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News Briefing

News Briefing: 14/10/2009

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 14/10/2009

Daily prayer and reflection with the Right Rev Chris Edmondson, Bishop of Bolton.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 14/10/2009

An organic farmer tells Anna Hill you can't make a living from small organic farms.

A convert to organic farming tells Anna Hill you can't make a living from small organic farms. While a rural estate agent says farmland will double in price in the next five years.

A new convert to organic farming tells Anna Hill you can't make a living from small organic farms. While a rural estate agent says that farmland has beaten the FTSE 100 index for the last 15 years and will double in price over the next five years.

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: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 14/10/2009

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

With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day; Yesterday in Parliament.

Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague.

Many MPs are angry at having to retrospectively pay back some of their expenses. Party leaders signalled that those MPs who refused to co-operate with the audit of expenses, carried out by Sir Thomas Legg, could be barred from standing at the next election. Labour MP Stephen Pound discusses the mood among backbench MPs. 

Scientists have found a new type of dinosaur. Dave Unwin, lecturer in palaeobiology at Leicester University, comments on the new discovery. 

The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), has banned an advert for a yoghurt. The ASA has criticised the advert for claiming that drinking the yoghurt could help normal healthy children protect against illness. Chief executive of the ASA, Guy Parker, and head of surgery and cancer at Imperial College, London, Professor Jeremy Nicholson, examine whether a yoghurt drinks have health benefits. 

In Washington a furious battle over Afghanistan policy is being conducted both within and outside the White House. Today, President Obama and his senior advisors will hold a fifth meeting of the national security team to discuss the strategy. North America editor Mark Mardell reports from Washington. 

The basic state pension will rise by 2 pounds 40 per week next April, even though inflation measured by the Retail Prices Index (RPI) was negative last month. Pensions are altered in April in line with the inflation rate the previous September, which fell to minus 1.4 per cent. The government has pledged that the basic state pension will rise by at least 2.5 per cent each year if inflation falls below this level. Mark Serwotka of the Public and Commercial Services Union and economics editor Stephanie Flanders analyse how a low-inflation environment could impact on pensions and wage expectations. 

It is almost 20 years since the writer Roald Dahl died, yet he is selling more books now than he did in his lifetime. An animated film version of one of his best known stories, Fantastic Mr Fox, receives its world premiere at the London Film Festival. It is directed by Wes Anderson and features the voices of George Clooney and Meryl Streep as Mr and Mrs Fox. Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones visited the home Roald Dahl shared with his wife Liccy, to find out more about the author and his works. 

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

Gordon Brown will announce that another 500 troops will be sent to Afghanistan, taking the total number of British troops there to 9,500. For some military chiefs and the American military, this is not enough. Jason Straziuso, the Associated Press's chief reporter in Afghanistan for the past three years, discusses whether more or less troops are needed in Afghanistan. 

The development of the expenses scandal has damaged the reputation of MPs and political institutions. Despite threats from the party leaders, many MPs are still refusing to admit they may have been greedy and pay back what the auditor Sir Thomas Legg says they should pay back. Deputy political editor James Landale, and the Leader of the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, examine the anger among MPs and how long party leaders can contain the discontent. 

Artist Antony Gormley's fourth plinth project in Trafalgar Square, Anish Kapoor's installation at the Royal Academy, and the Unilever series in Tate Modern's Turbine Hall are all examples of theatrical installations of modern art. Antony Gormley and the arts editor-in-chief at the Telegraph, Sarah Crompton, discuss whether modern art has become more about theatre. 

ITV has been looking for a chief executive since April, following the resignation of Michael Grade. There have been many possible replacements, but all have pulled out the running for the five million pounds-a-year job. Roger Laughton, former chief executive of the ITV company Meridian, and Steve Tappin, author of The Secrets of CEOs, discuss why the search for a new chief executive is proving so difficult. 

A memorial service at sea will take place for the 833 men who drowned when the battleship HMS Royal Oak was sunk in Scapa Flow 70 years ago today after being torpedoed by a German U-boat, just weeks into the war. Kenneth Troop, who was on HMS Royal Oak's last voyage, tells his story, and the nephew of Commander Ralph Lennox Woodrow-Clark, who drowned when Royal Oak was sunk, and historian David Turner comment on the battleship's last voyage. 

The Guardian has prevented an injunction attempt by a firm of oil traders which would have stopped it reporting proceedings in parliament. The injunction prevented The Guardian reporting that the MP Paul Farrelly had tabled a parliamentary question about the oil traders Trafigura and its solicitors, Carter-Ruck. Legal commentator Joshua Rosenberg explains the case. 

Bob Dylan has released his new Christmas album - not something his hardiest fans would have expected. David Hepworth, writer for Word Magazine, discusses the reacti

Midweek

Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests

Midweek: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Midweek, 14/10/2009

Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests including Maureen Lipman.

Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and guests Nick Hewer, Victoria Coren, Maureen Lipman and Simon McBurney.

Nick Hewer is a former PR man who became a well-known face in his advisor capacity to friend and business partner Lord Sugar in the hit BBC series The Apprentice. He now teams up with former Apprentice star Saira Khan for Around the World in 80 Days, in which six pairs of celebrities race against the clock in a global relay, re-enacting the journeys of Phileas Fogg and Michael Palin, for BBC Children in Need. Around the World in 80 Days is on BBC One. 

Victoria Coren is a writer, broadcaster and professional poker player. In September 2006 she won a million dollars on the European Poker Tour. In her book For Richer, For Poorer she tells the story of that victory, but also of a 20-year obsession with the game. For Richer, For Poorer: A Love Affair with Poker is published by Canongate.

Maureen Lipman is an actress, writer, comedienne and, possibly, 'national treasure'. In her latest book, Past-It-Notes, she recalls her personal and professional adventures and misadventures, including affectionate recollections of her late husband, the playwright Jack Rosenthal, and her mother and muse, the irreplaceable Zelma. Past-It-Notes is published by JR Books.

Simon McBurney is an actor, writer, director and co-founder of ComplicitÃ©, one of Britain's leading exponents of visual drama. He has written, directed and acted in more than 30 productions for the company, most recently Shun-kin, A Disappearing Number, and Measure for Measure. He began acting in Shakespeare at the age of nine but later switched to comedy at Cambridge. He is currently acting and directing Samuel Beckett's Endgame, at the Duchess Theatre in London.

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: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 14/10/2009

Christian worship and music led by Rev Dr Nicholas Bundock.

Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: Leona Lewis; Sir Ranulph Fiennes; Agatha Christie's house

Leona Lewis; Sir Ranulph Fiennes; Agatha Christie's house

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Leona Lewis; Sir Ranulph Fiennes; Agatha Christie's house

Leona Lewis on her roots. Plus adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes on his remarkable family.

X-Factor winner Leona Lewis on her roots. Plus, adventurer Sir Ranulph Fiennes on his remarkable family; and a tour of Agatha Christie's holiday home in Devon.

Home Grown

BBC Radio 4 - Home Grown

Investigating the trend among British Asian men for marrying women from 'back home'.

Yasmeen Khan investigates the growing trend among second-generation British Asian men to bypass British Asian women and instead marry women from their parents' native countries.

Yasmeen Khan investigates the growing trend among second-generation British Asian men to bypass British Asian women and instead marry women from their parents' native countries, often leading to culture shock, unhappiness and divorce - and a generation of unmarried British Asian women.

Hut 33

Three code-breakers hate each other and their draughty hut. James Cary's wartime sitcom.

Three code-breakers are forced to share a draughty wooden hut as they try to break German ciphers. Unfortunately, they hate each other. James Cary's wartime sitcom.

Hut 33: Series 3: Know Thyne Enemy

Know Thyne Enemy

Series 3

BBC Radio 4 Extra - Hut 33, Series 3, Know Thyne Enemy

Bletchley Park codebreaker Gordon gets carried away trying to think like a German.

Bletchley Park codebreaker Gordon gets carried away trying to think like a German. Stars Robert Bathurst. From October 2009.

It's 1942 and the war is not going well - so the codebreakers of Bletchley Park are under even more pressure than usual. 

Archie, Gordon and Charles try to think like Germans to predict the Enigma machine code... 

James Cary's sitcom set at Bletchley Park - the top-secret home of the Second World War codebreakers.

Professor Charles Gardner …. Robert Bathurst 
Archie …. Tom Goodman-Hill 
Gordon ...... Fergus Craig 
Minka …. Olivia Coleman 
Mrs Best …. Lill Roughley 
3rd Lieutenant Joshua Featherstonhaugh-Marshall …. Alex MacQueen 

Producer: Adam Bromley

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.

Hut 33: Series 3

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.

Sitcom by James Cary, set in Bletchley Park in 1941

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 14/10/2009

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: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 14/10/2009

Consumer news and issues with Winifred Robinson.

Weather

Weather: 14/10/2009

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World at One

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

World at One: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - World at One, 14/10/2009

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: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - The Media Show, 14/10/2009

The Guardian editor gives us the inside story on the legal battle to report on Parliament.

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger on super-injunctions; the importance of comment; media pluralism in Europe; internet football.

Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger gives us the inside story on his paper's legal battle to report on Parliament.    

