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SAT SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00tn859 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00tkyx7 (Listen) SAT Storyteller: The Life of Roald Dahl, Episode 5 SAT SAT "Roald Dahl thought biographies were boring. He told me so SAT while munching on a lobster claw." SAT SAT The new biographer of Dahl is Donald Sturrock, who once made SAT a film about the writer, so knew the man and his family very SAT well. His book charts Dahl's rich and varied life as fighter SAT pilot, intelligence operative, and the adult writer who then SAT wrote for children in such an impactful way that he remains SAT hugely popular with today's young readers. He was truly on SAT their wavelength. He spoke to them through books such as SAT Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, The BFG and Danny, SAT Champion of The World. SAT SAT Sturrock investigates Dahl's eternal popularity as a writer. SAT And of course the man behind the books... SAT SAT 5. Even close to death Dahl was in mischievous mood, SAT and his appeal to children will never fade. SAT SAT Reader Julian Rhind Tutt and the voice of Dahl SAT is Ian McDairmid. SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tn85c (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tn85f (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tn85h (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00tn85k (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tn85m (Listen) SAT in the week of the Pope's State Visit to the UK. With the SAT Most Revd Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow. SAT SAT 05:45 A View Through a Lens b00h4d2v (Listen) SAT Series 1, Flying Elk SAT SAT 1/5. Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison offers a personal SAT view of life as he finds himself in isolated and often SAT dangerous locations across the globe filming wildlife. In SAT this programme, John films a flight from Sweden to Scotland SAT but this is no ordinary flight as his companions include two SAT moose, and in order to fit the moose into the plane the SAT toilet has to be removed, and then the moose have to be SAT seduced! Its a very long flight. SAT SAT Presented by John Aitchison SAT Produced by Sarah Blunt. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00tn8bz (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00tn8c1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00tn8c3 (Listen) SAT Leeds-Liverpool Canal SAT SAT Helen Mark travels along a stretch of the Leeds and SAT Liverpool Canal and hears from just a few of the people SAT whose lives revolve around it. Stretching 127 miles the SAT canal crosses the Pennines, and climbing to 487 feet at its SAT summit, the canal has 91 locks including the unique 5-rise SAT lock at Bingley in Yorkshire. SAT SAT Helen hears from Vince Moran of British Waterways about the SAT reason for the recent closure of almost half of the canal SAT from Wigan to Gargrave following the prolonged spell of dry SAT weather earlier this year. She also chats to boaters who SAT have made the canal their home. Mike Clarke of the Leeds and SAT Liverpool Canal Society tells Helen about the canal's SAT history and about his involvement with the Short Boat SAT Kennet, one of the last unconverted boats which worked on SAT the Leeds & Liverpool Canal. Kennet is on the Register of SAT Historic Vessels and serves as a reminder of the canal's SAT heritage. SAT SAT Helen then joins Don Vine from the Yorkshire Wildlife Trust SAT on a boat trip to an area between the canal and the River SAT Aire where a special project is underway to improve the SAT habitat for otters, before meeting up with John Fairweather SAT at the unique 5 Rise Lock at Bingley for an insight into SAT life as a lock-keeper on the longest canal in the UK. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00tn8c5 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The number of dairy farmers in England and Wales has halved SAT in the last ten years. There are currently 11 and a half SAT thousand farmers still producing milk but every day, two or SAT three of these are leaving the industry. The UK is making SAT ten percent less milk now than it did just six years ago. SAT Industry analysts claim the low prices farmers are getting SAT for their milk are mainly to blame for so many farmers SAT giving up. The average price farmers are being paid is 24.5 SAT pence a litre but it costs them more than this to produce SAT it. Other issues are high feed prices and the lack of silage SAT due to the dry summer. On Farming Today This Week, Charlotte SAT Smith visits new farmer, Robert Pierce in Cheshire to find SAT out how to make money out of dairy and if there is a future SAT to the industry in the UK. Presented by Charlotte Smith and SAT produced by Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00tn8c7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00tn8ss (Listen) SAT With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00tn8sv (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with author Charlie Higson, poet Kate Fox, a SAT diplomat held hostage by al-Qaeda, a Romani journalist, a SAT man who eschews shoes and Evelyn Glennie's Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00tn8sx (Listen) SAT Places of worship/retreats - The paintings of Sir Winston Churchill SAT SAT Sandi Toksvig uncovers some interesting English places of SAT worship to visit, finds out why a retreat can be an SAT excellent break and explores some of the locations painted SAT by Sir Winston Churchill in the company of his SAT granddaughter, Celia Sandys. SAT SAT Producer. Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Hits of the Blitz b00tn8sz (Listen) SAT Paul Morley tries to discover what people were really SAT listening to during the Blitz of WWII, and finds that there SAT is much more to it than 'We'll Meet Again'. SAT SAT We all think we know what people were dancing and listening SAT to in their homes, in shelters and in night spots, but SAT Morley hears hit tunes of the time which might come as a SAT surprise to many of us. Morley goes in search of what these SAT hit tunes tell us about how people were really feeling and SAT coping during those difficult days. SAT SAT If you had eavesdropped on a living room in 1940, you were SAT more likely to have caught a burst of 'When You Wish Upon A SAT Star' from Pinocchio than 'White Cliffs of Dover'. He speaks SAT to Tony Benn about his memories of popular music during the SAT Blitz as he experienced it, and what other members of the SAT public were really humming during this time of crisis. He SAT speaks to social historian Juliet Gardiner, musicologist Tim SAT Healey and music therapist Stewart Wood about the mood of SAT the time and why the music that evokes the war to us is SAT often not the music that was actually being listened to. SAT SAT Morley goes in search of what people were singing and SAT dancing to in the Cafe de Paris in London's West End on the SAT night that it was bombed in March 1940, and finds that it SAT was not the American Lindy Hop swing that many of us picture SAT of when we think of nightlife during the Blitz. In fact, it SAT was a world where people still did the foxtrot and the waltz SAT to numbers such as 'Oh Johnny Oh,' played by the band. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00tn8t1 (Listen) SAT Elinor Goodman looks behind the scenes at Westminster as SAT Parliament returns for a two-week sitting before the main SAT party conferences. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00tn8t3 (Listen) SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00tn8t5 (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal SAT finance. SAT SAT 12:30 Chain Reaction b00tmtfp (Listen) SAT Series 6, Harry Shearer interviews Stephen Merchant SAT SAT The new series of the tag team talk show continues as last SAT week's guest, voice of The Simpsons, face of Derek Smalls SAT and political satirist Harry Shearer takes the microphone to SAT interview multi award-winning co-creator of The Office and SAT Extras, and famously tall funny man Stephen Merchant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00tnb0z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00tnb11 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00tmtfr (Listen) SAT Shaun Ley chairs the topical discussion from Sheffield High SAT School with questions for the panel including General SAT Secretary of the TUC, Brendan Barber; Labour leadership SAT candidate Ed Balls; Minister for Political & Constitutional SAT Reform, Mark Harper; and Executive Editor of the Evening SAT Standard, Anne McElvoy. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00tnb13 (Listen) SAT Shaun Ley takes listeners' calls and emails in response to SAT this week's edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00tnb15 (Listen) SAT Spitfire! SAT SAT A moving drama by Mike Walker about the most famous British SAT fighter aircraft in history, marking the 70th anniversary of SAT the Battle of Britain. Framed by recollections from veteran SAT Geoffrey Wellum, the play features specially made recordings SAT of RAF Battle of Britain Memorial Flight Spitfires, SAT including the only Spitfire still flying today to have SAT fought in the Battle. SAT SAT Inspired by real people and real events, the play traces RJ SAT Mitchell's design from creation to legend and the fortunes SAT of two young pilots who join a frontline Spitfire squadron SAT just as the Battle of Britain begins. It stars Samuel West, SAT Samuel Barnett, Rory Kinnear and Ruth Wilson. SAT SAT Many factors were important in the Battle, but it was the SAT excellence of the Spitfire which most famously evened the SAT odds in the fight against the Luftwaffe. Mike Walker's play SAT takes us close to this magnificent aircraft and gives us a SAT feeling of what it was like to fly the legendary plane which SAT became, in test pilot Jeffrey Quill's words, 'a symbol of SAT defiance and victory'. SAT SAT Pirate ..... Rory Kinnear SAT Ted ..... Joe Coen SAT RJ Mitchell ..... Samuel West SAT Tony ..... Samuel Barnett SAT Stanley Baldwin ..... David Horovitch SAT Air Marshal Dowding ..... David Troughton SAT Squadron Commander ..... Stephen Critchlow SAT Newsreel Announcer ..... Ben Crowe SAT Sammy ..... Lucas Motion SAT Alice ..... Abigail Thaw SAT Daphne ..... Ruth Wilson SAT SAT Technical Advisor: Patrick Bishop SAT Original music/sound design: David Chilton SAT SAT Producer/Director: Amber Barnfather SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b00tmlh4 (Listen) SAT Series 10, Send in the Clowns SAT SAT Stephen Sondheim's song, Send In the Clowns, from the SAT musical 'A Little Night Music' was written late in SAT rehearsals for the actress Glynnis Johns, playing the part SAT of Desiree. A song of regret and anger, the part has SAT famously been played by Judi Dench, and the song became an SAT independent hit, sung by Judy Collins, Shirley Bassey and SAT Barbra Striesand. Hannah Waddingham played the youngest ever SAT Desiree in Trevor Nunn's production, and used her memories SAT of an unhappy relationship to inspire her performance. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00tnbzk (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. Tamsin Greig on her movie role in SAT Tamara Drewe. Not just for the boys - convertibles and the SAT joy of open topped driving. Sadie Frost on her autobiography SAT Crazy Days and life beyond Jude Law. The Duchess of SAT Devonshire on hosting JFK at Chatsworth and, at 90, on SAT having Jailhouse Rock as her ringtone. Struggles with faith: SAT when staying true to teachings of the Catholic church causes SAT conflict. With more children being privately tutored, are SAT the costs involved worth it? And cookery writer Mary Berry SAT on how to judge the best of British baking. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00tnbzm (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula SAT Shah, plus the sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00tnbzp (Listen) SAT The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented SAT by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00tnbzr (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00tnbzt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tnbzw (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00tnbzy (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by one of Britain's favourite satirists, the SAT author, columnist, one time Grumpy Old Man and Shooting Star SAT Will Self. Will pushes memoir to the limits of invention SAT with his latest novel, Walking to Hollywood. SAT SAT Peter Hain is not only the current MP for Neith, and held SAT many prominent positions for the last Labour government, but SAT is well known as an anti-apartheid campaigner. He adds to a SAT string of books on the apartheid era and Africa with his SAT latest, a biography of the great leader Nelson Mandela. SAT SAT From Alan Bennett's The History Boys to the highly praised SAT Being Human Russell Tovey has become a popular face on SAT screen. He returns in the new BBC Three series Him and Her SAT to play Steve, a man with simple pleasures in life and even SAT fewer goals. SAT SAT What possesses a right-minded comedian to quit the day job, SAT set the alarm clock for 4.30am and become a Breakfast DJ? SAT Phill Jupitus did just this when he took the helm of the SAT 6music breakfast show for the fledgling years of the digital SAT station. He talks to Gideon Coe about his love for radio, SAT what makes the nation tick in the morning and his radio DJ SAT years. SAT SAT There's music from the Dublin born rockabilly songstress SAT Imelda May, whose flawless performances, fifties style and SAT blues and rock 'n' roll have won plaudits across the board. SAT SAT Plus a welcome return to Loose Ends top Jazz vocalist Ola SAT Onabule showcases a track from his seventh studio album, SAT 'Seven Shades Darker'. SAT SAT And fresh from the Edinburgh Fringe, there's stand up comedy SAT from Josh Widdicombe, who after only two years on the SAT circuit was crowned the Leicester Comedy festivals comedian SAT of the year 2010. SAT SAT Producer: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00tnc00 (Listen) SAT John Yates SAT SAT John Yates, the Assistant Commissioner at the centre of the SAT storm about the Metropolitan Police's investigation into SAT celebrity phone hacking at the News of the World, under the SAT editorship of Andy Coulson, now the Prime Minister's chief SAT spin doctor. Yates is a high flyer and no stranger to high SAT profile and controversial cases. He led the perjury case SAT against Lord Archer, the 'cash for honours' investigation, SAT was involved in the Stephen Lawrence enquiry. In 2005 he SAT travelled to Brazil to meet the parents of Jean Charles de SAT Menezes, who was shot dead by police after being mistaken SAT for a suicide bomber, and with an offer of financial SAT compensation from the Met. Yates is also responsible for SAT counter-terrorism. Yates is in the spotlight again this week SAT as MPs questioned his judgement about the limits of the SAT hacking enquiry and the closeness of the Met's relationship SAT with News International. Yates has now agreed that new SAT evidence means the investigation will be re-opened. SAT Colleagues and critics talk John Yates, the man tipped to be SAT the next Commissioner of Scotland Yard, as he faces enormous SAT pressure from all sides. SAT SAT Producer: Samantha Fenwick SAT Presenter: Nick Ravenscroft. