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SAT SATURDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01mnpjv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01mqr4m (Listen) SAT Joseph Anton, Episode 5 SAT SAT Five extracts from the autobiography of Salman Rushdie. SAT SAT The author travels to India and absorbs the storytelling SAT culture completely. SAT Then he tends to an ailing father. Then he delivers the SAT manuscript that will SAT shape the rest of his life.. SAT SAT Reader Zubin Varla SAT Producer Duncan Minshull. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mnpjx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mnpjz (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mnpk1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01mnpk3 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mqr97 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Ed SAT Kessler, Executive Director, Woolf Institute. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01mqr99 (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01mnpk5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01mnpk7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01mqq9q (Listen) SAT Series 22, Richmond Park, London, with Artist Nicola Hicks SAT SAT In this series of Ramblings Clare Balding is going on SAT wildlife walks around the UK. SAT SAT Today she is in Richmond Park in London with internationally SAT renowned sculptor and artist Nicola Hicks M.B.E. Nicola's SAT work focuses on animals sculpted in straw and clay and drawn SAT on huge sheets of paper. Dynamic and distinctive, it has SAT gained wide critical and public acclaim. Her statues of a SAT dog in Battersea Park and a giant beetle in Bristol have SAT become local landmarks. SAT SAT Twenty years ago, Hicks grew tired of the pressures of the SAT London art scene and decided to make her artistic love of SAT wildlife a reality. She decided to move her growing family SAT to Cumbria and become a sheep farmer. It was steep learning SAT curve with many joys and setbacks. As Clare and Nicola SAT explore the surprisingly rich wildlife habitats of Richmond SAT Park, she discusses her acclaimed artwork, her deep love of SAT British countryside and wildlife and the highs and lows of SAT adapting to rural living. SAT SAT Having just taken the decision to sell the farm and the SAT rolling hills to return to London for good, Nicola shares SAT with Clare her excitement and sadness at the transition. Can SAT you really find walking and wildlife satisfaction in London? SAT Nicola shows Clare how, she passionately believes, you can SAT find natural beauty, insects and animals as rich and diverse SAT as that in the countryside. SAT SAT Producer: Lucy Dichmont. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01mtr30 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT Charlotte Smith discusses the impending badger cull pilot in SAT Gloucestershire, which is part of the Government's cattle TB SAT control policy. The disease has cost taxpayers £500 million SAT over the last ten years and in 2011 it led to the slaughter SAT of 26,000 cattle in England. Charlotte meets one of the cull SAT organisers and visits Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust's farm, SAT where badger vaccination is underway. She also discusses SAT whether enough has been done to speed the progress of a TB SAT vaccine for cattle. SAT SAT The presenter is Charlotte Smith and the producer is Sarah SAT Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01mnpk9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01mtr32 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by John Humphrys SAT and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01mtr34 (Listen) SAT Clarissa Dickson-Wright, John McCarthy in Lyme Regis, Murray SAT Lachlan Young on pasties, Harry Belafonte's Inheritance SAT Tracks SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with cook and food historian SAT Clarissa Dickson Wright, Daniel Bond and Stacey Drinkwater SAT who can't afford a house so they live on a double-decker SAT bus, Linda Cruse who experienced a bout of blindness which SAT changed her life, and former Captain of the QE2, Nick Bates, SAT who describes life on the ocean wave. There's a Sound SAT Sculpture of a rugby ball from Andy Challis, a paean to the SAT Cornish pasty from Murray Lachlan Young, and John McCarthy SAT on location in Lyme Regis. Plus the Inheritance Tracks of SAT the King of Calypso, Harry Belafonte. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b01mtr36 (Listen) SAT Series 5, The Lost Colonists SAT SAT Steve Punt turns private investigator, with the last part of SAT a new series of weird cases. SAT SAT The Lost Colonists. Punt is called on to examine a map which SAT may hold clues to the mystery of the first English colonists SAT to America who disappeared without trace. SAT SAT In 1587, Sir Walter Raleigh assembled a group of 118 men SAT women and children to establish a settlement in modern day SAT North Carolina. One of them, John White, shortly came back SAT to England for supplies and when he returned to the island SAT of Roanoke where he'd left them, they had completely SAT vanished. A mysterious sign on a tree offered a clue to SAT their whereabouts but they were never found. John White was SAT also the map draughtsman for the expedition and an SAT intriguing patch has recently been discovered on the map SAT close to Roanoke. Could they be under the patch? Or could SAT this be a very Elizabethan cover-up? Punt sheds gabardine SAT and dons ruff and codpiece to get to the bottom of this 400 SAT year old missing persons case. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01myzyy (Listen) SAT Aftermath SAT SAT When everything falls apart, how do you cope? How do you put SAT a country and a people back together again after a traumatic SAT conflict? And how do individuals come to terms with the end SAT of a marriage? SAT SAT In this episode of the ideas discussion programme, Bridget SAT Kendall brings together three people to discuss the SAT aftermath of trauma on two levels - the personal and the SAT social. SAT SAT We hear from Somali archaeologist Sada Mire who argues that SAT a nation's cultural heritage is as basic a need as food and SAT shelter when recovering from conflict. And that's learned SAT from her own experience during the chaos of civil war in her SAT country. Today she runs Somaliland's Department of Tourism SAT and Archaeology and is a fellow in the Department of Art and SAT Archaeology at the School of Oriental and African Studies in SAT London. SAT SAT The former Canadian diplomat Scott Gilmore warns that SAT international responses to crises are too ambitious, such as SAT trying to impose democracy within a fiscal year or ignoring SAT people's immediate needs. A former UN peacekeeper, he now SAT tries to use trade and investment to end poverty through his SAT non-profit organisation Building Markets. SAT SAT And writer and novelist Rachel Cusk, talks about the SAT emotional aftermath of her broken marriage. Born in Canada SAT and raised in America, she is an award-winning author of SAT many novels. Her non-fiction includes A Life's Work: On SAT Becoming a Mother and most recently, Aftermath - on Marriage SAT and Separation. She is divorced from her second husband, a SAT photographer, with whom she has two daughters. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01mtr38 (Listen) SAT Damian Grammaticas in China on how accounts of forced SAT abortions from around the country have fuelled a debate on a SAT once-taboo subject: the state's One Child only policy. SAT SAT Paul Mason tells how Spain's third city Valencia is being SAT buried under a mountain of debt. Now the chemists are SAT running out of prescription drugs. SAT SAT Gabriel Gatehouse is in Kenya where questions are being SAT asked about an outbreak of factional violence. Is it simply SAT a matter of local feuding or should national politicians SAT shoulder some of the blame? SAT SAT Steve Rozenberg's been to meet the hardline president of SAT Chechnya and ask him questions about the Islamicisation of SAT his Russian republic. SAT SAT And Georgia Paterson Dargham chronicles how Beirut is SAT increasingly feeling the effects of the Syrian conflict. She SAT tells us how some residents in the Lebanese capital are SAT wondering: has the time now come to get out? SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01mtr3b (Listen) SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. SAT Presented by Paul Lewis. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01mqr5j (Listen) SAT Series 78, Episode 3 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Andy Hamilton, Rebecca SAT Front and Kevin Day. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01mnpkc (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01mnpkf (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01mqr5q (Listen) SAT Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire SAT with Sir Menzies Campbell of the Liberal Democrats, Maria SAT Eagle, Shadow Transport Minister, Paul Nuttall, Deputy SAT Leader of the UK Independence Party and Lisa Jardine, SAT historian and Chair of the Human Fertilisation and SAT Embryology Authority. SAT SAT Producer: Isobel Eaton. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01mtr3d (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01bh91t (Listen) SAT Private Peaceful SAT SAT Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo dramatised by Simon SAT Reade with music by Coope Boyes and Simpson. SAT SAT In WW1 over 300 British soldiers were executed by firing SAT squad, some for desertion and cowardice. Many were SAT traumatised by shell-shock. Some 90 years later they SAT received posthumous pardons from the British Government, SAT after a campaign helped by Michael Morpurgo's novel Private SAT Peaceful . SAT Recorded on location in Iddesleigh - the Devon village where SAT the book is set with Michael Morpurgo playing the Vicar and SAT Nicholas Lyndhurst Seargent Hanley SAT SAT The Organist was Marjorie Cleverdon SAT Music - Coope Boyes and Simpson. SAT SAT Directed on location by Susan Roberts. SAT SAT Credits SAT Young Tommo Ted Allpress SAT Young Charlie Harvey Alpress SAT Young Molly Amy Reade SAT Young Jimmy Daniel Houghton SAT Tommo Paul Chequer SAT Charlie Mark Quartley SAT Molly Annette Chown SAT Jimmy Ben Allen SAT Hazel Alison Reid SAT Anna Alison Reid SAT Mr Munnings Nick Brimble SAT Farmer Cox Nick Brimble SAT James Christopher Bianchi SAT Molly's Father Christopher Bianchi SAT Patron Christopher Bianchi SAT Colonel Peter Ellis SAT Old Man Peter Ellis SAT Vicar Michael Morpurgo SAT Sergeant Hanley Nicholas Lyndhurst SAT Captain Wilkes Jonathan Keeble SAT Brigadier Jonathan Keeble SAT Buckland Terence Mann SAT Doctor Terence Mann SAT Director Susan Roberts SAT Writer Michael Morpurgo SAT Writer Simon Reade SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01mtr3g (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Tessa Jowell as she steps down from the Labour front bench; SAT Margaret Aspinall and Jenni Hicks discuss the Hillsborough SAT campaign for justice; Nigel Slater; we discuss the problems SAT of staging musicals depicting domestic violence; Kimbra; SAT Darren Day on why some women fall for the appeal of a bad SAT boy. Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Produced by Emma Wallace. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01mtr3j (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Ritula Shah. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01mqqb9 (Listen) SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT The mere mention of the word "Europe" in the media these SAT days conjures up images of economic crisis - riots, SAT bailouts, 12-figure debts, emergency summits. And yet the SAT European Union remains the world's largest economy, its GDP SAT some 10 per cent larger than that of the US. So is the idea SAT that Europe is in terminal decline exaggerated? Evan asks SAT his guests if Europe's current woes are just bumps on the SAT road towards greater prosperity. SAT SAT And on a lighter note - silos, those invisible barriers SAT which often develop inside organisations. Conventional SAT wisdom says that they inhibit communication and can lead to SAT dysfunctional, isolated units. Evan's guests debate whether SAT they're such a bad thing after all. SAT SAT In the studio are Rachel Lomax, former Deputy Governor of SAT the Bank of England and non-executive director of several SAT companies including HSBC and BAA; Moray MacLennan, Chief SAT Executive of advertising agency M&C Saatchi Worldwide; Phil SAT Bentley, Managing Director of British Gas. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01mnpkh (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01mnpkk (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mnpkm (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01mtr6w (Listen) SAT Stephen K Amos, Mark Watson, Emma Freud, Funmi Olawumi, Jens SAT Lekman SAT SAT Ever dreamt you were the child of a superstar? Well funny SAT man Stephen K Amos has. Stephen joins Clive to chat about SAT his hilarious and poignant new memoir 'I Used to Say My SAT Mother Was Shirley Bassey' which charts his journey from SAT playing the class clown to playing the Hammersmith Apollo. SAT SAT Cyberqueen and Guardian journalist Aleks Krotoski will be SAT surfing in to whisk Clive off on a global tour of the SAT digital world ahead of her new series for BBC Radio 4, 'The SAT Digital Human'. In the first programme on Monday 1st October SAT at 4.30 pm Aleks looks at how different cultures are using SAT technology to express their identity and culture. SAT SAT And it's not often you get to meet a man who sparked a SAT social revolution but as 'father' of the contraceptive pill, SAT American chemist Carl Djerassi did just that. And when he's SAT not busy changing the world Carl is penning novels and SAT dramas - or "science-in-theatre' as he prefers to call them. SAT His latest play 'Insufficiency' considers the curious SAT specialism of 'bubbleology' - that's the science of bubbles SAT to me and you - which has its world premiere on Monday 24th SAT September at London's Riverside Studios. SAT SAT Emma ties the knot with comedian, and critically acclaimed SAT writer Mark Watson. Keeping it snappy they chat about Mark's SAT latest novel, 'The Knot' which sketches the story of a SAT wedding photographer who is hiding a secret. SAT SAT From wedding bells to the bittersweet notes of love - SAT Sweden's Jens Lekman plays his new single 'I Know What Love SAT Isn't' from his forthcoming album of the same name. SAT SAT And Nigerian diva Funmi Olawumi performs 'Ijo Ayo' from her SAT solo debut album 'Funmi Ti De' showcasing her style of SAT traditional and contemporary Yoruba music. Funmi plays live SAT at Ronnie Scotts in London on Sunday September 23rd. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01mtr8k (Listen) SAT Pete Cashmore SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles Pete Cashmore, one of the worlds SAT most popular bloggers who founded the social media news blog SAT Mashable. SAT Producers: Arlene Gregorius and Hannah Barnes. SAT Profile: Jimmy Wales SAT Profile: Mark Zuckerberg SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01mtr8m (Listen) SAT Tom Sutcliffe and his guests cultural historian Christopher SAT Frayling, writer Sarfraz Manzoor and historian Kathryn SAT Hughes review the week's cultural highlights SAT SAT Brad Pitt stars as enforcer/hitman Jackie Cogan in Andrew SAT Dominik's film Killing Them Softly - based on George V SAT Higgins' 1974 novel Cogan's Trade. Cogan is called in to set SAT things right after an illegal poker game is robbed. Set SAT against the background of the runup to the 2008 presidential SAT election, the film draws parallels between the need for SAT economic stability in America's financial institutions and SAT in its increasingly corporate criminal enterprises. SAT SAT Caryl Churchill's new play Love and Information at the Royal SAT Court in London is a collection of 57 short fragments SAT featuring more than 100 characters. Directed by James SAT Macdonald, the succession of short scenes is performed in a SAT white gridded box by a cast which includes Linda Bassett and SAT Sarah Woodward. SAT SAT Building Stories by Chris Ware is not a conventional graphic SAT novel. It comes in a box containing 14 separate books, SAT pamphlets and posters. Together they tell the stories of the SAT inhabitants of a down-at-heel tenement in Chicago. The order SAT in which the separate elements are read is entirely up to SAT the reader. SAT SAT Happy Birthday Edward Lear: 200 Years of Nature and Nonsense SAT at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford is an exhibition which SAT celebrates the bicentenary of the artist's birth. Although SAT it contains some of his nonsense poetry and illustrations, SAT it mainly concentrates on the foreign landscapes and natural SAT history paintings that he worked on throughout his life. SAT SAT Homefront written by Sue Teddern is a new drama series on SAT ITV1 which follows the lives of a group of mothers and wives SAT of soldiers serving in Afghanistan. Claire Skinner plays the SAT fiancee of a commanding officer, trying to find her feet in SAT a world which combines the normality of domestic life with SAT constant pressure and anxiety. SAT SAT Producer: Torquil MacLeod. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01mtr8p (Listen) SAT The Debate of Our Times SAT SAT Giles Dilnot delves into the archives of Radio 4's Any SAT Questions and other television and radio discussion SAT programmes to find out if political debate has changed in SAT this country. Walking the corridors of Westminster and SAT Whitehall, he meets Kenneth Clarke, Shirley Williams, Diane SAT Abbott, and Tony Benn, among others, and asks if they think SAT debate has dumbed down? Tony Benn recalls key moments like SAT the dropping of the little known 14 day rule, or the first SAT broadcast of Parliament in 1975, "When the transmitter was SAT switched on, my voice was the first that was heard and I SAT thought about it very carefully, what I would say", but did SAT it impact on political debate outside the House of Commons? SAT Conservative former Justice Secretary Kenneth Clarke thinks SAT the quality of debate is more to do with who is talking, SAT "Every generation has people who are superb at debating and SAT every generation has people who can bore the hind leg off a SAT donkey", but Labour's Diane Abbott believes debate is less SAT than it once was because "professional politicians have been SAT managed to death" which leads to the "killing off of SAT political discussion and public engagement". So Giles asks SAT long standing presenter Jonathan Dimbleby and also the SAT Independent's chief political columnist Steve Richards to SAT compare different decades. And Giles is astonished, when he SAT listens back over five decades of debate about the topics SAT the public really care about such as education or health, to SAT discover that the substance of what is being discussed has SAT not really changed. So, is it possible to say whether debate SAT has declined, or not? SAT Producer: Kirsten Lass. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01mnqms (Listen) SAT The Grapes of Wrath, Episode 3 SAT SAT By John Steinbeck SAT Dramatised by Donna Franceschild SAT SAT A Pulitzer Prize winning novel about economic migration and SAT the endurance of the human spirit set against the backdrop SAT of America's Great Depression and Dust Bowl. SAT SAT Just as the Joads money and food run out, they find work on SAT a peach farm. But Tom discovers they're breaking a strike SAT led by their old friend Casy the Preacher. Tom and Casy are SAT ambushed by a Deputy Sheriff and a mob of vigilantes and SAT Casy is killed. In his fury, Tom hits back before running SAT for his life. SAT SAT The Joad family's dream of a promised land is about to end. SAT SAT Director: Kirsty Williams. SAT SAT Credits SAT Tom Robert Sheehan SAT Ma Michelle Fairley SAT Rosasharn Melody Grove SAT Pa Steven McNicoll SAT Al Finn den Hertog SAT Ruthie Nicola Jo Cully SAT Mrs Wainright Irene MacDougall SAT Mr Wainright Jimmy Chisholm SAT Guard Nick Underwood SAT Cotton Boss Nick Underwood SAT Store Clerk Laurie Brown SAT Boy Laurie Brown SAT Director Kirsty Williams SAT Producer Kirsty Williams SAT Writer Donna Franceschild SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01mnpkp (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b01mqq78 (Listen) SAT Series 5, Episode 1 SAT SAT Mariella Frostrup returns with a new series of the programme SAT that explores the complex realities of parenting in today's SAT Britain. SAT SAT In the first programme of the new series, she is joined by a SAT panel of experts and commentators to discuss raising SAT 'digital kids'. Can tablet games really help nurture or SAT educate the under-fives? Should older primary school-age SAT children engage with age-appropriate social networking sites SAT as a form of 'training' - or should they be protected from SAT the online world, however safely controlled, until much SAT later? SAT SAT And Mariella and her guests will explore how parents can SAT help equip teenage children to negotiate the wilds of the SAT internet, from cyberbullying to 'sexting'. SAT SAT So, Mariella asks, to what extent has the digital world SAT simply sharpened problems that have always faced parents - SAT and how far has it wrought a radical change in the nature of SAT teenage life, and what parents need to know and do to help SAT their children through it? SAT SAT With Professor Tanya Byron, Professor Lydia Plowman, Julie SAT Johnson, Helen King (Child Exploitation and Online SAT Protection Centre) and Professor Sonia Livingstone. SAT SAT Producer: Phil Tinline. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01mqmm1 (Listen) SAT (3/12) SAT Wales take on the Midlands in the latest contest of the 2012 SAT series, with Tom Sutcliffe in the chair. Rosalind Miles and SAT Stephen Maddock of the Midlands are defending their SAT champions' title. The Welsh team of Myfanwy Alexander and SAT David Edwards will be hoping to wrest back the trophy this SAT year. SAT SAT They face the trademark cryptic and complex questions of SAT Round Britain Quiz, which could require knowledge of SAT everything from classical mythology to cinema, and from SAT zoology to pop music. SAT SAT Tom will also be providing the answer to the question left SAT dangling at the end of the previous programme, which was: 'A SAT castaway composer, a Tom Stoppard play and a football SAT manager with a strong connection to Watford - in which order SAT might you put them on?' SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01mnqmx (Listen) SAT Roger McGough with a selection of poetry requests about SAT secrets, art, nostalgia and libraries. The readers are Pippa SAT Haywood, Patrick Romer and Harry Livingstone. SAT SAT Serendipity guides Roger from poems about babies, Dutch SAT masterpieces and the wonders of libraries. There's a poem by SAT the playwright Bernard Kops about the charms of Whitechapel SAT Library, Aldgate East, which closed a few years ago. There's SAT also a poem by one of the less well celebrated poets of The SAT Dymock group, as Wilfred Gibson recalls a summer evening in SAT the company of those friends. Keats urges us to let our SAT fancy roam, and there's a man who earns his keep by 'hunting SAT for haddocks' eyes/Among the heather bright' and working SAT them 'into waistcoat-buttons/In the silent night' in a SAT parody by Lewis Carroll. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT This week's poems SAT To Sentimentality SAT by Roger McGough SAT From As Far As I Know SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT My Baby Brother's Secrets SAT by John Foster SAT From Read Me 2 – A Poem for Every Day of the Year SAT Published by Macmillan SAT SAT The Golden Room SAT by Wilfred Gibson SAT From The Golden Room and Other Poems SAT Published by Macmillan SAT SAT The Voice SAT by Rupert Brooke SAT From The Complete Poems of Rupert Brooke SAT Published by Sidgwick & Jackson Ltd SAT SAT Whitechapel Library, Aldgate East SAT By Bernard Kops SAT From This Room in the Sunlight SAT Published by David Paul SAT SAT Fancy SAT By John Keats SAT From Keats’ Poetry and Prose SAT Published by WW Norton and Company SAT SAT Courtyards In Delft SAT By Derek Mahon SAT From Derek Mahon – Selected Poems SAT Published by Penguin SAT SAT The Death of Allegory SAT Billy Collins SAT From Taking off Emily Dickinson’s Clothes SAT Published by Picador SAT SAT I'll Tell Thee Everything SAT By Lewis Carroll SAT From Unauthorized Versions – Poems and Their Parodies SAT Published by Faber SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 23 SEPTEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01mtq83 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lost in the Lanes b01mtsh6 (Listen) SUN Calling SUN SUN A series of three stories written by new writers to radio. SUN The stories in this series are all set in and around the SUN famous Lanes of Brighton. SUN SUN More often than not the various journeys lead them beyond SUN the winding Lanes of centuries past and into the Lanes of SUN today, where the antique shops stand beside the more modern SUN examples, from treasures to cupcakes, and on across roads, SUN into the place of markets stalls and cafes, buskers and the SUN vibrant life - the North Laines. SUN SUN Episode 2: Calling SUN By Emma Darwin. SUN SUN Twelve-year-old Tom and his sister first came to Brighton SUN after they lost their father in the great storm of 1883. SUN They left their mother at her new job in the big house and SUN walked to their lodgings in the Lanes. But in the middle of SUN the night Tom hears their mother calling for them. And in SUN trying to find her, he finds his own future. SUN SUN Read by Philip Voss SUN SUN Produced by Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mtq85 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mtq87 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mtq89 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01mtq8c (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01mtsh8 (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Edward's, Stow-on-the-Wold, SUN Gloucestershire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01mtr8k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01mtq8f (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01mtshb (Listen) SUN Food for Life SUN SUN That food is not simply fuel is a point conceded by most SUN cultures, but at the same time there are lots of conflicting SUN messages about how it should affect our lives in other ways. SUN As we veer between famine, food mountains, food fads, what SUN Michael Pollan has described as "national eating disorders", SUN religious and spiritual rituals and national feasting, Julia SUN Neuberger attempts to unravel some of the complexities of SUN the modern relationship with food. SUN SUN She looks at a range of literature from the food criticism SUN of Brillat-Savarin to the novels of Emile Zola and the SUN memoirs of Benjamin Franklin. With music from Kurt Weill and SUN Puccini. SUN SUN The readers are Neil Dudgeon and Joe Kloska. SUN SUN Produced by Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01mtshd (Listen) SUN Sarah Swadling is out on the water in Essex finding out how SUN John Labbett, who farms oysters, is coping with an emerging SUN disease threat. He says that Oyster Herpes can kill up to SUN 90% of young Pacific oysters on an infected farm in a day, SUN although it doesn't affect human health. John also SUN cultivates Native oysters, which were historically important SUN in Essex, and he tells Sarah that rebuilding stocks is his SUN passion. SUN SUN This programme is presented and produced by Sarah Swadling. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01mtq8h (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01mtq8k (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01mtshg (Listen) SUN Following the murder of two police officers in Greater SUN Manchester this week, the Reverend James Halstead, whose SUN parish includes the estate where the shootings took place, SUN talks to Edward Stourton about the impact on the community. SUN Canon David Wilbraham, National Police Chaplain, talks about SUN the impact on the police of losing two colleagues in the SUN line of duty. And Matt Wilson, National Director of the Eden SUN Network, talks about grassroots intervention on deprived SUN estates. SUN SUN Edward Stourton talks to Abdel Bari Atwan, Editor of the SUN London based pan-Arab newspaper al-Quds, about how al-Qa'ida SUN is profiting from the Arab Spring. SUN SUN Professor Ted Cantle enquiry into the 2001 Oldham riots SUN concluded they were the result of people living 'parallel SUN lives', but in a speech this weekend he will say that SUN multiculturalism is no longer working in Britain. SUN Oldham based Catholic Priest Fr Phil Sumner discusses the SUN future of multiculturalism with him, whilst Kevin Bocquet SUN reports from Oldham on what progress has been made toward a SUN more integrated community. SUN SUN This week the Catholic Church organised a conference to SUN discuss how Catholic Social Teaching might help FTSE 100 SUN business leaders restore public trust in their companies. SUN Trevor Barnes reports. SUN SUN Steven Nimmo, a funeral director from Dorset, explains his SUN high-tech, interactive way to remember the departed. SUN SUN On her visit to the USA this week, Burmese democracy leader SUN Aung San Suu Kyi finally received the Congressional Gold SUN Medal she was awarded in 2008. While feted abroad, Suu Kyi SUN faces criticism from human rights groups due to her silence SUN over the treatment of the Muslim Rohingya group. Benedict SUN Rogers is a human rights campaigner with Christian SUN Solidarity Worldwide and talks to Edward Stourton about this SUN group. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01mtshj (Listen) SUN The Hepatitis C Trust SUN SUN Lesley Jenkins presents the Radio 4 Appeal for The Hepatitis SUN C Trust SUN Reg Charity:1104279 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN The Hepatitis C Trust. SUN SUN The Hepatitis C Trust SUN The Hepatitis C Trust is the UK charity for hepatitis C and SUN is committed to reversing the steeply rising death toll from SUN hepatitis C. It aims to eradicate this preventable and SUN treatable condition in the UK and provides information, SUN support and representation for all those affected by the SUN virus. The charity was started by patients and almost all of SUN its governing Board of Trustees, its paid staff and its SUN volunteers are patients themselves. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01mtq8m (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01mtq8p (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01mtshl (Listen) SUN celebrating Harvest, from Flemington-Hallside Parish Church, SUN Cambuslang, Lanarkshire, SUN with the Revd Neil Glover. SUN Hymns: Come you thankful people, come (Tune: St George's SUN Windsor) SUN Monarch and Maker (Tune: Highland Cathedral) SUN O Lord, our God throughout the earth (Tune: Tramps and SUN Hawkers) SUN While earth remains (Tune: Arirang) SUN Great is thy faithfulness (Tune: Faithfulness) SUN Now thank we all our God (Tune: Nun Danket) SUN Musical Director: Anna Glover. Organist: Jonas Cedervall. SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01mqr5s (Listen) SUN Sweet charity SUN SUN "Much of what some would call my eccentric wardrobe derives SUN from charity shops...By temperament, I'm a historian and the SUN sense of an object with a provenance somehow ties me more SUN securely to the present" writes Sarah Dunant. SUN SUN As she rummages for bargains in her local charity shop, SUN Sarah reflects on the history of charity shops and their SUN growing importance in times of austerity. SUN SUN Producer Adele Armstrong. SUN A Tribute to Teachers SUN Baby Boomers SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01mtshn (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week, presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01mtshq (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Mary Cutler SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge ..... Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde 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 Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Caroline Sterling ..... Sara Coward SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur SUN Darrell Makepeace ..... Dan Hagley SUN Arthur Walters ..... David Hargreaves SUN Pawel Jasinski ..... Max Krupski SUN Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01mtshs (Listen) SUN Goldie Hawn SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Hollywood's prototype dizzy SUN blond, Goldie Hawn. SUN SUN Like most things in Tinseltown the image is somewhat at odds SUN with the reality. Goldie is an Academy Award winner and SUN producer who's been on the A list for 40-odd years, starring SUN alongside Peter Sellers, Walter Matthau and Woody Allen. SUN She's now transmuted from fantasy pin-up to best selling SUN author - she writes parenting manuals and spearheads a SUN childhood learning initiative. SUN SUN She tells Kirsty about her journey from dancing in sleazy SUN go-go bars to bagging an Oscar, how she coped with the SUN difficulties her early success brought her and how she met SUN her husband of 29 years, Kurt Russell. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01mqmsb (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 7 SUN SUN Join Nicholas Parsons and friends in Evesham, Worcestershire SUN for Just A Minute. SUN SUN Panellists Paul Merton, Pam Ayres, Charles Collingwood & SUN Miles Jupp join Nicholas this week at The Regal Cinema in SUN Evesham. SUN SUN This week, Paul Merton talks about Keeping A Chimp As a Pet; SUN Pam Ayres ponders The Pros and Cons of Knitting; Miles Jupp SUN reveals Three Things He's Given Up Lately and Charles SUN Collingwood explains what Marilyn means to him. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01mtslv (Listen) SUN Food and the Cinema SUN SUN Tom Parker Bowles looks at the cinema eating experience: SUN from popcorn and nachos to three course meals, there's now SUN every kind of food available to nibble on whilst at the SUN movies. But is it right that we should eat in such a SUN distracted way? Isn't it a ticket to obesity? SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01mtq8r (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01mtslx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news with Shaun Ley, SUN including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Ireland's Troublesome Priests b01mtslz (Listen) SUN Early this summer, hundreds of Catholic priests gathered in SUN Dublin, with the whiff of rebellion on their nostrils. They SUN are demanding modernisation of their church, which they say, SUN has lost touch with its people. But the people are also SUN rebelling, not only going to Sunday mass in ever smaller SUN numbers, but organising their own rebel groups to protest SUN against a church which, they say is out of touch with the SUN modern world SUN SUN Ruth McDonald meets the dissident Priests, some of whom have SUN been censured by Rome, demanding relaxation of rules SUN relating to women, homosexuality, divorce and even their own SUN celibacy, but the church is taking tough line telling them SUN that strict church teaching is not open to interpretation, SUN even by them. SUN SUN As the campaign gains pace with series of meeting across SUN Ireland, Ruth asks what the future is for the faith in a SUN country where Catholicism and the state were, at one time, SUN one and the same, and asks how The Vatican will deal with SUN Ireland's Troublesome Priests. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01mqr56 (Listen) SUN Ness Botanic Gardens SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs a horticultural debate with Anne SUN Swithinbank, Matthew Wilson and Bunny Guinness at Ness SUN Botanic Gardens, South Wirral. In addition, Toby Buckland SUN explores the plant-hunting history of Ness Botanic Gardens. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01mtsm1 (Listen) SUN The Invasion of Iraq SUN SUN For ordinary Iraqis the US-led invasion, which began in SUN March 2003, was a time of fear and insecurity. Lubna Naji SUN was a 17-year old schoolgirl living with her sister and her SUN aunts in Baghdad when the aerial bombardment of the city SUN started. In this edition of Witness she talks to Robin SUN Lustig about the confusion, the claustrophobia and her SUN family's attempts to keep the anxiety at bay. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01mtsm3 (Listen) SUN Far from the Madding Crowd, A Farmer Just Beginning SUN SUN By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. 1/3 - Young farmer SUN Gabriel Oak sees an ideal wife in Bathsheba Everdene, but SUN she turns him down, believing in true romance. As she SUN becomes rich, he is ruined, and the tables turn. SUN SUN Musicians ... Colin Guthrie, Chris Davies, Lauren Swift SUN Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. SUN SUN The cups of good fortune at the Maltster's SUN SUN Alex (Bathsheba) and Lizzy (Liddy) taking notes in the SUN studio SUN SUN Credits SUN Author Thomas Hardy SUN Bathsheba Alex Tregear SUN Gabriel Oak Shaun Dooley SUN Boldwood Toby Jones SUN Troy Patrick Kennedy SUN Liddy Lizzy Watts SUN Fanny Hannah John-Kamen SUN Maltster Robert Blythe SUN Jan Joe Sims SUN Joseph Sam Alexander SUN Henery Patrick Brennan SUN Billy Don Gilet SUN Cain Harry Livingstone SUN Aunt Tracy Wiles SUN Maryann Amaka Okafor SUN Director Jessica Dromgoole SUN Producer Jessica Dromgoole SUN Writer Graham White SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01mtstx (Listen) SUN AN Wilson on his novel, The Potter's Hand SUN SUN A.N Wilson talks about his latest novel based on the life of SUN Josiah Wedgwood - The Potter's Hand - and discusses the SUN importance of the Wedgwood family, the company and the SUN Potteries to him personally SUN SUN When it comes to international literature, English readers SUN are the worst-served in the Western world. So what literary SUN classics we are missing out on? Mariella discusses the best SUN of European literature with Ruediger Wischenbart, a SUN specialist in book markets across Europe, Jane Aitken, SUN founder and MD of Gallic Books, and Christopher Maclehose SUN whose eponymously named imprint specializes in translated SUN literature - and who, when he was at Quercus, famously SUN picked up Stig Larsson after he had been turned down by 15 SUN publishers. SUN SUN Jamie Andrews, lead curator of the British Library's Writing SUN Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands, discusses Waterlands - SUN how our rivers and seascapes have been the source of SUN inspiration for many of the great literary classics. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN A.N Wilson - The Potter's Hand SUN Publisher: Atlantic Books SUN SUN International Literature SUN SUN The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and SUN Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson SUN The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon SUN Where I Left My Soul – Jerome Ferrari SUN The Leopard - Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa SUN Doctor Zhivago – Boris Pasternak SUN The Rotters Club – Jonathan Coe SUN Wallander – Henning Mankell SUN The Millennium Trilogy – Stieg Larsson SUN La liste de mes envies – Grégoire Delacourt SUN The novels of Sofi Oksanen SUN SUN SUN Writing Britain: Wastelands to Wonderlands discusses SUN Waterlands SUN SUN To the Lighthouse – Virginia Woolf SUN Our Mutual Friend – Charles Dickens SUN Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier SUN Waterland - Graham Swift SUN Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll SUN Wise Children – Angela Carter SUN Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad SUN SUN Writing Britain - Wastelands to Wonderlands at the British SUN Library SUN Writing Britain continues at the British Library until 25 SUN September 2012. They also want your help with building up a SUN literary map of the country. You can find more details on SUN the website below. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01mtstz (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a selection of listeners poetry SUN requests, in company this week with poet Hugo Williams. Hugo SUN chooses some favourite poems from listeners' requests and SUN reads some of his own work. SUN The readers are Simon Williams and Siobhan Redmond. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 China's New Iron Rice Bowl b01mqpgt (Listen) SUN Rana Mitter travels to Beijing to find out how China's SUN Government is aiming to improve welfare for its 1.3 billion SUN citizens - with a surprising purpose. SUN SUN Over the last few decades, as market reform has driven SUN China's dizzying economic rise, it has primarily been known SUN as a nation of producers. Meanwhile, in the early years of SUN the reform era, the Maoist 'iron rice bowl' - the SUN cradle-to-grave welfare state, was allowed to rust and fall SUN away. But now the Chinese Government is aiming to improve SUN healthcare and housing, education and pensions, with the aim SUN of fostering a nation of consumers. This, they argue, will SUN help build a stable economy that buys its own goods, rather SUN than relying on selling them to a recession-bound West. But SUN that will only happen, the Government reasons, if people SUN feel secure enough to spend rather than save. SUN SUN So Rana goes to visit a young Chinese PR executive and keen SUN online shopper in her smart central Beijing flat - and SUN discovers that she has only clambered onto the housing SUN ladder with the aid of years of parental saving. He meets SUN other young professionals who can't get onto the ladder as SUN house prices have risen so high, but who nonetheless expect SUN little support from the state. Will the huge affordable SUN housing programme change how much they feel able to spend? SUN SUN And if hundreds of millions of Chinese are now members of a SUN new middle class, however pressured, hundreds of millions SUN more are urban migrants. Migrants' rights to welfare are SUN restricted by the 'hukou' system of residency registration. SUN This means that, having left the countryside to help build SUN the new China, they are no longer entitled to full welfare SUN provision. Rana talks to one such migrant in her family's SUN tiny room to find out what this means for her son's SUN education and her own healthcare. Will the hukou system be SUN relaxed, as the Government has hinted? If not, her son will SUN not be allowed to stay on into high school. And he visits SUN another man who was driven to extreme measures to ensure his SUN hukou-less wife's medical treatment. But in a community SUN centre for old people in the heart of the capital, he meets SUN grateful pensioners who have been helped through tough times SUN by the newly-revitalised system for caring for the retired. SUN SUN So - if young people's elderly relatives are looked after, SUN if urban migrants are integrated into the welfare system, if SUN healthcare and housing provision improve, perhaps such SUN reforms will help grow the new nation of consumers the SUN Government want to see. Or perhaps, as some of those Rana SUN meets contend, it would it be better simply to raise SUN ordinary people's wages. As China's political system gears SUN up for change at the top, this question will be the most SUN crucial one to affect China's social and economic model in SUN the decade to come. SUN SUN Producer: Phil Tinline. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01mtr8k (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01mtq8t (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01mtq8w (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mtq8y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01mtsw2 (Listen) SUN There's something of a rural theme to John Waite's Pick of SUN the Week on Sunday. SUN A sight-seeing trip by Bullnose Morris reveals a SUN chocolate-box picture of Devon eighty years ago, at least in SUN the eyes of the man who invented "ye olde Englande" travel SUN writing. Then there's passion among the hayricks - and a SUN stirring among the smocks - in Thomas Hardy's bucolic SUN bonk-buster, Far from the Madding Crowd. All that, plus a SUN newcomers' guide to the Archers, which will probably put SUN them off listening to it ever again. SUN SUN Programmes featured this week: SUN SUN Radio 4 - Book of the Week - Joseph Anthony SUN Radio 4 - Start The Week SUN Radio 4 - Short Cuts SUN Radio 3 - Nightwaves SUN Radio 3 - In Tune (B for Boogie Woogie) SUN World Service - Your World - Waiting in Line SUN 5Live - Breakfast SUN Radio 4 - H V Morton - Travelling into the Light SUN Radio 4 - Classic Serial - Far From the Madding Crowd SUN Radio 4 - John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme SUN Radio 4 - Messy Isn't it? The Life and Works of Richard SUN Brautigan SUN Radio 3 - In Tune (Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain plays SUN Dick Barton theme) SUN SUN Producer: Helen Lee. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01mtsw4 (Listen) SUN Fallon is stuck in a rut. Meanwhile Lilian has a lot on her SUN mind. SUN SUN 19:15 I've Never Seen Star Wars b015p8sr (Listen) SUN Series 4, Sarah Millican SUN SUN Comedian Sarah Millican tries five things she has never done SUN before. SUN SUN 19:45 Where Were You... b01mtt0x (Listen) SUN The Indivisible SUN SUN Read by Hattie Morahan SUN SUN Where were you when Kennedy was shot? That was the starting SUN point for this series in which five writers are asked to SUN build a story around a significant historical event and SUN explore it in fiction. As well as the assassination of JFK, SUN the writers explore the meltdown of Chernobyl, the Tottenham SUN riots, Columbine and the splitting of the lithium atom. SUN SUN People often ask the "Kennedy Question" to highlight the SUN magnitude of the event itself. And occasionally we find SUN ourselves in the thick of the moment. But just as SUN interesting are the polarities, disjunctions and weird SUN connections between the moment that shakes the world and the SUN life of the everyday. SUN SUN Episode Three: The Indivisible by Nick Walker. SUN SUN It's 14 April 1932. In Rutherford's laboratory in Cambridge, SUN Cockroft and Walton fire a proton beam to split a lithium SUN atom and make a breakthrough in the science of nuclear SUN fission. But elsewhere, on a station platform, a mother says SUN goodbye to her son and feels her own world splitting apart. SUN SUN Nick Walker is part of the Coventry-based mixed media SUN experimentalists Talking Birds whose work has been presented SUN extensively in the UK as well as in Sweden, Ireland and the SUN USA. He has worked with some of the country's leading new SUN work theatre companies including Stan's Cafe, Insomniac, and SUN Theatre Instituut Nederlands. He is the author of two SUN critically-acclaimed novels, Blackbox and Helloland. His SUN plays and short stories have often been featured on BBC SUN Radio 4, including Arnold In A Purple Haze (2009), the First SUN King of Mars stories (2007 - 2010), Life Coach (2010) and SUN Dig Yourself (2011) - all of them Sweet Talk productions. SUN SUN Produced by: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01mqr5d (Listen) SUN Serious news or tabloid tittle-tattle? Some Feedback SUN listeners feel those photos of the Duchess of Cambridge got SUN too much coverage on Radio 4's news output. Roger put your SUN concerns to Mary Hockaday, Head of the BBC Multimedia SUN Newsroom. SUN SUN And the BBC's new Director General George Entwistle, barely SUN settled behind his desk, finds Feedback knocking at the door SUN with a bulging volume of listener comments and suggestions. SUN Mr Entwistle has already announced that he holds the SUN audience closest to his heart, so listen in George, the SUN Feedback audience has plenty of ideas for you. SUN SUN And a new era of the Radio 1 Breakfast show begins on Monday SUN when Nick Grimshaw starts his reign. But what makes a great SUN Breakfast Show? Feedback sends out a man well equipped to SUN find out - avid Radio 1 fan, 16 year old Ollie Dean. SUN Speaking to previous hosts Sara Cox and Tony Blackburn and SUN the man brave enough to produce Chris Evans, Dan McGrath, SUN Ollie uncovers some vital advice for new boy Nick. SUN SUN And finally, have you ever wondered what happened to Tony SUN Blackburn's on-air canine friend Arnold? Tune in to find SUN out. SUN SUN Presenter: Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01mqr5b (Listen) SUN Prof Sid Watkins, Bill Moggridge, Stanley Long, George Hurst SUN and Ken McManus SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN Professor Sid Watkins, the neurosurgeon who transformed SUN safety in Formua One Motor Racing. We hear from Bernie SUN Ecclestone, Sir Jackie Stewart and Murray Walker. SUN SUN Bill Moggridge who designed the first lap top computer SUN SUN Stanley Long - the British film director whose low budget X SUN certificate film "Adventures of a Taxi Driver" made more SUN money in the UK in 1976 than Scorsese's "Taxi Driver". SUN SUN George Hurst, the conductor who transformed the fortunes of SUN the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra and inspired generations SUN of British conductors, including Sir Simon Rattle who pays SUN tribute. SUN SUN And Ken McManus, leader of the Mohawks - one of Britian's SUN last great circus horse riding acts. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01mtr3b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01mtshj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01mqmyw (Listen) SUN Political Prejudice SUN SUN If you think that you are rational and unprejudiced, Michael SUN Blastland hopes you will be open minded enough to listen to SUN the evidence which suggests that you are probably not. SUN SUN We might think our views about global warming, SUN nanotechnology or the value of IQ tests are based on SUN scientific evidence. But the beliefs we hold about these SUN issues often say more about our ability to screen out the SUN evidence we dislike than it does about the scientific facts. SUN SUN Michael Blastland investigates the causes of our cognitive SUN biases and our remarkable ability to not let the facts get SUN in the way of a deeply held belief. SUN SUN Contributors include: SUN SUN Jonathan Haidt, Professor of Psychology at the University of SUN Virginia SUN Dan Kahan, Professor of Law and Professor of Psychology at SUN Yale Law School SUN Roger Scruton, philosopher. SUN SUN Producer: Chris Bowlby. SUN Do Leaders Make a Difference? SUN A New Black Politics? SUN Failing Better SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01mtt0z (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 b01mtt11 (Listen) SUN Episode 122 SUN SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories in Westminster and beyond. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01mqq9v (Listen) SUN Francine Stock discuses prototype vibrators with Jonathan SUN Pryce, star of Hysteria. SUN SUN Critic Adam Smith reassesses Peter Falk and Gena Rowlands in SUN John Cassavetes A Woman Under The Influence. SUN SUN Oliver Stone's Savages sees Benicio del Toro in a familiar SUN role as the bad-ass Mexican; he discusses Hispanic SUN stereotypes. SUN SUN And an oddity from North Korea - Comrade Kin Goes Flying - SUN the first ever UK/Belgian/North Korean co-production. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01mtshb (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 24 SEPTEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01mtq9y (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01mqq6w (Listen) MON Ethnic pay gap, racial segregation MON MON Segregation: a Global History of Divided Cities' Laurie MON Taylor talks to Carl Nightingale, the author of a MON groundbreaking new book about the ideology and practice of MON racial segregation in the city. Traversing continents and MON millennia, he analyses the urban divide from its imperial MON origins to postwar suburbanisation; from the racially split MON city of Calcutta to the American South in the age of Jim MON Crow. Finally, he considers the extent to which separation MON by race continues to deform the contemporary city. Also, the MON sociologist Malcolm Brynin, charts the causes and MON consequences of pay gaps between different ethnic groups in MON the UK. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01mtsh8 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mtqb0 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mtqb2 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mtqb4 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01mtqb6 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mvy07 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Ed MON Kessler, Executive Director, Woolf Institute. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01mvy09 (Listen) MON The National Sheep Association say it's a good time to be in MON the industry as lamb and wool prices remain high. Shrinking MON flocks in key exporting countries like New Zealand and MON Australia, are helping to push prices up for UK farmers. MON However, whilst overall the situation is good, Bob Walker MON talks to one hill farmer in the Peak District who says he is MON at an economic disadvantage because his lambing starts MON later. MON MON Whilst it's good news overall for sheep, there are fears it MON is bad news for pig farmers. High feed costs are leading to MON many having to reduce or even get rid of their entire herd. MON Polly Procter visits one farmer in Gloucestershire who says MON he cannot afford to farm pigs any more. MON MON Farming Today was presented by Charlotte Smith and produced MON in Birmingham by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01mtqb8 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01mvy0c (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Sarah MON Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01mvy0f (Listen) MON Grimm Tales with Philip Pullman MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr celebrates myth and fairy MON tales. With the coming 200th anniversary of the first MON edition of the Grimm Brothers' Tales, Philip Pullman MON presents new versions of his favourite stories, from the MON classic quests and romance to the lesser-known tales of MON villainous kings and wicked wives. Sara Maitland explores MON the idea that these fairy tales are intimately connected to MON forests. The theatre director, Tim Supple looks east to the MON tales of life and death in One Thousand and One Nights. And MON at the Royal Opera House, Keith Warner, presents his MON production of the vast, mythical world of Richard Wagner's MON Ring Cycle. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01mxvcn (Listen) MON Vanished Years, Episode 1 MON MON As a writer, the actor Rupert Everett has been compared to MON David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron: wickedly observant, MON very British and extremely funny. And his new memoir MON Vanished Years gives full rein to those powers as Everett MON writes about the travails of a precarious career - fighting MON for good roles, effortlessly glamorous at parties. MON MON Everett found fame in Britain with Another Country and Dance MON with a Stranger, and acclaim in Hollywood with My Best MON Friend's Wedding. But we meet him in the twilight world of a MON film finished but not released - and he's not confident it MON will restore his fortunes. However, at one of the many MON glamorous parties he attends, Everett has a flash of MON inspiration: to write Mr Ambassador - an American TV sitcom MON starring, of course, Rupert Everett in the title role. MON MON And so begins an adventure in Hollywood, diving into the cut MON throat world of the networks and the pilot episode, where MON dreams and fortunes can be made or broken. MON MON In the first episode from his memoir, Rupert finds his MON career at a crossroads. The parties are still glamorous and MON star-studded, the roles less so. MON MON Produced by David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment Limited production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mvy0k (Listen) MON Performance from Tori Amos, what makes the perfect MON cheeseboard, the latest campaign against page three girls, MON Lib Dem women at Westminster - is there a problem? And HRT, MON the subject of this week's drama. MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Producer: Sarah Crawley. MON MON Tori Amos MON It is twenty years since singer songwriter Tori Amos MON released her first album. Her latest 'Gold Dust: 20 years of MON Conversation'is releaesd in October. She talks to Jane about MON her career and performs live in the studio. MON MON Where are the female Lib Dems in Parliament? MON There are currently 57 Lib Dem MPs but just seven of them MON are women. Eleven years ago, the Lib Dem leadership MON proposed all women shortlists. The party rejected the MON proposal which prompted Shirley Williams to say the party MON had written “the second longest suicide note in history”. So MON why are Liberal Democrats so apparently wedded to their male MON candidates? On the third day of the Lib Dems annual party MON conference, Baroness Sal Brinton, chair of the Liberal MON Democrats’ Diversity Engagement Group and Katie Ghose, chief MON executive of the Electoral Reform Society join Jane to MON discuss why there are so few female Lib Dem MPs and what the MON party are proposing to do about it. MON MON Forever Feminine Drama - the menopause. MON The drama this week is a comedy called ‘Feminine Forever’. MON It is set in 1973, and features Eileen who is nearly 50. She MON is the mother of 24 year old, feminist, commune-living Judy MON and wife of Trevor but has, as her husband puts it, lost her MON ‘sparkle’. She is going through her menopause. Putting the MON drama in its historical context, Jane is joined by historian MON Louise Foxcroft, and author of Hot Flushes, Cold Science : A MON History Of The Modern Menopause. MON MON Cheeseboard MON What do Stinking Bishop, Black Eyed Susan and Lord of the MON Hundreds have in common? They are all names of British MON cheeses. This week is British Cheese Week, and to celebrate MON we have invited internationally acclaimed cheese expert MON Juliet Harbutt to show us how to put together a perfectly MON balanced cheeseboard. MON MON No more page 3? MON Following the furore over the topless photos of Kate MON Middleton, and the Royals’ successful legal challenge to MON their publication, the debate about the naked breasts that MON can be viewed every day of the week in certain tabloid MON newspapers has been revived. Page 3 models posing just in MON bikini bottoms have been a stalwart of the Sun for the last MON 42 years. You can even now view these topless women in full MON 360 degree glory via an app. An online petition urging the MON editor to ‘Take the Bare Boobs out of the Sun’ has gathered MON more than 29,000 signatures. Lucy Holmes is the author of MON the petition and joins Jane. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mvy0m (Listen) MON Feminine Forever, Episode 1 MON MON by Caroline & David Stafford. MON MON Set in the 1970s, against a background of increasingly MON politicised feminism, a new comedy series about women, HRT MON and the joys of growing old disgracefully. MON MON 1 of 5 MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby MON MON The series is loosely based on some of the ideas and MON attitudes contained in a book, published in 1966 and MON powerfully influential at the time. The book, Feminine MON Forever by Robert A. Wilson MD, advanced the notion that the MON menopause is a disease - much like diabetes - for which MON modern science luckily has the cure: Hormone Replacement MON Therapy. Recent discoveries in the field of menopausal MON therapy, says Dr Robert, may serve to prolong for many women MON - and for the men who love and admire them - that MON wonderfully happy aura of love and adoration that full MON femininity inspires. Only 15% of women are able to grow old MON gracefully. The rest are suffering from a serious, painful MON and often crippling disease - the menopause. MON Although this series is a gentle comedy - much in the manner MON of 2010's highly successful The Year They Invented Sex by MON the same authors - it explores and explodes the prevailing MON attitudes that underlay these views of women, their MON sexuality, and the roles ascribed to them (particularly in MON relation to age) - views that may not be quite as MON 'historical' as we might like to imagine. MON MON Credits MON Eileen MON Lesley Manville MON Trevor MON Ron Cook MON Judy MON Alex Tregear MON Richard MON Stephen Hogan MON Director MON Marc Beeby MON Writer MON Caroline Stafford MON Writer MON David Stafford MON MON 11:00 The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the MON Diplomatic Bag b01mvzfr (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Matthew Parris opens the diplomatic bag to reveal some of MON the funniest, most striking and memorable despatches sent MON home by British diplomats down the ages. Diplomats toiling MON in obscure posts know that by employing a bit of wit and MON style their reports can end up being read by senior MON Ministers - even by the Queen. MON MON In an interview for this programme, Sir John Major recalls MON the curious tale of a racehorse given to him as a gift by MON the President of Turkmenistan in 1993. The stallion had to MON make an epic train journey across the former USSR, MON overcoming an attack by bandits. Despatches by a junior MON diplomat recounting her subsequent efforts to rescue the MON horse from the clutches of the Moscow railway bureaucracy - MON aided only by her ingenuity and a carriageload of melons MON which had also made the journey - reached 10 Downing Street. MON MON The former British High Commissioner in Sierra Leone, Peter MON Penfold, reads from his 1998 despatch in which the worlds of MON Westminster and West Africa collide. MON MON And we venture into the Saharan desert with the Spanish MON Ambassador to try to find out what's inside his unfeasibly MON large suitcase. MON MON These new programmes follow a previous BBC Radio 4 series MON Parting Shots, which looked at the last despatches MON ambassadors sent before quitting a post. MON MON Producer: Andrew Bryson. MON MON 11:30 Everyone Quite Likes Justin b01mvzft (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 4 MON MON by Justin Moorhouse and Jim Poyser MON MON Justin's still living with his father-in-law, still working MON with his ex-wife and still calling on his Gran for her words MON of wisdom. This week he also has to cope with a game of MON golf. MON MON Justin ..... Justin Moorhouse MON Gran ..... Anne Reid MON Lisa ..... Christine Bottomley MON Bryn ..... Lloyd Langford MON Ray ..... Paul Copley MON Tanya ..... Victoria Elliott MON Charlie ..... Mark Chatterton MON Barbara ..... Kathryn Hunt MON MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01mvzfw (Listen) MON Neighbours hacking your wifi, printing tickets at home, and MON subsidising your holiday MON MON Got wifi at home? If it's not properly secured, cyber MON criminals or even your neighbours could use it to steal your MON identity. MON MON Print-it-yourself tickets. If you buy a ticket for an event MON online and are offered the option of printing it out at MON home, you might think you're doing the agent a favour. After MON all, you're using your own printer, your own ink and your MON own paper. So is it fair for some agencies to charge you up MON to £3.00 to print your ticket? MON MON A new micro delivery website is linking up travellers and MON local people. Locals or expats at holiday destinations say MON what they want - hard-to-find delicacies like Yorkshire tea MON perhaps or electronic gadgets or British magazines. And MON travellers offer to buy or collect the goods and transport MON them in their luggage, in exchange for cash or favours - MON like a lift in from the airport or a tour of the city. Could MON this be a way to subsidise your trip or meet the locals? MON MON 12:57 Weather b01mtqbb (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01mvzlj (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Deborah Bull's Dance Nation b01mvzll (Listen) MON The Dance of Old England MON MON Dancer, writer and broadcaster, Deborah Bull looks at what MON we know - or have imagined - about the dances of Old MON England, including May Day events like the 'Obby 'Oss MON Festival in Cornwall, Cecil Sharp's late-Victorian nostalgia MON fueled folk dance revival and early accounts of Morris MON dancing. MON MON Deborah also tries out some of the moves devised by miners MON from the Northumberland coalfields with a team of rapper MON sword dancers. MON MON Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01mtsw4 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mw08j (Listen) MON The Deportation Room MON MON by Hannah Khalil MON MON Amira, a student in London, is taking some drawings to an MON exhibition back home in Gaza. But when she lands at Cairo MON airport, she can't seem to get any further... MON MON The Deportation Room is based on the testimony of people MON travelling in or out of Gaza who have spent time in a MON waiting room at Cairo airport. MON MON Directed by Mary Peate MON MON Credits MON Amira MON Sirine Saba MON Raheem MON Peter Polycarpou MON Rula MON Souad Faress MON Lamia MON Suzanna Nour MON Mazin MON Khalid Laith MON Hameed MON Nabil Elouahabi MON Munir MON Jude Edriss MON Passport Control Officer MON Robert Blythe MON Security Policeman MON Ben Crowe MON Egyptian Official MON Patrick Brennan MON Driver MON Peter Polycarpou MON Guard MON Joe Sims MON Woman 1 MON Suzanna Nour MON Woman 2 MON Souad Faress MON Man 1 MON Khalid Laith MON Man 2 MON Peter Polycarpou MON Man 3 MON Nabil Elouahabi MON Director MON Mary Peate MON Writer MON Hannah Khalil MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01mw08l (Listen) MON (4/12) MON The North of England make their first appearance of the 2012 MON series in today's edition of the cryptic quiz, with Tom MON Sutcliffe in the chair. The North of England team consists MON of the scientist and crossword-setter Jim Coulson and the MON award winning writer Adele Geras. Opposing them this week MON are the South of England team of Marcel Berlins and Marcus MON Berkmann. MON MON As always they'll need to grope for snippets of MON half-remembered knowledge in all kinds of fields, from MON classic cinema to children's literature and from the Bible MON to football. Typical of this week's questions is: MON MON How would you expect Lord Attenborough to address General MON Melchett's adjutant, the heroine of the Forfarshire, and the MON 'mother' of Nibs, Slightly, Tootles, Curly and the Twins? MON MON All of this week's questions are laid out on the Round MON Britain Quiz pages of the Radio 4 website so you can play MON along with the teams. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b01mw08q (Listen) MON BBC International Short Story Award 2012, East of the West, MON by Miroslav Penkov MON MON The next of the ten shortlisted short stories in contention MON for the BBC International Short Story Award 2012. In East of MON the West by Miroslav Penkov the division between East and MON West is the backdrop for this story about a broken hearted MON man reflecting on love and loss. MON MON The BBC Short Story Award is well established as one of the MON most prestigious for a single short story. The Award is MON celebrating the Olympic year by going global, and for one MON year only it reflects the richness and versatility of the MON short story internationally, with a shortlist of ten rather MON than the usual five. The winner and the runner-up will be MON announced live on Front Row on Tuesday, 2nd October. The MON story will be available as a free download following MON broadcast. MON MON Read by Paul Hilton MON Abridged by Viv Beeby MON Produced by Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 16:00 The Barlow-Morgenstern Method b01j2bmn (Listen) MON Comedian and songwriter Tony Hawks discovers an unusual MON reference work, Harold Barlow and Sam Morgenstern's MON Dictionary of Musical Themes, which takes him on an MON unexpected journey into the complex world of musical MON plagiarism. MON MON Along the way he talks to the country's top musicologist, a MON West End musical director, composer Debbie Wiseman MBE and MON Neil Innes, who not only won a plagiarism case, but also MON wrote the Beatles parody The Rutles. MON MON Producer: Isobel Williams MON A Bite Yer Legs production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01mw08s (Listen) MON Russia MON MON The recent jailing of three young women for staging a MON political protest in a cathedral in Moscow has highlighted MON the relationship between the Government and the Russian MON Orthodox Church. Ernie Rea's guests today are Canon Michael MON Bordeaux from the Keston Institute for the Study of Religion MON and Communism, Father Andrew Phillips,a Russian Orthodox MON priest, and the BBC's former Moscow correspondent, Martin MON Sixsmith. MON MON 17:00 PM b01mw08v (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mtqbd (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b01mw08x (Listen) MON Series 64, Episode 8 MON MON Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the granddaddy of all MON panel games. MON MON This week panellists include Jenny Eclair, Tony Hawks and MON Kevin Eldon. Chairman Nicholas Parsons asks the team to talk MON for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation - MON a task much more difficult than it sounds. MON MON This week Jenny Eclair talks about Spotting a Fake, Tony MON Hawks explains What Makes a Hippo Happy, Kevin Eldon has MON some interesting ideas on How to Save Electricity and Alun MON Cochrane describes The Idea Flatmate. MON MON Producer: Claire Jones. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01mw08z (Listen) MON Jim is on the hunt for excitement. Meanwhile George is very MON keen. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01mw091 (Listen) MON With Kirsty Lang, who reviews the French film Holy Motors, MON which provoked boos and loud cheers at the Cannes festival. MON The cast includes Kylie Minogue as an enigmatic singer. MON MON Producer Rebecca Nicholson. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mvy0m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Luck Be a Lady Tonight b01mqmyt (Listen) MON Journalist and former Sky News presenter Marverine Cole MON looks at how gambling is becoming increasingly popular among MON women in the UK. MON MON A reformed problem gambler herself, Marverine embarks on a MON rather personal journey to find out why more and more women MON are taking to gambling. For years it was associated more MON with men than women, so why the sudden surge in female MON interest? MON MON Marverine examines the attractions of gambling but also MON tries to find out why, for her and others, it turned into MON so-called 'problem gambling'. She hears from women for whom MON the odd flutter is just a bit of fun and eavesdrops on a MON group session for women for whom gambling became an out of MON control addiction. MON MON Producer: Ashley Byrne MON A Made in Manchester Limited Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01mw15s (Listen) MON Sick Society? MON MON In Britain, the health gap is growing - in the wealthiest MON parts of the country, people are living on average more than MON a decade longer than in the poorest parts. MON MON An academic discipline which tries to work out why this MON health gap exists has also grown. MON MON It's called social epidemiology. You've probably never heard MON of it, but the science has influenced governments of both MON the left and right. So what answers has it thrown up? MON MON The most famous comes from the Whitehall II study of civil MON servants, led by Sir Michael Marmot, which found that people MON who are in high-pressure jobs, over which they have low MON control, are at greater risk of heart disease, because of MON the stress their lowly position causes. MON MON The idea that how much control you have over your work and MON life affects your health has generated talk in policy-making MON circles about the need to empower people. MON MON But the evidence is contested. When economists look at the MON same data, they see something different. MON MON David Aaronovitch hears the arguments. MON MON Contributors: MON Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology and public MON health at University College London MON Anna Coote, former UK health commissioner MON Danny Dorling, professor of human geography at the MON University of Sheffield MON George Davey-Smith, professor of clinical epidemiology at MON Bristol University MON Johan Mackenbach, chair of the department of public health MON at Erasmus University, Rotterdam MON Angus Deaton, professor of economics and international MON affairs at Princeton University MON MON Producer: Ruth Alexander. MON The Spirit Level: The Theory of Everything? MON Do schools make a difference? MON Wasted Youth MON MON 21:00 Material World b01mqq9x (Listen) MON Quentin Cooper asks how climate computer modelling is being MON used to determine future UK energy policy. Also on the MON programme how flies could help feed livestock; could growing MON protein on larvae be an ingenious solution to food MON shortages? And how bumblebees find their food in the wild - MON the first study to look at their behaviour outside the MON laboratory. MON MON Bumblebee on Salvia flower MON Credit: Dr Paul Donald MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01mvy0f (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01mtqbg (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01mw1kt (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mw1kw (Listen) MON Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 6 MON MON Rose Tremain returns triumphantly to one of her best loved MON characters, in the long awaited sequel to her Booker MON short-listed best-selling novel, Restoration, published in MON 1989. MON MON Seventeen years after the events related in Restoration, MON Merivel, a man of wit, wisdom and not a little passion, is MON facing a crisis. Older and perhaps a little wiser, with his MON daughter on the brink of adulthood and his dearest friends MON ageing too, life on his Norfolk estate is no longer MON sufficiently satisfying. How to reinvigorate his life and MON find new purpose? MON MON In today's episode: After his sojourn in France, Merivel has MON returned to Bidnold, to find his beloved Margaret in the MON grip of the deadly typhus. But a surprise visitor brings MON solace and perhaps hope. MON MON The reader is the stage and screen actor Nicholas Woodeson, MON currently starring in Chariots of Fire at the Gielgud MON Theatre and seen recently in Borgen. MON The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di MON Speirs. MON MON 23:00 Don't Log Off b01jxrmt (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 2 MON MON Alan Dein crosses the world on a series of late night MON excursions via Facebook and Skype, discovering the real life MON dramas behind the online profiles. MON MON Among those he connects with are Bryan, whose relationship MON with his Russian girlfriend has been conducted entirely MON through Google Translate, and Bill, who stood in a phone MON box, holding a gun to his head as he came out to his wife. MON MON Alan also catches up with Amir, who in the last series was MON trying to leave Iran, and finds out why he was so keen to MON go. MON MON Producer: Sarah Bowen. MON MON 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b01lhgw8 (Listen) MON Series 2, Theseus' Ship MON MON Welcome to the Philosopher's Arms - a place where MON philosophical ideas, logical dilemmas and the real world MON meet for a chat and a drink. MON MON Each week presenter Matthew Sweet takes a puzzle with MON philosophical pedigree and asks why it matters in the MON everyday world. En route we'll learn about the thinking of MON such luminaries as Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, John MON Stuart Mill and Wittgenstein. All recorded in a pub with an MON audience, who'll have their own contributions to make - but MON whose assumptions and intuitions will be challenged and, MON perhaps, undermined. MON MON Propping up the bar this year will be philosophers such as MON Julian Baggini and Nigel Warburton, and academic experts on MON memory, the law, art and computers. We'll be meeting bald MON men, a woman who used to be a man, and a woman who can't MON remember being a girl. Plus music from The Drifters - a far MON more philosophical group than you'd ever imagine. MON MON This programme is a repeat MON MON The producer was David Edmonds. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01mtqc9 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01mxvcn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mtqcc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mtqcf (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mtqch (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01mtqck (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n2m4n (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Ed TUE Kessler, Executive Director, Woolf Institute. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01mw2d2 (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01mw2d4 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with Evan Davis and Sarah TUE Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the TUE Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01mw2d6 (Listen) TUE Jim Al-Khalili meets Sunetra Gupta, a scientist and TUE novelist. As a Professor of Theoretical Epidemiology she TUE studies infectious diseases such as flu and malaria and TUE explains how a mathematical equation can be as beautiful as TUE a Keats poem. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01mw2d8 (Listen) TUE Sarfraz Manzoor talks to Liz Jones TUE TUE Journalist and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor explores the TUE risks and rewards of taking a personal story and making it TUE public. This is something he's done in his book ' Greetings TUE from Bury Park' and within his journalism where he's written TUE - amongst other topics - about his mixed-marriage and the TUE experience of being a new father. He's intrigued by both the TUE process and the ramifications of revealing private thoughts TUE and experiences: How do people react to you? Do they see it TUE as a betrayal? Do you risk hurting friends and family? Is it TUE worth the risk if you achieve something that truly resonates TUE with your audience? TUE TUE As he prepares to adapt his memoir into a screenplay, TUE Sarfraz Manzoor speaks to others who have mined their own TUE lives for creative purposes. This week he meets the best TUE known of all the confessional columnists, Liz Jones, from TUE The Mail on Sunday's 'You' Magazine. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01mxvlf (Listen) TUE Vanished Years, Episode 2 TUE TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment Limited production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mw2db (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mw2dd (Listen) TUE Feminine Forever, Episode 2 TUE TUE by Caroline & David Stafford. TUE TUE Trevor has arranged for Eileen to see a doctor... TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01mw2dg (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE TUE Can the world's marine environments remain healthy and TUE functioning under the influence of man, from pollution to TUE over fishing and climate change? In Saving Species this TUE week, Brett Westwood looks in depth at some of the issues TUE and research being carried out into the species which depend TUE upon this often abused natural resource. TUE TUE Our reporter Helen Scales travels to the Gambia, where TUE issues of oyster overfishing are having a devastating effect TUE not only on the native oysters that were once plentiful in TUE this area but also the coastal mangrove swamps which are now TUE under threat. Can local community efforts being put into TUE action reverse this environmental problem? TUE TUE In Florida, Howard Stableford joins marine researchers for TUE an evening on a sandy beach. Shunning the bright lights and TUE partying tourists he follows the fortunes of loggerhead TUE turtles coming to breed along this stretch of coastline. In TUE a race against time, climate change is having a TUE destabilising effect on the sex ratio of turtle hatchlings TUE and therefore poses a real threat to the long term viability TUE of the species. TUE TUE And closer to home, we look at the 2012 breeding season of TUE some of our breeding seabirds. How have they fared this TUE summer which has seen unseasonal summer storms batter our TUE coastline at a time when many seabird researchers are TUE discovering a mixed picture in terms of breeding success? So TUE what are the causes of this instability? TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE regular news reporter, Kelvin Boot. And we'll update you on TUE the activities of the Open University's iSpot. TUE TUE Producer : Sheena Duncan TUE Presenter : Brett Westwood TUE Editor : Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b01mw2dj (Listen) TUE Series 14, Bach's St Matthew Passion TUE TUE Bach's St Matthew Passion was written in 1727 and was TUE probably first performed as part of the Good Friday Service TUE at Thomaskirche in Leipzig. This programme explores ways in TUE which Bach's St Matthew Passion touches and changes people's TUE lives. Guitarist Andrew Schulman describes what happened TUE when he was played this music whilst he was in a coma. James TUE Jacobs talks about the St Matthew Passion providing solace TUE in difficult times during childhood. And singer Emma Kirkby, TUE conductor Paul Spicer and musical historian Simon Heighes TUE explore how the music works and what it's like to perform. TUE TUE Producer: Rosie Boulton. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01mw2dl (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01mtqcm (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01mw2dn (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Deborah Bull's Dance Nation b01mw2dq (Listen) TUE The Permitted Embrace TUE TUE Dancer, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull, looks at the TUE link between dance and courtship and the enduring appeal of TUE dance as a vehicle for getting up close and personal. TUE TUE The scandalous Elizabethan dance, La Volta, and other TUE courtly dances offered a rare opportunity for people to TUE assess up-close the attributes of their potential romantic TUE partners. Regency country dances have so often been central TUE to the romance in screen adaptations of Jane Austen's TUE novels. But the introduction of the Waltz into British TUE society in the early nineteenth century caused outrage. TUE TUE Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01mw08z (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mw2ds (Listen) TUE The Beat Goes On TUE TUE Inspired by the election of Police and Crime Commissioners TUE in England and Wales. The drama explores the tensions that TUE are sparked when politics and policing are mixed. TUE Peter Livermore is a newly elected Police and Crime TUE Commissioner who passionately believes he can be a force for TUE good and make a difference to how his community is policed. TUE He learns hard lessons about the realities of contemporary TUE policing, and political compromise when he clashes with a TUE Chief Constable with an iron will and no interest in having TUE her position undermined. TUE TUE Writer...Peter Bleksley TUE Producer ... Stephen Wright. TUE TUE Credits TUE Peter TUE Patrick Baladi TUE Vishy TUE Zubin Varla TUE Jane Capstick TUE Frances Tomelty TUE DCS Dave Tullett TUE Rob Dixon TUE Emma TUE Eleanor Crooks TUE Charlie TUE Giacomo Mancini TUE Returning officer TUE Ben Crowe TUE Resident TUE Lizzy Watts TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b01mw2dv (Listen) TUE Series 2, The Space between Us TUE TUE Nina Garthwaite presents a showcase for delightful and TUE adventurous short documentaries. A selection of brief TUE encounters, true stories, radio adventures and found sound. TUE TUE In The Space Between Us, Nina explores the difficulties and TUE delights of distance. We travel to the outer reaches of the TUE galaxy in the intriguing "audio movie" Made Out of Meat and TUE take a joyful journey to the middle of absolutely nowhere TUE with the writer Ian Sansom. TUE TUE We hear tales of family tussles over living space, a pop TUE song constructed around a gap in understanding between TUE scientists and the general public, and a look at the spaces TUE in our speech patterns as the comedian Dan Schreiber TUE explores the importance of a well placed...pause in the TUE delivery of a joke. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b01mw2dx (Listen) TUE BBC International Short Story Award 2012, A Lovely and TUE Terrible Thing, by Chris Womersley TUE TUE Chris Womersley's story about a man who is forced to TUE confront his shortcomings as a husband and a father when he TUE witnesses a startling event. TUE TUE Read by Richard Dillane TUE Produced by Gemma Jenkins. TUE TUE The next of the ten shortlisted short stories in contention TUE for the BBC International Short Story Award 2012. The BBC TUE Short Story Award is well established as one of the most TUE prestigious for a single short story. The Award is TUE celebrating the Olympic year by going global, and for one TUE year only it reflects the richness and versatility of the TUE short story internationally, with a shortlist of ten rather TUE than the usual five. The winner and the runner-up will be TUE announced live on Front Row on Tuesday, 2nd October. The TUE story will be available as a free download following TUE broadcast. TUE TUE 16:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00fz8fb (Listen) TUE Series 4, The League of Nations TUE TUE Michael Portillo re-examines the reputation of the League of TUE Nations. Born out of the carnage of World War One it has TUE been damned for failing to avoid a second conflict. But is TUE that a fair judgement? TUE TUE As an institution set up in the aftermath of a terrible TUE conflict and amidst hopes that such horrors would never be TUE repeated, it seems only right that the League of Nations TUE should be deemed one of history's great failures. But in TUE exploring the origins and works of the League Michael TUE Portillo finds a number of things that have been forgotten TUE in the over-whelming desire to lump the failings of the TUE interwar years on a single identifiable scapegoat. TUE TUE With the help of a former UN Ambassador and historians who TUE have analysed the finer details of what happened at League TUE meetings and conferences, he establishes a rounder picture TUE of the League, both in its failings and successes. It did, TUE after all resolve a number of border conflicts, very similar TUE to the ones that had sparked the First World War. It also TUE rescued the ailing Austrian economy and brought together the TUE greatest Economists of the world who were given the TUE opportunity to formulate global financial plans that formed TUE the basis of the post Second World War economic system. TUE TUE Of course, in pushing for the setting up of the United TUE Nations it was expedient to establish clear water between a TUE system that appeared to have failed and a new one which TUE might be able to learn the harsh lessons of the interwar TUE years. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban TUE (repeat). TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01mw358 (Listen) TUE Series 28, Edith Wharton TUE TUE "If only we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty TUE good time." Edith Wharton is as well known for her wit as TUE for her novels. Born in 1862, she was the first woman to win TUE the Pulitzer Prize, for The Age of Innocence in 1921. She is TUE nominated by Naomi Wolf, the provocative American TUE commentator and author of The Beauty Myth. TUE Presenter Matthew Parris is also joined in the studio by TUE Janet Beer and Avril Horner. TUE The producer is Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01mw35b (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Includes Weather. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mtqcp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Secret World b01mw35d (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 3 TUE TUE Comedy offering an insight into the private lives of the TUE famous. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01mw35g (Listen) TUE Matt springs a surprise and Fallon is apprehensive. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01mw5hw (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who talks to Ashley Jensen, best known for TUE her TV roles in Extras and Ugly Betty, as she returns to the TUE stage in Alan Ayckbourn's A Chorus of Disapproval. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mw2dd (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01mw5j0 (Listen) TUE Green on Blue TUE TUE In the first of a new series, Gerry Northam investigates the TUE rising number of so called "green on blue" attacks in which TUE Afghan soldiers and policemen have turned their guns on TUE British and other international troops. TUE TUE With more than 50 NATO troops killed in insider attacks this TUE year, is enough being done to protect those working as TUE mentors? TUE TUE The US has invested over $50 billion on developing TUE independent Afghan security forces but according to a US TUE Government audit, the majority of Afghan troops remain TUE heavily reliant on American help and support. Even TUE widespread illiteracy remains a problem. TUE TUE Meanwhile the impact of the recent attacks is huge - TUE undermining the trust that's needed between the Afghan TUE forces and the coalition troops getting them ready to take TUE over the security in 2014. TUE TUE So how reliable is the screening of new Afghan recruits? TUE And, with continuing questions over their loyalties and TUE capabilities, can there be an effective withdrawal in two TUE years' time? TUE TUE Presenter: Gerry Northam TUE Producer: David Lewis. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01mw5j2 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01mw5j4 (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01mw2d6 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01mtqcr (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01mw5j6 (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mw5j8 (Listen) TUE Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 7 TUE TUE In today's episode: Returning from his French adventures and TUE with Margaret out of danger, Merivel turns his attention to TUE his old patients, including his old lover, Lady Violet TUE Bathurst. And the King remains an unpredictable guest. TUE TUE The reader is Nicholas Woodeson. TUE The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di TUE Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Clayton Grange b01mw5jb (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE by Neil Warhurst with additional material by Paul Barnhill TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Anthony Head leads a team of brilliantly stupid scientists. TUE This is Clayton Grange, top secret Scientific Institute with TUE a government brief to solve the global fuel crisis, cheer TUE people up and make war just a bit more gentle. Meet the TUE scientists who are a bit rubbish at life. And not much TUE better at science. TUE TUE Saunders ..... Anthony Head TUE Geoff ..... Neil Warhurst TUE Roger ..... Paul Barnhill TUE Jameson ..... Stephanie Racine TUE Helen/Bunty ..... Don Gilet TUE Alan Dobson ..... Paul Stonehouse TUE TUE Producer/Director ..... Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b01lsyrh (Listen) TUE Series 2, What Makes a Fake a Fake? TUE TUE This programme is a repeat. TUE TUE The producer was Estelle Doyle. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 26 SEPTEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01mtqdn (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01mxvlf (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mtqdq (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mtqds (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mtqdv (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01mtqdx (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n2m4d (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Ed WED Kessler, Executive Director, Woolf Institute. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01mw5qx (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Rich Ward. WED WED 06:00 Today b01mw5qz (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and WED Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01mw5r1 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01mxtqn (Listen) WED Vanished Years, Episode 3 WED WED In episode three of his memoir, the sitcom idea starts its WED hazardous journey to pilot show reality. WED WED Produced by David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment Limited production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mw5r3 (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mw5r5 (Listen) WED Feminine Forever, Episode 3 WED WED by Caroline & David Stafford. WED WED Set in the 1970s, against a background of increasingly WED politicised feminism, a comedy series about women, HRT and WED the joys of growing old disgracefully. WED WED Trevor and Eileen visit Judy's commune. WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED 11:00 Gay on the Inside b01mxtsf (Listen) WED For anyone, no matter what's led them to being there, prison WED can be terrifying. WED WED For anyone who's gay, it can be particularly frightening, WED lonely... and dangerous. Some try to hide their sexuality. WED Some dare to come out or find themselves "outed". Some have WED sex. Some even fall in love. WED WED In Gay On The Inside, Stephen Fry, who is a former prisoner WED himself having spent time inside for credit card fraud at WED the age of 17, uncovers surprising stories and shares his WED own recollections of the atmosphere in jail - including his WED thoughts on how far the country really has come in tacking WED homophobia. WED WED We hear from Mark, pacing up and down the landing outside WED his cell in HMP Brixton. Mark couldn't abide his cell mate, WED told him to pack his stuff and get out. Why? Because his WED cell mate was gay. WED WED It's not always easy to be yourself on the wings of a prison WED like Brixton or HMP Parc near Cardiff, according to serving WED inmate Daniel. On the outside he'd always been openly gay WED but, as he reveals in the programme, life in prison is WED different. WED WED In stark contrast, Hayley in HMP Styal says being gay in a WED women's prison is like being in a candy shop. It's also a WED complicated place where being straight on the outside WED doesn't stop you having a girlfriend on the inside. Suzie, WED Nicky and Ashleigh have strong views and reveal them in the WED documentary. WED WED We also hear from Paul, who made the bravest of moves, to WED 'come out' on the wings. He has since been released and was WED surprised at how accepting his fellow prisoners were of his WED decision. WED WED Produced by Jo Meek and Steve Urquhart WED A Prison Radio Association production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01llcp6 (Listen) WED Series 5, Hovering Chops WED WED In this opening episode, the delicate retail eco-balance is WED under threat when a new butcher sets up shop in Lenzie with WED a dazzling array of award winning sausages and forthright WED chat. The current butcher incumbent, Mutton Jeff is WED particularly upset that his chop empire is under threat and WED calls upon Ramesh and the local traders to put a stop to it. WED WED Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli WED Dave ..... Donald Mcleary WED Sanjay ..... Omar Raza WED Alok ..... Susheel Kumar WED Frank Butcher ..... Barry Howard WED Archibald Sibbald ..... Tom Urie WED Mutton Jeff ..... Sean Scanlan WED Bras Jeff ..... Steven McNicol WED Hilly ..... Kate Brailsford WED Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01mwvkf (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01mtqdz (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01mwvkh (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Deborah Bull's Dance Nation b01mwvkk (Listen) WED The Strictness of Ballroom WED WED Dancer, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull looks at the WED emergence of dance as a competitive activity. WED WED She charts the rise of the genteel, restrained English Style WED of ballroom dancing as a defence against the 1920s WED 'invasion' of the Charleston, the Black Bottom and other WED American imports, feared by polite society as wild and WED uncontrolled. WED WED As she sweeps across the floor with a leading teacher of WED ballroom dance, Deborah discovers that, when the stiff upper WED lip combined with the irrepressible urge to dance, the craze WED for competitive dancing was born - a craze that has seen WED many incarnations, most recently with the spectacular WED success of Strictly Come Dancing. WED WED Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder WED A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01mw35g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b010dq74 (Listen) WED The Bat Man WED WED by Amelia Bullmore. WED WED When his wife died three years ago, Christopher fled London WED for a simpler existence in Cornwall, where he has settled on WED bat protection as his mission. Colette and her noisy WED daughters rent the holiday cottage next door and disturb the WED peace - both his and that of his beloved bats. WED WED directed by Mary Peate. WED WED Credits WED Christopher WED Bill Nighy WED Colette WED Katherine Parkinson WED Biddy WED Jenny Agutter WED Rory WED Sean Baker WED Lou-Lou WED Lauren Mote WED Grace WED Georgia Groome WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01mwvkm (Listen) WED Benefits WED WED Major changes in benefits are coming. WED WED On 1 October new penalties begin for people who get their WED claims wrong - including a fixed £50 penalty for filling in WED your claim form wrongly or not telling DWP about a change of WED circumstances. WED WED From January Child Benefit will be taxed for anyone with an WED income above £50,000 and will disappear for anyone with an WED income above £60,000. WED WED In April, council tax benefit will be scrapped and replaced WED by local schemes called council tax support which could be WED different in every local council area. There will also be a WED cap on the total amount of benefit that can be paid. And WED Disability Living Allowance will be replaced by personal WED independence payments - a huge change for many disabled WED people coming hot on the heels of the restrictions on WED employment and support allowance. WED WED And in October 2013 what the Government calls the biggest WED change in welfare benefits for 60 years begins as Universal WED Credit starts to replace six means-tested benefits and tax WED credit. WED WED With one of the biggest shake ups in the benefit system in WED decades, are you clear about how these changes will affect WED you? WED If you have claimed benefits and never had to pay Council WED Tax are you worried you may have to now? WED Are you disabled and need advice about what the "objective WED assessment" test may mean? WED Are you aware of the new Universal Credit benefit coming in WED October 2013? WED Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED WED - Phil Agulnik, Entitledto.com WED - Will Hadwen, Welfare Rights Advisor, Working Families. WED - Jean French, Head of Advice & Information, Carers UK WED WED Presenter: Paul Lewis WED Producer: Sally Abrahams WED Lines open at 1pm. The number to ring : 03700 100 444 from WED 1pm Or e mail the programme: moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b01mwvkp (Listen) WED BBC International Short Story Award 2012, In the Basement, WED by Adam Ross WED WED Adam Ross's unsettling story about a dinner party WED conversation which reveals more about the guests and their WED relationships than they were perhaps intending. WED WED Read by Trevor White WED Abridged by Miranda Davies WED Produced by Gemma Jenkins WED WED The next of the ten shortlisted short stories up for the BBC WED International Short Story Award 2012. The BBC Short Story WED Award is well established as one of the most prestigious for WED a single short story. The Award is celebrating the Olympic WED year by going global, and for one year only it reflects the WED richness and versatility of the short story internationally, WED with a shortlist of ten rather than the usual five. The WED winner and the runner-up will be announced live on Front Row WED on Tuesday, 2nd October. The story will be available as a WED free download following broadcast. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01mzmz3 (Listen) WED Bletchley Park, the decoding organisation, was at the heart WED of British intelligence operations in the Second World War. WED A mythology has grown around its secret activities, which WED some claim shortened the war by several years. Professor WED Christopher Grey talks to Laurie Taylor about his seminal WED research into the myth and reality of Bletchley Park. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01mwvkr (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01mwvkt (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mtqf1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b01mwvkw (Listen) WED Series 3, The Grundy WED WED Series 3 of the satirical comedy about a group of young WED idealists trying to make waves with their new political WED party. This week the group visit Phoebe and 'The Grundy' in WED hospital. Written by Tom Basden. WED WED Simon .... Tom Basden WED Duncan .... Tim Key WED Jared .... Jonny Sweet WED Mel .... Anna Crilly WED Phoebe .... Katy Wix WED Male Nurse .... Jot Davies WED WED Producer .... Julia McKenzie. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01mwvky (Listen) WED Lynda proves to be very persuasive and Tom confides in his WED mum. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01mwvl0 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reviews This House, a new play by WED James Graham, starring Philip Glenister and Phil Daniels as WED Labour whips in Harold Wilson's 1974 minority government. WED WED Producer Rebecca Nicholson. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mw5r5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b01mwvl2 (Listen) WED Series 5, Bedrooms and Battlegrounds WED WED Mariella Frostrup and her guests examine the hidden politics WED of the childhood bedroom. WED WED We'd all like our children's bedrooms to be places of peace, WED of bedtime stories and good night kisses. But often a WED child's bedroom is an area fraught with tensions. It's the WED place where children want to be private and put up their own WED posters, so they can use the space to forge their own WED identity. Yet parents often battle with their offspring for WED control of that space too, over issues like tidiness and the WED time a child actually goes to sleep. WED WED In "Bringing Up Britain" we explore the way in which the WED notion of the bedroom evolves and changes as children grow. WED What do youngsters need from their bedrooms and how do they WED manage to create private spaces when they have to share? WED WED We also investigate the bedroom as a place of night fears - WED the domain of imaginary monsters and children being scared WED of the dark. WED WED And we explore how, as divorce rates have increased, WED children increasingly have two different sleeping spaces in WED the houses of separated parents. How do they differentiate WED those bedrooms and what effect does it have on a bedtime WED routine? WED WED Guests include Sian Lincoln who's recently published a book WED on youngster's bedrooms and sleep expert Professor Russell WED Foster. WED WED Producer: Emma Kingsley. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01mwvl4 (Listen) WED Series 3, Margaret Heffernan WED WED Entrepreneur Margaret Heffernan challenges the negative view WED of whistle-blowers and argues that people who dare to speak WED uncomfortable truths are vital to the success of businesses WED and other organisations. All too often important information WED is available, but acting on it is avoided because it would WED cause conflict. As a former CEO, she believes that a WED positive attitude to dissent is the key to progress. WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01mwvl6 (Listen) WED Apocalypse Then and Now WED WED During the Vietnam War two million tons of American bombs WED were dropped on the tiny nation of Laos, more than the WED combined weight dropped on Japan and Germany during World WED War Two. The environmental impact was horrific, destroying WED forests, killing endangered wildlife and poisoning water WED supplies. For forty years the people of rural Laos have had WED to live with the constant fear of stepping on one of the WED thousands of unexploded bombs that litter the countryside. WED WED Bomb clearance has been partial and sporadic but the sudden WED influx of mining companies coupled with the building of new WED roads and hydro-electric dams is speeding things up. WED Farmland which has been unusable for decades is being bought WED up, cleared of bombs and sold on to developers. In 'Costing WED the Earth' Tom Heap and Georgia Catt hear how the tough work WED of the bomb clearance teams is altering the environment of WED Laos. Local people may be glad to see the back of the WED American bombs but the roads and mines that replace them are WED changing the face of the country forever. WED WED Producer: Alasdair Cross. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01mw5r1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01mtqf3 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01mwvl8 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mwvlb (Listen) WED Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 8 WED WED In today's episode: Merivel must operate on his old lover, WED Lady Bathurst, to save her life - and his honoured guest WED makes an offer that he cannot refuse, despite his WED misgivings. WED WED The reader is Nicholas Woodeson. WED The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di WED Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b01mwvld (Listen) WED Series 2, Pillow Talk WED WED What do long term partners really argue about? The sharp new WED comedy from Frank Skinner returns for a second series. WED WED Well observed, clever and funny, Don't Start is a scripted WED comedy with a deceptively simple premise - an argument. Each WED week our couple fall out over another apparently trivial WED flashpoint - the Krankies, toenail trimming and semantics. WED WED The stakes mount as Neil and Kim battle with words. But WED these are no ordinary arguments. The two outdo each other WED with increasingly absurd images, unexpected literary WED references (the Old Testament, Jack Spratt and the first Mrs WED Rochester, to name a few) and razor sharp analysis of their WED beloved's weaknesses. Underneath the cutting wit, however, WED there is an unmistakable tenderness. WED WED Neil ..... Frank Skinner WED Kim ..... Katherine Parkinson WED WED Directed and Produced by Polly Thomas WED Executive Producer: Jon Thoday WED An Avalon Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:15 Warhorses of Letters b016wzyt (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED Deep in the British Library tucked into the slipcover of a WED book on the history of Blenheim Palace a packet of WED extraordinary letters has been discovered. WED WED "Dear Marengo brackets Napoleon's horse close brackets, I've WED never written a letter like this before...." WED WED Thus begins the first passionate letter from Copenhagen, the WED Duke of Wellington's horse, to his hero Marengo in this WED epistolary equine love story. A story of two horses united WED by an uncommon passion, cruelly divided by a brutal WED conflict. WED WED Warhorses of Letters stars Stephen Fry as Marengo, the WED seasoned, famous and just-a-little-bit-short mount of WED Emperor Napoleon. Daniel Rigby stars alongside him as WED Copenhagen, the frisky young racehorse who as our story WED begins is about to be the new mount for the Duke of WED Wellington. This collection of their moving letters to each WED other is introduced by Tamsin Greig. WED WED Episode 3 sees our heroes' fortunes fluctuate as the WED Napoleonic Wars get bloodier and colder making it much WED harder to send Valentine's cards. WED WED Written by novelists Robert Hudson (The Kilburn Social Club) WED and Marie Phillips (Gods Behaving Badly - soon to be a WED feature film starring Christopher Walken and Sharon Stone). WED WED Directed by Steven Canny WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b01m0phv (Listen) WED Series 2, Sorites' Heap WED WED This programme is a repeat WED Producer: David Edmonds WED Editor: Jeremy Skeet. WED WED THU THURSDAY 27 SEPTEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01mtqfy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01mxtqn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mtqg0 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mtqg2 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mtqg4 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01mtqg6 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n2m4g (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Ed THU Kessler, Executive Director, Woolf Institute. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01mwx60 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 06:00 Today b01mwx62 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and THU James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for THU the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01mwx64 (Listen) THU The Ontological Argument THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Ontological THU Argument. In the eleventh century St Anselm of Canterbury THU proposed that it was possible to prove the existence of God THU using reason alone. His argument was ridiculed by some of THU his contemporaries, but was analysed and improved by later THU thinkers including Descartes, Hume and Kant - and has become THU one of the most discussed philosophical problems of the last THU thousand years. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01mvy0h (Listen) THU Vanished Years, Episode 4 THU THU In episode four of his memoir, Rupert finds Mr Ambassador's THU path to success is paved with elephant traps. THU THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment Limited production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mwx66 (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mwx68 (Listen) THU Feminine Forever, Episode 4 THU THU by Caroline & David Stafford THU THU Judy has some disquieting news for her parents. THU THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01mwxkl (Listen) THU The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the THU stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. THU THU 11:30 Big Shot b01mwxkn (Listen) THU There was a time when the pop manager was universally THU understood within the music industry as the father figure THU holding sway over his stable of artists. A sort of THU benevolent "Big Shot". There is little doubt the rules of THU the game have changed as the music industry adjusts to THU downloads, TV talent shows, social networking and a 24 hour THU media. THU THU In this programme, we explore the changing role of the music THU manager with a variety of industry Big Shots. Paul Loasby THU manages Dave Gilmour and Jools Holland, and he still thinks THU a good gimmick can get an artist noticed if handled well. THU Managers David Enthoven and Tim Clark used to work with King THU Crimson and Free, but these days they keep a keen eye on the THU interests of singer Robbie Williams and would like to see THU the return of a bit more outrage as typified by the punk THU era. THU THU The programme also looks at the world of Simon Cowell and THU his TV shows with comment from his former boss Richard THU Griffiths, now managing One Direction and Leona Lewis. THU THU Writer and broadcaster Paul Morley brings his own brand of THU insight and sanity as he still believes that the manager THU plays a vital role in delivering something special to the THU music hungry fan. But how well are they being served? Is THU what is on offer appetizing enough? If it is so tasty why THU are sales so poor? THU THU Produced by John Sugar THU A Sugar production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01mwxkq (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01mtqg8 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01mwxks (Listen) THU National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners THU can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on THU twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 Deborah Bull's Dance Nation b01mwxkv (Listen) THU Dancing to Our Own Beat THU THU Dancer, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull, looks at the THU rise of dancing on one's own and in ways that draw on our THU most basic rhythms and instincts. THU THU From the explosion of the twist in the early 1960s, through THU ska and reggae, to street dance today, Deborah considers how THU many of the dances which have invited us to "dance to our THU own beat" have come from Africa and the Caribbean. Along the THU way she learns some of the key ingredients of traditional THU African dance, evident in so many of our most popular THU dances. THU THU Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder THU A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01mwvky (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mwxkx (Listen) THU Clean Slate THU THU A gripping drama about missing memories and recapturing the THU past by Sally Griffiths. Ellen Maynard has no recollection THU of who she used to be following a freak accident. Her THU husband, Anthony, is determined to win back the woman he THU loves, whatever the cost. THU THU Starring Amelia Bullmore (Scott and Bailey and Twenty THU Twelve) as Ellen and Jamie Glover (Noises Off) as Anthony. THU THU Directed by Gemma Jenkins THU THU Credits THU Ellen THU Amelia Bullmore THU Anthony THU Jamie Glover THU Julie THU Di Botcher THU Luke THU Joshua Silver THU Dr Rackham THU Susie Riddell THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01mwzwb (Listen) THU Series 22, Taxidermists in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire THU THU In this series Clare Balding is going on wildlife walks THU around the UK. THU THU Today Clare meets taxidermists and life long friends Dave THU Astley, Mike Gadd and James Dickinson. They follow Mike's THU daily route along the river Wharfe in West Yorkshire to THU observe the rich variety of local animals, insects and THU birds. THU THU Taxidermists might not be the first people who spring to THU mind when you think about wildlife-lovers. However, the THU intimate knowledge of the anatomy and behaviour of birds and THU animals that a successful taxidermist needs, can only be THU developed through detailed observation of the natural world. THU So for a taxidermist a walk can become a valuable research THU trip. THU THU Dave, James and Mike are three of the UK's leading THU taxidermists. They have worked with exotic animals, repaired THU museum specimens of extinct creatures and worked with THU international British Fine artists. They've even created THU mythical beasts. THU THU Over 20 years the trio have worked and walked together. THU Clare joins them to find out more about their close and THU unusual friendship. THU THU Clare accompanies them along the banks of the river to find THU out about their techniques and the motivation behind their THU trade. Is it macabre as many might think? On the walk they THU share their unique insights into viewing the natural world. THU They seek out kingfishers, wrens and fritillary butterflies. THU THU They share stories from behind the scenes of Britain's THU thriving, but little known world of taxidermy. They also THU discuss the profession which they feel is still THU misunderstood. THU THU Producer: Lucy Dichmont. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01mtshj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 BBC National Short Story Award b01mwzwd (Listen) THU BBC International Short Story Award 2012, Before He Left the THU Family, by Carrie Tiffany THU THU The next of the ten shortlisted short stories in contention THU for the BBC International Short Story Award 2012. In Before THU He Left the Family by Carrie Tiffany a teenager struggles THU with divided loyalties and some confusion about sex. THU THU The BBC Short Story Award is well established as one of the THU most prestigious for a single short story. The Award is THU celebrating the Olympic year by going global, and for one THU year only it reflects the richness and versatility of the THU short story internationally, with a shortlist of ten rather THU than the usual five. The winner and the runner-up will be THU announced live on Front Row on Tuesday, 2nd October. The THU story will be available as a free download following THU broadcast. THU THU Read by Gabriel Andrews THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01mwzwg (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01mwzwj (Listen) THU The Gravity Fields festival aims to celebrate the legacy of THU the town's most famous son, Sir Isaac Newton. For eight days THU the town will be home to talks, exhibitions, science and THU arts shows, actors and processions. Quentin talks to some of THU the scientists taking part. THU THU 17:00 PM b01mwzwm (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mtqgb (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01mx27b (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 3 THU THU John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, THU regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things THU like Miranda and Family Guy, records a second series of his THU hit sketch show. THU THU The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by THU The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny THU sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. It THU featured Winnie the Pooh coming to terms with his abusive THU relationship with honey, how The Archers sounds to people THU who don't listen to the Archers and how Dr Jekyll and Mr THU Hyde decided whose turn it was to do the washing up. THU THU This episode doesn't feature any of those things, but it THU does feature a sketch about messengers, a sketch about the THU history of alchemy and a sketch... Sketch? "Sketch"? Sorry, THU you know when you repeat a word so often it starts to go THU weird? "Sketch". Sketch! Ssssssketch. That's got it, better THU now. Anyway, there's a sketch about that. THU THU John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme is written by and stars THU John Finnemore. It also features Margaret Cabourn-Smith, THU Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. It is produced THU by Ed Morrish. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01mx27d (Listen) THU Mike has money on his mind and George counts the cost. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01mx27g (Listen) THU In a wide-ranging conversation with Mark Lawson, J K Rowling THU discusses the inspiration for her new novel The Casual THU Vacancy, and also reflects on her role in the Olympic THU opening ceremony, the effects of her success with Harry THU Potter, and whether she will return to her most famous THU character. THU THU Producer Erin Riley. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mwx68 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01mx27j (Listen) THU With police still trying to establish a clear motive for the THU shooting of a British family and a cyclist in the French THU Alps, Simon Cox asks whether the murders will ever be THU solved. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01mx27l (Listen) THU Evan Davis hosts the business conversation show. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01mw2dg (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01mwx64 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01mtqgd (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01mx27n (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mx27q (Listen) THU Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 9 THU THU In today's episode: With Margaret lost to the Court and the THU death of Clarendon the Bear, Merivel needs new purpose - he THU determines to rekindle a friendship. THU THU The reader is Nicholas Woodeson. THU The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di THU Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Two Episodes of Mash b01mx27s (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU In Episode 4: Diane, Joe and David have to do 30 minutes of THU community service as punishment for their crimes against THU radio. THU THU You can see an animation by Tom Rourke on the Radio 4 THU website: www.bbc.co.uk/radio 4. THU THU Credits: Diane Morgan, Joe Wilkinson, David O'Doherty, Aled THU Jones, Paul Harry Allen, Bobbie Pryor and Gary Newman. THU THU Producer: Clair Wordsworth. THU THU 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b01m5jkl (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 THU THU This programme is a repeat THU Producer: David Edmonds THU Editor: Jeremy Skeet. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 28 SEPTEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01mtqhf (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01mvy0h (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mtqhh (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mtqhk (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mtqhm (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01mtqhp (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n2m4j (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Dr Ed FRI Kessler, Executive Director, Woolf Institute. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01mx2sc (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01mx2sf (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and FRI James Naughtie. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for FRI the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01mtshs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01myxxx (Listen) FRI Vanished Years, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final episode of his memoir, Rupert Everett's Mr FRI Ambassador is filmed - at last. In front of a live audience. FRI What could possibly go wrong? FRI FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment Limited production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01mx2sh (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01mx2sk (Listen) FRI Feminine Forever, Episode 5 FRI FRI by Caroline & David Stafford. FRI FRI Directed by Marc Beeby. FRI FRI 11:00 The Reluctant Lama b01mx2sm (Listen) FRI The extraordinary story of Osel Hita Torres, the Spanish boy FRI who was chosen by the Dalai Lama as the living reincarnation FRI of a great Buddhist lama. Jolyon Jenkins goes to meet him in FRI Ibiza, where he now lives, having turned his back on his FRI epic destiny. FRI FRI In 1987, when he was just two years old, Osel Hita Torres FRI was whisked from his family home in Granada and moved to a FRI monastery in southern India. He had a strange childhood, FRI dressed in a yellow hat, seated on a throne with grown men FRI worshipping him and watching his every move as he grew up. FRI He was separated from his parents and his brothers and FRI sisters for many years. FRI FRI But at the age of 24 Osel decided to abandon the faith and FRI go to film school in Madrid. It caused a sensation. He is FRI now 27, and living quietly in Ibiza near his mother Maria. FRI She is a committed Buddhist who still believes that her son FRI is a reincarnation and that it was right to send him to the FRI monastery. Osel has now decided to get involved in Buddhism FRI again, and continue his studies, although he refuses to call FRI himself a lama. Despite his years in the monastery, he is FRI very much a westerner. To his followers, however, he's still FRI known as Lama Tenzin Osel Rinpoche, and every word he utters FRI is considered sacred and imbued with wisdom. They're FRI yearning for him to return and lead them. FRI FRI Jolyon Jenkins uncovers the story with Osel and Maria, and FRI finds out what it's like to be in this unique situation, FRI caught between East and West. FRI FRI 11:30 Gloomsbury b01mx2sp (Listen) FRI The Trials of Attempting an Elopement FRI FRI A stellar cast of Miriam Margolyes, Alison Steadman, Nigel FRI Planer, Morwenna Banks, Jonathan Coy and John Sessions FRI breathes life into the colourfully chaotic characters of FRI Gloomsbury, a riotous new comedy about the Bloomsbury Group. FRI FRI The six-part series from the pen of Sue Limb is an FRI affectionate send up of the infamous literary group whose FRI arty and adulterous adventures dominated the cultural scene FRI in the early 20th century. FRI FRI The series follows the fortunes of Vera Sackcloth-Vest FRI (Margolyes) - writer, gardener and transvestite - and her FRI urge to escape from the tranquillity of her rather cramped FRI little castle in Kent which she shares with her doting but FRI ambiguous husband Henry (Coy), who is 'something in the FRI Foreign Office'. Vera's heart is forever surging with exotic FRI passion for Ginny Fox (Steadman), a highly-strung novelist FRI who adores her, or the beautiful but shallow Venus Traduces FRI (Banks). FRI FRI As the scene shifts from Kent to London, and Cornwall to FRI Monaco, this close-knit coterie is divided by FRI misunderstandings, jealousies and rows. FRI FRI In episode one, Vera longs to elope to Mediterranean FRI sunshine with one of her bosom chums. But her first choice, FRI Ginny, is stubbornly impervious to adventure and Venus FRI Traduces is fully booked for elopements until next April. FRI Will Vera run off instead with the perky waitress at Lyons' FRI Corner house? Meanwhile, what is Vera's husband Henry up to FRI as telegrams fly between him and Archie Pinkerton-Poker at FRI the Foreign Office? FRI FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01mx2sr (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01mtqhr (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01mx2st (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Deborah Bull's Dance Nation b01mx2sw (Listen) FRI Dance Yourself Cheerful FRI FRI Dancer, writer and broadcaster Deborah Bull looks at moments FRI when dance has been a vital part of the national expression FRI of resilience or, at the very least, an opportunity for FRI escape. FRI FRI We hear how, during the Second World War, men and women all FRI over Britain turned garrisons, factories and air raid FRI shelters into dance halls, taking up novelty dances like the FRI Siegfried Line Dance, the Blackout Stroll and the Gas Mask FRI Dance. And we discover how the arrival of the GIs, along FRI with the jive, taught the nation a new way to dance. FRI FRI After trying some jive herself, Deborah looks at Northern FRI soul, punk and acid house as responses to the harsh economic FRI realities and urban decline of the 1970s and 80s. FRI FRI And what about now? Deborah asks what effect today's hard FRI times might turn out to have on the way we dance. FRI FRI Producer: Hannah Rosenfelder FRI A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01mx27d (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01mx2sy (Listen) FRI Hard Boiled Eggs and Nuts FRI FRI by Colin Hough. FRI FRI Glasgow 1906. Theatre manager Arthur Jefferson is training FRI his sixteen year old son in all aspects of front-of-house. FRI But young Stanley hankers for a life on the stage. His FRI father, a former actor, knows of the perils and is FRI vehemently against his son following in his footsteps. The FRI boy has an ally, however, in his mother Madge. Stanley FRI secretly secures a spot at rival theatre, the Panopticon. FRI His first professional job is not an immediate success and FRI the notoriously rough crowd are initially hostile towards FRI the boy. What he doesn't know is that his father is in the FRI front row and by the time he exits the stage, the career of FRI comedy legend Stan Laurel has been born. FRI FRI Stan's song was composed by Eoin Millar and the pianist was FRI David McGuinness FRI FRI Producer/Director ..... Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI Credits FRI Stan Laurel FRI James Anthony Pearson FRI Madge FRI Alexandra Mathie FRI AJ FRI John Paul Hurley FRI AE Pickard FRI Mark McDonnell FRI Eunice FRI Ann Louise Ross FRI Director FRI Gaynor MacFarlane FRI Producer FRI Gaynor MacFarlane FRI Writer FRI Colin Hough FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01mx2t0 (Listen) FRI Ashton-under-Lyne FRI FRI Horticultural discussion from Ashton-under-Lyne. FRI FRI 15:35 BBC National Short Story Award b01mx2t2 (Listen) FRI BBC International Short Story Award 2012, The iHole, by FRI Julian Gough FRI FRI The next of the ten shortlisted short stories up for the BBC FRI International Short Story Award 2012. The iHole is Julian FRI Gough's satirical tale about contemporary desires for the FRI latest must have gadgets and technical innovations. FRI FRI The BBC Short Story Award is well established as one of the FRI most prestigious for a single short story. The Award is FRI celebrating the Olympic year by going global, and for one FRI year only it reflects the richness and versatility of the FRI short story internationally, with a shortlist of ten rather FRI than the usual five. The winner and the runner-up will be FRI announced live on Front Row on Tuesday, 2nd October. The FRI story will be available as a free download following FRI broadcast. FRI FRI Read by Andrew Scott FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01mx2t4 (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 b01mx2t6 (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: Kate Taylor FRI A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01mx2t8 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mtqht (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01mx2tb (Listen) FRI Series 78, Episode 4 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Andy FRI Hamilton and Bob Mills. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01mx2td (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director ..... Sue Wilson FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough FRI Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp FRI Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Will Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01mx2tg (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01mx2sk (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01mx2tj (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from St. Catherine's Primary School, Bletchingley, Surrey. FRI FRI Producer:Isobel Eaton. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01mx2tl (Listen) FRI Sarah Dunant reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer Adele Armstrong. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b0144pw7 (Listen) FRI September in the Rain FRI FRI Jack and Liz are in Blackpool for one last time. John FRI Godber's classic stage play tells the touching and funny FRI story of a marriage through a lifetime of holidays together. FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift FRI FRI Credits FRI Liz FRI Jane Godber FRI Jack FRI John Godber FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01mtqhw (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01mx2w8 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01mx2wb (Listen) FRI Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 10 FRI FRI In today's episode: Sir Robert sets out for Switzerland, and FRI has a lusty encounter on the road to what may prove true FRI love and enlightenment. FRI FRI The reader is Nicholas Woodeson. FRI The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di FRI Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01mw358 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 The Philosopher's Arms b0150pj1 (Listen) FRI Series 1, Moral Disgust FRI FRI
22 September, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 22/09/2012 - 28/09/2012
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