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17 October 2008 Page 1 of 11 Radio 4 Listings for 11 – 17 October 2008 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 11 OCTOBER 2008 opium factories in Afghanistan for the first time, in an attempt SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (b00dswdp) to stop drugs financing the Taleban. David Loyn reports on the Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a sixtieth anniversary edition of the SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b00dsy3t) move. topical debate with a return to Winchester, Hampshire, from The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, where the programme was broadcast for the first time in 1948. followed by weather. Robert Peston and Steven Bell, chief economist at GLC hedge fund, discuss proposals to tackle the global financial crisis. The panellists are deputy Labour leader Harriet Harman, Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Shirley Williams, Conservative SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b00dqlrd) Ivan Moore, an independent pollster based in Anchorage, Party policy review chairman Oliver Letwin and political Chocolate and Cuckoo Clocks: The Essential Alan Coren evaluates Sarah Palin's chances in the US election. historian Prof Peter Hennessy. Episode 5 Science reporter Tom Feilden reports on the Turing Test. SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (b00dtq0n) John Sessions reads from a new anthology of humorous writing Bethany Bell reports on the death of the far-right Austrian Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response by the late Alan Coren, edited by his children, Giles and politician Joerg Haider. to this week's edition of Any Questions? Victoria. What would a map of the world look like if it were drawn not 2000s: Radio Fun; I Blame The Dealers; The Long Goodbye. according to its size and geography but according to its SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama (b00dtq0q) population, wealth or even health? Conclave SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b00dsy3w) Psychologist Oliver James and historian Dominic Sandbrook Gripping drama by Hugh Costello. The latest shipping forecast. discuss the effect that the credit crunch has on our lives. After the short reign and mysterious death of Pope John Paul I, the election of a new Pope takes place in an atmosphere of high SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b00dtnvc) tension between opposing factions within the Vatican, including (b00dsy3y) Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that those who want to elect the first non-Italian Pope for over four BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 matter to them. Peter Curran is joined by broadcaster Nick hundred years. resumes at 5.20am. Baker, who talks about his newly-published Spotters Guide to Groovy Old Men. Plus James Brett, the man who is trying to Cardinal Franz Koenig ...... David Calder persuade opium farmers in Afghanistan to grow pomegranates Hannah Popper ...... Alison Reid SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b00dsy40) instead of poppies, Brighton's Disco Pete, Twiggy's Inheritance Cardinal Giovanni Benelli ...... Nicholas Le Prevost The latest shipping forecast. Tracks and poetry from Kate Fox. Cardinal Karol Wojtyla ...... Andrew Hilton Cardinal Jean Villot ...... Nigel Anthony Cardinal Aloisio Lorscheider ......Paul Humpoletz SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b00dsy42) SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage (b00dtnw4) Cardinal Giuseppe Siri ...... Paul Nicholson The latest news from BBC Radio 4. Remote Places - Angling Cardinal John Krol ...... Christian Rodska Monsignor Virgilio Noe ...... Jonathan Nibbs John McCarthy reviews four decades of colourful travel to Cardinal Johannes Willebrands ...... Bill Wallis SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b00dsy44) some extraordinary places and hears about some quite different Cardinal Paulo Evaristo Arns ...... David Collins Daily prayer and reflection with Commissioner Betty Matear. fishing experiences in the UK and further afield. Uli Melzer ...... Paul Dodgson JOURNEY TO REMOTE PLACES With John Sandeman and Kristian Phillips. SAT 05:45 iPM (b00dsy46) Patrick Richardson shares his sensory memories of forty years Eddie Mair presents the weekly interactive current affairs of travel to some of the world’s most remote places compiled in magazine featuring online conversation and debate. his new book Reports from Beyond. SAT 15:30 Soul Music (b00drrl5) Series 7 ANGLING SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b00dtlfq) Jeremy Wade, ex-biology teacher and angling explorer, and Chopin's Ballade No 1 in G Minor The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. Annalisa Barbieri, former Fishing correspondent for the Independent and keen angler, discuss amateur and professional Chopin's Ballade clearly tells a story, and yet that story differs fishing from the bucolic River Stour to the majesty and fury of for each person who hears or plays it. SAT 06:04 Weather (b00dtlfs) the Congo. The latest weather forecast. Pianist Peter Donohoe heads a cast of people whose lives have been shaped and changed