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Shipping Forecast

The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 28/02/2009

28/02/2009

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BBC Radio 4

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: 28/02/2009

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 28/02/2009

Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Jenny Wigley.

iPM is the news programme that starts with its listeners.

The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.

iPM: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - iPM, 28/02/2009

News and Papers

The news headlines, including a look at the newspapers

News and Papers: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - News and Papers, 28/02/2009

News headlines, plus a look at the papers.

The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.

Weather

Weather: 28/02/2009

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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: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, 28/02/2009

Matt Baker investigates Cumbria's industrial coastline, which is being given a makeover.

Helen Mark finds out how whisky production has shaped Speyside in Scotland, with the opening of a new 'green' distillery in Roseisle.

Farming Today This Week

Farming Today This Week: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today This Week, 28/02/2009

News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith.

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

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: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 28/02/2009

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

With Evan Davis and Edward Stourton. Including Sports Desk, Thought for the Day, Weather, Yesterday in Parliament.

Presented by Evan Davis and Edward Stourton.

Gordon Brown is set to renew his appeal for Sir Fred Goodwin to hand back part of his 16 million pound pension. Richard Scott reports.

Tim Iredale reports on government plans to part privatise Royal Mail. 

Correspondent Caroline Wyatt reports on how effective UK forces have been in helping the US in Afghanistan.

Yesterday in Parliament with Mark D'Arcy. 

Marjorie Wallace of Sane and psychiatrist Dr John Goldin discuss why the UK has the highest self-harm figures in Europe.

Mark Dummett reports on the discovery of a second mass grave in Bangladesh.

Correspondent Roland Buerk considers why Japan is suffering so severely because of the economic slowdown.

Thought for the day with Canon David Winter.

Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry discusses his concern for the way in which ex-servicemen and women are treated by the NHS.

Steve Bundred of the Audit Commission discusses if the government has made enough preparation for cuts in public expenditure.

Phil Mackie reports on fears that abandoned high streets could become hotspots for anti-social behaviour.

Screenwriter Lee Hall and columnist Matthew Parris remember the beginning of the miners' strike 25 years ago.

General Sir Richard Dannatt, the head of the British Army, discusses if rumours that the US is unhappy with the UK's military performance in the country are true.

Conservative peer and corporate troubleshooter Lord James discusses another extraordinary week for the financial sector.

Laura Trevelyan reports on estimates that the US economy is shrinking by 6.2 percent.

Reporter Andrew Fletcher interviews Dan Stephens of the Merseyside Fire and Rescue Services, about the contingencies that the services have to deal with terrorist attacks.

Authors Michael Brooks and Mark Vernon discuss new research into whether freewill really exists.

Saturday Live

Radio 4's Saturday morning show brings you extraordinary stories and remarkable people.

Saturday Live: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Live, 28/02/2009

Richard Coles is joined by design curator Libby Sellers, with poetry from Matt Harvey.

Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Richard Coles is joined by design curator Libby Sellers, with poetry from Matt Harvey.

Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. 

Richard Coles is joined by design curator Libby Sellers, with poetry from Matt Harvey. Also featuring Peter White's day trip to see The Saints at home to Forest and the Inheritance Tracks of B-movie icon Bruce Campbell. Plus the story of Chrissie De Rivaz, who hopes to cheat death by deep freezing herself in anticipation of a medical resurrectio.

Excess Baggage

Travel magazine, featuring travellers' tales, experiences and anecdotes

Excess Baggage: Sierra Nevada - New Delhi

Sierra Nevada - New Delhi

BBC Radio 4 - Excess Baggage, Sierra Nevada - New Delhi

John McCarthy talks to Sanjay Suri and Justine Hardy about their experience of India.

John McCarthy talks to an Indian journalist living and working in Britain and a British journalist living and working in India.

John McCarthy talks to an Indian journalist living and working in Britain and a British journalist living and working in India about their respective travel experiences, and explores an area of Spain on the Eastern Mediterranean coast little known even by the Spanish.

NEW DELHI
Sanjay Suri is a journalist and author of a book Brideless in Wembley – in search of Indian England, which details his travels through Indian communities in Britain and Justine Hardy is a writer and journalist who lives both in Delhi and Britain, her second book Scoop-Wallah was the story of her time on an Indian newspaper in Delhi. 

SIERRA NEVADA
Spain is a popular tourist and travel destination but it still retains many little know places for the curious visitor. One apparently overlooked area is on the Eastern Mediterranean coast in the province of Castellón. Jason Webster has created, with his Spanish wife, not only a home but a garden in an area ravaged by fire and drought. Jason wrote an account of his dream come true story in a new book entitled Sacred Sierra, A Year on a Spanish Mountain.

