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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

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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: 07/10/2009

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 07/10/2009

Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Mary Stallard.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 07/10/2009

Anna Hill reports on NIMBYs preventing local people buying affordable houses.

Anna Hill reports on claims that newcomer NIMBYs are preventing affordable homes being built for local people, and how wild venison gets onto our plates.

Anna Hill reports on claims that NIMBY newcomers are preventing the building of affordable homes for local people. Also, venison is healthy and tasty yet only a few of us eat it. Anna finds out how wild venison gets onto our plates and whether more British farmers should be rearing it.

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: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 07/10/2009

Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

With Justin Webb and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day.

Presented by Justin Webb and Evan Davis.

President Obama will soon be making a decision on US policy in Afghanistan. He will have talks today with senior military advisers, who want him to send thousands more troops. It is the eighth anniversary of the start of the war. Anthony Cordesman from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, one of those who gave advice on US policy, discusses President Obama's decisions. 

British Airways has said it will cut jobs, freeze pay and change work practices after making losses. Employment correspondent Martin Shankleman discusses the talks between the company and unions. 

Britain is to withdraw everything except emergency funding from the camps where 250,000 displaced Tamils are confined in northern Sri Lanka. The Tamils have been in the camps since May, when the Tamil Tigers were defeated, ending civil war in the country. Correspondent Charles Haviland discusses the UK's announcement. 

The first official Conservative gay party pride event took place last night, one of the biggest events of the Tory party conference. Ben Summerskill, chief executive of the gay rights campaign group Stonewall, pulled out of speaking at the event in protest at the presence of what he says are some of the Conservatives' homophobic allies from eastern and central Europe. Evan Davis reports from the party. 

Shadow foreign secretary William Hague has repeated the Conservative pledge to stop Scottish MPs voting on purely English or Welsh issues. The Conservatives would complete the devolution settlement by allowing English MPs a veto on legislation the affects only England, and English and Welsh MPs a veto when it affects England and Wales. Shadow Scottish secretary David Mundell and the SNP chief whip in the Commons, Stuart Hosie, discuss the Conservatives' constitutional change proposals. 

Letters written by artist Vincent van Gogh go on show today in Amsterdam and will come to London in 2010. Journalist and broadcaster Robert Fox discusses how the letters shed light on van Gogh's mental state. 

Thought for the Day with Akhandadhi Das, a Vaishnav Hindu teacher and theologian. 

The Pakistani army is expected to launch a full-scale attack on Taliban forces based in South Waziristan, one of the lawless areas on the Afghan border thought to be the hiding place of Osama Bin Laden. Lt Gen Talat Masood, who served in the Pakistan army for 39 years, discusses the offensive. 

Shadow chancellor George Osborne's speech at the Tory Party conference warned voters of tough times ahead. He said that we will all have to work longer, receive fewer benefits, and warned of a pay freeze for public sector workers. Mr Osborne discusses his speech and his party's policies. 

The author Hilary Mantel has won the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Fiction. Her book, Wolf Hall - set in the court of Henry VIII - beat entries from a number of former winners, including JM Coetzee and AS Byatt. Ms Mantel discusses her award. 

The UK says it will soon withdraw all resources except emergency funding for the camps that the Sri Lankan government is using to detain a quarter of a million displaced Tamils. The minister for international development, Mike Foster, explains the decision to cut relief to the country. 

Over the past two decades, dozens of elderly men and one woman have been stripped of their US citizenship and sent to Europe after American courts ruled that they had hidden their Nazi past. Reporter Sanchia Berg went to Austria in search of 84 year-old Josias Kumpf, who was deported in March. 

A debate at the British Library, Don and Dusted, asks whether the days of the stereotypical bumbling professor have gone. Mary Beard, Professor of Classics at Cambridge University, and David Sweeney, Director of Research at the Higher Education Funding Council, discuss whether the age of the scholar is over. 

A documentary has been made about Iraqi poet Nabeel Yasin, who was persecuted by Saddam Hussain and spent 27 years in exile. Mr Yasin and the documentary's maker, Georgie Wheedon, discuss the film. 

In June, more than 100 Romanian people left Northern Ireland after several violent attacks on their homes. Tensions over their presence had been building in a loyalist area of south Belfast. But now, many of the Roma have returned to the city. Tom Bateman speaks to people there to find out if the mood has changed. 

Columnist and former MP Michael Brown discusses the Conservatives' economic strategy.

Midweek

Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests

Midweek: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Midweek, 07/10/2009

Lively and diverse conversation with guests including the Duchess of Rutland.

Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests Jonathan Phang, Richard Anderson, Shenda Amery and the Duchess of Rutland.

Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests Jonathan Phang, Richard Anderson, Shenda Amery and the Duchess of Rutland.

Emma, Duchess of Rutland was the daughter of a Welsh farmer and trained as an opera singer before running her own interior design business. After marrying the Duke of Rutland she took on the role of chatelaine of Belvoir Castle in Leicestershire. In her new book, Belvoir Castle, she looks at a thousand years of its history through family, art and architecture. Belvoir Castle: 1000 years of Family, Art and Architecture is published by Frances Lincoln.

Jonathan Phang organised the party on The Marchioness which sank in the Thames 20 years ago, killing 51 people. Jonathan lost many people close to him including his partner, friends and colleagues. Since the disaster he has lived with this terrible burden, and now he has made a documentary for BBC One, The Marchioness and Me, in which he tries to finally tackle and lay to rest what he describes as 'survivor guilt'.  

Richard Anderson has worked as a tailor on Savile Row since 1982, when he started as a 17-year-old apprentice with Huntsman, one of its oldest and most traditional firms. Some of its most distinguished clients included Rex Harrison, Katharine Hepburn and Gregory Peck. He rose to become the youngest head cutter in their 150 year history and now runs his own company, Richard Anderson Ltd. Bespoke: Savile Row Ripped and Smoothed is published by Simon and Schuster.
 
Shenda Amery is an artist and sculptor whose work has included sculpting the busts of two sitting British prime ministers, Baroness Thatcher and John Major, and painting the portrait of former prime minister Tony Blair. In her latest work, Rage, she reflects on how man is affecting the world and the environment. It is on show in London at Xerxes Art, 52 Haymarket, SW1.

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

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: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 07/10/2009

Christian worship and music led by Father Philip Sumner.

Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: Cook Mary Contini; Eco-activist Tamsin Omond

Cook Mary Contini; Eco-activist Tamsin Omond

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Cook Mary Contini; Eco-activist Tamsin Omond

Climate Rush founder Tamsin Omond. Plus, Mary Contini cooks mushrooms Italian-style.

Climate Rush founder Tamsin Omond; Mary Contini cooks mushrooms Italian-style, and cougar women: is it ok to date younger men?

The Story of Scrap Metal

BBC Radio 4 - The Story of Scrap Metal

Martin Wainwright explores the global scrap metal industry.

Martin Wainwright rummages around in his own private scrap yard at the bottom of his garden, looking for bits of metal to help him find the true worth of scrap.

Martin Wainwright rummages around in his own private scrap yard at the bottom of his garden, looking for bits of metal to help him find the true worth of scrap. 

As a child in Yorkshire he remembers the piles of metal left on the pavement for the rag and bone man, but discovers that today's industry is a global one. Encouraged by the high value of metal, Martin takes his assortment of scrap to a local scrap yard for weighing and valuing, and embarks on a journey which will follow scrap to the other side of the world.

A Pennine production for BBC Radio 4.

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse

Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Series 2

The Stanley Baxter Playhouse: Series 2: Episode 3: Flying Down to Greenock

Episode 3

Episode 3: Flying Down to Greenock

Series 2

Flying Down to Greenock

BBC Radio 4 - The Stanley Baxter Playhouse, Series 2, Flying Down to Greenock

By Michael Chaplin. A centenarian Glaswegian remembers life during the Blitz.

By Michael Chaplin. A centenarian Glaswegian, making his first ever flight, remembers life during the blitz over Clydeside. With Patricia Kerrigan. From January 2008.

Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter.

By Michael Chaplin.

A centenarian Glaswegian, making his first ever flight, remembers life during the blitz over Clydeside.

James ...... Stanley Baxter
Isabel ...... Patricia Kerrigan

Directed by Marilyn Imrie.

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 07/10/2009

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: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 07/10/2009

Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.

Weather

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World at One

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

World at One: 07/10/2009

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National and international news with Martha Kearney.

The Media Show

This is the programme about a revolution in media.

Social media, anti-social media, breaking news, faking news: this is the programme about a revolution in media.

The Media Show: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, 07/10/2009

The BNP in the media, TV election debates and 25 years of Voice of the Listener and Viewer

How the media should handle the BNP, 25 years of Voice of the Listener and Viewer, and the mechanics of televised election debates.

Since the BNP won two seats in the European Parliament, they have been subject to more media coverage than ever before. The NUJ stresses engagement rather than censorship, although insists their members should 'refuse to be used to propagate racist propaganda'. Some would rather the party was denied a platform entirely. In line with its rules on impartiality, the BBC has invited Nick Griffin, leader of the BNP, on to Question Time. So what should the media's approach to the British National Party be? Mehdi Hasan, senior politics editor for The New Statesman, and the BBC's chief political advisor Ric Bailey join Steve to discuss.

As a glittering array of the great and good in British broadcasting prepare to attend a bash to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer, Steve speaks to Jocelyn Hay, their founding member, and finds out how this campaigning organisation put consumers on the map so that no broadcasting policy change is complete without a public consultation.

Now all the three main party leaders are signed up to take part in proposed televised election debates, Steve asks Anne McElvoy, political columnist with the London Evening Standard, how the planned debates will actually work.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 06/10/2009

06/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 06/10/2009

Jim calls in at the Stables. Daniel is going to Phil's later to look at the Galaxy Zoo website. Jim says Phil's irresponsible, encouraging him to sit at a computer. He'll pick Daniel up from school in the Riley. Shula goes and Jim says they can build a rocket together. 

Later, Jim and Daniel start their countdown, but Shula approaches, stopping them in their tracks. What about the horses?! They protest but Shula won't budge. Maybe Daniel can ask to set it off at Brookfield. 
 
Ruth and David are worried about Pip. She looks tired and doesn't seem to have made any new friends at college. They agree they need to give it time. They chat about their soil analysis results. They're glad they had it done, so they can work towards better grass. 

Fallon meets Wayne in the shop. Wayne's so pleased about his record night last week. Later, Fallon tells Jolene loads of people have been asking for Wayne's night to become a regular event. She eventually agrees, but says Fallon should ask Sid. 

Ruth and David are chatting to Wayne when Fallon imparts the news that Sid's agreed. Wayne's delighted, and hugs Fallon. Fallon lightly says he mustn't let her down.

Episode written by Nawal Gadalla.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Play

Drama on 4: Life Complicated - Status Pending

Life Complicated - Status Pending

BBC Radio 4 - Drama on 4, Life Complicated - Status Pending

By Marcy Kahan. Unable to get jobs, five recent graduates invent their own projects.

By Marcy Kahan. Unable to get jobs, five recent graduates each invent their own imaginative and challenging three-week project.

By Marcy Kahan. Unable to get jobs, five recent graduates each invent their own imaginative and challenging three-week project. As the schemes unfold, they are each forced to confront what they really want from life.

KC ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan
Freddie ...... Joseph Cohen-Cole
Max ...... Piers Wehner
Ben ...... Rhys Jennings
Rosie ...... Tessa Nicholson

Directed by Jeremy Mortimer.

Money Box Live

Phone-in programme with discussion and advice on personal finance

Money Box Live: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Money Box Live, 07/10/2009

Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial issues.

Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial issues.

He is joined by:

Martin John, Public Guardian England and Wales
Sandra McDonald, Public Guardian Scotland 
Ruth Meyer, Associate Solicitor, Boyes Turner
Caroline Bielanska, Chair, Solicitors for the Elderly.

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: 1989: Writing on the Wall

Afternoon Reading: 1989: Writing on the Wall: Episode 2: Across the Fence

Episode 2

Episode 2: Across the Fence

1989: Writing on the Wall

Across the Fence

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By Stefan Heym. The nature of power in an oppressive state and its impact on personal life

By Stefan Heym. This short story explores the nature of power in an oppressive state and its impact on personal life. Read by Fenella Woolgar.

Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of three writers associated with East Germany's literary scene.

By Stefan Heym. 

Although Heym won East Germany's National Prize in 1969, his political criticisms later brought him into conflict with the state. Set in Czeckoslovakia, this short story explores the nature of power in an oppressive state and its impact on personal life.

Read by Fenella Woolgar.

Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of writers associated with East Germany

Anne McElvoy introduces extracts from the work of three writers associated with East Germany's literary scene

Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life

Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life: Episode 8: Kitchen Physic

Episode 8

Episode 8: Kitchen Physic

Kitchen Physic

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Historian Amanda reveals housewives were once expected to concoct cure-all medicines.

Exploring life at home in the past, historian Amanda reveals housewives were once expected to concoct cure-all medicines.

Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years. She draws on first-hand accounts from letters and diaries, many of which have never been heard before. Including songs which have been specially recorded for the series. 

From rabies to madness and piles, the housewives of the past were expected to concoct medicines which would cure any condition.

Readers: Deborah Findlay, John Sessions, Madeleine Brolly and Simon Tcherniak.

Singers: Gwyneth Herbert and Thomas Guthrie, with David Owen Norris at the keyboard.

A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.

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.

Historian Amanda Vickery reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years

Historian Amanda Vickery presents a series which reveals the hidden history of home over 400 years, drawing on first-hand accounts from letters and diaries

Thinking Allowed

Thinking Allowed: Punishing the Poor 

Punishing the Poor 

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Sociologist Loic Wacquant discusses the consequences of a growing US prison system.

Laurie Taylor talks to Loic Wacquant about his belief that the US' social state is shrinking as its prison system grows. Is the US punishing its poor and is the UK doing the same?

America's social state is withering at the expense of its expanding prison system and the UK is heading in the same direction, with potentially disastrous consequences. That's the argument of Laurie Taylor's guest, Loic Wacquant, Professor of Sociology at the University of California. 

From 1980 to 1990, spending by the US government on operating its prisons and correctional establishments doubled while at the same time spending on public housing more than halved. According to Wacquant, this process is continuing; he says that 'the construction of prisons has effectively become the country's main housing programme'. Are America's penal policies too harsh, and if prisons and correctional facilities are becoming increasingly important, what are the social consequences?

He talks to Laurie about why he believes America is too ready to accept a state of poverty for huge sections of its population and at the same time see the social state obliterated. Is America punishing its poor and is the UK at risk of following the same path, overly dependent on prisons while eroding its social state?

Trials For Life

Trials For Life: Episode 1

Episode 1

BBC Radio 4 - Trials For Life, Episode 1

Why do patients volunteer for clinical trials - just to get better or for the common good?

Vivienne Parry asks whether patients take part in clinical trials simply to get better or for the common good, hoping for future cures.

Vivienne Parry asks whether patients take part in clinical trials simply to get better or for the common good, hoping for future cures. 

Doctors ard patients both want the best chance of recovery from an illness, but when the condition is cancer - and curent treatments have failed - what hope do clinical trials offer? Now that cancer treatments are becoming more individually tailored and effective, is it worth the risk of trying to develop new drugs which may only be slightly better?

Why do patients volunteer for clinical trials: just to get better or for the common good?

Vivienne Parry asks whether patients take part in clinical trials simply to get better or for the common good, hoping for future cures

1989: Day by Day

1989: Day by Day: Episode 3: 7th October 1989

Episode 3: 7th October 1989

7th October 1989

BBC Radio 4 - 1989: Day by Day, 7th October 1989

Protestors marching through East Berlin to the Church of the Gethsemane clash with police.

Protestors marching through East Berlin to the Church of the Gethsemane clash with police; Hungarian communists vote to become a democracy but some hardliners don't get it.

Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago.

Protestors marching through East Berlin to the Church of the Gethsemane clash with police; Hungarian communists vote to become a democracy but some hardliners don't get it; in the West, the Beastie Boys tell us what's up.

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.

Sir John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 20 years ago

Afternoon news and current affairs programme

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

PM: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - PM, 07/10/2009

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

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

Six O'Clock News

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4

Six O'Clock News: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 07/10/2009

National and international news from BBC Radio 4.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Chain Reaction

Series in which public figures choose others to interview

Chain Reaction: Series 5: Alistair McGowan interviews Simon Callow

Alistair McGowan interviews Simon Callow

Series 5

BBC Radio 4 - Chain Reaction, Series 5, Alistair McGowan interviews Simon Callow

Impressionist Alistair McGowan interviews actor Simon Callow in the tag-team talk show.

The actor and the impressionist in the tag talk show, where the guest is the next interviewer. From September 2009.

Impressionist, comedian and actor Alistair McGowan chats to actor, writer, and director, Simon Callow CBE.

Chain Reaction is the tag talk show, where the guest becomes the interviewer in the next episode.

Producer: Sam Bryant

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2009.

Chain Reaction: Series 5

Chat show in which last week's interviewee becomes this week's interviewer

The Archers: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 07/10/2009

Brian meets Bryce at Grey Gables. Brian tells Bryce Peggy's no fool, but Bryce agrees clients of her generation are a canny lot. 

Adam brings some venison to Grey Gables for Friday. Caroline tells him things are quiet, but they agree at least she's got Friday's event. 

Jack interrupts Peggy's meeting with Bryce, so Brian looks after him. Bryce asks if Peggy's aware the village shop is making a regular loss? Has she considered letting it go, or converting it into a flat? Peggy's shocked - the village relies on it. Bryce says he wishes they did. He advises her to think about it.
 
Adam tells Brian he's phoned Peggy and everything's quiet there. They discuss the footpath. Adam thinks Lynda's been mobilising her troops, and that he's underestimated her. Brian says he might have an idea.

Peggy's asleep and Jack calls for Valerie, suggesting a walk. He goes outside, and walks to Grey Gables. At Grey Gables, Jack is confused. Caroline suggests that they phone Peggy. Caroline's phone call wakes Peggy who is horrified at the situation. Jack could have gone anywhere. Caroline says he's fine and she'll bring him home. Peggy says she's so sorry. 

Episode written by Nawal Gadalla.

Front Row

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

Front Row: 07/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, 07/10/2009

With Mark Lawson. Including an interview with writer Clive James on his 70th birthday.

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