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SAT SATURDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01bmp41 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01bmq2b (Listen) SAT A Card from Angela Carter, Episode 5 SAT SAT "These cards make a paper-trail, a zig-zag path through the SAT eighties, when I knew Angela. They are casually dispatched - SAT some messages are barley more than a signature - but often SAT the more pungent for that. They catch Angela on the wing, SAT shooting off her mouth." SAT SAT Angela Carter was the author of such tour de force novels as SAT 'Wise Children' and 'Nights at The Circus'. Since her death SAT twenty years ago, nothing that amounts to a biography has SAT been written about her. Susannah Clapp, her great friend and SAT literary executor, has not written a biography but has SAT brought these postcards to life - Living Doll, Flickerings, SAT Twin Peaks, Chilli - to paint a vivid picture of the SAT novelist at work and at home in London, and also on her SAT earlier travels in America and Japan. SAT SAT Susannah Clapp reads from her account of Angela Carter, SAT the dazzling novelist who died twenty years ago. Carter's SAT postcard entries are read by Claire Skinner and the series SAT abridger is Katrin Williams. SAT SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bmp43 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bmp45 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bmp47 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01bmp49 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bmq4j (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the SAT Revd Peter Whittaker, Methodist Minister. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01bmq4l (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners presented by SAT Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. On this week's show we hear SAT of one woman's experience of an open marriage and top SAT weatherman Peter Gibbs reads Your News. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01bmp4c (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01bmp4f (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01bmmzy (Listen) SAT Inspirational Walks, Kent - Octavia Hill Centenary Trail SAT SAT Clare Balding returns with a new series of Ramblings in SAT which she joins people who have either been inspired, or SAT have inspired others, to walk in the British countryside. SAT In the first of the series Clare joins keen walker and SAT Director General of the National Trust, Dame Fiona Reynolds, SAT to walk a section of the new Octavia Hill Centenary Trail in SAT Kent. Co-founder of the National Trust, Octavia Hill SAT passionately believed that green space was essential for a SAT healthy lifestyle and spent her life campaigning to save SAT these disappearing open spaces from development. SAT Beginning at Toys Hill in Kent, one of the places that SAT Octavia managed to save, Clare and Fiona set off to walk SAT part of the Trail which has been created to mark the SAT centenary of Octavia's death. A keen walker herself, Fiona SAT tells Clare why she finds Octavia Hill's legacy so SAT inspirational and why walking and the British landscape is SAT so important to her. SAT SAT Presenter: Clare Balding SAT Producer: Helen Chetwynd. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01bsmd8 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT As lamb continues to reach record prices in the supermarkets SAT and security tags become commonplace in the chiller aisles, SAT Farming Today hears how sheep farmers are making the most of SAT the boom while it lasts. SAT SAT Charlotte Smith visits a sheep farm in Leicestershire which SAT is increasing in size as the once struggling industry SAT becomes more profitable. Winter lambing is well underway, SAT and inside, away from the ice and snow, the lambing sheds SAT are warmed by the heat of hundreds of pregnant ewes. Each SAT successful birth means more profit for farmer Martin SAT Greenfield, so for the last ten days he has barely slept as SAT he patrols the sheds, keeping a watchful eye on his Texel SAT sheep. SAT SAT Farmers need to carefully manage every aspect of health and SAT breeding to maximise profits, and Angela Frain discusses the SAT role of farm vet with former president of the British SAT Veterinary Association Nick Blayney. But for some sheep SAT farmers, careful husbandry will be in vain, as the spread of SAT the newly-discovered Schmallenberg virus continues to SAT threaten their livelihoods. SAT SAT Presenter: Charlotte Smith Producer: Melvin Rickarby. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01bmp4h (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01bsmdb (Listen) SAT Presented by James Naughtie and Justin Webb. Including SAT Yesterday in Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01bsmdd (Listen) SAT Anita Anand with singer/songwriter Christy Moore, poet Matt SAT Harvey, a couple whose house burned down so they built a SAT boat and set sail, a woman who treasures a blanket from the SAT Isle of Wight Festival, a professional matchmaker, and the SAT Inheritance Tracks of actor/comedian Rob Brydon. SAT SAT Producer: JP Devlin. SAT SAT 10:00 Excess Baggage b01bsmdg (Listen) SAT Stones - Sacred sites - Crazy River SAT SAT John McCarthy talks to artist Emily Young about her travels SAT to find stone for her sculpture, to travel writer Martin SAT Symington about his venture in search of Britain's sacred SAT places both ancient and modern and to Richard Grant about SAT his exploration by inflatable raft of the Malagarasi River SAT in East Africa. Together they consider the extent to which SAT destinations can be spiritual. SAT SAT Producer: Harry Parker. SAT SAT 10:30 The Art of Monarchy b01bsmdj (Listen) SAT Behind the Royal Image SAT SAT BBC Arts Editor, Will Gompertz, begins an 8-part exploration SAT of almost one thousand years of the British Monarchy as told SAT through the objects of art they collected. In a weekly SAT journey that takes him from the wilds of Balmoral in SAT Scotland to the isolation of Osborne House on the Isle of SAT Wight, from the State Rooms in Buckingham Palace to the SAT Royal Library at Windsor Castle, he'll be selecting choice SAT items from the Royal Collection to see what they betray SAT about the art of statecraft and a successful reign. SAT SAT In each programme historians, academics and Royal Collection SAT curators shed light on the mystery of kingship and the SAT importance of faith, war, magnificence, progress and the SAT people in the minds of monarchs. SAT SAT He begins his investigations by looking at some of the most SAT personal royal images in the Collection to see what insights SAT they give us into the lasting power of the monarchy. From SAT the very earliest royal photographs to the revealing SAT portrait of a seductive Victoria, and from the forgotten son SAT of Henry VIII to the manipulated images of George III, Will SAT asks how important understanding their own image has been to SAT the longevity of our Kings and Queens. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Kobrak. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01bw6rq (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT The Editor is Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01bw6rs (Listen) SAT That windswept outpost of Britishness in the South Atlantic SAT again causes tension between Britain and Argentina as the SAT anniversary of the Falklands War approaches. Fergal Keane is SAT in Buenos Aires where a longing to redeem the islands is SAT deeply felt; Allan Little's in the capital of the Falklands, SAT Port Stanley, finding out they are more concerned there SAT about shortages of fruit, veg and eggs. Mark Lowen's our man SAT in Athens where Greeks are becoming increasingly angry with SAT the way their government's handling their debt crisis. Did SAT you know the Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum's SAT family comes from Lake Garda in northern Italy. No? Well nor SAT did most of the people living there until Christine Finn SAT told them! And Alastair Leithead's been to a village in SAT southern Mexico to see how the government is trying to SAT impress descendants of the great Mayan civilisation. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01bw6rv (Listen) SAT Paul Lewis presents the latest news from the world of SAT personal finance. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01bmq35 (Listen) SAT Series 76, Episode 8 SAT SAT Satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01bmp4k (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01bmp4m (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01bmq3c (Listen) SAT Crewkerne, Somerset SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and SAT politics from Wadham School, Crewkerne, Somerset, with SAT former Conservative minister, Ann Widdecombe; Labour MP, SAT David Lammy; former leader of the Liberal Democrats, Sir SAT Menzies Campbell; and columnist at the New Statesman, Mehdi SAT Hasan. SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Wakely. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01bw6rx (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Play b01bw6rz (Listen) SAT Freud: The Case Histories, Dora SAT SAT Deborah Levy's dramatisation of Sigmund Freud's iconic case SAT study 'Dora' translated by Shaun Whiteside. SAT SAT 1899 finds a father imploring Sigmund Freud to treat his SAT daughter after discovering her intention to end her life. SAT When Dora first comes to Freud she suffers from a loss of SAT voice, a debilitating cough and a limp. Dream analysis is SAT the key to unlocking the causes of Dora's condition, and as SAT Freud's treatment continues, secrets, seduction and betrayal SAT are uncovered. SAT SAT Freud.....Robert Glenister SAT Dora.....Olivia Hallinan SAT Papa.....Gerard McDermott SAT Mama.....Tracy-Ann Oberman SAT Herr K/Coachman....Alun Raglan SAT Frau K..... Susie Riddell SAT Madame Petrova....Tracy Wiles SAT SAT Directed by Elizabeth Allard SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b01blj2b (Listen) SAT Series 13, Gresford, the Miners' Hymn SAT SAT The haunting melancholy of Gresford, the Miners' Hymn, is SAT the music explored in this week's programme. SAT SAT Written by a former miner, Robert Saint, to commemorate the SAT Gresford pit disaster in 1934 it has been played at mining SAT events ever since; most notably at the famous Durham Miners' SAT Gala. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01bw7hj (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01bw7hl (Listen) SAT A fresh perspective on the day's news with sports headlines. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01bmn0d (Listen) SAT Big Egos SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. The programme is broadcast first on BBC Radio 4 SAT and later on BBC World Service Radio, BBC World News TV and SAT BBC News Channel TV. SAT SAT Prompted by a comment from a guest in last week's programme SAT that Facebook could never have been created in the UK, Evan SAT and his panel swap thoughts on why the US does so well when SAT it comes to startups compared to Europe. They also discuss SAT whether a big ego helps you get on in business, or gets in SAT the way. SAT SAT Joining Evan in the studio are Anita Frew, chairman of SAT plastics company Victrex; entrepreneur and investor Richard SAT Farleigh; Michael Spencer, founder and chief executive of SAT money broker ICAP. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Stephen Chilcott. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01bmp4p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01bmp4r (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bmp4t (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01bw7hn (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson talks to the actress Penelope Wilton. With SAT music from Simone Felice. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01bw7hq (Listen) SAT Series 11, We Are Watching Something Terrible Happening SAT SAT This week the Natural History Museum acquired a meteorite SAT that came from the surface of Mars. As the violence in Syria SAT escalates, From Fact to Fiction considers what this rock SAT from another world might be able to tell us about life here SAT on earth. SAT SAT 'We are Watching Something Terrible Happening' by poet and SAT writer Lavinia Greenlaw. SAT Starring Eiry Thomas and Iestyn Jones SAT SAT Directed by James Robinson SAT A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01bw7hs (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests review the week's cultural SAT highlights. SAT SAT A DANGEROUS METHOD SAT SAT A Dangerous Method is on general release, certificate 15. SAT SAT HOPE: A TRAGEDY SAT SAT Hope: A Tragedy by Shalom Auslander is published by SAT Picador. SAT SAT THE WOMAN IN BLACK SAT SAT The Woman in Black is on general release, certificate 12A. SAT SAT LUCIAN FREUD: PORTRAITS SAT SAT Lucian Freud: Portraits continues at the National Portrait SAT Gallery in London until the 27th of May. Tickets are £14 SAT with the usual concessions. SAT SAT HOMELAND SAT SAT Homeland begins on Channel Four on 19th February at 9.00pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01bw7hv (Listen) SAT The Lost World of the Suffragettes SAT SAT In the 1970s, historian Sir Brian Harrison embarked on a SAT huge project to record the experiences of women who had been SAT part of the UK suffragette movement in the early part of the SAT 20th Century. SAT SAT The audio files - 'Oral Evidence on the Suffragette and SAT Suffragist Movements: The Brian Harrison Interviews' - are SAT now housed by the Women's Library, London Metropolitan SAT University. SAT SAT The 205 interviews Sir Brian carried out between 1974 and SAT 1981 have never been broadcast before. SAT SAT Here BBC Radio 4 is given exclusive access to the archive SAT which gives a fresh insight into the lost world of the SAT suffragettes. SAT SAT In this Archive on 4, Presenter Dan Snow, whose great, great SAT grandfather was Liberal Prime Minister Lloyd George, listens SAT through the tapes with Sir Brian, Baroness Brenda Dean. SAT Director of Liberty Shami Chakrabarti and suffragette SAT historian Elizabeth Crawford. SAT SAT Recordings include graphic testimony of women who were SAT beaten by police, force-fed and drugged while on hunger SAT strike. SAT SAT In one extract, one former suffragette recalls: "I didn't SAT make a sound whatever they did to me because I knew others SAT had to be forcibly fed after me and I didn't want to SAT frighten them. When they injured my nose I screamed so loud SAT they heard it all over the prison." SAT SAT The interviews also give fresh insight into the splits that SAT existed at the heart of the movement, about how ordinary SAT campaigners felt about the contrasting approaches of SAT Emeline, Sylvia and Christabel Pankhurst - and how the women SAT that formed the suffragette movement viewed late 20th SAT Century feminism. SAT SAT Producer: Ashley Byrne SAT A Made in Manchester Production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01bkyly (Listen) SAT Gulliver's Travels, Episode 1 SAT SAT Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new SAT dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill [Dr Who.] SAT SAT Gulliver is shipwrecked on the Island of Lilliput where the SAT natives are tiny people living in a miniature society. With SAT his unique overview of this realm, Gulliver discovers a SAT world of petty politics and small minds. Coerced into a war SAT between two nations who disagree on the best way to eat SAT boiled eggs, Gulliver finds himself betrayed by friends and SAT battered by enemies - escape is his only option if he wants SAT to survive! SAT SAT Gulliver's adventures in Lilliput are hilarious, disturbing SAT and profound. This is a story of dishonest politicians, SAT mindless ceremony and wars based on unconvincing arguments. SAT A satire as potent now as it ever was! SAT SAT Gulliver's Travels quickly became a classic. The book has SAT become not only the defining work of its author but also of SAT its genre - a landmark in English Literature to which all SAT satirists today can trace a heritage. SAT SAT Gulliver's Travels is adapted for radio by Matthew SAT Broughton, and is a BBC Cymru/Wales production, directed by SAT Sam Hoyle. SAT SAT Gulliver's Travels stars Arthur Darvill as Gulliver. Other SAT members of the company are Matthew Gravelle, Sam Dale, SAT Bethan Walker, Judith Faultless, Richard Nichols, Chris SAT Pavlo, Claire Cage, Lynne Seymour. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01bmp4w (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01bmrkt (Listen) SAT Morality of Monarchy SAT SAT In more than a thousand years of English history only one SAT monarch has reigned for longer than Queen Elizabeth II. The SAT Diamond Jubilee will be a chance for the nation to celebrate SAT her remarkable reign of 60 years, but also a chance for the SAT nation to reflect on the moral purpose of the institution of SAT the monarchy itself. In 1952 the UK was a very different SAT country. It's not just a question of deference; today our SAT social, religious, cultural and moral climate have changed SAT almost beyond recognition. Yet in the midst of all of this SAT upheaval Queen Elizabeth has remained a constant; to her SAT supporters a beacon of dedication to the virtues of duty, SAT honour and selfless service - virtues which are sadly SAT lacking in our "what's in it for me society". If these are SAT virtues are they confused, or even corrupted by coupling SAT them to the monarchy, an institution that for many people is SAT rooted in the social mores of the past? And is it any longer SAT tenable to say that our nationhood - or rather our nations - SAT can still somehow be quasi-mystically embodied in the SAT institution of the monarchy? SAT SAT Witnesses: Dickie Arbiter - Royal commentator, Former press SAT spokesman for the Queen, Joan Smith - Author, columnist for SAT The Independent, Stephen Haseler - Director of the Global SAT Policy Institute, London Metropolitan University, Vernon SAT Bogdanor - Research Professor, Institute of Contemporary SAT History, King's College London. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Claire Fox, Kenan Malik SAT and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01blgny (Listen) SAT (13/17) SAT Can you remember who was awarded the BBC Sports Personality SAT of the Year trophy for 2011, just a few weeks ago? Russell SAT Davies puts the contestants on the spot in Brain of Britain, SAT and you can hear how they get on in this week's programme. SAT SAT The time-honoured general knowledge quiz reaches the SAT semi-final stage this week, with four competitors who have SAT come unscathed through the heats continuing their progress SAT towards the title Brain of Britain 2012. SAT SAT The first batch of semi-finalists are from County Fermanagh, SAT Merseyside, London and Sussex. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01bkym2 (Listen) SAT Roger McGough with a rich mixture of poetry requests read by SAT John Sessions and Lisa Kerr. SAT SAT Poems of temptation, and of lost loves and places, featuring SAT a couple of snakes, a rusty fridge and a talking bull SAT walrus. With W.S. Graham's lovely poem of longing for a SAT favourite place from childhood, Loch Thom, and Kathryn SAT Simmonds reads her own poems, including a love poem about a SAT couple united by their dislike of the film The Fifth SAT Element. There's a dash of acidity from Philip Larkin and a SAT healthy dose of danger in a couple of snake poems by Denise SAT Levertov and D.H. Lawrence. There's also a deceptive SAT villanelle by Elizabeth Bishop and an unlikely conversation SAT in a poem by the late Canadian poet Alden Nowlen. SAT SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 12 FEBRUARY 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01bsgst (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Deep Country b01bwd37 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN Neil Ansell is living in a very remote part of the Welsh SUN countryside, on his own, with no electricity, gas or water, SUN and only the wildlife around him for company. He survives SUN the gales but has to face another storm - his own SUN vulnerability. Read by Matthew Gravelle. SUN SUN Abridged by Willa King. SUN Directed by Emma Bodger SUN A BBC Cymru Wales Production. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bsgsw (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bsgsy (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bsgt0 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01bsgt2 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01bwd39 (Listen) SUN The bells from St Martin's in Desford, Leicestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01bm0py (Listen) SUN Series 2, Gordon Bridger SUN SUN Gordon Bridger draws on a lifetime's experience as an SUN economist in developing countries to argue that we should SUN spend overseas aid differently to stop it doing more harm SUN than good. He urges an end to direct transfers of money to SUN governments as he fears inadequate audit can too easily SUN allow misuse of funds. SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in SUN front of an audience at the RSA (the Royal Society for the SUN encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce) in London, SUN speakers air their thinking on the trends, ideas, interests SUN and passions that affect our culture and society. SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01bsgt4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01bwd3c (Listen) SUN When the Chips Are Down SUN SUN Mark Tully asks what gives us courage to do what we ought to SUN when things go against us. How do we decide what we should SUN stand up for, and how do we cope if we fail to do so? SUN SUN Using examples from 9/11, South African Apartheid, Nazi SUN Germany, McCarthyism in the United States , the New SUN Testament and his own experience, Mark gives examples of SUN those who did meet their own expectations of how they would SUN behave under pressure, and those who let themselves down. SUN But he warns against any judgement against those who fail to SUN stand up and be counted when the chips are down, asking SUN "what would you have done under the circumstances". SUN SUN In an interview with Vaughan Roberts, author, and Vicar of SUN St Ebbes church in Oxford, Mark seeks the Christian SUN perspective on how we might like to behave in extremis, and SUN our responses should we fall short. And drawing inspiration SUN from literature, as well as music from the likes of Simon SUN and Garfunkel, JS Bach and, surprisingly, Tex Ritter he asks SUN if we can really ever be truly heroic when the chips are SUN down. And can we forgive ourselves if we are not. SUN SUN Presented by Mark Tully SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01bwd3f (Listen) SUN Ponds in Winter SUN SUN What goes on under the surface of a pond in winter? To find SUN out , Miranda Krestovnikoff joins Jeremy Biggs, director of SUN Pond Conservation for a special Living world devoted to the SUN ponds of the New Forest. Jeremy has chosen these as some of SUN the finest of their type because they are keep open by SUN grazing ponies and deer, don't suffer from pollution from SUN roads or agricultural run-off , and are some of the cleanest SUN ponds in the United Kingdom. When they go pond-dipping , SUN kneeling in muddy water in chest-waders, he proves it by SUN finding some of our rarest plants and animals including the SUN mud snail which thrives in shallow pools whose margins dry SUN out in summer . Damselfly larvae prowl among the plants and SUN there are even newts active in January , animals which have SUN grown too slowly in the previous summer and are spending the SUN winter as youngsters. Best of all, in the shallows of the SUN pond are clumps of the year's first frogspawn, in mid SUN -January. SUN This pond contains water all year round, but temporary ponds SUN are a speciality of the New Forest. At Burley, Jeremy shows SUN Miranda a roadside pool which fills with water in winter but SUN is a grassy hollow in summer. Here they dip for one of SUN Britain's rarest animals , the delicate fairy shrimp which SUN can only survive in pools which dry out. These beautiful SUN creatures are some of the oldest living animals on the SUN planet, virtually unchanged in appearance from their SUN ancestors 400 million years ago. Their eggs can survive in SUN soil until the rains fill their ponds again in autumn and a SUN new generation hatches to swim safe from fishes in the New SUN Forest's temporary ponds. SUN SUN Producer: Brett Westwood SUN Editor: Julian Hector. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01bsgt6 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01bsgt8 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01bwd3h (Listen) SUN William Crawley with the religious and ethical news of the SUN week. Moral arguments and perspectives on stories familiar SUN and unfamiliar. SUN SUN Series Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01bwd3k (Listen) SUN Samaritans SUN SUN Linda Nolan presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of SUN Samaritans. SUN SUN Reg Charity: 219432 SUN SUN Samaritans SUN SUN Samaritans is there for anyone feeling down and depressed or SUN struggling to cope. Their volunteers are available 24/7 to SUN offer confidential support by phone, email, letter, text or SUN face-to-face. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01bsgtb (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01bsgtd (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01bwd3m (Listen) SUN "Choose joy!" An act of worship live from Gloucester SUN Salvation Army corps exploring St Paul's words of SUN encouragement for us to rise above our circumstances. The SUN service is led by Lieut-Colonel George Pilkington, with SUN preacher Lieut Clare Allman. The music is from the SUN International Staff Songsters directed by Dorothy SUN Nancekievill. Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01bmq3f (Listen) SUN Anniversary Cornucopia SUN SUN Awareness of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee and the two SUN hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens may be SUN widespread but fewer may know 2012 marks the two hundredth SUN anniversary of the death of the only British prime minister SUN to be assassinated. SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:57 Weather b01bsgtg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01bwd3p (Listen) SUN Paddy O'Connell presents news and conversation about the big SUN stories of the week. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01bwd3r (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Tim Stimpson SUN Director ..... Kim Greengrass SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd .....Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett 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 Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Jolene Perks ..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Joe Grundy ...... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Alan Franks ..... John Telfer SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01bwd3t (Listen) SUN James Corden SUN SUN James Corden, actor and writer of Gavin & Stacey, is Kirsty SUN Young's castaway is the actor and writer . SUN SUN As a child he longed to act - he found early success in Alan SUN Bennett's play The History Boys and became a household name SUN for the TV show he devised and co-wrote, Gavin and Stacey. SUN These days he's starring in the West End in the comedy One SUN Man, Two Guvnors. It is due to transfer to Broadway in the SUN spring and he says: "I'm well aware that this could well be SUN the best part that I ever play on stage - it's a gift for SUN any actor who has any interest in comedy. It feels like all SUN my dreams come true." SUN SUN Producer: Leanne Buckle. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01blgp6 (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 1 SUN SUN Nicholas Parsons presents the first of the series which SUN marks the 45th birthday of Just a Minute. SUN SUN In this show panellists Paul Merton, Ross Noble, Jenny SUN Eclair and Gyles Brandreth are all asked to talk on subjects SUN given out in the first series in 1967. SUN SUN Paul Merton is asked to describe what he does When I Wear a SUN Top Hat, Ross Noble explores the topic of The English Nanny, SUN Gyles Brandreth explains How to Perform a Cornish Floral SUN Dance and Jenny Eclair reveals all she knows about Knitting SUN a Cablestitch Jumper. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01bwd3w (Listen) SUN Comfort Food SUN SUN In these uncomfortable times, Sheila Dillon asks what role SUN does food play in giving comfort? SUN SUN Producer: Sara Parker. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01bsgtj (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01bwddg (Listen) SUN Edward Stourton presents the latest national and SUN international news, including an in-depth look at events SUN around the world. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: SUN #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Europe's Choice b01bwddj (Listen) SUN Deeper Not Wider SUN SUN Allan Little looks at key moments and issues which brought SUN the EU to the current crisis, focusing on the events of the SUN last 18 months. SUN SUN The latest crisis has exposed new resentments and divisions SUN within the EU. Countries like Greece and Italy have had both SUN prime ministers and austerity measures imposed upon them by SUN an executive in Brussels that voters did not directly elect. SUN Other member states like Finland, who survived its own SUN period of recession and austerity in 1991 without being SUN bailed out by the EU, are seeing the rise of nationalist SUN movements which are resisting the increased control in SUN Brussels. There is a belief amongst some of them that this SUN crisis was engineered as a means of deepening the grip of SUN the European institutions. Opinion polls in Turkey show the SUN lowest support for EU membership ever. Even Germany - one of SUN Europe's greatest advocates and beneficiaries - is expanding SUN its exports to non-traditional markets like China. What will SUN the EU look like in 10 years time? SUN SUN Producer: Jane Beresford. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01bmq2v (Listen) SUN Denbigh, North Wales SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a gardening Q&A with the North Wales SUN branch of the Cottage Garden Society. In addition, a report SUN from a Welsh nursery with a long history of tropical SUN plant-collecting. SUN Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Biggs are on the SUN panel. SUN SUN In addition, how to perk up a droopy bouquet; and warding SUN off the white rot, how to prevent an attack. SUN SUN Produced by Lucy Dichmont & Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Key Matters b00tt535 (Listen) SUN Series 2, A Major SUN SUN Ivan Hewett talks to pianist and conductor Jonathan Cohen SUN about the key of A Major, a key often associated with SUN optimism and even ecstasy. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01bwddl (Listen) SUN Gulliver's Travels, Episode 2 SUN SUN Jonathan Swift's classic satire, in a brand new SUN dramatisation starring Arthur Darvill [Dr Who]. SUN SUN Gulliver's adventures continue when he finds himself in SUN Brobdingnag - a land where the inhabitants are enormous! SUN Here, as a miniature man, Gulliver must fight for survival SUN against rats the size of dogs, a dwarf who is 40 foot high, SUN and the ridicule and humiliation of a scornful court. SUN SUN With his uniquely close-up view, Gulliver sees the people SUN (even the great beauties) as if under a microscope - and SUN they are dirty, stinking and disgusting. He becomes SUN increasingly horrified by humankind, stranded in a SUN frightening land where his only ally is an innocent child. SUN Once again, escape is imperative - if he doesn't, he won't SUN survive... SUN SUN As an exploration of of man's vanity and complacency, SUN Gulliver's second voyage is an acute satire - as relevant SUN today as ever. Beyond that, it is also a rattling good SUN adventure story - a man lost, swashbuckling his way through SUN manifold giant-sized dangers, desperate to find a way back SUN home. SUN SUN Gulliver's Travels stars Arthur Darvill as Gulliver. Other SUN members of the company are Matthew Gravelle, Sam Dale, SUN Bethan Walker, Judith Faultless, Richard Nichols, Chris SUN Pavlo, Claire Cage, Lynne Seymour, Gareth Pierce, Ewan SUN Bailey and Phoebe Waller-Bridge. SUN SUN Gulliver's Travels is adapted for radio by Matthew SUN Broughton, and is a BBC Cymru/Wales production, directed by SUN Sam Hoyle. SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01bwddn (Listen) SUN William Boyd talks to Mariella Frostrup SUN SUN In a special programme, award winning author William Boyd SUN discusses his latest novel Waiting for Sunrise. Set between SUN 1913 and 1915, it embraces a world of sex, psychoanalysis, SUN scandal and spies, following the story of a young actor SUN Lysander Rief, from the analysts armchair in Vienna, to the SUN mud and trenches of the First World War and the seedy SUN underworld of traitors in the corridors of Whitehall. SUN SUN BOOK LIST SUN SUN ALL by William Boyd: SUN SUN A Good Man in Africa SUN Published by Hamish Hamilton SUN SUN An Ice-Cream War: Tale of the Empire SUN Published by Hamish Hamilton SUN SUN Stars and Bars SUN Published by Morrow SUN SUN Armadillo SUN Published by Knopf SUN SUN Nat Tate: An American Artist, 1928-1960 SUN Published by 21 Publishing SUN SUN Protobiography SUN Published by Bridgewater SUN SUN Any Human Heart: The Intimate Journals of Logan Mountstuart SUN Published by Hamish Hamilton SUN SUN Restless SUN Published by Bloomsbury SUN SUN Ordinary Thunder Storms SUN Published by Bloomsbury SUN SUN Waiting for Sunrise SUN Published by Bloomsbury SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01bwddq (Listen) SUN To stem the syrupiness of Valentine's day, Roger McGough SUN presents a selection of spine chilling poetry. Jealousy SUN rears its ugly head with dire consequences in two sinister SUN poems by Robert Browning. Roger recalls adolescent days SUN spent in the company of a German girl called Ursula, who SUN would recite poems by Goethe in German. So to indulge him a SUN little, and to enjoy the poem as the poet wrote it, guest SUN Iris Pflueger-Bassett reads Der Erlkönig in German. John SUN Sessions and Lisa Kerr read Walter Scott's translation of SUN it, with a little help from a well-known musical setting of SUN the poem by Schubert. The refrain of 'Nevermore' haunts the SUN airwaves in Poe's classic poem The Raven and a little girl SUN goes missing in a snow-storm in a poem by Wordsworth. The SUN other readers are Timothy West, Clive Swift and Catherine SUN Harvey. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01blzkx (Listen) SUN BioSecurity SUN SUN Dutch and American scientists have succeeded in mutating a SUN deadly bird-flu virus to make it easily transmissible to SUN humans. If it got out, it could start a fatal epidemic. They SUN keep it securely locked away in their laboratories, but want SUN to publish the biological recipe for making it. In an SUN unprecedented move, the U.S. government is pressing them to SUN keep the details of their experiments secret for fear that SUN bio-terrorists could use the organism to kill hundreds of SUN millions of people. SUN In the UK there are more than 300 laboratories working on SUN the second highest danger level organisms such as SUN tuberculosis. In 10 of them, they work at the highest risk SUN level on viruses like ebola and the most deadly strains of SUN flu. Every year there are hundreds of biological related SUN incidents reported to the Health and Safety Executive but SUN while the headline numbers are published the details are SUN shrouded in secrecy and rarely come to light. SUN Meanwhile, a rapidly developing branch of science known as SUN 'synthetic biology' offers dramatic possibilities for SUN developing new vaccines and targeting many lethal diseases. SUN But does it also increase the risk that newly-created SUN organisms could be used for harmful purposes as the SUN necessary research techniques spread out from authorised SUN laboratories to a network of DIY enthusiasts? SUN There is growing concern that that biological techniques are SUN advancing so quickly that they outstrip the mechanisms to SUN control them. The FBI has tasked a unit to monitor the DIY SUN enthusiasts but admits it only has limited resources to do SUN so. SUN Could genetic mutation of pathogens become as commonplace as SUN home-brewing? And how well protected is the UK against SUN biological threats? SUN Reporter : Gerry Northam SUN Producer : Nicola Dowling SUN Editor : David Ross. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01bw7hq (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01bsgtl (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01bsgtn (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bsgtq (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01bwdds (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio SUN Email: potw@bbc.co.uk or www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/potw SUN Producer: Cecile Wright. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01bwdhf (Listen) SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b01211y4 (Listen) SUN Series 2, Me Talk Pretty One Day and It's Catching SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist brings his wit and SUN charm to BBC Radio 4 for a series of audience readings. This SUN week the perils of an American learning French in Paris in SUN "Me Talk Pretty One Day" and an essay dealing with a SUN friend's concern for cleanliness; "It's Catching". SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Sussex Scandals b019rgtf (Listen) SUN Emma Carew SUN SUN Written by John Peacock. SUN SUN At Uppark, Amy Lyons caused a scandal by dancing naked on SUN Sir Harry Featherstonehaugh's dining table. 32 years later, SUN as Lady Hamilton, the repercussions come back to haunt her. SUN SUN These are three short stories narrated by characters SUN involved in notorious scandals that originated in Sussex: SUN Uppark (Lady Hamilton), Crawley (John George Haigh's girl SUN friend) and Brighton (Katie O' Shea's son, Gerard), ranging SUN from 1815 to 1953. The fall of a woman who revelled in her SUN scandals; another who was forced to face the truth that her SUN lover was a murderer; and the son of Katie O' Shea, SUN defending his father during his mother's notorious affair SUN with Charles Stewart Parnell. SUN SUN Read by Eva Pope. SUN Director: Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01bmq31 (Listen) SUN Have you ever settled down to listen to a programme on SUN iPlayer - only to find that the last two minutes have been SUN chopped off? Or had to wade through several minutes of SUN unrelated content before your chosen programme begins? SUN SUN In this week's Feedback Roger Bolton asks Andrew Scott, Head SUN of Radio and Music for Future Media, why iPlayer editing is SUN letting listeners down. SUN SUN There are five months still to go until the Olympics, but SUN have Radio 4 listeners already had enough of sport? SUN Following Clare Balding's series Sport and the British - and SUN her appearance on Midweek - Roger hears from listeners who SUN want to keep the station a sport-free zone. SUN SUN And the Feedback Listening Club returns, with three SUN listeners gathering to discuss Radio 4's Saturday Live. If SUN you'd like to take part in a Listening Club, please contact SUN the programme. SUN SUN Plus a new Radioswap begins, as teacher Deborah Mole agrees SUN to swap BBC 6Music for her student Kevin's favourite SUN station, 1Xtra. Tune in next week to find out how they get SUN on. SUN SUN Producers: Karen Pirie and Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01bmq2z (Listen) SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The socialite Angela Culme-Seymour who married a series of SUN aristocrats and had a string of affairs in artistic and SUN literary circles.. SUN SUN Kazimierz Smolen, the former Auschwitz inmate who became SUN director of the camp museum and lived there for thirty-five SUN years.. SUN SUN Nigel Doughty the wealthy private equity investor who SUN ploughed millions into Nottingham Forest Football Club. SUN Justice Secretary Ken Clarke pays tribute. SUN SUN Spanish artist Antoni Tapies who was one of the pioneers of SUN European abstract art SUN SUN And Don Cornelius whose American TV show "Soul Train" SUN brought black music and culture into the mainstream. We hear SUN from producer and musician Nile Rodgers. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01bw6rv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01bwd3k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01bljwp (Listen) SUN Sheikh Rachid Ghannouchi SUN SUN Should the world fear the rise of political Islam in the SUN newly democratic Middle East? The Arab Spring has thrust the SUN ideas and ideology of one man into the centre of this SUN crucial question. Before the revolutions began, Sheikh SUN Rachid Gannouchi lived in Hemel Hempstead and was one of the SUN world's leading Islamist ideologues, urging the Muslim SUN Brotherhood to accommodate modate the ideas of secularism, SUN democracy and acceptance of equal political rights for SUN non-Muslims. But after the region begun to rise up against SUN dictators, he has become even more powerful and his ideas SUN have been tested as never before. He returned to his native SUN Tunisia in 2011 and is now spiritual leader of Tunisia's SUN largest political party, but his influence extends far SUN beyond North Africa. As the Muslim Brotherhood and its SUN ideological brethren try and find a place in a democratic SUN world, his controversial ideas have won acolytes in the Arab SUN World, Turkey and South East Asia. SUN SUN For Analysis, the BBC Radio 4 series that probes the ideas SUN that shape the world, Owen Bennett-Jones travels to Tunis to SUN meet this controversial thinker and examines his ideas and SUN influence. SUN SUN The documentary features a full length interview with Sheikh SUN Rachid Gannouchi. SUN SUN In addition, Owen interviews Dr Maha Azzam, of Chatham House SUN in London; Anas Altikriti, Islamist intellectual and son of SUN the former leader of the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood; Wan SUN Saiful Wan Jan, a member of the Islamic Party of Malaysia; SUN Abdel Kader Heshimi, leader of a group of Salafi Muslim SUN students in Tunis, and a group of feminist law students in SUN Tunis. SUN SUN Producer: Mukul Devichand. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01bwdgs (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 b01bwdgv (Listen) SUN Episode 90 SUN SUN Steve Richards of The Independent analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the biggest stories in Westminster SUN and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01bmn00 (Listen) SUN Francine Stock talks to David Cronenberg about his new film SUN A Dangerous Method, a study of the birth of psychoanalysis SUN and the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung. SUN SUN This is not the first time the Austrian neurologist has been SUN portrayed on film. Sandra Hebron, film academic and trainee SUN psychotherapist, delves in to Freud's celluloid past. SUN SUN Director James Watkins discusses working with Daniel SUN Radcliffe in his new film, The Woman in Black. SUN SUN And co-creator of the Flight of the Conchords, James Bobin, SUN on reinventing The Muppets. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01bwd3c (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 13 FEBRUARY 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01bsgvc (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01bm0pk (Listen) MON Obesity - Cruel Optimism MON MON We inhabit a precarious world of crisis and calamity which MON mocks the post war promise of upward mobility, social MON equality and job security. We remain attached to the MON unachievable fantasies of the good life, even though they MON are thwarted at every turn. That's the cheering claim of the MON cultural theorist Lauren Berlant. She and Laurie are joined MON by the sociologist, Professor Bev Skeggs, to analyse what MON she calls the 'cruel optimism' of contemporary life. MON Also on the programme, Karen Throsby talks of her MON ethnographic study of an obesity clinic and the hidden moral MON element to every aspect of the procedure. MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01bwd39 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bsgvf (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bsgvh (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bsgvk (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01bsgvm (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01bwdlz (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the MON Revd Peter Whittaker, Methodist Minister. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01bwdm1 (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith. Produced by Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01bsgvp (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01bwdm3 (Listen) MON Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports MON Desk; Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01bwdm5 (Listen) MON Elizabethans: Max Hastings, Mary Beard, John Guy and Lola MON Young MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr considers the 'great man' view MON of history, and how far an age can be represented by its MON leaders and innovators. Mary Beard looks back to ancient MON times when history and biography were considered two MON distinct genres. While John Guy returns to the reign of MON Elizabeth I, Max Hastings and Lola Young give an overview of MON the modern Elizabethan age. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01bwmvy (Listen) MON Europe in the Looking Glass, Episode 1 MON MON Europe in the Looking Glass is Robert Byron's travel MON classic, recounting a car journey across Europe in 1926, and MON providing a mirror on events and nationhood both then and MON today. Byron (a descendant of the poet) found acclaim as the MON author of The Road to Oxiana - an account of a trip to MON Afghanistan and Persia. MON MON It tells the story of three young Englishmen travelling MON across the neighbouring continent in an unreliable car - MON encountering the rise of Italian fascism and the anarchy of MON Greece along the way. In other words, the book offers a MON compelling mirror on Europe today (a world of technocrats MON and populists...) with the additional benefit of being MON witty, colourful and full of apercus about such types as MON loud American tourists and unwashed German backpackers. MON MON The conclusion offers the travellers (and all of us) a new MON perspective on their homeland as well as the countries and MON cultures they explore together. MON MON In part one, they leave Grimsby and motor through northern MON Germany. MON MON Read by Rupert Penry-Jones. MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bwdm7 (Listen) MON David Cameron has said that the time has come to stigmatise MON those fathers who are not willing to support their children, MON both financially and emotionally. So, is it time to tackle MON those 'dead beat-dads' who are not interested in shouldering MON their responsibilities? MON MON Women are still under-represented in the surgical MON specialties despite having been in the majority qualifying MON from medical school for the last 15 years. We hear from two MON consultant surgeons, to try and find out why they believe MON only 7% of surgeons are female. MON MON Forget Tulip Fever, for most of the nineteenth century, MON Britain was firmly in the grip of the lesser known 'Fern MON Fever'. And as botany was considered to be a suitable MON scientific pursuit for women, they were at the forefront of MON the craze, writing and illustrating much of the popular MON literature that sprang up around it. Jane Garvey went to MON meet Dr Sarah Whittingham, the author of a new book on the MON subject, at Chelsea Physic Garden. MON MON Deadbeat Dads MON MON The Welfare Reform Bill proposes to make resident parents MON pay to use the Child Support Agency if they are unable to MON get the other parent to make maintenance payments. A number MON of Tory peers, including a former Lord Chancellor and a MON former Secretary of State for Social Security, warned that MON such moves would take money away from children, punish MON single mothers and let absent fathers off the hook. David MON Cameron has said that the time has come to stigmatise those MON fathers who are not willing to support their children, both MON financially and emotionally. So, is it time to tackle those MON ‘dead beat-dads’ who are not interested in shouldering their MON responsibilities? Jane is joined by Peter Grigg, Director of MON Policy at the Family and Parenting Institute, and by MON Anastasia de Waal, Deputy Director of the think tank MON Civitas. MON MON Alex Polizzi MON MON In her latest TV series Alex Polizzi is The Fixer – going MON into family businesses which have reached breaking point. MON She deals with siblings who are struggling to find common MON ground, mothers who can’t hand over the reins to the younger MON generation, and all the domestic dramas which often MON challenge such enterprises. Alex knows plenty herself about MON family businesses. She’s the grand daughter of the famed MON hotelier Lord Forte, has run hotels with her mother, and MON manages a multi-million pound bakery business with her MON husband. Alex joins Jane to talk about the issues MON surrounding family firms and how she’s trying to help some MON of them get back on the path to business success. MON MON The next episode of The Fixer is on BBC 2 on Tuesday 14 MON February at 8pm MON MON Fern Fever MON MON Forget Tulip Fever, for most of the nineteenth century, MON Britain was firmly in the grip of the lesser known Fern MON Fever. Something about this humble, flowerless plant kept MON middle class Victorians coming back for more – whether they MON were out on fern-hunting expeditions, cultivating them under MON glass at home, or decorating their chamber pots with MON pictures of them. And as botany was considered to be a MON suitable scientific pursuit for women, they were at the MON forefront of the craze, writing and illustrating much of the MON popular literature that sprang up around it. Jane Garvey MON went to meet Dr Sarah Whittingham, the author of a new book MON on the subject, at Chelsea Physic Garden. MON MON Fern Fever - The Story of Pteridomania, A Victorian MON Obsession by Dr Sarah Whittingham is out now MON MON Women In Surgery MON MON Women are still under-represented in the surgical MON specialties despite having been the majority qualifying from MON medical school for the last 15 years. We hear from two MON consultant surgeons: Helen Fernandes, a Consultant MON Neurosurgeon at Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, and from MON Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Eastbourne District MON General Hospital, Scarlett McNally, to discuss why they MON believe only 7% of surgeons are female. MON MON 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bwdr3 (Listen) MON HighLites, Episode 1 MON MON by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. MON MON 1/5 Bridgford is blessed with the meanest hairdresser in MON Britain, and the stupidest. Deciding against Shirley's offer MON of dog-clipping, Bev resorts to desperate measures to save MON the salon. MON MON Bev ..... Lorraine Ashbourne MON Shirley ..... Rosie Cavaliero MON John ..... Carl Prekopp MON Enid ..... Nicola Sloane MON Butt ..... James Lailey MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 11:00 The Degner Defection b01byhrg (Listen) MON Fifty years ago a dashing, ultra-talented motorbike racer MON planned to escape from Communist East Germany at the height MON of the Cold War. MON MON Award winning presenter Stephen Evans tells how Degner, a MON hero in his homeland, risked everything including the life MON of his young family to flee to the west, taking with him MON ground breaking technology developed deep behind the Iron MON Curtain. All that stood in his way was an increasingly MON repressive regime, the notorious Stasi and the building of a MON certain wall that changed the course of European history. MON MON 11:30 Sparkling Cyanide b01bwfy6 (Listen) MON by Agatha Christie MON adapted by Joy Wilkinson MON Part 3: Iris MON MON Now George Barton has died in exactly the same way as his MON wife did a year earlier, by drinking cyanide-laced MON champagne, Colonel Race steps in to investigate. The second MON death throws the first verdict of suicide into question... MON MON IRIS ..... Naomi Frederick MON ANTHONY ..... Colin Tierney MON RUTH ..... Amanda Drew MON COLONEL RACE ..... Sean Baker MON STEPHEN ..... James Lailey MON SANDRA ..... Tracy Wiles MON LUCILLA ..... Adjoa Andoh MON GIUSEPPE ..... Gerard McDermott MON CHLOE ..... Alex Rivers MON MON directed by Mary Peate. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01bwfy8 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01bsgvr (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01bwfyb (Listen) MON Martha Kearney presents 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 Sport and the British b01bwfyd (Listen) MON Rugby's Great Split MON MON As Clare Balding continues to explore the unique MON relationship Britain has had with sport, in today's MON programme she tells a tale of lies, witch hunts, bigotry and MON the north/south divide.This isn't the story of a battle-torn MON country, but of a civil-war within a sport with rugby MON becoming a symbol of class division and splitting in two. MON From the home of The Wigan Wanderers, Professor Tony Collins MON of The International Centre for Sports History and Culture MON at De Montfort University explains the birth of Ruby League. MON It happened in the late 19th century, a clash between those MON who could afford to be gentlemen amateurs and those who MON couldn't. This story goes to the heart of how important MON class was and is in Britain, it illustrates that sport is MON just as capable of dividing people as uniting them. MON It also shows that sport isn't just a leisure activity - MON it's about who you play with and how you play. MON Readers, Brian Bowles, Stuart McLoughlin and Sean Baker MON Producer : Sara Conkey. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01bwdhf (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Play b01bwfyg (Listen) MON The Interrogation, Episode 1 MON MON by Roy Williams. MON MON 1/3 The story of Rod, a Premier League footballer accused of MON rape, who discovers his skill, wealth and fame make no odds MON in a police station. MON MON DS Max Matthews ..... Kenneth Cranham MON DC Sean Armitage ..... Alex Lanipekun MON Rod Tyler ..... Joe Sims MON Helen Cottol ..... Katie Angelou MON Mother ..... Tracy Wild MON MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01bwfyj (Listen) MON (14/17) MON The 2012 series of the general knowledge contest reaches the MON second semi-final, with competitors from Elgin in MON Morayshire, London, Twickenham and Sale in Cheshire bidding MON for a place in the Final next month. MON MON Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair. Among the MON questions facing this week's contestants are the name of the MON country of which Goodluck Jonathan is the President; and MON which well-known painting had the not-very-revealing MON original title 'Arrangement in Grey and Black', when MON exhibited in 1872? MON MON As usual, there's also a chance for a Brain of Britain MON listener to win a prize by outwitting the contestants with MON question suggestions of his or her own. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01bwd3w (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 With Great Pleasure b01bwfyl (Listen) MON Nicholas Parsons MON MON Nicholas Parsons, celebrated chairman of Just a Minute, has MON the microphone to himself as he chooses favourite pieces of MON prose and poetry gathered since childhood. His readers are MON Prunella Scales, with whom he has acted, and Samuel West. MON MON Producer Christine Hall. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01bwfyn (Listen) MON The government's recent proposal to cap welfare benefits at MON £26000 a year received a setback when an amendment to MON exclude child benefit from the cap was passed in the House MON of Lords. The amendment was proposed by the Bishop of Ripon MON and Leeds and supported by four other Bishops. The Bishops' MON action has added fuel to the debate about whether Anglican MON Bishops should still have a statutory right to seats in the MON Upper Chamber. When less than 2% of the population attends MON an Anglican Church on a Sunday, why should 26 of its clergy MON exercise any influence on the deliberations of the Upper MON House of Parliament? MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the arguments for and against MON having Bishops sitting in the House of Lords are the Rt Rev MON Tim Stevens, Bishop of Leicester, Jonathan Bartley, Director MON of the Think Tank Ekklesia, and Dr Meg Russell, Deputy MON Director of the Constitution Unit at University College MON London. MON MON 17:00 PM b01bwfyq (Listen) MON Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including MON Weather. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bsgvt (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01bwfys (Listen) MON Series 62, Episode 2 MON MON Panellists Ross Noble, Paul Merton, Jenny Eclair and Gyles MON Brandreth join host Nicholas Parsons for the popular panel MON game where they have to speak on a given subject for sixty MON seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation. MON MON This week Gyles Brandreth tells us which Self-Help Books he MON keeps at the side of his bed, Ross Noble talks about the MON Search for Intelligent Life, Paul Merton reveals the Things MON he Throws Away and Jenny Eclair talks about Coping With MON Embarrassment. MON MON Devised by Ian Messiter. MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01bwfyv (Listen) MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01bwfyx (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with actor Daniel MON Radcliffe, who now stars in the film The Woman in Black, MON based on the novel by Susan Hill. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bwdr3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 What Are the Police For? b01bwfyz (Listen) MON Episode 3 MON MON With policing top of the political agenda, and major change MON on the way, Mark Easton asks what we want from our police. MON MON Mark spends time with police officers doing jobs as diverse MON as roads policing, neighbourhood policing and monitoring sex MON offenders to paint a picture of how we are policed in 2012 MON and examine whether the daily reality matches the political MON rhetoric. And he speaks to politicians, academics and the MON public to assess whether what we are getting is what we MON want. MON MON In this final programme, he explores the relationship MON between the police and other agencies. Could other agencies MON take over some responsibilities from an overburdened police MON service? Do the police spend too much time, in the words of MON one critic, acting as social workers rather than MON rat-catchers? How well is the criminal justice system joined MON up? MON MON Producer: Giles Edwards. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01bwm1h (Listen) MON Preparing for Eurogeddon MON MON Europe thinks the unthinkable - what happens if the Eurozone MON splits. What would happen to the banking sector, how would a MON new currency be put in place, can contagion be halted, and MON more fundamentally could the Euro survive? Policymakers MON across Europe are putting their contingency plans together. MON We reveal what some of the preparations may be. Reporter MON Chris Bowlby runs through some of the scenarios of what may MON happen if a country were to withdraw, and crucially what MON would happen next. MON MON Contributors: Dawn Holland, National Institute of Economic MON and Social Research; Aristotle Kallis, Political Scientist; MON David Marsh, author "The History of the Euro"; David MON Lascelles, senior fellow of the Centre for the Study of MON Financial Innovation; Mark Crickett De La Rue; and Larry MON Hatheway, UBS MON MON Producer: Kavita Puri. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01bmn02 (Listen) MON Freud in the Age of Neuroscience MON MON Over the next two weeks Radio 4 will be broadcasting plays MON about Freud's famous cases. Deborah Levy has dramatised the MON stories of Dora and the Wolfman. MON MON In Material World Quentin Cooper asks leading neuroscientist MON Uta Frith whether Freud's approach to understanding his MON patients would pass modern scientific scrutiny. And looks at MON Freud's legacy in the 21st century. MON MON Cold Winters in a warming world MON MON Three cold European winters on the trot, and a faltering in MON the long term rise in global average temperatures - signs MON for some that something is wrong with climate science. Not MON so for forecaster Judah Cohen. Cooling, he says, is confined MON to northern hemisphere winters, and reflects change MON atmospheric circulation patterns that are a result of the MON greater warming picture. On Material World he explains this MON paradox. MON MON Breakthrough MON MON After years of drilling, a Russian team has at last broken MON through into Lake Vostok, long hidden under 3 kilometres of MON Antarctic ice. Professor Martin Siegert, Principal MON Investigator on a rival British team boring into Lake MON Ellsworth thousands of km across the continent, reflects on MON what happens next, and explains the scientific motivation MON for these complex projects. MON MON Disco Balls in orbit MON MON The maiden flight of ESA's Vega launcher will be carrying a MON half-tonne, super-reflective disco ball into Earth orbit on MON Monday. LARES, the Laser Relativity Satellite, is intended MON to test key predictions of Einstein's theory of gravity, MON says Principal Investigator Ignazio Ciufolini. Science MON writer Stuart Clark also joins Quentin to explain why MON gravity is still at the frontiers of science. MON MON Producer: Roland Pease. MON MON Freud in the Age of Neuroscience MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01bwdm5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01bsgvw (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01bwm1k (Listen) MON Ritula Shah presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01bwm1m (Listen) MON The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 1 MON MON It's the summer of 1985. Gorbachev is in the Kremlin and the MON first breezes of change are in the air. But for now, Anatoly MON Pavlovich Sukhanov (Tolya) is at the height of his prestige. MON He is the best-known art critic in the Soviet Union - MON editor-in-chief of Art of the World - with a MON grace-and-favour Moscow apartment, a dacha, and a MON chauffeur-driven Volga. MON MON His wife, Nina, is the daughter of Malinin, the most famous MON 'approved' artist in the Soviet Union, twice-winner of the MON Lenin Prize. But at a retrospective of Malinin's work, MON things start to unravel for Tolya. MON MON Olga Grushin was born in Moscow in 1971 and spent her MON childhood in Moscow and Prague. In 1989 she became the first MON Soviet citizen to enrol for a full-time degree in the United MON States while retaining Soviet citizenship. In 2006 she was MON shortlisted for the Orange Prize for New Writers and named MON one of Granta's Best Young American Novelists in 2007. She MON has published two novels: The Dream Life of Sukhanov (2006) MON and The Concert Ticket (published in the US as The Line) in MON April 2010. Olga lives in Washington D.C. MON MON "A contemporary novel so good, I felt like buying 10 copies MON and sending them to friends" MON The Independent MON MON "It breathes new life into American literary fiction" MON The Washington Post MON MON Abridged by Jeremy Osborne MON Directed by Marilyn Imrie MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Miracles R Us b00sg1hh (Listen) MON Domestic Arrangements MON MON The man lurking outside turns out not to be the private MON detective Sylvia supposes, but a potential client. He has MON inadvertently encouraged a middle-aged American academic, in MON whom he has no romantic interest, to have hopes of a shared MON future. She is arriving next week. Can MiraclesRus help? MON MON Caroline...............................Deborah Findlay MON Sylvia...............................Anna Massey MON James Linnet ...........................David Horovitch MON Mary Beth Haldeman............... Laura Shavin MON Pianist...............................Jeremy Limb MON MON Written by Lesley Bruce MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON Music and stings from the music of Nick Drake. Theme: "When MON the Day is Done" and stings: "Time of No Reply" and "Cello MON Song". MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bwm1p (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 14 FEBRUARY 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01bsgwg (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01bwmvy (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bsgwj (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bsgwl (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bsgwn (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01bsgwq (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01c304m (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the TUE Revd Peter Whittaker, Methodist Minister. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01bwmvp (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01bwmvr (Listen) TUE Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports TUE Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01bllwz (Listen) TUE Chris Stringer TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili meets leading paleoanthropologist Chris TUE Stringer to find who our ancestors were. TUE As a post graduate Chris went on a road trip with a TUE difference, driving round Europe in an old Morris Minor TUE measuring Neanderthal skulls. After being thrown out of TUE several countries, the results of his analysis led to a TUE controversial theory which ran counter to what many people TUE thought at the time. Chris suggested that our most recent TUE relative originated in Africa. He also reveals how genetics TUE has transformed his work and talks about his own TUE unconventional origins. TUE TUE That there were cannibals in Somerset is one of the more TUE surprising findings of Chris' TUE work on early man in Britain and Jim discovers what it's TUE like to work on an archaeological dig. TUE TUE Producer: Geraldine Fitzgerald. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01bwmvw (Listen) TUE Bridget Kendall with Prof Dianna Bowles TUE TUE Bridget Kendall has never liked to pigeon hole people and in TUE her series of One to One she talks to those who are known in TUE one particular field but have a second string to their bow, TUE an expertise in a very different field. As a special treat, TUE for today's programme Bridget's out in the Yorkshire Dales TUE near Middlesmoor to meet Prof Dianna Bowles, an eminent TUE plant biochemist who's spent much of her career TUE investigating how biology can benefit society. She's also an TUE enthusiastic owner of an expanding flock of Herdwick sheep TUE and when Foot and Mouth struck in 2001, her two passions TUE came together as she fought, with other breeders, to protect TUE the future of the breed. While science, in some ways TUE connects the two interests, it is above all the joy Dianna TUE finds in both activities that unites them. TUE Producer: Lucy Lunt. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01cdl28 (Listen) TUE Europe in the Looking Glass, Episode 2 TUE TUE Europe in the Looking Glass is Robert Byron's travel TUE classic, recounting a car journey across Europe in 1926, and TUE providing a mirror on events and nationhood both then and TUE today. Byron (a descendant of the poet) found acclaim as the TUE author of The Road to Oxiana - an account of a trip to TUE Afghanistan and Persia. TUE TUE In part two, they leave Germany for Austria, and on to TUE Italy. TUE TUE Read by Rupert Penry-Jones. TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01bwmw0 (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bwmw2 (Listen) TUE HighLites, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. TUE TUE 2/5 Bev takes her struggle for solvency to the council, and TUE tries to rekindle the affections of an old flame. TUE TUE Bev ..... Lorraine Ashbourne TUE Shirley ..... Rosie Cavaliero TUE John ..... Carl Prekopp TUE Henry ..... Gerard McDermott TUE Alice ..... Marlene Sidaway TUE Melvin ..... Adam Billington TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE 11:00 Nature b01bwmw4 (Listen) TUE Series 5, James and the Giant Redwoods - Part One TUE TUE Ever since he was a boy, James Aldred has loved climbing TUE trees. And over the years, James has dreamt of searching out TUE some of the world's biggest trees including the world's TUE tallest living tree, a Coast Redwood (Sequoia sempervirens) TUE in Northern California called Hyperion, which measures 379.3 TUE feet tall. (The tallest tree is Britain is a Douglas Fir in TUE Argyll, Scotland which is about 209 feet tall). Hyperion at TUE nearly 380 feet tall is about 3 times the height of Nelson's TUE Column! TUE TUE Hyperion was discovered on August 25, 2006 by naturalist TUE Chris Atkins and Michael Taylor. The tree was verified as TUE standing 115.55 m (379.1 ft tall) by Stephen Sillett. It's TUE estimated to be increasing in height at about 2cm a year. TUE The exact location of the tree is kept a secret to prevent TUE human traffic disturbing and causing damage to the tree or TUE its environment. In the first of two programmes, NATURE TUE tells the story of how James and three friends were TUE introduced to Michael Taylor who to their delight and beyond TUE all expectations, offered to take them to see some of the TUE world's biggest and tallest trees, including an enormous TUE Coastal Redwood called Emerald Giant. And not only did they TUE see the tree, but they got to climb it, as one of the aims TUE of their trip was to collect seed from these trees for a TUE Conservation project at Harcourt Arboretum. Climbing these TUE trees is no mean feat, it's a relentless, exhausting climb. TUE As Ben says, ' You gotta earn it". And then, back on the TUE forest floor, Michael has another surprise in store for TUE them, when he leads the way through the forest to Hyperion, TUE the world's tallest tree. "It just reminds me of one of TUE those enormous chimneys on Battersea Power Station ... it TUE just goes on and on, and on, up and up and up" says James. TUE TUE Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE Music TUE TUE Music in the programme was recorded on location. It is a TUE piece called "Riverman Man" composed and performed by Brett TUE Mifsud. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01bwmw6 (Listen) TUE Series 13, Episode 3 TUE TUE Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto, which was famously TUE featured in David Lean's film "Brief Encounter", is one of TUE the world's most popular pieces of classical. In this TUE programme people describe the way in which Rachmaninov's 2nd TUE Piano Concerto has touched and shaped their lives. The TUE programme features a pianist from Taiwan whose memories of a TUE repressive childhood were dispelled by the emotions TUE contained within this music. Plus a story from an acclaimed TUE pianist from Argentina who was told she would never play the TUE piano again after a serious car accident, but who has TUE recently performed this piece in New York. And finally an TUE account of the place that this piece of passionate and TUE heartfelt music played in the life of John Peel and his TUE family, told by his wife Sheila Ravenscroft. TUE TUE The concerto is also given historical and musical context in TUE the programme by pianists Peter Donohoe and Howard Shelley. TUE TUE Producer: Rosie Boulton. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01bwmw8 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE An opportunity for listeners to contribute their views on TUE consumer issues. Presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01bsgws (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01bwmwb (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney presents national and international news. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Sport and the British b01bwmwd (Listen) TUE Tennis and Golf in Suburbia TUE TUE Clare Balding continues to explore the history of sport in TUE Britain and in today's programme visits one of the oldest TUE tennis clubs in the country in Leamington Spa. In Victorian TUE Britain, lawn tennis took off thanks to the growing numbers TUE of a whole new strata of society - the middle class. Living TUE in suburbia with clean air, space and leisure time, tennis TUE and golf became increasingly popular pastimes. There were TUE 250 clubs in the Lawn Tennis Association by 1900 rising to TUE 3000 by the 1930's and 5000 by the 50's. The middle class TUE had grasped hold of a sport that seemed perfectly designed TUE for polite society. It didn't involve getting dirty or even TUE particularly sweaty and the same could be said for golf. TUE Clare also visits Kenilworth Golf Club where Professor TUE Richard Holt of the International Centre for Sports History TUE and Culture at De Montfort University explains that these TUE clubs were as much about social division as they were about TUE inclusion. TUE Readers, Nyasha Hatendi and Sean Baker TUE Producer: Sara Conkey. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01bwfyv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Play b01byc0x (Listen) TUE The Interrogation, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Roy Williams. TUE TUE 2/3 The story of Jermaine, a ruthless and amoral young gang TUE member, who Max and Sean find disturbingly keen to confess. TUE TUE DS Max Matthews ..... Kenneth Cranham TUE DC Sean Armitage ..... Alex Lanipekun TUE Jermaine ..... Anthony Welsh TUE TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01bwp2b (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE Jay Rayner presents the second programme of a new BBC Radio TUE 4 series: a food panel show, recorded in front of a live TUE audience, aimed at anyone who cooks at home, not just the TUE experts. Each week the programme travels round the UK to TUE visit interesting food locations, and meet local food-loving TUE people. TUE TUE This week The Kitchen Cabinet is in Whitechapel in the East TUE End of London at the extraordinary Wilton's Music Hall - the TUE oldest surviving grand music hall in the world. TUE TUE The panel features: Angela Malik, the Scottish-Indian chef, TUE whose passion for demystifying food has led to her setting TUE up her own cookery school, deli and street-market stalls; TUE Rachel McCormack, a Glaswegian who spent her formative years TUE in Spain, and who is now successfully spreading the word on TUE all things Spanish, not least by teaching authentic Catalan TUE cookery; Henry Dimbleby, the food writer and co-founder of TUE the Leon restaurant chain; and the food scientist, Peter TUE Barham, who has advised some of the leading restaurants in TUE the world, including Heston Blumenthal's Fat Duck and Noma TUE in Copenhagen. TUE TUE Inspired by the fact that it's the 14th February, the team TUE answer questions about how to create the perfect Valentine's TUE meal, and whether any supposed aphrodisiacs really work; TUE they also discuss the popular foods that have been TUE introduced to the UK by immigrants who have settled in TUE London's East End over the years; and how to encourage young TUE children to eat liver! TUE TUE The show is witty, fast-moving, and irreverent, but packed TUE full of information that may well change the way you think TUE about cooking. TUE TUE Food consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel & Lucy Armitage. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01bwp2d (Listen) TUE Bambi Bites Back TUE TUE Bambi has never had it so good. Changes in farming fashion TUE now provide deer with delicious things to eat and warm TUE places to sleep all winter long. The result is a big TUE increase in numbers and a rapid geographical spread, taking TUE our native and introduced species into the most urbanised TUE parts of our islands. TUE TUE In 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap investigates the causes of TUE the deer boom and some of the unexpected impacts. Deer take TUE a heavy toll on young trees, enraging foresters and ruining TUE the prospects for ground-nesting birds like nightingales. TUE They're also meeting increasingly grisly ends, killed by TUE on-coming cars or targeted by poachers armed with crossbows TUE or air guns. TUE TUE So should we wring our hands or celebrate the success of our TUE largest land mammals? Should we cull and control or aim to TUE make a profit from nature's bounty? Tom joins a team of TUE specialists from Scottish Natural Heritage for a late night TUE deer count through urban Scotland and meets a stalker who is TUE offering wealthy Germans the chance to bag a lowland stag. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Europe's Choice b01bwddj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 13:30 on Sunday] TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01bwp6b (Listen) TUE Eleanor Updale, Andrea Oliver TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert talks to children's writer Eleanor Updale TUE and TV and radio presenter Andrea Oliver about the books TUE they love. TUE TUE Eleanor's choice is a deceptively simple, poignant novel by TUE the Irish writer William Trevor: Love and Summer. TUE TUE Andrea is a passionate advocate of Like Water for Chocolate TUE by Laura Esquivel - the wildly romantic Mexican bestseller TUE that was made into a film. TUE TUE And Harriett sheds fresh light on one of the most TUE influential recent novels about the meeting of East and TUE West: The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid. TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE Books featured in the programme TUE TUE Eleanor Updale's choice: 'Love and Summer' by William Trevor TUE Publ. Penguin TUE TUE Andrea Oliver's choice: 'Like Water for Chocolate' by Laura TUE Esquivel TUE Publ. Black Swan TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'The Reluctant Fundamentalist' by TUE Mohsin Hamid TUE Publ. Penguin TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01bwp6d (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's TUE news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bsgwv (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Mr and Mrs Smith b01bwp6g (Listen) TUE Series 1, The Bathroom TUE TUE An audience sitcom about a couple in marriage counselling. TUE Annabelle is annoyed because Will couldn't stand up to their TUE over-enthusiastic builder. Will is furious at Annabelle for TUE hiring the builder. Guy mediates, but this week the TUE counsellor has his own problems. TUE TUE Will Smith ..... Will Smith TUE Annabelle Smith ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Guy ..... Paterson Joseph TUE John ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Saskia, Sally ..... Susie Blake TUE Adam ..... Dan Tetsell TUE Claudia ..... Tracy Wiles TUE TUE Written by ..... Will Smith TUE Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01bwp6j (Listen) TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01bwp6l (Listen) TUE With John Wilson, including an interview with actor Jon TUE Hamm, best known for his role as Don Draper in the TV drama TUE series Mad Men. TUE TUE Producer Philippa Ritchie. TUE TUE 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01bwmw2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01bwp6n (Listen) TUE Iranian Sanctions TUE TUE With the EU poised to ban oil imports from Iran, Allan Urry TUE assesses the impact of international sanctions on Britain TUE and Europe. TUE TUE Designed to curb Iran's nuclear programme, the oil embargo TUE could further push up the cost of fuel. TUE TUE Iranian companies are involved in a number of joint ventures TUE that bring energy into European homes and factories: File on TUE 4 examines what will happen to these vital projects as the TUE new round of trade restrictions begins to bite. TUE TUE And British companies that trade legitimately with Iran are TUE already finding it harder to do business. They warn that it TUE could lead to job losses. TUE TUE How will the sanctions affect Europe at a time when many TUE economies are in recession or are just stagnating? TUE And how effective are the new restrictions likely to be TUE given Iran's experience of finding ways around international TUE controls on what it can buy and sell. TUE Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01bwp6q (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01bwp6s (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 Life Scientific b01bllwz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01bsgwx (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01bwp8s (Listen) TUE Ritula Shah presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01c2z2q (Listen) TUE The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 2 TUE TUE Leaving his father in laws exhibition Sukhanov encounters an TUE old friend of his youth; the artist Belkin; clearly reaching TUE middle age with none of the success Sukhanov enjoys. Belkin TUE invites Sukhanov and Nina to his own exhibition. TUE TUE The encounter unsettles Sukhanov, with memories of his early TUE life and friendship, and what has changed since then. TUE TUE Abridged by Jeremy Osborne TUE Directed by Marilyn Imrie TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD b01bwp8v (Listen) TUE Thom Tuck recounts heart-rending tales of love and loss, TUE laying bare all the failures he's suffered in his TUE relationships and drawing comparisons with the 54 TUE straight-to-DVD Disney movies he's watched, so we don't have TUE to. These underrated gems - perhaps rightfully ignored and TUE forgotten - mirror his experiences with women he has loved TUE too often and too soon. TUE TUE A show with a huge heart, all about heartbreak in various TUE forms...the perfect antidote for Valentines Day. TUE TUE Thom Tuck's brilliant debut solo show was nominated for Best TUE Newcomer at the Fosters Comedy Awards in Edinburgh 2011. He TUE is also part of acclaimed sketch group "The Penny TUE Dreadfuls". TUE TUE "...a seductive experience" The Guardian TUE TUE Produced by Lianne Coop. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01bwp8x (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 15 FEBRUARY 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01bsgxh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01cdl28 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bsgxk (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bsgxm (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bsgxp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01bsgxr (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01c3069 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the WED Revd Peter Whittaker, Methodist Minister. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01by7bm (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill. Produced by Emma Weatherill. WED WED 06:00 Today b01by7bp (Listen) WED Presented by John Humphrys and Justin Webb. Including Sports WED Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01by7br (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with Libby Purves and WED guests. WED Producer: Chris Paling. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01cdl2v (Listen) WED Europe in the Looking Glass, Episode 3 WED WED The men encounter problems at the Italian customs post WED before trying to become members of the Fascist Party. WED WED Europe in the Looking Glass is Robert Byron's travel WED classic, recounting a car journey across Europe in 1926, and WED providing a mirror on events and nationhood both then and WED today. Byron (a descendant of the poet) found acclaim as the WED author of The Road to Oxiana - an account of a trip to WED Afghanistan and Persia. WED WED The conclusion offers the travellers (and all of us) a new WED perspective on their homeland as well as the countries and WED cultures they explore together. WED WED Read by Rupert Penry-Jones. WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01by7bt (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01by7bw (Listen) WED HighLites, Episode 3 WED WED by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. WED WED 3/5 Bev has a new appointment, and is reminded of an old WED disappointment. WED WED Bev ..... Lorraine Ashbourne WED Shirley ..... Rosie Cavaliero WED John ..... Carl Prekopp WED Diane ..... Alex Rivers WED Wendy ..... Victoria Inez Hardy WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED 11:00 In Living Memory b01by7by (Listen) WED Series 15, Gentlemen and Players WED WED The last in the long running series of Gentlemen versus WED Players cricket matches was played at the Scarborough WED Festival in September 1962. Chris Ledgard goes to Yorkshire WED to find out about the game and explore the end of cricket's WED amateur era. WED WED 11:30 HR b01by7c0 (Listen) WED Series 3, Married WED WED Nigel William's comedy series returns with Jonathan Pryce WED and Nicholas le Prevost. Discovering that their pensions are WED worthless, the chums contemplate the unthinkable: welcoming WED a female lodger into their home. WED WED Sam .... Nicholas Le Prevost WED Peter .... Jonathan Pryce WED Lupin ..... Sara Crowe. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01by7c2 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Peter White. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01bsgxt (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01by7c6 (Listen) WED Martha Kearney presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Sport and the British b01by7c8 (Listen) WED Fighting Back WED WED Clare Balding looks at the relationship between boxing and WED Britain's ethnic minorities.Through the centuries, WED immigrants have had to literally fight for recognition in WED Britain and that means with their fists. WED As Clare continues to explore how sport made Britain and WED Britain made sport, she visits the Lynn Boxing Club in South WED London.Founded in 1892, it's the oldest continuing amateur WED boxing club in the country. It was around the time that bare WED knuckle boxing was starting to decline and amateur boxing, WED with gloves, took over. As Professor Tony Collins from the WED International Centre for Sports History and Culture at De WED Montfort University explains, the history of Boxing is WED intertwined with the history of black immigrants and the WED struggle of Jewish sportsmen to find acceptance. WED Readers, Brian Bowles and Stuart McLoughlin WED Producer: Garth Brameld. WED WED Producer Lucy Lunt,Sara Conkey,Garth Brameld. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01bwp6j (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Play b01byc2s (Listen) WED The Interrogation, Episode 3 WED WED by Roy Williams. WED WED 3/3 The story of Sarah, married into a racist family, who WED has been holding out against their influence for years. WED WED DS Max Matthews ..... Kenneth Cranham WED DC Sean Armitage ..... Alex Lanipekun WED Sarah ..... Claire Louise Cordwell WED Danny ..... Carl Prekopp WED WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01by7cj (Listen) WED Financial phone-in with presenter Vincent Duggleby. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01bwp6s (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01by7cl (Listen) WED Laurie Taylor explores the latest research into how society WED works. WED Producer: Charlie Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01by7cn (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 b01by7cq (Listen) WED Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including WED Weather. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bsgxw (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Thomas: The Manifesto b01by7cs (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 2 WED WED Comedian-activist Mark Thomas heads to Sheffield City Hall WED in search of new proposals for his People's Manifesto. WED WED This week's agenda: WED WED 1) Councils to plant fruit trees in public spaces WED 2) 3 Years' free education for all between age 25 and WED retirement WED and WED 3) Buckingham Palace to be converted into homeless flats WED WED Plus lots of "any other business" suggestions for the studio WED audience, including a novel approach to reducing knife WED crime. WED WED Written and presented by Mark Thomas WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01by7cv (Listen) WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01by7cx (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01by7bw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01by7cz (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Melanie Phillips, Michael Portillo, WED Claire Fox and Clifford Longley. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01by7d1 (Listen) WED Series 2, Rob Hopkins WED WED Rob Hopkins, co-founder of the Transition Culture movement, WED believes that "engaged optimism" is the best way to face the WED global challenges of the future, be it climate change, oil WED supplies running out or the economic downturn. He believes WED initiatives enabling people to produce their own goods and WED services locally - from solar powered bottled beer to micro WED currencies like the Brixton pound - are the best way to WED build community resilience. Four Thought is a series of WED talks in which speakers give a personal viewpoint recorded WED in front of an audience at the RSA in London. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01bwp2d (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01by7br (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01bsgxy (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01by7d3 (Listen) WED Robin Lustig presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01c2z3r (Listen) WED The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 3 WED WED The art critic and writer Sukhanov visits his mother, who WED has acquired a canary, and later, in a street near her WED apartment, an encounter with a flock of pigeons triggers a WED dream memory for him of his father showing him metal birds WED wings designed so that a man could fly using them. WED WED Unsettled by this, Sukhanov returns home to supper with his WED family and discovers that his wife has replaced the painting WED lent to his father in law's exhibition with an early WED painting by his old friend Belkin depicting Leda and the WED swan. Unable to sleep, Sukhanov returns to the paining in WED the night and it seems to him his wife has become Leda in WED the portrait... WED WED Abridged by Jeremy Osborne WED Directed by Marilyn Imrie WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Tina C's Global Depression Tour b01by7d5 (Listen) WED United Kingdom 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 is camping outside St Pauls. WED WED Tina C...Christopher Green WED With Paul Mason, Victoria Inez Hardy and James Lailey 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 b00tt68z (Listen) WED Series 1, Relationships and Family WED WED Series of comic monologues by Andrew Lawrence. Addressing WED the expectation to settle down, get married and have WED children. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01by7d9 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 16 FEBRUARY 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01bsgyj (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01cdl2v (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bsgyl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bsgyn (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bsgyq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01bsgys (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01c3084 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the THU Revd Peter Whittaker, Methodist Minister. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01bycl6 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Angela Frain. THU THU 06:00 Today b01by8mq (Listen) THU Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports THU Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01by8ms (Listen) THU The An Lushan Rebellion THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the An Lushan Rebellion, THU a major uprising against the imperial rule of the Chinese THU Tang dynasty. In AD 755 a senior general, An Lushan, THU orchestrated a plot against the Tang emperor, declaring a THU rival dynasty in northern China. His rebellion lasted eight THU years and killed millions, and had lasting implications for THU the Chinese state. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01cdl48 (Listen) THU Europe in the Looking Glass, Episode 4 THU THU In part four, the men discover the issues facing Greece THU between the wars. THU THU Europe in the Looking Glass is Robert Byron's travel THU classic, recounting a car journey across Europe in 1926, and THU providing a mirror on events and nationhood both then and THU today. Byron (a descendant of the poet) found acclaim as the THU author of The Road to Oxiana - an account of a trip to THU Afghanistan and Persia. THU THU The conclusion offers the travellers (and all of us) a new THU perspective on their homeland as well as the countries and THU cultures they explore together. THU THU Read by Rupert Penry-Jones. THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01by8mv (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01by8mx (Listen) THU HighLites, Episode 4 THU THU by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. THU THU 4/5 Bev squares up to the local vicar, Harriet, in her quest THU for succour. THU THU Bev ..... Lorraine Ashbourne THU Shirley ..... Rosie Cavaliero THU John ..... Carl Prekopp THU Harriet ..... Adjoa Andoh THU Wendy ..... Victoria Inez Hardy THU Nigel ..... Simon Bubb THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01by8mz (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. THU THU 11:30 Writing in Three Dimensions: Angela Carter's Love THU Affair with Radio b01by8n1 (Listen) THU Angela Carter's relationship with radio began with an THU accidental sound effect - the 'metallic, almost musical THU rattle' of pencil on radiator, 'the noise that a long, THU pointed fingernail might make if it were run along the bars THU of a birdcage' - which inspired her to create the 'lovely THU lady vampire' in the play Vampirella (1976). She was THU instantly hooked on radio. She went on to write two THU documentary-dramas, the prize-prize-winning Come Unto These THU Yellow Sands (1979), about the Victorian painter Richard THU Dadd, and A Self-Made Man (1984), about Edwardian novelist THU Ronald Firbank, in addition to re-working two of her THU acclaimed short stories into glittering radio plays, The THU Company of Wolves (1980) and Puss in Boots (1982). THU THU A child of the radio age, as a writer Carter loved the scope THU of radio's technical possibilities. 'In a radio drama THU studio, the producer, the actors, the technical staff, THU create an illusion, literally, out of the air ... The THU resources are insubstantial but infinite', she wrote. For THU her, the technology offered an opportunity to amplify and THU extend the power of the written word, blurring the lines of THU traditional narrative into 'three-dimensional THU story-telling'. This documentary weaves interviews with THU Carter's friends and colleagues Susannah Clapp, Carmen THU Callil, Marina Warner and Christopher Frayling, memories of THU the studio technicians who worked on her plays and the THU responses of listeners who heard them, with extracts from THU the plays themselves to suggest why Carter found the medium THU so magical and appealing. THU THU Producer: Sara Davies. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01by8n3 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Julian Worricker. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01bsgyv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01by8n5 (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Sport and the British b01by8n7 (Listen) THU Women Between the Wars THU THU Clare Balding discovers how working women finally got their THU sporting chance, through the leisure activities offered by THU many major employers, at the turn of the twentieth THU century.The number of female workers in factories, large THU retailers and service industries was growing hugely and the THU employers decided to provide them with sports facilities and THU equipment. Clare visits Bournville, home of Cadbury's, who, THU like the Lyons company, famous for their tea shops, or Boots THU in Nottingham, gave access to all their employees to tennis THU courts, hockey fields, football pitches, lacrosse fields and THU athletics equipment. She talks to Fiona Skillen from the THU University of Central Lancashire about the women's football THU teams of that period, like the Dick Kerr Ladies, that had THU the power to attract crowds of over twenty thousand THU spectators but were later banned by the Football THU Association. THU Readers, Jane Lawrence and Sean Baker THU Producer: Lucy Lunt. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01by7cv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Play b01by8n9 (Listen) THU Pilgrim - Series 3, Lindie Island THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz. THU THU 4 of 4: In exchange for a precious bargaining chip in his THU negotiations with the King, Pilgrim is asked to sacrifice a THU man he has kept safe for centuries. THU THU William Palmer ..... Paul Hilton THU Viv ..... Pamela Merrick THU Henselow ..... Adam Billington THU Marcellus ..... Jimmy Akingbola THU Goat Lord ..... Nicky Henson THU Randell ..... Carl Prekopp THU Birdie ..... Kate Fleetwood THU THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01by8nc (Listen) THU Inspirational Walks, Northern Ireland - The Wee Binnians THU THU In the second in a series of inspirational walks, Clare THU Balding joins members of the Wee Binnians, Northern THU Ireland's biggest walking club. The walking club was set up THU in 1987 by Veronica McCann who, over the years, has inspired THU countless people to join her in walking the hills and THU valleys of Northern Ireland's Mourne Mountains. Described by THU Veronica as 'a social group that walks, the Wee Binnians THU Walking Club is open to anyone over 16 and the club is the THU embodiment of a cross-community, cross-border group whose THU members share a passion for walking. THU THU Today Clare joins just some of the 300 club members to climb THU to the summit of Slieve Binnian, the third highest mountain THU in Northern Ireland. She hears from Veronica, a THU self-confessed non-walker beforehand, about what inspired THU her to set up the group, why it is so important to her and THU then from some of the members about what the club - and THU Veronica - mean to them. THU THU Presenter: Clare Balding THU Producer: Helen Chetwynd. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01bwd3k (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01bwddn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01by8nf (Listen) THU Francine Stock and guests with the latest from the world of THU film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01by8nh (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 b01by8nk (Listen) THU Eddie Mair presents full coverage and analysis of the day's THU news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bsgyx (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Clare in the Community b01693gs (Listen) THU Series 7, Basic Attraction THU THU Episode Six - Basic Attraction THU THU In Episode Six 'Basic Attraction'; Finally, it's Clare and THU Brian's wedding day! But first there's the Hen Party and THU Stag Night to get through. THU THU SALLY PHILLIPS Clare THU ALEX LOWE Brian THU NINA CONTI Megan / Nali THU RICHARD LUMSDEN Ray THU LIZA TARBUCK Helen THU ANDREW WINCOTT Simon THU SARAH KENDALL Libby THU TRACY WILES Nina / Mrs Mellish THU GERARD MCDERMOT Registrar THU ADAM BILLINGTON Gavin / Terry THU VICTORIA INEZ HARDY Nurse / Trudi THU THU Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden THU Producer Katie Tyrrell. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01by8nm (Listen) THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01by8np (Listen) THU Mark Lawson with arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU Producer Philippa Ritchie. THU THU 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01by8mx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01by8nr (Listen) THU Tackling Poorly Performing Primaries THU THU As some of England's 200 weakest primary schools fight THU Government plans to force them to become sponsored THU Academies, Simon Cox reports on Michael Gove's drive to THU improve children's achievement. THU THU For the first time, poorly performing primary schools in THU England are eligible to become sponsored Academies, THU independent of local authorities and control their own THU budgets. Some schools are contesting the figures used to THU class them as failing, claiming that the goalposts have been THU shifted and that improvements are already being achieved. THU Several are refusing to convert without a fight. The THU Education Secretary, Michael Gove, recently branded those THU opposing his plans at one school in North London as the THU "enemies of promise" and part of a "Trot campaign". THU THU However, over sixty of those approached by Westminster's THU Department of Education have grasped the opportunity and are THU in the process of finding a sponsor and preparing to move THU out of local authority control. THU THU With only a handful of primary schools already operating as THU Academies and dispute over the results of some secondary THU school Academies, what's the evidence this mandatory, THU widescale and fundamental shift will benefit children's THU education? Simon Cox examines the figures behind an THU increasingly fractious fight. THU THU Producer: Samantha Fenwick. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01by8nt (Listen) THU The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, THU The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin THU to present a clearer view of the business world, through THU discussion with people running leading and emerging THU companies. THU THU 21:00 Nature b01bwmw4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01by8ms (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01bsgyz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01by8nw (Listen) THU Robin Lustig presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01c2zl0 (Listen) THU The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 4 THU THU Sukhanov has dismissed their housekeeper Valya, accusing her THU of stealing his collection of ties, now missing from the THU apartment. THU THU In the middle of a bleak family supper - haunted by THU Sukhanov's hazy childhood memories of his father - a THU youngish bearded stranger, complete with large suitcase, THU arrives, clearly expecting to lodge with the family. THU THU He is apparently a cousin of Sukhanov's, whose mother has THU suggested to him that he stay with them, although his letter THU announcing this has not reached Sukhanov. The family resent THU the intrusion but are forced to accept Fyodor Dalevich's THU presence, and Nina gives him their bedroom. THU THU Abridged by Jeremy Osborne THU Directed by Marilyn Imrie THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Paul Temple and Steve b00svt6h (Listen) THU Mrs Forester Is Surprised THU THU A new production of the 1947 detective serial 'Paul Temple THU and Steve.' One of the great radio detectives returns THU refreshed and reinvigorated to the airwaves to investigate THU the activities of a shadowy and ruthless criminal mastermind THU in post-war London. THU THU Paul's investigations into the criminal activities of the THU shadowy Dr. Belasco have taken him and his wife Steve to THU London's Berkeley Square for a night of Latin American THU dancing at the fashionable Machicha Club. They're safe THU enough inside the Machicha - but it's a very different THU matter when they try to hail a taxi to go home... THU THU Paul Temple ..... Crawford Logan THU Steve ..... Gerda Stevenson THU Sir Graham Forbes ..... Gareth Thomas THU Kaufman ..... Nick Underwood THU Joseph ..... Richard Greenwood THU Mrs Forester ..... Candida Benson THU Ed Bellamy ..... Robin Laing THU Sergeant O'Day ..... John Paul Hurley THU THU Produced by Patrick Rayner. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01by8ny (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 17 FEBRUARY 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01bsgzm (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01cdl48 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01bsgzp (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01bsgzr (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01bsgzt (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01bsgzw (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01c309x (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the FRI Revd Peter Whittaker, Methodist Minister. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01by9kt (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Caz Graham. Produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01by9kw (Listen) FRI Presented by James Naughtie and Evan Davis. Including Sports FRI Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01bwd3t (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01cdl53 (Listen) FRI Europe in the Looking Glass, Episode 5 FRI FRI The men eventually make their way home. FRI FRI Europe in the Looking Glass is Robert Byron's travel FRI classic, recounting a car journey across Europe in 1926, and FRI providing a mirror on events and nationhood both then and FRI today. Byron (a descendant of the poet) found acclaim as the FRI author of The Road to Oxiana - an account of a trip to FRI Afghanistan and Persia. FRI FRI The conclusion offers the travellers (and all of us) a new FRI perspective on their homeland as well as the countries and FRI cultures they explore together. FRI FRI Read by Rupert Penry-Jones. FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01by9ky (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01by9l0 (Listen) FRI HighLites, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Steve Chambers and Phil Nodding. FRI FRI 5/5 John's plans to get one over on Beverley go up in smoke. FRI FRI Bev ..... Lorraine Ashbourne FRI Shirley ..... Rosie Cavaliero FRI John ..... Carl Prekopp FRI Hilary ..... Nicola Sloane FRI Wendy ..... Victoria Inez Hardy FRI FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI 11:00 The Nile b01by9l2 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI For 5000 years the river Nile has dominated Egypt. To mark FRI the first anniversary of the fall of Egyptian president FRI Hosni Mubarak, Edward Stourton travels along the Nile from FRI the magnificent high dam at Aswan to the rich farmland of FRI the Delta to explore the enduring undercurrents that have FRI helped shape the country. While rulers come and go the Nile FRI remains eternal and fundamental to Egypt's existence. The FRI country gets 98% of its water from the river. Seen from the FRI air the Nile cuts a narrow green strip through the desert FRI and the vast majority of Egypt's population live within a FRI few miles either side of its banks. How will the Nile and FRI its people respond to the passing of another dynasty? FRI FRI 11:30 The Write Stuff b01by9l4 (Listen) FRI Author of the Week this episode is million-selling author FRI and steadfast purveyor of "bonkbusters", Jackie Collins. FRI FRI Team captains Sebastian Faulks and John Walsh are joined by FRI journalist, Jane Thynne, and creator of the DI Thorne FRI novels, Mark Billingham as they attempt to answer questions FRI based on her life and work. FRI FRI For the finale of the show, the teams are asked to imagine FRI Jackie Collins' version of a literary classic, such as FRI Wuthering Heights or Jane Eyre. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01by9l6 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01bsgzy (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01by9l8 (Listen) FRI Shaun Ley presents national and international news. FRI Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or FRI on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Sport and the British b01by9lb (Listen) FRI A Bit of a Flutter FRI FRI Clare Balding looks at the role gambling has played in our FRI relationship with sport as she continues her exploration FRI into how Britain made sport and sport made Britain. FRI Betting has played a crucial role in the way games FRI developed, it gave incentive to competition which in turn FRI necessitated clear rules. Establishing who's won and who's FRI lost is crucial but who managed to have a flutter and where FRI was a matter riven with class distinctions as Clare FRI discovers. FRI Reader, Sean Baker FRI Producer: Sara Conkey. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01by8nm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Play b01by9ld (Listen) FRI Occupied FRI FRI This drama about UK activism tells the story of what FRI happened when radio producers got a little too close to the FRI action. FRI With recordings of the protests mixed with drama recordings, FRI actual participants mixed with actors, Occupied creates a FRI world of sound that is both authentic and original. FRI The play is made in collaboration with artist and activist FRI John Jordan; as well containing sound from within the FRI Fortnum and Mason sit-in it also documents the actual FRI moments when a crowd of activists decide to make camp FRI outside St Paul's cathedral. FRI What emerges is not only a play about three people trying to FRI make a play - it's about how and why people protest in the FRI UK. FRI Simon: Simon Kane FRI James: James Lance FRI Iain: Iain Robertson FRI Emma: Louise Ford FRI George: Niall Ashdown FRI Theo: Dominic Hawksley FRI Gemma: Gemma Brockis FRI Other parts were played by Katie Bentley and Benjie Dudgeon. FRI Sound and music by Alisdair McGregor and Howard Jacques FRI Producer/Director: Boz Temple-Morris FRI A Holy Mountain production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01by9lg (Listen) FRI Grange-over-Sands, Cumbria FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a horticultural Q&A from FRI Grange-Over-Sands in Cumbria. Sharing their wisdom, on the FRI panel are Matthew Biggs, Anne Swithinbank and Bob Flowerdew. FRI FRI Eric Robson visits the topiary garden at the historic Levens FRI Hall. FRI FRI Produced by Lucy Dichmont and Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 The Human Cradle b01by9lj (Listen) FRI Government by Magic Spell FRI FRI In 'Government by Magic Spell' by Somali writer Saida FRI Hagi-Dirie Herzi, a young woman is possessed by a jinni, but FRI this soon leads her to a uniquely powerful position in state FRI government. A satirical parable of power and corruption. FRI FRI The third in our series of contemporary stories from the FRI Horn of Africa - Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia. FRI FRI Read by Yusra Wasrama FRI Produced by Emma Harding FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01by9ll (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. Presented by Matthew FRI Bannister. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01by9ln (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. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01by9lq (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair presents the day's top stories. Including FRI Weather. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01bsh00 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01by9ls (Listen) FRI Series 36, Episode 1 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis return with another series of FRI topical sketch and stand up. With Mitch Benn, Jon Holmes, FRI Pippa Evans and John Finnemore. FRI FRI Producer Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01by9lv (Listen) FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01by9lx (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Claire Bartleet. FRI FRI 19:45 Woman's Hour Drama b01by9l0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01by9lz (Listen) FRI Solihull FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a live discussion of news and FRI politics from Arden Academy, Solihull. FRI FRI Producer: Victoria Wakely. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01by9m1 (Listen) FRI Historian David Cannadine with his topical reflections. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Sport and the British: Omnibus b01by9m3 (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI The omnibus of this weeks Sport and the British with Clare FRI Balding as she continues her exploration of how Britains FRI made sport and sport made Britain.This week the series FRI disoveres how the North/South divide, racism, feminism, FRI classism were played out on the sports field. Clare reveals FRI the impact of the split between rugby union and league, the FRI power packed punch of the immigrant boxer fighting for the FRI right to be British and who was allowed to have a bit of a FRI flutter and who wasn't. She looks at the invention of the FRI weekend and the emergence of the middle class which led to FRI an explosion in the genteel sports of tennis and golf. FRI Producer: Garth Brameld. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01bsh02 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01by9m5 (Listen) FRI Robin Lustig presents national and international news and FRI analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01c2zz1 (Listen) FRI The Dream Life of Sukhanov, Episode 5 FRI FRI Sukhanov's cousin and erstwhile lodger challenges his FRI thinking on the painter Dali. His drunk son Vasily FRI challenges everything about the way in which his father has FRI lived his life in the last thirty years, and his wife Nina FRI goes to the theatre without him, wearing new silver earrings FRI and scented with lily of the valley cologne. FRI FRI Abridged by Jeremy Osborne FRI Directed by Marilyn Imrie FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01bwp6b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Goodnight John Boy b018g3nq (Listen) FRI Frank Cottrell Boyce celebrates one of the great TV families FRI - 'The Waltons'. FRI FRI 'Goodnight, John Boy,' became one of the most common FRI catchphrases of the 1970s, born as it was from one of that FRI decade's most popular TV programmes, 'The Waltons'. Set in FRI rural Virginia during the Depression, the show offered FRI something very different from the typical television of the FRI time, which was chiefly made up of urban shows like 'Kojak', FRI 'The Mod Squad' and 'Starsky and Hutch'. Not only was the FRI setting different but so was the set of characters - poor, FRI blue collar people who were broadly speaking happy with FRI their lives - anathema to many commissioning editors. FRI FRI In 'Goodnight, John Boy', Frank Cottrell Boyce - himself FRI father of seven children and a successful TV writer - tries FRI to find out precisely why it was such an unlikely TV recipe FRI which proved quite so irresistible to many millions of FRI viewers, and challenges the commonly held view that it was FRI simple nostalgia that played to a Conservative moral agenda. FRI FRI When George Bush Sr. argued that America needed a lot more FRI families like the Waltons and fewer like the Simpsons, he FRI failed to recognise that the show and the family were deeply FRI rooted in the values of FDR's New Deal. Indeed members of FRI the cast such as Will Geer (Grandpa) and Ralph Waite (Pa FRI Walton) were themselves very active on the political left, FRI with Geer blacklisted as a gay communist and Waite refusing FRI to take part in a photo shoot with President Nixon. FRI FRI Boyce speaks to a number of the cast members (including FRI those who played Pa Walton, John Boy, and Elizabeth) as well FRI as Earl Hamner, who wrote the books upon which the series FRI was based. FRI
10 February, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 11/02/2012 - 17/02/2012
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