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Radio 4 Listings for 6 – 12 September 2014 Page 1 of 17 SATURDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2014 Farming Education comment in the Palace of Westminster. SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b04g1c6v) Charlotte Smith goes back to school to discuss how best to The editor is Marie Jessel. The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. educate young people about farming. She meets students and Followed by Weather. staff at Brymore Academy, a state boarding school which specialises in agriculture. From next year farming and land SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b04g6kqt) based BTEC courses will no longer count towards school league Matters of Life and Death SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b04g19vy) tables and the future of land based GCSEs is also uncertain. The Omid Djalili - Hopeful: The Autobiography headteacher of Brymore, Mark Thomas, explains why he Kate Adie introduces correspondents stories from around the believes farming deserves a place on the curriculum. world. This week Gabriel Gatehouse takes a nerve-wracking Episode 5 drive, trying to avoid IS forces in Iraq. Shahzeb Jillani explains Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. what Pakistan's political turmoil is about; John Sweeney comes Omid explores the vital role his vivacious mother plays in his face to face with President Putin after 14 years of trying. life and art. Claudia Hammond discovers that many patients in Israel remain SAT 06:57 Weather (b04g1c79) on life support for years; and Steve Evans has the story of how a Conclusion of comedian and actor Omid Djalili's memoir The latest weather forecast. German board game took off in the trenches of WW1. One of Britain's funniest men takes us through his unconventional childhood growing up in an Iranian household in SAT 07:00 Today (b04g6k4s) SAT 12:00 News Summary (b04g1c7c) London and chart his progression from serious acting into Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. comedy. Parliament, Sports Desk, Thought for the Day and Weather. It's a laugh-out-loud, intelligent and deeply touching journey SAT 12:04 Money Box (b04g6kqw) through a fascinating life. SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b04g6k4v) Putting you through it Alistair McGowan Abridger ..... Lu Kemp On Money Box with Paul Lewis: People who use BT for their Impressionist and actor Alistair McGowan joins Aasmah Mir telephone calls could find that trying to economise costs them Producer ..... Kirsty Williams and Suzy Klein to talk sporting passions, finding your roots and more. A new inclusive tariff will be cheaper than paying the joys of Noel Coward. separately for daytime calls for many customers. David Hickson A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4 first broadcast in of the Fair Telecoms campaign joins the programme. September 2014 Also joining us is Katy U'ren, a PE teacher from Glasgow. She discusses what it was like to teach children in Bangladesh how Complaints about mobile phone insurance are on the rise and to swim as part of UNICEF's SwimSafe campaign, and what according to the Financial Ombudsman Service, which is SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b04g1c6x) she's doing back home to transform the lives of the children she fielding them, the majority are justified complaints. Ruth The latest shipping forecast. teaches. Alexander reports and the programme also hears from David Cresswell at the Financial Ombudsman Service. Listener Emma got in touch with Saturday Live after tracking SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes down her birth mother on Facebook. She explains how the A man has been sentenced to two years in jail for not telling (b04g1c6z) black hole of her past life has now been filled in â€" all the way HM Revenue & Customs about his income from selling things BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 back to 1647. on ebay. John Woolfenden from Bury failed to pay almost resumes at 5.20am. £300,000 of tax on his income from selling DVDs, music, and Jack Durand is 14 and has just become the first Briton ever to games over six years. This week he was convicted at Bolton win the World Youth Scrabble Championship. He gives us his Crown Court of cheating the public revenue and for SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b04g1c71) tips for winning words. transferring criminal property. It's an exceptional case but it The latest shipping forecast. does point out the dangers of buying and selling things on ebay - JP Devlin speaks to Jeanette Charles who has been when do you become a trader that has to declare their income impersonating The Queen for the last 42 years. As she prepares and fill in a tax return as self-employed? Elaine Clark of SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b04g1c73) to take things a little easier, we hear what it's been like to live cheapaccounting.co.uk explains all. The latest news from BBC Radio 4. life as someone else. Just what should be in the guidance that will be available to Virtuoso pianist Lang Lang shares his Inheritance Tracks. He everyone who has a pension which they may want to cash in SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b04g1cyy) chooses Tristesse from Etudes Opus 10 No 3 by Chopin and under the new pension freedoms from next April? When should A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Revd Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 3 played by Prokofiev. the guidance be given and by whom? Should you cash your Dr Martyn Atkins. pension in at all? What will the tax position be? Independent 'Sincerely Noel' - a cabaret evening featuring a medley of songs pensions expert Dr Ros Altmann and the pensions minister, and poems by Noel Coward, devised by and starring Alistair Steve Webb, join the programme. SAT 05:45 iPM (b04g1cz0) McGowan and Charlotte Page - is on at The Crazy Coqs in 'I could never look at that car park without a cold horrible central London from Tuesday 9th September for 5 nights. feeling.' iPM speaks to a listener who wants better hospital car SAT 12:30 The Brig Society (b04g1bsp) parks - and not just by lowering the cost of them. Your News is Alistair's motto as shared on the programme: Good, better, best. Series 2 read by John Simpson. Presented by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie May it never rest. Until the good is better and the better best. Mair. Email [email protected]. Banker Produced by Alex Lewis. Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b04g1c75) The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet (b04g6k93) Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of a Series 8 big old thing and each week he starts out by thinking "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with "Oh - turns out SAT 06:04 Weather (b04g1c77) Canterbury it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who knew...?" The latest weather forecast. Jay Rayner and the team are in Canterbury. Taking questions We would like to inform you that this week, Marcus Brigstocke from the audience on eating and drinking are Masterchef has decided to open a bank. That'll be £25 please. If you would SAT 06:07 Open Country (b04g13rk) winner Tim Anderson, Scottish chef - hooked on the taste of all like to call our customer helpline... that will be another £25 The John Muir Way things Catalan - Rachel Mccormack, the food historian Annie Gray and former Head of Creative Development for Heston Waiting to serve you are Rufus Jones ("W1A", "Holy Flying A young boy - John Muir - spent his early years in Scotland, Blumenthal James "Jocky" Petrie. Circus"), William Andrews ("Sorry I've Got No Head") and playing along Dunbar's coast and scrambling across rocks. This Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda") early fascination with nature and 'wild places' later saw him The panel discuss the eating habits of Chaucer's famous campaign to protect them. When his family emigrated to the characters, argue about the best use for horrible beer, indulge The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by USA it led him on a path that would see him appeal directly to themselves in the sweet smell of hops and muse on the merits of Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler who also the president and help create the National Parks. Today he's the Kentish cobnut. produces Marcus appearances as the inimitable as Giles known by most American schoolchildren but he is not so widely Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio credits include Jeremy known in the UK. Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Thanks A Lot, Producer: Victoria Shepherd Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando Helen Mark sets off on the new coast to coast John Muir Way Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, The 3rd Degree, The from Dunbar to Helensburgh, named after the man but leading A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active & Bigipedia. His through his native country. She visits the town where he TV credits include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, revelled in nature, hikes along some of the route with poets Absolutely, The Paul Calf Video Diary, Three Fights Two who've planted trees and created new writing inspired by his SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (b04g6k95) Weddings & A Funeral, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino work and takes in Helix Park and the Kelpies - a dramatic Peter Oborne of The Daily Telegraph looks behind the scenes at Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies.