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Radio 4 Listings for 7 – 13 September 2013 Page 1 of 16 SATURDAY 07 SEPTEMBER 2013 Farming Today This Week SAT 12:00 Money Box (b039lmjy) NHS fine U-turn, TSB rebirth, off-plan perils and pitfalls, SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b039d95k) In the day and age of quad bikes and satellite navigation, how premium rate call crackdown The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. relevant are working dogs to rural life? Farming Today This Followed by Weather. Week takes a look at the role of dogs in the countryside, from A pensioner who was fined for having two free eye tests in less sheepdogs on hill farms to gundogs on shoots. Charlotte Smith than two years will have his money refunded after the Health visits the International Sheepdog Trials in Warwickshire, and Ombudsman accused his former PCT, now part of NHS SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b039j4z3) finds that they are very much still a part of rural life. It seems England, of maladministration. Others fined for the same thing Peter Snow - When Britain Burned the White House there are some jobs still best done by dogs. could now get their money back. Benefit expert Will Hadwen gives his assessment. Episode 5 Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Campbell. Monday September 9th sees the rebirth of TSB - the High Nearly 200 years ago, Britain attacked the heartland of the Street bank taken over by Lloyds in 1995. On that day nearly United States. The President and his wife had just enough time SAT 06:57 Weather (b039d960) five million customers of Lloyds will become TSB customers as to pack their belongings and flee the White House before the The latest weather forecast. their local branch is rebranded following a European British army entered and set fire to the building. From here, the competition ruling which forced Lloyds to give up 631 British army turned its sights to Baltimore. branches. This week Lloyds boss Antonio Horta-Osorio SAT 07:00 Today (b039lmjm) promised a 'seamless transition'. But not all his customers have Peter Snow tells the story of this extraordinary confrontation Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in found it so. between Britain and the United States, the outcome of which Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. inspired America's national anthem. Using eyewitness accounts, Would you buy a flat that had not been built yet by looking at Peter describes the colourful personalities on both sides of this the plan? So-called off-plan purchases are growing as astonishing battle - from Britain's fiery Admiral Cockburn, to SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b039lmjp) competition for property hots up, fuelled by Help to Buy and the cautious but widely popular army commander Robert Ross Philip Pullman cheaper mortgages. But is it sensible to buy a flat you have and the beleaguered President James Madison whose nation was never seen? And how do you know the right price to pay? We besieged by a greater military force. Richard Coles and Anita Anand are joined by author, Philip speak to Vanessa Ambler, Director of New Home Advisor and Pullman, wildlife rescuer, Trevor Weeks and upcoming young Richard Donnell from Hometrack. In the final episode, the British attack on Baltimore has failed actor, Sarah Gordy who was born with Downs syndrome, and and they retreat to their ships. To celebrate victory, a young her mother, Jane. Choreographer Richard Alston choses his New rules begin on Wednesday for websites that charge American poet Francis Scott Key writes a poem - The Star Inheritance Tracks, there's a visit to Betty's Reading Room on customers premium rates of £1.53 a minute or more to call Spangled Banner. Orkney, a school Bell soundscape and Geoff Baker talks about government or company helplines they could call free. But will the bid to break the British record of guitars playing in unison they work? The regulator tells us why he's getting touch. Read by Jamie Parker on the beach at Lyme Regis. JP Devlin fields your calls and emails. Producer: David Roper SAT 12:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz (b039dbkd) A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. Producer: Dilly Barlow. How Should We Educate Our Children? Rory Bremner's new weekly satirical comedy takes one big SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b039d95m) SAT 10:30 Punt PI (b039lmjr) contemporary question each week and attempts to answer it. The latest shipping forecast. Series 6 Regular panellists Andy Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick Who Killed the Bears? Doody are joined this week by teacher, author and columnist SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes Tom Bennett and Professor of Education Gordon Stobart. (b039d95p) Steve Punt investigates the killing of two performing bears by a BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 