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TV Guide for BBC Radio 4 on Saturday 20th March 2010
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| 0 | 00:00 Quote... Unquote Nigel Rees chairs the popular quiz involving the exchange of quotations and anecdotes. 6/6: With Mary Beard, Marcel Theroux, Arthur Smith and Ariel Leve. 00:30 Poetry Please Roger McGough introduces listeners' requests, read by Henry Goodman and Selina Cadell. |
| 1 | 01:30 Book of the Week Chopin - Prince of the Romantics: Adam Zamoyski's portrait of the life of the composer Frederic Chopin. 5/5: As Paris is shaken by revolution, Chopin seeks refuge in Scotland. |
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| 6 | 06:45 iPM The news programme that starts with its listeners. Presented by Jennifer Tracey and Eddie Mair. |
| 7 | 07:07 Open Country Post-Flood Cumbria: Matt Baker visits Cumbria, where the clean-up continues and rebuilding work is ongoing following the devastating floods of 2009. |
| 8 | 08:00 Today With John Humphrys and Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk at 7.25am, 8.25am; Weather at 7.57am; Thought for the Day at 7.48am. |
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| 10 | 10:00 Saturday Live Real life stories in which listeners talk about the issues that matter to them. Fi Glover is joined by writer Anthony Horowitz. With poetry from Salena Godden. |
| 11 | 11:00 Excess Baggage Sandi Toksvig asks Simon Reeve about his journey round the Tropic of Cancer and talks about Arnhemland, Australia with writer Wendy Gomersall and Sab Lord, who was raised there. 11:30 Me, My Family and Muhammad Ali Deirdre Pascall relives her youthful meeting with Muhammad Ali in 1976 and measures his impact on the black British population of the day. |
| 12 | 12:30 From Our Own Correspondent BBC foreign correspondents with the stories behind the world's headlines. Introduced by Kate Adie. |
| 13 | 13:30 The Now Show Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present a satirical review of the week's news, with help from Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and Marcus Brigstocke. |
| 14 | 14:10 Any Questions? Jonathan Dimbleby chairs the topical debate from Leeds. The panellists are Simon Heffer, Ed Balls MP, William Hague MP and Bea Campbell. |
| 15 | 15:00 Any Answers? Jonathan Dimbleby 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]. 15:30 The Saturday Play Playing With Trains. 1/2: Stephen Poliakoff's drama, set in the late 1960s, about an entrepreneurial engineer and his relationship with his son and daughter. |
| 16 | 16:30 Soul Music Exploring the emotional appeal of famous pieces of music. 4/5: People describe the place that the song He's Got the Whole World in His Hands has in their lives. |
| 17 | 17:00 Weekend Woman's Hour Presented by Jane Garvey and including an extended interview with Prime Minister Gordon Brown as part of our series Winning Women's Votes. |
| 18 | 18:00 turday PM Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Carolyn Quinn, plus the sports headlines. 18:30 The Bottom Line Evan Davis is joined by a panel of top executives from the worlds of house building, drinking and gambling to find out what they think of their rivals and to talk about regulations. |
| 19 | 19:15 Loose Ends Clive Anderson is joined by Jim Broadbent, Sophie Dahl and Sheridan Smith. Jo Bunting talks to master baker Tom Herbert. With music from Rox and Dr Rubberfunk. |
| 20 | 20:00 Profile Edward Stourton profiles Lord Saville of Newdigate, whose report into Bloody Sunday is expected to be handed to the government shortly. |
| 21 | 21:00 Archive on 4 Soccer, Springboks and Segregation: As South Africa prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, Allan Little examines the role that sport has played in the republic's internal politics. |
| 22 | 22:00 Classic Serial Clarissa, by Samuel Richardson. 1/4. The Pursuit: Beautiful young heiress Clarissa Harlowe is dangerously attracted by the wiles of the notorious libertine Robert Lovelace. |
| 23 | 23:15 The Moral Maze Michael Buerk chairs a debate on the moral questions behind the week's news. Anne McElvoy, Michael Portillo, Kenan Malik and Matthew Taylor cross-examine witnesses. |