SATURDAY 12 APRIL 2008

SAT 00:00 News and Weather (b009rrx5)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.


SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b009ppjq)
Kate Summerscale - The Suspicions of Mr Whicher

Episode 5

Deborah Findlay reads from Kate Summerscale's account of a Victorian murder case that gripped the nation.

5/5. Only in 1928, with the arrival of an anonymous letter from Sydney, do the real events at Road Hill House back in 1860 finally come to light.


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b009rrx7)
The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b009rrx9)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service for a selection of news and current affairs, arts and science programmes. BBC Radio 4 resumes at 5.20am.


SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b009rrxc)
The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b009rrxf)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b009rrxh)
Daily prayer and reflection with Gopinder Kaur.


SAT 05:45 Fish Tales (b00776h9)
The Pike

Chris Yates explores the finer traits of some of Britain's coarse fish. The tyrant of the river has traditionally been the subject of controversy amongst anglers.


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b009rrxk)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SAT 06:04 Weather (b009rrxm)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 06:07 Open Country (b009rrxp)
The New Equestrians

The New Equestrians: Horse ownership is increasing all over the UK. Helen Mark visits Yorkshire villages to meet a variety of horse owners of different ages and walks of life.


SAT 06:35 Farming Today This Week (b009rrxr)
Rural magazine programme with Charlotte Smith.


SAT 06:57 Weather (b009rrxt)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 07:00 Today (b009rrxw)
With John Humphrys and Edward Stourton. Including Sports Desk at 7.25am, 8.25am; Thought for the Day at 7.48am; Weather at 7.57am.


SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b009rx92)
Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Presenter Fi Glover is joined by Simon Armitage. Poetry is by Murray Lachlan Young.


SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage (b009rx94)
The Great Wall of China - From the Derbyshire Peaks to the Himalyas

THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA
The First Great Emperor built the wall in 200 BC to keep out invaders. By the 1700s Chinas’ borders had changed so much that it became redundant both as a border and a symbolic entity. There are many myths about the wall. Claims about its length vary from around 1,600 to nearly 4,000 miles long although it isn’t a single wall; much of it is in bits, some beautifully restored, as around Beijing, and others non existent or just clumps of earth.

Sandi Toksvig takes a close look at the Great Wall from its western deserts to the Pacific Ocean in the company of historian John Man who has travelled the wall.

FROM THE DERBYSHIRE PEAKS TO THE HIMALYAS
Climber Andy Cave talks about his personal journey from the death of a close friend in the Himalayas to his return to the mountains he loves so dearly.


SAT 10:30 Erin's Model World (b009rx96)
Erin O’Connor is one of the world’s most famous and versatile supermodels. From the cover of Vogue to Marks and Spencer campaigns, she has made her name in the diverse corners of the fashion world.

In Erin’s Model World, the supermodel takes us deep into fashionista territory, to witness the frenzy of the fashion show in the glare of the paparazzi’s flashbulbs.

She’s keen to change the industry from within by improving working conditions of models through the establishment of the first ever models’ union.

Together with Erin’s other ideas, will these steps to improve the health of models carry over to the wider industry?

First broadcast on Radio 4 in 2008.


SAT 11:00 Talking Politics (b009rx98)
Political discussion series which sharpens the focus on current ideas and events. With Dennis Sewell.


SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b009rx9b)
BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie.


SAT 12:00 Money Box (b009rx9d)
Paul Lewis with the latest news from the world of personal finance plus advice for those trying to make the most of their money.


SAT 12:30 The Now Show (b009rx9g)
Series 23

Episode 6

Comedy sketches and satirical comments from Steve Punt, Hugh Dennis and the team including Mitch Benn, Laura Shavin and Jon Holmes.


SAT 12:57 Weather (b009rx9j)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 13:00 News Headlines (b009rx9l)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (b009q9j3)
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Harrogate. Panellists include Alan Johnson, William Hague, John Sentamu and Shirley Williams.


SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (b009rx9n)
Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Call 08700 100 444 [calls from land lines cost no more than 8p a minute].


SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama (b009rx9q)
Journey into Space: Frozen in Time

Journey into Space: Frozen in Time. A tribute to Charles Chilton's iconic 1960s series Journey into Space. The crew of the spacecraft Ares awake from suspended animation in 2013.


SAT 15:30 Hip-Hop China-Style (b009jg3c)
Hip-hop artists in Beijing are unearthing forgotten parts of the Chinese language and traditional instruments. Stephen Armstrong explores this very distinctive fusion of East and West and examines the different generational responses to this music.


SAT 16:00 Weekend Woman's Hour (b009rx9s)
With Jane Garvey. Including features on Madonna at 50, celebrity influence, honour killings, ovarian cancer screening, Katy Hickman and Pollyanna Pickering and her daughter.


SAT 16:56 1968 Day by Day (b009ryv0)
12th April 1968

John Tusa looks back at the events making the news 40 years ago.