Looking for Ripley

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Looking for Ripley

Crime writer Mark Billingham tails Patricia Highsmith's hero-psychopath Tom Ripley

Millions of readers remain fascinated by the suavely amoral Tom Ripley. Crime writer Mark Billingham unravels why. From 2009.

From ‘The Talented Mr Ripley’ by Patricia Highsmith: “If there was any sensation he hated, it was that of being followed, by anybody. And lately he had it all the time.” 

Ripley's right to feel worried, there is someone on his tail. 

It's crime writer Mark Billingham.

Like millions of readers of Patricia Highsmith's Ripley novels, Mark Billingham has long been fascinated and repelled by the suavely amoral Tom Ripley. Here he's on a quest to get closer. 

In the course of his investigation Mark dives into the shadows and pretends to be looking the other way as he tracks down those with a real insight into Ripley's ambiguities and attractions for the contemporary reader. 

The opera director Jonathan Kent once played Ripley and was thought to be perfect in the role by Highsmith herself. 

Professor Dinesh Bhugra, President of The Royal College of Psychiatrists, is an avid fan and uses the Ripley books to teach medical students about psychopathy. 

Andrew Wilson, Highsmith’s biographer, thinks the elusive Ripley is to be found in the unpublished notebooks of his creator.

Reader: Ian Hart

Producer: Erin Kelly

Editor: Rob Ketteridge

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in February 2009.

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 Week in Westminster

Radio 4's weekly assessment of developments at Westminster

Week in Westminster

The Week in Westminster: 28/02/2009

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A look behind the scenes at Westminster, presented by Elinor Goodman.

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: 28/02/2009

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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.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 28/02/2009

National and international news and the shipping forecast.

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

Money Box

The latest news from the world of personal finance

The latest news from the world of personal finance plus advice for those trying to make the most of their money.

Money Box: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Money Box, 28/02/2009

The long running saga of bank overdraft charges reaches a crucial legal stage.

With reports on the long saga of bank overdraft charges reaching a crucial legal stage. Plus how much taxpayer's money is being risked by those toxic assets in the bank bail out?

Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance. 

He reports on the long-running saga of bank overdraft charges, which reaches a crucial legal stage. Also, just how much risk is taxpayer's money exposed to from those toxic assets in the bank bail out? 

When is a Barclaycard customer not a Barclaycard customer? Plus thousands of 'capital secure' investors face losing some or all of their money.

The News Quiz

Topical panel quiz show, taking its questions from the week's news stories.

The News Quiz: Series 67

The News Quiz: Series 67: Episode 8

Episode 8

Series 67

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Sandi Toksvig chairs. With Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Francis Wheen and Andy Hamilton.

Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, with panellists Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Francis Wheen and Andy Hamilton.

Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz

News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

News: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - News, 28/02/2009

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Any Questions?

Topical discussion posing questions to a panel of political and media personalities

Topical discussion in which a panel of personalities from the worlds of politics, media and elsewhere are posed questions by the audience. From a different location each week

Any Questions?: 27/02/2009

27/02/2009

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Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Gloucester.

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Gloucester. The panellists are Roger Scruton, Tony Hall CBE, Gillian Tett and John Harris.

Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Gloucester. The panellists are writer and philosopher Roger Scruton, chief executive of the Royal Opera House Tony Hall CBE, financial journalist Gillian Tett and Guardian columnist and broadcaster John Harris.

Test Match Special

Test Match Special: 28/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Test Match Special, 28/02/2009

Coverage of the third day of the Fourth Test between West Indies and England in Barbados.

Coverage of the third day of the Fourth Test between West Indies and England from the Kensington Oval in Barbados. Including Shipping Forecast.

Coverage of the third day of the Fourth Test between West Indies and England from the Kensington Oval in Barbados. Commentary by Jonathan Agnew, Christopher Martin Jenkins and Tony Cozier and summaries from Sir Viv Richards, Geoffrey Boycott and Vic Marks.

Including Shipping Forecast.

Classic Serial

Adaptations of works which have achieved classic status

Classic Serial: Scoop

Classic Serial: Scoop: Episode 2

Episode 2

Scoop

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Life is tedious for war correspondent William, but he finds love.

Life is tedious for war correspondent William, but he finds love and ends up in the middle of a revolution. Stars Rory Kinnear.

Dramatisation by Jeremy Front of Evelyn Waugh's satirical 1938 novel. 

William finds life as a war correspondent somewhat tedious, but he does fall in love and find himself in the middle of a revolution.

