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SAT SATURDAY 01 JANUARY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00x2xjn (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Afternoon Reading b00lgfqr (Listen) SAT Bears of England, Spirit Bears SAT SAT In the days before electric light and oil lamps most of SAT England was troubled by spirit bears. But one village SAT believed itself to be victim to an especially wicked gang SAT and sought to find an answer. SAT SAT Adapted by Booker-nominated writer Mick Jackson from his SAT collection 'Bears Of England.' SAT SAT Reader: Ian Holm SAT SAT Producer: Karen Rose SAT A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00wr5sb (Listen) SAT Proust's Overcoat, Episode 5 SAT SAT By Lorenza Foschini. Jacques Guerin offers up his collection SAT to the world and the author opens a cardboard box. SAT SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x2xlb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x2xns (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x2xnv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00x2xnx (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x2xnz (Listen) SAT with Canon Patrick Thomas. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00x2xp1 (Listen) SAT A dying father explains why he'll be an 'incurable optimist' SAT to the end. Mature students baulk at running up bigger SAT debts. And trad jazz goes high tech. Also, we announce the SAT name of the winner of the iPM New Year's Honour. With Eddie SAT Mair and Jennifer Tracey. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00x2xp3 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00x2ymz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00x2yn1 (Listen) SAT The River Thames was recently selected as the winner of the SAT international Theiss River Prize, an award which celebrates SAT outstanding achievement in river management and restoration. SAT Fifty years after being declared biologically dead, the SAT Thames scooped the prize thanks to a dramatic turnaround in SAT its environment. Environment organisations now say that the SAT Thames is the cleanest it has been in more than 150 years, SAT with almost 400 new habitats being created to allow wildlife SAT back to the river which is now teeming with fish, and home SAT to returning salmon, otter and sea trout populations. SAT Helen Mark begins an exploration of the Thames at Woolwich SAT in South East London with author, Iain Sinclair, who has SAT described the river as a story of ruin and revival and the SAT very lifeblood of London. Travelling west along the river to SAT the Millennium Bridge, Helen meets up with Fiona Haughey. SAT Fiona describes herself as an inter-tidal archaeologist and SAT the river as one of the world's largest self-excavating SAT sites and Helen joins her in a beachcombing search for some SAT of the river's neolithic roots. SAT Further along the river banks at Putney Bridge, Helen finds SAT a group of volunteers from environmental charity, Thames 21. SAT Led by Vic Richardson, the group are working on Project SAT Habitat, an initiative to enhance certain areas of the River SAT Thames by building artifical islands and river banks to SAT encourage suitable habitats and attract wildlife. SAT Leaving the city behind, Helen heads out into the Berkshire SAT countryside where she meets Alastair Driver, conservation SAT manager with the Environment Agency. Cycling along the river SAT through Sonning-on-Thames, Alastair tells Helen how this SAT particular stretch of water near his home now runs crystal SAT clear in the summer and how sheer hard work along the whole SAT of the Thames has resulted in this amazing clean-up story. SAT Finally, Helen joins volunteer river warden, Dick Mayon SAT White from the River Thames Society, a charity which aims to SAT protect and preserve the river. Dick takes Helen for a SAT stroll along a stretch of the river near Port Meadow and SAT explains why it means so much to him and why it is so SAT important to preserve the river for future generations. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00x2yn3 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Caz Graham looks at winter on farms around the country. Life SAT on farm doesn't grind to a halt for the festive season, so SAT while you may be tucked up in bed, spare a thought for the SAT farmers out in the cold, the dark, the wet and the snow. SAT SAT Farming Today This Week visits Rugeley in Staffordshire, SAT where there's a broken milking machine as the cold snap SAT causes dozens of metres of pipes to freeze in the milking SAT parlour. Meanwhile on a Norfolk sheep farm, it's a round SAT trip of hundreds of miles to check on all the animals. And SAT it's not just livestock - there are sprouts to harvest and SAT eggs to collect. And for farmers working with the RSPB there SAT are birds to feed and wildlife to be tended. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00x2yny (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00x2yp0 (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00x2ys7 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover looks forward to the year ahead with comedian Jon SAT Holmes and poet Luke Wright. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00x2ys9 (Listen) SAT Walking in Madeira, Europe and Gambia SAT SAT John McCarthy talks to the human rights campaigner Peter SAT Tatchell about his enthusiasm for hiking in Tasmania and SAT Madeira, glaciologist Richard Sale about long distance SAT walking routes in Europe and to photographer Jason Florio SAT and his partner Helen Jones about travelling all around SAT Gambia on foot. SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Politics of Ambridge b00x2ysc (Listen) SAT Episode 1 SAT SAT Two programmes in which the author Michael Dobbs explores SAT the sixty-year relationship between the fictional world of SAT The Archers and real-life politics. SAT SAT The first programme traces the political history of the SAT series from its roots in post-war austerity through the SAT polarised party-politics of the seventies and eighties, and SAT meets a number of heavyweight political fans - including SAT Glenys Kinnock and two former home secretaries, Michael SAT Howard and David Blunkett. SAT SAT The second programme considers how The Archers has tried to SAT reflect changing social attitudes over the decades, tackling SAT issues such as racism, snobbery, and the role of contentious SAT country sports like fox-hunting. SAT SAT Along the way we revisit memorable clips from the archives, SAT and hear contributions from the cast, the editor of The SAT Archers, Vanessa Whitburn, and two of her predecessors, SAT William Smethurst and Liz Rigbey. SAT SAT Producer: John Beesley. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b00x3n8v (Listen) SAT Lessons learned from Coalitions past SAT SAT In a special New Year's Day edition of "Beyond Westminster", SAT Andrew Rawnsley considers the lessons of history for SAT Britain's coalition government - and its opponents. SAT SAT Conservative and Liberal Democrat ministers are busily SAT advancing their ambitious political and economic agenda - SAT albeit amid parliamentary revolts and embarrassing comments SAT to undercover reporters. Exactly a hundred years ago too, no SAT party had an outright majority at Westminster, and a Liberal SAT government relied on Irish Nationalists and a fledgling SAT Labour Party to enact reform of Parliament, a radical budget SAT and social changes. SAT SAT Lloyd George continued in coalition with the Conservatives SAT after World War One only for peacetime tensions within the SAT government to culminate in the ejection from Downing Street SAT of Britain's last Liberal prime minister, amid mass SAT disaffection with Liberal splits. Can Nick Clegg avoid a SAT similar fate befalling today's Liberal Democrats? And can SAT the present Conservative leadership prevent tensions at SAT Westminster - and across the country - from undermining SAT David Cameron's and Nick Clegg's "new politics"? SAT SAT For Labour too, past coalition experience is ambiguous. Some SAT aims were achieved, but the 1930s National Government and SAT its break-up left a legacy of bitterness that has long SAT endured. How savvy will Labour be in opposing the coalition SAT parties not just at Westminster but in this year's polls for SAT the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly and in local SAT government? SAT SAT Seven months into "new politics", Andrew Rawnsley explores SAT with historians Juliet Nicolson and Martin Pugh the record SAT of past coalitions. And he discusses with The Rt. Hon. David SAT Davis MP, Simon Hughes MP and Tristram Hunt MP the lessons SAT of the past and if this coalition will re-shape British SAT politics. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00x2ysf (Listen) SAT A special edition which includes: eating off plates the size SAT of satellite dishes, discovering the warmth of the American SAT spirit on a freezing night in the midwest, wondering if it's SAT futile using the French language in rock music, drinking in SAT the atmosphere in an iconic Irish pub, travelling on a SAT curiously-named Indian express, crashing on the night train SAT to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe and a number of harrowing SAT experiences faced by our foreign correspondents at the SAT dinner table. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00x2yt8 (Listen) SAT News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal SAT finances. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00wrbt0 (Listen) SAT The News Quiz team take a look back at 2010. SAT SAT Sue Perkins, Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, and Francis Wheen SAT make up the panel dissecting the events, people and stories SAT that made this year's headlines. Presented by Sandi Toksvig. SAT SAT Produced by Sam Bryant. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00x2yts (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00x2yw7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Correspondents Look Ahead b00wrbt2 (Listen) SAT Will the Euro survive? Will Burma move closer to democracy? SAT And how will the Tea Party Movement make its presence felt? SAT SAT Stephen Sackur is joined by some of the BBC's top SAT correspondents as they give their predictions about what SAT will shape our world next year. SAT SAT Radio 4 listeners can have their say on next year's big SAT stories by joining the 'Listeners Look Ahead' with Stephen SAT in the chair at two o'clock after the programme is repeated SAT on Saturday, 1 January. SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 14:00 Listeners Look Ahead b00x2z1j (Listen) SAT After hearing the predictions of BBC Correspondents, what SAT and who do you think will be the big stories, trends and SAT people shaping the world in 2011? SAT SAT Call or email Stephen Sackur as he looks ahead to what the SAT Radio 4 listeners think will happen in the world in 2011. SAT SAT Telephone: 03700 100 444 SAT Email: lookahead@bbc.co.uk SAT SAT Producer: Jim Frank. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00hmlhk (Listen) SAT The Lady in the Van SAT SAT by Alan Bennett SAT SAT Miss Shepherd ..... Maggie Smith SAT Alan Bennett ..... Adrian Scarborough SAT Alan Bennett 2 ..... Alan Bennett SAT Mam ..... Marcia Warren SAT Rufus ..... Matt Addis SAT Pauline ..... Janice Acquah SAT Underwood ..... Stephen Critchlow SAT Social Worker ..... Caroline Guthrie SAT Fairchild ..... Philip Fox SAT Doctors ..... Jonathan Tafler and Malcolm Tierney SAT SAT Music composed by Simon Morecroft SAT Adapted and Directed by Gordon House SAT SAT 15:30 The British Reggae Revolution b00wr7rw (Listen) SAT In the late 1970s there was an explosion of bands that SAT completely connected with disenchanted youth all over SAT Britain. They sang about isolation and rejection from a SAT society that didn't understand them. But it wasn't punk SAT music, it was reggae. Groups like Aswad, Steel Pulse, SAT Matumbi and Misty in Roots were formed by first generation, SAT British-born blacks who eloquently voiced the fear and SAT anguish of growing up in a predominantly white society. SAT Brought up on British pop and their parents' records, they SAT combined a punk attitude with a Jamaican reggae sound. Their SAT efforts to become successful mirrored thousands of young SAT black kids across the UK who were coping with a right-wing SAT backlash to the influx of Caribbean immigrants. The National SAT Front were stirring up racial hatred and the government's SAT SUS law resulted in hundreds of black people stopped and SAT searched on the mere suspicion of committing a crime. It SAT wasn't long before there was rioting in the streets. The SAT British reggae bands provided the soundtrack to that struggle. SAT Back then Don Letts - now a Grammy Award winning film maker SAT - was the resident DJ at the infamous Roxy Club, credited SAT with turning the punks on to reggae. A first generation, SAT British-born black himself, he had a front row seat watching SAT this burgeoning scene produce hit making artists. From the SAT politicised heavy roots of bands like Steel Pulse to the SAT smooth pop hits of Lovers' Rock, Don examines how Britain SAT produced its very own reggae revolution. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00x2z7b (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Jane Garvey celebrates some of the most inspirational women SAT who've appeared on the programme in 2010. Jane is joined by SAT the author and broadcaster, Joan Smith; and young knife SAT crime campaigners, Getride Sukama Lumengo and Mildred SAT Edoukou, who've received a Diana Award for their efforts. SAT Including: Davinia Turrell - the 'woman in the mask' who SAT became the image of the 7/7 London bombings. Christina SAT Schmid talks about life after the death of her husband Staff SAT Sergeant Olaf Schmid. Lisa Robinson laid down in front of a SAT train in protest at sexist abuse from drunken football fans SAT on a train. The film director Gurinder Chadha talks about SAT her career, balancing movie making with motherhood and her SAT ambitions. The choreographer and Artistic Director, Judith SAT Jamison has been named one of the world's 100 most SAT influential people by Time magazine and was honoured at The SAT White House with Michelle Obama for her contribution to SAT dance. Marie-Louise Stenild talks about making history by SAT becoming the first woman to run seven marathons in seven SAT days over seven different continents. And the Dowager SAT Duchess of Devonshire reveals her passion for Elvis. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00x2z7d (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b00x2xp1 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00x2zpn (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00x2zpq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x2zps (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00x2zpv (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests see in the New Year with an SAT eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by actor Tamsin Greig who is reuniting with SAT Green Wing star Stephen Mangan in the new comedy series SAT "Episodes". Tamsin talks about acting with A-listers and why SAT Hollywood is just like Chertsey. SAT SAT Adrian Lester joins Clive to discuss his enormous success as SAT Mickey Bricks, the wheeler-dealing leading man of British SAT television hit Hustle. As the seventh series is set to begin SAT on BBC One, Adrian talks about his career and his attempt to SAT bring Shakespeare to teenagers. SAT SAT Stage star and panto regular Clive Rowe joins Clive Anderson SAT to discuss the ins and outs of pantomime etiquette, the back SAT end of horses and enormous bloomers. SAT SAT And Arthur Smith talks to comedy duo Ronna and Beverly, a SAT pair of American Jewish housewives who are in the UK to SAT impart their relationship wisdom to the British public with SAT their book You'll Do Better Next Time. SAT SAT With music from The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00x2zpx (Listen) SAT Prince William SAT SAT The royal wedding this year will bring Prince William back SAT to Westminster Abbey, the place where he first attracted SAT global attention as the son mourning his mother's tragic SAT death. Since then he has had to negotiate his relations with SAT the Spencer and Windsor families, and follow the carefully SAT constructed training of the man likely to be king. His time SAT as a student, professional and military careers have all SAT been steps on this path. So how difficult an inheritance has SAT this been? And what does the preparation of William the SAT young prince tell us about plans for the future role and SAT image of the monarchy? SAT SAT In this week's Profile, Chris Bowlby considers the mix of SAT family duty, personal choice and careful PR that has gone SAT into the making of Prince William. SAT SAT Producer: Daniel Tetlow. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00x469p (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests Director of the National SAT Theatre of Scotland Vicky Featherstone, Director of the SAT Serpentine Gallery Julia Peyton-Jones and writer and SAT Artistic Director of the Bath Literature Festival James SAT Runcie look at the future of funding for the arts and ask if SAT the new austerity is a problem - or an opportunity? SAT SAT Historian Dominic Sandbrook, theatre critic David Benedict, SAT former Chairman of the Arts Council Sir Christopher SAT Frayling, Chairman of the UK Film Council Tim Bevan and CEO SAT of Faber & Faber Stephen Page also offer their views on what SAT happens to the cultural life of the nation when the SAT purse-strings are tightened. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b00x2zpz (Listen) SAT Sex in the Classroom SAT SAT Since the First World War when syphilis rates rocketed, SAT government sought to educate the public about venereal SAT disease in films that were shown around the country. The SAT first of these 'Whatsover a Man Soweth,' was a moral tale to SAT show men the dangers of consorting with loose women. Ever SAT since, politicians have influenced what we know about sex. SAT SAT Sex education in schools was rare before the Second World SAT War when an upsurge of gonorrhoea and syphilis frightened SAT the government into acting. Early lessons focused on SAT biology. Contraception information was deemed for married SAT people only. Keeping oneself pure was the only way to avoid SAT the pitfalls of pre-marital sex. The sexual revolution SAT brought discussion into the open and much time was spent SAT debating what children should be taught and at what age. In SAT the 80s there was a gear-change when the moral tone was lost SAT and it became about teenagers 'making informed choices about SAT their own sexuality.' Clause 28 was a reaction to this. SAT SAT Since 2000 the government has asked schools to teach sex SAT education in every year of a child's schooling. The general SAT election interrupted the bill to make this mandatory. Are we SAT finally losing our primness or forcing our children out of SAT innocence? What is appropriate for a 5 year old to be told SAT about sex? Is the word vagina OK? What about ejaculation? Is SAT government right to be involved in such a personal area of SAT people's lives? Mariella Frostrup looks at how we got here. SAT SAT Producers Sara Conkey and Rachael Howorth. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00wr4j7 (Listen) SAT I, Claudius, Claudius SAT SAT Robert Graves' wickedly enjoyable histories of Imperial SAT Rome, dramatised by Robin Brooks. SAT SAT How the Sibyl's prophecy came true, for the most unwilling SAT Emperor of them all. SAT SAT Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SAT Caligula ..... Samuel Barnett SAT Herod Agrippa ..... Zubin Varla SAT Messalina ..... Jessica Raine SAT Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock SAT Cassius Chaerea ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT Gratus ..... Sam Dale SAT Cornelius ..... Iain Batchelor SAT Bassus ..... Lloyd Thomas SAT Asiaticus ..... Sean Baker SAT Lupus ..... Henry Devas SAT Sentius ..... Tony Bell SAT The Executioner ..... Adeel Akhtar SAT SAT Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SAT Directed by Jonquil Panting. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00x2zsc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b00wr9q8 (Listen) SAT Legal Aid SAT SAT In this week's edition of Unreliable Evidence, Clive SAT Anderson and a panel of top lawyers discuss concerns that SAT proposed Government cuts to the legal aid budget will deny SAT access to justice for the poor and weak in society. SAT SAT The Ministry of Justice proposals target the civil and SAT family law budget and will severely restrict legal aid SAT available for divorce, welfare, employment, immigration, SAT clinical negligence and personal injury cases. SAT SAT Chair of the Bar Council, Nicholas Green QC warns that the SAT cuts, which include a 10 per cent reduction in lawyers' SAT fees, will create 'justice desserts' as barristers and SAT solicitors increasingly opt out of legal aid work. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00wr6qt (Listen) SAT (10/17) Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair for SAT the tenth heat in the current series. At stake is another SAT automatic place in the semi-finals, which begin in the new SAT year. This week's competitors are from Widnes, Coventry, SAT Chesterfield and Greater Manchester. SAT SAT 23:30 Adventures in Poetry b00wr4jc (Listen) SAT Series 11, The Wreck of the Hesperus SAT SAT Peggy Reynolds continues her Adventures in Poetry by asking SAT why one of the most popular poems of the 19th century 'The SAT Wreck of the Hesperus' by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, has SAT since fallen out of favour. The ballad of a reckless sea SAT captain who takes his young daughter on a voyage despite SAT warnings of an approaching storm, the poem was recited in SAT parlours across the English speaking world, and learnt by SAT every schoolchild in America for decades. Peggy explores the SAT poem with Jay Parini, who has made a study of Longfellow; SAT talks to the former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo; SAT and to Linda Greenlaw, a sea captain who sails the same sea SAT as the captain in the poem. With them, she uncovers the SAT events in Longfellow's life which inspired the poem and SAT discovers that it still retains the power to terrify and SAT move its readers. SAT Producer: Jane Greenwood. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 02 JANUARY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00x30yy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Biggles: Adventures Through Time b00mcvgg (Listen) SUN Alexander Armstrong explores the lasting appeal of action SUN hero Biggles and examines the life of his creator, Captain SUN WE Johns. SUN SUN Captain James Bigglesworth could easily have been found in SUN any Royal Flying Corps mess during the grand days of 1917 SUN and 1918 when air combat had become the order of the day and SUN air duelling was a fine art. The 'spirit' of Biggles still SUN exists today, and his influence and impact can be seen on SUN screen, music and in numerous comic parodies. Biggles SUN memorabilia is much sought after by collectors, who bid SUN thousands of pounds on internet auction sites. SUN SUN His adventures through time total almost 100 books, which SUN have seen him journey through two world wars, finally ending SUN with the Special Air Police. He first took to the skies in SUN 1916 in his FE2 'pusher' and made his final descent, 50 SUN years later, in a Hawker Hunter. SUN SUN Armstrong examines Biggles' origins and how the character SUN contrasts with that of his creator. He reveals why the SUN Biggles books were also surprisingly enjoyed by women, SUN considering their negative portrayal in them. He also SUN considers whether some of Biggles' stories, with their SUN perceived imperialist and alleged racist content, are still SUN acceptable reading in public libraries and schools today. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x30z0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x30z2 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x30z4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00x30z6 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00x31f6 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's Church, Abergavenny, Monmouthshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00x2zpx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00x30z8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00x31j3 (Listen) SUN Place of Safety SUN SUN Mark Tully contemplates the secure environments we construct SUN for our own protection, and the places of safety we yearn SUN for within ourselves. SUN SUN He is joined by Caspar Walsh, whose autobiography 'Criminal' SUN and novel 'Blood Road', draw on his early life of crime and SUN drug abuse. Amidst his dangerous environment Caspar SUN occasionally found a sense of safety with his chaotic SUN father. He talks of his father's violence, but also of SUN their love for each other which created a sanctuary. SUN SUN Caspar, now free of his addictions, describes his current SUN work with prisoners and his attempts to provide them with an SUN environment in which they can feel safe to express their SUN fears and come to terms with dangerous emotions. SUN SUN The programme features lullabies, fairy stories, poetry and SUN literature which both comfort and disturb, to evoke our need SUN to immunise ourselves from danger. In the end, Mark Tully SUN conjectures that true safety lies not in outward barriers, SUN but inner peace. SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN An Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b00x31k2 (Listen) SUN Adam Henson visits a large-scale pig farm in Indiana to find SUN out how pigs are raised in the USA. His visit highlights SUN differences between pig farming in the USA and the UK and SUN Adam asks if pig farming on a massive scale would ever be SUN viable in this country. SUN Presented by Adam Henson and produced by Martin SUN Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00x30zb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00x30zd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00x31kg (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 b00x31lk (Listen) SUN Hannah Cheetham and her mum, Jackie Cheetham present the SUN Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the charity The Sequal Trust. SUN SUN Donations to The Sequal Trust should be sent to FREEPOST BBC SUN Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope The SUN Sequal Trust. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. You can SUN also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If you are SUN a UK tax payer, please provide The Sequal Trust with your SUN full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your SUN donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not SUN currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 260119. SUN SUN 07:58 Weather b00x30zg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00x30zj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00x31p9 (Listen) SUN As Methodists renew their new year covenant of service to SUN God in times of suffering or prosperity, Leslie Griffiths SUN leads a meditation reflecting on the Haiti earthquake, the SUN anniversary of which falls later this month. For several SUN years Leslie served the Methodist Church in Haiti before SUN returning to the UK as Superintendent at Wesley's Chapel. SUN Has God broken his covenant with the people of Haiti? SUN Producer: Mark O'Brien. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00wrbt4 (Listen) SUN Dear Diary SUN SUN Joan Bakewell celebrates the art of diary writing by public SUN figures and private individuals whose accounts of everyday SUN life help shape our view of the past. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00x31qp (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00x31rr (Listen) SUN Written by: Joanna Toye SUN Directed by: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck 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 Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford SUN Coriander Snell ..... Alexandra Lilley. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00x31sq (Listen) SUN Tony Iveson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the veteran RAF pilot Tony SUN Iveson. SUN SUN Aged 21, he survived being shot down in his Spitfire over SUN the North Sea during his first taste of combat in the Battle SUN of Britain. Unusually for a fighter pilot, he then went on SUN to join Bomber Command and the famous Dambusters squadron, SUN sinking the German battleship The Tirpitz and winning a SUN Distinguished Flying Cross. SUN SUN Aged 89 he returned to the skies, becoming the oldest man to SUN fly a Lancaster bomber: "Well, I got out of that aeroplane SUN and looked at it and it and thought how did we do it?" he SUN says. "I know it was a long time ago and I was young and fit SUN and a professional flier. But I thought about some of my SUN friends who had been lost and it was an emotional experience." SUN SUN Record: The adagio from Bruch's Violin Concerto SUN Book: A volume of Somerset Maugham's short stories SUN Luxury: Two established vines and a tin bath to make wine SUN SUN Producer: Rachel Simpson. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00wr6r8 (Listen) SUN Series 54, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 54th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more quality, desk-based entertainment SUN for all the family, as the series starts its run from the SUN Town Hall in Leeds. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and SUN Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Phill Jupitus, SUN with Jack Dee as the programme's reluctant chairman. Regular SUN listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless SUN revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. SUN SUN Producer ..... Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00x31xd (Listen) SUN Food Writing 2010 SUN SUN Sheila Dillon traces the legacy of Elizabeth David's more SUN scholarly work and reviews food writing in 2010 with blogger SUN and critic Tim Hayward, photographer Jason Lowe and SUN publisher Anne Dolamore. SUN We hear from Elizabeth David's literary Executor Jill Norman SUN about the shift in her work from recipe-driven writing in SUN her early career to the later, more academic books and SUN debate who has taken on her legacy of more scholarly food SUN writing today. SUN SUN Producer: Elaine Lester. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00x30zl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00x338j (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 The Wire b00x338l (Listen) SUN The Music of the Wires: wildlife sound recordist Chris SUN Watson is captivated by the extraordinary sounds of the wind SUN and the weather as they play on vast lengths of fencing wire SUN stretched across the Australian landscape. SUN SUN Alan Lamb is an artist, biomedical research scientist and SUN composer who has long been fascinated by the vibrating SUN qualities of telegraph wires. As a young boy he was SUN introduced to the music of the wires during walks with his SUN sister and their nanny, who showed the children how to press SUN their ears against a telegraph pole to 'hear the sound of SUN the world'. SUN SUN Years later, when he was a student on a camping holiday in SUN Mull, Alan pulled into the side of the road and fell asleep SUN in his van. He was woken by an extraordinary sound. It was SUN produced by the telegraph wires overhead as they waxed and SUN waned in the wind. Alan was transported by the sounds and SUN became determined to record their music. SUN SUN Since then, he has worked with abandoned telegraph wires on SUN several sites across Australia and installed new structures SUN in order to produce and record music from them. Alan has SUN also completed extensive research into auditory perception SUN and developed theories relating to the wire music and its SUN behaviour. SUN SUN In this programme, wildlife sound recordist Chris Watson, SUN who has long been interested in the sounds of the wind, SUN travels to Australia to meet Alan Lamb and some of his SUN colleagues at The Wired Lab Project. He discusses their work SUN and its evolution and records for himself some of the SUN extraordinary music of the wires. SUN SUN Presenter: Chris Watson SUN Producer: Sarah Blunt. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00wrbrz (Listen) SUN Alnwick Castle SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel explore the fantastical landscape SUN of Alnwick Castle, most commonly known as 'Hogwarts' SUN [location for the Harry Potter film shoots]. SUN SUN Chris Beardshaw guides us through the Alnwick Poison SUN Gardens. Bunny Guinness reports from the treetops, perched SUN in one of the largest treehouses in the world. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Main Image: the British Cactus and Succulent Society SUN SUN This summer, Anne Swithinbank attended the British Cactus SUN and Succulent Society conference where she met succulent SUN expert Colin Walker. SUN SUN 14:45 What the Minister Saw b00x3pcm (Listen) SUN Becoming a Minister has many perks, but one they can see SUN every day is the art hanging in their office, often borrowed SUN from the Government Art Collection. Art historian Philip SUN Mould speaks to new ministers about what they chose and why SUN they chose it, and he asks what it says about them. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00x3pcp (Listen) SUN I, Claudius, Messalina SUN SUN Dramatisation by Robin Brooks of Robert Graves' great SUN histories of first century Rome. SUN SUN The ageing Emperor Claudius works to restore the Republic. SUN But his beautiful young wife Messalina has other plans. SUN SUN Claudius ..... Tom Goodman-Hill SUN Messalina ..... Jessica Raine SUN Narcissus ..... Robin Soans SUN Calpurnia ..... Sally Orrock SUN Burrhus ..... Jude Akuwudike SUN Britannicus ..... Ryan Watson SUN Euodus ..... Adeel Akhtar SUN Asiaticus ..... Sean Baker SUN Frontinus ..... Tony Bell SUN Tacitus ..... Sam Dale SUN Callistus ..... Henry Devas SUN Agrippinilla ..... Claire Harry SUN Soldier ..... Iain Batchelor SUN SUN Specially composed music by David Pickvance. SUN Directed by Jonquil Panting. SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b00x3pv9 (Listen) SUN Howard Jacobson SUN SUN James Naughtie and readers talk to this year's Man Booker SUN prize winner - Howard Jacobson. The chosen book for this SUN edition of Bookclub is the one he says he wants people to SUN read : The Mighty Walzer, first published in 1999. SUN SUN Peculiarly, it is a comic novel about the joy and despair of SUN table tennis. SUN SUN It's also a portrait of a Jewish boyhood in Manchester, SUN showing how the main character - Oliver Walzer - comes to SUN terms with the demands of puberty and his sporting genius; SUN as well as the attentions of his mother, grandmother and SUN assorted aunties. SUN SUN Back in the 1950s Jacobson, like his alter-ego Oliver SUN Walzer, was one of the top 10 junior table tennis players in SUN the country. This is a heavily autobiographical novel from a SUN writer who's has been called 'the master of confessional SUN humour'. SUN SUN As always on Bookclub, a group of readers join the author in SUN the discussion and James Naughtie chairs the programme. SUN SUN February's Bookclub choice : 'Blood River' by Tim Butcher. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Adventures in Poetry b00x3pvc (Listen) SUN Series 11, Journey of the Magi SUN SUN "A cold coming we had of it, / Just the worst time of the SUN year / For a journey, and such a long journey ..." TS SUN Eliot's poem for Epiphany, "Journey of the Magi", is one of SUN his most popular poems. Yet it is deceptively complex and, SUN as Peggy Reynolds discovers, takes us on our own journey to SUN somewhere very far removed from the simple certainties of SUN the Three Wise Men at the manger. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 Amnesty at 50 b00wr8px (Listen) SUN As it reaches its 50th year, John Tusa reflects on the SUN distinguished past of an organization awarded the Nobel SUN Peace Prize in 1977 but which has recently attracted SUN criticism, sometimes from those who have been its most SUN committed activists. Has Amnesty lost its way? And what will SUN be its future role? SUN SUN Producer: Merilyn Harris SUN A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00x2zpx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00x30zn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00x30zq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x30zs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00x3q79 (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN PHONE: 0370 010 0400 SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00x3q7c (Listen) SUN SUN 19:30 Americana b00x3q7f (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 20:00 More or Less b00wrbrx (Listen) SUN Tim Harford and the More or Less team explore 2010 in SUN numbers. Contributors include Ben Goldcare, Robert Peston, SUN the National Statistician and the Swedish statistical guru SUN Hans Rosling. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00wrbsr (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing SUN and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently SUN died. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00x2yt8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00x31lk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b00wr9vz (Listen) SUN Back on the Road SUN SUN The United States auto industry has just limped through the SUN biggest industrial car crash in history. The Ford Motor SUN Company has an industry outsider, Alan Mulally, at the helm SUN as its new chief executive. He tells Peter Day how he SUN changed the way Ford works and it is now back in the SUN business of selling cars. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 21:58 Weather b00x30zv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00x3qbb (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn previews the year at Westminster with three SUN political bloggers: Tim Montgomerie of the ConservativeHome SUN website, Mark Park of the Liberal Democrat Voice website and SUN Daily Telegraph blogger and commentator John McTernan who SUN used to advise the Blair government. SUN SUN There is an interview with D.R. Thorpe, author of SUN 'Supermac,' the acclaimed biography of the former SUN Conservative Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. Using archive SUN from interviews and speeches by Macmillan, D.R. Thorpe SUN discusses the extraordinary life of a Prime Minister who SUN survived terrible wounds in the First World War to become a SUN Tory rebel in the 1930s before rising to high office under SUN Winston Churchill. As Prime Minister Macmillan took Britain SUN out of Africa but failed to take the country into the Common SUN Market. After leaving Number Ten in 1963, he wrote his SUN extensive memoirs and then re emerged in Parliament with a SUN witty and emotional speech in the House of Lords not long SUN before he died. SUN SUN Programme Editor: Terry Dignan. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00x3qbd (Listen) SUN Episode 33 SUN SUN A wry look at how the broadsheets and red tops treat the SUN week's news. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00wrbst (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Oscar winning scribe Simon Beaufoy, SUN writer of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire, about 127 SUN Hours, his second collaboration with film director Danny SUN Boyle. Based on the real life story of Aron Ralston, the SUN mountaineer who cut off his own arm in order to save his SUN life in a mountaineering accident, Simon Beaufoy talks about SUN the challenge of dramatising a narrative in which the ending SUN is already widely known. SUN SUN Critic Jonathan Romney profiles Joann Sfar's bio pic SUN Gainsbourg which explores the life of French singer song SUN writer Serge Gainsbourg and is released on dvd this week. He SUN is joined by critic Maria Delgado to discuss what to watch SUN out for in World Cinema in 2011. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00x31j3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 03 JANUARY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00x3qbx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00wr9q0 (Listen) MON Laurie Taylor talks to Professor Russell Jacoby, Professor MON Ash Amin, Professor Barbara Graziosi and The Bishop of MON Whitby, Martin Warner, about whether we can imagine 'utopia' MON in the 21st century. In an age that some describe as filled MON with anxiety and uncertainty, are we breeding a kind of MON fatalism towards the future that excludes any notion of MON utopia? How indeed might we define and describe utopia? Can MON utopian ideas be not only practical and pragmatic but also MON democratic? When considering utopia where does religious MON faith and thinking intertwine with the secular world? Can we MON even talk about commonly held utopian ideals or are we MON condemned to imagine utopia only as fantasy, as an MON intellectual or artistic excerise that is, ultimately, futile. MON MON producer. Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00x31f6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x3qbz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x3qc1 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x3qc3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00x3qc5 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x3qq5 (Listen) MON with Canon Patrick Thomas. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00x3qq7 (Listen) MON In the past sixty years storylines in The Archers have MON reflected the hot topics in farming. In the 1950's Dan MON bemoaned that he no longer had a farm worker to do his MON hedging, back in 1984 Tony planted an organic vegetable MON patch and in the past decade foot and mouth scares have MON worried David and Ruth. MON MON Charlotte Smith talks to The Archers editor, Vanessa MON Whitburn and Graham Harvey the agricultural story editor MON about the big farming stories throughout the years. MON Producer, Emma Weatherill. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00x3qc7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00x797z (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 King James Bible b00x3qy7 (Listen) MON The Story of the King James Bible, The Commission MON MON The King James, or Authorised, Version of the Bible remains MON the most widely published text in the English language. It MON has been called the "noblest monument of English prose" and MON has been recognised for centuries as both a religious and MON literary classic. MON MON In the first of three programmes marking the 400th MON anniversary of its publication, James Naughtie tells the MON story of how and why King James IV of Scotland and I of MON England decided on a new translation of the Bible. MON MON Producer: Rosie Dawson. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00x3qy9 (Listen) MON The Winter of Our Disconnect, Episode 1 MON MON By Susan Maushart. MON MON How one mother imposed techno-silence on three angry MON teenagers for six months - and lived to tell the tale.. MON MON For anyone who's ever taken their phone to bed or sneaked a MON look at their Blackberry mid-conversation and any parent who MON has ever texted their child to the dinner table - or yanked MON the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage MON - this account of a family's six-month, self-imposed exile MON from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the MON Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will also challenge MON you to take stock of your own connections, technical and MON otherwise. MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00x3r0x (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents: Gardener's World's Carol Klein on MON "Life in a Cottage Garden", boardroom quotas for women? or MON is self regulation possible? Female pig farmers and author MON Susan Maushart talks about taking away all her children's MON techie equipment and describes the effect it had on their MON family life. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x3r0z (Listen) MON A Small Town Murder, series 3, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Scott Cherry. MON MON When 38-year-old Melanie Brant is murdered on the way to her MON wedding, Family Liaison Officer, DC Jackie Hartwell, soon MON finds herself suspecting the bride-to-be's parents. MON MON Why do they insist they knew nothing of their daughter's MON marriage even though she was still living at home? Who's the MON mysterious Robbie that she'd intended to marry? And why is MON her father so desperate to avoid all questioning? MON MON Jackie's soon convinced that Melanie was murdered by her MON father and sets out to prove it - a task made more difficult MON by the increasingly erratic behaviour of her senior officer, MON DI Sanders, as his personal life implodes. MON MON Cast: MON DC Jackie Hartwell ..... Meera Syal MON DI Sanders ..... Matthew Marsh MON Sylvia Brant ..... Susan Brown MON George Brant ..... Roderick Smith MON Rachel ..... Sian Brooke MON MON Produced and directed by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:00 Lords a Living b00x3r11 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In this new series, Lords A Living, Ruth McDonald MON accompanies members of the House of Lords to the titular MON land of their peerage to meet the communities who live there MON now. Does reality match-up to expectation for a peer who MON hasn't visited "home" in several decades, or has never been MON there at all? And what will "home" make of them? MON MON In the first programme of the series Ruth McDonald MON accompanies the 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford to the MON area he inherited - Waterford in the Republic of Ireland. MON It's his first ever visit and one which he undertakes with MON great trepidation. The last time he used his title in MON Ireland he was advised to keep it quiet! But as Lord MON Shrewsbury lands in the Republic in early October in 2010 MON it's clear Waterford - in common with every other part of MON the country - is reeling from what is now dubbed "Black MON Thursday". The day the Irish government revealed the extent MON of the losses incurred by the Irish banks during the MON financial crisis. MON MON It's an education for Shrewsbury as he comes face to face MON with the reality of the struggles of the Republic and the MON impact they've had on the life of this small city. As he MON travels around this former industrial powerhouse it's clear MON Waterford is desperately trying to rebrand itself after the MON loss of its most iconic industrial name - Waterford Crystal; MON but there's still real anger at the failing of what was the MON city's biggest employer. It's an interesting time too for a MON peer of the realm, and a throwback to the old Anglo-Irish MON relationship, to be visiting "home". From his conversations MON with the city fathers to the "gallows" welcome at Spraoi, MON Ireland's largest community arts group, to his crash course MON in the sport of hurling and drinks in the local with MON ex-crystal workers, it's quite an eventful visit to what MON used to be Ireland's second city - the birthplace of the MON Anglo-Irish relationship. The question is what will Lord MON Shrewsbury take away from this encounter and how will the MON citizens of Waterford react to this titled stranger? MON MON Producer: Regina Gallen. MON MON 11:30 An Audience with Ed Reardon b00vcptn (Listen) MON This August at the Edinburgh Festival, Radio 4's most MON celebrated impoverished author came before a privileged few MON to present selections from his favourite prose and poetry. MON Yes, the nation's favourite author, cat-lover, scrimper and MON saver invited people to attend 'An Audience With Ed Reardon'. MON MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Performed by Christopher Douglas, Andi Osho and Iain MON Robertson MON Produced by Dawn Ellis. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00x3rg8 (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00x3qc9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00x3s7v (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00x3sx4 (Listen) MON (11/17) MON Russell Davies welcomes another four competitors to the BBC MON Radio Theatre in London, for the penultimate heat in the MON quest for the 2011 Brain of Britain champion. This week's MON contenders are from London, Surrey and Worcestershire. A MON listener also gets the chance to win a prize by suggesting MON questions to outwit the participants, in 'Beat the Brains'. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00x3q7c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:30 Afternoon Play b00x3sx6 (Listen) MON The Better Half MON MON This delicious comedy of marital disharmony was written when MON its young author, Noel Coward, was 22 years old. MON Rediscovered after nearly 90 years, the play was originally MON considered too 'racy' for public performance, since it deals MON - in part - with the subject of female sexual desire. MON MON 'The Better Half' is a devastatingly accomplished MON relationship comedy, focusing on a husband, wife and her MON best friend. In an unusual psychological ploy the unhappy MON wife (Federay Holmes) encourages the husband (Samuel West) MON to leave her to pursue a happier connection with her friend MON (Lisa Dillon.) But the wife's apparent selflessness may MON conceal a hidden agenda. Even now the play is surprisingly MON unconventional, cannily perceptive - and funny. The author MON himself makes an unexpected appearance as a typically witty MON musical narrator. MON MON Husband ..... Samuel West MON Friend ..... Lisa Dillon MON Wife ..... Federay Holmes MON MON Producer/Director: Martin Jarvis MON A Jarvis & Ayres Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Morecambe and Wise: The Garage Tapes b00s6svj (Listen) MON Jon Culshaw uncovers an extraordinary audio archive of early MON Morecambe and Wise material, including a number of long lost MON tapes. MON MON This is a genuine archive find of real importance. A few MON years ago, Doreen Wise, widow of Ernie, cleared the old MON family garage of piles of tapes and 78 recordings. MON MON At the end of last year, Independent radio company MON Whistledown were contacted by Eric and Ernie's agents, and MON producer David Prest offered to look at the material. MON MON "It was an extraordinary sight - a couple of old fruit boxes MON full of reel to reel tapes and a musty old red suitcase MON brimming with 78 records," says producer David Prest. MON MON The most important finds are a number of long-lost episodes MON of Eric and Ernie's first radio show, "You're Only Young MON Once" which was made for the BBC between November 1953 and MON June 1954. MON MON These feature songs, sketches, their trade mark banter and MON guest cameo appearances from other well-known perfomers MON including Bob Monkhouse. MON MON The tapes in Ernie's garage are believed to be "run off" MON copies recorded at 33/4 ips by studio engineers immediately MON after the recordings, and probably never played since, as MON well as acetate copies which Doreen paid the studio engineer MON a few shillings for. MON MON "Much of the value of the material is in what it shows about MON their comedy development. The early radio series are very MON naturalistic, and feature historical sketches and songs MON which precede the 1970s BBC TV shows by almost 15 years", MON says David. MON MON Other treats include: Andre Previn's speech to Eric and MON Ernie at a Variety Club lunch in 1974, rare recordings of MON their Great Yarmouth and Blackpool shows from the mid-late MON sixties. MON MON Also included are many original master tapes of songs, MON written for the duo, which show their skill in the recording MON studio. MON MON The producers are David Prest and Stewart Henderson, and MON this is a Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:45 Five Guys Named Mohammed b00x3sx8 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON As Mohammed - in all its spellings - becomes the most MON popular name for boys born in Britain, five men reflect on MON their lives and about what it's like to be a Mohammed this MON country today. MON MON In the first in a new series, hard working medical student MON Mohammad Razai tells of his journey to Cambridge. Brought MON up in Kabul, his family were persecuted and disappeared in MON prisons. He was sheltered anxiously behind closed doors, MON but life was so dangerous his family told him to escape. MON Mohammad tells of his trek across the world and how it was a MON further struggle arriving to Britain without documents and MON barely any English. MON MON Across the series we talk to a car mechanic in Huddersfield, MON a Scottish care worker and a rapper who converted to Islam, MON taking on the name Mohammed. MON MON Producer: Sarah Bowen. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00x31xd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00x3t7r (Listen) MON Translating sacred texts MON MON Ernie Rea chairs Radio 4's discussion programme in which MON guests from different faith and non-faith perspectives MON debate the challenges of today's world. MON MON Each week a panel is assembled to represent a diversity of MON views and opinions, which often reveal hidden, complex and MON sometimes contradictory understandings of the world around us. MON MON As 2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the King James Bible, MON Ernie Rea and guests discuss how sacred texts, such as the MON Bible, Koran or Guru Granth Sahib, the Sikh Holy book, MON should be translated. Are translations given equal MON consideration by followers as the original text? Does it MON matter whether you understand the language of your Holy MON book? Is there a place for contemporary interpretations such MON as the comic book Bible? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss translating holy books is Jasjit MON Singh, a doctoral researcher from the Department of Theology MON and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds; Dr Sahib MON Bleher, a professional translator who is currently working MON on a translation of the Qur'an into English; and the Rev Dr MON Maggi Dawn Fellow at Robinson College Cambridge and author MON of "The Writing on the Wall: High Art, Popular Culture and MON the Bible." MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00x7cvj (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x3qcc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:15 15 Minute Musical b00fbclw (Listen) MON Series 5, Ramsey Todd MON MON Radio 4's 15 Minute Musicals are delicious, bite-size MON musical delicacies. MON MON Johnny Depp plays Gordon Ramsey Todd, the demon chef of MON Fleet Street who finds a new ingredient that makes his pies MON the talk of London Town in this 15 Minute Musical from 2008 MON and Winner of the Writer's Guild Award for Radio Comedy. MON MON Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Jess Robinson MON Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick MON Music by: Richie Webb MON Music Production: Matt Katz MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON The fun-size yet satisfying musicals take an easily MON identifiable public figure and give them a West End Musical MON make-over. The fabricated, sugar-coated story is told in an MON original, never heard before, musical. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00x3tvr (Listen) MON Series 54, Episode 2 MON MON The 54th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart, as the programme pays a return visit MON to the Town Hall in Leeds. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme MON Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on the MON panel by Phill Jupitus, with Jack Dee in the chair. Regular MON listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, pointless MON revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. MON MON Producer ..... Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00x3tvt (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00x3tvw (Listen) MON Oscar-winning film and stage director Danny Boyle MON in conversation with Mark Lawson. MON MON Danny Boyle, Oscar-winning director of Slumdog Millionaire, MON discusses his forthcoming work for the cinema, theatre and MON the 2012 Olympics, in conversation with Mark Lawson. MON MON His new film 127 Hours, based on the true story of a MON mountain climber who became trapped and made a brave and MON desperate decision in order to save his life, opens in MON cinemas this week. MON MON Danny Boyle is also directing a new staging of Frankenstein MON for the National Theatre, as well as starting the MON preparations for the opening ceremony of the forthcoming MON Olympics in London. MON MON Producer Gavin Heard. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x3r0z (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Buying Health Care b00x46zn (Listen) MON "It will turn the NHS upside down" is one description of the MON proposed changes in the Health White Paper published in MON July.GPs are to be put in charge of buying services for MON their patients, a role currently held by the Primary Care MON Trusts. Penny Marshall investigates how this will change the MON NHS and asks what it will mean for patients. MON MON Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b00wr9v8 (Listen) MON Palliative Care in India MON MON It's estimated that nearly one million Indians with MON conditions like cancer die in acute, unnecessary pain MON because of the lack of palliative care. Restrictions on MON morphine prescription are being lifted, but too slowly. MON MON One of the most sophisticated systems of palliative care in MON the developing world has been established in the Indian MON state of Kerala. The grassroots movement to create a MON much-valued and effective palliative care system in Kerala MON has been called a silent revolution. Every week, thousands MON of volunteers across the state give up their time to go and MON tend to those who are dying. They may cook food, help with MON chores, or simply provide a listening ear. Hundreds of MON thousands more people in Kerala belong to Palliative Care MON Societies. They donate money regularly - even just a few MON rupees - to help support this kind of outreach. The hope is MON that people will not die alone, and in pain, without any MON support. MON MON Linda Pressly travels to Kerala, which has more palliative MON care centres than the rest of the country put together, and MON ask whether this is a model to treat the dying that could be MON rolled out in other nations, as well as other parts of MON India. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00wr9vn (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper catches up with the four finalists of the So MON You Want to Be a Scientist talent search that was featured MON in Material World across the summer. Have they continued to MON do research and think about science? 