28 January, 2011

Radio 4 Listings for 29/01/2011 - 04/02/2011

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SAT SATURDAY 29 JANUARY 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b00xwl6g (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b00xw4y0 (Listen) SAT The Sun Hasn't Fallen from the Sky, Episode 5 SAT SAT Overwhelmed by both the atmosphere and the other confident SAT students at the Academy of Music, Ailsa has not been SAT attending her Saturday classes. But when the people at the SAT orphanage find out and tell her beloved music teacher she is SAT desperate to make amends. SAT SAT Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir. SAT SAT Producer: Jane Marshall SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xwl6j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xwl6l (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xwl6n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b00xwl6q (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00xwl6s (Listen) SAT with the Revd. Simon Doogan. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b00xwl6v (Listen) SAT "I'm Pink Floyd's unsung hero!" Listener Clare Torry shares SAT her story from the Dark Side, spending a Sunday evening in SAT the studio with the prog rock legends. You'll also recognise SAT her singing voice from a multitude of adverts and TV shows. SAT Also, BBC World presenter Jonathan Charles read Your News, a SAT bulletin of sentences sent in by listeners. With Eddie Mair SAT and Becky Milligan. ipm@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b00xwl6x (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b00xwl6z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b00xzzsz (Listen) SAT Weather in Wiltshire SAT SAT As a nation, we are obsessed with the weather. Studies have SAT shown that over half of us talk about the weather at least SAT once day and check the forecast regularly before making SAT plans and heading out. We despair when it rains, we swoon in SAT the sun, we can't bear the sight of clouds in the sky, yet SAT we hate the thought of hosepipe bans and appear to be SAT spectacularly unprepared for extreme weather events, even SAT when expected or forecast. The weather certainly seems to SAT matter to most of us, but is extremely important to some SAT those whose livelihoods and way of life can depend on the SAT forecast. And for centuries, we've tried to predict the SAT weather by looking at the sky above us and the landscape SAT around us - the different ways in which plants, animals and SAT the countryside around us can give us clues about what is SAT coming and reflects what has been. For this week's Open SAT Country, Helen Mark is in Wiltshire to find out about the SAT ways in which the weather gets under our skin and impacts on SAT our lives and on the landscape around us. Helen hears from SAT meteorologist, Liz Bentley, about how her own obsession with SAT the weather led to her setting up the Weather Club, an SAT organisation for like minded souls who appreciate the SAT weather for all its wonders. Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of SAT the Cloud Appreciation Society explains how our lives would SAT be immeasurably poorer without the clouds in the sky above SAT us. Wiltshire farmer, Stephen Horton, has been collecting SAT rainfall data for the last 25 years, having taken over from SAT his father who did the same for 25 years before him and SAT Helen also hears from National Trust Conservation Advisor SAT about how Wiltshire has coped with the extreme weather SAT conditions seen earlier this winter and how traditional SAT seasons can actually help our flora and fauna. SAT Helen is joined by Ruth Binney, author of Wise Words and SAT Country Ways to put to the test some of those centuries old SAT countryside theories and sayings that we have used to SAT predict the weather we get. Finally astrologer, David Rowan, SAT explains how how astrology and the ancient wonder of SAT Stonehenge have been used to predict the weather and the SAT changing seasons. SAT SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b00xzzt1 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT A major report published this week, claims a global SAT agricultural revolution is needed to feed the growing SAT population, which is set to reach 9 billion by 2050. One SAT estimate suggests that while food production will need to SAT increase by 70% over the next forty years it will also need SAT to use fewer resources and produce less greenhouse gases. SAT SAT The Foresight report calls on farmers to produce more from SAT the land; for scientists to find new efficient techniques SAT and for us all to reduce the amount of waste along the food SAT chain. Charlotte Smith looks at some of the measures already SAT being used on farm and in the lab and asks if it'll be SAT enough. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie SAT Bullock. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b00xwl71 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b00xzzt3 (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b00y1tj2 (Listen) SAT Fi Glover with showbiz icon Lionel Blair, poet Aoife Mannix, SAT a man who survived the Moscow theatre siege of 2002 and a SAT woman who rents her house out as a filming location; SAT top-selling artist Jack Vettriano reveals his Secret Life SAT and actress Tamsin Greig shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b00y1tj4 (Listen) SAT Russian Road - Hitler Tours SAT SAT John McCarthy explores the Vladimirka Highway in Russia and SAT talks to the writer who travelled along it from SAT Moscow to Siberia. John also talks to two historians about SAT visiting places associated with war - in particular the SAT Second World War in Germany. SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Hey Mr Salinger b00y1vxk (Listen) SAT For a year in 1996, Joanna Smith Rakoff was in charge of SAT answering JD Salinger's fanmail. Salinger was famously SAT reclusive, wanting nothing to do with his fans and Rakoff SAT was supposed to send out a standard letter. But as she read SAT the letters she found herself pulled into their lives, and SAT secretly, surreptitiously she started answering them. SAT SAT In this confessional documentary Joanna rediscovers the SAT letters she answered and meets the people who wrote them. SAT She introduces us to the teenager struggling at school, told SAT by her teacher she would get an A for English if she SAT received a reply from Salinger. We hear about the Japanese SAT girl who wrote two letters, one in Japanese and one in SAT English because she thought that Salinger was so smart he SAT would probably know Japanese. Joanna remembers the woman SAT whose daughter loved the short story 'A Perfect Day For SAT Bananafish'. When her daughter died young, her mother wanted SAT to set up a literary magazine and asked if she could call it SAT 'Bananafish'. As Joanna says "if at first I found [them] SAT weird, after a few months I found [them] - well, still SAT weird, but also many other things: sad, sweet, stupid, SAT hopeful, obsessive." SAT SAT Until she worked at Ober, Rakoff was not a fan of SAT Salinger's, but through reading his correspondence she saw SAT what an incredible connection he made with his readers. She SAT found herself reading Catcher in the Rye and Franny and SAT Zooey with new eyes, seeing it as not the cutesy fiction she SAT remembered, but as something more honest and troubled. It SAT helped her move from being an uptight critic to becoming a SAT writer. SAT SAT And once, during one of his rare visits to New York, she SAT even met the great man himself. We hear how tempted she was SAT to give him one of the most touching and personal letters SAT she ever received and why she decided not to SAT SAT Producer: James Crawford SAT A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b00y1vxm (Listen) SAT Fraser Nelson of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT It was the week of an economic shock. The economy SAT contracted, according to latest figures. The coalition SAT blamed the wintry weather. But opponents were quick to SAT question where growth will come from in the age of SAT austerity. The former Labour chancellor, Alistair Darling, SAT does so here in debate with the Conservative's deputy SAT chairman Michael Fallon. SAT SAT The departure of two 'working class' figures from the SAT political scene heightened perceptions that the political SAT classes are a privileged and wealthy elite. The cartoonist SAT at The Times newspaper, Peter Brookes, often depicts the SAT coalition leaders as public school boys. Here, he tells why. SAT SAT But is the accusation really true about the political SAT classes in general? The Tory peer and author - and former SAT grammar school boy - Michael Dobbs says it's not. As does SAT Labour's Jon Cruddas who went to a comprehensive school and SAT who worked in Number 10 under Tony Blair. SAT SAT This week also saw the publication of the Education Bill SAT which will carry into law the proposals of the Education SAT Secretary, Michael Gove. The Labour MP, Lisa Nandy, fears SAT that allowing parents to set up their own schools will not SAT benefit poorer pupils. The Conservative chairman of the SAT Education Committee, Graham Stuart, makes the case for SAT change.. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b00y1vxp (Listen) SAT Shocking evidence of what the Taleban call justice. SAT SAT The lessons for modern Lebanon in the story of the ancient SAT Phonecians. SAT SAT We explore a town Belarus where the spirit of Lenin still SAT marches on. SAT SAT And a correspondent goes in the footsteps of a master as he SAT learns how to survive on the streets of Dakar. SAT SAT The war in Afghanistan grinds on. The American-led forces SAT and their Afghan allies have now been fighting the Taleban SAT for nearly a decade. At stake is what kind of country, what SAT kind of society might emerge - what its values might be, how SAT it might dispense justice. And our correspondent in Kabul, SAT Quentin Sommerville, has just come across a reminder of what SAT the Taleban regard as acceptable punishment. SAT SAT For six years now there's been one big burning question at SAT the heart of Lebanese politics. And it is, "Who killed Rafik SAT Hariri?" He was the prime minister who died in a huge bomb SAT blast back in 2005. There's been a long investigation that SAT has fuelled suspicions and deepened Lebanon's dangerous SAT divisions. Last month the powerful Hizbollah movement SAT believed that it was about to be accused of the killing. But SAT it struck first - walking out of the ruling alliance, and SAT bringing down the government. In Beirut, Kevin Connolly has SAT been watching Lebanon come to terms with the upheaval. SAT SAT The result of the recent election in Belarus was certainly SAT no surprise. President Lukashenko is said to have won nearly SAT eighty per cent of the vote. But independent observers were SAT deeply unimpressed. They said the election fell well short SAT of democratic standards. And several opposition candidates SAT were arrested during protests after the poll. Under Mr SAT Lukashenko's long rule, Belarus has earned a reputation so SAT dire that the United States has described the country as SAT Europe's "last outpost of tyranny". But the authorities SAT there have been trying to tell James Coomarasamy that their SAT critics are "mistaken". SAT SAT There was a time when it seemed that the solution to world SAT poverty lay in what was called "microcredit." The idea SAT involves giving women in the poorest countries tiny loans to SAT invest in very small business ventures - like buying a few SAT chickens and then starting to sell eggs. And countless SAT people have indeed benefited over the years. But it seems SAT that microcredit - like any form of credit - can also be a SAT road to ruin and despair, as Madeleine Morris has been SAT finding out in rural India. SAT SAT Almost every foreign correspondent has someone that they SAT need to thank. They know that they could have achieved very SAT little without the help of a local colleague. This is the SAT figure who's helped steer them through all the political and SAT cultural complexities of a strange new society - the figure SAT who's helped the correspondent sound like they know what SAT they're talking about. And on a recent trip to Senegal, SAT David Goldbatt was lucky enough to work with one SAT particularly impressive lady... SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b00y1vxr (Listen) SAT What's the future for high street financial advice? SAT SAT Barclays announced this week it plans to stop offering SAT customers financial advice at its branches. SAT SAT The company said that the service had become less SAT commercially viable. SAT SAT It is the first high street bank to end its retail SAT investment advice service, ahead of the Financial Services SAT Authority's ban on commission, which comes into effect in SAT 2013. SAT SAT Last week, Barclays was fined £7.7m for failings in the SAT advice it gave to customers, but the bank said the two SAT issues were unrelated. SAT SAT Will other banks follow suit? And if so, what would this SAT mean for customers? Paul Lewis talks to Merryn SAT Somerset-Webb, editor-in-chief of Money Week, and Malcom SAT Kerr, a director of the financial services unit at Ernst & SAT Young. SAT SAT Counting the cost of solar panels: SAT There are concerns that a government subsidy aimed at SAT encouraging home owners to generate their own solar SAT electricity may be about to be creamed off by commercial SAT operators. SAT SAT The feed-in tariffs scheme was launched in April 2010, and SAT promised a typical household earnings of £800 a year and SAT savings on their bills of £120. SAT SAT But as thousands of people sign up, questions are also being SAT asked as to the burden this will place on the electricity SAT bills of other households and whether the scheme will SAT deliver what it promised. SAT SAT Paul Lewis speaks to environmental campaigner and writer, SAT George Monbiot, about why he would not give solar panels the SAT green light, and to Greg Barker, Minister of State for SAT Energy and Climate Change. SAT SAT Getting the best credit card rates: SAT Borrowers are set to face tougher lending criteria as new SAT European rules are introduced next week - with fewer people SAT likely to receive advertised rates. SAT SAT On 1 February, the Consumer Credit Directive comes into SAT force. It is designed to improve transparency and protection SAT for consumers and means that UK credit advertising rules SAT will be the same as those in the EU. SAT SAT Money Box hears from a listener who was offered double the SAT advertised rate offered by his bank, and from Malcolm SAT Harbour MEP, chairman of the Committee on Internal Market SAT and Consumer Protection. SAT SAT Wealth management: SAT How are the rich going to be investing their money in 2011 - SAT and what can everyone else learn from them? SAT SAT Paul Lewis interviews Jim Wood-Smith, head of research at SAT portfolio managers Williams de Broe, about what strategies SAT he thinks investors should follow in the coming year - and SAT about what common investment mistakes investors should SAT avoid. SAT SAT Producer: Ruth Alexander. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b00xw5ng (Listen) SAT Series 73, Episode 4 SAT SAT In the week that an assistant referee found herself at the SAT centre of a media storm, and George Osborne put the prospect SAT of a double dip down to a dip in temperature, Sandi Toksvig SAT presents another episode of the ever-popular topical panel SAT show. This week's guests are Jeremy Hardy, Paul Sinha and SAT Sue Perkins and Carrie Quinlan, and Harriet Cass reads the SAT news. SAT Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT Clip SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b00xwl73 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b00xwl75 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b00xw5nl (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from SAT Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School in Grantham, SAT Lincolnshire with questions for the panel including former SAT Labour Cabinet minister David Blunkett, Conservative MP SAT Louise Bagshawe, historian Michael Burleigh and Dr Wendy SAT Piatt, Director-General of the Russell Group of SAT Universities. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b00y1vxt (Listen) SAT Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any SAT Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's SAT programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? SAT phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: SAT 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00y1vxw (Listen) SAT My Dear Children of the Whole World SAT SAT Vatican City, December 1942. As war rages across the globe, SAT Pope Pius XII prepares to deliver his annual Christmas SAT message. It is perhaps the most important public address he SAT will ever give - and that's why the Pontiff faces the SAT starkest dilemma of his reign. SAT SAT For months beforehand evidence has been growing of a vast, SAT organised genocide of Jews and other races in SAT German-occupied lands. Now the Vatican is coming under SAT increasing pressure to speak out against Nazi atrocities. In SAT private audiences, the British and American ambassadors to SAT the Holy See urge Pius to show moral leadership by SAT explicitly attacking Hitler in his Christmas message. SAT SAT Yet Pius is reluctant to specifically condemn the Holocaust. SAT He is concerned that speaking out risks making things worse. SAT As Pius writes and discards draft after draft of the SAT message, it becomes clear that there are other factors to SAT explain his ambivalence. Europe's future seems to hang in SAT the balance between Nazism and Bolshevism, and it is the SAT latter ideology that he most fears. SAT SAT Pope Pius XII was played by Hugh Ross SAT And Sir Francis Osborne by Nick Dunning. SAT Cardinal Maglione was played by Pat Laffan SAT Monsignor Tardini by Patrick Fitzsymons SAT Mother Pasqualina ..... Stella McCusker SAT Harold Tittman ..... Stuart Milligan SAT Myron Taylor ..... Colin Stinton SAT And Sister Teresia Benedicta ..... Christine Kavanagh SAT SAT My Dear Children of the Whole World was directed in Belfast SAT by Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT 15:30 The Rock Island Line b00pkbff (Listen) SAT The story of how Lonnie Donegan's recording of The Rock SAT Island changed the course of popular music forever. Folk SAT singer and musician Huw Williams talks to The Quarrymen and SAT Peter Donegan, tracing the origins of The Rock Island Line SAT from John Lennon's prized 78 via the prisons of the Southern SAT American states to the railroad itself. The programme SAT includes a brand new recording of The Rock Island Line SAT featuring The Quarrymen and Pete Donegan. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b00y1vxy (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. From the Big Apple to Britain: the SAT bite of the bedbug. Sexism on and off the football pitch - SAT what is acceptable? The Michelle Obama effect and her impact SAT on how people view race and gender. Why one mother's calling SAT for a change in how professionals respond to cot death. Why SAT the role model of a 'bitter bitch' is one Swedish author's SAT answer to achieving a more equal society.The impact of SAT multiple birth on a sibling - what it means to become an SAT instant big sister to two, three, or four. Liz Lochhead on SAT becoming Scotland's new national poet. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b00y1vy0 (Listen) SAT Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b00y1vy2 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Evan consults the oracle by asking his panel of top SAT executives to fast-forward five years and forecast how they SAT see the economic landscape in 2016. They discuss raw SAT materials and inflation, and debate who will look stronger - SAT will it be China or India? SAT SAT The panel also discusses the value of networking - both real SAT and virtual - for your business and your career. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Andy Street, managing SAT director of high street retail chain John Lewis; Nicola SAT Horlick, founder of Bramdean Asset Management; Simon SAT Woodroffe, entrepreneur and founder of YO! Company. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00xwl77 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b00xwl79 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xwl7c (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b00y1x94 (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Clive is joined by comedienne, writer and documentary maker SAT Ruby Wax, whose new stage show 'Ruby Wax - Losing It' SAT discusses the stigma of mental illness and the toxins of our SAT time - envy, fame, getting rich, kids, career, all the while SAT looking like you're having a nice day. SAT SAT Author Michael Lewis tells of his preposterous experiences SAT of working on the trading floors of Wall Street. His new SAT book 'The Big Short' tells the outrageous story of the SAT misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made SAT the greatest financial killing in history. SAT SAT Jon Holmes talks telly with broadcaster Paul Jackson and the SAT return of his new Radio 4 series 'Britain in a Box', which SAT celebrates innovative television programmes and focuses on a SAT particular period in cultural and social history. World in SAT Action and campaigning TV kicks off the series. SAT SAT Dynasty's glamourpuss Stephanie Beacham talks to Clive about SAT her current dramatic role as the larger-than-life Soprano SAT Maria Callas in Terence McNally's award winning play SAT 'Masterclass'. SAT SAT Comedy from John Shuttleworth, who in his latest show 'A Man SAT With No More Rolls' not only laments the nation's moral SAT decline, but the demise of the humble bread roll! John will SAT be 'rolling' out his latest hit 'Smells Like White Spirit' SAT on his trusty synthesiser! SAT SAT Plus Nashville North meets Lower Manhattan with Justin SAT Townes Earle who performs the title track from his album SAT 'Harlem River Blues.' SAT SAT With more music from Milwaukee singer-songwriter Heidi SAT Spencer who plays 'Moth Met Spider' from her debut album SAT 'Under Streetlight Glow.' SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b00y1x96 (Listen) SAT Gerry Northam profiles Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, co-chair of SAT the Conservative party and the first Muslim government SAT cabinet minister. SAT SAT Producer: Gail Champion. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b00y1x98 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Liz Jensen, historian SAT Dominic Sandbrook and academic John Mullan review the week's SAT cultural highlights. SAT SAT Boardwalk Empire was created by former Sopranos co-writer SAT Terence Winter and is being shown on Sky Atlantic. Set in SAT Prohibition era Atlantic City, it stars Steve Buscemi as SAT Nucky Thompson - a man who seems to have a finger in just SAT about every pie in town. The first episode was directed by SAT Martin Scorsese - it's rumoured to be the most expensive TV SAT pilot ever shot. SAT SAT The 'O' in the title of O: A Presidential Novel by Anonymous SAT is Barack Obama. The author is apparently "an anonymous SAT insider who has spent years observing US politics and its SAT players" and someone who "has been in the room with Obama". SAT The novel tracks Obama through the next two years of his SAT presidency, culminating in the October 2012 election. SAT SAT Nominated for an Oscar in the Foreign Language Film and Best SAT Actor categories, Biutiful is a film by Mexican director SAT Alejandro González Iñárritu, set in Barcelona, which stars SAT Javier Bardem as Uxbal - a terminally ill man who is trying SAT to make amends for the mistakes that he's made and put his SAT life in order during his final months. SAT SAT Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales at the Lyric Hammersmith in SAT London features six of Dahl's short stories adapted for the SAT stage by Jeremy Dyson who first came to prominence through SAT The League of Gentlemen. The title alludes to the twist in SAT the tail which was typical of the stories Dahl wrote for an SAT adult readership. SAT SAT John Stezaker has taught some of Britain's leading artists SAT at St Martin's, Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art, but SAT he is also an artist in his own right, adjusting, inverting SAT and slicing classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book SAT illustrations to create unique, subversive images. The show SAT at London's Whitechapel Gallery is the first major SAT exhibition of his work. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Brief Encounters - A World View of Cinema b00y1x9b (Listen) SAT A debate with Matthew Sweet who assesses the state of cinema SAT and cinemas in the world today. SAT SAT With the help of experts Prof. Ian Christie (University of SAT London, Birkbeck College), Sandra Hebron (BFI) Stephen SAT Woolley (Producer: Interview with the Vampire) and Anil SAT Sinanan (film critic) and by using the snapshots recorded in SAT cinemas around the world which have been transmitted on SAT Radio 4 over the past two weeks, we will get a vivid and SAT informed understanding of the movie industry today. SAT SAT The short features transport listeners into cinemas located SAT all around the world, eavesdropping on their stories, their SAT characters and occasionally trying the snacks. SAT SAT From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the SAT most remote locations on earth, the act of going to the SAT cinema speaks volumes. This debate captures the passions, SAT problems and popcorn habits of film goers as they indulge in SAT an activity that unites the planet. But the story of cinema SAT now is also the story of the political, economic and SAT cultural tensions that divide the world. SAT SAT We'll be given a front row ticket to an outdoor screening of SAT a Kung-fu movie on the wall of a Buddhist temple, hear the SAT story of a cinema turned Beirut bomb-shelter and meet a SAT young man as he recalls his first trip to a Kabul cinema SAT since the departure of the Taliban. We go to Georgia where SAT the western capitalist ideals are for sale - cappuccino and SAT cell phones - but inside the socialist ideal has not been SAT eradicated completely with films on drugs and education. SAT Then there is the last cinema in Kashmir surrounded by razor SAT wire and guarded night and day by armed security, its future SAT uncertain as the fundamentalists force its closure. The SAT future of cinema in places like Kashmir and Afghanistan is SAT uncertain, but the growing markets of china and East Europe SAT tell a very different story. SAT SAT Producer: Neil George. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b00xp2cs (Listen) SAT The Moonstone, Episode 1 SAT SAT Doug Lucie's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins' detective SAT masterpiece from 1868, starring Eleanor Bron as Lady SAT Verinder and Kenneth Cranham as Sergeant Cuff, Paul Rhys as SAT Franklin Blake and narrated by Steve Hodson as Betteridge. SAT SAT Described by T.S. Eliot as the first and best of English SAT Detective novels, The Moonstone, involves a huge diamond SAT stolen from the forehead of an Indian deity, plundered in a SAT siege and finally given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth SAT birthday. It is said to carry a curse and mysteriously SAT disappears on the night of the celebrations. SAT SAT Are the Indian jugglers who were at the house earlier to SAT blame? Why are they hanging around the property with a SAT little boy they appear to be able to hypnotise? When the SAT local police get nowhere, one of the new detective police is SAT called for from London, and quickly finds a clue, but what SAT is it going to tell him? Has the curse of the Moonstone SAT brought with it suspicion and superstition to poison the SAT happy Verinder household on the Yorkshire coast? SAT SAT Cast: SAT Lady Verinder ..... Eleanor Bron SAT Rachel Verinder ..... Jasmine Hyde SAT Betteridge ..... Steve Hodson SAT Franklin Blake ..... Paul Rhys SAT Sergeant Cuff ..... Kenneth Cranham SAT John Herncastle ..... Stephen Critchlow SAT Rosanna Spearman ..... Alison Pettitt SAT Godfrey Ablewhite ..... Mark Straker SAT Penelope ..... Clare Corbett SAT Mr Murthwaite ..... Paul Battacharjee SAT Khan/Indian..... Narinder Samra SAT Housemaid ..... Carolyn Pickles SAT Boy ..... Alex Miller SAT SAT Recorded on location by Lucinda Mason Brown SAT Original Music by David Chilton SAT Dramatised by Doug Lucie SAT SAT Producer: Janet Whitaker SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b00xwl7f (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b00xw1t9 (Listen) SAT When a gay couple were turned away from a B&B run by SAT Christians it was more than just what would be going on SAT behind the bedroom door that was at stake. The real question SAT is should English law be based on the changing values of the SAT populace, rather than the Judeo-Christian principles found SAT in the Bible? SAT SAT Last week's case was just the latest in a class of cases SAT that has become known as "relitigation" - where the rights SAT of religious communities are pitted against the prohibition SAT on discrimination The gay couple won their case; as the SAT judge put it "Whatever may have been the position in past SAT centuries it is no longer the case that our laws must, or SAT should, automatically reflect the Judeo-Christian position." SAT SAT Is the application of the Human Rights Act being turned in SAT to a political ideology and being used to persecute a group SAT - the religious - that is now a minority in our society? SAT Should religious beliefs have any privileged status in a SAT democratic society? How do we define the boundaries of SAT liberty? Is the state, through the legal system, defending SAT minorities or encroaching in to the very core of our SAT personal freedoms and telling us what to believe? SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Matthew SAT Taylor and Clifford Longley. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b00xplrm (Listen) SAT (14/17) SAT Russell Davies welcomes a further four semi-finalists to BBC SAT Maida Vale to contest a place in the 2011 Brain of Britain SAT Final. This week's contenders come from Widnes in Cheshire, SAT Bakewell in Derbyshire, Northwich in Cheshire and Sutton in SAT Surrey. SAT SAT Producer Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT COMPETITORS IN THIS WEEK'S PROGRAMME SAT SAT DR GRAHAM BARKER, a dental surgeon from Widnes; SAT JOHN BEYNON, a gardener from Northwich, Cheshire; SAT CAROLYN PEARCE, a former teacher and farmer from Bakewell, SAT Derbyshire; SAT JOHN WATSON, retired, from Sutton, Surrey. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b00xp2j6 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough returns with a new series of your poetry SAT requests, including work by Bertolt Brecht, Rudyard Kipling SAT and Kate Scott. There's something of a food-related theme to SAT the edition, with William Carlos Williams' evocative poem SAT describing the chilled plums he's raided from the fridge. SAT Kipling's poem 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' weighs a British SAT soldier's life against that of his adversaries, and his own SAT officers. The readers are Jon Strickland and Phyllida Nash. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 30 JANUARY 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b00xydhf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00k3y00 (Listen) SUN A Friend of the Family, Coming Round SUN SUN High-flying go-getter Anton comes round from three days in a SUN coma to find a total stranger standing by his bed wearing SUN one of his shirts. He is further appalled to learn that this SUN man claims to be married to Susan, Anton's own wife. And SUN things get worse and worse before they begin to get better SUN ... SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xydhh (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xydhk (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xydhm (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b00xydhp (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b00y1xtz (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Lawrence Jewry, London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b00y1x96 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b00xydhr (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b00y1xv1 (Listen) SUN The Midst of Life SUN SUN In the modern western world, we often imagine life as SUN linear, with 'middle age' as the slightly boring long bit SUN that comes between the more dynamic beginning and end. SUN SUN Classicist and Anglican minister Teresa Morgan explores SUN alternative ways of considering the midst of life. She cites SUN ancient Roman and traditional Hindu approaches that break SUN life up into several stages that give a sense of progress SUN through those middle years and she draws upon the writings SUN of those for whom mid-life has taken on a different SUN significance, through a change of circumstance or sudden SUN illness. SUN SUN And she relates the thoughts of Albert Scweitzer, Monica SUN Furlong, Alan Coren and others to the perception of Heaven SUN as eternal life without beginning or end... suggesting that SUN middle age is perhaps a foretaste! SUN SUN With music by John Tavener, Don Henley, Sophie Tucker and SUN Olivier Messiaen. SUN SUN Producer: Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b00y1xv3 (Listen) SUN First Flight SUN SUN Lionel Kelleway joins Brian Morrell from WWT Caerlaverock SUN well before dawn with only the moonlight to guide them SUN across the flat featureless and frost covered landscape of SUN the Solway Firth. Gradually as a ribbon of light emerges SUN across the Lakeland landscape in the east, feint sounds of SUN geese can be heard drifting on the breeze from somewhere SUN across the mudflat roosting grounds. Increasing light allows SUN eyes to become accustomed to small shadowy skeins of birds SUN drifting to and fro over the mud. SUN SUN As the light intensifies, goose chatter begins, increasing SUN in volume as more and more barnacle geese awake. As if SUN choreographed by an unseen hand, a huge cloud of geese SUN simultaneously rise from the salt marsh and fill the air as SUN if a single organism, flying across the merse towards Lionel SUN and Brian. SUN SUN Being out there in the wide expanse of an estuary with SUN thousands upon thousands of geese flying overhead in the SUN half light of an early dawn, is a wildlife spectacle rarely SUN encountered in Britain, but one which will stick in the SUN memory for a very long time. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b00xydht (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b00xydhw (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b00y1xv5 (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 In October last year a Ugandan newspaper outed 100 members SUN of the local gay community, publishing photos and details of SUN where they lived. This week David Kato who led a legal SUN campaign against the paper was brutally murdered. Ed speaks SUN to his friend and colleague Chris Dolan about the climate of SUN fear in the country. SUN SUN Six months after flooding which devastated the country SUN affecting 18 million people, we find out if Pakistan is SUN showing any signs of recovery. Edward speaks to Collette SUN Fearon from Cafod. SUN SUN Southeast Turkey is home to one of the oldest Christian SUN civilizations in the world but many had fled during the long SUN conflict between Kurdish rebels and the Turkish state. Now SUN some families are returning which has led to a resurrection SUN of the ancient wine making tradition which had almost died SUN out. Dorian Jones reports. SUN SUN We've done a lot here on the Sunday Programme about the SUN 400th anniversary of the King James Bible but now there is a SUN challenge for the public as well. Bath Literary Festival are SUN looking for hundreds of volunteers to read the entire Bible SUN over 5 days. Festival Director James Runcie tells Ed how to SUN sign up. SUN SUN This week the government launched a Campus ambassadors SUN scheme designed to improve relations between different faith SUN groups. But how bad are things in British Universities? SUN Trevor Barnes reports. SUN SUN The new English Ordinariate may please those Anglicans who SUN cannot support Women Bishops but will they be received with SUN open arms by all Catholics? Many women have been fighting SUN for more rights in the Magisterium and are sceptical about SUN the new arrivals. Ed hears the views of Dr Tina Beattie. SUN SUN This week the Pew Research Centre published its estimate of SUN the Global Muslim population over the next twenty years. It SUN finds that the Muslim population is growing at double the SUN rate of the non-Muslim population. In Britain this will see SUN Muslims move from being just over 4 percent of the SUN population today to more than 8 percent in 2030. We discuss SUN the implications with Dr Philip Lewis from Bradford SUN University and Dr Salman Sayyid from the University of South SUN Australia. SUN SUN E-mail: sunday@bbc.co.uk SUN Series producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b00y1zsc (Listen) SUN Womankind Worldwide SUN SUN Sandi Toksvig presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Womankind Worldwide. SUN SUN Donations to Womankind Worldwide should be sent to FREEPOST SUN BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope SUN Womankind Worldwide. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. SUN You can also give online at www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. If SUN you are a UK tax payer, please provide Womankind Worldwide SUN with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift SUN Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation SUN facilities are not currently available to listeners without SUN a UK postcode. SUN SUN Registered Charity Number: 328206. SUN SUN Womankind SUN SUN Womankind is an international women’s human rights charity SUN working to help women and girls transform their lives in SUN Africa, Asia and Latin America. The charity delivers the SUN essential support that women’s organisations need to SUN amplify their voice, increase their impact and bring about SUN greater change. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b00xydhy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b00xydj0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b00y203j (Listen) SUN Set apart for service SUN SUN Live from Emmanuel Church, Northwood exploring the Bible's SUN call for us to serve one another. Leader: The Rev Mike SUN Talbot. Preacher: The Rev Sami Watts. Music Director: David SUN Buckley. Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b00xw5nq (Listen) SUN Are museums our new churches? SUN SUN Alain de Botton explores the notion that museums are our new SUN churches. But museums - he says - have a lot to learn from SUN churches about getting their message across. He appeals for SUN a complete revamp of some of our favourite museums. SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b00y203n (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b00y203q (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Nawal Gadalla SUN Directed by ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Lewis Carmichael ..... Robert Lister SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Harry Mason ..... Michael Shelford. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b00y203s (Listen) SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist Jon Snow. SUN SUN For the past 21 years he's been the face of Channel Four's SUN nightly bulletins where, along with his patent enthusiasm SUN and vigour for dissecting the day's stories, he's noted for SUN his natty line in neckties and socks. SUN SUN He's a highly experienced foreign correspondent too - he's SUN reported from Haiti, New Orleans, Washington and East Africa SUN among many locations. However it was in El Salvador that he SUN found his name on the list of people who might be targeted SUN by death squads. It was, he says, something of a 'badge of SUN honour'. "I cry on location", he says, "and it's a good SUN thing, because otherwise you bottle it up and come home SUN bonkers." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00xpnd6 (Listen) SUN Series 54, Episode 5 SUN SUN The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Central SUN Theatre in Chatham. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and SUN Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, SUN with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the SUN piano. SUN SUN Producer ..... Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b00y203v (Listen) SUN Food in Ireland After the Crisis SUN SUN Sheila Dillon investigates some of the food stories behind SUN Ireland's economic collapse and asks what role food will SUN play in deciding the Republic's future? SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b00xydj2 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b00y203x (Listen) SUN A look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Schrodinger's Quantum Kittens b00wr9qb (Listen) SUN Robin Ince examines Schrodinger's Cat, the paradox at the SUN heart of quantum physics, and discovers its influence on SUN science and popular culture. Fifty years after the death of SUN Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger, the quantum mysteries of SUN his cat-in-a-box paradox still continue to drive physicists SUN in research today. Can a living thing be both alive and dead SUN at the same time? SUN SUN Schrodinger's experiment was an almost playful creation, but SUN one that stabbed at the heart of the 1930s physics SUN establishment. By the 1950s, US physicist Hugh Everett SUN concluded that, indeed, both a dead cat and an alive cat can SUN exist, but in separate universes. His 'Many Worlds' theory SUN inspired authors, from Philip K Dick to Philip Pullman. SUN SUN Robin follows in the Austrian physicist's footsteps to SUN Oxford University, where Schrodinger was once a fellow, and SUN unearths some original archive at Magdalen College. SUN Physicist Sir Roger Penrose speaks about its impact on SUN quantum theory to this day. Why has Schrodinger's Cat gained SUN such currency not just in science but popular culture? SUN Writer Alan Moore tells how it created a new wave of 1960s SUN sci-fi literature. SUN SUN So why has Schrodinger's Cat caught the imagination of SUN non-scientists? How is it misinterpreted and used to explain SUN mankind's many unknowns? What is its place at the cutting SUN edge of quantum physics? Robin meets today's physicists and SUN thinkers who still tangle with the idea. And we find, no SUN doubt, that Schrodinger's Cat (in all probability) is very SUN much alive today. SUN SUN Producer: Dominic Byrne SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00xw5ls (Listen) SUN Sparsholt College, Postbag edition SUN SUN Following December's Arctic spell, it's time to face your SUN garden and its surviving plants. What is salvageable and SUN what's not? SUN SUN Eric Robson and the panel answer a selection of questions SUN you have sent us via post and email. SUN Based in Sparsholt College, this week's panellists are Bunny SUN Guinness, Matthew Biggs and Anne Swithinbank. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Completists b00y203z (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN The word 'completist' was coined in the 1950s and was SUN originally applied to collectors who aspired to own an SUN entire set of records by a particular artist (usually a jazz SUN musician). But now completists come in many different forms SUN with different ambitions. Ian Marchant meets five SUN "completists" - each of them driven by the need to tick off SUN the entire collection. SUN The internet has revolutionised everything for this group SUN dragging them out of their cellars, kitchens, bedrooms and SUN sheds and into web forums, specialist chatrooms and onto the SUN blogosphere to exchange opinions, tips and secrets with SUN whole tribes of fellow completists. The opportunities to SUN complete their goal are more available because of global SUN communication but the logistics are harder and the goal SUN posts are higher. SUN Ian Marchant, a former Charing Cross Road bookseller, is an SUN old friend and admirer of completists. He recalls the story SUN of one book collector who regularly asked for a particular SUN volume habitually adding '...but you won't have it.' When SUN the book (at last and amazingly) turned up, the collector SUN refused to buy it because, once he owned it, he'd no longer SUN have a reason to live. SUN Ian's completism? He owns all the records of Brinsley SUN Schwarz. It took him ten years to find a copy of their first SUN album and it turned out to be lousy. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b00y2041 (Listen) SUN The Moonstone, Episode 2 SUN SUN Kenneth Cranham as Sergeant Cuff, Paul Rhys as Franklin SUN Blake, Eleanor Bron as Lady Verinder and Steve Hodson as SUN Betteridge star in the second episode of Doug Lucie's SUN dramatisation of Wilkie Collins's detective masterpiece. SUN SUN Sergeant Cuff begins his investigation into the missing SUN diamond, with Betteridge the butler acting as his sidekick. SUN The once happy household on the Yorkshire coast is thrown SUN into disarray as the servants feel themselves suspected, SUN especially poor Rosanna Spearman who is a reformed thief. Is SUN she guilty just because she behaves oddly and what is it she SUN appears to have hidden in the dreadful quicksand? Sergeant SUN Cuff seems to think the real guilt lies elsewhere but has he SUN any evidence? What is Rachel Verinder hiding as she refuses SUN to speak to either the Detective or even her mother? And SUN where is her Moonstone now? A tragedy is about to happen as SUN the pressure of suspicion mounts. SUN SUN Sergeant Cuff ..... Kenneth Cranham SUN Lady Verinder ..... Eleanor Bron SUN Rachel Verinder ..... Jasmine Hyde SUN Betteridge ..... Steve Hodson SUN Franklin Blake ..... Paul Rhys SUN Rosanna Spearman ..... Alison Pettitt SUN Godfrey Ablewhite ..... Mark Straker SUN Penelope ..... Clare Corbett SUN Mrs Yolland ..... Carolyn Pickles SUN SUN Recorded on location by Lucinda Mason Brown SUN Music by David Chilton SUN Dramatised by Doug Lucie SUN SUN Produced by Janet Whitaker SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b00y204f (Listen) SUN Sebastian Faulks; Michael Arditti; and Frontier Fiction SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to writer Sebastian Faulks about his SUN new television series Faulks on Fiction; novelist Michael SUN Arditti discusses his new novel, a love story set in SUN Lourdes; and Joanna Kavenna opens the Reading Clinic for SUN 2011 with advice on the best in frontier fiction. SUN SUN PRODUCER Ella-mai Robey. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b00y2156 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough introduces requests for TS Eliot's SUN groundbreaking modernist poem The Waste Land. First SUN published in 1922, the programme draws upon existing SUN recordings of the work by Eliot himself and Ted Hughes, with SUN a new recording read by Lia Williams. The effect is to SUN semi-dramatise this extremely influential work which SUN extended the range of the dramatic monologue. Known for its SUN almost deliberate obscurity in places, what the listener SUN hears in this version is instead a clear, intriguing SUN interpretation of the poem, intercutting between the SUN different voices. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Smalley. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b00xppmm (Listen) SUN Homes but no loans SUN SUN Homes but no loans. Despite the threat of a new slide in SUN house prices and rising levels of negative equity, the SUN number of property-buyers having their homes repossessed has SUN declined over the past year. But now many economists predict SUN interest rates will rise in the course of 2011, fuelling SUN fears that Britain's housing market could be facing a double SUN dip. With banks chasing profits and affordable mortgages SUN harder to find. Michael Robinson asks what impact the new SUN housing freeze will have on Britain's already battered SUN economy. SUN Producer: Andy Denwood. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b00y1x96 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b00xydj4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b00xydj6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xydj8 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b00y2158 (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea makes his 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: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b00y215b (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Americana b00y215d (Listen) SUN President Ronald Reagan 100 years: SUN Next week would be the 100th birthday of former President SUN and Republican favourite Ronald Reagan. His son Ron Reagan SUN shares the name but became quite different from his father. SUN He talks about life inside the home of Ronald and Nancy SUN Reagan and about what it was like to grow up in the shadow SUN of the actor, turned governor, turned President of the SUN United States. SUN SUN Small Business in America: SUN President Ronald Reagan was a champion of America's small SUN business economy. Today, more than half of all Americans SUN either own, or work for, a small business. Butch and Rita SUN McNinch own Dutch Diner in President Reagan's hometown. They SUN talk about the challenges of, and value in, operating a SUN small business in Tampico, Illinois. SUN SUN JFK 50 years in Arts: SUN This month marks the 50th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's SUN Presidential inauguration. The Washington D.C. arts centre SUN which carry's his name is celebrating that anniversary SUN though a series of special concerts remembering JFK's SUN legacy. The Kennedy Center's Music Director Christoph SUN Eschenbach and Hollywood film star Richard Dreyfuss share SUN their impressions of the work and the man. SUN SUN Herman Cain Next Republican Up? : SUN Some people claim that the legacies of both Presidents SUN Reagan and Kennedy have grown larger than life. It might be SUN hard to imagine the beginning stages of their successful SUN careers but for Herman Cain, the beginning is the most SUN exciting part. Cain is seen by many as the under-dog SUN candidate as he aims to be the next Republican (Tea Party) SUN President. He talks to Americana about his hopes to lead the SUN nation as the 45th President of the United States. SUN SUN 19:45 Afternoon Reading b00hk1j9 (Listen) SUN The First Person, Writ SUN SUN Series of three quirky short stories by Ali Smith. SUN SUN A middle-aged woman returns home one day to find her SUN 14-year-old self sitting in her lounge. But what do you say SUN to the person you used to be, and how much do you tell them SUN about the future? Read by Siobhan Redmond. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b00xw5lg (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN As the new series of Feedback begins, Radio 4 is settling SUN into having a new controller. Will we begin to notice Radio SUN 4 developing a new sound? Will 'The Archers' go urban and SUN 'Just A Minute' take an extra 30 seconds? Keep your ear to SUN the ground and let us know what you think of what you hear. SUN SUN This is the place to hear those at the top of BBC radio SUN justifying their decisions. If you hear something that riles SUN you, let us know and we will take your opinions right to the SUN top. SUN SUN We will also be digging down into the mystery of the SUN programme-maker's world. Getting an idea of why things turn SUN out the way they do, and giving you a chance to comment and SUN offer suggestions on the way things are done. SUN SUN So, get in touch. If you have a complaint about a programme SUN anywhere on BBC Radio, or perhaps thoughts on how something SUN could be handled better, let us know. Equally, if you've SUN heard something brilliant, tell us. SUN SUN We are also interested in your general views about how SUN broader BBC decisions affect your experience as a listener. SUN You can contact us about everything from programme SUN scheduling to management pay. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN So email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b00xw5nb (Listen) SUN On Last Word this week: SUN SUN Sargent Shriver - who married into the Kennedy family and SUN founded the Peace Corps. SUN SUN Reg Ward, who led the controversial regeneration of the SUN London Docklands. SUN SUN Penny Tweedie, the photographer who took a principled SUN decision not to cover an execution in Bangladesh - John SUN Pilger pays tribute. SUN SUN The legendary Indian classical singer Bhimsen Joshi. SUN SUN And America's fitness king - Jack Lalanne, who personally SUN towed seventy boats one and a half miles through the water SUN on his seventieth birthday. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b00y1vxr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b00y1zsc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b00xnxl4 (Listen) SUN Trust SUN SUN Trust was the subject of moral philosopher Professor Onora SUN O'Neill's acclaimed Reith Lectures in 2002. Enron, political SUN sleaze, the foot and mouth crisis, the Bristol heart babies SUN scandal and the collapse of Equitable Life had contributed SUN to a perception - challenged by Professor O'Neill - that we SUN were living through a crisis of trust in our institutions. SUN SUN Eight years on, the subject is no less topical and so SUN Professor O'Neill returns to Radio 4 to be interviewed about SUN her latest reflections on trust by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN The intervening years have seen no let-up in the stream of SUN highly publicised political scandals, financial crises and SUN blunders by state officials. Yet levels of trust have SUN remained remarkably consistent. Furthermore, argues SUN Professor O'Neill, the public debate about building trust SUN misses the point: we should be more concerned about levels SUN of trustworthiness rather than levels of trust in society. SUN Attempts to restore trust in certain professions or SUN organisations do little to help individuals with the SUN practical difficulty of placing and refusing trust wisely. SUN In addition, she points to clumsy "accountability" schemes SUN designed to raise levels of trust but which in fact SUN encourage an increase in untrustworthy behaviour. SUN SUN Edward Stourton discusses these notions with Onora O'Neill SUN and explores their topicality. Her arguments are also SUN commented on and challenged by John Haldane, Professor of SUN Philosophy at St Andrews University and current chairman of SUN the Royal Institute of Philosophy. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b00y217q (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b00y217s (Listen) SUN Episode 37 SUN SUN BBC Radio 4 brings back a much loved TV favourite - What the SUN Papers Say. It does what it says on the tin. In each SUN programme a leading political journalist has a wry look at SUN how the broadsheets and red tops treat the biggest stories SUN in Westminster and beyond. This week Zoe Williams takes the SUN chair. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b00xw5nd (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to Paul Giamatti, the star of Sideways, SUN about his new comedy drama Barney's Version. SUN SUN Donald Sutherland, the star of Don't Look Now and MASH, SUN considers the difference between Hollywood in the 1970s and SUN today. SUN SUN From Andrei Tarkovksy to Sylvester Stallone: Andrei SUN Konchalovsky discusses state censorship, Stalin and SUN Hollywood blockbusters. SUN SUN Lord David Puttnam, Asif Kapadia and Antonia Quirke reveal SUN their final film diaries. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b00y1xv1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 31 JANUARY 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b00xydjb (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b00xw157 (Listen) MON People have often referred to conflicts between the concepts MON we use to understand the best way to live - ideas like MON Liberty, Equality, Justice, Democracy. You need to suppress MON one to achieve the other, and this - the argument goes - MON proves that they are not universal moral concepts. In his MON engagingly titled new book, Justice for Hedgehogs, the US MON philosopher Ronald Dworkin seeks to show that there is no MON incompatibility between these ideas because they are part of MON a single unified value, they only appear to conflict because MON of the way we are looking at them. But how do we ascribe MON this value with a universal role without recourse to God, or MON some other metaphysical entity? Laurie discusses the idea MON with Ronald Dworkin and AC Grayling. MON Also, shinning up the greasy pole: Bill Jones talks about MON his essay on how Prime Ministers pick their ministers and MON how to get ahead in politics. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b00y1xtz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xydjd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xydjg (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xydjj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b00xydjl (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y21kr (Listen) MON with the Revd. Simon Doogan. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b00y21r7 (Listen) MON 10 years on from the 2001 foot and mouth crisis , we hear MON that the country could be at risk again. We report from a MON livestock burial site in Cumbria which has been transformed MON into a wildlife reserve. And a study has been commissioned MON to see if culling crows and magpies helps songbirds. MON MON Presenter: Charlotte Smith MON Producer: Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b00xydjn (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b00y2888 (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather MON 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Thought for the Day 7.48am. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b00y288b (Listen) MON Andrew Marr talks fonts with the graphic designer Neville MON Brody, whose Anti-Design manifesto criticised the fear and MON lack of risk inherent in the art world, and challenged MON fellow artists to come up with something truly dangerous. MON Objects, overlooked and rejected, lie at the heart of much MON of Susan Hiller's work, which has been described as MON "investigations into the 'unconscious' of our culture." MON Hiller has been inspired by Minimalism, Fluxus and MON Surrealism, and Alex Danchev celebrates the best and worst MON in artists' manifestos. And the Nigerian writer EC Osondu, MON who works and lives in the US, explores the frayed bonds MON between his adopted country and his homeland. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b00y21sj (Listen) MON Periodic Tales, Episode 1 MON MON By Hugh Aldersey-Williams MON MON Everything is made from them: the elements are the universal MON and fundamental ingredients of all matter. But beyond the MON laboratory, released from the periodic table in which MON Dmitiri Mendeleev organised them according to the number of MON protons in their atoms, they reveal other meanings and tell MON other stories. Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores 'the curious MON lives of the elements' through history, literature, science MON and art. MON MON Mankind has always sought to venerate the rare and the MON precious, as well as being drawn magpie-like to that which MON is bright and shiny. First it was gold and then it was MON platinum. MON MON Reader : Michael Maloney MON MON Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y21v0 (Listen) MON Presented by Jane Garvey. Chef Ken Hom cooks up one of his MON favourite recipes and talks about his life and career. MON Pianist Ivana Gavric plays live in the studio, we hear about MON the children who helped build industrial Britain and Lisa MON Appignanesi talks about women and depression. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y21xf (Listen) MON Far Pavilions, Episode 1 MON MON M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana MON Ahmad. Following the 1857 Mutiny, Ashton, a young English MON orphan, is disguised by his ayah as her Indian son, Ashok. MON And so - as he forgets his true identity - his destiny is MON set. MON MON Sita / Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi MON Biju Ram ..... Inam Mirza MON K-Daad ..... Sam Dastor MON Ashok (child) ..... Joseph Samrai MON Anjuli (child) ..... Nishi Malde MON Hira Lal ..... Sagar Arya MON Lalji ..... Nazim Khan MON Daya Ram ..... Kaleem Janjua MON Pelham Martyn ..... Sam Dale MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 11:00 Corporate Karma b00y28q3 (Listen) MON Once upon a time, yoga was a mystical eastern discipline, MON practiced in the west only by a handful of committed MON adherents. But in the last decade it's become mainstream. Up MON to a million Britons practice yoga, and it's moved from the MON ashram to the sports centre. And yoga chains have set up in MON business, each offering their own particular brand of the MON discipline - for example, Bikram yoga, where the exercises MON are done in a sweltering 40 degree heated room. MON MON But as yoga becomes more commercial, traditionalists fear MON that the spiritual essence of the discipline has been lost. MON In classical yoga, the postures or poses are merely an aid MON to meditation, taking their place in an intricate philosophy MON of ethics and metaphysics. But have they simply become a MON form of keep fit? And there are fears about attempts to cash MON in on yoga. The inventor of Bikram yoga, Bikram Choudhury, MON has aggressively attempted to copyright "his" sequence of 26 MON postures, to the dismay of both independent yoga studio and MON the Indian government. Meanwhile in New York a yoga "talent MON agency" is marketing yoga teachers as superstars, hoping to MON cash in yoga's wholesome image; while one yoga clothing MON chain preaches new age self-help while specialising in MON stretchy fabrics that accentuate and flatter the female MON figure. MON MON In this programme, Jolyon Jenkins investigates what's MON happened to yoga. Does the arrival of chains and franchises, MON all selling an identical product, mean that independent yoga MON studios will go the same way as independent coffee shops? MON Has the inner journey been replaced by competitive MON narcissism? And how can you franchise a spiritual discipline MON anyway? MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b00y28q5 (Listen) MON Series 7, Parsnip Junction MON MON Radio 4's most curmudgeonly author is back for a new series, MON complete with his trusty companion Elgar, his pipe and his MON never ending capacity for scrimping and scraping at whatever MON scraps his agent, Ping, can offer him to keep body, mind and MON cat together. MON MON Ed Reardon ..... Christopher Douglas MON Ping ..... Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Py ..... Katy Wix MON Charles ..... Geoffrey Palmer MON Pearl ..... Rita May MON Olive ..... Stephanie Cole MON Stan ..... Geoffrey Whitehead MON MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis MON MON Ed finds himself in the middle of some sibling rivalry when MON Ping's sister, Py, undertakes some work experience at the MON agency. Ed finds the 'can-do' attitude of Py rather MON refreshing after Ping's normal 'might be a problem' MON response, particularly when she finds him some paid work MON with one Charles Cobbold, reinventing the much loved MON children's classic 'Parsnip Junction'. If Ed can withstand MON Charles' Communist tendencies and his penchant for porn he MON may be on to a winner. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b00y28q7 (Listen) MON Consumer affairs with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b00xydjq (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b00y28q9 (Listen) MON National and international news. MON MON 13:30 Brain of Britain b00y28qc (Listen) MON (15/17) MON Competitors from Walsall, London, Cardiff and Beeston in MON Notts join Russell Davies for the third semi-final of the MON 2011 contest. The winner will go through to the Final in two MON weeks' time. As ever, a listener has the chance to win a MON prize by outwitting the contenders with his or her own MON ingenious questions, in 'Beat the Brains'. MON MON Producer Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b00y215b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00y28qf (Listen) MON Market, Phonebreaker MON MON by Steve Sunderland MON MON Matt's going off the rails. School was a washout and working MON on his dad's market stall is a dead end job. But when he MON hears a call for help on a stolen mobile phone, it's a call MON to action. The trail leads him to an apparently glamorous MON crowd, and he wades in way out of his depth. An arresting MON morality tale by Steve Sunderland. MON MON Matt. . . . . Stephen Hoyle MON Paul . . . . . Joseph Kloska MON Jennifer . . . . . Jessica Blake MON Tom . . . . .James Cartwright MON Ian . . . . . Conrad Nelson MON Ruth . . . . . Fiona Clarke MON Andy . . . . . Oliver Lee MON MON Original Music by Steven D Reid MON Produced by Peter Leslie Wild MON MON 15:00 Brief Encounters - A World View of Cinema b00y1x9b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y28tm (Listen) MON 1950s MON MON Gyles Brandreth recalls Five Ages from his life from his MON extensive diaries. This first programme is on the 1950s and MON early 60s. In 1959 he stood as a Liberal in his school's MON mock General Election. He lost badly. In the real election, MON Harold Macmillan was returned to Number Ten with a big MON majority. Gyles ordered a copy of Lady Chatterley's Lover -- MON his housemaster confiscated it. It was the time of the first MON satellite, Sputnik, President John F Kennedy, and the Cuban MON missile crisis. Gyles records them all. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b00y203v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b00y2bnx (Listen) MON Celebrity Culture 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 MON us. MON MON In this programme, Ernie asks his guests whether the values MON of celebrity culture are at odds with their own religious MON values. Why are we fascinated by the rich and famous and MON have we always been? Why do we care about the personal MON antics of footballers, pop stars, TV personalities and MON actors? Has celebrity replaced religion in society? MON MON Joining Ernie to discuss celebrity culture is Dr Kristin MON Aune, senior lecturer in Sociology at the University of MON Derby and co-author of "Reclaiming the F World: The New MON Feminist Movement; Vicki Mackenzie, journalist and Buddhist MON and author of Cave in the Snow; and Miriam Berger, Rabbi MON from the Finchley Reform Synagogue. MON MON Producer: Karen Maurice. MON MON 17:00 PM b00y374t (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xydjs (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b00y2bnz (Listen) MON Series 54, Episode 6 MON MON Back for a second week at the Central Theatre in Chatham, MON regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor MON are joined on the panel by Rob Brydon, with Jack Dee in the MON chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. MON MON Producer ..... Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b00y2bp1 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b00y2bp3 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reviews a new film version of Brighton MON Rock, based on Graham Greene's tale of seaside murder. MON MON Producer Robyn Read. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y21xf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 How to Get into Oxford b00y2bwx (Listen) MON The path leading to Oxford's cloisters is often the subject MON of criticism. As the university deals with a record numbers MON of candidates, journalist Riazat Butt gets inside the MON applications system to find out who wants to go to Oxford, MON what the tutors are looking for and who gets in. MON MON The daughter of a Pakistani factory worker, Riazat made it MON her mission as a teenager to get into Oxford - and won a MON place to study Spanish at New College. She believes she was MON helped on her way by a bursary to a private sixth-form MON college that knew Oxford and understood its entry policy. MON MON Twenty years on, Riazat meets students from her hometown of MON Southampton and follows them through this year's application MON process. She tries to find out what kind of students are MON applying and why so many of Oxford's undergraduates are MON still from private schools. She talks to some of the MON academics who decide who's in and who's not and asks why do MON three A grades at A Level still not guarantee you a place at MON Oxford? What exactly are they looking for? MON MON Producer: Helen Grady. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b00y2bwz (Listen) MON Radical Economics: Yo Hayek! MON MON Was the economic crisis caused by fundamental problems with MON the system rather than a mere failure of policy? MON MON Over two weeks, Analysis investigates two schools of MON economics with radical solutions. MON MON This week, Jamie Whyte looks at the free market Austrian MON School of F A Hayek. The global recession has revived MON interest in this area of economics which many experts and MON politicians had believed dead and gone. "Austrian" MON economists focus not on the bust but on the boom that came MON before it. At the heart of their argument is that low MON interest rates sent out the wrong signals to investors, MON causing them to borrow to spend on "malinvestments", such as MON overpriced housing. The solution is not for government to MON fill the gap which private money has now left. Markets work MON better, Austrians believe, if left alone. Analysis asks how MON these libertarian economists interpret the state we're in MON and why they're back in fashion. Is it time to reassess one MON of the defining periods of economic history? Consensus would MON have it that the Great Depression of the 1930s was brought MON to an end by Franklin D Roosevelt's Keynesian policies. But MON is that right? Jamie Whyte asks whether we'd all have got MON better quicker with a strong dose of Austrian medicine and MON whether the same applies now? MON MON Next week, Newsnight's Economics Editor Paul Mason meets the MON economists of "financialisation" and asks whether the growth MON of credit has given birth to a new kind of capitalism. MON MON Jamie Whyte is head of research and publishing at Oliver MON Wyman, a management consulting firm. He is a former lecturer MON in philosophy at Cambridge University and the author of Bad MON Thoughts: A Guide to Clear Thinking. MON MON 21:00 Material World b00xw274 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and MON behind the headlines. He finds out about the oldest galaxy MON ever seen, estimated to have existed 480 million years after MON the big bang. Roland Pease travels to Trinity College Dublin MON to a new exhibition which marries biomedical science with MON art. Quentin answers your emails including what bedbugs MON smell like. Also, why chemical engineering is an MON increasingly popular subject to study at University. MON MON Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz. MON MON Oldest galaxy ever seen MON MON A team of astronomers from California have discovered what MON may be the oldest galaxy ever seen. Images from the Hubble MON Space Telescope, although faint and blurry, show a galaxy MON that dates from 480 million years after the big bang. MON Quentin talks to Rychard Bouwens, who led the research. MON MON Visceral: Living Art Exhibition MON MON Trinity College Dublin’s Science Gallery have launched an MON exhibition which is part art, part science. The artists have MON used the tools and methods of biomedical research to create MON semi-living dolls to bind human tissues into books, project MON nano-scale film directly onto eyes and bioengineer worry MON dolls. Material World’s Roland Pease went to the Science MON Gallery to find out more. MON MON Back to Bed Bugs MON MON In response to listener emails about last week’s item on bed MON bugs, Professor Mike Siva-Jothy, from the University of MON Sheffield, returns to answer questions about their MON distinctive odour and how long they can survive. MON MON Chemical Engineering MON MON The number of students studying chemical engineering in the MON UK is on the rise. In the last decade, university course MON enrolments have increased have reached a new record. Dr MON David Brown, Chief Executive of the Institution of Chemical MON Engineers explains why. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b00y288b (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b00xydjv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b00y27yq (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00y285p (Listen) MON The Meeting Point, Episode 6 MON MON When Euan and Ruth Armstrong set off with their young MON daughter, Anna, to live in Bahrain, it is meant to be an MON experience and adventure they will cherish. But on the night MON they arrive, Ruth discovers the truth behind the missionary MON work Euan has planned and feels her world start to crumble. MON She starts to question her faith - in Euan, in their MON marriage, and in all she has held dear. MON MON With Euan so often away, Ruth is confined to their guarded MON compound with her neighbours and, in particular, Noor, a MON troubled teenager recently returned to Bahrain to live with MON her father. Confronted by temptations and doubt, both Ruth MON and Noor must make choices that could change all of their MON lives forever. MON MON Episode 6: As news of war in Iraq breaks, Ruth finds herself MON desperately missing Farid, while the troubled Noor is drawn MON ever more closely to the Armstrongs and their faith. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b00xpp66 (Listen) MON Between the newspaper reporter and the readers sits a MON shadowy figure - the sub-editor. It's the sub who thinks up MON the punning headline and crafts the catchy intro. Michael MON Rosen joins the 'back bench' as the presses get ready to MON roll. MON MON Producer: Peter Everett. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y27t2 (Listen) MON Alicia McCarthy reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 FEBRUARY 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b00xydjx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b00y21sj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xydjz (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xydk1 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xydk3 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b00xydk5 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y21k9 (Listen) TUE with the Revd. Simon Doogan. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b00y21qz (Listen) TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b00y2d7d (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather TUE 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am. TUE Thought for the Day 7.48am. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b00y2d7g (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland returns with the history series which TUE finds the past behind the present and explores a moment in TUE history which throws light on a contemporary debate. TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 09:30 The Call b00y2d7j (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 1 TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright meets people who have made life-changing TUE phone calls. TUE TUE In the first programme in the series he meets Alice TUE Brooking, who was on the phone to her sister Nathalie in TUE London when an Air France Concorde crashed into her Paris TUE hotel. TUE TUE It was the 25th July 2000 and Alice Brooking was in the TUE Hotelissimo in Gonesse, near Paris Charles de Gaulle TUE airport. A language student working through her holidays as TUE a tour guide, Alice was waiting for a party of young TUE musicians to arrive from England. Torn between having a nap, TUE having a shower and calling her sister for a chat, she TUE picked up the phone to London. Half way through the TUE conversation there was loud bang and the phone went dead. TUE She went to the door of her room, to be met by searing heat TUE and a wall of flame. TUE TUE "I ran barefoot across the fields, because I'd left my shoes TUE in my room, then tried calling the attention of the car TUE drivers........ If I'd chosen to take a shower or a nap I'd TUE be dead."". TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b00y6r30 (Listen) TUE Periodic Tales, Episode 2 TUE TUE Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores 'the curious lives of the TUE elements' through history, literature, science and art. TUE TUE Some elements heal and some harm: chlorine has saved lives, TUE fluorine, bromine and iodine have all played medicinal roles TUE with varying degrees of effectiveness; but it was to another TUE element that Agatha Christie turned when needing a fictional TUE instrument of murder. TUE TUE Reader : Michael Maloney TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y21tk (Listen) TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. The political unrest and women's TUE rights in Tunisia. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y2d7l (Listen) TUE Far Pavilions, Episode 2 TUE TUE M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana TUE Ahmad. Living in the Hawa Mahal palace, Ashok befriends the TUE young princess Anjuli. However, he finds his life is TUE threatened when he becomes embroiled in dark court TUE intrigues. TUE TUE Sita / Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi TUE Biju Ram ..... Inam Mirza TUE K-Daad ..... Sam Dastor TUE Ashok (child) ..... Joseph Samrai TUE Anjuli (child) ..... Nishi Malde TUE Hira Lal ..... Sagar Arya TUE Lalji ..... Nazim Khan TUE Shankar ..... Adeel Akhtar TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b00y2d7n (Listen) TUE Episode 40 TUE TUE 40/40. The Californian Condor was brought back from the TUE brink of extinction in the US by hand rearing condor chicks TUE in captivity, releasing them back in the wild and guarding TUE their subsequent nest sites around the clock. Today, TUE Californian Condors live and breed in the wild. But not TUE many. By anyone's standards, the investment of people-hours, TUE know how, planning and protection in one wild species was TUE large. Why was the Californian Condor such an important TUE species? And were there wider benefits from the conservation TUE investment than the survival of one large bird species? TUE TUE If we accept that saving all endangered species might not be TUE practical, affordable or possible - then how are decisions TUE made about what to save? What questions have to be asked and TUE how do conservationists reconcile the balance of winners and TUE losers in any decision made? TUE TUE We have a special report from Howard Stableford who went to TUE see the Californian Condor project and we'll have James TUE Leape, International Director General WWF live into the TUE programme. TUE TUE David Robinson, Professor of Biology at the Open University TUE will be in the studio looking at the performance of iSpot TUE across 40 episodes of Saving Species. TUE TUE And our news hound Kelvin Boot will be in the studio too. TUE The proposed sale of British woodlands no doubt high on his TUE list of weekly stories. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Series Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 With Great Pleasure b00y2d7q (Listen) TUE Tom Morris TUE TUE Tom Morris, creative director of the Bristol Old Vic, TUE chooses some favourite writing. The readers are Siân TUE Phillips and Michael Byrne and the programme was recorded at TUE the Bristol Old Vic theatre. TUE TUE Producer: Christine Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b00y2d7s (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b00xydk7 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b00y2d7v (Listen) TUE National and international news. TUE TUE 13:30 Tales from the Stave b00y2d7x (Listen) TUE Series 6, Bizet's Carmen TUE TUE In the last programme of the series telling the stories of TUE famous pieces of music through the hand-written TUE manuscripts on which they were first created, Frances TUE Fyfield is at the Bibliotheque Nationale de France - the TUE French National Library. TUE TUE Her subject is the score and rehearsal material for Bizet's TUE Carmen. It has become one of the most popular TUE operas in the repertoire but the story in the manuscript TUE belies the ebullience and self-confidence of the TUE many tunes now embedded in our culture. TUE TUE Frances finds out about the struggles at the Opera Comique TUE as this ultimately tragic story threatened the TUE gentility and bonhomie of the clientele. 'Please' said one TUE of the managers at the time 'don't let Carmen die'. TUE Sadly for him, fortunately for posterity, Bizet and his TUE librettists stuck to their guns and to the word of the TUE original Prosper Mérimée story on which the opera was based. TUE Carmen dies, and has gone on dying ever since. TUE TUE Frances is joined by the singer Bea Robein and the music TUE writer and editor Richard Langham Smith. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b00y2bp1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00y2d7z (Listen) TUE In Memoriam TUE TUE An adaptation of Tennyson's long sequence of poems of grief TUE and hope written after the death of his close friend Arthur TUE Hallam. Performed by David Bamber. Music by Jon Nicholls. TUE TUE Hallam was born 200 years ago and died in 1833 in Vienna. He TUE and Tennyson had met at university and had become friends; TUE Hallam became engaged to marry Tennyson's sister. His sudden TUE and unexpected death prompted some of the most personal TUE poetry Tennyson ever wrote and some of the most moving and TUE powerful poetry of loss and grief in the language. Tennyson TUE returned over several years to write more and more poems in TUE an accumulating sequence about the friendship of the men, TUE the agony of the news of Hallam's death, the journey of his TUE body back to his family home in Clevedon, the life denied TUE Hallam. Alongside these intensely personal and exposing TUE poems he wrote others of philosophical and religious TUE investigation. Tennyson wanted to know why Hallam had died - TUE what emotional purpose could be served by death, what faith TUE had to say about loss. He was simultaneously grappling with TUE the beginnings of revolutionary ideas and findings about TUE geology, the age of the earth, the development of species, TUE Darwinism, even, before Darwin was known. TUE TUE Never before or since in English poetry has one death TUE brought forth such a charged outpouring of thought and TUE imagination, passionate grief and stoical scrutiny. TUE TUE The sequence includes several poems that have given phrases TUE to the common language - In Memoriam is where we hear TUE 'nature, red in tooth and claw' for the first time and also TUE 'tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved TUE at all.' TUE TUE For the afternoon play the sequence has been adapted and cut TUE to half its length by Tim Dee. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b00y2c2x (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00y2d81 (Listen) TUE A Poet's Year, A White Page TUE TUE National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, who has recently TUE been awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2010, reads TUE from her journal about life on her small holding in rural TUE West Wales. In this episode, a blizzard of snow, blocked TUE roads and a frozen water pump test their survival skills. TUE TUE The Welsh landscape and the healing power of nature are both TUE driving forces in Gillian Clarke's poetry and prose. These TUE readings are adapted from At the Source: Prose Writings by TUE Gillian Clarke, published by Carcanet. The music is Clowns TUE by Goldfrapp. TUE TUE Producer: Willa King TUE BBC Cymru Wales. TUE TUE 15:45 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y8x02 (Listen) TUE 1960s TUE TUE Gyles Brandreth recounts more diary instalments in the Five TUE Ages of his life. This time it's the early 60s. Gyles is TUE still at school but he's fascinated by all that's going on TUE -- the Beatles, the Profumo scandal, Macmillan's decline and TUE the death of President Kennedy. TUE TUE 16:00 Northern Exposure: A Cold Wind in Oldham b00y2d89 (Listen) TUE How will Oldham Council find cuts of £25 million? Radio 4 TUE has unprecedented access to the meeting rooms where tough TUE decisions are being made. Where will the axe fall? Who will TUE be hit? TUE TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth TUE Presenter: Allan Beswick. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b00y2d8c (Listen) TUE Series 23, Marcus Garvey TUE TUE Playwright Kwame Kwei-Armah is a passionate advocate of TUE Marcus Garvey, the inspirational black leader of the early TUE twentieth century. Long before Martin Luther King or Malcolm TUE X, Marcus Garvey was trying against all the odds to give TUE black people a sense of pride, and to create the conditions TUE in which they might hope to flourish and prosper. Kwame TUE Kwei-Armah tells the story of Garvey's incredible rise and TUE fall, and brings this impressive yet flawed man to life. TUE He's joined by Colin Grant, the author of Negro with a Hat - TUE a biography of Marcus Garvey. Presenter Matthew Parris TUE contributes his own memories of living in both Jamaica and TUE Africa. TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b00y2d8p (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xydk9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b00y2cvn (Listen) TUE Series 3, Redemption Song TUE TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. TUE TUE Thanks to some dodgy paperwork, Adam and Rudy are faced with TUE the prospect of losing the lease on their shop in less than TUE a year. Inspired by Rudy's claim that Bob Marley once cited TUE Rudy's Rare Records as having the best toilet facilities in TUE Birmingham, they take extreme action. TUE TUE Adam ...... Lenny Henry TUE Rudy ...... Larrington Walker TUE Richie ...... Joe Jacobs TUE Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey TUE Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon TUE Doreen ...... Claire Benedict TUE TUE Written by Danny Robins TUE Produced by Lucy Armitage. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b00y2cvj (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b00y652q (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the novelist TUE Dennis Lehane, whose books Mystic River, Shutter Island and TUE Gone, Baby, Gone have all been adapted into high-profile TUE films. TUE TUE Producer Ella-mai Robey. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y2d7l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b00y2d8r (Listen) TUE Tolerating the Intolerant? TUE TUE Reporter Jenny Cuffe investigates claims that one of the TUE groups behind the blasphemy law in Pakistan is also active TUE in the UK. The religious extremists are accused of spreading TUE a hate message against members of other Islamic sects who TUE they regard as infidels. One group that's been targeted TUE accuses the authorities of not doing enough to protect them TUE - and says political correctness has resulted in Britain TUE tolerating the intolerant. TUE Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b00y2d8t (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Case Notes b00y2f1c (Listen) TUE End of Life TUE TUE As a nation, we don't tend to dwell on the nitty gritty TUE detail of care we might want when we're dying. It's a topic TUE many tend to approach only when required and then might not TUE know what questions to ask, or what support may be on offer. TUE Dr Mark Porter visits St Joseph's Hospice in East London to TUE find out how care for those at the end of their lives can be TUE as comfortable and complete as possible. St Joseph's sees TUE both in and out patients, and makes it possible for people TUE to be cared for in their own homes. Hospices are also not TUE just for caring for those suffering from terminal cancers. TUE St Joseph's caters for those with heart problems at their TUE heart failure wellness clinic. The Hospice also does a lot TUE of work within the multi-cultural community it serves. This TUE has highlighted how those of different faiths view death and TUE medical involvement at the end of someone's life. Join Mark TUE on an enlightening visit to break some of the tabooes around TUE death and dying. TUE TUE Producer: Helen Sharp. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b00y2d7g (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b00xydkc (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b00y27yg (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00y285f (Listen) TUE The Meeting Point, Episode 7 TUE TUE Episode 7: While the relationship between Ruth and Farid TUE deepens, Noor finds the strength to confront the mistakes of TUE her past. TUE TUE The readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige. TUE TUE The Meeting Point was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced TUE by Heather Larmour. TUE TUE 23:00 Wondermentalist Cabaret b00y2f1f (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Poet, performer, enemy of all that's difficult and TUE upsetting, Matt Harvey brings his own comedy-infused, TUE musically-enhanced, slightly interactive poetry cabaret to TUE the airwaves. Recorded in front of an audience in Bristol, TUE he's joined by Elvis McGonagall and one man house band Jerri TUE Hart. Fellow poets Lucy English and Byron Vincent battle it TUE out with Elvis in a Dead Poets' Slam, while the audience TUE compose their own poem on the subject of Sundays. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y27mx (Listen) TUE Sean Curran reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 FEBRUARY 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b00xydkf (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b00y6r30 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xydkh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xydkk (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xydkm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b00xydkp (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y21kc (Listen) WED with the Revd. Simon Doogan. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b00y21r1 (Listen) WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Fran Barnes. WED WED 06:00 Today b00y2f2l (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather WED 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am. WED Thought for the Day 7.48am. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b00y2f2n (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests WED including Sophie Thompson. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b00y6r32 (Listen) WED Periodic Tales, Episode 3 WED WED Hugh Aldersey-Williams explores 'the curious lives of the WED elements' through history, literature, science and art. WED Elements have brought colour and drama to our lives - from WED the bold pigments of art to the dramatic explosions of WED fireworks. WED WED Reader : Michael Maloney WED WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y21tm (Listen) WED Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y2f2q (Listen) WED Far Pavilions, Episode 3 WED WED M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana WED Ahmad. Pursued by Janoo Rani's men, Ashok and Sita flee WED Gulkote. But death overtakes them on the road to the WED mountains. WED WED Narrator / Sita ..... Vineeta Rishi WED Zarin / Rider 2 ..... Christopher Simpson WED Commandant ..... Sam Dale WED Ashok (child) ..... Joseph Samrai WED Anderson ..... Sean Baker WED Munshi ..... Inam Mirza WED Sardar / Rider 1 ..... Adeel Akhtar WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 The Secret History of Social Networking b00y2f2s (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED Rory Cellan-Jones tells the story of the social networking WED scramble of the early 2000s and finds out how Facebook WED emerged to become world's biggest social network. WED Online social networking had been around for decades, but WED the popularity of the World Wide Web opened the door to new WED applications and mass appeal. WED For the first time, ordinary people were using computers to WED socialise in a new way. The rapid growth of our online lives WED resulted tempted dozens of entrepreneurs into the social WED networking fray. WED In the UK, Bebo took off in British schools - and struck WED fear in the hearts of parents. Rory visits the couple who WED built the site and sold it to American tech giant AOL. WED MySpace was once network of the future, but after being WED bought by News Corporation, its tech problems allowed other WED sites to take off. WED The real push came from American college campuses, where WED wired hipsters were looking for ways to manage their social WED lives online. WED Facebook wasn't the first site of its kind - other WED businesses had a lot in common with Mark Zuckerberg's WED efforts - but its simplicity and the single-minded focus of WED its CEO gave it an advantage over the competition. WED From Harvard, Zuckerberg expanded around the world, now WED counting among his users 500 million people and a third of WED the British population. But with big growth has come big WED controversy, over privacy, security, and the targeted WED advertising that Facebook relies on for the lion's share of WED its profits. WED Now one company is firmly at the top of the social WED networking pyramid, but the history of the industry has WED shown that fame can be fleeting. Rory finds out that even WED young people are becoming more wary about what they share WED online - could new networks spot a gap in the market and WED steal Facebook's crown? Part 2 of 3. WED WED 11:30 Ballylenon b00y2f2v (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 2 WED WED by Christopher Fitz-Simon WED WED WED Ballylenon, County Donegal. Pop. 1,999 was founded by St WED Lenon of Padua, when he fell into the river at this spot in WED 953. Ballylenon is situated on the shores of Lough Swilly WED with entrancing views of Muckish Mountain, in the Diocese of WED Derry and Raphoe. (Note: Ballylenon is a fictional name, but WED the other landmarks are identifiable.) WED WED Muriel McConkey -Margaret D'Arcy WED Vera McConkey -Stella McCusker WED Phonsie Doherty -Gerard Murphy WED Mrs Vivienne Hawthorne -Aine McCartney WED Rev. Samuel Hawthorne -Dermot Crowley WED Kevin 'Stumpy' Bonnar - Gerard McSorley WED Guard Gallagher -Frankie McCafferty WED Daniel O'Searcaigh - James Greene WED Monsignor McFadden - Niall Cusack WED Aubrey Frawley - Chris McHallem WED Polly Acton - Joanna Munro WED Eamonn Doyle - Patrick Fitzsymons WED Mr Boylan - Derek Bailey WED WED Directed By Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b00y2f20 (Listen) WED Consumer affairs with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b00xydkr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b00y2f2x (Listen) WED National and international news. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b00y2sj1 (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 b00y2cvj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00fbkp9 (Listen) WED Quartet WED WED Moving comedy by Donna Franceschild. With his life empty, WED save for dreams of former glory as a jazz musician, music WED teacher Robbie accidentally gains a jazz quartet. WED WED Robbie ...... Gerry Mulgrew WED Stuart ...... Callum Cuthbertson WED Iain ...... Stephen McCole WED Delilah ...... Katy Murphy WED WED Directed by Kirsty Williams. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b00y2sj3 (Listen) WED If you need some mortgage or remortgage advice Vincent WED Duggleby and guests will be ready to help on Wednesday's WED Money Box Live. WED WED Perhaps you're looking for a better interest rate or WED wondering which type of product to choose. WED WED Or maybe you're curious about fees, affordability or WED mortgage jargon. WED WED Whatever your question, Vincent Duggleby and guests will be WED waiting for your call. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. That number again 03700 WED 100 444. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00y2sj5 (Listen) WED A Poet's Year, The Fruits of Summer WED WED National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, who has recently WED been awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2010, reads WED from her journal about life on her small holding in rural WED West Wales. Bees, a successful harvest of hay and a family WED of swallows make a bountiful summer. WED WED The Welsh landscape and the healing power of nature are both WED driving forces in Gillian Clarke's poetry and prose. These WED readings are adapted from At the Source: Prose Writings by WED Gillian Clarke, published by Carcanet. The music is Clowns WED by Goldfrapp. WED WED Producer: Willa King WED BBC Cymru Wales. WED WED 15:45 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y8x4j (Listen) WED 1970s WED WED Gyles Brandreth continues his Five Ages series with a look WED at the early 1970s. He's asked, with Cliff Richard, to bring WED a youthful voice to Lord Longford's anti-porn inquiry. He WED goes to see "blue" films in London and accompanies Longford WED on his infamous trip to "sin-city" -- Copenhagen, sex clubs WED and all. But in the end, he's sacked from the inquiry WED because he can't take it seriously enough. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b00y2sj7 (Listen) WED Britain and Ireland have always lagged far behind the rest WED of Western Europe in terms of second home ownership. But, WED MPs apart, there is a relentless upsurge in people owning WED more than one residence. In a new report Chris Parks has WED analysed the effect of the increase of home ownership on WED British and Irish society and compared it with other parts WED of the world. He discusses his findings with Susan Smith and WED Laurie Taylor. WED Also, Laurie talks to the writer Iain Sinclair about his WED examination of the culture of the urban cyclist. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 Case Notes b00y2f1c (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 17:00 PM b00y2sjr (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xydkt (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Showstopper b00y2sjt (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Showstopper! The Improvised Musical is a brand new comedy in WED which the Showstopper team create a hilarious improvised WED musical on the spot - with the songs, plot and characters WED based entirely on suggestions from the live studio audience. WED WED The cast includes Pippa Evans, Ruth Bratt, Dylan Emery, Lucy WED Trodd, Sean McCann and Oliver Senton. WED WED PRODUCED BY SAM BRYANT. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b00y2rm3 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b00y2snm (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including an interview with the WED Oscar-nominated actress Carey Mulligan, who now stars in the WED film Never Let Me Go, based on the novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y2f2q (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b00y2snp (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Melanie Phillips, Michael WED Portillo and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b00ybvy5 (Listen) WED Once Upon a Future WED WED Susan Greenfield gives the first of a new series of talks on WED Radio 4. She will discuss her life's work and fulfilling a WED life's ambition. WED WED Four Thought will combine big ideas and evocative WED storytelling - speakers will be invited to take to the stage WED ready to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED WED Recorded live at the RSA in London, these talks are WED unscripted, thought-provoking and entertaining, with a WED personal dimension. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b00y2snr (Listen) WED Into the Arctic WED WED In 2010 the Canadian Arctic experienced its warmest year on WED record. Suddenly the area's resources- oil, gas, iron ore, WED uranium, even diamonds- seem accessible. From Siberia WED through Greenland to Canada and Alaska energy and mining WED companies are descending on the north, eager for a slice of WED the profits they believe to be waiting for them in the WED gathering slush. WED WED In the first of two programmes Tom Heap is in Arctic Canada WED to find out more about the new goldrush and to ask if the WED scramble for resources could reignite the great Cold War WED rivalries. WED WED The Arctic has held a fascination for Europeans for WED centuries. Vikings, fishermen and whalers plundered for WED short summer seasons and in 1576 Sir Martin Frobisher sailed WED around Baffin Island in search of the North-West passage to WED the riches of the east, a search that would obsess sailors WED for the next 350 years. WED WED Today the passage is clearing and shipping lines are WED examining the possibility of a high speed route between WED Western Europe and China. The clearing of the ice is also WED making oil exploration easier and allowing mining companies WED to access the mineral wealth of the north. WED WED That wealth is also attracting the attention of the national WED governments that claim a share of the Arctic. It's three WED years since the explorer, Artur Chilingarov piloted his WED submarine to the seabed beneath the North Pole, planted a WED flag and claimed it for Russia. The diplomatic repercussions WED of that dramatic act are still being felt around the Arctic WED today. WED WED Does that make economic, diplomatic or even military WED conflict inevitable or can the Arctic states share out the WED spoils without further damaging one of the most fragile WED environments on earth? WED WED Producer: Alasdair Cross. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b00y2f2n (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b00xydkw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b00y27yj (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00y285h (Listen) WED The Meeting Point, Episode 8 WED WED Episode 8: Ruth dashes Noor's hopes for the future and WED realises the true cost of her own happiness with Farid. WED WED The readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige. WED WED The Meeting Point was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced WED by Heather Larmour. WED WED 23:00 Mordrin McDonald: 21st Century Wizard b00y2sq7 (Listen) WED Series 2, The Root of all Evil WED WED Written by David Kay and Gavin Smith, Mordrin McDonald is a WED 2000 year old Wizard living in the modern world where WED settling garden disputes and watching Countdown are just as WED important as slaying the odd Jakonty Dragon. WED WED This week Mordrin recruits ally and former Wizard activist WED Ben The Brown to settle a garden dispute with his neighbour WED Jill. WED WED Mordrin: David Kay WED Bernard The Blue: Jack Doherty WED Ben The Brown: Arnold Brown WED Jill: Katrina Bryan WED Councillor Campbell: Callum Cuthbertson WED Ash: Greg McHugh WED Sickie-More: Johnny Austin WED WED Producer/Director: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 The Bob Servant Emails b00y2sq9 (Listen) WED Lions, Gold and Confusion WED WED Born and bred in Dundee, Servant sees himself as a people's WED champion. His extraordinary self-belief stems largely from WED his dominant position in Dundee's notorious Cheeseburger WED Wars of the early 1980s - a period of riotous appreciation WED for the traditional American snack that caused madness on WED the streets and lined Servant's pockets. He continued his WED Midas touch in the 1990s by running what he often claims to WED have been the 'largest window cleaning round in Western WED Europe'. And now, he's taking on the internet spammers of WED the world. WED WED Starring Brian Cox as Bob Servant, and Felix Dexter as Jack WED Thompson. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y27mz (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 FEBRUARY 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b00xydky (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b00y6r32 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xydl0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xydl2 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xydl4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b00xydl6 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y21kf (Listen) THU with the Revd. Simon Doogan. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b00y21r3 (Listen) THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. THU THU 06:00 Today b00y2sdp (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather THU 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am. THU Thought for the Day 7.48am. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b00y2srx (Listen) THU The Battle of Bannockburn THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of THU Bannockburn. THU THU In June 1314, Scottish forces under their king Robert the THU Bruce confronted a larger army commanded by the English THU monarch Edward II at Bannockburn. The Scots won a decisive THU victory: the English were routed and their king narrowly THU escaped capture. Although it took a further 15 years for THU Scotland to achieve full independence with the 1528 Treaty THU of Edinburgh-Northampton, this was an important victory and THU remains one of the most discussed moments in the nation's THU history. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b00y6r2t (Listen) THU Periodic Tales, Episode 4 THU THU Further adventures amongst the building blocks of the THU universe including the iconic whiteness of calcium which THU takes us from bones to buildings. THU THU Reader : Michael Maloney THU THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y21tp (Listen) THU Presented by Jenni Murray. The journalist and author Allison THU Pearson on her new novel. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y2vgc (Listen) THU Far Pavilions, Episode 4 THU THU M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana THU Ahmad. Having discovered his true identity, Ashok, now THU Ashton, is educated in England - but he yearns to return to THU India. THU THU Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi THU Ashok/Ashton ..... Blake Ritson THU Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua THU Zarin ..... Chris Simpson THU Anderson ..... Sean Baker THU Belinda ..... Leah Brotherhead THU George ..... Lloyd Thomas THU Mrs Harlowe ..... Christine Kavanagh THU Mrs Viccary ..... Joanna Monro THU Lily ..... Claire Harry THU Uncle Matthew ..... Sam Dale THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b00y2sdr (Listen) THU BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the THU world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 A Coat, a Hat and a Gun b00y2vgf (Listen) THU To tie-in with Radio 4's new versions of the Raymond THU Chandler classic thrillers Harriett Gilbert presents a THU reappraisal of the life and legacy of the man from Upper THU Norwood who invented the PI as we know him. THU THU "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I THU needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I THU had was a coat, a hat and a gun." THU THU Philip Marlowe has become in many people's minds the THU archetypal American detective anti-hero, yet his creator was THU educated at English public school, took the Civil Service THU exam and started a career in the Admiralty. THU THU This re-examination of the greatest crime writer of all time THU assesses him as an uneasy Englishman abroad and analyses his THU love-hate relationship with Hollywood, as well as his THU writing. THU THU Interviewees include the best-selling writer Sarah Dunant THU who was inspired to write crime after reading Chandler as a THU teenager; Professor John Sutherland; David Thomson (the THU leading film critic who also went to school at Dulwich); THU David Fine, author of a book about mythic LA. THU THU Harriett Gilbert is the presenter of The World Book Club on THU the World Service is a writer, a huge Chandler fan and her THU father - a crime writer himself - was Chandler's solicitor. THU THU Producer: Rebecca Stratford. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b00y2f22 (Listen) THU Consumer affairs. THU THU 12:30 Face the Facts b00y2vgh (Listen) THU Is the General Medical Council the right organisation to THU regulate the medical profession? THU A new regulator to discipline doctors was due to take over THU in April, but it's being scrapped by the Coalition. THU The removal of the adjudication role from the GMC was a key THU recommendation of the Shipman Inquiry six years ago. THU Now the medical charity, which registers all 239,000 doctors THU in the UK, will continue to act as judge and jury when THU investigating medical complaints. THU Face the Facts discovers it is not the only key reform THU recommended by the Shipman Inquiry which has not yet been THU implemented by the GMC. THU Modernisation of the 150-year-old organisation is not coming THU soon enough for relatives of patients who have died, and THU doctors whose careers have been ended. THU THU 12:57 Weather b00xydl8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b00y2z7x (Listen) THU National and international news. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b00y2snr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b00y2rm3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00y2vgk (Listen) THU A Nursery Tale THU THU by Kate Clanchy THU THU Xhensila has lost a child. Leona has lost a child. The two THU women are very similar. They could not be more different. THU As Kate Clanchy's nailbiting and bitterly funny play THU uncovers the where, the how and the why of their missing THU children, we discover exactly why parenthood is not a THU fairytale. THU THU Xhensila ..... Eri Shuka THU Leona ..... Pooky Quesnel THU D.I. Shah ..... Balvinder Sopal THU Peter ..... John Ramm THU Lisa ..... Vivienne Roshier-Mead THU THU Producer/Director: Jonquil Panting THU THU The music accompanying the programme is sung by Sister THU Mildred Barker, from the collection 'Early Shaker THU Spirituals', published by Rounder Records. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b00xzzsz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b00y1zsc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b00y2vgm (Listen) THU A Poet's Year, The Turning of the Year THU THU National Poet of Wales, Gillian Clarke, who has recently THU been awarded The Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry 2010, reads THU from her journal about life on her small holding in rural THU West Wales. The autumn crops of potatoes, beetroot, apple THU and blackberries are gathered and stored, and the honey is THU harvested. The pond has a mysterious nocturnal visitor. THU THU The Welsh landscape and the healing power of nature are both THU driving forces in Gillian Clarke's poetry and prose. These THU readings are adapted from At the Source: Prose Writings by THU Gillian Clarke, published by Carcanet. The music is Clowns THU by Goldfrapp. THU THU Producer: Willa King THU BBC Cymru Wales. THU THU 15:45 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y8x73 (Listen) THU 1980s THU THU Gyles Brandreth continues his Five Ages with a look back at THU the 80s. Breakfast television was just starting and Gyles THU became a regular on TV-am. It was also the time of a great THU electoral triumph for Mrs Thatcher and a scandal involving THU Cecil Parkinson. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b00y204f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b00y2w4n (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 Producer: Ania Lichtarowicz. THU THU 17:00 PM b00y374r (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xydlc (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters b00y2sdt (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Through the medium of four open letters, the comedian Tom THU Wrigglesworth investigates the myriad examples of corporate THU lunacy and maddening jobsworths in modern Britain. In this THU series his subjects range from traffic wardens to estate THU agents, with Tom recalling his own funny and ridiculous THU experiences as well as recounting the absurd encounters of THU others. THU In episode one, Tom finds himself baffled by the weird world THU of parking enforcement. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b00y2sdw (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b00y65vz (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. THU THU Producer Robyn Read. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y2vgc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b00y2w4t (Listen) THU Trouble Inside THU THU The riots at Ford open prison at New Year made front page THU news, but there have been several disturbances recently in THU young offenders institutes and higher category prisons. THU Tension in prisons has risen as a result of overcrowding and THU street gangs who operate inside prisons, putting pressure on THU the transfer system. After a day of rioting at HMP Ashwell THU in Rutland in 2009, three quarters of the premises were THU damaged and 420 inmates had to be moved - yet no THU prosecutions are being brought, which some say sends out the THU wrong message. Figures for injuries and attacks on officers THU and other prisoners are up in some areas, and prison THU officers believe that staffing levels are inadequate with so THU much pressure in the system. Twenty years after the Woolf THU Report into the riots and protests at Strangeways prison in THU Manchester, Gill Dummigan asks whether those lessons are THU being heeded. THU THU Producer: Rob Cave. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b00y2w4x (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b00y2d7n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b00y2srx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b00xydlf (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b00y27yl (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00y285k (Listen) THU The Meeting Point, Episode 9 THU THU Episode 9: Noor discovers the truth about Ruth and Farid and THU her sense of betrayal boils over when she is asked to THU baby-sit Anna once again. Now she knows the truth about THU them, what will Noor do? THU THU The readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige. THU THU The Meeting Point was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced THU by Heather Larmour. THU THU 23:00 Spread A Little Happiness b00l5hcf (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU Comedy by John Godber and Jane Thornton, set in a Yorkshire THU sandwich bar. THU THU The word is spreading like meat paste and business is THU booming, but there is a teenage fly in the soup de jour. THU THU Hope ...... Suranne Jones THU Jodie ...... Susan Cookson THU Dave ...... Neil Dudgeon THU Gavin ...... Ralph Brown THU Eve ...... Joanne Froggatt THU Carrie ...... Elizabeth Godber THU Mrs Cummings ...... Sherry Baines THU Woman ...... Jane Purcell THU THU Directed by Chris Wallis. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y27n1 (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 FEBRUARY 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b00xydlh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b00y6r2t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b00xydlk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b00xydln (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b00xydlq (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b00xydls (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b00y21kh (Listen) FRI with the Revd. Simon Doogan. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b00y21r5 (Listen) FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie FRI Bullock. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b00y2sf0 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am. Weather FRI 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am. Yesterday in Parliament 6.45am. FRI Thought for the Day 7.48am. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b00y203s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b00y6r2w (Listen) FRI Periodic Tales, Episode 5 FRI FRI Hugh Aldersey-Williams concludes his examination of what FRI lies beyond the Periodic table with a look at elemental FRI discoveries and element tourism. FRI FRI Reader : Michael Maloney FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b00y21tr (Listen) FRI Presented by Jenni Murray. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women with news, views and interviews of FRI topical interest. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y2x5k (Listen) FRI Far Pavilions, Episode 5 FRI FRI M M Kaye's epic of love and war, dramatised by Rukhsana FRI Ahmad. Ash takes up his post with the Guides in Mardan, but FRI his relationship with Belinda is increasingly troubled. FRI FRI Narrator ..... Vineeta Rishi FRI Ash ..... Blake Ritson FRI Gulbaz ..... Kaleem Janjua FRI Zarin ..... Chris Simpson FRI Colonel ..... Sam Dale FRI Khoda-Daad ..... Sam Dastor FRI Battye ..... Jude Akuwudike FRI Belinda ..... Leah Brotherhead FRI George ..... Lloyd Thomas FRI Mrs Harlowe ..... Christine Kavanagh FRI Major Harlowe ..... Sean Baker FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby and Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 In Pursuit of Happiness b00y2x5m (Listen) FRI Claudia Hammond looks at the government's plan to measure FRI the nation's happiness and asks whether happiness and a FRI sense of wellbeing are skills that can be taught. A growing FRI body of evidence, from fields such as positive psychology, FRI suggests that happier, more optimistic people live longer FRI and are ultimately more successful than people with a more FRI pessimistic nature. But is optimism something that can be FRI learnt, and can it be applied to an entire nation? The FRI government's recent announcement that it will be measuring FRI the nation's wellbeing, as an alternative indicator to the FRI nation's progress and as opposed to more economic measures FRI such as GDP, has caused some controversy. Claudia looks at FRI how you go about measuring something as subjective and FRI personal as happiness, and can it really be done for an FRI entire nation? She asks if how we feel as a population FRI really matters, and whether a happier nation is really a FRI more successful one. FRI Producer: Alexandra Feachem. FRI FRI 11:30 Bleak Expectations b00nw3rs (Listen) FRI Series 3, A Horrible Life Un-Ruined And Then Re-Ruined A Lot FRI FRI Comedy Victorian adventure by Mark Evans. FRI FRI Pip, Harry, Pippa and Ripely are reduced to abject poverty FRI on the banks of the Thames. Will Pip and Harry be able to FRI find work, or will they have to end their days eating mud FRI and listening to the gloating of Mr Benevolent? FRI FRI Sir Philip ...... Richard Johnson FRI Young Pip Bin ...... Tom Allen FRI Gently Benevolent ...... Anthony Head FRI Harry Biscuit ...... James Bachman FRI Barker Wackwallop ...... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Ripely ...... Sarah Hadland FRI Pippa ...... Susy Kane FRI A Vegetarian Lion ...... Mark Evans. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b00y2f24 (Listen) FRI Consumer affairs with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b00xydlv (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b00y2x5p (Listen) FRI National and international news. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b00y2c31 (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI So email: feedback@bbc.co.uk. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b00y2sdw (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00y2xn6 (Listen) FRI Double Jeopardy FRI FRI By Stephen Wyatt FRI FRI Patrick Stewart stars as Raymond Chandler and Adrian FRI Scarborough is Billy Wilder in this entertaining glimpse FRI inside the Hollywood film industry. In 1944 the two men came FRI together to work on a screen adaptation of James M Cain's FRI novel Double Indemnity. Billy Wilder is a 36 year old German FRI Jewish émigré just making his name as a director and Raymond FRI Chandler is a reformed alcoholic with a developing FRI reputation as a novelist but absolutely no experience of FRI writing for movies. The play follows their famously FRI difficult collaboration. FRI FRI Directed by Claire Grove FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b00y2xn8 (Listen) FRI Lavenham, Suffolk FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs this Q&A from the scenic village of FRI Lavenham, Suffolk. He is joined by Pippa Greenwood, Matthew FRI Biggs and Bob Flowerdew. FRI FRI In addition, Anne Swithinbank visits Jennie Eastman, one of FRI our listeners taking part in our Listeners' Gardens series. FRI How are her new beds looking? FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Five Ages of Brandreth b00y8x99 (Listen) FRI 1990s FRI FRI Gyles Brandreth completes his Five Ages with a look back to FRI the 1990s with Mrs Thatcher's downfall, John Major's FRI election victory and Brandreth's own time as a Conservative FRI MP and government whip. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b00y2xnb (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 b00y2xnd (Listen) FRI Francine Stock talks to Helen Mirren and Sam Riley about FRI Brighton Rock. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b00y2xng (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. Plus Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b00xydlx (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b00y2xnj (Listen) FRI Series 73, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular FRI topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy, FRI Susan Calman and Francis Wheen. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b00y2xnl (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b00y66d7 (Listen) FRI Kirsty Lang with arts news, interviews and reviews. FRI FRI Producer Ella-mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b00y2x5k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b00y2xnn (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from St FRI Giles' Church in Wrexham, North Wales with questions for the FRI panel including Helen-Mary Jones, Plaid Cymru assembly FRI member and health spokesman, Jesse Norman, Conservative MP, FRI Peter Hain, Shadow Welsh Secretary and the writer James FRI Delingpole. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b00y2xvh (Listen) FRI In Praise of the Nanny State FRI FRI Alain de Botton asks why the idea of a nanny state is so FRI unappealing. He says complete freedom - left totally to our FRI own devices - is rarely what we want. He says there's a lot FRI to be said for the odd paternalistic nudge in the right FRI direction. FRI FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00y2xxy (Listen) FRI Like Minded People FRI FRI by David Eldridge FRI FRI A heady mix of marriage, class and politics as Gillian and FRI Ray attempt to keep their relationship alive over 25 years FRI of social change. FRI FRI Gillian ..... Ruth Wilson FRI Ray ..... Tom Brooke FRI Directed by Sally Avens FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b00xydlz (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b00y27yn (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b00y285m (Listen) FRI The Meeting Point, Episode 10 FRI FRI Episode 10: Noor's disappearance with Anna and Euan's return FRI from Saudi Arabia force Ruth to make a decision about her FRI future. Bahrain or Ireland? Farid or Euan? Which will she FRI choose? FRI FRI The readers are Laura Pyper and Yasmin Paige. FRI FRI The Meeting Point was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced FRI by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b00y2d8c (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b00y27n3 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with all the news from Westminster. FRI