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SAT SATURDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2010 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00vy42j (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00w8p2z (Listen) SAT What I Don't Know About Animals, Episode 5 SAT SAT Written by Jenny Diski. Who's in charge ? master or animal ? SAT Horse and rider. Jenny Diski observes our relationship with SAT animals from horseback. SAT SAT Read by Lesley Manville SAT SAT Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vy42l (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vy42n (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vy42q (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00vy42s (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00vy42v (Listen) SAT With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00w00hf (Listen) SAT iPM: Legal aid and Mediation. In the week that changes in SAT legal aid were announced we talk to a woman who says she SAT could not have done without it during her landmark divorce SAT case and an expert in mediation, which the government hope SAT will replace the need for court cases in divorce and other SAT areas. Your News is read, in the week of the announcement of SAT a Royal wedding, by the BBC's Royal Correspondent Peter SAT Hunt. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00vy42x (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00vy42z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00w00k9 (Listen) SAT In a year that has seen a record rise in the number of SAT people seeking medical help after eating poisonous fungi, SAT Richard Uridge visits the New Forest to hear about the SAT variety of wild mushrooms to be found, the dangers of SAT picking the wrong ones and the problems this can also cause SAT to the ecosystem of the forest. SAT Richard joins mycologist, John Wright, to hear about his SAT lifelong passion for wild mushrooms and joins him on a SAT forage in the forest to find out how to know what to look SAT for when picking fungi. Mrs Brigitte Tee is the only person SAT licensed to pick and sell New Forest mushrooms. She tells SAT Richard how her love of wild mushrooms started.Today Mrs Tee SAT is one of the leading authorities on edible wild mushrooms, SAT and supplies a variety of top clients including Fortnum and SAT Masons and the Langham Hotel in London.It is the popularity SAT of TV chefs and cooking shows that Forestry Commission SAT Keeper, Howard Taylor, thinks has increased the public's SAT passion for fungi. He joins Richard to explain the SAT importance of the relationship that fungi have with other SAT trees and plants in the forest and the dangers of SAT over-picking the many wild mushrooms that grow there. As SAT well as the obvious dangers of picking poisonous fungi, SAT Howard's remit as a Keeper is also to protect the landscape SAT of the New Forest and the rise in numbers of wild mushroom SAT pickers may lead to an upsetting of the delicate balance of SAT the Forest. SAT Before Richard leaves the New Forest, he and Mrs Tee are SAT joined by John Macarthur, chef and director of the New SAT Forest Cookery School. John runs Mushroom Masterclasses and SAT demonstrates to Richard some of the wonderful ways of SAT cooking with wild mushrooms. SAT Producer Perminder Khatkar. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00w00kr (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Plans for the UK's largest dairy have been scaled down from SAT more than 8,000 cows to fewer than 4,000 but they're still SAT causing concern among animal welfare groups. Charlotte Smith SAT looks into concerns about the practices and conditions in SAT standard welfare farming for pigs, broiler chickens and SAT dairy cows. Farmers explain why procedures like teeth SAT clipping and tail docking of pigs are done and she asks SAT whether enough consumers know or care enough to make a SAT difference. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00vy431 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00w00kw (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; SAT Yesterday in Parliament. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00w00ns (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with studio guest Sir Ken Robinson and poet Salena SAT Godden; Inheritance Tracks from Sir Ian Botham. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00w00zb (Listen) SAT Yemen - The Sun SAT SAT John McCarthy looks at travelling to Yemen. Ginny Hill of SAT the Royal Institute of International Affairs and travel SAT writer Tim Mackintosh debate the delights and dangers of SAT this ancient land; these days seen in the west as a source SAT of terrorist activity but rich in Muslim and pre-Islamic SAT culture. SAT John also meets Richard Cohen who has travelled the world SAT researching cults of the sun - from primeval solstice SAT rituals to modern solar farms. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Calvin and Hobbes b00mr2fj (Listen) SAT Phill Jupitus celebrates Calvin and Hobbes, the comic strip SAT about the little boy and his stuffed tiger named after SAT eminent philosphers. SAT SAT Over the course of ten years, the strip became an SAT international phenomenon, being syndicated in 2,500 SAT newspapers worldwide. It tells the tale of a young boy whose SAT stuffed tiger is as real to him as the people around him, SAT and deals in the process with philosophical issues about SAT free will and the meaning of life, via the perspective of a SAT child with an extraordinary imagination. Its creator, the SAT reclusive Bill Watterson, could have become a SAT multi-millionaire through merchandising deals and film SAT offers, but turned them all down without hesitation. SAT SAT Phill sets out to discover more about the characters and the SAT man behind them. In Watterson's absence, Jupitus heads to SAT Oxford to speak with artists, merchandisers, booksellers and SAT philosophers to find out what makes the strip so popular, SAT over a decade after Watterson drew the final frame. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00w019q (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00w019v (Listen) SAT Ireland prepares to say goodbye to the best and brightest of SAT its youth. SAT SAT The new uncertainty at the heart of Nato. SAT SAT How the rising tide of scandal may finally engulf Italy's SAT embattled leader. SAT SAT And deep in the Amazon our correspondent is offered a SAT lunchtime snack he'll never forget .... SAT SAT Capitalism can be the cruellest game....and nobody knows SAT that better than the Irish. Until just recently, they SAT thought they'd finally escaped centuries of poverty. At SAT last, the country was wealthy. But too much of the great SAT boom was based on casino-style banking. And now old Ireland SAT is so badly bust that it may be many years before it fully SAT recovers... On the streets of Dublin, Gavin Hewitt has been SAT finding out what that'll mean for countless Irish lives... SAT SAT Back in the depths of the Cold War, the mission of the SAT West's military alliance, Nato was very clear. It's job was SAT to confront the Soviets....to make sure Russian tanks never SAT came rumbling across the north German plain. But the Cold SAT War is history now, and these days there's much less SAT certainty about the role and value of Nato... As its leaders SAT talk at their summit in Lisbon, Mark Urban reflects on the SAT mood in the alliance.... SAT SAT Silvio Berlusconi used to seem an unstoppable force in SAT Italian politics. Flamboyant and larger than life, he SAT swaggered unscathed through controversies of all kinds. But SAT lately, life's got tougher for Italy's Prime Minister. He's SAT struggled to fend off increasingly lurid allegations about SAT his sex life. Political allies have abandoned him, and his SAT popularity has slumped... Our Rome correspondent, David SAT Willey sees Mr Berlusconi's troubles as a reflection of a SAT much wider, Italian political malaise... SAT SAT The rolling hills of the Democratic Republic of Congo are SAT lush and green. And beneath the rich soil there are SAT minerals. But this place of promise and potential continues SAT to be mired in conflict. It's endlessly fought over by SAT warlords and militia groups that terrorise the civilians. SAT Sexual violence in the east of the country is so appalling SAT that the United Nations has called the area the "rape SAT capital of the world". It's the job of the UN's SAT peace-keeping troops to attempt to bring some degree of SAT order...and Paul Moss has been watching them at work.. SAT SAT In Brazil, the march of the men with the chainsaws is SAT relentless. One-by-one they bring the trees of the Amazon SAT crashing down. All the time, the forest is being eaten away SAT -- given over to farmers and miners. And as it retreats, the SAT jungle home of the indigenous tribes is shrinking.. Justin SAT Rowlatt has been spending time with one of these groups, as SAT the alien, outside world inches towards them.... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00w03nb (Listen) SAT If your money is in Irish banks, is it safe? Paul Lewis SAT assesses the situation. SAT SAT And he explores why it might become more difficult to insure SAT your property against flood damage, as a government SAT agreement with the insurance industry hangs in the balance. SAT SAT Plus, the programme hears more complaints from people who SAT say they faced a hard-sell on identity-theft-protection SAT insurance when they phoned to activate their bank cards. One SAT bank says it is investigating. SAT SAT And a listener tells how she was rebuffed by her bank when SAT she tried to follow the age-old advice to contact your SAT lender as soon as possible if you think you may soon have SAT difficulties paying your mortgage. Money Box discovers she SAT is not alone. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b00vy3y1 (Listen) SAT Series 31, 1 of 6 - Weddings, Irish cheese SAT and an escaped gingerbread man SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with another series of the SAT topical comedy show with stand-up, skits and sketches. SAT Guests include Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes, Ian Stone and SAT Laura Shavin. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00vy433 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00vy435 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00vy3y7 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from SAT Wallington High School for Girls in Wallington, Surrey, with SAT questions for the panel including Philip Hammond, Secretary SAT of State for Transport, John Denham, Shadow Secretary of SAT State for Business, Innovation and Skills, Simon Heffer, SAT columnist for The Daily Telegraph and Viv Groskop, columnist SAT and writer. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00w03nd (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00w055w (Listen) SAT A Month in the Country SAT SAT By J. L. Carr SAT Dramatised by Dave Sheasby SAT SAT WW1 survivor Tom Birkin spends a summer uncovering a SAT medieval mural in the Yorkshire village of Oxgodby. Here he SAT discovers treasures, riches he thought the war had blown SAT away for ever. SAT SAT Cast SAT BIRKIN ..... RUPERT EVANS SAT ALICE ..... HATTIE MORAHAN SAT KEACH ..... STEPHEN CRITCHLOW SAT MOON ..... BLAKE RITSON SAT KATHY ..... LEAH BROTHERHEAD SAT STATION MASTER ..... TONY BELL SAT SAT Produced by David Hunter SAT SAT 15:30 Jazz Frenzy b00vxzvk (Listen) SAT Poland, August 1956. Rioters had been shot dead in Poznan SAT weeks before. The invasion of Hungary is just weeks away. SAT The Cold War rages but for 8 young Londoners, newly formed SAT as The Dave Burman Jazz Group, their unlikely journey behind SAT the Iron Curtain is an overwhelming surprise. Jazz in Poland SAT had been banned by first the Nazis and then the Communists, SAT but had been played secretly by a faithful few. SAT SAT Until the death of Stalin in 1953, playing and listening to SAT jazz was illegal. This 'decadent Imperialist music' could SAT lead to expulsion from music college, blacklisting or worse. SAT But in the 'thaw' that followed Stalin's death, the SAT restrictions on jazz began to lift. Now, at the seaside SAT resort of Sopot, tens of thousands of young people journeyed SAT miles by hitching rides or cramming into trains to hear jazz SAT and that rarest of attractions - a British band. SAT SAT The Dave Burman Jazz Group had been assembled in just a few SAT weeks - it would never play together again. But for a few SAT days the Cold War blew hot as they thumped out Tiger Rag, SAT Bucket's Got a Hole in It, Sugar and other standards to SAT crowds of thousands all over the country. Their contact with SAT Polish jazz lovers was minimal, frequently ushered by SAT Communist officials during their hectic tour. But for those SAT Polish musicians taking part in Sopot '56, this was the SAT beginning of their Jazz Frenzy, of freedom. SAT SAT Dave Burman and the rest of the musicians returned to SAT England never to experience such adulation and success SAT again. Now, more than 50 years later, Dave is reunited with SAT former band members Alan Teulon and Laurie Chescoe, before SAT returning to Poland with his son and producer of the SAT programme to meet some of those whose lives were changed SAT forever by the events of Sopot '56. SAT SAT Producer and Presenter: Mark Burman. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00w0b6r (Listen) SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00w0bc3 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00vy3l1 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging companies. SAT SAT In the week that Facebook launched its own new messaging SAT service, Evan and his panel of top business guests discuss SAT the role of email at work, amid the many different ways of SAT messaging and communicating. SAT SAT And location, location, location. It's a cliche that SAT location can make or break a business, but how true is it SAT really? And what are the advantages of being next door to SAT the competition? SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Chris Grigg, chief executive SAT of property company British Land; Andrew Horton, chief SAT executive of insurance company Beazley; Raghav Bahl, founder SAT of Indian television news group Network 18. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT SAT Last in the series. The Bottom Line returns in January 2011. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00vy437 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00vy439 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vy43c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00w0bc5 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b00w0bc7 (Listen) SAT Series 9, House Arrest SAT SAT "What could be nicer than to draw the nets, pull the SAT curtains to, turn up the log effect fire, switch on the SAT telly and relax since you're compelled to stay at home. But SAT now I understand, it's under house arrest - not home arrest." SAT SAT In his monologue, House Arrest, the novelist Will Self SAT responds to a week of news that has reported the release of SAT various individuals after periods of imprisonment. The SAT narrator is holed up somewhere that is both familiar and SAT strange. And surely his release, poised to happen any SAT moment, marks the end of it all? SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00w0bjz (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00w0bk1 (Listen) SAT Sport on Film SAT SAT Colin Shindler is a film writer and passionate sports fan SAT and he's still convinced that it's possible to marry the two SAT obsessions on the big screen. However the archive is SAT littered with gallant and some not so gallant failures SAT amidst the few dazzling chariots of fire. Just this year SAT we've had Invictus, recreating the success of the South SAT African Rugby team and the relationship between their SAT captain Francois Pienaar and President Mandela as well as SAT The Damned United and the story of Brian Clough's fall from SAT grace at the hands of the then mighty Leeds United. SAT Colin has plans for a cricketing film but as he prepares his SAT new screenplay Colin looks at some of the reasons sport gets SAT tripped up by the requirements of film and he talks to SAT people who've had some success as performers, producers and SAT directors in taking what can be taken from sport and making SAT it dramatic, compelling and yet never losing sight of the SAT need to produce an engaging story and engaging characters. SAT Lord Putnham, Hugh Hudson, Michael Sheen, Rachel Portman and SAT the former England cricketer Mike Selvey offer up advice and SAT help Colin make sense of the archival lessons about sport in SAT film. SAT SAT Producer: Tom Alban. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00vvwq0 (Listen) SAT Alone in Berlin, Episode 1 SAT SAT From the Novel by Hans Fallada. Dramatised for radio by SAT Shelagh Stephenson SAT SAT Primo Levi's declaration that Alone in Berlin is "the SAT greatest book ever written about German resistance to the SAT Nazis" is bold and unequivocal. English readers have had to SAT wait 60 years to explore the 1947 novel in which Otto SAT Quangel, a factory foreman (Ron Cook) and his wife Anna SAT (Margot Leicester) believe themselves morally obliged to SAT take on the full might of the Nazis. SAT SAT When their son is killed "for Fuhrer and Fatherland", the SAT Quangels begin to write anonymous postcards, denouncing the SAT war and the regime, and leave them on the stairwells of SAT public buildings in Berlin. Over two years, the cards become SAT their life. Trapped through a trivial mistake, by their SAT nemesis, Inspector Escherich of the Gestapo (Tim McInnerny) SAT they are put on trial for their lives, but find a strange SAT freedom in a mocking defiance and then in a terrible silence. SAT SAT Alone in Berlin is a grim but heroic story told with laconic SAT determination by a man who lived through the war in Berlin. SAT It is about the quiet moral triumph of a seemingly SAT inconsequential couple - it points to a courage which lay in SAT the hearts of most true Germans, if only angst and SAT overwhelming fear hadn't been allowed to gain the upper hand. SAT SAT Cast: SAT Otto Quangel ..... Ron Cook SAT Anna Quangel ..... Margot Leicester SAT Escherich ..... Tim McInnerny SAT Trudel Bauman ..... Jasmine Hyde SAT Eva Kluge ..... Christine Kavanagh SAT Enno Kluge ..... Ian Bartholomew SAT Emil Borkhausen ..... Richard McCabe SAT Frau Rosenthal ..... Joanna Munroe SAT Inspector Rusch ..... John McAndrew SAT Judge Fromm ..... Andrew Sachs SAT Inspector Zott ..... Nickolas Grace SAT Inspector Prall ..... Sam Dale SAT SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00vy43f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00vy236 (Listen) SAT How far should we tolerate civil disobedience and direct SAT action in a democracy? It's a question we're probably going SAT to be asking ourselves a lot over the next few months. The SAT students have been the most high profile so far, but they're SAT not the only ones who are angry and not going to take it SAT anymore. UK Uncut has targeted Vodaphone - staging protests SAT which closed many of the company's shops across the UK in a SAT campaign over tax avoidance - claims the company and HM SAT Customs say are groundless. Union leaders are busily SAT planning demo's and even the good citizens of Twitter had SAT their own "I am Spartacus" moment. Is it ever acceptable to SAT break the law in the name of a cause? Do the ends ever SAT justify the means and if so, what's the difference between SAT legitimate civil disobedience and mob rule? Is it just the SAT level of violence? And how morally culpable are those SAT protestors who style themselves as noble warriors for a SAT righteous cause, but all the time knowing that their protest SAT is likely to lead to damage, violence and injury? Does SAT direct action undermine the democratic principle that you SAT should try and persuade people of the justice of your cause SAT through dialogue and the ballot box? Is direct action an SAT inevitable consequence of government and business interests SAT refusing to listen to communities under threat and an SAT essential tool for people of conscience to make themselves heard? SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik, Anne SAT McElvoy and Melanie Philips. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00vxycm (Listen) SAT (4/17) Russell Davies chairs the evergreen general SAT knowledge quiz, this week's contest coming from Manchester. SAT Contestants from Herefordshire, Carrickfergus, Teesside and SAT Cheshire play for a semi-final place. SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME SAT SAT ANNE FINCH, a retired biomedical scientist from Hereford; SAT JAMIE JOHNSTON, a retired teacher from Carrickfergus; SAT MICHAEL McPARTLAND, a civil servant from Middlesborough; SAT DEREK MOODY, a planning and logistics manager from SAT Warrington. SAT SAT 23:30 Oh What a Lively War b00vvx8m (Listen) SAT One of the most famous lines in French poetry was written by SAT Guillaume Apollinaire in the summer of 1915. His "Ah Dieu! SAT que la guerre est jolie" can be roughly translated into SAT English as "Oh! What a lovely war!", but unlike the famous SAT English musical, Apollinaire's line was devoid of irony. SAT Here was a young poet revelling in the excitement, the sheer SAT modernism, of warfare. It's a sentiment very much at odds SAT with our British legacy of war poetry from that time, and SAT it's one that Martin Sorrell, translator of Apollinaire, SAT unpicks in this programme with the help of Professors Susan SAT Harrow and Tim Kendall, and the American poet Brian Turner, SAT who served in the US army in Iraq. SAT SAT Apollinaire was already a well-known poet and leading SAT champion of Cubism when he enlisted in December 1914. His SAT war came to an end in March 1916, when he received a SAT shrapnel wound to the head. He was invalided out, trepanned, SAT made only a partial recovery, and died in November 1918, SAT almost the same day as Wilfred Owen, SAT SAT His early war poetry, written in 1914 and 1915, is infused SAT witrh the marvel and spectacle of war, and continues the SAT experiments with form that made him one of France's great SAT literary innovators. It also celebrates his rich, SAT complicated love life, pursued as and when possible. His SAT letters to the two women with whom he was simultaneously SAT involved are fascinating records of a passionate patriot and SAT an equally passionate lover. It was only as the war SAT progressed and he experienced his own horrifying injury that SAT the poems began to recognise the misery of the trenches and SAT the horror of technological warfare. SAT SAT Apollinaire's poems are read by Paul McGann SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2010 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00vyvcf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00chp5q (Listen) SUN Urban Welsh, Jack SUN SUN Jack by Rachel Trezise. A moment's recklessness with Gethin SUN in the long grass is about to change Abby's life. Read by SUN Shelley Rees. SUN SUN Produced by Kate McAll SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vyvch (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vyvck (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vyvcm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00vyvcp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00w0d9b (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne Priors, SUN Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Wall in the Mind b00vy238 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN The writer Lynsey Hanley continues her exploration of the SUN subtleties of the barriers to social mobility, by assessing SUN the impact of our cultural choices in defining our class. SUN She argues that the cultural divide in Britain is not SUN created by the specific choices we make but about how many SUN choices we allow ourselves to have. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00vyvcr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00w0d9d (Listen) SUN Living in the Mind SUN SUN Mark Tully examines the skill of 'Living in the mind'. SUN SUN This programme was inspired by a recent interview in which SUN publisher and author Diana Athill mentioned that now she is SUN in her nineties, she spends much more of her time 'living in SUN the mind'. SUN SUN Diana is an important figure in the literary world, who took SUN to writing her own novels late in life and still leads a SUN lively existence. However, as she gets older, she is less SUN active than she used to be and enjoys the time she spends SUN allowing her imagination and her intellect to range free. SUN But what exactly is the life of the mind? And what are its SUN rewards? SUN SUN Mark Tully talks to Diana and examines this very particular SUN skill with readings of poetry by Keats, Tennyson and DH SUN Lawrence and music by Haydn, Bernstein and Tom Waits. SUN SUN The readers are Derek Jacobi and Isla Blair. SUN SUN Presenter: Mark Tully SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00w10vv (Listen) SUN Migrating Moths SUN SUN 11/18. Many people think it's just birds that migrate to and SUN from the British Isles. In this Living World, Lionel SUN Kelleway travels down to Church Cove on the Lizard peninsula SUN where he meets moth specialist Mark Tunmore. Sitting with SUN their backs against a stone wall of the old lifeboat station SUN on a warm autumnal evening overlooking the sea, Mark SUN discusses with Lionel why and how moths migrate from not SUN only the near continent, but as far away as Africa. SUN SUN With a low pressure system promising an influx of migrant SUN moths, Mark and Lionel set up 6 moth traps around the Cove, SUN and as dusk gathers pace, the lights of the traps begin to SUN glow ever brighter. What will make landfall tonight? All SUN will be revealed at the dead of night. SUN SUN In the morning will the number of moths change SUN significantly? Only by opening the moth traps will they know SUN the true picture of our migrating moths. SUN SUN Presented by Lionel Kelleway SUN Produced by Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00vyvct (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00vyvcw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00w10vx (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 b00w10vz (Listen) SUN Terry Wogan presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of BBC SUN Children in Need. SUN SUN To donate to BBC Children in Need please call 03457 33 22 SUN 33. That's 03457 33 22 33. You can also give online at SUN bbc.co.uk/Pudsey. Or you can post your donation - make SUN cheques payable to 'BBC Children in Need' and send them to SUN me, Terry Wogan, at BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box SUN 1000, London W12 7WJ. That's BBC Children in Need, PO Box SUN 1000, London W12 7WJ. You can also give those cheques into SUN any bank or building society. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 802052. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00vyvcy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00vyvd0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00w10w1 (Listen) SUN For Prisons Sunday SUN SUN Live from the Church of God of Prophecy Aberdeen St, SUN Birmingham. The proportion of black people in jail in the UK SUN is almost seven times their share of the population; members SUN of this Black Majority Church express their concern for this SUN situation locally by visiting prisoners in nearby HMP Winson SUN Green. How can faith in Christ break the cycles of SUN deprivation? With Bishop Basil Richards and Bishop Dr Joe SUN Aldred. Music Directors: Deseta Davis, Vincent McCalla, SUN Charmain Oliver. Producer: Mark O'Brien. email: SUN sunday.worship@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00vy3y9 (Listen) SUN Reading for Free SUN SUN Joan Bakewell reflects on the irreplaceable value of reading SUN at a time when the squeeze on government spending is putting SUN public libraries at risk. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00w114z (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00w10x4 (Listen) SUN Written by: Adrian Flynn SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Nigel Pargetter ..... Graham Seed SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer .....Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer .....Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Des Penwell ..... Lloyd Thomas SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Annabelle Shrivener ..... Julia Hills SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Andrew Eagleton ..... John Flitcroft. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00w1151 (Listen) SUN Alice Cooper SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the rock musician Alice Cooper. SUN SUN As a teenager he says it was British music that he tuned in SUN to - listening to The Beatles, The Yardbirds and The Who. He SUN realised that while rock music had many heroes, there were SUN few villains - that was the territory he marked out for SUN himself. He developed his trademark look - blackened eyes, SUN straggly hair and glamorous clothes - and set about SUN designing live shows that were gleefully gory and macabre. SUN SUN While critics have described him as 'the world's most SUN beloved heavy metal entertainer', it took him a while to SUN untangle himself from his creation. "For a long time I SUN honestly didn't know where I began and Alice ended. My SUN friends at the time were Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Janis SUN Joplin, and I was trying to keep up with them. And I SUN realised when they all died that you didn't have to be your SUN character off stage.". SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b00vxz2w (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 2 SUN SUN The well-loved, long-running panel game with Nicholas SUN Parsons at the helm. This week's panellists are Paul Merton, SUN Sue Perkins, Kevin Eldon and Julian Clary. SUN SUN The panellists are asked to speak on subjects given to them SUN for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN Much more difficult than it sounds... SUN SUN This week Sue Perkins describes her experience of Waiting SUN Rooms reducing Nicholas to helpless giggles along the way, SUN new-boy Kevin Eldon talks tantalisingly about Dressing SUN Provocatively and Julian Clary teases Paul Merton about his SUN subject My Comedy Hero. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00w122m (Listen) SUN Sheila Dillon looks at new ideas for using food to save the SUN British pub. SUN SUN With 40 pubs a week closing down and food sales starting to SUN equal those of drinks, the role of food in the future of the SUN public house has never been more important. Sheila Dillon SUN explores how one pub has come up with a groundbreaking SUN solution to keeping business thriving. SUN SUN Producer: Dave Battcock. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00vyvd4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00w122p (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 The Six Faces of Henry VIII b00kj2dy (Listen) SUN With the help of writers, historians, musicologists, film SUN buffs and Alan Bennett, Ian Hislop sets out to analyse six SUN images of Henry VIII which turn out to be rather better SUN portraits of the periods in which they were created than SUN they are historical insights into the King himself. However, SUN given that his most famous portrait, by Hans Holbein, is SUN itself an artfully drawn propaganda tool we shouldn't be all SUN that surprised. SUN SUN Henry has always been associated with numeric scale. The SUN eighth Henry with six wives; nothing associated with him SUN comes in ones and twos. And so it is with the images of our SUN glowering, beefy, puffy-cheeked monarch. The range is SUN enormous, from Hans Holbein's splay-footed heavyweight to SUN the surly athleticism of Jonathan Rhys Meyers in BBC One's SUN The Tudors. SUN SUN Shakespeare produced an understandably careful dramatic SUN portrait, but the Director Alexander Korda used his 1930's SUN film The Private Life of Henry VIII to show us Charles SUN Laughton as the consummate spoilt brat, a glutton with the SUN heart of a valiant schoolboy and the stomach of several SUN kings. This was the first time we saw a Henry who chucked SUN chicken bones over his shoulder, slapped his thigh and SUN laughed loudly, sure in the knowledge that the world would SUN laugh with him. SUN SUN And then there are the Operatic versions supplied in the SUN 19th century by Saint Saens and Donnizetti respectively. SUN Here Henry is more monster than man alongside the sad SUN heroines Katherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn. They were, of SUN course, coming from a rather more Catholic perspective. SUN Meanwhile in Restoration History books he's a seventeenth SUN century Hercules. SUN SUN So who gets closest to the real King? SUN SUN Ian Hislop enjoys nothing better than debunking myth, and SUN there's plenty of myth that has accrued around Henry, or as SUN the music-hall song had him 'our 'Enery'. But there's quite SUN a lot of truth as well, not about the King but about the SUN ages in which he was re-created. It seems that he and his SUN doings are a perennial story for 'our' times, whenever those SUN times might be. SUN SUN But if the various images of Henry only serve to enlighten SUN us about other periods long after the Tudors should we SUN resort to the simple shock tactics of Alan Bennett's savvy SUN teacher in The History Boys and say 'for Henry VIII think SUN Stalin?' Who better to answer that than Alan Bennett himself SUN who joins Ian to create a sixth and, for our age, a final SUN image of Henry VIII. SUN SUN Producer: Tom Alban. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00vy3v0 (Listen) SUN Grayshott Gardeners, Hampshire SUN SUN Peter Gibbs and the panel join the Grayshott Gardeners in SUN Hampshire. SUN How to maintain your greenhouse over winter and maximise its SUN potential: Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood discuss some SUN essential greenhouse care. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 In The Footsteps of Giants b00rzv0v (Listen) SUN Sue Blackmore on Albert Hofmann SUN SUN In the first in a series of passionate explorations we SUN discover the connections between leading scientists today SUN and yesterday, with one contemporary scientist looking back SUN upon the life of another whose experience has fascinating SUN parallels to their own. SUN SUN Susan Blackmore delves into the unique connecting point SUN between herself and LSD pioneer Albert Hofmann- someone she SUN has admired for decades. Susan shares her personal audio SUN archive of her meeting with the Swiss scientist and SUN discusses how the man has inspired her own research into SUN consciousness, tackling the controversial area of LSD SUN research on the way. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Adam. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00w13n6 (Listen) SUN Alone in Berlin, Episode 2 SUN SUN From the Novel by Hans Fallada. Dramatised for radio by SUN Shelagh Stephenson. SUN SUN Primo Levi's declaration that Alone in Berlin is "the SUN greatest book ever written about German resistance to the SUN Nazis" is bold and unequivocal. English readers have had to SUN wait 60 years to explore the 1947 novel in which Otto SUN Quangel, a factory foreman (Ron Cook) and his wife Anna SUN (Margot Leicester) believe themselves morally obliged to SUN take on the full might of the Nazis. SUN SUN When their son is killed "for Führer and Fatherland", the SUN Quangels begin to write anonymous postcards, denouncing the SUN war and the regime, and leave them on the stairwells of SUN public buildings in Berlin. Over two years, the cards become SUN their life. Trapped through a trivial mistake, by their SUN nemesis, Inspector Escherich of the Gestapo (Tim McInnerny) SUN they are put on trial for their lives, but find a strange SUN freedom in a mocking defiance and then in a terrible silence. SUN SUN Alone in Berlin is a grim but heroic story told with laconic SUN determination by a man who lived through the war in Berlin. SUN It is about the quiet moral triumph of a seemingly SUN inconsequential couple - it points to a courage which lay in SUN the hearts of most true Germans, if only angst and SUN overwhelming fear hadn't been allowed to gain the upper hand. SUN SUN Cast: SUN Otto Quangel ..... Ron Cook SUN Anna Quangel ..... Margot Leicester SUN Escherich ..... Tim McInnerny SUN Trudel Bauman ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Eva Kluge ..... Christine Kavanagh SUN Enno Kluge ..... Ian Bartholomew SUN Emil Borkhausen ..... Richard McCabe SUN Frau Rosenthal ..... Joanna Munroe SUN Inspector Rusch ..... John McAndrew SUN Judge Fromm ..... Andrew Sachs SUN Inspector Zott ..... Nickolas Grace SUN Inspector Prall ..... Sam Dale SUN SUN Director: Eoin O'Callaghan. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00w13nq (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup presents a special edition exploring the SUN recent boom in fiction for young adults. She speaks to young SUN adult authors Marcus Sedgwick, Malorie Blackman and Gemma SUN Malley, to help find out what distinguishes teen novels SUN today and what challenges and possibilities they present for SUN the writer. SUN SUN PRODUCER: AASIYA LODHI. SUN SUN 16:30 Lunch Poems b00w13qb (Listen) SUN The poet Frank O'Hara was at the very centre of the SUN explosion in New York's artistic life that took place in the SUN nineteen-fifties and sixties. SUN SUN Friend and champion of Abstract Expressionists such as SUN Pollock and de Kooning, O'Hara worked at the Museum of SUN Modern Art; during his lunch hours, he'd explore the city at SUN its most vibrant peak before stopping off at the Olivetti SUN typewriter store to write the poems that would eventually SUN appear as the collection 'Lunch Poems'. SUN SUN In this programme, Paul Farley heads to New York to see what SUN it is about this collection- and the man that created it- SUN that ensures its continuing popularity today. Along the way SUN he meets some of the current crop of the city's poets, as SUN well as O'Hara's long time friend and now elder statesman of SUN verse, John Ashbery. SUN SUN Producer: Geoff Bird SUN An All Out Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00vy0f6 (Listen) SUN The Great Train Robbery? SUN SUN It's been dubbed the Great Train Robbery, but Allan Urry SUN asks who's robbing who? SUN With fares set to rise, the programme examines why Britain's SUN railways are so much more expensive than other European SUN countries. Passengers in some parts of the UK complain they SUN are caught out by a complex and confusing system of SUN ticketing, which unfairly penalises them. SUN Does it have to be so difficult to find out what the SUN restrictions are on your journey? SUN Why aren't there enough carriages for commuters travelling SUN at peaks times? Overcrowding's got so bad, some are left SUN behind on the platform. SUN Much of the criticism is aimed at the Train Operating SUN Companies, but how much are they to blame? And why does SUN Network Rail, the company responsible for the national SUN infrastructure, soak up the bulk of the 5 billion pounds of SUN taxpayer's subsidy, yet according to its regulator, is 40 SUN per cent less efficient than its EU rivals? SUN SUN Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b00w0bc7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00vyvd6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00vyvd8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vyvdb (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00w13tt (Listen) SUN Val McDermid makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Story is what comes first for crime writer Val McDermid. And SUN this week on Pick of the Week, stories are flying thick and SUN fast. There's a celebration of the BBC National Short Story SUN Award, a probing of the secret stories that lurk in family SUN histories and an exploration of the way we find stories to SUN explain our darkest instincts. From the sublime to the SUN ridiculous, from the harrowing to the heartwarming, from the SUN bizarre to the brilliant, all human life is here. SUN SUN BBC National Short Story Award - Radio 4 SUN The Impossible Life of Jacques Cousteau - World Service SUN Marching Into History - World Service SUN Oh what A Lively War - Radio 4 SUN Lives in a Landscape - Radio 4 SUN All The Blood In My Veins - Radio 4 SUN What I Don't Know About Animals - Radio 4 SUN Jazz Frenzy - Radio 4 SUN Exchanges at the Frontier - World Service SUN Taking A Stand - Radio 4 SUN Shimmer and Dazzle - Radio 4 SUN Guerrilla Gardeners - Radio 4 SUN Dave Podmore's History of the Ashes in 100 Objects - Radio 4 SUN Words and Music - Radio 3 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: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00w13z8 (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00w13zs (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 Acceptance Across Oceans: George Washington SUN SUN Award-winning author Ron Chernow explains how the character SUN and leadership of America's first president, George SUN Washington, live on. His newest book is called, SUN “Washington: A Life". SUN SUN Acceptance Across Time: Jennifer Egan SUN SUN Jennifer Egan explains the ways that people strive for SUN acceptance and connection with one another. Her book, “A SUN Visit From The Goon Squad,†takes an unconventional approach SUN to telling those stories of connection across time. SUN SUN Acceptance Across Generations: Kyle Eastwood SUN SUN Kyle Eastwood, bass player, world traveller and son of SUN Hollywood actor-director Clint Eastwood, talks about his SUN journey to be accepted as his own man - a musician and SUN artist in his own right. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00c83jh (Listen) SUN SOS: Save Our Souls, The Longsight Branch SUN SUN Short stories to mark the 100th anniversary of the SUN international distress call. SUN SUN Paul Magrs's quirky tale of friendship and survival is set SUN in the trees high above Manchester. SUN SUN Read by Laura Smales. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00vy3t9 (Listen) SUN Roger Bolton asks Archers actor Ryan Kelly, who plays Jazzer SUN McCreary in The Archers, if his character is a stereotype of SUN a drunken Scottish ne'er do well. SUN Check out the new Archers website: SUN http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/features/the-archers/ SUN SUN A listener takes your gripes about the iPlayer revamp to the SUN top - and demands straight answers. SUN SUN And reporting from Rangoon last weekend - why were some SUN reporters named while others remained anonymous. Jon SUN Williams, the BBC's head of World News has the answer. SUN SUN Email the team: feedback@bbc.co.uk SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00vy3xv (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN The prolific film producer Dino De Laurentiis. We have SUN tributes from the actor Brian Blessed and the directors SUN Michael Winner and David Lynch; SUN SUN Professor John Waterlow who saved millions of lives through SUN his work on malnutrition; SUN SUN The Polish composer Henryk Gorecki who was surprised when SUN his third symphony became an international favourite; SUN SUN The former Nazi concentration camp guard Michael Seifert, SUN tracked down in Canada and sentenced to life imprisonment in SUN his eighties; SUN SUN and the BBC producer Simon Roberts who made some of Radio SUN 4's best loved natural history programmes. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00w03nb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00w10vz (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00vxz5m (Listen) SUN The deserving and the undeserving poor SUN SUN Presenter Chris Bowlby asks whether a state welfare system SUN can ever distinguish between those who deserve help and SUN those who do not. SUN As the recession bites and public spending cuts loom there SUN have been calls, on both sides of the political debate, for SUN a re-moralisation of welfare. Some say that the entitlement SUN culture has gone too far, others that the hard-working poor SUN should not be footing the bill for those who choose not to SUN take a job. When did the language change and what does a SUN change in vocabulary really mean? SUN And even if desirable can distinctions between welfare SUN recipients be made in practice? If there are time limits on SUN the receipt of welfare will more people end up better-off in SUN work or worse-off unable to work? SUN Analysis will look at what history can teach us about making SUN moral distinctions between the poor - both when the economy SUN is booming & when it's contracting. And what of those, such SUN as the children of welfare recipients, caught up in the SUN debate : can it ever right to reduce the money which may SUN give them a better future? SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00vyvdd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00w1432 (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00w14bn (Listen) SUN Episode 28 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 Steve Richards of The SUN Independent is in the chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00vy3xx (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to director Anton Corbijn about his new SUN film, The American, starring George Clooney as a hired gun SUN who comes out of hiding for one last job. SUN SUN The second in our series of reports about the digital SUN revolution and the rise of community cinemas across the SUN country. This week, Niki Bedi travels to Aberfeldy in SUN Scotland, to meet the people behind the Heartland film society. SUN SUN Director Fernando Trueba and designer Javier Mariscal SUN discuss Chico and Rita, a musical celebration of Cuba during SUN the late '40s and early '50s. SUN SUN This week marks the centenary of the Mexican Revolution. SUN Christopher Frayling give us a quick guide to the revolt on SUN film from Viva Villa! to The Professionals. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00w0d9d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2010 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00vywb7 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00vy1w9 (Listen) MON INCIVILITY - AK-47 (Kalashnikov) MON MON Laurie Taylor talks to Pulitzer Prize winner C.J Chivers, a MON former US Marine and currently a journalist at the New York MON Times about the cultural, social and political impact of the MON AK-47 or Kalashnikov. A gun that has transformed how we MON fight wars and who can fight them, the AK-47 is a weapon MON central to many conflicts all over the world. With testimony MON from its inventors, its users and its victims, Laurie MON explores how a single instrument can have been so MON influential as both transformer and destroyer. They are MON joined by military historian Richard Holmes. Laurie also MON talks to Philip Smith, Professor in the Department of MON Sociology at Yale University, about new research looking at MON public incivility. What drives some people to such extremes MON of public rudeness? MON MON Producer Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00w0d9b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vywb9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vywbc (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vywbf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00vywbh (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w14g7 (Listen) MON With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00w14g9 (Listen) MON Protests by farmers against retailers are to be held over MON the next few weeks. Farmers For Action is warning of MON demonstrations targeting supermarkets, which it claims are MON not paying enough for produce, particularly milk. The group, MON which has over a thousand members, says it will hold a MON substantial number of demonstrations from now until MON Christmas. It's not clear what form the protests will take, MON though supermarket distribution centres have already been MON targeted. Farmers For Action say the action will escalate if MON retailers, the Government and the farming community do not MON sit down and discuss how to give farmers a fairer price for MON their goods. Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by MON Anna Varle. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00vywbk (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00w14gk (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00w14h4 (Listen) MON Andrew Marr takes a satirical look at the world in Start the MON Week. The satirist PJ O'Rourke makes a plea to the American MON public, Not To Vote, in his latest angry critique of liberal MON politics, while the writer and comedian Armando Iannucci MON explores the latest chapter in the life of his Machiavellian MON spin doctor, Malcolm Tucker. Mikhail Bulgakov's absurdist MON tale of how a stray mongrel becomes human is brought to the MON stage by Simon McBurney. And the classicist Mary Beard MON delves beneath the volcanic ash to uncover everyday life in MON the Roman town of Pompeii. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00w15w2 (Listen) MON Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, Episode 1 MON MON A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who MON became Queen of England, then changed the course of Tudor MON history by refusing to grant Henry VIII the divorce he MON needed to marry Anne Boleyn. MON MON Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of MON Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage MON lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives MON put together. MON MON Abridged by Alison Joseph MON Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w15wl (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Women and the role silence plays MON in their spiritual lives the Rev'd Lucy Winkett and Christy MON Casley from the Self Realisation Meditation Healing Centre MON in Somerset discuss the issue. We look the phenomenon of MON "singles therapy" as a route to forming a lasting MON relationship. Cathy Scott Clark talks about her new MON documentary Terrori in Islamabad. The latest employment MON figures have revealed that the number of women who are out MON of work has reached more than one million, its highest level MON for more than 20 years. At the same time women will MON reportedly be hardest hit by the Government's spending cuts. MON To discuss these figures Jane is joined by Ceri Goddard, MON Chief Executive of the Fawcett Society and Professor Len MON Shackleton, Fellow at the Institute of Economic Affairs and MON Dean of Business School at the University of East London. MON And your feedback on our recent item about living with MON dentures. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w16y3 (Listen) MON Paradise Place, Episode 1 MON MON Drawing on Woman's Hour listeners' stories and thoughts on MON the theme of desire, writer Amanda Whittington has created a MON series of five short linked plays set in a large shared MON house in Bristol. Landlady Ella rents out one flat to MON teacher Sarah and her teenage daughter Jaz, while Adrian MON lives in the attic flat rent-free in return for doing jobs MON around the house and garden. MON MON In Episode 1, Ella advertises for a new tenant, and an old MON flame from her schooldays comes back into her life, with MON consequences Ella's not sure she's ready for. MON MON Ella: Katharine Rogers MON Jules: Robert Gwilym MON Adrian: Malcolm Hamilton MON MON Director: Sara Davies. MON MON 11:00 The New MBAs b00w1858 (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON When the global economy crashed spectacularly in 2008 it MON seemed like all those in charge had an MBA from a top MON business school- from President Bush through his Treasury MON Secretary to the heads of Lehman Brothers and several MON others. Many people asked pointedly what Business Schools MON were teaching their graduates. MON MON Harvard students now take a highly regarded 'Leadership and MON Corporate Accountability' course, but the villains of the MON Crash all graduated long before that existed. So dismayed MON were the class of 2009 at the prominence of older Harvard MON MBAs in the Crash that they devised the 'MBA Oath', intended MON to be for future business leaders what the Hippocratic Oath MON is for doctors. MON MON MIT's Sloan School of Management uses the novel approach of MON exploring leadership and values through literature, from MON children's stories, through classic fiction to plays and movies. MON MON The smaller Tuck School in rural New Hampshire offered the MON first ever graduate business course back in 1900 and has a MON long-standing reputation for its ethical focus. Even so MON their Dean feels the Crash showed that business schools have MON been turning out 'over-confident' MBAs and they are now MON addressing that. MON MON The programme also visits the first ever collegiate business MON school, Wharton, established in Philadelphia in 1881, and MON finally Warrington in the University of Florida, where the MON issues are regularly debated by academics and students over MON 'ethics lunches'. MON MON Contributions from deans, professors, students and classroom MON sessions, illustrate the range of approaches to - and some MON of the limitations of ethical education for future business MON leaders. MON MON Producer: Mike Hally MON A Square Dog Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 A Charles Paris Mystery: MON Murder in the Title b00w190h (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON By Jeremy Front MON Based on the novel by Simon Brett MON MON A series of nasty accidents befall MON the cast of the play Charles is appearing in. MON Is it bad luck or is someone out to sabotage the production. MON MON Charles Paris ..... Bill Nighy MON Frances ..... Suzanne Burden MON Maurice ..... Jon Glover. MON Fabio ..... Theo Cross MON Tony ..... Sam Dale MON Lindsay ..... Christine Kavanagh MON Ronnie ..... Sean Baker. MON Sean ..... Iain Batchelor MON Phoebe ..... Claire Harry MON Chris ..... Henry Devas MON Landlady ..... Sally Orrock MON Barmaid ..... Leah Brotherhead. MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00w1930 (Listen) MON Empty homes: when more people than ever need affordable MON housing, why are there a million unoccupied homes in the UK? MON Are we spending too much this Christmas? The Managing MON Director of John Lewis tells us why his department stores MON are on course for record takings, despite the economic MON gloom. Warehouse dining: we visit Britain's biggest MON restaurant to find out if its all-you-can-eat model is MON recession-proof. And the care staff who suffer racist abuse MON by the elderly residents they look after. Consumer affairs MON with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00vywbm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00w193g (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00w195w (Listen) MON (5/17) MON Russell Davies welcomes four more contestants bidding to MON become Brain of Britain, in the fifth heat of the current MON series, from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. MON Producer: Paul Bajoria MON MON Producer Paul Bajoria MON Presenter Russell Davies. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00w13z8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00w196j (Listen) MON Number 10, Episode 5 MON MON Written by Jonathan Myerson. On an estate walkabout, Amjad MON gets into an argument with a doorstep lender and punches MON him. The papers have a field day. But Amjad insists he was MON in the right. Will he apologise? MON MON Meanwhile the Lib Dem alliance partners want state funding MON for political parties but can't get Labour to agree. And the MON Deputy Leader of the Lib Dems has made a speech in the House MON blaming Simon for the suicide of an asylum seeker..... MON MON Meanwhile there is a local press flurry about cars driving MON past a woman knocked down in the road - one of the negligent MON drivers turns out to be Alan, the PMs partner. This, in the MON week when Alan and Simon are putting the finishing touches MON to their civil partnership plans. MON MON With the Alliance threatening to fall apart Nathan will stop MON at nothing to get Plaid Cymru and the Greens on their side. MON MON PM - Simon Laity ..... Damian Lewis MON Nathan ..... Mike Sengelow MON Hugo ..... Julian Glover MON Georgie ..... Gina Mckee MON Amjad ..... Arsher Ali MON Mike Glancey ..... Joseph Kloska MON Louise Ryan ..... Niamh Cusack MON Tim Keegan ..... Nicholas Rowe MON Alan ..... John Hollingworth MON Emyr Rhys/Lender ..... Steve Speirs MON Jennifer Sands ..... Perdita Avery MON Journalists ...... Theo Fraser Steele, Kate Gilbert, Kate MON Lamb MON MON Produced and Directed by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b00w0bk1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 Turn Over Your Papers Now b00775m4 (Listen) MON John O'Farrell explores the surprising history of the MON different kinds of exam, and our relationship with them. MON MON In the first programme he finds out why, for centuries, MON Oxbridge finals were all done out loud - complete with a MON jester. Plus, examiners and pupils reveal how they deal with MON this most upfront, unforgiving form of examination. MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00w122m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b00w19cz (Listen) MON Series 3, Episode 2 MON MON Physicist Brian Cox, comedian Robin Ince and guests return MON for more witty irreverent science chat. This week they are MON joined by comedian and former mathematician Paul Foot to MON discuss whether the modern world is a force for good or MON evil, and whether a simpler, more natural existence might be MON a better way forward. MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b00w19hw (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vywbp (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b00w1bf9 (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 3 MON MON Nicholas Parsons presides over the grandaddy of all panel MON games where the idea is to see who has the gift of the gab. MON MON This week's programme comes from the Lowry Centre in Salford MON where the panellists are Paul Merton, Tony Hawks, Kit MON Hesketh-Harvey and Alun Cochrane. MON MON The panellists are given subjects on which they must speak MON without hesitation, repetition or deviation. A task much MON more difficult than it sounds... MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00w1d6r (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00w1xwg (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the film The Girl MON Who Kicked The Hornet's Nest, based on the third book in MON Stieg Larsson's best-selling Millennium trilogy. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w16y3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00w1xwj (Listen) MON Series 6, Jesse Owens and the Nazi Olympics MON MON Michael Portillo revisits great moments of history to MON discover that they often conceal other events of equal, but MON forgotten, importance. This week he looks at forgotten MON aspects of the 1936 Berlin Olympics . Did Adolf Hitler MON really snub Jesse Owens after the American athlete won an MON unprecedented four gold medals ? What have we forgotten MON about the efforts made in Britain and the United States to MON boycott the Games and why weren't those efforts successful ? MON And what do the Games tell us about the uneasy relationship MON between sport and politics in the years before the outbreak MON of war. MON MON Producer:Joanne Cayford. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00vy328 (Listen) MON Road Kill MON MON Millions of people die on our roads each year. Hundreds of MON children are killed as they try to get to school each day. MON Road deaths threaten to overtake malaria and HIV in how many MON lives they take around the world, particularly in poorer MON countries. MON MON Sheena McDonald visits some of the world's most dangerous MON roads in Kenya and Costa Rica to find out why the death toll MON in developing countries is rising, when the solutions to MON road accidents are so simple. Kenya's poor record improves MON and then falls again as new transport ministers come and go; MON while Costa Rica struggles to implement the road safety plan MON it so confidently launched over 5 years ago. MON MON When there's not much money, should reducing road deaths be MON a priority? The Millennium Development Goals push countries MON to work hard to improve the mortality rates for children MON under 5, but there are no goals to stop those same children MON being knocked down when they start school. MON MON Sheena McDonald, who was nearly killed by a speeding police MON car just over 10 years ago, visits accident blackspots, MON meets victims and people campaigning for better road safety MON and challenges those in power who don't believe it's MON important enough. MON Producer: Kirsten Lass. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00vy38g (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents this week's digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. In this edition: the development of MON disease resistant crops the better to feed our swelling MON population; trapping anti-hydrogen atoms to unravel one of MON the great mysteries in physics; and exhuming the body of MON Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe to find out whether he really MON died of a bladder infection. MON MON The producer is Roland Pease. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00w14h4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00vywbr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00w1y0h (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 b00w1y0k (Listen) MON A Night with a Vampire, Dead Persons in Hungary MON MON Antoine Augustin Calmet published an apparently serious MON anthropological history of the Vampire throughout Europe in MON the early 19 century called "The Phantom World." All the MON people he spoke to were adamant about what they had MON witnessed. His account therefore appears all the more MON disturbing and became the basis for the flights of Vampiric MON fancy that took off in the Victorian age. MON MON Written by Antoine Augustin Calmet MON Reader: David Tennant MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b00vy37b (Listen) MON Are some people just born lucky, or can we control our fate MON ? Professor Richard Wiseman claims to have begun MON scientifically to investigate the concept of luck. In Off MON The Page he writes about his interviews with over a thousand MON so-called lucky and unlucky people, and reveals why MON resilience and not the supernatural is what affects us all. MON Playwright Annie Caulfield describes a brush with voodoo in MON west Africa; while sports writer Matthew Syed explains why MON his own sporting success was due in part to growing up in a MON lucky Reading postcode. MON Dominic Akwright presents, and the producer is Miles Warde. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w1y0m (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports on events at Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2010 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00vyy74 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00w15w2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vyy76 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vyy78 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vyy7b (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00vyy7d (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w1y2f (Listen) TUE With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00w1y5x (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Martin TUE Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00w1y3d (Listen) TUE With James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including Sports TUE Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament. TUE TUE 09:00 Taking a Stand b00w1y5z (Listen) TUE Fergal Keane talks to Noreen Oliver about why her own TUE experience of overcoming an addiction to alcohol led her to TUE set up two treatment centres. She is now one of this TUE country's leading advocates of abstinence as a goal for all TUE addicts. There are over a quarter of a million people in TUE Britain currently addicted to heroin and crack cocaine. The TUE recovery rate is estimated to be three percent. Noreen TUE Oliver believes that the over reliance on "substitute drugs" TUE like methadone is preventing many addicts getting off drugs TUE altogether. TUE TUE 09:30 I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Into Here b00w1y61 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE When Spitting Image came to an end, Roger Law decided it was TUE time for a fresh start. Having made one attempt to emigrate TUE to Australia in the 1960s, thwarted by the cultural attaché TUE who told him that it was 'a one way ticket to hell' , Ten TUE years ago, Roger decided to give it a second shot. He's now TUE living in Bondi Beach concentrating on in-depth surfing, and TUE he's never looked back. TUE TUE Roger is not the only one and in this series he meets up TUE with other new Australians. In the heat of the November sun TUE he'll be at Leo Sayer's concert in Sydney, talking to Warren TUE Mitchell about being an Australian citizen, looking at the TUE work of legendary 60s photographer Lewis Morley and throwing TUE prawns on the barbie with celebrity chef Tom Kime. They've TUE all made the move Down Under, and Roger Law is determined to TUE find out why. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00w4858 (Listen) TUE Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, Episode 2 TUE TUE A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who TUE became Queen of England, then changed the course of Tudor TUE history. TUE TUE Prince Arthur has died after only six months of marriage, TUE and Catherine is about to become a pawn in the complicated TUE game of European politics. TUE TUE Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of TUE Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage TUE lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives TUE put together. TUE TUE Abridged by Alison Joseph TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w1y6m (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. Celebrating, informing and TUE entertaining women with news, views and interviews of TUE topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w1y6p (Listen) TUE Paradise Place, Episode 2 TUE TUE Inspired by Woman's Hour listeners' stories and experiences, TUE Amanda Whittington's five linked plays are set in a house in TUE Bristol where landlady Ella and her tenants each have their TUE secret hopes and desires. In the second episode, teenager TUE Jaz has set her heart on an expensive pair of boots. But her TUE mother Sarah isn't impressed, and when Ella intervenes to TUE save Jaz from an irate shop assistant, Jaz discovers that TUE Ella offers a more sympathetic ear. Meanwhile, Ella's not TUE sure where her romance with old flame Jules is heading. TUE TUE Ella: Katharine Rogers TUE Sarah: Lucy Black TUE Jaz: Nicola Miles-Wildin TUE Jules: Robert Gwilym TUE Nic: Saikat Ahamed TUE TUE Director: Sara Davies. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00w1y8m (Listen) TUE Episode 30 TUE TUE 30/40. How rich are the UK's rivers and inland waterways for TUE wildlife? The cleaning up of rivers fit for Otters has been TUE reported as being so successful that there are now potential TUE issues of Otters being too numerous in places. We'll have a TUE special "Memories" piece about how rich British rivers were TUE in the past for wildlife - was it really much better? The TUE come-back of Otters to all but a few UK rivers suggests our TUE rivers are good for wildlife. TUE TUE And we'll have a fresh report from Mark Brazil who has been TUE to the coastal forests of Brazil on the look out for Gold TUE Lion Tamarins. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Juvenile Jane b00w1yqk (Listen) TUE Jane Austen's surprisingly neglected but delightfully TUE precocious and revealing early works celebrated by Austen TUE expert Janet Todd with the help of the writer and TUE illustrator Posy Simmonds and the actor Anna Maxwell Martin. TUE TUE Considering how frequently Jane Austen's six great novels TUE are adapted for film, radio and television, it is perhaps TUE surprising that the three small exercise books containing TUE twenty two little stories and plays written during her teen TUE years have not received more notice. Some of these stories - TUE with titles such as "The Adventures of Mr Harley", "The TUE Generous Curate" and "The Beautiful Cassandra" - are only a TUE few lines long but others run to many pages and provide both TUE entertainment and surprising insights into the development TUE of the mature writer. TUE TUE Austen expert Janet Todd leafs through two of the precious TUE volumes which are held at the British Library in London and TUE discusses their wonderfully uninhibited style and content TUE with the writer and illustrator Posy Simmonds who has long TUE been a fan of Austen and fascinated by juvenilia in general. TUE It is well documented that, during her lifetime, the adult TUE Jane Austen used to read from these books to her close TUE family. For this programme, the actor Anna Maxwell Martin TUE reads extensive extracts from three stories - "Frederick and TUE Elfrida", "Henry and Eliza" and "love and Freindship" (sic) TUE to reanimate them for a contemporary radio audience. TUE TUE Producer Beaty Rubens. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00w1yqn (Listen) TUE Consumer news. An opportunity to contribute your views to TUE the programme. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00vyy7g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00w1yrs (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Arise Black Man: The Peter Tosh Story b00w1yzy (Listen) TUE Peter Tosh found international fame alongside Bob Marley as TUE a member of The Wailers. As a solo artist he released TUE several landmark reggae albums and even recorded with the TUE Rolling Stones. But he was more than just a successful pop TUE star: he was a revolutionary and a hero to many of Jamaica's TUE poor. He spent his life as a strident campaigner for civil TUE rights and for the legalisation of marijuana. He was more TUE militant and politcal than his former band mate and his TUE uncompromising arrogance often landed him in serious TUE trouble. For that reason, as this documentary reveals, his TUE life could be as brutal as the way it ended. Grammy award TUE winning film-maker Don Letts explores his career. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00w1d6r (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00w1zlr (Listen) TUE Atching Tan TUE TUE Atching Tan by Dan Allum TUE TUE Lovvie Arkley is torn. Does she marry childhood sweetheart TUE Nelius and live a traditional, yet isolated Traveller life? TUE Or does she renounce her culture to pursue a career in the TUE outside 'Gorgia' world? Drama teacher John threatens to tip TUE the balance. Recorded on location on a Traveller site, with TUE all Traveller parts cast from the Traveller community. TUE TUE Lovvie ..... Candis Nergaard TUE Nelius ..... Damian Le Bas TUE John ..... Brodie Ross TUE Norah ..... Maryanne Loveridge TUE Aggie ..... Sharon Loveridge TUE Jim ..... Dean Loveridge TUE TUE Music by Howard Jacques TUE Written by Dan Allum TUE Producer: Charlotte Riches TUE Director: Fiona Kelcher. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00w1zvw (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Presenter: Richard Daniel TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00w1zvy (Listen) TUE Arthur Miller Stories, Fame TUE TUE Martin Jarvis directs acclaimed actor Alfred Molina in TUE Miller's witty story on the nature of celebrity. Meyer TUE Berkowitz has two hit plays running on Broadway. TUE TUE Suddenly he's a star. And rich. People approach him in the TUE street. Cabbies yell and wave at him. His photo is on the TUE front cover of magazines. Barmen ply him with drinks on the TUE house. But fame can be tiresome. Especially when you are TUE accosted by an old high school friend. TUE TUE Though anonymity can be oddly unwelcome too. TUE TUE Playwright Miller's forensic examination of the dual aspects TUE of stardom makes compelling points about human nature and TUE the ego. TUE TUE Reader: Alfred Molina TUE Director: Martin Jarvis TUE A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:45 Turn Over Your Papers Now b00775xd (Listen) TUE Timed Essays TUE TUE John O'Farrell explores the surprising history of the TUE different kinds of exam, and our relationship with them. TUE TUE In the second programme he finds out why the very idea of TUE timed literary examinations caused a small war in the TUE Victorian Establishment - and how the timed essay has since TUE shaped the way the British power elite thinks. Plus, TUE examiners and pupils reveal how they deal with this TUE demanding form of examination. TUE TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 16:00 Anatomy Of... b00rt7rt (Listen) TUE Redundancy TUE TUE From the makers of the Sony award-winning Anatomy of a Car TUE Crash, this new series dissects often-neglected everyday TUE dramas that change ordinary lives forever. TUE TUE 1/3: Redundancy. The failure of the Birmingham-based TUE manufacturer Savekers in March last year from the TUE perspective of boardroom, back office and shopfloor. The TUE programme hears from those at every level of the 106-year TUE old family firm about the trauma of being in business when TUE sales have stalled, the phones have stopped ringing and TUE desperate suppliers are at the door chasing payment. TUE TUE Managing Director Dani Saveker recalls the lonely experience TUE of being the boss when the only remaining option is to call TUE in the administrators and relinquish control of the family TUE business. The official administrator traces the tough TUE process of preparing the business for sale and choosing the TUE employees who are to be made redundant. And long term TUE employees recount their shock at the announcement that they TUE would very soon be clocking off for the last time. The TUE programme traces their unsuccessful search for new work, the TUE financial strain of losing an income and the emotional TUE fallout which follows when a business goes under. TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b00w1zx7 (Listen) TUE Baroness Warnock, John Telfer TUE TUE In a special edition of the programme recorded in front of TUE an audience at the Bristol Old Vic, Sue MacGregor and guests TUE Baroness Warnock and actor John Telfer talk about their TUE favourite paperbacks. Baroness Mary Warnock is one of the TUE country's leading philosophers and the author of more than TUE 15 books, widely known for the work she has done on TUE government committees. JohnTelfer plays the Reverend Alan TUE Franks in The Archers. He studied at the Bristol Old Vic TUE Theatre School and has appeared in more than 35 plays with TUE the Bristol Old Vic Company. TUE TUE The books they'll be discussing include Evelyn Waugh's TUE Brideshead Revisited and Philip Pullman's recent re-telling TUE of the gospels, The Good Man Jesus and The Scoundrel Christ. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00w1zx9 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vyy7j (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Odd Half Hour b00w1zxc (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Comedy sketch show starring Kevin Bishop, Stephen K Amos, TUE Doon Mackichan, Justin Edwards & Jessica Ransom. Answering TUE the questions you probably never asked, this week's episode TUE explains why Bagpuss is a bad influence for children, how a TUE seance can go badly wrong and why the vikings never used TUE consumer focus groups. TUE TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00w1zxf (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00w1zy2 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with RSC director TUE Michael Boyd, as he unveils the re-developed Royal TUE Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w1y6p (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00w1zy4 (Listen) TUE Care Homes: When An Inspector Calls TUE TUE A new law regulating care homes in England came into force TUE last month. All homes must be registered and ensure they TUE meet certain standards of quality and safety. The regulator TUE - the Care Quality Commission - is promising to monitor TUE homes and take action against those who fail to meet standards. TUE But unions say the numbers of inspectors has been cut. They TUE are warning of fewer inspections and say staff are so TUE overstretched they could miss vital warning signs of abuse TUE or neglect. Worried relatives say they feel their concerns TUE are not being heard. TUE Frans Abrams asks whether the elderly in care homes are TUE being adequately protected. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00w1zy6 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b00w200f (Listen) TUE Taste can be described by sounds, sugary flavours match TUE pleasant piano music, bitter tones are linked to low pitched TUE notes in an new finding from the University of Oxford's TUE Experimental Psychology Department. A sceptical Claudia TUE Hammond is subjected to the taste experiment. In Switzerland TUE a Michelin starred chef has a composer in his kitchen, and TUE others have matched not only wine with food, but wine with TUE music as well. TUE TUE Most people with dementia and their families prefer to TUE remain in their own homes after their diagnosis, but for TUE some this may become impossible because of incontinence and TUE wandering. Professor June Andrews of Stirling University TUE says therapeutic design in the home can keep people there TUE longer. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 21:30 Taking a Stand b00w1y5z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00vyy7l (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00w200h (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 b00w470z (Listen) TUE A Night with a Vampire, The Family of the Vourdalak TUE TUE Leo Tolstoy's lesser known brother has written this TUE compelling story about a patriarch who sets off on a TUE mysterious mission but fears he may come back a Vampire. If TUE he should return to their village after 10 days - he begs TUE his family to deny him access and plunge a stake through his TUE heart. TUE TUE Written by Alexis Tolstoy TUE Reader: David Tennant TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Beautiful Dreamers b00w200k (Listen) TUE The River Europe TUE TUE Nat follows the endurance swimmer and world's fittest TUE alcoholic Craig McKenzie's controversial attempt to complete TUE the world's toughest swim. Featuring contributions from TUE Clive Russell, Ewan Bailey, Morven Christie and Vera Filatova. TUE TUE Writers ..... James Lever and Nat Segnit. TUE Producers ..... Steven Canny and Sasha Yevtushenko. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w200m (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports on events at Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2010 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00wfxbz (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00w4858 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vyyt3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vyyt5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vyyt7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00vyyt9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w1y2h (Listen) WED With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00w201y (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Varle. WED WED 06:00 Today b00w1y34 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; WED Yesterday in Parliament. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00w2020 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00w487n (Listen) WED Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, Episode 3 WED WED A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who WED changed the course of Tudor history. After years of waiting, WED Catherine is now officially bride of Henry VIII and Queen of WED England. WED WED Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of WED Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage WED lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives WED put together. WED WED Abridged by Alison Joseph WED Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w208c (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women with news, views and interviews of WED topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w208f (Listen) WED Paradise Place, Episode 3 WED WED In the third of Amanda Whittington's series of plays WED inspired by Woman's Hour listeners' stories and experiences WED on the theme of desire, Ella's tenant Sarah is having WED problems with her teenage daughter Jaz, and is disillusioned WED with her teaching job. She confesses her secret longing for WED escape to Ella, who comes up with the perfect solution - but WED one which holds a few surprises. WED WED Ella: Katharine Rogers WED Sarah: Lucy Black WED Norman: Andrew Francis WED WED Director: Sara Davies. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b00w208h (Listen) WED Series 6, Episode 2 WED WED 2 - City Fighters. In the second of Alan Dein's features WED reflecting the lives of widely differing groups of people WED across the country today, he catches up with two busy young WED men, Matt and Simon. Both have well-paid jobs in the City of WED London, but in recent months each has been training hard at WED a specialist boxing gym within sight of both the glass and WED steel towers of Broadgate and the cosier terraces of the old WED East End. Their goal is three hard-fought rounds of amateur WED so called 'white-collar' boxing in front of an enthusiastic WED and partisan audience in the very public arena of Kensington WED Town Hall. WED WED Neither fighter knows the other, and indeed all Matt has WED heard about Simon is that he's a southpaw. City lawyer WED Simon's trainer Darren reckons his boy will be a hard nut to WED crack, especially with his vicious left hand. But Matt's no WED pushover either. Because, unbeknownst to his opponent, WED before he joined a select firm of employment consultants, WED tall and hefty Matt was a top-flight professional rugby WED player. And bears the scars to prove it. WED WED With so-called 'white collar' amateur boxing enjoying WED something of a boom, on the big night there's a fair WED contingent of supporters from the office as well as family WED and best buddies cheering Matt and Simon on across the three WED 2-minute rounds... May the best man win. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED 11:30 Hazelbeach b00w208k (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 2 WED WED By Caroline and David Stafford WED WED In which Nick tries to prove that people are capable of WED change, James gets a job and Ronnie has to hide an entire WED military band on the run from the army. WED WED Ronnie Hazelbeach ..... Jamie Foreman WED Nick ..... Paul Bazely WED James ..... Neil Stuke WED Ishi ..... Leah Brotherhead WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00w208m (Listen) WED Consumer affairs. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00vyytc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00w208p (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00w209b (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00w1zxf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bbwp4 (Listen) WED Signs, Horizon WED WED The first of two gripping stories about how technology might WED determine our lives in these interlocking plays by two of WED radio's most thought-provoking playwrights. WED WED A horizon scanner foresees financial meltdown in Steve May's WED comic thriller, starring Paul Clayton (Peep Show, Drop the WED Dead Donkey), Mark Meadows and Devon Black. WED WED Cassie is an horizon scanner for a global bank. When she WED discovers a black hole in the markets for June 6th which WED none of the other scanners has spotted, she must get to the WED bottom of it. Meanwhile Cassie's father Frank is busy trying WED to read the credit crunch as he decides what to do with his WED inherited nest egg, and Cassie's mother is busy buying nice WED things online with credit cards that Frank doesn't know WED about. And Cassie's colleague Reg is stealing her computer WED memory to develop his software programme. All of them are WED trying to plan for the future in their own little worlds. WED WED Information is power, but there is a price. WED WED Cassie...Devon Black WED Frank...Paul Clayton WED Mark...Mark Meadows WED Reg...Carl Prekopp WED Lesley...Marlene Sidaway WED Bank Manager...Stephen Critchlow WED WED Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00w20z6 (Listen) WED If you're looking for ways to reduce your fuel bills and WED stop wasting energy you may want to talk to the energy WED experts on this afternoon's Money Box Live. WED WED With warnings that some energy providers are raising prices WED you might be looking for a cheaper deal, or you may want to WED take advantage of grants to insulate your home or install a WED new boiler. WED WED Or perhaps you have a dispute about energy - how and where WED do you complain? WED WED Whatever your question, Paul Lewis and guests will be WED waiting for your call. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30 this afternoon and the number to WED call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges apply. WED Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme starts after WED the three o'clock news. That number again 03700 100 444. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00w20z8 (Listen) WED Arthur Miller Stories, Please Don't Kill Anything WED WED Acclaimed actor Alfred Molina performs Arthur Miller's WED affecting 'Monroe' story. It has an especial extra resonance WED as it seems the nearest Miller came to characterising WED Marilyn Monroe within a short story. The sweet, dedicated WED girl-wife - and he, the loving older husband - still at the WED beginning of what could be a perfect, idyllic partnership. WED WED A married couple watch fishermen on a beach at sundown WED unloading their latest catch. She worries over the ones that WED will die needlessly, unacceptable to the fishermen but not WED returned to the sea. She tries to throw some of them back. WED The husband, amused, patiently indulges her childlike WED obsession. WED WED The generosity of spirit and understanding between the two WED is movingly conveyed and seems to echo aspects of Miller's WED own relationship with Monroe. Written in 1960, its sense of WED contentment and celebration contrasts notably with what we WED know was to happen between them soon afterwards. He doesn't WED foresee the tragedies to come... Or does he? WED WED Reader: Alfred Molina WED Director: Martin Jarvis WED A Jarvis & Ayres Productions for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:45 Turn Over Your Papers Now b007766b (Listen) WED Multiple Choice WED WED John O'Farrell explores the unexpected history of the WED different kinds of exam, and our relationship with them. WED WED In the third programme he finds out how multiple choice was WED first used to test US soldiers during the First World War. WED And why America has relied surprisingly heavily ever since WED on a test that values objective judgements of the masses WED over quirky individuality. Plus, examiners on the art of WED writing the wrong questions, and pupils on trying to avoid WED the pitfalls of this most slippery of tests. WED WED Producer: Phil Tinline. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00w20zb (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 All in the Mind b00w200f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00w20zd (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vyytf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack b00w20zg (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED Lucy Montgomery's Variety Pack is a multi-paced, one woman WED Fast Show for Radio 4 showcasing the exceptional talent of WED Lucy Montgomery. Lucy is a rare and multifaceted performer. WED Like Paul Whitehouse, she's a true chameleon who can embrace WED any character with uncanny accuracy, from a non-stop WED chattering public school girl to an 80-year-old diva. WED Laugh-out-loud, mainstream funny in attitude, her WED intelligence and Barry Humphries-esque glee give her WED characterisations a smart and distinctive edge that's hugely WED appealing to young and old alike. WED WED Lucy's honed her talents on Radio 4 shows as diverse as the WED Sony Gold winning Down the Line, The Museum of Everything, WED The Department, Another Case of Milton Jones, Mastering the WED Universe, Torchwood, The Don't Watch With Mother Sketchbook WED and The Way We Live Right Now. On television she has made WED her mark on BBC THREE's TittyBangBang, BBC ONE's Armstrong WED and Miller, and - coming soon to BBC TWO - Bellamy's People. WED WED Cast: Lucy Montgomery, Philip Pope, Sally Grace, Waen WED Shepherd and Natalie Walter WED WED Written by: Lucy Montgomery, Barunka O'Shaughnessy, Steven WED Burge, Jon Hunter and Holly Walsh WED WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00w20zj (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00w20zl (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the comedian WED and actor Eddie Izzard. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w208f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00w2190 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, WED Clifford Longley and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Wall in the Mind b00w2192 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Lynsey Hanley, the author of "Estates: An Intimate History" WED explores the complexities of class and social mobility in WED her own life and in British society more widely. WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b00w21dx (Listen) WED Artificial Meat WED WED At a time when we're being told how much of the world's WED greenhouse gas production is being created by livestock, WED what better moment to consider progress in developing WED synthetic alternatives. It may sound like a joke, but WED there's a lot of serious science underpinning the WED enterprise. Geoff Watts travels to Maastricht in Holland to WED look at, but not eat, the artificial meat that Professor WED Mark Post and his team have produced in the lab. WED WED Producer: Sue Broom. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00w2020 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00vyyth (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00w21dz (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 b00w47fh (Listen) WED A Night with a Vampire, The Horla WED WED After an unusual Brazilian ship enters the harbour - our WED hero suddenly begins to feel unwell, and starts to have WED feverish and disturbing visions. Only too late does he WED discover the demonic nature of the South American ship's cargo. WED WED Written by Guy de Maupassant. WED Read by David Tennant. WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Bespoken Word b00w21f1 (Listen) WED Michael Horovitz is one of the great British eccentrics, WED always guaranteed to entertain, with his distinctive plastic WED trumpet (which he was playing long before vuvuzelas came on WED the scene), and his own imitable poetry performance style. WED Now aged 75, but still as witty and politically excoriating WED as ever, he is one of the last living links to the beat WED generation. WED WED He became widely known upon his appearance at the WED International Poetry Incarnation at the Royal Albert Hall on WED June 11 1965, alongside Allen Ginsberg and Alexander WED Trocchi. WED WED Also on the bill is comedy Norfolk poet William Cake, with a WED poem about - guess what - Norfolk. WED WED Producer: Graham Frost WED A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Cornwell Estate b00w21f3 (Listen) WED Series 2, Kenny Killigrew WED WED Kenny was an outdoors pursuit expert and mountaineer, now WED living on the Cornwell estate whose recent divorce has left WED him with a touch of agoraphobia. WED WED When his old friend Pete "Peggie" McRuan arrives, Kenny WED realises that he should get out more. WED WED Cast: WED Kenny Killigrew ..... Phil Cornwell WED Pete 'Peggie' McRuan ...... Andrew McGibbon WED WED Producer: Andrew McGibbon WED A Curtains For Radio Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w21f5 (Listen) WED Mark D'arcy reports on events at Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2010 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00vz4ww (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00w487n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vz4wy (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vz4x0 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vz4x2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00vz4x4 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w1y2k (Listen) THU With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00w21fp (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie THU Bullock. THU THU 06:00 Today b00w1y36 (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; THU Yesterday in Parliament. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00w227c (Listen) THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the history of metaphor. THU "All the world's a stage/And all the men and women merely THU players", says Jaques in Shakespeare's As You Like It. This THU is one of the best known uses of metaphor, a figure of THU speech in which one thing is used to describe another. THU Writers from Homer to Orwell, the Metaphysical poets to THU Derrida, have explored its manifold possibilities. Is THU metaphor just a literary device, or is it evidence of the THU complex ways in which we seek to understand the world? THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00w48fn (Listen) THU Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, Episode 4 THU THU A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who THU changed the course of Tudor history. Henry VIII is THU determined to marry Anne Boleyn and has instituted divorce THU proceedings against Catherine. THU THU Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of THU Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage THU lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives THU put together. THU THU Abridged by Alison Joseph THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w227f (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of THU topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w227h (Listen) THU Paradise Place, Episode 4 THU THU In the fourth of Amanda Whittington's linked plays set in a THU shared house in Bristol, inspired by Woman's Hour listeners' THU stories and experiences of desire, Ella has put teenager Jaz THU to work in the garden with handyman Adrian in an attempt to THU help her through a difficult time. Adrian's troubled past THU has left him longing to prove himself, and when he and Jaz THU develop an unlikely friendship, he starts making plans for THU Jaz's education which cause a clash with the rest of the THU household. Meanwhile, Ella tries to stop thinking about THU Jules, who is in Manchester and not returning her calls. THU THU Ella: Kath Rogers THU Adrian: Malcolm Hamilton THU Jaz: Nicola Miles-Wildin THU Jules: Robert Gwilym THU THU Director: Sara Davies. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00w227k (Listen) THU The Primorsky Partisans THU THU Russia's police are out of control. They are often referred THU to as "werewolves in epaulettes" because so many officers THU prey on the public rather than protect them. Even Prime THU Minister Vladimir Putin complains about the lawlessness of THU the country's law enforcers. He once said upstanding THU citizens cross to the other side of the street as soon as THU they see a man in uniform. THU The crimes police commit range from bribe taking to THU kidnapping, drug trafficking, torture and murder. This THU brutality is accompanied by corruption. Illegal raids of THU businesses by police are commonplace as well as the THU subsequent jailing of their owners on false charges. Victims THU of police abuse are often helpless in a system of cover-ups THU long established in the law enforcement forces. THU Earlier this year, a group of six young men in Primorye, the THU remote Maritime region of Russia's Far East, decided to THU fight back. They declared a guerrilla war against the police THU with the sole purpose of killing as many cops as they could. THU Their attacks have included shooting of traffic policemen on THU roads, raiding a village police station and stabbing to THU death the officer on duty. Bare-chested and brandishing THU pistols, the 'Primorsky Partisans' posted videos on the THU internet to explain the motives behind their actions. THU This summer the gang's exploits gripped the Russian public's THU imagination. Many people in the Far East and beyond THU supported them: a poll on Ekho Moskvy radio indicated that THU 60-75 percent of listeners sympathised with the "young Robin THU Hoods" and would offer them help. THU In June the authorities launched a manhunt with tanks and THU helicopters. Eventually two members of the group died in a THU shoot-out with police while the rest were captured and are THU now behind bars awaiting trial. THU The local government of the Maritime Region is jittery about THU the case and is reluctant to comment. Local police and the THU prosecutor's office dismiss them as gangsters. Lucy Ash THU visits Kirovskiy, the home village of the young men, to THU investigate what drove the men to act in such an extreme way. THU THU Producer: Ibrat Jumaboyev. THU THU 11:30 Stefan Gates' Cover Story b00w227m (Listen) THU When he was four, food writer Stefan Gates appeared on the THU cover of Led Zeppelin's classic album Houses of the Holy. THU This deeply personal programme follows him as he THU investigates for the first time the story behind this iconic cover. THU THU It is a famously unsettling image. Taken at the Giants THU Causeway in Northern Ireland, Stefan and his sister Samantha THU appear naked climbing up the eerie landscape against a THU bright orange apocalyptic sky. THU THU It's a photo that's dogged Stefan all his life. Ever since THU he was a child, the picture has disturbed him, even scared THU him. He's ambivalent about it; should he be proud of it or THU is there something to be ashamed of? He's purposely never THU found out the story behind it. He has never even listened to THU the record. THU THU Now he sets out to revisit that chapter in his life and to THU confront his own mixed emotions about it, discovering the THU story behind the image, and its ideas and ethics. He THU discovers his sister's memories of the difficulties in THU getting it made, confronts his mother about why she let him THU pose naked as a child and meets Aubrey Powell, the cover THU art's photographer, from the famous graphic design team THU Hipgnosis. Finally, he makes an emotional journey back to THU the Giants Causeway to listen to the album for the very THU first time. THU THU Producer: Russell Finch THU A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00w227p (Listen) THU Consumer affairs. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00vz4x6 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00w227r (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Off the Page b00w227t (Listen) THU Favourite Child. Who was it in your family, and do you have THU one amongst your own children? It's the great taboo. Dominic THU Arkwright is joined by Rebecca Abrams, who bravely admits THU that she found it hard to love her first child after her THU second child was born. David Akinsanya grew up in care, THU aware that he was nobody's favourite child. And Bidisha has THU always known she is the most favoured. Why is it that even THU as adults it matters so much? New writing and honest, THU revealing talk in Off The Page. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00w20zj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00bc3hy (Listen) THU Signs, Perfect Day THU THU The second of two gripping stories about the way technology THU determines our lives, in interlocking plays by two of THU radio's most thought-provoking playwrights. THU THU Adam uses technology to find perfection, but there's a THU price, in this intense romantic drama by award-winning THU playwright Hattie Naylor. THU THU Imagine the possibilities of harnessing powerful THU information-processing technology for the benefit of one THU super-rich individual. There is no bad luck if you know how THU to use the right technology with the right people: THU everything can be predicted, manipulated, avoided or sought-out. THU THU Adam signs up to Perfect Day, a company which offers such THU specialised services, based on access to - and control over THU - information. The company promises to take away what is THU unpredictable, ugly or frustrating and ensure that a THU particular experience or life choice goes smoothly for their THU clients. No more traffic jams, no lost deals, no rained-off THU holidays, no bad food, no accidental encounters with THU difficult people. At first Adam uses the company to THU arrange evenings out, holidays, small life experiences. But THU his taste for perfection grows and soon he signs up to one THU of their most expensive and successful services: the THU location of a perfect life-partner. THU THU Vicky....Joanne Froggatt THU Adam....Paul Mundell THU Evie....Jane Godber THU Sarah....Lisa Coleman THU Jim...David Hounslow THU THU Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00w00k9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00w10vz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00w227w (Listen) THU Arthur Miller Stories, Beavers THU THU Directed by Martin Jarvis, award-winning American actor THU Hector Elizondo reads Miller's canny tale of a man trying to THU rid his pond of beavers. THU THU At first he's baffled by their behaviour. Miller uses the THU idea to examine the mystery of knowing (and perhaps THU understanding) another creature's motives. Perplexed, the THU man considers this enigma. The conventional analysis is that THU beaver dam-building has, as its purpose, the blocking of a THU small stream with a dam, in order to create a pond in which THU the beaver can build its lodge and raise its family, safe THU from predators. But this fellow already has a deep pond in THU which to build its lodge. Indeed, it has already built one. THU So why does it need to stuff the overflow pipe, and thereby THU raise the pond level? Why is the beaver creating a pond THU where a perfect one already exists? THU THU Soon the man feels himself weakening before such absolute THU dedication. He comes to a surprising conclusion which forces THU him to admire the beavers' complexity, to respect their THU intelligence - compared to his own doubting nature, his THU fractured convictions. THU THU Reader: Hector Elizondo THU Director: Martin Jarvis THU A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:45 Turn Over Your Papers Now b00776gw (Listen) THU Coursework THU THU John O'Farrell explores the unexpected history of the THU different kinds of exam, and our relationship with them. THU THU In the fourth programme he finds out how exam work spread THU beyond school sports halls and into pupils' homes, with the THU introduction of coursework. THU THU Producer: Phil Tinline. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00w13nq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00w227y (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU Producer: Roland Pease. THU THU 17:00 PM b00w2280 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at THU 5.57pm Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vz4x8 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Bleak Expectations b00w2282 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 3 THU THU "A wretched life made much much sadder" Volume Four, Chapter THU three of the Victorian comic epic by Mark Evans. After an THU embarrassing disaster involving a bridge and a train full of THU puppies and orphans Pip and Harry travel to America on the THU SS Massive Britain, where Pip begins a reading tour. But all THU is not as it seems and Mister Benevolent lures our hero into THU a gunfight at the "All Right I Suppose Corral" THU THU Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson THU Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen THU Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head THU Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman THU Grimpunch ..... Geoffrey Whitehead THU Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland THU Pippa ..... Susy Kane THU THU Writer ..... Mark Evans THU Producer ..... Gareth Edwards. