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TV Guide for BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 4th September 2010
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| 0 | 00:30 Three Stories by Haruki Murakami Series of three short stories by the Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami. 2/3: The Year of Spaghetti. A man reminisces about his gastronomic obsession. Read by Jack Davenport. |
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| 5 | 05:45 Brother Mine Julian Lloyd Webber explores different social and cultural attitudes towards siblings. 5/5. Twins: Average siblings share half their genes, but identical twins share all of theirs. |
| 6 | 06:07 Open Country Helen Mark visits Cornwall to find out why the reintroduction of cattle to graze the Penwith Moors and improve the area's biodiversity has upset some of the local community. |
| 7 | 07:00 Today With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk at 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather at 7.57am; Thought for the Day at 7.48am. |
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| 9 | 09:00 Saturday Live Fi Glover is joined by TV presenter Fiona Phillips, poet Murray Lachlan Young, an Oscar-winning costumier and a rock star record producer who's now developed Alzheimer's. |
| 10 | 10:00 Excess Baggage Sandi Toksvig explores Florida in the company of the former British Vice Consul in Orlando and some lesser known tourist destinations with comedian Dom Joly. 10:30 Stock Car Sewell Art critic Brian Sewell explores his passion for the noise, drama and destruction of stock car racing, as he visits the Wimbledon Stadium for a night at the races. |
| 11 | 11:00 Beyond Westminster As the public spending axe looms, Andrew Rawnsley probes with insiders and top politicians the role of the infamous Star Chamber which makes the fateful decisions on who gets what. 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent Kate Adie hosts as correspondents in Iraq, Pakistan, Chile, Israel and DR Congo tell the stories behind the headlines. |
| 12 | 12:30 Chain Reaction Chat show in which last week's interviewee becomes this week's interviewer. 4/6: Entertainer Ruby Wax interviews voice of The Simpsons and political satirist Harry Shearer. |
| 13 | 13:10 Any Questions? Martha Kearney chairs the topical discussion from St Chad's Church in Burton upon Trent, with the panel including Alan Duncan, Ed Miliband, Quentin Letts and Mary Ridell. |
| 14 | 14:00 Any Answers? Martha Kearney takes listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's edition of Any Questions? Call 03700 100 444 [calls cost no more than to 01, 02 landline numbers]. 14:30 The Saturday Play Translations, by Brian Friel. In 1833, two army officers arrive in a Donegal village to draw up a new map of the area and replace the Irish place names with English equivalents. |
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| 16 | 16:00 Weekend Woman's Hour Presented by Jane Garvey. Including Dame Ellen MacArthur on sustainability, Gareth Malone on teaching boys, whether the HFEA should be scrapped and the politics of black hair. |
| 17 | 17:00 Saturday PM Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Ritula Shah, plus the sports headlines. 17:30 iPM A deaf man praises birdsong; a mum longs for playground noise; and how did 1940 sound? Listeners share their experiences. Plus guest appearances by Jeremy Vine and The Stig. |
| 18 | 18:15 Loose Ends Clive Anderson is joined by Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Vidal Sassoon, Lynne Franks, Emma Freud and Arabella Weir. With music from Dawn Kinnard and Dan Michaelson and The Coastguards. |
| 19 | 19:00 Profile Who is Pope Benedict XVI? Ahead of his visit to the UK in September, Jane Little delves into his background and paints a portrait of a man many people know little about. |
| 20 | 20:00 Archive on 4 Barbara: An appraisal of the influential Labour politician Barbara Castle, in the centenary of her birth, by her official biographer Anne Perkins. |
| 21 | 21:00 Classic Serial No Highway, by Nevil Shute. 2/2: 1948: The future of Britain's transatlantic aviation industry looks grim following the crash of a new Rutland Reindeer airliner. |
| 22 | 22:15 Iconoclasts Edward Stourton chairs the discussion series. 2/3: Journalist Stephen Pollard argues that we should stop spending public money on the arts. Contact the show: iconoclasts@bbc.co.uk. |
| 23 | 23:00 Round Britain Quiz Tom Sutcliffe chairs the cryptic general knowledge quiz, featuring teams from Wales and Scotland. 23:30 Norn But Not Forgotten: Sounds of Shetland: The dialect of the Shetland Islands is studded with words left over from the extinct Norn language. Kathleen Jamie discovers its appeal for poets who live there. |