by hearing and playing this SAT 10:30 Baghdad Headbangers (b00dvc57) technically demanding, emotionally turbulent piece of music. SAT 06:07 Open Country (b00dtlfv) The story of Iraq's most celebrated heavy metal band, Countryside magazine. Acrassicauda. Featuring: Elinor Goodman explores Lambourn in Berkshire and finds out Formed in Baghdad in 2000, they even managed to perform in Peter Donohoe why horse trainers are having to recruit staff from as far away front of wildly enthusiastic audiences during the violence and Pete Rosskamm as India and Brazil to help prepare future champions for the chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein. This Edi Bilimoria race track. programme catches up with the four band members in Turkey, Richard Bielecki where they are now living as refugees, and hears how they hope Andrew Armstrong to gain asylum in the United States and hit the big time. Dr Jay B. Hess SAT 06:35 Farming Today This Week (b00dtlwg) Joshua Wright News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (b00dtp02) Series exploring famous pieces of music and their emotional A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Jackie Ashley. appeal. SAT 06:57 Weather (b00dtlwj) The latest weather forecast. Producer: Rosie Boulton SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b00dtp04) BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in October 2008. SAT 07:00 Today (b00dtlwz) headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. Presented by John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. SAT 16:00 Weekend Woman's Hour (b00dtqbc) Joe Lynam reports on how the G7 is working to stabilise the SAT 12:00 Money Box (b00dtp26) Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane world's panic-stricken markets. Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal Garvey. finance. What will the turmoil on the global markets and the Steve Chittenden reports on how the Republican vice banking bail-out mean for our savings, investments and Including Dawn French on marriage to Lenny Henry; singer presidential candidate Sarah Palin has been found guilty of an pensions? Plus a look at the latest details of compensation Randy Crawford on her career; Physicist Dame Jocelyn Bell abuse of power by an official inquiry in Alaska. available for Icelandic banks' depositors. And we ask if the cut Burnell on being a role model and the first female President of in the Bank of England base rate will bring good news for the Institute of Physics; the stigma of mental illness and its the Dr Lee Elliot Major explains how grammar and faith schools homeowners looking to re-mortgage and first time buyers. impact on family and friends. Plus, when money is tight, is have fewer children from poor families. taking a lodger the answer? Modern day landladies offer their advice. Credit default swaps are the next economic problem on the SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (b00dswdm) horizon. Analyst Marcus Schüler explains their importance. Series 66 SAT 17:00 PM (b00dtqbf) Michael White, the assistant editor of the Guardian, looks at the Episode 3 Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports history of political food. headlines. With Chris Ledgard. Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz. The panellists are Thought for the Day with Rev Roy Jenkins, baptist minister in Francis Wheen, Carrie Quinlan, Mark Steel and Jeremy Hardy. Cardiff. SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line (b00dtqbh) Evan Davis presents the business magazine. Entrepreneurs and Rebecca Jones talks to Booker Prize nominee Amitav Ghosh, SAT 12:57 Weather (b00dtp28) business leaders talk about the issues that matter to their author of Sea of Poppies, a historical novel set in the mid-19th The latest weather forecast. companies and their customers. century just before the First Opium War between Britain and China. SAT 13:00 News Headlines (b00dtp2b) SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (b00dtqbk) NATO has agreed that its troops will be allowed to attack The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. The latest shipping forecast. Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Listings for 11 – 17 October 2008 Page 2 of 11 SAT 17:57 Weather (b00dtqbm) Robert Robinson introduces the perennial general knowledge SUN 05:30 News Briefing (b00dtqn7) The latest weather forecast. quiz. The second heat features four contestants from the The latest news from BBC Radio 4. London area. SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b00dtqbp) SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday (b00dtqq1) The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT 23:30 Poetry Please (b00dqdx8) The sound of bells from St Peter's Church, South Petherton in followed by Weather. A great mixture of poetry today all read by Richard McCabe, Somerset. Brigid Zengeni and Jonjo O'Neill SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (b00dtqcn) The Fable of the Magnet and The Churn by WS Gilbert SUN 05:45 Profile (b00dtqcq) Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, From: Favourite Poems Old and New [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] comedy and music.
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