SATURDAY 29 JANUARY 2011

SAT 00:00 Midnight News (b00xwl6g)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. Followed by Weather.


SAT 00:30 Book of the Week (b00xw4y0)
Alison Gangel - The Sun Hasn't Fallen From the Sky

Episode 5

Overwhelmed by both the atmosphere and the other confident students at the Academy of Music, Ailsa has not been attending her Saturday classes. But when the people at the orphanage find out and tell her beloved music teacher she is desperate to make amends.

Maureen Beattie reads Alison Gangel's vibrant memoir.

Producer: Jane Marshall
A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b00xwl6j)
The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b00xwl6l)
BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes at 5.20am.


SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b00xwl6n)
The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 05:30 News Briefing (b00xwl6q)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b00xwl6s)
with the Revd. Simon Doogan.


SAT 05:45 iPM (b00xwl6v)
"I'm Pink Floyd's unsung hero!" Listener Clare Torry shares her story from the Dark Side, spending a Sunday evening in the studio with the prog rock legends. You'll also recognise her singing voice from a multitude of adverts and TV shows. Also, BBC World presenter Jonathan Charles read Your News, a bulletin of sentences sent in by listeners. With Eddie Mair and Becky Milligan. ipm@bbc.co.uk.


SAT 06:00 News and Papers (b00xwl6x)
The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers.


SAT 06:04 Weather (b00xwl6z)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 06:07 Open Country (b00xzzsz)
Weather in Wiltshire

As a nation, we are obsessed with the weather. Studies have shown that over half of us talk about the weather at least once day and check the forecast regularly before making plans and heading out. We despair when it rains, we swoon in the sun, we can't bear the sight of clouds in the sky, yet we hate the thought of hosepipe bans and appear to be spectacularly unprepared for extreme weather events, even when expected or forecast. The weather certainly seems to matter to most of us, but is extremely important to some those whose livelihoods and way of life can depend on the forecast. And for centuries, we've tried to predict the weather by looking at the sky above us and the landscape around us - the different ways in which plants, animals and the countryside around us can give us clues about what is coming and reflects what has been. For this week's Open Country, Helen Mark is in Wiltshire to find out about the ways in which the weather gets under our skin and impacts on our lives and on the landscape around us. Helen hears from meteorologist, Liz Bentley, about how her own obsession with the weather led to her setting up the Weather Club, an organisation for like minded souls who appreciate the weather for all its wonders. Gavin Pretor-Pinney, founder of the Cloud Appreciation Society explains how our lives would be immeasurably poorer without the clouds in the sky above us. Wiltshire farmer, Stephen Horton, has been collecting rainfall data for the last 25 years, having taken over from his father who did the same for 25 years before him and Helen also hears from National Trust Conservation Advisor about how Wiltshire has coped with the extreme weather conditions seen earlier this winter and how traditional seasons can actually help our flora and fauna.
Helen is joined by Ruth Binney, author of Wise Words and Country Ways to put to the test some of those centuries old countryside theories and sayings that we have used to predict the weather we get. Finally astrologer, David Rowan, explains how how astrology and the ancient wonder of Stonehenge have been used to predict the weather and the changing seasons.

Producer: Helen Chetwynd.


SAT 06:30 Farming Today (b00xzzt1)
Farming Today This Week

A major report published this week, claims a global agricultural revolution is needed to feed the growing population, which is set to reach 9 billion by 2050. One estimate suggests that while food production will need to increase by 70% over the next forty years it will also need to use fewer resources and produce less greenhouse gases.

The Foresight report calls on farmers to produce more from the land; for scientists to find new efficient techniques and for us all to reduce the amount of waste along the food chain. Charlotte Smith looks at some of the measures already being used on farm and in the lab and asks if it'll be enough.

Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock.


SAT 06:57 Weather (b00xwl71)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 07:00 Today (b00xzzt3)
Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and Justin Webb, including:
08:10 The BBC's Middle East editor Jeremy Bowen reports from Cairo.
08:13 Is the Davos World Economic Forum just a cynical exercise in back-slapping by the super rich?
08:43 Sir Harold Evans on the phone hacking scandal.


SAT 09:00 Saturday Live (b00y1tj2)
Fi Glover with showbiz icon Lionel Blair, poet Aoife Mannix, a man who survived the Moscow theatre siege of 2002 and a woman who rents her house out as a filming location; top-selling artist Jack Vettriano reveals his Secret Life and actress Tamsin Greig shares her Inheritance Tracks.


SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage (b00y1tj4)
Russian Road - Hitler Tours

John McCarthy explores the Vladimirka Highway in Russia and talks to the writer who travelled along it from
Moscow to Siberia. John also talks to two historians about visiting places associated with war - in particular the Second World War in Germany.
Producer: Chris Wilson.


SAT 10:30 Hey Mr Salinger (b00y1vxk)
For a year in 1996, Joanna Smith Rakoff was in charge of answering JD Salinger's fanmail. Salinger was famously reclusive, wanting nothing to do with his fans and Rakoff was supposed to send out a standard letter. But as she read the letters she found herself pulled into their lives, and secretly, surreptitiously she started answering them.

In this confessional documentary Joanna rediscovers the letters she answered and meets the people who wrote them. She introduces us to the teenager struggling at school, told by her teacher she would get an A for English if she received a reply from Salinger. We hear about the Japanese girl who wrote two letters, one in Japanese and one in English because she thought that Salinger was so smart he would probably know Japanese. Joanna remembers the woman whose daughter loved the short story 'A Perfect Day For Bananafish'. When her daughter died young, her mother wanted to set up a literary magazine and asked if she could call it 'Bananafish'. As Joanna says "if at first I found [them] weird, after a few months I found [them] - well, still weird, but also many other things: sad, sweet, stupid, hopeful, obsessive."

Until she worked at Ober, Rakoff was not a fan of Salinger's, but through reading his correspondence she saw what an incredible connection he made with his readers. She found herself reading Catcher in the Rye and Franny and Zooey with new eyes, seeing it as not the cutesy fiction she remembered, but as something more honest and troubled. It helped her move from being an uptight critic to becoming a writer.

And once, during one of his rare visits to New York, she even met the great man himself. We hear how tempted she was to give him one of the most touching and personal letters she ever received and why she decided not to


Producer: James Crawford
A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 11:00 The Week in Westminster (b00y1vxm)
Fraser Nelson of The Spectator looks behind the scenes at Westminster.

It was the week of an economic shock. The economy contracted, according to latest figures. The coalition blamed the wintry weather. But opponents were quick to question where growth will come from in the age of austerity. The former Labour chancellor, Alistair Darling, does so here in debate with the Conservative's deputy chairman Michael Fallon.

The departure of two 'working class' figures from the political scene heightened perceptions that the political classes are a privileged and wealthy elite. The cartoonist at The Times newspaper, Peter Brookes, often depicts the coalition leaders as public school boys. Here, he tells why.

But is the accusation really true about the political classes in general? The Tory peer and author - and former grammar school boy - Michael Dobbs says it's not. As does Labour's Jon Cruddas who went to a comprehensive school and who worked in Number 10 under Tony Blair.

This week also saw the publication of the Education Bill which will carry into law the proposals of the Education Secretary, Michael Gove. The Labour MP, Lisa Nandy, fears that allowing parents to set up their own schools will not benefit poorer pupils. The Conservative chairman of the Education Committee, Graham Stuart, makes the case for change..


SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent (b00y1vxp)
Shocking evidence of what the Taleban call justice.

The lessons for modern Lebanon in the story of the ancient Phonecians.

We explore a town Belarus where the spirit of Lenin still marches on.

And a correspondent goes in the footsteps of a master as he learns how to survive on the streets of Dakar.

The war in Afghanistan grinds on. The American-led forces and their Afghan allies have now been fighting the Taleban for nearly a decade. At stake is what kind of country, what kind of society might emerge - what its values might be, how it might dispense justice. And our correspondent in Kabul, Quentin Sommerville, has just come across a reminder of what the Taleban regard as acceptable punishment.

For six years now there's been one big burning question at the heart of Lebanese politics. And it is, "Who killed Rafik Hariri?" He was the prime minister who died in a huge bomb blast back in 2005. There's been a long investigation that has fuelled suspicions and deepened Lebanon's dangerous divisions. Last month the powerful Hizbollah movement believed that it was about to be accused of the killing. But it struck first - walking out of the ruling alliance, and bringing down the government. In Beirut, Kevin Connolly has been watching Lebanon come to terms with the upheaval.

