Radio 4 Listings for 30 October – 5 November 2010 Page 1 of 17 SATURDAY 30 OCTOBER 2010 SAT 06:57 Weather (b00vhhqj) how much basic parliamentary experience MPs should have, The latest weather forecast. before sitting on the front benches. SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b00vhhq2) Catherine McKinnell got the most senior of these posts- shadow The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Solicitor General. Did she think she was up to it? Followed by Weather. SAT 07:00 Today (b00vkkyz) Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Justin From the new intake to the "leavers". In the week when details Webb: of former MPs resettlement payments were published Lembit SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b00vh958) 08:10 Former Home Secretary Lord Reid considers the impact Opik and Tom Levitt (formerly Liberal Democrat and Labour Stephen Fry - The Fry Chronicles on airport security of yesterday's major alert MPs respectively) talk about what has been happening to them 08:18 Bruce Springsteen talks about one of his classic albums, since the election. Episode 5 Darkness on the Edge of Town 08:22 Phil Duckworth, blinded by shrapnel from the shin bone Today Stephen reveals the origins of his enduring love of of a 7/7 bomber, describes his ordeal. SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b00vkl5q) technology and his great friendship with Douglas Adams. We explore the ruined heart of an American city, laid waste by economic collapse. The Fry Chronicles is a book that is not afraid to confront the SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b00vkkzt) aching chasm that separates public image from private feeling. The Reverend Richard Coles is joined by satirist John Lloyd The hotel in Nairobi that's become a little piece of Somalia. and poet Kate Fox. Producer: David Roper From a South African prison -- an inspiring tale of guilt and A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. The producer is Debbie Kilbride. redemption. And our correspondent struggles to embrace America's passion SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b00vhhq4) SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage (b00vkl0g) for Halloween.... The latest shipping forecast. Syria - Sark President Obama's job may be just about to get even tougher... John McCarthy meets Dr Lavinia Byrne who leads tours to the His Democrat allies in Congress are expected to take a beating SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes ancient sites of Syria and tour operator Amelia Stewart who has in Tuesday's mid-term elections.... The major cause of Mr (b00vhhq6) started to offer trips there and talks to them about why the Obama's troubles is the persistently dire state of the economy. BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 many layers of its past make it so rewarding for those Unemployment, poverty, and the repossession of homes are resumes at 5.20am. fascinated by history. The Greeks and Romans, the early making a mockery of the American Dream... And Paul Mason Christians, Islam and even the French have all left a mark on has been to a city at the centre of the storm... this multi-layered country that is beginning to attract more SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b00vhhq8) western tourists who now see it as a much less dangerous It's hard to think of any country more broken than Somalia... The latest shipping forecast. destination. Nearly twenty years of war, famine and disease have taken up to a million lives. Huge numbers of Somalis have been forced And broadcaster Steve Blacknell tell John about his fondness into exile. And Mary Harper has been the exploring the world SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b00vhhqb) for the smallest Channel Island of Sark and how its peace and that some of them have built, just across the border, in the The latest news from BBC Radio 4. quiet and lack of motor cars really mean you can get away from Kenyan capital, Nairobi.... it all. Nelson Mandela knows more than enough about prison life... SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b00vjkdh) Producer: Harry Parker. He has said that you don't really understand a nation, until With Shaunaka Rishi Das, Director of the Oxford Centre for you've seen inside its jails. And the prisons in Mr Mandela's Hindu Studies. homeland are indeed a grim reflection of South Africa's SAT 10:30 Oktoberfest! (b00vkl0j) troubles. They suffer from chronic overcrowding. And as in so John F. Jungclaussen, UK correspondent for German newspaper many countries, they're frightening violent places. But as SAT 05:45 iPM (b00vjkdk) Die Zeit, travels to Munich to join the millions of revellers Hamilton Wende has been finding out, even in that brutal "Why can't we strike like the French?" British and French celebrating 200 