A human rights pilgrimage to Canterbury Cathedral continues and Blackpool holidays are under threat.


SAT 17:00 Saturday PM (b009rzmb)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines. With Carolyn Quinn.


SAT 17:30 iPM (b009rzmd)
Eddie Mair presents the weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (b009rzmg)
The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 17:57 Weather (b009rzmj)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b009rzml)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather.


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (b009rzmn)
Clive Anderson presents an eclectic mix of conversation, comedy and music. Guests are Josephine Hart, Alaa Al Aswany and Roy Smiles. Jon Holmes talks to Emmanuel Jal.


SAT 19:00 Profile (b009rzmq)
Peter Robinson

Series of profiles of people who are currently making headlines.

David McKittrick looks at the life and career of the Democratic Unionist Party's deputy leader Peter Robinson, who is likely to replace Ian Paisley as party leader and First Minister of Northern Ireland next month. The youngest ever MP when first elected, he has amassed a formidable track record as long-standing MP for East Belfast, Member of the Northern Ireland Assembly and, until recently, Alderman of Castlereagh Council.


SAT 19:15 Saturday Review (b009rzms)
Will Self's The Butt, George Clooney's Leatherheads

Leatherheads
George Clooney directs and stars as Dodge Connelly, a charming but brash football star in this screwball comedy set in the 1920s. Renee Zellweger plays Lexie Littleton, a fast-talking cub reporter, who tries to resist her attraction to Dodge Connelly and becomes part of a love triangle when football star and war hero Carter Rutherford (John Krasniski) is drafted into the team to improve its failing fortunes. Rutherford falls heavily for the charms of wise-cracking Lexie even as she is planning to expose his war heroism as a fraud.

The American Scene at the British Museum
The underlying ordinariness of everyday life in America’s cities takes centre stage in this modernist exhibition; where people are shown getting ready for bed or sleeping on rooftops in the summer heat. The exhibition features prints of American society and culture from 1900 to 1960, and encompasses the arrival of modernism following the landmark Armory Show of 1913, the rise of the skyscrapers as the symbol of modern progress and prosperity, the Jazz Age, the Depression, and the effect of the rise of Fascism in Europe on artists’ political consciousness, the bombing of Pearl Harbour and American’s entry into the Second World War.

Entity
Can you dance an idea? Choreographer Wayne McGregor thinks so and his latest venture, Entity, explores the impulses of the mind through the body.

Entity continues on tour

The Butt
Will Self has described his new novel as an allegory of the invasion of Iraq. The allegory is centred on the mishaps of Tom Brodzinzki who is on holiday with his family in a continent which appears to be part Australia and part Iraq. Goaded by the country’s stringent anti-smoking laws, Tom has decided to quit -- but, as he flicks his last cigarette butt away it lands on the bald head of his elderly neighbour and because and because the neighbour is married to a local woman who belongs to a tribe with strict laws about reparation for injury, Tom finds himself entangled in the islands’ baffling legal code and ends up driving 5000 kilometres across the desert to hand over trade goods to his victim’s wife’s tribe.

Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat
This series of 16 plays performed across four different venues were first performed at the Edinburgh Festival under the title of Ravenhill for Breakfast. He did one play a day for the length of the festival. Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of plays exploring the personal and political effect of war on modern life.


SAT 20:00 The Archive Hour (b00771vc)
Not Like That, Like This

Imagine being taught the piano by Daniel Barenboim, or the cello by Jacqueline Du Pre. Well for the last 60 years, the BBC has been producing masterclasses that have revealed how great musicians approach their craft.

Julian Worricker asks what is being taught in these lessons and what makes them such riveting broadcasting? With archive recordings of, among others, Georg Solti, Paul Tortelier and Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - and contributions from Steven Isserlis and Maxim Vengerov.


SAT 21:00 Classic Serial (b009phv3)
A Dance to the Music of Time

Sex

A Dance to the Music of Time: Michael Butt's dramatisation of Anthony Powell's series of novels. 1/6: Sex. Nick Jenkins and his friends make life difficult for Kenneth Widmerpool.


SAT 22:00 News and Weather (b009rzmv)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.


SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain (b009q6tk)
Series 1

Episode 2

Mariella Frostrup hosts a debate about parenting with families, experts and policy-makers. When a teenager's behaviour is out of control is it acceptable to tell him to leave home?


SAT 23:00 Counterpoint (b009rzmx)
Series 22

2008 Heat 3

Paul Gambaccini chairs the general knowledge music quiz, covering the whole musical spectrum from the classics to jazz, stage and film music, rock and pop.

Three contestants battle it out - Graham Bandy from Woking, Chris Cook from Haslemere and Brian Thorne from Blandford.

Producer: Paul Bajoria

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in 2008.


SAT 23:30 Voices at 40 (b009phv7)
Judith Palmer celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Voices, a series of anthologies that revolutionised the way that poetry was presented in the classroom in the late 1960s.