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Today

Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including Thought for the Day

Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme; including religious reflections from Thought for the Day at 0748

Today: 14/02/2008

14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 14/02/2008

Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

With John Humphrys and Carolyn Quinn. Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather at 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day at 7.48am.

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Intelligent speech, the most insightful journalism, the wittiest comedy, the most fascinating features and the most compelling drama and readings anywhere in UK radio.

In Our Time

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the ideas, people and events that have shaped our world.

In Our Time: The Statue of Liberty

The Statue of Liberty

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Statue of Liberty

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty. .

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty, given by France to America as a token of revolutionary kinship.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Statue of Liberty."Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”. With these words, inscribed inside her pedestal, the Statue of Liberty has welcomed immigrants to America since 1903. But the Statue of Liberty is herself an immigrant, born in Paris she was shipped across the Atlantic in 214 separate crates, a present to the Americans from the French. She is a token of friendship forged in the fire of twin revolutions, finessed by thinkers like Alexis de Tocqueville and expressed in the shared language of liberty. But why was this colossal statue built, who built it and what did liberty mean to the Frenchmen who created her and the Americans who received her?With Robert Gildea, Professor of Modern History at Oxford University; Kathleen Burk, Professor of Modern Contemporary History at University College London; John Keane, Professor of Politics at the University of Westminster

Daily Service

Spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

A space for spiritual reflection with a Bible reading, prayer and a range of Christian music.

Daily Service: 14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 14/02/2008

Christian worship and music led by Bishop George Stack.

Woman's Hour

Women's voices and women's lives - topical conversations to inform, challenge and inspire.

Woman's Hour: Kaki King; Internet Dating Scams; Surrogacy in India

Kaki King; Internet Dating Scams; Surrogacy in India

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Kaki King; Internet Dating Scams; Surrogacy in India

Female 'guitar god' Kaki King explains her techniques and performs live in the studio.

Female 'guitar god' Kaki King explains her techniques and performs live in the studio. Plus, outsourcing surrogacy to India, and the warning signs of internet dating scams.

From Our Own Correspondent

Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents and writers.

Kate Adie introduces insight, wit and analysis from BBC correspondents, journalists and writers telling stories from around the world.

From Our Own Correspondent: 14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 14/02/2008

Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.

BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.

With Great Pleasure

Series bringing fresh insight into lives through literature, with guest presenters

Series bringing fresh insight into lives through literature, in which guest presenters pick readings from their favourite pieces of poetry and prose

With Great Pleasure: Martha Kearney

Martha Kearney

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Martha Kearney chooses pieces of writing which have a special meaning for her.

Martha Kearney chooses pieces of writing which have a special meaning for her, either personally or in her work as a broadcaster. Readers are Niamh Cusack and David Morrissey.

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News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 14/02/2008

National and international news and the shipping forecast.

The latest national and international news headlines, followed by the shipping forecast.

You and Yours

You and Yours: 14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 14/02/2008

Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson and John Waite.

Weather

Weather: 14/02/2008

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World at One

Forty-five minutes of news, analysis and comment, with Sarah Montague.

World at One: 14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 14/02/2008

National and international news with Martha Kearney.

Open Country

Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of Britain

Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that shape the landscape of the British Isles

Open Country: Tower Colliery in South Wales

09/02/2008

Tower Colliery in South Wales

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Tower Colliery in South Wales

Caroline Sarll visits Tower Colliery in South Wales to find out how a mine is closed down.

Countryside magazine. Caroline Sarll visits Tower Colliery in South Wales to find out how a mine is closed down and the land made safe.

Countryside magazine.

Caroline Sarll visits Tower Colliery in South Wales to find out how a mine is closed down and the land made safe.

The Archers

An intense and gripping week of events unfolds in Ambridge. Listen to all the drama here.

The Archers: 13/02/2008

13/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 13/02/2008

Jolene's anxious - they haven't sold any advance tickets for Lilian's speed dating night at The Bull. Unruffled Lilian is sure people will turn up on the night, much to Jolene's irritation.

At the slimming club weigh-in, Eddie's lost two pounds making him 'winner of the week'. Clarrie can't understand it when they've both eaten exactly the same. Sid puts them all through their paces telling them there's no point sitting around being talked to about exercise - you've just got to get on and do it. To the group's despair he proposes going on a run next week.

When Annabelle and Matt head to the Bull for a drink, Lilian frostily serves them. Sussing Matt's motives, Annabelle pecks him on the cheek and goes. Lilian misconstrues the kiss and is distraught. As Eddie tries to comfort her, she worries that she's going to let Sid and Jolene down with the speed dating after they've been so good to her.  he moans that it's hard playing Cupid when she's a sad single. Eddie tries to cheer her up by mentioning other single men, including Jazzer, giving Lilian an idea. Eddie tells Lilian he's always there for her, that's what friends are for.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Drama

Drama on 4: Ronald Frame - The Shell House

Ronald Frame - The Shell House

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Ronald Frame - The Shell House

In 1972, a scientist appoints a Czech architect to build her a house in Suffolk.

