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SAT SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01mx29d (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01myxxx (Listen) SAT Vanished Years, Episode 5 SAT SAT As a writer, the actor Rupert Everett has been compared to SAT David Niven, Noel Coward and Lord Byron: wickedly observant, SAT very British and extremely funny. And his new memoir SAT Vanished Years gives full rein to those powers as Everett SAT writes about the travails of a precarious career - fighting SAT for good roles, effortlessly glamorous at parties. SAT SAT Everett found fame in Britain with Another Country and Dance SAT with a Stranger, and acclaim in Hollywood with My Best SAT Friend's Wedding. But we meet him in the twilight world of a SAT film finished but not released - and he's not confident it SAT will restore his fortunes. However, at one of the many SAT glamorous parties he attends, Everett has a flash of SAT inspiration: to write Mr Ambassador - an American TV sitcom SAT starring, of course, Rupert Everett in the title role. SAT SAT And so begins an adventure in Hollywood, diving into the cut SAT throat world of the networks and the pilot episode, where SAT dreams and fortunes can be made or broken. SAT SAT In the final episode of his memoir, Rupert Everett's Mr SAT Ambassador is filmed - at last. In front of a live audience. SAT What could possibly go wrong? SAT SAT Producer: David Roper SAT A Heavy Entertainment Limited production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mx29j (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mx29l (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mx29n (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01mx29q (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01mx2x9 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon SAT Simon Doogan. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01mx2xc (Listen) SAT "As far as going out and pounding the streets or paying my SAT shilling to a political party, no, I won't contribute my SAT money or my time anymore." Eddie Mair discusses grassroots SAT politics with listeners. Also in the show, the BBC's SAT Economics Editor Stephanie Flanders reads Your News: our SAT exclusive bulletin that sheds light on what our listeners SAT are up to. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01mx29s (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01mx29v (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01mwzwb (Listen) SAT Series 22, Taxidermists in Boston Spa, West Yorkshire SAT SAT In this series Clare Balding is going on wildlife walks SAT around the UK. SAT SAT Today Clare meets taxidermists and life long friends Dave SAT Astley, Mike Gadd and James Dickinson. They follow Mike's SAT daily route along the river Wharfe in West Yorkshire to SAT observe the rich variety of local animals, insects and SAT birds. SAT SAT Taxidermists might not be the first people who spring to SAT mind when you think about wildlife-lovers. However, the SAT intimate knowledge of the anatomy and behaviour of birds and SAT animals that a successful taxidermist needs, can only be SAT developed through detailed observation of the natural world. SAT So for a taxidermist a walk can become a valuable research SAT trip. SAT SAT Dave, James and Mike are three of the UK's leading SAT taxidermists. They have worked with exotic animals, repaired SAT museum specimens of extinct creatures and worked with SAT international British Fine artists. They've even created SAT mythical beasts. SAT SAT Over 20 years the trio have worked and walked together. SAT Clare joins them to find out more about their close and SAT unusual friendship. SAT SAT Clare accompanies them along the banks of the river to find SAT out about their techniques and the motivation behind their SAT trade. Is it macabre as many might think? On the walk they SAT share their unique insights into viewing the natural world. SAT They seek out kingfishers, wrens and fritillary butterflies. SAT SAT They share stories from behind the scenes of Britain's SAT thriving, but little known world of taxidermy. They also SAT discuss the profession which they feel is still SAT misunderstood. SAT SAT Producer: Lucy Dichmont. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01n0sc1 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Produced by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01mx29x (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01n0sc3 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs presented by James Naughtie SAT and Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01n0sc5 (Listen) SAT Richard Coles and Sian Williams meet author and screenwriter SAT Anthony Horowitz, talk to Dolores O'Reilly who grew up SAT signing for her deaf and mute parents, rack their brains SAT with Italian memory man Gianni Golfera, and get rhyming with SAT National Poetry Day founder William Seighart. There's a SAT Thing About Me feature about the UK's oldest working SAT computer and an appreciation of spiders from Lawrence Bee of SAT the British Arachnological Society. John McCarthy explores SAT Martello Towers on the East coast of England and actress SAT Frances de la Tour shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Tehrangeles b01n0sc7 (Listen) SAT Comedian Maz Jobrani takes a journey to Tehrangeles - home SAT to the largest Iranian diaspora in the world, right in the SAT heart of Los Angeles. SAT SAT Recorded on location, Iranian stand-up comedian and actor SAT Maz Jobrani begins his journey in a street lined with SAT Iranian stores, restaurants, beauty salons, cafes and SAT businesses, where everyone speaks Farsi and all the shop SAT signs are in Persian. But this is not downtown Tehran - this SAT is Westwood Boulevard in Los Angeles, a stone's throw from SAT affluent Beverly Hills, where 22% of the population are SAT Iranian, and whose former Iranian born mayor Jimmy Delshad SAT epitomizes the extraordinary success of Iranians in LA. SAT SAT When bookshop owner Bijan Khalili set up shop here over 30 SAT years ago, there were only a few Persian stores. He and SAT others along Westwood Boulevard tell the story of how and SAT why the LA community steadily grew into a Mecca for hundreds SAT of thousands of Iranians. And how, against the backdrop of SAT 32 years of hostility between America and Iran since the SAT 1979 US hostage crisis, they have succeeded in making their SAT mark. Even Bravo TV (creators of The Kardashians) have SAT recently aired a hit reality TV show about the lives of a SAT group of affluent Beverly Hills Iranians. SAT SAT LA based Iranian- American comedian and actor Maz Jobrani SAT delves into the heart of this unique and diverse microcosm SAT of Iran in the heart of LA, otherwise known as Tehrangeles, SAT to reveal the surprising stories and insights into the lives SAT of Iranians who have recreated Little Tehran in the City of SAT Angels. SAT SAT Producer: Shoku Amirani. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01n3h6m (Listen) SAT Controlling Our Health SAT SAT How much control do we really have over our bodies and our SAT health? Modern technology and medicine can treat conditions SAT that were once thought to be incurable. But in other ways, SAT are we any less vulnerable than in the past to disease and SAT injury, both as individuals and societies? On the ideas SAT discussion programme, Bridget Kendall's guests bring SAT personal as well as professional experience to the table: SAT Mark Harrison is a medical historian who's tracked the links SAT between disease and commerce. Frank Reynolds has devoted the SAT last 20 years to developing treatments for his own spinal SAT cord injury. And the award-winning author MJ Hyland explains SAT why she's gone public about her life with multiple SAT sclerosis. SAT SAT Born in London, MJ Hyland spent her childhood between SAT Ireland and Australia. She is now a lecturer in creative SAT writing at Manchester University and an award-winning SAT novelist. She was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in 2008 SAT but kept it a secret for four years as she came to terms SAT with her condition and the loss of control that it meant. SAT After a car accident left him with a traumatic spinal SAT injury, American Frank Reynolds was living in almost SAT constant pain, his body bound in a knee-to-neck body cast, SAT flat on his back in a small Philadelphia condominium. Today, SAT he is not only walking but heading a pioneering start-up at SAT MIT that is developing novel technologies for spinal and SAT other neurological injuries. He explains the ideas behind SAT his twenty-year quest to control his body again. SAT And Mark Harrison contributes his knowledge as Professor of SAT the History of Medicine at Oxford University. He studies how SAT to control the spread of infectious diseases between groups SAT of people and across the world. SAT SAT MJ Hyland SAT MJ Hyland, distinguished novelist and lecturer in creative SAT writing at Manchester University, says that even though she SAT cannot control her body, coming to terms with having SAT multiple sclerosis means that she feels even more in control SAT of her mind than before. SAT SAT Mark Harrison SAT Mark Harrison, Oxford Professor of the History of Medicine, SAT traces the conflict between the expansion of commerce and SAT attempts to limit the spread of infectious disease, from the SAT bubonic plagues of the Middle Ages to the recent H5N1 flu SAT outbreaks. He suggests that even though quarantine can work SAT it has often been misused as a form of trade protection. SAT SAT Frank Reynolds SAT Frank Reynolds went from being a bed-ridden victim of a car SAT accident with serious spinal trauma to a head of a SAT pioneering start-up that is developing novel technologies SAT for spinal and other neurological injuries. He explains the SAT ideas behind his twenty-year quest to control his body SAT again. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01n0sc9 (Listen) SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01n0scc (Listen) SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT On Monday a new Government scheme begins to make every SAT employer put in place a work based pension and pay into it. SAT And everyone who works - just about - will have to join it. SAT The plan for auto-enrolment will start slowly beginning with SAT the biggest firms. But by the end of 2013 every employer SAT with more than 800 workers will have to be signed up. And by SAT 2017 it will include all employers - even the very smallest SAT and newest. We explain the rules and talk to Pensions SAT Minister Steve Webb and Malcolm McLean, pensions consultant SAT at Barnett-Waddingham. SAT SAT Money Box has uncovered worrying evidence that some banks SAT are telling customers with interest-only mortgages that they SAT can - and might - tell them to convert to a repayment SAT mortgage. That would be prohibitively expensive for many SAT borrowers, especially those within a few years of pension SAT age. It comes in the week that figures from mortgage SAT research organisation xit2 reveal that more than a million SAT people owe £116 billion on interest only mortgages which SAT mature before 2020 but they have no repayment plan in place. SAT Bob Howard reports. The programme also hears from Paul Smee, SAT director general of the CML and also from IFA Mark Meldon SAT from RC Gray. SAT SAT A revolution in the way financial advice is given begins on SAT 1 January. Advisers on investments and pensions will not be SAT able to take commission - they will have to charge a fee and SAT the cost per hour is expected to be high. The qualifications SAT for giving advice on these products will also be made much SAT tougher. As a result of these changes many independent SAT financial advisers are expected to leave the industry - or SAT lose their independence. And this week Lloyds is the latest SAT of the High Street banks to pull out of giving financial SAT advice to its customers. So where will people of modest SAT means get advice in the future? Merryn Somerset Webb, editor SAT in chief of MoneyWeek and Dennis Hall, an IFA and MD of SAT Yellowtail financial planning speak to the programme. SAT SAT A London borough is using role play to demonstrate some of SAT the common financial scams in front of an audience of local SAT people and community workers. It's hoped that projects like SAT this will make its older citizens aware of just how clever SAT these criminals are - and to defend themselves. Jane SAT Beresford eavesdrops on a session. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01mx2tb (Listen) SAT Series 78, Episode 4 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Francis Wheen, Andy SAT Hamilton and Bob Mills. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01mx29z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01mx2b1 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01mx2tj (Listen) SAT St Catherine's Primary School, Bletchingley SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from St. Catherine's Primary School, Bletchingley, Surrey SAT with the Minister for Business and Enterprise, Michael SAT Fallon, the Shadow Lord Chancellor and Justice Secretary, SAT Sadiq Khan, the Director-General of the National Trust, SAT Fiona Reynolds and the Deputy Leader of the House of SAT Commons, Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake. SAT SAT Producer: Isobel Eaton. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01n0scf (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01n0sch (Listen) SAT Close the Coalhouse Door SAT SAT 'Close the Coalhouse Door' by Alan Plater with songs by Alex SAT Glasgow. Based on the stories of Sid Chaplin, with SAT additional material by Lee Hall. Northern Stage and Live SAT Theatre's production of the celebrated sixties political SAT docudrama. An exhilaratingly furious, funny and ultimately SAT moving ride through the strikes, victories and frustrations SAT of British mining history, the play captures the political SAT anger and fight for justice of ordinary people from the SAT formation of the first Unions in 1831. At its heart beats SAT the joyous, soulful music of Alex Glasgow, inspired by the SAT anthems of working people. SAT SAT Musical arrangements and additional music by Sam Kenyon. SAT Directed for the stage by Samuel West. SAT Produced by Gary Brown SAT SAT Sid Chaplin's stories outline all the major strikes, SAT victories and disappointments in British mining history from SAT the formation of the first unions in 1830s all the way SAT through to the 1960s. Alan Plater uses the dramatic device SAT of a Geordie family celebration as a framework to tell this SAT history whilst their own story unfolds in 1968. One son, SAT Frank, has left behind the mines to study at university, SAT while his brother John is a dissatisfied pitman. Frank SAT brings home his liberated girlfriend free-spirited student SAT Ruth who threatens to tear them apart in the central love SAT story. SAT SAT "The terrible thing about history, said Orwell, is how few SAT names of its slaves have been preserved. Tenderly and SAT furiously 'Close the Coalhouse Door' does a little to SAT redress that injustice" - The Observer. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01n0sck (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT The damning Report on failures in Rochdale that allowed the SAT continued sexual abuse of young girls. 20 years since she SAT first found success, Tori Amos sings live in the studio. SAT Queens, Heroines and Ladykillers - strong female roles in SAT opera. And "when I grow up..." what do the aspirations of SAT seven year olds tell us? SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Produced by Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01n0scm (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Patrick SAT O'Connell. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01mx27l (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 If business is about anything, it's about products. Evan's SAT guests come from companies that invent them, manufacture SAT them and sell them and they each tell the story of a product SAT that has shaped the fortunes of their business in some way. SAT SAT They also discuss the art of dismissal. How easy should it SAT be to fire an employee? SAT SAT In the studio are Sir George Buckley, former Chief Executive SAT of 3M, the US company behind the Post-it Note and Scotch SAT Tape, and now Chairman of private equity firm Arle Capital; SAT Clara Gaymard, Chief Executive of the French arm of US SAT company General Electric; Ian Cheshire, Chief Executive of SAT home improvement retailer Kingfisher, whose brands include SAT B&Q and Screwfix. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01mx2b3 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01mx2b5 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mx2b7 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01n0scp (Listen) SAT Lenny Henry, Paul Merton, Laurence Fox, Danny Wallace, Simon SAT Garfield, Maia, Dog is Dead SAT SAT Prepare to be tickled. Because this week Clive is joined by SAT not one, but TWO giants of British comedy. Strap yourself in SAT as Clive braces himself to discover the bizarre workings of SAT Paul Merton's brain. The 'Just A Minute' jester famed for SAT his off-the-cuff wit who brings a surreal seam to 'Have I SAT Got News For You', muses on the mighty behemoth that is his SAT noggin in his show 'Out Of My Head' at the Vaudeville SAT Theatre London. SAT SAT Keeping the laughs coming is Dudley boy done good Lenny SAT Henry. Once voted Britain's Top Non-Smoker, Lenny recently SAT swapped stand-up for Shakespeare and got a gong for his SAT Othello. But now he's passed his grade 4 piano exam, is SAT playing piano in public for the first time and going back to SAT his comedy roots touring his one-man show 'Pop Life'. SAT SAT No stranger to showbiz, Laurence Fox has acting in his SAT blood. His dad is actor James Fox and then there's Uncle SAT Edward and cousin Emilia. Best known as the brainy DS SAT Hathaway from 'Inspector Morse' spin-off, 'Lewis', Laurence SAT now plays a squaddie in 'Our Boys'. The award-winning story SAT of five young soldiers whose lives are disrupted by the SAT arrival of an officer fresh from Sandhurst is at the Duchess SAT Theatre, London SAT SAT And in a nod to the fact that we're living through the SAT biggest mapping revolution since the 15th century, our very SAT own radio Sat Nav, Danny Wallace is guided by writer Simon SAT Garfield through some fascinating tales of cartographic SAT intrigue as he discusses his book 'On The Map'. SAT SAT Music comes from Dog Is Dead - billed by NME as 'main stage SAT stars-in-waiting'. They play their new single 'Talk Through SAT The Night'. No animals were harmed in this recording. SAT SAT And alt.folk pop outfit Maia perform their latest track 'The SAT Grandfather Plan'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01n0sps (Listen) SAT Justin Welby SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles Justin Welby, former oil executive SAT and now Bishop of Durham, emerging as one of the most SAT striking candidates for the post of Archbishop of SAT Canterbury. He became a priest after a long business career, SAT and has chaired an NHS trust along the way. When he was Dean SAT of Liverpool he allowed bellringers to play John Lennon's SAT 'Imagine' from the cathedral bells. He has visited Africa SAT regularly, and played a key role in attempts to resolve SAT disputes between parts of the Anglican Communion. So how has SAT someone who has been a bishop for less than a year become a SAT candidate for the top Anglican job? Those who know him, and SAT have followed his career from inside and outside the Church, SAT offer their insights. SAT SAT Producers:Smita Patel and Chris Bowlby. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01n0spv (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT A Chorus of Disapproval SAT A Chorus of Disapproval is on at the Harold Pinter theatre, SAT London for a limited season from 17 September - 5 January. SAT SAT Holy Motors SAT Holy Motors is on at selected cinemas, certificate 18. SAT SAT Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That and What is SAT Contemporary Art - A Children’s Guide SAT Why Your Five Year Old Could Not Have Done That by Susie SAT Hodge and What is Contemporary Art - A Children’s Guide by SAT Jacky and Suzy Klein are both published by Thames and SAT Hudson. SAT SAT Maurizio Cattelan SAT Maurizio Cattelan continues at the Whitechapel Gallery in SAT London until the 2 December and admission is free. SAT SAT Girls SAT Girls begins on Sky Atlantic on 22 October at 10 pm. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01n0spx (Listen) SAT Dear Adolf - Letters to the Fuhrer SAT SAT Christopher Cook examines a unique set of recordings from SAT the vaults of the American Jewish Committee that strove to SAT define America's war aims and values. SAT SAT For 6 weeks, in 1942, the airwaves of NBC hummed with the SAT voices of Hollywood stars such as James Cagney, Raymond SAT Massey and Helen Hayes addressing the Fuhrer in the guise of SAT ordinary citizens. Ever since the trauma of Pearl Harbour, SAT thousands of letters had poured into radio networks and SAT newspaper offices expressing support, anger and defiance at SAT the new war America was now fighting. These letters earned SAT themselves the sobriquet of 'Dear Adolf's' and Pulitzer SAT prize winning writer Stephen Vincent Benet drew on their SAT inspiration for six fictional missives to Hitler. SAT SAT But the backstory of these and other broadcasts from the AJC SAT is as compelling as the star names chosen to speak for the SAT people of America. Formed in 1906, the American Jewish SAT Committee was a response to the plight of Eastern European SAT Jewry then suffering a wave of pogroms. Avowedly SAT 'unpolitical', in so far as it eschewed the major movements SAT then gripping the Jewish world (Socialism, Zionism and SAT Communism) it sought to defend Jewish life both in the U.S. SAT and the heartlands of Eastern Europe and to engage in inter SAT faith dialogue at home. At its heart was advocacy of a loyal SAT American Jewish citizenry and a desire to overcome SAT prejudice. SAT SAT By the late 1930's the A.J.C. took to the airwaves to use SAT the power of radio. Producing thousands of radio messages SAT and programs aimed at fighting bigotry on the homefront and SAT promoting democratic values for a diverse number of SAT programmes. This was a time of rising anti-semitism, SAT domestically & abroad with the German American Bund holding SAT mass rallies in Madison Square Gardens and the siren voice SAT of radio demagogue Father Coughlin railing against 'internal SAT enemies'. SAT SAT Series like Dear Adolf and a gripping dramatization of the SAT Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, made just months after its SAT destruction, are just a few of the archival gems of the SAT A.J.C. spanning two decades of attempts to counter prejudice SAT and imbue ordinary American's with the spirit of tolerance. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Burman. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01mtsm3 (Listen) SAT Far from the Madding Crowd, A Farmer Just Beginning SAT SAT By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. 1/3 - Young farmer SAT Gabriel Oak sees an ideal wife in Bathsheba Everdene, but SAT she turns him down, believing in true romance. As she SAT becomes rich, he is ruined, and the tables turn. SAT SAT Musicians ... Colin Guthrie, Chris Davies, Lauren Swift SAT Directed by Jessica Dromgoole SAT SAT This episode will be available to listen to until 14th SAT October 2012. SAT SAT Credits SAT Bathsheba SAT Alex Tregear SAT Gabriel Oak SAT Shaun Dooley SAT Boldwood SAT Toby Jones SAT Troy SAT Patrick Kennedy SAT Liddy SAT Lizzy Watts SAT Fanny SAT Hannah John-Kamen SAT Maltster SAT Robert Blythe SAT Jan SAT Joe Sims SAT Joseph SAT Sam Alexander SAT Henery SAT Patrick Brennan SAT Billy SAT Don Gilet SAT Cain SAT Harry Livingstone SAT Aunt SAT Tracy Wiles SAT Maryann SAT Amaka Okafor SAT Director SAT Jessica Dromgoole SAT Producer SAT Jessica Dromgoole SAT Writer SAT Graham White SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01mx2b9 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Bringing Up Britain b01mwvl2 (Listen) SAT Series 5, Bedrooms and Battlegrounds SAT SAT Mariella Frostrup and her guests examine the hidden politics SAT of the childhood bedroom. SAT SAT We'd all like our children's bedrooms to be places of peace, SAT of bedtime stories and good night kisses. But often a SAT child's bedroom is an area fraught with tensions. It's the SAT place where children want to be private and put up their own SAT posters, so they can use the space to forge their own SAT identity. Yet parents often battle with their offspring for SAT control of that space too, over issues like tidiness and the SAT time a child actually goes to sleep. SAT SAT In "Bringing Up Britain" we explore the way in which the SAT notion of the bedroom evolves and changes as children grow. SAT What do youngsters need from their bedrooms and how do they SAT manage to create private spaces when they have to share? SAT SAT We also investigate the bedroom as a place of night fears - SAT the domain of imaginary monsters and children being scared SAT of the dark. SAT SAT And we explore how, as divorce rates have increased, SAT children increasingly have two different sleeping spaces in SAT the houses of separated parents. How do they differentiate SAT those bedrooms and what effect does it have on a bedtime SAT routine? SAT SAT Programme guests are Dr. Sian Lincoln, from John Moores SAT University in Liverpool whose recent book on "Youth Culture SAT and Private Space" explores issues around bedrooms, Simon SAT Williams, professor of Sociology at Warwick University who's SAT investigated the politics of sleeping spaces, psychologist SAT Dr. Pat Spungin, an expert on teenagers and sleeping SAT routines and Professor Russell Foster from Oxford University SAT who specialises in sleep and circadian rhythms. SAT SAT Producer: Emma Kingsley. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01mw08l (Listen) SAT (4/12) SAT The North of England make their first appearance of the 2012 SAT series in today's edition of the cryptic quiz, with Tom SAT Sutcliffe in the chair. The North of England team consists SAT of the scientist and crossword-setter Jim Coulson and the SAT award winning writer Adele Geras. 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SAT SAT Poems featured in this programme: SAT The Midnight Skaters by Edmund Blunden SAT from Poems of Many Years SAT published by Collins SAT SAT Neither Out Far Nor in Deep by Robert Frost SAT from The Poetry of Robert Frost SAT published by Jonathan Cape SAT SAT The Flood by John Clare SAT from John Clare selected by Paul Farley SAT published by Faber SAT SAT Vapour Trail by James Fenton SAT from Yellow Tulips SAT published by Faber SAT SAT Prayer by Hugo Williams SAT from Hugo Williams Collected Poems SAT Published by Faber SAT SAT A Map of the City by Thom Gunn SAT from Thom Gunn: Collected Poems SAT published by Faber SAT SAT Little Exercise by Elizabeth Bishop SAT from Elizabeth Bishop, Complete Poems SAT published by Chatto & Windus SAT SAT Dorset by John Betjeman SAT from John Betjeman Collected Poems SAT published by John Murray SAT SAT A Church Romance by Thomas Hardy SAT From The Oxford Authors – Thomas Hardy SAT published by OUP SAT SAT Soul Singer by Hugo Williams SAT (Not yet published) SAT SAT Where? by ASJ Tessimond SAT from ASJ Tessimond Collected Poems SAT published by Bloodaxe SAT SAT To My Brother Miguel by César Vallejo, translated by John SAT Knoeple and James Wright SAT from Twenty Poems by César Vallejo SAT Published by The Sixties Press SAT SAT Coming Back by Stephen Romer SAT from Idols SAT published by Oxford Poets SAT SAT No Road by Philip Larkin SAT from Philip Larkin, Collected Poems SAT Published by Faber SAT SAT Marital Visit by Hugo Williams SAT from West End Final SAT published by Faber SAT SAT Prayer before Sleeping by Hugo Williams SAT (not yet published) SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 30 SEPTEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01mzs5s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Lost in the Lanes b01n0t52 (Listen) SUN Lost and Found 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 3: Lost and Found SUN By Graham Jameson SUN SUN It's a bad day for the head teacher when a school trip to SUN the seaside goes badly wrong and Joseph is lost. Joseph, on SUN the other hand, has a much better day than he'd anticipated. SUN He finds himself in a fascinating hidden world, makes an SUN exciting discovery and meets a glamorous look-a-like. SUN SUN Read by Sam Dale SUN SUN Produced by Celia de Wolff SUN A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mzs5v (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mzs5x (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mzs5z (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01mzs61 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01n0t54 (Listen) SUN The bells of All Saints Church, East Pennard, Somerset. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01n0sps (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01mzs63 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01n0t56 (Listen) SUN A Sense of Failure SUN SUN The author Ian Sansom reflects on why it is that some of the SUN most successful people are haunted by a sense of failure and SUN considers his own experience as a writer - a profession that SUN thrives on failure with literature 'emerging magnificently SUN from error and untruths'. SUN SUN With reference to the writings of Paul Auster, William James SUN and Wallace Stevens, and music by Leos Janacek, Warren Zevon SUN and the Waterboys, SUN SUN Produced by Alan Hall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01n0t58 (Listen) SUN Valentine Warner visits a Herefordshire cider orchard to SUN help harvest the apples. Almost half the apples harvested SUN over the next few weeks will be for cider and it's been a SUN difficult production year so far. SUN As most commercial and mass cider makers these days rely on SUN foreign imports and use concentrated apple juice, Valentine SUN meets traditional cider maker Dennis Gwatkin, who's family SUN have farmed in the Golden Valley for 120 years. He started SUN out making cider as a hobby but now admits it's a crucial SUN part of the business and can make more profit than the sheep SUN and cattle combined. SUN SUN Presented by Valentine Warner. SUN Produced in Birmingham by Clare Freeman. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01mzs65 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01mzs67 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01n0t5b (Listen) SUN As the Crown Nominations Commission meets to decide on the SUN next Arch Bishop of Canterbury, Kevin Bocquet profiles those SUN in the running with bookmaker Paddy Powers and also asks SUN what kind of Archbishop would different parts of the church SUN like to see. SUN SUN Roger McGough talks about the National Day of Poetry and how SUN faith and religion has inspired his work. SUN SUN Anglicans in Sydney are about to vote on a new marriage SUN liturgy in which wives agree to submit to their husbands. SUN The order of service is already being used in some parishes SUN there and has strong support from Archbishop Peter Jensen. SUN Phil Mercer reports from Sydney. SUN SUN We explore what is the religious significance of the colour SUN purple. SUN SUN Where does Yoga come from and why is it considered not to be SUN Christian? Edward meets Yoga teacher Jane SUN Craggs SUN SUN Will Ross reports from Nigeria in the aftermath of last SUN week's suicide bomber at St. John's Roman Catholic Cathedral SUN in Bauchi. SUN SUN Is the concept of free speech a universal value? Edward SUN explores this with Iranian Journalist Hazir Teimourian and SUN Jameel Yusha'u from the University of Northumberland. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01n0t5d (Listen) SUN Homeless International SUN SUN Jonathan Dimbleby presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Homeless SUN International SUN Reg Charity:1017255 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Homeless International. SUN SUN Homeless International SUN Homeless International is a UK based charity which enables SUN slum dwellers to improve their lives and find lasting SUN solutions to urban poverty. It does this by supporting the SUN development of local organisations in Africa and Asia, which SUN have their roots in poor communities. These organisations SUN often grow from small social movements into self-reliant SUN organisations that are able to provide shelter and basic SUN services - solutions that are economically, socially and SUN environmentally sustainable. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01mzs69 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01mzs6c (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01n0t5g (Listen) SUN From the Brooks' Bar New Testament Church of God, SUN Manchester. Pastor Barrington Mullings explores the SUN importance of good leadership and how we can allow spiritual SUN leadership in our lives to help those around us. With hymns SUN and songs including Be Thou My Vision O Lord of My Heart. SUN Music directors: Carla Ellington, Roy Simpson & Jacqui SUN Allen. Producer: Simon Vivian. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01mx2tl (Listen) SUN Mouthing Off SUN SUN "For moneyed Americans", writes Sarah Dunant "perfect SUN dentistry is a matter of course". For Europeans- and she SUN counts herself within that number - the situation is rather SUN different! SUN SUN Sarah takes a sideways look at teeth through the ages...and SUN dentistry in times of austerity. SUN SUN And for those whose chief loathing is a mouthful of shining SUN American teeth, she offers hope. "Yaeba", the latest craze SUN to hit Japan where young fashonista girls are getting their SUN teeth cosmetically altered to appear more crooked! SUN SUN Producer Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01n0t5j (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 b01n0t5l (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti SUN Director ..... Sue Wilson SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee SUN Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch SUN Josh Archer ..... Cian Cheesbrough SUN Tony Archer ..... Colin Skipp SUN Pat Archer ..... Patricia Gallimore SUN Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham SUN Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper SUN Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Jamie Perks ..... Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison SUN Will Grundy ..... Philip Molloy SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01n0t5n (Listen) SUN Ade Adepitan SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the Paralympian & broadcaster Ade SUN Adepitan. Wheelchair basketball's his sport and this year he SUN partnered Claire Balding anchoring the television coverage SUN of the 2012 London Paralympics. SUN SUN When he's not stuck in a studio explaining the intricacies SUN of Goalball he's reporting from the rainforests of Nicaragua SUN or the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Adversity seems to suit SUN him - he even survived turning up for his first day at SUN school aged 7 in a pink checked suit and bow tie. Inspired SUN by his boyhood heroes Seb Coe and Daley Thompson, who he SUN first saw on TV competing in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, SUN sport became his passion. SUN SUN He says "I think I've done more things with my disability SUN than most able-bodied people would ever dream of doing". SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b01mw08x (Listen) SUN Series 64, Episode 8 SUN SUN Join Nicholas Parsons and friends for the granddaddy of all SUN panel games. SUN SUN This week panellists include Jenny Eclair, Tony Hawks and SUN Kevin Eldon. Chairman Nicholas Parsons asks the team to talk SUN for 60 seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation - SUN a task much more difficult than it sounds. SUN SUN Producer: Claire Jones. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01n0t5q (Listen) SUN Food and Farming Awards: The Finalists SUN SUN Cook and food writer Valentine Warner reveals this year's SUN line up of finalists in the BBC Food & Farming Awards. SUN SUN For the past four months the team of judges including chef SUN Angela Hartnett, drinks writers Pete Brown and Victoria SUN Moore as well as Valentine have all been sifting through SUN nominations and selecting the potential winners of awards. SUN SUN Who they've chosen and why is all in this special edition of SUN The Food Programme, as well as information about how you can SUN be in this year's audience for the ceremony held in SUN November. SUN SUN Producer: Dan Saladino. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01mzs6f (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01n0t5s (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 Soul Music b01mw2dj (Listen) SUN Series 14, Bach's St Matthew Passion SUN SUN Bach's St Matthew Passion was written in 1727 and was SUN probably first performed as part of the Good Friday Service SUN at Thomaskirche in Leipzig. This programme explores ways in SUN which Bach's St Mattew Passion touches and changes people's SUN lives. Guitarist Andrew Schulman describes what happened SUN when he was played this music whilst he was in a coma. James SUN Jacobs talks about the St Matthew Passion providing solace SUN in difficult times during childhood. And singer Emma Kirkby, SUN conductor Paul Spicer and musical historian Simon Heighes SUN explore how the music works and what it's like to perform. SUN SUN Producer: Rosie Boulton. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01mx2t0 (Listen) SUN Ashton-under-Lyne SUN SUN Gardeners' Question Time returns to its Northern roots, in SUN the first of a three-part North of England Tour. This week, SUN the team is at the Broadoak Hotel, at the same venue where SUN the first GQT episode was recorded in 1947. SUN SUN Here Bob Flowerdew, Bunny Guinness and Paul Peacock tackle SUN the audience's gardening queries. In addition, Eric Robson SUN remembers the GQT panellist Bill Sowebutts, born in SUN Ashton-Under-Lyne. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 Witness b01n0vh2 (Listen) SUN Arafat goes to the United Nations SUN SUN In the autumn of 1974 a young Palestinian was sent to New SUN York to pave the way for Yasser Arafat to make a speech at SUN the United Nations . SUN His name was Nabil Sha'ath, and he was only given the SUN mission because no other member of the Palestinian SUN leadership agreed to go. SUN When Arafat arrived in America, he was greeted with noisy SUN opposition - but his plea for an independent Palestinian SUN state was to go down in history. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01n0vh4 (Listen) SUN Far from the Madding Crowd, Cuts and Points SUN SUN By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. 2/3 - Bathsheba SUN discovers that sending William Boldwood a valentine card was SUN a terrible mistake. But Boldwood is not Gabriel's only rival SUN for Bathsheba's heart. SUN SUN Musicians ..... Colin Guthrie, Chris Davies, Lauren Swift SUN SUN Directed by Jessica Dromgoole SUN SUN This episode will be available to listen to until 14th SUN October 2012. SUN SUN Credits SUN Bathsheba SUN Alex Tregear SUN Gabriel Oak SUN Shaun Dooley SUN Boldwood SUN Toby Jones SUN Troy SUN Patrick Kennedy SUN Liddy SUN Lizzy Watts SUN Fanny SUN Hannah John-Kamen SUN Maltster SUN Robert Blythe SUN Jan SUN Joe Sims SUN Joseph SUN Sam Alexander SUN Henery SUN Patrick Brennan SUN Billy SUN Don Gilet SUN Cain SUN Harry Livingstone SUN Maryann SUN Amaka Okafor SUN Director SUN Jessica Dromgoole SUN Producer SUN Jessica Dromgoole SUN Writer SUN Graham White SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01n0vh6 (Listen) SUN Edna O'Brien on her memoir Country Girl SUN SUN Edna O'Brien discusses her memoir Country Girl and actor SUN Colin Firth gives us his five of the best books SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN Country Girl a memoir - Edna O’Brien SUN Publisher: Faber and Faber SUN SUN The Country Girls (Country Girls Trilogy 1) SUN The Lonely Girl - also known as Girl With Green Eyes SUN (Country Girls Trilogy 2) SUN Girls in their Married Bliss (Country Girls Trilogy 3) – all SUN by Edna O’Brien SUN Publisher: Phoenix SUN SUN The Liars' Gospel – Naomi Alderman SUN Publisher: Viking SUN SUN Something Like a House - Sid Smith SUN Publisher: Picador SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01n0vh8 (Listen) SUN Roger McGough with a selection of poems requested by SUN listeners, in performances taken from the BBC archives. SUN These include a stirring version, by Robert Powell, of Lord SUN Macaulay's "Horatius at the Bridge", a waspish recitation of SUN a Betjeman poem by Geraldine McEwan, and a moving reading of SUN John Donne by the young Kenneth Branagh. SUN SUN Producer Christine Hall. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01mw5j0 (Listen) SUN Green on Blue SUN SUN In the first of a new series, Gerry Northam investigates the SUN rising number of so called "green on blue" attacks in which SUN Afghan soldiers and policemen have turned their guns on SUN British and other international troops. SUN SUN With more than 50 NATO troops killed in insider attacks this SUN year, is enough being done to protect those working as SUN mentors? SUN SUN The US has invested over $50 billion on developing SUN independent Afghan security forces but according to a US SUN Government audit, the majority of Afghan troops remain SUN heavily reliant on American help and support. Even SUN widespread illiteracy remains a problem. SUN SUN Meanwhile the impact of the recent attacks is huge - SUN undermining the trust that's needed between the Afghan SUN forces and the coalition troops getting them ready to take SUN over the security in 2014. SUN SUN So how reliable is the screening of new Afghan recruits? SUN And, with continuing questions over their loyalties and SUN capabilities, can there be an effective withdrawal in two SUN years' time? SUN SUN Presenter: Gerry Northam SUN Producer: David Lewis. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01n0sps (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01mzs6h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01mzs6k (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mzs6m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01n0vhb (Listen) SUN Ernie Rea's choice of the best on BBC Radio this week. SUN SUN There are some inspiring personal stories on Pick of the SUN Week. Eileen Murphy endured years of beatings and abuse in a SUN Magdalene Laundry in Ireland; they threw her out aged 23 SUN with just 5 shillings in her hand. Holly Nugent is a SUN teenager from Bootle; she suffers from alopecia but last SUN week in front of her entire school she removed her wigs to SUN reveal "her true self." Channel Four's Para Olympic SUN presenter Ade Adepitan climbed up the final slopes Mount SUN Vesuvius on his bottom rather than admit defeat. And Brian SUN Wilson of the Beach Boys battled mental illness to produce SUN one of the all time classic pop albums. SUN SUN Ernie chose the following programmes: SUN SUN Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs - Ade Adepitan SUN Radio 4 - Soul Music - The St Matthew Passion by J S Bach SUN Radio 4 - 15 Minute Drama - Feminine Forever episode 2 SUN Radio 4 - Great Lives - Edith Wharton SUN Radio 4 - Book of the Week - Vanished Years episode 1 SUN Radio 4 - Big Shot SUN Radio 2 - Shout to the Top SUN Radio 2 - Beach Boys at 50 SUN Radio Merseyside Tony Snell in the Morning - Jimmy McCracken SUN talks to teenager Holly Nugent about her alopecia. SUN Radio 3 - Sunday Feature: Piano Tales - A Social History of SUN the Piano SUN Radio 4 - Deborah Bull's Dance Nation episode 2 SUN Radio 4 - Secret World SUN Radio 4 - Luck Be a Lady SUN Radio 4 - Tehrangeles SUN World Service - Witness - Magdalene Laundries SUN SUN Produced by Rachel Ross. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01n0vhd (Listen) SUN Mike has a moving experience. Meanwhile Emma feels SUN aggrieved. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b01n0vhg (Listen) SUN Series 3, Attaboy and In the Waiting Room SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist, David Sedaris, SUN brings more of his wit and charm to BBC Radio 4 with a SUN series of audience readings. SUN SUN Episode 1 (of 6): SUN This week childhood discipline in the Sedaris household is SUN recalled in "Attaboy" and the perils of agreeing without SUN understanding in a foreign country are examined in "In The SUN Waiting Room". SUN SUN Produced by Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Where Were You... b01n0vhj (Listen) SUN The Sandy SUN SUN Read by Ryan McCluskey 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 Four: The Sandy by Toby Litt SUN SUN In April 1999, a young beach bum in California gets word SUN from his family in Colorado about a shooting at his sister's SUN school - Columbine. But how will he react to the news? SUN SUN Toby Litt was born in 1968 and grew up in Bedfordshire. In SUN 2003, he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British SUN Novelists. His most recent novel, King Death,was published SUN in 2010. His stories, The Melancholy (2010) and People Carry SUN Roses (2011) featured in previous Sweet Talk series for BBC SUN Radio 4. SUN SUN Produced by Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01mx2t6 (Listen) SUN Is an apology really an apology if you keep repeating the SUN original offence? No it isn't, say many Feedback listeners. SUN After security correspondent Frank Gardner told the Today SUN programme about remarks made to him by the Queen, the BBC SUN has apologised for a breach of confidence. But in this SUN week's Feedback, listeners explain why they feel that by SUN reporting the story, the BBC is in fact repeating the SUN mistake. SUN SUN Many, if not most listeners find it hard to hear a programme SUN if speech is competing with music. So do producers really SUN appreciate this fact when using music in programmes? Roger SUN Bolton talks to Victoria Shepherd, producer of the series A SUN History of the Future, about the thinking behind her use of SUN music. SUN And Operation Drop Out is resurrected after a flurry of SUN technical problems plague the networks. Radio 2 explains why SUN programmes disappeared off air for over a minute, and Radio SUN 4 goes one better with multiple glitches plaguing a recent SUN edition of Any Questions. Feedback talks to the plucky SUN announcer who kept the show on the road. SUN SUN And is Ed Stourton "a plonker"? After mispronouncing the SUN name of the Scottish town Banchory in a recent edition of SUN Profile, many of its inhabitants think he might be. Do you SUN know how to pronounce it? SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01mx2t4 (Listen) SUN Andy Williams, Charlie Richardson, Gertrude Hughes, Herbert SUN Lom and Eva Figes SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Andy Williams - the crooner who sold millions of records. SUN His friend Sir Michael Parkinson pays tribute. SUN SUN East End gangster Charlie Richardson who was convicted in SUN the so-called "torture trial" and ended up on the same SUN prison landing as his great rivals the Kray twins. SUN SUN Gertrude Hughes, the Methodist missionary who set up a polio SUN hospital in China and an orphanage in India, SUN SUN The actor Herbert Lom, best known as Inspector Clouseau's SUN increasingly lunatic boss in the Pink Panther films SUN SUN And the feminist writer and novelist Eva Figes. