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SAT SATURDAY 18 FEBRUARY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01by9nb (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01cdl53 (Listen) SAT Europe in the Looking Glass, Episode 5 SAT SAT The men eventually make their way home. SAT SAT Europe in the Looking Glass is Robert Byron's travel SAT classic, recounting a car journey across Europe in 1926, and SAT providing a mirror on events and nationhood both then and SAT today. Byron (a descendant of the poet) found acclaim as the SAT author of The Road to Oxiana - an account of a trip to SAT Afghanistan and Persia. SAT SAT The conclusion offers the travellers (and all of us) a new SAT perspective on their homeland as well as the countries and SAT cultures they explore together. SAT SAT Read by Rupert Penry-Jones. SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01by9nd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01by9ng (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01by9nj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01by9nl (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01by9rw (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna SAT Magnusson, a writer and broadcaster from Glasgow. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01by9ry (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01by9nn (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01by9nq (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01by8nc (Listen) SAT Inspirational Walks, Northern Ireland - The Wee Binnians SAT SAT In the second in a series of inspirational walks, Clare SAT Balding joins members of the Wee Binnians, Northern SAT Ireland's biggest walking club. The walking club was set up SAT in 1987 by Veronica McCann who, over the years, has inspired SAT countless people to join her in walking the hills and SAT valleys of Northern Ireland's Mourne Mountains. Described by SAT Veronica as 'a social group that walks, the Wee Binnians SAT Walking Club is open to anyone over 16 and the club is the SAT embodiment of a cross-community, cross-border group whose SAT members share a passion for walking. SAT SAT Today Clare joins just some of the 300 club members to climb SAT to the summit of Slieve Binnian, the third highest mountain SAT in Northern Ireland. She hears from Veronica, a SAT self-confessed non-walker beforehand, about what inspired SAT her to set up the group, why it is so important to her and SAT then from some of the members about what the club - and SAT Veronica - mean to them. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01c6j19 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Demand for venison is increasing, yet few people decide to SAT farm deer. Caz Graham visits a Staffordshire deer farm who SAT provide venison to the supermarkets. SAT SAT The UK's new-found appetite for venison could be a golden SAT opportunity for more people to convert to deer farming. But SAT the number of deer farms has failed to keep up with the SAT demand. The Scottish Venison Partnership says at least 500 SAT more farms are needed, to supply a market that's currently SAT dominated by imports. Moira Hickey meets Ali Loder, who SAT keeps around 250 red deer near Strathdon in Aberdeenshire to SAT find out what tempted him into deer farming SAT SAT The number of wild deer in the UK has doubled in the past SAT ten years, now standing at an estimated 2 million. Wild deer SAT can cause damage to crops, woodland and can cause road SAT collisions. For these reasons, each year 350,000 wild deer SAT are culled across the UK. But some people say that we should SAT be wary of culling too many of the animals. Peter Fraser SAT from the Scottish Gamekeepers Association thinks that there SAT needs to be plenty of wild deer to protect an already SAT fragile rural economy. SAT SAT In England, the Forestry Commission culls about 12,500 wild SAT deer every year. The deer then gets sold on as venison meat. SAT Our reporter Emma Weatherill joined Forestry Commission game SAT keeper Matthew Davies early in the morning as he set out SAT stalking deer in the New Forest. SAT SAT Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01by9ns (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01c6j1c (Listen) SAT Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01c6j1f (Listen) SAT On this week's Saturday Live, Richard Coles' guest is a SAT television presenter and media personality whose private SAT life has intrigued the tabloids - Anthea Turner. The SAT sometime 'perfect housewife', Anthea will be fronting the SAT 'Get Britain Crafting' campaign later in the year. SAT SAT This week's poet is Mr Gee, from humble beginnings as a SAT Hip-Hop DJ, Mr Gee has honed his spoken word skills to SAT become one of the stars of the UK poetry scene. SAT SAT We meet Jesse Ruiz, who, as a 27-year-old law student SAT looking for intern work in Chicago, was mentored by a young SAT lecturer at the University of Chicago Law School - Barack SAT Obama. SAT SAT Richard also talks to Thomas Keeper, an estate agent, who SAT recently spent £35,000 on a surgical procedure to extend his SAT legs pushing his height from 5ft 6in to 5ft 10in. SAT SAT As an homage to Valentines day earlier this week, JP Devlin SAT travels to Henley on Thames for a stroll with Paul Daniels SAT and Debbie McGee to learn about the joys of romance. SAT SAT And we experience James Naughtie's Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01c6j1h (Listen) SAT Israel SAT SAT John McCarthy discusses the diverse attractions of Israel as SAT a destination. It's a land whose tumultuous existence often SAT overshadows a rich, cultural life. The very word 'Israel' is SAT often synonymous with conflict and religious tension, but SAT John looks beyond the political debate to find what it has SAT to offer the ordinary traveller. His guests are a travel SAT writer, Samantha Wilson, a keen hiker, Alma Smith and a SAT chef, Adi Gilo who spent many summers living and working on SAT a kibbutz. SAT SAT Producer: Margaret Collins. SAT SAT 10:30 The Art of Monarchy b01c6j1k (Listen) SAT The Royal Collection is one of the most wide-ranging SAT collections of art and artefacts in the world and provides SAT an intriguing insight into the minds of the monarchs who SAT assembled it. SAT SAT In this series, BBC Arts Editor Will Gompertz encounters SAT dozens of these unique objects - some priceless, others no SAT more than souvenirs - each shedding light on our SAT relationship with the monarchy and giving a glimpse into the SAT essential ingredients of a successful sovereign. SAT SAT In today's programme, Will puts the Royal Collection on a SAT war footing as he examines six very different items covering SAT 700 years that show how the monarchy has rallied their SAT subjects for war and endeavoured to keep the peace. SAT SAT Will's explorations of monarchs at war begins with a SAT photograph of the young Princess Elizabeth training to be an SAT ATS Officer in 1945 shown to the nation to boost morale but SAT then spools back to the Middle Ages with a clear symbol of SAT martial authority - Edward III's six feet, eight inch long SAT bearing sword. Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots and a SAT elaborate object of apology from the city of Exeter all form SAT part of the story of the monarchy in arms. SAT SAT As well as curators from the Royal Collection, Will meets SAT General Sir Mike Jackson, Dr Duncan Anderson - Head of SAT Academy, Sandhurst and Sir David Cannadine. SAT SAT Producer: Neil George. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b01c6j1m (Listen) SAT Devo max SAT SAT The Prime Minister David Cameron wants the referendum on the SAT renegotiation of Scotland's relationship with the rest of SAT the UK to offer a simple yes or no choice on independence. SAT But the Scottish National Party have said that, if they are SAT convinced there is sufficient public support for it, in SAT addition to a 'clean break' question, they would also like a SAT second option on the table involving significant new powers SAT for the Scottish Parliament but falling short of SAT independence. This has been dubbed - 'devo max'. But what SAT exactly is 'devo max'? What would it mean for the people of SAT Scotland and what would be the consequences for the rest of SAT the UK? Michael Buchanan tries to find out. SAT Producer Jane Beresford. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01c6j1p (Listen) SAT The gun remains the ultimate arbiter of disputes in SAT post-Gaddafi Libya. And Gabriel Gatehouse in Benghazi says SAT disarming the militias roaming the country is a priority for SAT the country's new leaders. Bill Law's been in Bahrain as SAT violence between protestors and security forces has left SAT many casualties in recent days. Justin Rowlatt's been SAT meeting a Brazilian man who admits to cutting down swathes SAT of Amazonian rainforest. But he maintains it was his SAT patriotic duty -- he was only doing what his government in SAT those days considered appropriate. There's growing SAT resentment between the people of Hong Kong and Chinese SAT mainlanders - Juliana Liu's been exploring the tensions in SAT this port city which until fifteen years ago was a British SAT colony ... while in New York City Reggie Nadelson looks SAT around a vast wedding emporium where you can spend tens of SAT thousands on a wedding dress - and many do!!! SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01c6j1r (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01by9ls (Listen) SAT Series 36, Episode 1 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with another series of SAT topical sketch and stand up. With Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes, SAT Pippa Evans and John Finnemore. SAT SAT Producer Katie Tyrrell. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01by9nv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01by9nx (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01by9lz (Listen) SAT Solihull SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics, hosted by the Knowle Society at Arden Academy, SAT Solihull, with historian and Labour MP, Tristram hunt; SAT Conservative MP and historian, Kwasi Kwarteng; Green Party SAT leader and MP, Caroline Lucas; and director of the Institute SAT of Economic Affairs, Mark Littlewood. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01c6j68 (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01c6j6b (Listen) SAT Freud: The Case Histories, The Wolf Man SAT SAT Deborah Levy's dramatisation of Sigmund Freud's iconic case SAT study 'The Wolf Man- The History of an Infantile Neurosis' SAT translated by Shaun Whiteside. SAT SAT It is 1910 when the depressed son of a wealthy Russian SAT landowner arrives in Vienna. Sergei Pankejeff, 24 years old, SAT is suffering from debilitating fears and phobias. Freud's SAT treatment of Pankejeff is centred around an enigmatic dream SAT his patient had as a very young child; a dream of white SAT wolves. Freud invites Sergei to return to his childhood as a SAT means of understanding his current depression. Analysing the SAT child inside the man Freud unlocks the meaning of the wolves SAT that haunt Sergei's dreams SAT SAT FREUD.....Robert Glenister SAT SERGEI PANKEJEFF (80).....Andrew Sachs SAT SERGEI PANKEJEFF (23).....Blake Ritson SAT SERGEI PANKEJEFF (10).....Ted Allpress SAT FATHER/FENCING MASTER.....Alun Raglan SAT MOTHER.....Susie Riddell SAT ANNA.....Amelia Clarkson SAT NANJA.....Elaine Claxton SAT GRANDFATHER/LATIN SAT MASTER/BOOKSELLER.....Jonathan Oliver SAT TAILOR.....Simon Bubb SAT VIOLINIST.....Ruth Schulten SAT SAT Directed by Nadia Molinari. SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b01bwmw6 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Rachmaninov, 2nd Piano Concerto SAT SAT Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto, which was famously SAT featured in David Lean's film "Brief Encounter", is one of SAT the world's most popular pieces of classical. In this SAT programme people describe the way in which Rachmaninov's 2nd SAT Piano Concerto has touched and shaped their lives. The SAT programme features a pianist from Taiwan whose memories of a SAT repressive childhood were dispelled by the emotions SAT contained within this music. Plus a story from an acclaimed SAT pianist from Argentina who was told she would never play the SAT piano again after a serious car accident, but who has SAT recently performed this piece in New York. And finally an SAT account of the place that this piece of passionate and SAT heartfelt music played in the life of John Peel and his SAT family, told by his wife Sheila Ravenscroft. SAT SAT The concerto is also given historical and musical context in SAT the programme by pianists Peter Donohoe and Howard Shelley. SAT SAT Producer: Rosie Boulton. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01c6kqx (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Mary Quant SAT SAT Sixties icon Mary Quant, Rosie Millard and Jeanette SAT Winterson on taking kids to museums and art galleries. Why SAT is surgery still so male dominated? The former governor of SAT Styal Prison speaks out. A Dad is Born - Learning to be a SAT dad. Plus - trying to diet ? Listener Sue Lyons gets advice SAT from three experts. SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01c6kqz (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01by8nt (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. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT Three young entrepreneurs, all in their early twenties, join SAT Evan to discuss the headaches in getting their businesses up SAT and running. They also discuss the next chapter - moving on SAT and crucially letting go or getting out. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Suleman Sacranie, founder of SAT online wholesaler 99pwholesaler.com; Kelly Goss of SAT independent fashion brand Rock 'n' Needle; Louis Barnett, SAT founder of luxury chocolate maker Chokolit. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01by9nz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01by9p1 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01by9p3 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01c6kr1 (Listen) SAT Clive will be chewing the fat with author Will Self, whose SAT new book 'The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Prawn Cracker' SAT is a selection of his hilarious New Statesman Real Meals SAT columns. Will bravely delves into the ubiquitous Thai meal SAT and chicken tikka masala, frozen TV dinners and airline SAT food. SAT SAT Clive talks 'Infidelity' with the original 'IT' girl Tara SAT Palmer-Tomkinson, who's had no time to 'do lunch' as she's SAT been writing, presenting, playing the piano and even SAT swinging through the jungle! 'Infidelity' is the sequel to SAT Tara's first book 'Inheritance' and is a tale of lovers and SAT losers, cheaters and winners. SAT SAT Gideon Coe will be making a splash with intrepid adventurer SAT and original 'Castaway' Ben Fogle, whose new BBC Two series SAT takes a thrilling look at the underwater world of the SAT crocodile. 'Swimming With Crocodiles' starts on Sunday 19th SAT February at 21.00 SAT SAT Clive will be saying 'Yes M'Lady' to actress Keeley Hawes, SAT who stars as Lady Agnes in the second series of 'Upstairs SAT Downstairs'. Keeley will be talking about the drama, SAT intrigue and passion among the sumptuous household of 165 SAT Eaton Place. What would Mrs Bridges think? 'Upstairs SAT Downstairs' returns to BBC One on Sunday 19th February at SAT 21.30. SAT SAT With music from Canadian five-piece roots collective The SAT Deep Dark Woods who perform a track from their album 'The SAT Place I Left Behind'. SAT SAT And sending pulses racing, bluesy punk duo The Kills are in SAT to celebrate their tenth anniversary with their new single SAT 'The Last Goodbye' from their album 'Blood Pressures'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01c6kr3 (Listen) SAT Series 11, The Warrah SAT SAT The Warrah by Lucy Catherine. SAT SAT As the 30th anniversary of the Falklands conflict SAT approaches, the war of words between Britain and Argentina SAT has, in recent weeks, become increasingly heated. In this SAT story, writer Lucy Catherine digs deep into the spirit of SAT the place to tell a personal story of young woman's SAT unexpected and unsettling encounter with the islands' past. SAT SAT Amy ..... Georgia Groome SAT Pablo ..... Paulo Rivera SAT Dad ..... Peter Hamilton-Dyer SAT SAT Directed by Marc Beeby SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01c6kr5 (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests historian Dominic Sandbrook, SAT writer Lisa Appignanesi and poet Cahal Dallat review the SAT week's cultural highlights including The Recruiting Officer. SAT SAT George Farquhar's 1706 play The Recruiting Officer is Josie SAT Rourke's first production in her new role of Artistic SAT Director at the Donmar Warehouse in London. It stars Tobias SAT Menzies as Captain Plume who, assisted by Sergeant Kite SAT (Mackenzie Crook), has come to Shrewsbury to enlist the men SAT of the town, but is also in pursuit of a local heiress SAT (Nancy Carroll). SAT SAT Lysander Rief is the hero of William Boyd's novel Waiting SAT For Sunrise. Rief visits Vienna in 1913 to undergo SAT psychoanalysis for a sexual problem, but an affair with a SAT fellow patient leads to a series of sinister complications SAT in his life which continue to trouble him through the SAT opening years of the First World War. SAT SAT Stephen Daldry has made a film of Jonathan Safran Foer's SAT novel Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close starring Thomas Horn SAT as Oskar, a young boy who sets out on a solo mission across SAT New York City after his father is killed in the attack on SAT the World Trade Centre. SAT SAT Picasso and Modern British Art at Tate Britain in London SAT explores the influence the Spanish artist had on his British SAT counterparts - including Ben Nicholson, Francis Bacon and SAT Henry Moore - throughout his career. SAT SAT Barack Goodman's four part documentary Clinton tells the SAT story of the boy from Hope's rise to the American SAT Presidency. It includes interviews with many of the people SAT closest to Clinton during his incumbency - those with an SAT inside view of what went right and wrong during his time in SAT office. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01c6kr7 (Listen) SAT Attention All Shipping SAT SAT "I love it. It's the nearest thing to poetry that I ever got SAT to read on the radio - wonderful cadences" - Charlotte SAT Green, Radio 4 announcer and newsreader is just one of SAT dozens of professional broadcasters who've been transfixed SAT by the strangely elegiac nature of the curt and abbreviated SAT language of the formal statement of weather conditions SAT around our island. For Archive on 4, Charlotte's former SAT colleague, Peter Jefferson presents an elegy to the Shipping SAT Forecast, travelling via the archive through the history and SAT romance of the sea areas that daily make their weather known SAT to seafarers. SAT SAT The sea is calm tonight. SAT The tide is full, the moon lies fair SAT Upon the Straits; - on the French coast the light SAT Gleams and is gone; the cliffs of England stand, SAT Glimmering and vast, out in the tranquil bay. SAT SAT But Matthew Arnold's poem 'Dover Beach' also perfectly SAT encapsulates the spirit in which many Radio 4 listeners SAT embrace the Forecast; gazing into the depths of the night, a SAT seascape of indigo swept by a distant lighthouse beam. So is SAT the Shipping Forecast as much a hymn to our former seafaring SAT island as formal meteorological bulletin, to be shared and SAT enjoyed by landlubbers who've long escaped all contact with SAT the sea and ships....? SAT SAT Peter travels to Exeter where the Forecast is compiled from SAT the Met Office's supercomputer's myriad pieces of data... SAT and talks to sailor and radio-lover Libby Purves, national SAT poet of Wales and composer of an ode to the Forecast, SAT Gillian Clarke and to photographer Mark Power, who shot a SAT stunning sequence of black-and-white images of the sea SAT areas. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Elmes. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01bwddl (Listen) SAT Gulliver's Travels, Episode 2 SAT SAT Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new SAT dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill [Dr Who]. SAT SAT Gulliver's adventures continue when he finds himself in SAT Brobdingnag - a land where the inhabitants are enormous! SAT Here, as a miniature man, Gulliver must fight for survival SAT against rats the size of dogs, a dwarf who is 40 foot high, SAT and the ridicule and humiliation of a scornful court. SAT SAT With his uniquely close-up view, Gulliver sees the people SAT (even the great beauties) as if under a microscope - and SAT they are dirty, stinking and disgusting. He becomes SAT increasingly horrified by humankind, stranded in a SAT frightening land where his only ally is an innocent child. SAT Once again, escape is imperative - if he doesn't, he won't SAT survive... SAT SAT As an exploration of of man's vanity and complacency, SAT Gulliver's second voyage is an acute satire - as relevant SAT today as ever. Beyond that, it is also a rattling good SAT adventure story - a man lost, swashbuckling his way through SAT manifold giant-sized dangers, desperate to find a way back SAT home. SAT SAT Gulliver's Travels stars Arthur Darvill as Gulliver. Other SAT members of the company are Matthew Gravelle, Sam Dale, SAT Bethan Walker, Judith Faultless, Richard Nichols, Chris SAT Pavlo, Claire Cage, Lynne Seymour, Gareth Pierce, Ewan SAT Bailey and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. SAT SAT Gulliver's Travels is adapted for radio by Matthew SAT Broughton, and is a BBC Cymru/Wales production, directed by SAT Sam Hoyle. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01by9p5 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01by7cz (Listen) SAT Organ Donation SAT SAT Every year around a thousand people die waiting for a donor SAT organ. The scientific and medical problems of organ SAT transplantation have long since been solved. The moral, SAT ethical and psychological issues are proving much trickier. SAT Now many patients and doctors are calling for radical SAT changes to tackle the organ shortage to save lives. A new SAT report by the BMA says patients could be kept alive solely SAT to harvest their organs. The practice is called "elective SAT ventilation" and would mean that when a patient was SAT recognised to be near death doctors would start ventilating SAT them, not to save their lives, but with the specific SAT intention of facilitating organ donation. There's also a SAT call to switch to a system of presumed consent where people SAT would assumed to be a willing donor unless they actively opt SAT out of the system - something the Welsh Assembly is already SAT considering. Is it about time we redress and update our SAT ethical boundaries and set aside our moral squeamishness to SAT save lives? How many of those who instinctively recoil from SAT these ideas would happy accept a donor organ for themselves SAT or a loved one? Or is this a horrific vision of Brave New SAT World utilitarianism were we reduce patients to a collection SAT of potential spare parts - a means to an end, rather than an SAT end in themselves? The debate goes to the heart of what it SAT is to be human and what lengths we'll go to save a human SAT life. It's a moral dilemma of Solomon like proportions. SAT Whose body is it anyway? That's the Moral Maze. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01bwfyj (Listen) SAT (14/17) SAT The 2012 series of the general knowledge contest reaches the SAT second semi-final, with competitors from Elgin in SAT Morayshire, London, Twickenham and Sale in Cheshire bidding SAT for a place in the Final next month. SAT SAT Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair. Among the SAT questions facing this week's contestants are the name of the SAT country of which Goodluck Jonathan is the President; and SAT which well-known painting had the not-very-revealing SAT original title 'Arrangement in Grey and Black', when SAT exhibited in 1872? SAT SAT As usual, there's also a chance for a Brain of Britain SAT listener to win a prize by outwitting the contestants with SAT question suggestions of his or her own. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01bwddq (Listen) SAT To stem the syrupiness of Valentine's day, Roger McGough SAT presents a selection of spine chilling poetry. Jealousy SAT rears its ugly head with dire consequences in two sinister SAT poems by Robert Browning. Roger recalls adolescent days SAT spent in the company of a German girl called Ursula, who SAT would recite poems by Goethe in German. So to indulge him a SAT little, and to enjoy the poem as the poet wrote it, guest SAT Iris Pflueger-Bassett reads Der Erlkönig in German. John SAT Sessions and Lisa Kerr read Walter Scott's translation of SAT it, with a little help from a well-known musical setting of SAT the poem by Schubert. The refrain of 'Nevermore' haunts the SAT airwaves in Poe's classic poem The Raven and a little girl SAT goes missing in a snow-storm in a poem by Wordsworth. The SAT other readers are Timothy West, Clive Swift and Catherine SAT Harvey. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 19 FEBRUARY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01c6hjh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Under the Skin b01c6s87 (Listen) SUN Correspondence SUN SUN Under the Skin is a celebration of the second ever South SUN Asian Literature Festival, which was staged in London and SUN across the United Kingdom in October. The relationship SUN between the English language, its literary tradition and SUN writers from South Asia has become an exciting and enduring SUN part of British literary life. SUN SUN The Festival celebrated writers from South Asia and British SUN Asian writing, equally, reflecting the diversity of themes, SUN subjects and literary forms that constitute South Asian SUN writing in 2011. SUN SUN Under the Skin features two original stories and one adapted SUN from the collection Too Asian, Not Asian Enough which was SUN published to coincide with the festival. NSR Khan's story SUN Correspondence is a touching and witty account of a SUN Pakistani father coming to terms with the life of his SUN British Asian daughter. SUN SUN Under the Skin starts with Deni Francis, Lyndam Gregory and SUN Najma Khan reading a story in letters between a father and SUN daughter. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01c6hjk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01c6hjm (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01c6hjp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01c6hjr (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01c6s89 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's in Barnes, Greater London. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01by7d1 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Rob Hopkins SUN SUN Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Culture movement, SUN believes that "engaged optimism" is the best way to face the SUN global challenges of the future, be it climate change, oil SUN supplies running out or the economic downturn. He believes SUN initiatives enabling people to produce their own goods and SUN services locally - from solar powered bottled beer to micro SUN currencies like the Brixton pound - are the best way to SUN build community resilience. Four Thought is a series of SUN talks in which speakers give a personal viewpoint recorded SUN in front of an audience at the RSA in London. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01c6hjt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01c6s8c (Listen) SUN Superstition SUN SUN Irma Kurtz reflects on why humans often abandon common sense SUN and resort to superstition to deal with life under stress. SUN Superstitions, she reflects, originated long before SUN scientific knowledge as primitive tactics in the human war SUN for survival, their origins unknown and having no basis in SUN logic or reason. SUN SUN Irma concludes that although anyone today living by SUN superstition would probably qualify as having an obsessive SUN compulsive disorder, nevertheless superstitions are still SUN handed down from generation to generation and are stored in SUN our subconscious. We might not believe in them, but we don't SUN forget them. SUN SUN To illustrate her theme, we hear readings from W.B. Yeats, SUN T.S. Eliot, Alexander Pushkin and Rudyard Kipling. The music SUN is by Giuseppe Verdi, Richard Wagner, and Frederick Chopin . SUN SUN Read by Liza Sadovy and Greg Hicks. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01c6s8f (Listen) SUN Woodcock SUN SUN In this week's Living World, Miranda Krestovnikoff tracks SUN down one of our most mysterious and elusive birds, the SUN woodcock. This mysterious wader spends most of its life in SUN woodland and is wonderfully patterned to blend in with dead SUN leaves. In summer there are about 160, 000 woodcocks in the SUN UK, but in winter their numbers are swelled to over a SUN million by migrant birds from Scandinavia and Russia. With SUN their long bills, woodcock probe for worms and when the soil SUN freezes, birds are forced to move south to the British SUN Isles. SUN SUN Woodcock are nocturnal , hiding by day in dense woodland. To SUN see one, Miranda enlists the expertise of Dr Andrew SUN Hoodless, a woodcock biologist with the Game and Wildlife SUN Conservation Trust who's been studying the birds for 20 SUN years to find out where they feed, how they're affected by SUN hard weather and what type of woodlands they require in the SUN breeding season. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01c6hjw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01c6hjy (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01c6sjk (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 The Archbishop of Athens has warned the Greek government of SUN further serious social upheaval if more austerity measures SUN brought in . Ed speaks to Othon Anastasakis. SUN SUN The market for Islamic art is booming and has now come to SUN the attention of the criminal underworld in the Middle East. SUN Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul. SUN SUN A delegation of Imams and Police from Pakistan will be in SUN Yorkshire this week. Bishop Tony Robinson tells Ed why this SUN visit could help the Christian community in Pakistan. SUN SUN Bishop John Packer gives us an update on the Welfare Reform SUN Bill which is ping-ponging back between the 2 houses of SUN Parliament. SUN SUN The UK will host a major conference on Somalia this week. Ed SUN speaks to BBC World Service Africa Editor Mary Harper about SUN the religious dimension to the conflict. SUN SUN Next week a programme launches in England that will provide SUN support to victims of anti-Muslim attacks and measure, map SUN and monitor such attacks in the country. Kevin Bocquet SUN reports. SUN SUN Is religion under attack from militant atheism and what role SUN should it play in modern Britain? Ed discusses with SUN philosopher Julian Baggini, Commons Chaplain Rev Rose SUN Hudson-Wilkin and Reform Movement Rabbi Laura SUN Janner-Klausner. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01c6sjm (Listen) SUN Childhood First SUN SUN Baroness Butler-Sloss presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf SUN of the charity Childhood First. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 286909 SUN SUN To Give: SUN SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Childhood First. SUN SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Childhood First SUN SUN Childhood First cares for, treats and educates children and SUN young people with severe emotional and behavioural SUN difficulties caused by serious neglect, abuse and other SUN trauma. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01c6hk0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01c6hk2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01c6sjp (Listen) SUN Live from Wilmslow United Reformed Church and led by the SUN Revd Dr Kirsty Thorpe, their minister and Moderator of SUN General Assembly, this service seeks healing for the SUN Church's past and reflects on ways Christians have grown SUN closer as they serve those around them. It marks 350 years SUN since the parting of the ways between the Church of England SUN and those non conformist clergy who could not accept its SUN authority in 1662 and celebrates the United Reformed SUN Church's fortieth year of life. Director of Music: Cliff SUN Crewe; Organist: Richard Brocklehurst. Producer: Philip SUN Billson. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01by9m1 (Listen) SUN Bankers in America SUN SUN David Cannadine reflects on current and historic attitudes SUN towards bankers in America where opinion does not divide SUN neatly along party lines. He sees today's criticism as mild SUN by comparison with the attitude of Franklin D. Roosevelt who SUN unleashed "a sustained and ferocious attack " during the era SUN of the New Deal. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:57 Weather b01c6hk4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01c6trh (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01c6trk (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Keri Davies SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Archer ..... Louis Hamblett SUN David Archer .... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Ian Craig ..... Stephen Kennedy SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Bert Horrobin ..... Martyn Read. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01c6trm (Listen) SUN Lord Prescott SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the former Deputy Prime Minister SUN John Prescott. SUN SUN In this frank interview, he describes life in the highly SUN political home where he grew up, the impact that failing the SUN school 11+ exam had on him and the gradual kindling of his SUN own ambitions. He speaks of his debt to his wife Pauline and SUN how for many years of their marriage he underestimated her. SUN He describes, too, the inferiority complex which dogged him SUN for much of his adult life: SUN SUN "All the attacks on me because of my grammar and kind of SUN background, aggressive style - it used to ruff up a few SUN feathers and whilst I would never let it show, certainly SUN deep inside me I felt a bit inferior." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01bwfys (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 2 SUN SUN Panellists Ross Noble, Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair and Gyles SUN Brandreth join host Nicholas Parsons for the popular panel SUN game where they have to speak on a given subject for sixty SUN seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. SUN SUN Devised by Ian Messiter. SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01c6trp (Listen) SUN Food Clubs SUN SUN Sheila Dillon looks at how people are clubbing together to SUN buy budget and luxury food. SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01c6hk6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01c6trr (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Warsaw Variations b018cg7v (Listen) SUN Panufnik and Lutoslawski were the great hopes of Polish SUN music at the outbreak of World War Two. SUN SUN During the Occupation, opportunities for musical development SUN were severely limited, but an artistic life sprang up in the SUN cafes and bars of Warsaw. For four years, Lutoslawski and SUN Panufnik made a living playing arrangements of popular and SUN classical tunes (most famously the Paganini variations) to SUN mixed audiences of music lovers, nationalist resisters and SUN cultured Wehrmacht officers. SUN SUN Warsaw Variations traces the experiences of these two young SUN musicians through the Occupation, the Warsaw Uprising (in SUN which virtually all their manuscripts were destroyed) and SUN into the era of Socialist Realism. SUN SUN Immediately following the war Panufnik was designated SUN 'Composer Number One'. But by 1954, he'd had enough of SUN pleasing the authorities and defected to Britain. SUN Lutoslawski stayed in Poland and emerged as one of the most SUN prominent composers of the late 20th Century. SUN SUN With contributions from two men with memories of Warsaw's SUN war-time cafe culture - actor and former waiter Witold SUN Sadowy and musicologist Wladyslaw Malinowski, as well as SUN Panufnik's widow, Lady Camilla Panufnik; the music scholar SUN and Lutoslawski expert Adrian Thomas; Panufnik's biographer SUN Beata Boleslawska, and a historian of Polish musical life SUN under the Nazis Katarzyna Naliwajek. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01by9lg (Listen) SUN Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a horticultural Q&A from SUN Grange-Over-Sands in Cumbria. Sharing their wisdom, on the SUN panel are Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew. SUN SUN Eric Robson visits the 300 year old topiary garden at the SUN Levens Hall, and Matthew Biggs is starts off his own hardy SUN orchid collection. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Key Matters b00tt5j1 (Listen) SUN Series 2, C Sharp SUN SUN Ivan Hewett talks with pianist Kenneth Hamilton about the SUN key of C sharp in an attempt to discover why this key is so SUN obscure and treacherous for performers. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01c6trt (Listen) SUN Gulliver's Travels, Episode 3 SUN SUN Jonathon Swift's classic satire, in a brand new SUN dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill [Dr Who]. SUN SUN The last voyages of Jonathan Swift's story are the lesser SUN told. Gulliver finds himself on the floating Island of SUN Laputa, where he encounters mad scientists and the SUN terrifying ghosts of the great and the good. He flees from SUN these intellectual and spiritual horrors, only to finally SUN find a kind of Eden with the Houyhnhnms, a race of SUN intelligent and gentle horses. However, in this land, humans SUN - or as they are called, the 'Yahoos' - are considered SUN vermin. The dark and traumatizing experiences Gulliver has SUN in this land change his life (and his wife and family's SUN lives) forever. With the satire here focused on crazy SUN scientific experimentation, superstition, and finally SUN spiritual desolation - Gulliver's Travels is as modern and SUN potent now as it has ever been. SUN SUN Gulliver's Travels stars Arthur Darvill as Gulliver. Other SUN members of the company are Matthew Gravelle, Sam Dale, SUN Bethan Walker, Judith Faultless, Richard Nicol, Chris Pavlo, SUN Claire Cage, Lynne Seymour, Gareth Pierce, Ewan Bailey and SUN Phoebe Waller-Bridge. SUN SUN Gulliver's Travels is adapted for radio by Matthew SUN Broughton, and is a BBC Cymru/Wales production, directed by SUN Sam Hoyle. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01c6trw (Listen) SUN Aminatta Forna discusses the delights of the short story SUN SUN Author and creative writing teacher Tessa Hadley discusses SUN the history and development of the short story, from Edgar SUN Allan Poe, through Chekhov, Mansfield and Monroe, and short SUN story writers Helen Simpson and Jon McGregor, along with SUN Deputy Editor of Granta Magazine Ellah Allfrey discuss what SUN makes a great short story. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOK LIST SUN SUN Lady With Lapdog by A.P. Chekhov. SUN Various publishers. SUN SUN Married Love by Tessa Hadley. SUN Published by Jonathan Cape. SUN SUN My Mother's Dream from The Love Of A Good Woman by Alice SUN Munro. SUN Published by Vintage. SUN SUN The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe. SUN Various publishers. SUN SUN This Isn't The Sort Of Thing That Happens To Somone Like You SUN by Jon McGregor. SUN Published by Bloomsbury. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01c6try (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry asked for by SUN listeners, including this week poems by Brian Patten and SUN Thomas Hardy. There is also a special focus on the work of SUN the late Christopher Logue, a friend and inspiration to both SUN Brian Patten and Roger himself. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01bwp6n (Listen) SUN Iranian Sanctions SUN SUN With the EU poised to ban oil imports from Iran, Allan Urry SUN assesses the impact of international sanctions on Britain SUN and Europe. SUN SUN Designed to curb Iran's nuclear programme, the oil embargo SUN could further push up the cost of fuel. SUN SUN Iranian companies are involved in a number of joint ventures SUN that bring energy into European homes and factories: File on SUN 4 examines what will happen to these vital projects as the SUN new round of trade restrictions begins to bite. SUN SUN And British companies that trade legitimately with Iran are SUN already finding it harder to do business. They warn that it SUN could lead to job losses. SUN SUN How will the sanctions affect Europe at a time when many SUN economies are in recession or are just stagnating? SUN And how effective are the new restrictions likely to be SUN given Iran's experience of finding ways around international SUN controls on what it can buy and sell. SUN Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN Iran sanctions won't work: Lamont SUN SUN Former Chancellor of the Exchequer Lord Lamont says SUN sanctions against Iran will not work and are hurting British SUN business interests, as David Lewis reports. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01c6kr3 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01c6hk8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01c6hkb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01c6hkd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01c6ts0 (Listen) SUN John Waite makes his selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN SUN Don't be doing the washing up during John Waite's Pick of SUN the Week on Sunday. SUN He's featuring a touching story about the late John Peel and SUN his wife, and one of the listeners who requested it says she SUN couldn't see the dishes for crying. He'll also be hearing SUN about murder, mayhem and other unspeakable acts practised by SUN the residents of Somerset. And that gravelly-voiced SUN song-smith of doom and loss -Leonard Cohen - reveals his SUN Mamma Mia side. SUN SUN Mark Thomas - The Manifesto - Radio 4 SUN Ramblings - Radio 4 SUN Brother Dusty Feet - Radio 4extra SUN The Essay - Radio 3 SUN Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD - Radio 4 SUN Soul Music - Radio 4 SUN Victoria Derbyshire - 5live SUN The Degner Defection - Radio 4 SUN The Interrogation - Radio 4 SUN The Life Scientific - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN The Write Stuff - Radio 4 SUN When Cocker Met Cohen - Radio 2 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01c6tzx (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b0125g85 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Nuit of the Living Dead and The End of the Affair SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SUN charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This SUN week: what not to do with a mouse, in front of strangers in SUN "Nuit of the Living Dead" and the ups and downs of along SUN term relationship get the Sedaris treatment in "The End of SUN the Affair" SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Sussex Scandals b01c6tzz (Listen) SUN A Yard in Crawley SUN SUN Written by John Peacock. SUN SUN A young woman falls in love with her parent's lodger, the SUN charming John George Haigh, twenty years older than herself. SUN Eventually she will have to find a way of dealing with his SUN appalling crimes. SUN SUN These are three short stories narrated by characters SUN involved in notorious scandals that originated in Sussex: SUN Uppark (Lady Hamilton), Crawley (John George Haigh's girl SUN friend) and Brighton (Katie O' Shea's son, Gerard), ranging SUN from 1815 to 1953. The fall of a woman who revelled in her SUN scandals; another who was forced to face the truth that her SUN lover was a murderer; and the son of Katie O' Shea, SUN defending his father during his mother's notorious affair SUN with Charles Stewart Parnell. SUN SUN Read by Anna Madeley. SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01by9ln (Listen) SUN Did the death of singer Whitney Houston and the acquittal of SUN football manager Harry Redknapp deserve to top the news SUN bulletins? Many listeners feel that important events at home SUN and abroad were shunted aside unjustifiably. In this week's SUN Feedback Roger asks Mary Hockaday, head of the BBC's SUN newsroom, whether the right decisions were made. SUN SUN During a particularly robust episode of the Moral Maze, many SUN listeners felt debate gave way to a dust-up. Michael Buerk SUN tells Roger how he tries - and sometimes fails - to ensure SUN the discussion generates more light than heat. SUN SUN Last week teacher Deborah Mole and her student Kevin agreed SUN to listen exclusively to each other's favourite station for SUN a whole week. After a traumatic week of BBC 1Xtra for her SUN and BBC 6Music for him they reveal what the experience has SUN taught them. SUN SUN Plus by special request there's a soul-stirring valentine's SUN message from velvet-voiced announcer Zeb Soanes ... SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01by9ll (Listen) SUN Patricia Stephens Due, James Whitaker, Josh Gifford, Jim SUN Riordan, Whitney Houston SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN the American civil rights activist Patricia Stephens Due who SUN went to prison after entering a "whites only" lunch counter SUN in Florida. SUN SUN The tabloid royal correspondent James Whitaker, who broke SUN the news of Princess Diana's eating disorder SUN SUN The racehorse trainer Josh Gifford who stood by jockey Bob SUN Champion when he contracted cancer and gave him his fairy SUN tale Grand National win on Aldaniti SUN SUN The Communist party member and writer Jim Riordan who was SUN once called up to play football for Spartak Moscow SUN SUN And Whitney Houston in her own words and music. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01c6j1r (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01c6sjm (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01bwm1h (Listen) SUN Preparing for Eurogeddon SUN SUN Europe thinks the unthinkable - what happens if the Eurozone SUN splits. What would happen to the banking sector, how would a SUN new currency be put in place, can contagion be halted, and SUN more fundamentally could the Euro survive? Policymakers SUN across Europe are putting their contingency plans together. SUN We reveal what some of the preparations may be. Reporter SUN Chris Bowlby runs through some of the scenarios of what may SUN happen if a country were to withdraw, and crucially what SUN would happen next. SUN SUN Contributors: Dawn Holland, National Institute of Economic SUN and Social Research; Aristotle Kallis, Political Scientist; SUN David Marsh, author "The History of the Euro"; David SUN Lascelles, senior fellow of the Centre for the Study of SUN Financial Innovation; Mark Crickett De La Rue; and Larry SUN Hatheway, UBS SUN SUN Producer: Kavita Puri. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01c6v01 (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 b01c6v03 (Listen) SUN Episode 91 SUN SUN Dennis Sewell of The Spectator analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01by8nf (Listen) SUN In this week's programme Matthew Sweet grapples with two men SUN who've played the Devil, Max von Sydow and Ciaran Hinds. Von SUN Sydow doesn't sport any horns for his latest Oscar nominated SUN appearance in Stephen Daldry's Extremely Loud and Incredibly SUN Close but Ciaran Hinds gamely plays a comic demon in Ghost SUN Rider II - quite a contrast with his role in the Woman in SUN Black which is also in cinemas at the moment. SUN There's a cameo from the cult British director, Norman J SUN Warren, whose feature debut, Her Private Hell is being SUN released on DVD for the first time and the composer, Neil SUN Brand, joins Matthew to explain how atonal music and Hammer SUN horror discovered that they were made for each other - a SUN marriage made in hell, as it were. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01c6s8c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 20 FEBRUARY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01c6hl3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01by7cl (Listen) MON Citizens without Frontiers - Monogamy in men MON MON Laurie Taylor considers why men 'cheat' in relationships. MON 78% of young male students have been unfaithful to their MON current partners according to the sociologist, Eric MON Anderson. He discusses men, monogamy and the reality of MON infidelity. They're joined by the sociologist, Lynn MON Jamieson. Also, the new politics of citizenship - Engin MON Isin, a Professor of politics at the Open University, MON explores the ways in which people embrace acts and causes MON which transcend national boundaries. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01c6s89 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01c6hl5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01c6hl7 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01c6hl9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01c6hlc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01c7ljr (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna MON Magnusson, a writer and broadcaster from Glasgow. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01c7ljt (Listen) MON Farmers in some parts of England have been battling through MON drought conditions for months and it's predicted it will MON only get worse. As the Government meets today with water MON companies, environmental groups and farmers - Caz Graham MON hears how the drought could push up the price of our weekly MON shop. MON MON Every year hundreds of thousands of people are taken ill MON after coming into contact with Campylobacter. It is a MON bacteria most commonly found on poultry and is the number MON one cause of food poisoning in the UK. Researchers in MON Scotland are now trying to breed chickens which are MON genetically resistant to the bug. MON MON And do you know your Midland Bullock from your Lancashire & MON Westmorland? MON They are both names for two different styles of British MON hedge. This is one of the busiest times of year for farmers MON and professional hedge layers to get their ash, larch or MON hazel hedges in order. Caz gets a lesson in the rural craft MON in the Lake District. MON MON This programme is presented by Caz Graham and produced in MON Birmingham by Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01c6hlf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01c7ljw (Listen) MON Presented by James Naughtie and Sarah Montague. Including MON Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01c7ljy (Listen) MON Ian Stewart, Peter Randall-Page, Mark Miodownik, Jane Rapley MON MON On Start the Week Tom Sutcliffe looks at how science has MON shaped our civilisation. Mark Miodownik explores how the MON discovery of new materials has transformed the way we live, MON from the Stone Age to the Silicon Age. While the MON mathematician Ian Stewart argues that calculations made MON centuries ago have led to untold innovations, and that MON mathematical equations really have changed our world. The MON natural world is the starting point for the sculptor, Peter MON Randall-Page and his abstract geometric form carved in MON stone. And Jane Rapley from Central Saint Martins College of MON Art and Design considers how far fashion designers are MON influenced by modern materials and techniques, and inspired MON by the natural world. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01c7lk0 (Listen) MON What the Grown-Ups Were Doing, Episode 1 MON MON Written by by Michele Hanson. MON Read by Rebecca Front. MON MON Metroland : the neat lawns and large houses of Ruislip were MON the canvas for Michele's childhood, and food was the main MON preoccupation of her mother who was convinced that her MON Christian neighbours had no concept of how to feed a child. MON MON The genteel suburbia of Northwest London in the 1950s is the MON setting for this memoir of an only child whose Jewish mother MON had loudly held opinions on everything from the stinginess MON of her neighbours to the bowel movements of her entire MON family. Negotiating adolescence was never going to be easy. MON MON Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01c7lk2 (Listen) MON With London Fashion Week in full swing, and the great and MON the good from the world of fashion vying for a front row MON seat, we bring the catwalk to the Woman's Hour studio in a MON special edition of the programme. Presented by Jane Garvey. MON Produced by Emma Wallace. MON MON London Fashion Week - On the Catwalk and on the Highstreet MON MON It’s now day four at London Fashion Week, with just another MON two days of catwalk shows to go. With a hectic schedule of MON back to back shows, it’s a busy time for the dedicated MON fashion journalist, as they report on the latest collections MON and new trends. Taking a break from the front row to speak MON to Jane is a panel of fashion writers: Hilary Alexander from MON the Telegraph – who joins us straight from the Peter Pilotti MON show; Dolly Jones, Editor of Vogue.com, and Angela Buttolph, MON Editor at Large at Grazia. They share their thoughts on the MON catwalks for Autumn/Winter 2012, and discuss what styles MON from last September’s Fashion Week have made it to the high MON street stores. MON MON Life at London Fashion Week - A Blogger's Eye View MON MON What’s it like at London Fashion Week? We join fashion MON blogger Susie Lau of fashion blog stylebubble.com at the MON catwalk show for this year’s MA fashion graduates from MON Central St Martins School of Art. MON MON Fashion blogs have been a growing phenomenon, and a great MON platform for new writers, stylists and photographers. Susie MON Lau has been blogging since 2006, and her blog, Style MON Bubble, is one of the best known. She posts stylish pictures MON and fashion observations from the catwalk and the street, MON with a focus on spotlighting young and unknown talent. MON Amongst the shows she’s attended at London Fashion Week is MON that of this year’s MA fashion graduates from Central St MON Martins School of Art. The course is famous as a launch pad MON for the next generation of design talent, having nurtured MON such names as Alexander McQueen, Christopher Kane, Jonathan MON Saunders, and Mary Katrantzou. We join Susie at the event to MON get a taste of life at London Fashion Week as a fashion MON blogger looking out for the very latest in new design MON talent. MON MON Fashion Forecasting MON MON Where do new ideas come from? Maria Janssen, Creative MON Director of Fashion for forecasting company WGSN joins Jane MON to explain how the experts spot trends and bring them to the MON high street. MON MON Fashion Rules, From Catwalk to Kitchen MON MON Head to toe prints, pastels, peplums – just some of the new MON fashions in the stores for this spring. But we’re not all MON catwalk models, after all, so how do you actually wear them MON in real life? Are there ‘rules’ to good dressing, or are MON they there to be broken? Hilary Alexander, Dolly Jones, and MON Angela Buttolph, join Jane to offer their advice on taking MON the latest catwalk styles and making them your own. MON MON Working Conditions for Models MON MON And as the concern for the working conditions of fashion MON models, particularly younger ones, rumbles on, we hear from MON Jo Swinson MP, Chair of the all parliamentary group on ‘Body MON Image’, Carole White, founder and managing director of MON Premier Model Management and Alexa Brown, model and actor MON who is on the Models Committee for the union Equity. MON MON Does Fashion Matter? MON MON Is fashion simply a superficial pastime that should be MON irrelevent in today's austere times? How much does fashion MON truly matter - to the economy, employment, and creativity? MON The fashion industry actually contributes £20 billion to the MON UK economy a year, and the sector employs more people than MON the telecommunications, car manufacturing and publishing MON industries put together. A new report into the sector has MON identified five areas for growth, including manufacturing MON and training. Jane speaks to Caroline Rush, Chief Executive MON of the British Fashion Council, to find out why fashion is MON more than hemlines and handbags and is, in fact, a serious MON business. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7lk4 (Listen) MON Resistance of Mrs Brown, Episode 1 MON MON by Ed Harris MON MON Amanda Root stars in a stirring British thriller with a MON difference. MON MON It's 1944, and after the British defeat at Dunkirk and the MON Americans' decision to stay out of the war, we find MON ourselves at home in bomb-strewn suburbia with Mrs Brown. MON She is very ordinary, her husband died in the invasion, and MON now she pushes a tea trolley for the Nazi Military MON Administration in Whitehall. MON MON Mrs Brown wants nothing more than to be a nobody. Determined MON above all to survive, and to protect her daughter, she never MON misses an opportunity to go unnoticed. But when she's MON contacted by the Resistance, will she keep her resolution? MON MON 1/5 Mrs Brown advertises for a lodger. MON MON Joan Brown ..... Amanda Root MON Maisie Brown..... Ellie Kendrick MON Mrs Crace ..... Adjoa Andoh MON Miss Fry ..... Marlene Sidaway MON Oberst Vitte ..... Simon Wilson MON Gwen Evans ..... Tracy Wiles MON Sturmbannfuhrer Smith ..... James Lailey MON Mr Thomas ..... Paul Moriarty MON Wode ..... Simon Bubb MON Molly ..... Francine Chamberlain MON Hans ..... Mark Edel-Hunt MON MON Translations by Johannes Mirbach and Miguel Frank MON Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting MON MON 11:00 An African Asian Affair b017vsjm (Listen) MON Vishva Samani, a descendent of British Asian Ugandans, MON returns to the country of her family and witnesses the MON rekindling of a relationship with the land her parents left MON behind almost 40 years on. MON MON Set against the trauma that came with being expelled from MON Uganda in 1972 and the fierce resilience of the Asian MON community in re-establishing their lives and livelihoods in MON the UK, Vishva explores the motivations and the current MON challenges faced by those British Asians who have chosen to MON make Uganda their focus. MON MON She meets the Madhvanis - one of the most successful and MON powerful British Asian Ugandan families doing business in MON the country. What were the lessons learnt in 1972? She MON contrasts how two generations of family feel about the MON country today. MON MON Putting the expulsion in context, Vishva speaks to Ugandan MON businessman Andrew Rugasira - founder of the international MON brand Good African Coffee. After the Asian Ugandans were MON expelled, the country suffered, not least economically. MON Despite this, she asks whether General Idi Amin's objective, MON to clear a space for Africans to thrive in business was in MON any way successful. MON MON In the course of her travels Vishva witnesses a strike at MON the Madhvani's sugar plantation and asks if this is a sign MON of an entrenched resentment that still exists between MON 'outsiders' and locals. MON MON Now, a new generation of British Asians are choosing to make MON Uganda their home despite being raised in the UK. Vishva MON meets Leicester-born Ashish Thakkar. At just 30 years old he MON owns a multi-national company operating out of the capital MON Kampala, as well as Dubai. How has Ashish's British MON background informed how he does business? And as the African MON continent once again becomes a prime land for investment is MON there the potential for it all to go wrong once more? MON MON Producer: Vivienne Perry MON A Like It Is Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Wordaholics b01c7lk6 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Wordaholics is Radio 4's brand new comedy panel game all MON about words. MON MON Gyles Brandreth presides as linguistic brainboxes and MON comedians including the legendary Stephen Fry, Fresh Meat MON star Jack Whitehall, Radio 4 regular Milton Jones and MON Countdown stalwart Susie Dent vie for supremacy in the ring. MON MON Gyles is the longest-serving wordsmith in Countdown's MON Dictionary Corner and the author of numerous wordplay books. MON But now it's time for him to encourage other people to show MON off their knowledge of words and playfulness with language. MON MON Wordaholics is clever, intelligent, witty and unexpected. MON There are toponyms, abbreviations, euphemisms, old words, MON new words, cockney rhyming slang, Greek gobbledegook, plus MON the panellists' picks of the ugliest and the most beautiful MON words: the whole world of words in twenty-eight minutes. MON MON Find out the meaning of words like giff-gaff, knock-knobbler MON and buckfitches - the difference between French marbles, MON French velvet and the French ache - hear the glorious poetry MON of the English language, as practiced from writers varying MON from William Shakespeare to Vanilla Ice - and spend half an MON hour laughing and learning with some of the finest MON Wordaholics in the business. MON MON Writers: Jon Hunter and James Kettle MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01c7lk8 (Listen) MON Energy bills, the all-advert radio station, using credit MON cards on foreign websites. MON MON Energy bill confusion. Consumer Focus say too many consumers MON don't trust their supplier. MON MON The challenges of using your credit or debit card on foreign MON websites and UK websites if you're living abroad. MON MON The university accused of blighting its neighbourhood by MON leaving property empty. MON MON And a new radio station that's all adverts, all day. Would MON you tune in? MON MON Presented by Julian Worricker. Produced by Paul Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01c6hlh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01c7lkb (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Sport and the British b01c7lkd (Listen) MON Cricket and the English Hero MON MON Clare Balding continues her investigation into how sport MON shaped Britain and Britain shaped sport. MON In this weeks programmes she looks at how sport unites us MON all when we get behind out national teams and no more so, MON than when the character of that team can be personified by MON one person. MON If there's one sport that embodies Englishness, it's cricket MON and in this programme she looks at how and why W.G.Grace, in MON the nineteenth century and Jack Hobbs, in the twentieth, MON became the epitome of a national sporting hero. Clare visits MON Lords Cricket ground and the Oval to discover more. MON She also talks to Professor Richard Holt from The MON International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De MON Montfort University, Simon Rae, a biographer of W.G.Grace MON and broadcaster David Rayvern Allen. The readers are:Jo MON Munro and Brian Bowles. MON The programme is produced in Birmingham by Garth Brameld. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01c6tzx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01c7ncl (Listen) MON Number 10, See Glasgow and Die MON MON Written by Jonathan Myerson. MON MON Scotland has legalised assisted dying and have arrested a MON couple on their way to the new Dignitas clinic in Glasgow. MON But is this just a way of promoting Scottish independence MON and embarrassing the government? Meanwhile, Simon's partner MON Alan appears to have snubbed a visiting Crown Prince - and MON now a new Oil exploration contract is under threat. MON MON Simon Laity ...... Damian Lewis MON Nathan Toltz ...... Mike Sengelow MON Georgie ...... Gina Mckee MON Sir Hugo ...... Julian Glover MON Amjad Hemmati ..... Arsher Ali MON Connie ...... Stella Gonet MON Emyr Rhys ....... Steven Speirs MON Natalie Warren ...... Jane Slavin MON Alex/Andy Mcgrue ...... Jasper Britton MON Milo Howman/Copper/ MON Tv Journo ...... Theo Fraser Steele MON Crown Prince ....... Chinna Wodu MON Chief Constable ...... Steven Speirs MON MON Producer: Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01c7ncn (Listen) MON (15/17) MON The third semi-final of the grand-daddy of general knowledge MON quizzes features competitors from Windsor, Glasgow, MON Tottenham and Farnsfield in Nottinghamshire. Each of them MON has come unscathed through the heats stage, and now plays MON for a place in the grand 2012 Final the week after next. MON MON Russell Davies puts questions from every conceivable field MON of knowledge. Which war was formally ended by the Treaty of MON Paris of 1856? In the Beatles' first film 'A Hard Day's MON Night', which Irish-born actor played the grandfather? MON MON As always, there's also a chance for a listener to win a MON prize with his or her suggestions for fiendish questions to MON defeat the contestants' combined brainpower. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01c6trp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Al Read Rediscovered b01c7ncq (Listen) MON Robert Powell explores recordings of Salford born comedian MON Al Read and reveals a collection of hilarious and perceptive MON monologues way ahead of their time. MON MON "Al Read: introducing us to ourselves"; was the opening MON announcement to his popular BBC radio show of the fifties MON and sixties. Often cited as being the first observational MON comic, Read's stories and reflections on everyday life MON coupled with catchphrases "Right Monkey" and "You'll be MON lucky, I say you'll be lucky!" were the highlight of Sunday MON lunchtimes for over twenty million listeners. MON MON Born in 1909, Read grew up in Salford. His father was in the MON butchery business and his grandfather's claim to fame was MON that he had been the first to tin sausages. Read's early MON life was spent playing in the back streets where he gathered MON the chatter and stories which would later surface in his MON comedy. MON MON His early radio routines broadcast live were not recorded. MON However a collection of these innovative gems surfaced MON recently at the home of the late BBC Producer and Comedy MON Writer Mike Craig. MON MON Craig had been given the audio as a wedding present with MON shows taped direct from the radio by Read himself and they MON took pride of place in his archive collection. MON MON As the programme reveals this unique assortment of material MON has recently attracted the interest of Salford University MON who are preserving Craig's archives for future study of MON comedy and popular culture. MON MON Salford born Robert Powell identifies with Read's characters MON such as the Johnny Know-All, the Little Rascal, the Nagging MON Wife and for him and many others the smell of roast beef and MON Yorkshire pudding on a Sunday afternoon immediately MON transports him into Al Read's world. MON MON With extracts from this rediscovered footage, classic MON monologues, rare archive of Read in conversation together MON with new contributions from people who knew and worked with MON him Powell offers a fresh insight into this northern MON comedian's ground-breaking work. MON MON Written and produced in Salford by Stephen Garner. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01c7ncs (Listen) MON Baha'i faith MON MON The Baha'i faith, though numerically small, claims to have a MON geographical reach second only to Christianity. MON MON It was founded in the nineteenth century in Iran, where its MON followers are now severely persecuted, and preaches the MON Unity of God, humanity and religion. MON MON Fidelma Meehan tells Ernie Rea how she was introduced to the MON faith by the comedian Omid Djalili. MON MON Ernie is joined by two Baha'i writers Moojan Momen and Lil MON Osborne, and by Denis MacEoin who used to be a Baha'i but MON left after he became disillusioned with what he saw as its MON authoritarian structures. MON MON 17:00 PM b01c7ncv (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's MON news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01c6hlk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01c7ncx (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 3 MON MON Chairman Nicholas Parsons endeavours to find out who has the MON greatest gift of the gab. MON MON Panellists Paul Merton, Sue Perkins, Julian Clary and MON Charles Collingwood have to speak on a variety of subjects MON given to them by Nicholas. They must speak for 60 seconds on MON that subject without hesitation, repetition or deviation - a MON task much more difficult than it sounds. MON MON The game Just A Minute was devised by the late Ian Messiter MON atop a London bus on his way to work as a BBC Radio producer MON more than 45 years ago. It was inspired by his memory of a MON teacher making him and his classmates speak on a subject for MON 60 seconds as a punishment for bad behaviour. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01c7ncz (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01c7nd1 (Listen) MON With John Wilson, including a review of Judi Dench and Bill MON Nighy in the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, the tale MON of British retirees who decide to move to Jaipur, India. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7lk4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Doctor - Tell Me the Truth b01c7nd3 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Each year between 45,000 and 98,000 Americans die because of MON the treatment they receive in hospital. In Doctor, Tell Me MON The Truth, Professor James Reason discovers how encouraging MON doctors to admit their mistakes has improved patient safety. MON He hears from Rick Boothman and Darrell Campbell at the MON University of Michigan, the creators of a programme where MON doctors have to be open about their errors. They describe MON the previous 'deny-and-defend' attitude in which the MON hospital would stonewall any complaints made against them MON and contrast this with the present system in which MON investigations into errors can be started even before the MON patient comes round from their anaesthetic. We hear moving MON stories about face-to-face apologies from patients, doctors MON and lawyers. Prof Reason examines a British story: MON 10-year-old Robbie Powell's death was avoidable but the way MON the doctors handled the case resulted in a legal struggle MON that has lasted for over twenty years. MON MON In programme two Prof Reason asks whether the University of MON Michigan programme could work in the NHS. Peter Walsh from MON Action Against Medical Accidents tells him of cases where MON doctors have been prevented from admitting their mistakes by MON their managers. He introduces us to 'Robbie's Law', a piece MON of proposed legislation now being examined in the Lords, MON which would require all NHS hospitals to adopt an open MON disclosure policy. Academics David Studdert and Alan MON Kalachian ask whether such a policy is legally enforceable MON or even desirable. Sir Liam Donaldson, a former Chief MON Medical Officer, tells us of his attempts to promote MON openness in the NHS and we hear from Robbie Powell's father MON who tells us that his twenty year legal battle could have MON been avoided if the doctors had only admitted their mistakes MON and apologised. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01c7nd5 (Listen) MON Profits Before Pay MON MON Wages have failed to rise in line with profits since the MON 1970s. Duncan Weldon, a senior economist at the Trades Union MON Congress, goes in search of the possible causes. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01by8nh (Listen) MON Reflections on a supernova in waiting MON MON The supermassive star Eta Carinae could be on the brink of MON exploding into a supernova. In Victorian times, this MON normally innocuous star suddenly brightened to be the second MON brightest star in the night sky - for those in the southern MON hemisphere at least. But it happened before modern MON astronomical techniques could capture its full details. Now MON however, researchers are getting a second chance to examine MON the eruptions that caused the brightening. Because light MON reflected off nearby galactic clouds has started arriving, MON 150 years later than the first glimmerings, revealing in MON reflected glory the details of those Victorian events. MON Professor Nathan Smith of the Steward Observatory in Arizona MON is one of the world's experts on Eta Carinae, and joins MON Quentin Cooper to describe what the latest observations MON reveal. MON MON Water water everywhere MON MON We may all be watching carefully how much water flows MON through our taps, and how much we waste. But a new report MON warns that a fifth of the water consumed round the world has MON nothing to do with plumbing, drinking and washing. MON Agricultural produce and industrial production also have a MON huge impact on natural water resources, and the goods that MON come through our doors should also be considered a form of MON 'virtual' water consumption, the authors say. Arjen Hoekstra MON from the Water Footprint Network and ecological economist MON Klaus Hubacek join the programme to discuss the MON implications. MON MON New Elizabethans MON MON As Radio 4 starts the quest for the 60 individuals who have MON done the most to change our lives since Queen Elizabeth MON ascended to the throne, Material World throws the spotlight MON on scientists, medics and engineers, with the help of MON historian Jon Agar, and journalist Vivienne Parry. MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01c7ljy (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01c6hlp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01c7nd7 (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01c7nd9 (Listen) MON The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 6 MON MON Sukhanov discovers that a controversial article offered for MON publication in the magazine he edits - by a certain D. M. MON Fyodorov - is in fact written by his erstwhile lodger and MON cousin. The issue of whether to publish it in his Art MON newspaper becomes for Sukhanov a question of deciding MON whether to stick to his guns about the policy and doctrines MON of the paper as he has always upheld them, or to anticipate MON and embrace the introduction of new policies and new, and to MON him subversive, ways of thinking about Art. MON MON Set in the dawning days of Mikhail Gorbachev's perestroika, MON The Dream Life of Sukhanov is the story of one man's battle MON with his true nature amidst the Soviet state's struggle with MON its own identity. Olga Grushin opens a window on to the soul MON of an artist who cannot escape his own vision amidst a MON transient and unsettling world. MON MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON Reader: Robert Glenister MON MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Miracles R Us b00sjpjd (Listen) MON Postcards MON MON A woman engages Caroline to stay for three days in her MON cottage in Sussex and post daily pre-written postcards to MON her husband at home. Caroline and Sylvia are dubious about MON getting involved but they need the money. MON They gain her assurance that nothing illegal is involved and MON promise not to draw attention to themselves. MON It will be a well-paid long weekend away. MON MON Sylvia does manage to draw attention when she is rescued MON from the sea by a Lifeguard. Although, as she points out, MON that was hardly her fault since she was not drowning but MON waving. MON MON At the end of three relaxing days, they begin the drive home MON and Sylvia gets a message on her Blackberry. MON MON Sylvia...............................Anna Massey MON Caroline...............................Deborah Findlay MON Vivi / Mrs Davies ......................Gabrielle Lloyd MON Constable Galloway ................. Alex Lowe MON MON Written by Lesley Bruce MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON Music and stings from the music of Nick Drake. Theme: "When MON the Day is Done" and stings: "Time of No Reply" and "Cello MON Song". MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01c7ndc (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01c6hmj (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01c7lk0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01c6hml (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01c6hmn (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01c6hmq (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01c6hms (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d22bb (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna TUE Magnusson, a writer and broadcaster from Glasgow. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01c7ppw (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01c7ppy (Listen) TUE Presented by Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including TUE Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for TUE the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01c7pq0 (Listen) TUE Tony Ryan TUE TUE What do miniature solar cells, making clothes that dissolve TUE in the rain and new treatments for motor neurone disease all TUE have in common? Chemistry - according to Professor Tony Ryan TUE of Sheffield University. He develops innovative materials TUE with nanotechnology. In this week's, The Life Scientific, TUE Tony Ryan talks to Jim Al-Khalili and explores issues around TUE the still controversial science of nanotechnology, including TUE how safe it is and how scientists need to learn to talk to TUE the public. TUE TUE Much of Tony's work involves unlikely collaborations to TUE discover novel ways of solving problems and of communicating TUE science. He argues that chemistry can solve today's global TUE challenges such as supporting the needs of 7 billion people TUE in terms of food and power. TUE TUE Clothes that absorb a dangerous greenhouse gas and sheets of TUE plastic solar cells are just a few of his ongoing projects. TUE He says chemistry needs to learn how to recycle every atom, TUE whilst still providing all the things that people want - TUE energy, food, electronics, clothing, and drugs. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01c7pq2 (Listen) TUE Yasmin Alibhai-Brown with Anon TUE TUE For the next three weeks, the 'One to One' interviewer's TUE microphone belongs to journalist and broadcaster Yasmin TUE Alibhai-Brown who - for personal reasons - has chosen to TUE explore the impact of divorce on families. TUE TUE Yasmin divorced over twenty years ago, and - although TUE happily re-married - often contemplates the fall-out of TUE divorce, and the resulting emotional ripples which TUE inevitably reach further than the separating couple. In TUE these programmes she's hearing the stories of a grandparent, TUE a parent and a young person who have all lived through a TUE family break-up TUE TUE In this, the first programme, she speaks to Jane, a TUE grandparent who hasn't seen her 11 year old granddaughter TUE for four years. When her son divorced he maintained a TUE relationship with his ex-wife which allowed contact with his TUE daughter - Jane's granddaughter. But eventually that contact TUE was withdrawn, resulting in what Jane describes as a living TUE bereavement. TUE TUE Jane has now set up a support group for grandparents who TUE find themselves in the same situation TUE www.bristolgranddparentssupportgroup.co.uk) and runs a blog TUE (www.bristolgrandparentssupport.blogspot.com) . TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01cpvsl (Listen) TUE What the Grown-Ups Were Doing, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Michele Hanson. TUE Read by Rebecca Front. TUE TUE Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01c7pq4 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7pq6 (Listen) TUE Resistance of Mrs Brown, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Ed Harris TUE TUE 2/5 In the corridors of Whitehall, Mrs Brown must turn from TUE tea lady to spy. TUE TUE Translations by Johannes Mirbach and Miguel Frank TUE Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01c7pq8 (Listen) TUE Series 5, James and the Giant Redwood - Part Two TUE TUE In the second of two programmes, NATURE follows James and TUE three other tree climbers as Michael first leads them to The TUE Grove of Titans; which as its name suggests is a grove of TUE some of the world's biggest trees by mass. Despite the fact TUE that James and the others had seen pictures of the trees in TUE books and on the internet, nothing could have prepared them TUE for the colossal size of these trees. But there was another TUE surprise in store for James when Michael led the way to TUE Hyperion, the world's tallest tree and not only did James TUE get to see this tree, but he also got to climb it. It was a TUE dream come true and an unforgettable adventure. TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01c7pqb (Listen) TUE Series 13, Non, Je Ne Regret Rien TUE TUE The powerful song, Non, je ne regret rien, made famous by TUE Edith Piaf, is this week's Soul Music. TUE TUE Written in 1960 by Charles Dumont, in a fit of despair, he TUE gave the music to lyricist Michel Vaucaire, but was TUE surprised by the words he wrote. Dumont thought the song TUE should be about war or revolution. Vaucaire explained he TUE wanted to give the song to Edith Piaf. She was living in TUE Paris at the time, having recently finished her 'suicide TUE tour' during which she had collapsed. At that time, Piaf TUE didn't think much of Charles Dumont and tried to cancel TUE their appointment. But on hearing the song, Piaf told Dumont TUE that with this song, she would sing again. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01c7pqd (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. Presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01c6hmv (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01c7pqg (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Sport and the British b01c7pqj (Listen) TUE Anyone but England TUE TUE Clare Balding continues her investigation into how sport TUE shaped Britain and Britain shaped sport. Today we join her TUE at Hampden Park in Glasgow as she explores the part football TUE has played in shaping Scotland's national identity and its TUE changing relationship with England. Clare talks to Huw TUE McIlvaney about why supporting, 'anyone but England' is TUE still part of the Scottish mindset. TUE This series has been made in partnership with the The TUE International Centre for Sports History and Culture, De TUE Montfort University TUE The readers are James Lailey and Jonathan Forbes. TUE The programme is produced in Birmingham by Sara Conkey. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01c7ncz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01c7pql (Listen) TUE Number 10, Democracy in Traction TUE TUE Written by Anders Lustgarden. TUE TUE A routine council eviction has blown up into a full scale TUE riot and the police have been heavy-handed resulting in two TUE hospitalised civilians. With a policeman also in hospital - TUE the Met Commissioner is demanding increased police powers. TUE Meanwhile - Nathan is expected to go on a foreign trip with TUE the PM only to discover his visa seems to have expired. TUE TUE Producer: Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01c7pqn (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE Jay Rayner presents the third programme of a new BBC Radio 4 TUE series: a food panel show, recorded in front of a live TUE audience, aimed at anyone who cooks at home, not just the TUE experts. Each week the programme travels round the country TUE to visit interesting food locations, and meet local TUE food-loving people. TUE TUE This week The Kitchen Cabinet is in Melton Mowbray, a market TUE town that describes itself as 'the UK's rural capital of TUE food and drink', which is known worldwide for its pork pies, TUE and its tradition of making Stilton cheese. TUE TUE The panel features: Stefan Gates, food adventurer and TUE self-styled 'gastronaut'; Rachel McCormack, a Glaswegian who TUE spent her formative years in Spain, and who is now teaching TUE authentic Catalan cookery; chef, co-founder of the Leon TUE restaurant chain, and regular on Radio 4's Loose Ends, TUE Allegra McEvedy; and food scientist Peter Barham, who has TUE advised some of the leading restaurants in the world, TUE including Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck and Noma in TUE Copenhagen. TUE TUE Producer: Robert Abel TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01c7pqq (Listen) TUE Tunnel Beneath the Thames TUE TUE Every time more than two millimetres of rain drops onto the TUE streets of London a combination of raw sewerage and TUE rainwater overwhelms the Victorian sewers and pours into the TUE River Thames, killing fish and disgusting the users of the TUE river. TUE TUE The solution being proposed by Thames Water is an enormous TUE 15 mile long tunnel buried beneath the river as it flows TUE through the city. There's little doubt that it will clean up TUE the river but is the health of a few fish really worth over TUE £4 billion of Londoners' money and years of disruption for TUE those who live close to the tunnel construction sites? TUE TUE In 'Costing the Earth' Professor Alice Roberts descends into TUE Joseph Bazalgette's Victorian sewer system to see the extent TUE of the problem and the scale of the new works. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01c7pqs (Listen) TUE Legal aid changes: long overdue reform or denial of justice? TUE TUE "The single biggest attack on access to justice since the TUE legal aid system was introduced". That's the view of the Law TUE Society on the government's controversial proposals to TUE reform the civil justice system. But the government argue TUE that the legal aid system has become unaffordable and along TUE with no win no fee has helped create a litigious society. TUE They say the current system is a boon for lawyers, while TUE draining resources from organisations like the NHS and TUE leaving many small businesses in fear of legal action. The TUE Government are planning to scrap legal aid in some areas and TUE make fundamental changes to no-win no fee. The aim is to TUE bring down costs and encourage alternatives to going to TUE court. But the bill to introduce these changes has been TUE having a rocky ride in Parliament and there is widespread TUE opposition to the reforms. Advice centres, lawyers and even TUE some from the government's own benches say the changes will TUE deny justice for vulnerable people, and will ultimately end TUE up costing the government more money. In the first programme TUE of a new series of Law in Action, Joshua Rozenberg examines TUE the arguments and the likely impact of the contentious TUE changes. The programme includes an interview with Justice TUE Secretary Kenneth Clarke. TUE Producer: Wesley Stephenson. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01c7pqv (Listen) TUE Martin Stephen, Augustus Casely-Hayford TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert and her guests, the historian Gus TUE Casely-Hayford and educationalist Martin Stephen, consider a TUE clutch of favourite reads. Gus chooses a fictional account TUE of the fall-out from the conflict in Sierra Leone, Aminatta TUE Forna's "The Memory of Love", which has a natural resonance TUE with Harriett's own choice, "Pavel and I". This is a first TUE novel from Dan Vyleta, set in post-war Berlin. Martin brings TUE with him a selection of Thomas Hardy's verse. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Martin Stephen's choice: Poems of Thomas Hardy (Editor TUE Claire Tomalin) TUE Publ. Penguin TUE TUE Augustus Casely-Hayford's choice: 'The Memory of Love' by TUE Aminatta Forna TUE Publ. Bloomsbury TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: Pavel & I by Dan Vyleta TUE Publ. Bloomsbury TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01c7pqx (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01c6hmx (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b01c7pqz (Listen) TUE Series 7, The Minx TUE TUE Count Arthur (Steve Delaney) encounters more problems with TUE the world as he tries to insure his car, a Hillman Minx. In TUE an attempt to reduce his premium he sets out to prove that TUE Terry Wogan will not be his passenger, causing great TUE confusion for Mr Wogan himself. TUE TUE Steve Delaney TUE Mel Giedroyc TUE Alastair Kerr TUE David Mounfield TUE TUE Producer: John Leonard TUE A Komedia Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01c7pr1 (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01c7pr3 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. TUE TUE Producer Timothy Prosser. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7pq6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01c7pr5 (Listen) TUE New NHS research has revealed the shocking toll of TUE preventable deaths caused by just one medical condition. TUE Diabetes - in which the body fails to control blood sugar TUE levels safely - is causing 24,000 needless deaths a year in TUE England alone. TUE TUE It's not just the old and middle-aged who are at risk. Young TUE women with diabetes are 6 to 9 times more likely to die than TUE their age group overall. And many more young people who TUE don't die will develop life threatening diseases later due TUE to failure to manage their blood sugar. TUE TUE Badly controlled diabetes can lead to kidney disease, heart TUE conditions, or blindness. It's also the cause of 5,000 TUE amputations a year, mainly of legs or feet. With around 3 TUE million diagnosed sufferers known to the health service, TUE diabetes is said to be costing the NHS £9 billion a year, TUE about a tenth of the total health budget. TUE TUE Julian O'Halloran reveals why, despite Government pledges, TUE it's so difficult to get to grips with the disease. And, TUE with the incidence of diabetes rocketing, he asks whether TUE the NHS can cope. TUE TUE Producer - Gail Champion. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01c7pr7 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01c7pr9 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter demystifies the health issues that perplex us TUE and separates the facts from the fiction. He brings clarity TUE to conflicting health advice, explores new medical research TUE and tackles the big health issue of the moment revealing the TUE inner workings of the medical profession and the daily TUE dilemmas doctors face. TUE TUE Presenter: Dr Mark Porter TUE Producer: Erika Wright/Paula McGrath. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01c7pq0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01c6hmz (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01c7prc (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01c7prf (Listen) TUE The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 7 TUE TUE When Sukhanov returns early from a friend's dinner party TUE which, it turned out, had happened the night before, he TUE finds his apartment invaded by friends of his daughter's, TUE including her married lover, Boris Tumanov. TUE TUE Sukhanov is given a couple of hallucinatory tablets by one TUE of the crowd at the event, and quickly slips into a dream. TUE TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE Reader: Robert Glenister TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The History Plays b01cmfh1 (Listen) TUE Jagger in Jail TUE TUE By Nigel Smith TUE TUE The History Plays are a series of two-hander plays by Vent TUE author Nigel Smith which are imagined conversations at key TUE moments in recent history, moments that have permanently TUE changed the British psyche. Starting with Mick Jagger's TUE conviction for drug possession and the surprising pro-Jagger TUE line taken in a Times editorial; through the fragmented TUE morality of John Stonehouse; the Indian summer of patriotism TUE over the Falklands; the death of Diana; and the end of the TUE Blair years, The History Plays are a satirical and TUE thoughtful exploration of huge social forces played out in TUE small human dramas. This is a series about the promises and TUE pitfalls of history, the points of conflict. But what's TUE really significant is what these moments say about our TUE attitudes and assumptions now. TUE TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards TUE TUE Starring Kayvan Novak ("Facejacker") as Mick Jagger and TUE Blake Harrison ("The Inbetweeners") as Jim TUE TUE It is 1967, the summer of love and Mick Jagger, lead singer TUE of the Rolling Stones, is in prison starting his three-month TUE sentence for drug possession. His trial - and particularly TUE his sentence - has both scandalised and split public TUE opinion. TUE TUE Jagger in Jail imagines the conversation that might have TUE taken place between Mick and a cellmate, Jim, during what TUE turned out to be his only night behind bars. As the night TUE passes Jim and Mick find that while they have a fair bit in TUE common, society's plans for them could not be more TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01c7prh (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 22 FEBRUARY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01c6hnk (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01cpvsl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01c6hnm (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01c6hnp (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01c6hnr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01c6hnt (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d22vl (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna WED Magnusson, a writer and broadcaster from Glasgow. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01c7rgg (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Angela Frain. WED WED 06:00 Today b01c7rgj (Listen) WED Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports WED Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01c7rgl (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01cpw43 (Listen) WED What the Grown-Ups Were Doing, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Michele Hanson WED Read by Rebecca Front WED WED Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01c7rgn (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7rgq (Listen) WED Resistance of Mrs Brown, Episode 3 WED WED by Ed Harris WED WED 3/5 Is saying no more dangerous than saying yes? WED WED Translations by Johannes Mirbach and Miguel Frank WED Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01c7rgs (Listen) WED Series 15, Kung Fu WED WED In 1973, the martial arts classic movie Enter the Dragon WED premiered in New York and around the world. In the UK, the WED films release marked the beginning of an explosion in demand WED for martial arts classes. Jolyon Jenkins meets those caught WED up in the kung fu craze of the mid-1970's and discovers that WED not everyone was looking for Shaolin self-control and WED spiritual enlightenment. WED WED 11:30 HR b01c7rgv (Listen) WED Series 3, Disinherited WED WED In Nigel Williams' comedy series the two 60-something chums WED have just lost their pensions. Sam (Nicholas lePrevost) and WED Peter (Jonathan Pryce) resort to desperate measures. Which WED now include visiting an aged - very wealthy - aunt. WED WED Sam....Nicholas le Prevost WED Peter...Jonathan Pryce WED Aunt Norah... Dillie Keane WED Maud...Kate Layden WED WED Directed by...Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01c7rgx (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01c6hnw (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01c7rgz (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Sport and the British b01c7rh1 (Listen) WED Welsh Rugby and its National Heroes WED WED Clare Balding's at Cardiff Arms Park for this edition of the WED series that explores how sport made Britain and Britain made WED sport. Here she looks at the vital role rugby has played in WED shaping Welsh identity; the stadium was built to be an WED emblem of national pride, a fortress for Welsh sport in its WED capital city. WED She talks to the legendary Welsh captain and scrum half, WED Gareth Edwards about Wales' glory days of the sixties and WED seventies and the impact the introduction of professionalism WED had on the national side. She also talks to Professor Tony WED Collins from The International Centre for Sports History and WED Culture, De Montfort University WED WED The reader is Alun Raglan. WED Producer : Lucy Lunt. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01c7pr1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01c7rq2 (Listen) WED Number 10, The Emperor's New Speech WED WED Written by Jonathan Myerson. WED WED It's the Party Conference in Brighton...and it's 11 hours WED until the PM is due to deliver his speech with only one WED problem - it's not written yet. And just when they didn't WED need it, one of Lord Rudolph's newspapers splashes a WED Treasury leak, ruining the latest bond issue and WED jeopardising the UK's credit rating. But who leaked the WED information in the first place? Meanwhile - the major WED supermarkets are being leaned on to contribute to a fund to WED help small shop owners, but will they agree before the WED conference speech is delivered? WED WED Producer: Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01c7rq4 (Listen) WED General insurance is the topic of Money Box Live with WED Vincent Duggleby. WED WED The rising cost of insurance - particularly car and home WED insurance - is a very hot topic at the moment. According to WED the AA, motor insurance premiums jumped by 15.3% last year. WED This is on top of the 33.2% hike reported in 2010. The Prime WED Minister David Cameron met insurance bosses earlier this WED month to discuss ways of reducing car premiums. Meanwhile WED some insurers report that buildings and house contents WED premiums have both risen by just under 6%. The jump in WED insurance premiums is of particular concern to families WED whose budgets have already been stretched by the high rates WED of inflation and low wage settlements. Issues over pet WED insurance and the difficulty of obtaining cover if you live WED in areas prone to flooding have also been in the news WED recently. WED WED Vincent Duggleby will be joined by: WED Malcolm Tarling, Association of British Insurers WED Graham Trudgill, British Insurance Brokers' Association WED Clare Francis, Moneysupermarket WED WED Lines open at 1pm. The number to ring: 03700 100 444. WED WED Producer: Emma Rippon. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01c7pr9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01c7rq6 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01c7rq8 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b01c7rqb (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01c6hny (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01c7rqd (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 3 WED WED Comedian-activist Mark Thomas and his studio audience WED consider proposals for a People's Manifesto. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01c7rqg (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01c7rqj (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, presented by Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7rgq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01c7rql (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate examining the WED moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. Chaired WED by Michael Buerk. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01c7rqn (Listen) WED Robin Gorna WED WED Thought-provoking talks with a personal dimension. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01c7pqq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01c7rgl (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01c6hp0 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01c7rqs (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01c7rqv (Listen) WED The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 8 WED WED Nina and Sukhanov meet at the Dacha and she tells him she WED wants to stay there for a while on her own, not because she WED want to leave him, but simply for some peace and reflection. WED WED Nina says she hopes their children will not mess up their WED lives and abandon their dreams as they have done; she also WED says that she did not marry Sukhanov expecting happiness. WED WED Sukhanov, devastated by this, returns alone late that night WED to Moscow by train... WED WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme b01c7s27 (Listen) WED Family WED WED In the first of a new series, Tim Key grapples with the idea WED of 'family' via his narrative poem: The Godfather. Musical WED accompaniment is provided by Tom Basden. WED WED Written and presented by Tim Key WED With Tom Basden WED Produced by James Robinson. WED WED 23:15 Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing b01c7s29 (Listen) WED About Nightmare Relatives WED WED Can't Tell Nathan Caton Nothing About Nightmare Relatives WED tells the story of young, up-and-coming comedian Nathan WED Caton, who becomes the first in his family to graduate from WED University - only to opt for a career in comedy - much to WED his family's annoyance who want him to get a 'proper job' WED using his architecture degree. WED WED Each episode is designed to show the criticism, interference WED and rollercoaster ride that Nathan endures from his family WED as he pursues his career. The episodes are a mix of Nathan's WED stand-up intercut with scenes from his family life. WED WED Can Nathan persuade his family to support his career choice? WED WED Mum is probably the most lenient of the disappointed family WED members. She loves Nathan, but she aint looking embarrassed WED for nobody! WED WED Dad works in the construction industry and was looking WED forward to his son joining him to work together in the same WED field. But now Nathan has blown that dream out of the window WED Martin feels he has to get Nathan back into getting a real WED job. WED WED Grandma cannot believe Nathan turned down architecture for WED comedy. She didn't leave the paradise in the West Indies and WED came to the freezing United Kingdom for a better life so WED that her grandson could 'tell jokes!' WED WED So with all this going on in the household what will Nathan WED do? Will he be able to persist and follow his dreams? Or WED will he give in to his family's interference? WED WED Nathan ..... Nathan Caton WED Grandma ..... Mona Hammond WED Mum ..... Adjoa Andoh WED Dad ..... Curtis Walker WED Reverend Williams ..... Don Gilét WED WED Written by: Nathan Caton WED Additional material by: Ola and Maff Brown WED Script Editor: James Kettle WED Producer: Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01c7s2c (Listen) WED Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 23 FEBRUARY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01c6hpl (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01cpw43 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01c6hpn (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01c6hpq (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01c6hps (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01c6hpv (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d23f8 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna THU Magnusson, a writer and broadcaster from Glasgow. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01c7s8l (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b01c7s8n (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk, Yesterday in Parliament, Weather, THU Thought for the Day. Presented by James Naughtie and Evan THU Davis. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01c7sml (Listen) THU Conductors and Semiconductors THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the physics of THU electrical conduction. Certain materials, including all THU metals, conduct electricity, while others (known as THU insulators) do not. But there is a third class of materials, THU semiconductors, whose discovery has proved central to modern THU science. Semiconductors are essential to our technological THU world, and provide a fascinating everyday example of quantum THU mechanics in operation. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01cpw90 (Listen) THU What the Grown-Ups Were Doing, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Michele Hanson THU Read by Rebecca Front THU THU Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01c7smn (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7smq (Listen) THU Resistance of Mrs Brown, Episode 4 THU THU by Ed Harris THU THU 4/5 A copy of Signal magazine brings a visitor to Mrs THU Brown's home. THU THU Translations by Johannes Mirbach and Miguel Frank THU Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01c7sms (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Oscar Sings b01c7smv (Listen) THU As we head for the culmination of the award season with the THU Oscars on Sunday 26th February, presenter and Radio Times THU film critic Andrew Collins explores how the award for 'Best THU Song' has developed and reflects a changing music and film THU landscape in Oscar Sings. THU THU Director Alan Parker (in the programme) makes films that use THU music to great effect as can be heard in 'Midnight Express', THU 'Evita' and 'Bugsy Malone'. He scored 'Best Song' Oscar for THU 'Fame' and he believes that the Academy needs to do rethink THU its approach to the award. THU THU In the programme we hear from Oscar winners and composers THU Leslie Bricusse and Al Kasha. Bricusse explains the song THU writing process and reveals how he approaches writing for THU film. His Oscar winning song 'Talk To The Animals' for THU 'Dr.Dolittle' was no fluke. THU THU Producer: John Sugar THU A Sugar Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01c7smx (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01c6hpx (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01c7smz (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Sport and the British b01c7sn1 (Listen) THU Ireland, Politics on the Pitch THU THU Clare Balding visits Croke Park in Dublin, to discover the THU story behind the formation of the Gaelic Athletic THU Association and it's founder Michael Cusack. All this week THU in Sport and the British Clare has been exploring how sport THU defined and gave an independence to the nations of the THU British Isles, nowhere is this more evident and vocal than THU in Ireland. The GAA defined what it was to be Irish - THU meaning how far removed that is from being English and THU hurling and Irish football were a way of exemplifying