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Friday 6 – Friday 13 November 2009 Hello fellow listeners, The week of Remembrance Sunday sees several programmes, plays and readings dedicated to the subject of war and the people affected by it. There’s a big change to our schedule on Sunday morning,as you would expect, so please look at  the schedule on the Radio 4 website for more details. With Our Mutual Friend, starting on Monday, we will be offering you the chance to listen again to the whole series for seven days after the broadcast of the last episode. In the trade this is called stacking. For a comprehensive list of all our programmes, see our schedule pages. Don't forget that items and guests can and do change in the live topical programmes, and that some links in this newsletter will be live later today, or later in the week.
	Friday 6 November A Point of View, 8.50-9.00pm, repeated Sunday 8.50-9.00am Clive James reflects on the seductive allure of illegal narcotics and wonders it all started with Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
	Saturday 7 November Where Do You Want Me? (A Comic in Continental Crisis), 10.30-11.00am Johnny Vegas asks if Benidorm is the elephant's graveyard for entertainers who just don't know when to call it a day, or a shining tribute to the glory of comedy that came before. He discovers many household names who have followed their ageing audiences to the Spanish Coast, where they are still revered and can play once more to packed houses. Money Box, 12.00-12.30pm, repeated Sunday 9.00-9.30pm Paul Lewis presents. Likely items: the programme puts listeners claims about disputed cash machine withdrawals using PINs to the Financial Services Authority to ask if the banks are treating customer fairly when refunds are refused; the most widely held share in the UK are those of Lloyds TSB - should private investors take up the opportunity to buy new ones? And Child Trust Frunds have become more popular but their future is uncertain. All Quiet on the Western Front, 2.30-4.00pm By Erich Maria Remarque, dramatised by Dave Sheasby. First published in 1929, it quickly established itself as a great war novel. Told from the German side, it features four 18- year-olds and their company on the Western Front fighting in the trenches over a period of years. The boys are gradually disabused of all notions of Kaiser and country. (First heard on Radio 3). Loose Ends, 6.15-7.00pm Clive Anderson guests are Nicky Haslam, Anthony Horowitz, and Nigel Harman. Arthur Smith talks to Tanith Carey. Comedy from Jason Manford. Music from The Brand New Heavies and from Gurrumul. From Fact to Fiction, 7.00-7.15pm, repeated Sunday 5.40-6.00pm By Rebecca Lenkiewicz. The Man in the Suit.  As Radovan Karadzic insists he needs more time to prepare his defence, and claims that his fundamental rights have been violated, there are many with other thoughts on their mind. With Nigel Anthony and Annette Crosbie. Archive on 4: This is the Army, Mr Jones, 8.00-9.00pm, repeated Monday 3.00-3.45pm John Barrowman tells the story of Irving Berlin's ground-breaking army show that came to bomb-ravaged London in 1943 before setting out on a world tour that raised military morale from Glasgow to Guam.
	Sunday 8 November Living World, 6.35-7.00pm New series. Autumn Crickets. Lionel Kelleway goes to Dartmoor to find the last of the season’s grasshoppers and crickets. Radio 4 Appeal, 7.55am, repeated 9.26pm, and Thursday 3.27pm Jon Snow appeals on behalf of Bhopal Medical Appeal. Sunday Worship, 8.10-8.50am On Remembrance Sunday, a programme specially recorded at Camp Bastion, the main base for British forces in Afghanistan. Ceremony of Remembrance, 10.30-11.45am The traditional music of remembrance is played by the Massed Bands and, after the Last Post and Two Minutes Silence, Her Majesty the Queen lays the first wreath on behalf of nation and Commonwealth. The Bishop of London leads a short Service of Remembrance. Then, during the March Past, veterans recall past conflicts and we hear from those serving in the armed forces around the globe today. Nicholas Witchell sets the scene in London’s Whitehall. Poppies Are Red, Cornflowers Are Blue, 11.45-noon Mark Whitaker visits Ypres, where the symbol of the poppy is everywhere, and the nearby battlefield where McCrea penned "In Flanders Field" and goes inside the British Legion's Poppy Factory in Richmond. He travels to Verdun, scene of the longest and most devastating battle in French history and visits the awe-inspiring Ossuary where the bones of 130,000 French and German soldiers lie together. Professor Jay Winter gives his insights into the significance of the two flowers and different traditions of remembrance. Open Book, 4.00-4.30pm, repeated Thursday 4.00-4.30pm Mariella Frostrop announces the winner in our Neglected Classics vote and discusses listeners’ nominations with John Mullen and Jenny Hartley. Adventures in Poetry, 4.30-5.00pm, repeated Saturday 11.30pm-midnight New series. Peggy Reynolds focuses on Edward Thomas’s poem Adlestrop. Its 16 short and simple lines capture more than the mood of a single moment and has been much loved for almost 100 years. Read Adlestrop Americana, 7.15-7.45pm David Willis is joined by Harry Shearer to examine the week’s top news; he takes a helicopter ride with a descendant of Amelia Earhart; spends time with tags along with Los Angeles’ paparazzi; and talks to country music singer Toby Keith.
