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SAT SATURDAY 10 DECEMBER 2011 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b017x3rs (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b018v874 (Listen) SAT Just My Type, Episode 5 SAT SAT "Just My Type" - a book about fonts by Simon Garfield. SAT SAT Read by Julian Rhind Tutt SAT SAT From type on the high street and book covers, to the print SAT in our homes and offices, our world is surrounded by and SAT spelt out by fonts. Little do we realise how our everyday SAT choices are subtly informed and manipulated by these SAT miniature works of art. Simon Garfield explores the history SAT of the font and the people who brought them into being. SAT SAT The Font in politics. How Barack Obama used a font to win a SAT presidency. SAT SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b017x3rv (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b017x3rx (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b017x3rz (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b017x3s1 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b017x78q (Listen) SAT with Revd Canon Stephen Shipley. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b017x78s (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b017x3s3 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b017x3s5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b017x3pn (Listen) SAT Lancashire: Shale Gas SAT SAT Does the British landscape hold the key to a new and SAT revolutionary form of energy? Jules Hudson is in Lancashire SAT to find out about shale gas, a by-product of shale rock SAT which forms much of the geology of the county's landscape. SAT Using a technique known as 'fracking', which involves using SAT a high pressure combination of water, sand and chemicals, SAT the rock is then fractured in order to release the gas. SAT For Cuadrilla, the company responsible for the drilling, SAT these are exciting times. But opponents to the process are SAT concerned about the environmental damage this may cause and SAT also about the possibility of earthquakes after drilling was SAT halted earlier this year following two quakes close to SAT Blackpool. SAT Should we unlock the vast resources of shale gas deep under SAT our landscape? Jules Hudson visits Lancashire to meet the SAT people responsible for the drilling and to find out what is SAT so special about the Bowland Shale. SAT SAT Presenter: Jules Hudson SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0184nl0 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Charlotte SAT Smith. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b017x3s7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0184nl2 (Listen) SAT With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Yesterday SAT in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather, Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0184nl4 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles with politician turned panto star Ann SAT Widdecombe, poet Matt Harvey, one man who lives in the house SAT where John Lennon grew up, and another who cared for SAT celebrity panda Chi Chi, a woman who lost two thirds of her SAT body weight and another who reclaimed the park behind her SAT house for the local teens who wrecked her garden, and the SAT Inheritance Tracks of actor Simon Callow. SAT SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b0184nl6 (Listen) SAT Historic walks - Fast and slow trains SAT SAT John McCarthy takes a look at historic walks in the company SAT of archaeologist Bill Bevan who selects Britain's top SAT prehistoric sites best approached by foot and walks SAT webmaster David Stewart who tells how you can follow ancient SAT pathways all over the country from packhorse routes to SAT corpse roads. John also compares fast and slow trains with SAT journalist Tom Chesshyre maintaining that high speed SAT railways have opened up Europe for passengers and travel SAT editor Michael Kerr favouring a more leisurely approach to SAT rail journeys. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The iPod Series b0184nl8 (Listen) SAT Thomas Hardy's iPod SAT SAT David Owen Norris and guests listen to Thomas Hardy's SAT favourite songs in the house he built for himself - Max SAT Gate, in Dorset. Hardy's playlist is extraordinarily varied; SAT it begins with music his violinist father played, and which SAT he later used in one of the great novels. SAT SAT We hear Hardy's favourite song as a young man about town, SAT 'How Oft Louis', a song which obsessed him because he was in SAT love with an unobtainable girl called Louisa. There is the SAT now-forgotten opera version of 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', SAT which Hardy thought was so good that he considered a career SAT as a professional song-writer. SAT SAT And there is the music he listened to with his friend SAT Lawrence of Arabia, on a wind-up gramophone with a huge SAT horn, the two men spending evenings together in a tiny attic SAT room in Lawrence's house 'Cloud's Hill'. SAT SAT Guests for this programme are Professor John Mullan, SAT Professor Derek Scott, and Dr Jacqueline Dillion, a Hardy SAT scholar who lives at Max Gate. They listen to the music and SAT discuss what it reveals about Hardy's life. SAT SAT Presenter David Owen Norris is a broadcaster, composer and SAT concert pianist. He has arranged the songs, which are SAT performed by Thomas Guthrie and jazz singer Gwyneth Herbert. SAT SAT Producer: Elizabeth Burke SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b0184p3s (Listen) SAT Jackie Ashley of The Guardian looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT The editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0183dzj (Listen) SAT 'A political system which had considered itself as solid as SAT rock has started to show cracks.' Steve Rosenberg's in SAT Moscow on a weekend where more demonstrations are planned. SAT The Americans are preparing for their withdrawal from Iraq SAT and Gabriel Gatehouse has been considering what exactly's SAT been achieved during their nine years there. There's a view SAT from Hungary where Nick Thorpe's been looking at how the SAT country's affected by the crisis in the Eurozone. It's forty SAT years since Bangladesh came into being and Mark Tully, who SAT remembers the long struggle which preceded its birth, SAT wonders if too much celebration of that anniversary will SAT lead to further bitterness. And Linda Pressley's in eastern SAT Cuba climbing mountains and asking awkward questions about SAT the love life of Fidel Castro. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0183dzl (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b017x76w (Listen) SAT Series 35, Episode 5 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by David Quantick, SAT Paul Sinha, Laura Shavin and Mitch Benn to mine comedy SAT nuggets from this week's news. SAT SAT Producer: Katie Tyrrell. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b017x3s9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b017x3sc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b017x772 (Listen) SAT Dudley SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and SAT politics from High Arcal School, Sedgley, Dudley, West SAT Midlands, with Secretary of State for Defence, Philip SAT Hammond; Shadow Minister for Crime Prevention, Gloria de SAT Piero; former Chief Constable and now vice-chairman of SAT restorative justice charity, Why Me?, Sir Charles Pollard; SAT and Daily Telegraph columnist, Mary Riddell. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0183dzn (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b0183dzq (Listen) SAT The Gate of Angels SAT SAT by Penelope Fitzgerald, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus SAT SAT Penelope Fitzgerald's 1990 novel, set in Edwardian London SAT and Cambridge, exploring love, religion, physics and the SAT random nature of chance. SAT SAT Fred Fairly ... Geoffrey Streatfeild SAT Daisy Saunders ... Jade Williams SAT Kelly ... Carl Prekopp SAT Venetia/Matron ... Tracy Wiles SAT Wrayburn/Dr Sage ... James Lailey SAT Matthews ... Gerard McDermott SAT Skippey ... Simon Bubb SAT Flowerdew/Master ... Paul Moriarty SAT Manageress ... Victoria Inez Hardy SAT Mrs Saunders ... Adjoa Andoh SAT Beazley ... Rikki Lawton SAT Solicitor/Constable ... Adam Billington. SAT SAT 15:30 Ken Clarke's Jazz Greats b017wy71 (Listen) SAT Series 9, Clifford Brown SAT SAT In the last programme of the current series, Ken Clarke and SAT his guest Abram Wilson discuss the life and music of the SAT 1950s trumpeter Clifford Brown. SAT Given a trumpet by his father at the age of 15, Clifford's SAT natural talent was immediately apparent. After only a few SAT years of practising the instrument he was playing gigs with SAT artists such as Miles Davis, Kenny Dorham and Fats Navarro. SAT By 22 he already had an original style and the quintet he SAT went on to form with Max Roach is regarded as one of the SAT best of the 1950s. SAT Sadly his professional career was bookended by two horrific SAT car crashes. The first was nearly ended his life and left SAT him in hospital for a year. And only five years later he was SAT involved in a second accident, but this time he was SAT tragically killed. But, as Ken and Abram explain, in the SAT short time he was playing and recording he did enough to put SAT him up there with the all time Jazz Greats. SAT SAT Abram Wilson is an award winning New Orleans trumpeter and SAT vocalist based in the UK. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b0183gl9 (Listen) SAT Sue Lawley, Mary Berry and music from Lotte Mullan SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b0183glc (Listen) SAT Ritula Shah presents a fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b017x78s (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b017x3sf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b017x3sh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b017x3sk (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b0183glf (Listen) SAT The Flying Circus is in town! Always looking on the bright SAT side of life, Monty Python legend Eric Idle will be talking SAT to Clive about 'Spamalot', which he lovingly ripped off from SAT the classic film comedy 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'. SAT Since the show began, there have been 7 onstage moustache SAT incidents, 36 coconuts and 1 outbreak of nits! Spamalot SAT begins touring at The Theatre Royal, Brighton from 15th SAT December SAT SAT Former Billingsgate fish porter and comedian Micky Flanagan SAT recalls his working class upbringing where alphabetti SAT spaghetti was a luxury in his DVD 'Micky Flanagan Live: The SAT Out Out Tour'. SAT SAT Ground floor perfumery, stationery and leather goods, wigs SAT and haberdashery, kitchenware and food...going up! Emma SAT Freud is being served by comedy writer Jeremy Lloyd, AKA SAT Captain Beaky, co-writer of such classic sitcoms as 'Are You SAT Being Served? and 'Allo Allo'. Jeremy will be talking about SAT 'The Wonderful World of Captain Beaky' at London's Royal SAT Albert Hall on 11th December in aid of UNICEF SAT SAT The extremely colourful British fashion icon Zandra Rhodes SAT talks to Clive about her book 'Zandra Rhodes: Textile SAT Revolution', which tracks the first decade of her career, SAT with never before seen reproductions of designs from her RCA SAT sketchbooks and portfolios. SAT SAT Smoove and Turrell have a new album out called 'Eccentric SAT Audio'. We hear the acoustic version of their latest single SAT 'Gabriel' with John Turrell on vocals and Dave Wilde on SAT piano. SAT SAT 'Doom Soul' songstress Cold Specks performs her debut single SAT 'Holland', ahead of her UK tour in February 2012. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b0183glh (Listen) SAT Newt Gingrich SAT SAT Samira Ahmed profiles Newt Gingrich, the American former SAT Speaker of the House who is now a leading contender for the SAT Republican nomination to run against Barack Obama in next SAT year's US presidential election. SAT SAT Earlier this year he was largely written off as a SAT presidential contender when many of his staff left his SAT campaign. But now he has made a dramatic comeback. SAT SAT In the 1990s he was one of the Republicans who led the SAT impeachment proceedings against President Bill Clinton for SAT perjury over his affair with White House intern Monica SAT Lewinsky. Yet at the same time Mr Gingrich was engaged in SAT his own extra-marital affair with the woman who became his SAT third wife. SAT SAT Samira Ahmed talks to people who have known and worked with SAT Newt Gingrich throughout his career. She hears of SAT similarities between Gingrich and Clinton: both had SAT difficult relationships with their step-fathers, dominating SAT mothers, and both wanted to be transformational figures. But SAT Gingrich appears to lack Clinton's personal charm. SAT SAT Gingrich is both attacked and admired as an ideological SAT politician, although some say he is driven by pragmatism and SAT has an acute sense of what will play well with his SAT supporters. SAT SAT With a controversial past - he was fined $300,000 for ethics SAT breaches in Congress - how has he turned things round? SAT SAT Who is the real Newt Gingrich, and would he make a good SAT president? SAT SAT Producers: SAT Ben Crighton and Arlene Gregorius. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0183glk (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights including The Ladykillers, starring Peter Capaldi SAT at the Gielgud Theatre in London SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT The Lady Killers SAT SAT The Lady Killers is showing at the Gieulgud Theatre, London SAT until 14 April 2012 SAT SAT Another Earth SAT SAT Another Earth, directed by Mike Cahill is released on Friday SAT 9 December, certificate 12A SAT SAT The Mystery of Appearance SAT SAT The Mystery of Appearance is showing at Haunch of Venison in SAT London until 18 February 2012 SAT SAT The Third Reich SAT SAT The Third Reich by Roberto Bolano is published by Picador SAT SAT The Borrowers SAT SAT The Borrowers is broadcast on BBC1 on 26 December. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b0183glm (Listen) SAT Ted Hughes: Memorial Tones SAT SAT On the 6th December a memorial stone to the poet Ted Hughes SAT will be unveiled in poet's corner at Westminster Abbey. To SAT mark the occasion Melvyn Bragg presents a special edition of SAT Archive on 4. With poets, writers and those who knew him SAT well, Melvyn will look back over Ted Hughes' life and work SAT to fashion a memorial in sound to accompany that of stone. SAT SAT The programme will centre on the many facets of Hughes' own SAT voice; not only reading and discussing his work but in his SAT many radio talks and his advocacy of other poets. It will SAT make a critical appreciation of Hughes work; from his first SAT poetry collection, A Hawk in the Rain, in 1957 to his last, SAT Birthday Letters, in 1998. SAT SAT But Melvyn will also speak to those who saw at first hand a SAT life touched by both great success and searing tragedy. SAT SAT Producer: James Cook. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b017vk97 (Listen) SAT Beware of Pity, Episode 2 SAT SAT By Stefan Zweig. Dramatised for radio by Stephen Wyatt. SAT SAT What had seemed to Hofmiller to be merely a social blunder SAT has had unforeseen consequences and he's now embarked on a SAT most perilous course of deception. SAT SAT Stefan Zweig is a remarkable writer who had a remarkable SAT life, but is not nearly as well known as he deserves to be, SAT as Simon Gray discovered when he was attracted by the cover SAT of his only novel, Beware of Pity. SAT SAT Simon Gray took the book on holiday with him and used it as SAT an escape from worrying about his cancer and the likely SAT prognosis, "it being too good to read except with the SAT closest attention" and he became immersed in the story of "a SAT young man betrayed by his own unwonted impulses, his own SAT nature........ it's the way that the novel single-mindedly, SAT almost obsessively, illustrates and analyses the destructive SAT power of a single emotion -if that's what pity is - that SAT makes it unique, at least in my experience." SAT SAT Simon Gray embarked on a dramatisation of the book for Radio SAT 4, but it was unfinished at his death in 2008. Another SAT writer, Clare McIntyre, was also attracted by the story and SAT wrote a stage version, but she too died before it was SAT completed. Stephen Wyatt has taken on the task of writing a SAT two part radio version based on Clare McIntyre's material, SAT which will be broadcast on Radio 4 on 27 November and 4 SAT December, with a cast that includes Piers Wehner, Bryony SAT Hannah, Ronald Pickup, Jasper Britton & Michael Jayston. SAT SAT Anton Hofmiller ..... Piers Wehner SAT Edith ...... Bryony Hannah SAT Kekesfalva ....... Ronald Pickup SAT Dr Condor ..... Jasper Britton SAT Colonel/ Josef ...... Michael Jayston SAT Ilona ..... Mabel Clements SAT Ferencz ..... Jack Chedburn SAT SAT Director: Jane Morgan SAT A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b017x3sm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b017x0w0 (Listen) SAT NHS patient data SAT SAT The government has announced new plans to open up the NHS to SAT the life-science industry. The Prime Minister said the SAT health service should be working hand in glove with the SAT industry and that could involve the sharing of the huge SAT wealth of patient data held by the NHS. The idea is said to SAT be win-win; supporting the industry, which is one of the SAT most important in the UK worth £50bn a year and employing SAT 160,000 people and at the same time will get new drugs in to SAT NHS hospitals more quickly. But at what cost to our privacy? SAT Drugs companies already have a certain amount of access to SAT anonymised patient data held by hospitals, but the proposals SAT would widen this to included GP records. Names would still SAT be withheld, but critics argue that data such as postcodes SAT could still be accessed making links to individuals easy to SAT make. We are open with our doctors because we're confident SAT that our privacy will be protected, but with high profile SAT data breaches from organisations such as banks, local SAT authorities and various government departments, are we SAT really happy having such sensitive material, including SAT things like lifestyles, shared? And what about the issues of SAT informed consent? Should drug companies be allowed to use SAT the data in fields that some people might find morally SAT objectionable - for example in foetal stem cell research? Is SAT it our duty to share this information freely, not only for SAT the potential benefit of our nearest and dearest, but also SAT all of human kind? Or is this a commercial Trojan Horse SAT being driven right in to the heart of the NHS for the SAT benefit of the multi-billion pound drug industry and its SAT shareholders? SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b017vp96 (Listen) SAT (4/17) SAT Russell Davies chairs the latest heat in the contest to SAT become the 59th Brain of Britain. The competitors tackling SAT the age-old general knowledge quiz this week are from SAT Scotland and North-West England. As always, there's also a SAT chance for a Brain of Britain listener to 'beat the brains' SAT with teasing questions of his or her own. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 The Poetry of Aran b017vk9c (Listen) SAT For centuries The Aran Islands, three limestone rocks of the SAT west coast of Ireland, have been an inspiration to writers, SAT artists and intellectuals, in search of an authentic Irish SAT experience. SAT SAT As the future of the Irish language in Ireland is far from SAT secure, award-winning poet Daljit Nagra visits the islands SAT where Irish is still the first language, and explores their SAT rich poetic heritage. SAT SAT He speaks to the poet Seamus Heaney about why he wrote three SAT poems about the Aran Islands in his first collection and SAT Heaney reads some poetry in Irish for the first time around SAT 40 years; Daljit also visits the cottage where Anglo-Irish SAT playwright John Millington Synge wrote his influential SAT journal of island life - a mouthpiece for the Gaelic-seeking SAT spirit of the Irish literary revival. SAT SAT We also hear from a local poet who continues the tradition SAT of oral poetry on the islands; and explore the life of one SAT of the key modern, Irish language poets, Martin O Direain, SAT who took his inspiration from his birthplace on Aran. SAT SAT Producer: Jo Wheeler SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 11 DECEMBER 2011 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0183crx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b012438r (Listen) SUN The British at Table, Episode 1 SUN SUN By Christopher Driver. SUN SUN Christopher Driver's eloquent and passionate insights into SUN British attitudes to food. SUN SUN Christopher Driver was a passionate writer, broadcaster, SUN second-hand bookshop owner, conscientious objector and SUN controversial hand-picked successor to Raymond Postgate as SUN editor of The Good Food Guide through the 1970s. His SUN descriptions of our changing attitudes towards what we SUN allowed to grace our plates between the end of rationing and SUN the affluent 1980s, and caustically witty observations of SUN the marvels of British catering (such as the waitress who SUN uncorked the wine with her teeth), made both informative and SUN amusing reading. It is, as he said, "a book about the way we SUN eat now in the light of the way we used to eat within SUN middle-aged-memory. It is about ourselves as shoppers, SUN cultivators, cooks and consumers." SUN SUN Driver saw the shape of food to come thirty years before the SUN rest of us and his accuracy is extraordinary: "The march of SUN regulation and technology means that to obtain good bacon it SUN will be once again necessary to kill and cure your own pig, SUN as in the eighteenth-century. Progress takes odd forms." SUN SUN It is sixty years since Postgate (known as "Public Stomach SUN Number One" after founding his "Society for the Prevention SUN of Cruelty to Food") first published the Good Food Guide. SUN Here is an opportunity to enjoy part of its history in the SUN words of its most eloquent editor, revealing everything from SUN the lost world of whale steaks, coypu vindaloo and sweet and SUN sour barracuda, to the language of food description that SUN embraces such evocative phrases as "the flavour of SUN unploughed fields" and "the texture of compressed string." SUN SUN Read by: Tony Gardner SUN Abridged by: Neil Cargill SUN Producer: Neil Cargill SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0183crz (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0183cs1 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0183cs3 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0183cs5 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b0183h35 (Listen) SUN The bells from the church of St Mary the Virgin, Hanbury in SUN Worcestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b0183glh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0183cs7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b0183h37 (Listen) SUN 99 Words - Episode 1 SUN SUN When Liz Gray found herself limited, forced into a strange SUN period of enforced retreat by a whiplash injury the SUN following question came to her mind: if you had breath for SUN no more than 99 words, what would they be? SUN SUN She began asking friends, colleagues, artists and political SUN figures she admired, gathering together a collection of 99 SUN responses. SUN SUN In the first of a pair of programmes, she describes the SUN genesis of her '99 Words' project and introduces SUN contributions from, among others, Jeanette Winterson, Robert SUN Wyatt, Scilla Elworthy and Diana Athill. SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b0183h39 (Listen) SUN Charlotte Smith looks at the British veal industry. There SUN was a time when many male dairy calves would be shot or SUN exported to veal systems which would be illegal in the UK. SUN But in this country some calves are now being raised for SUN Rosé Veal, which farmers describe as new-era, high welfare SUN meat. SUN SUN Over 100 thousand calves enter the food chain in the UK each SUN year, but veal is still a small market in this country. It SUN hasn't yet become a large part of our food culture. After SUN years of pressure from protesters, the UK was ahead of the SUN EU in banning veal crates, which became illegal across SUN Europe in 2006, but continental systems still allow animals SUN to be fed only milk, a restricted diet which keeps their SUN iron levels low and produces a white meat. This is illegal SUN in the UK, and On Your Farm visits a farm near Daventry to SUN see the conditions used in modern British veal production. SUN SUN Producer: Melvin Rickarby Presenter: Charlotte Smith. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0183cs9 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0183csc (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b0183h3c (Listen) SUN Religious and ethical news of the week. Moral arguments and SUN perspectives on stories familiar and unfamiliar. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b0183h3f (Listen) SUN Haven Distribution SUN SUN Erwin James presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Haven Distribution, which provides books for SUN prisoners. SUN Reg Charity: 1089868 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Haven Distribution SUN - Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Haven Distribution SUN SUN Haven Distribution is a small charity who provide SUN educational books to prisoners. Our aim is to assist those SUN who wish to use their time in custody effectively, through SUN the pursuit of lifelong learning. We seek to encourage SUN self-worth and raise self-esteem in inmates, which will SUN assist in the resettlement of the offender back into the SUN community. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0183csh (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0183csk (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b0183p63 (Listen) SUN Advent 3: Longing for Unity SUN SUN A service from St Peter's Church, Peterston Super Ely in the SUN Vale of Glamorgan, led by the Reverend Rachel Lewis, with SUN Camerata directed by Andrew Wilson-Dickson. SUN Preacher: Rev Edwin Counsell, Education Officer for the SUN Church in Wales. Organist: John Cheer. SUN Producer: Sian Baker SUN SUN As Christmas approached, worship in the early centuries of SUN the Christian church would direct thoughts towards the SUN coming of Christ: looking back to his birth and forward to SUN his return at the end of time. Lines inspired by scripture SUN would be sung as a reminder of these events and humanity's SUN continual longing for the kingdom of God. This week's SUN service looks at the desire for unity in a diverse world SUN SUN O King of the nations, and their desire, SUN the cornerstone making both one: SUN Come and save the human race, SUN which you fashioned from clay. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b017x776 (Listen) SUN Beware the Experts SUN SUN The historian Lisa Jardine recalls CP Snow for lessons on SUN the dangers of leaving political decisions to technocrats SUN and experts and calls for better informed debate by SUN politicians and public alike in the fields of science and SUN economics. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b0183p65 (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell with news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b0183p67 (Listen) SUN Written by ..... Adrian Flynn SUN Directed by ..... Julie Beckett SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Hanson ..... Becky Wright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Sharon ..... Celia Nelson. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b0183p69 (Listen) SUN Eve Pollard SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the journalist and former editor SUN Eve Pollard. SUN SUN She was groomed for success by Rupert Murdoch, but made an SUN editor by Robert Maxwell. Her career has spanned glossy SUN magazines and tabloid journalism, breakfast television, SUN biographies and novels. When she first worked on Fleet SUN Street, she says, women were such a rarity that the male SUN reporters didn't know what to make of her. "Any woman who SUN has a high flying job, they don't know who to compare you to SUN - you're not their mum, you're not their sister, you're not SUN their wife - so they make you a sort of monster-nanny SUN figure." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b017vsjf (Listen) SUN Series 56, Episode 4 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a return SUN visit to The Sage Theatre in Gateshead. Regulars Barry SUN Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the SUN panel by Marcus Brigstocke with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin SUN Sell attempts piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b0183p6c (Listen) SUN The Price of Food SUN SUN Dan Saladino explores how higher food prices are changing SUN what we buy and how we eat. From increases in food related SUN crime to shortages of ingredients, what else is in store? SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0183csm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b0183p6f (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents the latest national and international SUN news, with an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Blood Telegram b0183r3l (Listen) SUN In 1971 U.S. diplomat Archer K. Blood took a heroic stand SUN against Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. Blood was the U.S SUN consul general to East Pakistan - now the independent nation SUN of Bangladesh. Blood and his team were witnesses to a brutal SUN military crackdown and asked for the U.S to denounce the SUN atrocities on humanitarian grounds, but the Nixon team SUN remained silent. Finally Blood's team sent a dissent SUN telegram accusing the government of being "morally SUN bankrupt". The 'Blood Telegram' marked the first time a SUN whole U.S mission had dissented from their own government. SUN SUN On the fortieth anniversary of the birth of Bangladesh Jonny SUN Dymond unravels Blood's story to uncover one of the most SUN courageous diplomatic stands in history. Dymond speaks to SUN Blood's family and signatories of the telegram to unpick the SUN events leading to Blood's decision to risk everything and SUN make his stand, and finds out why Nixon and Kissinger SUN remained silent. He reveals that Blood was a victim of a SUN grander cold war game driven by the realpolitik of Nixon and SUN Kissinger. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b017x5zk (Listen) SUN Scottish Borders SUN SUN Eric Robson chairs a horticultural Q&A with Pippa Greenwood, SUN Bunny Guinness and Matthew Wilson. How a rambling rose can SUN ward off the burglars: Bob Flowerdew discusses allotment SUN security. Anne Swithinbank considers colourful winter SUN planting. SUN SUN Also, encouraging blue-tits in order to fight off Woolly SUN Aphid and an alternative to pruning Daphnes. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Coming Out b0183r3n (Listen) SUN Rosie 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 4. Rosie SUN SUN Rosie was 20 and at university when her son was born. In SUN desperate financial and emotional circumstances, she agreed SUN that he should live with his father while she finished her SUN PhD, but a temporary solution became permanent and from the SUN age of three and a half her son lived apart from her. 37 SUN years on, Rosie at last feels able to be open about what SUN happened, and wants to get away from the shame, the guilt SUN and the sorrow that has haunted her for so long. This is her SUN story. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b0183r3q (Listen) SUN Gargantua and Pantagruel, Gargantua SUN SUN Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais. Dramatised by SUN Lavinia Murray. SUN SUN Ep 1 Gargantua SUN SUN The bawdy, exuburant adventures of medieval giants. A SUN dizzying blend of fantasy, comedy, philosophy and SUN scatological humour. The world's a messy place. Episode 1 SUN depicts the young life of the giant Gargantua, who is SUN reduced to laughable insanity by an education at the hands SUN of paternal ignorance, old crones and syphilitic professors. SUN SUN Rabelais...David Troughton SUN Gargantua..Robert Wilfort SUN Grangousier..Eric Potts SUN Gargamelle..Melissa Jane Sinden SUN Holofornes/Friar Jean..Jonathan Keeble SUN Panochrates..Malcolm Raeburn SUN Eudomon/Sun..Kathryn Hunt SUN SUN Producer Gary Brown SUN SUN Gargantua (ep 1) depicts a young giant, reduced to laughable SUN insanity by an education at the hands of paternal ignorance, SUN old crones and syphilitic professors, who is rescued and SUN turned into a cultured Christian knight. SUN SUN This tale is a dizzying blend of fantasy, comedy, philosophy SUN and scatological humour. The world's a messy place. All the SUN big mock-heroic novels that followed - Don Quixote, Tristram SUN Shandy, Gulliver's Travels, Ulysses - are about mess, SUN they're about slops and slime, encyclopedic in their efforts SUN to encompass humanity in all its bawdy, chaotic, grungy, and SUN painful reality. And like Gargantua and Pantagruel they're SUN also very funny. The Rabelaisian world view is founded on SUN the assumption that the humourless are not yet wise - and SUN these tales insist you learn to laugh at humanity. SUN SUN Gargantua and Pantagruel is dramatised by Lavinia Murray, SUN one of our leading radio playwrights whose credits include SUN 'The Anatomy of Melancholy' and 'The Confessions of an SUN English Opium Eater'. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b0183r3s (Listen) SUN Mariella Frostrup continues Open Book's celebration of funny SUN books with writer and comedian Jo Brand, whose choice for SUN Open Book's Funniest Book is "The Secret Diary of Adrian SUN Mole aged 13 and Three Quarters" by Sue Townsend which was SUN first published in 1982. Selling millions of copies world SUN wide a further seven novels featuring Adrian Mole have been SUN published in the intervening 30 years with titles such as SUN "Adrian Mole: The Prostrate Years" and "Adrian Mole and the SUN Weapons of Mass Destruction". SUN SUN In Open Book's Mini History of Comic Writing Professor of SUN Literature at UCL, John Mullan, is joined by former SUN politician, writer and Dickens fan Roy Hattersley to discuss SUN the genius of Dickens comedy as immortalised through such SUN comic creations as Mrs Gamp, Uriah Heep and Mr Squeers. How SUN much of Dickens's humour is derived through the character's SUN use of speech, and how much through grotesque, exaggerated SUN description so beloved by his readers - and where can we see SUN his influence on contemporary comic novelists? SUN SUN And novelists as critics - how carefully do writers have to SUN proceed when reviewing the work of fellow writers? DJ Taylor SUN - Booker-nominated for his novel Derby Day - discusses the SUN potential embarrassment of the literary hatchet job with SUN fellow writer Lev Grossman, chief book reviewer for Time SUN Magazine. SUN SUN Producer Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN Open Book's Funniest Book SUN SUN Jo Brand choice for Open Book's Funniest Book Balloon Debate SUN (tx 24th December 8pm: "The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole aged SUN 13 and three quarters." SUN SUN Jo Brand's books: SUN The More You Ignore Me by Jo Brand SUN Look Back in Hunger by Jo Brand SUN SUN Novelists as Critics SUN SUN Derby Day by D J Taylor SUN The Magician King by Lev Grossman SUN SUN Open Book's Mini History of Comic Writing SUN SUN Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens SUN Martin Chuzzlewit by Charles Dickens SUN David Copperfield by Charles Dickens SUN Great Expectations by Charles Dickens SUN SUN 16:30 Guns, Roses and Poetry Readings b017c9ph (Listen) SUN Poet and translator W.N. Herbert and sound artist and editor SUN of Poetry Wales Zoe Skoulding share their experiences of SUN worldwide poetry festivals and performance. SUN SUN They tell us how in many Eastern European countries, poetry SUN festivals attract people in their thousands - particularly SUN to the town of Struga in Macedonia which has become one of SUN the most important poetry festivals in the world. Despite SUN the fall of Yugoslavia, the war in Bosnia, the Kosovo crisis SUN and the political and ethnic clashes in the whole of the SUN region - this particular poetry festival attracts hundreds SUN of international poets all wanting to take part. We discover SUN why. SUN SUN We also hear why in South America, poets from all over the SUN world gather not only to share their work, but each year SUN decide to "bury" a philosophical thought that the poets feel SUN the world can do without. But we also hear how, in places SUN like China and Burma, poetry can be seen as subversive and SUN is only shared with great risk of imprisonment or torture. SUN Bill Herbert and Zoe Skoulding share all this and more - as SUN they take us on a personal tour to experience poetry, SUN performance and festivals that celebrate this sometimes SUN marginalized art form. SUN SUN Presented by Bill Herbert. SUN Producer: Neil Cargill SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Greece: Broken Marble, Broken Future b017x7kf (Listen) SUN Modern Greece has lived through the Asia Minor disaster of SUN 1922, Axis occupation in 1940s, civil war and military SUN dictatorship. But in those critical times there was at least SUN an enemy, a cause and the belief that popular action could SUN bring about significant change. But the current national SUN crisis feel different. Different every day, different every SUN week, different every month. SUN SUN As the most recent 48 hour national strike gripped the SUN nation, the writer Maria Margaronis navigated her way SUN through her beloved country to hear - above the din of SUN protest and the hiss of the tear gas - those voices trying SUN to make sense of this spiralling crisis in Athens and in the SUN mountains and villages beyond. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Burman. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b0183glh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0183csp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0183csr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0183cst (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b0183r3v (Listen) SUN Sarah Montague makes her selection from the past seven days SUN of BBC Radio SUN SUN In Pick of the Week, we rock out with the sweet SUN transvestites of Transylvania, as well as dancing with the SUN fabulous Gene Kelly as we waltz through his life with Len SUN Goodman. There's sex too with the ever-so modest French SUN philosopher Bernard Henri Levy. And we can't do without a SUN bit of money - or should that be a lot of money - as we hear SUN a surprising account of how it feels to become suddenly, SUN seriously rich. SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Jessica Treen. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b0183r3x (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Dilemma b0183rb5 (Listen) SUN Episode 5 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 John Finnemore, Danielle SUN Ward and Alun Cochrane, and distinguished foreign SUN correspondent Dame Ann Leslie. This week the guests deal SUN with hypothetical situations involving old ladies SUN shoplifting, gentlemen "pocket-patting", unqualified doctors SUN and fake psychics. They also debate which figure least SUN deserves their place in history out of Albert Einstein, SUN Winston Churchill, and David Attenborough. SUN SUN The show was devised by award-winning stand-up and writer SUN Danielle Ward (The News Quiz, Newswipe, Mock The Week). SUN SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Stories from Earth Music Bristol b0183rb7 (Listen) SUN Birthday Crow SUN SUN Birthday Crow. A new story from Tessa Hadley. A girl begins SUN to hear noises after she escapes from a family party she SUN doesn't want to be at. Inspired by the themes of the Earth SUN Music Bristol festival and recorded in front of an audience SUN there. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b017x76r (Listen) SUN Children's Books: SUN The National Literacy Trust said this week that one in three SUN children does not own a book. The national media lamented, SUN but we take a closer inspection of the report and the data SUN collected, and find some better news. SUN SUN Supermarket price wars: SUN Tim Harford and Anthony Reuben work out how all supermarkets SUN can claim to be cheaper than each other, without being SUN slapped down for false advertising. SUN SUN Eurostats II: SUN We continue to scrutinise the enormous numbers emerging from SUN the Eurozone crisis. Do Italian tax payers really pay 2 SUN billion euros a year for their politicians to be chauffeured SUN around? Wesley Stephenson checks out the figures. SUN SUN Amazing? SUN What are the odds of breaking four double-yoked eggs into SUN your baking bowl, one after another? That's what happened to SUN our colleague Jennifer Clarke and her friend Lynsey as they SUN prepared profiteroles at the weekend. Tim Harford works out SUN the probabilities for the amazed bakers...before Jennifer SUN then breaks the remaining two eggs in the box...will they SUN too be double yokers? SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander SUN Editor: Richard Vadon. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b017x76p (Listen) SUN Dev Anand, Christopher Logue, Sócrates, Helen Forrester, SUN Wilfred Lambert SUN SUN John Wilson on: SUN SUN Christopher Logue, the performance poet who translated SUN Homer, wrote for Private Eye, and acted alongside Jonathan SUN Pryce in Hamlet. SUN SUN Socrates - doctor of medicine, political activist and SUN Brazilian World Cup captain. SUN SUN We hear about Professor Wilfred Lambert , a scholar whose SUN unrivalled knowledge of ancient Babylonian languages helped SUN unlock historical mysteries. SUN SUN Dev Anand - the matinee idol of Hindi cinema. SUN SUN And Helen Forrester who wrote about childhood poverty in SUN Liverpool in the 1930s. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0183dzl (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b0183h3f (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b017x3q3 (Listen) SUN The Curse of the Bonus SUN SUN It started off as a nice pat on the back for exceptional SUN work. But then the bonus became some people's primal SUN motivation..first in the financial markets in the City of SUN London, then in big business, and then in the way public SUN services are run too. Peter Day traces the rise and rise of SUN the bonus culture, and asks how much damage it causes. SUN Producer Caroline Bayley SUN Editor Stephen Chilcott. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b0183rb9 (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 b0183rbc (Listen) SUN Episode 82 SUN SUN Andrew Porter of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers SUN are covering the biggest stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b017x3pq (Listen) SUN Truth - as they say - is stranger than fiction. Mike SUN Cahill's science fiction morality tale, Another Earth, came SUN out this week just days after it emerged that scientists had SUN found Kepler 22b - a planet which, it seems, may share many SUN of the attributes of our own bluey green globe. Francine SUN Stock has been talking to Mike about coincidence, the SUN genesis of his film and, of course, the multiverse. She's SUN also taken a trip to the parallel world of American politics SUN with Nick Broomfield to discuss his new documentary, Sarah SUN Palin - You Betcha! and delved into the murky realm of Ben SUN Wheatley's hit horror film, Kill List. And to dispel any SUN notion of idleness she put herself through the initiation SUN ceremony for Secret Cinema.... a new and playful way of SUN screening films which draws you in through carefully SUN calculated mystery and makes you an actor as much as a SUN spectator. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b0183h37 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 12 DECEMBER 2011 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0183ctj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b017x0vm (Listen) MON Parents, Teens and the Culture of Sex: The Claims of MON Parenting MON MON Laurie Taylor examines research into the advice offered to MON parents with Judith Suissa from the Institute of Education MON and Frank Furedi from Kent University and looks at MON comparative research in America and Holland into teenage sex MON in the parental home with sociologist Amy Schalet from the MON University of Massachusetts. MON Producer: Chris Wilson. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b0183h35 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0183ctn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0183ctq (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0183cts (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0183ctv (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0183rsj (Listen) MON with Revd Canon Stephen Shipley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b0183rsn (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Produced by Angela Frain. Presented by Charlotte Smith. MON MON 05:57 Weather b0183ctx (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b0183rsq (Listen) MON With John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b0183rss (Listen) MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr asks if sport still embodies a MON notion of fair play and Corinthian spirit, or whether it has MON become mired in corruption, money and celebrity. Mihir Bose MON argues that sport is no longer just a game, but has become MON one of the most powerful political tools in the world. The MON social historian Janie Hampton looks back to a time when MON amateur wasn't a dirty word, while Brian Moore the 'pitbull' MON of the scrum, looks back at a disastrous year for the MON professionalism of English rugby. The philosopher Julian MON Savulescu believes the nostalgia for the age of the amateur MON is blinding people to the reality of today, and that far MON from penalising those who take performance enhancing drugs, MON we should merely set a safe limit and allow free rein. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b018hhmq (Listen) MON Londoners, Episode 1 MON MON By Craig Taylor. Abridged by Pete Nichols. MON MON Craig Taylor's book has given new voice to Londoners; the MON rich and the poor, the native and the immigrant; men and MON women. It continues an oral tradition that goes back to MON Henry Mayhew's London Labour and the London Poor, published MON in the mid-nineteenth century. MON MON Taylor gives us the squatter and the teacher; the bicycle MON mechanic and the registrar; the plumber and the rickshaw MON rider; the lost property clerk and the Wiccan priestess, who MON casts the remnants of her spells into the Thames. MON MON These remarkable snapshots of the city dwellers are moving, MON funny and informative. MON MON "What makes Londoners as valuable as any sociological MON treatise is Taylor's appreciation of the ways in which his MON subjects are themselves surveying, analysing and theorising MON the turbulent city in which they live.... At more than 400 MON pages, the book could easily have been twice as long... But MON this remains a remarkable volume, from the heaving, MON contradictory energy of its countless funny, terrifying, MON epic stories" Sukhdev Sandhu in The Guardian. MON MON The Teacher ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan MON MON Producer: Karen Rose MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b0183rsv (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jenni Murray. MON MON The Snow Queen MON MON Ever since Hans Christian Anderson wrote The Snow Queen in MON 1845, his villain has been entrancing readers with her icy MON glamour. Yet in the latest production, the Snow Queen meets MON her match in the empowered young heroine, Gerda. Tomorrow MON Jenni Murray will be joined by director Natascha Metherell MON and English fellow Dr Diane Purkiss from Oxford University, MON to discuss why the Snow Queen still enchants audiences and MON how the fairy tale can teach modern day women to accept MON themselves. MON MON Gardening – The December Checklist MON MON With temperatures steadily dropping, staying inside can seem MON very attractive but winter is actually the perfect time of MON year to continue work on your garden. On Monday, Gardeners’ MON World presenter Carol Klein will join Jenni Murray to talk MON about how gardeners should be preparing for the winter MON months. Carol's most recent series ‘Life in a Cottage MON Garden’ won the Garden TV Broadcast of the Year award at the MON Garden Media Guild Awards last week. MON MON The Aftermath of the Riots MON MON A conference investigating England’s 'summer of disorder' is MON taking place at the London School of Economics on Wednesday. MON This follows on from research carried out by the Guardian MON newspaper who interviewed 270 people involved in the riots. MON Eighty five percent said policing was an "important" or MON "very important" factor in why the riots happened but 86% of MON the public cited poor parenting as the main cause– along MON with "criminality". Last month, 19 year old Danielle Corns MON was sentenced to ten months for stealing trainers during the MON riots. Jenni talks to her mother Sharon who thinks the MON sentence was too harsh. To discuss what the latest research MON tells us about the causes, Jenni is joined by Heather MON Rabbatts from the Riots, Communities and Victims Panel. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0183rsx (Listen) MON Legacy: High Green Walls, Episode 1 MON MON Cath Staincliffe's drama series returns with High Green MON Walls. When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is MON published, probate researchers, brother and sister team Dan MON and Rachel, search backwards through the family line to find MON the true heir and get a slice of the fortune. MON MON Susan Pellier, a 73 year-old recluse, died intestate with no MON known next of kin, Dan and Rachel's quest to find an heir MON leads them to a heartbreaking discovery . MON MON DAN.....William Ash MON RACHEL.....Claire Keelan MON MORELLI.....Russell Dixon MON BARBARA.....Kellie Shirley MON SUSAN.....Ellie Meigan Rose MON MON Directed by Nadia Molinari. MON MON 11:00 The Wedding Gold Thefts b0183t46 (Listen) MON An exploration of an unexpected side of economic downturn MON and a heartbreaking story of an attack on the person and a MON culture. MON MON Zille has just been burgled - so have three of her MON neighbours on the small Bradford cul-de-sac where she lives. MON The thieves are after one thing only - the wedding gold MON passed through families over generations and now worth a MON considerable amount giving its soaring value on MON international markets. MON MON In this programme Zille explores something which is well MON known in her own community but hasn't been acknowledged MON nationally - the increasingly violent thefts in which Asians MON are being targeted and even tortured to reveal where their MON gold is kept. MON MON As a result of the fear of this crime there is now a long MON waiting list for safety deposit boxes - as an alternative MON those with extended families try and ensure their homes are MON never left empty, whilst others are buying CCTV systems or MON working out what to hide where. According to the police it MON isn't just burglaries - the gold is also being snatched in MON streets robberies where Asians are being targeted and in a MON recent cases a newly married bride was robbed whilst at the MON wedding celebration itself. MON MON Producer: Sue Mitchell. MON MON 11:30 Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off b0183t48 (Listen) MON Series 5, Festival Of Yumsk MON MON When Giles tries to put Budleigh Salterton on the MON gastronomic map, he inadvertently serves up a full-scale MON biohazard lockdown instead. Yumsk! MON MON Budleigh Salterton's most famous citizen is back! But this MON time, he's got a computer! Giles Wemmbley Hogg has been MON grounded by both the Home Office and his father, so he's set MON up GWH Travvel ("2m's 2g's 2v's, bit of a mix up at the MON printers"). MON MON Run from his bedroom in Budleigh Salterton, with the help of MON his long-suffering former Primary Schoolteacher Mr Timmis MON and the hindrance of his sister Charlotte, it's a one-stop MON Travel/Advice/Events Management/Website service, where each MON week, his schemes range far and wide - whether it's roaming MON the country lecturing would-be overlanders on how to pack a MON rucksack ("If in doubt, put it in. And double it"), or MON finding someone a zebra for a corporate promotion ("I'll MON look in the Phone Book - how hard can it be? Now, "A to MON D".....), GWH Travvel stays true to its motto - "We do it MON all, so you won't want to". MON MON Giles ..... Marcus Brigstocke MON Mr. Timmis ..... Vincent Franklin MON Charlotte Wemmbley Hogg ..... Catherine Shepherd MON Monsieur Delabouche ..... Ben Willbond MON The Commissioner ..... Laura Solon MON Breville-Toaster ..... Justin Edwards MON Tim McBride ..... Tim Downie MON General Watson ..... Rupert Vansittart MON MON Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby & Toby Davies MON MON Produced & directed by David Tyler MON A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b0183t4b (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON What would you do if you received a letter saying you owed MON five pounds? We hear how hundreds of people have received MON such letters and are sure they don't owe the money. MON MON There is concern over a fall in number of district nurses in MON England - it has dropped by a third to more than nine a half MON thousand in the past ten years. How does this compare with MON the rest of the UK? MON MON We examine EU proposals for a way of resolving online retail MON dispute. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0183ctz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b0183t4d (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post MON Office b0183t4g (Listen) MON The Penny Black MON MON The arrival of Universal Penny Postage in 1840 marked the MON beginning of the post office as a genuine public service. MON Introduced by the social reformer, Rowland Hill, he argued MON that lowering the cost of postage would mean more people MON would send more letters leading to wider social benefits and MON increased profits. As secretary of the post office, Hill MON oversaw the implementation of the world's first adhesive MON postage stamp, the Penny Black. MON MON As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook MON charts the development of the post office and examines it's MON impact on literacy, free speech, commerce and communication. MON The Post Office has become a cherished social institution, MON linking people together and extending their vision outward MON into the wider world. MON MON It's called Royal Mail but it should be known as the MON People's Post MON MON Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook MON MON Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart MON MON Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, MON Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw MON MON Producer: Joby Waldman MON A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b0183r3x (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qvnj9 (Listen) MON Against the Grain MON MON Gemma, a promising young journalist, is sent to interview MON former restaurateur, Milo Markhov, whose glossy new cookery MON book, Against the Grain, is the latest publishing sensation. MON Milo has retired to the Perigord where he spends his time MON preparing experimental dishes in his search for the most MON pleasurable taste sensations. Gemma's disturbing experiences MON at the house of the reclusive chef lead her to contemplate a MON whole new way life. By Charlotte Greig. MON MON Gemma ..... Jasmine Hyde MON Milo ..... Robert Harper MON Herve .... Felix Callens MON Ruth ..... Nickie Rainsford MON MON Producer: Kate McAll MON A BBC Cymru Wales Production. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b0183t4j (Listen) MON (5/17) MON What name is given to the curved surface of a liquid as it MON stands in a tube, caused by surface tension? And what kind MON of creature is a great curassow? MON MON Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair for the MON fifth heat in the current series. Aiming to become the 59th MON Brain of Britain champion are competitors from MON Aberdeenshire, the West Midlands, Berkshire and Essex. MON Today's winner will progress to the semi-finals in the new MON year. MON MON There'll also be a chance, as usual, for a Brain of Britain MON listener to outwit the contestants with questions of his or MON her own. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b0183p6c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 When the Levee Breaks b0183t4v (Listen) MON Mark Lamarr looks at the little-known story of Memphis MON Minnie, known for her guitar skills, her rowdy ways and the MON song 'When the Levee Breaks' a musical celebration of a key MON moment in Blues history. MON MON 'Levee', later made famous by Led Zeppelin and Dylan, was MON released in 1929, long before guitars found amplification, MON in reference (like many blues songs of the time), to the MON great Mississippi flood of 1927. MON MON The flood was a huge factor in the Migration of African MON Americans into what would become the great RnB and Blues MON towns of Detroit, Memphis & Chicago. When the Levee Breaks MON is its most famous telling. MON MON Neither born in Memphis nor called Minnie, the musician who MON wrote and recorded it travelled that now well worn blues MON journey both physically and musically in the first wave of MON blues musicians emerging from the Delta in the late 20s. MON MON When the Levee Breaks was one of over two hundred songs MON written by Minnie during her lifetime, many are blues MON classics. Though her story has been largely ignored when MON compared to Robert Johnson, Leadbelly and other Blues MON artists of the time. MON MON In a journey that starts along the banks of the Mississippi MON in a post Katrina New Orleans and ends in the promised land MON of the Blues, Chicago, Mark Lamarr explores her story, the MON flood itself and the development of the Blues that emerged MON around the Great Migration. MON MON Producer: Rob Alexander MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0183tlt (Listen) MON Series 5, The Science of Sound MON MON The Science of Sound. MON Robin Ince and Brian Cox head north for the second time this MON series, and take residence for one episode in the BBC MON Philharmonic's headquarters to talk about the science of MON sound. They are joined by the University of Salford's MON acoustic expert Professor Trevor Cox, neuroscientist MON Professor Chris Plack and comedian and former acoustics MON student Tom Wrigglesworth to talk about all things noise MON related. With some musical accompaniment, they'll be MON discussing why some sounds sound nice and some sound MON horrible. Why certain sounds are noise and others are MON literally music to our ears, and whether specific sounds can MON trigger specific emotions. But perhaps the biggest question MON of all is, are there any clues in the chord sequences to MON D:Ream's hit "Things can only get better" that made it the MON perfect soundscape for to a political leadership MON campaign?..maybe that's something that even science can't MON answer! MON MON Producer: Alexandra Feachem MON Presenters: Robin Ince and Brian Cox. MON MON 17:00 PM b0183tlw (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0183cv1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b0183tly (Listen) MON Series 56, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a first visit to the MON brand new Colosseum in Watford. Old-timers Barry Cryer, MON Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel MON by Andy Hamilton, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell MON accompanies on the piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b0183tm0 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b0183tsv (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with Meryl Streep, MON who plays Margaret Thatcher in the film The Iron Lady. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0183rsx (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 How New Is the New Philanthropy? b0183tsx (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Dame Stephanie Shirley was once worth £150 million. Now, MON she's given so much of her wealth away in philanthropic MON gifts (along with the bursting of the dot.com bubble) that MON she is no longer on the Sunday Times Rich List. And she's MON proud of the achievement. MON MON As the debate about wealth in British society continues, MON Professor Hugh Cunningham presents a timely history of MON philanthropic giving in Britain from the 18th to the 21st MON century, not simply celebrating philanthropy but also MON assessing the role that it plays or might play today. MON MON The first person to be called a "philanthropist" was John MON Howard, the 18th century penal reformer, but philanthropy is MON far more complex and ever-changing than Dr Johnson's MON definition - love of mankind, good nature - suggests. What's MON more, the last decade has seen a reinterpretation of the MON term, with the so-called New Philanthropy. Curious to MON discover just how new this City-based version of MON philanthropy really is, the historian Hugh Cunningham sets MON off on a journey to learn more about the history of MON philanthropy and to explore its role in austerity Britain. MON MON He starts in St Paul's Cathedral beside the monument to John MON Howard, then travels on to an 18th century almshouse in MON Norwich, to the original site of the Royal Infirmary in MON Manchester and back to St Paul's. MON MON He speaks with historians as well as with one grateful MON beneficiary of traditional philanthropy and with an advocate MON of the New Philanthropy. MON MON And he hears from Britain's first Ambassador for MON Philanthropy, Dame Stephanie Shirley. MON MON At the heart of this first programme, Hugh Cunningham asks MON fundamental questions about philanthropy - why did people MON give in the past, why do they give today and why don't more MON people give more? MON MON Producer: Beaty Rubens. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b017x3pb (Listen) MON Exposing Bali's Orphanages MON MON Ed Butler reports on a cycle of abuse in the orphanages of MON Bali. Some seventy orphanages now populate the island, MON housing thousands of children, many recruited from poor MON families, on the promise of a decent diet, education, and MON healthcare. But in some cases the promises are empty, as MON unscrupulous owners abuse and exploit the children - using MON them for free labour over long hours, and forcing them to MON beg. The most lucrative profits come from well-meaning MON tourists, who are often convinced by the tough living MON conditions to give generously - the hope being the money MON will benefit the children, not the owner. Is such charity MON actually intensifying the misery of Bali's most vulnerable MON children? MON MON 21:00 Material World b017x3ps (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper asks if it's worth extracting carbon dioxide MON from the atmosphere and how it might be done with carbon MON nanotubes. He hears how industry is planning for a world MON shortage of rare elements. A 500 million year old monster MON eye with 16 000 lenses and the first finalists shortlisted MON from listeners who want to be a scientist. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern. MON MON Closing In on the Higgs MON MON On Tuesday the European particle physics centre, CERN, near MON Geneva, is holding a conference to announce progress at the MON Large Hadron Collider, the giant particle accelerator built MON to search for the Higgs boson that, if found, might explain MON the mass of all other particles. Rumours are widespread MON that, while an official announcement of the discovery will MON not be made, there are enough hints to make it extremely MON likely to be discovered when the LHC takes more data next MON year. Professor Jon Butterworth of UCL and the High Energy MON Physics group at the Atlas experiment at CERN discusses the MON mounting excitement. MON MON Crisis time for rare metals MON MON Metals such as lithium, beryllium, cobalt and tantalum are MON used in everything from wind turbines to car batteries, and MON jet engines to mobile phones. But supplies of these precious MON resources are dwindling by the day. Quentin is joined by MON Malcolm Preston, global sustainability leader at MON PricewaterhouseCoopers, to talk about why so many industries MON rely on these materials - and how they are preparing for MON when they run out. MON MON Collecting Carbon in a Concrete Jungle MON MON Stefano Brandani, Professor of Chemical Engineering at the MON University of Edinburgh, with some of the apparatus he used MON to test his concept. MON MON Researchers in Edinburgh are looking into the feasibility of MON mass-producing units that will each remove as much carbon MON dioxide from the atmosphere as ten trees. They could be set MON up on rooftops and roadsides where trees cannot be planted. MON They would use tiny carbon nanotubes to suck CO2 out of the MON air and then concentrate it so it can be disposed of MON underground. Professor Stefano Brandani of Edinburgh MON University presents the plan and Dr Ernst van Nierop of C12 MON Energy in California discusses the costs of it and other air MON capture systems. MON MON So You Want To Be A Scientist? MON MON This year’s shortlisted ideas for So You Want To Be A MON Scientists are revealed: MON When is the most optimal time to join a queue? Forty-nine MON year old actor and comedian Kevin Hayes from Leicester will MON be joining many a queue to find out. Also, 17 year old Izzy MON Thomlinson from Clun wonders whether our response to MON horrible sounds changes with age and singing teacher Bill MON Henderson, aged 60 from Inverness, asks weather singing in MON harmony is good for our health. MON MON Strange Shrimp had Big Eyes MON MON It was the fiercest, biggest predator the world had seen … MON 500 million years ago. Anomalocaris was a very strange MON shrimp; a metre long, with huge, grasping feelers and a MON circular jaw of jagged plates. But most amazing of all were MON it’s eyes. Palaeontologists already knew that they were big MON – 3 cm across and sticking up on stalks. Now, new fossils MON from Kangaroo Island in South Australia, published in the MON journal Nature show that each compound eye was made up of MON over 16 000 lenses. Cambridge palaeontologist Simon Conway MON Morris comments on just how advanced the creature and its MON eyes were for the time. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b0183rss (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0183cv3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b0183tsz (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0183tt1 (Listen) MON Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 6 MON MON Written by Helen Simonson. MON The Major and Mrs Ali take a walk along the cliff tops and MON read Kipling, as the day of the shoot approaches and the MON plan for the development of Edgecombe St Mary is revealed. MON The Major's mind, however, is on accompanying Mrs Ali to the MON forthcoming golf club dinner dance. MON Abridged by Nigel Lewis. MON Read by Sam Dastor. MON A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Nigel Lewis. MON MON 23:00 Off the Page b017wy7c (Listen) MON The Making of You MON MON Dominic Arkwright talks to three guests about their MON formative years: The Making of You. MON MON Sports writer Julie Welch recalls boarding school days of MON innocence, lusting after her Games Captain. Social MON entrepreneur, Gwilym Gibbons, remembers growing up in a MON commune, feeling an outsider from the mainstream world. MON Psychotherapist Paul Welcomme, whose schooldays were far MON from halcyon, argues that the decisions adults make for MON their children can have a devastating and lasting affect on MON their lives. MON MON Producer: Sarah Langan. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b0183tt3 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 13 DECEMBER 2011 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0183cvr (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b018hhmq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0183cvt (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0183cvw (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0183cvy (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0183cw0 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018mgsj (Listen) TUE with Revd Canon Stephen Shipley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b0184rft (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Produced by Angela Frain. Presented by Anna Hill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b0184rfw (Listen) TUE Presented by John Humphrys and Sarah Montague. Including TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought TUE for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b0184rfy (Listen) TUE Tim Hunt TUE TUE Tim Hunt is an experimental wizard, a flamboyant thinker and TUE a stickler for scientific procedure. TUE TUE As a young man at Cambridge in the sixties, he heard Francis TUE Crick (of DNA fame) ask questions "that made him sound TUE rather stupid"; broke into workshops and performed TUE experiments through the night with Bach and Pink Floyd TUE playing at top volume. TUE TUE True eureka moments are, in fact, quite rare in science but, TUE at the age of 39, Tim Hunt performed an experiment on sea TUE urchin eggs that changed both his life and our understanding TUE of every living thing. He had very little idea what exactly TUE it all meant but had a strong sense that he was onto TUE something important. And he was. TUE TUE Back in the early eighties, it just wasn't obvious that all TUE life worked in the same way. But what Tim Hunt showed was TUE that the process by which cells divide (and therefore live TUE and grow) is the same in all living things and that this TUE process is controlled by a protein that appears and TUE disappears in the most startling fashion. TUE TUE It was a most unexpected result that many believed was TUE rather insignificant but Hunt pursued it. Accused by some of TUE "wild speculation based on faulty logic": that same logic TUE led to him winning the Nobel Prize for Physiology and TUE Medicine in 2001. TUE TUE In 1990, he joined Cancer Research. In theory his discovery TUE should shed light on why cancerous cells multiply out of TUE control but, in reality, he says, progress in cancer TUE research has been disappointingly slow. In fact, he says all TUE the money that poured into cancer research did more to help TUE us tackle HIV than it did to help cure the big C. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b0184rg0 (Listen) TUE Lucy Kellaway with Jeremy Middleton TUE TUE Lucy Kellaway of The Financial Times, explores the TUE complexities of having considerable personal wealth by TUE talking to the super rich. Twenty five year ago Jeremy TUE Middleton set out to make money. He wasn't sure how he was TUE going to do it but he wanted the freedom and autonomy he TUE felt it would bring. When Homeserve, the company he'd TUE co-founded, was floated on the stock market, he achieved his TUE goal and made the Rich list. So did it bring him the freedom TUE he wanted? Lucy talks to him about the trappings of wealth TUE and what they mean, the problems of lending money to friends TUE and if he still gets a buzz from business. TUE TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b018scrk (Listen) TUE Londoners, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Craig Taylor. Abridged by Pete Nichols. TUE TUE The Wiccan priestess ..... Lesley Manville TUE The rickshaw rider ..... Tom Brooke TUE TUE Producer: Karen Rose TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b0184rg2 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jenni Murray. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184rg4 (Listen) TUE Legacy: High Green Walls, Episode 2 TUE TUE Dan and Rachel have discovered that Susan had a twin sister TUE Barbara who may be the rightful heir if she is still alive. TUE Susan was a significant artist in the US in the 1960's, her TUE most famous paintings known as High Green Walls were TUE destroyed but Dan and Rachel guess her estate might still be TUE worth a substantial amount and take a chance by visiting her TUE studio in a remote area of upstate New York where they make TUE a surprising discovery. TUE TUE DAN.....William Ash TUE RACHEL.....Claire Keelan TUE MR WHITE.....Malcolm Raeburn TUE SUSAN.....Ellie Meigan Rose TUE MR CARLSON.....Jonathan Keeble TUE TUE Directed by Nadia Molinari. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b0184rg6 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 30 TUE TUE Examining the world of nature and the challenges of wildlife TUE conservation. TUE TUE The Open University – iSpot TUE TUE Do you know what life there is in your garden? Share your TUE nature observations with others on iSpot. TUE TUE 11:30 Blue Notes, Cold Nights b0184rg8 (Listen) TUE Thanks to films like "Round Midnight" we all know about TUE black American musicians escaping racism and putting down TUE roots in Paris. But the story of the African-American and TUE African presence in Scandinavia has been one of Europe's TUE best-kept secrets. Country blues singer-guitarist Eric Bibb, TUE who learned his craft in the coffee houses of Greenwich TUE Village but has spent much of his career in Sweden and TUE Finland, explains how jazz and blues players such as TUE trumpeter Don Cherry - step-father of R&B star Neneh Cherry TUE - built new lives in exile. Dexter Gordon - the star of TUE '"Round Midnight" was one of the pioneers, settling in TUE Copenhagen in the early 1960s. Over the decades generous TUE state support for musicians has helped the music scene in TUE the region to flourish. But now that the host nations are TUE facing their own immigration crisis, will musicians continue TUE to find a welcome? And how easy is it to sustain creativity TUE thousands of miles from your roots? TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b0184rgb (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE 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 b0183cw2 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b018c5gr (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents 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 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post TUE Office b0184rgd (Listen) TUE Business Post TUE TUE The post office played a vital role in the spread of mass TUE consumerism. TUE TUE Thanks to cheap postage, businesses could advertise and TUE interact with people in their own homes. When it took over TUE the Parcel Post in 1883 the Post Office offered the first TUE genuinely joined up postal service, leading to a boom in TUE mail order catalogues. TUE TUE Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook TUE Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart TUE Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, TUE Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw TUE Producer: Joby Waldman TUE A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b0183tm0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b0184rgg (Listen) TUE McLevy - Series 8, A Fine Deception TUE TUE Victorian detective series starring Brian Cox and Siobhan TUE Redmond. TUE TUE Episode 3: A Fine Deception. TUE TUE A stage magician arrives in town just before a jewel robbery TUE at Edinburgh Castle. TUE TUE McLevy.......................................BRIAN COX TUE Jean Brash....................SIOBHAN REDMOND TUE Mulholland...MICHAEL PERCEVAL-MAXWELL TUE Roach...................................DAVID ASHTON TUE Charles Boniface............................ALAN COX TUE Inspector Dunsmore...........FORBES MASSON TUE Matthew Nevin......................CARL PREKOPP TUE Sarah Nevin...............................ALEX RIVERS TUE Fergus Dundee.....................TAM DEAN BURN TUE Callum............................................ALI CRAIG TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE 15:00 Home Planet b0184rgj (Listen) TUE Richard Daniel and the team discuss listener's questions TUE about our world and our impact upon it. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Murcott TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Off the Page b0184rgl (Listen) TUE Birmingham TUE TUE Dominic Arkwright and guests Adrian Goldberg, Shazia Mirza TUE and Luke Bainbridge discuss Birmingham; its flaws and its TUE fabulousness. TUE TUE According to a recent survey, the majority of the population TUE believe that Manchester is the UK's second city and not TUE Birmingham. Lord Digby Jones added further fuel to that TUE debate when he suggested earlier this year that Manchester TUE has a more legitimate claim to that crown. But is there TUE anything to be gained from being classified as second? Is it TUE a title that either cities want? TUE TUE Brummies Adrian Goldberg and Shazia Mirza and Mancunian Luke TUE Bainridge join Dominic Arkwright to discuss why coolness is TUE the one adjective that has eluded the city of a thousand TUE trades. Blighted by dialectic prejudice and the stereotypes TUE borne of Crossroads and the like, Birmingham is about to TUE embark on another architectural city revamp. Is Birmingham TUE happy with itself? TUE TUE Producer: Sarah Langan. TUE TUE 16:00 How Dolly Got Rotherham Reading b012ql5c (Listen) TUE Dolly Parton grew up in poverty in rural East Tennessee, TUE where children only attended school if there was no work to TUE be done on the farm. She came to regard good literacy skills TUE as one of the key passports to enhanced life chances and in TUE 1995 she launched the 'Imagination Library'. The idea was TUE quite simple. All children in the area were sent one book a TUE month from birth until five years. In 2007 she took South TUE Yorkshire by surprise when she turned up in Rotherham - not TUE a city used to celebrity visits. But what happened next? Did TUE her library capture the imagination of Rotherham's children? TUE We follow up to ask whether it was just a flash in the pan TUE or a serious project. TUE TUE Travelling to Dollywood for an Imagination Library TUE conference, Sarfraz Manzoor meets people from all over the TUE world who have signed up for the literacy project. From TUE Alaskan children in remote communities to young readers in TUE Nottingham, Sarfraz finds that Dolly's influence is global. TUE TUE Sarfraz will meet Dolly Parton in Dollywood to talk about TUE her life and work. We'll hear from those who knew her as a TUE child and understand the motivations for this charitable TUE work she undertakes with such passion. TUE It will be a journey to the glamorous heart of country TUE music, but one which reveals much more about one of the TUE world's best loved country singers. Dolly Parton in her own TUE words and in her own personal world of the Imagination TUE Library. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b0184rgn (Listen) TUE Series 26, Ludwig Wittgenstein TUE TUE Ludwig Wittgenstein, the fascinating and misunderstood TUE genius who changed the course of philosophy, is chosen by TUE writer Raymond Tallis. With biographer Ray Monk, he brings TUE alive this most enigmatic of men and his singular life. And TUE to make sure that they don't get lost in Wittgensteinian TUE thought, presenter Matthew Parris brings along a whistle to TUE blow whenever he feels in danger.. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b018h8q5 (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0183cw4 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b0184rgq (Listen) TUE Series 3, Holyhead TUE TUE In this third series comedian Mark Steel visits 6 more UK TUE towns to discover what makes them and their inhabitants TUE distinctive. TUE TUE He creates a bespoke stand-up show for that town and TUE performs the show in front of a local audience. TUE TUE As well as shedding light on the less visited areas of TUE Britain, Mark uncovers stories and experiences that resonate TUE with us all as we recognise the quirkiness of the British TUE way of life and the rich tapestry of remarkable events and TUE people who have shaped where we live. TUE TUE During the series 'Mark Steel's In Town' Mark will visit TUE Berwick-Upon Tweed, Holyhead, Basingstoke, Douglas (Isle of TUE Man), Bungay and Wigan. TUE TUE Episode 2 - In this episode Mark performs a show for the TUE residents of Holyhead in Anglesey, where he talks about TUE sinking ships, fishy foot nibbling, the town's newest TUE locals, Kate and Wills, and a mayor whose eccentricity puts TUE Boris to shame... TUE TUE Written by Mark Steel with additional material by Pete TUE Sinclair. TUE Produced by Sam Bryant. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b0184rgs (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b0184rgv (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on the film Sherlock TUE Holmes: A Game of Shadows, with Robert Downey Jr in the TUE title role. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184rg4 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Boundaries of Blood b0184rgx (Listen) TUE In December 1971, after just two weeks of a hot war with TUE India, Pakistan suffered a humiliating defeat and a new TUE country, Bangladesh, was born. The BBC's South Asia Editor, TUE Shahzeb Jillani, was born in what was then West Pakistan as TUE the bombs were falling. 40 years later, Shahzeb, now the BBC TUE World Service South Asia Editor, returns to the region to TUE find out how these traumatic events have shaped contemporary TUE Pakistan. It is a personal journey of discovery to challenge TUE the contradictions in the Pakistani narrative he was taught TUE while at school. TUE TUE There he learned little, if anything, of the injustices TUE visited in the 1950s and 1960s on Eastern Pakistan by the TUE Western half - with government spending and political power TUE overwhelmingly biased towards the the West. The TUE discrimination came to a head in the bid for Bangladeshi TUE independence and then a brutal war which Pakistan expected TUE to win. When India entered on the side of the Bangladeshi TUE independence fighters, Pakistan suffered the ultimate TUE humiliation: surrender on December 16th 1971. TUE TUE Through this programme, Shahzeb will explore how the memory TUE of defeat at the hands of India has shaped the thinking of TUE the Pakistani military - that the country faces a continued TUE external threat from its much larger neighbour. Does that go TUE some way to explaining Pakistan's determination to acquire TUE the bomb and, as is widely suspected, to support militant TUE groups active in South Asia? And Shahzeb will explore the TUE hidden legacy of violence, coming face to face with TUE Bangladeshis who witnessed the widespread rape, torture, and TUE killings by Pakistani forces and to understand the TUE resentment many Bangladeshis still feel towards Pakistan. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b0184rgz (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b0184rh1 (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond explores the implications from the latest TUE developments in neuroscience for the legal process and asks TUE what kind of new brain based information might be TUE submissible as evidence in court? Claudia will explore the TUE ethical issues raised by the possibility of predicting TUE criminal behaviour and asks what our rapidly increased TUE understanding of how the brain works will mean for how we TUE understand decision-making, free will, and systems of TUE punishment. TUE TUE Producer: Pam Rutherford. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b0184rfy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0183cw6 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b0184rh3 (Listen) TUE Robin Lustig presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0184rh5 (Listen) TUE Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 7 TUE TUE Written by Helen Simonson. TUE The Major attracts attention when he accompanies Mrs Ali to TUE the annual golf club dinner-dance, this year themed as "An TUE evening at the Mughal Court". The evening ends on a sour TUE note when an inappropriate entertainment is performed, and TUE Mrs Ali delivers some devastating news to the Major. TUE Abridged by Nigel Lewis. TUE Read by Sam Dastor. TUE A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Nigel Lewis. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b0183tlt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b0184rh7 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 14 DECEMBER 2011 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0183cws (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b018scrk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0183cwv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0183cwx (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0183cwz (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0183cx1 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018mh2j (Listen) WED with Revd Canon Stephen Shipley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b0184s28 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Produced by Anne Marie Bullock. Presented by Anna Hill. WED WED 06:00 Today b0184s2b (Listen) WED With John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Yesterday in WED Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b0184s2d (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b018scss (Listen) WED Londoners, Episode 3 WED WED By Craig Taylor. Abridged by Pete Nichols. WED WED The plumber ..... Ruby King WED The squatter ..... Adrian Bower WED The personal trainer ..... Osi Okerafor WED WED Producer: Karen Rose WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b0184s2g (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jane Garvey. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184s2j (Listen) WED Legacy: High Green Walls, Episode 3 WED WED Spurred on by their discovery of Susan Pellier's most famous WED paintings, Dan and Rachel are desperate to discover what WED happened to her twin sister Barbara. If they find an heir WED they are guaranteed a slice of a substantial fortune. WED WED DAN.....William Ash WED RACHEL.....Claire Keelan WED SUSAN.....Ellie Meigan Rose WED MR WHITE.....Malcolm Raeburn WED BARBARA.....Kellie Shirley WED WED Directed by Nadia Molinari. WED WED 11:00 Random Edition b0184s2l (Listen) WED Prince Albert WED WED Prince Albert, consort to Queen Victoria and the love of her WED life, died on December 14th 1861. Nine children were left WED fatherless. WED WED To mark the 150th anniversary of Albert's demise, Peter Snow WED uses reports and comment in a single copy of an archive WED newspaper - the London Daily News - to describe the WED circumstances of his death and the significance of his loss WED to the nation. The Daily News carries detail of Albert's WED slow decline in his last days and the team of doctors who WED were powerless to revive him. There are accounts of how news WED of his death spread, not least via the ringing of church WED bells in a world without radio and telephone. We learn of WED Victoria's imminent departure for Osborne House on the Isle WED of Wight, unable to face her husband's funeral. There are WED accounts of services at which churchgoers grieved at the WED nation's loss. We read fulsome assessments of Albert's WED importance in the field of the arts...and of his crucial WED role in the success of the 1851 Great Exhibition. All these WED features of the coverage will be brought alive, along with WED other reports in the paper less obviously a significant part WED of the story. WED WED With the Daily News reporting the Prince of Wales's return WED to Windsor from Cambridge University, Peter Snow assesses WED how far Albert's admonitory visit to his wayward son a few WED days before in terrible weather contributed to his demise. WED The Daily News also carries detail on preparations for WED possible hostilities with the Northern US states, during the WED Civil War: how far was Albert instrumental in his last days WED in averting conflict? WED WED The programme includes the latest thinking on Albert's fatal WED illness, and assesses his behind-the-scenes political WED significance. Locations include Madingley Hall in Cambridge, WED Osborne House, Windsor Castle and the Royal Albert Hall WED WED Producer: Andrew Green WED An Andrew Green production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 People in Cars b00r7rfr (Listen) WED PEOPLE IN CARS: SAT LOVE WED By Simon Brett WED WED A businessman spices up his life with excursions to WED extramarital assignations. But why is his new Satnav WED directing him back home? WED WED He ... Bruce Alexander WED She ... Maureen Beattie WED WED Director: Peter Kavanagh. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b0184s2n (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0183cx3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b018c5hg (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents 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 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post WED Office b0184s2q (Listen) WED Love Letters WED WED Universal penny postage meant people from all backgrounds WED could afford to sustain long distance relationships. But it WED also led to increased pressure: lovers were expected to WED write two or three times a week, even if they lived in the WED same town. Sales of letter-writing manuals rocketed, WED allowing people to copy model examples of the perfect love WED letter. WED WED Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook WED Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart WED Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, WED Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw WED Producer: Joby Waldman WED A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b0184rgs (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b0184s2s (Listen) WED The Lamp WED WED In a remote Scottish library, a farmer's widow and a WED visiting Kenyan librarian bond unexpectedly over a shared WED love of books. WED WED Written by Linda Cracknell and recorded on location at WED Innerpeffray Library in Perthshire, a museum celebrating WED Scotland's first public lending library. WED WED Elspeth ..... ELLIE HADDINGTON WED Simon ..... FRASER JAMES WED David ..... RALPH RIACH WED WED Directed by Eilidh McCreadie. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b0184s2v (Listen) WED On Money Box Live Paul Lewis and guests take your calls on WED banking. WED WED 2011 has been a busy and expensive year for the banks. WED Thousands of people are owed billions of pounds for mis-sold WED Payment Protection Insurance products. Are you one of them WED and are you yet to receive your money? WED WED Overdraft charges is another hot topic. Do you feel you've WED been unfairly penalised? What is a fair rate for going into WED the red without telling your bank beforehand? WED WED Savers in Britain are frustrated at continued low interest WED rates. With inflation running at around 5% are the banks WED offering any accounts that provide you with a reasonable WED rate of return? WED WED Are you one of the growing number of people that bank WED online? Does it make life easier? Do you worry whether it's WED safe to manage your money using a computer? WED WED What are your rights if you are in dispute with your bank? WED WED Phone lines open at 1.00 pm on Wednesday afternoon and the WED number to call is 03700 100 444. Standard geographic charges WED apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. The programme WED starts after the three o'clock news. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b0184rh1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b0184s2x (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b0184s2z (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 b0184s31 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0183cx5 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Heresy b0184s33 (Listen) WED Series 8, Episode 3 WED WED Victoria Coren presents another edition of the show which WED dares to commit heresy. WED WED Her guests this week are comedian David Mitchell, the Rev WED Richard Coles and Diane Abbott MP. Together they have fun WED exposing the wrong-headedness of received wisdom and WED challenging knee-jerk public reaction to events. WED WED Diane Abbott is happy to argue against the received wisdom WED that 'the Labour Party chose the wrong Miliband' though she WED can't help observing that the party really should have WED chosen her. The Rev Richard Coles is happy to speak in WED defence of parents who go to church just to get their kids WED into the local faith schools and David Mitchell is WED incredulous that anyone would believe that 'if a friend is WED doing something for charity, you should sponsor them'. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b0184s35 (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b0184s37 (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184s2j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b0184s39 (Listen) WED Series 4, Feral Kids and Feckless Parents WED WED Programme 1: Feral Kids and Feckless Parents WED WED The August riots in parts of England showed youngsters out WED of control on the streets, and put huge focus onto parenting WED skills. WED WED MPs and council leaders warned parents that they should know WED where their children were at night and keep them indoors and WED out of trouble. WED WED But parents themselves were saying they were unable to WED discipline their kids, either because they feared WED repercussions by the authorities, or because their children WED were simply physically too strong. WED WED In the first of the new series of "Bringing Up Britain", WED Mariella Frostrup is joined by a panel of experts to discuss WED parental discipline right across British society. WED WED How easy is it for us to control our children, especially WED after they stop being biddable toddlers and begin to assert WED their own personalities? WED WED Have we given children too many rights and ignored those of WED parents? WED WED Can you really stop a large teenage child going out, and WED what restraining measures can you legally use? WED WED And, if your child is going off the rails, how do you break WED the cycle and get them back into good habits? WED WED Joining Mariella to explore these issues will be: WED WED Charlie Taylor, head teacher and behaviour advisor to the WED Department of Education; WED Sheldon Thomas, who founded "Gangsline" to help youngsters WED caught up in gangs and their families; WED Clem Henricson, social policy analyst and Member of the WED University of Oxford Centre for Research into Parenting and WED Children; WED Guardian journalist Zoe Williams. WED WED We also find out the results of a survey commissioned by the WED programme into attitudes to parental discipline. WED WED Producer: Emma Kingsley. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b0184s3c (Listen) WED Series 2, Anthony McGowan WED WED Anthony McGowan, award-winning author of novels for young WED adults and teenagers, thinks that the world would be a WED better place if we cast ourselves as the villains rather WED than the heroes of our own life stories and he has a WED personal confession to make. 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 Post Mortem b0184s3f (Listen) WED Pathologist Professor Sebastian Lucas performs a 'consented' WED post mortem. As he wrestles with the uncertainties WED surrounding the patient's death, he shows Geoff Watts why he WED believes this once common practice remains valuable to WED modern medicine. WED WED The majority of post mortems today are requested by a WED coroner, when an unnatural cause of death is suspected. In WED contrast, 'consented' post mortems are performed when WED there's uncertainty about a natural death. They're requested WED by a doctor with permission from relatives. WED WED Until the 1960s, these post mortems played a crucial role in WED medical practice. Professor Lucas remembers performing about WED a dozen a week to clarify why people died, teach medical WED staff and students, and improve clinical practice. WED WED But over his career he's witnessed a sharp decline, and WED today he performs just one a week. WED WED Understanding why people die matters. Even though WED developments in scanning and biopsy techniques have improved WED diagnosis in the living, studies spanning a hundred years WED show that doctors get the cause of death wrong on the death WED certificate in up to thirty percent of cases. WED WED Given that mortality statistics affect how resources are WED allocated within the NHS, Professor Lucas believes crucial WED public health information is being buried with the dead. WED WED His solution? To boost the number of post mortems on people WED dying of the diseases upon which most public money is being WED spent. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b0184s2d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0183cx7 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b0184n4m (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0184s3h (Listen) WED Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 8 WED WED Written by Helen Simonson. WED With Mrs Ali absent from the village shop, Major Pettigrew WED finds himself visiting Grace for tea and sympathy. Roger WED drops a bombshell on Christmas morning and the Major finds WED himself making an unscheduled trip north. WED Abridged by Nigel Lewis. WED Read by Sam Dastor. WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Nigel Lewis. WED WED 23:00 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed b0184s3k (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED by Nick Mohammed WED WED "Gosh, there's been a Murder... Ouch!" Join Nick and co. as WED they attempt to fathom who killed the man with the missing WED head. No clues as to how he might have died. WED WED Starring Nick Mohammed, Anna Crilly and Colin Hoult WED WED Produced by Victoria Lloyd. WED WED Set at Tilford Road Police Station, Nick is joined by WED Sergeants Anna Crilly (Lead Balloon, Anna & Katy), Colin WED Hoult (Life's Too Short, Russell Howard's Good News) as they WED attempt to solve a different crime each week. WED WED Never have serious crimes been made more entertaining, WED whilst remaining utterly, utterly tasteful! WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b0184s3m (Listen) WED David Cornock presents the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 15 DECEMBER 2011 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0183cxt (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b018scss (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0183cxw (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0183cxy (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0183cy0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0183cy2 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018mgv5 (Listen) THU with Revd Canon Stephen Shipley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b0184v2d (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 b0184v2g (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 b0184v2j (Listen) THU The Concordat of Worms THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Concordat of Worms. THU This treaty between the papacy and the Holy Roman Empire, THU signed in 1122, put an end to years of power struggle and THU bloodshed. It created a historic distinction between secular THU power and spiritual authority, and more clearly defined the THU respective powers of monarchs and the Church. Although in THU the short term the Concordat failed to prevent further THU conflict, some historians believe that it paved the way for THU the modern nation-state. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b018scvj (Listen) THU Londoners, Episode 4 THU THU By Craig Taylor. Abridged by Pete Nichols. THU THU The registrar ..... Claire Rushbrook THU The bike mechanic ..... Sophie Stanton THU THU Producer: Karen Rose THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b0184v2l (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jane Garvey. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184v2n (Listen) THU Legacy: High Green Walls, Episode 4 THU THU Cath Staincliffe's drama series returns with High Green THU Walls. When the weekly list of unclaimed estates is THU published, probate researchers, brother and sister team Dan THU and Rachel, search backwards through the family line to find THU the true heir and get a slice of the fortune. THU Their quest to find out what happened to deceased artist THU Susie P's twin sister Barbara leads them to a heartbreaking THU discovery. THU THU DAN....William Ash THU RACHEL.....Claire Keelan THU SUSAN.....Ellie Meigan Rose THU MR WHITE ..Malcolm Raeburn THU MR COTTESLOE.....Jonathan Keeble THU CLERK/ KELLY.....Fiona Clarke THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b0184v2q (Listen) THU China's migrant worker mega-city THU THU The world economy has pinned its hopes on China's economy, THU which depends on over 150 million migrant workers and their THU labour. The system of internal migration, based on the idea THU that workers do not settle in the places they work, has THU sustained an economic miracle and rapid development. But the THU country has seen a summer of unrest, with rioting among THU migrants in the Pearl River Delta and angry reactions to the THU injustices of the system. Mukul Devichand visits Guangzhou, THU the southern metropolis where 7 million migrants form half THU the population. There is anger and frustration with the THU hukou, China's "internal passport." Meanwhile, the city is THU now also home to communities from around the world, with THU 100,000 Africans adding to the already sensitive ethnic mix. THU How will the city change under the pressure of migration, THU and will its economic success survive the social tensions? THU THU 11:30 The Unsettled Dust: The Strange Stories of Robert THU Aickman b0184v2s (Listen) THU Screenwriter Jeremy Dyson praises the supernatural stories THU of British author and conservationist Robert Aickman and THU argues they should receive greater recognition for their THU contribution to literature. THU THU Robert Aickman was the grandson of the prolific Victorian THU novelist Richard Marsh whose occult thriller The Beetle THU (1897) was in its time as popular as Bram Stoker's Dracula. THU THU Aickman is best remembered today for co-founding the Inland THU Waterways Association, but his Grandfather's work influenced THU him to write around fifty so called "strange" stories THU involving the supernatural and macabre over a thirty year THU period starting in the late forties. THU THU In recent years League of Gentlemen writer Dyson has adapted THU Aickman's work into various forms of Drama including the BBC THU Radio Four play 'Ringing the Changes'. THU THU By speaking with fans of Aickman and introducing students to THU his work for the first time, Dyson argues that Aickman's THU literary gifts have been undervalued and during his lifetime THU he should have received greater critical acclaim. THU THU Contributions from horror writer Ramsey Campbell, THU Broadcaster Stuart Maconie and televisions Mark Gatiss. THU THU Written and presented by Jeremy Dyson. THU THU With readings by Jayne Ashbourne the programme is produced THU in Salford by Stephen Garner. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b0184v2v (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0183cy4 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b018c5lv (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents 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 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post THU Office b0184v2x (Listen) THU A Community Hub THU THU During the nineteenth century the post office became a THU central pillar in the community; a symbol of order, THU stability and public service. As well as stamps and THU stationary, sub-postmasters supplied news, advice and local THU gossip. From 1862 the Post Office Savings Bank offered THU savings accounts to poorer people for the first time. THU THU As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook THU charts the development of the post office and examines it's THU impact on literacy, free speech, commerce and communication THU THU Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook THU Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart THU Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, THU Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw THU Producer: Joby Waldman THU A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b0184s35 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qpq1q (Listen) THU God Bless Our Love THU THU Romantic comedy by Ray Connolly about a priest and a nun who THU fall in love and leave their orders to marry and begin a new THU life together. THU THU Michael ...... David Neilson THU Eleanor ...... Alexandra Mathie THU Jane ...... Fiona Clarke THU Darrell ...... Joe Ransom THU Fr Dermot ...... Stephen Tomlin THU Suzy ..... Cherylee Houston THU THU Produced by Charlotte Riches. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b0184v2z (Listen) THU Snowdonia: Search and Rescue Dog Association THU THU The Search and Rescue Dog Association (SARDA) Wales is a THU specialist element of Mountain Rescue in England and Wales THU responsible for the training and deployment of dogs to THU search for missing people in the mountains and on the THU moorlands of Britain as well as lowland, rural and urban THU areas. When someone is missing in a rural or mountain THU environment, a dog team can be more effective than 4 teams THU of people, covering large areas much faster and effectively. THU For the handlers and trainers who bring their dogs along to THU be trained in this work, this work is voluntary and THU something that they do out of their sheer love of the great THU outdoors and, of course, the reward of working so closely THU with their dogs to search for missing people. Helen Mark THU joins some of the experienced, and not so experienced, dogs THU and handlers at the foot of Cader Idris in the Snowdonia THU National Park to find out what this work involves, how THU important it is to the search teams and to the people they THU help and to hear why 'one man (or woman!) and their dog are THU such a fundamental part of the British landscape. THU THU Helen meets Helen Howe, an experienced trainer and handler, THU who explains how the dogs and their handlers are trained to THU search and rescue missing people. It can take around 3 years THU to train a new puppy to become a fully qualified Search Dog THU and Helen Howe explains how this is done. Between then, THU Helen and Cluania have had several successful finds. THU However, it is impossible to train a search dog without the THU invaluable help of a team of people called 'dogsbodies' and THU Helen Mark then meets up with Emmer Litt who has been THU volunteering herself as a 'body' for over four years. At THU each training event, Emmer spends her time hiding out in the THU hills that she loves with a good book and a flask of tea THU waiting to be 'found' by the dogs in training. Without the THU help of people like Emmer it is impossible to train a search THU dog because they need someone to search for and so Helen THU joins trainee handler, Rob Johnson, and his dog Skye as they THU set off in the hunt for Emmer who is now hidden somewhere THU under Snowdonia's autumn sunshine in the foothills of Cader THU Idris. THU THU Finally, Helen joins handler Iain Nicholson and his dog, THU Mij, who is a trailing dog. Together they demonstrate for THU Helen how Mij works in a scent specific way by following the THU actual scent of the person that is missing. Iain and Mij THU work from the place that the missing person was last seen THU and have been extremely successful in locating people in THU more lowland and urban areas as well as helping out with the THU Mountain Rescue Teams of the Lake District. THU THU Being part of SARDA is extremely important to the handlers THU and dogs that are involved but their continued presence on THU the British landscape is just as vital to the people that THU they help to rescue each year. THU THU Presenter: Helen Mark THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b0183h3f (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b0183r3s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b0184v31 (Listen) THU What's going on in the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b0184v33 (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 b0184v35 (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0183cy6 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Elvenquest b016pynv (Listen) THU Series 3, Episode 3 THU THU The third episode in series of the sitcom set in Lower THU Earth. The Questers, continuing their search for the Sword THU of Asnagar, the only weapon capable of ridding their land THU from the tyranny of the evil Lord Darkness, find themselves THU needing to take a short cut through the mysterious mines of THU Grazak-Dun. The only man who can help them enter the mines, THU however, is the Master Stonemason of Grazak-Dun. THU THU Luckily, the Master Stonemason of Grazak-Dun also happens to THU be Dean's dad. Problem is, Dean's dad hates Dean. So the THU Questers must hatch a plan that'll help Dean win back the THU respect of his father... THU THU Meanwhile, Lord Darkness is given the honour of writing the THU "Big Book of Evil", a task which he takes on with relish. THU But he soon finds that, as everyone knows, it's one thing to THU say you'll write a book, and quite another to actually sit THU down and write one... THU THU Darren Boyd as Vidar THU Kevin Eldon as Dean/Kreech THU Dave Lamb as Amis, aka The Chosen One THU Stephen Mangan as Sam THU Alistair McGowan as Lord Darkness THU John Sessions as Little Dick THU and THU Sophie Winkleman as Penthiselea THU THU Writers: Anil Gupta and Richard Pinto THU Producer: Sam Michell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b0184v37 (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b0184v39 (Listen) THU Mark Lawson with arts news, reviews and an interview with THU comedy performer Rob Brydon. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184v2n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b0184v3c (Listen) THU Computer Hacking THU THU As police from Operation Tuleta warn former Northern Ireland THU Secretary Peter Hain that his computer may have been hacked THU and questions are raised about national security, Jane Dodge THU asks how widespread was the practice by the press? THU THU The Leveson Enquiry into Culture, Practices and Ethics of THU the Press continues to hear from witnesses who believe their THU phones have been hacked, but earlier this month Sienna THU Miller also revealed that her email had been hacked, THU allegedly at the behest of the press. Other celebrities THU suspect the same intrusion. THU THU The Report reveals that the technique was a tool regularly THU used by some private investigators working for News THU International - and was known to the police at the time - THU and paints a picture of a culture of law breaking. THU THU Producer: Paul Grant. THU THU 20:30 In Business b0184v3f (Listen) THU Cuba Now THU THU After 53 years of revolution, President Raul Castro is THU trying to change the state-controlled Cuban economy with THU moves to promote private employment, and an open market in THU secondhand cars and home. Peter Day reports from Havana on THU an island where in many ways time has been standing still THU for half a century. THU THU Producer Julie Ball THU Editor Stephen Chilcott. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b0184rg6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b0184v2j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0183cy8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b0184n5v (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0184v3h (Listen) THU Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 9 THU THU Written by Helen Simonson. THU Major Pettigrew meets Mrs Ali's family and finds out why THU she's been ignoring his letters. They plan their escape back THU to Edgecome St Mary, where the Major effects a dramatic THU rescue. THU Abridged by Nigel Lewis. THU Read by Sam Dastor. THU A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Nigel Lewis. THU THU 23:00 Weird Tales b0184v3k (Listen) THU Series 3, The Burial of Tom Nobody THU THU By Richard Vincent. The second in a series of chilling plays THU for winter nights. THU THU The Reverend Braiden is forced to embark on a THU through-the-night road trip by a mysterious trio who THU threaten him with a terrifying test of faith at its end. THU Peter ..... Geoffrey Streatfeild THU Silas ..... James Lailey THU Sarah ..... Lynne Verrall THU Michael ..... Simon Bubb THU Eleanor ..... Tracy Wiles THU Police Officer .. Paul Moriarty THU THU Director: Gemma Jenkins THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b0184v3m (Listen) THU Sean Curran presents the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 16 DECEMBER 2011 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0183cyv (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b018scvj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0183cyx (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0183cyz (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0183cz1 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0183cz3 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b018mgvk (Listen) FRI with Revd Canon Stephen Shipley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b0184vgy (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Produced by Clare Freeman. Presented by Charlotte Smith. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b0184vh0 (Listen) FRI With James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Yesterday in FRI Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b0183p69 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b018scwh (Listen) FRI Londoners, Episode 5 FRI FRI The lost property clerk ..... Paul Ritter FRI FRI Producer: Karen Rose FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b0184vh2 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184vh4 (Listen) FRI Legacy: High Green Walls, Episode 5 FRI FRI The search for deceased reclusive artist Susie P's heir is FRI finally over. Twin sister Barbara is still alive but Dan and FRI Rachel are disturbed to discover that she has been living in FRI an institution since the 1950's following a leucotomy that FRI left her severely disabled. FRI FRI DAN.....William Ash FRI RACHEL.....Claire Keelan FRI SUSAN.....Ellie Meigan Rose FRI BARBARA.....Kellie Shirley FRI MR WHITE.....Malcolm Raeburn FRI KELLY.....Fiona Clarke FRI FRI Directed by Nadia Molinari. FRI FRI 11:00 The Bob Graham Round b0184vh6 (Listen) FRI The Bob Graham Round is perhaps the most gruelling of all FRI Fell Running challenges. Athletes have to climb 42 peaks, FRI run about 70 miles and ascend 27 000 feet - which is about FRI the height of Everest from sea level - all in a period of 24 FRI hours. The run takes place in the glorious beauty of The FRI Lake District, with its rapidly changing weather and FRI underfoot conditions. It's a challenge which unites two FRI diverse motivators of great art : human endeavour and the FRI beauty of nature. FRI FRI This year, while determined runners made their attempts at FRI the Bob Graham Round, a young Italian composer has been FRI writing a brand new piece of music that celebrates fell FRI running in The Lakes. Maurizio Malagnini had never visited FRI Cumbria before and had never heard of fell running. FRI Ironically these were two of the reasons he was asked to FRI write a new piece of work for the BBC Philharmonic FRI Orchestra, they wanted to see how fresh eyes would be FRI inspired. FRI FRI The programme follows two stories: the development of FRI Maurizio's composition and the attempt of two runners FRI seeking to complete The Bob Graham Round. FRI FRI 11:30 North by Northamptonshire b0184vh8 (Listen) FRI Series 2, Episode 3 FRI FRI Sheila Hancock narrates the bittersweet adventures of the FRI residents of a small town in Northamptonshire. A visiting FRI choir sets hearts aflutter amongst the ladies of Wadenbrook, FRI while Mary's dad, Norman, has an adventure of his own. FRI FRI written by Katherine Jakeways FRI produced by Victoria Lloyd FRI FRI John Biggins................................Keith FRI Mackenzie Crook...........................Rod FRI Felix Dexter...............................Arnold FRI Kevin Eldon...................Jonathan / Ken FRI Shelia Hancock....................... Narrator FRI Jessica Henwick...........................Helen FRI Katherine Jakeways........ Esther / Jacqui FRI Felicity Montagu..............................Jan FRI Geoffrey Palmer........................Norman FRI Lizzie Roper..............................Angela FRI Penelope Wilton............................Mary FRI Rufus Wright................................Frank. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b0184vhb (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0183cz5 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b018c5n8 (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post FRI Office b0184vhd (Listen) FRI The Postal Worker's Strike FRI FRI By 1890 Britain had a state of the art postal service with FRI six daily deliveries in Britain's towns. To achieve this FRI service, delivery staff often worked six day weeks with FRI shifts split over a twelve or fourteen hour day. In sorting FRI offices, postal staff complained of leaky roofs and FRI inadequate toilets. Worse still, postmen weren't permitted FRI their own independent union, and in 1890 frustration turned FRI to industrial action. FRI FRI As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook FRI charts the development of the post office and examines it's FRI impact on literacy, free speech, commerce and communication. FRI FRI Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook FRI Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart FRI Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, FRI Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw FRI Producer: Joby Waldman FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b0184v37 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b0184vhg (Listen) FRI Beyond Borders FRI FRI Written by Mike Walker. FRI FRI 1950, much of Europe still lies in ruins from the Second FRI World War. Germany is crushed and the Allies are divided FRI about allowing the country to rebuild in the face of a FRI growing Soviet threat. FRI FRI Jean Monnet is charged with planning the reconstruction of FRI France. Appalled by the devastation of two world wars, he is FRI a highly efficient technocrat and a thinker who knows how to FRI influence politicians. For years he has believed in European FRI collaboration to secure a peaceful and prosperous future. FRI Monnet's vision is for a radical realignment of Europe, not FRI by one nation asserting itself over another, but by FRI negotiation, integration and ultimately, through political FRI and economic unification. FRI FRI Monnet knows he has to move swiftly. Within days the Allies FRI will decide the future of Germany at a conference in London. FRI He gathers a small group in his cottage outside Paris to FRI thrash out a revolutionary plan to bring the coal and steel FRI industries of France and Germany together. Working with the FRI Foreign Minister, Robert Schuman, Monnet plots how far to FRI press his idea. His grand vision of unification remains in FRI the background - the focus is on the practicalities of FRI getting the two nations on board. FRI FRI Monnet's team produces 9 drafts, arguing intensely about FRI what can be achieved and how it should be implemented. With FRI a radical plan agreed, Schuman dispatches a secret envoy to FRI the German Chancellor, Konrad Adenauer to bring him on FRI board. FRI FRI When on 9th May Schuman outlines the plan that bears his FRI name and leads to the formation of the European Coal and FRI Steel Community, many in the room are taken aback at its FRI boldness, but few predict how the Schuman Declaration will FRI become the founding document for the European Union, and a FRI catalyst for those pursuing Monnet's vision of a United FRI States of Europe. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Clemmow FRI A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0184vhj (Listen) FRI Sutton Coldfield FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a Q&A with Anne Swithinbank, Bob FRI Flowerdew and Matthew Wilson. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production by BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Afternoon Reading b00szzmz (Listen) FRI A Little More Love in the Afternoon, Thursdays FRI FRI Written by Adele Parks. FRI FRI Read by Francesca Dymond. FRI FRI As she celebrates her thirty-first birthday eating left-over FRI shepherd's pie in the company of her whining young children FRI and disinterested husband, Ginny longs to find a way to make FRI her life thrilling again. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b0184w5r (Listen) FRI With John Wilson. Obituary series, analysing and celebrating FRI the life stories of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b0184w5t (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b0184w5w (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0183cz7 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b0184w5y (Listen) FRI Series 35, Episode 6 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis are joined by Jon Holmes, Alun FRI Cochrane, Laura Shavin and Mitch Benn for the last in the FRI current series. FRI FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b0184w60 (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b0184w62 (Listen) FRI With Mark Lawson, including a report on the Christmas carols FRI which deserve to be better known. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b0184vh4 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b0184w64 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents a panel discussion of news and FRI politics from Sir John Cass Red Coat School in Stepney, FRI London with broadcaster and former Cabinet minister, Michael FRI Portillo, poet Andrew Motion and writer, John Pilger. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b0184w66 (Listen) FRI Climate Change Belief FRI FRI The historian Lisa Jardine argues that people believe what FRI they want to over climate change FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 The People's Post: A Narrative History of the Post FRI Office b0184w68 (Listen) FRI Becoming the People's Post FRI FRI The arrival of Universal Penny Postage in 1840 marked the FRI beginning of the post office as a genuine public service. FRI Introduced by the social reformer, Rowland Hill, he argued FRI that lowering the cost of postage would mean more people FRI would send more letters leading to wider social benefits and FRI increased profits. As secretary of the post office, Hill FRI oversaw the implementation of the world's first adhesive FRI postage stamp, the Penny Black. FRI FRI As Royal Mail faces an uncertain future, Dominic Sandbrook FRI charts the development of the post office and examines it's FRI impact on literacy, free speech, commerce and communication. FRI The Post Office has become a cherished social institution, FRI linking people together and extending their vision outward FRI into the wider world. FRI FRI It's called Royal Mail but it should be known as the FRI People's Post FRI FRI Writer and Presenter: Dominic Sandbrook FRI Musicians: Sam Lee, Bella Hardy, Mick Sands, Nick Hart FRI Actors: Morgan George, John Sessions, Simon Tcherniak, FRI Malcolm Tierney, Jane Whittenshaw FRI Producer: Joby Waldman FRI A Somethin Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0183cz9 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b0184nbd (Listen) FRI Ritula Shah presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b0184w6b (Listen) FRI Major Pettigrew's Last Stand, Episode 10 FRI FRI Written by Helen Simonson. FRI The Major is accidentally injured during a showdown at the FRI clifftop but all ends happily for Roger, Mrs Ali and himself FRI when Major Pettigrew finally wins his prize. FRI Abridged by Nigel Lewis. FRI Read by Sam Dastor. FRI A BBC Cymru/Wales production directed by Nigel Lewis. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b0184rgn (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b0184w6d (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI
09 December, 2011
Radio 4 Listings for 10/12/2011 - 16/12/2011
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