Radio 4 Listings for 21 – 27 February 2009 Page 1 of 12 SATURDAY 21 FEBRUARY 2009 Former Guantanamo detainee Moazzam Begg and terror lenders rose last year by 54 percent, why aren't lenders doing legislation expert Lord Carlile discuss if Guantanamo detainee more to help struggling homeowners? Are you covered by your SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b00hlxwz) Binyam Mohamed poses any risk to the UK. credit card provider if you buy something online that turns out The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. to be faulty? And what should you do if you have some savings Followed by Weather. Editor Martha Dow Fehsenfeld and critic Philip Hensher but do not want to see them withering away? discuss the publication of the first volume of Irish writer Samuel Beckett's letters. SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b00hn6s2) SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (b00hlspn) Hackney, That Rose-Red Empire Former Downing Street adviser Paul Sinclair and Matthew Series 67 Taylor, former head of the Number 10 policy unit, discuss if Hackney Brook Harriet Harman could run for leader of the Labour Party. Episode 7

Neil Pearson reads Iain Sinclair's account of the chequered Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones looks at some of the best Sandi Toksvig chairs the topical comedy quiz, with panellists history and inhabitants of Hackney in East London and his own examples of adapted film works, from Gone With The Wind to Jeremy Hardy, Fred MacAulay, Shappi Khorsandi and Mark life there. Ben-Hur. Steel.

Iain attempts to locate the lost river of Hackney and in so doing Chief economics correspondent Hugh Pym dissects another finds himself on the set of EastEnders, by way of the Olympic extraordinary week for the economy. SAT 12:57 Weather (b00hmcw9) construction site. The latest weather forecast. The National Gallery is celebrating the 40th anniversary of the first ever television documentary to be broadcast in colour in SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b00hm576) the UK. Historian Dr Jonathan Conlin and documentary maker SAT 13:00 News (b00hmcwc) The latest shipping forecast. Laurence Rees discuss the 1969 BBC Two series Civilisation. The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.

SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b00hmby5) SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (b00hlspq) (b00hm578) Clare Balding is joined by Radio 2's 'Whispering' Bob Harris. Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Manchester. BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 Bob is the patron of Cancer Research UK's music heritage The panellists are secretary of state for culture, media and sport resumes at 5.20am. event Sound and Vision. Andy Burnham, Conservative Party chairman Francis Maude, Sunday Times columnist Minette Marrin and author and Saturday Live listener Martin Hart heard the shot fired by Ruth screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce. SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b00hm57b) Ellis that led to her being the last woman to be hanged in this The latest shipping forecast. country. SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (b00hmcwf) David Morrison was 14 years old when his girlfriend got Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b00hm57d) pregnant. He tells Clare how the experience transformed his to this week's edition of Any Questions? The latest news from BBC Radio 4. life.

Pat Gresham recalls how she spent her working life never SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama (b00hmlhk) SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b00hm57g) knowing whether she was going to be legless in Southend or The Lady in the Van Daily prayer and reflection with Mark Coffey. headless in Margate. The Lady in the Van Founder member of The Zombies Rod Argent chooses his by Alan Bennett SAT 05:45 iPM (b00hm57j) Inheritance Tracks. The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring Cast online conversation and debate. Miss Shepherd ..... Maggie Smith SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage (b00hmc50) Alan Bennett ..... Adrian Scarborough Filming Wildlife Alan Bennett 2 ..... Alan Bennett SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b00hm57l) Mam ..... Marcia Warren The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. FILMING WILDLIFE Rufus ..... Matt Addis John McCarthy is joined by two wildlife filmmakers. Karen Pauline ..... Janice Acquah Bass has travelled from the Okavango Delta in Southern Africa Underwood ..... Stephen Critchlow SAT 06:04 Weather (b00hmbvq) to the Arctic for her latest series Nature’s Great Events, while Social Worker ..... Caroline Guthrie The latest weather forecast. Harry Marshall has often returned to the country of his birth, Fairchild ..... Philip Fox India, to film everything from irate elephants to snow leopards. Doctors ..... Jonathan Tafler and Malcolm Tierney

SAT 06:07 Open Country (b00hmbvs) Music composed by Simon Morecroft Helen Mark finds out how whisky production has shaped SAT 10:30 And the Academy Award Goes To... (b00hmc52) Adapted and Directed by Gordon House Speyside in Scotland, with the opening of a new 'green' Series 2 distillery in Roseisle. The Lady in the Van is the first radio production of Alan West Side Story Bennett's autobiographical stage play, starring Alan Bennett himself as one of the two "Alan Bennetts" featured in the SAT 06:30 Farming Today This Week (b00hmbxd) Another chance to hear "And The Academy Awards Goes to.... drama, and reprising the brilliant stage performance of Dame News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. West Side Story". Continuing his series on Oscar-winning films, Maggie Smith as Miss Mary Shepherd, the lady who takes Paul Gambaccini turns his attention to one that tackled tough refuge in his Camden garden for three months, and ends up issues through the medium of the musical. With a young fresh staying fifteen years. SAT 06:57 Weather (b00hmbxg) cast - Natalie Wood in her first adult role, Rita Moreno The latest weather forecast. sweeping everyone else off the dancefloor, and a relatively When Alan Bennett adapted his short autobiographical memoir inexperienced but dazzling array of support actors - the movie The Lady in the Van, into a full length stage play, it received sizzles with colour, drama, the outstanding choreography of some excellent critical reviews. "One of the saddest, funniest SAT 07:00 Today (b00hmbxj) Jerome Robbins, the music of Leonard Bernstein and the lyrics and most distinguished offerings for years" wrote John Peter in Presented by Evan Davis and James Naughtie. of a young Stephen Sondheim. Who could tell that behind the the Sunday Times, while Charles Spencer, in the Daily scenes there were arguments, voice dubbings and overruns, plus Telegraph, thought it was "without doubt, the best new play of Correspondent Quentin Sommerville examines US Secretary of issues over racial casting and 'blacking up'? What emerged from the year. Now Radio 4 brings this wonderfully bitter-sweet State Hillary Clinton's first overseas tour. a tumultuous production was a triumph. comic diary to the airwaves, with Maggie Smith once more playing the eccentric and cantankerous Miss Shepherd, and Correspondent Kevin Connelly discusses if human rights Producer: Sara Jane Hall. Alan Bennett and Adrian Scarborough playing the two Alan campaigners will be disappointed with Barack Obama's decision Bennetts - one in the role of the omniscient narrator, and one that detainees held by the US in Afghanistan have no experiencing events as they occur. constitutional rights. SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster (b00hmc54) Series looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster Miss Shepherd was the genteel vagrant who parked her Bedford Vice-chairman of Progress Chris Leslie discusses if consumers parliament. Andrew Rawnsley discovers how political parties van near Mr. Bennett's Camden house in 1971 and eventually could help the UK out of the economic slump. are appealing to more mature voters and asks if the Tories' browbeat him into pushing it into the mini-driveway leading to apparent advantage with that section of the electorate will his front door. And there she steadfastly remained until her Correspondent Ian Pannell reports on the US strategy to provide persist. Among Britain's popul