The result of the recent election in Belarus was certainly no surprise. President Lukashenko is said to have won nearly eighty per cent of the vote. But independent observers were deeply unimpressed. They said the election fell well short of democratic standards. And several opposition candidates were arrested during protests after the poll. Under Mr Lukashenko's long rule, Belarus has earned a reputation so dire that the United States has described the country as Europe's "last outpost of tyranny". But the authorities there have been trying to tell James Coomarasamy that their critics are "mistaken".

There was a time when it seemed that the solution to world poverty lay in what was called "microcredit." The idea involves giving women in the poorest countries tiny loans to invest in very small business ventures - like buying a few chickens and then starting to sell eggs. And countless people have indeed benefited over the years. But it seems that microcredit - like any form of credit - can also be a road to ruin and despair, as Madeleine Morris has been finding out in rural India.

Almost every foreign correspondent has someone that they need to thank. They know that they could have achieved very little without the help of a local colleague. This is the figure who's helped steer them through all the political and cultural complexities of a strange new society - the figure who's helped the correspondent sound like they know what they're talking about. And on a recent trip to Senegal, David Goldbatt was lucky enough to work with one particularly impressive lady...


SAT 12:00 Money Box (b00y1vxr)
What's the future for high street financial advice?

Barclays announced this week it plans to stop offering customers financial advice at its branches.

The company said that the service had become less commercially viable.

It is the first high street bank to end its retail investment advice service, ahead of the Financial Services Authority's ban on commission, which comes into effect in 2013.

Last week, Barclays was fined £7.7m for failings in the advice it gave to customers, but the bank said the two issues were unrelated.

Will other banks follow suit? And if so, what would this mean for customers? Paul Lewis talks to Merryn Somerset-Webb, editor-in-chief of Money Week, and Malcom Kerr, a director of the financial services unit at Ernst & Young.

Counting the cost of solar panels:
There are concerns that a government subsidy aimed at encouraging home owners to generate their own solar electricity may be about to be creamed off by commercial operators.

The feed-in tariffs scheme was launched in April 2010, and promised a typical household earnings of £800 a year and savings on their bills of £120.

But as thousands of people sign up, questions are also being asked as to the burden this will place on the electricity bills of other households and whether the scheme will deliver what it promised.

Paul Lewis speaks to environmental campaigner and writer, George Monbiot, about why he would not give solar panels the green light, and to Greg Barker, Minister of State for Energy and Climate Change.

Getting the best credit card rates:
Borrowers are set to face tougher lending criteria as new European rules are introduced next week - with fewer people likely to receive advertised rates.

On 1 February, the Consumer Credit Directive comes into force. It is designed to improve transparency and protection for consumers and means that UK credit advertising rules will be the same as those in the EU.

Money Box hears from a listener who was offered double the advertised rate offered by his bank, and from Malcolm Harbour MEP, chairman of the Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection.

Wealth management:
How are the rich going to be investing their money in 2011 - and what can everyone else learn from them?

Paul Lewis interviews Jim Wood-Smith, head of research at portfolio managers Williams de Broe, about what strategies he thinks investors should follow in the coming year - and about what common investment mistakes investors should avoid.

Producer: Ruth Alexander.


SAT 12:30 The News Quiz (b00xw5ng)
Series 73

Episode 4

In the week that an assistant referee found herself at the centre of a media storm, and George Osborne put the prospect of a double dip down to a dip in temperature, Sandi Toksvig presents another episode of the ever-popular topical panel show. This week's guests are Jeremy Hardy, Paul Sinha and Sue Perkins and Carrie Quinlan, and Harriet Cass reads the news.
Produced by Victoria Lloyd.


SAT 12:57 Weather (b00xwl73)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 13:00 News (b00xwl75)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 13:10 Any Questions? (b00xw5nl)
Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical discussion from Kesteven and Grantham Girls' School in Grantham, Lincolnshire with questions for the panel including former Labour Cabinet minister David Blunkett, Conservative MP Louise Bagshawe, historian Michael Burleigh and Dr Wendy Piatt, Director-General of the Russell Group of Universities.

Producer: Victoria Wakely.


SAT 14:00 Any Answers? (b00y1vxt)
Any Answers? Listeners respond to the issues raised in Any Questions? If you have a comment or question on this week's programme or would like to take part in the Any Answers? phone-in you can contact us by telephone or email. Tel: 03700 100 444 Email: any.answers@bbc.co.uk.


SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama (b00y1vxw)
My Dear Children of the Whole World

Vatican City, December 1942. As war rages across the globe, Pope Pius XII prepares to deliver his annual Christmas message. It is perhaps the most important public address he will ever give - and that's why the Pontiff faces the starkest dilemma of his reign.

For months beforehand evidence has been growing of a vast, organised genocide of Jews and other races in German-occupied lands. Now the Vatican is coming under increasing pressure to speak out against Nazi atrocities. In private audiences, the British and American ambassadors to the Holy See urge Pius to show moral leadership by explicitly attacking Hitler in his Christmas message.

Yet Pius is reluctant to specifically condemn the Holocaust. He is concerned that speaking out risks making things worse. As Pius writes and discards draft after draft of the message, it becomes clear that there are other factors to explain his ambivalence. Europe's future seems to hang in the balance between Nazism and Bolshevism, and it is the latter ideology that he most fears.

In My Dear Children of the Whole World, by Hugh Costello.

Pope Pius XII was played by Hugh Ross
And Sir Francis Osborne by Nick Dunning.
Cardinal Maglione was played by Pat Laffan
Monsignor Tardini by Patrick Fitzsymons
Mother Pasqualina ..... Stella McCusker
Harold Tittman ..... Stuart Milligan
Myron Taylor ..... Colin Stinton
And Sister Teresia Benedicta ..... Christine Kavanagh

My Dear Children of the Whole World was directed in Belfast by Eoin O'Callaghan.


SAT 15:30 The Rock Island Line (b00pkbff)
The story of how Lonnie Donegan's recording of The Rock Island changed the course of popular music forever. Folk singer and musician Huw Williams talks to The Quarrymen and Peter Donegan, tracing the origins of The Rock Island Line from John Lennon's prized 78 via the prisons of the Southern American states to the railroad itself. The programme includes a brand new recording of The Rock Island Line featuring The Quarrymen and Pete Donegan.


SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour (b00y1vxy)
Weekend Woman's Hour

Presented by Jane Garvey. From the Big Apple to Britain: the bite of the bedbug. Sexism on and off the football pitch - what is acceptable? The Michelle Obama effect and her impact on how people view race and gender. Why one mother's calling for a change in how professionals respond to cot death. Why the role model of a 'bitter bitch' is one Swedish author's answer to achieving a more equal society.The impact of multiple birth on a sibling - what it means to become an instant big sister to two, three, or four. Liz Lochhead on becoming Scotland's new national poet.


SAT 17:00 PM (b00y1vy0)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news, plus the sports headlines.


SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line (b00xw4xm)
The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin to present a clearer view of the business world, through discussion with people running leading and emerging companies.

Evan consults the oracle by asking his panel of top executives to fast-forward five years and forecast how they see the economic landscape in 2016. They discuss raw materials and inflation, and debate who will look stronger - will it be China or India?

The panel also discusses the value of networking - both real and virtual - for your business and your career.

Evan is joined in the studio by Andy Street, managing director of high street retail chain John Lewis; Nicola Horlick, founder of Bramdean Asset Management; Simon Woodroffe, entrepreneur and founder of YO! Company.

Producer: Ben Crighton.


SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast (b00xwl77)
The latest shipping forecast.


SAT 17:57 Weather (b00xwl79)
The latest weather forecast.


SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b00xwl7c)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.


SAT 18:15 Loose Ends (b00y1x94)
Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of conversation, music and comedy.

Clive is joined by comedienne, writer and documentary maker Ruby Wax, whose new stage show 'Ruby Wax - Losing It' discusses the stigma of mental illness and the toxins of our time - envy, fame, getting rich, kids, career, all the while looking like you're having a nice day.

Author Michael Lewis tells of his preposterous experiences of working on the trading floors of Wall Street. His new book 'The Big Short' tells the outrageous story of the misfits, mavericks and geniuses who, against all odds, made the greatest financial killing in history.

Jon Holmes talks telly with broadcaster Paul Jackson and the return of his new Radio 4 series 'Britain in a Box', which celebrates innovative television programmes and focuses on a particular period in cultural and social history. World in Action and campaigning TV kicks off the series.

