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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 18/03/2008

18/03/2008

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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.

News Briefing

News Briefing: 18/03/2008

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 18/03/2008

Daily prayer and reflection with Fr Eugene O'Neill.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 18/03/2008

News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.

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: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 18/03/2008

Including Yesterday in Parliament; Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Yesterday in Parliament at 6.45am; Weather at 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; Thought for the Day at 7.48am.

1968: The Year of Revolutions; 1968: The Year of Revolutions

1968 - The Year of Revolutions: Episode 1

Episode 1

1968 - The Year of Revolutions

BBC Radio 4 - 1968 - The Year of Revolutions, Episode 1

John Tusa and guests discuss the impact of the tumultuous world events of 1968.

John Tusa and guests discuss the impact of the tumultuous world events of 1968, from civil rights marches in the US to riots in Paris and violence in Prague.

John Tusa and guests discuss the impact of the tumultuous world events of 1968, from civil rights marches in the US to riots in Paris and violence in Prague.

Contributors include Peter Hain, Joan Bakewell, Martin Kettle and Ann Leslie.

John Tusa and guests discuss the impact of the tumultuous world events of 1968

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: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 18/03/2008

Christian worship and music from St Germans Church, Splott, Cardiff, led by Peter Baker.

Christian worship and music from St Germans Church, Splott, Cardiff, led by Rev Peter Baker. Avril Harding conducts the Welsh Chamber Singers.

Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: The Drapchi Nuns; Photographer Sonia Katchian

The Drapchi Nuns; Photographer Sonia Katchian

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, The Drapchi Nuns; Photographer Sonia Katchian

Interviews with former Tibetan nuns who were imprisoned in China for demonstrating.

Interviews with former Tibetan nuns who were imprisoned in China for demonstrating. Plus, photographer Sonia Katchian on Muhammed Ali, and how did Caroline Norton changed the law?

World On The Move: Great Animal Migrations

Series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet

Series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet, with Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood

World On The Move: Great Animal Migrations: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - World On The Move: Great Animal Migrations, 18/03/2008

A team of wildlife specialists are joined by zoologists and conservationists.

Great Animal Migrations: Philippa Forrester and Brett Westwood present the series following the movement and migration of animals across the planet.

BBC Radio 4 is a radio channel that started transmitting on the 30th September 1967. It replaced BBC Home Service.

Hovis Has Left the Building

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Mark Radcliffe celebrates the unique and much-loved Bolton poet and comedian Hovis Presley

Mark Radcliffe celebrates the Bolton poet and comedian Hovis Presley, whose gentle humour and wordplay earned him the respect of comedians, musicians and writers in the 1990s.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News and Weather

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 18/03/2008

National and international news and the shipping forecast.

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

Call You and Yours

Listeners air their views on consumer news and issues

Call You and Yours: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Call You and Yours, 18/03/2008

Consumer news and issues with John Waite and Peter White.

Weather

Weather: 18/03/2008

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World at One

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

World at One: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 18/03/2008

National and international news with Shaun Ley.

Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats

Former chancellor Ken Clarke profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th century

Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats: Series 6

Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats: Series 6: Episode 3

Episode 3

Series 6

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Ken Clarke and jazz writer Steve Voce explore the career of alto saxophonist Art Pepper.

Former chancellor Ken Clarke profiles great jazz musicians of the 20th century. 3/4: He is joined by jazz writer Steve Voce to explore the career of alto saxophonist Art Pepper.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 17/03/2008

17/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 17/03/2008

Hayley's discharged from hospital and chats to Amy about her midwifery course while waiting for Roy to pick her up. Later Hayley rings Brenda to invite her round to Willow Farm tomorrow.

Amy and Usha have fun going clothes shopping together. Later Usha visits Ruth where she admits that because it's Alan's busiest time of year she's not seeing a lot of him. But she did go to the Palm Sunday service and they're doing the parish walk together. As the smell of one of Jill's casseroles wafts over, Ruth explains that Jill's using her oven. Phil's teaching Bert to cook because of Freda's diet. However, the unfortunate side effect of this is that Bert's been making too much and has been trying to force the somewhat "stodgy" leftovers on Lower Loxley staff.

Pat chats to Tony about putting in an objection to the planning application for the anaerobic digester, but Tony tells her to leave him out of it - it's a waste of time and it will cause bad feeling in the family. He tells her to think very carefully before putting in an objection and if he were Pat he wouldn't bother. When Pat says he's not her, Tony replies that's what he's afraid of.

Episode written by Keri Davies.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Drama

Drama on 4: Mrs Mabb

Mrs Mabb

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Venetia must win back the charismatic Captain Fox from the amazing Mrs Mabb.

Venetia must win back the charismatic Captain Fox from the amazing Mrs Mabb and her surreal world of magic. With Emma Fielding. From March 2008.

Susanna Clarke's short story, dramatised by Judith Adams.

Handsome Captain Fox has been spirited away by the amazing Mrs Mabb, and audacious heroine Venetia wants him back. But she has Mrs Mabb's malign magic to contend with.

Narrator ...... Emma Fielding
Venetia ...... Jasmine Hyde
Fanny ...... Lucy Akhurst
Captain Fox ...... Bertie Carvel
Mr Hawkins/Mr Grout ...... Philip Fox
Lucas/John Purvis ...... Sam Pamphilon
Marje ...... Poppy Friar
Nan ...... Millie Binks.

Home Planet

Programme answering listeners' questions about planet Earth and our impact upon it

Home Planet: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Home Planet, 18/03/2008

Richard Daniel and his team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world.

Richard Daniel and the team discuss listeners' questions about the natural world and our impact on it.

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Pier Shorts

Afternoon Reading: Pier Shorts: Episode 2: Love Lessons from Cephalopods

Episode 2

Episode 2: Love Lessons from Cephalopods

Pier Shorts

Love Lessons from Cephalopods

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By Kay Sexton. A marine scientist challenges a Russian gangmaster to a swimming contest.

By Kay Sexton. A marine scientist challenges a Russian gangmaster to a swimming contest. Read by Susannah Harker.

Stories by new writers, inspired by Brighton's Palace Pier.

By Kay Sexton, read by Susannah Harker.

A marine scientist challenges a Russian gangmaster to a swimming contest.

A Pier production for BBC Radio 4.

Stories by new writers inspired by Brighton's Palace Pier

The People in the Playground Revisited

The People in the Playground Revisited: Episode 2

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He visits St Paul's Primary in London's East End for the first of three audio snapshots.

Children's Laureate Michael Rosen explores life in the playground today. 2: He visits St Paul's Primary in the East End of London for the first of three audio snapshots.

Children's Laureate Michael Rosen explores life in the playground today

The Law Show

Conversation about the laws making headlines, and the laws that shape everyday life.

The Law Show is your guide to the law and the legal decisions that have a bearing on everyone in the UK.

Weekly conversation that will give you an in-depth understanding of the law stories making news and the legal decisions that could have a bearing on everyone in the UK. Whether it's unpicking a landmark legal ruling, explaining how laws are made or seeking clarity for you on a legal issue, The Law Show will be your guide.

Law in Action

The Law Show: Prosecuting Sexual Offences

Prosecuting Sexual Offences

BBC Radio 4 - The Law Show, Prosecuting Sexual Offences

Clive Coleman asks how the prosecution of sexual offences can be made more effective.

Clive Coleman looks at the legal issues in the news. He asks how the prosecution of sexual offences can be made more effective and what changes to the law are needed.

A Good Read

A Good Read: Sheena McDonald and Sally Lindsay

Sheena McDonald and Sally Lindsay

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Kate Mosse, Sheena McDonald and Sally Lindsay discuss their favourite reads.

4 Extra Debut. Kate Mosse, Sheena McDonald and Sally Lindsay discuss books by FH Burnett, Steven Johnson and Patrick Suskind. From 2008.

Kate Mosse is joined by broadcaster Sheena McDonald and actress Sally Lindsay to talk about favourite books by FH Burnett, Steven Johnson and Patrick Suskind.

The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
Publisher: Penguin

The Ghost Map: A Street, an Epidemic and the Hidden Power of Urban Networks by Steven Johnson
Publisher: Penguin

Perfume by Patrick Suskind
Publisher: Penguin

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2003.

