MONDAY 07 JANUARY 2008

MON 00:00 News and Weather (b008m556)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by weather.


MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed (b008klll)
Cities and Memory - Berlin Extra

CITIES AND MEMORY
Last week Laurie Taylor visited Berlin to discover how the city is dealing with the ghosts of its past. But other cities around the world have also carved the memories of their citizens into their buildings and infrastructure. As communities change, new memories become layered over old ones, and decisions about what is commemorated and what is forgotten come to reflect the prevailing political climate of the day. Laurie is joined by the writer and filmmaker Iain Sinclair, Professor Richard Sennett and Professor Sophie Watson to discuss how cities come to reflect the pride, and the shame, of what has gone before.

BERLIN EXTRA
You can debate the issues raised in this week’s programme on our discussion forum, hosted by the Open University.


MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday (b008m3gm)
[Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday]


MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast (b008m59n)
The latest shipping forecast.


MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes (b008m59p)
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.


MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast (b008m59q)
The latest shipping forecast.


MON 05:30 News Briefing (b008m59r)
The latest news from BBC Radio 4.


MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day (b008m57y)
Daily prayer and reflection with George Craig.


MON 05:45 Farming Today (b008m59s)
News and issues in rural Britain with Anna Hill.


MON 05:57 Weather (b008m59t)
The latest weather forecast for farmers.


MON 06:00 Today (b008m59v)
With Edward Stourton and Greg Wood. Including Sports Desk at 6.25am, 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather at 6.05am, 6.57am, 7.57am; and Thought for the Day at 7.48am.


MON 09:00 Start the Week (b008m59w)
From Neville Chamberlain's dramatic flights to meet Hitler in 1938 to Blair and Bush's negotiations on Iraq, summits have seen world leaders forging intense personal relationships that have had far-reaching consequences. Historian DAVID REYNOLDS analyses how world leaders from Kennedy to Gorbachev regarded their opponents and how the disastrous meetings of Munich and Moscow still hold lessons for successful summitry today. Summits: Six Meetings that Shaped the Twentieth Century is published by Allen Lane and the accompanying TV series starts on BBC Four on 30 January.

The playwright PENNY GOLD is also interested in how we view historical events. In her latest play, The President's Holiday, she uses extracts from Raisa Gorbachev's diary to gain an insight into the attempted coup in 1991 that saw the family confined to their Black Sea dacha. The story explores the crumbling of Mikhail Gorbachev's political ideals and the betrayal of political allies. The President's Holiday opens at Hampstead Theatre, London on 17 January. It then moves to the Nuffield Theatre Southampton from 20 February.

Our images of Iraq are largely those on our news programmes of politicians, soldiers and insurgents. We see explosions and killings and follow the political wrangling. But the film maker IVAN O'MAHONEY and his co-director Laura Winter have instead given air time to The Boys of Baghdad High, 17-year-old boys who film their own lives for a year. We see them take substantial risks to attend school every day and chart the growing tensions as the security and economic situation deteriorates. The Boys from Baghdad High will be shown on BBC Two on Tuesday 8 January at 9.00pm.

The US Government was behind 9/11, a Chinese fleet reached America before Columbus and the structure of a cell is too complex to have evolved through natural selection: all examples of what journalist and writer DAMIAN THOMPSON has classed as 'counterknowledge.' And, he argues, we're facing a pandemic of it as, helped by the internet, spurious claims and unproven theories are blurring the distinction between truth and fiction to dangerous effect. Counterknowledge: How we surrendered to conspiracy theories, quack medicine, bogus science and fake history is published by Atlantic Books.


MON 09:45 Book of the Week (b008m5hd)
The Prince

Men Must Either Be Flattered or Eliminated

The Prince: Peter Firth reads from Niccolo Machiavelli's guidebook on political power. 1: Men Must Either Be Flattered or Eliminated. How to conquer new territory.


MON 10:00 Woman's Hour (b008m5hf)
Money and Relationships; Author Lesley Lokko; Darts Champion Trina Gulliver

How easy is it to navigate the world of personal finance and manage money as a couple? Plus, author Lesley Lokko on race and architecture, and Trina Gulliver on playing darts.


MON 11:00 Pilot (b008m5xh)
Libby Purves explores the world of the ship's pilot, whose job involves guiding the world's biggest ships into port and out to sea again in the best and the worst of weathers.

Aboard a pilot cutter on the River Tees in heavy seas, Libby meets Geoff Taylor of the International Maritime Pilots Association and his colleagues to talk about the life of the men - and one woman - who guide our ships safely to shore.


MON 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse (b008m5xj)
Series 2

The King's Kilt

Series of comic plays starring Stanley Baxter.

By Rona Munro.

A recalcitrant Highland kilt maker is faced with the task of producing a garment for George IV to wear on his first visit to Edinburgh in 1822.

Donald Nicholson ...... Stanley Baxter
Walt Silver ...... John Guerrasio
Miss/Mistress MacEvoy ...... Alison Peebles
Sir Walter Scott ...... Gordon Kennedy

Directed by Marilyn Imrie

A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4.


MON 12:00 You and Yours (b008m7th)
Consumer news and issues with Carolyn Atkinson and Peter White.


MON 12:57 Weather (b008m7tj)
The latest weather forecast.


MON 13:00 World at One (b008m7tk)
National and international news with Martha Kearney.


MON 13:30 The Garden Quiz (b008m6lj)
Episode 1

Anna Ford chairs a quiz to find the best all-round amateur garden expert in the country.


MON 14:00 The Archers (b008m3w1)
[Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday]


MON 14:15 Drama (b008m6lk)
Slightly Larger than West Virginia

Slightly Larger than West Virginia, by Hugh Costello. Redeployed in Ireland, former CIA high flyer Sam Taft has had to alter his view of the world, and he is starting to like it.


MON 15:00 Money Box Live (b008m6ll)
Vincent Duggleby and guests answer calls on financial issues. Listeners can call 08700 100 444 from 1.30pm until 3.30pm [calls from land lines cost no more than 8p a minute].


MON 15:30 Afternoon Reading (b008m6nn)
Granta Stories

The Death of a Chair

Extracts from the archives of Granta, the UK's most prestigious literary magazine.

By Doris Lessing, read by Barbara Marten.

A lived-in chair is bought at auction, where it begins its final journey towards discovery and destruction.


MON 15:45 A Sense of Liverpool (b008m6np)
Episode 1

Writers, artists and entertainers take a fresh look at Liverpool, to mark its year as European Capital of Culture.

Rastafarian poet Levi Tafari goes on a literary journey in and around his home in Toxteth. He explores why Liverpool is traditionally a city of storytellers, boasting a long tradition of poets, novelists and playwrights. He talks about its influence on him in poems such as Toxteth Where I Reside.


MON 16:00 The Food Programme (b008m3h3)
[Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday]


MON 16:30 Beyond Belief (b008m74z)
Ernie Rea explores the place of faith in today's world, teasing out the hidden and often contradictory truths behind the experiences, values and traditions of our lives.


MON 17:00 PM (b008m79w)
Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. Including at 5.57pm Weather.


MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News (b008m79x)
The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, followed by Weather.


MON 18:30 Just a Minute (b008m767)
Series 52

Episode 1

Nicholas Parsons chairs the devious word game. Panellists are Paul Merton, Clement Freud, Chris Neill and Josie Lawrence.


MON 19:00 The Archers (b008m793)
It's Plough Monday and David welcomes a group of clergy to Brookfield. Bert eagerly introduces David to Rachel the new archdeacon, who shows a keen interest in farming and Brookfield.

Nigel welcomes Kathy back to Lower Loxley but the atmosphere is very strained. After discussing the rotas, Elizabeth suggests Kathy goes early. Kathy's glad to, but not before pointing out that she'd rather Elizabeth didn't discuss her business with the family. Elizabeth apologies but realises just how difficult her relationship with Kathy has become.

Pip's dismayed that Adam has ploughed up Quarry Bank. It's where she did her skylark survey last May, and it's supposed to be set-aside. David tries to explain that Adam had no choice - he was just obeying Matt's orders - but Pip's disgusted that the estate don't appear to know about the wildlife that's trying to survive on their land. Pip points out the advantages of birds; she knows her stuff but David reminds her what farming's all about. Pip's incensed. Matt's a developer not a farmer and what he's done is wrong. She's going to phone him - he had no right to plough up the field.


MON 19:15 Front Row (b008m79y)
Director Sidney Lumet is best known for a string of taut cinematic thrillers from the 1970s, including Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon. His latest film, Before The Devil Knows You're Dead, is being heralded as a long-awaited return to form for the octegenarian. Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Ethan Hawke, the film tackles the moral consequences of a botched heist. Film critic Adrian Wootton joins Mark Lawson to give the Front Row verdict.

With the new year come two new dramas from ITV - both dealing with families going through big changes. The Palace is about the sudden accession of a young, irresponsible, boozy prince to the British throne, whilst Honest is the tale of a crooked family going straight after the head of the household is sent to jail. Joining Mark Lawson to discuss the programmes are comedian Natalie Haynes and TV critic Chris Dunkley.

Richard T Kelly’s debut novel Crusaders explores religion, politics and crime in Newcastle and the North East of England in the late 1990s. Previously the author of a book about the filmmaking movement Dogme 95 and a biography of Sean Penn, Richard Kelly talks to Mark Lawson about why he chose to venture into the world of fiction writing.

Mark Lawson finds out about the Army's new Potential Officer's Development Course which involves a cultural training programme for soldiers. Mark discusses the course with Major Miles Hayman, Commanding Officer at the Army School of Education, and with BBC correspondent Mark Urban, and finds out what Spamalot and Madam Butterfly have in common as far as the Army is concerned.


MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama (b008m79z)
We Need to Talk about Kevin

The Decision

Anita Sullivan's adaptation of Lionel Shriver's award-winning novel about family tragedy and its aftermath. 1/10: The Decision.


MON 20:00 Things We Forgot to Remember (b008m7cb)
Series 3

The Bengal Famine

Michael Portillo presents a series revisiting the great moments of history to discover that they often conceal other events of equal but forgotten importance.

One of the worst catastrophes ever to occur under British rule, the Bengal famine of 1943 cost, at the most conservative of British estimates, one and a half million lives. Michael challenges our collective amnesia and asks historians from both India and Britain whether it could have been avoided.


MON 20:30 Crossing Continents (b008kjc3)
South Korean Gamers

Julian Pettifer explores South Korea's cutting edge cyber culture. He discovers that e-athletes or computer gamers are treated like rock stars and earn hundreds of thousands of pounds a year. but the dark side of this digital craze is a pathological addiction. Treatment centres have opened all over the country to help young people who cannot tear themselves away from the computer screens.


MON 21:00 The New Guinea Singing Dog (b0076rjq)
Could a strange melodious dog from the remote cloud forests of New Guinea have been man's first best friend? Andrew Luck-Baker investigates.


MON 21:30 Start the Week (b008m59w)
[Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today]


MON 21:58 Weather (b008m7ql)
The latest weather forecast.


MON 22:00 The World Tonight (b008m7qm)
With Paul Moss. Including reports on a possible political compromise in Kenya, new Conservative Welfare to Work plans and waste disposal problems in Naples.


MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime (b008m7qn)
The Egg and I

Episode 1

The Egg and I: Debora Weston reads from Betty MacDonald's memoir of early married life on a chicken ranch during the 1920s. 1/10: Betty learns that a lady never scratches or spits.


MON 23:00 The Sex Lives of Us (b008nx82)
Gay Times

Episode 1

Tom Robinson explores the portrayal of homosexuality in the media. 1/2: He looks back from the late 1950s to the early 70s.


MON 23:30 Today in Parliament (b008m7pt)
News, views and features on today's stories in Parliament with David Wilby.