William Boot ...... Rory Kinnear
Katchen ...... Claudie Blakeley
Lord Copper ...... David Warner
Salter ...... Nicholas Woodeson
Frau Dressler ...... Tracy-Ann Oberman
Erik Olafsen ...... Dan Starkey
Secret Policeman ...... Jude Akuwudike
Benito ...... Cyril Nri
Moke ...... Inam Mirza
Mr Baldwin ...... Jonathan Taffler
Uncle Theodore ...... Malcolm Tierney 
Sir Jocelyn Hitchcock ...... Michael Simkins
Corker  ...... Stephen Critchlow
Pigge ...... Chris Pavlo
News Editor ...... Paul Rider
Hechel ...... Gunnar Cauthery
Evelyn Waugh ...... Tim McInnerny

Directed by Sally Avens.

Dramatisation by Jeremy Front of Evelyn Waugh's satirical 1938 novel

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

Moral Maze

Live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

Combative, provocative and engaging live debate examining the moral issues behind one of the week's news stories. #moralmaze

Moral Maze: 25/02/2009

25/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Moral Maze, 25/02/2009

With Clifford Longley, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor and Melanie Phillips.

Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. With Clifford Longley, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor and Melanie Phillips.

Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. Clifford Longley, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor and Melanie Phillips cross-examine witnesses.

Britain has the highest rate of teenage pregnancies in Western Europe, so what role should morality play in sex education? A new government leaflet advising parents on how to talk to their children about sex and relationships warns against trying to convince teenagers of what is right and wrong because it could discourage them from being open. Is this sensible practical advice? Is giving teenagers the room to form their own moral judgements about sex the right way to cut teenage parenthood?

Quote... Unquote

Celebrity panel game about quotations featuring questions posed by listeners

Quote... Unquote: 23/02/2009

23/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Quote... Unquote, 23/02/2009

Nigel Rees chairs. With Celia Walden, Katharine Whitehorn, Richard Coles and Simon Singh.

Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of quotations and anecdotes. With guests Celia Walden, Katharine Whitehorn, Richard Coles and Simon Singh.

Poetry Please

Roger McGough introduces selections of poetry on various themes, chosen by listeners.

Poetry Please: 22/02/2009

22/02/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Poetry Please, 22/02/2009

Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests.

Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests for poems by Derek Walcott, Linda Pastan and Russian poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Inna Kabysh.

Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests for poems by Derek Walcott, Linda Pastan and Russian poets Yevgeny Yevtushenko and Inna Kabysh. The readers are Burt Caesar, Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams.

 Letter from Brooklyn by Derek Walcott
From Derek Walcott – Collected Poems 1948-1984
The Noonday Press

People by Yevgeny Yevtushenko, translated by Robin Milner-Gulland
Selected Poems – Yevtushenko
Penguin

The Five Stages of Grief by Linda Pastan
From: The Five Stages of Grief
Publ: Norton

Different Beds by Roger McGough
From:  Selected Poems
Publ:  Penguin

The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House by Thomas Hardy
The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy
Oxford University Press

The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams
From: The Oxford Book of American Poetry

Daffodils by William Wordsworth
From: William Wordsworth – The Major Works
Publ: Oxford

Love Poem by Linda Pastan
From: The Norton Introduction to Literature (6th edition)

Love III by George Herbert
From: The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250-1918

To Anthea, Who May Command Him Anything by Robert Herrick
From: The Poems of Robert Herrick
Publ: Oxford

Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare
The New Faber Book of Love Poems
Faber 

Me Cyaan Believe it by Michael Smith
It a Came 
Creation for Liberation

Making Jam in July by Inna Kabysh, trans Fay Marshall
Modern Poetry in Translation New Series No.20 – 2002 

My Parents Kept Me From Children Who Were Rough by Stephen Spender
From: Collected Poems
Publ: faber

Happiness by Raymond Carver
From: All of Us. Collected Poems
Publ: Alfred A Knopf

Midnight News

The latest news and weather forecast from BBC Radio 4.

Midnight News: 01/03/2009

01/03/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Midnight News, 01/03/2009

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by weather.

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Be Prepared

Afternoon Reading: Be Prepared: Episode 5: Vanishing Point

Episode 5

Episode 5: Vanishing Point

Be Prepared

Vanishing Point

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By Luke Sutherland. A very small man helps a young lady in distress.

A very small man intervenes to help a young lady in distress. By Luke Sutherland, read by Sandy Grierson.

Series of stories inspired by the famous motto of the Scouting movement.

A very small man intervenes in a scene similar to a nursery rhyme and helps a young lady in distress.

By Luke Sutherland, read by Sandy Grierson.

To mark 100 years of the Scouting movement, a series of stories inspired by their motto

To mark the centenary of the Scouting movement, a series of stories inspired by their famous motto

Shipping Forecast: 01/03/2009

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A selection of BBC World Service news and current affairs, arts and science programmes

BBC Radio 4 presents a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes from the BBC World Service

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