Dynasty's glamourpuss Stephanie Beacham talks to Clive about her current dramatic role as the larger-than-life Soprano Maria Callas in Terence McNally's award winning play 'Masterclass'.

Comedy from John Shuttleworth, who in his latest show 'A Man With No More Rolls' not only laments the nation's moral decline, but the demise of the humble bread roll! John will be 'rolling' out his latest hit 'Smells Like White Spirit' on his trusty synthesiser!

Plus Nashville North meets Lower Manhattan with Justin Townes Earle who performs the title track from his album 'Harlem River Blues.'

With more music from Milwaukee singer-songwriter Heidi Spencer who plays 'Moth Met Spider' from her debut album 'Under Streetlight Glow.'

Producer: Cathie Mahoney.


SAT 19:00 Profile (b00y1x96)
Baroness Sayeeda Warsi

Gerry Northam profiles Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, co-chair of the Conservative party and the first Muslim government cabinet minister.

Producer: Gail Champion.


SAT 19:15 Saturday Review (b00y1x98)
Tom Sutcliffe and his guests novelist Liz Jensen, historian Dominic Sandbrook and academic John Mullan review the week's cultural highlights.

Boardwalk Empire was created by former Sopranos co-writer Terence Winter and is being shown on Sky Atlantic. Set in Prohibition era Atlantic City, it stars Steve Buscemi as Nucky Thompson - a man who seems to have a finger in just about every pie in town. The first episode was directed by Martin Scorsese - it's rumoured to be the most expensive TV pilot ever shot.

The 'O' in the title of O: A Presidential Novel by Anonymous is Barack Obama. The author is apparently "an anonymous insider who has spent years observing US politics and its players" and someone who "has been in the room with Obama". The novel tracks Obama through the next two years of his presidency, culminating in the October 2012 election.

Nominated for an Oscar in the Foreign Language Film and Best Actor categories, Biutiful is a film by Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, set in Barcelona, which stars Javier Bardem as Uxbal - a terminally ill man who is trying to make amends for the mistakes that he's made and put his life in order during his final months.

Roald Dahl's Twisted Tales at the Lyric Hammersmith in London features six of Dahl's short stories adapted for the stage by Jeremy Dyson who first came to prominence through The League of Gentlemen. The title alludes to the twist in the tail which was typical of the stories Dahl wrote for an adult readership.

John Stezaker has taught some of Britain's leading artists at St Martin's, Goldsmiths and the Royal College of Art, but he is also an artist in his own right, adjusting, inverting and slicing classic movie stills, vintage postcards and book illustrations to create unique, subversive images. The show at London's Whitechapel Gallery is the first major exhibition of his work.

Producer: Torquil MacLeod.


SAT 20:00 Brief Encounters - A World View of Cinema (b00y1x9b)
A debate with Matthew Sweet who assesses the state of cinema and cinemas in the world today.

With the help of experts Prof. Ian Christie (University of London, Birkbeck College), Sandra Hebron (BFI) Stephen Woolley (Producer: Interview with the Vampire) and Anil Sinanan (film critic) and by using the snapshots recorded in cinemas around the world which have been transmitted on Radio 4 over the past two weeks, we will get a vivid and informed understanding of the movie industry today.

The short features transport listeners into cinemas located all around the world, eavesdropping on their stories, their characters and occasionally trying the snacks.

From the multiplexes of the western world to some of the most remote locations on earth, the act of going to the cinema speaks volumes. This debate captures the passions, problems and popcorn habits of film goers as they indulge in an activity that unites the planet. But the story of cinema now is also the story of the political, economic and cultural tensions that divide the world.

We'll be given a front row ticket to an outdoor screening of a Kung-fu movie on the wall of a Buddhist temple, hear the story of a cinema turned Beirut bomb-shelter and meet a young man as he recalls his first trip to a Kabul cinema since the departure of the Taliban. We go to Georgia where the western capitalist ideals are for sale - cappuccino and cell phones - but inside the socialist ideal has not been eradicated completely with films on drugs and education. Then there is the last cinema in Kashmir surrounded by razor wire and guarded night and day by armed security, its future uncertain as the fundamentalists force its closure. The future of cinema in places like Kashmir and Afghanistan is uncertain, but the growing markets of china and East Europe tell a very different story.

Producer: Neil George.