4 Extra Debut. In 1972, a scientist appoints a Czech architect to build her a house in Suffolk. The resulting building is set to haunt them. Stars Sylvestra Le Touzel.

Ronald Frame's play tells the story of an unusual romance. In 1972, a spinster scientist with private means meets an exiled Czech architect whose career has stalled. She offers him a commission for a weekend house on some land she owns on the Suffolk coast. The strange, daring and beautiful building that results will haunt their lives.

Barbara ...... Sylvestra Le Touzel
Jaromir ...... Struan Rodger.

Traveller's Tree

Travel programme consisting of tips and advice for travellers submitted by the public

In Africa and South America, people often pin tips and advice for travellers to trees. This programme brings the concept to radio, with a travel magazine consisting of items submitted by the public

Traveller's Tree: Series 3

Traveller's Tree: Series 3: Episode 5

Episode 5

Series 3

BBC Radio 4 - Traveller's Tree, Series 3, Episode 5

The team look at anniversaries, big birthdays, grand celebrations and romantic weekends.

Fi Glover presents the holiday magazine with insider tips from listeners and travel experts. The team look at anniversaries, big birthdays, grand celebrations and romantic weekends.

Fi Glover presents the holiday magazine with tips from listeners and travel experts

Fi Glover presents the holiday magazine with insider tips from listeners and travel experts

Radio 4 Appeal

Highlighting a charity and appealing for donations. The presenters donate their time.

A weekly programme highlighting the work of a charity and appealing for donations. The presenters give their time without payment.

Radio 4 Appeal: 10/02/2008

10/02/2008

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Michael Morpurgo appeals on behalf of Disability and Development Partners.

Michael Morpurgo appeals on behalf of Disability and Development Partners. Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144.

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Cupid Strikes

Afternoon Reading: Cupid Strikes: Episode 4: Sparks

Episode 4

Episode 4: Sparks

Cupid Strikes

Sparks

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By Frances Tomelty. When Gracie's husband died, she decides it's time for personal growth.

When Gracie's compost-obsessed husband dies, she decides it's time for some radical personal growth. Written and read by Frances Tomelty.

Stories exploring the reality behind St Valentine's Day. 

When Gracie's compost-obsessed husband dies, she decides it's time for some radical personal growth.

Written and read by Frances Tomelty.

Producer Eoin O'Callaghan.

Stories exploring the reality behind St Valentine's Day

Invisible People

Invisible People: Episode 4

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Telephone operators keep a 24-hour watch on elderly and vulnerable people.

Urban historian Joe Kerr presents a series about the control centres of our networked society. 4/5: Telephone operators keep a 24-hour watch on elderly and vulnerable people.

Urban historian Joe Kerr meets the people who work in the control rooms regulating society

Urban historian Joe Kerr journeys into the control rooms at the heart of today's networked society to meet the invisible people co-ordinating our movement

Open Book

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books

Programme looking at new fiction and non-fiction books, talking to authors and publishers and unearthing lost classics

Open Book: Joanna Trollope, Psychoanalysis and Fiction, and Irmgard Keun

Joanna Trollope, Psychoanalysis and Fiction, and Irmgard Keun

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Joanna Trollope, Psychoanalysis and Fiction, and Irmgard Keun

Mariella Frostrup talks to Joanna Trollope about her new book Friday Nights.

Mariella Frostrup talks to Joanna Trollope about her new book Friday Nights, which examines the complex friendship of a disparate group of single women.

Joanna Trollope
Mariella meets the novelist Joanna Trollope. Best known for a series of gently humorous romantic novels set in the outwardly idyllic surroundings of cathedral cities, Trollope’s recent books reflect her own move to city life. She talks about how her new novel reflects her interest in the nature of female friendship, and explains why at sixty-something she felt the need to learn about clubbing and house music.


Psychoanalysis and Fiction
Mariella talks to two novelists who share a professional interest in the unconscious mind. The clinical psychologist Frank Tallis, the creator of the psychoanalytic detective Max Liebermann, explains why Freud and forensics go so well together, and Carol Topolski talks about how her fiction debut Monster Love was influenced by her own work as a psychotherapist.


Irmgard Keun
The novelist Irmgard Keun was an overnight sensation in 1930s Germany, and her tales of assertive young women have been described as early forerunners of Bridget Jones. But she fell into obscurity after the 1940s and is barely known in the English-speaking world. As her novel Child of All Nations, a touching fable about a penniless writer and his family, appears in English for the first time, Mariella talks to the German literature expert Karen Leeder about Keun's life and work.

