13 January, 2012

Radio 4 Listings for 14/01/2012 - 20/01/2012

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SAT SATURDAY 14 JANUARY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b0196vj7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b019lzsy (Listen) SAT Stop What You're Doing and Read This, The Right Words in the SAT Right Order SAT SAT Passionate, funny, revelatory and inspiring, this series is SAT a mission statement about the transformative power of SAT reading; about the way it inspires us, the tangible impact SAT it can have on our well-being and the importance it holds SAT for us now and will continue to hold in the future. SAT SAT Stop What You're Doing And Read This! features five of our SAT finest authors and advocates from the world of publishing. SAT Michael Rosen, Jeanette Winterson, Tim Parks, Carmen Callil SAT and Mark Haddon, are all united here in a passionate belief SAT in the distinctive and irreplaceable pleasures and powers of SAT reading. Their essays argue that reading literature is, and SAT must continue to be, a fundamental part of our daily life, SAT as it directly improves our mental health and well-being, SAT enriches our experience and broadens our imaginations. SAT SAT As the ways people read, what they read, where they buy SAT their books and in what format are all changing rapidly, SAT this series argues unapologetically for the paramount SAT importance of books and reading in a fast-moving, SAT dislocated, technology-obsessed world. SAT SAT From the moment he won six Penguin Classics in a school SAT competition Mark Haddon has been an avid reader. But it's SAT not the plots of books he focuses on but the words SAT themselves, the images they conjure up, the world's they SAT introduce him to. In 'The Right Words In the Right Order' he SAT explains how reading, and reading the right books at the SAT right time is a life-enhancing experience. SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0196vj9 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0196vjc (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0196vjf (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b0196vjh (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b0196vl5 (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. SAT From Wales, with the Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b0196vl7 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b0196vjk (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b0196vjm (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b0196td6 (Listen) SAT Olympics SAT SAT This is the year of the London 2012 Olympic Games. In just 6 SAT months time, 60,000 people are expected to flood into SAT Weymouth and Portland every day for 2 weeks to watch the SAT sailing events. GB has topped the Sailing medals table at SAT the last three Olympic Games. British sailors will be hoping SAT to repeat the feat at London 2012, battling their rivals in SAT Weymouth Bay. Weymouth and Portland have been preparing for SAT this moment since the location of the sailing events was SAT announced over five years ago. The area has seen major SAT developments in terms of the roads, the marina and the SAT esplanade. For this week's Open Country, Helen Mark visits SAT the area to find out how it has prepared to host such a SAT major event and what impact these changes are having on SAT local residents. SAT SAT Presenter : Helen Mark SAT Producer : Anna Varle. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b019h151 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT As of January 2013 European pig farmers will have to stop SAT routinely tethering their sows and reduce the amount of time SAT the pigs are confined in stalls. Charlotte Smith reports SAT from Mark Bailey, a Worcestershire pig farmer who rears his SAT animals outdoors. Mark thinks that the new welfare standards SAT won't go far enough. SAT SAT The new pig welfare standards have already been in place on SAT UK farms since 1999. Melvin Rickarby visits Richard Blant SAT who keeps 100 sows at his farm near Nottingham to find out SAT what the conditions are currently for UK pigs. SAT SAT The Prime Minister, David Cameron says that the UK was wrong SAT to be ahead of other EU countries. There are warnings that SAT many farmers on the continent will not make the deadline in SAT time to be compliant to the new sow stall regulations by SAT January 2013. John Howard from the Danish Agriculture and SAT Food Council assures that Denmark will be ready in time. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Emma Weatherill. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b0196vjp (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b019h153 (Listen) SAT Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b019h155 (Listen) SAT Jon Ronson, Kate Fox, Crows Sound Sculpture, Alien Implants, SAT Antarctic addict, Turkish teacher, Jenny Agutter SAT Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT Richard Coles with journalist Jon Ronson, poet Kate Fox, a SAT man who extracts alien implants, the teacher who went to SAT Turkey and found herself driving the school bus, a woman who SAT is addicted to the South Pole and a Sound Sculpture of SAT crows. Plus the Inheritance Tracks of actress Jenny Agutter. SAT SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b019h157 (Listen) SAT Swimming - Land Art - Sicily SAT SAT John McCarthy discusses Art and Travel with leading art SAT critic Andrew Graham-Dixon explaining his abiding passion SAT for the raw art of Sicily which has been drawing him back to SAT the island for over twenty years. He talks about his latest SAT BBC 2 series on Sicily called 'Sicily Unpacked' which, in SAT the company of chef Giorgio Locatelli, reveals the many SAT stunning works of art round every corner as well as the SAT fresh ingredients which make for a delicious and unique SAT cuisine. Part of the appeal, he says, is that the Art is so SAT accessible, not locked up in museums and galleries but SAT available to all at virtually every street corner. The art, SAT he feels, has not become homogenised as in so many other SAT places. Art academic Dr. Amy Dempsey discusses her love of SAT Outdoor Art which led to her book called 'Destination Art' SAT cataloguing two hundred of the most modern and contemporary SAT art sites around the world, mostly in Europe and the USA. SAT Many of the works are unshowy and quite difficult to find, SAT all part of the experience for the traveller. She makes SAT particular mention of works in the Netherlands (the SAT 'positive' and 'negative' Green Cathedrals) and the work of SAT Anthony Gormley and Anish Kapoor. She believes these works SAT have been overlooked in the past and have not received the SAT attention they deserve by the critic and the traveller. SAT Susie Parr explains her ten year quest to chart the history SAT of outdoor bathing in the UK. To that end, she has swum in SAT chilly harbour waters, at glorious beaches and in once SAT stylish lidos. She also explores how immersion in cold water SAT seems to have inspired art and creativity and was enjoyed SAT especially by some of the key Romantic figures including, SAT Wordsworth, Shelley and Byron. SAT SAT Producer: Margaret Collins. SAT SAT 10:30 Reasons to be Cheerful b019h159 (Listen) SAT Series 3, Jackie Kay SAT SAT Scottish poet and writer Jackie Kay does her best to cheer SAT up Muriel Gray with her Reasons To Be Cheerful in the third SAT series of the popular programme. The concept behind Reasons SAT To Be Cheerful is simple. Each week a guest presenter looks SAT at some of the things about modern life that they believe SAT are worth celebrating. SAT SAT Jackie returns to her Scottish homeland to celebrate a few SAT of the things that she believes make modern life better. The SAT revival of home-baking is one of Jackie's big reasons. She SAT visits her mum's Glasgow home to sample the baked goods of SAT her neighbours. Jackie is joined by Catharine Brown, one of SAT Scotland's best known cookery writers. SAT SAT Jackie is delighted by the current boom in the publication SAT of poetry pamphlets. Despite living in the age of SAT e-publishing, poetry lovers are turning to this decidedly SAT old fashioned form of communication. Jackie visits the SAT Edinburgh Poetry Library to see their pamphlet collection SAT and to meet Liz Lochhead, acclaimed poet and the current SAT Scottish Makar, the national poet. SAT SAT She celebrates what she sees as a revival in activism of SAT young people. She is particularly delighted by imaginative SAT campaigns like Football Beyond Borders, which uses soccer to SAT break down barriers between people. It was set up and run by SAT young people, including her son Matthew. SAT SAT Jackie interviews Carol Craig, chief executive of the Centre SAT for Confidence and Well-being in Glasgow. The innovative SAT centre is dedicated to looking at ways of tackling pessimism SAT in modern society. SAT SAT Among Jackie's guests are Andy Furlong, Robyn Marsack and SAT Jasper Kain. Along the way Jackie has to convince the SAT broadcaster and writer Muriel Gray that there are things to SAT cheer about. SAT SAT Produced by Martin McNamara and Kim Normanton. SAT A Loftus Audio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b019dtlp (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT With Ed Miliband under fire for his performance as Labour SAT leader, one of his predecessors, Neil Kinnock, gives a SAT fascinating insight into the pressures endured by a Leader SAT of the Opposition. Among the adversaries? Cowards in the SAT ranks. SAT SAT After the financial crash, a new debate is opening up on how SAT capitalism can be made more moral. Do the party leaders have SAT a role here? The Conservative, John Redwood and Labour's SAT Tristram Hunt think they have - but they don't agree on how SAT far. SAT SAT He's taking on the Westminster Parliament in his quest for SAT independence for Scotland. But what's First Minister Alex SAT Salmond really like? Iain Macwhirter who writes for the SAT Sunday Herald has watched him for years. A conviction SAT politician, he says, but no ideologue. SAT SAT After the portrayal of Mrs Thatcher in the film 'The Iron SAT Lady', why aren't more British political dramas committed to SAT film and fiction? The author and peer Michael Dobbs and the SAT academic Steven Fielding swop notes. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b019dtlr (Listen) SAT The Afghan women still suffering in silence - ten years SAT after the fall of the Taliban. Caroline Wyatt, who's just SAT back from Kabul, examines how their lives might change once SAT the international community withdraws its troops from their SAT country. Nick Thorpe's been to meet the president of Hungary SAT - a man at the centre of a political and constitutional SAT storm. Laura Trevelyan's in Haiti where, two years ago, a SAT 35-second earthquake killed more than three hundred thousand SAT people. She finds the process of reconstruction is still SAT going on -- some say it's taking too long. Sara Hashash is SAT in Cairo where they're trying to salvage what they can from SAT thirty truckloads of ancient books, manuscripts and other SAT documents damaged and destroyed during fighting in the SAT capital last year and our Europe correspondent Chris Morris SAT takes a break from talking about bail-outs and SAT over-the-counter derivatives and heads off to Copenhagen for SAT a heart-to-heart with the Queen of Denmark. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b019dtlt (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b0196vgp (Listen) SAT Series 76, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b0196vjr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b0196vjt (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b0196vgw (Listen) SAT Musselburgh, East Lothian SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Loretto School in Musselburgh, East Lothian SAT with Secretary of State for Scotland, Michael Moore; Shadow SAT Secretary of State for Scotland, Margaret Curran; journalist SAT and broadcaster, Lesley Riddoch; and Scottish Finance SAT Secretary, SNP MSP John Swinney. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b019dtlw (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b00g3ycd (Listen) SAT Tom and Viv SAT SAT Michael Hastings's study of the marriage of TS Eliot and SAT Vivienne Haigh-Wood. SAT SAT When the ambitious young poet Tom fell in love with SAT beautiful, charismatic Viv, little did he know the nightmare SAT world that they would both enter. SAT SAT Tom ...... Benedict Cumberbatch SAT Viv ...... Lia Williams SAT Rose ...... Judy Parfitt SAT Maurice ...... David Haig SAT Charles ...... John Rowe SAT Louise ...... Emily Randall SAT Janes ...... Chris Pavlo SAT Dr Todd ...... Gunnar Cauthery SAT Barrister ...... Jonathan Tafler SAT SAT Directed by Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b019dtly (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b019dzpf (Listen) SAT Carolyn Quinn presents a fresh perspective on the day's news SAT with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b0196vl7 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0196vjw (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b0196vjy (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0196vk0 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b019dzph (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson and guests with an eclectic mix of SAT conversation, music and comedy. SAT SAT Culinary wizard Heston Blumenthal brings his bubbling SAT cauldron of cooking tips to the boil and explains how to SAT perform magic in our own kitchens. He'll disclose his SAT carefully researched techniques, so that we too can cook SAT like Heston. The next episode of 'How to Cook Like Heston' SAT is on Wednesday 18th January at 20.00 on Channel 4. SAT SAT Seasoned traveller and Radio 3 presenter, Lucy Duran will be SAT checking in to talk about visiting over fifty countries to SAT record the local music of the world. Whether dodging bandits SAT in Madagascar, or attending ear-splitting Greek weddings, SAT Lucy's 'World Routes' programme has done it all in the name SAT of preserving the world's musical cultures. New material SAT recorded on location is now captured on the double album SAT 'World Routes: On The Road'. SAT SAT Emma Freud will be under the spell of hypnotist and SAT bestselling author Paul McKenna, whose new book 'I Can Make SAT You Smarter' claims to increase learning capacity and SAT intelligence. Top marks for Emma then! SAT SAT Ullo John, got a new motor?! Comedian, author and rogue SAT landlord in 'The Young Ones', Alexei Sayle will be talking SAT to Clive about his return to stand-up, compering a special SAT series of shows at London's Soho Theatre. Alexei is SAT performing some brand-new material, as well as introducing SAT his specially selected comedians from the circuit. SAT SAT Music comes from 'Phantom Limb' who play their new single SAT 'The Pines' from their album of the same name. SAT SAT Former co-frontman and songwriter of experimental folkies SAT Tunng, Sam Genders is currently drawing in a new audience SAT with crisp, minimalist pop music with his new band SAT 'Diagrams' who perform 'Tall Buildings' from the album SAT 'Black Light'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b019dzpk (Listen) SAT Series 11, Episode 1 SAT SAT The return of the award-winning series in which writers SAT create a fictional response to the week's news. Snoo Wilson SAT begins with a topical drama inspired by a story making the SAT headlines. SAT Produced by Peter Kavanagh. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b019dzpm (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT Shame SAT SAT Shame is on general release, certificate 18. SAT SAT The Art of Fielding SAT SAT The Art of Fielding by Chad Harbach is published by Fourth SAT Estate. SAT SAT War Horse SAT SAT War Horse is on general release, certificate 12A. SAT SAT John Keane: Scratching the surface, Joining the dots SAT SAT John Keane: Scratching the surface, Joining the dots is at SAT Flowers Central gallery in Cork Street in London until 4 SAT February. Admission is free. SAT SAT Call the Midwife SAT SAT Call the Midwife begins at 9 pm on Saturday 14 January on SAT BBC One. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b019dzpp (Listen) SAT Bertrand Russell - the First Media Academic? SAT SAT Bertrand Russell was one of the greatest thinkers of the SAT last century. His contributions to the field of mathematics SAT and philosophy are still widely acknowledged as some of the SAT most important of their kind. But, as Robin Ince discovers, SAT he was also arguably one of the first great media academic SAT stars, who brought his own brand of rationalism and SAT intellect to an audience far beyond the academic and SAT political circles he routinely mixed with. His relationship SAT with the BBC goes back almost to the beginning of its own SAT history, and his many broadcasts and appearances on radio, SAT in particular, brought his ideas to a whole new audience. He SAT delivered the very first Reith Lectures back in 1948, and SAT was a regular panellist on the hugely popular "The Brains SAT Trust". His thoughts on themes ranging from education, SAT through to nuclear armament and religion, were regularly SAT broadcast on the BBC, right up to the end of his life. Robin SAT Ince takes a listen back to some of Russell's great SAT contributions to broadcasting and looks at the life of SAT arguably the first great media academic. SAT SAT Producer: Alexandra Feachem. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01946wd (Listen) SAT The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 2 SAT SAT By Ayeesha Menon SAT SAT Sony award-winning writer Ayeesha Menon reworks Charles SAT Dickens' Martin Chuzzlewit and sets it amongst the Catholic SAT community in modern-day Mumbai, India. SAT SAT Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old SAT recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, SAT Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit SAT nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost SAT to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey SAT (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans SAT are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers SAT a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the SAT extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his SAT fortune. SAT SAT Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karan Pandit), SAT an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a SAT fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and SAT murder... SAT SAT Disinherited by his grandfather, Mickey Chuzzlewit escapes SAT India and tries to make his fortune in Dubai. In his SAT absence, the scheming Pinto and murderous Joseph join forces SAT in an attempt to get hold of the old man's fortune. And SAT while Thomas's feelings grow for Mickey's fiancé, Mary, a SAT mysterious lodger with a terrible secret moves in next door SAT ... SAT SAT Martin ..... Roshan Seth SAT Thomas ..... Karan Pandit SAT Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala SAT Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur SAT Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla SAT Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon SAT Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir SAT Joseph ..... Nadir Khan SAT Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur SAT Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital SAT Louis ..... Rohit Malkani SAT Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel SAT Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri SAT Manek ..... Vivek Madan SAT Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon SAT Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg SAT SAT Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja SAT Sound Design: David Chilton SAT Music: Sacha Puttnam SAT Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan SAT SAT Producer: John Dryden SAT A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b0196vk2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Decision Time b0196rpp (Listen) SAT Nick Robinson returns with a new series of the programme SAT that goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and inside SAT Westminster to explore how controversial decisions are SAT reached. Each week, he asks people with senior experience of SAT government and politics how a government, of whatever SAT political colour, would approach a looming decision. SAT Producer, Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b0194kky (Listen) SAT (9/17) SAT Which major battle took place at Drumossie Moor near SAT Inverness? And if Shakespeare was known as the 'Swan of SAT Avon', which writer was the 'Swan of Usk'? SAT SAT Russell Davies puts these and many other questions to the SAT competitors in today's ninth heat of the general knowledge SAT quiz, each of them aiming for a place in the semi-finals and SAT a further step towards the coveted title 'Brain of Britain SAT 2012'. Today's contestants come from London, Stevenage and SAT Edinburgh. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01946wj (Listen) SAT Winter, star-gazing and time SAT SAT Roger McGough presents a selection of poetry about Winter, SAT star-gazing and time, read by Pippa Haywood, Peter Marinker, SAT Mark Meadows and Nadia Williams. SAT SAT There are well-known works by Sheenagh Pugh and Alfred SAT Tennyson contemplating the new year. Roger marks Stephen SAT Hawking's 70th birthday with a poem by Robert Frost about SAT the importance of telescopes. SAT SAT Winter looms large, with poems by Longfellow, Edna St. SAT Vincent Millay and Dana Gioia, but in contrast there are SAT rays of sunshine from John Lyons. SAT SAT Producer: Toby Field. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 15 JANUARY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b019dqdh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Brief Sparks b019h1c3 (Listen) SUN You Should Have Seen the Mess SUN SUN Muriel Spark had one of the most distinctive voices in SUN twentieth-century writing, was capable of incisive and SUN darkly-comic observation, and won prizes for her writing SUN across the World. Spark worked as a novelist, dramatist and SUN children's author, but it is perhaps her short stories that SUN best exemplify her sharp eye and beautifully-crafted work, SUN where she coolly probes the idiosyncrasies that lurk beneath SUN veneer of human respectability. SUN SUN The three stories in this series include the darkly funny SUN 'Ladies and Gentlemen', which contrasts well with the wry SUN humour of social comedy 'The Snobs' and the sharp satire of SUN class, aspiration and phobia in this vignette: 'You Should SUN Have Seen the Mess', read by Jane Collingwood. SUN SUN Here, Muriel Spark revels in the pettiness of the British SUN psyche in an acerbic story of a girl who turns her back on SUN life's opportunities for fear of a little dirt. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019dqdk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019dqdm (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019dqdp (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b019dqdr (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b019f6j9 (Listen) SUN The bells of St Thomas' Church, Oxford. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b0196rpr (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 38 SUN SUN Judith Clegg argues that the special culture of technology SUN start-ups could make the world a dramatically better place, SUN if adopted more widely. SUN SUN Even after a year of dramatic change, she believes we could SUN do with some more - in sectors as varied as banking, SUN government and energy companies. The start-up culture of SUN pay-it-forward, decent treatment of staff, enthusiasm and SUN hard work is just what we need in every sector in these hard SUN economic times, she says. SUN SUN With a family background steeped in entrepreneurial spirit, SUN and a career spent breathing life into start-ups, she now SUN runs the Takeout consultancy, which helps big organisations SUN learn lessons from the start-up community, and the SUN Glasshouse, a meeting space for entrepreneurs, and is SUN co-founder of a startup investment fund. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front SUN of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the SUN stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, SUN interests and passions that affect our culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b019dqdt (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b019f6jc (Listen) SUN Starting Over SUN SUN Ugandan born journalist and BBC World Service presenter Paul SUN Bakibinga explores the idea of loss and how to get going SUN again after a major life setback in Something Understood: SUN Starting Over. SUN SUN The programme includes an account of his own experience of SUN losing a baby, and explores how others have managed to SUN restart their lives after setbacks such as contracting HIV, SUN and an account from an Asian family who managed to get going SUN again after being thrown out of Uganda by Idi Amin. Paul SUN Bakibinga explains how directly experiencing adversity has SUN given him more empathy when covering death or disaster as a SUN journalist. SUN SUN It also features an interview with South African performance SUN poet Malika Ndlovu who reads a moving extract from her SUN journal, "Invisible Earthquake", which depicts her struggle SUN to regain a sense of inner calm after her daughter was SUN still-born. SUN SUN An uplifting programme which begins in darkness with SUN Mahler's "Songs on the Death of Children" and moves into the SUN light - ending with the Ugandan Children's Choir singing SUN "Siyahamba - We Are Marching In The Light of God". SUN SUN The programme is presented by Paul Bakibinga. SUN SUN Producer: Kim Normanton. SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b019f6jf (Listen) SUN It is an early start for Ian Cure, a farm vet from SUN Lancashire. Alongside the routine appointments booked in at SUN farms across the county, he has one ear listening out for SUN the ring of his mobile phone for an emergency call. In this SUN edition of 'On Your Farm' Caz Graham is shadowing him on a SUN typical day. SUN SUN As a young vet with a specialist farm practise, Ian is one SUN of a decreasing number in the UK who only treat sheep,cows, SUN pigs and horses. There are around 40 million large farm SUN animals in the UK and it is part of the role of the farm vet SUN to ensure their health and welfare. SUN SUN His first job of the day is to carry out pregnancy tests on SUN around 35 dairy cows using an ultra sound scanner in the SUN farmyard. Then after he has scrubbed up, she is standing by SUN as Ian sedates a cow for an operation to correct a SUN potentially life threatening stomach problem. SUN SUN This programme is presented by Caz Graham and produced in SUN Birmingham by Angela Frain. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b019dqdw (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b019dqdy (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b019f6jh (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b019f6jk (Listen) SUN Bishop Simeon Trust SUN SUN Sir Michael Parkinson presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf SUN of the charity Bishop Simeon Trust. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 1016122 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Bishop Simeon Trust SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN The Bishop Simeon Trust SUN SUN The Bishop Simeon Trust supports disadvantaged South SUN Africans who still suffer from the inequalities and SUN injustices of apartheid and its legacy. SUN SUN The charity also supports a large amount of HIV/AIDS SUN community projects in South Africa where the pandemic has SUN reached extraordinary proportions. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b019dqf0 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b019dqf2 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b019f6jm (Listen) SUN from Morningside Baptist Church, Edinburgh. Led by Kay SUN Cathcart; Preacher: Senior Pastor, Karl Martin. SUN Praise Band leader: Thomas Dean. SUN Music: SUN The Lord's My Shepherd SUN Bless the Lord O My Soul SUN Lord When I Remember SUN Counting on your name SUN Faithful One. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b0196vgy (Listen) SUN The Art of Gardening SUN SUN The historian Lisa Jardine recalls the seventeenth century SUN Lord Chancellor, and keen gardener, Sir Francis Bacon as she SUN reflects on the art of gardening, as both pure human SUN pleasure and a means of self advancement. "Perhaps the SUN innocence and sustaining consolation of gardens is not quite SUN such a simple matter after all. The shadow of political SUN self-interest falls across the sweet-smelling flowerbeds and SUN shady bowers too." SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:57 Weather b019dqf4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b019f6jp (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b019f6jr (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Caroline Harrington SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Kathy Perks ..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Clarrie Grundy ..... Rosalind Adams SUN William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Tracy Horrobin ..... Susie Riddell SUN Bert Horrobin ..... Martyn Read. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b019f6jt (Listen) SUN Paul Johnson SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the writer and historian Paul SUN Johnson. SUN SUN He writes, he says, out of a desire to 'put things right' SUN and more than fifty books and thousands of articles have SUN flowed from his pen. His opinions have provoked, offended SUN and enraged plenty of people over the years and sweeping SUN works about modernity, morality, art and philosophy, sit SUN alongside fiercely opinionated biographies and essays. He SUN says: "I like to be, in general, in agreement with what most SUN people think, but I also like to be a little bit independent SUN and individual and, thank God, I've been allowed to do that SUN all my writing life." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 The Unbelievable Truth b0194kl6 (Listen) SUN Series 8, Episode 3 SUN SUN David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians SUN are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another SUN to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past SUN their opponents. Tony Hawks, Alan Davies, Tom Wrigglesworth SUN and John Finnemore are the panellists obliged to talk with SUN deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Hamburgers, SUN Pens, Snoring and Crocodiles. SUN SUN The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the SUN team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. SUN SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b019f6jw (Listen) SUN London 2012, Coke and McDonalds SUN SUN Food and the Olympics. Guest presenter John Inverdale looks SUN ahead to London 2012 and explores the history of food and SUN athletics from the first London Games of 1948. SUN SUN Presenter: John Inverdale SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b019dqf6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b019f6jy (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news with James SUN Robbins, including an in-depth look at events around the SUN world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 David Cameron's Big Idea b019f6k0 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN When David Cameron became the Conservative leader in 2005, SUN he memorably declared "There is such a thing as society; SUN it's just not the same as the state". SUN SUN Steve Richards, of "The Independent", presents a three-part SUN series telling the story behind that famous phrase, tracing SUN David Cameron's vision of a reformed state and a Big Society SUN from the early days of opposition to the reality of SUN government. SUN SUN From the early days of his leadership campaign, David SUN Cameron and his advisers were working on bold ideas which SUN they said would reshape the state, decentralise power and SUN strengthen society. From 2009 onwards the phrase "The Big SUN Society" was used to describe these ideas. SUN SUN In the second episode, Steve follows the tricky journey of SUN the Big Society idea through the 2010 election campaign, in SUN which it played a pivotal role. He talks to critics who SUN claim the theme contributed to the Conservative failure to SUN secure a majority. SUN SUN He explores the role the idea played in the formation of the SUN coalition and traces the rollout of a bold reform package SUN based on the Big Society vision. Many were surprised by the SUN speed at which the fledgling coalition government rolled out SUN radical reforms in education, health, local government and SUN welfare. How was this possible? What was the role of the SUN Liberal Democrats? And, what early signs emerged of trouble SUN ahead? SUN SUN Interviewees include the former No 10 Director of Policy, SUN James O'Shaughnessy, and the Chief Secretary to the SUN Treasury, Danny Alexander. SUN SUN Producer: Leala Padmanabhan. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b0196v3s (Listen) SUN Birmingham SUN SUN Anne Swithinbank, Bob Flowerdew and Matthew Wilson join SUN gardeners in Birmingham for a horticultural Q&A. Eric Robson SUN is the chair. SUN SUN Guest presenter, Alys Fowler visits Garden Organic's SUN Heritage Seed Library and Matthew Biggs sings out for his SUN Plant of the Moment: Viburnum bodnantense 'Dawn'. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Welsh's Scottish Journey b019f6k2 (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN In 1934 the Orcadian poet Edwin Muir embarked on his iconic SUN 'Scottish Journey' a set of travels round depression-era SUN Scotland where he tried to get to grips with Scottish SUN identity and to consider what the future held for a country SUN whose industries were being devastated by a recession SUN SUN '. . . a silent clearance is going on in industrial SUN Scotland, a clearance not of human beings, but of what they SUN depend upon for life' SUN SUN As a man very much of his time, of the 1930s, he wavered SUN between socialism and nationalism as cures for Scotland's SUN ills, but in-between reflected on the nature of work, SUN poverty, Scottishness, tourism, the ideal way of living, the SUN highland and the lowland character and the possible SUN existence of a best of all possible worlds on his native SUN Orkney. SUN SUN In the summer of 2011, crime writer Louise Welsh decided to SUN embark on a mini whistle-stop version of Muir's journey, SUN taking to the roads in an open-top car, just as he did, and SUN trying to get a flavour now of a country also in the grip of SUN austerity and flirting with nationalism. How do people see SUN things today when the big industries are gone and SUN agriculture has to compete in a global economy? In the SUN Scottish Borders, Louise speaks to journalist and writer SUN Stuart Kelly and farmers Tom and Mary Douglas. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b019f6k4 (Listen) SUN The Mumbai Chuzzlewits, Episode 3 SUN SUN By Ayeesha Menon SUN SUN Convinced his relatives are after his money, miserly old SUN recluse Martin Chuzzlewit (Roshan Seth), adopts orphan girl, SUN Mary (Nimrat Kaur), to be his carer. As she will inherit SUN nothing upon his death, he believes she will do her utmost SUN to keep him in good health. But when his grandson Mickey SUN (Zafar Karachiwala) falls in love with her, Martin's plans SUN are thrown into disarray. Disinheriting him, Martin triggers SUN a complex web of deceit, betrayal and manipulation as the SUN extended family and hangers-on close in, in pursuit of his SUN fortune. SUN SUN Told from the point of view of orphan Thomas (Karqn Pandit), SUN an observer into the world of the Chuzzlewits, this is a SUN fast-paced drama full of intrigue, romance, suspense and SUN murder... SUN SUN Mickey returns to India determined to show his grandfather SUN he is a changed man and to marry Mary, the love of his life. SUN But, in his absence, things have changed; the old man now SUN appears to be under the control of the scheming Pinto who SUN will not let Mickey near him. And Thomas has fallen in love SUN with Mary... Meanwhile the hapless Joseph loses all his SUN money in a Ponzi scheme. With his debtors closing in, murder SUN seems to be the only way out... SUN SUN Martin ..... Roshan Seth SUN Thomas ..... Karan Pandit SUN Mickey ..... Zafar Karachiwala SUN Pinto ..... Rajit Kapur SUN Mercy ..... Preetika Chawla SUN Charity ..... Ayeesha Menon SUN Anthony ..... Sohrab Ardeshir SUN Joseph ..... Nadir Khan SUN Mary ..... Nimrat Kaur SUN Mrs. Gomes ..... Radhika Mital SUN Louis ..... Rohit Malkani SUN Doctor ..... Shernaz Patel SUN Monty ..... Arghya Lahiri SUN Manek ..... Vivek Madan SUN Young Mickey ..... Zaal Madon SUN Young Thomas ..... Nominath Ginsburg SUN SUN Sound Recordist: Ayush Ahuja SUN Sound Design: David Chilton SUN Music: Sacha Puttnam SUN Producer and Casting: Nadir Khan SUN SUN Producer: John Dryden SUN A Goldhawk Essential Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b019lyhg (Listen) SUN Gillian Slovo on General Gordon and Empire SUN SUN Gillian Slovo discusses her latest novel An Honourable Man, SUN a retelling of the disastrous mission by Lord Wolseley to SUN rescue Gordon of Khartoum in 1885. Set between the deserts SUN of North Africa, Sudan and Victorian London, the story is SUN told through the different viewpoints of its four main SUN character; General Gordon, his young batman Will, the SUN civilian surgeon John and his laudanum addicted wife Mary, SUN and explores the impact of war and Empire. SUN SUN Spartacus, immortalised in the Kubrick film starring Kurt SUN Douglas, was a real man, sold into slavery to be a Gladiator SUN and following his escape, leader of a huge rebel army that SUN took on the might of Rome. Despite several impressive SUN victories against his ancient foe, he was ultimately SUN defeated and six thousand of the surviving fighters famously SUN crucified along the Appian way into Rome. Ben Kane has now SUN brought the Spartacus tale back to life in his latest SUN historical fiction epic, Spartacus the Gladiator SUN SUN Since they launched in 1995 Amazon have been at the SUN forefront of our consumption of books via the internet. Last SUN year in the States they made a move into the more SUN traditional publishing arena, and as well as wooing self SUN publishing authors, have started publishing books by more SUN established writers across many genres, in both e-book and SUN physical formats. It's an expansion that's set shivers of SUN panic down the spines of many established publishing houses SUN and agents. Philip Jones, Deputy Editor of the Bookseller SUN discusses the impact on the UK market. SUN SUN Book List SUN SUN An Honourable Man by Gillian Slovo SUN Published by Virago SUN SUN Spartacus the Gladiator by Ben Kane SUN Published by Preface SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b019f6k6 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough with poetry requests read by Catherine Cusack SUN and Patrick Romer.The stillness of winter is set ablaze with SUN poems by Tomas Tranströmer, W.B. Yeats and Moniza Alvi. SUN SUN The hush of winter lingers for miles in Robert Frost's SUN famous poem 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening'. Robin SUN Robertson reads his poem about the rumbling power of a SUN frozen lake, and there's another poem about the sounds of SUN weather by Janet Frame. There are also plenty of colourful SUN poetic interventions, with a poem of adolescent love in Gary SUN Soto's 'Oranges', cockerels 'cleaving the darkness' in a SUN poem by Edward Thomas, and a man wearing red shoes like SUN volcanoes dances his way through the weekend. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 Dying Inside b0194n0q (Listen) SUN The film-maker Rex Bloomstein has pioneered the prison SUN television documentary from the award-winning series SUN "Strangeways" in 1980, to the ground breaking programme SUN "Lifer - Living with Murder" in 2003. He presents his first SUN radio documentary on the growing phenomenon of older SUN prisoners in our prisons and hears from those who face the SUN prospect of dying inside. SUN SUN This country has the largest prison population in Europe SUN with around 88,000 inmates costing the tax payer on average SUN £45000 per year per Prisoner. The fastest growing group SUN within it are older prisoners, who number over 8000. This is SUN largely due to sentences becoming harsher and longer. At SUN present there is no national strategy to deal with this SUN issue. Prisons cope as best they can. Inmates are classed as SUN older prisoners from the age of 50 when they are more likely SUN to suffer with diabetes or coronary heart disease or have SUN problems with their mobility. SUN SUN For the first ever broadcast programme on this subject on SUN British radio or television, Bloomstein visited three SUN prisons: HMP Maidstone, HMP Whatton and he was given SUN exclusive access to the Elderly Lifer Unit at HMP Norwich, SUN the first time in its history that anyone from media has SUN been allowed in. SUN SUN He discovered that one of the most extraordinary aspects of SUN this story is that over 40% of older prisoners are men SUN convicted of sexual offences. An increasing number of them SUN committed their crimes many years ago but have been caught SUN by advances in DNA techniques. At the heart of this SUN documentary is the testimony of the prisoners themselves, SUN some of whom have been in jail for many years, while others SUN have been sentenced late in life after their pasts have SUN caught up with them. SUN SUN Bloomstein also spoke to prisoners with very serious health SUN problems and who are facing the possibility of dying in SUN prison. SUN SUN The programme is presented by Rex Bloomstein SUN SUN Producers: Rex Bloomstein & Simon Jacobs SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b019dzpk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b019dqfb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b019dqfd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019dqfg (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b019f6k8 (Listen) SUN Martin Wainwright makes his selection from the past seven SUN days of BBC Radio SUN SUN Love was in the air on the radio this week- in the back SUN streets of Derbyshire, on the last train from Charing Cross SUN and even underwater in a pond. A fascinating range of prison SUN visitors was also to be heard across the BBC network - from SUN Johnny Cash to the Bishop of Liverpool, as well as a SUN remarkable insight into what it's like to have Tourette's SUN syndrome. Listen to all of this and more, on Pick of the SUN Week. SUN SUN Reasons To Be Cheerful - Radio 4 SUN Start The Week - Radio 4 SUN Dying Inside - Radio 4 SUN Witness - World Service SUN The Bishop and the Prisoner - Radio 4 SUN Erebus - Radio 4 SUN London Soundscape - Radio 2 SUN Isy Sittue - Pearl and Dave - Radio 4 SUN Short Cuts - Radio 4 SUN Nature - Radio 4 SUN Andrew Peach - Radio Berkshire SUN Among The Managers - Radio 4 SUN Today - Radio 4 SUN Merzman - Radio 4 SUN Tina C's Global Depression Tour - Radio 4 SUN SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Faith Lawrence. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b019f6kb (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 It's Your Round b019f6kd (Listen) SUN Series 2, Episode 4 SUN SUN Four more panellists attempt to beat each other at their own SUN games, with host, Angus Deayton. SUN SUN The rounds this episode include: SUN SUN Will Smith's "Jersey Quiz", all about the weird and SUN wonderful world of his Channel Island birthplace. SUN SUN Australian actress and comedian, Celia Pacquola's "Now SUN That's Charity!" in which panellists must all pitch a SUN charity which they would use to acquire enough funds to SUN eradicate their personal bêtes noires, like men in SUN flip-flops, Jennifer Aniston films, or people who constantly SUN check their phones. SUN SUN Jason Solomon's "Tagline Tease" in which panellists have to SUN guess the tagline to a particular film. SUN SUN Andrew Maxwell's "Boarder, boarder, boarder or boarder"... SUN in which panellists are given a slang term and they have to SUN guess whether it's from the world of snowboarding, SUN surfboarding, clapper-boarding or boarding school. SUN SUN Producer: Sam Michell. SUN SUN 19:45 A Dalmatian Trilogy b019f6kg (Listen) SUN The Book of Complaints SUN SUN By James Hopkin. SUN SUN Read by Tom Goodman-Hill. SUN SUN An Englishman takes refuge from his past life on the island SUN of Korcula, where he meets an extraordinary silhouette SUN cutter and learns about mysterious murmur-maids ... SUN SUN James Hopkin has lived and travelled widely in Europe, SUN including time spent on the Dalmatian islands off the coast SUN of Croatia. These three specially-commissioned stories SUN explore the history and landscape of the area, as well as SUN providing a colourful journey for the senses. SUN SUN James Hopkin gained a First Class honours degree in English SUN and Philosophy in Manchester, then a Distinction in his MA SUN on modern fiction, followed by a British Academy Award for a SUN PhD. In September 2002, he won an Arts Council short story SUN competition with 'Even the Crows Say Krakow'. His novel SUN Winter Under Water (2007) was an assured and SUN critically-acclaimed debut marking the arrival of a major SUN new writer. His short stories have been anthologised, SUN broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, including 'The SUN Mural At Frau Krauser's': commissioned by Sweet Talk and SUN produced as part of a week of readings called Berlin. He SUN published a small collection of stories in 2008, along with SUN the paperback of Winter Under Water. A Georgian Trilogy, SUN also produced by Sweet Talk, was broadcast in 2010. He is SUN currently working on his second novel, Say Goodbye to SUN Breakfast. SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b0196v3z (Listen) SUN High Speed 2 and Executive Pay SUN SUN Tim Harford looks at the arguments for high speed rail with SUN railway consultant Chris Stokes and Alison Munro from HS2 SUN Ltd. He investigates the different measures of the rise in SUN executive pay with Steve Tatton from Income Data Services SUN and Sarah Wilson from research group Manifest. He resolves a SUN four year-old bet on climate change between climate SUN scientist James Annan and astrophysicist David Whitehouse SUN and Wesley Stephenson looks behind the figures for youth SUN unemployment in Spain. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b0196v3x (Listen) SUN Sir Robert Horton, Clive Robbins, Sir Roger Jowell and Harry SUN Fowler SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The former BP chairman and chief executive Sir Robert Horton SUN who was ousted in a boardroom coup and went on to run SUN Railtrack SUN SUN Clive Robbins, who teamed up with Paul Nordoff to create a SUN powerful type of music therapy SUN SUN Sir Roger Jowell - the statistician who measured changing SUN attitudes in British society SUN SUN The cockney actor Harry Fowler, who appeared in The Army SUN Game and many Ealing comedies SUN SUN And the Bulgarian born pianist Alexis Weissenberg - whose SUN musical talent saved his life in a Nazi concentration camp. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b019dtlt (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b019f6jk (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b0196tn9 (Listen) SUN All Together Now SUN SUN In these tough times, are there better ways of doing SUN business: worker cooperatives, for example? SUN In crisis-battered Spain, Peter Day visits the world's SUN biggest worker coop in Mondragon, to find out what makes it SUN different. And, in the UK where the cooperative movement SUN began, will 2012, designated the year of the cooperative see SUN the rise of the mutual business model? SUN Producer : Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b019f6kj (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 b019f6kl (Listen) SUN Episode 86 SUN SUN Iain Martin of The Telegraph analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories, in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b0196td8 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock weighs up the week's two big releases -- SUN Steven Spielberg's War Horse and Steve McQueen's Shame. SUN Spielberg is already being tipped for an Oscar and McQueen SUN has been gathering plaudits from all over the world for his SUN film which features Carey Mulligan and Michael Fassbender in SUN a study of sex addiction. SUN SUN Producer: Zahid Warley. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b019f6jc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 16 JANUARY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b019dqg3 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b0196rp1 (Listen) MON Cosmetic tourism - Debt 5,000 years MON MON In Britain the market for cosmetic surgery is now estimated MON to be worth about £900 million per year, and world-wide it MON is growing fast too, with people increasingly combining MON surgery with a holiday abroad. The lines between a hospital MON procedure and a recuperative break are being blurred and MON Laurie hears of new research from Ruth Holiday exploring the MON experiences of people who have a face-lift in Costa Rica or MON liposuction in Koh Samui. Jacqueline Sanchez-Taylor tells MON him about her study of young British women who view breast MON augmentation as a beauty treatment, 18 women from one group MON of friends have all had the op and are very relaxed about MON the risks. MON Also on the programme - being in the red is nothing new: MON David Graeber tells Laurie about his anthropological study MON of 5,000 years of Debt which shows that dispensing credit MON precedes even the invention of money. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b019f6j9 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019dqg5 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019dqg7 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019dqg9 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b019dqgc (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019f89z (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With MON the Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b019f8b1 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:57 Weather b019dqgf (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b019f8b3 (Listen) MON Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b019f8b5 (Listen) MON Financial Crisis: Philip Coggan, Angela Knight, Maurice MON Glasman and Detlev Schlichter MON MON Andrew Marr looks for solutions to the current global MON crisis. Detlev Schlichter dismisses the practice of printing MON more money in times of recession, arguing that in the next MON decade our reliance on paper money will collapse, and he MON proposes a return to hard commodities, like gold. The MON historian Philip Coggan pits creditors against debtors, tax MON payers against public sector workers, and believes it's time MON for a new monetary system to emerge. The Labour peer, Lord MON Glasman thinks we need to change the relationship between MON parliament and the market. And Angela Knight sticks up for MON the bankers, insisting they hold the key to the crisis, so MON deserve both a bonus and a bit of respect. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b019f8b7 (Listen) MON El Narco, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Ioan Grillo. As a teenager in Brighton the author MON witnessed the rise of drug use in 1980s Britain. He also MON knew four young men who died of heroin overdoses. Twelve MON years ago he arrived in Mexico with ambitions to be 'a MON foreign correspondent in exotic climes'. But the most MON compelling story that demanded attention was the MON extraordinary and terrifying power of the drug cartels and MON the violent world of 'El Narco'. MON MON It all begins with a simple flower on a hill. Asian opium MON poppies (as trafficked and traded by the British from India MON to China ) arrived in Mexico with Chinese labourers in the MON 1860s. MON MON Read by Rupert Degas MON Abridged and produced by Jill Waters MON A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b019f8b9 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON Academies: The parents' perspective MON MON Schools are hitting the headlines again as four primary MON schools in Haringey say they’re not being given a choice MON over becoming Academies. We’ve heard a great deal from MON policy makers over Academies, but what about parents? What MON are their concerns if they are being told their school MON should become one? And what about parents of children at MON Academies – do they feel their children are being given MON chances they wouldn’t otherwise have had? Jane talks to two MON parents with different experiences, Stephen Burton, Parent MON Governor of Ormiston Victory Academy in Norwich and Susan MON Garrad, parent at Noel Park Primary School in Haringey in MON London, MON MON Edith Wharton MON MON The Woman’s Hour drama this week is Ethan Frome by American MON author Edith Wharton, born 150 years ago this month. We find MON out how this novel reflected her own frustrations in a very MON unhappy marriage. Writer and academic, Hermione Lee joins MON Jane to talk about the lasting appeal of this great writer. MON MON Women and Sharia Law MON MON Muslim women who’ve been married in a religious ceremony are MON being urged to check that they are legally married under the MON UK’s civil law. One organisation, The Muslim Women’s MON Network, is concerned that women who have a traditional MON wedding ceremony or nikah might be unaware that they will be MON denied legal rights to property and support that they would MON be entitled to unless they have a civil marriage too. We MON hear from one solicitor who says unregistered marriages are MON on the rise and discuss what it means for women with Faeeza MON Vaid, Exec Director MWNUK and Amra Bone, the only woman to MON sit on the Sharia Council. MON MON Optimism MON MON Are human beings naturally optimistic? In her book The MON Optimism Bias, neuroscientist Dr Tali Sharot believes that MON we are hardwired to look on the bright side, ignoring MON evidence that suggests the future might not be as rosy as we MON imagine. Jane asks Tali why she believes optimism about MON childrearing is essential for the survival of the human MON race, why we overestimate our odds of professional success, MON expect our children to be extraordinarily gifted, believe we MON will live longer than we do, and why we hugely underestimate MON our change of divorce, cancer and unemployment. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019f8bc (Listen) MON Ethan Frome, Episode 1 MON MON by Edith Wharton MON Dramatised by Lin Coghlan MON MON Why does Ethan Frome walk with a limp? MON And what is the tragedy that befell him over twenty years MON earlier? MON A visitor to the town attempts to find out. MON MON Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham MON Mattie .....Jessica Raine MON Zeena .....Laurel Lefkow MON Denis Eady ..... Christopher Webster MON Post Mistress ..... Adjoa Andoh MON Andrew Hale ..... Paul Moriarty MON Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar MON MON Directed by Sally Avens MON MON 11:00 What's the Benefit? b019f8bf (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Large sections of the unemployed population have been MON accused of feigning disability and illness, they've been MON labelled as greedy and lazy, preferring to live off generous MON state benefits rather than contribute to society. It's this MON 'Shameless' generation that coalition government changes to MON the benefits system aim to hit hard. MON MON In a two-part documentary Tom Heap aims to get behind the MON tabloid headlines, meeting today's unemployed and the MON companies, government agencies and charities charged with MON getting them back to work. MON MON 11:30 Party b011vg9k (Listen) MON Series 2, Prison Ain't All That Bad MON MON The student politicians of the new political Party use MON prison-based TV shows as inspiration for forming their MON policy on crime and punishment. Second series of a satirical MON comedy written by Tom Basden. MON MON Simon ..... Tom Basden MON Duncan ..... Tim Key MON Jared ..... Jonny Sweet MON Mel ..... Ann Crilly MON Phoebe ..... Katy Wix MON MON Produced by Julia McKenzie. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b019f8bh (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b019dqgh (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b019f8bk (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents the national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 15 by 15 b010t3jt (Listen) MON Mattress MON MON What's in a word? Where did it come from? Where does it MON lead? In a new series of five programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli MON chooses a word and sees where it leads him. MON MON In 15 minutes he expects to learn 15 things he didn't know MON before. His journey takes him to lexicographer Susie Dent, MON who knows about words and can tell him where the word first MON appeared in the English language. From there he sets off in MON different directions, meeting people who in different ways MON are connected to that programme's word. MON MON Each programme is devoted to one word, and over the five MON programmes Hardeep encounters 'mattress', 'stroke', 'heel', MON 'spin' and 'trifle'. MON MON In the first programme 'Mattress', Hardeep meets Gerry, MON who's buying a mattress at an open air stall in a market, MON Lauren Child, adaptor and illustrator of 'The Princess and MON the Pea', David Cain who exterminates bedbugs, and opera MON singer Julie Unwin who falls on one from a height. MON MON Producer: Richard Bannerman MON A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b019f6kb (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b019ly12 (Listen) MON What to Do If Your Husband May Leave MON MON Mel Hudson stars in her surreal comedy about a woman facing MON a marital breakdown. MON MON After 22 years of marriage and three children, Mel discovers MON that her husband Dick is having an affair. She turns for MON support and solutions to all the usual sources- friends, the MON NHS, homeopathy, spiritual healing, wine. All are rubbish. MON Desperate and paranoid, Mel attempts to track down the MON mistress and events become increasingly more bizarre. MON MON Mel - Mel Hudson MON Dick / Daan - Richard Laing MON Katinka / Auntie Gwen - Mia Soteriou MON Dr Bryant - Laura Shavin MON Nicky / Big Bird - Kate O'Sullivan MON Librarian - Amy Clifton MON Joe - Gabriel Kelly MON MON Director - Alison Crawford. MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b019f8bp (Listen) MON (10/17) MON MON The canvas entitled 'Nude Descending A Staircase', first MON exhibited in 1912, was the first major success of which MON artist? MON MON Russell Davies puts this and many other questions to the MON competitors in the tenth heat of the 2012 contest. This MON week's programme comes from the BBC's new Salford studios, MON with quiz enthusiasts from Cheshire, the West Midlands and MON Edinburgh bidding for a semi-final place. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b019f6jw (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 I'm Rather Worried about Jim b019f8br (Listen) MON In 1948 BBC Radio's Light Programme broadcast the first MON episode of Mrs Dale's Diary - a radio drama serial centred MON around the daily diary of a doctor's wife called Mary, her MON husband Jim, (who provided the show with its unlikely MON catchphrase, "I'm rather worried about Jim") and their MON children, Bob and Gwen. For the following twenty one years, MON and over 5531 episodes - more than 6 million listeners tuned MON in every day between 11 and 11.15 to hear the everyday MON affairs of this much loved family. MON MON Penelope Keith - was herself a huge fan. She talks to MON original cast members and directors of the show - to MON discover what made it such a phenomenon and why its legacy MON lives on today. She reveals the magic ingredients that made MON it so popular, how the story lines reflected what was really MON going on in society, and what happened when the original Mrs MON Dale played by Ellis Powell - was suddenly replaced by the MON international actress and film star, Jessie Matthews. MON MON "I'm Rather Worried about Jim" is a fascinating and amusing MON look at a once much cherished English institution. MON MON Presenter: Penelope Keith MON Producer: Angela Hind MON A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b019f8bt (Listen) MON Protestant Work Ethic MON MON Today's crisis in the global financial markets has produced MON much soul searching about the culture of greed which seems MON to permeate our society. At the beginning of the last MON century the German sociologist, Max Weber, proposed that MON there was a direct link between the Protestant Reformation MON and the rise in capitalism. And specifically, that hard MON work, combined with a moral attitude towards wealth, was MON directly linked to salvation. So is the loss of religious MON faith across the West linked to the current crisis in MON capitalism? MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the Protestant Work Ethic are MON Lord Andrew Mawson, social entrepreneur, cross bench peer & MON minister in the United Reformed Church; Professor Sam MON Whimster, Fellow in the Centre for Advanced Study at the MON University of Bonn, and Jonathan Wittenberg, Rabbi of New MON North London Synagogue. MON MON 17:00 PM b019f8bw (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019dqgk (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b019f8by (Listen) MON Series 8, Episode 4 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Lee Mack, Jack Dee, Rufus Hound and Graeme MON Garden are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as: Nuts, Boy Scouts, The MON Circus and Florence Nightingale. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b019f8c0 (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b019f9cc (Listen) MON With John Wilson, who reviews Leonardo DiCaprio as FBI MON director J. Edgar Hoover, in a new film directed by Clint MON Eastwood. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019f8bc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Bishop and the Prisoner b019h3xs (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON In this three part series the BBC is given a rare degree of MON access to prisons as it accompanies the Rt Rev James Jones, MON the Church of England's "Bishop for prisons," into the MON country's jails. Conversations with prisoners and MON ex-offenders- voices rarely heard on radio - are the MON centrepieces of these programmes, but the Bishop also talks MON to prison staff, politicians and opinion-formers about what MON prison should be for, how prisoners can be helped to become MON useful citizens and whether community sentences can ever win MON the public's confidence as a viable alternative to prison. MON MON In the final programme, James Jones meets ex-offenders MON taking part in a variety of probation initiatives in MON Merseyside designed to cut re-offending and "pay back" the MON community for crimes committed. Three men on the Persistent MON Priority Offender scheme commend the programme for providing MON the supervision they found lacking on earlier probation MON orders. In a moving interview a mentor with the service, MON Lynsey, says probation saved her from prison, crime and MON alcoholism and her children from life in care. The Bishop MON visits the North Liverpool Justice Centre, a kind of MON one-stop-Justice shop which residents say has transformed MON their community but which the Government considers too MON expensive to replicate elsewhere. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b0196tcw (Listen) MON What happened to the Kurdish spring? MON MON Twenty years ago, the Kurdish region in Northern Iraq MON achieved effective autonomy after the first Gulf War, MON establishing a liberal constitution and a democratic MON assembly. The region is booming economically, thanks to its MON huge oil reserves. MON But things are not that simple on the ground. In February, MON there were protests in the city of Sulaimaniya against MON corruption and the dominance of the two parties which govern MON the region. The demonstration was violently suppressed, MON resulting in the deaths of several activists. Some Kurds MON believe that the generation of peshmerga guerillas who MON fought for autonomy in the 1980s and 1990s are now blocking MON more openness and democracy. Yet even critics concede that MON the Kurds have achieved far greater stability and security MON than the rest of Iraq. MON Gabriel Gatehouse asks if the Kurdish region should be a MON model for the rest of the Middle East to follow or avoid? MON Producer: Natalie Morton. MON MON 21:00 Material World b0194kz4 (Listen) MON This week, as Education Secretary Michael Gove calls for MON better computer science in schools, Quentin looks at how MON cheap or open source software and hardware could help. MON Seeing the invisible: the most detailed map of dark matter MON in the universe has been unveiled at this weeks' meeting of MON the American Astronomical Society. Royal Horticultural MON Society reveals its list of the worst garden pests of 2011. MON And Adam Rutherford samples horrible sounds with So You Want MON To Be A Scientist finalist Izzy Thomlinson. MON MON Producer: Martin Redfern, Victoria Kent. MON MON Computer Science Literacy MON MON 30 years on from the BBC Micro and with Education Secretary MON Michael Gove calling for better computer science in schools, MON Quentin looks at how computers have become so widespread MON that few know what goes on inside them, and at how cheap or MON open source software and hardware such as the Raspberry Pi MON are trying to address that. MON MON Mapping Dark Matter MON MON There’s five times more of it than all the visible stars and MON galaxies put together, but no one knows what ‘dark matter’ MON is. Now, the most detailed map of dark matter in the MON universe has been unveiled at this weeks' meeting of the MON American Astronomical Society. Dr Catherine Heymans of MON Edinburgh University describes how this large but invisible MON portion of the cosmos was revealed. MON MON Pest of The Year MON MON This week, the Royal Horticultural Society publishes its MON list of the 10 most (un)popular garden pests of 2011. We MON talk to their principal entomologist Andrew Halstead about MON emerging threats in our gardens and the role of climate MON change in their spread. MON MON Nasty Noises MON MON Adam Rutherford goes to Salford to meet So You Want To Be A MON Scientist finalist Izzy Thomlinson and her mentor Prof MON Trevor Cox and samples the horrible sounds she hopes to MON study. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b019f8b5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b019dqgm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b019h3xv (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b019fxb9 (Listen) MON My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, Flanders, 1914 MON MON Louisa Young's story explores the impact of unthinkable MON changes on five young people during the First World War. MON Many of the old certainties about class and women's roles MON are being swept away, but new and terrifying challenges are MON appearing. Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths and read by MON Olivia Colman. MON MON Episode 1 : Flanders, 1914 MON MON It's 1914. Riley Purefoy, a North London working-class boy, MON arrives in Flanders and gets his first taste of the war. MON Having been cold-shouldered by the mother of the girl he MON loves - a girl from a very different social background - he MON feels he has nothing to lose. At the front, Riley learns MON some hard lessons about the war, but his ability with the MON men is rewarded with promotion. MON MON Produced by Christine Hall. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b0194mw1 (Listen) MON Stories from other cultures MON MON Michael Rosen listens to traditional stories from other MON countries, including Uganda, Pakistan, Trinidad, Poland and MON India, told by people from those cultures who learned them MON from their parents and are now passing them on by word of MON mouth to the next generation. He finds out about the changes MON that happen when stories move across countries and languages MON with those who remember and tell them. MON MON And he visits a junior school to find out how a pioneering MON translation project is encouraging bilingual children to MON share the stories they've inherited from their families and MON translate them into English. MON MON Contributors include Monica Byanjeru Chalmers, Faustin MON Charles and Sita Brand. MON MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b019h3xx (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 17 JANUARY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b019dqh6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b019f8b7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019dqh8 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019dqhb (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019dqhd (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b019dqhg (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019p3xd (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With TUE the Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b019f9h3 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b019f9h5 (Listen) TUE Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; TUE Thought for the Day. Presented by James Naughtie and Evan TUE Davis. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b019f9h7 (Listen) TUE Jonathan Freedland explores a moment in history which TUE illuminates a current debate. TUE TUE 09:30 Musical Migrants b015zqv7 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Milan TUE TUE Five portraits of people who relocated to other countries, TUE influenced by music. TUE TUE Pedro Carrillo is from Venezuela. He fell in love with TUE Italian opera when he was five years old and heard a TUE recording of Verdi's Rigoletto playing in his father's TUE study. TUE TUE When he grew up, Pedro fulfilled his childhood ambition and TUE began singing regularly in the main theatre of Caracas. TUE However, not long into his career, the political regime in TUE Venezuela encroached on the nation's cultural life and TUE Pedro, who had not hidden his anti-government views, found TUE himself blacklisted. For three years - "three terrible TUE years" - he was unable to work as a singer. He grew TUE depressed. His voice suffered. He thought about giving up. TUE TUE Eventually, despite many misgivings and his love for his TUE homeland, he decided to emigrate. He moved, with his wife TUE Victoria, to Milan - the city of La Scala and of Verdi. TUE There, in the birthplace of opera, he had to start again and TUE rebuild his career from zero. TUE TUE Producer: Rachel Hopkin TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01b3gjy (Listen) TUE El Narco, Episode 2 TUE TUE Read by Rupert Degas TUE Abridged and produced by Jill Waters TUE A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b019f9h9 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019f9hc (Listen) TUE Ethan Frome, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Edith Wharton TUE Dramatised by Lin Coghlan TUE TUE Zeena goes away to visit a Doctor and Ethan and TUE Mattie are left alone together for the first time. TUE TUE Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham TUE Mattie ..... Jessica Raine TUE Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow TUE Andrew Hale ..... Paul Moriarty TUE Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar TUE TUE Directed by Sally Avens TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b019f9hf (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 3 - The Ghost Roost TUE TUE Over ten years ago before the West Pier in Brighton was TUE destroyed by storms and fire, wildlife sound recordist Chris TUE Watson and sound designer Thor McIntyre Burnie were given TUE permission to rig up microphones in what had once been the TUE grand concert hall. During the day, the pier was a dangerous TUE place to venture, but on a winter's night, as dusk fell, and TUE the sea glowed red, it was transformed into a magical scene TUE as tens of thousands of starlings gathered in the air above, TUE performing their aerial acrobatics (murmurations) before TUE descending onto the pier to roost for the night. The TUE starlings roosted in what remained of the concert hall, and TUE it was the sounds of these birds gathered in their night TUE roost, which Chris and Thor wanted to capture - from dusk TUE until dawn, when the birds departed once again on their TUE feeding trips. TUE TUE It was no easy task rigging up the concert hall with TUE microphones. "When the wind blew" Chris said, "chunks TUE literally fell off and were tossed into the sea like autumn TUE leaves". They rigged up an array of different microphones as TUE they wanted to capture both the sense of space; the TUE atmosphere of the concert hall, as well as close up sounds TUE of the birds themselves. As dusk approached the first birds TUE arrived over the pier. In time, they descended into the TUE concert hall, and an extraordinary performance began; the TUE sounds of tens of thousands of performers gathered together. TUE Today the West Pier no longer exists except for some TUE skeletal fragments. The starlings have passed into history, TUE but what's left are the recordings. They are the recordings TUE of a Ghost Roost. TUE NATURE recreates this performance with 'programme notes' TUE about the performers and the venue. TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE 11:30 The Print Master b019fwvx (Listen) TUE What do Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, Elisabeth Frink, TUE Paula Rego, David Hockney and Man Ray have in common? They TUE have all worked with legendary print maker, Stanley Jones. TUE Susan Aldworth takes the chance to be his apprentice, to TUE hear his tales, and learn his skills. TUE In the 1950s the printmaking skill-base in the UK had almost TUE completely disappeared until W. S. Hayter - founder of the TUE legendary Atelier 17 studio in Paris - persuaded a talented TUE young artist from Wigan to study the art of lithography, a TUE skill which had been lost in the UK since the time of TUE Whistler. TUE On his return to Britain, Stanley Jones spearheaded a rapid TUE expansion in British Printmaking - today he is revered in TUE artistic circles as one of the greatest print makers alive. TUE Now in his 70s Stanley Jones's clients read like a roll-call TUE of the 20th century's great British artists. TUE TUE Artist Susan Aldworth was invited to be Artist in Residence TUE at the Curwen Studio, which Stanley was involved in setting TUE up in the 1950s - the Tate Gallery has a special archive TUE devoted to the studio's work. In 'The Print Master', we join TUE them amongst the thundering and clanking machinery of the TUE print works, now near Cambridge, as Stanley initiates Susan TUE in the art of lithography, hearing tales of artists he has TUE worked with over the past 50 years. And what artists! TUE TUE Today lithography is under threat as increasing numbers of TUE Art Schools have disposed of their lithography presses and TUE there are few technicians who fully understand the process. TUE This is a unique chance to work with the world expert in TUE this discipline, and for the listener to discover more about TUE this art. TUE TUE Producer: Sara Jane Hall. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b019fwvz (Listen) TUE Remaking the Self. The growth of cosmetic surgery TUE TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. With Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b019dqhj (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b019fx9j (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 15 by 15 b010xy3q (Listen) TUE Trifle TUE TUE What's in a word? Where did it come from? Where does it TUE lead? In a new series of five programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli TUE chooses a word and sees where it leads him. In 15 minutes he TUE expects to learn 15 things he didn't know before. TUE TUE In the second programme 'Trifle', Hardeep meets head pastry TUE chef Jocky Petrie who went on a mission to make the perfect TUE trifle, Shakespeare scholar Luke Healy, and remembers the TUE inimitable TV cook Fanny Cradock. TUE TUE Producer: Richard Bannerman TUE A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b019f8c0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b019fx9l (Listen) TUE Birkett, Birkett and the Red Stains on the Carpet TUE TUE By Caroline and David Stafford. TUE 3/4 TUE Norman Birkett, the most celebrated advocate of the TUE inter-war years, defends a doctor accused of murdering and TUE dismembering his wife and maid. TUE TUE Norman Birkett.....Neil Dudgeon TUE Billie.....Bonnie Engstrom TUE Edgar.....Alun Raglan TUE Jackson.....Adam Billington TUE Buck Ruxton.....Sagar Arya TUE Shaw.....Gerard McDermott TUE Glaister.....James Lailey TUE Bennett.....Rikki Lawton TUE Alfred.....Christopher Webster TUE Susan/Gracie.....Victoria Inez Hardy TUE Mary.....Alex Rivers. TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b019fx9n (Listen) TUE Divided We Stand TUE TUE A selection of brief encounters, true stories and found TUE sound find a home in this new series for BBC Radio 4. Nina TUE Garthwaite, the founder of the public listening phenomenon TUE 'In the Dark', presents a showcase for delightful and TUE adventurous short documentaries. TUE TUE In the second edition of this series, 'Divided we Stand', we TUE hear stories of separation - political, personal and TUE playful. From the story of a singing airman in World War TUE Two, and his feelings about the class divide to a classic TUE tale of unrequited love between an animated cat and mouse, TUE Ignatz and Krazy Kat. We eavesdrop on a breakdown of TUE communication between a Nigerian woman and an Irishman and TUE listen to the lilting musicality of a litany of peace walls TUE and separation barriers from around the world. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Questions, Questions b013852h (Listen) TUE Stewart Henderson presents another sparkling series of TUE Questions Questions - the programme which offers answers to TUE those intriguing questions of everyday life, inspired by TUE current events and popular culture. TUE TUE Each programme is compiled directly from the well-informed TUE and inquisitive Radio 4 audience, who bring their unrivalled TUE collective brain to bear on these puzzlers every week. TUE TUE In this week's programme Stewart looks into why the swallow TUE sometimes flies high and sometimes low - and does its choice TUE of altitude really predict the weather? Questions about TUE jewellery made of hair are answered by a Swedish hair TUE jewellery expert and a listener has their query about the TUE strange phenomenon of 'green eye' when photographing pets TUE answered. And, guaranteed to start you scratching, Stewart TUE finds out about new developments to see off nits with lethal TUE efficiency. TUE TUE Producer: Kate Taylor TUE A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b019fx9q (Listen) TUE Public speaking, show & tell TUE TUE Michael Rosen explores the new wave of public-speaking TUE events including Ignite and TED, and asks if the culture of TUE 'Show & Tell' in American classrooms produces better public TUE speakers. TUE TUE He visits the American Museum in Britain and speaks to their TUE Head of Learning, Laura Brown about what's influenced the TUE nation's approach to public speaking, and how a sense of TUE optimism drives their passion to share ideas. TUE TUE He also speaks to Chris Anderson about how he attracted such TUE big names to speak at the TED events, and how it's grown TUE into a global community of public speaking. Plus there's an TUE interview with Amanda Timberg from TeachFirst about the way TUE 'Show and Tell', 'Hot Seat' and TED talks all feed into TUE their working practises. TUE TUE Ignite has been described as a "gig for speakers" and event TUE organiser Andy Kervell describes the challenges of both TUE putting together a five minute talk backed by twenty slides, TUE and then delivering it to a rowdy and excitable crowd. Some TUE of the speakers including Sky at Night presenter Dr. Chris TUE Lintott explain why they enjoy taking part in these events. TUE TUE Producer: Toby Field. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b019fx9s (Listen) TUE Series 26, Gracie Allen TUE TUE Matthew Parris is joined by the actress Emma Kennedy to TUE explore the life of the American comedienne Gracie Allen. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b019fx9v (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including TUE Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019dqhl (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b01bgp22 (Listen) TUE Pilot Episode TUE TUE Audience sitcom pilot by Will Smith. After a disastrous TUE wedding anniversary, Annabelle signs herself and Will up for TUE a course of marriage guidance. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b019fx9x (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b019fx9z (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reports on a major exhibition of TUE landscape paintings by David Hockney, and reviews the film TUE W.E., written and directed by Madonna. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019f9hc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Three Generations of Incarceration b019fxb1 (Listen) TUE Gary Younge travels to Los Angeles to hear the story of one TUE family who has had three generations pass through America's TUE criminal justice system. The United States is the world's TUE leader in incarceration with 2.3 million people currently in TUE the nation's prisons or jails, and the Gamble family is just TUE one family in that story. Jeffrey Gamble's father spent time TUE in jail, his brother's Ricky and Mike are set to be in TUE prison for the rest of their lives whilst his son Khalif has TUE spent time inside too. But why has this cyclical quality of TUE family history stretched back three generations. What has TUE caused it, what could have been done to stop it, and will it TUE continue? TUE TUE If it was not for one decisive moment in Jeffrey Gamble's TUE life he believes he would either be dead or in prison for TUE the rest of his life. In their own words the family reflect TUE on what might have gone wrong since they moved to Los TUE Angeles from Hope, Arkansas in the late 1960s. They all have TUE differing versions but what becomes clear is that once you TUE become a felon your chances of finding employment, housing TUE and a new life are drastically diminished. What should be TUE done to improve their chances? Is rehabilitation rather than TUE punitive justice the answer and what will stop the same TUE family members passing through the same prison doors? TUE TUE Producer: Barney Rowntree TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b019fxb3 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b019fxb5 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter demystifies the health issues that perplex us TUE and separates the facts from the fiction. He brings clarity TUE to conflicting health advice, explores new medical research TUE and tackles the big health issue of the moment revealing the TUE inner workings of the medical profession and the daily TUE dilemmas doctors face. TUE TUE Presenter: Dr Mark Porter TUE Producer: Erika Wright/Beth Eastwood. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b019f9h7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b019dqhn (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b019fxb7 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Robin TUE Lustig. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b019p3nn (Listen) TUE My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, France and London TUE TUE Episode 2: France and London TUE TUE Newly-promoted Riley Purefoy is in France. It's 1915 and TUE he's about to return to the Front Line. Meanwhile in London, TUE his girlfriend Nadine makes the decision to become a nurse. TUE Her mother still won't countenance the idea that she and TUE Riley could have any future together. TUE TUE Produced by Christine Hall. TUE TUE 23:00 I, Regress b019fxbc (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE A dark, David Lynch-ian comedy, ideally suited for an TUE unsettling and surreal late night listen. 'I, Regress' sees TUE Matt Berry (The IT Crowd, Garth Marenghi's Dark Place, Snuff TUE Box) playing a corrupt and bizarre hypnotherapist taking TUE unsuspecting clients on twisted, misleading journeys through TUE their subconscious. TUE TUE Each episode sees the doctor dealing with a different client TUE who has come to him for a different problem (quitting TUE smoking, fear of water, etc). As the patient is put under TUE hypnosis, we 'enter' their mind, and all the various TUE situations the hypnotherapist takes them through are played TUE out for us to hear. The result is a dream- (or nightmare-) TUE like trip through the patient's mind, as funny as it is TUE disturbing. TUE TUE Episode 3: Ms Taffgoon (Morgana Robinson) finds her TUE appointment with Dr Berry to cure a fear of heights takes a TUE strange path, taking in a talking pigeon (Derek Griffiths) TUE and an interplanetary trip. And a field. TUE TUE The cast across the series include Katherine Parkinson (IT TUE Crowd), Morgana Robinson (The Morgana Show), Simon Greenall TUE (I'm Alan Partridge), Jack Klaff (Star Wars, For Your Eyes TUE Only), Tara Flynn (The Impressions Show, Stewart Lee's TUE Comedy Vehicle), Alex Lowe (Barry From Watford, The Peter TUE Serafinowicz Show), and Derek Griffiths (Playschool, Bod, TUE and The Royal Exchange). TUE TUE A compelling late night listen: tune in and occupy someone TUE else's head! TUE Produced by Sam Bryant. TUE TUE 23:15 Continuity b00tjq8m (Listen) TUE Episode 3 TUE TUE A Continuity Announcer's booth can be a lonely place - TUE especially on the late shift, when you've barely seen your TUE wife and children for a week. Still, this Radio 4 Continuity TUE Announcer is nothing, if not a consummate professional and TUE he's not going to let his own insignificant little problems TUE get in the way of your listening pleasure. Especially when TUE there are so many exciting programmes coming up in the next TUE week, which he's got to tell you about. At least some of TUE them are exciting. Some of them aren't quite his cup of tea, TUE if he's honest, but that's not really the point, is it? They TUE may be right up your street. It's not really his place to TUE express an opinion. Even if it is tempting. This may be a TUE come-down from heady days spent announcing on the Today TUE programme, but he's got a job to do. Though sometimes it is TUE rather difficult to concentrate ..... TUE TUE Alistair McGowan stars in a new subversive sitcom about a TUE Continuity Announcer brooding on the escalating disasters of TUE his private and professional life; at the same time as TUE attempting to give us a preview of the programmes on offer TUE in the coming week on Radio 4. Or what might be Radio 4 in a TUE parallel universe. Trails for 'The Ethical Enigma', TUE 'Britain's Favourite Sound' and 'The History of Britain One TUE Year at a Time' are just some of the strange delights on TUE offer in the world of this 'radio professional', who TUE harbours a slightly inappropriate relationship with his TUE audience. TUE TUE Written by Hugh Rycroft a stalwart of 'The News Quiz' and TUE co-creator of 'Parliamentary Questions' and 'Life, Death and TUE Sex with Mike and Sue', the series also features the voices TUE of Lewis Macleod, Sally Grace, Charlotte Page and David TUE Holt. TUE TUE Produced by David Spicer and Frank Stirling TUE A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b019fxbf (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b019dqj9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01b3gjy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019dqjc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019dqjf (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019dqjh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b019dqjk (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019p2yv (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With WED the Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b019fxj3 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Angela Frain. WED WED 06:00 Today b019fxj5 (Listen) WED Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; WED Thought for the Day. Presented by James Naughtie and Evan WED Davis. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b019fxj7 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01b3h20 (Listen) WED El Narco, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Ioan Grillo. WED WED American drug policy shapes the future of 'El Narco'. WED Kingpins and cartels emerge. WED WED Read by Rupert Degas WED Abridged and produced by Jill Waters WED A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b019fxj9 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019fxjc (Listen) WED Ethan Frome, Episode 3 WED WED by Edith Wharton WED Dramatised by Lin Coghlan WED WED Ethan and Mattie's idyll is shattered by WED the return of Zeena. WED WED Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham WED Mattie ..... Jessica Raine WED Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow WED Jotham Powell ..... Adam Billington WED Denis Eady ..... Christopher Webster WED Widow Homan ...... Victoria Inez Hardy WED Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar WED WED Directed by Sally Avens WED WED 11:00 Songs for Tahrir b019fxjf (Listen) WED Palestinian singer Reem Kelani has a unique perspective on WED the tumultuous events in Egypt in early 2011 - while in WED Cairo to research the music of Sayyid Darwish (1892-1923), WED she found herself watching history unfold. Caught up in the WED revolution, she wrote a blog from Tahrir Square, and saw WED Darwish's music taking on a new and urgent topicality, WED alongside the creations of contemporary songwriters. WED WED One of Darwish's anti-establishment songs 'Biladi, Biladi' WED (My homeland, My homeland), was originally written against WED the background of the 1919 Revolt against the British WED Protectorate, but was adopted as the official Egyptian WED national anthem in 1980. It became a song of resistance once WED again during the Revolution of 25th January as demonstrators WED reclaimed the anthem that they felt had been hijacked by the WED regime. Reem recorded protestors raising their voices WED against Mubarak, by singing Darwish's songs - not only those WED dealing with nationalism and social justice: even love songs WED by Darwish moved protestors, young and old, during the days WED of mass protest. During her first extended stay in Egypt WED Reem found that Sayyid Darwish's music remained well known, WED and seemed to find its true home in Tahrir ('Liberation') WED Square during the heady days of the revolution, as the WED lyrics resonated with Egyptians' experiences and WED aspirations. Protestors also sang songs by Egyptian greats WED such as Sheikh Imam, delighting in a body of artistic work WED which had long been denied them because it was deemed WED subversive. Many adapted folk songs, and at the same time, WED contemporary musicians created new compositions, some of WED them capturing brilliantly the spirit of the moment. But in WED Tahrir Square, the overwhelming reality was of a host of WED unknown and unsung singing heroes who led those around them WED into a musical formulation of pent-up political frustration. WED WED In a return visit to Cairo for Radio 4 Reem met up with the WED activists, poets and musicians with whom she spent time on WED Tahrir Square in the early months of 2011, to explore the WED role of music in the Revolution and Darwish's importance to WED Egyptians now. She spoke to them about the creative spirit WED of the popular uprising, and the underground music that WED accompanied - and some say precipitated - the protests. Reem WED arrived just as the revolution seemed to be entering a WED second phase, and found anger but also optimism and WED determination that Egypt will set itself on the track to WED democracy after years of dictatorship and decline. WED WED 11:30 A Short Gentleman b019fxjh (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED by Jon Canter, adapted by Robin Brooks WED WED Hugh Bonneville stars as Robert Purcell, QC, a perfect WED specimen of the British Establishment, who applies faultless WED legal logic to his disastrous personal life. WED WED 3/4 WED When dealing with his wife's lover, Robert employs his WED deadliest weapon: being a gentleman. WED WED Elizabeth ..... Lyndsey Marshal WED Max ..... Ted Allpress WED Isobel ..... Lauren Mote WED Mona/Ticky ..... Katherine Jakeways WED Geoffrey ..... Paul Moriarty WED Anthony ..... Carl Prekopp WED Penelope ..... Tracy Wiles WED with Adjoa Andoh, Ewan Bailey, Adam Billington , James WED Hayes. WED WED Produced and Directed by Jonquil Panting. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b019fxjk (Listen) WED Consumer news with Shari Vahl. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b019fxjm (Listen) WED Wide Berth to Justice WED WED John Waite investigates the policing of crimes that take WED place on board cruise ships and the case of Rebecca Coriam, WED who disappeared from a Disney cruise ship earlier this year. WED With many ships flagging away from the UK, to countries like WED the Bahamas, Bermuda and Panama, does international law WED needs to be changed to ensure the safety of passengers and WED to protect victims of crime? WED WED 12:57 Weather b019dqjm (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b019fxjp (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 15 by 15 b0112d58 (Listen) WED Heels WED WED What's in a word? Where did it come from? Where does it WED lead? In a new series of five programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli WED chooses a word and sees where it leads him. In 15 minutes he WED expects to learn 15 things he didn't know before. WED WED In the third programme - Heels, Hardeep meets Meg Matthews, WED who owns 400 pairs of high heels, takes lessons from Chyna WED Whyne, visits Northampton's shoe museum, and asks ballroom WED dancer Lilia Kopylova what she thinks about the saying that WED Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but WED backwards, and in high heels. WED WED Producer: Richard Bannerman WED A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b019fx9x (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b00qx43c (Listen) WED Edith's Story WED WED By Robin Glendinning. The true story of Edith Scholem, WED 16-year-old daughter to the leader of Germany's communists, WED who in 1934 was forced to flee Berlin in a desperate attempt WED to find sanctuary for her family. WED WED Edith Scholem ...... Emerald O'Hanrahan WED Emmy Scholem ...... Haydn Gwynne WED Heinz Von Hackebeil ...... Michael Shelton WED Headmaster ...... Nigel Hastings WED Hackebeil's Niece ...... Tessa Nicholson WED Von Hackebeil ...... Mark Lambert WED Frau Von Hackebeil ...... Stella McCusker WED Gestapo Officer ...... Miche Doherty WED WED Directed by Eoin O'Callaghan. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b019fyq5 (Listen) WED Rules which came in last year mean that fathers can take up WED to six months off to care for new babies, as long as the WED mother goes back to work. Dads taking advantage of WED additional paternity leave will be eligible for pay of up to WED £128.73 per week. WED Other changes have not been so kind to families, however. WED Government cutbacks mean that child benefit was frozen from WED three years from last April, and lower income limits mean WED that some parents may receive reduced Child Tax Credits. WED The birth rate has been climbing for a decade, and even WED though there are signs it has recently levelled off, the WED increase in births mean more employers and employees find WED themselves faced with maternity and paternity rights WED questions. The expert panel will answer your queries. WED Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED - Will Hadwen, welfare rights advisor, Working Families WED - Sian Keall, head of employment, Travers Smith WED - Sarah Veale, head of equality and employment rights, TUC WED Producer: Mike Wendling WED Presenter: Paul Lewis. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b019fxb5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b019fyq7 (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b019fyqc (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED The producer is Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b019fyqf (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019dqjp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b0124nql (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED By Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser WED WED Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse WED Gran ..... Anne Reid WED Ray ..... Paul Copley WED Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley WED Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford WED Tanya ..... Susan Cookson WED Waiter ..... Jim Poyser WED Head ..... Caimh McDonnell WED WED Produced by Steven Canny WED WED 19:00 The Archers b019fyqh (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b019fyqk (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Philippa Ritchie. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019fxjc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Decision Time b019fyqm (Listen) WED Nick Robinson goes behind the closed doors of Whitehall and WED inside Westminster to explore how controversial decisions WED are reached. Each week, he asks people with senior WED experience of government and politics how a government, of WED whatever political colour, would approach a looming WED decision. Producer, Rob Shepherd. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b019fyqp (Listen) WED Series 2, Clare Allan WED WED Clare Allan asks why lying gets such a bad press. The truth, WED she argues, can be far more dangerous. WED WED Can lies both liberate and illuminate? As a novelist she WED discusses how she takes full advantage of her position to WED tell stories, to invent the facts. But in so doing so, she WED says, fiction can lead us closer to the truth. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded in front WED of an audience at the RSA in London, speakers take to the WED stage to air their latest thinking on the trends, ideas, WED interests and passions that affect our culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frankenstein's Moon b019fyqr (Listen) WED Did the Moon shining into Mary Shelley's bedroom in June WED 1816 play a part in the genesis of her Frankenstein story? WED Two forensic astronomers in the United States believe there WED is evidence from moon charts and old weather reports to give WED this tale credence. There is also speculation that 19th WED century painter Turner may have been influenced by the WED findings of the astronomer William Herschel and the WED physicist Michael Faraday, in the manner in which he WED depicted the Sun and ocean waves. WED WED Adam Rutherford explores the influence of astronomical and WED other scientific phenomena on the work of writers and WED artists, and looks at the evidence behind the historical WED examples. He also talks to contemporary artists such as WED Cornelia Parker about their fascination with objects such as WED meteorites. One of Cornelia Parker's artistic ambitions is WED to reunite the planet Mars with a meteorite which originated WED from the red planet and fell to Earth several billion years WED ago. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b019fxj7 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b019dqjr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b019fyqt (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Robin WED Lustig. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b019p3w3 (Listen) WED My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, Peter, Julia and Rose WED WED Episode 3: Peter, Julia and Rose WED WED 1915. The War continues to challenge both men and women. WED Rose Locke, a nursing auxiliary, and her relative Julia - WED who has no occupation other than being beautiful - are WED discovering that all the old certainties about their lives WED are gone. For Rose, this is liberating; for Julia, it is an WED unlooked-for education in what a man is capable of when he WED has been brutalised. WED WED Produced by Christine Hall. WED WED 23:00 Tina C's Global Depression Tour b019fyqw (Listen) WED Iceland WED WED Country legend Tina C challenges the Secretary for the US WED Treasury, the Chairman of the Federal Reserve and the former WED CEO of Goldman Sachs that where they have failed, she can WED come up with a solution to the Global Recession, and sets WED off on a six country tour to prove it. WED WED This week she visits Iceland. WED WED Tina C ...Christopher Green WED With Sigrun Davidsdottir and Victoria Inez Hardy WED Musical arrangements by Duncan Walsh Atkins and Christopher WED Green WED Director Jeremy Mortimer. WED WED 23:15 What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else WED b00tmtwm (Listen) WED Series 1, Communication WED WED What lengths do we need to go to "look good"? Do we really WED need to communicate with our fellow men? How important is it WED to work? Or to have a relationship? WED WED What To Do If You're Not Like Everybody Else is a four part WED mini-series of short comedic monologues on BBC Radio 4 WED written and performed by stand-up comedian Andrew Lawrence. WED In these he takes a light-hearted look at various aspects WED of conventional living and the pressure we feel to conform WED to social norms and ideals. WED WED Each episode is fifteen minutes long and was recorded in WED front of an audience, the first two episodes at South London WED comedy club 'Up The Creek', the final two recorded at the WED Edinburgh Comedy Festival. WED WED This second episode examines the difficulties of human WED interaction and communication. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b019fyqy (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 19 JANUARY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b019dqkb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01b3h20 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019dqkd (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019dqkg (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019dqkj (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b019dqkl (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019p2yx (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With THU the Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b019gy9k (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. THU THU 06:00 Today b019gy9m (Listen) THU Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; THU Thought for the Day. Presented by Sarah Montague and Justin THU Webb. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b019gy9p (Listen) THU 1848: Year of Revolution THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss 1848, the year that saw THU Europe engulfed in revolution. Across the continent, from THU Paris to Palermo, liberals rose against conservative THU governments. In the end, over fifty countries were involved THU in what some referred to as the Spring of Nations. The THU rebels were fighting for nationalism, social justice and THU civil rights, and were prepared to fight in the streets down THU to the last man. Tens of thousands of people lost their THU lives; but little of lasting value was achieved, and by the THU end of the year the liberal revolutions had been soundly THU beaten. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01b3hdb (Listen) THU El Narco, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Ioan Grillo. THU THU Amid the violence and the bloodshed the drug underworld THU feeds its own peculiar culture including the 'narcocorridos' THU the ballads that depict the dramas and deaths of 'los THU valientes'. THU THU Read by Rupert Degas THU Abridged and produced by Jill Waters THU A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b019gy9r (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019gy9t (Listen) THU Ethan Frome, Episode 4 THU THU by Edith Wharton THU Dramatised by Lin Coghlan THU THU Ethan becomes determined THU to escape his marriage and runaway THU with Mattie. THU THU Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham THU Mattie ..... Jessica Raine THU Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow THU Edith Wharton .... Fenella Woolgar THU THU Directed by Sally Avens THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b019gy9w (Listen) THU The stories behind the world headlines. THU THU 11:30 The Mystery of The Mystery of Edwin Drood b019gz0c (Listen) THU 'The Mystery of Edwin Drood' is a tantalising element of the THU Dickens manuscript archive held by the Victoria and Albert THU Museum in London. THU THU Along with fellow crime-writer Simon Brett and Dickens THU scholar Professor Jenny Hartley, Frances Fyfield uses the THU packed manuscript pages, detailed number plans and early THU cover designs to try and make sense of one of English THU Literature's great mysteries: what really happened to the THU eponymous hero. Edwin Drood. THU THU Dickens died shortly after bringing the curtain down on THU Chapter 23, barely half way through the twelve monthly THU instalments. He suffered a massive stroke later that day, 8 THU June 1870, and died the next day. THU THU By that stage in Dickens' novel, Edwin has gone missing and THU it is suspected that he has been murdered but no body has THU been found. The finger of suspicion points at Neville THU Landless but the author seems to be hinting at the guilt of THU a more sinister figure, the leader of the Cathedral choir, THU John Jasper. THU THU Ever since, Dickensian enthusiasts have searched the book THU for every hint of a clue as to what the author intended to THU do with the characters he'd created. Frances isn't afraid of THU joining these so-called 'Droodians' in trying to employ her THU crime-writer's insights to make sense of the pieces of the THU jigsaw left to us. THU THU But her investigation, which takes her to Rochester where THU the novel is set, also examines the state of Dickens' mind THU at the time, and his fascination with the criminal THU mentality, including vintage Dickensian types like Mr THU Crisparkle, the angular Mr Grewgious and the hideous THU auctioneer Mr Sapsea. THU THU Frances and her colleagues also search the manuscript for THU signs of the author's failing health, and, perhaps more THU importantly, failing ability. THU THU What they find is the usual high octane writing style, THU brilliant inventiveness and perhaps a greater subtlety in THU characterisation than in many of the earlier works. THU THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b019gz0f (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b019dqkn (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b019gz0h (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents the 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 15 by 15 b0118cn7 (Listen) THU Spin THU THU What's in a word? Where did it come from? Where does it THU lead? In a new series of five programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli THU chooses a word and sees where it leads him. In 15 minutes he THU expects to learn 15 things he didn't know before. THU THU Hardeep spins round at over 600 miles per hour, visits the THU New Lanark Heritage site where Arkwright's revolutionary THU spinning machine is still in action, hears cricket THU commentator Christopher Martin Jenkins recall Shane Warne's THU test match debut, and touches on political spin with THU political commentator Peter Oborne. THU THU Producer: Richard Bannerman THU A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b019fyqh (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b019gz0k (Listen) THU Twelve Years THU THU A love story told across the two New York blackouts of 1965 THU and 1977. THU THU Larry and Nancy meet during the first blackout, while the THU prosperous city enjoys a spontaneous holiday. Twelve years THU on, the city is very different: rioting and looting THU accompany the blackout in a time of economic depression, and THU the couple must fight for their survival in a world which THU seems irrevocably changed. THU THU Nancy...................... Megan Ketch THU Larry........................ Brian Hastert THU THU Written by Alexandra Wood THU Directed by Lu Kemp. THU THU 15:00 Open Country b019gz0m (Listen) THU It's been seven years since hunting with hounds was THU abolished. But it's claimed the country's hunts, which no THU longer chase a live animal but a trail of artificial scent THU instead, are in the best shape anyone can remember. So is THU the ban working? On Boxing Day, three hundred hunts took THU place across the country and Agricultural Minister, Jim THU Paice announced there'd be a vote on whether to repeal the THU act when there's time in the parliamentary calendar. So on THU today's Open Country, Helen Mark investigates what the THU latest is on both sides of the debate. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b019f6jk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b019lyhg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b019gzqf (Listen) THU Francine Stock talks to Ralph Fiennes about his Coriolanus THU and delves into the murky world of J.Edgar which is directed THU by Clint Eastwood and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Naomi THU Watts. THU THU Producer: Zahid Warley. THU THU 16:30 Material World b019gzqh (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 b019gzqk (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including THU Weather. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019dqkq (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b0151xsf (Listen) THU Series 7, To Kill a Mocking Bird THU THU Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all THU the right jargon but never a practical solution. THU THU In episode two 'To Kill A Mocking Bird' Clare ends her THU relationship with Brian and is surprised by her colleagues' THU reaction to the news. THU THU Clare ..... SALLY PHILLIPS THU Brian ..... ALEX LOWE THU Megan/Nali ..... NINA CONTI THU Ray ..... RICHARD LUMSDEN THU Helen ..... LIZA TARBUCK THU Simon ..... ANDREW WINCOTT THU Libby ..... SARAH KENDALL THU Pru Granville ..... SOPHIE THOMPSON THU Mr Collier ..... GERARD MCDERMOTT THU Thomas ..... GEORGIA LOWE THU THU Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden THU Producer by Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b019gzqm (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b019gzqp (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reviews Antony Sher in Travelling THU Light, a new play by Nicholas Wright about the role of THU Eastern European film-makers in the early days of Hollywood. THU THU Producer Jerome Weatherald. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019gy9t (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b019gzqr (Listen) THU Breast Implants THU THU As the NHS prepares to deal with the 3,000 women it treated THU with PIP implants, Simon Cox asks what will happen to the THU many more thousands of women who had their surgery in THU private clinics. How did this faulty product come to be so THU widely used by the big cosmetic surgery companies, and who THU will ultimately foot the bill? THU THU Despite repeated warnings to the government regulator, THU French company Poly Implant Prothese was allowed to sell its THU cheap breast implants filled with industrial-grade silicone THU to women in the UK for a decade. THU THU Big companies like Transform and Harley Medical Group now THU have thousands of former patients demanding that they take THU the government's lead and remove or replace their implants THU for free. But thousands more paid companies which have gone THU bust. Women now battling to get their potentially dangerous THU implants removed recount their ordeal since finding out they THU paid for implants filled with silicone never designed for THU use in people. THU THU Surgeons involved in the urgent review called by Health THU Secretary Andrew Lansley tell of the days that followed the THU French government's announcement that it would pay for all THU PIP implants to be removed. And those involved in the drive THU to train and educate cosmetic surgeons properly call for THU government support for ideas that could stop a repeat of THU this very expensive scandal. THU THU 20:30 In Business b019gzqt (Listen) THU Do It Yourself Jobs THU THU If times are hard, why not set up your own business rather THU than try to find a job somewhere else? Peter Day hears from THU young entrepreneurs who think that one way of beating THU recession is to start from scratch. THU Producer: Caroline Bayley. THU THU 21:00 Nature b019f9hf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b019gy9p (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b019dqks (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b019h1gg (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b019p4wc (Listen) THU My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, Love and Duty THU THU Episode 4: Love and duty THU THU On leave in London, Riley meets Nadine again after three THU years; they renew their love for and commitment to one THU another. Riley returns to France and has to deal with an THU outbreak of sheer terror among the men; there is about to be THU a very big military operation. THU THU Produced by Christine Hall. THU THU 23:00 Meanwhile, It's Will & Greg b019h1gj (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Comedy performers William Andrews and Greg McHugh explore THU the surreal and the absurd through characters and everyday THU situations in their first sketch show for BBC Radio 4. Along THU with live sketches recorded in front of an appreciative THU Glasgow audience, the show also features studio based THU sketches with Will & Greg as "themselves" exploring a THU particular scenario and utilizing their hilarious THU relationship with each other and their trademark skew-whiff THU logic. The studio based sketches allows them to play with THU sound and atmosphere of the radio sketch form and blend them THU with the live audience material. THU THU Together with brand new regulars and one-off sketches, the THU series explores the bizarrely familiar, the recognisably odd THU and the upbeat offbeat way of life that only exists when the THU planet is touched by Will and Greg. THU THU Stars William Andrews and Greg McHugh with Gavin Mitchell THU and Kirsten Mclean. THU THU Director: Iain Davidson THU Script editor: Chris Grady THU Original music by Alex Attwood. THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b019h1gl (Listen) THU Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 20 JANUARY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b019dqlc (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01b3hdb (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b019dqlf (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b019dqlh (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b019dqlk (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b019dqlm (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b019p2yz (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4. With FRI the Rev. Dr. Stephen Wigley. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b019h2b0 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Angela Frain. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b019h2b2 (Listen) FRI Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; FRI Thought for the Day. Presented by John Humphrys and Justin FRI Webb. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b019f6jt (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01b3hgn (Listen) FRI El Narco, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Ioan Grillo. FRI FRI Crime and punishment. Politics and the law. Is El Narco a FRI criminal movement or is it an insurgency that threatens the FRI very state itself ? FRI FRI Read by Rupert Degas FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jill Waters FRI A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b019h2b4 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019h2b6 (Listen) FRI Ethan Frome, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Edith Wharton FRI dramatised by Lin Coghlan FRI FRI Mattie and Ethan take desperate FRI measures not to be separated. FRI FRI Ethan Frome ..... Dominic Mafham FRI Mattie ..... Jessica Raine FRI Zeena ..... Laurel Lefkow FRI Mrs Hale ..... Tracy Wiles FRI Edith Wharton ..... Fenella Woolgar FRI FRI 11:00 The Politics of Pandas b019h2b8 (Listen) FRI Mao gave them to Nixon, Edward Heath desperately wanted FRI some, and now Alex Salmond has got his hands on two. Has FRI there ever been a more political animal than the panda? In FRI this special programme tied to the arrival of the two pandas FRI at Edinburgh Zoo, Philip Dodd investigates how a lazy, FRI bamboo munching bear with a marked reluctance to procreate FRI became the political gift par excellence. FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b019h2bb (Listen) FRI James Walton hosts another series of the book-based panel FRI show. This episode's Author of the Week is former poet FRI laureate, Sir John Betjeman. FRI FRI Sebastian Faulks is joined by children's author, Sue Limb, FRI and John Walsh is joined by Sir Andrew Motion, a previous FRI poet laureate himself, to solve more literary challenges, FRI based on Betjeman's life and work, as posed to them by James FRI Walton. FRI FRI The teams are also asked to imagine what Betjeman might have FRI written about were he alive today, and still poet laureate. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b019h2bd (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b019dqlp (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b019h2bg (Listen) FRI National and international news with Edward Stourton. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 15 by 15 b011j3gq (Listen) FRI Stroke FRI FRI What's in a word? Where did it come from? Where does it FRI lead? In a new series of five programmes Hardeep Singh Kohli FRI chooses a word and sees where it leads him. In 15 minutes he FRI expects to learn 15 things he didn't know before. FRI FRI Along the way Hardeep talks to art critic Richard Cork about FRI the brushstrokes of Claude Monet, meets massage therapist FRI Martin Kingston, remembers Botham's cricket strokes, and FRI hears about the Stroke Association's preventative campaign. FRI FRI Producer: Richard Bannerman FRI A Ladbroke Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b019gzqm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b00rfhzz (Listen) FRI Scummow - Things Washed Up by the Sea FRI FRI When a delirious Irishman arrives in a Cornish harbour, FRI baker Mary Kneebone takes him in, and soon the sick and FRI gullible are queuing at her door. A wry comedy about faith, FRI love and redemption from outstanding Cornish playwright FRI Annamaria Murphy. FRI FRI Mary Kneebone ..... Mary Woodvine FRI Edna Lugg ..... Barbara Jefford FRI Declan Credan ..... Stephen Hogan FRI Virgin Mary ..... Alison Pettit FRI Eamon Credan ..... John O'Mahony FRI Davey Ellis ..... Charles Barnecut FRI FRI Director ..... Claire Grove. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b019h3pk (Listen) FRI Peterborough FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a gardening Q&A with Springfields FRI Horticultural Society. Matthew Wilson, Bunny Guinness and FRI Christine Walkden join him on the panel. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 New Year, New Writers b019h3pm (Listen) FRI Una and Coll Are Not Friends FRI FRI Stories to mark the New Year by new writers from Scotland. FRI 'Una and Coll are not Friends' by Kirsty Logan. A magical FRI island tale in which two squabbling teenagers resist the FRI well-meaning forces which push them together. FRI Read by Finn den Hertog and Claire Knight. FRI Produced by Eilidh McCreadie. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b019h3pp (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b019h3pr (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your FRI views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. FRI FRI This programme's content is entirely directed by you. FRI FRI Producer: Karen Pirie FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b019h3pt (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b019dqlr (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b019h3pw (Listen) FRI Series 76, Episode 5 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b019h3py (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b019h3q0 (Listen) FRI John Wilson with arts news, reviews and interviews. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b019h2b6 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b019h3q2 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from the Anglo-European School, Ingatestone, Essex, FRI with Tessa Jowell, Danny Finkelstein and Ruth Davis of FRI Greenpeace, FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b019h3q4 (Listen) FRI The historian Lisa Jardine reflects on the week's events. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 The Prague Trial b019h3q6 (Listen) FRI By Arianne Mnouchkine and Patrice Chereau. FRI FRI The show trial of dissident writer Vaclav Havel and others FRI in the former Czechoslovakia in 1979 is explored using FRI dramatic reconstruction, testimonies and expert analysis, FRI revealing their roles in overcoming the Soviet Union's FRI control and the event's place in the wider context of FRI post-war Europe. Dramatised by Christopher Hampton, and FRI narrated by Jane Whittenshaw. FRI FRI Narrator ...... Jane Whittenshaw FRI Judge ...... Gerard Murphy FRI Dana Nemcova ...... Teresa Gallagher FRI Jiri Dienstbier ...... Andrew Branch FRI Anna Sabatova ...... Elaine Larkin FRI Otta Bednarova ...... Sarah Badel FRI Vaclav Benda ...... Geoffrey Whitehead FRI Petr Uhl ...... Nicholas Boulton FRI Vaclav Havel ...... Michael Maloney FRI Prosecutor ...... Keith Drinkel FRI FRI Producers: Paul Dodgson and Nick Patrick FRI Director: Martin Jenkins FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b019dqlt (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b019h3q8 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis with Ritula FRI Shah. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b019p9q7 (Listen) FRI My Dear I Wanted to Tell You, Consummation FRI FRI Episode 5: Consummation FRI FRI 1916. Riley leads his men through an important attack on FRI German lines on the Somme, in which many men are lost. The FRI following spring he meets Nadine again in London, and they FRI are able at last to share the love which they have kept FRI alive for so many years. FRI FRI Abridged by Lauris Morgan-Griffiths FRI Producer: Christine Hall. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b019fx9s (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b019h3qs (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI