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Radio 4 Listings for 27 November – 3 December 2010 Page 1 of 15 SATURDAY 27 NOVEMBER 2010 to parsnips, it's the busiest time of year for many farmers. It's pave the way for a greater cross fertilisation of ideas in social also the time of year when the money is made. A visit to one policy. SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b00w247v) Warwickshire turkey farm shows the farming system which Will Straw who set up the successful website Left Foot The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. results in a profit of £10 per bird. And in the week when Forward, has now joined the think tank IPPR-the Institute for Followed by Weather. Bernard Matthews passed away, Farming Today This Week Public Policy Research. Does he see a chance for new ideas to looks at the legacy of the most famous turkey farmer of them thrive? all. SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b00w48g8) In 1976 the then Labour government, was forced to seek a loan Giles Tremlett - Catherine of Aragon: Henry's Spanish Queen Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Melvin from the International Monetary Fund to pay off its public debt. Rickarby. How different were the circumstances then to what the Irish Episode 5 government is now facing? Lord Donoughue who worked for the Prime Minster James Callaghan at the time, and Mark A compelling account of the life of the Spanish Infanta who SAT 06:57 Weather (b00w2489) Durkan an SDLP MP for Westminster, with a constituency changed the course of Tudor history. At Henry's urging, The latest weather forecast. which borders the Irish republic, evaluate the extent of Ireland's Parliament has passed the Act of Succession annulling the woes. marriage of the king and queen. However Catherine still has The Editor is Marie Jessel. influential allies across Europe. SAT 07:00 Today (b00w6l3l) Morning news and current affairs with John Humphreys and Yolanda Vazquez reads Giles Tremlett's new biography of James Naughtie, including: SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b00w6lkj) Catherine of Aragon, the tenacious woman whose marriage 08:10 Labour's Peter Hain on reforming the party; Why Pakistan's flood victims feel they've been let down by lasted twice as long as those of Henry's five other wives put 08:18 Is it inappropriate for the police to use horses to charge their rulers. together. demonstrators? 08:22 Tony Blair and Christopher Hitchens' Toronto debate on A victim of the China's Cultural Revolution who emerged from Abridged by Alison Joseph the motion that religion is a force for good in th world. prison and made a fortune. Producer: Eilidh McCreadie. Russia's policemen fail to see the funny side of a campaign of SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b00w6l3n) ridicule. SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b00w247x) Fi Glover with novelist and screenwriter Nick Hornby, poet The latest shipping forecast. Murray Lachlan Young, a man who was in a band with a very And a ticklish problem brings acute embarrassment for the young David Bowie, a headteacher who was caught up in the BBC in New York. Montserrat volcano eruption and who helped her pupils through SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes the aftermath by encouraging them to write poems and stories, a For weeks this summer the world watched Pakistan drown (b00w247z) woman who extols the virtues of keeping pigs as pets, and the beneath monsoon floods. Whole towns and villages were lost BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 Inheritance Tracks of comedian and author Alexei Sayle. under a racing, muddy tide as the River Indus burst its banks. resumes at 5.20am. Fourteen million people were affected in the worst disaster of its kind in the country's history.... The waters receded some SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage (b00w6l3q) time ago. But as Jill McGivering has been finding out, for many SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b00w2481) Human Rights - Patagonia of those who lost everything.....the homeless and the The latest shipping forecast. hungry....the misery is unending... John McCarthy meets the human rights advocate Bianca Jagger and asks her about a lifetime of travel from her home country It was the humble bicycle that first set China in motion. It got SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b00w2483) of Nicaragua and student protests in the Paris of the sixties to the masses on the move. The bike was a cheap and efficient The latest news from BBC Radio 4. her recent work in the state of Orissa in India protesting at the solution to the transport problems of a poor nation.... But China effects on the local tribes of aluminium processing there. John is no longer poor. Now more and more of it's people are able to also talks to the Welsh actor Matthew Rhys about his trek on get off their bike...and get behind the wheel of a car. And as SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b00w249l) horseback across Patagonia. He joined a group of Welsh Peter Day explains, this change of gear has set some No programme information found Patagonian riders recreating the original nineteenth century businessmen off down the road to extraordinary wealth.... journey from the Atlantic to the Andes in search of fertile land to settle. It's an age old question. Who will guard the guardians...? Who SAT 05:45 iPM (b00w249n) watches the watchman..? It troubled the ancient Greeks, and it "I've been a rape victim, mental health patient and murderer." Producer: Harry Parker. troubles modern Russians. They often regard their policemen as An actor explains how she trains public sector workers for real brutal and corrupt. Almost every day there's a scandal. And life challenges and gives Eddie Mair a masterclass. Newsnight's even Prime Minister Putin has said that most Russians cross the Kirsty Wark reads 'Your News', and Professor Heinz Wolff SAT 10:30 Me and My Mobile (b00w6ljy) street at the very sight of a man in uniform.... But Lucy Ash has uses science to explain what iPM is all about. With Eddie Mair In the last twenty-five years mobile phones have revolutionised been talking to a group that's found its own way of confronting and Jennifer Tracey. [email protected]. our lives- ever since Ernie Wise made the first mobile call in the country's lawless lawmen..... the UK in 1985. Could we imagine not walking around with our mobile in our pockets as instant communication and often a On From Our Own Correspondent we've focused recently on SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b00w2485) portable office. For Radio Four, Dom Joly explores our Yemen's serious image problem. The West sees the country as a The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. relationship with mobiles during the past quarter of a century, source of terrorism. Airline bomb plots have been traced back where they've changed the way we work, socialise, to Yemen, where Al Qaeda has taken root. And on this communicate, get our news, pay our bills, do business. programme we've heard from young Yemenis who were aghast SAT 06:04 Weather (b00w2487) at the way the world now regards their nation. But just at the The latest weather forecast. When phones were first launched they were the size of a moment, Yemen has a chance to show itself in a very different briefcase, cost about £2,000 and had a battery life of little more light. Our correspondent Justin Marozzi has been watching it than 20 minutes. They were an immediate status symbol, now rise to the challenge of hosting a big regional soccer SAT 06:07 Open Country (b00w6kzn) there are nearly two phones per head for every man, woman and tournament.... Ardtornish child living in the UK, and as many as ten thousand of them are stolen each month. They've become small, sleek, slim objects of The United Nations headquarters stands among the skyscrapers In Open Country this week, Helen Mark visits Ardtornish desire. When did we fall in love with our phones, and whatever on New York's waterfront. As they gaze out across the East Estate in Morvern, in the western Highlands of Scotland. The did we do before them? River, the UN's diplomats are used to contemplating trouble in estate covers around sixty square miles of hill, woodland, rivers far away places....epidemics, coups, invasions and so on.... But and lochs and has been in the Raven family for three Producer: Anna Horsbrugh-Porter now they've got trouble very much closer to home... In fact their generations. Hugh Raven describes himself as the present A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. building itself has been invaded.... And Barbara Plett has found 'steward' of Ardtornish, working on behalf of the whole family her own BBC office right on the front line.... and the local community, and, along with his wife, Jane Stuart- Smith, is building on groundwork laid down at Ardtornish by SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (b00w6lkd) his late brother, Andrew Raven. Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT 12:00 Money Box (b00w6lkx) Westminster On Money Box today/tomorrow: Helen is here to see how the way Ardtornish is managed has The Education Secretary Michael Gove presented his White changed over the years, and chief among those changes is the Paper on Schools in England this week. Paul Lewis looks at bank overdraft charges a year on from a way in which the climate is being exploited.