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The latest weather reports and forecasts for UK shipping

Shipping Forecast: 05/11/2009

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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: 05/11/2009

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Prayer for the Day

Prayer for the Day: 05/11/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Prayer for the Day, 05/11/2009

Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Roger Hutchings.

Farming Today

The latest news about food, farming and the countryside

Farming Today: 05/11/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, 05/11/2009

Charlotte Smith looks at the role of the Holstein dairy cow.

The future role of the Holstein dairy cow. And how much wildlife can you buy for 400 million pounds? Charlotte Smith hears plans to encourage farmers to be environmentally friendly.

Over 90 per cent of dairy cows in the UK are the Holstein breed. But with increasing milk demands from fewer animals, Farming Today finds out what the future is for what has been called the 'Holstein milk machine'. 

And how much wildlife can you buy for 400 million pounds? Charlotte Smith hears the latest plans to encourage farmers to be environmentally friendly.

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: 05/11/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Today, 05/11/2009

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

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

Presented by Sarah Montague and John Humphrys.

The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee is meeting to review the future of its quantitative easing policy, which has pumped 175 billion pounds into the economy. Economics editor Stephanie Flanders examines the impact of the policy. 

Many MPs have refused to comply with Sir Christopher Kelly's report into MPs' expenses, despite the government giving its full backing to it. Parliamentary correspondent Mark D'Arcy reports on the mood in Westminster. 

The United Nations has announced it will temporarily relocate more than half of its staff in Afghanistan. The decision follows last week's Taliban attack which killed five UN workers and three Afghans. UN spokesman in Kabul, Allen Sedique, comments on the measures. 

Friends of the Earth (FOTE) have warned that plans to expand carbon markets could trigger a second 'sub-prime'-style financial collapse, and fail to protect the world from global warming catastrophe. CEO of the European Climate Exchange, Patrick Birley, and the author of the FOTE report, Sarah Jane Clifton, discuss the rise in the carbon trading market. 

The NHS is failing to properly care for patients who are near the end of their lives, according to the National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD), with poor communication compromising patient care. Sian van de Welle describes her family's experience with the NHS while her father was dying and Dr Ian Martin, author of the report Caring to the End? discusses the report's findings. 

Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has made an unusually outspoken condemnation of attempts to rehabilitate the reputation of Joseph Stalin. In a message posted on his blog, President Medvedev called on people to remember the 'millions who died because of Stalin's terror'. Last year, in a nationwide television poll to name the greatest Russian ever, Joseph Stalin came third. Moscow correspondent Rupert Wingfield Hayes reports on how Russians view their former leader. 

Thought for the Day with the writer Rhidian Brook. 

Conservative leader David Cameron has announced his party will not allow any further powers to be passed to Brussels without referendum on Europe policy and will aim to return some powers in social and employment law, and criminal justice. Mr Cameron claimed the approach 'settled' Tory policy on Europe for the next parliament. Sir Stephen Wall, former Europe adviser to Tony Blair, and Conservative peer Lord Tebbit debate the Tories' European policy. 

The killing of five British soldiers in Afghanistan by a police officer has raised questions over security progress in the country. The British army has been training Afghan security and police forces to enforce the rule of law for the long-term future of the country. Mark Grant-Jones, padre with 2 Rifles Battle Group, and Mark Christian, a padre serving with British soldiers in Helmand, comment on the implications of the killings on the British cause in Afghanistan, and Afghan journalist Nadene Ghouri discusses the Afghan reaction to the incident. 

The story of writer Will Self's journey walking from Shepperton to Dubai is documented in a new collection of collaborations called Psycho Too, which Mr Self has worked on with artist Ralph Steadman. Sarah Montague went to meet the two men at Mr Steadman's studios in Kent. 

Author and business journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin has published an insider's account of the Wall Street crash. Mr Sorkin discusses his insights into the crash. 

German carworkers are furious at the decision by General Motors to cut 10,000 jobs across its European car unit Opel, instead of selling the firm. Correspondent Steve Rosenberg reports from an old Opel factory at Russelsheim near Frankfurt. 

A report highlighting the cases of 71 individuals who have been subjected to various forms of detention without charge has been released by human rights campaign group Cageprisoners. The report, primarily based on testimonies taken directly from the detainees, says that the counter-terrorism tools used are counter-productive. Cerie Bullivant, who was placed on a control order, discusses his experiences of being detained. 

