BBC Radio 4 LW Schedule Saturday 4 July 2009

LW Schedule

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Early
1. 00:00
  Midnight News—03/07/2009
  The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
2. 00:30
  The Last Champion - The Life of Fred Perry by Jon Henderson—5. The Founding of a Clothing Empire
  5/5Perry faces life after tennis and finds success as a businessman
3. 00:48
  Shipping Forecast—03/07/2009
  The latest shipping forecast.
4. 01:00
  Selection of BBC World Service Programmes—04/07/2009
  BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
5. 05:20
  Shipping Forecast—04/07/2009
  The latest shipping forecast.
6. 05:30
  News Briefing—04/07/2009
  The latest news from BBC Radio 4.
7. 05:43
  Prayer for the Day—04/07/2009
  Daily prayer and reflection with Rev Dr Craig Gardiner.
8. 05:45
  iPM—04/07/2009
  The weekly interactive current affairs magazine featuring online conversation and debate.
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Morning
1. 06:00
  News and Papers—04/07/2009
  News headlines, plus a look at the papers.
2. 06:04
  Weather—04/07/2009
  The latest weather forecast.
3. 06:07
  Open Country—Orkney Energy
  Helen Mark meets the Scottish islanders determined to become self-sufficient in energy.
4. 06:30
  Farming Today—Farming Today This Week
  It's a boom time for UK agricultural shows, so what has gone wrong for the Royal?
5. 06:57
  Weather—04/07/2009
  The latest weather forecast.
6. 07:00
  Today—04/07/2009
  Including Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day, Yesterday in Parliament.
7. 09:00
  Saturday Live—04/07/2009
  Fi Glover is joined by Irish novelist John Boyne. With poetry from Luke Wright.
8. 10:00
  Excess Baggage—04/07/2009
  Sandi Toksvig discusses rail travel in Britain and finds out all about couch surfing.
9. 10:30
  Gurinder, The Movie
  Film director Gurinder Chadha on the benefits of having Asian and British nationality.
10. 11:00
  The Week in Westminster—04/07/2009
  A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Steve Richards.
11. 11:30
  From Our Own Correspondent—04/07/2009
  Kate Adie introduces BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the headlines.
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Afternoon
1. 12:00
  News Headlines; Shipping Forecast—04/07/2009
  National and international news and the shipping forecast.
2. 12:04
  Money Box—04/07/2009
  Paul Lewis with latest news from the world of personal finance.
3. 12:30
  The Now Show—Series 28, Episode 2
  2/8Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the week's news.
4. 12:57
  Weather—04/07/2009
  The latest weather forecast.
5. 13:00
  News—04/07/2009
  The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
6. 13:10
  Any Questions?—03/07/2009
  Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate in Cranleigh in Surrey.
7. 14:00
  Any Answers?—04/07/2009
  Jonathan Dimbleby takes listeners' responses to this week's Any Questions?
8. 14:30
  Saturday Drama—Utz
  By Bruce Chatwin. An academic in 1960s Prague meets an eccentric porcelain collector.
9. 15:30
  Settling the Score
  Tim Blackmore examines the complex relationship between composer and commissioner.
10. 16:00
  Woman's Hour—Weekend Woman's Hour
  Highlights of this week's Woman's Hour programmes with Jane Garvey.
11. 17:00
  PM—Saturday PM
  Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula Shah, plus sports headlines.
12. 17:30
  The Bottom Line—02/07/2009
  Evan Davis asks business leaders about their contact with their employees.
13. 17:54
  Shipping Forecast—04/07/2009
  The latest shipping forecast.
14. 17:57
  Weather—04/07/2009
  The latest weather forecast.
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Evening
1. 18:00
  Six O'Clock News—04/07/2009
  The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
2. 18:15
  Loose Ends—04/07/2009
  Clive Anderson is joined by Peter Capaldi, Trisha Goddard and Benjamin Zephaniah.
3. 19:00
  Profile—Silvio Berlusconi
  Jonathan Maitland profiles Silvio Berlusconi.
4. 19:15
  Saturday Review—Michael Mann's latest film Public Enemies, Jeff Koons: Popeye Series and Justin Cartwright's novel To Heaven By Water
  Tom Sutcliffe is joined by novelists Deborah Moggach and Adam Mars Jones.
5. 20:00
  Archive on 4—I Did Not Interview the Dead
  The voices and immediate memories of Nazi concentration camp survivors, recorded in 1946.
6. 21:00
  Classic Serial—Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
  Dramatisation of Thomas De Quincey's 1821 account of his addiction to laudanum.
7. 22:00
  News and Weather—04/07/2009
  The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
8. 22:15
  The Reith Lectures—Michael Sandel - A New Citizenship, A New Politics of the Common Good
  4/4Professor Sandel makes the case for a moral and civic renewal in democratic politics.
9. 23:00
  Quote... Unquote—29/06/2009
  Nigel Rees chairs. With Dame Beryl Bainbridge, Ekow Eshun, Anthony Howard, Francesca Simon
10. 23:30
  South of My Days
  Greta Scacchi presents a portrait of Australian poet Judith Wright, who died in 2000.
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Late
1. 00:00
  Midnight News—04/07/2009
  The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4.
2. 00:30
  Afternoon Reading—Ones to Watch (Volume 2), Naked
  3/5Henry finds that his anniversary cruise leaves him with cabin fever.(R)
3. 00:48
  Shipping Forecast—04/07/2009
  The latest shipping forecast.
4. 01:00
  Selection of BBC World Service Programmes—05/07/2009
  BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service.
5. 05:20
  Shipping Forecast—05/07/2009
  The latest shipping forecast.
6. 05:30
  News Briefing—05/07/2009
  News from BBC Radio 4.
7. 05:43
  Bells on Sunday—05/07/2009
  The sound of bells from York Minster.
8. 05:45
  Profile—Silvio Berlusconi
  Jonathan Maitland profiles Silvio Berlusconi.

Sunday 5 July 2009