Radio 4 Listings for 13 – 19 September 2008 Page 1 of 11 SATURDAY 13 SEPTEMBER 2008 writer, to discuss how the modern guidebook has changed the Marjorie ...... Auriol Smith way we travel. Find out which British city was described as a Neil ...... Chris Pavlo SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b00dc1vz) symphony in grey and pick up some essential travel tips – Pam ...... Alison Pettitt The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, including how to avoid the classic bird droppings scam. followed by weather. Music composed by David Chilton. IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF GLADYS AYLWARD Hazel Staten’s life threatening illness inspired her to set off on Directed by Gordon House. SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b00dc9sq) an exceptional journey. She travelled from London across Making Money Europe to Yangcheng, a remote city in Shanxi Province, following in the footsteps of the early 20th century missionary SAT 16:00 Weekend Woman's Hour (b00dc4f2) Recovery Gladys Aylward, whose life story was made into the film Inn of Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane the Sixth Happiness. Garvey. Evan Davis introduces a selection of writings, fiction and non- fiction, reflecting the repetitive boom-and-bust cycle of our Including CERN women and science; tips on how to get your economy. Will we ever learn? SAT 10:30 Let Me Entertain You (b00dc2mt) kids to school on time; French pianist Helen Grimaud talks Ancestors about her life and work; helping the victims of the Jersey care system abuse scandal; Quentin Bryce the first ever Governor SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b00dc1w1) John Sessions series charting the history of popular General of Australia; Michael Holroyd's biography of Ellen The latest shipping forecast. entertainment in the UK. Terry, the Victorian celebrity actress; a guide to picking the best perfumes. But rather than the usual wade through the shifting sands of SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes film and TV celebrity, John is covering the period before (b00dc2ly) electronic media. SAT 17:00 PM (b00dc4f4) BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports resumes at 5.20am. He starts with our medieval ancestors and attempts to unpick a headlines. With Ritula Shah. few myths about wandering minstrels and motley fools keeping the toiling peasants entertained. SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b00dc2m0) SAT 17:30 iPM (b00dc4f6) The latest shipping forecast. First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008. Eddie Mair presents the weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate. SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b00dc2m2) SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster (b00dc4dm) The latest news from BBC Radio 4. Series 1 SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (b00dc4f8) The latest shipping forecast. Episode 8 SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b00dc2m4) Daily prayer and reflection with Claire Campbell Smith. Series looking at politics beyond and outside the Westminster SAT 17:57 Weather (b00dc4fb) parliament. The latest weather forecast. SAT 05:45 Fungi: The Fifth Kingdom (b00dc2m7) Grassland Gems SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b00dc4dp) SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b00dc4fd) BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, Series featuring scientists and amateur naturalists studying headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. followed by Weather. fungi, one of the largest and most fascinating groups of organisms on the planet. SAT 12:00 Money Box (b00dc4dr) SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (b00dc4fg) Some fungi like nothing better than old unimproved grassland. Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal Emma Freud presents an eclectic mix of conversation, comedy From red to yellow and pink to green, amateur naturalist finance plus advice for those trying to make the most of their and music. Rosemary Winnall reveals the colourful delights of her garden money. where endless waxcaps, fairy clubs and earth tongues emerge. Guests include Richard Wilson, Craig Revel Horwood and Ralf This edition comes from Newcastle to ask how Northern Rock Little. Arthur Smith talks to Henry Hemming. Comedy comes savers, borrowers and shareholders are faring now, one year on from Wilson Dixon while music is provided by Lambchop and SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b00dc2m9) from the building society's collapse. Evaluating the impact been My Brightest Diamond. The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. on staff and the community and what the future may hold. Plus a discussion on how banking has changed, and what lessons SAT 19:00 Profile (b00dc4fj) SAT 06:04 Weather (b00dc2mc) should be learnt about how to deal better with such crises. Damien Hirst The latest weather forecast. Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines. SAT 12:30 Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive SAT 06:07 Open Country (b00dc2mf) (b00dbcw2) John Wilson, presenter of Radio 4's Front Row, profiles Countryside magazine. Elinor Goodman visits the Chilterns to Series 4 Damien Hirst. Explaining the controversy behind Hirst's find out if this part of the UK really does offer the best rural forthcoming auction at Sotheby's next week, Wilson attempts to life in Britain. Episode 5 get under the skin of the man who only got at an E grade in his Art A-level. Comic pilot Armando Iannucci flies Air Hilarious. With SAT 06:35 Farming Today This Week (b00dc2mh) Marcus Brigstocke, Andy Parsons and Justin Edwards. From News and issues in rural Britain with Charlotte Smith. September 2008. SAT 19:15 Saturday Review (b00dc4fl) Tom Sutcliffe and guests review the cultural highlights of the week. SAT 06:57 Weather (b00dc2mk) SAT 12:57 Weather (b00dc4dt) The latest weather forecast. The latest weather forecast. SAT 20:00 The Archive Hour (b0076jqk) The Shanghai Sailors SAT 07:00 Today (b00dc2mm) SAT 13:00 News Headlines (b00dc4dw) With James Naughtie and Edward Stourton. Including Sports The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Chinese seafarers made up a considerable proportion of the Desk, Thought for the Day, Weather. merchant navy fleet during the Second World War. But after the war was over, they were not as welcome in Britain as they SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (b00dbcw4) had been and hundreds of Shanghai sailors were hurriedly SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b00dc2mp) Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Worthing. repatriated. Ivan Howlett tells the story of those Chinese Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that seafarers from Liverpool, and hears from the children they matter to them, presented by Rev Richard Coles. The panellists are former minister Tony Benn, Shadow were forced to leave behind. Immigration Minister Damian Green, columnist and Featuring a Nobel Prize winner, gypsy caravans, stem cell broadcaster David Aaronovitch and author Rachel Johnson. harvesting and a woman brought up by two mothers. Plus the SAT 21:00 Classic Serial (b00d8h6p) Inheritance Tracks of actor Eddie Marsan. Tobias Smollett - The Expedition of Humphry Clinker SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (b00dc4dy) Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' calls and emails in response Episode 2 SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage (b00dc2mr) to this week's edition of Any Questions? Lonely Planet Story - In the Footsteps of Gladys Aylward The Expedition of Humphry Clinker THE LONELY PLANET STORY SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama (b00dc4f0) Tobias Smollet's uproarious satire of 18th-century life, There was a time when if lost or in trouble abroad one could Just Between Ourselves dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus. expect the local ambassador to come to the rescue; but those days are sadly long gone, they have been replaced by an Adaptation of Alan Ayckbourn's celebrated 1977 stage play, a The family is stranded. Bramble is keen to continue their grand essential piece of kit – the travel guide. bitter-sweet comedy about love, marriages and mothers. tour, but how can they leave London when Humphry is in gaol? Sandi Toksvig is joined by Tony Wheeler Co founder of Lonely Dennis ...... Stephen Critchlow Mathew Bramble ...... Nigel Anthony Planet travel guides and Jennifer Cox, travel journalist and Vera ...... Samantha Spiro Tabitha Bramble ...... Marcia Warren Supported by bbc.co.uk/programmes/ Radio 4 Listings for 13 – 19 September 2008 Page 2 of 11 Lydia Melford ...... Helen Longworth The latest national and international news. SUN 12:57 Weather (b00dcf8n) Jery Melford ...... Dan Starkey The latest weather forecast. Winifred Jenkins ...... Joanna Page Humphry Clinker ...... Stuart McLoughlin SUN 06:05 Something Understood (b00dcczc) Lieutenant Lismahago ...... John Rowe A Sense of Home SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend (b00dcf8q) Mr Martin ...... Chris Pavlo The World This Weekend Mr Micklewhimmen ...... Sam Dale Poet Laureate Andrew Motion revisits Stisted, the village where Dutton/Wilson ...... Nyasha Hatendi he spent the first nineteen years of his life, and considers the A look at events around the world with Shaun Ley. Gaoler ...... Stephen Critchlow complex feelings associated with a sense of home. Directed by Marc Beeby. SUN 13:30 British Jews and the Dream of Zion (b00b4rqx) SUN 06:35 On Your Farm (b00dcczf) Episode 2 First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2008. Topical farming magazine. Alex James visits Baylham House Rare Breeds Farm in Ipswich, the first farm to be hit by the To mark the 60th anniversary of the creation of the state of Bluetongue virus last September. Israel, in which Jonathan Freedland explores the complex SAT 22:00 News and Weather (b00dc4fn) relationship between British Jews and the Jewish homeland. The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather. SUN 06:57 Weather (b00dcczh) Religious and secular Jews explain what Israel means to them Weather today.