The Isle of Man is to lose a quarter of its income, after warnings of job losses and cuts to public services. From 2011 there will be a reduction of 140 million pounds a year in the amount it receives from the British Treasury. North of England correspondent Judith Moritz reports from the Isle of Man on the reaction to the cut. 

The diaries Anatoly Chernyaev, a former adviser to Mikhail Gorbachev, have been published for the first time. They entries reveal that, from the 1970s onwards, Gorbachev met senior members of the Labour Party, including and Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, who went looking for favours from the Soviets. Pavel Stroilov, who has researched the Chernyaev diaries, and Robert Service, Professor of Soviet History at Oxford University, examine the historical implications of the d

In Our Time

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

In Our Time: The Siege of Munster

The Siege of Munster

BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Siege of Munster

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Munster in 1534-35.

Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Siege of Munster in 1534-35, when radical Anabaptists tried to create the 'New Jerusalem' in a small German town, with horrific consequences.

Melvyn Bragg and guests Diarmaid MacCulloch, Lucy Wooding and Charlotte Methuen discuss the Siege of Munster in 1534-35.In the early 16th century, the Protestant Reformation revolutionised Christian belief. But one radical group of believers stood out. The Anabaptists rejected infant baptism and formal clergy, and believed that all goods should be held in common. They were also convinced that the Second Coming was imminent.In 1534, in the north-western German city of Munster, a group of Anabaptists attempted to establish the 'New Jerusalem', ready for the Last Days before the coming Apocalypse.  But the city was besieged by its ousted Prince-Bishop, and under the reign of its self-appointed King, a 25-year-old Dutchman called Jan van Leyden, it descended into tyranny. Books were burned, dissenters were executed and women were forced to marry. As starvation spread, King Jan lived in luxury with his 16 wives. The horrors of Munster have resonated through the European memory ever since.  Diarmaid MacCulloch is Professor of the History of the Church at the University of Oxford; Charlotte Methuen is University Research Lecturer in Ecclesiastical History at the University of Oxford and Lecturer in Church History and Liturgy at Ripon College Cuddesdon; Lucy Wooding is Lecturer in Early Modern History at King's College, London.

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: 05/11/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Daily Service, 05/11/2009

Christian worship and music led by Monsignor Tony Rogers.

Woman's Hour

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

Woman's Hour: Sophie Grigson on soup; Sue Townsend on Adrian Mole

Sophie Grigson on soup; Sue Townsend on Adrian Mole

BBC Radio 4 - Woman's Hour, Sophie Grigson on soup; Sue Townsend on Adrian Mole

Chef Sophie Grigson on experimental soup. Plus, Sue Townsend on a grown-up Adrian Mole.

Chef Sophie Grigson on experimental soup. Plus, writer Sue Townsend on a grown-up Adrian Mole; and who is really responsible for children's internet safety?

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: 05/11/2009

BBC Radio 4 - From Our Own Correspondent, 05/11/2009

Kate Adie presents global dispatches including one on what it means to be French.

Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House

Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House: Episode 2: Films, Fangs and Frightening Fellas

Episode 2

Episode 2: Films, Fangs and Frightening Fellas

Films, Fangs and Frightening Fellas

BBC Radio 4 - Reece Shearsmith's Haunted House, Films, Fangs and Frightening Fellas

Reece Shearsmith examines classic scary moments from the movies.

Reece Shearsmith examines classic scary moments from the movies and looks back at some of the great horror actors.

Comic actor Reece Shearsmith hosts energetic and witty illustrated discussions on horror, before an audience inside the reputedly haunted Sutton House in Hackney. 

Reece examines classic scary moments from the movies and looks back at some of the great horror actors. 

He is joined by horror enthusiasts Mark Gatiss, Vic Reeves, Yvette Fielding and Mike Roberts.

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

Reece Shearsmith hosts energetic and witty illustrated discussions on the horror genre

Comic actor Reece Shearsmith hosts energetic and witty illustrated discussions on the horror genre, before an audience inside the reputedly haunted Sutton House in Hackney

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast

News, weather and Shipping Forecast updates. 

News Headlines; Shipping Forecast: 05/11/2009

BBC Radio 4 - News Headlines; Shipping Forecast, 05/11/2009

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: 05/11/2009

BBC Radio 4 - You and Yours, 05/11/2009

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: 05/11/2009

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National and international news with Martha Kearney.

Off the Page

Series featuring new writing and stimulating discussion.

Off The Page 

Off the Page: Leaving the Comfort Zone

Leaving the Comfort Zone

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Dominic Arkwright and guests question the merit of leaving one's comfort zone.