2010 has also been a MON year when the Royal Society aimed to engage the public more MON with science, through the events that were part of its Year MON of Science. What impact have these activities had? MON MON Producer: Pamela Rutherford. MON MON 21:30 King James Bible b00x3qy7 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00x3qcf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00x3v3g (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 b00x3v3j (Listen) MON Snowdrops, Episode 1 MON MON Snowdrop: 1. An early-flowering bulbous plant,having a white MON pendent flower. 2. Moscow slang. A corpse that lies buried MON or hidden in the wintersnows, emerging only in the thaw. MON MON Nick Platt is an English lawyer living in Moscow during the MON Russian oil boom. Riding the subway on a September day, he MON rescues two sisters, Masha and Katya, from a would-be bag MON thief. MON MON Their world soon becomes his world too, and as winter MON envelopes the city, the sisters introduce him to Tatiana MON Vladimirovna, their aged aunt, who needs some help from the MON English lawyer. MON MON Platt is drawn into a complex web of deception and before MON the snows melt in spring, he will travel down to the Black MON Sea and the Arctic circle, and make disturbing discoveries MON about his job, his lover and, most of all, himself. MON MON Snowdrops is a tale of erotic obsession, self-deception and MON moral freefall. It is set in a land of hedonism and MON desperation, corruption and kindness, magical hideaways and MON debauched nightclubs; a place where secrets and corpses come MON to light when the snows thaw. MON MON "In Russia there are no business stories. And there are no MON political stories. There are no love stories. There are only MON crime stories." MON MON Reader: Stephen Mangan MON MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00wr8pn (Listen) MON Christmas is over and now the TV ads are all about holidays. MON Michael Rosen considers the language of travel and tourism. MON MON At the World Travel Market he collects the adjectives that MON are used to sell holidays, then discusses them with a MON professor of linguistics who specialises in the subject. MON Travel journalist Simon Calder adds some travel trade jargon. MON MON Producer: Peter Everett. MON MON 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00j0h9n (Listen) MON Series 2, Sandi Toksvig MON MON Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. MON MON Sandi Toksvig eats her first pot noodle, wears high heels MON and tries stilt walking. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 04 JANUARY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00x3v9f (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00x3qy9 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x3v9h (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x3v9k (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x3v9m (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00x3v9p (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x790y (Listen) TUE with Canon Patrick Thomas. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00x3x66 (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00x798h (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 King James Bible b00x3x68 (Listen) TUE The Story of the King James Bible, The Translation TUE TUE In the second of two programmes marking the 400th TUE anniversary of the publication of the King James Bible, TUE James Naughtie tells the story of how six companies of men TUE produced a new translation of Bible which has come to be TUE regarded as one of the greatest works of English literature TUE ever produced. TUE TUE The programme opens in the main quadrangle of the Bodleian TUE library. A statue of King James stands high over the TUE courtyard, books in hand. The King loved the Bodleian. In a TUE visit there in 1605 he said that he would love to spend his TUE life chained alongside the library's chained books. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00x7b4g (Listen) TUE The Winter of Our Disconnect, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Susan Maushart. TUE TUE How one mother imposed techno-silence on three angry TUE teenagers for six months - and lived to tell the tale.. TUE TUE For anyone who's ever taken their phone to bed or sneaked a TUE look at their Blackberry mid-conversation and any parent who TUE has ever texted their child to the dinner table - or yanked TUE the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage TUE - this account of a family's six-month, self-imposed exile TUE from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the TUE Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will also challenge TUE you to take stock of your own connections, technical and TUE otherwise. TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00x76rz (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents: Celebrating, informing and TUE entertaining women with news, views and interviews of topical interest. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x7c0t (Listen) TUE A Small Town Murder, series 3, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Scott Cherry. TUE TUE Family Liaison Officer, DC Jackie Hartwell, wants to know TUE who Melanie was about to marry on the day she died. TUE TUE DC Jackie Hartwell ..... Meera Syal TUE DI Sanders ..... Matthew Marsh TUE Sylvia Brant ..... Susan Brown TUE George Brant ..... Roderick Smith TUE Rachel ..... Sian Brooke TUE TUE Produced and directed by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00x3y26 (Listen) TUE Episode 36 TUE TUE 36/40 In 2008 we broadcast a year long event on BBC Radio 4 TUE following the trials and tribulations of migrating animals TUE as they moved from breeding ground to feeding ground. One of TUE the great animal characters in "World on the Move" were TUE geese. We followed Brent, Greenland White-front and Barnacle TUE Geese as they migrated from the UK to the Arctic. The TUE project "Top Goose", led by Professor Colin Pennycuick of TUE Bristol University, the research staff of the Wildfowl & TUE Wetlands Trust, with crucial weather data being researched TUE by BBC weatherman Richard Angwin generated new information TUE to science. "Top Goose" not only mapped the migration with TUE glittering technology, Pennycuik's work, for the first time, TUE was measuring fuel consumption by the geese en route. The TUE work has been published in a peer reviewed paper, the TUE results are stunning - not just more evidence of the birds TUE orientation skills - but just how well adapted they are to TUE long haul travel. And we're going to re-live the moment in TUE the Saving Species studio with Colin Pennycuick and see how TUE this break through science about animal flight might be able TUE to inform conservation. TUE TUE And it's autumn in our series "Lady Bird Book Britain" - 51 TUE years since the first publication of these lovely natural TUE history books. How has the British Autumn changed? Chris TUE Sperring finds out. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Sheena Duncan TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 A Family Business: The Chaplin Legacy b00x3y28 (Listen) TUE The legacy of Charlie Chaplin extends far beyond the TUE celluloid archive. There is a living strand of creative TUE performance, which sees the grandchildren of Sir Charles TUE exploring an adventurous new world of physical theatre, and TUE adding a new dimension to those well-worn silent film images TUE of The Little Tramp, battling against a hostile world. TUE TUE The children of Victoria Chaplin - Aurelia and James TUE Thierree - were born in a tent, and brought up in their TUE parents' world of travelling circus. In their adult life, TUE both are theatrical pioneers, always pushing at the limits TUE of stagecraft, to create original work that mixes TUE acrobatics, illusion, music, mime and comedy. TUE TUE In this backstage documentary, Tim Brooke-Taylor goes behind TUE the scenes with James Thierree as he prepares to launch his TUE new one-man show RAOUL, combining mime, acrobatics, music, TUE comedy and illusion. How does the Chaplin legacy inform his TUE ideas? How do the marketing people sell his shows, which TUE always defy easy categorisation? How will audiences respond, TUE in London and Paris? TUE TUE The Chaplin biographer, David Robinson, explores the TUE theatrical connections of the Chaplin family: additional TUE commentaries are provided by Thierree admirers Bill Nighy TUE and Terry Gilliam, and by producer Rachel Clare. The voice TUE of Charlie Chaplin himself also makes a contribution from TUE the archives, with shrewd observations on genes and genius. TUE TUE Producer: Tony Staveacre TUE A Ladbroke production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00x3y2b (Listen) TUE Is the railway network fit for purpose ? TUE With increases in fares, more expensive parking and TUE continued over crowding are you less convinced about letting TUE the train take the strain... TUE TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00x3v9r (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00x7c3q (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Music in the Dark Years b00x3y2g (Listen) TUE Stephen Johnson explores how Paris's vibrant musical scene TUE survived - and flourished - through the 'dark years' of Nazi TUE Occupation. TUE TUE On 14th June 1940, Germans tanks rolled into a humbled and TUE deserted Paris. The Nazi war machine had abruptly plunged TUE the celebrated "City of Light" into darkness, condemning the TUE city to four long years of Occupation. TUE TUE Yet these 'dark years' were not to be ones of silence. TUE Within weeks, musical life in the French capital - TUE previously perhaps Europe's most vibrant and eclectic TUE cultural hub - had resumed. Opera houses, jazz clubs, TUE cabaret theatres, concert halls - before long, all were TUE playing again to packed houses of German soldiers and French TUE music-lovers alike. TUE TUE As the continent tore itself apart, Paris's unique and TUE strange renaissance suited both occupier and occupied. The TUE Nazis were happy to provide cultural distractions for the TUE subjugated French - not to mention their own battle-weary TUE soldiers - whilst the French proudly showed off that TUE whatever happened, their musical spirit had not been TUE defeated. From Maurice Chevalier to Francis Poulenc, Django TUE Reinhardt to Edith Piaf, Charles Trenet to Alfred Cortot - TUE the city rang once more to the sound of some of Europe's TUE most brilliant musical figures. TUE TUE But was this cultural co-habitation appropriate at a time of TUE war? What exactly were the moral duties of France's great TUE composers and musical celebrities? And were musicians TUE 'saving' or 'betraying' France by performing and creating new work? TUE TUE Broadcaster and music journalist Stephen Johnson travels to TUE Paris some seven decades after the city's fall, to untangle TUE the mythology of "la France resistante musicale" - telling TUE the story of this brief firework of brilliant - and TUE controversial - period of frenetic musical activity and its TUE bitter aftermath. TUE TUE In the first of two programmes, Stephen investigates how the TUE Occupation affected France's proud tradition of classical TUE music and opera: from hidden meanings and messages in TUE Francis Poulenc's ballet "Les Animaux Modeles", to the TUE remarkable story of Conservatoire director Claude TUE Delvincourt, a disillusioned former fascist who shielded his TUE students from being seized by the secret police. TUE TUE Stephen also explores what constitutes 'resistance' and TUE 'collaboration' in music - and how even the most ardent TUE anti-fascist couldn't resist the vibrant (and artfully TUE stage-managed) performances of the touring Herbert von TUE Karajan and the iconic Berlin Philharmonic. He also reveals TUE looks at the life of one of French music's greatest heroes, TUE conductor Roger Desormiere - a man who juggled a career as TUE the musical director of the iconic Opera-Comique with a TUE secret life as a key member of the musical Resistance. TUE TUE Interviewees include the 94 year-old Henri Dutilleux - one TUE of France's greatest contemporary composers - and Jewish TUE violinist Devy Erlih, who was a teenage prodigy at the TUE famous Paris Conservatoire at the time of Occupation. He TUE also speaks to Alan Riding, author of a new cultural history TUE of the Occupation, and radio presenter and cultural TUE historian Karine Le Bail. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00x3tvt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00g6g7q (Listen) TUE 43 Letters TUE TUE By Rony Robinson TUE TUE Julia and David work together in the family archives. One TUE day a mysterious envelope arrives for David, with letters TUE from 43 women, all answering a lonely hearts advert he TUE didn't place. TUE TUE David...............David Calder TUE Julia.................Barbara Marten TUE Miranda..........Helen Flanagan TUE Ruskin............Sacha Dhawan TUE TUE Directed by Pauline Harris. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00x3y2j (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' 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 b00x3y3j (Listen) TUE Scottish Shorts, Fear in a Hat TUE TUE A shy schoolgirl fears the worst when she attends a TUE compulsory religious retreat with her catty classmates. TUE TUE Read by Sally Reid TUE TUE Written by Nicola White TUE Producer: Eilidh McCreadie TUE TUE 'Scottish Shorts' showcases the best new writing from TUE Scotland. Nicola White lives on a peninsula in Argyll, TUE between a picturesque sea loch and an MOD arms depot. A TUE former art curator and documentary producer, she turned her TUE back on the city and steady wages a few years ago. Since TUE then she has been invited to read her work at the Blue Room, TUE Newcastle and the Irish Writers Centre, Dublin. In 2008 she TUE received a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award. TUE TUE 15:45 Five Guys Named Mohammed b00x7cg1 (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE As Mohammed - in all its spellings - becomes the most TUE popular name for boys born in Britain, five men from across TUE the country reflect on their lives and what it's like to be TUE a Mohammed here today. TUE TUE Driven to succeed from a young age but never fully at home TUE in the classroom, Mohammed Asif Ali only ever felt truly TUE comfortable when working with his hands. After securing an TUE apprenticeship scheme to learn the secrets of motor vehicles TUE he has not looked back. With a busy Huddersfield auto-repair TUE business that was set up less than a year ago he is already TUE able to give an apprentice the same chance that he had. A TUE tale of hard graft, deeply held principles and tenpin bowling. TUE TUE Producer: Rich Ward. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b00x3yjn (Listen) TUE In January 1961 in New York's Greenwich Village, Bob Dylan TUE was beginning a career that would revolutionise TUE song-writing. Michael Rosen lends an ear to the last fifty TUE years of the song-lyric. TUE TUE Dylanologist Michael Gray explains why Bob matters. A TUE sceptical David Quantick argues that Dylan's influence was TUE not entirely helpful to rock music. And singer-songwriter KT TUE Tunstall pays tribute to one of her biggest influences. TUE TUE Producer: Peter Everett. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00x3yjq (Listen) TUE Series 23, Aneurin Bevan TUE TUE In his time, Aneurin Bevan was, according to one biographer, TUE "the most colourful and controversial, most loved and most TUE loathed political personality in Britain". TUE TUE The founding father of the NHS is the choice of Lord TUE Kinnock, the former leader of the Labour Party who, like TUE Bevan, grew up in Tredegar, in the heart of the Welsh TUE coalfields, where he met his hero many times. TUE TUE Kinnock regards Bevan as a hero on a level with Nelson TUE Mandela and believes it was Nye alone who had the force of TUE personality and political will necessary to get the Health TUE Service established after the war. But the presenter Matthew TUE Parris and his other studio guest, Bevan's biographer, John TUE Campbell are more sceptical. Campbell goes so far as to TUE argue that, the achievement of the NHS not withstanding, Nye TUE Bevan's life was essentially a failure because, in his TUE commitment to socialism, he misread the trend of history so TUE completely. TUE Now, with the NHS facing radical reform, this programme TUE captures some of the passion and debate that surrounded its TUE inception and provides personal insights into the life and TUE character of the man responsible for its creation. TUE TUE The producer is Isobel Eaton. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00x9y96 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x3v9t (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 My Teenage Diary b00x3ywb (Listen) TUE Series 2, Julian Clary TUE TUE Rufus Hound invites Julian Clary to read embarrassing TUE extracts from his teenage diary and read it out in public TUE for the very first time. TUE TUE Producer: Victoria Payne TUE A TalkbackThames production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00x3ywd (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00x3ywg (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including news of the winners of each TUE category in the Costa Book Awards - best novel, first novel, TUE biography, children's book and poetry. TUE TUE Producer Robyn Read. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x7c0t (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 The Vaccine Casebook b00x4013 (Listen) TUE Richard Phinney reports from the West African country of TUE Guinea Bissau, where a team of Danish and African medical TUE sleuths have pieced together evidence that could change TUE public health care forever. They have discovered that TUE vaccines and vitamin supplements have unexpected effects - TUE good and bad - on the immune systems of children. TUE TUE It's the first time a British journalist has visited the TUE Bandim health surveillance unit, where Dr Peter Aaby and his TUE team has toiled for more than 30 years - through wars, TUE natural disasters and epidemics. A small army of doctors, TUE nurses, field workers and lab technicians now monitor the TUE health of 100,000 people. TUE TUE Their health detective work has generated more than 600 TUE scholarly articles in the world's leading medical journals, TUE and been responsible for the withdrawal of a potentially TUE deadly measles vaccine by the World Health Organisation. TUE TUE But the WHO has not acted on the most explosive findings yet TUE coming from Guinea Bissau. They show that the world's most TUE commonly used vaccines can strengthen - or weaken - a TUE child's immune system in the long term, and affect their TUE ability to fight off disease. The results directly challenge TUE the WHO's global health advice, followed by most countries TUE in the developing world, and could mean that thousands of TUE young lives, in Africa and beyond, are needlessly at risk. TUE TUE We'll hear from some of world's most respected public health TUE scientists who back Aaby's findings. The documentary also TUE asks why the WHO has not yet acted on the evidence generated TUE so far. And whether safety tests for new vaccines and TUE vitamin supplements, heavily promoted by donor agencies and TUE pharmaceutical companies alike, are sufficiently TUE far-reaching. TUE TUE Producer: Anthony Baxter TUE A Wantok Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00x4016 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for the blind and TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Follow the Leader b00x4018 (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Carolyn Quinn looks under the bonnet of leadership in this TUE two-part series, from business to politics and sport. TUE TUE What traits do you need to become a great leader? Is TUE leadership 'in the blood' or can you train people to develop TUE the right skills? TUE TUE Ming Campbell and Michael Howard reflect on their time as TUE political leaders. Both suffered perception problems during TUE their time at the top, from jibes about their age and looks. TUE Developing a thick skin, they say, is the key. TUE TUE Dragon's Den investor Deborah Meaden describes herself as a TUE 'born entrepreneur'. What does she think makes a good leader? TUE TUE Plato began the study of leadership in 350 BC. Since then, TUE academics have tried to distil the ingredients for the TUE perfect leader, but still fail to agree. Some psychologists TUE think that it boils down to having right personality traits, TUE others that timing is essential. TUE TUE Comedian Mark Steel studied great historical leaders for his TUE series of lectures for TV and radio and found that many rose TUE to the top by being at the right place at the right time. TUE They were also far from perfect, and their personal lives TUE were disastrous. TUE TUE Today the leadership industry - from self-help books to TUE management courses - is a multimillion pound industry TUE promising to turn underperforming managers into great TUE bosses. Carolyn visits the London Management Centre to see TUE if they can make her into a great leader. TUE TUE Producer: Michelle Martin TUE TUE 21:30 King James Bible b00x3x68 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00x3v9w (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00x7drd (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 b00x7f0n (Listen) TUE Snowdrops, Episode 2 TUE TUE Reader: Stephen Mangan TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Rhyme and Reason b00x401b (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Poet Mr Gee presents first programme in a four part series, TUE Rhyme and Reason. His first guest is singer songwriter TUE Florence Welch whose album Lungs was the fastest selling TUE debut in 2009. TUE Reading and discussing their favourite poetry, Mr Gee delves TUE deeper into Florence's relationship with poetry and looks at TUE how it has inspired her music. TUE TUE 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00hdb84 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Arthur Smith TUE TUE Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. TUE TUE Arthur Smith sees Les Miserables, eats a Pop Tart and TUE watches Top Gear. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 05 JANUARY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00x3v9y (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00x7b4g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x3vb0 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x3vb2 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x3vb4 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00x3vb6 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x792y (Listen) WED with Canon Patrick Thomas. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00x98wl (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Fran Barnes. WED WED 06:00 Today b00x798r (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 King James Bible b00xln78 (Listen) WED The Story of the King James Bible, The Legacy WED WED The King James Bible is everywhere. We see it in hair WED commercials, film titles, novels, music, even in the way we WED speak. It is lauded with praise as "The great monument to WED English Prose." But how and why has it achieved such a WED status? What is its significance in the English speaking WED world? In the final programme to mark the 400th anniversary WED of its publication, James Naughtie assesses the legacy of WED the King James Bible. WED WED He begins in the pub. James meets linguist and Renaissance WED scholar Gordon Campbell, the Jamaican poet Kei Miller and WED Rachel Holmes from the Southbank centre to discuss the WED surprising and unusual places we hear of the King James WED today. "Salt of the earth", "skin of their teeth", "Apple of WED his eye" are all phrases that WED have come into the English language through the King James WED Bible, but do any of the drinkers in the pub know this? WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00x7b4q (Listen) WED The Winter of Our Disconnect, Episode 3 WED WED By Susan Maushart. WED WED How one mother imposed techno-silence on three angry WED teenagers for six months - and lived to tell the tale.. WED WED For anyone who's ever taken their phone to bed or sneaked a WED look at their Blackberry mid-conversation and any parent who WED has ever texted their child to the dinner table - or yanked WED the modem from its socket in a show of primal parental rage WED - this account of a family's six-month, self-imposed exile WED from the Information Age will leave you ROFLing (Roll on the WED Floor Laughing) with recognition. But it will also challenge WED you to take stock of your own connections, technical and WED otherwise. WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00x76vm (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents. Celebrating, informing and WED entertaining women with news, views and interviews of topical interest. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x7c1v (Listen) WED A Small Town Murder, series 3, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Scott Cherry. WED WED Family Liaison Officer, DC Jackie Hartwell, makes a shocking WED discovery about the man Melanie was going to marry. WED WED DC Jackie Hartwell ..... Meera Syal WED DI Sanders ..... Matthew Marsh WED Sylvia Brant ..... Susan Brown WED George Brant ..... Roderick Smith WED Rachel ..... Sian Brooke WED WED Produced and directed by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Where England Meets Wales b00x40ny (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Hardeep Singh Kohli begins the second half of his journey at WED the site of a famous battle where Welsh forces routed the WED attacking English sent by Henry IV. This was the Battle of WED Pilleth, a battle recorded in Shakespeare's Henry IV part I. WED The castle at Hay-on-Wye, straddling the Border, also saw WED combat, but is now home to the largest second-hand bookshop WED in Europe. Its international book festival attracts the WED literary glitterati, as well as BBC Radio 4. WED WED From Hay the gentle Border landscape heads into the Black WED Mountains and the Brecon Beacons. Here Hardeep comes across WED the Offa's Dyke Path, a 177 mile long trail that links the WED remaining chunks of Offa's Dyke and winds its way down the WED whole length of Wales. If Hardeep were fitter he might have WED attempted it, but the next stop on his journey offered a WED visit to one of the vineyards in Monmouthshire, a date which WED was slightly more attractive. WED WED David Davies is MP for Monmouth and hears at first hand some WED of the problems of today's Border people. Separate Health WED and Education policies can be confusing, and the coming WED referendum may make separation more evident. WED WED There is one area though that has offered beauty and WED inspiration since the 18th century - the Forest of Dean and WED the Wye Valley. Poets like Wordsworth and Coleridge, and WED writers like Tolkien and JK Rowling were captivated by WED forest, woodland and river, now designated as an Area of WED Outstanding Natural Beauty. Hardeep makes a final nod to the WED Norman conquistadors at Chepstow Castle, before succeeding WED in walking the final half mile of the Offa's Dyke Path. He WED ends his journey at the mouth of the Severn, reflecting on a WED Border which has seen the marks of history and is now WED heading towards a future in which more history will be made. WED WED Producer: Richard Bannerman WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00x40p1 (Listen) WED Series 6, The Curse of Count Arthur WED WED With all things 'horror' on his somewhat confused mind, WED Arthur receives a phone call from his good friend Barry WED Cryer to say that they have somehow lost Barry's briefcase WED containing the tickets they require to attend a lunchtime WED Hammer Horror convention at which they are due. WED WED They decide to re-trace their steps from the previous night, WED which includes taking in a visit to some local haunts and WED shops, as well as the Shoulder of Mutton. WED WED With the briefcase (and thus the tickets) nowhere to be WED found, Arthur and Barry are left to decide what they should WED do - try and get in to the convention by relying on their WED good names and reputations alone, or risk missing out on the WED Hammer Horror lunch...? WED WED Count Arthur Strong ..... Steve Delaney WED Dracula/Himself ..... Barry Cryer WED Sally ..... Melanie Giedroyc WED Gerry/Jack ..... Dave Mounfield WED Shop Assistant/Wally/ WED Bouncer/Wilf ..... Alastair Kerr WED WED Producers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe & John Leonard WED A Komedia Entertainment & Smooth Operations production for WED BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00x7c32 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00x3vb8 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00x7c43 (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00x40p3 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b00x3ywd (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00x41n8 (Listen) WED Burned to Nothing WED WED Matthew returns to Nigeria, the land of his birth. He has WED come to secure the release of his son who has become caught WED up in the politics of a land in turmoil; a land he has WED fallen in love with. By Rex Obano. WED WED Matthew .... Lucian Msamati WED The General .... Jude Akuwudike WED Medina .... Lorraine Burroughs WED Keith .... David Ajala WED Sunday .... Obi Abili WED Inenevwerha .... Gbemisola Ikumelo WED WED Director: Femi Elufowoju, jr. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00x41nb (Listen) WED Paul Lewis and guests answer calls on financial issues. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00xckhv (Listen) WED Scottish Shorts, The Last Cup WED WED Set on a windswept Western Isle, a kindly old fisherman and WED his stern minister find a poignant sliver of common ground WED over tea from a chipped china cup. WED Read by Matthew Zajac. WED Written by Merryn Glover. WED Producer: Patricia Hitchcock WED WED 'Scottish Shorts' showcases the best new writing from WED Scotland. Merryn Glover is a playwright and author of short WED stories and received a Scottish Arts Council bursary. She WED has written plays for BBC Radio Scotland. WED WED 15:45 Five Guys Named Mohammed b00x7cgq (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED As Mohammed - in all its spellings - becomes the most WED popular name for boys born in Britain, five men from across WED the country talk about what it's like to be a Mohammed here WED today. WED WED Rapper and spoken word poet Mohammed Yahya has set up a WED unique Muslim Jewish band promoting understanding and WED tolerance. He tells how he fled civil war in Mozambique, WED poverty and racism in Portugal and fell in love with hip hop. WED WED Producer: Sarah Bowen. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00x41nd (Listen) WED Exploring the latest research into how society works. Is WED Doctor Who political? Also, Laurie Taylor explores the WED notion of historical anti-American bias. WED WED 16:30 Follow the Leader b00x4018 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00xc3x2 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00x3vbb (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Shappi Talk b00x41ng (Listen) WED Series 2, History WED WED In the third of her new four part series of Shappi Talk, WED Shappi Khorsandi tries to understand the fascination with WED history. WED WED Having an incident filled historical background herself; WED Shappi looks back at a variety of historical figures and WED moments in history comparing our current lives. Joining her WED iconic comedian Simon Evans who puts his own idiosyncratic WED spin on history and TV historian Adam Hart-Davis has a chat WED with Shappi about his love of everything historic. There's WED also a comic song from Duncan Oakley. WED WED Producer: Paul Russell WED An Open Mike Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00x41nj (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00x41nl (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x7c1v (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b00x41nn (Listen) WED Trade Unions WED WED With strikes apparently back in fashion, Unreliable Evidence WED explores the law relating to trades unions and industrial WED action. WED WED Wildcat strikes and secondary picketing are now illegal, and WED new legislation imposes complex rules on how and when WED strikes can be called. Clive Anderson and guests, including WED a judge and the assistant general secretary of one of WED Britain's largest unions, discuss why both employers and WED trades unions are now, increasingly, fighting each other in WED the courts. WED WED Also taking part are the senior barristers who have WED represented either side in the ongoing British Airways cabin WED staff dispute. Alleged irregularities in the strike WED balloting process have already resulted in a series of court WED hearings, injunctions and high court appeals. WED WED Both the TUC and the CBI are calling for reform of trades WED union law, but whom does the law currently favour - the WED bosses or the workers? WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 It Happened Here b00sb22y (Listen) WED Admiralty House WED WED In the first of three programmes showing how places have WED influenced political events, the leading historian of WED post-war Britain, Peter Hennessy visits Admiralty House in London. WED WED The government building at the north end of Whitehall, close WED to Trafalgar Square, has frequently been the office and home WED of post-war prime ministers when 10 Downing Street has WED needed refurbishment. WED WED Peter first recalls the momentous events of the Cuban WED missile crisis of 1962 and reveals that it was from WED Admiralty House that the dramatic order was given by prime WED minister Harold Macmillan for Britain's nuclear weapons to WED be put on standby for imminent launch. He also discusses the WED remarkable "Night of the Long Knives" that summer when WED Macmillan notoriously sacked a third of his Cabinet. WED WED Thirty years later, during John Major's premiership, Peter WED shows how Admiralty House once again became the focus of WED worldwide political and public attention as the place where WED the United Kingdom's membership of the European Exchange WED Rate Mechanism (the ERM) finally collapsed in ignominy, WED causing lasting damage to the reputation and credibility of WED the recently-elected government. WED WED Producer: Simon Coates. WED WED 21:00 The Stunning Controversy b00x41nq (Listen) WED Their formal title is 'conducted-energy devices', but to the WED public they're stun-guns or tasers. WED WED 11,000 law enforcement agencies in the US use them and there WED is good evidence for the claim that they reduce the need for WED police officers to use lethal force. But there is an WED intensifying debate in the States as to whether tasers are WED really as safe as claimed. . Mark Whitaker reports from WED California and Arizona. WED WED Producer: Mark Whitaker WED A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 King James Bible b00xln78 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00x3vbd (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00x7drs (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 b00x7f13 (Listen) WED Snowdrops, Episode 3 WED WED Reader: Stephen Mangan WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 iGod b00x41ns (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED iGOD is a highly original and funny new late-night comedy WED series for Radio 4. It stars Simon Day (The Fast Show) and WED David Soul (Starsky & Hutch) and is written by one of the WED head writers of the BAFTA award-winning The Thick Of It, WED Sean Gray and produced by Simon Nicholls (Ed Reardon's Week WED / News At Bedtime). WED WED We all worry about the end of the world, as economists and WED environmentalists speak in apocalyptic terms everyday. iGOD WED says that trying to predict the end of the world is as WED pointless as moisturising an elephant's elbow. WED WED In each episode, an unnamed, all-seeing narrator (David Soul WED - Starsky and Hutch) shows us that it is stupid to be WED worrying, as he looks back at some of the most entertaining WED apocalypses on parallel Earths. Each week our case study is WED a normal bloke called Ian (Simon Day) who manages to WED accidentally initiate the apocalypse of a different parallel WED world through a seemingly harmless single act (telling a WED lie, being lazy, cooking some lambshanks). A succession of WED comic vignettes ensue that escalate to the end of a parallel WED world. WED WED With a full-range of sound effects and wonderfully funny and WED surreal twists, iGOD will be a true aural extravaganza. WED WED SIMON DAY as IAN WED DAVID SOUL as THE NARRATOR WED with WED ROSIE CAVALIERO WED ALEX MACQUEEN WED DAN TETSELL WED WED Written by WED SEAN GRAY WED Produced by WED SIMON NICHOLLS. WED WED 23:15 Afternoon Reading b00tg2nr (Listen) WED Comic Fringes, The Woman Who Sniffed WED WED Take front row seats for a new series of short stories WED written and read by comedians and recorded last week in WED front of an audience at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. WED WED Susan Calman gets the series underway with a wry look at WED office politics in "The Woman Who Sniffed". WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00hq2xz (Listen) WED Series 2, Jan Ravens WED WED Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. WED WED Impressionist Jan Ravens has a boxing lesson, has her WED eyebrows threaded and builds a brick wall. WED WED THU THURSDAY 06 JANUARY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00x3vbg (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00x7b4q (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x3vbj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x3vbl (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x3vbn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00x3vbq (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x7936 (Listen) THU with Canon Patrick Thomas. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00xmx44 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b00x799b (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00xmx42 (Listen) THU Childe Harold's Pilgrimage THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss Byron's poem Childe THU Harold's Pilgrimage. THU THU "I awoke one morning and found myself famous", wrote Byron THU in his memorandum book, looking back at the publication of THU his first major work. The first instalment of this long THU narrative poem was published when he was 24, and sold out THU within three days. It narrates the life of a young THU aristocrat on a grand tour of Europe; its central character THU is the first Byronic hero. As well as offering a THU self-portrait of the writer as a young man, Childe Harold is THU a fascinating snapshot of Europe at the beginning of the THU nineteenth century, a place ravaged by revolution and war. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00x7b57 (Listen) THU The Winter of Our Disconnect, Episode 4 THU THU By Susan Maushart. How one mother imposed techno-silence on THU three angry teenagers for six months - and lived to tell the THU tale.... THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00x781n (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents: Celebrating, informing and THU entertaining women with news, views and interviews of topical interest. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x7c25 (Listen) THU A Small Town Murder, series 3, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Scott Cherry. THU THU Family Liaison Officer, DC Jackie Hartwell, is now totally THU convinced George Brant killed his daughter. THU THU DC Jackie Hartwell ..... Meera Syal THU DI Sanders ..... Matthew Marsh THU Sylvia Brant ..... Susan Brown THU George Brant ..... Roderick Smith THU Rachel ..... Sian Brooke THU THU Produced and directed by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b00wr9v8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 20:30 on Monday] THU THU 11:30 In Search of the Villa Noel Fleuri b00x44dz (Listen) THU The American thriller and travel-writer, David Dodge THU (1910-1974), is best known for his 1952 novel To Catch A THU Thief, which Hitchcock turned into an iconic film three THU years later. Unusually for Hitchcock, half the film was shot THU on location, and the Riviera is as much a star as Grace THU Kelly (in her final film - she met Prince Rainier during a THU publicity shoot and became Princess of Monaco) and Cary THU Grant (whom Hitchcock tempted out of retirement with this THU script). THU THU Dodge's book was inspired by a real incident when he briefly THU became the number 1 suspect for a daring cat-burglary at his THU rich neighbour's villa. It is the story of John Robie, a THU reformed cat-burglar who must prove his innocence by THU catching the thief who is duplicating his methods. His THU pursuit leads him into the arms of beautiful American THU heiress Francie Stevens. THU THU Jean Buchanan tells the story and attempts to locate the THU Villa Noel Fleuri, where these dramatic events ultimately THU resulted in one of Hollywood's best-loved films. In the THU course of her quest Jean visits Golfe Juan, the fishing port THU between Canne and Nice where the Dodges arrived in France; THU she's given a tour of the Carlton hotel in Cannes by the THU Chef-Concierge, Stephane Fanciulli, who shows her the very THU room where Grant and Kelly watched - and made - fireworks; THU she makes a notable discovery in the Nice-Matin newspaper THU archives and attempts to consolidate her finds on maps held THU in Vallauris. THU THU She is assisted by Randal Brandt of the Bancroft Library at THU the University of California Berkeley and by Dirk Dominic, THU an expert in To Catch A Thief locations. While Paul THU Gambaccini lends his expertise in film. THU THU Producer: Marya Burgess. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00x7c36 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00xf5dy (Listen) THU Tens of thousands of foreign migrants work in the UK care THU sector. But many are exploited by the agencies and THU gangmasters who hire them. John Waite hears from some of THU these workers, and from the regulator who wants the power to THU regulate the care home industry - where not only the THU residents are vulnerable to abuse. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00x3vbs (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00x7c49 (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Questions, Questions b00x44f1 (Listen) THU Stewart Henderson continues his sparkling series of THU Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to THU those intriguing questions of every day life, inspired by THU current events and popular culture. THU THU Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed THU and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled THU collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. THU THU How do woodpeckers keep their beaks sharp? How do you know THU if a volcano is extinct? This is the programme which answers THU listener questions on just about everything. THU THU Email Questions.questions@bbc.co.uk THU Tel: 03700 100400 THU THU Producer: Kevin Dawson THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00x41nj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00k3xld (Listen) THU A King's Speech THU THU By Mark Burgess. THU THU The action of A King's Speech takes place on Coronation Day, THU 12th May 1937, and deals with King George VI's preparations THU for his evening BBC Radio broadcast to the Nation - a THU terrifying prospect for perhaps the most notable Briton to THU have suffered from a stammer. THU THU The Coronation Ceremony in Westminster Abbey completed, the THU new King must face a further challenge - the dreaded royal THU broadcast, to be delivered under the watchful gaze of the THU BBC's first Director General, Sir John Reith himself. As the THU tension mounts, speech therapist, Lionel Logue (played by THU Trevor Littledale) must work hard to calm the King's nerves THU and to prepare him for his ordeal at the microphone. No easy THU task. As the King says himself, exploding in fury: THU THU "Dammit!! I can't say 'crowned', can't say 'King'! What use THU is that? The whole speech is a minefield of 'Commonwealths', THU 'Queens' and 'Kings'! Five hundred and seventy-two words in THU total, and most of them impossible for me to say!" THU THU The central scenes of the play feature Logue and his pupil. THU Comfortable in each other's company, they discuss the speech THU the King must make in a few hours' time. Logue's working THU methods are revealed: the tongue-twisters, breathing THU exercises, Shakespearean quotations - all designed to relax THU the speaker. The King's dependence on, and great friendship THU with Logue becomes apparent. Their conversation is THU wide-ranging, dealing with, among other things, the THU Abdication Crisis; George VI's childhood - when being both THU left-handed and a stammerer was frowned on; the King's envy THU of his elder brother; and his uneasy relationship with his THU father, King George V. THU THU King George VI ..... Alex Jennings THU Queen Elizabeth ..... Joan Walker THU Lionel Logue ..... Trevor Littledale THU Myrtle Logue ..... Moya O'Shea THU Sir John Reith ..... Crawford Logan THU Robert Wood ..... Chris Stanton THU Patrick ..... John Evitts THU Queen Mary ..... Jean Trend THU Princess Elizabeth ..... Emma Yeomans THU Princess Margaret ..... Agnes Fouch THU THU Producer/Director: David Blount THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00x2yn1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00x31lk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00xckjh (Listen) THU Scottish Shorts, Matryoshka THU THU A spoilt princess craves possession of the one thing she THU can't have in this new spin on a familiar tale. THU THU Read by Nicola Jo Cully THU THU Written by Kirsty Logan THU Producer: Eilidh McCreadie THU THU 15:45 Five Guys Named Mohammed b00x7ch8 (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU As Mohammed becomes the most popular name for boys born in THU Britain, five men from across the country talk about what THU it's like to be a Mohammed here today. THU THU Drawn to Glasgow in the seventies, Mohammed Anwar now THU manages the Muslim Elderly Day Care Centre at the Central THU Mosque. A qualified chartered accountant who had to abandon THU his dreams due to family constraints, his role is to look THU after and entertain the men and women at the Centre - the THU "Uncles" and "Aunties". THU THU Producer: Rich Ward. THU THU 16:00 Bookclub b00x3pv9 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00x44f3 (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 THU 17:00 PM b00xc3w1 (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 b00x3vbv (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b00x44lw (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 1 THU THU Comedian-activist, Mark Thomas returns for another series in THU which he collates policies suggested by his studio audience THU into the People's Manifesto. THU THU This week Mark and the audience consider an agenda which THU includes a shame-based pay-policy for professional THU footballers, compulsory relationship MOTs and the public THU funding of political parties, plus there's "any other THU business" suggestions from the theatre audience. THU THU Mark also tries starts to pursue one of the winning policies THU from last series -that he should invade Jersey. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00x44l3 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00x44ly (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the writer and THU director Neil Jordan. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x7c25 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00x44m0 (Listen) THU As three Pakistan cricketers face an International Cricket THU Council tribunal in Dubai over allegations of match fixing, THU The Report looks at the threat of corruption to cricket. THU Betting on sport is hugely popular in Asia, and even where THU its banned, millions of pounds worth of bets are taken by THU illegal bookmakers. Betting syndicates - of both punters and THU bookmakers - are believed to be behind the efforts to bribe THU players in the UK. We hear claims that the English county THU game is currently being targeted by bookmakers from India, THU on the lookout for vulnerable players, perhaps with a THU gambling addiction or a debt. Adrian Goldberg explores this THU murky world, and asks if players and the authorities are THU doing enough to protect players from the lure of handsome THU rewards for not playing by the rules. THU THU Producer: Paul Grant. THU THU 20:30 In Business b00x44m2 (Listen) THU No Place Like Home THU THU The vast national urbanisation plan to take Chinese people THU out of poverty leaves behind many who are dispossessed of THU land and homes, or see their farms drowned by huge new water THU and power projects. Peter Day hears about some of the THU problems caused by China's rush for prosperity. THU THU Producer: Julie Ball. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00x3y26 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00xmx42 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00x3vbx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00x7ds9 (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 b00x7f1y (Listen) THU Snowdrops, Episode 4 THU THU Reader: Stephen Mangan THU THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Spread A Little Happiness b00kjjyp (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire THU sandwich bar. THU THU Today's the day that Jodie opens her own business, a THU sandwich bar in Beverley, East Yorkshire, and she is excited THU and a bit anxious. But fortunately for her she has Hope, who THU has just left her husband and come to live on Jodie's floor, THU and is very willing to help. THU THU Hope ...... Suranne Jones THU Jodie ...... Susan Cookson THU Milkman ...... Shaun Prendergast THU Dustbinman ...... Ben Crowe THU THU Directed by Chris Wallis. THU THU 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00htwhd (Listen) THU Series 2, Suggs THU THU Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. THU THU Suggs reads A Brief History of Time, listens to Vivaldi, THU changes the oil in a car and has his first tap dancing lesson. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 07 JANUARY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00x3vbz (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00x7b57 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00x3vc1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00x3vc3 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00x3vc5 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00x3vc7 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00x793q (Listen) FRI with Canon Patrick Thomas. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00xmx4x (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00x799l (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00x31sq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00x7b5c (Listen) FRI The Winter of Our Disconnect, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Susan Maushart. How one mother imposed techno-silence on FRI three angry teenagers for six months - and lived to tell the FRI tale.... FRI FRI Producer: Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00x7830 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women with news, FRI views and interviews of topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x7c2f (Listen) FRI A Small Town Murder, series 3, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Scott Cherry. FRI FRI Family Liaison Officer, DC Jackie Hartwell, finally finds FRI out why Melanie was killed. FRI FRI DC Jackie Hartwell ..... Meera Syal FRI DI Sanders ..... Matthew Marsh FRI Sylvia Brant ..... Susan Brown FRI George Brant ..... Roderick Smith FRI Rachel ..... Sian Brooke FRI FRI Produced and directed by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Power of Scotland b00x44kx (Listen) FRI Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond wants his country to FRI become the green energy capital of Europe. But are his goals FRI feasible? David Miller, BBC Scotland's Environment FRI correspondent, tests the evidence. FRI FRI 11:30 Electric Ink b00x44kz (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 6 FRI FRI by Alistair Beaton and Tom Mitchelson. FRI FRI A comic satire set in the struggling world FRI of newspapers. The paper is on the verge FRI of being sold to a Russian gangster. FRI FRI Maddox ..... John Sessions FRI Oliver ..... Alex Jennings FRI Freddy ..... Stephen Wight FRI Carol ..... Polly Frame FRI Masha ..... Debbie Chazen FRI Andrei Zinoviev ..... Ewan Bailey FRI Steward ..... Adeel Akhtar FRI Producer ..... Sally Avens FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00x7c3b (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00x3vc9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00x7c4p (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 More or Less b00x44l1 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford and the team look behind the numbers in the FRI news. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00x44l3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00k9p0w (Listen) FRI The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble FRI FRI The Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble was the first short story to FRI be published in The Financial Times. Written by the Irish FRI comic writer and blogger on economics, Julian Gough, winner FRI of the BBC National Short Story Prize in 2007, it is that FRI rare thing - fiction which delves into the world of FRI derivatives, arbitrage and futures. FRI Set in Somaliland, at a moment unspecified, when markets FRI were fully de-regulated, it follows the fortunes of one Dr FRI Ibrahim Bihi, a leading economist and the man who woke up FRI the sleepy goat market of Hargeisa with his 'glorious FRI notion'. Now marooned on a snowy station platform in FRI England, Dr Bihi relates his tale of triumph and tragedy to FRI a young Irish orphan named Jude, and along the way FRI illuminates ideas of profit and loss, boom and bust, FRI securitisation and futures. With the help of the BBC's FRI Economics Editor, Stephanie Flanders, Dr Bihi interprets the FRI mysteries of modern economics and follows the follies of the FRI market to their logical conclusion! FRI FRI Hugh Quarshie, star of the RSC and famously Ric Griffen in FRI Holby City, plays Dr Bihi and Sam O'Mahony-Adams plays Jude. FRI With Stephanie Flanders as herself. FRI FRI Adapted by Julian Gough from his story of the same name. FRI The director is Di Speirs. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00x44q2 (Listen) FRI Bradford FRI FRI The GQT panel meet members of the Grow Organic project in FRI Bradford. Eric Robson is in the chair. FRI FRI Pippa Greenwood and Bob Flowerdew meets the Bangladeshi and FRI Pakistani women taking part in the Grow Organic outreach FRI programme. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Five Guys Named Mohammed b00x44q4 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI Prog 5 Muhammad Hasan FRI FRI Long Description: FRI As Mohammed - in all its spellings - becomes the most FRI popular name for boys born in Britain, five men reflect on FRI their lives and about what it's like to be a Mohammed this FRI country today. FRI FRI Property developer Muhammad Hasan loves real estate. Whether FRI he is looking at a high-rise glass and steel office block, FRI or dodging stray dogs on a deserted industrial estate in FRI Birmingham, Muhammad bubbles with enthusiasm and passion. FRI After his father's early death, Muhammad became the family FRI breadwinner, with little time beyond work. But now he is FRI hunting for more than the perfect plot of land, he is FRI looking for the ideal wife. FRI FRI Producers - Gillian Darlington and Sarah Bowen. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00x44q6 (Listen) FRI Matthew Bannister presents the obituary series, analysing FRI and celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b00x44q8 (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Helena Bonham Carter about The FRI King's Speech. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00x44qb (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 b00x3vcc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00x44qd (Listen) FRI Series 73, Episode 1 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week are Jeremy Hardy, Sue FRI Perkins, Phill Jupitus and Francis Wheen. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00x44qx (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00x44st (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00x7c2f (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00x45c7 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Hinde FRI St Methodist Church in Marylebone, London with questions for FRI the panel including Michael Portillo, former Tory MP, Ken FRI Livingstone, Labour's candidate for London mayor, Matthew FRI Parris, columnist and writer and the designer Dame Vivienne FRI Westwood. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00x44sw (Listen) FRI Alain de Botton with his topical reflections. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00x45c9 (Listen) FRI Bad Memories FRI FRI In 2004, a successful architect and his family mysteriously FRI disappear from their home. Six years later five bodies are FRI found in the cellar of their house. They are identified as FRI Jonathan and Imogen Blake and their son, Matthew; Philip FRI Gibson, who was on the missing person's register and a FRI woman, identity unknown. Forensics determine that not only FRI were they murdered, but the time of death was1926. Can audio FRI files found with the bodies solve the mystery? FRI FRI Rachel Weir ..... Nicola Walker FRI Jim Marquez ..... Rupert Graves FRI Phillip Gibson ..... Steven Mackintosh FRI Jonathan Blake ..... Anthony Calf FRI Imogen Blake ..... Jana Carpenter FRI Matthew Blake ..... Oscar Richardson FRI Mary Marston ..... Imogen MCCurdy FRI Boy 1 ...... Rohan Nijhawan FRI Boy 2 ...... Ted Powell FRI FRI Written and directed by Julian Simpson. FRI FRI Recorded by Lucinda Mason Brown and David Chilton at Stanmer FRI House in Brighton. FRI Sound design by David Chilton FRI FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00x3vcf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00x7dsr (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 b00x7f2c (Listen) FRI Snowdrops, Episode 5 FRI FRI Reader: Stephen Mangan FRI FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00x3yjq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b00hcr5l (Listen) FRI Series 2, Barry Cryer FRI FRI Marcus Brigstocke invites guests to try new experiences. FRI FRI Barry Cryer watches his first episode of Friends, changes a FRI baby's nappy and listens to AC/DC. FRI
29 December, 2010
Radio 4 Listings for 01/01/2011 - 07/01/2011
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