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Friday 28 November – Friday 5 December 2008 Hello fellow listeners, You can hear Sheila Dillon present the BBC Radio Food and Farming Awards 2008, held in Birmingham yesterday. Sheila said "In these financially and environmentally chaotic times there's never been a more important time to honour our food producers, retailers, cooks and campaigners. These award winners have all been helping to keep alive the tradition of the best local and sustainable food. They are a model for the future." There was a great pre-title sequence in Lead Balloon, Jack Dee’s sitcom on BBC2, last night. I won’t spoil it for you, except to say that it features our very own Timothy Bentinck (David in The Archers). Catch it on iPlayer (warning: the subsequent programme has an under-16 warning for language). For a comprehensive list of this week’s programmes, visit 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 28 November A Point of View, 8.50-9.00pm, repeated Sunday 8.50-9.00am Clive James argues that the historical movies, like the recent one about the Baader Meinhof gang, are in danger of replacing the genuine event.
	Saturday 29 November Open Country, 6.00-6.30am,repeated Thursday 1.30-2.00pm Helen Mark visits Mourne in Northern Ireland, a place fabled in song and literature and mooted as the country's first national park. That’s No Job for an Asian!10.30-11.00am Yasmeen Khan explores British Asian comedy and asks whether the job of being a comedian has become an acceptable alternative to more traditional professions. Contributors: Sanjeev Bhaskar, Paul Sinha, Sajeela Kershi and Ahir Shah. Money Box, 12.00-12.30pm, repeated Monday 3.00-3.30pm Paul Lewis presents. Items are so far: Alistair Darling’s pre-Budget report; Scottish Home Report packs; Pension Bill received Royal Ascent this week; FSA wants to overhaul the way financial advice is given. Boscobel, 2.30-3.30pm Historical thriller by Ian Curteis. After the execution of his father, the future Charles II must flee England or die. Over a thrilling 40-day journey, he has much to learn - how to live rough, how to evade capture and how to earn the kindness of strangers. iPM, 5.30-6.00pm New series. Eddie Mair returns with the interactive current affairs programme which features online conversation and debate. See what the team is planning for tomorrow’s programme and join in the debates, one of which is how much you’re willing to pay for your TV licence fee. Loose Ends, 6.15-7.00pm Clive Anderson talks to Professor Brian Cox, Michael Cockerell, and Samuel West. Rachael Stirling talks to Danielle McCormick. Comedy from Doc Brown. Music from Keane and from Oleta Adams. From Fact to Fiction, 7.00-7.15pm, repeated Sunday 5.40-6.00pm Jeff Young and musician Pete Wylie explore the heroin issue on the streets of Liverpool, where large quantities of Afghanistan’s processed poppies find a home.
	Sunday 30 November Radio 4 Appeal, Sunday 7.55-8.00am, repeated Sun 9.25-9.30pm, Thurs 3.28pm Corrine Bailey Rae appeals on behalf of Pump Aid. Donations: Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal. Credit cards: Freephone 0800 404 8144. Desert Island Discs, 11.15-12.00 midday; repeated Friday 9.00-9.45 Kirsty Young’s guest is co-founder of the Glastonbury Festival, Michael Eavis. The Hunchback of Notre Dame, 3.00-4.00, repeated Saturday 9.00-10.00pm By Victor Hugo. A collaboration between the BBC and Graeae, the disabled-led theatre company. This dramatisation has involved disabled writers and a cast that includes leading Deaf actor David Bower (Sign Dance Collective, Four Weddings and a Funeral) as Quasimodo.
	Monday 1 December Start the Week, 9.00-9.45, repeated 9.30-10.00pm Andrew Marr’s guests are John Dupre, Richard Susskind, Chris Bishop, and Paul Heritage. Medical London - City of Diseases, City of Cures, 9.45-10.00am, repeated 12.30-12.45am, daily By Richard Barnett, read by Tony Gardner. For centuries, London was the world's largest city and a frontline in mankind's battle against disease. Diseases, treatments and cures have played a fascinating role in the city's sprawling story and London, in turn, has shaped the professions and practices of modern medicine. Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Hillary Clinton appointed US Secretary of State; discussion about a forced marriage documentary; World Aids Day; Monday Panel. Snobs, 10.45-11.00am, repeated 7.45-8.00pm A satire on English snobbery, adapted from his own novel by Julian Fellowes. Edith Lavery, the beautiful only child of an accountant, leaves behind her dull job in an estate agency – and her middle class life - when she marries Charles, Earl Broughton. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Ports’ Business Rates crisis; the International Bad Company Awards; new open-cast mines; meat processors’ strike; BBC online TV streaming causes broadband pressure. Money Box Live, 3.00-3.30pm Paul Lewis and his guests John Whiting, tax partner. PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP; Jane Moore, tax faculty technical manager, Institute Chartered Accountants in England and Wales; Eddy Graham, welfare rights worker, CPAG, take your calls and emails on the pre-Budget report. Call from 1.30pm on Monday on 03700 100 444 or email from now. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Mark Lawson meets the American composer Elliott Carter, who celebrates his 100th birthday in December; the verdict on film Julia, the tale of an alcoholic woman lured into a kidnap plot; and comedy writer and performer Alexei Sayle discusses his new novel. The Things We Forgot to Remember, 8.00-8.30pm New series. Michael Portillo revisits the Jarrow March of 1936, which has been remembered as a dignified demonstration of the struggle of the unemployed. However, he discovers a much more violent and dangerous march that preceded it in 1932, which ended with bloodshed and rioting in Hyde Park.