years of the Oktoberfest- the largest folk environment, it is still possible to find a better path... listeners compare notes on manning the barricades, plus a play festival in the World. When he was a student, Jungclaussen with accents. Matt Frei reads Your News. With Eddie Mair and spent three years working at the festival selling cigarettes in one Istanbul is on show this year. It's enjoying its spell as Europe's Jennifer Tracey. Email [email protected]. of the big beer tents- an experience he describes as 'somewhat officially declared "capital of culture". It's a fine chance to traumatic'. He was born in the northern city of Hamburg and focus attention on the art emerging in the vibrant new Turkey. found Bavaria to be an alien land- a place of strange customs The number of galleries has mushroomed in recent years, and SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b00vhhqd) where people wear lederhosen and dirndl dresses, drink beer out the city's modern artists have never had it so good.... But as The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. of huge mugs and where brass bands play Oom-pah music. Rosie Goldsmith explains, in old Istanbul....not everyone approves.... In this programme, Jungclaussen returns to the festival to ask SAT 06:04 Weather (b00vhhqg) what it means for Bavarian identity and why over 6 million It's that time of year when...to many outsiders at The latest weather forecast. tourists come from across the globe to join in. He speaks to least.....Americans seem to go a little mad. It's Halloween....a Prince Luitpold of Bavaria whose great-great-great-grandfather time for dressing up as witches and werewolves, and generally King Ludwig I founded the Oktoberfest in 1810 and who has celebrating scary things. This oddest of festivals has it roots SAT 06:07 Open Country (b00vkjf9) had a long argument with the city of Munich over his right to very much in ancient, pagan, Europe. And David Willis has Pluckley: The Most Haunted Village in Britain sell beer at the festival. He also meets a tent owner who sells been wondering why it's managed to gain such a grip on the thousands of litres of beer for 12 hours a day to increasingly imagination of modern, Christian America.... Helen Mark visits Pluckley, a village with the reputation as the inebriated party-goers. most haunted in Britain. While genuine ghosthunters, with an interest in all things paranormal, bring with them a welcome He speaks to locals who come with their families dressed in SAT 12:00 Money Box (b00vklh3) boost to local businesses, this reputation is not without traditional clothing and are very proud of their distinctive News and advice on safeguarding and improving your personal problems. In recent years the village has seen an increased culture. He goes inside the beer tents and meets tourists from finances. police presence due to the sheer number of visitors, particularly many different countries and from the rest of Germany - many around the time of Halloween. There have been problems of of whom also come in traditional dress. He asks how Bavarian anti-social behaviour which last year led to the parish council symbols and customs have come to represent the German SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (b00vhf48) cancelling the Halloween festivities. stereotype and considers why many are still wary of celebrating Series 72 their national and local identity since the War. For this week's Open Country Helen meets some of the Episode 6 villagers, both believers and sceptics, about their experiences in Producer: Susie Warhurst Britain's most haunted village and the impact this has on village A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular life. During the course of one evening, Helen chats with several topical panel show. Guests this week include Jeremy Hardy and residents and finds out about the 12 ghosts that are said to haunt Ava Vidal. Pluckley before heading back to her hotel room at the haunted SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (b00vkl40) Elvey Farm Hotel. Elinor Goodman looks behind the scenes at Westminster Produced by Sam Bryant. Housing benefits cuts announced this week lead to emotive exchanges in the House of Commons. Ministers were accused SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b00vkkx9) of everything from outright unfairness, to social cleansing of SAT 12:57 Weather (b00vhhql) Farming Today This Week the poor from big cities. The latest weather forecast. Two London MPs, Labour's Siobhain McDonagh and the On Farming Today This Week, Caz Graham visits a Derbyshire Conservative Bob Blackman, discuss the implications of this farm to investigate how the UK is going to meet its target of major reform of the welfare benefit system, with Liberal SAT 13:00 News (b00vhhqn) producing 15% of energy from renewable sources by 2020.