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Friday 5 - Friday 12 February 2010 Hello fellow listeners, Lots to tell you this week in the little space allotted to me, so here goes in double-quick order: In Our Time launched its  fabulous new website yesterday - the most stupendous feature of which is that the audio archive reaches back to 1998 (before we had a Radio 4 website, so how cool is that?). To tie in with Mark Lawson’s fabulous Capturing America series, we’ve got  The American Authors Collection - listen to over 20 full-length interviews. Plus Book at Bedtime next week is devoted to short pieces by American authors. Say What You Want to Hear  - theStart-Up, Thursday’s Afternoon Play, gives you the chance to post your thoughts on the play's website, and have the chance to have them included by the author in a second instalment next month. Soul Music is looking for people who have been inspired and/or moved by "He's got the whole world in his hands": email rosie.boulton@bbc.co.uk soonest and someone will be in touch by the end of February for a programme which is going out in March. A History of The World in 100 Objects launched a  website for mobile phones which is pretty juicy:  and we've given thought about how to upload objects to our website, so we've made a video to help you. In London, maybe visiting the 100 Objects at the British Museum and wondering what other lovely things you can do? Howabout a tour of Broadcasting House? I can't guarantee a visit to our cubby-hole by the broom cupboard, but I’m sure the tour has other just as exciting highlights. 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 5 February Feedback, 1.30-2.00pm, repeated Sunday 8.00-8.30pm Roger Bolton asks the editor of the BBC's business unit at what point "coverage" becomes "advertising"; Roger explores the art of the abridger. email Feedback: feedback@bbc.co.uk A Point of View, 8.50-9.00pm, repeated Sunday 8.50-9.00am Lisa Jardine reflects on the need for scientists predicting climate change to present their facts and their arguments with scrupulous care. How Does That Make You Feel? (Ordinary’s Not Enough), omnibus, 9.00-10.00pm An omnibus edition of Shelagh Stephenson's drama about psychotherapist Martha.
	Saturday 6 February Stefan Gates’s Cover Story, 10.30-11.00am Stefan Gates recalls the photo shoot for the cover of Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy album, and the effect it had on his life. Money Box, 12.00-12.30pm, repeated Sunday 9.00-9.30pm Paul Lewis presents. Likely items: companies that claim to get your debts wiped off; lots of emails from you about tax code errors; low interest rates; the launch of a new hedge fund. Loose Ends, 6.15-7.00pm Clive Anderson’s guests are Eric Schlosser, Clive Mantle, and Nadine Dorries. Arthur Smith talks to Benjamin Cohen (see I Was A Teenage Dotcom Millionaire, Tuesday, below); comedy from Jo Caulfield; music from Tom McRae and from Ian King. Profile, 7.00-7.15pm, repeated Sunday 5.45-6.00am and 5.40-5.55pm Clive Coleman profiles Vincent Nicols, Archbishop of Westminster.
	Sunday 7 February Radio 4 Appeal, 7.55am, repeated 9.26pm, and Thursday 3.27pm Jonathon Porritt appeals on behalf of BTCV. Desert Island Discs, 11.15-noon, repeated Friday 9.00-9.45am Kirsty Young's guest is Gok Wan. In Pursuit of Treasure, 1.30-2.00pm Mike Pitts delves into the sometimes murky world of the metal detector. Bookclub, 4.00-4.30pm, repeated Thursday 4.00-4.30pm James Naughtie and readers talk to Clive James about his book Unreliable Memoirs.
	Monday 8 February Start the Week, 9.00-9.45am, repeated 9.30-10.00pm daily Andrew Marr’s guests are Joseph Stiglitz, Lucy Prebble, Peter Brook, and Robert Beckford. Woman’s Hour, 10.00-10.45am Winning Women’s Votes: interview with Nick Clegg; eggs are the new superfood (they kept Margaret Thatcher going in 1979); DJ Mamy Rock; listeners respond to bright clothes item; asylum storytelling. Writing the Century 12: 1966-1969 - Pleidiol Wyf I'm Gwlad/True To My Land, 10.45-11.00am, omnibus Friday 9.00-10.00pm Dramatised by Tina Pepler from documents at the National Library of Wales. In the 1960s Welsh identity was under threat. Sharon Morgan was a young history student at Cardiff University and Sir Glanmor Williams was an eminent historian, and a member of the Broadcasting Council for Wales - but their passions for Wales and Welsh identity were identical. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Young people and mental health; shortage of cycle mechanics; revival of Duralex glass; review of Eurostar delays; condensing boiler inspections; cost of ebooks; supermarkets reduce range of wine they offer. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Mark Lawson reviews Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins in Wolmmen; an interview with playwright David Greig, as he writes a sequel to Shakespeare's Macbeth. Book at Bedtime: Capturing America, 10.45-11.00pm Mark Lawson has chooses short pieces by five American authors: Monday: Emotions by David Mamet, read by Colin Stinton. Tuesday: Our Man at Harvard by Norman Mailer, read by Garrick Hagon. Wednesday: Starving Again by Lorrie Moore, read by Jennifer Lee Jellicorse. Thursday: The Astronomer by John Updike, read by Kerry Shale. Friday: excerpts from Tennessee Williams’ diaries, read by Paul Birchard.
