesterday SAT Pappys SAT How many sketches can you fit into our Loose Ends comedy SAT slot? Find out as the comedy collective Pappys warm up for SAT their 200 sketches in an hour world record attempt. They SAT are on UK on tour from January 21. SAT Pappys SAT Lulu and the Lampshades SAT And more music from indie folk newcomers Lulu and the SAT Lampshades who play their latest single ‘Feet to the Sky’. SAT They can be heard at London’s Luminaire on Sunday 17 SAT January. SAT Lulu and the Lampshades - Myspace SAT Lawrence Arabia SAT And more music from New Zealander Lawrence Arabia, SAT performing 'Apple Pie Bed' with his band. The album 'Chant SAT Darling’ is out now. He is on UK tour in February SAT Lawrence Arabia SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00pn355 (Listen) SAT Sir Roderic Lyne SAT Starting next week some of those most closely involved in SAT the decision to go to war in Iraq will be appearing before SAT the Chilcot Inquiry. Mary Ann Sieghart profiles Sir SAT Roderic Lyne, the Iraq Inquiry panellist who is asking the SAT toughest questions. He is a former Ambassador to Moscow SAT and private secretary to John Major. Alastair Campbell has SAT been a running buddy. So how tough will Sir Roderic be SAT with his friends and former colleagues? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00pn357 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests discuss the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00pxptv (Listen) SAT Mods! SAT Phil Daniels presents a look back at the Mod movement, SAT exploring its beginnings in the Soho underground of the SAT late 1950s through to the seafront clashes with the SAT Rockers in the 1960s, and examining the Mods' influence on SAT music, film, fashion and popular culture. SAT A Brook Lapping production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00pj463 (Listen) SAT The Custom of the Country, Episode 1 SAT Dramatisation by Jane Rogers of Edith Wharton's 1913 SAT satire of marriage and money in early 20th-century SAT American society. SAT When the beautiful Undine Spragg arrives in New York, she SAT sets her sights on Ralph Marvell, but will he live up to SAT her expectations? SAT Undine Spragg ...... Rebecca Night SAT Mrs Spragg ...... Barbara Barnes SAT Mrs Heeny ...... Lorelei King SAT Abner Spragg/Popple ...... Jonathan Keeble SAT Peter Van Degan ...... William Houston SAT Mr Dagonet ...... Paul McCleary SAT Laura Fairford ...... Provence Maydew SAT Elmer Moffatt ...... Tom Hollander SAT Ralph Marvell ...... Dan Stevens SAT Mabel Lipscombe ...... Tessa Nicholson SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT 22:00 Weather b00pn35c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SAT 4, followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00pkttp (Listen) SAT The Law and Drugs SAT Clive Anderson presents the series analysing the legal SAT issues of the day. SAT There is a growing body of opinion in the legal world that SAT the 'war on drugs' has failed and that decriminalisation SAT of drugs is the only way ahead. What are the shortcomings SAT of the existing Misuse of Drugs Act, and how might drug SAT use be regulated in a decriminalised future? SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00pk7zt (Listen) SAT Russell Davies chairs the first semi-final of the SAT perennial general knowledge contest, with heat winners Mrs SAT Ali Arnold from High Wycombe, Ms Marie Coyle from London, SAT Rob Hannah from Torquay and Roger Johnson from Chelmsford SAT competing for a place in the final. SAT Contestants SAT Ali Arnold from High Wycombe SAT Marie Coyle from London SAT Rob Hannah from Torquay SAT Roger Johnson from Chelmsford SAT SAT 23:30 Miles Jupp's Muscular Lines b00pj4s4 (Listen) SAT Can a book of poetry for boys which inspired young men at SAT the beginning of the 20th century work its magic on a new SAT generation? Comedian Miles Jupp revisits his old prep SAT school with a book of Muscular Lines to see if the SAT stirring verse about battles, exploration and moral values SAT is relevant today. Some of today's heroes and explorers SAT reveal the poems that keep them going when times get tough. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 10 JANUARY 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00pn3zg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b009fplm (Listen) SUN Pier Shorts, Symbiosis SUN Stories by new writers, inspired by Brighton's Palace Pier. SUN By Tom Fox. SUN Harold and Mary haved lived together in the same Brighton SUN house for 50 years. Harold makes all the decisions and SUN Mary cannot leave the house - until a wrongly posted SUN women's magazine lands on the doorstep. SUN Read by Sian Thomas. SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pn3zj (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pn3zl (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pn3zn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00pn3zq (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00pn3zs (Listen) SUN The sound of bells from St Martin's Church, Desford in SUN Leicester. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00pn355 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00pn3zv (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00pn3zx (Listen) SUN Wild Swimming SUN Writer Sarah Cuddon reflects on what draws people into the SUN open sea and the wild water of rivers. She talks to Kate SUN Rew, founder of the Outdoor Swimming Society, about the SUN real experience and metaphorical significance of wild SUN swimming, with reference to Byron, Mark Twain, Iris SUN Murdoch and others writers 'hungry for water'. With music SUN by Dvorak, Portico Quartet and Kathryn Williams. SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN Music SUN Music 1 SUN Swimming Song SUN Kate and Anna McGarrigle SUN CD: Kate and Anna McGarrigle) SUN Warner Bros Records Trk 9 SUN Music 2 SUN Chimurenga SUN Performed by Kieron Maguire and Richard Bannister SUN Music 3 SUN Dvorak: O Moon SUN Rusalka, Opera, B. 203 (Op. 114) SUN Performed by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, cond. Seiji SUN Ozawa SUN (CD: Dvorak: Gala at Smetana Hall) SUN Sony Classical SK46687 Trk 5 SUN Music 4 SUN Knee Deep in the North Sea SUN Performed by Portico Quartet SUN (CD: Knee Deep in the North Sea) SUN Babel Vortex Trk 3 SUN Music 5 SUN Britten: Dawn SUN Performed by the London Symphony Orchestra SUN (CD: Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra) SUN London 4256592 Trk 2 SUN Music 6 SUN Swimmer SUN Performed by Kathryn Williams SUN (CD: Old Low Light) SUN Caw Records 092747552-2 Trk 9 SUN Music 7 SUN Liebes-Lied SUN Performed by Arianna Savall SUN (CD: Peiwoch) SUN Alia Vox Trk 3 SUN Music 8 SUN Britten: Dawn SUN Performed by the LSO SUN (CD: Young Persons Guide to the Orchestra) SUN London 4256592 Trk 2 SUN Readings SUN Reading 1 SUN The Swimmer by John Cheever SUN Available in The Brigadier and the Golf Widow SUN Published by Bantam SUN Reading 2 SUN Waterlog by Roger Deakin SUN Published by Vintage SUN Reading 3 SUN Long Distance Swimmer by Dorothy Malloy SUN Available in Long Distance Swimmer SUN Published by Salmon Poetry, 2009 SUN Reading 4 SUN The Haunts of the Black Masseur by Charles Sprawson SUN Published by Vintage SUN Reading 5 SUN Wedding Swim by Retta Bowen SUN Reading 6 SUN How to Swim by Annette Kellerman SUN Reading 7 SUN The Sea The Sea by Iris Murdoch SUN Published by Vintage SUN Interview SUN Kate Rew SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00pn3zz (Listen) SUN Tom Heap visits Pheasant Oak Turkey Farm near Coventry to SUN see what happens once Christmas dinner is over. SUN A tasty turkey is the main ingredient of most Christmas SUN dinners, making December one of the busiest months for SUN poultry farmers. But what happens when the presents are SUN all unwrapped and the New Year has begun? Tom meets turkey SUN farmer Rod Adlington at the Pheasant Oak Farm, in search SUN of survivors. He joins in with the mucking-out to find out SUN what happens on the farm once the holiday season is over SUN and why turkeys seem to lose the will to live in the New SUN Year. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00pn401 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00pn403 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00pn405 (Listen) SUN Jane Little 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 b00pn407 (Listen) SUN Cambodia Trust SUN Richard Wilson appeals on behalf of Cambodia Trust. SUN Donations to Cambodia Trust should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Cambodia Trust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Cambodia Trust with SUN your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid SUN on your donation. The online and phone donation facilities SUN are not currently available to listeners without a UK SUN postcode. SUN Registered Charity Number 1032476. SUN Related Links SUN * Cambodia Trust (www.cambodiatrust.com) SUN Cambodia Trust SUN The Cambodia Trust provides training, physical SUN rehabilitation and practical tools to help disabled people SUN to escape poverty and live self-sufficiently. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00pn409 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00pn40c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00pn40f (Listen) SUN A service from Christ Church in Cockermouth, one of the SUN towns devastated by the 2009 Cumbria floods, to celebrate SUN the strength of their community and the place of faith in SUN the most difficult circumstances. SUN Director of Music: Edward Taylor. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00pm0dt (Listen) SUN Lisa Jardine welcomes the advent of electronic books but SUN retains her passion for the printed page. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00pn40h (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week SUN with Kevin Connolly. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00pn40k (Listen) SUN The week's events in Ambridge. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00pn40m (Listen) SUN Mary Portas SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Mary Portas. SUN She's made an art-form out of turning heads, and her SUN galleries have been the enormous plate-glass windows of SUN Harrods, Topshop and Harvey Nichols. SUN These days she brings retail therapy to small traders, SUN helping them to hold their own against the high street's SUN big names. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00pk8z6 (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 1 SUN Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Panellists SUN Paul Merton and Julian Clary reveal, among other things, SUN what they think of New Year's Eve parties, and David SUN Mitchell and Gyles Brandreth discuss the art of writing a SUN book. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00pn410 (Listen) SUN Speciality Tea SUN Speciality teas are the biggest growth area in the fairly SUN static tea sector, as tea drinkers go in search of more SUN interesting flavours, and stories. Sheila Dillon asks SUN what's driving this growth, and finds out what is on offer SUN both in the mass market and the speciality tea companies, SUN including The Rare Tea Company. SUN The British are second only to the Irish in the amount of SUN tea they drink but Henrietta Lovell wasn't convinced they SUN were getting a decent cuppa, so set up the company to SUN bring 'the good stuff' to the nation's mugs, including a SUN surprising new tea from Malawi. African tea is SUN traditionally regarded as low quality commodity tea best SUN used in blended teabags, and lacks the cache of China tea SUN or Indian Darjeeling. Henrietta has been working with a SUN third-generation Malawian tea producer to bring a single SUN estate 'gourmet' tea to the market, fit to rub shoulders SUN with traditional premium teas. SUN Sheila is joined in the studio by Bill Gorman from the UK SUN Tea Council, which represents all the major tea brands in SUN the UK, and Edward Eisner, founder of internet-based Jing SUN Teas. SUN Related Links SUN * UK Tea Council (www.tea.co.uk) SUN * Rare Tea Company (www.rareteacompany.com) SUN * Jing Teas (jingtea.com) SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00pn4c1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00pn4c3 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Moments of Genius b00pr7c5 (Listen) SUN Geoff Watts introduces an omnibus edition of the Moments SUN of Genius which have aired throughout the past week on SUN Radio 4, from the moment a Dutch draper stared at a drop SUN of pond water to an experiment that put Einstein to the SUN test. SUN Geoff and guests enjoy and discuss the choices of, among SUN others, mathematician Marcus du Sautoy, writer Eoin SUN Colfer, Professor Lord Winston, Carol Vorderman and SUN comedian Ben Miller. They consider if scientists really do SUN have moments of genius or if it is just a useful fiction, SUN and what it takes to be a genius. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pm0dh (Listen) SUN Eric Robson chairs the popular horticultural forum. SUN Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Biggs answer SUN questions from gardeners in Wallasey, Merseyside. SUN Matthew tells the story of Liverpool cotton merchant SUN Arthur Bulley and his love of plants. SUN Bunny explores the skills needed for willow weaving by SUN meeting a group of students on a course, and explains how SUN to create some stunning designs. SUN Including gardening weather forecast. SUN SUN 14:45 Gameboy v The Mongolian Steppe b00chwbz (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN Series following the exploits of a computer games-obsessed SUN 14-year-old with learning difficulties who is taken to SUN Mongolia by his father to experience the more exciting SUN side of life. SUN Dexter, his dad and his step-mum Sarah, who suffers from SUN ME, head off on an adventure of a lifetime, hunting with SUN nomads in the far West of Mongolia. Will real life be more SUN exciting than computer games? SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00pnp9c (Listen) SUN The Custom of the Country, Episode 2 SUN Dramatisation by Jane Rogers of Edith Wharton's 1913 SUN satire of marriage and money in early-20th century SUN American society. SUN Leaving her husband and child in New York, Undine travels SUN to Paris where she meets a charming French aristocrat. SUN Mrs Heeny ...... Lorelei King SUN Elmer Moffatt ...... Tom Hollander SUN Undine Spragg ...... Rebecca Night SUN Mrs Spragg ...... Barbara Barnes SUN Abner Spragg ...... Jonathan Keeble SUN Ralph Marvell ...... Dan Stevens SUN Clare Van Degen ...... Lucy Gaskell SUN Peter Van Degan ...... William Houston SUN Mabel Lipscombe ...... Tessa Nicholson SUN Laura Fairford/Princess Estradina ...... Provence Maydew SUN Raymond De Chelles ...... Joseph Kloska SUN Directed by Nadia Molinari. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00pnp9f (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to the novelist and biographer SUN Edmund White about two new books: his collection of short SUN fiction, Chaos, and City Boy, a memoir of his life in New SUN York in the 1960s and 70s. He talks about his attitude to SUN mortality, and remembers coming of age as a gay writer at SUN the time of the Stonewall riots. SUN As last year's reference books are superseded by the 2010 SUN editions, Open Book talks to the author of Schott's SUN Almanac 2010, Ben Schott, the writer Kevin Jackson and the SUN editor of Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Camilla SUN Rockwood, who reveal why they enjoy curling up with a SUN reference book. SUN And in this week's Reading Clinic, Michael Carlson chooses SUN some titles for an Open Book listener who's in search of SUN 1920s gangster fiction. SUN BOOKLIST SUN Edmund White: Chaos SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN Edmund White: City Boy SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, 18th Edition SUN Publisher: Chambers Harrap SUN William Donaldson: Brewer's Rogues, Villains and Eccentrics SUN Publisher: Chambers Harrap SUN Ben Schott: Schott's Miscellany SUN Publisher: Bloomsbury SUN Isaac Disraeli: Curiosities of Literature SUN Out of print SUN Larousse Gastronomique SUN Publisher: Hamlyn SUN Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez: Perfumes: The A-Z Guide SUN Publisher: Profile SUN MICHAEL CARLSON’S READING CLINIC GANGSTER RECOMMENDATIONS SUN Dashiel Hammett: The Thin Man SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN Dashiel Hammett: Red Harvest SUN Publisher: Orion SUN Raoul Whitfield: Green Ice SUN Publisher: blackmask.com SUN Raoul Whitfield: Death In A Bowl SUN Publisher: blackmask.com SUN Paul Cain: Fast One SUN Publisher: No Exit Press SUN Elmore Leonard: The Hot Kid SUN Publisher: Phoenix SUN Stuart Kaminsky: Murder On The Yellow Brick Road SUN Publisher: iBooks inc SUN Ring Lardner: You Know Me Al SUN Publisher: various SUN Harry Stein: Hoopla SUN Publisher: Dell SUN E. L. Doctorow: Billy Bathgate SUN Publisher: Penguin SUN SUN 16:30 And Go To Innisfree b00pnp9h (Listen) SUN Poet Kenneth Steven explores WB Yeats's The Lake Isle of SUN Innisfree. SUN In his famous poem, Yeats declared that he will 'arise ... SUN and go to Innisfree', and Kenneth does exactly that: SUN journeying from the Strand in London, where Yeats had the SUN idea, to the the Lake Isle of Innisfree in Lough Gill, SUN near Sligo, investigating why the poem strikes a chord SUN with so many people. SUN Yeats spent many childhood summers on Lough Gill, a large SUN lake with several small islands. Then his family moved to SUN London, to a depressingly grey area of Kensington. One day SUN while he was walking along the Strand he saw in a shop a SUN fountain with a ball balanced on top of the jet and, SUN somehow, the water transported him imaginatively back to SUN the lough and the Isle of Innisfree. So he wrote the short SUN poem which became perhaps his best known, somewhat to his SUN chagrin (he was once faced by 10,000 boy scouts, chanting SUN it in unison). SUN The poem is a work of contrasts, opposing the city with SUN the country, crowds with solitude, and peace not with war SUN (though the situation in Ireland at the time was tense) SUN but with stress and anxiety. It also demonstrates the SUN poet's early philosophical thinking. When he speaks of SUN planting nine rows of beans and living in 'the bee-loud SUN glade', it is clear that he has been reading Henry SUN Thoreau's Walden Pond, which, as well as being radical in SUN its environmental concerns, is about freedom, about the SUN individual in relation to society (it was published with SUN his great essay On Civil Disobedience) and about that SUN society in relation to other powers. SUN Kenneth Steven'a own life and work share similar concerns. SUN He too is drawn to the remote and rural, and is deeply SUN concerned with the cultural and political integrity of his SUN country, Scotland. Here Kenneth explores all this on his SUN journeying to the Lake Isle of Innisfree, starting, like SUN Yeats, on the Strand in the rain, and while speaking to SUN Yeats experts, historians and other poets, journeys from SUN London to Sligo to Lough Gill and rows across to the Isle SUN itself. SUN SUN 17:00 Under Surveillance b00pkbmk (Listen) SUN Journalist and writer Phil Harding investigates and SUN evaluates Britain's rapidly increasing use of CCTV systems SUN for tackling crime and asks if they are really being SUN effective. Closed circuit television has become part of SUN our every day lives; on high streets, on the bus and in SUN most of our shops we are frequently being watched by CCTV SUN cameras. But how likely are they to prevent crime and how SUN useful are they as a detection method? Also, who is SUN watching us and are their systems and methods working? SUN What is the evidence that backs up our obsession with CCTV? SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00pn355 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00pnp9k (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00pnp9m (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pnp9p (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio SUN 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00pnp9r (Listen) SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli makes his selection from the past SUN seven days of BBC Radio SUN Elvis the Brand - Radio 2 SUN Beatrix Potter's Guide to Business - Radio 4 SUN In Search of the British Work Ethic - Radio 4 SUN The Vox Project - Radio 4 SUN When the King Met the President - Radio 2 SUN Six Suspects - Radio 4 SUN I.D - Radio 4 SUN Rona - Radio 3 SUN No Going back - The Stand - Radio Scotland SUN Jon Ronson on... - Radio 4 SUN My Mother Was a Blackshirt - Radio 4 SUN The Fight - Radio 4 SUN PM - Radio 4 SUN Africa Kicks - World Service. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00pnpbz (Listen) SUN Jazzer keeps his eyes on the prize. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00pnpc1 (Listen) SUN It's sex, drugs and rock and roll on Americana. SUN Matt Frei tackles the week's top news with the help of SUN cultural commentator and blogger Jimi Izrael. The two SUN discuss the future of the Democratic Party, fancy SUN gadgetry, marijuana and pornography. SUN Matt talks to restaurant owner Steve Horwitz about his new SUN dispensary, Ganja Gourmet. The restaurant's t-shirts read, SUN 'Our food is so great, you need a license to eat it!' SUN Serving only marijuana-enhanced foods, only SUN prescription-carrying customers can enjoy the cuisine but SUN the business model could be replicated in other cities and SUN states. SUN In Las Vegas a huge convention is taking place showcasing SUN the newest gadgets and technological advancements, but SUN it's not the Consumer Electronics Symposium - it's the SUN Adult Entertainment Expo. The two Las Vegas conventions SUN overlap in timing and in content. Reporter David Willis SUN shows Americana the place where porn meets tech. SUN Americana wouldn't be complete with just sex and drugs - SUN it needs rock and roll too. Friday 8th January would have SUN been Elvis Presley's 75th birthday. Americana pays tribute. SUN Sex, drugs and rock and roll SUN Matt Frei tackles the week's top news with the help of SUN cultural commentator and blogger Jimi Izrael. The two SUN discuss the state of American security, fancy SUN tech-gadgetry, marijuana and pornography. SUN Guest: Jimi Izrael SUN Jimi Izrael is a writer and journalist from Ohio. His SUN opinions have been published in newspapers across the SUN United States including the Los Angeles Times, SUN Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune and Atlanta SUN Journal-Constitution. He's appeared on CSPAN, CNN, Fox SUN News Network’s Hannity & Colmes and The O’Reilly SUN Factor. SUN Currently, Izrael moderates The Barbershop for National SUN Public Radio’s Tell Me More with Michel Martin. Izrael SUN is a regular blogger for the Washington Post-backed SUN TheRoot.com. SUN His new book The Denzel Principle, will be released on SUN St. Martin’s Press in February 2010. He is currently SUN shopping and developing a premium cable sitcom, SUN PornStar, for adult film actor Mr. Marcus. SUN Jimi Izrael SUN Viva Las Vegas - Porn meets Tech SUN Technology geeks and porn stars are mingling. SUN Matt Frei talks with reporter David Willis from the floor SUN of the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. SUN Each year the porn convention takes place at the same time SUN as the more widely discussed Consumer Electronics Show. SUN Guest: Joel Johnson SUN Joel Johnson is a journalist and media artist. He is the SUN former editor of Boing Boing Gadgets and currently writes SUN for Gizmodo. SUN Joel Johnson SUN Guest: Joanna Angel SUN Joanna Angel is a self-styled alternative porn actress and SUN 'porntreprenuer'. She operates the (adult content) SUN business burningangel.com. SUN Joanna Angel SUN And for lunch ... Marijuana SUN In Colorado a new restaurant serves all marijuana enhanced SUN foods, but you need a prescription to buy and eat them. SUN Matt Frei talks with restaurant owner Steve Horwitz about SUN Ganja Gourmet. SUN The Ganja Gourmet SUN When Nixon met Elvis SUN Americana, like America, wouldn’t be complete with just SUN sex and drugs — it needs rock and roll too. Friday would SUN have been Elvis Presley’s 75th birthday and Americana pays SUN tribute with this look back on the historic meeting SUN between President Nixon and The King. SUN When Nixon met Elvis (National Archives exhibition) SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00b0t4q (Listen) SUN An Italian Bestiary, The Devil of Carpasio SUN Stories by Julia Blackburn about life and survival for the SUN animals and people of Liguria in Northern Italy, where she SUN has made her home. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00plzyj (Listen) SUN Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers SUN everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. SUN An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00pm0dk (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 b00pn34d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday.] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00pn407 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today.] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00pl1h3 (Listen) SUN New Age SUN Many of the world's biggest countries are on the threshold SUN of a new era where an increasing number of old people will SUN have to be supported by a shrinking younger workforce. SUN Peter Day finds out whether this is a threat to the way we SUN live now or an opportunity for new kinds of business. SUN Related Links SUN * GE Healthcare (www.gehealthcare.com) SUN * Dole Food Company (www.dole.com) SUN * California Health and Longevity Institute (chli.com) SUN * In My Prime (inmyprime.co.uk) SUN * Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of SUN Leeds (www.engineering.leeds.ac.uk) SUN * Tissue Regenix (www.tissueregenix.com) SUN * Robosoft (www.robosoft.com) SUN * Paris Institute of Intelligent Systems and Robotics SUN (www.upmc.fr) SUN CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS PROGRAMME SUN George Magnus SUN Senior Economic Advisor, UBS Investment Bank SUN John Dineen SUN CEO GE Healthcare SUN David Murdock SUN Chairman of Dole Food Company SUN Siobhan Palmer SUN Director of Operations, California Health and Longevity SUN Institute SUN Dianne Bown-Wilson SUN One of the founders of In My Prime SUN John Fisher SUN Professor of Mechanical Engineering, University of Leeds SUN Anthony Odell SUN Chief Executive Officer of Tissue Regenix SUN Vincent Duporque SUN CEO Robosoft SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00pnplq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00pnpls (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. Including SUN More Than A Game. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00pm0dm (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Lord Of The Rings star Andy Serkis SUN about playing singer Ian Dury in a new biopic, Sex & Drugs SUN & Rock & Roll. SUN Director John Hillcoat discusses the challenges of SUN adapting Cormac McCarthy's award-winning novel The Road SUN Writer and director James Dearden looks back at the career SUN of his father Basil Dearden, the film-maker responsible SUN for Victim, The League Of Gentlemen and The Blue Lamp. SUN Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll SUN The Ian Dury biopic is in cinemas from Friday 8 January, SUN certificate 15. SUN THE ROAD SUN The Road is released in cinemas on Friday 8 January, SUN certificate 15 SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00pn3zx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today.] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 11 JANUARY 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00pnpn8 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00pktr5 (Listen) MON The First World War was the first conflict in which MON Britain used conscription, and it was the same law, the MON 1916 Military Service Act, which made it possible for MON people to 'conscientiously object' and opt out of bearing MON arms. It was not an easy status to achieve or an easy MON option to take, however, because 'conchies', as they were MON known, were attacked, stigmatised, imprisoned and MON considered effeminate. Laurie Taylor discusses a new study MON which explores the mixed feelings and confused anxieties MON the British public felt toward conscientious objectors in MON a period when traditional masculinity was already under MON great strain. MON Also, Laurie talks to Emma Robertson about her study into MON music at work. It was banned in most factories in the 19th MON century, until Cadbury and Rowntree started introducing MON hymns in their workplaces to raise morale as well as MON productivity. MON Lois Bibbings MON Lois Bibbings, Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the MON University of Bristol MON Telling Tales About Men: Conceptions of Conscientious MON Objectors to Military Service During the First World War MON Publisher: Manchester University Press MON ISBN-10: 071906922X MON ISBN-13: 978-0719069222 MON Find out more about Lois Bibbings MON Joanna Bourke MON Joanna Bourke, Professor of History at Birkbeck College MON London MON An Intimate History of Killing: Face-to-face Killing in MON Twentieth-century Warfare MON Publisher: Granta Books MON ISBN-10: 186207321X MON ISBN-13: 978-1862073210 MON Find out more about Joanna Bourke MON Emma Robertson MON Dr Emma Robertson, Senior Lecturer at Sheffield Hallam MON University MON Rhythms of Labour: The British Work Song Revisited MON Robertson, E., Pickering, M. and Korczynski, M. (2006) MON Folk Music Journal, 9 (2) December 2006: 226-245. MON Forthcoming book: Rhythms of Labour: Music at Work in MON Britain is being published by Cambridge University Press MON later this year (authors Marek Korczynski, Michael MON Pickering and Emma Robertson) MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00pn3zs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday.] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pnpv0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pnpy7 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pnpxx (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00pnqlc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pnr1b (Listen) MON Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Michael Ford. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00pnr3v (Listen) MON Farmers battle through freezing fields but the MON unpredictable weather is here to stay according to one MON leading scientist. MON Sea-Eagles may make a return to the skies of East Anglia MON but not in the next 12 months, as Natural England continue MON their impact assessment. MON And we check up on the progress of the Farming Today MON pregnant sow as her due date approaches. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00pqfh6 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00pnrkj (Listen) MON With Justin Webb and James Naughtie. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00pqfjh (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk MON about obsessive love and his decision to blur the MON distinction between fiction and reality with the opening MON of The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul; Barbara Ehrenreich MON exposes the downside of America's culture of positive MON thinking and irrational optimism; Simon Schama invesigates MON the Obama effect; Russian expert Susan Richards explores MON the importance of national myths. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00pnsv4 (Listen) MON Must You Go?, Episode 1 MON Antonia Fraser reads from her diary of her life with MON Harold Pinter. MON A glimpse in a restaurant and an altercation before Fraser MON attends the opening night of a production of Pinter's The MON Birthday Party in 1975. At dinner afterwards they do not MON talk until Fraser gets up to leave and say goodbye. 'Must MON you go?' Pinter asks. Three short words that were to MON change their lives. MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pqbsj (Listen) MON With Jane Garvey. MON Including: MON Since the mid-18th century there's been the idea that MON beauty is in the eye of the beholder. However, many MON psychologists argue that there are certain physical MON features of the body and face that are found attractive MON across all individuals and cultures. So, why do some MON people seem more physically attractive to us than others - MON is it body shape, pheromones or personality? Jane Garvey MON examines the evidence with stand-up comedian Rosie Wilby, MON and the evolutionary and social psychologist Viren Swami. MON Currently one in three families depend on grandparents for MON childcare and it's likely that this figure will rise, with MON grandparents playing an increasingly important role in MON supporting young families. Jane and her guests debate MON whether it's time that grandparents were given better MON rights and more official recognition of their role in MON society. MON Improvements in cancer treatment mean that many more MON people are now surviving cancer. There are over one MON million people in the UK who were first diagnosed more MON than five years ago. However, survivors of the disease MON face their own problems, stemming from the long-term MON effects of cancer and its treatment. Jane talks to one MON survivor and discusses the issues surrounding post-cancer MON care and support. MON MON 11:00 Playing for the Common Ground b00pxvdq (Listen) MON Gerry Anderson grew up playing football and cricket and MON remains a fan of both. But when he went to the Christian MON Brothers school he was made to play GAA - Irish football MON and hurling - as football and cricket were deemed to be MON Protestant sports. MON Like most things in Northern Ireland, sport has been MON divided down sectarian lines, but in the last 10 years MON great efforts have been made to change this way of MON thinking. Gerry talks to fans, players and coaches to find MON out if sport can be reclaimed to be enjoyed by the many MON instead of the few. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00pqh8s (Listen) MON Series 6, The Charterhouse Redemption MON Comedy series by Christopher Douglas and Andrew Nickolds. MON Ed Reardon, author, pipe smoker, consummate fare-dodger MON and master of the abusive email, attempts to survive in a MON world where the media seems to be run by idiots and lying MON charlatans. MON Ed is now a happily-retired author. Not only that but he's MON well fed, warm and happily ensconced in Berkhampstead's MON premier accommodation of choice for the financially MON distressed. MON Ed Reardon ...... Christopher Douglas MON Olive ...... Stephanie Cole MON Felix ...... John Fortune MON Ray ...... Simon Greenall MON Cliff ...... Geoff McGivern MON Jaz ...... Philip Jackson MON Pearl ...... Rita May MON Ping ...... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Stan ...... Geoffrey Whitehead MON With Manjeet Mann and Tom Price. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00pqbvl (Listen) MON Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00pqbxj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00pqc00 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00pqh8v (Listen) MON Russell Davies chairs the second semi-final of the MON perennial general knowledge contest, with heat winners Dr MON Ian Bayley from Oxford, Bernard Fyles from St Helens, MON Chris Quinn from Huyton and Martin Wyatt from Accrington MON competing for a place in the final. MON Contestants MON Ian Bayley from Oxford MON Bernard Fyles from St Helens MON Chris Quinn from Huyton MON Martin Wyatt from Accrington MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00pnpbz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday.] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pqh8x (Listen) MON McLevy - Series 6, Queen of Spades MON Series of stories about David Ashton's Victorian detective MON based on real-life Edinburgh policeman Inspector James MON McLevy. MON The deadly battle with Caleb Grant has heartbreaking MON consequences for Jean Brash's household, and leads McLevy MON to a final reckoning on the windswept coast of MON Northumberland. MON McLevy ...... Brian Cox MON Jean Brash ...... Siobhan Redmond MON Mulholland ...... Michael Perceval-Maxwell MON Roach ...... David Ashton MON Hannah ...... Colette O'Neil MON Caleb Grant ...... Graham Crowden MON Donald McIver ...... Andrew Neil MON Aidan ...... James Anthony Pearson MON Patch Coltrane ...... Simon Donaldson MON Emma Fairchild ...... Joanna Tope MON Directed by Patrick Rayner. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00j24rk (Listen) MON Radio Sales MON Brian Hayes looks back over 80 years of advertising on MON radio in the UK. Amid the changing fashions he finds some MON of the most finely-crafted, punchy, emotional and MON entertaining radio, as well as some of the most amateurish. MON MON 15:45 The Call b00lrsnm (Listen) MON The Siege MON Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made MON life-changing phone calls. MON In 1980, police negotiator Max Vernon spent five days MON taking brief telephone calls from the leader of the MON terrorists who had taken 26 people hostage inside the MON Iranian Embassy in London. The siege ended when the SAS MON stormed the building, as Max listened on the other end of MON the line. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00pn410 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday.] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00pqh8z (Listen) MON Ernie Rea and his guests discuss forms of spiritual MON healing and the belief systems which underpin them. MON MON 17:00 PM b00pqc3z (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie MON Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pqc5g (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio MON 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00pqh91 (Listen) MON Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Panellists MON Josie Lawrence and Charles Collingwood reveal how they MON know when they are in love (though not necessarily with MON each other), and Paul Merton and Chris Neill remember what MON it was like to be sweet sixteen. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00pqc0d (Listen) MON Mike's diplomacy misses the mark. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00pqc6c (Listen) MON Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including an MON interview with Antonia Fraser about the memoir of her life MON with Harold Pinter, which is also Radio 4's Book of the MON Week. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pqd5k (Listen) MON Six Suspects, Episode 6 MON Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas MON Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog MON Millionaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent MON Indian politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy MON Delhi restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate MON his acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? MON Suspect number one is phone thief Munna Mobile, who has a MON bag of money that doesn't belong to him and is secretly MON dating Vicky's sister. He finds himself at the party with MON a gun. MON Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur MON Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala MON Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika MON Mital MON Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari MON Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel MON Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson MON Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani MON Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai MON Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte MON Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi MON Ritu ...... Ira Dubey MON Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal MON Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman MON Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak MON Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... MON Jayant Kripalani MON Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai MON Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani MON Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan MON Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir MON Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon MON Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran MON Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh MON Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote MON Sohrab ...... Caran Arora MON Production team: MON Line producer in India: Nadir Khan MON Assistant director: Toral Shah MON Photography: Ameet Mallapur MON Script editor: Mike Walker MON Sound: Ayush Ahuja MON Additional editing: Steve Bond MON Music: Sacha Putnam MON Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier MON Produced and directed by John Dryden MON A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:00 In Search of the British Work Ethic b00pqh93 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON Journalist Melanie Phillips embarks on a personal journey MON to explore what work means to some of the most vulnerable MON and socially-excluded people in Britain. Melanie is known MON for her uncompromising views on the 'workshy' MON beneficiaries of the welfare state but will her theories MON stand up in the face of the complex and difficult lives of MON the people she meets? MON Melanie spends time with cleaners and catering staff MON working on the minimum wage and asks what motivates them MON to work. Would Melanie's own assiduous work ethic survive MON night shifts, low pay and cleaning lavatories? MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00pkxy2 (Listen) MON Uganda: Battling the Witch-Doctors MON Tim Whewell investigates the causes of a horrific spate of MON child sacrifices in Uganda and follows a former witch MON doctor who is now committed to stamping out the practice. MON Child sacrifice MON Uganda's ritual child killings rise as incomes increase. MON Read more on the BBC news website MON MON 21:00 The Vox Project b00pqh95 (Listen) MON Commentators and Animals MON Clare Balding, with the help of the Cognitive MON Neuro-Science department of University College, London, MON investigates all aspects of the human voice and the way we MON use it. MON Clare asks why animals can't speak and what it takes to MON become a sports commentator. MON A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00pqfjk (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks to the Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk MON about obsessive love and his decision to blur the MON distinction between fiction and reality with the opening MON of The Museum of Innocence in Istanbul; Barbara Ehrenreich MON exposes the downside of America's culture of positive MON thinking and irrational optimism; Simon Schama invesigates MON the Obama effect; Russian expert Susan Richards explores MON the importance of national myths. MON MON 21:58 Weather b00pqdhd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00pqdqv (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Robin MON Lustig. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pqfby (Listen) MON The Coral Thief, Episode 1 MON Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in MON Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. MON Daniel Connor, a brilliant and ambitious student, is in MON Paris to take up a new position with some of the leading MON scientists of the day. The chaos of an occupied city, a MON beautiful and enigmatic woman, and the swirl of MON revolutionary and heretical ideas about how life began MON create a heady atmosphere that is all too seductive. MON On a hot August night, Daniel Connor is travelling towards MON Paris and a new vocation when he is captivated by a MON mysterious woman. MON Abridged by Viv Beeby MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00pkbh9 (Listen) MON Michael Rosen takes another journey into the world of MON words, language and the way we speak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pqff2 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament MON with Susan Hulme. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 12 JANUARY 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00pnpmy (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00pnsv4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday.] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pnpsn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pnpxz (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pnpv2 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00pnqkx (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pnqx3 (Listen) TUE Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Michael Ford. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00pnr1d (Listen) TUE News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00pnrk8 (Listen) TUE With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Taking a Stand b00pqhf1 (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to people who have taken risks and made TUE sacrifices to stand up for what they believe in. TUE TUE 09:30 Famous Footsteps b00pqhf3 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE Author and journalist Fiona Neill explores the experience TUE of growing up in a creatively successful family. TUE Fiona considers the challenges of maintaining a creative TUE career while bringing up small children. How does a TUE writer, working at home, manage to carve out the mental TUE and physical space to work? Is the 'pram in the hallway' TUE really a barrier to creative thought? TUE She talks to Jennifer Saunders, Adrian Edmondson, Daphne TUE Du Maurier's daughter Tessa Montgomery and songwriter Guy TUE Chambers about their experiences of balancing these TUE conflicting demands. TUE A Paladin Invision production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00pnst5 (Listen) TUE Must You Go?, Episode 2 TUE Antonia Fraser reads from her diary of her life with TUE Harold Pinter. TUE Fraser remembers the reactions in the 1970s to her TUE decision to live with Harold Pinter. Disapproval from her TUE father Lord Longford on the one hand, and the media glare TUE from the paparazzi on the other are balanced by the joy of TUE togetherness in Europe and New York. TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pqbpb (Listen) TUE With Jane Garvey. Including drama: Six Suspects. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b00pqj0v (Listen) TUE Series 4, Juan Fernandez Islands TUE Four hundred miles off the Chilean coast, the Juan TUE Fernandez Islands are the home of many plants and animals TUE found nowhere else in the world. They are also the source TUE of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe story. Paul Evans visits TUE the archipelago in search of the endemic Juan Fernandez TUE firecrown hummingbird and discovers that introduced plants TUE and animals, such as cats, goats and even blackberries, TUE are causing severe problems for the uniquely-adapted TUE willdife of the islands. TUE TUE 11:30 Midnight Feasts and Lashings of Ginger Beer TUE b00pqj0x (Listen) TUE Food is everywhere in children's literature. From The TUE Famous Five, who were constantly eating enormous amounts TUE of food, to midnight feasts at St Clares and Hogwarts, TUE squashed fly biscuits, and even food which comes to life, TUE children's books luxuriate in lavish descriptions of TUE meals, picnics and treats. Food is always delicious and TUE written about with such enthusiasm that the reader is left TUE wishing they could dive into the story and feast on the TUE treats within. But why is British children's fiction so TUE preoccupied with all this fictional feasting? TUE The former Children's Laureate, Michael Rosen, among TUE others, discusses the meaning of all this gluttony. TUE Producer Cecile Wright. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00pqbsl (Listen) TUE Consumer news and issues with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00pqbvn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00pqbxl (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b00pqj0z (Listen) TUE Series 8, Humphrey Lyttelton TUE Ken Clarke MP profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th TUE century. TUE Many Radio 4 listeners knew 'Humph' as the hilariously TUE deadpan chairman of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue. But the TUE much-loved broadcaster was also an exemplary and TUE influential jazz musician. Louis Armstrong dubbed him 'the TUE top trumpet man in England today', and not without reason. TUE A master of his instrument as well as several others, he TUE spearheaded the post-war traditional jazz revival in TUE Britain, later forming his own band that set the standard TUE for British jazz for several decades. TUE Friend and fellow BBC jazz presenter Alyn Shipton joins TUE Ken in the studio to discuss Britain's most important jazz TUE musician. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00pqc0d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday.] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pqj11 (Listen) TUE My Romantic History TUE Poignant and witty drama by DC Jackson about love and TUE memory. TUE Charlie ...... Sandy Grierson TUE Amy ...... Cora Bissett TUE Sasha/Alison ...... Gabriel Quigley TUE Calvin/Jessie ...... Jordan Young TUE Mum/Receptionist ...... Juliet Cadzow TUE Directed by Kirsty Williams. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00pqj13 (Listen) TUE We have a heady mix of energy, biology and a little bit of TUE physics this week. First for the energy. You want to know TUE if the ultra-green claims made for wood pellet burners TUE really stand up to scrutiny. And then there's the issue of TUE demand. Unless we have accurate ways of predicting future TUE energy demand then any discussion on energy production is TUE more or less pointless. At least that's what one listener TUE contends, and the panel chews over the idea. TUE Next up is the biology. Why do birds eat seeds that pass TUE through their gut unchanged and what happens to us if we TUE eat the same seeds? And what was the extraordinary worm TUE that was seen emerging from a Nepalese praying mantis, TUE which then flew away unharmed? TUE For the physics one listener wants to know why a bottle of TUE water he picked up from an icy car froze solid in a matter TUE of seconds. Is there a simple explanation or does he have TUE superhuman powers? TUE Tackling this eclectic mix are ecologist Dr Lynn Dicks of TUE Cambridge University, planning expert Professor Yvonne TUE Rydin of University College, London and Professor Philip TUE Stott, an environmental scientist from the University of TUE London. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pqj9d (Listen) TUE The Curiosities of the Egyptian Hall, Between Isis and TUE Osiris TUE Series of three stories inspired by the Victorian venue in TUE Piccadilly, famed as the home of magic, spectacle, freak TUE shows and pseudo-scientific demonstrations. TUE By John Peacock. Miriam Margolyes tells the tale of artist TUE Benjamin Robert Haydon, whose exhibition at the Egyptian TUE Hall was eclipsed by the hugely popular American midget TUE General Tom Thumb. TUE With Tony Lidington as Alfred, the Custodian of the Hall. TUE Directed by David Blount TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Call b00lvg16 (Listen) TUE The Adoption TUE Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made TUE life-changing phone calls. TUE After months of form-filling bureaucracy and TUE disappointment, educationalist Fiona Byerley made a TUE late-night call to a Thai orphanage and was told that a TUE baby girl was waiting to be collected. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00pqjs7 (Listen) TUE Michael Rosen investigates lying. Does the sound of our TUE voice change when we are trying to deceive, and do we use TUE different words? TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00pqjs9 (Listen) TUE Series 20, Lise Meitner TUE Matthew Parris presents the biographical series in which TUE his guests choose someone who has inspired their lives. TUE Actress Jenny Agutter champions the life and work of TUE pioneering Austrian physicist Lise Meitner, one of the TUE scientists responsible for the discovery of nuclear TUE fission. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00pqc24 (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 b00pqc41 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio TUE 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Sneakiepeeks b00pqn27 (Listen) TUE Two of Our Spies Are Missing TUE Comedy by Harry Venning and Neil Brand about a team of TUE inept, backstabbing surveillance operatives. TUE When Bill meets up with Ian Swaine, the organisation's TUE most effective, but least sane, assassin, it's up to TUE Sharla and Mark to find them. TUE Bill ...... Richard Lumsden TUE Sharla ...... Nina Conti TUE Mark ...... Daniel Kaluuya TUE Ian Swaine ...... Paterson Joseph TUE Mrs Davies ...... Lucy Montgomery TUE Channing/American/Welsh Landlord ...... Ewan Bailey TUE Tim the Tea Boy ...... Joe Thomas TUE Secretary/Welsh Girl ...... Tessa Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00pqc02 (Listen) TUE Pat and Kathy talk tactics. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00pqc5j (Listen) TUE Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson. Including a review TUE of the film Up in the Air, starring George Clooney as an TUE executive who collects thousands of air miles as he TUE travels round firing people. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pqd55 (Listen) TUE Six Suspects, Episode 7 TUE Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas TUE Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog TUE Millionaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent TUE Indian politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy TUE Delhi restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate TUE his acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? TUE Suspect number two is Bollywood actress Shabnam Sexena, TUE one-time girlfriend of Vicky, who is now being blackmailed TUE by him. TUE Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur TUE Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala TUE Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika TUE Mital TUE Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari TUE Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel TUE Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson TUE Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani TUE Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai TUE Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte TUE Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi TUE Ritu ...... Ira Dubey TUE Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal TUE Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman TUE Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak TUE Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... TUE Jayant Kripalani TUE Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai TUE Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani TUE Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan TUE Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir TUE Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon TUE Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran TUE Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh TUE Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote TUE Sohrab ...... Caran Arora TUE Production team: TUE Line producer in India: Nadir Khan TUE Assistant director: Toral Shah TUE Photography: Ameet Mallapur TUE Script editor: Mike Walker TUE Sound: Ayush Ahuja TUE Additional editing: Steve Bond TUE Music: Sacha Putnam TUE Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier TUE Produced and directed by John Dryden TUE A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:00 Closing Guantanamo b00pqn29 (Listen) TUE President Obama has admitted that the process of closing TUE the controversial prison camp in Guantanamo Bay will take TUE longer than the 12 months he promised in his first major TUE announcement as president. Jon Manel reveals the inside TUE story of what went wrong. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00pqn2c (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00pqn2f (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter visits Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham, TUE the UK's receiving centre for soldiers injured in the TUE world's most dangerous war zone. Paramedics work non-stop TUE to keep the critically wounded alive on the flight back TUE from Afghanistan. Once they reach the Intensive Care Unit TUE at Selly Oak, the lifesaving treatment begins. TUE Wounded solders are a unique group of patients. They have TUE usually sustained a complex set of injuries from gunshots TUE and multiple fractures, amputations, loss of sight or TUE hearing and brain injury. TUE Being soldiers, they are young, fit and determined, all of TUE which helps them to recover physically from their injuries TUE and the many operations they often have to endure. Some of TUE the injuries soldiers sustain can be devastating, such as TUE the loss of both legs from an explosion. Grouping military TUE patients together on the trauma ward enables them to TUE support each other. And NHS and military staff work side TUE by side on the ward to further support to patients' TUE medical and emotional needs. TUE Selly Oak Hospital primarily treats the physical impact of TUE war, but identifying and treating the mental scars is TUE equally important. Soldiers are now being trained to TUE identify warning signs in their peers while in Afghanistan TUE so that they can be treated before their symptoms TUE overwhelm them. Efforts are also being made to help TUE soldiers cope with the transition from the war zone to TUE life at home. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00pqhf1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00pqdgf (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00pqdhg (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pwn16 (Listen) TUE The Coral Thief, Episode 2 TUE Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in TUE Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. TUE Daniel reports the theft of irreplaceable fossils and a TUE precious manuscript intended for one of France's leading TUE scientists to Henri Jagot, the notorious chief of Paris' TUE security police. TUE Abridged by Viv Beeby TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 23:00 Jon Ronson On b00pkbmr (Listen) TUE Series 5, When Small Talk Goes Wrong TUE Jon Ronson talks to Denis Fillon, who in 1999 was behind TUE one of the first major internet hoaxes. TUE Denis used to post threads and make small talk on a TUE technical forum called Anandtech. Irritated by the TUE misogyny he found on the site, he invented a female TUE character to join in the chat. Soon he found himself TUE flirting with his own character and weaving a tale so TUE believable that the character took on an air of reality, TUE even for him. As the relationship deepened, Denis was TUE forced to take drastic action to get out of his own hoax. TUE With additional contributions from comedian Josie Long and TUE Charlie Brooker. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pqff4 (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament TUE with David Wilby. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 13 JANUARY 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00pnpn0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00pnst5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday.] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pnpsq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pnpy1 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pnpv4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00pnqkz (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pnqx5 (Listen) WED Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Michael Ford. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00pnr1g (Listen) WED News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b00pnrkb (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports WED Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in WED Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00pr3fl (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with guests including WED Diana Moran, 'the Green Goddess'. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00pnst7 (Listen) WED Must You Go?, Episode 3 WED Antonia Fraser reads from her diary of her life with WED Harold Pinter. WED 2001 was a year of fear and loss. For Fraser the first WED loss is her father's death, and her great fear comes with WED Pinter's cancer diagnosis. But there is happiness too, and WED the strength of love tested by adversity. WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pqbpd (Listen) WED With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Six Suspects. WED WED 11:00 At Any Cost b00pr3vl (Listen) WED It's now possible to preserve and nurture a baby born as WED early as the 23rd or 24th week of a normal 40 week WED pregnancy. The challenges facing the child are significant WED but the instinct of the majority of parents is to do WED anything they possibly can to preserve the life of their WED child. As medical science has produced ever more WED sophisticated incubators and ventilation systems, both the WED challenges and the hopes of parents have increased. WED Joan McFaddon talks to parents who are going through or WED have gone through the often agonising process of watching WED a premature baby being nurtured through the first weeks of WED life. They talk about their emotions, the highs, the lows WED and the looming danger of losing hope. They also reveal WED the challenges of trying to enjoy all the parental bonding WED of a normal birth amidst breathing aparatus, feeding WED systems and monitoring equipment. WED At the core of their situation is the uneasy relationship WED between what medical science can do and what is best for WED their child - a child they'd do anything to preserve in WED spite of all the challenges that might lie ahead. WED WED 11:30 Towards Zero b00pr3vn (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED Adaptation by Joy Wilkinson of Agatha Christie's detective WED novel. WED Against her better judgement, Lady Tresselian permits the WED dashing Nevile Strange and his wife to come to her house WED party at the same time as his ex-wife, and sure enough, as WED soon as everyone arrives, the tensions are evident. WED Nevile ...... Hugh Bonneville WED Lady Tresselian ...... Marcia Warre WED MacWhirter ...... Tom Mannion WED Audrey ...... Claire Rushbrook WED Mary ...... Julia Ford WED Kay ...... Lizzy Watts WED Latimer ...... Joseph Kloska WED Royde ...... Stephen Hogan WED Treves ...... David Hargreaves WED Umpire/Butler ...... Philip Fox WED Receptionist ...... Annabelle Dowler WED Porter ...... Benjamin Askew WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00pqbsn (Listen) WED Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00pqbvq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00pqbxp (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00pr4c0 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00pqc02 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pr4c2 (Listen) WED The Jonestown Letters WED The compelling true story of two sisters, Annie and WED Carolyn Moore, who died at the Jonestown mass suicide in WED Guyana in 1978. It is told through the extraordinary WED actual letters that passed between the girls and their WED family back home. The letters are abridged by Sarah WED Daniels, and introduced by the surviving sister, Rebecca WED Moore. Every word you hear in the drama is the truth. WED The Moores were a close and loving middle-class American WED family. The father, John, was a Methodist preacher and the WED mother, Barbara, was warm and caring. They had three WED daughters. Two of the daughters were strongly attracted WED early on by the utopian ideals of Jim Jones and his WED socially progressive, racially integrated church: the WED Peoples' Temple. WED Carolyn, a serious young socialist, later became Jim WED Jones' lover and had a son by him. When Jones took his WED church out to the inhospitable jungles of Guyana to WED pioneer a new way of living, Carolyn was there as his most WED loyal lieutenant. She died in the final mass suicide. WED Annie, her funny, likeable and outgoing younger sister, WED was dedicated to nursing, unusually passionate about WED social justice, yet ended up in charge of doling out the WED Kool-Aid at the end of Jonestown, and then shot herself. WED How could this have happened? WED Through this tense and compelling dramatised WED correspondence we uncover the truth of Jonestown as WED experienced by the families involved, as it unfolded. In WED hearing Carolyn and Annie's own words, we are forced to WED the realisation that Jonestown wasn't simply a 'cult', as WED it has been painted. That cliche obscures the unavoidable WED fact that those who joined weren't less intelligent or WED principled than the rest of us. In fact they could have WED been us. WED Annie Moore ...... Greta Clough WED Carolyn Moore ...... Jennifer Lee Jellicorse WED John Moore ...... Nathan Osgood WED Barbara Moore ...... Laura Brook. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00pr4tk (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on WED general insurance. WED Guests: WED Malcolm Tarling, Association of British Insurers WED Graeme Trudgill, British Insurance Brokers' Association WED John Miles, gocompare.com. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pqj9g (Listen) WED The Curiosities of the Egyptian Hall, The Great Mephisto! WED Series of three stories inspired by the Victorian venue in WED Piccadilly, famed as the home of magic, spectacle, freak WED shows and pseudo-scientific demonstrations. WED By Tony Lidington. A young illusionist from the Punjab WED takes revenge on his cruel master. Read by Madhav Sharma. WED With Tony Lidington as Alfred, the Custodian of the Hall. WED Directed by David Blount WED A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 The Call b00ly7j9 (Listen) WED The Abduction WED Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made WED life-changing phone calls. WED In March 1999, Martin Friend was on a gorilla trek in WED Uganda when he was taken hostage and killed by Hutu rebels WED on the run from neighbouring Rwanda. His parents, Ron and WED Pauline Friend, have built a school in the region in WED memory of him. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00pr4wz (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how WED society works. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00pqn2f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 17:00 PM b00pqc26 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pqc43 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio WED 4. WED WED 18:30 Ayres on the Air b00mbz1c (Listen) WED Series 3, On Yer Bike WED Pam Ayres returns with a new series packed with poetry, WED anecdotes and sketches. WED Pam is joined by Geoffrey Whitehead and Felicity Montagu WED for poems about French cycling holidays, the up-side to WED riding a tandem, getting fit on gym bikes and how to WED banish the middle-age blues by getting kitted out with a WED motorbike and leathers. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00pqc04 (Listen) WED Emotions run high for Helen. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00pqc5l (Listen) WED Arts news and reviews with Mark Lawson, who discusses the WED changing fortunes of actress Sandra Bullock, recently WED nominated for two Golden Globe awards. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pqd57 (Listen) WED Six Suspects, Episode 8 WED Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas WED Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog WED Millionaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent WED Indian politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy WED Delhi restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate WED his acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? WED Suspect number three is American Larry Page, who Vicky WED left for dead in a deserted building site. After being WED kidnapped by Kashmiri separatists he finds himself at WED Vicky's party with a gun. WED Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur WED Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala WED Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika WED Mital WED Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari WED Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel WED Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson WED Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani WED Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai WED Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte WED Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi WED Ritu ...... Ira Dubey WED Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal WED Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman WED Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak WED Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... WED Jayant Kripalani WED Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai WED Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani WED Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan WED Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir WED Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon WED Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran WED Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh WED Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote WED Sohrab ...... Caran Arora WED Production team: WED Line producer in India: Nadir Khan WED Assistant director: Toral Shah WED Photography: Ameet Mallapur WED Script editor: Mike Walker WED Sound: Ayush Ahuja WED Additional editing: Steve Bond WED Music: Sacha Putnam WED Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier WED Produced and directed by John Dryden WED A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b00pr52d (Listen) WED How would a government, facing a huge deficit, cut WED middle-class benefits? Nick Robinson and a panel of WED politicians, civil servants and journalists examine how WED this controversial proposal would fare in Whitehall and WED Westminster. WED WED 20:45 More Than A Game b00pr52g (Listen) WED Blood in the Water WED Professor Anthony King tells the story of WED politically-significant sporting events. WED In October 1956, thousands of students and workers took to WED the streets of the Hungarian capital, Budapest, to demand WED greater political freedom and an end to Soviet domination WED of their country. At first they seemed to be succeeding: WED Soviet forces pulled back and a reformer, Imre Nagy, WED became prime minister. At the same time, the Hungarian WED Olympic team set off for the Melbourne Olympics. By the WED time they arrived in Australia, however, everything back WED home had changed. Soviet tanks had returned to Budapest WED and brutally crushed the Hungarian revolution. Hundreds WED were arrested and thousands fled into exile. In Melbourne, WED the Hungarian water polo team were determined to defend WED their Olympic title. They cruised through the early WED rounds, and in the semi final were drawn, as fate would WED have it, against the Soviet Union. It became the most WED famous game in the history of the sport, known as the WED 'Blood in the Water' match. WED WED 21:00 Nature b00pqj0v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday.] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00pr3fl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00pqdgh (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00pqdhj (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with David WED Eades. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pwmzj (Listen) WED The Coral Thief, Episode 3 WED Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in WED Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. WED The beautiful thief, Lucienne Bernard, makes Daniel a WED promise. Meanwhile, the chief of the security police Henri WED Jagot shows renewed and unsettling interest in his affairs. WED Abridged by Viv Beeby WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 23:00 Weird Tales b00pr52j (Listen) WED Series 2, Split The Atom WED Hoarder of horror Lovecraft returns to share three more WED chilling tales. WED By Lynn Ferguson. Frank Ivory is full of anger: burning, WED simmering, steaming anger. On his way home one night, WED after making his colleagues lives a misery, he meets Gwen, WED who is determined to tell him the story of the Morrigan, WED the Celtic goddess in charge of who should live and who WED should die. WED Frank ......Derek Riddell WED Gwen ......Rachel Ogilvy WED Lovecraft ...... Stephen Hogan WED Louise ...... Emma Stansfield WED Bill ...... Rhys Jennings WED Barbara/Delivery Woman ...... Tessa Nicholson WED George ...... Ewan Hooper WED William Perkins/Homeless Guy ...... Piers Wehner WED Directed by Luke Fresle. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pqff6 (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament WED with Sean Curran. WED WED THU THURSDAY 14 JANUARY 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00pnpn2 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00pnst7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday.] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pnpss (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pnpy3 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pnpv6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00pnql2 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pnqx7 (Listen) THU Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Michael Ford. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00pnr1j (Listen) THU News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00pnrkd (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in THU Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00pr54s (Listen) THU The Frankfurt School THU Melvyn Bragg and guests Raymond Geuss, Esther Leslie and THU Jonathan Ree discuss the ideas of the early Frankfurt THU School and their impact. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00pnst9 (Listen) THU Must You Go?, Episode 4 THU Antonia Fraser reads from her diary of her life with THU Harold Pinter. THU Pinter directs, performs and celebrates his 75th birthday, THU in spite of the debilitating effects of his cancer THU medication. Then comes an unexpected phone call: 'I seem THU to have won the Nobel Prize.' THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pqbpg (Listen) THU With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Six Suspects. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00pr5b6 (Listen) THU 24 Hours in Tulsa THU 24 Attacks by midget gangsters; incompetent thieves who THU resort to stealing air-conditioning units; a teenage girl THU with a crack habit who gets shot a few days after THU promising to go clean. These are just some of the THU criminals and junkies encountered by one police officer THU cruising the streets of one Midwestern US city. THU But this is Officer Jay Chiarito-Mazarrella, who created a THU cult following for his Street Story podcasts, vivid THU vignettes of his work for the Tulsa Police Department. THU Hugh Levinson hears the best of the Street Stories, giving THU a fresh, funny and sometimes downright scary insight into THU policing from the horse's mouth. THU Producer: Hugh Levinson. THU THU 11:30 The Frost Collection b00pr5b8 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU Sir David Frost and guests look back at some of the most THU memorable interviews of his long career. With Joan THU Bakewell, Peter Kellner and Esther Rantzen. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00pqbsq (Listen) THU Consumer news and issues with Shari Vahl. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00pr5bb (Listen) THU Fraud in France THU John Waite presents the investigative consumer series. THU A British man who swindled ex-pats in the Dordogne out of THU almost two million pounds was convicted of fraud by a THU French court in June 2009 and sentenced to two years in THU prison. So where is he now? He has been selling THU double-glazing in England. Warren Templeton is one of more THU than 80,000 people given jail sentences in France but THU allowed to roam free for as long as it takes to call them THU back to prison. Templeton's victims despair of justice THU ever being done and are preparing to sue a leading French THU bank which was used to commit the fraud. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00pqbvs (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00pqbxr (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00pr5jh (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson answers those intriguing questions from THU everyday life. THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00pqc04 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday.] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pkbfh (Listen) THU Solace THU By Andrea Earl. Maggie Fortune is a respectable, THU middle-class mother and grandmother with a dependency on THU prescribed tranquilisers that is taking over her life. THU Maggie ...... Frances Barber THU Lucy ...... Deborah McAndrew THU India ...... Hester Cox THU Paul/Doctor/Neil ...... Robert Pickavance THU Dr Linus/Chemist ...... Greg Wood THU Helpline advisor ...... Kate Layden THU Pianist: Jonathan Scott THU Directed by Pauline Harris. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00pn25d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday.] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00pn407 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday.] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00pqj9j (Listen) THU The Curiosities of the Egyptian Hall, Curious Shadows THU Series of three stories inspired by the Victorian venue in THU Piccadilly, famed as the home of magic, spectacle, freak THU shows and pseudo-scientific demonstrations. THU By Jerome Vincent. The early film makers guarded their THU technical secrets closely. In this tale their rivalry THU leads to murder. Read by Gunnar Cauthery. THU With Tony Lidington as Alfred, the Custodian of the Hall. THU Directed by David Blount THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 The Call b00m0z1p (Listen) THU The Transplant THU Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made THU life-changing phone calls. THU Tony Roth suffered his first heart attack when he was in THU his early 30s. Within six months he had a triple bypass THU operation, but two more heart attacks and more bypass THU surgery followed. In failing heath, he was forced to give THU up work, and waited for the call to tell him that a donor THU heart was available. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00pnp9f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday.] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00pr5jm (Listen) THU ALMA - Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array - is THU under construction on the Chajnantor plain of the Chilean THU Andes, 5,000 metres above sea level. It will be made up of THU 80 high-precision antennas and will transform our THU understanding of the physics of the cold universe, regions THU that are optically dark but shine brightly in the THU millimetre portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Gareth THU Mitchell finds out how work is going after the recent THU first successful measurements taken by ALMA. THU THU 17:00 PM b00pqc28 (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 b00pqc45 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio THU 4. THU THU 18:30 Deep Trouble b007lllf (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU Comedy series by Jim Field Smith and Ben Willbond set THU aboard HMS Goliath, a nuclear stealth submarine. THU When Trainor meets up with an old friend, it's time for a THU snowball fight, a French telephonist, some spinach and a THU heavy machine gun. THU Captain Paul Wade ...... Jim Field Smith THU Commander Alison Fairbanks ...... Katherine Jakeways THU Lieutenant Jack Trainor ...... Ben Willbond THU Barry ...... Alice Lowe THU PO Curtis ...... Rufus Jones THU Narrator ...... Jonathan Ryland THU Major Sam Baker ...... Laura Solon THU Directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00pqc06 (Listen) THU Jazzer shows off his practical skills. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00pqc5n (Listen) THU Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang, including a review THU of the British premiere of Legally Blonde, the Broadway THU musical based on the successful film. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pqd59 (Listen) THU Six Suspects, Episode 9 THU Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas THU Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog THU Millionaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent THU Indian politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy THU Delhi restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate THU his acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? THU Suspect number four is Vicky's mother, the Home Minister THU Mamta Rai, who undergoes a radical character THU transformation after a car crash. THU Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur THU Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala THU Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika THU Mital THU Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari THU Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel THU Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson THU Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani THU Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai THU Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte THU Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi THU Ritu ...... Ira Dubey THU Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal THU Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman THU Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak THU Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... THU Jayant Kripalani THU Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai THU Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani THU Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan THU Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir THU Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon THU Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran THU Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh THU Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote THU Sohrab ...... Caran Arora THU Production team: THU Line producer in India: Nadir Khan THU Assistant director: Toral Shah THU Photography: Ameet Mallapur THU Script editor: Mike Walker THU Sound: Ayush Ahuja THU Additional editing: Steve Bond THU Music: Sacha Putnam THU Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier THU Produced and directed by John Dryden THU A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 20:00 The Report b00pr72b (Listen) THU The arctic weather has brought Britain close to shutdown. THU Morland Sanders investigates the cost of the snow storms THU to the country's economy and asks if better planning might THU have lessened their impact. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00pr72d (Listen) THU Doing It Wrong THU Russell Ackoff was a great subversive - a business school THU professor who thought that business schools were a block THU on management thinking and who delighted in pointing out THU the flaws in the way companies work. Before he died at the THU age of 90 in October 2009, this business rebel gave Peter THU Day some insights into his unconventional approach to THU getting things done. THU THU 21:00 Jon Ronson and the Quest for the Aryan Cow b00hc946 (Listen) THU Jon Ronson investigates the controversial story of the THU work of Lutz Heck, the director of Berlin Zoo who THU attempted to resurrect several pure-blooded, extinct THU animal species as part of the Nazi programme to control THU the genetic destiny of all creation. THU He visits Munich Zoo, which proudly advertises its THU 'formerly extinct aurochs' - a type of large and powerful THU cow - but does not refer to the fact that behind this THU apparent triumph lies the story of Heck's collusion with THU Goering's aspiration to replace Europe's 'racially THU degenerate' wildlife and plant life with pure, 'noble' and THU extinct species. THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00pr54s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today.] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00pqdgk (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00pqdhl (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Robin THU Lustig. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pwmzl (Listen) THU The Coral Thief, Episode 4 THU Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in THU Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. THU Chance encounters and a card game lead Daniel to make THU breathtaking new discoveries. THU Abridged by Viv Beeby THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 23:00 House On Fire b00pr7sg (Listen) THU Party THU Comedy by Dan Hine and Chris Sussman. THU Vicky and Matt decide to have a housewarming party. A THU simple split of duties leaves Matt in charge of sending THU the invitations and Vicky doing everything else. Surely THU Matt can get one thing right? THU Vicky ...... Emma Pierson THU Matt ...... Jody Latham THU Col. Bill ...... Rupert Vansittart THU Julie ...... Janine Duvitski THU Peter ...... Philip Jackson THU Donny ...... Sebastian Cardinal THU Wendy ...... Sophie Black THU With Fergus Craig and Colin Hoult. THU Directed by Clive Brill and Dan Hine THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pqff8 (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament THU with Robert Orchard. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 15 JANUARY 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00pnpn4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00pnst9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00pnpsv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00pnpy5 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00pnpv8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00pnql4 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00pnqx9 (Listen) FRI Daily prayer and reflection with Dr Michael Ford. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00pnr1l (Listen) FRI News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00pnrkg (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports FRI Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in FRI Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00pn40m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday.] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00pnstc (Listen) FRI Must You Go?, Episode 5 FRI Antonia Fraser reads from her diary of her life with FRI Harold Pinter. FRI Pinter is still working, still grasping at the joy of FRI life, until a double blow falls. First the death of his FRI oldest friend, the playwright Simon Gray, and then his own FRI fateful diagnosis. FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00pqbpj (Listen) FRI With Jenni Murray. Including drama: Six Suspects. FRI FRI 11:00 NHS Punters Speak Out b00pr7zg (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI With the help of dissatisfied NHS patients, Liz Barclay FRI asks if the growing popularity of online feedback can FRI really make a difference to standards of health care and FRI treatment. FRI The culture of customers offering brickbats and bouquets FRI to service providers has now extended beyond hotels and FRI coffee chains to the NHS. Hospital rating websites invite FRI patients to grade their hospital stay out of five stars, FRI and to leave comments about the care they received. FRI In this programme Liz speaks to the critics of this new FRI trend who suggest that the sites are merely FRI window-dressing and that NHS patients are not 'consumers'. FRI Some health professionals claim that the sites can easily FRI just become places where personal scores are settled FRI against NHS staff. The architects of online feedback are FRI invited to respond. FRI Interviewees include the Champion of the Digital Inclusion FRI Task Force, Martha Lane Fox. FRI FRI 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00pr7zj (Listen) FRI Series 5, Cookery Book FRI Spoof reminiscences of a former variety star. Count Arthur FRI Strong is an expert in everything from the world of FRI entertainment to the origins of the species, all false FRI starts and nervous fumbling, poorly concealed by a FRI delicate sheen of bravado and self-assurance. FRI Arthur's latest scheme to secure an advance for his FRI celebrity cookery book idea goes somewhat askew when he FRI stands in for old pal Billy to demonstrate a kitchen FRI appliance in the local shopping centre. FRI With Steve Delaney, Mel Giedroyc, Dave Mounfield and FRI Alastair Kerr. FRI A Komedia Entertainment/Smooth Operations production for FRI BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00pqbss (Listen) FRI Consumer news and issues with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00pqbvv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00pqbxt (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00pr8bc (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which looks at numbers FRI everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. FRI An Open University co production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00pqc06 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday.] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00pr8bf (Listen) FRI Maine Road FRI By Sarah McDonald Hughes. As the last game at Manchester FRI City's Maine Road stadium approaches, a family in mourning FRI for a grandmother face their own struggle to survive. FRI Elaine ...... Siobhan Finneran FRI Jade ...... Sarah McDonald Hughes FRI Leo ...... Keaton Langley FRI Clive ...... Lee Boardman FRI Darren ...... John Catterall FRI Aaron ...... Thomas Rolinson FRI Directed by Susan Roberts FRI Produced by Charlotte Riches. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00pr8bh (Listen) FRI Eric Robson presents a tribute to the late John Cushnie, FRI who died at New Year. FRI There's a chance to hear the last programme John recorded, FRI with gardeners in Hertfordshire, and Eric and the team FRI look back at some of the glorious moments of John's FRI 15-year GQT career. FRI FRI 15:45 The Call b00m67vx (Listen) FRI The Win FRI Dominic Arkwright talks to people who have taken or made FRI life-changing phone calls. FRI Some people cry, some feel sick, some throw a 24-hour FRI party, and some are millionaires already. Winning the FRI lottery can be a traumatic event, but what is it like for FRI the operators on the other end of the line? FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00prd50 (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 b00prd52 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Andrea Arnold about her FRI award-winning Fish Tank as it is released on DVD and to FRI Jacques Audiard, director of acclaimed prison drama A FRI Prophet. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00pqc2b (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie FRI Mair. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00pqc47 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio FRI 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00prd54 (Listen) FRI Series 70, Episode 2 FRI Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The FRI panellists are Andy Hamilton, Jeremy Hardy, John Gordillo FRI and Fred Macaulay. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00pqc08 (Listen) FRI Mike dances his way out of trouble. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00pqc5r (Listen) FRI Arts news and reviews with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00pqd5c (Listen) FRI Six Suspects, Episode 10 FRI Dramatisation by Ayeesha Menon of the novel by Vikas FRI Swarup, author of Q and A, which was filmed as Slumdog FRI Millionaire. Vicky Rai, notorious son of a prominent FRI Indian politician, shoots dead a waitress at a trendy FRI Delhi restaurant. At a lavish society party to celebrate FRI his acquittal, he is himself murdered. Who did it? FRI Vicky's murder looks set to be another unsolved mystery in FRI a country full of unsolved crimes. That is until FRI investigative journalist Arun Advani steps in to take a FRI closer look, and reveals to the world the shocking truth. FRI Arun Advani, an investigative journalist ...... Rajit Kapur FRI Vicky Rai, a rich Delhi playboy ...... Zafar Karachiwala FRI Mamta Rai, a politician and Vicky's mother ...... Radhika FRI Mital FRI Munna Mobile, a mobile phone thief ...... Anand Tiwari FRI Shabnam Saxena, a Bollywood actress ...... Shernaz Patel FRI Larry Page, an American tourist ...... Gary Richardson FRI Eketi, a tribesman ...... Rohit Malkani FRI Ashok Rajput, a welfare officer ...... Kenny Desai FRI Champi/Drunk girl in car ...... Radhika Apte FRI Reshma/Barkha Das ...... Anahita Uberoi FRI Ritu ...... Ira Dubey FRI Bilal/Inspector Brar ...... Ankur Vikal FRI Saira/Ruby Gill ...... Megha Burman FRI Pappu Pager ...... Jaimini Pathak FRI Chief Minister Pandey/Chief Melambe/Abu Khaled ...... FRI Jayant Kripalani FRI Detective Gupta, private detective ...... Kenny Desai FRI Abu Technical/Tribesman ...... Pushan Kripalani FRI Abu Omar/Biddy/Driver ...... Nadir Khan FRI Jay Chaterjee/Judge Mishra ...... Sohrab Ardeshir FRI Gulabo/Mrs Gill/Reporter ...... Ayeesha Menon FRI Raman Johar/Bill Bakshi ...... Ashwin Mushran FRI Elizabeth Brookner ...... Karla Singh FRI Inspector Yardav ...... Ravi Khote FRI Sohrab ...... Caran Arora FRI Production team: FRI Line producer in India: Nadir Khan FRI Assistant director: Toral Shah FRI Photography: Ameet Mallapur FRI Script editor: Mike Walker FRI Sound: Ayush Ahuja FRI Additional editing: Steve Bond FRI Music: Sacha Putnam FRI Sound design: Nick Russell-Pavier FRI Produced and directed by John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00prd56 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Cheddar FRI in Somerset. The panel includes historian Peter Hennessey FRI and Ben Bradshaw, secretary of state for culture, media FRI and sport. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00prd58 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue from Lisa Jardine. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00prgb0 (Listen) FRI Deep Cut FRI Adaptation by Philip Ralph of his own stage play about the FRI four deaths at Deepcut army barracks and the subsequent FRI judicial review in 2006. FRI The play draws on public documents and verbatim records. FRI The words and memories of the parents of one of the FRI recruits, Private Cheryl Jones, and those associated with FRI her, are interwoven with those of Nicholas Blake QC, who FRI led the review, and some of the people who independently FRI investigated Cheryl's death. FRI Des James ...... Pip Donaghy FRI Doreen James ...... Janice Cramer FRI Nichols Blake QC ...... Simon Molloy FRI Brian Cathcart ...... Derek Hutchinson FRI Frank Swann ...... Robert Willox FRI Jonesy ...... Amy Morgan FRI Colonel Josling ...... Adam James FRI Bruce George ...... Rhydian Jones FRI Directed by Mick Gordon. FRI A Ladbroke Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00pqdgm (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00pqdhn (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00pwmzn (Listen) FRI The Coral Thief, Episode 5 FRI Dan Stevens reads from Rebecca Stott's love story, set in FRI Paris in 1815 in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars. FRI Lucienne tells Daniel about her past in Paris' FRI revolutionary underworld. Meanwhile, his career prospects FRI brighten. FRI Abridged by Viv Beeby FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00pqjs9 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday.] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00pqffb (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament FRI with Mark D'Arcy. FRI FRI FRI