	Monday 9 November Start the Week, 9.00-9.30am, repeated 9.30-10.00pm Andrew Marr’s guests are Shlomo Sand, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tony Marchant and Sue Brown. The Magnetic North, 9.45-10.00am, repeated 12.30-12.45am Adjoa Andoh reads from Sara Wheeler's account of her journey to the lands that border the Arctic Ocean. Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Discussion about confident parenting; entering competitions during the recession; a new test to identify mothers at risk of premature births; interview with Helen Marriage and Nicky Webb, organising light show in Newcastle. Our Mutual Friend, 10.45-11.00am, repeated 7.45-8.00pm New series. 1/20. By Charles Dickens, adapted by Mike Walker. Dickens’ last complete novel was written in 1864/65, is a story packed with love, ambition, greed, good nature, snobbery with violence, confidence tricksters and murderous rivalry. The entire series will be available on Listen Again in its entirety for seven days after the last episode has been broadcast. Calling Time on Student Bars, 11.00-11.30am Ed Byrne, asks why students are turning their backs on the union bar and heading to the High Street for a night out. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm A sale and rent-back scam; the Pegasus system; Cornwall meets energy saving targets; National Express takeover; Steve Armstrong discovers perfumes based on the smell of major cities. Gilda and Her Daughters, 2.15-3.00pm By Carine Adler. A mother and her daughters gather at home after the death of the father. With Sian Thomas, Pippa Haywood, Kathryn Hunt and Claire Bleasdale. Whatever Happened to the Teapots?3.45-4.00pm In the 1980s, Roger Law and Peter Fluck of Spitting Image went to Stoke-on-Trent to get Margaret Thatcher teapots made. Now Roger returns to meet the craftsmen and potters who worked with him and to find out what has happened to their great industry. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Mark Lawson reviews Taking Woodstock, a new film from director Ang Lee; plus political John Sergeant on his latest career move; and the verdict on the return of Robbie Williams. Child of the State, 8.00-8.30pm Lemn Sissay looks for the lost memories of his time in social care as a child. He tracks down the people – staff, social workers and old friends - who remember him so that he can fill in the gaps in his memory. The Glass Room, 10.45-11.00pm By Simon Mawer, read by Greta Scacchi. High on a Czechoslovak hill, the Landauer House shines as a marvel of steel, glass, and onyx. Built specially for newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer, it is one of the wonders of Modernist architecture. But the radiant honesty and idealism of the 1930s that the house seems to engender quickly tarnishes as the storm clouds of war gather. The author took inspiration from the Tugendhat House, designed by Mies van der Rohe.
	Tuesday 10 November Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Discussion about the top three female chief execs of FTSE companies being American; interview with Leslie Scott, designer of the Jenga game; anti-depressants during pregnancy; interview with Odette Kayirere about her work with orphans and widows in Rwanda. Call You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm The Police force: getting value for money. A Cymbal Tale, 1.30-2.00 Andrew McGibbon tells the story of a 150-year-old cymbal and discovers the magic of cymbals which arrived in Europe in the 1670s from Ancient Assyria and China. The Diaries of Edith Appleton, 3.30-3.45pm, Tues-Thur Rachel Atkins reads three extracts from the diaries of Edith Appleton, a nurse who worked close to the front line during the First World War. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Vladimir Jurowski discusses why the music of Alfred Schnittke is so important to him; a report on whether downloading music without paying for it can ever be justified; and a review of The White Ribbon, a new film from Michael Haneke.
	Wednesday 11 November Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Interview with Darina Allen, author of Forgotten Skills of Cooking; interview with Andrea Marshall about manta rays; paying for dementia care; discussion about the wisdom of proverbs with Caroline Taggart, author of An Apple a Day. Find Me a New York Jewish Princess, 11.00-11.30am Tim Samuels heads for the bright lights of New York City to find a Jewish princess with NY get up and go and embarks on a week of power-dates. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Swine flu - panel update; shoddy builders; the demise of local train services; convenience stores. Money Box Live, 3.00-3.30pm Vincent Duggleby and his guests Alan Barr, Brodies and director of Legal Practice at University of Edinburgh; Ian Johnson, Grant Thornton; and Nicola Plant,Thomas Eggar, take your calls and emails on wills and estate planning. Call 03700 100 444 from 1.30pm on Wednesday or email from now. Nick Mohammed: Apollo 21, 6.30-7.00pm Mockumentary by Nick Mohammed about the surviving astronauts from the first moon landing. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Mark Lawson reports on the opening of Nottingham Contemporary, a brand new arts venue; and an interview with director Steven Soderbergh.
	Thursday 12 November In Our Time, 9.00-9.30am, repeated 9.30-10.00pm Melvyn Bragg and his guests Jim al-Khalili, Charlotte Bigg, and Frank James talk about the discovery of radiation.  Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Interview with Romola Garai; discussion about canine chic [but everyone knows it’s all about micro pigs now]; discussion about support for disabled children leaving home. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Flooding charges; councils share services; black boxes for cars; wi-fi cities; charging consumers different prices; fast track airport security; leisure and disability. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm John Wilson meets Norah Jones; he reviews apocalyptic film 2012; and an interview with novelist Philip Kerr. The Bottom Line, 8.30-9.00pm, repeated Saturday 5.30-6.00pm Evan Davis and his guests Dawn Airey, Chief executive Channel 5, Michael Moritz, Sequoia Capital, and Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, talk about clustering (where companies of similar outputs locate near each other) and the future of television.
	Friday 13 November Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Supporting single parents to stay at home on public money; interview with DC Tracy O’Hara, international policewoman of the year; discussion about Scottish suffrage; interview with Amanda Lawrence, playing Charles Hawtrey in theatre production. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Golf towns; theatre sight-lines; Pinewood Studios; riding for people with disabilities; Peter White visits the World Travel exhibition. Number Ten, 2.15-3.00pm New series. By Jonathan Myerson. Life inside Downing Street: after a general election, the Tories have won more seats but Labour got the biggest vote. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Kirsty Lang reports on how the comic book form is taking on anything from crime fiction to Bertrand Russell's theories of mathematics; and an interview with virtuoso violinist Sarah Chang.  If you want more, you can meet and chat to your fellow listeners on the Radio 4 messageboards. That's all for this week. Have a great week. Anna and the Radio 4 interactive team. Read this newsletter on our website.
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