SAT 21:00 Classic Serial (b00xp2cs)
The Moonstone

Episode 1

Doug Lucie's dramatisation of Wilkie Collins' detective masterpiece from 1868, starring Eleanor Bron as Lady Verinder and Kenneth Cranham as Sergeant Cuff, Paul Rhys as Franklin Blake and narrated by Steve Hodson as Betteridge.

Described by T.S. Eliot as the first and best of English Detective novels, The Moonstone, involves a huge diamond stolen from the forehead of an Indian deity, plundered in a siege and finally given to Rachel Verinder on her eighteenth birthday. It is said to carry a curse and mysteriously disappears on the night of the celebrations.

Are the Indian jugglers who were at the house earlier to blame? Why are they hanging around the property with a little boy they appear to be able to hypnotise? When the local police get nowhere, one of the new detective police is called for from London, and quickly finds a clue, but what is it going to tell him? Has the curse of the Moonstone brought with it suspicion and superstition to poison the happy Verinder household on the Yorkshire coast?

Cast:
Lady Verinder ..... Eleanor Bron
Rachel Verinder ..... Jasmine Hyde
Betteridge ..... Steve Hodson
Franklin Blake ..... Paul Rhys
Sergeant Cuff ..... Kenneth Cranham
John Herncastle ..... Stephen Critchlow
Rosanna Spearman ..... Alison Pettitt
Godfrey Ablewhite ..... Mark Straker
Penelope ..... Clare Corbett
Mr Murthwaite ..... Paul Battacharjee
Khan/Indian..... Narinder Samra
Housemaid ..... Carolyn Pickles
Boy ..... Alex Miller

Recorded on location by Lucinda Mason Brown
Original Music by David Chilton
Dramatised by Doug Lucie

Producer: Janet Whitaker
A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4.


SAT 22:00 News and Weather (b00xwl7f)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.


SAT 22:15 Moral Maze (b00xw1t9)
Conflict Between Religious Belief and Human Rights Law

When a gay couple were turned away from a B&B run by Christians it was more than just what would be going on behind the bedroom door that was at stake. The real question is should English law be based on the changing values of the populace, rather than the Judeo-Christian principles found in the Bible?

Last week's case was just the latest in a class of cases that has become known as "relitigation" - where the rights of religious communities are pitted against the prohibition on discrimination The gay couple won their case; as the judge put it "Whatever may have been the position in past centuries it is no longer the case that our laws must, or should, automatically reflect the Judeo-Christian position."

Is the application of the Human Rights Act being turned in to a political ideology and being used to persecute a group - the religious - that is now a minority in our society? Should religious beliefs have any privileged status in a democratic society? How do we define the boundaries of liberty? Is the state, through the legal system, defending minorities or encroaching in to the very core of our personal freedoms and telling us what to believe?
Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Matthew Taylor and Clifford Longley.

Ulele Burnham, Chair of discrimination law association, Barrister specialising in equality law.

Paul Diamond, Barrister, Specialising in law of religious liberty.

Austen Ivereigh, Roman Catholic journalist, commentator and campaigner. Also co-ordinator of Catholic Voices which was created for the papal visit to put the church's case to the media

Richard Norman, Emeritus Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Kent, and a member of the Humanist Philosophers' Group. A Vice-President of the British Humanist's Association.


SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain (b00xplrm)
(14/17)
Russell Davies welcomes a further four semi-finalists to BBC Maida Vale to contest a place in the 2011 Brain of Britain Final. This week's contenders come from Widnes in Cheshire, Bakewell in Derbyshire, Northwich in Cheshire and Sutton in Surrey.

Which word for a lamentation, or warning against the morals of the times, is taken from the name of a Hebrew prophet?

On a coat of arms, what's the name given to the centre point of the escutcheon or shield?

Wembley Stadium was first built for which exhibition, that took place in 1924?

You can find the answers to these, and many other questions, in this week's programme.

Producer Paul Bajoria.


SAT 23:30 Poetry Please (b00xp2j6)
Roger McGough returns with a new series of your poetry requests, including work by Bertolt Brecht, Rudyard Kipling and Kate Scott. There's something of a food-related theme to the edition, with William Carlos Williams' evocative poem describing the chilled plums he's raided from the fridge. Kipling's poem 'Arithmetic on the Frontier' weighs a British soldier's life against that of his adversaries, and his own officers. The readers are Jon Strickland and Phyllida Nash.

Producer: Mark Smalley.