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Radio 4 Listings for 6 – 12 October 2012 Page 1 of 16 Radio 4 Listings for 6 – 12 October 2012 Page 1 of 16 SATURDAY 06 OCTOBER 2012 SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b01n5z2q) SAT 11:00 The Forum (b01n5z2z) Farming Today This Week Revenge SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b01mzshd) The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. It has been the wettest summer in 100 years, which has resulted Conflicts around the world remind us daily of the perils of Followed by Weather. in flooding in many parts of the country. Farming Today This taking an eye for an eye. How deep does the instinct for week looks at it's effects and asks what can be done to prevent revenge lie? Can victims of personal trauma find closure by it. other means? And how does a society overcome a shared sense SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b01n1vl7) of injustice? Edna O'Brien - Country Girl Professor Rob Simmons is a soil scientist from the University of Cranfield, he says that there needs to be a greater awareness On the ideas discussion programme, Bridget Kendall is joined Episode 5 of how to care for the countries soil, which hold the key to by the celebrated novelist Rose Tremain, the Indian essayist flood prevention. Salil Tripathi and the activist Yvette Alberdingk Thijm. The great Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, whose controverstial 1960 novel brought her both literary fame and notoriety, reads her Farmers say they want their rivers dredged, yet DEFRA Rose Tremain turns her thoughts to the quality of revenge - a astonishingly honest memoir of a literary life of high drama. Minister Richard Benyon says that while he feels sympathy, trait missing from her creation, the doctor Robert Merivel. He dredging is only part of the solution. appears in her latest novel, Merivel: A Man of His Time, which In today's episode: Edna rubs shoulders with the great and the is the sequel to the highly-acclaimed Restoration about the good of New York, while back in London, her thoughts return The Eden Rivers Trust is a charity who works to conserve the doctor's rise and fall in Charles II's England of the late 1600s. to the past. River Eden in the Peak district for wildlife - this includes ways to alleviate the reasons why rivers flood. Lucy Butler from the The Indian writer Salil Tripathi is currently writing a book Author: Since her debut novel The Country Girls, Edna O'Brien trust says lots of small preventative actions will have a about the crimes committed during Bangladesh's war of has written more than twenty works of fiction along with a cumulative effect. independence in 1971, and the way in which its survivors dealt biography of James Joyce and Lord Byron. with its violent aftermath. Meanwhile, some sectors are appealing to farmers to embrace Abridger: Miranda Davies flooding on their land and reintroduce flood meadows. And the activist Yvette Alberdingk Thijm talks about her work Historically these were common in agriculture but now only as executive director of Witness, a human rights organisation Producer: Justine Willett. account for around 1500 hectares. which helps victims from all over the world tell their stories by using video technology. Farming Today This Week was presented by Charlotte Smith SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b01mzshg) and produced by Ruth Sanderson. The latest shipping forecast. SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b01n5z31) Coming Home Early? SAT 06:57 Weather (b01mzshv) SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes The latest weather forecast. Quentin Sommerville in Kabul says an early and substantial (b01mzshj) drawdown of British troops in Afghanistan is being privately BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 considered resumes at 5.20am. SAT 07:00 Today (b01n5z2s) Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and David Willey wonders who else at the Vatican - besides the John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought butler on trial for stealing Papal documents -- is dissatisfied SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b01mzshl) for the Day. with the way the church is being run The latest shipping forecast. Frances Harrison meets survivors from the civil war in Sri SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b01n5z2v) Lanka as officials there hope cricket will help restore the SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b01mzshn) Jackie Clune, stargazing with Jon Culshaw, John McCarthy in island's image as a holiday paradise The latest news from BBC Radio 4. Thorpeness, Ralph McTell's Inheritance Tracks Pascale Harter in Barcelona on the Chinese finding business Richard Coles and Sian Williams with performer Jackie Clune, opportunities amidst the recession in Spain SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b01n1w19) Rob Manuel who turned carnivore after 15 years of A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Tina vegetarianism, Courtney Stewart who is turning the New Mattia Cabitza charts Peruvians' relationships with their cats: Beattie of Roehampton University. Testament into Jamaican, and Sylvia Hillier and Jenni Evennett some revere them as furry family pets, while others think they who as teenagers hopped on board the Beatles' Magical Mystery make a tasty meal. Tour bus. JP goes stargazing with comedian and impressionist SAT 05:45 iPM (b01n1w1c) Jon Culshaw, and plays conkers with poet Luke Wright, John "When my home was burgled while I slept, I went to meet the McCarthy explores Thorpeness and Ralph McTell shares his SAT 12:00 Money Box (b01n5z33) offender in prison." How did it go? A listener puts iPM in touch Inheritance Tracks. Paul Lewis brings you the latest news from the world of with a woman who pursued restorative justice. With Eddie Mair personal finance. and Jennifer Tracey. Also, BBC Business Editor, Robert Peston Producer: Dixi Stewart. brings you "Your News". [email protected]. This week: SAT 10:30 For One Night Only (b01n5z2x) Most big banks are exploring new ways for their customers to SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b01mzshq) Series 7 get easy access to their cash. Natwest has been extolling through The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. TV ads the virtues of its system which allows customers to Clapton Unplugged withdraw money from an ATM by putting in a code without even needing their bank card. But one listener who was SAT 06:04 Weather (b01mzshs) Paul Gambaccini is back with the award-winning series to re- defrauded via this new system tells Money Box why he believes The latest weather forecast. visit two occasions on which a classic live album was recorded. Natwest's fraud detection systems need to be much more He hears from those who were there, on-stage, backstage and in stringent. the audience, to re-create the event for all of us who, each time SAT 06:07 Ramblings (b01n1rfy) we play the album, think: 'If only I could have been there'. Earlier this week the Bank of England confirmed that the base Series 22 rate would stay at 0.5%, the level it's been at for more than In the series opener, Paul looks back at the 1992 recording of three years. But anyone looking to invest money can't fail to Dublin Bay with Eanna Ni Lamhna 'Eric Clapton Unplugged', in the company of Eric Clapton have noticed that savings rates haven't remained unchanged. himself and others who were there. They've been dropping. Meanwhile mortgage rates have been Clare Balding continues her series of wildlife walks with a visit rising. Santander recently nudged its standard variable rate up to to the Irish Coast. On 16 January 1992, in front of a small audience at Bray 4.74% from 4.24%. Anna Bowes director of Studios near Maidenhead, Berkshire, Eric Clapton and a small SavingsChampions.co.uk discusses why savings rates have Today it's "Ramblings reunited", as she is joined again by Irish group of musicians made history. For the first time in a public dipped, possibly to an historic low. naturalist and broadcaster Eanna Ni Lamhna and her husband performance, the legendary guitarist 'unplugged' his amp and John Harding. Clare Balding last walked with her on a 'holiday picked up an acoustic guitar to record a selection of old blues If you receive Council Tax Benefit, then there are big changes hike' in the Wicklow mountains in September 2002. Today favourites and brand new material, including the poignantly ahead. From April, it won't be the government deciding who expert naturalist and broadcaster Eanna, takes her on a beautiful personal 'Tears in Heaven', about the tragic los of his son, can and who can't get help to pay their council tax bills. Instead, tour of the diverse wildlife havens of her home city, Dublin. Conor, the previous year. And then there was the radically each local authority in England will decide who is eligible. surprising take on the classic 'Layla'. Pensioners will be protected but Money Box hears from They dig for lugworms and talk Ulysses in Sandymount strand. listeners affected by the changes and Paul Lewis talks to Dr They discover the unlikely winter stopover of flocks of Paul Gambaccini hears the story of the making of this classic Peter Kenway, Director of New Policy Institute, an independent thousands of Brent geese - Fontenoy Football Club (the geese album, which went on to sell over 20 million copies worldwide think-tank have a taste for the well mown turf!) and won 6 Grammies, from Eric Clapton himself. He also hears the memories of members of the band: Andy Fairweather Low, And Money Box is 35 years old. How has the world of personal On they walk to Ringsend Nature Reserve.
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