1968 Day by Day

A look back at the events making the news 40 years ago

1968: Day by Day

1968 Day by Day: 18th March 1968

18th March 1968

BBC Radio 4 - 1968 Day by Day, 18th March 1968

Central London cleans up after Sunday's anti-Vietnam riots.

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago. London cleans up after Sunday's anti-Vietnam riots and the London stock market opens amidst a financial crisis.

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago.

Central London cleans up after Sunday's anti-Vietnam riots, the London stock market opens amidst a financial crisis and the search for gold continues in Devon.

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

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

PM: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - PM, 18/03/2008

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

Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. Including at 5.57pm Weather.

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 18/03/2008

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

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

Rudy's Rare Records

Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in a Birmingham record shop

Rudy's Rare Records: Series 1: The Heart of Saturday Night

The Heart of Saturday Night

Series 1

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Rudy's Rare Records, Series 1, The Heart of Saturday Night

Grandad, father and son collide, when burglars ransack their Birmingham shop.

Grandad, father and son collide, when burglars ransack their Birmingham shop. Stars Lenny Henry. From March 2008.

Bad news for the trio when burglars ransack the shop.

The collisions of life for Grandad Rudy, father Adam and son Richie, living crammed together over an old record store in Birmingham.

Starring Lenny Henry, Joe Jacobs and Larrington Walker.

Generational sitcom written by Danny Robins and Dan Tetsell.

From an original idea by Lenny Henry.

Adam Sharpe ...... Lenny Henry
Richie Sharp ...... Joe Jacobs
Rudy Sharpe ...... Larrington Walker 
Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey 
Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon 
Doctor ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
DJ Karel ...... Andrew Brooke
Trev the Hoodie    ......    Doc Brown

Producer: Lucy Armitage.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in March 2008.

Rudy's Rare Records: Series 1

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.

The Archers: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 18/03/2008

Jennifer leaves some gifts for Abbie, but Roy, still anxious about Abbie's condition, feels it's tempting fate. Hayley's understanding and they have a loving hug.

When Brenda turns up things are frosty between her and Roy. After he goes Brenda tells Hayley how sorry she is about everything and she's relieved when Hayley says none of it is her fault. Hayley's delighted when Brenda says that she's happy for Willow Farm to be split into two. When Roy returns and sees Brenda's bought a teddy for Abbie he hits the roof shouting hasn't she done enough? Why can't people leave them alone.

Eddie's confused while tucking into pie and chips at the Bull when Bert seems to contradict himself about Freda, one minute saying he's not cooking for her and the next saying he is.

Jennifer picks up Debbie from the airport. Debbie says that if Brian sticks to his plan of splitting the farm three ways, there won't be much to talk about at tomorrow's meeting. Jennifer admits that it's difficult, but asks Debbie to give Brian a fair hearing as there's so much at stake. Debbie says she'll try but she can't make any promises.

Episode written by Keri Davies.

Front Row

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

Front Row: 18/03/2008

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, 18/03/2008

15 Minute Drama

Classic and contemporary original drama and book dramatisations

15 Minute Drama: Amanda Whittington - Bollywood Jane

15 Minute Drama: Amanda Whittington - Bollywood Jane: Episode 2

Amanda Whittington - Bollywood Jane

BBC Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama, Amanda Whittington - Bollywood Jane, Episode 2

Jane starts work at the cinema, watches her first Bollywood movie and falls for Dini.

Jane starts work at the cinema, watches her first Bollywood movie and falls for Dini. Stars Joanne Froggatt and Sacha Dhawan.

Amanda Whittington's story of a young woman who discovers the magic of Indian cinema.

2/5. Jane starts work at the cinema, watches her first Bollywood movie and falls for Dini.

Jane ...... Joanne Froggatt
Kate ...... Katherine Dow Blyton
Dini ...... Sacha Dhawan
Aamir ...... Pal Aron
Mac ...... Sean Connolly 

Directed by Kate Chapman.

Amanda Whittington's story of a young woman who discovers the magic of Indian cinema

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