Material World

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines

Science programme reporting on developments across the disciplines. Each week, scientists describe their work, conveying the excitement they feel for their research projects

Material World: Cosmic String - Antarctic Volcanoes

Cosmic String - Antarctic Volcanoes

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, Cosmic String - Antarctic Volcanoes

Quentin Cooper learns about an Antarctic volcano which erupted more than 2,000 years ago.

Quentin Cooper learns about a volcano which erupted through the Antarctic sea ice more than 2,000 years ago, sending ash and gas 12km into the air.

Cosmic String
Could the Universe be tied up with cosmic string? In this week’s Material World, Quentin Cooper talks to the two scientists who think they have found evidence it might be. Cosmic strings are strange remnants from the very early universe. So what is cosmic string, where would you find it and why does evidence for its existence shed light on theories of how the Universe formed? Quentin is joined by Mark Hindmarsh, Reader in Physics and Martin Kunz, Lecturer in Theoretical Cosmology, both from the University of Sussex.


Antarctic Volcanoes
You don’t really expect to find volcanoes under the polar ice caps, but this is exactly what scientists at the British Antarctic Survey say they have found. Could evidence discovered using new radar techniques be proof of the biggest volcanic eruption in the Antarctic in the last 10,000 years? Quentin is joined by David Vaughan, Glaciologist & Principle Investigator and Hugh Corr, Glacier Geophysicist - both part of the British Antarctic Survey team.

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

Afternoon news and current affairs programme, reporting on breaking stories and summing up the day's headlines

PM: 14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - PM, 14/02/2008

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair.

Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 14/02/2008

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Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 14/02/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather.

Down the Line

Uncompromising, live phone-in show hosted by DJ Gary Bellamy.

Down the Line: Series 3

Down the Line: Series 3: Episode 6: Bad Manners and Modern Liberal Parenting

Episode 6

Episode 6: Bad Manners and Modern Liberal Parenting

Bad Manners and Modern Liberal Parenting

BBC Radio 4 - Down the Line, Series 3, Bad Manners and Modern Liberal Parenting

Britain's got bad manners - should we bring back hanging? Gary Bellamy takes the calls.

Britain's got bad manners - should we bring back hanging? Gary Bellamy takes the calls. Stars Rhys Thomas. From February 2008.

BBC Radio 4 Extra

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama

Your digital radio entertainment station showcasing the best in comedy and drama. With recent favourites from BBC Radio 4.

Spoof phone-in show starring Rhys Thomas as Gary Bellamy

The Archers: 14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 14/02/2008

Lilian unleashes her secret weapon at the Speed Dating.

Mike gives Lilian moral support at the Bull's Valentine's speed dating night. He tells her that Roy and Hayley are pretty fed up, having lost out on 1, The Green again. When Lilian reveals that Will is the buyer, Mike worries how Roy will react.

Kirsty cajoles Emma to go along to the speed dating, with Helen, but they all regret going when, to their horror, Jazzer and all his mates turn up - along with Nathan Booth. Fortunately Joe and Mr Pullen are turned away for being too old.

However, Jazzer is in his element, having got his eye on Sabrina Thwaite's au pair and manages to get her phone number. Emma's not impressed when she discovers why Jazzer and his mates are getting free drinks; Lilian had to bribe them to come. Emma can't face staying for the second half and leaves.

When Mike tells Jazzer about Will buying 1, The Green, Jazzer reckons that Ed will be gutted, and then can't resist passing on the news to Emma as she's leaving.

Lilian thanks Mike for helping with the night but confesses that she's feeling really alone. Mike admits he never thought he'd end up on his own either.

Episode written by Joanna Toye.

Front Row

Live magazine programme on the worlds of arts, literature, film, media and music

Front Row: 14/02/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, 14/02/2008

John Wilson reports on fiction, TV and a growing interest in heavy rock music in Pakistan.

Arts news and reviews. As part of the Uncovering Pakistan season, John Wilson reports on fiction, television and a growing interest in heavy rock music in today's Pakistan.

The Kiss

The Kiss: Episode 4: The Accident

Episode 4: The Accident

The Accident

BBC Radio 4 Extra - The Kiss, The Accident

A father kisses his dead son, killed in an accident, and is shocked by his cold skin.

A father kisses his son for the first time after he dies in an accident, and is shocked by his cold skin. With Harry Towb. From February 2008.

Short stories by Katie Hims with an osculatory theme.

4/5. The Accident

When Sean dies in an accident, his father Ray kisses him for the first time and is shocked by how cold his skin is. Ray begins to kiss everything, from photographs and soft toys to geckos, walls and windows. 

Ray ...... Harry Towb
Barbara ...... Susan Porrett
Ted ...... Ben Crowe

Directed by Jessica Dromgoole.

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