Dominic Arkwright, Rhona Cameron, Andy Cave and Agnes Poirier discuss pushing the limits and self-development. From 2009.

Is leaving your comfort zone a form of masochism, or the only way to develop in life? 

Dominic Arkwright is joined by comedian Rhona Cameron, mountaineer Andy Cave and journalist Agnes Poirier to write about and discuss comfort and pain.

Producer: Beatrice Fenton

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 2009.

The Archers

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

The Archers: 04/11/2009

04/11/2009

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Jennifer's pleased Pat can look after Jack on Friday while she takes Peggy into town. Pat hopes it will be a chance to read up on community shops. Jennifer's not sure Jack will be settled enough for that. She'll put a notice on the website about the community shop being discussed at the next parish council meeting, and offers to tell Susan about it. It will be a chance to make up for being short with her the other day. 

Leon arrives at Helen's with pizzas and drinks, He needs to create a new cocktail and wants to try out his ideas on Helen and Annette. Annette really enjoys the evening. Helen knows Leon did all this for despondent Annette's benefit and thinks it's really sweet of him.

Lilian contacts Russell and tells him where they are - and that Matt says he's not coming back. Russell tells her it's pre-trial panic. If Matt's not in court on Thursday, they'll issue a warrant for his arrest and he then faces increased sanctions, or even exile. Does Lilian want to stay with him, or spend her time flying between here and there? Is that really what she wants to do with the rest of her life? 

Episode written by Adrian Flynn.

The Penny Dreadfuls

Comedy drama from sketch trio The Penny Dreadfuls: Humphrey Ker, David Reed and Thom Tuck.

The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Guy Fawkes

The Penny Dreadfuls: The Penny Dreadfuls Present: Guy Fawkes

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Comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls tell the story of the Gunpowder Plot.

4 Extra Debut. Comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls tell the story of the Gunpowder Plot. It won't end well. Stars Kevin Eldon. From 2009.

What exactly is it that we're asked to remember on the 5th of November? 

As the nation prepares for Bonfire Night; highly acclaimed comedy trio The Penny Dreadfuls take a fresh and timely look at a familiar story with a comedic, stirring and sometimes graphic exploration of the build-up to and aftermath of the Gunpowder Plot.

Recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Radio Theatre in London, there's plenty of laughs in places where you least expect them - from the boisterously optimistic meetings of the conspirators through to Fawkes' internment in the Tower of London.  

Starring Kevin Eldon as Guy.

With Miles Jupp and Andrew Pugsley.

The Penny Dreadfuls are David Reed, Humphrey Ker and Thom Tuck.

Guy Fawkes ...... Kevin Eldon
Thomas Percy ...... Miles Jupp 
John Wright ...... David Reed 
Robert Catesby ...... Thom Tuck 
Thomas Winter ...... Andrew Pugsley 
Sir William Waad ...... Humphrey Ker

Producer: Julia McKenzie

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 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.

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: Brian May's 3-D Village

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Brian May's 3-D Village

BBC Radio 4 - Open Country, Brian May's 3-D Village

Queen guitarist Brian May visits a village captured in time by a Victorian photographer.

Queen guitarist Brian May uncovers the story of an Oxfordshire village captured in time by Victorian photographic pioneer TR Williams.

Queen guitarist Brian May uncovers the story of an Oxfordshire village captured in time by Victorian photographic pioneer T.R. Williams.

May has been fascinated by 3-D images since collecting cereal packet picture cards as a boy. He was particularly intrigued by a set of stereoscopic images of village life taken by photographic pioneer T.R. Williams. Further investigation revealed all the images to be 3-D pictures of the tiny Oxfordshire village of Hinton Waldrist, taken in the 1850s.  

Brian joins presenter Helen Mark for a time-travel tour of the village. Together they discover how the people and wildlife of this Thames-side community have changed since Williams recorded these evocative images of blacksmiths, spinners and farm workers.

Kerry Lock of the Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Wildlife Trust describes the waxing and waning of wildlife over the past 160 years, while Nicola Verdon of the British Agricultural History Society examines the telling detail in photos taken at the height of farming's golden age.  

To discuss the past, present and future of 3-D photography Helen is also joined by Brian's collaborator, the photo historian Elena Vidal and by David Burder of the British Stereoscopic Society.  Has the boom in 3-D cinema and the launch of a 3-D digital camera come at just the right time for a revival of interest in T.R. Williams and a re-birth of the art of stereoscopic photography?