mob in the Forest of Dean in 1889, following unfounded Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of resumes at 5.20am. rumours that the animals had killed a child. things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then will people laugh at the truth. This deconstructed "quiz" has only For years, the people of Ruardean took the blame for the brutal one question each week, because that question is so big, there's SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b039d95r) slaying of the bears but always protested their innocence. Punt no time for anything else: expect a mix of stand-up and sketch The latest shipping forecast. examines the evidence, asking if those convicted were victims combined with investigative satire and incisive interviews with of a miscarriage of justice. a diverse range of characters who really know what they're talking about. SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b039d95t) Punt explores the documents, questions the locals and calls in The latest news from BBC Radio 4. the experts - aiming to establish the truth once and for all. Presenter: Rory Bremner Producer: Laurence Grissell. Panelists: Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick Doody, Tom SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b039dbs0) Bennett and Gordon Stobart. A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with The Revd Canon John McLuckie, Vice-Provost of St Mary's SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (b039lmjt) Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling Episcopal Cathedral, Edinburgh. Sue Cameron of the Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes as A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. MPs return to Westminster after the summer recess. At the top of the agenda, the Syria crisis and the fallout from SAT 05:45 iPM (b039dbs2) the Government's historic defeat in the vote over whether SAT 12:57 Weather (b039d962) 'I found my teenage son watching porn, what should I do?' An Britain should prepare to go to war. The Tory backbencher The latest weather forecast. iPM listener tells us why she's worried about her sons. We hear Douglas Carswell and ex Labour MP turned diarist, Chris about a mysterious letter found under a hedge. And Your News Mullin, discuss whether the landscape of our parliamentary is read by Sir Terry Wogan. Email [email protected]. democracy has changed. SAT 13:00 News (b039d964) As the Universal Credit scheme gets a mauling from the The latest news from BBC Radio 4. spending watchdog, we examine whether Whitehall was to SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b039d95w) blame and discuss the future of civil service reform with the The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. former senior official, Sir Richard Mottram. SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (b039dbkl) The Labour backbencher, Katy Clark, and Roger Seifert, an Alan Duncan, David Blunkett, Elfyn Llwyd, Revel Guest expert on industrial relations, discuss Labour's relations with SAT 06:04 Weather (b039d95y) trades unions. Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion The latest weather forecast. And as tensions mount between the Prime Minister and his from Colwyn Bay, North Wales with former Home Secretary Leader of the Opposition in the wake of the Syria vote, we David Blunkett MP, International Development Minister Alan explore the history of that important, but often highly fractious Duncan MP, Elfyn Llwyd MP who leads Plaid Cymru at SAT 06:07 Open Country (b039d4bq) relationship. Westminster and Revel Guest who's Chair of the Hay Festival Laurie Lee Land and has lived in Wales for much of her life. Editor: Leala Padmanabhan. Helen Mark explores the newly safeguarded 'Laurie Lee Wood' and meets the people who inhabit the 21st Century 'Cider with SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (b039lmk0) Rosie' Landscape. Earlier this year Gloucestershire Wildlife SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b039lmjw) Is the UK now a small island no-one pays any attention to? It's a Trust had an unprecedented response to its appeal to save a plot Australia's wild ride comment which may or may not have been said by a spokesman of ancient woodland. It had once belonged to Slad Valley's for President Putin at the G20 summit this week. What are your beloved son, Laurie Lee. Having become too much for the Kate Adie presents correspondents' stories from Syria, the US, views? Do you think our role on the world stage has been author and playwright's remaining family to maintain, the trust Australia, South Africa and Italy. diminished after the Syria vote in parliament? Also on the launched an appeal to take it over. In this week's Open Country programme; FA chairman, Greg Dyke, on his comments about Helen Mark meets the people who saved this land and the Lyse Doucet hears how Syria's mosaic of cultures is being England's chances in the World Cup.