The Comment Awards were the first to celebrate comment in all its forms, from newspapers to the blogosphere. We discuss whether comment is still the 'beating heart' of the press.

Silvio Berlusconi personally owns nine TV channels, and as the Italian prime minister he has indirect control over the 18 channels run by the country's state broadcaster as well. We hear about concerns for media pluralism in Italy.

Plus an update on how the first internet-only broadcast of an England football match worked, and reaction to the BBC securing highlights at the eleventh hour.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 13/10/2009

13/10/2009

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Lilian and Jennifer take Peggy to look at another care home. They think it might do, but Peggy is absolutely determined that Jack should go into the Laurels. It's the only place for Jack as far as she is concerned. 

When Lilian returns home, she finds out that Matt's recent business partner Terry has disappeared. It seems he's gone to India and isn't likely to return. It's the end of the shoe business for Matt, and he's lost a lot of money.

Fallon is fed up because Wayne seems to have disappeared from her life again. She tells Kirsty it's only to be expected. Just when she's given him up again, he returns. It seems he's been back to see his old girlfriend, and he has a CD of a potential guitarist for Fallon to hear. It's his ex-girlfriend Emmy's son, he's called Rollo and he's brilliant. Fallon is delighted. She's touched that her dad has gone to all this trouble. If Rollo works out, the Lies might still have a future. 

Episode written by Tim Stimpson.

Drama on 4

Drama from BBC Radio 4 and Radio 4 Extra.

Afternoon Play

Drama on 4: The Island With No Name

The Island With No Name

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By Alison Joseph. Kathleen sells her family's Hebridean croft and moves to Glasgow.

By Alison Joseph. Hebridean island life isn't for everyone, yet when Kathleen decides to sell her family's croft and head to Glasgow, her friends are appalled.

By Alison Joseph. Hebridean island life isn't for everyone, yet when Kathleen decides to sell her family's croft and head to Glasgow, her friends are appalled. Her decision becomes a catalyst that causes people in the small community to re-examine their heart's desires.

Kathleen ...... Elspeth Brodie
Martinn ...... Finn Den Hertog
Wendy ...... Meg Fraser
Fergus ...... Jamie Lee
Grandmother ...... Dolina MacLennan
Trina ...... Sally Reid.

Money Box Live

Phone-in programme with discussion and advice on personal finance

Money Box Live: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Money Box Live, 14/10/2009

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

Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial issues, live from the BBC's Money Matters Roadshow at the Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.

Paul Lewis and a panel of guests answer calls on financial issues, live from the BBC's Money Matters Roadshow at the Buchanan Galleries in Glasgow.

His guests are:

Graham Hooper, Bestinvest
Jackie Coyne, MacDonald Reid Scott Financial Services 
John Douglas, Finesco Financial Services.

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Lyrical Ballads

Afternoon Reading: Lyrical Ballads: Episode 2: The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems

Episode 2

Episode 2: The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems

Lyrical Ballads

The Nightingale and the Lucy Poems

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Coleridge's The Nightingale and Wordsworth's series of poems about the enigmatic Lucy.

The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem', and Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy.

A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration which marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement. 

The Nightingale, Coleridge's 'conversation poem' in which he disputes the traditional association of the nightingale with melancholy. And Wordsworth's series of elegiac poems about the narrator's love for the enigmatic Lucy. Recorded on location in the Quantock Hills, Somerset and in the Wye Valley, Monmouthshire. 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...... Julius D'Silva
William Wordsworth ...... Mark Meadows 

Adapted by Emma Harding.

A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798

A selection of poems from Wordsworth and Coleridge's 1798 collaboration which marked the beginning of the English Romantic poetry movement

Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life

Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life: Episode 13: Men at Home

Episode 13

Episode 13: Men at Home

Men at Home

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The stories of family 'black sheep'. Not everyone adhered to polite etiquette.

In her hidden home history, Amanda Vickery reveals the stories of family 'black sheep'. Not everyone adhered to polite etiquette.

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: Modern-day Grave Goods - Politics of Alcohol

Modern-day Grave Goods - Politics of Alcohol

BBC Radio 4 - Thinking Allowed, Modern-day Grave Goods - Politics of Alcohol

Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead and why.

Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead and why. He talks to Sheila Harper, sociologist at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath.

Laurie Taylor finds out about what we leave with the dead and why. From clothes to jewellery, photographs, hats, eye glasses, walking sticks, letters and even food, alcohol and tobacco, the objects mourners leave in the coffins and caskets of their loved ones tells us a huge amount about our attitudes to death and the rituals it involves. 

Laurie talks to Sheila Harper, sociologist at the Centre for Death and Society at the University of Bath, whose new study about 'modern-day grave goods' uncovers the fascinating, touching and often moving examples of our gifts to the dead and why the objects we leave today are remarkably similar to the kinds of items uncovered by archaeologists in graves going back thousand of years. 

Duncan Sayer, archaeologist from the Centre for Death and Society, discusses how human society has buried their dead. 

Also in the programme: alcohol as a lens to understand social change. The links between drink, national identity and economic prosperity.

Trials For Life

Trials For Life: Episode 2

BBC Radio 4 - Trials For Life, Episode 2

Vivienne Parry talks to volunteers helping to replace the gene that causes cystic fibrosis

Vivienne Parry follows patients and doctors involved in clinical trials, and talks to patient volunteers helping scientists to replace the gene that causes cystic fibrosis.

Vivienne Parry follows patients and doctors involved in clinical trials. 

Cystic fibrosis is the commonest life-threatening inherited disease, affecting many areas of the body. Vivienne talks to patient volunteers helping scientists to replace the gene at fault.

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 10: 14th October 1989

Episode 10

Episode 10: 14th October 1989

14th October 1989

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Hungarian-born Estee Lauder opens the first cosmetics shop in the new-look socialist Belgrade, Poland faces 1000 per cent inflation and London Fashion Week anticipates the 90s look.

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

Hungarian-born Estee Lauder opens the first cosmetics shop in the new-look socialist Belgrade, Poland faces 1,000 per cent inflation and London Fashion Week anticipates the 90s look.

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: 14/10/2009

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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: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Six O'Clock News, 14/10/2009

National and international news from BBC Radio 4.

The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

Rudy's Rare Records

Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in a Birmingham record shop

Rudy's Rare Records: Series 2: Ill Communication

Ill Communication

Series 2

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It's Adam's chance to tidy up the Birmingham shop, but will father Rudy get his revenge?

It's Adam's chance to tidy up the Birmingham shop, but will father Rudy get his revenge? Stars Lenny Henry. From October 2009.

It's Adam's chance to tidy up the Birmingham shop, but will father Rudy get his revenge?

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

Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker and Joe Jacobs. 

Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in the finest, feistiest, family-run record shop in Birmingham.

Adam Sharpe ...... Lenny Henry
Rudy Sharpe ...... Larrington Walker
Richie Sharp ...... Joe Jacobs
Clifton ...... Jeffery Kissoon
Tasha ...... Natasha Godfrey
Doreen ...... Claire Benedict 
Police Officer ...... Andrew Brooke

Producer: Lucy Armitage

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2009.

Rudy's Rare Records: Series 2

Sitcom by Danny Robins, set in a Birmingham record shop.

The Archers: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - The Archers, 14/10/2009

Busy times at Lower Loxley, as they set up the antiques fair and their pre-Christmas events. Nigel takes time out to get the Seyval grapes picked, with the usual people helping, while Lewis helps Elizabeth hold the fort. 

David comes along to help with the grapes, and chats to Nigel as they eat their well earned - and excellent - lunch after a hard morning's work. He tells Nigel about his new soil health initiatives on the farm. Nigel is able to relate to it through his growing knowledge of grape cultivation. 

Ed and Mike go to look at some Guernsey cows in Oxfordshire, with a view to buying in-calf heifers for their herd expansion. Much to Ed's surprise Vicky has decided to tag along. After all, she's funding the purchase. She talks non-stop and distracts Mike so much that Ed doesn't take in all the information he needs. 

However, when Vicky learns that Robert and Lynda have gone to see Coriander and the baby, she is more worried about her dinner party. She's got everything planned! What is she supposed to do if they can't make it? 

Episode written by Tim Stimpson.

Front Row

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

Front Row: 14/10/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Front Row, 14/10/2009

Ray Connolly reviews a National Portrait Gallery exhibition celebrating the 1960s.

Ray Connolly on a National Portrait Gallery exhibition celebrating the 1960s, John Harris on 'rock follies', the One and Other Fourth Plinth project, Black British Theatre Archive.

Writer and Journalist Ray Connolly reviews a National Portrait Gallery exhibition celebrating the 1960s in 150 photographs and ephemera from the period, and an exhibition of the photographs of 60s photographer Brian Duffy. 

Rock writer John Harris has compiled a list of the 'rock follies', which he discussed on Front Row last week. Now John responds to your suggestions for other disappointing albums made by revered acts.

A report on the One and Other Fourth Plinth art project in Trafalgar Square. Mark Lawson talks to some of the 2,400 people who have taken part, and to the artist Antony Gormley. 

Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway and Yvonne Brewster discuss the launch of the Black British Theatre Archive, a canon of plays written by black dramatists which have been produced professionally.

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