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: Meningitis UK

01/11/2009

Meningitis UK

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Sandi Toksvig appeals on behalf of Meningitis UK.

Sandi Toksvig appeals on behalf of Meningitis UK.

Donations to Meningitis UK should be sent to FREEPOST BBC Radio 4 Appeal, please mark the back of your envelope Meningitis UK. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. If you are a UK tax payer, please provide Meningitis UK with your full name and address so they can claim the Gift Aid on your donation. The online and phone donation facilities are not currently available to listeners without a UK postcode. 

Registered Charity No:1076774.

Afternoon Reading

Short stories or abridged books, often from new writers

Afternoon Reading: Tales From the Low Countries

Afternoon Reading: Tales From the Low Countries: Episode 3: In Landlocked Frontiers

Episode 3

Episode 3: In Landlocked Frontiers

Tales From the Low Countries

In Landlocked Frontiers

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By Georges Hausemer. A story about a childhood lived alongside the Luxembourgeois railway.

By Georges Hausemer. Tale of a 1950s childhood lived alongside the Luxembourgeois railway, with a pointsman for a father. Translated by Michael Hoffman, read by Michael Pennington.

Georges Hausemer is one of Luxembourg's most prolific writers, having published more than a dozen novels, short stories and poetry collections. 



Read by Michael Pennington
Translated by Michael Hoffman 
Produced by Emma Harding.

Series of evocative new stories set in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg

Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life

Amanda Vickery - A History of Private Life: Episode 29: Dunroamin

Episode 29

Episode 29: Dunroamin

Dunroamin

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Historian Amanda Vickery listens to the experiences of those who moved out of the cities.

Snobs and bohemians avoided the suburbs, but historian Amanda Vickery listens to the experiences of those who moved out of the cities.

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. 

Homes were exposed to huge forces of change in the 19th and 20th century, responding to industrialisation, pollution and the imperial mission. Prof Vickery explores how they remained idealised havens in a heartless, dirty world.

The roots of the suburb lie very deep; but for snobs and bohemians, the adjective 'suburban' has always been the ultimate put-down. Prof Vickery listens to the experiences of those who moved there. 

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.

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

Bookclub

Led by James Naughtie, readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Led by James Naughtie, a group of readers talk to acclaimed authors about their best-known novels

Bookclub: Linda Grant

Linda Grant

BBC Radio 4 - Bookclub, Linda Grant

James Naughtie talks to Linda Grant about her novel, When I Lived in Modern Times.

James Naughtie and readers talk to Linda Grant about her novel When I Lived in Modern Times, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000.

James Naughtie and readers talk to Linda Grant about her novel When I Lived in Modern Times, winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2000. 

Linda is known for bringing a strong Jewish identity to most of her writing. 'Scratch a Jew and you've got a story', remarks the main character Evelyn Sert on the story's first page as she looks over her life. The novel follows Evelyn - hairdresser, spy, lover - on her voyage from post-war London to Tel Aviv, where the British are preparing to leave Palestine and the new state of Israel is about to be born.

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: 05/11/2009

BBC Radio 4 - Material World, 05/11/2009

DNA nano-machines; the demise of the Nazca; SMOS satellite.

Quentin Cooper dissects the week's science. DNA nano-machines; the demise of the Nazca; SMOS satellite.

DNA is celebrated as the molecule that carries our genes from generation to generation. But a small group of pioneering chemists and physcists are using DNA to build the nano-engines of the future. Quentin Cooper hears about these miniature biological machines.

The Nazca civilisation is famous for the giant lines it inscribed into the high Peruvian desert; catastrophic deforestation is now blamed for its demise 1500 years ago.

ESA's SMOS satellite is intended to map soil moisture across the planet and the trajectories of the ocean currents. Quentin hears how it will improve weather forecasts.

1989: Day by Day

1989: Day by Day: Episode 32: 5th November 1989

Episode 32

Episode 32: 5th November 1989

5th November 1989

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Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson makes things even more difficult for Margaret Thatcher.

Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson makes things even more difficult for Margaret Thatcher by spilling the beans on TV; the Sony Walkman celebrates its 10th birthday.

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

Former Chancellor Nigel Lawson makes things even more difficult for Margaret Thatcher by spilling the beans on TV; the Sony Walkman celebrates its 10th birthday but the Noise Abatement Society doesn't; the greatest romantic pianist of his generation, Vladimir Horowitz, dies.

A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4.

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

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

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