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SAT SATURDAY 19 NOVEMBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0174gnc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b017551c (Listen) SAT The West End Front, Episode 5 SAT SAT Kenneth Cranham reads the final part of Matthew Sweet's SAT history of the scandalous life above and below stairs in SAT London's grand hotels during the Second World War. While SAT bombs rain down on London's East End, life in the capital's SAT glittering hotels carries on as usual, with the Ritz, the SAT Dorchester, the Savoy and Claridge's transforming themselves SAT into mini Casablancas. SAT SAT Today: cabinet ministers and spies, anti-Semites and SAT zionists, dowagers and showgirls - the weird and wonderful SAT clientele of the Dorchester carries on regardless. SAT SAT Reader: Kenneth Cranham SAT Producer: Justine Willett SAT Abridger: Viv Beeby. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0174gnf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0174gnh (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0174gnk (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0174gnm (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017571t (Listen) SAT with Ibrahim Mogra. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b017571w (Listen) SAT "A quick handshake and a 'sorry mate' is enough." The father SAT of a dead Royal Marine discusses public displays of grief, SAT and how he dreads Remembrance events. With Eddie Mair. SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0174gnp (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0174gnr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b017528z (Listen) SAT Today on Open Country, Richard Uridge visits what's known as SAT the jewel of the Channel Islands. Herm stretches just a mile SAT and a half long. The whole island is leased by one couple, SAT who own everything on it from the hotel to the beach cafĂ©'s SAT and all the houses. 58 people live on the Island and all SAT work for the same employer. Richard Uridge finds out what SAT it's like to live in such a close-knit community and to all SAT work for the same company. SAT SAT Presenter : Richard Uridge SAT Producer : Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b017bmwv (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Produced by Sarah Swadling. Presented by Charlotte Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0174gnt (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b017bmwx (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports SAT Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b017bmwz (Listen) SAT Sir Alan Parker, Kate Fox, jailed mother Fiona, Kirsty SAT Young's music, magician Fergus Anckorn, Celia Birtwell SAT SAT Richard Coles with the filmmaker Sir Alan Parker, Fergus SAT Anckorn whose life was saved by a magic trick, and Fiona who SAT had to tell her children she was likely to be sent to jail. SAT JP Devlin shuffles through Kirsty Young's mp3 player to SAT reveal her musical choices and textile designer and David SAT Hockney muse Celia Birtwell shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b017bmx1 (Listen) SAT Mitteleuropa - Escape from Hong Kong - A272 SAT SAT John McCarthy looks at Eastern Europe with broadcaster SAT Dennis Marks who visited many of the places described by the SAT author Joseph Roth who wrote between the wars about the SAT declining years of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and often SAT depicted Jewish life. Dennis journeyed around this SAT 'Mitteleuropa' in search of a world which has all but SAT disappeared since the Holocaust and the years of the Iron SAT Curtain. SAT SAT Journalist Tim Luard also makes a journey into the past. He SAT traces the escape from Hong Kong in 1942 of a one-legged SAT Chinese admiral with a party of British military personnel. SAT Tim and his wife followed their path through what was once SAT bandit country but is now part of bustling modern China. SAT John also talks to Rita Boogaart, one half of a Dutch couple SAT whose obsession with the A272 has led them to publish a SAT guide to the delights to be found along its route through SAT Sussex and Hampshire. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The iPod Series b017ng3m (Listen) SAT Queen Victoria's iPod SAT SAT In Buckingham Palace; David Owen Norris and guests listen to SAT Queen Victoria's favourite songs. We have been given access SAT to Victoria's own gold piano, on which we'll hear music SAT written specially by Mendelssohn for her to play in a duet SAT with Albert. SAT SAT We also hear an amorous serenade written for her by Prince SAT Albert, and a song which was sung in the streets after their SAT first child was born, 'Queen Victoria's Baby'. David Owen SAT Norris has also discovered a startling popular song of the SAT period about the Great Exhibition - the excitement of SAT setting off to see the Queen as a gold statue -and the SAT reality of fleas, dirt, crowds, and dubious dark alleys SAT where it was all too easy to lose one's virtue and return SAT pregnant... SAT SAT Listening to the music are Royal biographer Kate Williams, SAT cultural critic Matthew Sweet, and expert on Victorian music SAT Professor Jeremy Dibble. They'll be discussing what Queen SAT Victoria's favourite songs reveal about a very musical SAT monarch. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b017c8cg (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT The editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b017c8cj (Listen) SAT Are the generals in Egypt really about to relinquish power? SAT Stephen Sackur in Cairo takes a closer look at the Tahrir SAT Square revolution as Egyptians prepare to cast their votes. SAT David Loyn's in Burma where vested interests, the cronies SAT they're sometimes called, look on to see what will happen SAT with the leaders' programme of reforms; Lucy Ash is in the SAT Republic of Dagestan, on the shores of the Caspian Sea, SAT where bomb attacks and shootouts on an almost daily basis SAT make this the most volatile corner of the Russian SAT Federation; Mike Thomson explains why Kabul, the capital of SAT Afghanistan, has become a 'closed city' but says it pays to SAT get to know it better and Alastair Leithead's on a whirlwind SAT tour of Colombia - he gets an apology from the president and SAT tells us how gold has become the country's new cocaine. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b017c8cl (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance, SAT presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01756jp (Listen) SAT Series 35, Episode 2 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis dissect the week's news with the SAT assistance of; Jon Holmes, Henning Wehn, Pippa Evans and SAT Mitch Benn. SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0174gnw (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0174gny (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01756jw (Listen) SAT Worcester SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live panel discussion of news and SAT politics from the Royal Grammar School, Worcester with SAT Northern Ireland Secretary, Owen Paterson; shadow health SAT minister, Diane Abbott; political commentator, Iain Martin; SAT and Guardian columnist, John Harris. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b017c8cn (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b016vxyz (Listen) SAT The Weirdstone of Brisingamen SAT SAT Say 'Alderley Edge' to a lot of people and they'll think of SAT footballers with their wives, living in grand mansions. But SAT for a great many the words will conjure up wizards and a SAT hundred knights sleeping in a cave for thousands of years. SAT Alan Garner used a local legend as the starting point to his SAT book "The Weirdstone of Brisingamen" and the story is firmly SAT set in the part of Cheshire that he knows so well. The book SAT has been cherished by readers of all ages for fifty years SAT and it's timely that Radio 4 is broadcasting a new SAT dramatisation as Garner's novel about the adult life of the SAT young hero of Brisingamen is due out next year. SAT SAT Robert Powell who plays the narrator, has known Alan Garner SAT since he was a schoolboy in Manchester and Struan Rodger who SAT plays the dwarf, Durathror, was in a radio production of SAT another Garner story, "Elidor", when he was only thirteen SAT years old. Philip Voss plays Cadellin the wizard and Monica SAT Dolan, who recently made such an impression as Rosemary West SAT in TV's "Appropriate Adult", plays a witch. Hugo Docking and SAT Fern Deacon, who play the two children caught up in a SAT fearsome adventure, both come from the Sylvia Young School SAT and Hugo commuted daily from Cirencester. SAT SAT Dramatised by Peter Thomson. SAT SAT Colin ...... Robert Powell SAT Young Colin ...... Hugo Docking SAT Susan ..... Fern Deacon SAT Gowther ...... Trevor Cooper SAT Bess ...... Rachel Atkins SAT Selina Place ..... Monica Dolan SAT Cadellin ...... Philip Voss SAT Fenodyree ...... Steve Hodson SAT Durathror ...... Struan Rodger SAT SAT Music by Mia Soteriou SAT Special Effects: Wilfredo Acosta SAT SAT Director: Jane Morgan SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b0174gkd (Listen) SAT Series 9, Lee Morgan SAT SAT Ken Clarke, QC, MP returns with another series of Jazz SAT Greats. Joining Ken in the studio for this first instalment SAT is the lecturer and musician Ian Smith. Their subject: the SAT American hard-bop trumpeter Lee Morgan. SAT SAT Lee Morgan's tense, urgent trumpet with his searing high SAT register and funky timing was the essence of harp-bop. He SAT became a professional musician in his late teens when he SAT joined Dizzy Gillespie's big band in 1956. It was the SAT perfect launch-pad for his career and he went on to play SAT with some of the best in the genre: Art Blakey, John SAT Coltrane and Benny Golson. Perhaps most known for his SAT landmark album "The Sidewinder," Morgan became one of the SAT legendary Jazz label Blue Note's best loved stars. SAT He may have been blessed with musical talent but the rest of SAT Morgan's life was something of a mess. A crippling heroin SAT addiction hampered his recording career and resulted in a SAT painful encounter with gangsters. While the unfortunate SAT tangle of his personal relationships brought about his SAT rather dramatic demise. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b017c8cq (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Sinead Cusack, Diane Keaton and Anita SAT Dobson SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey: Diane Keaton talks about her long SAT and varied career. We hear how an inquiry into missing women SAT in Canada is investigating the role of the police following SAT the conviction of the country's most prolific serial killer. SAT Robert Pickton, who preyed on prostitutes and drug addicts, SAT boasted that he killed 49 women .Is it inevitable women will SAT continue to be hit the hardest by cutbacks in jobs and SAT services? Should the birth registration process be altered SAT to allow children conceived from donor sperm to access their SAT genetic history? Actor Sinead Cusack and Anita Dobson talks SAT about "that tango" and her new love of dancing. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b017c8cs (Listen) SAT Carolyn Quinn with a fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01753jg (Listen) SAT Ambition 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. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT Evan and his panel debate whether now's the time for SAT companies to pursue big, ambitious ideas - or is it a time SAT for more modest aspirations? They also discuss banking with SAT the boss of retail banking at Royal Bank of Scotland, and SAT take stock of the consumer sector in the run-up to SAT Christmas. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Brian Hartzer, chief SAT executive of RBS UK Retail, Wealth and Ulster; David Martin, SAT chief executive of transport company Arriva; Nadim SAT Ednan-Laperouse, founder and managing director of WOW toys. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0174gp0 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0174gp2 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0174gp4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b017c8cv (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Actor Robert Lindsay comes in from the cold to talk about SAT the roaring success of his new role in Trevor Nunn's SAT production of 'The Lion In Winter'. Robert is playing the SAT part of Henry II, whose family Christmas becomes a combat SAT zone of deceit, betrayal and bitter power games. SAT SAT And from one warzone to another, journalist and presenter SAT Michael Mosley is back from the the frontline to talk to SAT Clive about his new BBC2 series 'Frontline Medicine', which SAT uncovers the medical breakthroughs emerging from the current SAT conflicts. SAT SAT From best-dressed ladies to well-read babies, designer Orla SAT Keily's signature style is now adorning two new books for SAT babies and toddlers. Jo Bunting will be talking to Orla SAT about how her career has blossomed from designing SAT beautifully stylish hats, clothes and handbags to her new SAT ventures in the book world. SAT SAT There's fighting talk from Billy Bragg, whose polemical SAT songs have inspired generations. His music touches on major SAT political concerns from war and terrorism, to the politics SAT of identity. Billy takes time out of his tour to talk SAT political fisticuffs with Clive and also performs a track SAT from his new album 'Fight Songs'. SAT SAT The wonderfully talented Webb Sisters normally share a stage SAT with Leonard Cohen as his backing singers. They are now SAT touring together and performing their own songs, but will SAT treat us to their rendition of Cohen's 'If It Be Your Will' SAT from their album Savages. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b017c8cx (Listen) SAT Meryl Streep SAT SAT Meryl Streep is famous for achieving both critical and box SAT office success throughout her long career. With more academy SAT award nominations than any other actor in history, her face SAT is recognisable worldwide. SAT SAT The young Meryl Streep tasted early success in landmark SAT films such as 'The Deer Hunter' and 'Kramer vs Kramer'. SAT Going on to star in the harrowing 'Sophie's Choice', she SAT picked up the Academy Award for Best Actress and garnered SAT critical acclaim for her mastery of a Polish accent. SAT SAT The box office hit 'The Devil Wears Prada,' where she played SAT a ruthless magazine editor cemented her position as one of SAT Hollywood's most bankable female stars. The 2008 hit musical SAT 'Mamma Mia!' allowed her to indulge her first love of SAT singing and once again demonstrated her remarkable SAT versatility. SAT SAT Now as she takes on the role of another famous woman, former SAT Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, Andy Denwood charts her SAT extraordinary career. SAT SAT Reporter - Andy Denwood SAT Producer - Gail Champion. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b017c8cz (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests writers Miranda Sawyer and SAT Francis Spufford and musician Pat Kane review the week's SAT cultural highlights including Reasons to be Pretty by Neil SAT Labute SAT SAT THEATRE Reasons To Be Pretty - Neil LaBute's new play opens SAT at the Almeida Theatre in London SAT SAT FILM Snowtown - Justin Kurzel's film about a notorious SAT Australian serial killer SAT SAT OPERA Eugene Onegin - Deborah Warner's production of the SAT Tchaikovsky opera at ENO SAT SAT TV: Alan Turing: The Hero of Station X - Channel 4 drama SAT about the brilliant mathematician SAT SAT CD 50 Words For Snow - Kate Bush SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b013spvh (Listen) SAT Stephen Fry Does the Knowledge SAT SAT Stephen Fry is of course a black cab driver, known for his SAT prodigious knowledge. Taking the taxi journey as metaphor, SAT Stephen tries to pin down what the knowledge is, with the SAT help of cab drivers quiz contestants, quizmasters SAT philosophers, memory champions and educationalists. And he SAT looks at the idea of 'general' knowledge, as in general SAT knowledge games and General Certificates of Education. SAT SAT There are excerpts from a variety of quiz shows, starting SAT with the very first British example, less of a quiz and more SAT of a spelling bee. Though quiz shows aren't the be-all and SAT end-all of the subject they do show how our perception of SAT knowledge has changed, from the deeply serious to the SAT wilfully trivial. In an era when popular culture is taken SAT very seriously, the question of 'what's worth knowing?' SAT needs careful thought. Magnus Magnusson, for example argues SAT for knowledge for its own sake. SAT SAT Technology - the way Knowledge is shared - is also a theme. SAT Is The Knowledge, as famously earned by London cabbies, SAT threatened by Satellite Navigation? What happens to how we SAT value knowledge in an age when technology offers us such SAT wide horizons? SAT SAT Stephen discovers fascinating pre-Google knowledge sharing SAT systems including the much loved Daily Telegraph Information SAT service and the nineteenth century Society for the Diffusion SAT of Useful Knowledge. He argues that how we share knowledge SAT doesn't alter its nature and that a study of the subject SAT -epistemology, to give it its correct name - is ultimately a SAT philosophical matter. SAT SAT The programme's nonetheless entertaining with apposite SAT contributions from Alan Bennett, Magnus Magnusson, Nicholas SAT Parsons, John Peel, Bertrand Russell, Fred Housego and the SAT philosopher Mary Margaret McCabe. SAT SAT Producer: Nick Baker SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01724z2 (Listen) SAT The Ambassadors, Episode 1 SAT SAT THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry SAT James novel centres on the predicament of Lambert Strether, SAT a fifty-something New Englander lately arrived in Paris. SAT Henry Goodman stars as the hapless protagonist in a novel SAT many critics find James' finest. SAT SAT EPISODE 1 Strether has been sent to the city to persuade the SAT fun-living son of his wealthy fiancee back home in Woolett SAT to return home. But now Strether too falls under the spell SAT of Paris. . SAT SAT Lambert Strether Henry Goodman SAT Chad Orlando Seale SAT Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin SAT Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody SAT John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton SAT Waymarsh Paul Moriarty SAT Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh SAT Jim Pocock James Lailey SAT Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles SAT Andre Carl Prekopp SAT Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington SAT Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy SAT SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0174gp6 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b0174hs8 (Listen) SAT The Morality of the Press SAT SAT The Leveson inquiry into the culture and ethics of our press SAT opened this week. In the wake of so many scandals has time SAT finally been called on the industry that for so long has SAT been drinking in the last chance saloon? Defenders of the SAT press say any moves to impose external policing and SAT regulation will threaten freedom of speech and undermine the SAT vital role a free press plays in a democratic society. But SAT why should we treat our press differently from any other SAT industry that's key part of society? Broadcasting, energy, SAT water - they all have external regulators. Is it still SAT tenable to argue that the press is somehow different, SAT special and should be exempt, when at the same time it SAT operates within a climate that thinks it's acceptable to SAT hack in to the mobile phone of a murdered teenage girl? And SAT what about the noble calling of journalism itself? Has the SAT financial pressure on the industry created a culture where SAT ethics and morality come a poor second to doing whatever it SAT takes to get a story that will sell? If we want to reset the SAT moral compass of journalists is time for hacks to consider SAT swearing the equivalent of the Hippocratic Oath? Or are we SAT actually looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Do SAT we get the press we deserve and are the people we should be SAT questioning are those you buy, read and enjoy the stories SAT that have prompted the Leveson inquiry? The Moral Maze - the SAT morality of the press. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Clifford Longley, Kenan Malik, Anne SAT McElvoy and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b0174dzp (Listen) SAT (1/17) SAT The quest begins for the 59th Brain of Britain champion, as SAT competitors from all over the UK line up to face Russell SAT Davies' general knowledge questions. The first heat, from SAT the BBC Radio Theatre in London, features competitors from SAT as far apart as London and Inverness. They are the first of SAT 48 appearing in this year's heats, most of them taking part SAT for the first time, some returning for another go - but all SAT hoping they can progress through to the Final in spring, and SAT add their names to the illustrious list of Brains of Britain SAT down the years. SAT SAT As usual, in the current series, there's a chance for SAT listeners to outwit the contestants by submitting questions SAT with which to win a prize and 'beat the brains'. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Schtzngrmm b01724z6 (Listen) SAT Alan Dein travels to Vienna to piece together the story and SAT legacy of one of Austria's most important and original SAT modern poets. Ernst Jandl's experimental poems broke down SAT words and language on the page and reorganised them for the SAT ear. The plasticity of Jandl's poetry was quickly noted by SAT the technicians of the BBC's Radiophonic Workshop who turned SAT the work into lively aural creations and Jandl, an SAT anglophile, stunned and delighted the audience at the famous SAT 1965 Royal Albert Hall Poetry Incarnation with his violent SAT and wild sounding 'concrete poetry'. Speaking to Austrian SAT composers, musicans and writers as well as Jandl's friend, SAT Britain's Michael Horovitz, Dein explores the life and work SAT of this very arresting poet. SAT Producer Neil McCarthy. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b017bktw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b00kpv72 (Listen) SUN Three Stories By Giovanni Verga, Gramigna's Mistress SUN SUN Series of stories about farming folk by the Sicilian writer SUN of the 1870s, laced with dry humour. SUN SUN Peppa is due to marry Finu, then runs off to join some SUN hot-shot she has never even met. Apparently it's his SUN reputation that does it! SUN SUN Read by Dermot Crowley. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017bkty (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017bkv0 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017bkv2 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b017bkv4 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b017c8dw (Listen) SUN The bells from St Peter in Tiverton, Devon. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b017c8cx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b017bkv6 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b017c8dy (Listen) SUN A Spiritual Society SUN SUN Mark Tully explores what we mean by 'spirituality' and with SUN the help of Professor Ursula King, author of The Search for SUN Spirituality, he considers whether a spiritual life can SUN transcend the purely individualistic and become a force for SUN social good. SUN SUN In 'A Spiritual Society' Mark draws on music by Gustav SUN Holst, Carlos Santana and Neil Young, and readings by SUN Dorothy L. Sayers, Denise Levertov and David Scott. The SUN readers are Samantha Bond and Jack Shepherd. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b017c8f0 (Listen) SUN Winter Ladybirds SUN SUN Its autumn, the leaves are falling, the temperature dropping SUN and as the nights lengthen, this is a time when many animals SUN begin to slow down and prepare for the long winter months SUN ahead. The gardener's friend, the ladybird is one such SUN animal which in late autumn begins to move into many houses SUN as a welcome guest. For this weeks Living World Joanna SUN Pinnock heads to the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology in SUN Oxfordshire where on a windy day, she joins Dr Helen Roy and SUN PhD student Richard Comont to investigate what is happening SUN as ladybirds come indoors. SUN SUN Beginning inside Helen's house Joanna notices ladybirds all SUN around the windows. Ladybirds like pale walls, a reminder of SUN their natural environment, rocky mountains with light SUN coloured surfaces. But recently our native ladybirds have SUN been joined by the harlequin ladybird, a species that is SUN more likely to be seen in the house this year. Why this is SUN the case remains a mystery. SUN SUN There are over 40 species of ladybird in Britain, with the 7 SUN spot the most familiar. However when they come into their SUN dormant state, parasites and fungi begin to attack the 7 SUN spot and other ladybirds, with the winter months being the SUN time of greatest mortality. But new research is being SUN carried out to see if this parasite is about to begin SUN attacking the harlequin. Richard takes Joanna to see his SUN experimental plots and explain why the ladybirds need a SUN winter dormant state to survive. SUN SUN Producer : Andrew Dawes. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b017bkv8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b017bkvb (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b017c8f2 (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b017c8f4 (Listen) SUN Children in Need SUN SUN Terry Wogan presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Children in Need. SUN SUN You can give by calling 03457 33 22 33. You can also give SUN online at bbc.co.uk/Pudsey. Or post your donation - make SUN cheques payable to 'BBC Children in Need' and send them to SUN Terry Wogan, at BBC Children in Need Appeal, PO Box 1000, SUN London W12 7WJ. Or simply take your cheque to any bank or SUN building society. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b017bkvd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b017bkvg (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b017c8f6 (Listen) SUN Faith in the suburbs: worship from John Keble Church, Mill SUN Hill, north London, celebrating the diversity and vibrancy SUN of suburban faith, the back-bone of the church in Britain. SUN Leader: The Reverend Steven Young SUN Preacher: Canon Chris Chivers SUN with the John Keble Church Choir and the Anselm Singers SUN Director of Music: John Barnard SUN Organ: Jonathan Hope SUN SUN Producer: Clair Jaquiss. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01756jy (Listen) SUN Reflections on Monetary Union SUN SUN With the euro in turmoil, Mary Beard reflects on the very SUN first monetary union, two and a half thousand years ago. SUN SUN And she contemplates the detail of the modern euro coins. SUN "Take a closer look at those heads-and-tails" she writes, SUN "and you'll find some rather disconcerting angles on SUN European history and politics". SUN SUN She decides that it is the Greek Euro-coinage that offers SUN the most food for thought. The bull on the back of the 2 SUN euro coin is, in fact, part of a depiction of a rape. Zeus, SUN the king of the gods turned himself into a bull and snatched SUN Princess Europa. Mary says she understands why the Greeks SUN wanted this scene on their coins. It suggests that "without SUN Greece there would have been no Europe - that Greece had SUN invented the continent". But she's never quite worked out SUN "how the Greek people so easily came to terms with the idea SUN of having a picture of rape jingling around amongst the SUN small change in their pockets". SUN SUN Then she turns her sights to the 1 euro coin, with its SUN beady-eyed owl, an exact copy of a fifth-century BC Athenian SUN coin. The little bird was the symbol of Athena, the SUN protector of the city of Athens. In the fifth century BC, SUN she points out, Athens was a democracy yet also "an SUN exploitative empire, controlling many other states around SUN the Mediterranean". The Athenians made their neighbours get SUN rid of their own currency and use the owls instead. "Its SUN hard to resist the conclusion", she says, "that the Athenian SUN imperialists were using monetary union to display their SUN political muscle - and hard not to imagine that vengeance SUN for that has finally come, 25 centuries later". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b017c8gk (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week. SUN With Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b017c8gm (Listen) SUN Written by: Simon Frith SUN Directed by: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller 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 Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus 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 Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN James Bellamy ..... Roger May SUN Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b017c8gp (Listen) SUN Robert Hardy SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the actor Robert Hardy. SUN SUN He became a household name as the vet Siegfried Farnon in SUN the hit TV series All Creatures Great and Small and, to a SUN younger generation, he is the Minister of Magic in the Harry SUN Potter films. But the role he is best known for is Winston SUN Churchill - he won a Bafta for his performance in Winston SUN Churchill: The Wilderness Years. He believes actors are born SUN rather than made and his own ambitions crystallised when, as SUN a very young boy, he was a page boy at a wedding: "I walked SUN down the aisle with my head held high and as I went, every SUN eye was turned towards me and something inside me said, SUN "That's it, get every eye on you". SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b0174dzy (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 1 SUN SUN The 56th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to SUN panel games promises more quality, desk-based entertainment SUN for all the family. The series starts its run at Guildford's SUN brand new venue 'G-Live'. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme SUN Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by SUN Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee as the programme's reluctant SUN chairman. Regular listeners will know to expect inspired SUN nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b017c8gr (Listen) SUN A Special (Food) Relationship SUN SUN Mark Bittman is a high-profile figure in the United States. SUN He's the chief food writer for the New York Times, a SUN broadcaster, and a bestselling author. SUN SUN Keen to understand the differences between the British and SUN American food systems, one day he made a call out of the SUN blue to Sheila Dillon. Once in London, he fixed up meetings SUN with Jamie Oliver, Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall and Arthur SUN Potts Dawson. Join The Food Programme on his personal SUN journey into the world of the campaigning chef. SUN SUN Produced by Rich Ward. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b017bkvl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b017c8gt (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley with the latest national and international news, SUN and an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN SUN 13:30 Things We Forgot to Remember b017c8h0 (Listen) SUN Series 7, Episode 2 SUN SUN From feared revolutionary catalysts to unwavering upholders SUN of the law, Michael Portillo discovers the origins of SUN modern-day policing in the forgotten police strikes of SUN 1918-19. SUN SUN We remember their role in upholding law and order following SUN the 1926 General Strike. Ever since, the police have been a SUN thin blue line between the workers and the state. But SUN British bobbies did not always stand apart from the trade SUN union movement. Less than a decade earlier, the police went SUN on strike over pay and conditions, with severe consequences. SUN In Liverpool, warships and tanks accompanied troops on the SUN streets to quell riots and looting. SUN SUN With Russia's October Revolution fresh in the mind, fears SUN that Britain was on the brink of Bolshevism led to swift SUN action from the Prime Minister, David Lloyd-George, SUN upgrading police pay and removing their right to strike. The SUN settlement established a model for future Government SUN relations with the police and banished the idea of a police SUN trade union. SUN SUN Michael Portillo visits the Merseyside Police Archives to SUN learn the harsh fate of the strikers. He hears from former SUN officers and historians who believe the police strikes are SUN often over-looked as a radical moment in modern British SUN history, laying the foundations for the role of the police SUN in the General Strike and other times of industrial unrest - SUN such as Grunwick, Wapping and the Miners Strike. SUN SUN Producer: Roger Mahony. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b017553c (Listen) SUN Durham SUN SUN Bunny Guinness, Matthew Wilson and Bob Flowerdew are guests SUN of Durham Wildlife Trust. SUN Bob Flowerdew finds out how to create a historical garden. SUN SUN In addition: Bunny Guinness discusses growing and processing SUN dried flowers. SUN The programme is chaired by Eric Robson. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Coming Out b017c9p9 (Listen) SUN Daniel SUN SUN Five programmes exploring the ways in which we decide how SUN far to be honest about ourselves, and in doing so make SUN ourselves vulnerable to the judgements of others. SUN SUN 1. Daniel SUN SUN Daniel's political ambitions led him to imprisonment for SUN theft in 2009. He's now working hard to rebuild his life in SUN the village where everyone knows what he's done, and is SUN putting his dreams of serving the public into mentoring SUN ex-offenders. Is he able now to be entirely frank about his SUN past? SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b017c9pc (Listen) SUN The Ambassadors, Episode 2 SUN SUN THE AMBASSADORS, adapted by Graham White from the Henry SUN James novel centres on Lambert Strether, a New Englander SUN dispatched to Europe on a mission. Henry Goodman is the SUN hapless protagonist. SUN SUN EPISODE 2 Strether had hoped to persuade the fun-living son SUN of his wealthy fiancee to return home to New England. But SUN now Strether has fallen under the spell of the beautiful Mme SUN de Vionnet. More ambassadors are sent by the angry fiancee SUN to bring both men home. SUN SUN Lambert Strether Henry Goodman SUN Chad Orlando Seale SUN Madame Marie De Vionnet Joanna Bergin SUN Maria Gostrey/Portress Clare Lawrence-Moody SUN John Little Bilham Rikki Lawton SUN Waymarsh Paul Moriarty SUN Sarah Pocock/Duchess Adjoa Andoh SUN Jim Pocock James Lailey SUN Miss Barrace Tracy Wiles SUN Andre Carl Prekopp SUN Gloriani/Lazlo Adam Billington SUN Jeanne Victoria Inez-Hardy SUN SUN Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b017c9pf (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup continues her celebration of funny books SUN and funny writers with award winning writer A L Kennedy SUN selecting Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One as her favourite SUN funny book. Less well known than "Scoop" this biting satire, SUN described by a critic as "one of the funniest and most SUN significant books of the century" lambasts the SUN Anglo-American cultural divide via Hollywood and a Los SUN Angeles pet cemetery called the Happier Hunting Ground. SUN SUN The second installment of Open Book's mini-history of comic SUN writing invites one of Britain's foremost actresses Fiona SUN Shaw to join our resident expert John Mullan, Professor of SUN Literature at UCL to explore the impact of Shakespearean and SUN Restoration comedy on the development of the comic novel, SUN with particular reference to the romantic comedies of Much SUN Ado About Nothing and Twelfth Night. SUN SUN And Sarah Hall, award winning writer of four novels, talks SUN about her first collection of short stories, the hauntingly SUN beautiful and psychologically complex "The Beautiful SUN Indifference" - one of which, "Butcher's Perfume" was SUN nominated for the BBC National Short Story Prize in 2010. SUN SUN Producer Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN Book List SUN SUN The Beautiful Indifference by Sarah Hall, published by Faber SUN and Faber SUN SUN The Loved One by Evelyn Waugh SUN SUN Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen SUN SUN 16:30 Hilda Doolittle b017j1vr (Listen) SUN It is one hundred years since the American poet Hilda SUN Doolittle came to live in London. She lived through SUN explosive changes in twentieth century culture with her SUN dramatic life often overshadowing her work. SUN SUN Considered for decades as Ezra Pound's Imagiste acolyte, she SUN held her own through psychoanalysis with Freud, travelled SUN extensively, had numerous long term relationships with both SUN men and women, and an intense emotional and artistic SUN connection with DH Lawrence. SUN SUN Yet it was her poetry that was the core of her being. Though SUN her early Imagist poems are her best known work, it was SUN World War 2 that saw her at the height of her powers. SUN Breaking from the Imagist tradition, in Trilogy, her epic SUN poem, she reports on the war torn city from a pacifist SUN perspective. The life of the bombed city is central and SUN Doolittle redefines the heroic in terms of the suffering of SUN ordinary people. Her trilogy is ranked alongside and Eliot's SUN Four Quartets and Pound's Pisan Cantos as among the greatest SUN civilian poetry of war in the 20th century. SUN SUN Writer and broadcaster Diana Collecott is our guide to the SUN world of Hilda Doolittle and Sara Kestelman reads a SUN selection of her poetry. SUN SUN Producer: Merilyn Harris SUN A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b0174gly (Listen) SUN Coroners Under Scrutiny SUN SUN Are families getting justice in the coroner's court? SUN Ann Alexander investigates concerns about the conduct of SUN inquests in England and Wales and asks why there is so much SUN variation in behaviour of coroners and the rigour of their SUN investigations. SUN Under the current system, it is up to the coroner what SUN evidence he or she relies on, but this can leave families SUN unhappy at the verdict and with little hope of appeal. The SUN Coroners and Justice Act 2009 included long awaited reforms SUN to the coronial system. At its centre was the role of Chief SUN Coroner, but the coalition Government said the post was SUN unaffordable and want it scrapped. So are Ministers missing SUN a chance to ensure judicial oversight, enforce national SUN standards and increase accountability? SUN Presenter: Ann Alexander SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN Concerns over inquest 'failures' after hospital deaths SUN SUN Some coroners in England and Wales are failing to fully SUN investigate hospital deaths, the BBC has been told. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b017c8cx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b017bkvn (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b017bkvq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017bkvs (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b017c9pk (Listen) SUN Stewart Henderson makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN In Pick of The Week, Children In Need is on the agenda as SUN Stewart Henderson hears from a teenager who was taken into SUN care at four having been found foraging in bins for food. SUN And, as a children's poet whose work appears in many SUN anthologies, he'll also be paying close attention to new SUN Waterstone's Managing Director James Daunt as he gives his SUN quietly impassioned views on children's reading and the SUN closure of local libraries. Plus, war time despatches from SUN one of London's top hotels tell of 'How Britain Can Take SUN It'...by sharing champagne with a Duke of the realm in an SUN extremely comfortable air raid shelter. SUN SUN The Devil in Music - Radio 3 SUN Queen Victoria's iPod - Radio 4 SUN The British Germans - Radio 4 SUN The West End Front - Radio 4 SUN The Freedom Trail - Radio 4 SUN Children in Need - BBC Radio Shropshire SUN Brief Lives - Radio 4 SUN Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats - Radio 4 SUN In and Out of The Kitchen - Radio 4 SUN Four Thought - Radio 4 SUN Wilson, Kepple and Several Bettys - Radio 4 SUN Richard Herring's Objective - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b017c9pm (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Dilemma b017c9pp (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Sue Perkins puts four guests through the moral and ethical SUN wringer in this show show in which there are no "right" SUN answers - but there are some deeply damning ones. SUN SUN This edition features comedians Nick Revell and Danielle SUN Ward, journalist Grace Dent, and the lead singer of the SUN Kaiser Chiefs, Ricky Wilson. They discuss such quandaries as SUN "Would you let an annoying colleague take credit for your SUN work if it meant they would get a job elsewhere" and "Would SUN you take part in a sham marriage?", and they solve some SUN Dilemmas from the audience. The show was devised by SUN award-winning stand-up and writer Danielle Ward (The News SUN Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The Week). SUN SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Byng Ballads: The Story of Douglas Byng b017c9pr (Listen) SUN A Naughty Victorian Lady SUN SUN In today's episode, Byng reminisces about his early SUN childhood as the son of a Nottingham bank manager, and his SUN first job as a theatrical costume designer in Soho. He also SUN performs two of his songs: I'm One of the Queens of England SUN and Naughty Victorian Days. SUN SUN Douglas Byng (1893 - 1987) was a female impersonator and the SUN most famous cabaret star of his day. Billed as "Bawdy but SUN British", his professional career lasted for over 70 years. SUN This short series traces the journey of the cross-dressing SUN glamour queen from privileged childhood in the 1890s, SUN through concert parties in Hastings, to his emergence as the SUN darling of the society set, entertaining royalty and SUN London's 'Bright Young Things' at the CafĂ© de Paris in the SUN 1920s and 30s. SUN SUN Douglas Byng has been dubbed 'the highest priest of camp'. SUN He blazed a trail for others to follow, treading a fine line SUN between sophisticated urbanity and risquĂ© innuendo which SUN presaged more contemporary, boundary-bending comedians such SUN as Kenneth Williams, Danny La Rue, Barry Humphries and...our SUN own Julian Clary. SUN SUN Byng's debonair appearances in revue were described by Noel SUN Coward as "the most refined vulgarity in London"! SUN After the Second World War, Douglas Byng became a familiar SUN stage and film actor and much-loved pantomime dame. His SUN saucy recordings of self-penned songs led to occasional bans SUN by the BBC, but his popularity never diminished. SUN SUN He wrote his autobiography (As You Were - published in 1970) SUN in retirement in Brighton, and this book provides the SUN material for the series. SUN SUN With Julian Clary as Douglas Byng. SUN SUN Compiled by Tony Lidington. SUN Pianist: Martin Seager SUN SUN Producer/Director: David Blount SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01756jk (Listen) SUN In her first year in the job, Radio 4 controller Gwyneth SUN Williams has instigated the biggest shake-up of the Radio 4 SUN schedule for more than 10 years. She has cut Americana, SUN commissioned The Life Scientific and most recently extended SUN The World at One by 15 minutes - to the delight of some SUN listeners and the dismay of others. SUN She has also steered the station through the proposed SUN Delivering Quality First cuts relatively unscathed. In this SUN week's programme Roger asks her to explain her choices, and SUN to reflect on her first year in the hot seat. SUN And while Radio 4's Remembrance Day coverage is praised, SUN some listeners feel some of the comedy broadcast in the days SUN surrounding Remembrance Day was inappropriate. SUN And this week's Feedback Listening Club is formed of three SUN tenors from a community choir in Blackburn. They turn their SUN forensic listening abilities to Woman's Hour, and (whisper SUN it) one of them is a man... SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01756jh (Listen) SUN Jackie Leven, Evelyn Lauder, Dulcie Gray, Richard Scott, SUN Jane Packer SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The Scottish singer and songwriter Jackie Leven - front man SUN of the band Doll By Doll, he became addicted to heroin after SUN a mugging which damaged his windpipe. Ian Rankin pays SUN tribute. SUN SUN Evelyn Lauder, who married into the Estee Lauder cosmetics SUN business and co-founded the pink ribbon breast cancer SUN awareness campaign SUN SUN The film and tv actress Dulcie Gray SUN SUN Richard Scott, the chairman credited with saving the SUN Guardian newspaper from merger with the Times in the 1960s SUN SUN And the florist Jane Packer. Sarah, Duchess of York pays SUN tribute to Jane, who designed the flowers for her wedding to SUN Prince Andrew. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b017c8cl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b017c8f4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b0174f06 (Listen) SUN The Darwin Economy SUN SUN In 100 years time, Charles Darwin will be viewed as a better SUN economist than Adam Smith, according to Robert Frank. In his SUN new book "The Darwin Economy: Liberty, Competition, and the SUN Common Good", Frank argues that whilst Smith was correct to SUN point out the benefits of competition, Darwin went further SUN by showing how some times competition over rank could SUN produce benefits to the individual at the expense of the SUN group. This insight, believes Frank, applies to the SUN economics of human societies as much as it does to the SUN animal kingdom. SUN SUN Professor Frank explains his ideas to Paul Mason in front of SUN an audience of economists, scientists and the free SUN marketeers he criticises at the London School of Economics. SUN SUN Robert H. Frank is an economics professor at Cornell's SUN Johnson Graduate School of Management and a regular SUN "Economic View" columnist for the New York Times, and a SUN Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos. His books, which have SUN been translated into 22 languages, include The SUN Winner-Take-All Society (with Philip Cook), The Economic SUN Naturalist, Luxury Fever, What Price the Moral High Ground?, SUN and Principles of Economics (with Ben Bernanke). The Darwin SUN Economy is published by Princeton University Press. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b017c9pt (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b017c9pw (Listen) SUN Episode 79 SUN SUN Iain Dale of Total Politics analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0175291 (Listen) SUN Two of British cinema's true originals feature in this SUN week's programme - Terence Davies and Andrew Kotting. SUN Terence Davies has directed a version of Rattigan's SUN heartbreaking drama, The Deep Blue Sea, with Rachel Weisz in SUN the lead role and Andrew Kotting is releasing This Our Still SUN Life, which documents his relationship with his daughter SUN Eden, the paintings they make together and the life they SUN lead in an idyllic but spartan farmhouse in the Pyrenees. SUN SUN Francine Stock will also be entering the terrifying world of SUN Snowtown - the latest in a run of gripping films from SUN Australia. This one is a portrait of the country's most SUN notorious serial killer, John Bunting, played with chilly SUN conviction by Daniel Henshall. SUN Neil Brand is also in the studio and rounds things off con SUN brio with his examination of how the human voice is used in SUN film soundtracks. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley SUN Presenter: FRANCINE STOCK. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b017c8dy (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 21 NOVEMBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b017bkwk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0174hrp (Listen) MON Race and the Seaside - The Brain MON MON Laurie Taylor examines the limits of science and the machine MON age with writer Bryan Appleyard and philosopher John Gray MON and asks whether we are in danger of losing the essence of MON what it is to be human. And, kiss me quick hats, fortune MON tellers and buckets and spades. The cliched pleasures of the MON English seaside. But are those delights equally available to MON all? The seaside is traditionally inhabited by majority MON white populations, many of whom are older and retired. And MON although increasing numbers of ethnic minorities visit and MON reside by the coast, it remains stubbornly white in our MON collective imagination. New research by Dr Daniel Burdsey MON claims that our nation's identity is bound up with MON monocultural images of coastal resorts. MON MON Producer: Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b017c8dw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017bkwm (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017bkwp (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017bkwr (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b017bkwt (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017c9zv (Listen) MON with Ibrahim Mogra. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b017c9zx (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b017bkww (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b017c9zz (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b017cb01 (Listen) MON The Arts and politics: Rory Bremner, Peter Kosminsky and MON Iwona Blazwick MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr asks how the arts tackle MON politics and current affairs. The performer Rory Bremner MON turns his comedic eye to opera, in an updated version of MON Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. Originally written to MON satirise Napoleon III's Paris, Bremner draws present day MON parallels with a spin-filled, celebrity-obsessed world. For MON the last 30 years the film maker Peter Kosminsky has turned MON conflicts from Bosnia, to the Falklands, and Israel/ MON Palestine, as well as the story of New Labour, into drama MON and documentaries for television. In 1939 the Whitechapel MON gallery in London was the space chosen to show Picasso's MON overtly political work, Guernica. The gallery's present MON director Iwona Blazwick talks about how artists have MON reflected the political and present day concerns. And the MON singer/ songwriter Sarah Gillespie argues that the key to a MON good protest song is to harness the experience of the MON individual. MON MON producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b017k5hr (Listen) MON My Week with Marilyn, Episode 1 MON MON By Colin Clark. Abridged by Robin Brooks. MON MON Read by Samuel Barnett MON MON In 1956, fresh from Eton and Oxford, 23-year-old Colin Clark MON (younger brother of Tory politician and famous diarist Alan MON and younger son of Kenneth 'Lord Clark of Civilisation') MON worked as a 'gofer' on the set of The Prince and the MON Showgirl, the film that disastrously united Laurence Olivier MON with Marilyn Monroe. In this beautifully written memoir, MON Clark recalls how, during filming, he became Monroe's MON confidante and spent an idyllic week helping her to escape MON from the pressures of stardom through a series of sweetly MON innocent adventures. MON MON This reading corresponds with the release of the Hollywood MON film based upon the memoir, starring Michelle Williams as MON Marilyn, Kenneth Branagh as Olivier and Eddie Redmayne as MON Colin. MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b017cb07 (Listen) MON Andrea Riseborough, Women bishops, Silence in the classroom MON MON Andrea Riseborough on going from playing a young Margaret MON Thatcher, to her latest role in the film Resistance, and MON what it was like to work with Madonna on her forthcoming MON movie W.E. After overwhelming diocesan support in the Church MON of England to allow women to become bishops, we discuss what MON stages remain before the first consecration. Silence might MON not be what you associate with schools, but today we hear MON from an academic who believes that encouraging quiet in the MON classroom benefits pupils and from the headteacher who MON thinks silence is a skill that can be learnt. Suffragettes MON didn't only break windows in their campaign for the vote: MON they also planted trees. We visit a village near Bristol MON which was home to the 'suffragette field' and find out what MON remains of the arboretum. Presented by Jane Garvey. MON MON Andrea Riseborough MON MON Andrea Riseborough has starred in films such as Made in MON Dagenham, Brighton Rock, Happy Go Lucky and BAFTA nominated MON for her role as a young Margaret Thatcher in TV’s ‘Margaret MON Thatcher - Long Walk to Finchley’. Set in 1944, her new film MON ‘Resistance’ is about an imagined German invasion of Britain MON following the failed D-D Landings. Andrea plays a farmer’s MON wife, who awakes one morning to find that her husband has MON disappeared along with all the men in the remote welsh MON valley. She joins Jane to discuss. MON MON Resistance is released in cinemas on Friday 25th November MON MON Silence in the classroom: do children need it? MON MON This Wednesday is the fifth celebration of stillness called MON “Just this Day”. It takes place at St Martin in the Fields MON in central London. At 11am there will be a discussion on MON “Silence and Stillness in Schools”; taking part will be Dr MON Helen Lees of the University of Stirling who has a book MON coming out next year called “Silence in Schools”. She joins MON Jane along with Kevin Hogston, the Head of Sheringdale MON Primary School in Southfields, London, who has built silence MON into the school day. MON MON Woman Bishops: shattering the stained glass ceiling MON MON The decade-long campaign for women bishops took a step MON forward when 42 out of 44 of the Church of England's MON dioceses voted in favour of the move. If the General Synod MON supports the motion again next summer, the first woman MON bishop could be consecrated in 2014. Jane speaks to Reverend MON Rachel Weir, chair of WATCH, Women and the Church, about MON what has been described as "shattering the stained glass MON ceiling". She'll also explain why it’s taken so long to get MON this far and how much opposition still remains to women MON priests taking on this role. MON MON The suffragette movement at Eagle House MON MON One hundred years ago today, at the Tenth Women’s Parliament MON (held in Mrs Pankhurst’s absence in America) the WSPU MON organised window smashing. Two hundred and twenty women and MON three men were arrested. In a village near Bath there is MON special fondness of the women who worked so hard to get the MON vote. Eagle House in Batheaston was a focal point for the MON mainstays of the movement, thanks to the hospitality of the MON Blathwayt family. One of the highlights of any stay there MON for a suffragette was the planting of a tree in the MON arboretum, or 'suffragette field', as it became known. It's MON all but disappeared, but now there are moves to revive it MON and remember the movement and the importance of Eagle House. MON Lizz Pearson reports. MON MON Listener feedback - Involving fathers in maternity care MON MON Your responses to our interview with Jacqui Gerard, Director MON for England for the Royal College of Midwives MON about increasing engagement with fathers and encouraging MON them to be involved in their partners maternity care. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017cb09 (Listen) MON How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON In this the 2nd series of How Does that Make you Feel we MON revisit a group of people, who share one thing in common, a MON therapist called Martha and a growing set of neuroses which MON appear to be overtaking their wholly imperfect lives. As MON therapists go, Martha is reasonably compassionate, but deep MON down she's losing patience. It seems all her clients want to MON be something they are not, and it's driving them and her, MON out of their minds? MON MON There's Richard Fallon MP, (Roger Allam) who's convinced MON promotion to the front bench is being denied him because of MON his obese son and a wife who lost all patience with him 20 MON years ago. MON MON Caroline, (Rebecca Saire) who thinks her child's a genius MON with an IQ way off the scale. She is worried that instead of MON following the path of celebrity, her daughter may go on to MON study mere physics thereby consigning her and more MON importantly Caroline to a life of unbearable ordinariness. MON MON There's Philip, who insists he isn't facing a crisis since MON his demotion from Good Morning Norfolk to a shopping channel MON - but who's new girlfriend is 30 years his junior and MON clearly on the make. MON MON And Howard, (Tim McInnerny) a chef who's son, Aaron, (Adam MON Billington) though 33 is still trying to get a band off the MON ground, whilst looming resentfully over their lives, MON upstairs in the back bedroom. MON MON It's painfully funny but it doesn't look as though it will MON end well for any of them. MON MON Shelagh Stephenson is the author of A Short History of MON Longing, and Wasted, recently heard on Radio 4. She is an MON Olivier award winner for her play The Memory of Water and MON won Sony and Writer's Guild awards with her plays, Darling MON Peidi and Five Kinds of Silence. MON She wrote Enid, (the life of Enid Blyton) BBC4 and Shirley MON (the Shirley Bassey story) BBC2 and wrote 2 episodes of the MON mini-series Downtown Abbey ITV. MON MON Roger - Roger Allam MON Caroline - Rebecca Saire MON Philip / Howard - Tim McInnerny MON Martha- Frances Tomelty MON Aaron - Adam Billington MON MON Director - Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON 11:00 The Freedom Trail b017cb0c (Listen) MON Episode 2 MON MON During World War II tens of thousands of people escaped Nazi MON occupied Europe by taking a hazardous and often gruelling MON trek over the Pyrenees Mountains from France to Spain. MON Edward Stourton is following in their footsteps along the MON Freedom Trail. It's day three, the halfway point of his MON walk, but the worst is yet to come. MON MON 11:30 The Return of Inspector Steine b017cb0f (Listen) MON The End MON MON The Brighton boys in blue, together with Mrs G and Hoagy, MON come out of their hiding place in the police station to face MON a devastating scene only to discover there's an unexploded MON mine on the beach. And that's not the least of their MON worries; evil Adelaide Vine and the sadistic Terence MON Chambers are back in town. MON MON Will anyone survive this final episode? MON MON Inspector Steine ....... Michael Fenton Stevens MON Mrs Groynes ...... Samantha Spiro MON Sergeant Brunswick ...... John Ramm MON Twitten ........ Matt Green MON Adelaide Vine ...... Janet Ellis MON Captain Hoagland ....... Robert Bathurst MON Terence Chambers ...... Ewan Bailey MON MON Original music by Anthony May MON MON Producer/Director: Marilyn Imrie MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b017cb0h (Listen) MON X Factor's Ashley John-Baptiste - Why I Quit MON MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b017bkwy (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b017cb0k (Listen) MON Martha Kearney with national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Stephen Fry on the Phone b017cb0m (Listen) MON Creating the Network MON MON Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from MON hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to MON carry the battery to the smart little devices complete with MON personal assistant we have today. MON MON There are more mobile phones in the world than there are MON people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys MON who made it all possible and hears how the technology MON succeeded, in ways that the geeks had not necessarily MON intended. MON MON In the first episode, Stephen Fry meets the men who first MON dreamt of creating a cellular network. Back in the sixties, MON two Bell Labs engineers in the US thought perhaps a maximum MON of 50,000 people might use a cellular phone network. Now, MON there are billions of phones in the world, all of them MON dependent on the networks based on their design. It was an MON enormous technical challenge that took decades to complete; MON but the main problems were political. Motorola, for example, MON argued that phone calls were a frivolous waste of radio MON spectrum compared to more worthy causes like television. MON MON Producer: Anna Buckley. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b017c9pm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b017cb0p (Listen) MON Brief Lives - Series 4, Episode 6 MON MON Brief Lives by Tom Fry and Sharon Kelly 6/6 MON MON A youth is arrested for attempted murder and Doug attempts MON to bring Shakespeare to the inner city. They seem MON unconnected but end up colliding with tragic consequences MON for our star crossed lovers. Last in the current series. MON MON FRANK...David Schofield MON SARAH...Kathryn Hunt MON DECLAN..Jonjo O'Neill MON DOUG...Eric Potts MON SIDNEY.Stefan Gumbs MON TERRY.Everal A Walsh MON DS COOPER...Andrew Westfield MON BONITA...Nisa Cole MON MON Producer Gary Brown MON Original Music by Carl Harms. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b017cb0r (Listen) MON (2/17) MON According to the comic history classic '1066 And All That', MON which parliament was so-called because it had been sitting MON for such a long time? And which figure from South American MON history gives his name to the currency of Venezuela? MON MON These are among the questions posed by Russell Davies in the MON second heat of the evergreen general knowledge contest, MON which comes this week from the BBC Radio Theatre in London, MON with competitors from Nottinghamshire, Wiltshire, London and MON Northern Ireland. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b017c8gr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Brotherton Archive and Me b017cb0t (Listen) MON Julia Blackburn talks to writers whose private papers, like MON her own, have been acquired by Leeds University Library. MON MON Imagine your teenage diaries being studied by research MON students - or anyone else who's interested. That's what will MON happen to Julia Blackburn's journals, family letters, MON childhood photographs and other personal papers, all of MON which are in the process of being archived by Leeds MON University Library. MON MON In this documentary she talks to other writers including MON poets Simon Armitage and Sophie Hannah, whose private MON archives now reside in the iconic Brotherton Building in MON Leeds. Julia discovers how the material is archived and MON catalogued; in other words, how it is turned into a library MON in itself, with the help of curator Chris Sheppard. These MON archives are important because they verify the published MON work and may reveal new insights to researchers, but there MON is also a magic in handling original documents, complete MON with doodlings, coffee stains and other evidence of a real MON life. MON MON Julia Blackburn's papers relate to an intensely painful MON period in Julia's life with her parents, poet Thomas MON Blackburn and the painter Rosalie de Meric, upon which she MON drew in writing 'The Three of Us' (winner of the MON Pen/Ackerley prize for autobiography 2009). In the MON documentary Julia explores the process of releasing private MON material into a public arena. Some have never thought of MON doing such a thing before being approached by the library; MON others see it as a testament to their lives which they must MON prepare for before death. Many writers have destroyed such MON material (or requested it be destroyed) rather than leave MON themselves open to a potentially unkind scrutiny of MON historians or literary analysts. The writers in this MON documentary have chosen the difficult and unusual path of MON allowing their material into the public domain in their MON lifetime. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b017cb0w (Listen) MON Series 5, What's the North Ever Done for Us? MON MON "What's The North Ever Done For Us?" MON The Infinite Monkeys, Robin Ince and Brian Cox, return for a MON new series of irreverent science chatter with a host of MON special guests. In the first of the new series, they're on MON Brian Cox's home territory for a recording at the University MON of Manchester. They're joined by impressionist Jon Culshaw, MON physicist Jeff Forshaw and biologist Matthew Cobb to look at MON just a few of the amazing scientific achievements that MON Manchester has given the world, from Rutherford splitting MON the atom through to last year's Nobel Prize for Physics. And MON if you listen closely, a few other well known voices may MON also appear to have snuck onto the panel...who knew that MON even Alan Carr has an opinion on the Higgs Boson. MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem. MON MON 17:00 PM b017cb0y (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017bkx0 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b017cb10 (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 2 MON MON The 56th series of Radio 4's multi award-winning antidote to MON panel games promises more homespun wireless entertainment MON for the young at heart. This week the programme pays a MON return visit to G-Live in Guildford. Regulars Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are once again joined on MON the panel by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the chair. MON Regular listeners will know to expect inspired nonsense, MON pointless revelry and Colin Sell at the piano. Producer - MON Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b017cb12 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b017cb14 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. MON MON Producer Georgia Mann. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017cb09 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The New Global Economics b017cmgc (Listen) MON The Shift MON MON In the second of a two part series, Martin Wolf, chief MON economics commentator of the Financial Times, examines the MON changes in the global financial system that need still to MON take place if the world is to fully recover from the worst MON economic crisis since the depression. In an ever-changing MON and uncertain world, there are no easy paths forward from MON here. Martin Wolf speaks to Larry Summers, former US MON Treasury Secretary, Mark Malloch Brown, former UN Deputy MON Secretary General and Min Zhu, Deputy Managing Director of MON the IMF among others about the stark choices facing the MON world at the moment and what is at stake for future MON generations. MON Producer: Sandra Kanthal MON Editor: Stephen Chilcott. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b017528n (Listen) MON India's Whistleblowers MON MON Rupa Jha investigates how local-level campaigners against MON corruption in India face threats and violence - despite MON promises that the government will stamp out graft. She tells MON the stories of two whistleblowers in two different states MON who faced ferocious intimidation after they tried to MON challenge powerful individuals on the take. MON Producer: Ed Butler. MON MON 21:00 Material World b0175293 (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper investigates risk, regulation and public MON understanding of geo-engineering; launch preparations for MON NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and the demise of Russia's MON Phobos Grunt mission; and a new volcanic island that may be MON rising from the Atlantic in the Canaries. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON ENGAGING WITH GEOENGINEERING MON MON On September 15th Material World reported on the SPICE MON project, standing for Stratospheric Particle Injection for MON Climate Engineering. The aim is to work out if injecting a MON fine aerosol into the stratosphere might reflect enough MON sunlight to counter global warming. Long before that MON controversial goal, a technology test was planned, simply to MON spray water from a hose suspended 1000 metres in the air by MON balloon. But that test has been postponed following MON criticism that the researchers had not done enough to engage MON with interested parties. Quentin discusses the issues raised MON with SPICE principal investigator Dr Matt Watson from MON Bristol University and Prof Phil Macnaghten of Durham MON University who has commented on the project in the journal MON Nature and chaired the Engineering and Physical Sciences MON Research Council committee that halted the test. MON MON MISSIONS TO MARS MON MON Next week (25th Nov) NASA will launch an ambitious new MON mission to Mars. The Mars Science Laboratory will arrive at MON the red planet next August and will lower the biggest mars MON rover ever sent there. The rover, named curiosity, will MON explore interesting rocks in and around Gale crater on Mars MON and will look for signs of life. Professor Colin Pillinger, MON who was in charge of the UK Beagle 2 mars mission discusses MON what Curiosity might find and why so many Mars missions – MON including his own and the latest Russian one - failed. MON MON A NEW CANARY ISLAND MON MON In the Atlantic Ocean, off the Canary Island of El Hierro, MON the water is boiling and sending jets of water, steam and MON sulphurous fumes into the air. A new volcanic island is MON being born from under the sea and it is getting ever nearer MON to the surface. But is the existing island at risk from MON explosive eruptions? MON Bristol University volcanologist Dr Joachim (Jo) Gottsmann MON gives his assessment. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b017cb01 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b017bkx2 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b017cmgf (Listen) MON Ritula Shah with national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017cmgh (Listen) MON Perfect Lives, The Egg MON MON Perfect Lives is Polly Samson's second collection of short MON stories, each linked to the others by themes of MON imperfection, compromise and the joy of accepting life as it MON is. MON MON 1: The Egg, read by Claire Skinner MON MON Celia's life is perfect; husband, children, beautiful house MON by the sea. But it can take just one thing to turn a life MON upside down. MON MON Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b0174gkq (Listen) MON Follow the Yellow Brick Road MON MON Follow the Yellow Brick Road - three writers discuss heart, MON courage and brains. With Guardian blogger, Stuart Heritage; MON Yachtswoman, Dee Caffari, and journalist Neil McCormick. MON MON Stuart hates personal contact so much he moved to South MON Korea where they're "not huggers. They're not really MON handshakers. They're not even that fond of eye contact, the MON travel guide said. Brilliant." MON MON Dee Caffari has solo circumnavigated the globe, braving MON icebergs in the Southern Ocean along the way: "We surf down MON huge waves on the edge of control at breakneck speeds - any MON collision would be the end of the race. Rescue is often days MON away and our closest chance of survival is a fellow MON competitor." MON MON Neil talks about how intelligence may be over-rated and that MON sometimes it's better just to let your mind make itself up. MON MON Producer: Toby Field. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b017cmgk (Listen) MON The day's top news stories from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 22 NOVEMBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b017bkxn (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b017k5hr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017bkxq (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017bkxs (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017bkxv (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b017bkxx (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017mqz4 (Listen) TUE with Ibrahim Mogra. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b017cd0q (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b017cd0s (Listen) TUE With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b017cd0v (Listen) TUE Nicky Clayton TUE TUE Nicky Clayton is Professor of Comparative Cognition at TUE Cambridge University. Her work challenges how we think of TUE intelligence and she says that birds' brains developed TUE independently from humans or apes. Members of the corvid TUE family, such as crows and jays appear to plan for the future TUE and predict other birds behaviour in her elegant TUE experiments.One experiment she has designed was inspired by TUE Aesop's fable of the hungry crow. TUE TUE Her work raises questions about the understanding of animal TUE behaviour, including whether, as humans, we can ever TUE interpret the actions of other species accurately. TUE But she says her research with birds and other animals can TUE help illuminate young children's activities and how their TUE brains develop. TUE TUE Nicky Clayton is scientist in residence at the Rambert Dance TUE Company and her latest collaboration with Mark Baldwin, the TUE artistic director, is "Seven for a secret, never to be told" TUE which takes concepts from childhood behaviour and TUE reinterprets them choreographically. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b017cd0x (Listen) TUE Evan Davis with Steve Henry TUE TUE Evan Davis continues his exploration into deception by TUE talking to those who've had cause to be economical with the TUE truth. Everyday we're bombarded with messages from people TUE who are trying to sell us things , objects to buy, political TUE messages or even just themselves. But how far should they go TUE in putting a positive gloss on things, manipulating the TUE truth to persuade us that mutton is lamb, sub-prime is prime TUE or recession is recovery? In this programme Evan talks to a TUE top advertiser who'll share his thoughts on some tricks of TUE the trade but also the limits to those tricks, how to TUE deceive and when not to. TUE Producer Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b017zy8j (Listen) TUE My Week with Marilyn, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Colin Clark. Abridged by Robin Brooks. TUE TUE Read by Samuel Barnett. TUE TUE Today, Marilyn quizzes Colin on his loyalty. Has he been TUE sent to spy on her by Laurence Olivier? Accepting his answer TUE "I'm on your side Miss Monroe" she invites him to visit her TUE at home that evening and their friendship is established. TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b017cd0z (Listen) TUE Child favouritism and Cook the perfect Sicilian pasta. TUE Presented by Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184xdk (Listen) TUE How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 2, Episode 2 TUE TUE Roger - Roger Allam TUE Caroline - Rebecca Saire TUE Philip / Howard - Tim McInnerny TUE Martha- Frances Tomelty TUE Aaron - Adam Billington TUE TUE Director - Eoin O'Callaghan. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b017cd11 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 27 TUE TUE 27/30 This week the programme is all about trees and TUE forests. In the UK this is national tree week. We have a TUE story where a 500 year plan is being rolled out to restore TUE ancient woodland in the British landscape. We also have a TUE report from Italy on the success of designating a forest TUE "sacred" to save it. And the Monkey Puzzle tree. A report TUE from Michael Scott on the importance of the genetic TUE diversity of Monkey Puzzles in Scottish gardens and parks to TUE the Chile, the native country of this species. TUE TUE Presented by Brett Westwood TUE Produced by Mary Colwell TUE Editor Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b017cfkb (Listen) TUE Series 9, Zoot Sims TUE TUE Zoot Sims was one of the most naturally talented saxophone TUE players in jazz, most remembered for his incredible sense of TUE swing. He was the archetypal saxophonist and found fame with TUE the general public thanks to having a Muppets puppet TUE modelled on him, right down to the name. TUE Born in 1925, Zoot grew up as the youngest in a family of TUE vaudeville performers. He took up the saxophone, developing TUE his signature sound in the early 1940s when he was picked up TUE by bandleader Benny Goodman. A few years later he was TUE playing alongside fellow saxophonists Stan Getz, Herbie TUE Steward and Serge Chaloff in Woody Herman's famed Second TUE Herd band. TUE But after a move to New York his career stalled and by the TUE early 50s Zoot was making ends meet working as a house TUE painter. He was rescued by the legendary baritone saxophone TUE player Gerry Mulligan who asked Zoot to join his quartet. TUE From the late 50s onwards Zoot went on to form a series of TUE successful partnerships, the most enduring with tenorman Al TUE Cohn. Although his style got gruffer with age, Zoot's TUE popularity continued right up until his death in 1985. TUE Ken Clarke, QC, MP and his guest John Altman discuss Zoots' TUE life and music, revealing how he never once lost his TUE enthusiasm or that gifted sense of swing throughout his TUE career. TUE TUE Ken's guest John Altman is a BAFTA award winning film and TUE television composer. He's also a saxophonist who has played TUE with such jazz luminaries as Chet Baker, Slim Gaillard and TUE Red Holloway. He's played on rock music sessions too with TUE stars such as Eric Clapton, Phil Collins, Jimmy Page and TUE Little Richard. Zoot Sims is one of his all-time favourite TUE musicians. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b017cfkd (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 b017bkxz (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b017cfkg (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 13:45 Stephen Fry on the Phone b017cfkj (Listen) TUE From Car Phone to Executive Brick TUE TUE In episode two, Stephen Fry meets the men who brought mobile TUE phones to Britain. Thanks to Margaret Thatcher opening up TUE the airwaves, Britain became a world leader in mobile phone TUE technology in the eighties. Vodafone (short for TUE voice-data-phone) competed fiercely with the BT's mobile TUE baby, Cellnet (short for cellular network), to create the TUE first mobile phone network in the UK which was launched to TUE great fanfare on Christmas Day 1985. Coverage was truly TUE patchy, handsets were seriously hefty and calls cost a TUE fortune, but mobile phones quickly replaced car phones as TUE the ultimate yuppie accessory. Voicemail, incidentally, was TUE a good excuse to charge customers yet more for a service TUE that was, in reality, rather poor.. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b017cb12 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b00sjpjj (Listen) TUE Six Impossible Things TUE TUE This drama contains scenes of violence and is based on true TUE events. TUE TUE Peter Hardy doesn't fit the psychological profile of your TUE average double murderer. There's something vulnerable about TUE him, or so thinks police psychologist Dr Kennedy as he makes TUE his assessment after a particularly violent bank robbery. TUE Could it be that Hardy is a victim of 'mind control' and was TUE acting under a hypnotic trance? TUE TUE Dr Kennedy has a tough job to convince police colleagues. TUE Can a man really rob a bank and kill two people under TUE hypnosis? As the evidence mounts to support this bizarre TUE theory it becomes impossible to ignore. TUE TUE This extraordinary story was inspired by true events that TUE took place in Denmark in the 1950s and whilst this TUE production is updated to the present day, the facts of the TUE case are unchanged. TUE TUE Peter Hardy ..... Simon Kane TUE Dr Kennedy ..... James Lailey TUE Bjorn Newbold ..... Phil Wright TUE DI Grimes ..... Madeleine Bowyer TUE DS Mulholland ..... Bill Nash TUE Auntie Elsie / Barbara Hardy ..... Esther Coles TUE TUE Other parts were played by Rhona Foulis and Dominic TUE Hawksley. TUE TUE Written by Glen Neath. TUE Original research by Dominic Streatfeild. TUE Sound and music by Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques. TUE TUE Director: Boz Temple-Morris TUE A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b017cfkl (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 Off the Page b017cfkn (Listen) TUE Japan TUE TUE Japan: Hiroko Kawanami, Richard Lloyd Parry and Imran Yusuf TUE explore the idea of Japan. What is it really like, and how TUE does it match up to people's preconceptions? TUE TUE Hiroko Kawanami is a Japanese lecturer in Buddhism who TUE prefers living in the UK. Richard Lloyd Parry is Asia Editor TUE of The Times and has lived in Tokyo for sixteen years. TUE British stand-up comedian Imran Yusuf has visited Japan and TUE loved it. TUE TUE All three write and talk about the Japan they know, with TUE presenter Dominic Arkwright - who has never been to Japan TUE and freely admits he knows little about it.. TUE TUE Producer: Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:00 Brain Culture: Neuroscience and Society b017cfkq (Listen) TUE Brain Science and Education TUE TUE Matthew Taylor continues his exploration of "Brain Culture," TUE examining striking new research about how our brains learn, TUE and asks if we can use it to change Britain's education TUE system. For many years, scientists assumed the human brain TUE was fully formed by the age of three but that notion has TUE been challenged by the discovery of brain "plasticity" TUE throughout life. Matthew looks at new teaching systems being TUE used on children in a South Wales comprehensive, designed to TUE heighten their brains' ability to retain facts during a TUE history class. He looks at how a remarkable study of TUE Romanian children adopted in Britain is challenging the idea TUE of focussing on children's "early years." The idea of TUE plastic brains has also changed the way we motivate children TUE in class: the programme looks at the striking new research TUE which says it's actually negative to tell our children they TUE are clever. TUE Producer: Mukul Devichand. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b017cfks (Listen) TUE Rachel Johnson, Martin Kelner TUE TUE Editor of The Lady, Rachel Johnson, and journalist and TUE broadcaster Martin Kelner pick their favourite books to TUE discuss with Harriett Gilbert. TUE TUE Rachel's choice is about every parent's worst nightmare - TUE the disappearance of a child: Still Missing by Beth TUE Gutcheon. TUE TUE Martin opts for a weighty story of the capital city and its TUE characters during World War Two: London Belongs to Me by TUE Norman Collins. TUE TUE Harriett's choice is the witty and poignant tale of two TUE women, desperately seeking love, lust and wine: The Bottle TUE Factory Outing by Beryl Bainbridge. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Rachel Johnson's choice: 'Still Missing' by Beth Gutcheon TUE Publ. Persephone Books TUE TUE Martin Kelner's choice: 'London Belongs to Me' by Norman TUE Collins TUE Publ. Penguin Classics TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'The Bottle Factory Outing' by TUE Beryl Bainbridge TUE Publ. Abacus TUE TUE 17:00 PM b017cg1b (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017bky1 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Richard Herring's Objective b017cfkv (Listen) TUE Series 2, Page Three TUE TUE Richard Herring's Objective TUE Episode 3: 'Page 3' TUE TUE Richard Herring examines 'Page 3' which has been the cause TUE of controversy, debating whether it's something that we TUE should celebrate, or consign to the dustbin of history. TUE TUE Written by and starring Richard Herring, with Emma Kennedy TUE and special guest, the glamour model Lucy Pinder. TUE Produced by Tilusha Ghelani TUE TUE The second series of Richard Herring's Objective pokes and TUE prods a variety controversial objects and see if the TUE controversy falls out. Through vox pops, interviews and TUE stand up comedy Richard examines the objects' history, TUE meaning and significance and challenges our assumed logic TUE and stereotypes. Can we reclaim these objects away from TUE their unfortunate associations? TUE TUE In series one the comedian investigated 'The Hitler TUE Moustache', 'The Hoodie' and 'The St. George's Flag' and in TUE the new series he'll be training his beady eye on 'The TUE Golliwog', 'The Wheelchair', 'Page 3' and 'The Old School TUE Tie'. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b017cfkx (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b017cfkz (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with Kate Bush as TUE she releases 50 Words for Snow, her first album of brand new TUE material for six years. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b017cb09 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 20:00 From Frestonia to Belgravia: The History of Squatting TUE b017cfv4 (Listen) TUE Against a backdrop of high unemployment and a reported TUE million empty properties former squatter Robert Elms charts TUE the history of squatting. He assesses the ideology and TUE mythology that has surrounded this subversive search for a TUE home. As the Government consider new legislation to further TUE criminalise squatting, could it soon be a thing of the past? TUE TUE Producer: Jim Frank. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b017cfv6 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b017cfv8 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond reports on new research which followed over TUE 6000 young children through school and found that if they TUE experienced long term or very severe bullying by their TUE peers, their risk of developing serious mental health TUE problems like Borderline personality disorder was increased TUE by as much as seven times. Borderline Personality disorder TUE is normally diagnosed in adulthood and is characterised by a TUE difficulty in maintaining relationships, emotional TUE instability, extreme risk taking and sometimes self harm. TUE Claudia discusses why bullying by peers can have such a TUE powerful effect and why that influence can be so much TUE stronger than from others, even your parents. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b017cd0v (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b017bky3 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b017cfxz (Listen) TUE With Ritula Shah. National and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017cg0m (Listen) TUE Perfect Lives, Barcarolle TUE TUE Perfect Lives is Polly Samson's second collection of short TUE stories, each linked to the others by themes of TUE imperfection, compromise and the joy of accepting life as it TUE is. TUE 2: Barcarolle, read by Mark Meadows TUE TUE Just as a piano tuner might once have been a concert TUE pianist, so a broken-backed upright can be the piano of TUE someone's dreams. TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b017cb0w (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b017cg0y (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b017bkyp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b017zy8j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017bkyr (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017bkyt (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017bkyw (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b017bkyy (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017mqzs (Listen) WED with Ibrahim Mogra. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b017chpk (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Sarah Swadling. Presented by Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b017chpm (Listen) WED With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in WED Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b017chpp (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b017zybx (Listen) WED My Week with Marilyn, Episode 3 WED WED By Colin Clark. Abridged by Robin Brooks. WED WED The reader is Samuel Barnett. WED WED In today's episode, Marilyn defies her co-producer's strict WED instructions and escapes with Colin for a day out in the WED Windsor countryside. Managing, mostly, to avoid the public WED gaze they even find time for a skinny dip. WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b017chpr (Listen) WED Dame Felicity Lott, drinking and smoking in pregnancy. WED Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184xhp (Listen) WED How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 2, Episode 3 WED WED Roger - Roger Allam WED Caroline - Rebecca Saire WED Philip / Howard - Tim McInnerny WED Martha- Frances Tomelty WED Aaron - Adam Billington WED WED Director - Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 11:00 Mastering the Art of the Kimono b017chpt (Listen) WED The kimono may be one of Japan's most enduring cultural WED symbols, but the kimono industry is now in steep decline, WED and soon there could be no craftsmen left with the skills to WED make them. WED WED Younger Japanese prefer Western clothes to eye-wateringly WED expensive and impractical traditional kimonos. As kimonos WED have gone out of fashion, the number of companies making WED them has also plummeted. WED WED There can be a thousand processes or more involved in making WED one kimono, each carried out specialist craftsmen. It takes WED years to master a single technique, but most craftsmen today WED are over 80 and within the next 10 years, many will pass WED away. Can the kimono survive? WED WED The BBC's Japan Correspondent Roland Buerk reports on the WED crisis in the industry, and the efforts being made to ensure WED ancient skills are not lost. WED WED Producer: Ruth Evans WED A Ruth Evans production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 The Stanley Baxter Playhouse b00tt6px (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 2 WED WED Stanley Baxter and Rona Munro have been collaborating for WED some years now on the stories in The Stanley Baxter WED Playhouse; last year listeners were full of praise for WED Stanley's performance in Rona's Playhouse story -The Man In WED the Garden. WED WED This story is a wartime romance set in rural Scotland in the WED second world war. WED WED Friedrich is a German pilot whose plane is shot down over a WED remote rural area in the west of Scotland. He is a prisoner WED of war, and initially local feelings against him are WED vitriolic; but he, like everyone in the community in which WED he finds himself, is a cattle farmer, and as his English WED improves, he forms strong bonds with his captors, and forges WED an unlikely friendship which, many years later, brings him WED back to Scotland. WED WED Fred ... Stanley Baxter WED Friedrich ... Sam Peter Jackson WED Beth ... Vicki Liddelle WED George ... John Ramage WED WED Producer: Marilyn Imrie WED A Catherine Bailey production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b017chpw (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b017bkz0 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b017chpy (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 13:45 Stephen Fry on the Phone b017chq0 (Listen) WED The Accidental Discovery of Text WED WED Stephen Fry meets the men who created the first texting WED facility, as well as other less commercially successful WED products like taxifones, payphones on trains and in-car fax WED machines. He hears how texting triumphed unexpectedly when WED paging was all the rage, partly because paging services WED never seemed to work on Friday afternoon. On the earliest WED handsets there was no way of replying to a text. Later, just WED in case someone might want to reply, they included a short WED list of possible pre-set answers: yes, no and later. In the WED mid 90s texting was just one of countless facilities WED embedded within the new digital mobile phones: no one WED thought it that important. Last year alone, a staggering 6.1 WED trillion text messages were sent. And most of them received WED a reply. WED WED Producer: Anna Buckley. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b017cfkx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00jzf6b (Listen) WED The Moment You Feel It WED WED By Ed Harris WED WED Alf's memories come in flashes and great blank holes, along WED with a running commentary from the voices of his past. So WED how does finding a strange coat in his kitchen, remind Alf WED why he doesn't want a bath today? A tender, sad comedy about WED re-remembering your past. WED WED Alf ..... Richard Briers WED Young Alf ..... Rory Kinnear WED Pru ..... Tracy Wiles WED Steven ..... Hugh Ross WED Marina ..... Caroline Guthrie WED with Janice Acquah WED WED Producer/Director: Jonquil Panting. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b017chq2 (Listen) WED Paul Lewis presents a financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b017cfv8 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b017chq4 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b017chq6 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b017chq8 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017bkz2 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b015p8sr (Listen) WED Series 4, Sarah Millican WED WED Comedian Sarah Millican tries five things she has never done WED before. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b017chqb (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b017chqd (Listen) WED With John Wilson, including a review of the film Moneyball, WED starring Brad Pitt as the manager of a low-budget baseball WED team who uses computer data to identify the best players. WED WED Producer Lisa Davis. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184xhp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b017chqg (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b017chqj (Listen) WED Series 2, David Bainbridge WED WED David Bainbridge, clinical veterinary anatomist at Cambridge WED University and science writer, dispels the myth of the WED mid-life crisis and celebrates the evolution of middle age WED as a distinctively human phenomenon, central to the success WED of our species. Middle age is not about getting old but WED rather "the changes of middle age represent a developmental WED stage of life as distinct as infancy or adolescence". WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the WED encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, WED speakers air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b017chql (Listen) WED An increasing understanding of genetics has uncovered new WED targets for antiviral drug treatments. Although still in the WED very early stages scientists claim they may be able to WED develop drug treatments which can be used against a range of WED viruses. At present antiviral drugs are very specific, WED usually attacking just one virus. However the research which WED Kevin Fong examines in this edition of Frontiers suggests WED 'broad spectrum antivirals', drugs capable of curing all WED viral infections from the common cold to HIV may be with us WED in a few years time. If the claims are true such drugs could WED revolutionise medicine dealing a blow to viruses in much the WED same way as the invention of antibiotics did to bacterial WED infections over the last century. WED WED Producer: Julian Siddle. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b017chpp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b017bkz4 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b017chqn (Listen) WED With Robin Lustig. National and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017chqs (Listen) WED Perfect Lives, The Birthday Present WED WED Perfect Lives is Polly Samson's second collection of short WED stories, each linked to the others by themes of WED imperfection, compromise and the joy of accepting life as it WED is. WED WED 3: The Birthday Present, read by Rosie Cavaliero WED WED She had nothing to give him for his birthday. But as it WED turned out, nothing was just perfect. WED WED Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. WED WED 23:00 Mark Watson's Live Address to the Nation b017chqv (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Mark Watson continues his quest to improve the world, nimbly WED assisted by Tim Key and Tom Basden and with the additional WED help of the listening audience as we broadcast live and WED invite them to join in. WED WED Mark will be asking the big questions that are crucial to WED our understanding of ourselves and society - in a dynamic WED and thought provoking new format he opens the floor to the WED live audience and asks them to jump into the conversation WED via tweets and messages to work out how we can all make the WED world a better place. WED WED This week Mark looks at "Desire" - Is desire a dangerous WED thing? In their hit Desire, U2 sang: 'Desire!/Desire!' But WED that isn't hugely helpful, that's just repeating the word WED over and over again. So we'll go into a bit more detail. WED WED We all desire something, whether it's sex, personal WED satisfaction, or sexy personal satisfaction. Without desire WED we're inert. But with desire, we can sometimes be all too WED ert. Where do we draw the line between normal passions, and WED being one of these guys like Othello who let themselves down WED and kill a girl over a hanky? WED WED Mark Watson is a multi award winning comedian, including the WED inaugural If.Comedy Panel Prize 2006. He is assisted by Tim WED Key, winner of Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2009 and Tom Basden WED who won the the If.Comedy Award for Best Newcomer 2007. WED WED Produced by Lianne Coop. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b017chqz (Listen) WED The day's top news stories from Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 24 NOVEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b017bkzq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b017zybx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017bkzs (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017bkzv (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017bkzx (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b017bkzz (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017mr0c (Listen) THU with Ibrahim Mogra. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b017cjm4 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte THU Smith. THU THU 06:00 Today b017cjm6 (Listen) THU With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in THU Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b017cjm8 (Listen) THU Judas Maccabeus THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the revolutionary Jewish THU leader Judas Maccabeus. Born in the second century BC, Judas THU Maccabeus led his followers, the Maccabees, in a rebellion THU against the Seleucid Empire, which was attempting to impose THU the Greek culture and religion on the Jews. After a THU succession of battles he succeeded; one of his achievements, THU the restoration and purification of the Temple of Jerusalem THU after its desecration, is commemorated every year at the THU Jewish festival of Hanukkah. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b017zyd6 (Listen) THU My Week with Marilyn, Episode 4 THU THU By Colin Clark. Abridged by Robin Brooks. THU THU Read by Samuel Barnett. THU THU Today, Colin is summoned to Marilyn's home at 1.30am. THU Sitting alone together in the dark, he learns some of her THU darkest fears and glimpses the steely strength that has THU driven her to become the most famous film star in the world. THU THU Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b017cjmb (Listen) THU Christian Louboutin, older women who don't give a toss. THU Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184xkt (Listen) THU How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU Roger - Roger Allam THU Caroline - Rebecca Saire THU Philip / Howard - Tim McInnerny THU Martha- Frances Tomelty THU Aaron - Adam Billington THU THU Director - Eoin O'Callaghan. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b017cjmd (Listen) THU Roubles and Radicals in Dagestan THU THU The main focus of the violence in the North Caucasus these THU days is in Dagestan, Chechnya's neighbour. Shoot-outs THU between police and Islamist militants occur almost daily, THU and suicide bombings and assassinations have become common. THU In response, the authorities use what many see as excessive THU force and the violence spirals still further. In the past THU two years suicide bombings in the Moscow metro and a Moscow THU airport have been traced to the region. In Dagestan it's a THU war that has touched almost every community and family, and THU one where differences between the opposing sides are THU apparently irreconcilable. For the authorities, Dagestan is THU part of Russia and subject to its secular laws; for the THU militants the region should be a sharia state independent of THU Moscow. THU THU After ten years trying to combat the militants and their THU appeal, Russian businessman Suleiman Kerimov has hit on a THU new idea - football. Sports facilities and pitches are being THU built across this impoverished and deeply conservative THU Muslim republic, encouraging young boys and men to play on THU the pitch rather than join the militants in the forest, and THU girls to watch them instead of withdrawing behind the veil. THU Dagestan's top club Anzhi Makhachkala has been bought up by THU the pro-Kremlin Dagestani billionaire and now he is buying THU world-class footballers, including Samuel Eto'o, currently THU the highest-paid player on the planet. THU THU Lucy Ash asks whether this is just bread and circuses for THU the masses or whether it is making a real difference in this THU restive Russian republic. Mr Kerimov is bankrolling many THU other projects from mosque building to job creation, from a THU glass factory to a glistening vision of an entirely new THU city. The reclusive billionaire's representative in Dagestan THU says he is trying to find an economic solution to one of the THU poorest and most troubled regions in Russia. The government THU is also trying a new tactic; it has recently set up a THU commission to persuade young fighters to lay down their arms THU and return to a peaceful civilian life. Lucy watches an THU anti-terrorism policeman lecturing university students in THU the capital, Makhachkala, on the dangers of radical THU Islam.But with entrenched corruption, heavy-handed policing THU and a blatant disregard for law, the Islamic underground THU shows little sign of retreat. More alarmingly, it looks as THU if the insurgency is spreading from the north to the THU traditionally peaceful and secular south of the republic. THU Lucy visits the village of Sovetskoye where in May this year THU police beat up dozens of young Salafists. A few months later THU the head teacher was murdered, allegedly because he'd banned THU the hijab in class. Can a massive injection of cash really THU neuter deep-seated pressures for change? THU THU 11:30 The Countertenor b017cjmg (Listen) THU Men who sing in falsetto: Bidisha surveys the Counter Tenor THU voice - in classical music and in the music of Jimmy THU Somerville, Smokey Robinson, the Bee Gees and Plan B. She THU looks at the sexual ambiguity and ethereal quality of a THU voice that can still make people feel uncomfortable. THU THU Many people still associate the Counter Tenor sound with the THU use of castrati, even though the last of that breed died THU nearly a century ago. The voice is inextricably linked in THU their minds with the notion of being unmanly, different, THU lesser or 'other'. At the same time the countertenor sound THU itself can be so beautiful that it is beguiling; listeners THU find themselves torn between the pleasure of the art and THU their social confusion. THU THU Writer and broadcaster Bidisha, fascinated by hearing the THU voice of Alfred Deller on the radio, visits Canterbury THU Cathedral to find out how the voice became part of classical THU music mainstream again after a silence of almost 200 years. THU THU She discovers the role of composer Benjamin Britten in bring THU the voice back onto the public stage in the part of Oberon THU in a Midsummer Night's Dream, written for Alfred Deller. THU THU She visits a voice clinic to see a camera being put down the THU throat of professional Counter Tenor to see exactly what THU happens to a man's vocal cords when he sings in falsetto. THU And she asks - can all men sing in falsetto? THU THU And she looks at the extensive and continuing use of the THU voice in pop music, where it has become more easily accepted THU than it was in classical music when it first became popular THU again. THU THU With contributions from Mark Deller, Michael Chance, Iestyn THU Davies, Nicholas Clapton, Declan Costello, Ian Aitkenhead, THU Rev Richard Coles and Plan B. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b017cjmj (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b017bl01 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b017cjml (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 13:45 Stephen Fry on the Phone b017cjmn (Listen) THU Shrinking the Handset THU THU In the fourth episode, Stephen Fry talk to the engineers who THU turned mobile phones from hefty executive bricks into svelte THU fashion accessories. One man at Motorola dreamt of a mobile THU phone small enough to fit in a shirt pocket but it was Nokia THU , once more famous for making loo paper and wellies, that THU cornered the global market. In the early nineties, Nokia was THU on the brink of collapse. But the new chief executive, THU brought in to save the company from bankruptcy, made a bold THU decision to ditch the wellies and focus solely on mobile THU phones. Soon the iconic Nokia ringtone (extracted THU incidentally from a piece for classical guitar composed in THU 1902) was inescapable. THU THU Producer: Anna Buckley. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b017chqb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lc9ff (Listen) THU The King of Sootland THU THU By Richard Hurford. In the early days of Queen Victoria's THU reign, a boy and a teenage girl - who he assumes to be a new THU maidservant but is in fact the young Victoria - go on an THU adventure through the chimneys of Buckingham Palace. THU THU Queen Victoria ...... Daisy Marsden THU Boy Cotton ...... Aidan Parsons THU Duchess Of Kent ...... Olwen May THU Sir John Conroy ...... Jonathan Keeble THU Mr Diggle ...... Malcolm Raeburn THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b017cjmq (Listen) THU In the second of two programmes on the Channel Islands, Open THU Country visits Jersey to find out what it was like to live THU on the Island during the German occupation in World War 2. THU The Channel Islands were the only part of the British Isles THU to be seized and for five years, residents lived under Nazi THU rule. Now a file of papers which spent decades stuffed in THU the back of a wardrobe has been found revealing graphic THU accounts of some of those who were deported to Germany after THU being caught in acts of resistance. Richard Uridge THU investigates why these accounts are only just coming to THU light. THU THU Presenter: Richard Uridge THU Producer : Anna Varle. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b017c8f4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b017c9pf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b017cjms (Listen) THU Looking at the latest cinema releases, DVDs and films on TV. THU THU 16:30 Material World b017mr3t (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU Producer: Martin Redfern. THU THU 17:00 PM b017cjmv (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017bl03 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Listen Against b017cjmx (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 4 THU THU Listen Against is the comedy that takes the back off your THU radio and television, fiddles round with the programmes THU inside and then puts them all back the wrong way round. THU THU Using "beautifully crafted, scalpel sharp" (Gillian THU Reynolds) mash-ups of current and archive programmes Listen THU Against creates a "sly, sharp, smart, surreal, satirical" THU world (Sunday Telegraph) where Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes THU look back in amplitude of at a week's worth of broadcasting THU like a media tapeworm going through a dog. THU THU Like "the mischievous offspring of Points of View and The THU Day Today" (Observer) fictional listeners bombard Listen THU Against with fictional letters and emails complaining about THU half-fictional programmes while fictional guests and real THU life presenters (this series includes Melvyn Bragg, Jeremy THU Vine and Vanessa Feltz) argue with each other in "a gem of a THU satirical swoop at radio and television." (Guardian). THU THU Written and created by Jon Holmes THU Presented by Alice Arnold and Jon Holmes THU THU Cast: THU Kevin Eldon (Brass Eye, Big Train) THU Justin Edwards (The Thick of It) THU Sarah Hadland (Miranda) THU James Bachman (Mitchell & Webb) THU Kim Wall (Big Train , IT Crowd) THU David Mara (RSC & Donmar Warehouse) THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b017cjmz (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b017cjn1 (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including a review of the film The Deep THU Blue Sea, directed by Terence Davies and based on the play THU by Terence Rattigan. THU THU Producer Georgia Mann. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184xkt (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b017cjn3 (Listen) THU Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards THU THU Are the protections designed to grant people being deprived THU of their liberty the right to challenge their detention in THU the courts really working? In this edition of The Report, THU Matthew Hill investigates the mechanism known as Deprivation THU of Liberty Safeguards. THU THU Rather than protecting vulnerable adults, there's increasing THU concern that people who are deemed unable to make their own THU decisions can be kept in care homes and hospitals against THU their will without transparency and, in some cases, without THU proper safeguards. THU THU Just two years after the safeguards were introduced, The THU Report has been granted exclusive access to a new study THU highlighting the many flaws in the system. Matthew Hill asks THU whether the Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) are THU adequate; if the DoLS understood by care workers, and why THU are they so unevenly applied across the country? THU THU Producer: Hannah Barnes. THU THU 20:30 In Business b017cjn5 (Listen) THU Survival Strategy THU THU As economic gales blow even harder, are there lessons to be THU learnt from previous recessions? Peter Day finds out from THU some veteran small business survivors. THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal Editor Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b017cd11 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b017cjm8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b017bl05 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b017cjy4 (Listen) THU With Robin Lustig. National and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017cjy6 (Listen) THU Perfect Lives, The Rose Before the Vine THU THU Five readings taken from Polly Samson's collection Perfect THU Lives, each linked by themes of imperfection, compromise and THU the joy of accepting life as it is. THU THU 4: The Rose Before the Vine, read by Claire Skinner THU THU Rose and her daughter Anna have a long history of THU disappointing each other; and just as Anna seems to have THU turned a corner in her life, Rose has to give her some THU devastating news. THU THU Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. THU THU 23:00 Les Kelly's Britain b017cjy8 (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Les Kelly (Kevin Bishop) hosts a magazine show from hell. THU Les is a cross between Jeremy Kyle and a slap in the face. THU He claims this is the only radio show for 'normal, decent THU people'. 'If you aren't normal or decent, this is not the THU show for you,' says Les. THU THU Should able bodied people have the same rights as the THU disabled when it comes to having mobility scooters, guide THU dogs and hearing aides. This and other outrageous questions THU are put by Les Kelly, radio's most insensitive presenter. THU Also on the show - a preacher whose religious education THU lessons involves twisting balloons into the shape of Moses THU and Jesus, and a woman with an obsessive hatred of Belgians. THU THU Written by Bill Dare and Julian Dutton. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b017cjyb (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 25 NOVEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b017bl0r (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b017zyd6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017bl0t (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017bl0w (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017bl0y (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b017bl10 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017mr0k (Listen) FRI with Ibrahim Mogra. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b017ckdx (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Melvin Rickarby. Presented by Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b017ckdz (Listen) FRI With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b017c8gp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b017zyj2 (Listen) FRI My Week with Marilyn, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Colin Clark. Abridged by Robin Brooks. FRI FRI Read by Samuel Barnett. FRI FRI In today's episode, Colin helps Marilyn cope with a tragic FRI and unexpected event. Next morning he wakes to the FRI realisation that he must put an end to their friendship: too FRI many people claim Marilyn as their property to allow him to FRI stay close to her for much longer. His week-long adventure FRI is over. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b017ckf1 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184xmv (Listen) FRI How Does That Make You Feel? - Series 2, Episode 5 FRI FRI Roger - Roger Allam FRI Caroline - Rebecca Saire FRI Philip / Howard - Tim McInnerny FRI Martha- Frances Tomelty FRI Aaron - Adam Billington FRI FRI Director - Eoin O'Callaghan. FRI FRI 11:02 Spooklights b017ckf3 (Listen) FRI Folk tales are full of fleeting phenomena like will o' the FRI wisps, faint glows that must have spooked our ancestors . FRI But these days, it's just about impossible to escape the FRI omnipresent illumination of modern life, and these evocative FRI spooklights have vanished like ghosts. Chemist Andrea Sella FRI explores the science of lights so dim, they can be witnessed FRI only in complete darkness. From the spontaneous combustion FRI of marsh gas to the lightning sparks emitted by crushed FRI sugar, Professor Sella finds there's more to light than ever FRI meets the eye. FRI FRI 11:30 In and Out of the Kitchen b017ckf5 (Listen) FRI September 18th to 24th FRI FRI Each episode of In And Out Of The Kitchen features a few FRI entries from the kitchen diary of cookery writer, Damien FRI Trench. In a mixture of narrative, dialogue and recipes, FRI Damien unflinchingly captures every angle of his day-to-day FRI life, "no matter how grizzly" as he puts it "or, indeed, how FRI gristly". FRI FRI Damien 's routine is thrown into disarray when Anthony's FRI goddaughter, Libby, is sent to stay with them for "respite". FRI Meanwhile, Anthony finally has his long-awaited job FRI interview and Damien is offered the chance to front his own FRI TV cookery show. FRI FRI The programme also features Damien's easy-to-follow recipes FRI for: FRI - cracking crepes Suzette FRI - Spanish-as-sangria, "chorizo und patatas" FRI and FRI - a tastebud tantalising, Beef Oxford. FRI FRI Cast: FRI FRI Miles Jupp as Damien Trench FRI with FRI Justin Edwards as Anthony FRI Brendan Dempsey as Mr Mullaney FRI Philip Fox as Ian Frobisher FRI and FRI Maggie Service as Libby/Angie FRI FRI Producer: Sam Michell. FRI FRI 12:00 Food and Farming Awards b017ckf7 (Listen) FRI Food and Farming Awards 2011 FRI FRI Sheila Dillon and the biggest names in food celebrate the FRI UK's best cooks and producers. Rick Stein, James Martin, FRI Valentine Warner and Giorgio Locatelli help announce this FRI years winners. FRI FRI The event, cited by the likes of Jamie Oliver as the "Oscars FRI of the food world", brings together Britain's best food and FRI drink producers, farmers, street food cooks, dinner ladies, FRI local retailers and food markets. FRI FRI After sifting through thousands of nominations a team of FRI expert judges have spent weeks on the road travelling to FRI every corner of the UK to meet and judge the finalists. At FRI the Supertheatre in Birmingham's NEC we get to hear who are FRI the "best of the best". FRI FRI There are ten categories including Best Food Champion, won FRI last year by groundbreaking baker Richard Bertinet, and the FRI Derek Cooper Award, named after The Food Programme's FRI founding presenter and awarded in previous years to the most FRI inspirational and influential food campaigners. FRI FRI In the programme not only do the food celebrities take to FRI the stage, but also the experience of the judges, working on FRI location illustrates exactly why someone is a winner. It's FRI always a delicious, often emotional and inspirational FRI listen. FRI FRI Producer: Dan Saladino. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b017bl12 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b017ckf9 (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 13:45 Stephen Fry on the Phone b017clwx (Listen) FRI The Chips inside Smartphones FRI FRI All mobile phones rely on hyper-intelligent silicon chips to FRI run them. And the astonishing thing is: 85% of the silicon FRI chips inside all mobile phones are designed by one FRI Cambridge-based company, ARM. Stephen Fry talks to the FRI pioneers who designed these chips. They needed some FRI micro-processors to build a better home computer, but didn't FRI like what they saw and decided to make their own. Strapped FRI for cash, they designed chips that were small, cheap and FRI exceptionally low power and, quite by chance, ideally suited FRI to the next generation of pocket-sized mobile phones. Not to FRI mention today's power-hungry smartphones. FRI FRI Producer: Anna Buckley. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b017cjmz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00lvh6t (Listen) FRI Normal and Nat FRI FRI By Debbie Oates. Nat's life spirals out of control after she FRI describes hearing voices in her head, until a sympathetic FRI teacher helps to unlock the obsessive musical way in which FRI Nat thinks. FRI FRI Nat ...... Rebecca Ryan FRI Miss Davies ...... Elizabeth Berrington FRI Mix ...... Jamil Thomas FRI Shanice ...... Wunmi Mosaku FRI Jane ...... Sue Devaney FRI Paul/HeadteacherDavid Fleeshman FRI Pianist ...... Jonathan Scott FRI The Voice in Nat's Head ...... Emma Johnson FRI FRI With Chorlton High School Choir and The RNCM Gospel Choir. FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b017clwz (Listen) FRI Eric Robson chairs a programme from Othery, Somerset. Chris FRI Beardshaw, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew Biggs join him as FRI the panel. FRI FRI Anne Swithinbank discusses good cultivation techniques in a FRI nut forest near Totnes. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Junior Science b017clx1 (Listen) FRI Zero Gravity FRI FRI To coincide with the broadcast of 'Junior Science', Mick FRI Jackson is taking up a year-long post as writer-in residence FRI at The Science Museum in London. FRI FRI In these three specially-commissioned stories, children FRI become involved in science with strange and unsettling FRI results. FRI FRI In 'Zero Gravity', Daniel Taylor throws a ball into the air, FRI with unexpected results. He is soon able to carry out the FRI ultimate experiment in gravity and explores his home town in FRI a way he never has before. FRI FRI Written by Mick Jackson FRI Reader: David Holt FRI FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b017clx3 (Listen) FRI With Matthew Bannister. Obituary series, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b017clx5 (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 17:00 PM b017clx7 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017bl14 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b017clx9 (Listen) FRI Series 35, Episode 3 FRI FRI Topical stand-up, sketches and comedy songs. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b017clxc (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b017clxf (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Rebecca Nicholson. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184xmv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b017clxh (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live panel discussion of news and FRI politics from the BBC Radio Theatre in London. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b017clxk (Listen) FRI Mary Beard reflects on the week's events. FRI Producer: Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Friday Play b00s0ygj (Listen) FRI We Outnumber You FRI FRI By Ed Hime FRI FRI A hand-held horror, reconstructed from amateur recordings FRI discovered after the event, in which we relive the FRI humiliation of a major oil company at the gala opening of FRI their new zoo in 2013. FRI FRI David ..... Kenneth Cranham FRI Roman ..... Luke Treadaway FRI Clair ..... Joanna Monro FRI Shelley ..... Georgia Groome FRI Ashifa ..... Vineeta Rishi FRI Billy .....Ben Crowe FRI Courtney ..... Caroline Paterson FRI Craig ..... David Seddon FRI Michael ..... Sam Dale FRI Tamzin ..... Keely Beresford FRI Clive ..... Nigel Hastings FRI Presenter ..... Alison Pettitt FRI Steven ..... Michael Shelford FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b017bl16 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b017cm4f (Listen) FRI With Robin Lustig. National and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b017cm4h (Listen) FRI Perfect Lives, Remote Control FRI FRI Five readings taken from Polly Samson's short story FRI collection Perfect Lives, interlinked by themes of FRI imperfection, compromise and the joy of accepting life as it FRI is. FRI FRI 5: Remote Control, read by Rosie Cavaliero FRI FRI Upstairs, two lovely little boys tucked up in bed; FRI downstairs, a man and his television versus a woman and her FRI cat. FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Christine Hall. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b017cfks (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b017cm4k (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with his weekly round up of events in FRI parliamentary. FRI
18 November, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 19/11/2011 - 25/11/2011
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