that. THU Clare talks to Dr Paul Rouse of University College Dublin THU and Professor Michael Cronin of Boston College Ireland about THU the history and future of the GAA. THU The reader is Jonathan Forbes THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01c7rqg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01c7sn3 (Listen) THU Number 10, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Jonathan Myerson. THU THU Alan is now wheelchair bound and eating through a tube - yet THU Simon still cannot find the time he promised to spend with THU him. THU THU Alan is talking about going across the border to the THU Dignitas Clinic in Glasgow. Meanwhile - Rudolph Media are THU now gunning for the government at every turn and will stop THU at nothing in their hunt for stories to embarrass the THU government. Especially when they uncover something about THU someone who works very close to the PM. THU THU Producer: Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01c7sn5 (Listen) THU Inspirational Walks, Storytelling in Cornwall THU THU In the third in a series of inspirational walks for THU Ramblings, Clare Balding is in Cornwall where she is joined THU by writer and storyteller, Anna Maria Murphy. Inspired by THU the story of Mary Kelynack, an 84 year old Cornish fishwife THU who walked from Newlyn to London in 1851, Anna decided to THU walk all over Cornwall meeting people along the way and THU gathering stories to inspire her writing. Using ancient THU routes and seldom used footpaths, Anna set off with a THU notebook and pen and describes her journey as possibly the THU single most inspirational thing she has ever done in her THU life. THU Today, Clare joins Anna to walk from the small coastal THU fishing town of Looe to Polperro, the village where Anna was THU born. Although this route usually forms part of the popular THU South West Coast Path, Clare and Anna choose to head inland THU following woodland footpaths and the 'roads less travelled' THU of Cornwall before heading to Talland Bay where they pick up THU the coast path for the last section of the walk. Who will THU they meet along the way? THU THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01c6sjm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01c6trw (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01c7sn7 (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01c7sn9 (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper reports on the science behind the news and THU the news in science. Each week, scientists describe their THU work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b01c7snc (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01c6hpz (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 It's Not What You Know b01c7snf (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Miles Jupp takes the chair of It's Not What You Know, a new THU series which sets out to see how well panellists know those THU closest to them. For in this show it's not what, but who you THU know that matters - and more importantly how well you know THU them. THU THU Rachel Johnson, Desmond Lynam and Mark Steel nominate one of THU their nearest and dearest to answer a selection of questions THU - anything from "Who would you like to be stranded on a THU desert island with?" to "What is your favourite film?" to THU "How much is a pint of milk?" - and they must then attempt THU to second-guess how their nominee responded. If they can get THU it right, or come close, they get points. THU THU Each episode also features a very special guest contributor THU whose answers the panel must also try to predict. In this THU episode, that very special guest is renowned film director THU and food critic, Michael Winner. THU THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01c7wyt (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01c7snh (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reports on the unveiling of the latest THU artwork to be created for the Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar THU Square. THU THU Producer Timothy Prosser. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7smq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01c7pqs (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01c7srg (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 Nature b01c7pq8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01c7sml (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01c6hq1 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01c7srj (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01c7srl (Listen) THU The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 9 THU THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Paul Temple and Steve b00sy3lc (Listen) THU David Nelson Explains THU THU A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple THU and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns THU refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate THU the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind THU in post-war London. THU THU The investigation into the activities of the mysterious Dr. THU Belasco lead him to a murder scene in a flat above a London THU dry-cleaning business; but then the clues begin to point far THU away from the great city, to a lonely country house on THU Romney Marsh. THU THU Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan THU Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson THU Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas THU Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood THU Worth/Charlie ..... Greg Powrie THU Nelson ..... Jimmy Chisholm THU Joseph ..... Richard Greenwood THU Mrs Forester ..... Candida Benson THU Ed Bellamy ..... Robin Laing THU Waitress ..... Lucy Paterson THU THU Produced by Patrick Rayner. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01c7srv (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 24 FEBRUARY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01c6hqm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01cpw90 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01c6hqp (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01c6hqr (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01c6hqt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01c6hqw (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01d23fq (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Anna FRI Magnusson, a writer and broadcaster from Glasgow. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01c7tzr (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01c7tzt (Listen) FRI Presented by John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports FRI Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01c6trm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01cpy0w (Listen) FRI What the Grown-Ups Were Doing, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Michele Hanson. FRI Read by Rebecca Front. FRI FRI Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01c7tzw (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7tzy (Listen) FRI Resistance of Mrs Brown, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Ed Harris FRI FRI 5/5 The Trolley, The Pin, and Mrs Brown's Decision FRI FRI Translations by Johannes Mirbach and Miguel Frank FRI Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. FRI FRI 11:00 The Unseeing Eye b01c7v00 (Listen) FRI Jost Haas is the last glass eye maker left in Britain, and FRI he is close to retirement. He comes from Germany, where FRI glass eye technology was perfected nearly 200 years ago. FRI Nowadays prosthetic eyes are acrylic and the skill of the FRI glass eye blower is not needed. But some wearers still FRI prefer glass to plastic, and those who have been with Mr FRI Haas for decades are stocking up against the time when he FRI finally turns off his Bunsen burner. FRI FRI In this programme Jolyon Jenkins explores the world of the FRI prosthetic eye. Unlike, say, an artificial leg, or a false FRI tooth, the artificial eye brings no direct benefit to its FRI wearer. It exists to make other people feel comfortable with FRI eyeless person. Some one-eyed people rebel against wearing a FRI prosthesis, but most fall into line, uncomfortable FRI themselves with the reaction an eyeless face provokes. FRI FRI For others, being fitted with a false eye, after an accident FRI or illness, is a highly emotional moment. One man describes FRI how he cried as he saw his face in the mirror with the FRI prosthesis fitted for the first time. Another woman FRI describes how she didn't want a false eye but wanted the FRI eyelid stitched down. "I had the thought that if eyes are FRI the windows to the soul I had lost half my soul." FRI FRI Although the "windows to the soul" saying is a cliché that FRI many false eye-wearers dislike there is, remarkably, FRI evidence that eyes really do correlate with character. A FRI Swedish study suggests that patterns in the iris can predict FRI such things as warmth, trust, and impulsiveness. So someone FRI making a glass eye is, in a sense, constructing an image of FRI the soul. FRI FRI In the programme, Jolyon sits in on glass eye fittings and FRI speaks to the skilled artists who paint acrylic eyes; he FRI talks to artificial eye wearers and attends a meeting of FRI one-eyed people. FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b01c7wx4 (Listen) FRI This week the teams look at the life and work of one of the FRI father's of Science Fiction and creator of such famous works FRI as "The Time Machine" and "War of the Worlds", H.G. Wells. FRI FRI Team captains, Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh, are helped FRI out by journalist and critic, Alex Clark and comedy writer, FRI John O'Farrell as they are set more literary challenges by FRI host, James Walton. FRI FRI For the finale, the teams must also put themselves in Wells' FRI shoes (he was famous for making predictions about the FRI future, some prescient, some very much not so) and make FRI their own prophesies for 2012. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01c7wx6 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01c6hqy (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01c7wx8 (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Sport and the British b01c7wxb (Listen) FRI Ireland, North of the Border FRI FRI While sport is endlessly talked of as a force for unity, in FRI today's edition of Sport and the British, Clare Balding's in FRI Belfast on the Falls Road, where it's clear that here sport FRI was just another arena to reinforce divisions that rent the FRI community in two. FRI In Northern Ireland the sporting choices for people, were FRI for so long, based on their religious and political FRI backgrounds. In soccer there was one team for the Catholics, FRI Belfast Celtic, for the protestants, Belfast Rangers. Clare FRI hears about the violent clashes that always ensued when FRI these two teams met that finally led to the disbanding of FRI Celtics. Boxer, Barry McGuigan talks about how he tried to FRI be identified with neither side and we hear about the only FRI sporting hero that did manage to straddle the divide, FRI uniting both sides, George Best FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01c7wyt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00n8b3n (Listen) FRI Those Hard to Reach Places FRI FRI 'Cleaner...only dirtier' is not how your average domestic FRI cleaner describes themselves. But then Rita is anything but FRI your average domestic cleaner as an unfortunate former mayor FRI is about to discover in Daniel Thurman's sparkling comedy. FRI FRI Fawcett ..... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Mrs Randle ..... Anne Reid FRI Rita ..... Janet Dibley FRI Bus Driver ..... Piers Wehner FRI Phone voice ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01d167g (Listen) FRI Saltash, Cornwall FRI FRI Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and Anne Swithinbank are on FRI the panel. Eric Robson chairs. FRI FRI Matt James explores how the slag heaps around Cornwall's FRI polluted and now defunct tin mines are being cleaned up and FRI replanted as a massive new park. FRI FRI Producer: Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Leap Year Tales b01c7x4m (Listen) FRI Aw Wrong FRI FRI Three stories that mark the 2012 Leap Year. FRI FRI 'Aw Wrong' by Laura Marney. FRI FRI Facing the imminent birth of their first child, a couple FRI take steps to try to influence the course of nature. FRI FRI Read by Gabriel Quigley. FRI Produced by Patricia Hitchcock FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01c7x4p (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01c7x4r (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 Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01c7x4t (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's FRI news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01c6hr0 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01c7x4w (Listen) FRI Series 36, Episode 2 FRI FRI Steve Punt is joined by Jon Culshaw, Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes, FRI Laura Shavin and Paul Sinha for a topical tour of the week's FRI news. FRI FRI Producer Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01c7xfb (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01c7xfd (Listen) FRI With Naomi Alderman, who reports on whether computer games FRI will ever be able to deliver the powerful and profound FRI narratives we find in novels. FRI FRI Producer Stephen Hughes. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01c7tzy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01c7xfg (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Trent College, Nottingham. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01c7xfj (Listen) FRI Historian David Cannadine with his topical reflections. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Sport and the British: Omnibus b01c7xfl (Listen) FRI Episode 4 FRI FRI This week in Sport and the British Clare Balding's been FRI exploring how sport has been used for centuries to define FRI national identity, to unite and promote Scottish football, FRI Welsh rugby union, English cricket and Irish Hurling. Clare FRI Balding makes a tour round the Uk to look at why we play the FRI games we do. FRI Producer: Lucy Lunt. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01c6hr2 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01c7xfn (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01c7xfq (Listen) FRI The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 10 FRI FRI Sukhanov encounters Dalevich at his mother's apartment. He FRI shows him some drawings of Sukhanov's given to Dalevich when FRI he was a child. They remind him of his talent as an artist, FRI long buried. FRI FRI Sukhanov discovers that the paintings he thought had been FRI kept in a cupboard in his mother's apartment had been FRI destroyed by her long ago. She tells him that she was afraid FRI that his talent would lead to no good. FRI FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01c7pqv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01c7xfs (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
18 February, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 18/02/2012 - 24/02/2012
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