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SAT SATURDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b014qvgv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0157984 (Listen) SAT One on One, Episode 5 SAT SAT Life is made up of individuals meeting one another. Often it SAT is the most fleeting of these encounters that, in the SAT fullness of time, turn out to be the most noteworthy. SAT SAT Salvador Dali sketches Sigmund Freud. 39 Elsworthy Road, SAT London NW3 July 19th 1938 SAT Sigmund Freud analyses Gustav Mahler. Leiden, Holland August SAT 1910 SAT SAT Ingenious in its construction, witty in its narration, SAT panoramic in its breadth, 'One on One' offers a delightful SAT series of snapshots of the 20th century. SAT SAT Readers: Eleanor Bron and Toby Stephens SAT Abridged and Produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b014qvgx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b014qvgz (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b014qvh1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b014qvh3 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b014qxd0 (Listen) SAT With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b014qxd2 (Listen) SAT "I'm the voice of widows, silenced by hackers" - how con men SAT attacked a listener's charity. With Eddie Mair. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b014qvh5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b014qvh7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01508nn (Listen) SAT Series 19, The Roaches and Lud's Church SAT SAT In the second of a series of walks suggested by listeners to SAT Ramblings, Clare Balding explores the area around the SAT gritstone escarpment of The Roaches on the edge of the Peak SAT District. SAT SAT The Roaches form a prominent rocky ridge situated above Leek SAT in Staffordshire and this spectacular rocky escarpment, worn SAT into weird and wonderful shapes over centuries by the SAT elements, almost seems to stand guard over all below it. On SAT a clear day from the summit of the Roaches it is possible to SAT look out over the Cheshire Plain towards the Welsh Hills SAT with spectacular views all around. SAT SAT Clare is joined by listener, Professor Mike Bode, and local SAT author and historian, Doug Pickford, both of whom were born SAT and brought up in Leek and share a passion for this SAT landscape. Steven Bell, from the Peak District National SAT Park, also guides Clare on the first part of her journey as SAT she climbs up on to the gritstone edge of the Roaches. SAT Before beginning the ascent, Clare visits the Bawdstone, SAT where it is said that passers by can remove the devil from SAT their backs by scrambling underneath. Climbing onto the SAT ridge itself, Clare passes Rockhall Cottage, a tiny cottage SAT literally built into the rock face, which was once the SAT gamekeeper's residence and is now a converted climbing hut. SAT Eventually reaching the top, Clare heads towards the SAT "bottomless waters" of Doxey Pool, said to be the home of SAT Jenny Greenteeth, a seductive mermaid or water spirit who SAT lures her unsuspecting victims to a watery grave. SAT SAT But, after continuing along the Roaches and descending SAT towards Gradbach and Back Forest, it is Lud's Church that SAT provides more than its fair share of myth and mystery. This SAT huge natural cleft in the rock is a deep chasm, around 400ft SAT long and 50 ft deep, with a cold, damp, feel. There are many SAT legends linked with Lud's Church. It was almost certainly SAT associated with the Lollards, followers of early church SAT reformer John Wycliffe, but Lud's Church is also thought to SAT be the inspiration for the setting of the Green Chapel in SAT the classic medieval poem, "Sir Gawain and the Green SAT Knight". Looking around, Clare can easily see why. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01508nt (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT A million tonnes of sugar is produced each year in the UK SAT from home grown sugar beet. Charlotte Smith joins the SAT harvest or the 'beet campaign' as it is known at a 1,400 SAT acre farm in Nottinghamshire. Contractors are working in the SAT field to bring in the sugar beets, which look a little like SAT a large turnip, before the crop is taken to the nearby SAT British Sugar factory in Newark. SAT SAT The bulk of the beets grown in the UK are used to make sugar SAT but its bi-products are used many other products. These SAT included a bio fuel which is added to petrol, clothing and SAT makeup. Belinda Townsend from the UK's National Centre for SAT Sugar Beet Research, Rothamstead Research Brooms Barn talks SAT about the crops versatility. SAT SAT Anna Hill is given rare access to one of the four British SAT Sugar factories at Wissington in Norfolk. The site is SAT processing sugar 24 hours a day for 6 months of the year. SAT SAT At the moment the European Union imposes quotas limiting the SAT amount of sugar which can be processed. The EU is SAT considering dropping these quotas in five years time. In SAT theory, that could mean that British farmers would be able SAT to produce as much sugar beet as they wanted. The National SAT Farmers Union explains its concerns over the plans saying SAT the industry would need time to adjust and sugar prices for SAT consumers could go up. SAT SAT On the Trent Valley farm, Charlotte Smith talks to farmer SAT James Fisher as he watches the harvesting process in action, SAT she samples the raw sweet vegetable in the farmhouse kitchen SAT and talks to horse owners at the farm's livery stables as SAT they feed sugar beet bi-products to the animals. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith; Produced in Birmingham by Angela SAT Frain. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b014qvh9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01508nx (Listen) SAT John Humphrys and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; SAT Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01508p1 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with violinist Nigel Kennedy, poet Matt SAT Harvey, Red Rum's former stable lad, and an anti-fascist SAT campaigner who used to be a member of the BNP. There's the SAT story of a ballet shoe that used to belong to Rudolph SAT Nureyev and war correspondent Janine di Giovanni shares her SAT Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Simon Clancy. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01508p5 (Listen) SAT Burma - Egypt - World's longest climb SAT SAT John McCarthy asks the historian Thant Myint-U, who visits SAT Burma regularly, about the recent political developments SAT there and its role in south east Asia. Thant reflects on the SAT how the country's relationship with tourism might also SAT change. The author and traveller Anthony Sattin tells John SAT how the history of Egypt has attracted traders and tourists SAT and how the change of government there too has affected SAT tourism. John also finds out from Pauline Sanderson about SAT her part in the world's longest climb from the Dead Sea to SAT Everest which involved an eight thousand kilometre cycle SAT ride through countries like Iran and Pakistan topped of with SAT an ascent of the highest mountain. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b00v697r (Listen) SAT Series 3, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt turns detective, investigating the curse of the SAT Crying Boy paintings and why, in house fires in the 80s, the SAT pictures were the only items to survive unscathed. SAT SAT Producer: Laurence Grissell. SAT SAT 11:00 Beyond Westminster b01509vl (Listen) SAT Where Next for Miliband's Labour? SAT SAT As Labour conference approaches, Beyond Westminster explores SAT different views within the party on what Ed Miliband needs SAT to do to strengthen the party and build a successful SAT electoral strategy. Inspired by Barack Obama, Miliband is SAT enthusiastically adopting the notion of community organisers SAT as the way forward. Gisela Stuart managed to hang onto her SAT Edgbaston seat against the odds in the last election by SAT recruiting campaign workers from outside the Labour Party. SAT But how much can grass roots politics alone achieve? What SAT positioning and policies need to lie behind it? And do any SAT of these concepts matter if Labour is no longer trusted to SAT run the economy? Anne McElvoy discusses the different SAT philosophies now being developed by those who call SAT themselves blue Labour, purple Labour and red Labour, and SAT asks if Miliband is following a clear path or fudging the SAT hard decisions he has to take. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01509vn (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01509vq (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. With SAT Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b014qxc5 (Listen) SAT Series 75, Episode 3 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig with panellists Jeremy Hardy, Susan Calman, Andy SAT Hamilton and Julia Hartley-Brewer. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b014qvhc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b014qvhf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b014qq77 (Listen) SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a discussion of news and politics SAT from Kings Worthy Primary School in Winchester. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01509vs (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b0150b0c (Listen) SAT Life and Fate: Fortress Stalingrad SAT SAT By Vasily Grossman SAT As the Russian tanks encircle Stalingrad, the commanders of SAT the German 6th Army realise that the end is in sight but SAT Hitler will not permit a surrender. Spiridonov abandons the SAT power station to join his daughter, Vera, and her new baby SAT on a barge frozen into the Volga. As the citizens of SAT Stalingrad start to reclaim their wrecked city, the family SAT begin to make plans for the future. SAT Dramatised for radio by Jonathan Myerson SAT SAT Stepan Spiridonov ..... Kenneth Cranham SAT Vera Spiridonova ..... Morven Christie SAT Pavel Andreyev ..... Malcolm Tierney SAT General Von Paulus ..... Matthew Marsh SAT General Schmidt ..... Elliot Cowan SAT Colonel Adam ..... Jonathan Cullen SAT Lieutenant Peter Bach ..... Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Sergeant Eisenaug ..... Michael Shelford SAT Zina ..... Jessica Raine SAT Major Byerozkin ..... Sam Dale SAT Alexandra Vladimirovna ..... Ann Mitchell SAT Natalya ..... Alison Pettit SAT Sergeyevna ..... Christine Kavanagh SAT Hitler's Orderly ..... David Seddon SAT Stalin's secretary ..... Tony Bell SAT Petenkoffer ..... Lloyd Thomas SAT Driver ..... Jude Akuwudike SAT SAT Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead SAT Directed and Produced by Alison Hindell SAT SAT 15:30 Page to Performance b014pzzz (Listen) SAT Series 3, Mahler's Final Adagio SAT SAT Musicians talk about the challenges they face as they SAT prepare to perform a piece from the orchestral repertoire. SAT In this programme Lowri Blake meets the young musicians of SAT the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain. Aged between SAT 13 and 19 they give an insight into the musical challenges SAT offered them by the last piece of music that the Austrian SAT composer Gustav Mahler completed - the Adagio from his SAT unfinished 10th symphony. SAT SAT It was a piece composed at the height of a personal crisis SAT in Mahler's life. He had just found out that his wife was SAT having an affair with a young architect, and he was also SAT suffering from a heart condition that would kill him before SAT he could complete the full symphony. SAT SAT Lowri Blake talks to Edward Seckerson about this tumultuous SAT time in the composer's life, how he sought a consultation SAT with the up-and-coming psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, and how SAT his passion for his wife and his despair were etched into SAT the score. The Adagio itself opens quietly but towards the SAT end erupts in a huge outburst of emotion, often described as SAT 'a cry of pain', which the young players, under the baton of SAT their conductor Vasily Petrenko, describe as they face the SAT demanding musical challenge. SAT SAT Producer: Richard Bannerman SAT A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0150bqr (Listen) SAT Cook the Perfect Quiche Lorraine, Singer Janis Ian SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week presented by Jane SAT Garvey. Cook the Perfect...Quiche Lorraine, New research SAT into how sickle cell affects maternal health, Actress SAT Patricia Routledge, Singer Janis Ian, Allison Pearson and SAT Natasha Walter discuss women "having it all", Caring for SAT older carers, Men and facial hair - love it or loathe it? SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0150bqt (Listen) SAT With Ritula Shah. A fresh perspective on the day's news with SAT sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b014qnwx (Listen) SAT Economy and Rumours SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Evan asks his guests whether it's time to declare a state of SAT emergency in the world economy and to adopt extreme measures SAT to sort out the Euro crisis and the lack of economic SAT activity in the West. They also discuss rumours, hearsay and SAT speculation, and the role they play in business. SAT SAT Evan is joined in the studio by Guy Berruyer, chief SAT executive of global business software supplier Sage Group; SAT internet entrepreneur Brent Hoberman, founder of online SAT interior decoration business mydeco.com; Hugh Hendry, SAT co-founder of hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b014qvhh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b014qvhk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b014qvhm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0150bwh (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Broadcasting from a street of London, Ralph McTell will be SAT in the Loose Ends Studio talking to Clive about his new SAT musical releases that span six collections of live songs and SAT instrumentals. Ralph has performed his unique folk music now SAT for over 50 years and with a back catalogue of over 300 SAT songs has plenty of great material for 'Songs For Six SAT Strings'. SAT SAT Meera Syal is known for her much loved comedic performances SAT in such classic BBC television shows as 'Goodness Gracious SAT Me' and more recently playing the fictional grandmother, to SAT her real life husband on 'The Kumars at No.42'! Meera is now SAT set to star as Sister George in the London revival of Frank SAT Marcus's dark comedy, 'The Killing of Sister George'. SAT SAT Also on the show talking to Clive is another much loved SAT television comedy actor, Boycie himself, John Challis. SAT Having been a star in the hugely successful sitcom 'Only SAT Fools and Horses', John has now had the chance to reflect SAT and revel in this success as the show is now celebrating SAT it's 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion he is releasing SAT his autobiography 'Being Boycie'. SAT SAT Allegra McEvedy has a come long way since being expelled SAT from school, so far in fact that she will be talking to Vic SAT Goddard, the headmaster of Passmores School which has been SAT dissected for Channel 4's new documentary series 'Educating SAT Essex'. SAT SAT Bringing his 'old school' and Motown musical charm is SAT Michael Kiwanuka with the title track from his recently SAT released EP, 'I'm Getting Ready'. Also performing will be SAT David J. Roch on acoustic guitar with soaring vocals and the SAT haunting melody of his next single 'Hour of Need'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0150bwk (Listen) SAT Warren Buffett SAT SAT Mary Ann Sieghart presents a profile of US investor and SAT philanthropist Warren Buffett. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0150bwm (Listen) SAT Sarfraz Manzoor and his guests writers Don Guttenplan and SAT Dreda Say Mitchell and poet Cahal Dallat review the week's SAT cultural highlights including Grief by Mike Leigh SAT SAT Mike Leigh's new play Grief stars Lesley Manville as Dorothy SAT - a war widow struggling to keep her grief and depression at SAT bay in 1950s suburbia. She shares her home with an older SAT brother and a teenage daughter both of whom become equally SAT isolated by their own unhappiness. SAT SAT Page One: Inside the New York Times is a documentary film by SAT Andrew Rossi who was given access to those behind the paper SAT during an eventful year which saw a vertiginous drop in SAT advertising revenue and the rise of Wikileaks. SAT SAT Colson Whitehead's novel Zone One is being marketed as 'a SAT zombie novel for people with brains'. The world has been SAT devastated by a plague that has turned its victims into SAT mindless, cannibalistic zombies. Mark Spitz is a survivor SAT who has been assigned to a project to clear lower Manhattan SAT of the undead in preparation for resettlement. It's a tough SAT job and the zombies just keep coming. SAT SAT Costing an estimated £200,000 per screen minute, Terra Nova SAT is apparently the most expensive TV series ever made. In the SAT mid 22nd century, Earth is facing environmental collapse - SAT the logical solution is to send a chosen group through a SAT wormhole in the space/time continuum to found a colony in a SAT parallel time-stream 84 million years in the past. SAT Unfortunately the new Eden features carnivorous dinosaurs... SAT SAT John Martin was one of the most popular artists of the 19th SAT century - some 8 million people saw his triptych The Last SAT Judgement when the paintings toured the country. Despite - SAT or possibly because of - his popularity, the art SAT establishment were dismissive of his work. The exhibition at SAT Tate Britain - John Martin: Apocalypse - is the largest ever SAT show of the artist's work and aims to restore his SAT reputation. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0150bwp (Listen) SAT The Christiania Effect SAT SAT Christiania celebrates its 40th birthday this year - quite SAT an achievement for a place where an abrasive attitude to the SAT Danish Government has meant it's always been about two weeks SAT away from being shut down. The BBC has visited Christiania SAT regularly over the past four decades and, in The Christiania SAT Effect, writer and broadcaster David Goldblatt goes to the SAT commune and examines some of those reports to tell the SAT history of this bold experiment in free living. He has also SAT gained access to a unique oral history of Christiania where SAT long time members of the commune tell their own personal and SAT sometimes surprising version of events. SAT SAT In the programme David hears how an abandoned barracks in SAT the heart of Copenhagen became a centre for liberal drugs SAT laws, hands-off parenting and free-form architecture. He SAT learns how it evolved from a dark and dangerous area for SAT social drop-outs to being a focus of Copenhagen's tourist SAT industry and a place that many of the city's residents would SAT fight hard to defend. And he hears how it became a magnet SAT for promoters and performers like Bob Dylan, Beck and the SAT Arctic Monkeys. SAT As well as looking back at its history David assesses the SAT future of this unique community and asks what mainstream SAT society can learn from this unique counter-cultural SAT experiment. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b014ptrf (Listen) SAT Life and Fate, Viktor and Lyuda SAT SAT By Vasily Grossman SAT Viktor, a nuclear physicist, is evacuated with his family SAT from Moscow eastwards to Kazan. It's October 1942 and the SAT Russians are defending Stalingrad from the ferocious attack SAT of the Germans. Viktor has a revelatory breakthrough in his SAT research but his wife Lyuda learns of the death of her son SAT and her grief drives a wedge between the couple: Viktor is SAT drawn to the kindness of Marya, the wife of his close SAT colleague. SAT Dramatised for radio by Mike Walker. SAT SAT Viktor Shtrum.....Kenneth Branagh SAT Lyuda Shaposhnikova.....Greta Scacchi SAT Nadya.....Ellie Kendrick SAT Alexandra .....Ann Mitchell SAT Pyotr Sokolov.....Nigel Anthony SAT Marya Sokolova.....Harriet Walter SAT Akhmet Karimov.....Stephen Greif SAT Leonid Madyarov.....Ralph Ineson SAT Sister.....Elaine Claxton SAT Anna Stepanovna....Alex Tregear SAT Soldiers.....Gerard McDermott, Jonathan Forbes, Henry Devas SAT Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead SAT Musicians: Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Tom Jackson, Stacey Blythe SAT and Max Pownall SAT Translated by Robert Chandler SAT Directed and Produced by Alison Hindell SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b014qvhp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 The Reith Lectures b014pxnq (Listen) SAT Securing Freedom: 2011, Eliza Manningham-Buller: Freedom SAT SAT In this third and final Reith lecture the former Director SAT General of the security service (MI5), Eliza SAT Manningham-Buller, discusses policy priorities since 9.11. SAT She reflects on the Arab Spring, and argues that the West's SAT support of authoritarian regimes did, to some extent, fuel SAT the growth of Al-Qaeda. The lecture also considers when we SAT should talk to "terrorists". SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b014pw4k (Listen) SAT (6/12) SAT What did Anne Boleyn almost certainly not have which blues SAT musician Hound Dog Taylor, music hall star Little Tich, and SAT Dr Hannibal Lecter, definitely did? SAT SAT That's the question Tom Sutcliffe asked listeners to think SAT about at the end of last week's Round Britain Quiz - and SAT he's back with the answer, along with a host of other SAT cryptic questions in the latest contest between Scotland and SAT Northern Ireland. SAT SAT Michael Alexander and Alan Taylor play for Scotland, against SAT Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney of Northern Ireland. You can SAT play along too, by taking a look at the questions on the SAT Round Britain Quiz pages of the Radio 4 website. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b014ptrk (Listen) SAT Grumpy poets, redundant hangmen and rats feature in today's SAT richly mixed bag of poetry requests, read by Paul Mundell. SAT Roger McGough also introduces poets reading their own work; SAT there's archive of WH Auden in typically terse mood as he SAT does the rounds of a lecture tour in 'On the Circuit' and SAT Jean Sprackland reads a moving remembrance of her father in SAT her poem 'Dressing Gown'. There are other portraits of SAT family life by the late Ken Smith and the Welsh poet, Tony SAT Curtis. SAT SAT Produced by Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01507dz (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00kbj2y (Listen) SUN I Was There Too!, Nothing But Blue Skies SUN SUN Series of stories about great historical moments, told from SUN the perspective of unexpected and overlooked witnesses. SUN SUN 97-year-old Katharine Rudd tells the true story of her SUN experiences on the night of the Roswell incident in New SUN Mexico, 1947, when the US government allegedly covered up an SUN encounter with aliens. SUN SUN By Dominic Power, read by Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01507f1 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01507f3 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01507f5 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01507f7 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0150dsg (Listen) SUN The bells of St Mary's in Bishopstoke, Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0150bwk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01507f9 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0150dsj (Listen) SUN Compassion SUN SUN Fergal Keane reflects on the vital human instinct of SUN compassion and how it benefits us as individuals to be SUN compassionate. He considers how, when faced with evil, a SUN sense of justice can interfere with compassion. He concludes SUN that although there are times when compassion might SUN overwhelm critical reasoning and propel us into disaster, it SUN can also move us to mercy and the healing of wounds. SUN SUN To illustrate his argument Fergal Keane draws on the writing SUN of Bernard Schlink and Cormac McCarthy, the poetry of SUN Elizabeth Jennings and Michael Longley, and the music of SUN Leonard Cohen and Morten Lauridsen. SUN SUN The readers are Liza Sadovy and Patrick Drury. SUN SUN Producer: Ronni Davis SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0150dsl (Listen) SUN The World Sheepdog Trials in Cumbria showcased the skills of SUN the best 200 dogs and handlers over four days. It is the SUN first time England has held the competition. The teams came SUN from as far away as South America, Japan and New Zealand to SUN take on the might of the established home nations. Caz SUN Graham follows the excitement on Finals Day where the top 16 SUN are put through their paces at the Lowther Estate near SUN Penrith. The teams are scored over a series of rounds on SUN skills including lifting, penning, rounding and driving the SUN sheep. The 2008 World Champion Alex Owen with dog Roy from SUN Wales defend their title but miss out on the final by just 2 SUN points. 15 year old Robbie Welsh from Scotland watches on SUN from the grandstand and there is sadness as the only female SUN competitor, Lyle Lad and her dog Shep are disqualified. SUN SUN This edition is presented by Caz Graham and produced in SUN Birmingham by Angela Frain. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01507fc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01507ff (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0150dsn (Listen) SUN The religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments SUN and perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN On this week's programme SUN SUN The Pope has gone home to Germany, but how will his visit SUN play out in a country where church attendance is down. SUN William gets a sense of the mood. SUN SUN As a season of Islamic films gets underway at the Institute SUN of Contemporary Arts in London we examine its themes in the SUN light of the Arab Spring with the fesitivals curator Haim SUN Bresheeth. SUN SUN Thousands of young Muslims from all over the UK will gather SUN in Wembley Arena this Saturday to support a declaration of SUN peace and hear from Islamic and Christian leaders. Trevor SUN Barnes joins them. SUN SUN Next week Jews celebrate New Year, but Jewish communities in SUN many parts of the UK are on the decline. Charlotte Dubenskij SUN report from South Wales where the population is down to just SUN 500. SUN SUN As the Government announces a public consultation on how to SUN make civil marriage available to same sex couples, William SUN asks the Archbishop of Southwark Peter Smith and Andrew SUN Copson from the British Humanist Society who should decide SUN who can get married and where. SUN SUN As demand grows for its services across the country, the SUN Citizens Advice Bureau is looking to the church for help. In SUN a new partnership it is hoping to use Church premises as SUN temporary advice centres particularly in rural areas. SUN William speaks to the Chair of C.A.B, John Gladwin, a former SUN Bishop of Chelmsford. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0150dsq (Listen) SUN MicroLoan Foundation SUN SUN Gabby Logan presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN MicroLoan Foundation. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1104287 SUN SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the SUN envelope: MicroLoan Foundation SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01507fh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01507fk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0150dss (Listen) SUN In ever corner sing - Salisbury Cathedral celebrates the SUN 20th anniversary of the girls' choir in a grand reunion as SUN they look back on how music inspires faith in God. SUN In 1991, the same year in which the 900th anniversary of the SUN founding of the very first boys' choir was celebrated, SUN Salisbury became the first English Cathedral to form a SUN separate and independent foundation for girl choristers. SUN They sang their first service in October of that year and SUN nowadays the weekly services are equally divided between the SUN boy and girl choristers. SUN Since 1991, almost 120 girls have been choristers at SUN Salisbury. A significant number have subsequently become SUN choral scholars in the Oxbridge Chapel Choirs, and some have SUN sung with the country's top choral groups including the SUN Monteverdi Choir and The Sixteen. Several are making names SUN for themselves on the international music circuit. SUN SUN Taking part in the service are the Precentor, the Revd Canon SUN Jeremy Davies and the Dean, the Very Revd June Osborne SUN Director of Music: David Halls SUN Assistant Director of Music: Daniel Cook. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b0150dsv (Listen) SUN "For a couple of days in May 1940, the fate of the world SUN turned on the fall of a leaf" says John Gray. He outlines SUN the strange conjunction of events - and the work of chance - SUN that led to Churchill becoming Prime Minister. SUN SUN He muses on how Churchill was found by one of his advisers SUN around one o'clock on the morning of May 9th "brooding alone SUN in one of his clubs". He was given a crucial bit of advice SUN which may have secured him the job. What would have happened SUN Gray wonders if he hadn't been found and that advice - to SUN say nothing! - not been passed on? SUN SUN He also ponders whether it was it Churchill's recurring SUN melancholy which made for his greatness? "It's hard to SUN resist the thought that the dark view of the world that came SUN on Churchill in his moods of desolation enabled him to see SUN what others could not". SUN SUN "Churchill had not one life but several" says Gray. Without SUN them all, "history would have been very different, and the SUN world darker than anything we can easily imagine". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0150dsx (Listen) SUN With Paul Mason. News and conversation about the big stories SUN of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0150dsz (Listen) SUN Written by: Graham Harvey SUN Directed by: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer ..... Helen Monks SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Debbie Aldridge ..... Tamsin Greig SUN Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Bert Fry ..... Eric Allan SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Amy Franks ..... Vinette Robinson SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0150dt1 (Listen) SUN Arthur Edwards SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the royal photographer Arthur SUN Edwards. SUN SUN He is a Fleet Street legend and, for more than thirty years, SUN has captured the most memorable moments of the House of SUN Windsor - from the first tentative pictures of a teenage SUN Lady Diana Spencer to the balcony kiss at the marriage of SUN Prince William and Kate Middleton. SUN SUN He's travelled the world, met the Pope and seen inside the SUN Oval Office and the Kremlin - it's a life far removed from SUN his early life in the East End of London where money was SUN very tight and his mother saved up her wages as a cleaner SUN job to buy him his first camera. SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b014pw4w (Listen) SUN Series 61, With guests Julian Clary, Phill Jupitus, Josie SUN Lawrence and Rick Wakeman SUN SUN The popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. The SUN guests try to speak on a topic given to them without SUN hesitation repetition or deviation. The guests this week are SUN Julian Clary, Phill Jupitus, Josie Lawrence and ex-rocker SUN Rick Wakeman SUN SUN Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0150dt3 (Listen) SUN Food ads and children SUN SUN Sheila Dillon explores the issue of advertising junk food to SUN children, and how companies have changed their marketing SUN since the banning of the showing of food advertisements SUN during children's television programmes four years ago. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01507fm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0150dt5 (Listen) SUN With Shaun Ley. The latest national and international news, SUN with an in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Drone Wars b0150dt7 (Listen) SUN The pilotless drone aircraft has become key to current SUN conflicts such as Afghanistan. Pilots flying drones remotely SUN by computer link from thousand of miles away are replacing SUN pilots flying aircraft over combat zones. As well as use by SUN the military, drones have also been used extensively by the SUN CIA to attack suspected al-Qaeda and Taliban leaders in SUN Pakistan and other countries. Critics have said there have SUN been many civilian casualties as a result of these attacks. SUN Drones are also likely to play a major role in Western SUN strategy for containing al-Qaeda and the Taliban after SUN military withdrawal from Afghanistan. And many countries SUN around the world are rushing to acquire these new weapons. SUN But increased of drones raises all kinds of ethical as well SUN as military questions. How far can technology take over SUN combat? In an updated version of a programme first broadcast SUN last year, Stephen Sackur investigates a secretive and SUN controversial change in how we wage war. SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0150gh9 (Listen) SUN Avebury Manor SUN SUN Matthew Wilson, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew answer SUN gardening queries in Avebury Manor, Wiltshire where the SUN Victorian kitchen garden is undergoing meticulous SUN restoration. SUN SUN Matthew Wilson delivers updates from the Olympic garden in SUN Stratford. SUN SUN Scale insects : how a bit of soap can go a long way and when SUN to lift your infested potatoes. SUN SUN The programme is chaired by Eric Robson. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Picturing Britain b0150ghc (Listen) SUN Series 2, The Lady Bangers SUN SUN In Picturing Britain, Adil Ray explores British life through SUN the lens of some of the country's photographers. SUN SUN In this programme, Adil takes to the track - the oval track SUN - to discover the wild world of banger racing and meet the SUN diehard foot-soldiers and fans of the sport. SUN SUN He goes to an evening meeting just outside Eastbourne with SUN documentary photographer Chloe Dewe Mathews as she works on SUN her latest project. Their main focus - to follow the lady SUN banger drivers as they prepare to for the first of the SUN evening's races. SUN SUN As he wanders around the arena, Adil discovers banger racing SUN is very much alive and kicking thanks to a small but devoted SUN band of followers who invest all their time and energy, not SUN to mention money, in doing up old, useless and scrap cars SUN and making them safe to race. SUN SUN The cars are painstakingly stripped inside and out, all SUN glass removed, doors taped and then painted in bright SUN colours - only to have them smashed them to pieces on the SUN track. SUN SUN As he discovers, it's very much a family affair - bringing SUN together two or three generations with a passion for the SUN sport. SUN SUN And it is a close-knit community and a warm and welcoming SUN one - but keen to share the love of this forgotten SUN motorsport with all newcomers. SUN SUN Producer: Mohini Patel. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b0150ghf (Listen) SUN Life and Fate, Viktor and the Academy SUN SUN By Vasily Grossman SUN In the final episode of Life and Fate, Viktor's scientific SUN breakthrough has not brought him the success he expected. SUN Instead he is gradually ostracised for his 'anti-Soviet' SUN science. He starts to dread the knock at the door. Zhenya's SUN visit to Moscow brings some distraction but it is Marya in SUN whom he longs to confide. Dramatised for radio by Mike SUN Walker SUN SUN Viktor Shtrum ..... Kenneth Branagh SUN Lyuda ..... Greta Scacchi SUN Marya Sokolova ..... Harriet Walter SUN Zhenya ..... Raquel Cassidy SUN Nadya ..... Ellie Kendrick SUN Shishakov ..... Jack Shepherd SUN Boris Badin ..... Carl Prekopp SUN Anna Stepanovna ..... Alex Tregear SUN Markov ..... Simon Bubb SUN Chepyzhin ..... James Greene SUN Vanya ..... Gerard McDermott SUN Stalin........ Philip Madoc SUN With Elaine Claxton, Jonathan Forbes and James Lailey SUN SUN Original music by John Hardy with Rob Whitehead SUN Performed by Oliver Wilson-Dickson, Tom Jackson, Stacey SUN Blythe and Max Pownall SUN Translated by Robert Chandler SUN Directed and Produced by Alison Hindell SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0150grg (Listen) SUN Open Book marks the 50th anniversary of Catch 22 and the SUN role of the writer-in-residence SUN SUN Open Book marks the 50th anniversary of Joseph Heller's SUN bestseller Catch 22, the story of Captain John Yossarian, a SUN bombardier stationed in an American bomber squadron off the SUN coast of Italy during the last months of the second World SUN War. Yossarian is furious because thousands of people he's SUN never met keep trying to kill him and his attempts to SUN survive by claiming to be mad are thwarted by the eponymous SUN Catch 22 - anyone rational enough to want to be grounded SUN could never be insane and therefore must return to their SUN perilous duties. Soldier turned author Andy McNab and SUN Professor Christopher Bigsby discuss why this 1961 book SUN about the madness of war remains so popular and examine SUN Heller's subsequent lesser remembered novels. SUN SUN Many writers dreams of escaping the distractions of everyday SUN life in order to concentrate on their work, or to be SUN immersed in different cultural experiences to encourage SUN their creative juices. An increasing number of organisations SUN have responded to that need by creating the role of a writer SUN in residence. Mariella Frostrup explores what these SUN organisations, the writers and ultimately the readers, get SUN out of the arrangement, with Horatio Clare, SUN writer-in-residence for Maersk lines and Naomi Alderman, who SUN has just done the role for the W hotel in central London and SUN soon to be writer-in-residence at the Gladstone Library. SUN SUN On the programme a couple of weeks ago we talked to the SUN literary agent Carole Blake about some of the literary apps SUN currently available. To respond to your feedback and outline SUN what the publishing industry has in store for us in the SUN future Mariella is joined by Dan Franklin, Digital Editor at SUN The Random House Group, Philip Jones, dept Editor of the SUN Bookseller and Henry Volans, Head of Digital at Faber SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b0150grj (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of favourite poetry SUN requests, read by Paul Mundell and Mark Meadows. SUN Today's programme includes two tense cradle songs by Louis SUN MacNeice, poems about significant pauses by Paul Muldoon and SUN Jean Sprackland, and two wonderful pieces of distinctly SUN Welsh verse. Singer, 6 music presenter, and poetry lover SUN Cerys Matthews reads a poem by the miner turned poet Idris SUN Davies that's a clever take on the Welsh National Anthem. SUN 'Welsh Incident' by Robert Graves captures a fantastically SUN odd conversation, and there are other surreal offerings from SUN Jules Renard and Günter Grass. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b014q04r (Listen) SUN Cyber Spies SUN SUN The criminal exploitation of the internet poses one of the SUN biggest threats to UK national security. As organised crime SUN gangs and terrorists use it to communicate and plan their SUN activities, the police and security agencies are turning to SUN hacking to conduct surveillance and gather intelligence. SUN SUN In the first of a new series, File on 4 looks at the covert SUN techniques being used to get beyond the firewall of a SUN suspect's PC. But are the tactics legal? One leading expert SUN says the rules governing interception are inconsistent and SUN on occasions, misinterpreted by the police. SUN SUN Reporter Stephen Grey also examines the way British SUN companies are helping to proliferate this hi-tech snooping SUN to countries with questionable human rights and which use it SUN to monitor political opponents and dissidents. SUN SUN And, with the Ministry of Defence developing its defences SUN against sophisticated international attacks how vulnerable SUN is the UK to "cyber warfare". Why did a Chinese state SUN telecommunications company briefly 'hijack' most of the SUN world's internet traffic one day last year? SUN Producer: David Lewis SUN Reporter: Stephen Grey. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0150bwk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01507fp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01507fr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01507ft (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0150grl (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio. SUN While the rest of the world worries about the economic SUN climate there's a mellow feel to Pick of the Week this week. SUN Honey, apples and ripening fruit to tempt the tastes buds SUN with the harmonious strains of Liszt, Squeeze and Alexi SUN Sayle providing a soothing backdrop as we hear about SUN mysterious chance encounters between the famous and infamous SUN and consider the future in a world beyond Facebook. So join SUN Liz Barclay for Pick of the Week. SUN SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - Radio 4 SUN Picking Round Apples - Radio 4 SUN Gardeners' Question Time - Radio 4 SUN BOTW: One on One - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Jodie Gardner Interview - Radio Merseyside SUN WH Drama - Life and Fate: Anna's Letter - Radio 4 SUN Gillian Duffy Interview - Radio Manchester SUN After I Was Gorgeous - Radio 4 SUN Face It - Radio 4 SUN Four Thought - Radio 4 SUN Alexei Sayle Interview - Radio Scotland SUN Lyrical Journey - Radio 4 SUN In Tune - Radio 3 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0150grn (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b0150grq (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN John Finnemore, writer and star of Cabin Pressure, regular SUN guest on The Now Show and popper-up in things like Miranda SUN and That Mitchell and Webb Look returns with half an hour of SUN his own sketches, each funnier than the last. Although, hang SUN on, that system means starting the whole series with the SUN least funny sketch. Might need to rethink that. OK, it's a SUN new show filled with sketches written and performed by John SUN Finnemore, but now no longer arranged in strict order of SUN funniness. Also, he's cut the sketch that would have gone SUN first. SUN SUN This week's show reveals the truth behind the war effort, SUN sty construction, and evolution. SUN SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars SUN John Finnemore. It also features Carrie Quinlan (The News SUN Quiz, The Late Edition), Lawry Lewin (The Life & Times of SUN Vivienne Vyle, Horrible Histories) and Simon Kane (Six SUN Impossible Things). SUN SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 The Time Being b0150grs (Listen) SUN Series 5, Photo Finish SUN SUN The latest season of The Time Being brings another showcase SUN for new voices, none of whom have been previously broadcast. SUN Previous series have brought new talent to a wider audience SUN and provided a stepping stone for writers who have since SUN gone on to enjoy further success both on radio and in print, SUN such as Tania Hershman, Heidi Amsinck, Sally Hinchcliffe and SUN Submarine author and National Short Story judge Joe SUN Dunthorne. SUN SUN Photo Finish written by Louise Lee. SUN SUN Terri discovered her talent for running when she was chased SUN by her mother's angry boyfriend. Fifteen years later it's SUN the Olympic marathon. Terri is tipped for gold, but she will SUN have to overcome her rivals: voluptuous World No. 1 Jana de SUN Groot and the surgically modified Nadine Uberhang. SUN SUN Louise Lee had a proper job once but gave it all up to SUN become a private investigator. A current Birkbeck MA student SUN in Creative Writing, she is busy writing her first novel, SUN The Last Honeytrap, based on her own experiences in the SUN seedy and often comical world of entrapment. SUN SUN Reader: Philippa Stanton SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b014qxbq (Listen) SUN Does light music still have a place on the BBC? As listeners SUN voice their doubts, Radio 2 controller Bob Shennan explains SUN his decision to end Alan Titchmarsh's programme Melodies for SUN You. SUN SUN As Americana also comes to an end over on Radio 4, Roger SUN recalls controller Gwyneth Williams' reasons for the change SUN and hears your reaction to the comedy which replaces it. SUN SUN The sounds of the past transport Roger back in time as he SUN visits the new BBC Archive building, and hears about an SUN ambitious project to make all the archive available in time SUN for the BBC's 100th birthday in 2022. SUN And as Philip Glass-watch moves into its second week, SUN there's yet another sighting of the composer's ubiquitous SUN piece. SUN SUN Producer: Karen Pirie SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b014qxbz (Listen) SUN Burhanuddin Rabbani, Kurt Sanderling, Arthur Evans and SUN Walter Bonatti SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The former Afghan president Burhannudin Rabbani, SUN assassinated as he was leading attempts to start peace talks SUN with the Taliban. SUN SUN The conductor Kurt Sanderling, who fled from the Nazis to SUN the Soviet Union and was renowned for his interpretations of SUN Shostakovitch. We hear from his son, Thomas, also a well SUN known conductor. SUN SUN The gay rights activist Arthur Evans who led non violent SUN protests against discrimination in 1970s New York. SUN SUN The Italian mountaineer Walter Bonatti, who was falsely SUN accused of trying to sabotage the first successful ascent of SUN the world's second highest mountain, K2 SUN SUN And the banjo player Wade Mainer who was 104 when he died - SUN a last surviving link to the heyday of hillbilly music on SUN 1930s American radio. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01509vq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0150dsq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b014pw7g (Listen) SUN Non-Riotous Behaviour SUN SUN This summer's riots provoked much speculation about the SUN factors which prompted so many people to break the law. But SUN philosopher-turned-commentator Jamie Whyte is more SUN interested in understanding why this sort of thing doesn't SUN happen more often. Is it fear of arrest or is it morality SUN that makes most of the people abide by the law for most of SUN the time? In search of the causes of mass civil obedience, SUN Jamie Whyte speaks to leading experts in the fields of SUN philosophy, psychology and anthropology. SUN SUN Contributors include: SUN Roger Scruton, philosopher and writer SUN Quentin Skinner, professor of the humanities & expert on SUN modern political thought SUN Tim Harford, the Financial Times Undercover Economist and SUN presenter of More or Less on Radio 4 SUN George Klosko, political philosopher SUN Alex Bentley, anthropologist SUN Carol Hedderman, criminologist SUN SUN Producer: Simon Coates. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0150gsm (Listen) SUN Carolyn Quinn reports from the Labour Party conference in SUN Liverpool. She speaks to MPs and activists about the mood of SUN the party. SUN SUN Labour commentator Dan Hodges discusses the challenges SUN facing Labour leader Ed Miliband with the political editor SUN of Prospect magazine, James Macintyre. SUN SUN This week's panel has the Conservative MP Mark Pritchard SUN debating the big political stories with the Liberal Democrat SUN peer Matthew Oakeshott. They discuss relations between their SUN two parties following criticisms of Conservative policies at SUN the recent Lib Dem conference. SUN SUN Programme editor: Terry Dignan. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b0150gsp (Listen) SUN Episode 71 SUN SUN John Kampfner analyses how the newspapers are covering the SUN biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b014qxc1 (Listen) SUN If you fancy a change of gear or need your batteries SUN charging The Film Programme is the place for you. Francine SUN Stock talks to Nicholas Winding Refn about his new film, SUN Drive, starring Ryan Gosling as a stuntman who drives SUN getaway cars in his spare time. He falls for the wife of a SUN criminal played by Carey Mulligan and soon falls foul of the SUN local gangsters. Its a turbo-charged ride and shares the SUN fascination with violence evident in Refn's earlier work. SUN Drive's 21st century sheen is more than matched by the SUN vision of Humphrey Jennings...the man Lindsay Anderson SUN described as the only poet of British cinema. A collection SUN of films from the beginning of his career is being released SUN on DVD for the first time this month and Francine Stock is SUN joined by Jennings' biographer, Kevin Jackson, to assess SUN them and their place in his achievement. SUN There's also an interview with Andrew Rossi who went SUN undercover to produce Page One, a documentary about the New SUN York Times and Neil Brand is on hand to diagnose some of SUN your least favourite film scores -- the ones you feel miss SUN the mark by a million miles. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0150dsj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01507gj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b014qndd (Listen) MON Understanding Suicide - Families, Secrets And Memories MON MON Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society MON works. He examines a new book seeking to understand suicide MON and talks to a sociologist about family secrets. Ben Fincham MON is a Lecturer in Sociology at Sussex University and his book MON 'Understanding Suicide: A Sociological Autopsy' assesses MON sociological work in this area and explores what can be MON known about the motivation and lives of suicidal people. MON He's joined by Dr Mike Shiner, a Senior Research Fellow in MON the Mannheim Centre for Criminology at London School of MON Economics. Laurie also talks to Professor Carol Smart from MON the University of Manchester about her paper exploring MON family secrets and memories. MON Producer Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0150dsg (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01507gl (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01507gn (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01507gq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01507gs (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0150m83 (Listen) MON With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0150m87 (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith hears how an interactive map is helping MON cheese-lovers taste the 700 named British varieties. MON As part of British Cheese Week, a Cheese Flavour Map has MON been launched to encourage people to taste more regional and MON old varieties of cheese. Currently, 55% of Brits still MON regard Cheddar as their favourite variety. MON Nigel White, secretary of the British Cheese Board tells MON Charlotte Creamy Lancashire could be a good alternative for MON her favourite - Blue Stilton. MON MON Whilst the UK national pig herd has dropped by more than MON half a million animals over the past 5 years, there is a MON growing market for home grown pigs in China. This year four MON and a half thousand pigs are being flown to China. And MON according to the National Pig Association several more MON thousand are in the pipeline for next year. MON Farming Today revisits one pig producer who says MON international business is booming after flying his first MON 2,000 pigs earlier this year. Charlotte asks whether farmers MON are exporting to avoid the high welfare standards set in the MON UK. MON MON There are warnings that farmers could end up paying for the MON price cuts introduced today by Tesco. The National Farmers MON Union fears that suppliers will be squeezed as the MON supermarket cuts the cost of 3000 items. But Tesco states MON the campaign is about helping families in hard times with MON lower prices and that it's not about making life harder for MON suppliers. Charlotte asks the NFU why farmers aren't as MON positive as consumers about the cuts. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Clare Freeman. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01507gv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b0150m89 (Listen) MON With Sarah Montague and James Naughtie. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0150m8c (Listen) MON Simon Jenkins' History of England, and the National Poet of MON Wales, Gillian Clarke MON MON Andrew Marr discusses the work of the 'Godfather' of new MON music Pierre Boulez. The French pianist Pierre-Laurent MON Aimard explains the joy of his compositions, which are in a MON state of permanent revolution. The writer Peter Conrad pits MON Verdi against Wagner to ask whether it's possible to love MON both composers, or does taste, nationality and ideology MON still get in the way. With a very English temperament Simon MON Jenkins romps through the history of England in a bid to MON answer why the nation lost America, avoided a French MON revolution and gradually lost its world supremacy. And the MON Welsh National Poet, Gillian Clarke, talks about her MON country's literary heritage. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b0150m8f (Listen) MON The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of MON Elizabeth I, Episode 1 MON MON Written by John Cooper. Abridged by Libby Spurrier. MON MON Elizabeth I came to the throne at a time of insecurity and MON unrest. Rivals threatened her reign; England was a MON Protestant island, isolated in a sea of Catholic countries. MON Spain plotted an invasion, but Elizabeth's Secretary, MON Francis Walsingham, was prepared to do whatever it took to MON protect her and the reformed religion to which he was MON devoted. MON MON As a young man he had witnessed the massacres in Paris on St MON Bartholomew's Day, when French Protestants were attacked by MON Catholic mobs. He was determined to save England from a MON similar fate. MON MON Walsingham ran a network of agents in England and Europe who MON provided him with information about invasions or MON assassination plots. He recruited likely young men and MON 'turned' others. He encouraged Elizabeth to make war against MON the Catholic Irish rebels, with extreme brutality, and MON oversaw the execution of Mary Queen of Scots. MON The Queen's Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes MON and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's MON history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, MON sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened MON English state. MON MON Reader: Hugh Bonneville MON Producer: Joanna Green MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0150m8h (Listen) MON Harriet Harman, Mary Soames, AL Kennedy MON MON Is Harriet Harman right to insist that the Labour Party MON should change its rules to keep a woman in one of its top MON posts? She joins Jane Garvey to discuss why she thinks MON all-male leaderships are a bad thing. Lady Mary Soames MON remembers her father Winston Churchill, her childhood at MON Chartwell and what it was like to live with a Prime Minister MON at war. Can working during the night increase your MON creativity? Novelist AL Kennedy talks about why she works in MON the small hours. Award-winning folk artist Jackie Oates MON performs live and discusses why her style of music and MON singing is attracting increasing attention, pushing her to MON the top of one of the folk charts. MON MON Women at the top of Labour MON MON Harriet Harman, deputy leader of the Labour party would like MON a change in the leadership rules, so that one of Labour’s MON top two posts would always be held by a woman. She will MON champion her idea at an all-women meeting 'What Women Want,' MON at the Labour Party Conference. Jane is joined by Harriet MON Harman, shadow deputy Prime Minister and Ruth Lea, Director MON and Economic Adviser at the Arbuthnot Banking Group to MON discuss women at the top. Does a team always work best if MON it is made up of men and women? How vital is it to have a MON woman in a leading role to ensure equality? Would a ruling MON such as Harriet’s lead to women being elected to top jobs MON because of their gender, instead of for their ability? MON MON Mary Soames MON MON Lady Mary Soames is the youngest daughter of Winston and MON Clementine Churchill. Now 89, she has lived through MON extraordinary times, coming of age as her father steered the MON country through World War II. She had an idyllic childhood MON in the countryside at Chartwell. But the happy early years MON abruptly ended with the arrival of war and all the horror, MON terrible loss of life and sometimes sheer excitement that it MON brought, as Mary threw herself in at the deep end and became MON a gunner. Hitler even reportedly hatched a plan to seduce MON her to find out what she knew… though he never put it into MON action. MON MON ‘A Daughter's Tale’ by Mary Soames is published by MON Doubleday. MON MON Sleeplessness and creativity MON MON Are you more or less creative during the night? Is there are MON correlation between sleeplessness and creativity? These are MON some of the questions explored in a new BBC Radio 3 series MON that looks at creative life and insomnia. In one programme, MON the writer and comedian AL Kennedy explains why she finds MON the nights too thrilling to sleep and spends her time MON reading and writing. But can sleeplessness really boost MON creativity and if so at what cost to your health and MON wellbeing? AL Kennedy and sleep expert Nerina Ramlakhan join MON Jane to discuss. MON MON The Essay - The Darkest Hour starts on BBC Three on Monday 3 MON October at 10.45pm. MON MON Jackie Oates MON MON Jackie Oates is a folk singer and fiddle player whose unique MON treatment of English ballads and songs, and pure, haunting MON singing style has attracted increasing attention. She MON started out in the band, Rachel Unthank and the Winterset, MON and has just released her fourth solo album, ‘Saturnine’, MON which has already reached No 1 on the Amazon English Folk MON Chart. Her voice has earned her two Radio 2 Folk Awards and MON membership of the all-star folk band Imagined Village, MON alongside Eliza and Martin Carthy. Jackie joins Jane to MON chat and sing live. MON MON ‘Saturnine’ is out now. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0150m8k (Listen) MON Second Honeymoon, Ghosts MON MON By Joanna Trollope MON Dramatised in five episodes by Rachel Joyce MON Episode One - Ghosts MON When Edie's youngest son leaves home she tries to come to MON terms with the empty nest but her husband's thoughts turn to MON the second honeymoon that is about to begin. Or, so he MON thinks ... MON MON Edie.............Christine Kavanagh MON Russell.........Sam Dale MON Vivien...........Liza Sadovy MON Matt.............Jonathan Forbes MON Rosa............Alex Tregear MON Ben.............Simon Bubb MON Lazlo...........Carl Prekopp MON Max.............James Lailey MON MON Directed by Tracey Neale MON MON 11:00 Robots that Care b0150m8m (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In the first of a two-part series, Robots that Care, Jon MON Stewart charts the advances in robotics that are MON increasingly leading to direct one-to-one contact between MON humans and robots. Stewart visits robotocists and their MON collaborators in the USA and UK and asks how the robots will MON be used in the future. He examines the way cinema has shaped MON our ideas of robots and investigates the gulf between our MON expectations of what robots can do and the reality. MON MON A fundamental question that scientists are posing is how we MON should consider the robots who, in the near future, will MON live alongside us in our homes. Should they be considered MON slaves, pets or friends? And Jon Stewart explores how the MON ideas of Isaac Asimov, that firstly robots should do no MON harm, have evolved over the decades. MON MON Producer: Colin Grant. MON MON 11:30 When the Dog Dies b0139d46 (Listen) MON Series 2, The Never Ending Story MON MON Ronnie Corbett and the writers of his hit sitcom Sorry, Ian MON Davidson and Peter Vincent, return for a second series of MON this popular sitcom about Sandy Hopper, a granddad happily MON growing old along with his dog Henry and his lodger, Dolores MON (Liza Tarbuck). MON MON Dolores seems to have taken up with a married man but MON Sandy's grandfatherly duties come before his fatherly ones. MON And thus Sandy discovers the power of the story. Tyson's MON sister Zoe is desperate to find out what happened next. If MON it were just a matter of googling Emily Bronte, it would be MON simple enough but things are never that easy for Sandy. Just MON who is Byron Queasley, for a start? MON MON Ronnie Corbett ...... Sandy MON Liza Tarbuck ...... Dolores MON Sally Grace ...... Mrs Pompom MON Tilly Vosburgh ...... Ellie MON Philip Bird ....... Lance MON Amelia Clarkson ...... Zoe MON Stephen Critchlow ...... Queasley MON MON Producer: Liz Anstee MON A CPL Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0150m8p (Listen) MON We look back at the fire which took hold of a block of flats MON in South London 2 years ago and hear from the loved ones of MON some of the people who died. But why is the police MON investigation still going on. MON MON And shower gel, or shower HELL? Why it gets up the nose of MON broadcaster and columnist, Matthew Parris. MON MON Producer - Siobhann Tighe. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01507gx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0150m8r (Listen) MON With Martha Kearney. National and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:30 Round Britain Quiz b0150m8t (Listen) MON (7/12) MON The South of England are preparing to avenge their recent MON defeat by the North of England as they clash again in Round MON Britain Quiz. MON MON Marcel Berlins and Fred Housego, the regular South of MON England team, are hoping to get their own back on Jim MON Coulson and Diana Collecott of the North. Tom Sutcliffe MON chairs the good-natured contest of intellectual convolutions MON and cryptic connections. MON MON There'll be the usual fiendish questions devised by Round MON Britain Quiz listeners, as well as musical connections to MON unravel. Tom will also have the answer to last week's MON cliff-hanger question, which was: what is common to MON Tchaikovsky, Lenin, and the protagonist of a Tolstoy short MON story? MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0150grn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b0150mld (Listen) MON Henry's Demons MON MON On a cold February day Henry Cockburn waded into the MON freezing water of Newhaven Estuary and tried to swim across. MON Voices, he said, had told him to do it. MON MON Nearly halfway round the world in Afghanistan journalist MON Patrick Cockburn learned from his wife that Henry, their son MON had been admitted to a hospital mental ward. Thus begins MON Henry, Patrick and wife Janet Montefiore's extraordinary MON account of Henry's rapid descent into mental illness. MON MON Raps and song by Henry Cockburn MON MON Henry Cockburn .............. Tom Riley MON Patrick Cockburn ..............Tim McInnerny MON Janet Montefiore ..............Joanna David MON Evelyn Waugh....................Sam Dale MON Young Henry.....................Julien Stockwell and Oscar MON Richardson MON MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 15:00 Archive on 4 b0150bwp (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 20:00 on Saturday] MON MON 15:45 A View Through a Lens b0150mlg (Listen) MON Series 3, Taking the Plunge MON MON Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in MON isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe MON filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the MON uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the MON fragility of life and the connections which unite society MON and nature across the globe. MON MON 1/5 Taking the Plunge: MON MON John travels with a team making the BBC series, Frozen MON Planet, to Dream Island a remote, cold, hostile island MON despite its name, whose only inhabitants are elephant seals MON and Adelie penguins. Fifteen years ago, another team from MON the BBC came here to film what happens when young penguins MON go to sea. There were thousands of chicks in the colonies MON then, and when they reached the water, several hundred MON leopard seals were waiting for them. But John discovers the MON colony is less than a fifth of its original size, and there MON are far fewer leopard seals so he travels further south MON where the breeding season is shorter and later. On the Fish MON Islands, he finds what he's looking for; a larger colony of MON Adelie adults and chicks. The young penguins head down the MON rocky shore to the water's edge for their first swim, MON flapping their wings up and down before they take their MON first plunge. They are like nervous ducks, waiting for MON someone to make the first move. Eventually a young penguin MON dives into the water. Others follow. John watches anxiously; MON the penguins seem unaware of the dangers of diving into MON water with leopard seals nearby. What follows next is a MON tense game of 'cat and mouse' as a leopard seal hunts the MON young swimmers. MON MON Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON 16:00 Food Programme b0150dt3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b0150mlj (Listen) MON Around 60% of the people who attend church in London on a MON Sunday are of African or Caribbean origin. Some of their MON churches are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. MON Many argue that they have the capacity to breathe fresh life MON into mainline British churches, and offer a version of MON Christianity uncorrupted by western liberalism. Ernie Rea MON and his guests discuss the history of these churches; they MON analyse the breadth of their appeal, and they ask how MON comfortably some of their theological and cultural beliefs MON sit with Western culture? MON MON 17:00 PM b0150mll (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01507gz (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b0150mln (Listen) MON Series 61, Episode 8 MON MON The ever popular panel game hosted by Nicholas Parsons. Last MON in series. With Guests Gyles Brandreth, Pam Ayres, Tony MON Hawks and Miles Jupp, doing his second ever show. MON MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0150mlq (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0150mls (Listen) MON With John Wilson, who reports live from the BBC National MON Short Story Award ceremony, with news of the winner, MON announced by the chair of judges Sue MacGregor. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0150m8k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 In Defence of Politics b0150mt8 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON This is the first of a three-part series presented from a MON personal viewpoint in which Professor Matthew Flinders MON challenges fashionable political cynicism and presents the MON case for defending politics. MON MON In this episode he explores the 'expectations gap' between MON the challenges an inconsistent and demanding public pose for MON politicians and what they can reasonably be expected to MON deliver. Interviewees include Tony Blair and John Bercow. MON MON Matthew Flinders is Professor of Politics at Sheffield MON University. MON MON Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b0150mtb (Listen) MON Libya's Islamic Capitalists MON MON Under Colonel Gaddafi, Libya was subject to the dictator's MON so-called Third Universal Theory. Hugh Miles asks what sort MON of ideology is likely to dominate in post-Gaddafi Libya. MON MON Western media have been keeping a close eye on Libya's MON governing National Transitional Council, and there have been MON warnings about splits between Islamists and secularists, and MON about Libya's tribal society. But, as Hugh Miles discovers, MON amongst Libya's new ruling class there is broad consensus MON about support for one ideology: capitalism. MON MON Gaddafi's idiosyncratic economic and political philosophy MON fused elements of socialism and Islam. The suppression of MON free markets was at times taken to bizarre extremes with, at MON one point, the banning of the entire retail sector. Support MON for capitalism is perhaps a reaction to the years in which MON entrepreneurship was suppressed. MON MON Hugh Miles looks at the background of the new rulers and MON asks how Libyan Islamic capitalism might work. MON MON 21:00 Material World b014qnwl (Listen) MON Ehsan Masood with a weekly digest of science in and behind MON the headlines. He hears from the scientists who are MON publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and MON discuss how that research is scrutinised and used by the MON scientific community, the media and the public. The MON programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; MON from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in MON cutting edge science. MON MON Producer: Martin RedfernEhsan Masood asks if an MON intergovernmental panel can protect biodiversity. He looks MON at how the slippery surface of the pitcher plant might be MON harnessed to make new nonstick coatings and at a substance MON isolated from invasive harlequin ladybirds that could be the MON next antimalarial drug. Also, are wildfires a natural part MON of the environment, even in Britain, and what can we do to MON prepare for them? MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Protecting Biodiversity. MON MON On land and under the sea, biodiversity reflects the MON richness of our environment. MON MON After climate change, loss of biodiversity is the foremost MON environmental concern of our age. So what can be done about MON it? At a recent meeting of the British Ecological Society, MON there were calls for an intergovernmental panel like the MON Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, to find MON international consensus on protecting biodiversity. But MON given controversy and failure to reach binding agreements on MON climate, will biodiversity fare any better? Ehsan discusses MON the hopes and fears with DEFRA chief scientist Prof Bob MON Watson. MON MON Nature's Most Slippery Surface. MON MON Carnivorous pitcher plants have the most slippery surface in MON Nature. Insects attracted to them can't get a toehold and MON slip into their digestive juices. Writing in the journal MON Nature, Joanna Aizenberg of Harvard University describes how MON she is mimicking the microscopic patterns of the pitcher MON plant to produce the ultimate nonstick coating. MON MON Chemical Weapons from the Ladybird. MON MON Invasive species have a reason for their success. Often it MON lies in their chemical defences. So Prof Anders Vilcinskas MON and Dr Jochen Wiesner of the Fraunhofer Institute in MON Giessen, Germany, have been screening invasive insects from MON novel antibiotics. And the harlequin ladybird has come up MON trumps. Writing in the Royal Society journal Biology MON Letters, they say that, not only does a chemical it MON produces, harmonine, have antibiotic properties, it also MON seems highly effective against TB and Malaria. MON MON The Natural History of Fire. MON MON Wildfire is a natural environmental process that has been MON going on since long before there were humans on Earth. An MON international group of authors writing in the Journal of MON biogeography suggests that it is time to reassess our MON relationship with fire. Files should not always be prevented MON or extinguished, argues Prof Andrew Scott of Royal Holloway MON University of London. But with introduced species and the MON proximity of urban areas to forests he says we should be MON ready for some major fires –even in the UK. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0150m8c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01507h1 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0150mwz (Listen) MON With Ritula Shah. National and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0150mx1 (Listen) MON Catch 22, Episode 1 MON MON by Joseph Heller MON MON Joseph Heller's iconoclastic novel is 50 years old. MON MON Yossarian is in hospital with a pain in his liver and is MON given the task of censoring letters. Keen to be grounded MON after a disastrous mission to Avignon, Yossarian has the MON unassailable circular logic of Catch 22 explained to him. MON "There was only one catch and that was Catch 22." MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON Read by Stuart Milligan MON Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 23:00 Micky Flanagan: What Chance Change? b00sjcvd (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON Cockney comedian Micky Flanagan's first radio series is MON about his progression from working-class Herbert to MON middle-class intellectual and being caught awkwardly between MON the two. His story is told through reflective interviews, MON but mainly, Micky's acclaimed stand up comedy. Micky's MON transition from the mean streets of the East End to the MON leafy lanes of Dulwich is a fascinating story, with each MON episode focusing on a different decade of Micky's life. MON MON In this episode Micky takes us through his 1980's, spent MON running away to New York and being the international lover MON and player of the East End. He chats to his parents, his MON sister and his school friends in interviews that shed light MON on the stand up comedy. MON MON The series is written and performed by Micky Flanagan. MON The Producer is Tilusha Ghelani. MON MON 23:30 Ford Madox Ford and France b00tg2ly (Listen) MON Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee on Ford Madox Ford MON MON The advice Julian Barnes offers young writers is "study The MON Good Soldier as an example of perfect and completely MON original narration and at the same time study his life as an MON example of negative career management." MON MON Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee tell the story of Ford Madox MON Ford - author of The Good Soldier and editor of a Paris MON based magazine which published James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway MON and Jean Rhys. In fact Ezra Pound complained that Ford "kept MON on discovering merit with monotonous regularity" although MON his lack of financial acumen meant the magazine only lasted MON a year. MON MON Hermione and Julian visit the site of the Transatlantic MON Review offices where Ford's assistant (and work-horse) the MON Northumberland poet Basil Bunting "bunked down in a squalid MON little scullery." The cafés of Paris provided the venue for MON a weekly soirée, organised by Ford and his then companion MON Stella Bowen, which offered guests red wine, hot dogs and MON dancing. And in the Luxembourg Gardens we hear a discussion MON of the tangled love life of Ford Madox Ford, his elopement MON with Elsie Martindale, a stint in Brixton prison and the MON women who followed Elsie: Violet Hunt "who took arsenic to MON keep herself looking younger" and the Australian painter MON Stella Bowen who described Ford as "the wise man I crossed MON the world to see". MON MON Rebecca West described being embraced by Ford as like "being MON the toast under the poached egg." Others called him "a MON beached whale" or a "behemoth in grey tweed." He had a pink MON face, very blue eyes, very blond hair, and was rather MON chinless with a little moustache and a drawly voice. Henry MON James is said to have used Ford for the model of the MON character Morton Densher in Wings of a Dove. MON MON In his novel The Good Soldier he creates one of the best MON examples in literature of the unreliable narrator and his MON embroidered accounts of his own life provide a test for MON biographers. Hermione and Julian swap examples of their MON favourite "whoppers" which include the church service he MON couldn't possibly have attended with DH Lawrence; the claim MON that he helped Marconi transmit the first wireless message MON across the Atlantic; that the chef Escoffier had said to him MON "I could learn cooking from you" and that he attended the MON second trial of Dreyfus. MON MON Producer: Robyn Read. MON Reader: Kerry Shale. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01507hm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b0150m8f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01507hp (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01507hr (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01507ht (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01507hw (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01579s1 (Listen) TUE With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0150p5g (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the TUE countryside.Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Melvin TUE Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0150p5j (Listen) TUE With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 Capitalism on Trial b0150p5l (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Capitalism dominates the globe as never before, but after a TUE summer of riots, bailouts, downgrades and market TUE instability, twenty-first century capitalism is looking a TUE little tarnished. In the first of two programmes, Michael TUE Portillo talks to leading thinkers from around the world as TUE he weighs up the costs and benefits of the economic system TUE that governs our lives. TUE TUE Amartya Sen, Will Hutton, Ha-Joon Chang, Gillian Tett and TUE former Chancellor Nigel Lawson are among the critics and TUE defenders of the free-market as Michael begins the series by TUE asking whether capitalism makes us greedy and divided or TUE rich and free. TUE TUE Producer: Julia Johnson. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b015b3wc (Listen) TUE The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of TUE Elizabeth I, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by John Cooper. Abridged by Libby Spurrier. TUE TUE Walsingham, principal secretary and spymaster to Elizabeth TUE I, is focussed on a royal wedding, to settle the question of TUE succession and the threat from Catholic dissidents. TUE TUE The Queen's Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes TUE and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's TUE history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, TUE sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened TUE English state. TUE TUE Reader: Hugh Bonneville TUE Producer: Joanna Green TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0150p5n (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0150p5q (Listen) TUE Second Honeymoon, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Joanna Trollope TUE Dramatised in five episodes by Rachel Joyce TUE Episode Two - Lodgers TUE Edie is to play the lead part in 'Ghosts' but will that help TUE to ease the sense of loss she's feeling? TUE TUE Edie....................Christine Kavanagh TUE Russell................Sam Dale TUE Vivien...................Liza Sadovy TUE Rosa....................Alex Tregear TUE Matt.....................Jonathan Forbes TUE Lazlo....................Carl Prekopp TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b0150p5s (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 19 TUE TUE 19/30 We have our third report from the tundra of the TUE Alaskan North Slope. At 70 degrees north this is where the TUE land stops and the Arctic Ocean begins - the place where TUE Saving Species has been reporting the work of U.S. TUE Geological Survey biologist Matt Sexson on Spectacled TUE Eiders. Spectacled Eiders breed in Arctic Russia and Alaska TUE and uniquely winter as a single global population on the sea TUE ice of the Bering Sea. Little is know about their migration. TUE Zoo vets Maria Spriggs and Gwen Myers of Mesker Park Zoo TUE Indiana and Columbus Zoo Ohio respectively, provide the TUE clinical support in the field. So what is conservation TUE medicine and is there an increasing role for vets in the TUE wider world of saving wildlife in our increasingly stressed TUE planet? Julian Hector spoke to them in Alaska about "One TUE Health", where the health of wildlife, people, wilderness, TUE habitats and domestic animals are seen as one entity. TUE TUE Also in the programme: we hear from the British Trust for TUE Ornithology about a UK garden bird disease getting into TUE Europe. And whilst the BTO are on the line we hope to find TUE out about the Cuckoos they are tracking heading south into TUE Africa. TUE TUE And Kelvin Boot is live from Aberdeen at an international TUE conference on marine biodiversity - TUE TUE Presented by Joanna Pinnock TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Re-painting Giverny b0150p5v (Listen) TUE The writer and broadcaster Irma Kurtz travels to Monet's TUE garden at Giverny to hear how losing his wife and his sight TUE affected the last years of his life and work. Monet's famous TUE Water Lilies series was his last great masterpiece. It TUE nearly wasn't painted as exactly 100 years ago in 1911 his TUE wife died and he stopped painting for the first time in his TUE life. TUE TUE At the same time, Monet was losing his sight and cataracts TUE changed the way he saw things. It was his great friend and TUE Prime Minister of France, Clemenceau who encouraged him to TUE pick up his brush again. TUE TUE Irma Kurtz meets one of Monet's few remaining relatives - TUE Claire Joyes - to walk in the gardens Monet created at his TUE home in Giverny, Northern France. Clare tells Irma about the TUE passion Monet had for his wife Alice and how his garden TUE became an obsession. He painted the garden time after time, TUE and re-touched his canvasses many times as well in the TUE search for perfection. A cataract operation towards the end TUE of his life changed the way he saw things again and he went TUE over some of his previous work. Irma ends her journey in TUE Paris looking at the famous Water Lilies canvasses. TUE TUE The programme contains interviews with James Priest, British TUE head gardener at Giverny, and the painter Sargy Mann who has TUE experienced cataracts and is now blind but still painting. TUE TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0150p5x (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours with Julian Worricker. An opportunity to TUE contribute your views to the programme. Email TUE youandyours@bbc.co.uk or call 03700 100 444 (lines open at TUE 10am). TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01507hy (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b0150p5z (Listen) TUE With Martha Kearney. National and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:30 Page to Performance b0150p61 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Billy The Kid TUE TUE Musicians talk about the challenges they face as they TUE prepare to perform a piece from the orchestral repertoire. TUE TUE This week it's one of American composer Aaron Copland's most TUE lively and dramatic scores as he portrays in music the life TUE and death of Billy The Kid. Lowri Blake meets musicians from TUE the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra who enjoy all the TUE challenges that this theatrical score offers. TUE TUE Adding his own expertise to the programme is the Music TUE Director and Conductor of the Seattle Philharmonic Orchestra TUE Adam Stern, an enthusiast for Copland's music. He shows how TUE Copland evokes the wide open spaces of the American prairie TUE as well as the rough and tumble of life in the Wild West. In TUE his portrayal of a frontier town Copland uses old cowboy TUE songs to help him weave the atmosphere, and the story leads TUE up to a dramatic gunfight, with drums and trumpets TUE illustrating the ricochet of shots as Billy faces the posse TUE and they haul him off to jail. TUE TUE The percussionist Alasdair Malloy describes how the bass TUE drum, timpani and snare drum are all brought into the thick TUE of the action during the gunfight, while violinist Eric TUE Chapman remembers those endless vistas of his Texan TUE childhood - a canyon, some mesquite trees, the blue sky - so TUE powerfully summoned up by Copland in the first of the three TUE major scores which evoked the time when American pioneers TUE were heading West. TUE TUE Producer: Richard Bannerman. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0150mlq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00fm033 (Listen) TUE Development TUE TUE Doug Lucie's dark comedy about the credit crunch, set in TUE Britain in 2008. Mike is a property developer who appears to TUE have it all, but the foundations are shaky. TUE TUE When the debts are called in, his au pair's brother offers a TUE solution, but is it what it seems? TUE TUE Mike ..... Mark Bazeley TUE Zoe ..... Samantha Spiro TUE Marie ..... Amy Shindler TUE Joe ..... Ashley Cook TUE Tatyana ..... Larissa Kouznetsova TUE Leo ..... Basher Savage TUE TUE Location Recordist: David Chilton TUE Sound Designer: Lucinda Mason Brown TUE Producer: Janet Whitaker TUE A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b0150p8y (Listen) TUE A new series of 'Making History'. Tom Holland, Helen Castor TUE and Fiona Watson share the workload as we sift through TUE listener's questions and research and turn to some of our TUE leading historians for some answers. TUE TUE Each week, the Making History team: tackles listeners TUE questions; hears about the latest research and puts the TUE Radio 4 audience at the heart of historical debate. TUE TUE Producer: Nick Patrick TUE A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0150p90 (Listen) TUE One Hundred and Forty Characters, Between the Tweets TUE TUE By Jojo Moyes. TUE TUE First in a series of specially commissioned short stories TUE inspired by the social networking phenomenon, Twitter. (For TUE non "tweeters", the title derives from Twitter's format TUE where "tweets" - the postings - can be no longer than 140 TUE characters.) TUE TUE A daytime TV star's reputation hangs in the balance when an TUE anonymous woman accuses him on Twitter of having an affair TUE with her. Who is the mysterious tweeter, @blonde_becca, and TUE why is she so determined to destroy the celebrity's career? TUE 'Reputation manager' Bella is called in to handle the TUE situation and, using her I.T. contacts, makes a surprising TUE discovery. TUE TUE Read by Claire Knight. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 15:45 A View Through a Lens b0150p92 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Funky Chickens TUE TUE Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in TUE isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe TUE filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the TUE uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the TUE fragility of life and the connections which unite society TUE and nature across the globe. TUE TUE 2/5 Funky Chickens: TUE Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison travels to Kansas, land of TUE the prairies, the wild west and, as John discovers, some TUE funky chickens. Under the cover of darkness, and after TUE checking for rattle snakes, John crawls into his hide and TUE waits. A strange sound, rather like that produced when you TUE blow across the top of a bottle, begins to fill the air. The TUE chickens are coming! Prairie chickens are a type of grouse, TUE short-legged and dumpy. Their bodies are striped pale yellow TUE brown and black, so they are well camouflaged in the long TUE grass. Male birds gather in groups called leks and compete TUE with one another to attract a female by engaging in an TUE elaborate display; a kind of dance. First, long feathers TUE rise up from the neck, revealing orange patches of skin on TUE either side of the throat. Combs of orange inflate above TUE their eyes. They drop their wings to the ground, shake their TUE heads and inflate their orange throat patches. And then the TUE birds begin to boom, and drum their feet. From his hide John TUE watches this bizarre and hilarious performance. And then a TUE bird flies up and lands on the roof of his hide, and begins TUE to drum his feet! Now John feels he is really part of the TUE crowd! TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 16:00 Tracing Your Roots b0150p94 (Listen) TUE Series 6, Follow the Money TUE TUE The uncle who lost millions, and the family legend of a pile TUE of cash just waiting to be released from chancery....Sally TUE and Nick attempt to trace what happened to the money. TUE TUE Delving into the debtors' prison system- how to land in TUE there, how to earn your way out, and whether there really TUE are millions stuck in chancery just waiting to be released TUE to families today. TUE TUE Produced by Lucy Lloyd. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b0150p96 (Listen) TUE Series 25, Gerald Durrell TUE TUE Former England footballer Graeme le Saux champions the life TUE of writer, broadcaster and conservationist Gerald Durrell. TUE Graeme and presenter Matthew Parris are joined in the studio TUE by Durrell's widow, Lee. TUE TUE Gerald Malcolm Durrell (1925 - 1995) was a pioneering TUE conservationist who took on the established "zoo community" TUE by emphasising the need to preserve endangered species, TUE rather than just repeatedly dip in to the natural world for TUE more animals to amuse and entertain. His work culminated in TUE the creation of his own zoo on Jersey. It was there that a TUE teenage islander called Graeme le Saux helped out in the TUE gorilla enclosure, before moving on to play at left back for TUE Chelsea and England. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b0150p98 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01507j0 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b00r7kys (Listen) TUE Series 3, Bacon Punctuation TUE TUE The hit Radio 4 series 'Fags, Mags & Bags' returns to the TUE airwaves of Radio 4 with more shop based shenanigans and TUE over the counter philosophy, courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and TUE his trusty sidekick Dave. TUE TUE Written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli - TUE 'Fags, Mags & Bags' has proved a hit with the Radio 4 TUE audience with the show also collecting a Sony nomination and TUE a Writers' Guild award in 2008. This series features guest TUE appearances from Sylvester McCoy (7th Doctor Who) and Ron TUE Donachie (Titanic). TUE TUE In this episode the future of the shop's much loved Wall of TUE Crisps comes under threat after someone from the EU visits TUE the shop. The wall is contravening European Crisp TUE regulations by stocking corn and maize based snacks TUE alongside potato based 'crisps' and has to be dismantled TUE which causes outrage amongst the Lenzidens. TUE TUE Ramesh ...... Sanjeev Kohli TUE Dave ...... Donald Mcleary TUE Sanjay ...... Omar Raza TUE Alok ...... Susheel Kumar TUE Father Henderson ...... Gerard Kelly TUE Ted ...... Gavin Mitchell TUE Mutton Jeff ...... Sean Scanlan TUE Jeff Etc ...... Steven McNicoll TUE Hilly ...... Kate Brailsford TUE Mr Hepworth ...... Tom Urie TUE TUE Producer: Gus Beattie TUE A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0150p9b (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0150pcl (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who talks to actor Tim Pigott-Smith as he TUE takes the title role in King Lear at the West Yorkshire TUE Playhouse in Leeds. TUE TUE Producer Ekene Akalawu. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0150p5q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b0150phx (Listen) TUE The Department of Health wants to slash £1.2 billion off the TUE bill for hospital supplies -- everything from bandages and TUE rubber gloves to operating tables and medical equipment. TUE TUE The planned savings form part of the £20 billion in NHS TUE efficiency savings the Government has pledged to make by TUE 2014. TUE TUE There's plenty of scope for savings. A recent survey found TUE one Hospital Trust bought 177 different types of surgical TUE gloves. Across the NHS, hospitals buy more than 1,700 TUE different kinds of canula. Rationalising this medical TUE shopping list could free-up £500 million a year for TUE investment in patient care, the National Audit Office TUE estimates. TUE TUE But can the increasingly complex NHS procurement system in TUE England deliver the major savings the Government wants to TUE see? TUE TUE Critics say Foundation Hospital Trusts increasingly make TUE their own buying decisions, with little or no national TUE co-ordination. Inside hospitals, managers tasked with TUE purchasing millions of pounds worth of equipment often lack TUE the authority or the support of their superiors to drive TUE through savings. Meanwhile new private sector companies are TUE moving in to take over the purchase and supply of NHS TUE equipment. TUE TUE Will the Government's plans for a more devolved health TUE service help or hinder the drive to save taxpayers' money. TUE Jenny Cuffe investigates. TUE TUE Producer: Andy Denwood. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0150phz (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 The Philosopher's Arms b0150pj1 (Listen) TUE Moral Disgust TUE TUE Welcome to the Philosopher's Arms - a place where TUE philosophical ideas, logical dilemmas and the real world TUE meet for a chat and a drink. TUE TUE Each week Matthew Sweet takes a thought experiment with TUE philosophical pedigree and asks why it matters in the TUE everyday world. En route we'll learn about the thinking of TUE such luminaries as Aristotle, Hume, Kant and John Stuart TUE Mill. And all recorded in a pub in front of a live audience, TUE ready to tap their glasses and demand clarity. TUE TUE Questions we might confront along the way include: should TUE the government put Prozac in the water supply? How should I TUE treat my daughter if it turns out she's a robot? And is TUE there anything morally wrong with having sex with a TUE supermarket chicken? These will lead us into discussions TUE about the treatment of mental illness, the structure of TUE financial markets, and subjects as varied as happiness, TUE infidelity and homosexuality. Our assumptions and intuitions TUE will be challenged and, perhaps, undermined. TUE TUE Guests in the series include: David Willets, Universities TUE Minister; Val Curtis, Hygiene Expert; Peter Tatchell, human TUE rights activist; Barry Smith, Director of the Institute of TUE Philosophy; Jo Wolff, professor of philosophy at University TUE College London, Robyn Steward, mentor people on the Autism TUE spectrum and their families; Murray Shanahan, creator of TUE intelligent machines; Anders Sandberg from the Future of TUE Humanity Institute, Oxford University. TUE TUE Producer: David Edmonds. TUE TUE 21:30 Capitalism on Trial b0150p5l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01507j2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0150pj3 (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0150pj5 (Listen) TUE Catch 22, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Joseph Heller. TUE TUE Colonel Cathcart keeps raising the number of missions to be TUE flown by the men. Yossarian is determined not to fly any TUE more missions but keeps coming up against the unassailable TUE logic of Catch 22. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks. TUE Read by Stuart Milligan TUE Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 23:00 Old Harry's Game b00j4kbz (Listen) TUE Series 7, Episode 5 TUE TUE Andy Hamilton's comedy series set in Hell. TUE TUE Satan has become a one-man adoption agency while his chief TUE demon is reading Penelope Leach. But can Satan place the TUE baby with a good family? TUE TUE Satan ...... Andy Hamilton TUE Edith ...... Annette Crosbie TUE Scumspawn ...... Robert Duncan TUE Thomas ...... Jimmy Mulville TUE God ...... Timothy West TUE TUE With Felicity Montagu. TUE TUE 23:30 Ford Madox Ford and France b00tj82c (Listen) TUE Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee on The Good Soldier TUE TUE Ford Madox Ford said France "begins on the Left Bank of the TUE Seine" and described Provence as "a frame of mind". His last TUE lover, the painter Biala, said "we grow our own vegetables, TUE we have six (not very magnificent) rooms, and a garden with TUE the finest view in the world". TUE TUE Julian Barnes and Hermione Lee visit Aix-en-Provence to TUE explore the life of Ford Madox Ford, author of The Good TUE Soldier and - 4 years before his death in 1939 - of a book TUE about Provence which includes descriptions of bull-fighting, TUE a recipe for bouillabaisse, an argument about the TUE Albigensian religious heresy and a history of troubadour TUE poetry. TUE TUE Hermione Lee explores the way these interests are woven into TUE the plot of his best known book - The Good Soldier - "a tale TUE of two couples with additional victims who come into their TUE orbit -and it's about adultery, betrayal madness, suicide, TUE desperate love" which she believes is a book about TUE Albigensian beliefs. TUE TUE Julian Barnes explains that "the great emotional smash of TUE Ford's own life was in 1924 when he received a contribution TUE from the Transatlantic Review from a young woman" who was TUE then called Ella Lenglet. He gave her work the title "Triple TUE Sec" and gave her the pen-name Jean Rhys. "She had three TUE francs, a cardboard suitcase and a lot of talent, her TUE husband was in jail and the bad move was to move her in with TUE him and Stella Bowen." All four parties in this affair then TUE wrote books which depicted their tangled relationships. TUE TUE The programme ends by considering his end. When he arrived TUE in France in 1922, Ford was one of over five hundred TUE mourners to attend the funeral of Proust. In June 1939 Ford TUE was taken ill, en route to his beloved South of France, and TUE buried at a ceremony in the port town of Deauville attended TUE by only 3 people. TUE TUE Producer: Robyn Read TUE Reader: Kerry Shale. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01507jx (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b015b3wc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01507jz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01507k1 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01507k3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01507k5 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01579sf (Listen) WED With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0151ndd (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Angela Frain. Presented by Charlotte Smith. WED WED 06:00 Today b0151ndg (Listen) WED With Evan Davis and James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0151ndj (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b015b3yt (Listen) WED The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of WED Elizabeth I, Episode 3 WED WED Written by John Cooper. Abridged by Libby Spurrier. WED WED England faces the threat of invasion from overseas and a WED potential Catholic rebellion. Walsingham is dealing with WED intelligence pouring into his office from his network of WED spies. WED WED The Queen's Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes WED and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's WED history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, WED sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened WED English state. WED WED Reader: Hugh Bonneville WED Producer: Joanna Green WED A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0151ndl (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0151ndn (Listen) WED Second Honeymoon, First Night WED WED By Joanna Trollope WED Dramatised in five episodes by Rachel Joyce WED Episode Three - First Night WED As Edie's first night approaches she finds there are WED distractions at home due to Matt's return. WED WED Edie...................Christine Kavanagh WED Russell...............Sam Dale WED Vivien..................Liza Sadovy WED Matt...................Jonathan Forbes WED Rosa..................Alex Tregear WED Ben....................Simon Bubb WED Lazlo..................Carl Prekopp WED Max....................James Lailey WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale WED WED 11:00 Turkish Delight? b0151nxr (Listen) WED The most visible sign of the Turkish community in the WED streets of the UK today is the kebab shop. WED WED Yasmeen Khan looks behind the shopfront at a community with WED a history and cultural variety that has depth and richness. WED In fact Turkish influence on this country began with the WED arrival of coffee houses in the 17th century. Now it is WED estimated that there are 150,000 immigrants from mainland WED Turkey as well as 300,000 Turkish Cypriots, many leaving WED Cyprus during the 50's and 60's during the internal war. WED WED Yasmeen Khan takes a snapshot of the issues within the WED Turkish and Turkish-Cypriot communities, and talks to one of WED their main leaders, Baroness Meral Hussein-Ece. Baroness Ece WED has worked in Islington and Hackney over many years and was WED instrumental in setting up the first Turkish Women's Group, WED as well as becoming the first woman of Turkish origin in the WED House of Lords, as a peer in 2010. Yasmeen talks to the WED playwright Cosh Omar, whose plays reflect the feelings and WED attitudes of the younger generation, and asks to what extent WED do they feel British, how closely do they want to integrate; WED and, as second or third generation people of Turkish origin, WED how close do they feel to either Turkey or to the divided WED island of Cyprus? WED WED Yasmeen will visit the streets of Haringey and Stoke WED Newington in London, and she'll talk to the smaller Turkish WED populations in the Midlands. Many of them run kebab shops, WED open to the early hours, with customers who pour in after a WED night out on the town. Their strength was certainly tested WED in the recent riots, when they came together to defend their WED property. She talks to them about the pride they have in WED improving the areas where they choose to work, and, of WED course, she tastes the shish, doner and shawarma kebabs and WED wraps that are their livelihood. WED WED Producers: Yasmeen Khan/Neil Gardner WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 A Case for Paul Temple b0151nxt (Listen) WED In Which Valentine Strikes WED WED Episode 6 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. WED WED From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave WED amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve WED solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures WED survive in the archives. WED WED In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to WED life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and WED Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and WED recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the WED production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to WED sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have WED done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so WED popular that it was soon followed with equal success by two WED more revivals, Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery and Paul WED Temple and Steve. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of A Case for Paul Temple, in WED which Paul and Steve brave great danger to reveal the WED identity of the mysterious West End drug dealer known only WED as 'Valentine'... WED WED Episode 6: In Which Valentine Strikes WED WED Temple and Sir Graham go looking for the gang's hideaway - WED and fall into a deadly trap. WED WED Paul Temple CRAWFORD LOGAN WED Steve GERDA STEVENSON WED Sir Graham GARETH THOMAS WED Major Peters GREG POWRIE WED Supt. Wetherby RICHARD GREENWOOD WED Sheila Baxter MELODY GROVE WED Mary ELIZA LANGLAND WED Charles Kelvin NICK UNDERWOOD WED Layland ROBIN LAING WED Sergeant Turner MICHAEL MACKENZIE WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in WED Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He one of the most successful WED novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his day. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b0151py0 (Listen) WED Unpaid work trials and zero hours contracts - are they fair? WED WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01507k7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b0151py2 (Listen) WED With Martha Kearney. National and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:30 The Media Show b0151py4 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0150p9b (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b0151py6 (Listen) WED Gwennie WED WED Michael and Gwen are looking back at their relationship, WED trying to pinpoint exactly where it all went wrong. They WED were happy, once. Their relationship was full of love, fun WED and lust. But with time, bitterness and jealousy has settled WED in, with arguments and mind games becoming normality. WED Something had to give.....and it does. Gwen's treasured WED drawing turns out to be fake. Michael's pleasure at this WED discovery is the last straw for Gwen. Ian Rowlands' play is WED a dark and honest account of facing up to the reality of a WED relationship in crisis. WED WED Michael ... David Birrell WED Gwen ... Lynne Seymour WED Mother ... Jennifer Hill WED Art Dealer ... Richard Mitchley WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Gwawr Lloyd. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0151py8 (Listen) WED Vincent Duggleby and a panel of guests answer calls on tax WED and self assessment. WED WED Do you need help completing your tax return or dealing with WED a tricky tax question? WED WED The deadline for filing your paper 2010/11 tax return is WED midnight Monday 31 October. Those who file online have until WED 31st January 2012 to submit their return. If your return is WED late, HM Revenue and Customs will charge an automatic £100 WED penalty. Further fines are payable if you do nothing. WED WED Whatever your question Vincent Duggleby and guests are ready WED to help. WED WED Phone lines open at 1.30pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0156mnq (Listen) WED One Hundred and Forty Characters, Songbirds WED WED By Oliver Emanuel. WED WED A young man, devastated by a messy relationship break-up, WED finds solace in bird watching. WED WED Second in a series of specially commissioned short stories WED inspired by the social networking phenomenon, Twitter. (For WED non "tweeters", the series title derives from Twitter's WED format where "tweets" - the postings - can be no longer than WED 140 characters.) WED WED Read by Robin Laing. WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 15:45 A View Through a Lens b0151pyd (Listen) WED Series 3, Patience WED WED Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in WED isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe WED filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the WED uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the WED fragility of life and the connections which unite society WED and nature across the globe. WED WED 3/5 Patience. Its summer and wildlife cameraman John WED Aitchison has travelled to Svalbard as part of a team from WED the BBC series Frozen Planet to film polar bears hunting for WED food. In summer, when there is no ice from which to hunt, WED the polar bears on land resort to hunting sea birds. This is WED what John has come here to film. But it proves far harder WED than he expects, as the bears are in no hurry to hunt, and WED John is left watching and waiting for a bear which does WED little else but sleep, day after day after day. Whilst he WED waits, John's attention turns to other things; like the WED sounds of the kittiwakes, the sounds of gas escaping from WED the ice and the dives and breaths of white beluga whales in WED a nearby fjord. As he listens, watches and waits, John WED reflects on what it means to be patient. WED WED Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0151pyg (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Path of Least Resistance b0138361 (Listen) WED Last year the Director General of the World Health WED Organisation forecast that 'the world is heading for a WED post-antibiotic era'. In July this year a strain of WED gonorrhea completely resistant to antibiotics was identified WED in Japan, with the warning that the infection could now WED become a global threat to public health. WED WED Dr Stuart Flanagan works in a sexual health clinic and WED regularly treats patients with gonorrhea. So far the WED resistant strain hasn't arrived in the UK but, with WED international travel and the established pattern of WED migration shown by other resistant bacteria, it won't be WED long. WED WED It's inevitable that bacteria will evolve and the ones able WED to resist the antibiotics aimed to kill them - the fittest - WED will survive. But over-prescription, failure to complete WED courses, and factors such as poor hygiene have all contrived WED to help bacteria become resistant. For immuno-suppressed WED patients, like those with HIV or undergoing chemotherapy, WED resistant bacteria can prove fatal. WED WED Over 80% of antibiotics in the UK are prescribed by GPs; WED Stuart Flanagan hears from Professor Chris Butler, Head of WED Primary Care and Public Health at Cardiff University about WED the STAR study, aimed at reducing antibiotic prescribing, WED and from Dr Jennifer Byrne of Queens Medical Centre, WED Nottingham, about treating immuno-suppressed patients. Dr WED David Livermore of the Health Protection Agency explains how WED we've helped resistance to grow. Especially in the WED developing world, where poverty and fake medicines WED exacerbate the situation. Newly affluent India and China, WED show resistance levels as high as 60%. And Otto Cars of WED ReAct - an independent global network tackling antibiotic WED resistance - considers the global options. The Chief Medical WED Officer, Dame Sally Davies, reflects on the UK's role. WED WED 17:00 PM b0151pyj (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01507k9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 The Castle b00h3840 (Listen) WED Series 2, Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers In Your Visor WED WED Hie ye to "The Castle", a rollicking sitcom set way back WED then, starring James Fleet ("The Vicar Of Dibley", "Four WED Weddings & A Funeral") and Neil Dudgeon ("Life Of Riley") WED WED In this episode, Sir John decides to raise money by holding WED a rock festival in the grounds of Woodstock... Let's hear it WED for kicking sounds from the electric lute, new-fangled WED hummous from the Levant and much disapproval from Pope WED Innocent the VIth! WED WED Sir John Woodstock ..... James Fleet WED Sir William De Warenne ...... Neil Dudgeon WED Lady Anne Woodstock ...... Montserrat Lombard WED Cardinal Duncan ....... Jonathan Kydd WED Lady Charlotte ....... Ingrid Oliver WED Master Henry Woodstock ...... Steven Kynman WED Merlin ....... Lewis Macleod WED WED Written by Kim Fuller with additional material by Paul WED Alexander WED Music by Guy Jackson WED WED Produced and directed by David Tyler WED A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0151pyl (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0151pyn (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0151ndn (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b0151pyq (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Claire Fox, Kenan Malik, Michael Portillo WED and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0151pys (Listen) WED Series 2, Matthew Goodwin WED WED Matthew Goodwin says supporters of the far right are WED generally neither irrational nor isolated, and that a far WED right party without extremist baggage could be electable in WED Britain. WED WED He has spent much of the last decade with members and WED supporters of the British far right, examining their hopes WED and aspirations, what they wish to achieve. WED WED As an expert in electoral behaviour and extremism at the WED University of Nottingham, he has also been carefully WED studying hundreds of polls to explore whether there is a WED wider resonance for their message. It is an intensely WED controversial area of study - particularly in the light of WED the recent atrocities in Norway. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front WED of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the WED stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b0151pyv (Listen) WED Waters of Arabia WED WED Take a walk through the narrow streets of Sana'a, capital of WED Yemen and you'll come across the last remaining radish WED gardens. These small bursts of greenery amidst the desert WED dust are all that remain of a system that once fed and WED watered the city. At the height of Arabic science and WED ingenuity elaborate irrigation systems brought water into WED the mosques to wash the faithful. The used water was then WED diverted into large gardens of fabulous fertility. WED WED Today Yemen is on the verge of a humanitarian crisis WED provoked largely by a chronic shortage of water. A fast WED expanding population coupled with a diversion of scarce WED water for the production of the narcotic drug, Khat has WED pushed the country's water supply to the limit. Reporter WED Leana Hosea has visited Yemen to find out if the wisdom of WED the Arabic engineers of the past can help bring water back WED to this parched nation. WED WED Producer: Alasdair Cross. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0151ndj (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01507kc (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0151pyx (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0151pyz (Listen) WED Catch 22, Episode 3 WED WED by Joseph Heller WED WED Faced with a bombing raid to Bologna, Yossarian decides to WED take direct action. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Read by Stuart Milligan WED Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 23:00 What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else WED b0151pz1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Travel WED WED A second series of this popular and critically acclaimed WED series from Andrew Lawrence which addresses trying to fit in WED and find your place in society. This week: travel - an WED episode exploring how we go about the various journeys we WED take in everyday life, whether it be the journey to work or WED to a holiday destination, or just down to the shops. WED WED 23:15 The Music Teacher b00s9gbs (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED An aural feast of a musical comedy written by and starring WED 2009 Writers' Guild Award winner Richie Webb as long WED suffering multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny. WED Featuring Vicki Pepperdine as Arts Centre Manager Belinda. WED WED Shut away in a tiny windowless practice room in a regional WED arts centre, music teacher Nigel Penny endures his usual WED succession of bizarre pupils whilst wrestling with the WED latest curveball thrown at him by panicked Arts Centre WED manager, Belinda. WED WED Episode 2 sees Nigel faced with having to up the rate he WED charges his students; but he finds his negotiating skills WED somewhat thwarted by a guitarist with no strings, a Cameo WED tribute act and possibly the world's most confusing busker. WED WED Belinda meanwhile is struggling to cope with the Arts WED Centre's new emergency procedures - and therefore so is WED everyone else. WED WED Nigel Penny ..... Richie Webb WED Belinda ..... Vicki Pepperdine WED Other roles by Dave Lamb, Jim North and Jess Robinson. WED WED Written by Richie Webb. WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Director: Nick Walker WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Weird Tales b00pkv2v (Listen) WED Series 2, Connected WED WED Hoarder of horror Lovecraft returns to share three more WED chilling tales. WED WED By Melissa Murray. When her brother-in-law is killed in a WED car crash, Steph is overcome with sadness. One day, feeling WED maudlin, she rings his mobile number, just wanting to hear WED his voice. The next day he rings her back. WED WED Steph ...... Fiona Glascott WED Ray ...... Joseph Kloska WED Jamie ...... Piers Wehner WED Lovecraft ...... Stephen Hogan WED Mother ...... Kate Layden WED Jan/Flight Attendant ...... Melissa Advani WED Passenger ...... Ewan Hooper WED Shop Assistant ...... Rhys Jennings WED Passerby ...... John Biggins WED Passerby 2/Estate Agent ...... Tessa Nicholson WED WED Directed by Mary Peate. WED WED THU THURSDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01507l0 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b015b3yt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01507l2 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01507l4 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01507l6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01507l8 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01579sw (Listen) THU With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0151q7d (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Angela Frain. Presented by Charlotte Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b0151q7g (Listen) THU With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports THU Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b0151q7j (Listen) THU The Etruscan Civilisation THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Etruscan THU civilisation. THU THU Around 800 BC a sophisticated civilisation began to emerge THU in the area of Italy now known as Tuscany. These were the THU Etruscans, and for many years they controlled much of Italy. THU They were effective merchants as well as skilled soldiers THU and artists, and much of their handiwork survives today. THU Eventually the Etruscan civilisation was subsumed into that THU of Rome, on which it had a profound influence. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b015b430 (Listen) THU The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of THU Elizabeth I, Episode 4 THU THU Written by John Cooper. Abridged by Libby Spurrier. THU THU Walsingham searches for proof that Mary Queen of Scots is THU guilty of treason against Queen Elizabeth I, and encourages THU the new wave of exploration to America and the New World. THU THU The Queen's Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes THU and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's THU history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, THU sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened THU English state. THU THU Reader: Hugh Bonneville THU Producer: Joanna Green THU A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0151q7l (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jane Garvey. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0151q7n (Listen) THU Second Honeymoon, Chaos THU THU By Joanna Trollope THU Dramatised in five episodes by Rachel Joyce THU Episode Four - Chaos THU Edie had dreamt about the house being full again but in her THU daydream there were no long queues for the bathroom! THU THU Edie.............Christine Kavanagh THU Russell.........Sam Dale THU Vivien...........Liza Sadovy THU Matt.............Jonathan Forbes THU Rosa............Alex Tregear THU Ben..............Simon Bubb THU Lazlo............Carl Prekopp THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b0151q7q (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Lyrical Journey b0151rkt (Listen) THU Day Trip to Bangor THU THU Eminently singable, 'Day Trip to Bangor', which sold more THU than half million copies in 1979, has entered popular THU culture in an astonishing way. Covered by no end of bands, THU parodied in rugby songs, by comedians (e.g.Jasper Carrot's THU 'Daytrip to Blackpool') - it even got mashed up 2010 style THU by Paul Dakeyne at the Chris Moyles' Weekender in Bangor. THU THU Presenter Jonathan Maitland takes the writer of the song - THU Debbie Cook - and Cathy Lesurf, the original singer from THU Fiddler's Dram (who recorded the song) back to Bangor in THU Wales to find out why so many people find it hard to believe THU it is indeed a song about that city. THU THU Why did people claim at the time (and still do) that Debbie THU must have based it on a day-trip to Rhyl instead? And do the THU lyrics of song (the fairground, the pier etc) have any basis THU in reality? What happened to the woman in the song who had a THU 'cuddle with Jack' and delighted in getting the whole THU day-trip for 'under a pound'? THU THU Cathy is asked to perform the song on the pier alongside THU real day-trippers, and finds out how much it has meant to THU some of the residents to have their home celebrated in this THU way. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b0151rkw (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01507lb (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b0151rky (Listen) THU With Martha Kearney. National and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:30 Costing the Earth b0151pyv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0151pyl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b0151t3t (Listen) THU Strangers on a Film THU THU By Stephen Wyatt. To accompany the second part of the THU Classic Chandler season Patrick Stewart plays Raymond THU Chandler and Clive Swift is Alfred Hitchcock in their famous THU collaboration on Strangers on a Train. In 1950, Alfred THU Hitchcock invited Raymond Chandler to work with him on a THU screenplay based on Patricia Highsmith's novel. Chandler was THU not only recognised as a fine novelist and had also received THU an Academy Award nomination for his original screenplay, The THU Blue Dahlia. The omens were good but their collaboration THU turned out to be a disaster. THU THU Raymond Chandler...Patrick Stewart THU Alfred Hitchcock...Clive Swift THU THU Directed by Claire Grove THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01508nn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 06:07 on Saturday] THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0150dsq (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Afternoon Reading b0154y6q (Listen) THU One Hundred and Forty Characters, Would You Like To THU Reconnect? THU THU By Joanne Harris. THU THU A grieving woman retreats into the world of social THU networking, finding comfort in the traces left behind there THU by her dead son. Then, one afternoon, as she scrolls through THU her timeline, she receives an unsettling message, apparently THU sent from beyond the grave. THU THU Last in a series of specially commissioned short stories THU inspired by the social networking phenomenon, Twitter. (For THU non "tweeters", the title derives from Twitter's format THU where "tweets" - the postings - can be no longer than 140 THU characters.) THU THU Read by Monica Gibb. THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 15:45 A View Through a Lens b0151t3w (Listen) THU Series 3, Fur Seals THU THU Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in THU isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe THU filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the THU uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the THU fragility of life and the connections which unite society THU and nature across the globe. THU THU 4/5 Fur Seals. Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison travels THU with a team filming the BBC series Frozen Planet to Bird THU Island, a small island at the western tip of South Georgia THU in the South Atlantic to film fur seals giving birth. But THU fur seals are extremely aggressive seals and trying to walk, THU let alone film, amongst them is both difficult and THU frightening. A colleague of John's makes him a metal barrel THU which acts as protective shield from which he can film. From THU inside this hide, John looks out across a colony of THU thousands of fur seals; the males engage in fierce and THU bloody fights, whilst the females run the gauntlet from the THU beach to their natal site to give birth. John finds it hard THU to feel empathy with animals which seem intent on doing him THU harm, but when amidst the noise and aggression of the THU battlefield, something beautiful and tender happens, John THU soon changes his mind. THU THU Producer Sarah Blunt. THU THU 16:00 Open Book b0150grg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:30 Material World b0151t3y (Listen) THU So You Want to Be a Scientist launch THU THU Material World announces the return of 'So You Want to Be a THU Scientist?' - the search for the BBC's Amateur Scientist of THU the Year. THU THU Last year 69 year old gardener Ruth Brooks from Devon was THU crowned the winner for her research into the homing distance THU of snails. With the help of ecologist Dr Dave Hodgson from THU the University of Exeter, she created an experiment in her THU back garden to measure how far she should move her snails THU away to stop them coming back to eat her petunias. THU THU "The whole year was filled with fun," said Ms Brooks. "For a THU non-scientist like me, it was great to have my research idea THU taken seriously. If I can do it, anyone can - just have a THU go!" THU THU Now you can put your ideas, hunches and theories to the THU test. If you're chosen as one of Material World's four THU finalists, your entry will be turned into a real experiment THU which you'll carry out with the help of a professional THU scientist. THU THU A panel of judges, chaired by Nobel prize winning scientist THU Sir Paul Nurse, will select four finalists in December. The THU amateur scientists start their research in January and will THU present their results at the Cheltenham Science Festival in THU June 2012, where the judges will choose a winner. THU THU Entries are open online from 26 Sept until 31 Oct: THU www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/scientist. THU THU 17:00 PM b0151t40 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01507ld (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 So Wrong It's Right b00s943r (Listen) THU Series 1, Episode 1 THU THU Charlie Brooker hosts the new comedy panel show celebrating THU one of Britain's favourite subjects - failure. THU THU It's a game of competitive ineptitude, the aim of which is THU to come up with the wrongest answer to each question. In THU this episode, the guests joining him to try and out-wrong THU each other with their ideas and stories are panellists THU comedians David Mitchell & Rufus Hound and presenter THU Victoria Coren. THU THU In this show the panel's worst holiday experiences, the THU internet and Anthea Turner all come under the 'wrong' THU spotlight - as well as the guests best ideas for the worst THU new reality TV show. Will anyone beat Rufus Hound's pitch - THU the primetime reality show 'Blaze Of Granny'? THU THU Producer: Aled Evans THU A Zeppotron production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0151t42 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0151t44 (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor James THU Corden, as he publishes an autobiography. THU THU Producer Claire Bartleet. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0151q7n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0151t46 (Listen) THU Linda Pressly investigates the deaths at Stepping Hill THU hospital in Stockport which are being blamed on contaminated THU saline drips. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b0151t48 (Listen) THU Business magazine. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b0150p5s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0151q7j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01507lg (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0151t4d (Listen) THU With Robin Lustig. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0151t4g (Listen) THU Catch 22, Episode 4 THU THU by Joseph Heller. THU THU Marking the 50th anniversary of Heller's ground-breaking THU novel. THU THU After a terrifying mission to Ferrara, Yossarian bails out THU on the next. The revenge from the powers-that-be is to make THU Yossarian fly lead on the next bombing raid, to Bologna, THU where they encounter heavy flak. Orr is forced into yet THU another emergency crash landing. THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks. THU Read by Stuart Milligan THU Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 23:00 Very Old Pretenders b0151t4j (Listen) THU The Dating Game THU THU This week in Carl Gorham's culture clash comedy THU anthropologist Andrew Merron takes his two Jacobite soldiers THU from 1745 into the modern world of speed - dating. There, a THU super confident Macdonald fails spectacularly to attract THU anyone whilst a nervous Rab is mistaken for the strong THU silent type and overwhelmed with offers. With Rab already on THU a date, Merron manages to fix Macdonald up with someone via THU the internet then succeeds in arranging a special evening THU out for himself and long suffering wife Denise. But far from THU pleasing everyone, the three dates quickly prove a nightmare THU for all concerned. THU THU Andrew Merron......................David Haig THU Denise Merron..................Rebecca Front THU Rab ....................................Jack Docherty THU Macdonald........................Gordon Kennedy THU Gail ......... Morwenna Banks THU Speed daters ....... Lucy Barter / Rebecca Front /Sinead THU Merron THU Taxi Driver/Rita ....... Moray Hunter THU THU Producer: Gordon Kennedy THU An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Weird Tales b00pr52j (Listen) THU Series 2, Split The Atom THU THU Hoarder of horror Lovecraft returns to share three more THU chilling tales. THU THU By Lynn Ferguson. Frank Ivory is full of anger: burning, THU simmering, steaming anger. On his way home one night, after THU making his colleagues lives a misery, he meets Gwen, who is THU determined to tell him the story of the Morrigan, the Celtic THU goddess in charge of who should live and who should die. THU THU Frank ......Derek Riddell THU Gwen ......Rachel Ogilvy THU Lovecraft ...... Stephen Hogan THU Louise ...... Emma Stansfield THU Bill ...... Rhys Jennings THU Barbara/Delivery Woman ...... Tessa Nicholson THU George ...... Ewan Hooper THU William Perkins/Homeless Guy ...... Piers Wehner THU THU Directed by Luke Fresle. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01507m1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b015b430 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01507m3 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01507m5 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01507m7 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01507m9 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01579t4 (Listen) FRI With the Rev. Dr. Karen Smith. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0151w2w (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Angela Frain. Presented by Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0151w2y (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0150dt1 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b015b44t (Listen) FRI The Queen's Agent: Francis Walsingham at the Court of FRI Elizabeth I, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by John Cooper. Abridged by Libby Spurrier FRI FRI Through his network of spies, Walsingham prepares the FRI country for the defeat of the Spanish Armada. It would be FRI the last triumph of his career. FRI FRI The Queen's Agent is a story of secret agents, cryptic codes FRI and ingenious plots, set in a turbulent period of England's FRI history. It is also the story of a man devoted to his queen, FRI sacrificing his every waking hour to save the threatened FRI English state. FRI FRI Reader: Hugh Bonneville FRI Producer: Joanna Green FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0151w30 (Listen) FRI Presented by Sheila McClennon. Celebrating, informing and FRI entertaining women. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0151w32 (Listen) FRI Second Honeymoon, Beginning Again FRI FRI By Joanna Trollope FRI Dramatised in five episodes by Rachel Joyce FRI Episode Five - Beginning Again FRI Matt, Rosa, Ben and Lazlo have all moved in. Edie thought FRI this is what she wanted but now she's not so sure. FRI FRI Edie...........Christine Kavanagh FRI Russell.......Sam Dale FRI Vivien.........Liza Sadovy FRI Rosa..........Alex Tregear FRI Matt...........Jonathan Forbes FRI Ben............Simon Bubb FRI Lazlo..........Carl Prekopp FRI Max...........James Lailey FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale FRI FRI 11:00 Home from Home b0151w34 (Listen) FRI Bangalore FRI FRI As India's economy has boomed, many British Indians - born FRI or brought up in the UK to immigrant Indian parents - have FRI been encouraged to make the reverse journey. In two FRI programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli visits the busy centres of FRI Bangalore and Mumbai and tracks down some of those who have FRI decided to change their lives and make a go of it in India. FRI But do they see themselves as Indian or British? What do FRI they relish and what do they miss? FRI FRI In the first programme Hardeep is in Bangalore - centre for FRI IT, finance and outsourcing - where he meets is Nina Bual. FRI She arrived in India on a one-way ticket, having become fed FRI up with her PR job in London. Now she is a successful FRI entrepreneur running four spas. The second returnee decided FRI on an unlikely venture - to open a French patisserie with FRI his French wife. This is Shashi Halai from Finchley and FRI together they have expanded their business to pizzas and FRI quiches - and not a curry in sight. FRI FRI Many of the returnees work for major international FRI companies, who find Bangalore offers the chance to expand FRI into the huge Indian market. One of these is Rajiv Sagar. FRI His wife gave up her UK job and they and their 2 children FRI moved to one of the prestige gated communities. Once past FRI security you enter a world of manicured lawns and ordered FRI comings and goings - totally unlike the rest of the heaving FRI city. The Sagar's will eventually be moving back, but that's FRI not the case for Sati and Priti Joshi who have put down firm FRI roots, bought a house, and committed themselves - but FRI adapting to life in India is not easy, and the ever-present FRI custom of bribes, is something they fight against FRI FRI Producer: Richard Bannerman FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Clare in the Community b0151xsf (Listen) FRI Series 7, To Kill a Mocking Bird FRI FRI Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all FRI the right jargon but never a practical solution. FRI FRI A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering FRI in other people's lives on both a professional and personal FRI basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and FRI heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of FRI discomfort to her. FRI FRI Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control FRI both her professional and private life FRI FRI In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out FRI there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. FRI FRI In episode two 'To Kill A Mocking Bird' Clare ends her FRI relationship with Brian and is surprised by her colleagues' FRI reaction to the news. FRI FRI Episode Two 'To Kill A Mocking Bird' FRI FRI Clare ..... SALLY PHILLIPS FRI Brian ..... ALEX LOWE FRI Megan/Nali ..... NINA CONTI FRI Ray ..... RICHARD LUMSDEN FRI Helen ..... LIZA TARBUCK FRI Simon ..... ANDREW WINCOTT FRI Libby ..... SARAH KENDALL FRI Pru Granville ..... SOPHIE THOMPSON FRI Mr Collier ..... GERARD MCDERMOTT FRI Thomas ..... GEORGIA LOWE FRI FRI Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden FRI Producer by Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0151xsh (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01507mf (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b0151xsk (Listen) FRI With Shaun Ley. National and international news. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:30 Feedback b0151xsm (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0151t42 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0151xsp (Listen) FRI Bad Faith - Series 2, Unoriginal Sin FRI FRI by Peter Jukes FRI Unoriginal Sin FRI FRI After the death of his father and the breakdown of his FRI marriage, Jake needed to get away from home, so he has FRI accepted his old friend Sufiq Khan's invitation to come on FRI secondment as Police Chaplain to Khan's West Yorkshire FRI division. FRI FRI Jake arrives in his new posting the week before Christmas FRI with a mission is to clean up a rough division, but he is FRI immediately plunged into the question of original sin as an FRI 11 year old is investigated for murder. FRI FRI Jake Thorne ..... Lenny Henry FRI Chief Supt Sufiq Khan ..... Vincent Ebrahim FRI Father Frank Gilligan ..... John Rowe FRI Kevin Stanhope ..... Conrad Nelson FRI Alyssa Mayes ..... Seroca Davis FRI Edie Gosling ..... Nadine Marshall FRI Tony Wingard ..... Clive Russell FRI Amanda Copley ..... Alex Tregear FRI French Woman ..... Susie Riddell FRI FRI directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0151xsr (Listen) FRI Colne FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening Q&A with Christine Walkden, FRI Bunny Guinness and Chris Beardshaw. FRI How to grow and process natural dyes at home: Anne FRI Swithinbank reports. FRI More suggestions for autumn colour from Chris Beardshaw. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 A View Through a Lens b0151xst (Listen) FRI Series 3, Shearwater Hurricane FRI FRI Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison often finds himself in FRI isolated and even dangerous locations across the globe FRI filming wildlife, and in this series he reflects on the FRI uniqueness of human experience, the beauty of nature, the FRI fragility of life and the connections which unite society FRI and nature across the globe. FRI FRI 5/5 Shearwater Hurricane. Wildlife cameraman John Aitchison FRI travels with a team filming the BBC series Frozen Planet to FRI the Aleutian islands, a chain of islands which stretches FRI more than a thousand miles in the far west of Alaska. The FRI Aleutians are famous for their strong fickle tides, for FRI their fog and for their storms. The currents rushing between FRI the islands pump nutrients between the Pacific and Bering FRI Sea and where there are nutrients, there are plankton. FRI Plankton are food for krill, and krill are food for Humpback FRI whales. But its not only whales that gather here, so too do FRI herring, and the herring attract birds; Short-tailed FRI shearwaters which fly thousands of miles here from the south FRI of Australia to feed on the herring. These waters are FRI transformed into the scene of an extraordinary banquet; and FRI one of Nature's greatest feeding spectacles. FRI FRI Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI 16:30 The Film Programme b0151xsy (Listen) FRI With Francine Stock. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0151xt0 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01507mh (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b0151xt2 (Listen) FRI Series 75, Episode 4 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig with panellists including Jeremy Hardy, Fred FRI Macaulay and Phill Jupitus. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0151xt4 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0151xt6 (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson meets the Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy, as she FRI publishes a new collection. FRI FRI Producer Ekene Akalawu. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0151w32 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0151xt8 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from Saint Peter's Catholic High School in Wigan. FRI Every week the panel includes four politicians and opinion FRI formers who answer questions put to them by members of the FRI live audience. FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0151xtb (Listen) FRI Reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Play b00jb1sp (Listen) FRI The Complete Ripley, Ripley Under Water FRI FRI by Patricia Highsmith. Ian Hart stars as charming, cultured FRI Tom Ripley, in Patricia Highsmith's classic thriller. FRI Strange new neighbours show an overdeveloped interest in FRI Ripley's past. Tom discovers they are not who they say they FRI are but will his shady dealings be exposed after all? FRI FRI Tom Ripley...Ian Hart FRI Heloise...Helen Longworth FRI Madame Annette...Caroline Guthrie FRI David Pritchard...William Hope FRI Janice Pritchard...Janice Acquah FRI Jeff Constant...Stephen Hogan FRI Cynthia Gradnor...Lizzy Watts FRI Policeman...Matt Addis FRI FRI Dramatist Stephen Wyatt FRI Director Steven Canny FRI Producer Claire Grove. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01507mk (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0151xtd (Listen) FRI With Robin Lustig. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0151xtg (Listen) FRI Catch 22, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Joseph Heller FRI FRI Colonel Cathcart is plagued by several Yossarians, there is FRI an outbreak of moaning in the briefing room and Major Danby FRI is faced with summary execution. FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Read by Stuart Milligan FRI Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b0150p96 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Weird Tales b00pxr8m (Listen) FRI Series 2, The House on Pale Avenue FRI FRI Hoarder of horror Lovecraft returns to share three more FRI chilling tales. FRI FRI By Richard Vincent. Scratching in the walls, under the FRI floorboards, in the pipes: their new home is trying to tell FRI the Williams family something and they won't be given a FRI moment's peace until its secret is out in the open. FRI FRI Geoff Williams ...... Jamie Glover FRI Jane Williams ...... Julia Ford FRI Sarah Williams ...... Agnes Dromgoole FRI Martin Crabtree ...... John Biggins FRI DCI Cram ...... Piers Wehner FRI Psychiatrist ...... Melissa Advani FRI Lovecraft ...... Stephen Hogan FRI FRI Directed by Gemma Jenkins. FRI
23 September, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 24/09/2011 - 30/09/2011
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