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00tnc02 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 The Archive Hour b00tnc04 (Listen) SAT Alexei at the Seaside with the Unions SAT SAT Alexei Sayle's parents were, in Liverpool, unusual; both SAT Communists, his mother from a Lithuanian Jewish family, his SAT father a railway union official. They gave their son Gorki's SAT first name. For more than a decade from the late 1950's SAT Alexei accompanied his parents to trade union conferences, SAT mostly in seaside towns. SAT SAT These were important times in British and international SAT industrial politics. There were national strikes in SAT shipbuilding and engineering; the redundancy without pay or SAT notice of 6,000 car workers; the London bus strike; the SAT fight for equal pay; responses to de-colonisation; the SAT Aberfan disaster; Barbara Castle's 'In Place of Strife'. SAT SAT On Saturday 11th Sept , with a repeat on Monday 13th - the SAT day the 2010 TUC Conference opens in Manchester - Alexei SAT selects the choicest pieces of archive to conjure the SAT atmosphere of these important events. Set against this is SAT his personal story of these years, his own interaction as a SAT child with the characters involved, and his own development, SAT politically, personally, even physically. And he brings his SAT inside knowledge to bear...revealing how, for instance, the SAT biggest bruisers were, at the closing balls, the most deft SAT of dancers, and how comrades from France and Eastern Europe SAT were nonplussed by their encounter with, for instance, Brown SAT Windsor Soup. SAT SAT Producer: Julian May. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00762ts (Listen) SAT My Family and Other Animals, Episode 1 SAT SAT by Gerald Durrell, dramatised by SAT Janys Chambers SAT SAT My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's comic gem of SAT a book, the classic story of his upper-class English SAT eccentric family, whose antics persist on disrupting his SAT enthralling natural history escapades on the sunny, SAT pre-package holiday Greek island of 1930s Corfu. Recounted SAT with immense humour and charm, this is a wonderful account SAT of a rare, magical childhood. SAT Episode 1: Meet the family...plus a few animals. SAT SAT Gerry.....Adam Usden SAT Adult.....GerryWill Tacey SAT Mother.....Celia Imrie SAT Larry.....Toby Jones SAT Margo.....Anna Kirke SAT Leslie.....Paul Hunter SAT Spiro.....Andreas Markos SAT Dr Androuchelli/Dr Stephanides.....Graeme Hawley SAT Lugaretzia.....Katia David SAT SAT Directed in Manchester by Polly Thomas. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00tnc06 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Has the Taliban Won in Afghanistan? b00tmtqc (Listen) SAT Eddie Mair chairs a debate at Chatham House in London on the SAT progress of the conflict in Afghanistan. Some expert SAT observers say 'It's over; the Taliban have won the war'. SAT Others believe neither side can win. SAT SAT Yet all agree that the coalition's work in the country is SAT not going well and that the end must be in sight. SAT SAT Panellists include Peter W. Galbraith, outspoken critic of SAT the 2009 presidential elections in Afghanistan, Mariam Abu SAT Zahab who is a sociologist from SciencePo, one of France's SAT most respected academic institutions, Lieutenant General Sir SAT Graeme Lamb who was working, until recently, as a senior SAT advisor to US General McChrystal and Abubakar Siddique, who SAT is the Afghanistan Correspondent for Radio Free Europe, SAT Radio Liberty. SAT SAT Producer: Sue Davies. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b00tmkgc (Listen) SAT (6/12) Tom Sutcliffe referees the latest cryptic contest in SAT the 2010 series. Their previous appearances left both the SAT Midlands (Stephen Maddock and Rosalind Miles) and Northern SAT Ireland (Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney) needing a win. Which SAT of them will triumph today? SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Crazy For Love: Layla and the Mad Poet b00tkqjg (Listen) SAT The inspiration for Eric Clapton's seminal pop song, 'Layla SAT and Majnun' is said to be the most beautiful poem in the SAT Arab world and beyond. SAT Pre-empting Romeo and Juliet by centuries, Layla and Majnun SAT is the classic Middle East love story. Sitting at the heart SAT of pre-Islamic Arab culture, its message is universal and it SAT has since crossed borders and transcended language barriers SAT even spreading as far as India and Turkey. SAT Based on a tale of thwarted love and poetry sent on the SAT wind, Anthony Sattin tells the tale of its creator - Majnun SAT - whose name is the word for 'mad' or 'crazy' in Arabic and SAT tries to find out if he, or the object of his love, were SAT real or imagined, fact or fiction. SAT SAT Producer: Sara Jane Hall. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00tndgj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00hb4lw (Listen) SUN Three Stories by Haruki Murakami, The Mirror SUN SUN Haruki Murakami was born in Kyoto in 1949. Following the SUN publication of his first novel in Japanese in 1979, he sold SUN the jazz bar he ran with his wife and became a full-time SUN writer. It was with the publication of Norwegian Wood - SUN which has to date sold more than 4 million copies in Japan SUN alone - that the author was truly catapulted into the SUN limelight. SUN SUN Known for his surrealistic world of mysterious (and often SUN disappearing) women, cats, earlobes, wells, Western culture, SUN music and quirky first-person narratives, he is now Japan's SUN best-known novelist abroad. SUN SUN Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman is one of his acclaimed SUN collections of short stories. In 'Crabs', 'The Year of SUN Spaghetti' and 'The Mirror', Murakami confronts fundamental SUN emotions: loss, identity, friendship, love; and questions SUN our ability to connect with humanity, and the pain of those SUN connections or the lack of them. SUN SUN Read by Hugh Ross SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tndgl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tndgn (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tndgq (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00tndgs (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00tndgv (Listen) SUN The bells of St John the Baptist Church, Loughton, Essex. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00tnc00 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00tndgx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00tndgz (Listen) SUN Tiny Survivals SUN SUN Classicist Llewelyn Morgan has a knack for piecing together SUN the past through disparate objects and fragmented bits of SUN information. So when he stumbled across an old Russian SUN samovar in his grandmother's attic, he was compelled to SUN track down its owner by trawling through the thousands of SUN names and places that appear in the census. SUN SUN In this edition of Something Understood, Llewelyn Morgan SUN recounts his search to identify the samovar's owner and SUN explores how objects that seem to tell us little when taken SUN at face value can in fact reveal a rich and vivid picture of SUN the past. SUN SUN With a contribution from the late Flemish philosopher Jaap SUN Kruithof (courtesy of VRT), readings from John Donne, Keith SUN Douglas and Lionel Shriver and music by Maurice Ravel, SUN Alfred Schnittke, and Fridge. SUN SUN Producer: Katie Burningham SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00tndh1 (Listen) SUN This week's On Your Farm visits North Uist in the Outer SUN Hebrides, a harsh farming environment softened only by the SUN presence of the machair, the sandy coastal plain running SUN along its western edge. Farmed today using methods that SUN would, in some ways, be familiar to crofters of the past, SUN the machair has become a globally-important and precious SUN habitat for a wide variety of plant and insect life. Moira SUN Hickey visits the crofters of North Uist to find out how SUN they marry traditional farming methods with the ever-present SUN need to make a living from the machair. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00tndh3 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00tndh5 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00tndh7 (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories, familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00tndh9 (Listen) SUN Jumoke Fashola presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of of SUN the charity AMREF. SUN SUN Donations to AMREF should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 SUN Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope AMREF. Credit SUN cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can also give online at SUN www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are a UK tax payer, SUN please provide AMREF with your full name and address so they SUN can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. 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SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00tndhh (Listen) SUN Padre Steve Lamond and the Venerable Air Vice-Marshal Ray SUN Pentland, Chaplain-in-Chief to the Royal Air Force, lead a SUN service commemorating the 70th anniversary of the Battle of SUN Britain live from St George's Chapel of Remembrance in SUN Biggin Hill. Director of Music: Helen Burrows. Producer: SUN Stephen Shipley. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00tmtft (Listen) SUN Book Choice SUN SUN Book-lover Lisa Jardine muses on her latest conversion to SUN the e-book and admits she's found herself reading Tony SUN Blair's autobiography not in one of her beloved hardbacks SUN but on her electronic reader. She ponders how we consume our SUN books and wonders what effect the government's austerity SUN measures will have on our public libraries. Will the SUN coalition really pursue a suggestion that libraries could be SUN moved to supermarkets or pubs? SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00tndhk (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00tndhm (Listen) SUN Written by: Joanna Toye SUN Directed by: Jenny Stephens SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford. SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b00tnjsx (Listen) SUN Kindertransport SUN SUN Sue MacGregor gathers together some of the Jewish children SUN who were brought to safety in England by the Kindertransport SUN movement of the 1930s. SUN SUN From the 2nd December 1938 until war broke out nine months SUN later, almost ten thousand Jewish children were rescued from SUN Nazi persecution from Germany and the occupied territories SUN of Austria, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The operation became SUN known as the Kindertransport movement. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Cuddon SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00tmkr5 (Listen) SUN Series 57, Episode 6 SUN SUN Radio 4's popular panel game is back this week with Paul SUN Merton, Sue perkins, Liza Tarbuck and John Sergeant. SUN They attempt to speak for a minute without repetition, SUN hesitation or deviation under the watchful eye of Nicholas SUN Parsons. Subjects include How to Audition, What Shall We Do SUN With the Drunken Sailor! and Two to Tango - What will John SUN Sergeant make of that one..? SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00tnjsz (Listen) SUN Ice Cream SUN SUN Ice Cream : Everyone seems to like ice cream and with the SUN market worth an incredible one billion pounds a year, it SUN would seem to be recession-proof. This programme explores SUN the market and the marketing. There has been an explosion in SUN the number of artisan producers so how do they all compete? SUN And what keeps the big players at the top of their game? SUN What is real ice cream anyway? And, what is the difference SUN between ice cream and gelato? SUN SUN Sheila Dillon presents the programme from one of the UK's SUN best loved ice cream parlours and is joined by expert Robin SUN Weir who has spent the last twelve years updating his book, SUN "Ice Cream, Sorbets and Gelati" - co-authored with wife, SUN Caroline, - and widely recognised as the definitive guide to SUN ice cream. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00tnjt1 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00tnjt3 (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world, with Shaun Ley. SUN SUN 13:30 Children of the Olympic Bid b00tnlm9 (Listen) SUN Series 5, Episode 1 SUN SUN When Sebastian Coe presented London's bid for the 2012 Games SUN at the IOC meeting in Singapore on July 6th 2005 he was SUN flanked on the stage by the London teenagers. They were seen SUN as crucial in helping secure victory over Paris - SUN representing the sporting dreams of the nation and the rich SUN cultural, ethnic and religious mix of the capital. Since SUN then Peter White's been following them, their families and SUN those who train alongside them. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tmtb6 (Listen) SUN Chris Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matt Biggs are SUN trouble-shooting with gardeners in Northamptonshire. The SUN programme is chaired by Eric Robson. SUN SUN Anne Swithinbank revisits the rooftop allotment-holders in SUN Brighton taking part in our Listeners' Gardens series. Time SUN to get thinking about winter crops. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 A View Through a Lens b00tnm18 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Ancient Mariners SUN SUN Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in SUN isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe SUN filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the SUN uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the SUN fragility of life and the connections which unite society SUN and nature across the globe. SUN SUN 1/5 Ancient Mariners: It's November and on Bird Island in SUN the South Atlantic Ocean, wildlife cameraman John Aitchison SUN watches as Wandering Albatross chicks attempt to fly for the SUN very first time. It takes a year to raise an Albatross chick SUN until its wings are the largest of any bird. As well as SUN these 'young chicks', one of the world's oldest birds, a SUN grey-headed Albatross, also lives here on Bird island. She SUN still wears the ID ring which she was fitted with in 1959. A SUN biologist on the island called Glen Crossin explains to John SUN how it's only the skin on this albatross's feet which shows SUN her great age. It's thin and transparent; like the skin on SUN Glen's grandmother's hands. As a boy, this was how Glen knew SUN his grandmother was old; by the skin on her hands. Watching, SUN filming and hearing stories about the Albatross; long-lived SUN birds and amongst the greatest of all travellers, John is SUN reminded of his own grandmother and is filled with respect SUN for these two 'old birds' as he considers their longevity SUN and life experiences, in a tale of The Ancient Mariners. SUN SUN Presented by John Aitchison SUN Produced by Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00762yj (Listen) SUN My Family and Other Animals, Episode 2 SUN SUN by Gerald Durrell, dramatised by SUN Janys Chambers SUN SUN My Family and Other Animals is Gerald Durrell's comic gem of SUN a book, the classic story of his upper-class English SUN eccentric family, whose antics persist on disrupting his SUN enthralling natural history escapades on the sunny, SUN pre-package holiday Greek island of 1930s Corfu. Recounted SUN with immense humour and charm, this is a wonderful account SUN of a rare, magical childhood. SUN Episode 2: Gerry's animal collection increases to such an SUN extent that the family's chaotic Christmas party gets SUN totally out of hand. SUN SUN Gerry.....Adam Usden SUN Adult.....GerryWill Tacey SUN Mother.....Celia Imrie SUN Larry.....Toby Jones SUN Margo.....Anna Kirke SUN Leslie.....Paul Hunter SUN Spiro.....Andreas Markos SUN Dr Androuchelli/Dr Stephanides.....Graeme Hawley SUN Lugaretzia.....Katia David SUN SUN Directed in Manchester by Polly Thomas. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00tnmlg (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to Man Booker prize winner DBC SUN Pierre about his new novel "Lights Out in Wonderland". And SUN DJ Taylor and Tim Butcher discuss Graham Greene and West SUN Africa. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00tnmlj (Listen) SUN Roger McGough returns with an autumn series of Poetry SUN Please. Today poems by D H Lawrence including his great SUN late masterpieces The Ship of Death and Bavarian Gentians, SUN and a pair of dazzling birds - Hummingbird and Turkey Cock - SUN read by David Bamber. Also two new poems from Midlands SUN veteran poet Roy Fisher. SUN SUN 17:00 Labour Saving Devices b00tmt99 (Listen) SUN In this programme Shaun Ley examines what Labour needs to do SUN to revitalise itself in opposition in the light of SUN historical precedents. He hears from some of the party's SUN leading figures in its recent history about how New Labour SUN lost its way and how they think the party can avoid SUN repeating the mistakes from the past. SUN SUN Some think their party's in pretty good shape, others that SUN it narrowly avoided catastrophe. Former Labour leader Neil SUN Kinnock, John Prescott, David Blunkett, Roy Hattersley, SUN Bryan Gould and the former Labour party secretary Margaret SUN McDonagh are just some of the leading Labour politicians and SUN party insiders to give their view on the state of the Labour SUN party and which direction Labour needs to follow now to SUN avoid being being cast into the political wilderness of SUN opposition for the next decade. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Dixon. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00tnc00 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00tnn01 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00tnn03 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tnn35 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00tnn38 (Listen) SUN Stewart Henderson makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN Listen Against - Radio 4 SUN Alexei at the Seaside with the Unions - Radio 4 SUN Juggling Chainsaws with Archaos - Radio 4 SUN Just A Minute - Radio 4 SUN What The Bishops Knew - Radio 4 SUN Words and Music - Radio 3 SUN The Reunion - Radio 4 SUN Storyteller - The Life of Roald Dahl - Radio 4 SUN James and the Giant Tree House - Radio 4 SUN Come to the Cabaret - Radio 2 SUN The Blitz - Radio 4 SUN Tracking The Aryans - Radio 3 SUN In Search of the Singing Postman - Radio 4 SUN Rhod Gilbert's Bulging Barrel of Laughs - Radio 2 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN FAX: 0161 244 4243 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Jane Worsley. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00tnnhl (Listen) SUN Jolene and Kathy have a heart to heart and Harry launches an SUN online initiative. SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00tnnhn (Listen) SUN An insider guide to the people and the stories shaping SUN America today, featuring location reports, lively discussion SUN and exclusive interviews. SUN SUN H.L. Mencken and Baltimore SUN SUN American journalist H.L. Mencken was known as the "Sage of SUN Baltimore". This week, his ideas and insights guide SUN Americana through an examination of life and politics in SUN Baltimore, and a look at contemporary American politics more SUN widely. SUN SUN George Packer: No Debate in the U.S. Senate SUN SUN Matt Frei talks to award-winning journalist George Packer SUN about the United States Senate. The two discuss the SUN relevance of debate to the political process in America. SUN SUN Campaign Ads and the Truth-O-Meter SUN SUN Political analyst Bill Adair dissects the campaign messages SUN that currently saturate American TV screens. SUN SUN Today’s Baltimore vs. H.L. Mencken SUN SUN Matt Frei talks to Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake for a SUN better understanding of the issues of the greatest SUN importance to the city of Baltimore today. SUN SUN John Waters, Born in Baltimore SUN SUN One of Baltimore's most successful stars, filmmaker John SUN Waters joins Americana to discuss how his hometown SUN influenced his career. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00j4d29 (Listen) SUN In Her Element, Skomer Log SUN SUN A series in which three women writers describe their SUN personal connection with the Welsh landscape and how their SUN encounter with nature has shaped their lives. SUN Jane Matthews recounts her sojourn with seals and puffins on SUN a small island off the coast of Pembrokeshire. SUN SUN Read by Siriol Jenkins SUN Producer : Kate McAll SUN Director : Nigel Lewis. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b00tmt86 (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the team investigate more numbers stories SUN including how maths is taught in primary schools. And what SUN would Europe's population be today if the Great War had SUN never happened? SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00tmtfh (Listen) SUN John Wilson presents Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing SUN and reflecting on the lives of people who have recently SUN died. On this week's programme the solitary Hope Bourne, who SUN lived in a caravan, shot animals for supper, and was known SUN as the Lady of Exmoor. SUN We hear how Corinne Day's portraits of Kate Moss changed the SUN face of fashion. SUN Former ELO drummer Bev Bevan remembers his bandmate Mike SUN Edwards. And the wildly varied life of Micky Burn. He SUN saluted Hitler as a youth, but later embraced Marxism. He SUN led a daring commando raid in the war and ended up in SUN Colditz. He was a gay man who was married to a woman for 27 years. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00tn8t5 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00tndh9 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00tmv7j (Listen) SUN Chips Off The Old Block SUN SUN Once upon a time, British computing led the world. In a SUN mobile world, some people think it might be happening again. SUN From Bletchley Park to Bristol, Peter Day reports on the SUN past, present and future of computers UK. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00tnnhq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00tnnhs (Listen) SUN Reports from behind the scenes at Westminster. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00tnnhv (Listen) SUN Episode 18 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week author and former SUN editor of the New Statesman John Kampfner takes the chair SUN and the editor is Catherine Donegan. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00tmtfm (Listen) SUN Stephen Frears talks to Francine Stock about his rural SUN comedy Tamara Drewe, which has been described as the dark SUN side of The Archers. SUN SUN Composer, writer and silent film accompanist Neil Brand SUN presents his unique audio description of the found footage SUN of Metropolis. 25 minutes of Fritz Lang's masterpiece were SUN missing presumed lost, until a full print turned up in SUN Argentina in 2008. Two years later, the restored version is SUN finally being released, and Neil tells us if the new scenes SUN improve a film that's already regarded as a classic of SUN science fiction SUN SUN Actor John C Reilly discusses his career playing the SUN perpetual loser in modern American cinema. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00tndgz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00tn5c7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00tmtjl (Listen) MON British Society of Criminology Conference at Leicester University MON MON When is a crime a 'hate crime', and what does that term MON actually mean? How has living on what other people throw MON away become a subject for criminologists? Laurie explores MON some of the latest ideas on crime as he visits the British MON Society of Criminology Conference held this year at MON Leicester University. He hears from the film maker Rex MON Bloomstein, from Sylvia Lancaster whose daughter Sophie was MON murdered because of the way she looked, from Jon Garland, MON Senior Lecturer in Crimilogy, University of Leicester, and MON also from Jeff Ferrell, the Professor of Criminology from MON the United States who has been living out of dumpsters, MON skips, rubbish bins in an attempt to understand an MON increasingly criminalised and marginalised way of life. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00tndgv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tn66x (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tn63z (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tn679 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00tn6dx (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tn6s0 (Listen) MON with the Most Revd Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00tn7c6 (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith hears calls for government to buy more MON British food for the public sector. 2 billion pounds is MON spent each year, but some departments buy more than half MON their food abroad. Alex Jackson from Sustain claims much of MON that food is poor quality, and raised with poor animal MON welfare. MON MON As government spending is reduced, the Agriculture and MON Horticulture Development Board's new HQ building is shelved. MON The board's chair, Tom Taylor, fears that the research MON activity of the board may suffer as a result. MON MON And with 10 dairy farmers leaving the industry each month, MON every competitive advantage needs to be seized. Farming MON Today visits the Dairy Event at Birmingham's NEC, where MON gadgets on show include a robotic milker, which can check a MON cows health, milk her and feed her, while the farmer gets on MON with other jobs. MON MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00tn9v9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00tn7cj (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and John Humphrys. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Evan Loves Tax b00tpp4w (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In a major new series for BBC Radio 4, Evan Davis ventures MON into the maze that is our tax system. MON He finds out why it's so complicated. MON He asks how well - or badly - we make big decisions about MON tax. MON And in this first programme, he explores how we have ended MON up trying to pay for a European-style welfare state with MON American-style tax levels. MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vc (Listen) MON The Threshold of the Modern World (1375-1550 AD), MON Tughra of Suleiman the Magnificent MON MON Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things. This MON week he is exploring the great empires of the world around MON 1500 - from the Inca in South America to the Ming in China MON and the Timurids in the Middle East. Today he is with the MON great Islamic Ottoman Empire that, by 1500, had conquered MON Constantinople as its new capital. The object Neil has MON chosen to represent this empire is the personal signature of MON the great Ottoman ruler Suleyman the magnificent, a MON contemporary of Henry V111 and Charles V. This monogram is MON the ultimate expression of Suleyman's authority at this time MON - a stamp of state and delicate artwork rolled into one. The MON Turkish novelist Elif Shafak and the historian Caroline MON Finkel help explore the power and meaning of this object. MON MON Producer: Anthony Denselow. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tnptj (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Do army wives need more support? MON Mia Felton is the wife of Brigadier Richard Felton who's MON Commander of the 'The Black Rats' currently deployed in MON Afghanistan and she's campaigning to raise awareness on the MON need for better provision for servicemen and their families MON who support them. We assess the prospects of the new MON Australian PM Julia Gillard, Food writer Diana Henry talks MON about her new book, "Food from Plenty", and we examine the MON novel "Picnic at Hanging Rock" ahead of this week's drama. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tndwb (Listen) MON Picnic at Hanging Rock, Episode 1 MON MON Picnic at Hanging Rock is a classic mystery, made famous by MON Peter Weir's 1970s film. MON MON This new interpretation goes back to the original story, MON recreating the strong underlying sense of horror and MON supernatural that resonate in Joan Lindsay's novel. Starring MON Penny Downie, Fenella Woolgar and Simon Burke, this radio MON version features music from award winning composer and MON producer Jon Rose. MON MON On St Valentines day, 1900, a party of schoolgirls and two MON governesses set off for a treat; a picnic at the geological MON marvel, the Hanging Rock. During the course of the MON afternoon, three girls and one governess disappear with no trace. MON MON Narrator ..... Penny Downie MON Mrs Appleyard ..... Fenella Woolgar MON Mademoiselle ..... Elizabeth Boag MON Miss McCraw ..... Sarah Rutherford MON Mr Hussey ..... Simon Burke MON Miranda ..... Celeste Wong MON Irma ..... Anna Skellern MON Edith ..... Andi Snelling MON Marion ..... Lauren St Paul MON Michael ..... Nicholas Banks MON Albert ..... David Palliser MON MON Sound design: Eloise Whitmore MON Original music: Jon Rose MON Script editor: Helen Meller MON MON Producer/Director: Polly Thomas MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Walk On By b00strwk (Listen) MON Have we become a 'walk on by' society? MON MON The new Home Secretary, Theresa May has called on the public MON to 'have a go' if they witness violence on the street, MON promising legislation to protect 'good Samaritans' from MON falling foul of the law themselves. MON MON Nick Ross explores the psychology of why some people MON intervene and others don't. MON MON To the alarm of his family, Nick doesn't walk on by. He MON tends to get stuck in; once actually making a citizen's MON arrest. But studies have shown that the British public in MON general are the least likely in Europe to intervene if they MON witness crime or anti-social behaviour. MON MON The so-called 'bystander effect' dictates that the larger MON the group of people who witness a violent attack, the less MON likely it is that someone will intervene. MON MON The programme hears from psychologists who suspect that MON people often fail to intervene because they believe no-one MON else will get involved. This assumption is fuelled by media MON coverage of cases in which people have been seriously MON injured or even killed while bystanders stand and watch. MON Non-intervention becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. MON MON But Nick meets psychologist Mark Levine whose extensive MON study of CCTV footage of street violence suggests that MON groups do much more to try to defuse aggressive behaviour MON than is generally realised. MON MON Nick steps into a virtual reality cave to see how people's MON reaction to violence is being tested in frighteningly MON realistic scenarios using avatars and meets the psychologist MON who is studying a 'walk on by' syndrome on the internet. MON MON Evolutionary biology suggests that our natural, genetic MON instinct is to behave in an altruistic and supportive way if MON we witness someone being attacked. So if, in modern society, MON we fail to do so, something would appear to have gone badly MON wrong. MON MON Producer: Brian King MON An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 HR b00tppbm (Listen) MON Series 2, Surfing MON MON Comedy drama series by Nigel Williams that charts the MON misfortunes of a middle-aged HR officer and his MON trouble-making colleague. MON MON Sam and Peter occupy their retirement time surfing the net. MON Peter has created a flattering but deeply inaccurate online MON profile for himself and now has a date. Sam is determined to MON go along. MON MON Peter ..... Jonathan Pryce MON Sam ..... Nicholas Le Prevost MON Janice ..... Christine Kavanagh MON Drab Woman ..... Sally Orrock MON Madwoman ..... Helen Belbin MON Man ..... Tony Bell MON MON Director: Peter Kavanagh. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00tnpws (Listen) MON Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00tnpyd (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00tnq4x (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b00tppmb (Listen) MON (7/12) The teams from the South of England and The Midlands MON clash for the second time in the current series. Rosalind MON Miles and Stephen Maddock of the Midlands will be hoping for MON sweet revenge against Fred Housego and Marcel Berlins of the MON South of England, who defeated them last time they met. Tom MON Sutcliffe is in the chair. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00tnnhl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tpprp (Listen) MON Staring into the Fridge MON MON James Nesbitt leads the cast of Staring into the Fridge - a MON kitchen comedy by Annie McCartney. MON MON With two twenty-something children and a dubious boyfriend MON eating her out of house and home, Maggie, (Annie McCartney) MON is beginning to lose the will to live. She feels she has no MON one to talk to or listen. But all that is about to change MON when she hears a voice speaking to her from the corner of MON the kitchen. It seems that the only one who understands her MON predicament is her Fridge (James Nesbitt.) But unlike poor MON beleaguered Maggie, this fridge has got 'attitude' and is MON determined to help her get her life back on track! MON MON Fridge.....James Nesbitt MON Maggie.....Annie McCartney MON Flora.....Marcella Riordan MON Ben.....Mark Lambert MON Xanthe.....Katy Gleadhill MON Tom.....Jonathan Harden MON Repair man.....Richard Orr MON MON Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 15:00 The Archive Hour b00tnc04 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Preposterous Files b007zd3p (Listen) MON Certain files held in the National Archive are MON preposterously large, why? MON MON Julian Putkowski distills certain files down, discovering MON how civil servants make the policies that govern our lives. MON MON At the same time Sherlock Holmes used a gang of boys to MON gather and disseminate information the Metropolitan Police MON began working on the high tech version. But what was the MON real purpose behind the humble Police Box? MON MON Producer: Matt Thompson MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00tnjsz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00tpptc (Listen) MON In Beyond Belief, Ernie Rea and his guests explore the place MON of faith in our complex world. MON MON Ernie is joined by three guests who discuss how their own MON religious tradition affects their values and outlook on the MON world, often revealing hidden and contradictory truths. MON MON In this edition, Ernie and guests discuss the life, beliefs MON and enduring legacy of Cardinal Newman, who will be MON beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in the Archdiocese of MON Birmingham during his state visit. MON MON John Henry Newman converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism MON and went on to become a Cardinal in 1879. He was the founder MON of the Oratories of St Philip Neri, in Birmingham (where he MON lived until his death on August 11 1890) and in London. MON Newman's aim was to describe and inspire the Christian mind. MON His vocation was to help modern people realise the demands MON of thinking and acting with the mind of Christ and his MON Church. And it is this legacy which endures today. MON MON Newman will become the first non-martyr saint in England MON since the Reformation, and de facto the patron saint of MON converts. MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00tnr82 (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn MON Quinn. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tnt38 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00tppv4 (Listen) MON Series 57, Episode 7 MON MON Radio 4's long running and popular panel game hosted by MON Nicholas Parsons. Starring Graham Norton, Gyles Brandreth, MON Jenny Eclair and Paul Merton. The panellists attempt to MON speak on a subject given to them without repetition, MON hesitation or deviation. Subjects this week include 'My MON Inner Monologue' and 'The Person to My Left'. Tune in to MON hear what they make of that. Especially, Graham Norton, who MON hasn't got anyone sitting to his left. MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00tnq62 (Listen) MON There's something nasty in the bird hide at Arkwright Lake MON and Brian has cold comfort for the BL board. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00tntx7 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the comedy film MON The Other Guys, starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as MON an ill-matched pair of New York City police officers. MON MON Producer Sam Psyk. MON MON 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Portraying the Poor b00r33sl (Listen) MON In Film and TV MON MON The second of two programmes about the image of poverty and MON of the working class that has been created by writers (Part MON 1) and by films and television (Part 2). MON From 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' to 'Coronation MON Street' and from 'On The Buses' to 'Big Brother', British MON film and TV has had plenty to say about the working class. MON But precious little of it has been written, less of it MON directed and virtually none of it commissioned by people who MON have themselves grown up among the poor. MON Paul Mason asks how the picture has changed over the decades MON - and whether we're now any closer to seeing real lives on MON screen than we were in the days of the Ealing comedies or MON the 'kitchen sink' dramas. MON Interviewees include film director Ken Loach, whose career MON spans more than half a century from 'Cathy Come Home' (1966) MON to 'Looking For Eric' (2009); Donna Franceschild, MON California-born playwright whose 2003 TV series 'The Key' MON was the story of three generations of working-class Glasgow MON women; Anthony Wonke, director of the BAFTA-winning MON documentary series 'The Tower: A Tale Of Two Cities' (BBC TV MON 2007); John Jewell of Cardiff University who has studied the MON representation of class in comedy, and TV reality-show MON presenter Trisha Goddard.. MON MON Producer: Peter Everett MON BBC Bristol. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00tmtxq (Listen) MON This year's Commonwealth Games will be held in October in MON the Indian capital Delhi, the largest sporting event ever to MON be held there. No expense is being spared to build the MON appropriate facilities and infrastructure. But many are MON questioning whether spending billions of dollars hosting a MON two-week sporting event is the best use of resources in a MON city where poverty is entrenched. MON As the budget for the games spirals, the organisers are MON being accused of hiding the true cost, and of diverting MON funds intended for the very poorest. They're also accused of MON condoning the displacement of thousands of poor families and MON a blatant disregard of the rights of the workers building MON the stadiums. MON Rupa Jha asks who are the winners and who the losers in MON Delhi's attempt to turn itself into a "world-class" city. MON Producer: Tim Mansel. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00tmv3m (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents this week's digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. In this edition: Business Secretary MON Vince Cable has unveiled plans for a squeeze on public MON funding for scientific research. Quentin discusses what MON impact this could have on British science. Quentin talks to MON archaeologist Dr Timothy Taylor about why, despite our MON frailty, humans have become the dominant species. Quentin MON also asks why the European eel is on the decline. He talks MON to Dr Julian Metcalfe from the Centre for Environment, MON Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), about the MON 'Eeliad' project which will use GPS to track eels as they MON migrate across the Atlantic Ocean. And, a week before the So MON You Want To Be A Scientist final, Nina Jones and her mentor MON Dr Bernie Hogan analyse the results from their Facebook MON experiment & discuss their findings. MON MON The producer is Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON 21:30 Evan Loves Tax b00tpp4w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00tnvl0 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00tnvpj (Listen) MON Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme MON bringing you global news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00tnvpl (Listen) MON Alex y Robert, Episode 6 MON MON Written by Wena Poon. Alex has persuaded Roberto, now MON retired, to return from California to Spain to help her MON become a torero. Visiting the Bullfighting Museum in their MON home town of San Martin, they are standing with Hector - the MON curator and aficionado - in front of some very familiar MON exhibits. MON MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON Read by Lorelei King MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00tmt93 (Listen) MON Voices for Posterity MON MON Chris Ledgard talks to people who are preserving their MON voices for posterity. He meets Tony Crimlisk who's been MON recording his family and friends on an old Grundig tape MON player since 1956, oral historian Shelley Trower and MON Laurence Brewer who's in the process of banking his voice MON before he loses it forever. MON Produced by Beatrice Fenton. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00tnvs2 (Listen) MON News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00tn66z (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tn62q (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tn62s (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tn671 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00tn68d (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tn6rw (Listen) TUE with the Most Revd Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00tn75b (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00tn7c8 (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and John Humphrys. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Evan Loves Tax b00tpq3d (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE The Coalition is keen to simplify our tax system. But why, TUE asks Evan Davis, has it become so complicated in the first TUE place? TUE TUE To find out, Evan talks to former Chancellors Geoffrey Howe, TUE Nigel Lawson, Norman Lamont and Alistair Darling; to Gordon TUE Brown's former economic advisor Ed Balls; to Dave Hartnett, TUE the head of HM Revenue and Customs; and to John Whiting, who TUE now leads the Government's new Office for Tax Simplification TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vg (Listen) TUE The Threshold of the Modern World (1375-1550 AD), TUE Ming Banknote TUE TUE This week Neil MacGregor's history of the world is exploring TUE the great empires of around 1500 - the threshold of the TUE modern era. Today he is in Ming Dynasty China and with a TUE surviving example of some of the world's first paper bank TUE notes - what the Chinese called "flying cash". Neil explains TUE how paper money comes about and considers the forces that TUE underpinned its successes and failures. While the rest of TUE the world was happily trading in coins that had an actual TUE value in silver or gold, why did the Chinese risk the use of TUE paper? This particular surviving note is made on mulberry TUE bark, is much bigger than the notes of today and is dated TUE 1375. The Governor of the Bank of England, Mervyn King, and TUE the historian Timothy Brook look back over the history of TUE paper money and what it takes to make it work. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Denselow. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tnb7n (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women with news, TUE views and interviews of topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tnpqp (Listen) TUE Picnic at Hanging Rock, Episode 2 TUE TUE The remainder of the party, distraught and tired, return to TUE the school to be greeted with displeasure by Mrs Appleyard, TUE the stern headmistress. TUE TUE The next day Constable Bumpher questions Edith, the only TUE girl to return from the rock and Michael, a young TUE Englishman, holidaying with his aunt and uncle and his coachman. TUE TUE Michael has become besotted with Miranda who he saw cross TUE the creek along with the other girls on their way up to the TUE rock. TUE TUE Narrator ..... Penny Downie TUE Mrs Appleyard ..... Fenella Woolgar TUE Mademoiselle ..... Elizabeth Boag TUE Mr Hussey/Constable Bumpher ..... Simon Burke TUE Sara ..... Celeste Wong TUE Edith ..... Andi Snelling TUE Michael ..... Nicholas Banks TUE Albert ..... David Palliser TUE TUE Sound design: Eloise Whitmore TUE Original music: Jon Rose TUE Script editor: Helen Meller TUE TUE Producer/Director: Polly Thomas TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00tpq63 (Listen) TUE Episode 20 TUE TUE 20/40 In this weeks Saving Species Joanna Pinnock, armed TUE with a thermometer, visits a compost heap in Cambridgeshire TUE to discover to her great surprise its temperature is way TUE above that of her own body. Invertebrate ecologist Julian TUE Doberski, himself armed with a microscope, shows Joanna how TUE miniscule amounts of steaming compost contain a wonderous TUE array of tiny critters, all thriving on the free heat TUE generated by the microbes digesting the sugars in the TUE compost. Here is, we discover, another example of how the TUE little things in the natural world are responsible for TUE turning around dead things and making them available to TUE other wildlife. And we follow on this theme with a special TUE studio guest who more than ever needs a warm living compost TUE heap to successfully raise her young - the Grass Snake. TUE TUE Also in the programme how deciphering the life history of TUE the Large Blue Butterfly is helping this very rare insect to TUE increase its range in Southern England. TUE TUE And we hope to bring you the spectacle of breeding Stellers TUE Sea Lions - the largest "Fur Seal" in the world with a TUE special report from the Aleution Islands in the North Pacific. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Kirsty Henderson TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Character Assassins b00tpqlf (Listen) TUE The death of fictional superstars by pen, pencil or type TUE lies, quite literally, in the hands of their creators. TUE TUE At the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival 2010; Fiona Lindsay TUE conducts a forensic cross-examination of popular writers, TUE put on trial to reveal their motives for killing off their TUE leading characters. It's an age-old friction in fiction TUE between creator and creation. And the assassination of an TUE author's key character is often a result of a clash of egos. TUE TUE Agatha Christie kept the death of her famous Belgian TUE detective Hercule Poirot secret for 30 years; only to TUE confess shortly before her own demise. She had no regrets TUE and, as her biographer Laura Thompson reveals, was in no TUE hurry to get Miss Marple on the case. TUE TUE Sir Arthur Conan Doyle detested Sherlock Holmes' public TUE domination over his own life and murdered him merrily. Yet TUE the firestorm of protest was so intense, resurrection was TUE inevitable. Holmes expert; David Stuart Davies and actor TUE Roger Llewellyn incorporate the core of this controversy in TUE their latest play. TUE TUE Colin Dexter claims he didn't kill Morse: 'he died of TUE natural causes'. A nation mourned, but the author is TUE unrepentant, choosing kindly death over morose retirement. TUE TUE Ian Rankin took the opposite view for the demise of Rebus, TUE leaving the coffin lid open for a timely return. But since TUE fictional characters are immortal, why kill them off at all? TUE TUE Characters who become bigger than their authors, beware!! TUE They may have all the best lines, but their creator has the TUE last word. TUE TUE Fiona Lindsay cross-examines the witnesses and interrogates TUE the accused as they try to justify their acts of literal TUE 'murder'. TUE TUE Not so much a whodunnit as a 'why did they do it?' TUE TUE Producer: Chris Eldon Lee TUE A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00tnptl (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00tnpwv (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00tnpyg (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:30 Soul Music b00tpqm4 (Listen) TUE Series 10, Ma Vlast TUE TUE At the core of Czech cultural identity is this week's piece TUE - Ma Vlast by Bedrich Smetana. Written in the late TUE 19th century, it's a series of six symphonic poems. For a TUE western audience the most popular and best loved is Vltava, TUE a soundscape which conjures up vivid images of the river TUE which runs through Prague. TUE TUE Jan Kaplan is a Czech born film-maker who has lived in the TUE UK since 1968. He describes the 'educational concerts' he TUE had to attend as a young boy when - bored to tears - he TUE would endure long performances of Smetana's music. However, TUE as an adult living in exile, his experience of Czech culture TUE was tinged with a remote sense of patriotism and he grew to TUE appreciate his national composer. When - following the TUE 1989 Velvet revolution - he was eventually able to return TUE home, he witnessed one of the most famous and moving TUE performances of Ma Vlast at Smetana Hall in 1990. TUE TUE Also at that concert was musicologist, Professor Jan TUE Smaczny, who describes his memories of that evening, and TUE explains the history and mythology portrayed in Ma Vlast. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00tnq62 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tpqn5 (Listen) TUE Pilgrim, series 2, The Lady in the Lake TUE TUE by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. In search of runaway ward, Freya, TUE Pilgrim goes to Hollisale Well and discovers a small TUE community dedicated to the memory of a woman lured into the TUE water seven years ago by a magical being. TUE TUE Cast TUE William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton TUE Freya ..... Rachael Spence TUE Becker ..... Adeel Akhtar TUE Gordy ..... Henry Devas TUE Charity ..... Claire Price TUE Gudrun ..... Claire Harry TUE Legend ..... Agnes Bateman TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b00tpqnw (Listen) TUE Vanessa Collingridge presents Radio 4's popular history TUE programme in which listeners' questions and research help TUE offer new insights into the past. TUE TUE Today, military historian Professor Richard Holmes reveals TUE the fate of English soldiers left in France after Waterloo TUE and Vanessa discovers how Jacobites ran riot in Manchester. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tpsp0 (Listen) TUE Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The World's End TUE TUE Following the success of the first series of 'The Mysterious TUE Mr Quin', Martin Jarvis reads more stories featuring Agatha TUE Christie's personal favourite character. TUE TUE Mr Quin assists his friend Mr Satterthwaite to investigate TUE three mysteries. But one mystery remains - who is Mr Harley TUE Quin himself? TUE TUE Mr Satterthwaite, on holiday in Corsica, travels by car with TUE his friend the Duchess and an Indian judge, to the top of TUE the island known as The Worlds End. They are led, via TUE perilous ravine lined roads, by Naomi, a young, strangely TUE distracted artist. TUE TUE In a village at the summit they suddenly encounter Mr Quin TUE and, whilst sheltering from a sudden snowstorm, another TUE visiting group - a well-known actress, her husband and a TUE theatre producer. The actress tells the story of her stolen TUE opal and the young writer imprisoned for the offence. Naomi TUE seems unexpectedly disturbed by the tale. TUE TUE Has Mr Quin once again appeared in time to avert a possible TUE tragedy? TUE TUE Producer: Rosalind Ayres TUE A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 The Preposterous Files b0080sxq (Listen) TUE Death By Beer TUE TUE Files from the National Archive reveal preposterous acts TUE both grand and petty. Julian Putkowski distills them down. TUE TUE Question- How many pints of beer a day does it take to kill TUE a woman living in Manchester in 1900? Answer- 1.5. TUE TUE Professor Hugh Pennington is shocked by the scale of death TUE caused by accidental contamination. There are many TUE similarities between how the authorities dealt with the TUE disaster then and his own experience in modern poisonings. TUE TUE Producer: Matt Thompson TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Tracing Your Roots b00tpsrd (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 1 TUE TUE In the first of a new series, Sally Magnusson goes on the TUE trail of ancestors who vanished without trace, abandoning TUE their families either by choice or by force of circumstance. TUE TUE The mother who handed her three-day-old baby to the TUE Foundling Hospital in London in 1758 left no clues to her TUE own identity. Helen Warren, the baby's direct descendant, TUE asks Tracing Your Roots to find out more about the woman who TUE took the mother's place, the wet nurse who ensured the TUE baby's survival, yet whose own story has, up until now, TUE remained untold. TUE TUE Rob Lee's grandfather left the family 'to go to Australia' TUE but only recently has Rob wondered if a move to 'Australia' TUE was just a metaphor. Was Rob's grandfather really thousands TUE of miles away, or had he simply cut off all contact with his TUE children? Tracing Your Roots discovers the truth behind the TUE family legend. TUE TUE And Debbie Martindale wrote to ask what became of her great TUE uncle, a brother separated from the rest of his family as a TUE child and never reunited. Did he go on to have children of TUE his own, and can Tracing Your Roots reunite the family? TUE Sally Magnusson and Nick Barratt fill some of the gaps on TUE Debbie's family tree. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00tpsvk (Listen) TUE Series 22, Winston Churchill TUE TUE Winston Churchill's is the Great Life chosen by Lord Digby TUE Jones, former Director General of the CBI. Expert TUE contribution comes from Professor David Reynolds. Both men TUE have vivid memories of the day in 1965 when, as children, TUE they heard that Churchill had died. Surprisingly this is the TUE first time that Churchill has been nominated in the series. TUE TUE Considered by many a busted flush in the 1930s, Churchill is TUE now remembered as our greatest wartime leader - his speech TUE before the Battle of Britain still sends a shiver down the TUE spine. But his great qualities and personal flaws remained TUE inextricably linked. David Reynolds has uncovered a stark TUE revelation about Churchill's real state of mind at the time TUE he made that speech, while Digby Jones argues that the TUE ability to instil confidence in people even when there is TUE little rational hope of victory is one of the signs of a TUE great leader. He believes that no one made his mark on the TUE last century in the way that Churchill did. TUE TUE David Reynolds does not subscribe to the Great Man theory of TUE history. He is the Professor of International History at TUE Cambridge University. Known to Radio 4 listeners as the TUE writer and presenter of "America, Empire of Liberty", he has TUE also written extensively on Churchill, including the book TUE "In Command of History" about Churchill's memoirs of World TUE War Two. The presenter is Matthew Parris. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00tnr7p (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn TUE Quinn. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tnt30 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Listen Against b00tpswr (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Listen Against: the programme that looks back at a week's TUE worth of radio and TV that never happened. It's a bit like TUE the BBC iPlayer. only with two eyes instead of one. And it's TUE got ears. TUE TUE This week, ecological and broadcast catastrophe strikes as TUE BBC 3 leaks in to other channels, Edward Stourton and Gaby TUE Roslin tunnel to the centre of the earth for Children in TUE Need, and a preview of the new musical charting the dramatic TUE lives of the Dimblebys: 'News Brothers'. With special guests TUE Marcel Theroux and Julia Hartley-Brewer. TUE TUE Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes. TUE TUE Featuring: James Bachman, Stephen Critchlow, Sarah Hadland TUE and David Schnieder. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00tnq4z (Listen) TUE Pip makes party plans and has Kenton outstayed his welcome? TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00tntvk (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson interviews Lynda Carter about playing Wonder TUE Woman and making music. TUE TUE Producer Jerome Weatherald. TUE TUE 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vg (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Born in Bradford b00t1v9s (Listen) TUE 10,000 families have been recruited in one of the most TUE ambitious studies of children's health ever undertaken in TUE the world. Bradford has twice the national rate of infant TUE mortality and the highest rate of genetic illness in TUE Britain. Overall sixty per cent of births in the city are to TUE families living amongst the poorest twenty per cent of those TUE in the UK. Bradford tops the national tables for heart TUE disease, strokes and diabetes TUE TUE Over half of the 6,000 babies born in the city every year TUE are to Pakistani mothers and two thirds of these women are TUE married to first or second cousins - which significantly TUE increases the risk of autosomal recessive (i.e. genetic) TUE conditions. Doctors have identified 147 of these different TUE conditions in Bradford children, compared to between fifteen TUE and twenty in other health districts. Many lead to severe TUE disabilities and reduced life expectancy. TUE TUE According to the Head of the study, Professor John Wright, TUE an epidemiologist based at Bradford Royal Infirmary, the aim TUE is to find out more about the causes of childhood illness in TUE newborns from all cultures and classes: "It's like a medical TUE detective story really - trying to piece together the clues TUE in people's lifestyles, their environments and their genetic TUE make-up, as we try to determine whether someone falls sick TUE or someone doesn't." TUE TUE Safina Nagvi and her sister, Tahira, are keen to support the TUE research. Tahira has just given birth to her third child but TUE has suffered various complications which she says might be TUE linked to genetic problems: "we both married first cousins, TUE and it is OK for us, it's not like we've been forced or TUE we're unhappy - the way we've been brought up it is normal TUE for us, we are happy with things that way. TUE TUE "But we have had things in our family, though. My son was TUE born five weeks early. He had a condition where the gut and TUE the stomach were joined together. I actually got a heart TUE birth defect - they had to widen one of the arteries up. I TUE also had the same problem that my son had when I was born TUE and we would like to know why". TUE TUE According to Ann Barratt, the Family liaison officer for the TUE project, one aspect of the study is people looking at why TUE these things are happening: "we would like better TUE understanding of some of these quite rare conditions you see TUE in Bradford. One of the main reasons for the study was TUE because the still birth rate was almost double the UK TUE average a few years ago and that's one of the things we're TUE looking at, why is the mortality rate higher.". TUE TUE 20:30 In Touch b00tpt08 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00tpt0b (Listen) TUE Good Fats and Bad Fats TUE TUE Dr Mark Porter investigates how the good and bad fats we eat TUE can impact on our health, including trans fats that are TUE found in many take away foods and are associated with heart TUE disease. And he discovers that the health benefits of TUE eating Omega fats depend on which you eat and when you eat TUE them - too much Omega-6 for example, can hinder the benefits TUE of Omega-3. Case Notes unpicks health messages about fat TUE consumption that are confusing and contradictory. TUE Producer: Erika Wright. TUE TUE 21:30 Evan Loves Tax b00tpq3d (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00tnvk3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00tnvn4 (Listen) TUE Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme TUE bringing you global news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00tnvpn (Listen) TUE Alex y Robert, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written by Wena Poon. Francisco, the manager of the San TUE Martin bullring has agreed to stage a charity bullfight with TUE a space on the bill for Alex. But first she must be properly TUE trained. Feeling that his work is done, Roberto is preparing TUE to return to San Francisco. TUE TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE Read by Lorelei King TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Nick Mohammed in Bits b00tpn6r (Listen) TUE Daniel Thornthwaite TUE TUE Character comedian Nick Mohammed (Reggie Perrin, I'm Sorry TUE I've Got No Head) plays a wildlife expert on the edge of TUE sanity in this fly on the wall look at the making of a major TUE new documentary series. Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon) and Colin TUE Hoult co-star as his hapless colleagues. TUE TUE Bits showcases the best of Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic TUE characters in a series of one off comic plays. TUE TUE Produced by Victoria Lloyd. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00tnvrt (Listen) TUE News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 SEPTEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00tn5c9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tn62x (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tn62z (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tn673 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00tn68g (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tn6ry (Listen) WED with the Most Revd Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00tn75d (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Fran Barnes. WED WED 06:00 Today b00tn7cb (Listen) WED With Justin Webb and John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Evan Loves Tax b00tpt23 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Evan Davis asks how well we make decisions about tax in WED Britain, from the way we vote in elections to Chancellors WED and their Budgets. WED WED To find out, he meets four ex-Chancellors: Geoffrey Howe, WED Nigel Lawson, Norman Lamont and Alistair Darling. WED WED Is the attitude of Government when deciding tax policy, Evan WED asks, usually 'not in front of the voters'? WED WED Evan begins the programme amid the massed ranks of WED photographers outside 11 Downing St on Budget Day this year. WED He watches George Osborne emerge to run the gauntlet of WED protestors, on his way to deliver his Emergency Budget. WED WED He points out that the Conservatives did not go into the WED last election promising the rise in VAT that Osborne's WED Budget introduced only weeks later. But that Labour also put WED up taxes in a way they hadn't put squarely to the public in WED elections. WED WED He asks whether we could make tax policy more openly - and WED whether the spectacle of Budget Day itself is part of the WED problem. WED WED He discusses the seductive theatricality of the Chancellor's WED annual moment in the spotlight with Nigel Lawson - and WED Norman Lamont, who cautions against it. WED WED He hears recollections of the backroom pressure in the WED run-up to the Treasury's big day from former insiders like WED Rachel Lomax, Private Secretary to Nigel Lawson in the WED 1980s, and Gordon Brown's ex-economic advisor Ed Balls. WED WED Producer: Phil Tinline. WED WED 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vj (Listen) WED The Threshold of the Modern World (1375-1550 AD), WED Inca Gold Llama WED WED The history of humanity - as told through one hundred WED objects from the British Museum in London - is back in South WED America. This week Neil MacGregor, the museum's director, is WED with the powerful elites - exploring the great empires WED across the world 600 years ago. Today he is with a small WED gold model of a llama, the animal that helped fuel the WED success of the great Inca Empire that ruled over some 12 WED million people right down the Pacific West Coast. For a WED culture living at high altitude in rough terrain and without WED horses or pack animals, the llama proved all important - for WED wool, for meat and for sacrifice. Neil tells the story of WED the Inca, the ways in which they organised themselves and WED things that they believed in. And he recounts what happened WED when the Spanish arrived. The scientist and writer Jared WED Diamond and the archaeologist Gabriel Ramon help tell the story. WED WED Producer: Anthony Denselow. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tnb7q (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women with news, WED views and interviews of topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tnpqr (Listen) WED Picnic at Hanging Rock, Episode 3 WED WED Michael now besotted with Miranda; one of the girls, decides WED to mount his own search. He becomes lost and feverish, to be WED rescued by loyal Albert. Although delirious when found, he WED has left enough clues to make Albert return to the rock. WED WED Narrator ..... Penny Downie WED Michael ..... Nicholas Banks WED Albert ..... David Palliser WED WED Sound design: Eloise Whitmore WED Original music: Jon Rose WED Script editor: Helen Meller WED WED Producer/Director: Polly Thomas WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 The Rise and Fall of Yugoslavia: WED The Story of Tito b00s2w9w (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED On May 4th 2010 it will be 30 years since the charismatic WED leader of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia died, WED leaving a splintered Republic in his wake. For thirty-five WED years Josip Broz Tito seemingly held together a republic of WED seven frontiers, six republics, five nationalities, four WED languages, three religions and two alphabets. WED But during his reign ethnic tensions were always bubbling WED under the surface and ten years after his death they WED exploded into violence not witnessed in Europe since the WED Second World War. WED WED In this two part series Martin Bell returns to the region he WED spent much of the 1990s reporting from, tracing the events WED that kept the Yugoslav Republic together & subsequently tore WED it apart. And he asks whether 15 years after the Dayton WED Peace Agreement, the Balkans is precariously balancing on WED the edge once more. WED WED Martin takes a journey through history, his own & Tito's, WED across the mountains of Serbia, Bosnia and Croatia; To WED Kumrovec, the birthplace of Tito, Jajce the birthplace of WED the republic & Belgrade, where Tito is buried. During his WED travels he speaks with the Crown Prince of Serbia at Tito & WED Milosevic's former Presidential Palace, Stepjan Mesic & Raif WED Dizdarevic prominent Communist leaders who helped run WED Yugoslavia with Tito, and after he had died. WED WED Talking with those who knew, respected, feared & loved Tito, WED Martin looks at the legacy of the man who defied Stalin and WED turned himself into a World Statesman. Charting the decade WED from Tito's death - when Yugoslavia hung together by a WED thread - to the outbreak of war, he investigates whether WED Tito could have done more to keep his beloved republic WED together and asks why a man whose funeral was attended by WED high profile delegates from every corner of the globe was so WED quickly forgotten by the West. WED WED The producer is Gemma Newby. This is an All Out production WED for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Mum's on the Run b00tpt3n (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Mum's on the Run is a modern-day twist on the single-family WED situation. It follows the hectic life ("What life?") of WED single mum, Jen. Mother of two, Master of none - Jen seems WED to spend most of her time as an unpaid chauffeur to a 15 WED year-old teenage existentialist son, Toby, and a tonally WED challenged recorder-practising 11 year-old daughter, WED Felicity, whilst also coping with the jazz musician WED ex-husband, the fiercely competitive and annoying downstairs WED neighbour and a huge crush on her son's history teacher. WED WED This week Jen has trouble with mice, cats and the local WED constabulary. WED WED Jen ..... Ronni Ancona WED Mr. Rigby ..... John Gordon Sinclair WED Shelley ..... Alexis Zegerman WED Vivienne ..... Christine Kavanagh WED Felicity ..... Amy Dabrowa WED Toby ..... Alexander Heath WED Policeman ..... Tony Bell WED Police Radio ..... Sam Dale WED WED Director ..... Dawn Ellis. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00tnptn (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00tnpwx (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00tnpyj (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00tpt3q (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Joe Kent. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00tnq4z (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tptj8 (Listen) WED Pythonesque WED WED The story of Graham Chapman's history with the Monty Python WED team; how he met and started writing with John Cleese, his WED rise through the ranks writing The Frost Report, the glory, WED glory years with the Pythons and his struggle to overcome WED his considerable drinking demons. WED WED And how the collective kindness of Messrs Cleese, Jones, WED Idle, Palin and Gilliam saved him from oblivion and gave him WED the lead in the two funniest British films of all time: WED Monty Python And The Holy Grail and Monty Python's Life Of Brian. WED WED Apparently Chapman was recruited into the RAF at birth and WED flew bombing missions over Germany in a pram; Cleese got WED into the Footlights by doing a rather peculiar walk; Chapman WED had to take a test to become an alcoholic; Cleese returned WED to a pet shop to sing the praises of a recently purchased WED budgie and Chapman discovered on his last day on earth that WED Death likes Spam and drives a Ford Anglia. WED WED Written by Roy Smiles, Pythonesque is an affectionate WED tribute to a troubled, brilliant, kind man who was part of WED the funniest comedy team ever. WED WED Cast: WED Eric Idle/Terry Gilliam ..... James Lance Terry Jones WED Michael Palin ..... Matt Addis WED John Cleese ..... Mark Oosterveen WED Graham Chapman ..... Chris Polick WED WED Producer: Liz Anstee WED A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00tpv0b (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests are on hand to answer your personal WED finance questions. WED You can call the programme when lines open on Wednesday at WED 1330 BST. The number is 03700 100 444. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tpv0d (Listen) WED Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The Face of Helen WED WED Following the success of the first series of The Mysterious WED Mr Quin, Martin Jarvis reads three more stories about Agatha WED Christie's personal favourite character. WED WED Mr Quin assists his friend Mr Satterthwaite to investigate WED three mysteries. But one mystery remains - who is Mr Harley WED Quin himself? WED WED Mr Satterthwaite meets Mr Quin at a performance of WED 'Pagliaccia', sung by the rising tenor star Yoachim. In the WED audience they see a remarkably beautiful young woman. After WED the performance Quin mysteriously hints that, once again, WED they have been witness to a drama. Outside the opera house WED Satterthwaite offers the young woman a lift home in his car WED to escape a scuffle between her jealous companion, Philip WED Eastney and another young man, Mr Burns. WED WED Later, Satterthwaite encounters Gillian and Charlie Burns in WED Kew Gardens; they are now engaged to be married. Gillian is WED worried that Eastney may be upset. Charlie reveals Gillian's WED sad history of distressing behaviour by men obsessed with WED her. WED WED That evening, Satterthwaite encounters Eastney who discusses WED his war work on poison gas manufacture but, mainly, music. WED Eastney once heard Caruso sing and believes the tenor was WED able to shatter a glass with a particularly pitched high note. WED WED On his way home Satterthwaite realises the significance of WED Quin's remark at the opera. The latest newspaper announces WED that tonight's concert on the wireless will include Yoachim WED singing a song with a particularly high final note. WED WED Will Satterthwaite be in time to prevent a tragedy? WED WED Producer: Rosalind Ayres WED A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 The Preposterous Files b0080mcr (Listen) WED The Falmouth Dolphin WED WED Files from the National Archive reveal preposterous acts WED both grand and petty. Julian Putkowski distills them down. WED WED When HM Customs and Excise want to transfer Falmouth's steam WED launch to a more important port the locals raise a stink. WED Canny civil servants think they have fobbed them off with an WED inferior boat until the sailors play the ultimate trump WED card. WED WED Reader: Crawford Logan WED Producer: Matt Thompson WED A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00tpv86 (Listen) WED From Hitchcock's 'Rear Window' to Facebook and Twitter, from WED Soviet Spies to Parisian cafÃ(c)s, eavesdropping is a WED universal phenomenon. John Locke, who has provided the first WED serious and systematic study of the behaviour, tells Laurie WED that it is a practice which extends into the animal kingdom WED and biological brings advantages to birds and chimpanzees. WED An attempt to understand the lives of others can be help one WED live better oneself but despite the fact that it has shaped WED human history and culture, listening in to what others are WED saying continues to have a very bad name. WED Also on the programme Emmeline Taylor presents her research WED on CCTV in schools and the impact on privacy. WED Producer: Chris Wilson. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00tpt0b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00tnr7r (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn WED Quinn. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tnt32 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Maltby Collection b00bymgr (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Julian Rhind-Tutt and Geoffrey Palmer star in series 2 of WED Reginald Perrin writer, David Nobbs', museum-based sitcom. WED This week Rod holds a press conference and Walter makes a WED move. WED WED Rod Millet ... Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Walter Brindle ... Geoffrey Palmer WED Prunella Edgecumbe ... Rachel Atkins WED Julian Crumb-Loosely ... Ben Willbond WED Susie Maltby ..... Margaret Cabourn-Smith WED Wilf Arbuthnot ... Geoff McGivern WED Eva Tattle ... Julia Deakin WED Des Wainwright ... Michael Smiley WED Stelios Constantinopoulis ... Chris Pavlo WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00tnq51 (Listen) WED Fallon's friends rally round and Brian tries some hard WED bargaining. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00tntvm (Listen) WED Stephen Fry and Herb Alpert WED WED With Mark Lawson, including an inteview with Stephen Fry WED about his new volume of autobiography. WED WED Producer Claire Bartleet. WED WED 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Iconoclasts b00tq7x2 (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Journalist and author James Bartholomew argues that the WED National Health Service should be abolished. "It is not one WED of the best health-care systems in the world - it's actually WED one of the worst." His views will be challenged by Dr Sam WED Everington (a G.P. from the East End of London), Sir Gerry WED Robinson (presenter of the TV series 'Can Gerry Robinson WED Save The NHS?') and Nick Seddon (deputy-director of the WED think-tank 'Reform'). WED The live studio discussion is chaired by Edward Stourton. WED Join in the debate by emailing iconoclasts@bbc.co.uk or text WED during the programme on 84844. WED Producer: Peter Everett. WED WED 20:45 1960-2010 b00tq0p0 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Concluding our series where commentators born in 1960 WED reflect on the social consequences of the 1960s, Matthew WED Taylor discusses freedom and authority. Did the WED revolutionary idea of human autonomy go too far towards a WED strident individualism? In knocking down hierarchy, WED bureaucracy and paternalism, did the opinion formers of a WED new generation deny or overlook the binds we need to hold us WED together? WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00tpncw (Listen) WED Working from Home WED WED In the UK we spend 22 million hours a day getting to and WED from work. Commuters who work in London spend the longest WED and the most amount of money and almost all workers know the WED pain of cancelled trains, traffic jams and overcrowded WED carriages. Unsurprisingly flexible working is now the most WED sought after job perk for city employees, often ahead of WED salary, but does working from home really save on carbon WED emissions? WED WED Various studies have calculated the amount of carbon WED video-conferencing can save and it seems to stand to reason WED that doing away with daily commutes and overly air WED conditioned high rises would save CO2. The US is already WED well ahead with government directives to encourage remote WED working. However most of these studies have been WED commissioned by telecommunication and IT companies, a recent WED study by independent consultants WSP Environmental found WED that home workers typically produce almost a third more CO2 WED in a year than employees based in the office. Another study WED in the US suggests that at best the savings are WED insubstantial; telework in the US currently saves just 0.01 to 0.4%. WED WED What is certain is that this revolution will rely heavily on WED technology and whether multiple servers and screens can be WED run without multiplying our energy use. Dr Alice Roberts WED takes some real life case studies to find a definitive WED answer to how green working in the office shed really is and WED to take a look at which innovative solutions in Green IT, WED social networking and even decarbonised transport might WED really revolutionise the way we work. WED WED 21:30 Evan Loves Tax b00tpt23 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00tnvk5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00tnvn6 (Listen) WED Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme WED bringing you global news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00tnvpq (Listen) WED Alex y Robert, Episode 8 WED WED Written by Wena Poon. Roberto has returned to Spain WED following Alex's injury in training and is staying to manage WED her for the fight in San Martin. Fuentes, a local WED bull-breeder and patron of the French novillera Magalie WED Soubeyran, has put his ranch at their disposal to resume WED Alex's training - when she is fit again. WED WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED Read by Lorelei King. WED WED 23:00 Continuity b00tq0p2 (Listen) WED Episode 5 WED WED With apologies for last week's outburst, a veteran WED continuity announcer fills in a bit of time by telling you WED about some of the programmes you might want to listen to on WED the radio next week. Possibly. WED WED Particular gems include an update on the much debated WED renaming of Book at Bedtime, an 'in depth' report from WED inside the Met - Sorry the Met Office - that's in 'Inside WED Job' and finally listen in to hear about an exciting vacancy WED in Radio 4's continuity department. Onwards and upwards... WED WED Alistair McGowan stars in this subversive sitcom about a WED Continuity Announcer, written by Hugh Rycroft. Also starring WED Lewis Macleod, Sally Grace, Charlotte Page and David Holt. WED WED Producer by David Spicer and Frank Stirling WED A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 What To Do If You're WED Not Like Everybody Else b00tq0p4 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else is a four part WED mini-series of short comedic monologues on BBC Radio 4. WED Written and performed by stand-up comedian Andrew Lawrence, WED it takes a light-hearted look at various aspects of WED conventional living and the pressure we feel to conform to WED social norms and ideals. WED WED Each episode is fifteen minutes long and was recorded in WED front of an audience, the first two episodes at South London WED comedy club 'Up The Creek', the final two recorded at the WED Edinburgh Comedy Festival. WED WED This third episode explores the pressure we all face to do a WED full-time job and earn sufficient money to live a WED respectable life. WED WED Andrew Lawrence is a double Edinburgh Comedy Award Nominee WED and was a Chortle award nominee for Best UK Headline WED Comedian in 2010. He will be appearing in the forthcoming WED series of BBC 1's 'Michael Mcintyre's Comedy Roadshow.' This WED is his first series for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00tnvrw (Listen) WED News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 SEPTEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00tn5cc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tn631 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tn633 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tn675 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00tn68j (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tn75g (Listen) THU with the Most Revd Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00tn75j (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b00tn7cd (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Can Pay, Will Pay b00tq0qp (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Very high pay and very low pay have always been THU controversial areas - never more so now in the wake of the credit crunch. THU THU In this first part of 'Can Pay, Will Pay', Danny Finkelstein THU of The Times investigates why pay at the top has got so THU high. Is it all about bankers' bonuses? Do bonuses even THU work? And is the market working properly, or do social norms THU just mean that lots of highly-paid people can't say 'no' to THU lots of other highly-paid people? THU THU And he hears from campaigners for the very lowest-paid THU workers who want to use similar social norms to boost pay at THU the bottom. How successfully are they persuading local THU authorities, individual businesses, and central government, THU of their case? THU THU Producer: Giles Edwards. THU THU 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vl (Listen) THU The Threshold of the Modern World (1375-1550 AD), THU Jade Dragon Cup THU THU The history of humanity as told through one hundred objects THU from the British Museum in London is this week exploring THU powerful empires around the world in the 14th and 15th THU centuries. Today he is with a handsome jade cup that once THU belonged to one of the great leaders of the Timurid Empire - THU the great power that stretched across Central Asia, from THU Iran to parts of India. The owner of the cup was Ulugh Beg, THU the man who built the great observatory in his capital THU Samakand and who - like Galileo and Copernicus - has a THU crater on the moon named after him. Neil tells the story of THU the Timurids and charts the influences that spread along the THU Silk Road at this time. The Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov and THU the historian Beatrice Forbes Manz describe the Timurid THU world and the extraordinary character of Ulugh Beg. THU THU Producer: Anthony Denselow. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tnb7s (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Elizabeth Gilbert on her THU international bestseller Eat Pray Love. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tnpqt (Listen) THU Picnic at Hanging Rock, Episode 4 THU THU The situation at Appleyard College is worsening as worried THU parents withdraw pupils. The negative publicity continues THU and Mrs. Appleyard becomes more and more grim. When Michael THU and Irma come round, neither can offer any more information, THU to the dismay of the police and Mrs Appleyard. Before she THU leaves for Europe, Irma pays a last visit to her school THU fellows with disastrous results. THU THU Narrator ..... Penny Downie THU Mrs Appleyard ..... Fenella Woolgar THU Mademoiselle ..... Elizabeth Boag THU Sara ..... Celeste Wong THU Irma ..... Anna Skellern THU Edith ..... Andi Snelling THU Miss Lumley ..... Lauren St Paul THU Michael ..... Nicholas Banks THU THU Sound design: Eloise Whitmore THU Original music: Jon Rose THU Script editor: Helen Meller THU THU Producer/Director: Polly Thomas THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00tq0x1 (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 The Strongest Girl in the World b00tq0x3 (Listen) THU Cerys Matthews celebrates her childhood heroine and the THU rebel of Swedish children's literature, Pippi Longstocking, THU who has captured the imaginations of children all over the THU world, including Cerys' own, for over 60 years. THU THU Pippi has red hair, freckles and a nose the 'shape of a very THU small potato'. She was invented by the Swedish author, THU Astrid Lindgren, in the 1940s who created the character for THU her daughter before later sending the idea to a publisher. THU THU Pippi is an orphan - her mother is an angel and her father THU is the king of a cannibal island. She eats pancakes, drinks THU lots of coffee and goes to school when she feels like it. THU She defies all the rules, speaks out against authority and THU she is courageous and loyal. THU THU Though possibly not an obvious role model for children, THU Cerys Matthews says; 'Pippi has always been my hero and my THU role model. I feel a kinship with her. I like getting my THU boots on, stomping around, and being independent. Even if THU I've sometimes been too independent for my own good'. THU THU Nothing could have prepared Lindgren for the huge reception THU Pippi received; fiercely criticised on the one hand as THU irresponsible and seditious, and enthusiastically applauded THU on the other as a work of liberation and an outstanding THU artistic accomplishment. THU THU Today Pippi Longstocking has become a worldwide phenomenon, THU a national treasure and a trade mark. THU THU In this programme Cerys explores the many layers to the THU Pippi Longstocking character. With contributions from Astrid THU Lindgren's daughter, Karin Nyman; Britain's most famous THU Swede; Ulrika Jonsson; writer Ulla Lundqvist; artist THU Marianne Lindberg de Geer and the voice of Lindgren herself THU from a Swedish Radio interview recorded in 1988. THU THU Producer: Sarah Cuddon THU A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00tnptq (Listen) THU Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00tnpwz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00tnpyl (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00tpncw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00tnq51 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tq0x5 (Listen) THU Men of Hope THU THU By Paul Watson. Only days after our Coalition Government THU gave their 'mother of all budgets' the English nation is THU again holding it's collective breath. A Chancellor's fear THU filled austerity speech fades into party politics, a warm up THU act to a more serious matter. Football! A sport that enables THU the understanding of a nation. THU THU Set in the Man of Hope, a pub draped in the ephemera of THU patriotism, Paul Watson's play 'Men of Hope' explores THU sensitive male issues, difficult lives and the sexual THU relationships of its regulars. THU THU Gathered together in high expectation of an English World THU Cup win the mood of the men blackens as our football team THU are out played by the old enemy, Germany. Interweaving the THU games intense moments with the emotional drinkers 'Men of THU Hope' exposes a variety of revealing outbursts from those THU watching: a culture of hopelessness, an inability to cope THU with relationships and the every day needs of being a man. THU THU Colin and Dean, lovers for years, are facing up to Colin's THU irascible temper and terminal cancer. John is advising Dave THU to leave his unfaithful wife and live with Lola, the pub's THU barmaid. The landlord Gerry also desires to woo Dave 'a man THU with a miserable wife and sleeps alone is fair game I'd THU say'. For Lola it's a declaration of war! Max; a sexually THU aware virgin from the local public school seeks THU enlightenment from Andrea. THU THU Greying Jonathan is in the clutches of a Russian 55million THU dollar con. The football match is eventually hijacked with THU tragic consequence by Gareth and his gang of tin pot car THU drivers. By plays end, England is shamed both by its THU footballers and watchers. THU THU Dean ..... Barry Aird THU Colin ..... Robert Longden THU John ..... Peter Benedict THU Dave ..... James Allen THU Gerry ..... Mark Kempner THU Lola ..... Tilly Vosburgh THU Andrea ..... Louise Jameson THU Julie ..... Jacqui Sharpe THU Joe ..... Mike Anfield THU Jonathan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens THU Gareth ..... Gareth Abel THU Wayne ..... Rhys Swinburn THU Young Max ..... Matt Field THU Older Max ..... Fred Wheadon THU Narrator ..... Paul Watson THU THU Producer: Paul Watson THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00tn8c3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00tndh9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00tq11c (Listen) THU Agatha Christie's Mysterious Mr Quin, The Sign in the Sky THU THU Following the success of the first series of The Mysterious THU Mr Quin, Martin Jarvis reads three more stories about Agatha THU Christie's personal favourite character. THU THU Mr Quin assists his friend Mr Satterthwaite to investigate THU mysteries. But one mystery remains - who is Mr Harley Quin THU himself? THU THU Mr Satterthwaite, and Mr Quin discuss the outcome of a THU trial. Martin Wylde has been found guilty of the murder of THU Vivian Barnaby. Satterthwaite knew the victim and her THU husband Sir George, and thinks Wylde is an unlikely murderer THU but the evidence seems convincing. THU THU Younger than her husband, Vivian formed a relationship with THU Wylde, but he became anxious to end the liaison to pursue a THU romance with a local girl, Sylvia Dale. THU THU At trial, Wylde admitted that, in answer to her letter, he THU had gone to the Hall for a final meeting. He then went home, THU accidentally leaving his shotgun behind. The household staff THU heard a shot and found Vivian dead in the music room. All THU the evidence was highly dependent on the time-lines of THU everyone's story. THU THU Quin encourages Satterthwaite to visit the only member of THU the household who was present on the day of the murder but THU had not given evidence, a housekeeper who had taken up a THU lucrative job in Canada. She has one piece of new THU information. Just before she heard the shot she saw the THU smoke from the local train which seemed to be forming the THU shape of a giant hand in the sky. She felt that - given it THU was also Friday the 13th - it was 'a sign'. THU THU With the help of Mr Quin will Satterthwaite be able find the THU murderer and save a possibly innocent man? THU THU Producer: Rosalind Ayres THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 The Preposterous Files b00827ln (Listen) THU Asylum Seeker or Scrounger? THU THU Files from the National Archive reveal preposterous acts THU both grand and petty. Julian Putkowski distills them down. THU THU Klimowicz was just another Polish stowaway seeking political THU asylum in London in 1954. The Home Office got ready to boot THU him out. Then the Prime Minister, Churchill, got involved. THU His solution? Send in the destroyers. With Shami Chakrabarti THU THU Reader: Crawford Logan THU Producer: Matt Thompson THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00tnmlg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00tq11f (Listen) THU So You Want to Be a Scientist - the final THU THU Four amateur scientists have turned their ideas into real THU experiments this year, with help from the Material World THU team. They were selected from 1,300 ideas sent in from THU around the UK, and this week they present their results in THU front of a live audience at the British Science Festival in THU Birmingham. THU THU Presenter: Quentin Cooper THU Producer: Michelle Martin. THU THU 17:00 PM b00tnr7t (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn THU Quinn. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tnt34 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b00htvhj (Listen) THU Series 5, Girls on Film THU THU Sally Phillips plays Clare Barker the social worker with all THU the politically correct jargon but none of the practical THU solutions. THU THU Clare in the Community is about a social worker who has THU entered a caring profession so that she can sort out other THU peoples' problems rather than deal with her own. THU THU The last series saw the personal and professional lives of THU Clare's team at the Sparrowhawk Family Centre shaken around THU and shuffled about, but it is in the nature of hell to be THU unchanging, and all are present and correct for a further THU round of frustration, despair, disappointment, team meetings THU and eleven o'clock cakes. All this and Clare has a new THU trainee social worker to break-in, plus, the family centre THU is the focus of a documentary film. THU THU Clare ..... Sally Phillips THU Brian ..... Alex Lowe THU Helen ..... Liza Tarbuck THU Ray ..... Richard Lumsden THU Megan/Nali ..... Nina Conti THU Irene ..... Ellen Thomas THU Simon ..... Andrew Wincott THU Colette/Mrs Cook ..... Anna Bengo THU Catriona ..... Alex Tregear THU THU Written By Harry Venning And David Ramsden THU Produced By Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00tnq53 (Listen) THU Nigel and Kenton enjoy a riotous night out while Jamie has THU his own plans for the evening. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00tntvp (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who talks to Paul O'Grady and reports from THU the Liverpool Biennial of contemporary art including an THU interview with painter Gary Hume. THU THU Producer Helen Roberts. THU THU 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00tq11h (Listen) THU It is a year since Abdelbaset Ali al-Megrahi was released THU from a Scottish jail on compassionate grounds. Since then THU voices here and abroad have questioned how ill he really THU was, if money and oil were the real reasons for his release THU and whether he was in fact guilty of causing the Lockerbie THU tragedy. James Silver looks into the claims and investigates THU why they have emerged. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00tq11k (Listen) THU After The Crunch THU THU . comes what? Double dip or W-shaped recovery? Or something THU much more uncertain? Peter Day reports from the front line THU of industry. THU Editor: Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00tpq63 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 Inside the Brain of a Five-Year-Old b00rm072 (Listen) THU Claudia Hammond investigates the latest research into the THU working of the five year old brain, and asks whether the THU latest developments in neuroscience might have an THU application in the classroom. Could a deeper understanding THU of brain development help educationalists get better THU results- and if so how can teachers separate the brain fact THU from so much of the brain fiction which seems to be out THU there? THU THU 21:58 Weather b00tnvk7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00tnvn8 (Listen) THU Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme THU bringing you global news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00tnvps (Listen) THU Alex y Robert, Episode 9 THU THU Written by Wena Poon. Preparations continue for the charity THU corrida in San Martin. Antonio, Roberto's former manager, THU has driven to the ranch to check on Alex's progress. Roberto THU still needs to find another novillero to complete the bill. THU THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU Read by Lorelei King THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b00mg8mx (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 3 THU THU David Mitchell and Robert Webb take you for a stroll through THU their world of off-beat sketch comedy in another episode of THU That Mitchell and Webb Sound. THU THU This week, beautiful scenery, long lie ins, all the salmon THU you can eat - is there anyone who hasn't, at some point in THU their lives, felt things would be a lot easier if they were THU a bear in the Canadian Wilderness? Plus we take a look at THU the new twelve blade razor; meet a horse who has learned to THU make his own packed lunch; and hear a clip from the THU thrilling new quiz show "Metal or Normal" where contestants THU have to decide if things are made of metal or are just, you THU know, normal. All this and a chance to meet a prize-winning THU invisible dog. THU THU Produced by Gareth Edwards. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00tnvry (Listen) THU News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 SEPTEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00tn5cf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vl (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00tn635 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00tn637 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00tn677 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00tn68l (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00tn6sb (Listen) FRI with the Most Revd Mario Conti, Archbishop of Glasgow. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00tn75l (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Martin FRI Poyntz-Roberts. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00tn7cg (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Yesterday in Parliament; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Can Pay, Will Pay b00tq1vc (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI The setting of pay levels - one of the most important, yet FRI often sensitive and frequently puzzling of processes. FRI FRI It's a topic everyone is interested in. It determines the FRI living standards of the recipients. Is it simply based on FRI the application of market forces, the qualifications and FRI expertise of the staff, and clear rules and procedures? FRI FRI Or how much is it down to arbitrary tradition and social FRI norms, assumptions and discrimination, the willingness of FRI some to treat a job as a vocation rather than primarily a FRI source of income, and the declining power of trade unions FRI once so concerned about relativities and differentials. FRI FRI In this second part of "Can Pay, Will Pay", Danny FRI Finkelstein of The Times shifts his focus away from those at FRI the two extremes of the pay distribution and towards the FRI majority in the middle. He explores what different jobs pay FRI and why. And why sometimes people doing very similar jobs FRI get widely varying amounts. FRI FRI He asks why train drivers earn almost twice as much as bus FRI drivers? Why some airline cabin crew earn much more than FRI others? How does a company go about deciding how much to pay FRI staff doing different jobs? How does a medical charity go FRI about trying to determine the relative pay of its FRI shopworkers and its scientists? FRI FRI Would we be happier if we knew the precise amounts others in FRI our workplace were earning, and would that knowledge narrow FRI the differential between men and women? FRI FRI And why do tall people and beautiful people tend to earn FRI more? FRI FRI Interviewees include staff, managers, pay experts, trade FRI unionists, and lots of others from all walks of life. FRI FRI Producer Jane Ashley. FRI FRI 09:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vp (Listen) FRI The Threshold of the Modern World (1375-1550 AD), FRI Durer's Rhinoceros FRI FRI Neil MacGregor's world history as told through things that FRI time has left behind. This week he is exploring vigorous FRI empires that flourished across the world 600 years ago - FRI visiting the Inca in South America, Ming Dynasty China, and FRI the Timurids in their capital at Samarkand and the Ottomans FRI in Constantinople. Today he examines the fledgling empire of FRI Portugal and describes what the European world was looking FRI like at this time. His chosen object is one of the most FRI enduring in art history, and one of the most duplicated - FRI Albrecht Durer's famous print of an Indian rhino, an animal FRI he never had never seen. The rhino was brought to Portugal FRI in 1514 and Neil uses this classic image to examine European FRI ambitions. Mark Pilgrim of Chester Zoo considers what it FRI must have been like to transport such a beast and the FRI historian Felipe Fernandez-Armesto describes the potency of FRI the image for Europeans of the age. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00tnb7v (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Is being a tall girl a blessing FRI or a curse? FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00tnpqw (Listen) FRI Picnic at Hanging Rock, Episode 5 FRI FRI As the Easter vacation looms, Mrs Appleyard becomes more and FRI more morose, taking to secret drinking sessions and refusing FRI all offers of help. Sara Waybourne is mysteriously collected FRI from school one day by her guardian and suspicions are FRI roused. The final discovery is both appalling and on a par FRI with the strange unsolved mystery of the Picnic at Hanging FRI Rock. FRI FRI Narrator ..... Penny Downie FRI Mrs Appleyard ..... Fenella Woolgar FRI Mademoiselle ..... Elizabeth Boag FRI Mr Whitehead ..... Simon Burke FRI Minnie/Alice ..... Lauren St Paul FRI Michael ..... Nicholas Banks FRI Albert ..... David Palliser FRI FRI Sound design: Eloise Whitmore FRI Original music: Jon Rose FRI Script editor: Helen Meller FRI FRI Producer/Director: Polly Thomas FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Talking to My Dad b00tq1vf (Listen) FRI Easy at first, antagonistic, incomprehensible, often FRI entirely absent for years, tentative, admiring, funny, FRI supportive, valedictory: the conversations sons have - or FRI don't have - with their fathers are the landmarks of one of FRI the most significant of all relationships. Using material FRI contributed by listeners, Radio 4 charts this unexplored FRI territory... FRI FRI The programme maps the change from dependency on our fathers FRI in childhood to theirs on us in old age. It explores FRI whether, as sons become autonomous, meaningful communication FRI can continue (or if that's when it starts). And, delving FRI into the different natures of the conversations of sons with FRI their fathers, we consider how, as sons themselves become FRI fathers, these conversations also become more complex... FRI FRI Producer: Neil George. FRI FRI 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00tq1vh (Listen) FRI Series 4, Episode 1 FRI FRI In this first play in the new series of The Stanley Baxter FRI Playhouse, Gordon Kennedy, Stuart McQuarrie and Siobhan FRI Redmond join Stanley Baxter in a comedy based on FRI Shakespeare's Scottish play, where the porter becomes the FRI hero and invites us to hear his version of the events that FRI led up to the murder of King Duncan; and what just might FRI have happened after it. FRI FRI We will discover that it was all really Lady Macbeth's FRI fault, for marrying Macbeth and spoiling the porter's long FRI term plans to groom his coarse and unschooled master to be a FRI suave, smooth operator with fine manners and a statesman FRI like approach to politics. His plans are foiled in a series FRI of mishaps which are hilarious and very cunning. FRI FRI Cast: FRI Porter ..... Stanley Baxter FRI Macbeth ..... Gordon Kennedy FRI Lady Macbeth ..... Siobhan Redmond FRI Duncan/Nobleman ..... Stuart McQuarrie FRI FRI Siobhan Redmond starred in the 2010 Royal Shakespeare FRI Company production of Dunsinane by David Greig, where she FRI played Lady Macbeth. Gordon Kennedy undertook the role of FRI Little John in the BBC TV series Robin Hood. Rona Munro is FRI one of Scotland's most highly regarded playwrights, with FRI award winning films, television dramas (Rehab) and her FRI Edinburgh International Festival success The Last Witch to FRI her credit. FRI FRI Written by Rona Munro FRI Producer: Marilyn Imrie FRI A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00tnpts (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00tnpx1 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00tnpyn (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00tq1vk (Listen) FRI Tim Harford presents the magazine which explains the numbers FRI behind the news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00tnq53 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00tq1vm (Listen) FRI This is the story of a legend in the making. FRI FRI A nervous young man lives at the dead end of a dead-end FRI town. On his eighteenth birthday he comes into his FRI inheritance. With a little help from an old teacher, he FRI finds it equips him to broadcast over the internet. FRI FRI Living in a house where rolling news is a constant presence, FRI he does what comes naturally - he fires up his computer and FRI presents the news. But his news is different. It puts a FRI spring in its audience's step. That is, until his grandma FRI starts to grow suspicious about what this boy is getting up FRI to, nightly in his bedroom, and tries to put a stop to the FRI broadcasts completely. FRI FRI A quirky comedy about a teenager who becomes an internet FRI phenomenon by Ben Lewis. FRI FRI Boy..........Joshua Jenkins FRI Grandma.......Julia McKenzie FRI Sir.......Mark Heap FRI Grandad......Peter Marinker FRI Newsreader...Alison Pettitt FRI FRI Director: Kirsty Williams. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00tq1vp (Listen) FRI Anne Swithinbank, Matthew Biggs and Pippa Greenwood are in FRI the company of local gardeners, staff and students of Royal FRI Botanic Gardens, Kew in London. FRI FRI Eric Robson is the chairman. FRI Producer : Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Preposterous Files b0082855 (Listen) FRI The Wrong Button? FRI FRI Files from the National Archive reveal preposterous acts: FRI grand, petty and tragic. Julian Putkowski distills them down. FRI FRI It's not a good idea to retract the undercarriage of a FRI bomber when it is standing still on the runway fully loaded FRI with 6 X 1000lb bombs. What, if anything, was Flying Officer FRI Kenyon thinking? FRI FRI Readers: Crawford Logan and George Gillespie FRI Producer: Matt Thompson FRI A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00tq1vr (Listen) FRI Radio 4's obituary programme, analysing and reflecting on FRI the lives of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00tq1vt (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Stephen Woolley, producer of The FRI Crying Game, Mona Lisa and Made In Dagenham. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00tnr7w (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn FRI Quinn. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00tnt36 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Chain Reaction b00tq1vw (Listen) FRI Series 6, Stephen Merchant interviews Jarvis Cocker FRI FRI The last in the current series of the tag team talk show FRI where last week's guest, multi award-winning co-creator of FRI The Office and Extras, and famously tall funny man Stephen FRI Merchant takes the microphone to interview Pulp frontman and FRI successful solo artist, dandy Englishman Jarvis Cocker. FRI FRI Stephen asks Jarvis about the perils of being a glasses FRI wearer, his protests against pop and what really happened FRI with that famous Michael Jackson incident. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00tnq55 (Listen) FRI Written by: Tim Stimpson FRI Directed by: Kim Greengrass FRI Editor: Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks FRI Daniel Hebden LLoyd ..... Louis Hamblett FRI Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford FRI Martyn Gibson ..... John Glover FRI Andrew Eagleton ..... John Flitcroft. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00tntvr (Listen) FRI Barry Humphries and John Simm FRI FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with actor John FRI Simm as he takes to the stage to play Hamlet in Sheffield FRI and an interview with Barry Humphries. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 A History of the World in 100 Objects b00tn9vp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00tq1vy (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Worle FRI Community School in Weston-super-Mare. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00tq1w0 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Woman's Hour Drama b00tq233 (Listen) FRI Picnic at Hanging Rock, Omnibus FRI FRI Picnic at Hanging Rock is a classic mystery, made famous by FRI Peter Weir's 1970s film. This new interpretation goes back FRI to the original story, recreating the strong underlying FRI sense of horror and supernatural that resonate in Joan FRI Lindsay's novel, abridged for Radio 4 by Polly Thomas. FRI Starring Penny Downie, Fenella Woolgar and Simon Burke, this FRI radio version features music from award winning composer and FRI producer Jon Rose. FRI FRI Set in Edwardian Australia, the drama starts innocently FRI enough as an excited party of school girls prepare for their FRI Valentines day treat - a picnic on Hanging Rock. FRI FRI Narrator ..... Penny Downie FRI Mrs Appleyard ..... Fenella Woolgar FRI Mademoiselle ..... Elizabeth Boag FRI Miss McCraw ..... Sarah Rutherford FRI Constable Bumpher ..... Simon Burke FRI Miranda/Sara ..... Celeste Wong FRI Irma ..... Anna Skellern FRI Edith ..... Andi Snelling FRI Miss Lumley ..... Lauren St Paul FRI Michael ..... Nicholas Banks FRI Albert ..... David Palliser FRI FRI Sound design: Eloise Whitmore FRI Original music: Jon Rose FRI Script editor: Helen Meller FRI FRI March of the Men of Harlech played by Amanda Dalton FRI Participation with Year 12 students of Springwood High, New FRI South Wales FRI FRI Producer/Director: Polly Thomas FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00tnvk9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00tnvnb (Listen) FRI Radio 4's daily evening news and current affairs programme FRI bringing you global news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00tnvpv (Listen) FRI Alex y Robert, Episode 10 FRI FRI Written by Wena Poon. The day of the charity bullfight in FRI San Martin has arrived. On the bill: Joselito Rodriguez; FRI Magalie Soubeyran and Alejandra 'Alex' Herrera. But there is FRI one last obstacle to overcome before Alex can live her FRI dream. FRI FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI Read by Lorelei King FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00tpsvk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00tnvs0 (Listen) FRI News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament. FRI
10 September, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 11/09/2010 - 17/09/2010
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