	Tuesday 2 December Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Down’s Syndrome feedback; dieting groups; female war photographers and war artists; interview with Tilda Swinton. I Was Dudley Moore’s First Bandleader, 11.30am-midday John Bassett met Dudley Moore, then a talented organ scholar, at Oxford in the late 1950s, and asked him to become the pianist in his jazz band (called The Bassett Hounds). With contributions from Bassett Hound members Duncan Lamont and Pete Shade and Dudley's Beyond the Fringe colleague Jonathan Miller. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Call You & Yours: Heathrow’s third runway vs high-speed rail. The Babington Plot, 2.15-3.00pm By Michael Butt, in the style of a contemporary documentary. On its surface, the Babington Plot was a plan to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I, put Mary Queen of Scots on the throne and return England to the Catholic fold. But the plot is notorious because it was almost entirely driven by the government: spies had infiltrated the plot at its inception and kept it going in order to draw the maximum number of genuine subversives into the net, thus acquiring the necessary evidence to justify Mary's execution. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Mark Lawson reports as the original manuscript of Jack Kerouac's On the Road - a scroll of paper more than 100 feet long - arrives in Birmingham; a review of film Lakeview Terrace, scripted by Neil LaBute, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, who plays a police officer with a grudge against his The Human Button, 8.00-8.40pm, repeated Sunday 5.00-5.40pm Peter Hennessy speaks to the people who operate Britain’s nuclear deterrent - from politicians to the submariner who would, if called upon, pull the trigger and unleash Armageddon.
	Wednesday 3 December Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Children of alcoholics; interview with Annie Freud; if pole dancing is unacceptable, what about the Chippendales? The Art of Conversation, 11.30-midday The first broadcast of a newly discovered piece by Dylan Thomas, written during WWII when he was employed by the BBC to write radio talks and features. A witty talk on the decline of conversation, with “contributions” from Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley and Dr Johnson, it frequently reminds the listener that Careless Talk Costs Lives. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Warmfront charges, complaints; British Gas raise direct debits; Michael Bywater talks about money-lending etiquette; a 1990s building society de-mutualiser; the end of Vespa; Towcester Racecourse abolishes entrance fees.. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Mark Lawson talks to singer Maria Friedman; and he finds out why a recent full-colour Hollywood thriller is being released on DVD in black and white.
	Thursday 4 December In Our Time, 9.00-9.45am, repeated 9.00-9.30pm Melvyn Bragg and guests Simon Schaffer, Hasok Chang, and Joanna Haigh discuss the history of scientific ideas about heat, from the element of fire to the theory of thermodynamics. Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am The Queen’s Speech and initiatives for women; the best way to deal with a parent who denies access to children to their ex-partner. The Three Stooges: Movie Maniacs, 11.30am-midday Glenn Mitchell tells the story of American vaudeville and comedy act The Three Stooges, from their stage debut in the 1920s, through their Hollywood films and shorts, to their later TV appearances and numerous personnel changes. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm Interview with John Whittingdale MP, chair of committee looking at ticket touts; Gerry Anderson mourns the loss of the local pub; proposed Manchester congestion charge; the Supplier Ombudsman; forest leasing in Scotland; property guardians; innocent people accused of downloading computer games. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Kirsty Lang meets comedy writer and performer Jack Dee; and she reports on two major musical revivals - Lesley Garrett in Carousel and Maureen Lipman in A Little Night Music.  The Partisan Coffee House, 8.00-8.30pm Mike Berlin tells the story of a short-lived but influential left-wing coffee house set up in London's Soho in 1958 and considers what happened to the political and cultural optimism that flourished after it closed in 1961. It was the idea of Raphael Samuel, a young radical historian who was one of the founding figures of the British New Left. With a menu that included borscht and Viennese coffee, the Partisan was an attempt to recreate a Middle European-style meeting place for young people who were adjusting their political outlooks as a result of the joint crises of Suez and Hungary.
	Friday 5 December Woman's Hour, 10.00-10.45am Risque music videos; interview with Jacqui Hoyland, whose husband Jeremy disappeared on October 24 while on a jetski in the Indian Ocean; fringes. A Dream of Eleanor, 11.00-11.30am Former president of Ireland Mary Robinson examines the role that Eleanor Roosevelt had in producing the UN Declaration of Human Rights, which is 60 years old this year. Contributions from Geoffrey Robertson QC, Shami Chakrabarti and Eleanor's grandson Curtis Roosevelt. You and Yours, 12.00-1.00pm How developers built a golf course on a Scottish SSSI; Lesley Garrett’s weekend; what's being done about the acoustics in restaurants; and more on the funding for althletes hoping to compete for Britain in their home Olympics. More or Less, 1.30-2.00pm, repeated Sunday 8.00-8.30pm New series. Tim Harford looks at numbers everywhere, in the news, in politics and in life. Likely items: credit crunch maths: how banks overlooked the limitations of risk management models, with quantitative finance guru Paul Wilmott; Britain’s Most Admired Companies Awards, Professor Phil Rosenzweig argues that the annual Management Today awards are just another example of business-school pseudoscience; and, is fishing more dangerous than boxing? A listener is sceptical of a claim often made by boxers their sport is safer than fishing. Front Row, 7.15-7.45pm Kirsty Lang meets the Oscar-nominated British actress Sophie Okonedo. Don't forget that you can meet and chat to your fellow listeners on the Radio 4 messageboards. That's all for this week. Have a great weekend. Anna and the Radio 4 Interactive team. Read this newsletter on our website
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