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00w2284 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00w2286 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with photographer THU Albert Watson, whose subjects range from film stars to the THU Royal family. THU THU Producer Nicki Paxman. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w227h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00w2288 (Listen) THU Mukul Devichand investigates the truth about housing THU benefit, why the Government wants to cap it, and what effect THU that might have on our cities. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00w228b (Listen) THU Going for Growth THU THU In the middle of a recession renewed economic growth is THU always considered the great panacea that will get us out of THU the mess we are in. However, is this really the way to THU tackle the problems of a finite world? Peter Day wonders if THU our reliance on growth is not a snare and a delusion. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00w1y8m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00w227c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00vz4xb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00w22h4 (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 b00w47nq (Listen) THU A Night with a Vampire, Luella Miller THU THU Luella Miller seems incapable of surviving on her own - so THU she calls on friends, relatives and lovers to help her. And THU they all die - one by one - until there is no one left to THU lift a finger to assist this most demanding of women. An THU unusual tale - set in small town America. THU THU Written by Mary E Wilkins Freeman THU Read by David Tennant. THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Elvenquest b00w22h6 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 2 THU THU Amis' over-eating has forced him to put on weight. Which THU would be fine, were it not for the fact that he is the THU "Chosen One" and everyone knows Chosen Ones cannot be seen THU to be too pudgy. He is a role model after all. So the THU Questers take him to see the sorcerer, Dietica, where he is THU put on a punishing new regime - along with the rest of our THU noble band of heroes. THU THU But, as ever, danger lurks round every corner in Lower Earth THU and it is not long until Dietica reveals his true plans for THU the Questers. And it involves more than just staying away THU from carbs. THU THU An all-star cast, featuring: THU THU Stephen Mangan as "Sam", THU Alistair McGowan as "Lord Darkness", THU Sanjeev Bhaskar as "Dietica", THU Kevin Eldon as "Dean/Kreech", THU Darren Boyd as "Vidar", THU Dave Lamb as "Amis - The Chosen One" THU Sophie Winkleman as "Penthiselea" THU THU The producer is Sam Michell. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w22h9 (Listen) THU The latest news from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 26 NOVEMBER 2010 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00vz5nr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00w48fn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00vz5nt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00vz5nw (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00vz5ny (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00vz5p0 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00w1y2m (Listen) FRI With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00w22nx (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin FRI Rickarby. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00w1y38 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; FRI Yesterday in Parliament. FRI FRI 09:00 Food and Farming Awards b00w22nz (Listen) FRI Sheila Dillon presents a special programme, to announce the FRI winners of this year's BBC Food & Farming Awards - along FRI with food celebrities including Raymond Blanc, Angela FRI Hartnett, Alex James and Mark Hix. FRI FRI Producer Dan Saladino. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00w48g8 (Listen) FRI Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen, Episode 5 FRI FRI A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who FRI changed the course of Tudor history. At Henry's urging, FRI Parliament has passed the Act of Succession annulling the FRI marriage of the king and queen. However Catherine still has FRI influential allies across Europe. FRI FRI Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of FRI Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage FRI lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives FRI put together. FRI FRI Abridged by Alison Joseph FRI Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00w22p1 (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w236h (Listen) FRI Paradise Place, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the last episode of Amanda Whittington's serial inspired FRI by Woman's Hour listeners' stories and experiences on the FRI theme of desire, Jules arranges a day out with Ella, but FRI disaster strikes. Ella decides to throw a dinner party for FRI all the residents, to celebrate the completion of her FRI sculpture garden and to put the seal on her relationship FRI with Jules, which has now lasted a month. FRI FRI Ella: Katharine Rogers FRI Jules: Robert Gwilym FRI Adrian: Malcolm Hamilton FRI Sarah: Lucy Black FRI Jaz: Nicola Miles-Wildin FRI FRI Director: Sara Davies. FRI FRI 11:00 City Teachers b00w236k (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI Peter Curran follows three former city high fliers through FRI their year of PGCE teacher training. They were all FRI previously working in the corporate and financial sectors FRI and decided to go into teaching when the 2008 recession hit. FRI Despite their professional experience this will be one of FRI the most challenging years of their lives. FRI FRI According to the Training and Development Agency for Schools FRI (TDA), there has been a fifty per cent increase in FRI applications for teacher training since 2008. Teaching is a FRI competitive and demanding field to enter. Will the ambitions FRI and aspirations of our three career changers match their FRI experience? FRI FRI In programme one we join our trainee teachers on day one of FRI their PGCE year. They are excited, nervous and idealistic. FRI We follow them through the early weeks of their training and FRI find out how the communication skills of the business world FRI translate to the classroom. We join them as they take up FRI their first school placements and start to put their FRI classroom management skills into action. The work load is FRI huge and the experience extremely stressful for most FRI trainees. We learn that the salaries they will earn as FRI teachers will be a quarter of what they earnt previously. We FRI also hear from other members of staff at the schools who FRI have been working alongside and supporting our trainees FRI through their first months. FRI FRI Producer: Sarah Cuddon FRI A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Safety Catch b00w236m (Listen) FRI Series 3, Unforgiveable, That's What You Are FRI FRI A new series of Laurence Howarth's black comedy of modern FRI morality set in the world of arms dealing. FRI FRI Simon McGrath is a generally nice chap who just happens to FRI be an arms dealer. It's not something he planned, he just FRI fell into it, and despite all his best intentions he just FRI doesn't seem to be able to leave because he has to pay his FRI mortgage like everyone else. Of course his real love is FRI electronic music and this is just a stop gap until he finds FRI the perfect outlet for his music - okay so the gap has FRI lasted five years but that's not the point. Once he can get FRI himself motivated he'll be out of there and, as his ever FRI supportive mum says, people will always want to kill each. FRI So that's alright then... FRI FRI This week Heathcote Sanders are under the microscope when FRI some of the weapons they sold to a hostile government are FRI turned against the British. This prompts Simon to wonder if FRI he should be seeking some kind of forgiveness, although of FRI course, he has absolutely nothing to seek forgiveness FRI for...does he? Meanwhile his personal life is going FRI fantastically well, until he and Anna realise that they FRI don't know why they love each other. FRI FRI Simon McGrath.........Darren Boyd FRI Anna Grieg.............Joanna Page FRI Boris Kemal............Lewis Macleod FRI Judith McGrath..........Sarah Smart FRI Angela McGrath........Brigit Forsyth FRI Madeleine Turnbull........Rachel Atkins FRI Sarah......Di Botcher FRI Vicar.....Mike Hayward FRI FRI Written by Laurence Howarth FRI Produced By Dawn Ellis. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00w236p (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00vz5p2 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00w236r (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00w236t (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place for listeners FRI to air their views on the things heard on BBC Radio. FRI FRI Email the team: feedback@bbc.co.uk FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00w2284 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00w236w (Listen) FRI Moeran's Last Symphony FRI FRI Written by Martyn Wade. FRI FRI A dramatic portrait of the last weeks in the life of the FRI English composer E.J. Moeran [1894-1950]. After the FRI triumphant reception of his first Symphony he was FRI commissioned by the prestigious Halle Orchestra to write a second. FRI FRI Tortured by the end of his marriage to the cellist Peers FRI Coetmore and in constant pain from injuries sustained during FRI the Great War which had driven him to drink, he retreated to FRI Kenmare in Ireland, a place of previous inspiration, hoping FRI this would provide the right setting for creativity. FRI FRI But it was not to be, and his untimely death was both tragic FRI and haunting. FRI FRI Cast: FRI Moeran .....Tim McInnerny FRI Mrs O'Donnell .....Kate Binchy FRI Patrick ..... Sean Froudist Walsh FRI Peers ..... Geraldine Fitzgerald FRI Peter Warlock ..... Nicholas Boulton FRI Tomlinson ..... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI FRI Producer: Cherry Cookson FRI A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00w243d (Listen) FRI Grayshott Gardeners, Hampshire FRI FRI Peter Gibbs and the panel join the Grayshott Gardeners in FRI Hampshire. FRI How to maintain your greenhouse over winter and maximise its FRI potential: Anne Swithinbank and Pippa Greenwood discuss some FRI essential greenhouse care. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Turn Over Your Papers Now b00776rv (Listen) FRI Practicals FRI FRI John O'Farrell explores the unexpected history of the FRI different kinds of exam, and our relationship with them. FRI FRI In the final programme he explores Victorian medical FRI practicals, and why semi-naked patients volunteered to let FRI students draw lines on them. And he finds out who examines FRI the examiners - and what happens if they get a 'D'. FRI FRI Producer: Phil Tinline. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00w243g (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 b00w243j (Listen) FRI Anton Corbijn discusses The American, his existential FRI thriller with George Clooney. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00w243l (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including at FRI 5.57pm Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00vz5p4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b00w243n (Listen) FRI Series 31, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with another series of the FRI topical comedy show with stand-up, skits and sketches. FRI Guests include Jon Culshaw, Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes and Laura FRI Shavin. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00w243q (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00w243s (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Jerome Weatherald. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00w236h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00w243v (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from North FRI Leamington School in Leamington Spa with questions for the FRI panel including broadcaster Joan Bakewell and Shadow FRI Olympics minister Tessa Jowell. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00w243x (Listen) FRI Joan Bakewell with her topical reflections FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 A History of the World in 100 Objects FRI Omnibus b00w2452 (Listen) FRI Episode 18 FRI FRI Neil MacGregor, the director of the British Museum in FRI London, continues his global history as told through objects FRI from the Museum's collection. In this episode, Neil FRI concentates on the period between the French Revolution and FRI the First World War, when the countries of Europe and the FRI USA were transformed from agricultural to industrial FRI economies. At the same time, their empires around the world FRI grew. Technological innovation led to the mass production of FRI goods and growing international trade. Previously luxuries, FRI like tea and Wedgewood pottery, became affordable to the FRI masses. In many countries, movements pressed for political FRI and social reforms, including the right for all men and FRI women to be able to vote. The industrial revolutions of the FRI West were partly funded by resources from Europe's expanding FRI colonial empires. Only one non-western country, Japan, FRI successfully embraced modernisation and emerged as an FRI imperial power in its own right. FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00vz5p6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00w2454 (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 b00w47nx (Listen) FRI A Night with a Vampire, Clarimonde FRI FRI As a young man approaches his first moments as a priest his FRI eyes glance to heaven - and sees leaning over the sanctuary FRI railing - a young woman of extraordinary beauty. And so FRI begins a sensational struggle for his soul...... FRI FRI Written by Theophile Gautier. FRI Read by David Tennant. FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b00w1zx7 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00w2456 (Listen) FRI Mark D'arcy reports on events at Westminster. FRI
19 November, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 20/11/2010 - 26/11/2010
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