	Tuesday 9 February Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am A special progamme about women in the 1930s. Guests: Juliet Gardiner, author of The Thirties: An Intimate History of Britain; Professor Carol Dyhouse, author of Glamour: Women, History, Feminism; Professor Sally Alexander, and Professor Judy Giles. Call You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Climate matters. I Was a Teenage Dotcom Millionaire, 4.00-4.30pm Benjamin Cohen confronts his past and revisits the feverish days of British dotcom mania. A Good Read, 4.30-5.00pm, repeated Friday 11.00-11.30pm New series. Sue MacGregor and her guests Chris Packham and Stella Duffy choose their favourite paperback books. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Mark Lawson reports on an exhibition of work by the painter Arshile Gorky, who played a key role in the rise of Abstract Expressionism in America in the mid-20th century; and the verdict on Valentine's Day, starring Julia Roberts and Anne Hathaway.
	Wednesday 10 February Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Winning Women’s Votes: the lost generation - young people and long-term unemployment; interview with May Witwit and Bee Rowlat, authors of Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad: The True Story of an Unlikely Friendship; discussion about feminism (not) in the Bible. Fags, Mags and Bags, 11.30am-noon New series. Sanjay finds a girlfriend and embraces the arts. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Medical Assessment report; fake village greens; Care Quality Commission report; wood burning stoves and environment concerns; RTE launches new digibox. Afternoon Play: Postcards from a Cataclysm, 2.15-3.00pm Nine short plays about global annihilation: as an asteroid hurtles towards earth, a variety of people react in their own unique way. Writers: David Varela, Rommi Smith, Lizzie Nunnery, Josie Long, Tim Crouch, Carl Grose and The Factory. Performers: Piers Wehner, Tim Key, Kenneth Cranham, Emerald O'Hanrahan, Rhys Jennings, Joseph Cohen-Cole, Tessa Nicholson, Josie Long, Kate Layden, Ewan Hooper, Bruce Alexander and Melissa Advani, the London Community Gospel Choir. Sound design: Zhe Wu and Caleb Knightley. Money Box Live, 3.00-3.30pm Paul Lewis and his guests take your calls about divorce, termination of civil partnerships and separation. You can email the programme from now. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Mark Lawson meets I M Pei, whose work includes the glass pyramids at the Louvre in Paris; an interview with Jeff Bridges, Oscar-nominated for Crazy Heart; and a report on an art exhibition curated in response to the writings of the late J G Ballard.
	Thursday 11 February In Our Time, 9.00-9.45am, repeated 9.30-10.00pm Melvyn Bragg and his guests talk about unintended consequences in mathematics. Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Interview with Janet Skeslien Charles, author of Moonlight in Odessa (our Book at Bedtime next week); interview with Antony Worrall Thompson, author of The Essential Diabetes Cookbook: Good Healthy Eating from Around the World in Association with Diabetes UK; the work of Tomorrow’s Warriors. Capturing America: Mark Lawson’s History of Modern American Literature, 11.30am-noon New series. 1/8. Mark Lawson charts how, from World War II to the present day, novelists, playwrights and poets have tackled the big themes of modern American life. Interviews include Gore Vidal, Toni Morrison, Joseph Heller, August Wilson, Philip Roth, John Grisham, David Mamet, Edward Albee, John Irving, Joyce Carol Oates, EL Doctorow, Chang-Rae Lee, Richard Ford, Tony Kushner, Edmund White, Walter Mosley, Jane Smiley, Joan Didion, Harold Bloom, Elaine Showalter, Nicholson Baker, Don DeLillo, Rita Dove, Neil LaBute, John Ashbery, Armistead Maupin, Stephen King, Junot Diaz, Dave Eggers, Jay McInerney, Bret Easton Ellis, Garrison Keillor and others. Face the Facts, 12.30-1.00pm John Waite investigates a payment processing company which refused to pass on vast sums of money from customers who bought holidays online, undermining the balance sheets of struggling travel firms. Afternoon Play: Say What You Want to Hear - the Start-Up, 2.15-3.00pm The opening salvo in our new interactive drama project. In this first of two plays, we hear from two would-be dot.com entrepreneurs who launch a website which offers users the chance to have their innermost thoughts voiced. So, if you click on the link below and leave your thoughts there, writer Tim Wright will use them in the second play he’s writing for us, to be broadcast next month. Neat, eh? Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Kirsty Lang reports on a new theatre in Cape Town's District 6, named after Athol Fugard; a report on how Hollywood is making links with Bollywood. The Bottom Line, 8.30-9.00pm, repeated Saturday 5.30-6.00pm Evan Davis and his guests Julia Hobsbawm, Tim Bell, and Robert Phillips talk about why businesses need PR.
	Friday 12 February Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Winning Women’s Votes; helping small business; interview with Clare Morrall, author of The Man Who Disappeared. The Mystery of the Moving Statues, 11.00-11.30am Gerry Anderson travels to Knock in Ireland, where a man claims to have seen the Virgin Mary appear as the sun danced in the sky. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Football clubs slow to pay tax; Greek Gap Year scam; gym membership charges; Olympic training camps; caravan thefts; Amanda Ross talks about publishing. Afternoon Play: Bad Faith, 2.15-3.00pm 2/4. Vengeance Is Mine by Peter Jukes. Jake Thorne gets involved in a restorative justice programme which tries to reconcile a bereaved mother and the woman responsible for killing her daughter. With Lenny Henry. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Kirsty Lang reviews film The Lightning Thief; an interview with Bola Agbaje, whose latest play focuses on the hard choices facing a group of 20-somethings who grew up on a London estate. 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 weekend and see you later this week. Anna, and the Radio 4 interactive team. Read this newsletter on our website
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