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01n0scc (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01n0t5d (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01mw15s (Listen) SUN Sick Society? SUN SUN In Britain, the health gap is growing - in the wealthiest SUN parts of the country, people are living on average more than SUN a decade longer than in the poorest parts. SUN SUN An academic discipline which tries to work out why this SUN health gap exists has also grown. SUN SUN It's called social epidemiology. You've probably never heard SUN of it, but the science has influenced governments of both SUN the left and right. So what answers has it thrown up? SUN SUN The most famous comes from the Whitehall II study of civil SUN servants, led by Sir Michael Marmot, which found that people SUN who are in high-pressure jobs, over which they have low SUN control, are at greater risk of heart disease, because of SUN the stress their lowly position causes. SUN SUN The idea that how much control you have over your work and SUN life affects your health has generated talk in policy-making SUN circles about the need to empower people. SUN SUN But the evidence is contested. When economists look at the SUN same data, they see something different. SUN SUN David Aaronovitch hears the arguments. SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Sir Michael Marmot, professor of epidemiology and public SUN health at University College London SUN Anna Coote, former UK health commissioner SUN Danny Dorling, professor of human geography at the SUN University of Sheffield SUN George Davey-Smith, professor of clinical epidemiology at SUN Bristol University SUN Johan Mackenbach, chair of the department of public health SUN at Erasmus University, Rotterdam SUN Angus Deaton, professor of economics and international SUN affairs at Princeton University SUN SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01n0vhl (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 b01n0vhn (Listen) SUN Episode 123 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 b01mwzwg (Listen) SUN This week Francine Stock meets with Kylie Minogue to discuss SUN her transformation in to a French New Wave starlet in Leos SUN Carax's Holy Motors. SUN SUN Joseph Gordon Levitt describes his preparation for playing SUN the young Bruce Willis in Looper, a film that travels SUN forward (and back) sampling previous sci-fi thrillers. SUN SUN Tahar Rahim, star of A Prophet and Free Men, discusses Arab SUN stereotyping on the big screen. SUN SUN And, Neil Brand is behind the piano to look at the trick of SUN referencing and recycling classic scores in contemporary SUN film. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01n0t56 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 OCTOBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01mzs7l (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01mzmz3 (Listen) MON Race in an English village; decoding organisation MON MON Bletchley Park, the decoding organisation, was at the heart MON of British intelligence operations in the Second World War. MON A mythology has grown around its secret activities, which MON some claim shortened the war by several years. Professor MON Christopher Grey talks to Laurie Taylor about his seminal MON research into the romance and reality of Bletchley Park. MON They're joined by Professor Anthony King. Also, race and MON 'belonging' in an English village. The social MON anthropologist, Katharine Tyler, explores the attitudes of MON white residents to their British Asian neighbours in a semi MON suburban village in the Midlands. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01n0t54 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mzs7n (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mzs7q (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mzs7s (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01mzs7v (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n0vmm (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon MON Simon Doogan. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01n0vmp (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01mzs7x (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01n0vmr (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01n0vmt (Listen) MON Anne Applebaum on Eastern Europe MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses Central Europe from MON the Soviet occupation to membership of the EU. Anne MON Applebaum looks back at what happened when the Iron Curtain MON came down after WWII. Victor Sebestyen and Helen Szamuely MON disagree over the benefits of European integration after MON 1989. And Mark Mazower explores the chequered history of MON international government, and the vision of harmony at the MON heart of the European project. MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01n111s (Listen) MON Country Girl, Episode 1 MON MON The great Irish writer, Edna O'Brien, whose controversial MON 1960 novel brought her both literary fame and notoriety back MON home, reads her astonishingly honest memoir of a literary MON life of high drama. MON MON Born in 1930 into a strict Catholic family in rural County MON Clare, O'Brien rejected her background in search of literary MON life in Dublin, but found herself transported to London, MON unhappily married with two young children. The publication MON of The Country Girls brought her literary stardom in sixties MON London, but also notoriety back home, and a bitter end to MON her marriage. But along the way there were also encounters MON with Hollywood giants, pop stars and literary titans, as MON well as the inevitable regrets and sorrows. MON MON In prose which sparkles with the effortless gifts of a MON master in her ninth decade, Edna O'Brien has recast her life MON with the imaginative insight of a poet, which gives her MON memoir, so beautifully and sometimes painfully remembered, a MON terrible poignancy. MON MON In today's episode: childhood in the faded grandeur of the MON big house, and forbidden love. MON MON Author: Since her debut novel The Country Girls, Edna MON O'Brien has written more than twenty works of fiction along MON with a biography of James Joyce and Lord Byron. She is the MON recipient of many awards including the Irish PEN Lifetime MON Achievement Award, the American National Art's Gold Medal MON and the Ulysses Medal. Born and raised in the west of MON Ireland she has lived in London for many years. MON MON Abridger: Miranda Davies MON Producer: Justine Willett. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n0w03 (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n0w05 (Listen) MON Le Donne, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Chris Fallon. MON Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon. MON MON Episode 1/5 MON Set in modern day Naples - vibrant, picaresque, and for MON some, terrifying -- where the Camorra has its hands in MON virtually every enterprise, from prostitution and drug MON running, to rubbish collection, and street vendors - "Le MON Donne" ("The Women") focuses on Caterina Riccardi, a MON beautiful, privileged wife and mother who has - until now - MON lived in wilful ignorance of her husband's criminal business MON dealings, and the source of her material wealth. MON MON Caterina, who has managed to reach the age of forty three in MON relative innocence, adhering to the philosophy of "see no MON evil, hear no evil", must come to grips with the dark and MON violent world of the Camorra, and bring her understanding MON and will to bear on it - or see herself and her family MON destroyed. MON MON She must quickly awaken from her wilful slumber, learn to MON exert her power in a predatory and dangerous milieu, and is MON then forced to make a terrible moral choice. MON MON 1/5. Caterina Riccardi's comfortable world is turned upside MON down when her husband is arrested and accused of involvement MON in the Camorra, the Neapolitan mafia. MON MON Chris Fallon is a writer and director. This is his first MON original radio drama. He has previously written for film and MON television as well as writing adaptations for radio. He has MON sold and optioned scripts to Paramount and Warner Bros. His MON short film "Killing Joe" was nominated for an Academy Award. MON MON Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell. MON MON Produced by Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Caterina MON Indira Varma MON Salvatore MON Anton Lesser MON Franco MON Christopher Fairbank MON Marisa Pirenisi MON Haydn Gwynne MON Emilio Dante MON Ewan Bailey MON Nino MON Tom Hughes MON Antonella MON Rebecca Callard MON TV Presenter MON Mike Cooper MON Newsreader MON Vaughan Savage MON Producer MON Rosalynd Ward MON Writer MON Chris Fallon MON MON 11:00 The Spanish Ambassador's Suitcase: Stories from the MON Diplomatic Bag b01n0wc4 (Listen) MON Episode 2 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. MON MON Diplomats toiling in obscure posts know that by employing a MON bit of wit and style their reports can end up being read by MON senior Ministers - even by the Queen. MON MON We hear from the modern-day Ambassador whose despatches made MON Jack Straw cry with laughter when he was Foreign Secretary. MON MON In other despatches British diplomats hunt down the lost MON national anthem of Oman, and go hunting for bison with MON Hermann Goering. 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 b01n0wj1 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 5 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 chance of MON his big break. 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 MON Producer: Steven Canny MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01n0wj3 (Listen) MON The best local retailers and cracking down on spam texts. MON MON As the first fine notices are issued to spammers - for a MON quarter of a million pounds each - is the tide finally MON turning against those irritating junk text messages? MON MON Do you have a story to share? Wattpad is a new website which MON claims to be the world's largest community for discovering MON and sharing stories on the web and across every mobile MON device. MON MON And we have the finalists for the best local retailer in the MON Radio 4 Food and Farming Awards. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Paul Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01mzs7z (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01n0wj5 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 The Five Ages of Brandreth b01n0wj7 (Listen) MON Five More Ages of Brandreth, Prime Ministers MON MON For five decades Gyles Brandreth has been a dedicated MON diarist. These five programmes recall some of the famous and MON notorious people he's met in a long and varied career. MON MON The first programme is on Prime Ministers. Harold Macmillan MON was Gyles's first Prime Minister. He remembers Supermac's MON fall and the race to succeed him, and eventually met the MON great man in Oxford in 1979. Macmillan dozed throughout. MON Gyles also met Ted Heath at Oxford but it didn't go well, MON Gyles was underpar, so underpar he was sick on Heath's MON shoes. Gyles was an MP and a whip during John Major's time MON at Number Ten. He witnessed the government's disaster at MON first hand. And when Tony Blair was booed by the Women's MON Institute, the next speaker was - Gyles Brandreth. MON MON Producer: Chris Bond. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01n0vhd (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01n0xpl (Listen) MON Dover and the Smoking Gun MON MON by PAUL MENDELSON MON (An original story based on characters created by Joyce MON Porter) MON MON A new adventure for Chief Inspector Dover, Scotland Yard's MON most unwanted man - and his long-suffering 'gofer', Sergeant MON MacGregor. MacGregor takes leave to return to Glasgow for MON the funeral of an old flame. But was her death a tragic MON accident or foul play? Reluctant to leave London as usual, MON Dover heads north to help his grief-stricken colleague find MON out the truth. MON MON Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover is Scotland Yard's most MON unwanted man. He's a rather rude, dishevelled, glutton, who MON is sent out of London to help other police forces solve MON local crimes along with his long-suffering 'gofer', Sergeant MON MacGregor. Despite his objectionable demeanour Dover has an MON uncanny knack of solving crimes. MON Starring Kenneth Cranham as Chief Inspector Dover and Stuart MON McQuarrie as Sergeant MacGregor. MON MON Producer/Director........DAVID IAN NEVILLE. MON MON Credits MON Chief Inspector Dover MON Kenneth Cranham MON Sergeant McGregor MON Stuart McQuarrie MON Mr McGregor MON Alexander Morton MON Gourlay MON Gordon Kennedy MON Ettie Silver MON Carolyn Bonnyman MON Laura Brand MON Frances Grey MON Finlay Gemmell MON Neil McKinven MON Chief Constable McKay MON Robert Blythe MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01n0xpn (Listen) MON If an Inn of Court, an anatomy textbook and the Master of MON Ceremonies in 'Cabaret' are three, how many more are needed MON to create a publishing sensation? MON MON Tom Sutcliffe puts this and other cryptic questions to the MON teams in the fifth programme of the current Round Britain MON Quiz series, who this week represent Wales and Northern MON Ireland. The regulars for Wales are David Edwards and MON Myfanwy Alexander, while Polly Devlin and Brian Feeney MON compete for Northern Ireland. MON MON They'll be groping for half-remembered snippets of knowledge MON drawing on literature, languages, sport, popular culture, MON and history both ancient and recent, in order to answer the MON programme's trademark puzzles. MON MON As usual the programme includes a smattering of question MON ideas from listeners, and suggestions are always welcome. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01n0t5q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Duration, Duration, Duration b01n0xpq (Listen) MON We expect pop songs on the radio to last three-and-a-half MON minutes, TV programmes thirty (or multiples thereof), MON commercial breaks to be three minutes made up of thirty MON second ads, and films on average to run for ninety-five MON minutes. Grace Dent gets a Radio 4 standard 27 minutes and MON 30 seconds to find out how duration has always shaped MON popular culture. MON MON Starting in the days when the principle music mass-medium MON was wax, Grace discovers how the limitations of technology MON imposed specific durations on our listening habits. Pop MON music was the ideal partner for the 45 rpm single and the MON jukebox, yet the three-minute rule still applies even today. MON Radio stations prefer songs being neatly packaged into MON three-and-a-half minute chunks. MON MON Turning on the box, the TV schedules are divided into MON programmes and shows of thirty minutes or multiples thereof, MON and commercial breaks of three minutes made up of several MON ads of 30 seconds each. Grace questions these formats with MON TV schedulers from public and commercial broadcasters. MON MON Meanwhile over in the projector room, we're loading a MON standard silent reel which will run at 11 minutes. Early MON films ran at a huge variety of durations, but eventually MON standardised to 90-120 minutes. Popular cinema needed to MON deliver value for money durations: two features and a short MON - three hours or more. MON MON The on-demand world poses interesting questions. Increased MON technological freedoms mean we're in charge for the first MON time and size matters less. What effect is this having on MON our viewing habits and our brains? Are our attention spans MON being adversely affected? Will creators think again about MON duration? MON MON Produced by Sue Clark MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01n0xps (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 1 MON MON Aleks Krotoski returns with a new series of explorations of MON our digtial world. MON MON In the first in the series Aleks looks at how different MON cultures are preserving their identity in the face of the MON homogenising effects of technology. MON MON There's a fear that the digital world will make us all the MON same. But that doesn't seem that well founded if you look at MON how widely differing cultures are using technology to MON express their identity and values. We look at the music MON sharing culture of Mali in West Africa as explored by MON musicologist Chris Kirkley and hear from the vibrant and MON intoxicating atmosphere of the mobile phone music market in MON Mali's capital Bamako. Back in the UK we look at the MON interesting way immigrant communities maintain their MON cultural ties through technology and the unexpected effect MON this has on the growth of immigrant communities. MON MON Aleks also talks to explorer in residence Robin MON Hanbury-Tenison about his thoughts on how technology might MON be undermining cultures. Does he see the spread of digital MON as a new form of cultural imperialism? MON MON Producer Peter McManus MON MON 17:00 PM b01n0xpv (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mzs81 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b01n0xpx (Listen) MON Series 5, McAlister, Bondeson, Murray MON MON The Museum of Curiosity is hosted as ever by the Professor MON of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John MON Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, MON Blackadder and QI fame). For this fifth series, he is joined MON by the comedian Jimmy Carr. MON MON Each week, the Museum invites three guests, a mixture of MON entertaining experts and expert entertainers, to donate one MON item each to the Museum and explain why it deserves a place MON in the museum. MON MON This week, John and Jimmy have invited along the Natural MON History Museum's resident dipterologist (fly expert) Erica MON McAlister; Consultant Rheumatologist at the Cardiff MON University School of Medicine; and the comedian, historian MON and fictitious Pub Landlord Al Murray. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01n0xqt (Listen) MON Lilian makes a disturbing discovery and Will splashes the MON cash. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01n0xr0 (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, who reports on the 2012 Turner Prize MON exhibition, featuring works by the four artists shortlisted MON for the £25,000 award. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n0w05 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Putin, the Patriarch and Pussy Riot b01n0xtg (Listen) MON The prison sentences given to three members of the Russian MON punk band Pussy Riot have been widely criticized in the MON West. But why did the three young women stage their MON anti-Putin protest in a cathedral? And why did their'punk MON prayer arouse such fierce reactions? MON MON The case - which some have called "the defining act of a MON generation" has underlined the growing militancy of the MON Russian Orthodox Church in the Putin era. Some say the MON Church's political influence may be greater today than at MON any time since the 17th century. The affair has caused a MON deep rift in society - some say the Church is an anchor of MON Russian identity; others see it as a formidable impediment MON to the country's modernisation. MON MON Although church and state are formally separate, the church MON identifies itself as the heart of Russian national identity. MON Patriarch Kirill, the head of the church, has made no secret MON of his strong support for Putin, praising his leadership as MON "God's miracle" and describing the punk performance as part MON of an assault by enemy forces. A bill criminalizing MON "blasphemy" is currently going through the State Duma, MON Russia's lower house of parliament. MON MON Lucy Ash reports on the complex relationships between MON Church, state and protest in today's Russia. She begins her MON investigation by talking to Orthodox monks on an island in MON northern Russia the middle of Europe's largest freshwater MON lake. The Valaam Monastery was built in the 14thc as an MON outpost of Eastern Orthodoxy against the heathens. MON MON President Putin is a frequent guest. This summer he dropped MON by with his friend, the former Italian PM Silvio Berlusconi. MON He has also visited in a luxury yacht which later became the MON property of the monks. There has long been concern about the MON lavish life styles of some prominent clergy. Many Vallam MON residents moved there in the Soviet era when the monastery MON was a hospital. Now some, who have been there much longer MON than the monks, fear they could soon face eviction from MON their homes by the Church, which has sought to control all MON property and the lucrative tourism business in the area. MON MON Recent revelations of the Patriarch's apparent career in the MON KGB from the 1970s, his luxury watches and yacht, together MON with the church's successful money-making schemes, all make MON many priests and followers uneasy. MON MON Lucy then visits St Petersburg, ever since Peter the Great MON known as Russia's window on the West. Yet the city has MON recently become the epicentre of a growing assault on the MON immoral influence of western culture. Vitaly Milonov, head MON of the legislative committee of the St Petersburg assembly MON recently passed a law which bans "propagating homosexual MON propaganda" among minors. As a result, the pop star Madonna MON is currently facing an $11m law suit for supporting gay MON rights at a recent concert by a shadowy new group called the MON Trade Union of Russian Citizens. They are also trying to MON prevent a modern art exhibition called Icons from opening in MON the city on the grounds that it is blasphemous. A sexual MON advice centre for teenagers has also come under fire. One MON member said: "It took 70 years to free Russia from Communist MON ideology but thank God it has only taken us two decades to MON get rid of this Liberalism foisted on us by the West". MON MON Yet Lucy also sees a more liberal side of the Church at a MON social project run by priests and volunteers to help young MON criminals on parole in St Petersburg. MON MON And she finds that not all of the Orthodox Church is pleased MON with the institution's rapprochement with the government. MON Dissenters within the church, of whom there are many, argue MON it is a terrible mistake for the Church to allow itself to MON be manipulated by the Kremlin. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01n0xtj (Listen) MON Obama: Peacemaker or Vigilante? MON MON When Barack Obama stood before a 200,000-strong crowd in MON Berlin in 2008 his declaration that "now is the time to MON build new bridges across the globe" was met with jubilation MON by a crowd which believed the future American president MON would pursue a gentler foreign policy, completely unlike MON that of George W Bush. This liberal enthusiasm extended to MON the Nobel Committee, which awarded Obama its Peace Prize in MON his first year of office. The man himself accepted the MON Prize, and the warm feelings, but did he ever intend to MON pursue the sort of foreign policy which his well-wishers in MON Europe and on the American left expected of him? And what - MON when set against their expectations, or indeed his own MON promises - has President Obama actually achieved on the MON world stage? MON MON Presenter: Mukul Devichand MON Producer: Richard Knight. MON War Gaming Iran MON America: The Right Way MON Tea Party Politics MON Latinos USA MON MON 21:00 Material World b01mwzwj (Listen) MON The Gravity Fields festival aims to celebrate the legacy of MON the town's most famous son, Sir Isaac Newton. For eight days MON the town will be home to talks, exhibitions, science and MON arts shows, actors and processions. Quentin talks to some of MON the scientists taking part. Also on the programme the 50th MON anniversary of the publication of "Silent Spring" the book MON that launched the environmental movement, and how the MON Sumatran earthquake in April may be responsible for quakes MON all over the planet. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01n0vmt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01mzs83 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01n10n6 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n10n8 (Listen) MON Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 11 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 now away at Court and his dearest friends ageing MON too, life on his Norfolk estate has ceased to satisfy. How MON to reinvigorate his life and find new purpose? MON MON In today's episode: In a search for new purpose in his life, MON Merivel has left Bidnold and England behind and travelled to MON Switzerland in search of the beguiling Louise de MON Flamanville. She and her father have taken him into their MON home, and their hearts. Will that be solace enough? 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 b01k28w6 (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON Alan Dein sets out on nocturnal excursions via Facebook and MON Skype, discovering the real life dramas behind the online MON profiles, talking to people in every corner of the globe. MON MON Holed up in the studio late into the night, Alan makes MON conversation with people all over the world, talking to them MON about their stories. He never knows what he'll be hearing MON next. MON MON This time, the theme is War and Peace as Alan connects with MON a Beirut man shot by a sniper during the Lebanese civil war, MON a woman whose father was imprisoned during the Cuban MON revolution and a young man in California jailed for domestic MON violence. MON MON Producer: Laurence Grissell. MON MON 23:30 Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water b00n5td6 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON Following the sad death of Terry Nutkins, we revisit two MON documentaries he made about his unusual childhood spent with MON the author, Gavin Maxwell, in the remote west highlands. MON MON When Terry Nutkins was 13 he moved from London to the MON isolated west highlands to live with Maxwell, whose most MON famous book is 'Ring of Bright Water' . In 2009 - forty MON years after Maxwell's death - Terry told the remarkable MON story of his life with this mercurial man and his famous MON otters, Edal and Teko. MON MON 'Ring of Bright Water' is, arguably, the finest book ever MON written about a man's relationship with landscape and MON wildlife. Published in 1960, it tells the story of Maxwell's MON life in the now almost mythical setting of Camusfearna. His MON poetic observations of otter behaviour and the detailed MON sketches and photographs in the book helped to change - on a MON worldwide basis - the reputation of these animals which were MON widely persecuted at the time. MON MON Terry Nutkins had a boy's own adventure in a uniquely MON beautiful landscape. But he also found himself living a MON peculiar existence, in virtual isolation, with a man who was MON as charming as he was difficult, and whose depression led to MON severe mood swings. As Terry said, he had to grow up MON quickly. MON MON Producer: Karen Gregor. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 02 OCTOBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01mzs8y (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01n111s (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mzs90 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mzs92 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mzs94 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01mzs96 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n10tc (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon TUE Simon Doogan. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01n10tf (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Rich Ward. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01n111v (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01n111x (Listen) TUE Sir Mark Walport TUE TUE Jim al-Khalili talks to the next chief scientific advisor to TUE the government, Sir Mark Walport about how he thinks science TUE can save the UK economy; how he plans to ensure that TUE scientific evidence is taken seriously by an arts-dominated TUE civil service and why he believes scientific research should TUE be made available to everyone, free of charge. Sir Mark, who TUE started his Life Scientific studying immune responses, has TUE spent the last ten years in charge of one of the largest TUE funders of medical research in the world, the Wellcome TUE Trust. Many love his robust, straight-talking style: others TUE find him uncompromising. He hopes to tackle environmental TUE change and many of the problems associated with our ageing TUE population, as well as changing Whitehall's attitude to TUE science. It's hard to predict what other issues he may have TUE to deal with, but even without an unexpected crisis, many TUE anticipate that his forthcoming time in government will be TUE nothing if not eventful. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01n111z (Listen) TUE Sarfraz Manzoor meets author, Elizabeth Wurtzel, to discuss TUE her book 'Prozac Nation'. TUE TUE In 'One to One' the journalist and broadcaster, Sarfraz TUE Manzoor, has been exploring the risks and rewards of taking TUE a personal story and making it public. This is something TUE he's done in his book 'Greetings from Bury Park' and within TUE his journalism where he's written - amongst other topics - TUE about his mixed-marriage and the experience of being a new TUE father. He's intrigued by both the process and the TUE ramifications of revealing private thoughts and experiences: TUE How do people react to you? Do they see it as a betrayal? Do TUE you risk hurting friends and family? Is it worth the risk if TUE you achieve something that truly resonates with your TUE audience? TUE TUE In this, the last of his three interviews, Sarfraz Manzoor TUE speaks to the author of 'Prozac Nation', Elizabeth Wurtzel. TUE Published in the mid-1990s, it was considered the first in TUE the 'misery memoir' genre and was a huge success. But how TUE does Wurtzel feel about what she wrote now, almost 20 years TUE on? TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01n0vmw (Listen) TUE Country Girl, Episode 2 TUE TUE In today's episode: in Dublin Edna finds literary life, TUE lotharios - and love. TUE TUE Abridger: Miranda Davies TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n11cv (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n3hl2 (Listen) TUE Le Donne, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Chris Fallon. TUE Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon TUE TUE 2/5. Caterina learns more about her husband's secret life TUE from State Prosecutor, Marisa Pirenisi. She begins to doubt TUE her husband's innocence. TUE TUE Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell. TUE TUE Produced by Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01n11cx (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 5 TUE TUE In this episode of Saving species we focus on the issues TUE facing our rivers and freshwater systems. The Shropshire TUE Wildlife Trust this year highlight them by sailing a currach TUE down the Severn. John Hughes from the Trust joins Brett TUE Westwood on the water to give them a perfect otter's eye TUE view of the issues facing our crowded countryside and ever TUE increasing demands on this natural resource. TUE TUE Elsewhere in the programme Brett Westwood attends the TUE Environmental Change Research Centre conference on TUE freshwater biodiversity at University College London. TUE Mingling with delegates from across Europe, Brett hears TUE about the steps being taken to understand the role of TUE wildlife in modern freshwater habitats. TUE TUE Dr Elizabeth Chadwick runs the Cardiff University Otter TUE Project. Using post mortem tissues collected from this top TUE predator she is showing how our increasing otter population TUE is coping with different levels of contamination in TUE freshwater in England and Wales. 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 Universities iSpot. TUE TUE Producer : Mary Colwell TUE Presenter : Brett Westwood TUE Editor : Julian Hector. TUE TUE 11:30 The Voices of Robert Wyatt b01n11cz (Listen) TUE Robert Wyatt has been recognised as a prog-rock drummer, TUE jazz composer, avant-garde cornet player, artist and TUE activist in a wheelchair. But, above all else, he has been TUE known by one of the most instantly recognisable and TUE distinctive voices of the last fifty years. TUE TUE Forever associated with Shipbuilding, Elvis Costello's song TUE written in reaction to the Falklands War, Wyatt's voice and TUE the causes he gives voice to are intricately entwined. TUE TUE This intimate radio portrait, in his own words, traces TUE Wyatt's journey from the psychedelic excesses of Soft TUE Machine (appearing both with Jimi Hendrix and at the BBC TUE Proms), through the life-changing accident that has confined TUE him to a wheelchair for almost forty years, to recent TUE celebrated musical projects that are reaching new audiences. TUE TUE Produced by Alan Hall. TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01n11d1 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01mzs98 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01n11d3 (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 The Five Ages of Brandreth b01n11d5 (Listen) TUE Five More Ages of Brandreth, Actors TUE TUE The second programme in the series looks at actors. Gyles TUE has long experience as an avid theatre goer, producer and TUE performer. At university and later he had many dealings with TUE Sir Michael Redgrave, a generous, nervous and tragic figure. TUE He wrote Sir John Gielgud's biography, and organised Sir TUE John's 80th birthday party featuring Superman. And his best TUE friend from schooldays was the Hi-De-Hi star Simon Cadell TUE who died tragically young. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01n0xqt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b0124286 (Listen) TUE Shall I Say a Kiss? TUE TUE In 1936, Morris met Eva at Warrington Deaf Club. An unusual TUE transatlantic romance began. Drama starring two deaf actors, TUE based on a true story. Dramatised by Vanessa Rosenthal. TUE Shall I Say a Kiss? is the title of a book of letters edited TUE by Lennard Davis, Eva and Morris' youngest son. When his TUE parents died he found a bundle of faded letters. They TUE afforded a fascinating glimpse into his parents' courtship. TUE TUE Morris Davis was born deaf in 1898 in Whitechapel. He moved TUE to New York in 1924. On a visit to the UK in 1935, he saw a TUE photo of Eva Weintrobe, also deaf. He went to Liverpool to TUE meet her. TUE TUE After four meetings, Morris proposed. Eva accepted, but TUE before they could arrange a date, Morris had to go back to TUE New York. So the letters and challenges began. Could he TUE bring Eva to America and marry her there? Would he be able TUE to support her? And most pressingly, would American TUE Immigration accept her? TUE TUE A signtheatre version of the play, a collaboration between TUE Sign Dance International and BBC Cymru/Wales, and the play's TUE script are both available on the BBC website. Click on the TUE links below. TUE TUE Chad Gaya sung by the Dyson Langleben families. TUE TUE Production co-ordinator Eleri McAuliffe TUE Sound engineers Cathy Bassett,Nigel Lewis TUE TUE Director/producer Polly Thomas TUE Executive producer Kate McAll, BBC/Cymru Wales. TUE TUE Credits TUE Morris TUE David Bower TUE Eva TUE Emily Howlett TUE Mrs Weintrobe TUE Miriam Margolyes TUE Joseph Weintrobe TUE Adam Levy TUE Beattie Sokolov TUE Ceri Mill TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b01n11d7 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Into the Wild 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 This week, Nina ventures "Into the Wild" with tales of TUE transgression, life threatening encounters with ferocious TUE beasts and one mother's look at the wildness of her young TUE children - who she refers to as her "gleeful barbarians". TUE TUE In the middle of the night, we plunge beneath the silvered TUE mercury surface of a moonlit lake, with the wild swimmer TUE Kate Rew, and venture into a nightmarish adventure on an TUE unsafe safari with the author Kester Brewin. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4 TUE TUE The items featured in the programme are: TUE Wild Water - Part One TUE Featuring Kate Rew TUE TUE Can't Rewind the Past TUE Produced by Steve Urquhart TUE TUE Gleeful Barbarians TUE Produced by Sarah Boothroyd TUE TUE Wild Children TUE Produced by Jessie Levene TUE TUE The Fear of Surviving TUE Featuring Kester Brewin TUE TUE Chain of Missing Links (El Pajaro Volador) TUE Produced by Brendan Baker TUE TUE Wild Water - Part Two TUE Featuring Kate Rew. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01n11d9 (Listen) TUE Wave Goodbye? TUE TUE In the choppy waters around Orkney the hopes and dreams of TUE hundreds of scientists, engineers and investors are being TUE pushed to the limit. At the test sites of the European TUE Marine Energy Centre eleven different ways of harnessing the TUE power of the sea are being tested. TUE TUE After four decades of promise Britain seems to be on the TUE verge of discovering how to turn the tides and the waves TUE into useable electricity. All that's holding the industry TUE back is money. Money, and the fearsome engineering TUE difficulties of building and maintaining power stations in TUE the harshest conditions imaginable. TUE TUE For 'Costing the Earth' Tom Heap travels to Orkney to meet TUE the international cast of maritime engineers welding, TUE soldering and modelling their way toward a low carbon TUE Nirvana. TUE TUE Producer: Alasdair Cross. TUE TUE 16:00 Things We Forgot to Remember b00p604w (Listen) TUE Series 5, Joan of Arc TUE TUE Michael Portillo presents a series revisiting the great TUE moments of history to discover that they often conceal other TUE events of equal but forgotten importance. TUE TUE Michael explores the myth and memory of Joan of Arc, and TUE discovers that another French woman deserves just as much, TUE if not more, credit for saving France in its hour of need. TUE TUE Battered by decades of war, riven by internal divisions and TUE with large swathes of the country occupied by the English, TUE Charles VII's France was on its knees in the 1420s. To its TUE rescue came a young woman, Joan of Arc. Under her TUE inspiration the fortunes of the country were turned round TUE and France appeared saved. Joan's place in history was TUE confirmed as she was burned at the stake at the age of 19. TUE TUE But Joan's notoriety eclipses the contribution made by TUE another of her contemporaries, who did as at least as much TUE to secure the future of the French nation and its monarchy. TUE She was Yolande D'Aragon, the King's mother-in-law. It was TUE Yolande who used her position to secure the French monarchy TUE by marriage, diplomacy and force. It was she who invited the TUE young Joan to court, who provided her with her armour and TUE who acted as her sponsor as an emblem of hope for the TUE troops. It was also Yolande who ditched Joan as soon as she TUE became a liability and spent the next decades making laws TUE and allegiances to strengthen the French crown. TUE TUE Michael investigates why her 40 years of service have been TUE forgotten, buried in the mythology that has grown around TUE Joan. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01n11pc (Listen) TUE Val McDermid and Alex Horne TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert is joined by the Scottish crime writer Val TUE McDermid and comedian and neologist Alex Horne in the first TUE of a new series of the paperback discussion show. Among the TUE books under discussion are Andre Agassi's revealing TUE autobiography of life lived centre stage at Centre Court, TUE Jeanette Winterson's acclaimed memoir of her childhood, Why TUE Be Happy When You Could Be Normal, and Remembering Babylon, TUE David Malouf's prizewinning 1993 outsider novel set in TUE Australia. TUE TUE Producer: Mark Smalley. TUE TUE BOOKS FEATURED IN THE PROGRAMME TUE Val McDermid's choice: 'Why Be Happy When You Could Be TUE Normal' by Jeanette Winterson TUE TUE Alex Horne's choice: 'Open: An Autobiography' by Andre TUE Agassi TUE TUE Harriett Gilbert's choice: 'Remembering Babylon' by David TUE Malouf TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01n11wy (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 b01mzs9b (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 The Secret World b01n11x0 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 4 TUE TUE Comedy offering an insight into the private lives of the TUE famous. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01n11x2 (Listen) TUE Jazzer calls in a favour and Tom forges ahead. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01n11x4 (Listen) TUE John Wilson reports live from the BBC International Short TUE Story Award ceremony, with news of the winner, and also TUE interviews members of the band Mumford and Sons. TUE TUE Producer Rebecca Nicholson. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n3hl2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01n11x6 (Listen) TUE Undercover Cops TUE TUE How far should undercover police officers go to gather TUE intelligence? TUE TUE Jane Deith talks exclusively to women suing the Metropolitan TUE police claiming they were tricked into long standing TUE relationships with undercover officers. TUE TUE The unmasking of undercover cop Mark Kennedy who'd been TUE infiltrating environmental protest groups has led to TUE revelations that other officers had relationships with woman TUE they were spying on. The women argue that the state agents TUE they fell in love with used them physically and emotionally. TUE They say the officers intruded into the most personal TUE aspects of their lives causing them lasting damage. Their TUE lawyer claims the relationships were a breach of the women's TUE right to privacy and their right to form relationships TUE without the interference of the state. TUE TUE Yet there are no hard guidelines on undercover officers TUE sleeping with 'targets'. The rules of engagement are TUE shrouded in secrecy. Police chiefs have said the officers TUE broke the rules, yet former undercover policemen say sex was TUE sanctioned as a means of gathering intelligence. And the TUE Government has told Parliament affairs like this can be a TUE necessary part of undercover work. TUE TUE So is forming intimate relationships a legitimate part of a TUE difficult and vital area of policing, or an abuse of power TUE by the state? TUE TUE And, from environmental protest to serious and organised TUE crime, how much do we really know about the secret methods TUE of undercover policing? TUE TUE Presenter: Jane Deith TUE Producer: Sally Chesworth. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01n11x8 (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01n11xb (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01n111x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01mzs9d (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01n11xd (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n11xg (Listen) TUE Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 12 TUE TUE In today's episode: Death is much on my mind. The duel will TUE take place. Will Louise's husband keep to his word or will TUE Merivel lose all that he holds dear? TUE TUE The reader is the stage and screen actor Nicholas Woodeson. TUE The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di TUE Speirs. TUE TUE 23:00 Clayton Grange b01n11xj (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE by Neil Warhurst with additional material by Paul Barnhill TUE Episode 2 TUE In Clayton Grange, Anthony Head leads a team of brilliantly TUE stupid scientists who have a mission to think the TUE unthinkable. But can't. This week, they attempt to solve the TUE global fuel crisis. With a hamster. TUE TUE Saunders ..... Anthony Head TUE Geoff ..... Neil Warhurst TUE Roger ..... Paul Barnhill TUE Jameson ..... Stephanie Racine TUE Helen/Lionel ..... Don Gilet TUE Alan Dobson ..... Paul Stonehouse TUE TUE Director ..... Sally Avens. TUE TUE 23:30 Terry Nutkins: In the Ring of Bright Water b00n9l1h (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE The romantic setting of Camusfearna has become almost TUE mythical since Ring of Bright Water was published in 1960; TUE it's now a place of pilgrimage for people who love the TUE otters, the landscape and the wildlife described in the TUE book. But, according to Terry, the purity of this little TUE white cottage in pristine surroundings was sullied after TUE Maxwell made his money from the book: the cottage was TUE extended, pools were constructed and Maxwell himself became TUE a reluctant celebrity, under constant pressure to live up to TUE the reputation he had established. TUE TUE Maxwell, a homosexual, entered into an unhappy marriage; the TUE otters began a series of savage attacks and a fire TUE devastated Sandaig House. In this programme Terry spoke TUE exclusively to Gavin Maxwell's former wife, Lavinia TUE Hankinson; to the naturalist and writer, Sir John Lister TUE Kaye who knew Maxwell shortly before his death, and to TUE Maxwell's biographer, Douglas Botting. TUE TUE 'Ring of Bright Water' is, arguably, the finest book ever TUE written about a man's relationship with landscape and TUE wildlife. Maxwell's poetic observations of otter behaviour TUE and the detailed sketches and photographs in the book helped TUE to change - on a worldwide basis - the reputation of these TUE animals which were widely persecuted at the time. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 OCTOBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01mzsb9 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01n0vmw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mzsbc (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mzsbf (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mzsbh (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01mzsbk (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n1qxf (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon WED Simon Doogan. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01n1qxk (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. WED WED 06:00 Today b01n1qxm (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01n1qxp (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01n1qxr (Listen) WED Country Girl, Episode 3 WED WED In today's episode: Edna, the 'child bride', starts work on WED The Country Girls. WED WED Author: Edna O'Brien WED Abridger: Miranda Davies WED Producer: Justine Willett. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n1qxt (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n3hq9 (Listen) WED Le Donne, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Chris Fallon. WED Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon. WED WED 3/5. Set in contemporary Naples. Caterina's son Nino starts WED to go off the rails. She discovers a terrible truth about WED her husband Franco, who is still in prison. WED WED Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell. WED WED Produced by Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01n1qxw (Listen) WED Series 11, Gone Astray WED WED Alan Dein returns with a new series of stories from Britain WED today. WED WED 1. Gone Astray. Maureen's black and white cat Rosie has gone WED missing and the pensioner is scouring the neighbourhood to WED find her. Little does she know that further down the same WED Portsmouth street, the Fletcher family have had a visitor. WED Last Sunday night a black and white cat wandered into their WED house, sprawled herself out and showed every indication she WED wanted to stay. The cat has brought the family back together WED after a nightmare summer holiday with their teenage WED children. But does their feline peacemaker actually belong WED to Maureen? WED WED Alan Dein finds out in a tale of lost and found cats, aided WED by Joy Wilson of Portsmouth and District Cat Rescue, who has WED devoted her life to the welfare of cats. WED WED Producer: Laurence Grissell. WED WED 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01n1qxy (Listen) WED Series 5, General Whitesnake Demeanour WED WED In Episode Two, the arrival of new priest Father Neil Green WED (Andrew O'Neill) receives mixed reaction from the Lenzidens, WED with his prog rock-esque approach to Christianity. His WED flowing cape, stetson and general Whitesnake demeanour WED catches the attention of The Bishop (Michael Redmond) and he WED sets out to gauge opinion from the locals. WED WED Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli WED Dave ..... Donald Mcleary WED Sanjay ..... Omar Raza WED Alok ..... Susheel Kumar WED Father Neil Green ..... Andrew O'Neill WED The Bishop ..... Michael Redmond WED Alan ..... Tom Urie WED Phil ..... Stewart Cairns WED Keith Futures ..... Gavin Mitchell WED WED Produced by Gus Beattie WED A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01n1qy0 (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01mzsbm (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01n1qy2 (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 The Five Ages of Brandreth b01n1qy4 (Listen) WED Five More Ages of Brandreth, Comedians WED WED Programme three is on Comedians. Gyles was a long time WED associate of Kenneth Williams, an outrageous and tortured WED figure. He helped Frankie Howerd with his writing and Howerd WED made a pass at him. Williams and Howerd were lonely and WED rather sad, unlike Les Dawson and Larry Grayson who WED delighted in their success. WED WED Producer: Chris Bond. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01n11x2 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00sy3lh (Listen) WED A Chaos of Wealth and Want WED WED Henry Mayhew dedicated his life to recording the testimony WED of the poor and dispossessed in 1850's London. But he never WED offered them charity. Until he met Mouse. WED WED Written by Penny Gold WED Director Jeremy Mortimer WED WED The play focuses on an episode in the career of the great WED chronicler of London life and pioneer of oral history, Henry WED Mayhew. In the 1850s, Mayhew spent his days gathering WED verbatim testimonies from the city's poor for his 'London WED Labour and the London Poor'. No moralising do-gooder, he WED believed he could talk to such people on equal terms. It WED took his challenging friendship with Jack, a sharp-witted WED teenage coster (market trader) and his over-trusting attempt WED to assist Mouse, a drunken child-runaway with a winning WED smile, to teach him where the borders lie. WED WED At the heart of the story is Mayhew himself: a vigorous, WED humorous, volatile, improvident, totally engaging, totally WED exasperating man. No wonder he sees similarities between WED himself and the street people he interviews; no wonder he WED drives his wife to distraction. WED WED Credits WED Henry Mayhew WED David Haig WED Jane Mayhew WED Alison Pettit WED Jack WED Steven Webb WED Mouse WED Sam Alexander WED Sal WED Joanna Monroe WED Arthur WED Sam Dale WED Actor WED Keely Beresford WED Actor WED Michael Shelford WED Actor WED Vineeta Rishi WED Director WED Jeremy Mortimer WED Writer WED Penny Gold WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01n1qy6 (Listen) WED Renting and letting WED WED Paul Lewis and a panel of guests take your calls on renting WED and letting. WED WED There have been a number of changes in the housing market. WED From this month squatting in a house in England and Wales WED became a criminal offence. Now squatters face jail or a WED fine. The maximum penalty will be six months in jail, a WED £5,000 fine, or both. It already was a criminal offence in WED Scotland. WED WED Meanwhile, rents in England and Wales rose for a fifth WED consecutive month in August reaching a new high of £734 a WED month. Average rents climbed by 1.2% compared to July, WED hitting new peaks in five regions. Average rents in Scotland WED have risen by 2.6% to £644. In Scotland legislation is to be WED brought in to outlaw letting agencies charging up-front WED service fees to tenants other than their deposit. WED WED Do you have a question about a tenancy or as a landlord need WED your questions answered? WED WED Paul Lewis will be joined by: WED Richard Lambert, chief executive of the National Landlords WED Association WED John Gallagher, principal solicitor at Shelter WED Marveen Smith, solicitors Pain Smith WED WED Lines open at 1pm. The number to ring 03700 100 444. Or e WED mail: moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED producer: Sally Abrahams. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01n11xb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01n1qy8 (Listen) WED New research on how society works. Presented by Laurie WED Taylor. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01n1qyb (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01n1qyd (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mzsbp (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Party b01n1qyg (Listen) WED Series 3, The Splits 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 are on their way to research for WED the by-election. 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 European Man .. Jot Davies WED WED Producer .... Julia McKenzie. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01n1qyj (Listen) WED Vicky makes a confession. Meanwhile Fallon is feeling WED lonesome. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01n1qyl (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n3hq9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Bringing Up Britain b01n1qyn (Listen) WED Series 5, Episode 3 WED WED Mariella Frostrup and guests discuss adoption. Both its WED immediate challenges and wider issues from passing the WED selection process, nurturing traumatised children and WED dealing with biological parents to the question of mixed WED race adoption and the dilemmas of keeping siblings together WED when they might be better apart. WED WED But as well as having specific challenges adoption also WED presents universal issues of authority, communication WED transparency and care. And with the government looking to WED speed up the adoption process we examine what this might WED mean for children in care and the adults who adopt them. WED WED Guests include the Government's adoption adviser, Martin WED Narey. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01n1qyq (Listen) WED Series 3, Colin Murray Parkes WED WED The eminent psychiatrist Colin Murray Parkes illuminates the WED importance of secure attachments for human happiness and WED sees insecurity at the root of conflict and extremism. WED Accepting advice from wise outsiders is crucial, he argues, WED whether healing the emotional wounds of bereavement or WED breaking the cycle of political violence. "Out of this WED support new national and personal identities are emerging WED with subtle changes in the feelings that go with them." WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b01n11d9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01n1qxp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01mzsbr (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01n1qyv (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n1qyx (Listen) WED Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 13 WED WED In today's episode: Despite Louise's marriage plans for him, WED Merivel has returned to England, to attend on the King whose WED health is failing and to find that Margaret has an amour of WED her own. WED WED The reader is the stage and screen actor Nicholas Woodeson. WED The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di WED Speirs. WED WED 23:00 Don't Start b01n1qyz (Listen) WED Series 2, The Bathroom 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 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 b0174gm8 (Listen) WED Episode 4 WED WED Episode 4 sees the wars rage on as Copenhagen lives it up in WED Paris and Marengo tries to enjoy a quiet retirement. 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 Britain in a Box b01k9lc2 (Listen) WED Series 5, Pop Idol WED WED Paul Jackson returns with a new series of the show that not WED only celebrates classic television programmes, but also uses WED them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and WED social history. WED WED Over the next three weeks he'll be exploring the innovation WED of 'Vision On' and assessing the legacy of 'Grandstand', but WED he kicks off with a programme that re-wrote the rules for WED talent shows, saved a network and conquered the world. WED WED 1. Pop Idol - began life as an idea captured on a scrap of WED paper... went on to make global superstars of some of its WED participants... and now generates over one and a half WED billion dollars a season in advertising income in the US WED alone. With the help of those who sold and who bought the WED original UK shows, those who fronted it and those who WED appeared on it, Paul Jackson traces its step-by-step WED development. WED WED Those appearing include producers Alan Boyd and Richard WED Holloway, commissioners Claudia Rosencrantz and David WED Liddiment, presenters Ant and Dec, winner Michelle McManus WED and commentators Mike Smith and Nina Myskow. WED WED Producer: Paul Kobrak. WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 OCTOBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01mzscn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01n1qxr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mzscq (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mzscs (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mzscv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01mzscx (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n1rbg (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon THU Simon Doogan. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01n1rbj (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Heather Simons. THU THU 06:00 Today b01n1rbl (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01n1rbn (Listen) THU Gerald of Wales THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the medieval scholar THU Gerald of Wales. A clergyman and courtier, Gerald was close THU to Henry II and the Church hierarchy, and wrote accounts of THU official journeys he made around Wales and Ireland in their THU service. Gerald's Journey Around Wales and Description of THU Ireland are among the most colourful and informative THU chronicles of the Middle Ages, and had a powerful influence THU on later historians. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01n1rbq (Listen) THU Country Girl, Episode 4 THU THU In today's episode: Edna enjoys literary success in Sixties THU London. THU THU Author: Edna O'Brien THU Abridger: Miranda Davies THU Producer: Justine Willett. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n1rbs (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n3jp8 (Listen) THU Le Donne, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Chris Fallon. THU Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon. THU THU 4/5. Nino goes missing, with tragic consequences. Caterina THU has to act decisively and show leadership to prevent a war THU between rival factions of the Camorra. THU THU Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell. THU THU Produced by Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01n1rbv (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 Happy Days: The Children of the Stones b01n1rbx (Listen) THU Writer and comedian Stewart Lee explores the ground breaking THU television series Children of the Stones and examines its THU special place in the memories of those children who watched THU it on its initial transmission in a state of excitement and THU terror. THU THU In 1977 HTV launched the revolutionary children's television THU drama telling the story of an astrophysicist and his son who THU arrive in the village of Milbury to study ancient stones. THU The residents greet each other with the phrase "Happy day", THU and the community is held in a strange captivity by the THU psychic forces generated by the circle of giant Neolithic THU stones which surround it. THU THU Filmed at Avebury in Wiltshire, it is a strangely THU atmospheric production with the baleful, discordant wailing THU voices of the incidental music increasing the tension. THU THU The story, involving a temporal paradox and issues of THU individuality and community assimilation thematically THU challenged the after-school audience, which included Stewart THU Lee. THU THU In this documentary Lee returns to Avebury to discuss the THU serial's impact, examine its influence on him and explore THU the history and secrets of the ancient stones. THU THU 1970s kids may have dived behind the sofa during Doctor Who, THU but it was Children of the Stones that gave them nightmares. THU The series is frequently cited by those who remember it as THU one of the scariest things they saw as children. THU THU The programme includes contributions from series co-creator THU Jeremy Burnham, cast members and fans. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01n1rbz (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01mzscz (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01n1rc1 (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 The Five Ages of Brandreth b01n1rc3 (Listen) THU Five More Ages of Brandreth, Characters THU THU Programme four is on Characters. THU THU The diaries are full of characters, people such as Jeffrey THU Archer. Jeffrey was the court jester at the court of Mrs THU Thatcher, but thought of himself as Cardinal Wolsey. THU THU Gyles met Fanny Cradock when he was President of the Oxford THU Union and he persuaded her to speak. He recalls: "she has THU drawn on eyebrows, orange lipstick around her lips, and a THU voice like a foghorn, but she was a triumph and is now my THU best friend." THU THU Producer: Chris Bond. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01n1qyj (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00txhtx (Listen) THU Stone, The Deserved Dead THU THU Detective series created and written by Danny Brocklehurst. THU THU DCI John Stone and his team shake up the Bridgeton Estate THU when they embark upon an investigation into the brutal THU murder of a known sex offender. Stone must act quickly when THU he realises that someone is taking it upon themselves to THU clean up the Estate. THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU Stone THU Hugo Speer THU Tanner THU Craig Cheetham THU Sue THU Deborah McAndrew THU Fisher THU Conrad Nelson THU McCaffrey THU Russell Dixon THU Sweet THU William Ash THU Morrison THU Warren Brown THU Aaron THU tachia newall THU Ken THU Terence Mann THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01n1rfy (Listen) THU Series 22, Dublin Bay with Eanna Ni Lamhna THU THU Clare Balding continues her series of wildlife walks with a THU visit to the Irish Coast. THU THU Today it's "Ramblings reunited", as she is joined again by THU Irish naturalist and broadcaster Eanna Ni Lamhna and her THU husband John Harding. Clare Balding last walked with her on THU a 'holiday hike' in the Wicklow mountains in September 2002. THU Today expert naturalist and broadcaster Eanna, takes her on THU a beautiful tour of the diverse wildlife havens of her home THU city, Dublin. THU THU They dig for lugworms and talk Ulysses in Sandymount strand. THU They discover the unlikely winter stopover of flocks of THU thousands of Brent geese - Fontenoy Football Club (the geese THU have a taste for the well mown turf!) THU THU On they walk to Ringsend Nature Reserve. In this a wonderful THU elevated wooded area, built on reclaimed builders rubble, THU they find a haven for linnets, goldfinches, blackbirds, THU wrens, curlews and egrets in the surrounded by wonderful THU views of the Dublin mountains and city spires. THU THU As they walk, they revisit their walk, conversations and THU friendship built in the rainy Wicklow Mountains ten years THU ago, and explore how much their lives, and their walks, have THU changed since Clare's last visit. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01n0t5d (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01n0vh6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01n1rpp (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01n1rpr (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper presents his weekly digest of science in and THU behind the headlines. He talks to the scientists who are THU publishing their research in peer reviewed journals, and he THU discusses how that research is scrutinised and used by the THU scientific community, the media and the public. The THU programme also reflects how science affects our daily lives; THU from predicting natural disasters to the latest advances in THU cutting edge science like nanotechnology and stem cell THU research. THU THU 17:00 PM b01n1rpt (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mzsd1 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01n1rpw (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 4 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 some other things, and don't worry, they're THU funny too. 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 b01n1rpy (Listen) THU Lilian is given food for thought, and Hayley worries about THU the winds of change. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01n1rq0 (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reports on the work of the American THU painter and print-maker Alex Katz, who celebrated his 85th THU birthday earlier this year. THU THU Producer Ella-mai Robey. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n3jp8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01n1rq2 (Listen) THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01n1rq4 (Listen) THU Stephanie Flanders chairs a round-table discussion providing THU insight into business from the people at the top. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01n11cx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01n1rbn (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01mzsd3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01n1rr5 (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n1rr7 (Listen) THU Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 14 THU THU In today's episode: The King is dying. Merivel has one final THU task to complete for his beloved monarch. And fate has THU another calamity in store for our hero too. THU THU The reader is the stage and screen actor Nicholas Woodeson. THU The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di THU Speirs. THU THU 23:00 Bigipedia b012ff7w (Listen) THU Series 2, What's New in Bigipedia 2.0? THU THU At last, the long-awaited release of Bigipedia 2. 0 - the THU infallible, ever-present cyberfriend is back! Now with all THU errors and mistakes. THU THU Find out what's new in Bigipedia 2.0 and join the BigiMums THU forum! THU THU Bigipedia was conceived by Nick Doody, and written by Nick THU Doody, Matt Kirshen and Sarah Morgan, with Carey Marx. THU THU It features Ewan Bailey, Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Nick Doody, THU Neil Edmond, Pippa Evans, Martha Howe-Douglas, Lewis Macleod THU & Jess Robinson. Occasionally you can hear Matt Kirshen. THU THU Guy Jackson has done some music and that. THU THU Produced and directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Britain in a Box b01kjgnx (Listen) THU Series 5, Grandstand THU THU Paul Jackson presents a further edition of the show that not THU only celebrates classic television programmes, but also uses THU them as a window on a particular period in our cultural and THU social history. THU THU Programme 2. Grandstand - the show that for nearly 50 years THU changed our relationship to sport, brought constant THU innovation to live TV coverage, and gave us not only David THU Coleman and Frank Bought but also Des Lynam. THU THU And with the help of the said Lynam, as well as former BBC 1 THU controllers Sir Paul Fox and Alan Hart, former and current THU Heads of Sport Jonathan Martin and Barbara Slater, Paul THU Jackson not only traces the development of Grandstand but THU also assesses it's legacy and asks whether the BBC is in THU danger of taking its eye off the sporting ball. THU THU Producers: Oliver Julian & Paul Kobrak. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 OCTOBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01mzsf4 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01n1rbq (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01mzsf6 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01mzsf8 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01mzsfb (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01mzsfd (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n1tzv (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Canon FRI Simon Doogan. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01n1tzx (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 b01n1tzz (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01n0t5n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01n1vl7 (Listen) FRI Country Girl, Episode 5 FRI FRI In today's episode: Edna rubs shoulders with the great and FRI the good of New York, while back in London, her thoughts FRI return to the past. FRI FRI Author: Edna O'Brien FRI Abridger: Miranda Davies FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n1vl9 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n3l7r (Listen) FRI Le Donne, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Chris Fallon. FRI Based on an original idea by Rosalynd Ward and Chris Fallon. FRI FRI 5/5. Caterina finally knows the truth about Franco. But can FRI she take control of the business and commit murder for the FRI honour of her family? FRI FRI Original music composed and performed by Simon Russell. FRI FRI Produced by Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Evita's Odyssey b01l05dq (Listen) FRI 2012 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the death of Eva FRI Peron, Argentina's most famous First Lady. When she died her FRI body was embalmed. Three years later in 1955, her widower, FRI Juan Peron, was deposed in a coup. Evita was the most potent FRI symbol of Peronism, and military officers feared her corpse FRI could become a rallying point of protest against the new FRI government. So they stole it. It probably spent time in a FRI van parked in Buenos Aires, the city's waterworks, behind a FRI cinema screen, and in the offices of Military Intelligence. FRI But wherever it stayed, it is said that candles and flowers FRI appeared. Clearly a more long-term solution was required... FRI FRI In Evita's Odyssey, Linda Pressly, tells the FRI stranger-than-fiction tale of what happened to her body over FRI the next two decades - in Argentina and Europe. It's an FRI extraordinary story - one that takes in more grave-robbing, FRI kidnap, murder, a revolutionary guerrilla group, and the FRI occult. Through interviews with key players - like the man FRI who repaired the damage to Evita's body when it finally FRI returned to Argentina in 1974 - this programme provides a FRI fascinating glimpse of Argentina before it descended into FRI its darkest and bloodiest days of military dictatorship in FRI the 1970s. It is a story that will stay with you. FRI FRI 11:30 Gloomsbury b01n1vlc (Listen) FRI Desperately Seeking Peace and Quiet FRI FRI In Episode Two, the novelist Ginny Fox is visiting her FRI friends Vera Sackcloth-Vest and Henry Mickleton, who live in FRI a modest unassuming little castle in Kent. FRI FRI Ginny has writer's block, so Vera tries desperately to FRI provide peace and quiet, gagging the blackbirds and cloaking FRI the gravel paths in velvet. But their tranquil idyll is FRI shattered by the explosive arrival of Venus Traduces, FRI hell-bent on recapturing Vera's heart with a series of FRI appalling musical serenades. FRI FRI Ginny's tiresome husband Lionel has followed her incognito FRI with a portfolio of herbal remedies, but Henry manages to FRI detain him in the pantry whilst Ginny and Vera dive under FRI the covers to devour a steamy new book, Lady Hattersley's FRI Plover by the intriguing proletarian writer D.H. Lollipop. FRI The chums emerge flushed and enthralled, convinced that they FRI must meet D.H. Lollipop and experience his dangerous animal FRI magnetism at first hand. FRI FRI Vera Sackcloth-Vest ..... Miriam Margolyes FRI Gosling, her Gardener ..... Nigel Planer FRI Henry Mickleton ..... Jonathan Coy FRI Venus Traduces ..... Morwenna Banks FRI Mrs Gosling, Housekeeper ..... Alison Steadman FRI Mrs Ginny Fox ..... Alison Steadman FRI Lionel Fox ..... Nigel Planer FRI FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01n1vlf (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01n4kjv (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01mzsfg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01n1vlh (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 The Five Ages of Brandreth b01n1vlk (Listen) FRI Five More Ages of Brandreth, Royalty FRI FRI Programme Five is on Royalty. Gyles has had long contact FRI with the Royal Family. He's written books about Charles and FRI Camilla and the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh. FRI FRI Producer: Chris Bond. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01n1rpy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01n1rfw (Listen) FRI The Trial FRI FRI The Trial by Peter Whalley FRI FRI Falling in love with a stranger has never been scarier: A FRI gripping new thriller. FRI FRI Vibrant, young, attractive, Mollie Spiers, signs up to FRI internet dating. When the man she arranges to meet looks FRI suspicious she spontaneously sits next to another man, FRI Colin, and hurriedly asks him to pretend they're on a date. FRI Molly and Colin fall for each other and what seems like FRI serendipity turns into a chilling thriller. As Mollie falls FRI headlong in love Colin is arrested on a murder charge. As we FRI inter-cut between murder trial and action, Mollie's own life FRI is in danger. FRI FRI Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris. FRI FRI Credits FRI Mollie FRI Tracy Wiles FRI Colin FRI Graeme Hawley FRI Paul FRI Stephen Fletcher FRI Sarah FRI Natalie Grady FRI Prosecuting Counsel FRI Jonathan Keeble FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01n1vlm (Listen) FRI Boroughbridge FRI FRI Eric Robson continues the Gardeners' Question Time tour of FRI Northern England in North Yorkshire. Matthew Wilson, Chris FRI Beardshaw and Alison Pringle are on the panel. To mark the FRI programme's 65th anniversary, Eric presents a condensed FRI history of GQT. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 On the Brink b01n1vlp (Listen) FRI Turn Our Backs FRI FRI Fifty years ago, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war FRI as the US and Soviet leadership engaged in a 13-day military FRI stand-off over missiles in Cuba. FRI FRI In A L Kennedy's story, the first in a series looking at the FRI Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary people, a FRI young woman struggles to make plans for a future that might FRI not exist. FRI FRI Writer: A L Kennedy is an acclaimed novelist, short FRI story-writer, and stand-up comedian. Her latest novel is FRI 'The Blue Book'. FRI Reader: Morven Christie FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01n1vlr (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01n1vlt (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 16:55 The Listening Project b01n1vlw (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01n1vly (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01mzsfj (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01n1vm0 (Listen) FRI Series 78, Episode 5 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists are Jeremy Hardy, Hugo Rifkind, Susan FRI Calman and Francesca Martinez. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01n1vwf (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Adrian Flynn FRI Director ..... Kim Greengrass FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Alistair Lloyd ..... Michael Lumsden FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Christine Barford ..... Lesley Saweard FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen 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 Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur FRI Arthur Walters ..... David Hargreaves FRI Eileen ..... Tina Gray. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01n1vwh (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, who meets the artist and writer David FRI Shrigley, as a major exhibition of his work opens in FRI Manchester. FRI FRI Producer Ekene Akalawu. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n3l7r (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01n1vwk (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political debate and FRI discussion programme from the Clonter Opera Theatre near FRI Congleton in Cheshire, at Goosfest 2012, the annual arts FRI festival. FRI Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01n1vwm (Listen) FRI Sarah Dunant reflects on a topical issue. FRI Producer Rosamund Jones. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b0183dzq (Listen) FRI The Gate of Angels FRI FRI by Penelope Fitgerald, dramatised by Yvonne Antrobus FRI FRI Penelope Fitzgerald's 1990 novel, set in Edwardian London FRI and Cambridge, exploring love, religion, physics and the FRI random nature of chance. FRI FRI Credits FRI Fred Fairly FRI Geoffrey Streatfield FRI Daisy Saunders FRI Jade Williams FRI Kelly FRI Carl Prekopp FRI Venetia FRI Tracy Wiles FRI Matron FRI Tracy Wiles FRI Wrayburn FRI James Lailey FRI Dr Sage FRI James Lailey FRI Matthews FRI Gerard McDermott FRI Skippey FRI Simon Bubb FRI Flowerdew FRI Paul Moriarty FRI Master FRI Paul Moriarty FRI Manageress FRI Victoria Inez Hardy FRI Mrs Saunders FRI Adjoa Andoh FRI Beazley FRI Rikki Lawton FRI Solicitor FRI Adam Billington FRI Constable FRI Adam Billington FRI Writer FRI Penelope Fitzgerald FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01mzsfl (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01n1vwp (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n1vwr (Listen) FRI Merivel - A Man of His Time, Episode 15 FRI FRI In today's episode: With the King dead and Margaret to be FRI married, it is time to return to Bidnold and to Will Gates FRI at last. FRI FRI The reader is the stage and screen actor Nicholas Woodeson. FRI The abridger was Sally Marmion and the producer was Di FRI Speirs. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01n11pc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Britain in a Box b01kr71g (Listen) FRI Series 5, Vision On FRI FRI As children's TV wave goodbye to BBC1, heading off to their FRI own dedicated channel, Paul Jackson takes a lingering look FRI back at a cult show from the golden era of children's TV. FRI "Vision On" was one of the most successful, funny and FRI anarchic programmes ever to grace the little grey box in the FRI corner; it's 'Gallery' theme music still a trip down memory FRI lane for viewers of a certain age. FRI Created in 1964 to replace the prosaic "For Deaf Children", FRI Pat Keysall and Tony Hart fronted a programme that aimed FRI squarely at the funny bone. Art, animation, clowning and FRI dangerous stunts - long before "Health and Safety" became a FRI dirty word. "Vision On" was aimed at all children, but FRI worked hard not to exclude the hard of hearing. FRI Rather than creating a worthy line up, producer Patrick FRI Dowling cultivated the silly, the extraordinary and the FRI dramatic, using new technology to create effects and giving FRI breaks to a wealth of creative talent, acting and technical. FRI David Sproxton, creator of Aardman Animations, fondly FRI recalls creating his very first short film for Vision On, FRI while Sylvester McCoy who went on to became Dr Who, and is FRI currently filming The Hobbit with Peter Jackson, recalls FRI close encounters of an explosive kind with the fabulous FRI creations of Wilf Lunn, another graduate of the Ken Campbell FRI school of fearlessness. FRI "Britain In A Box" explores the role of disability FRI programming with past and present BBC children's FRI controllers; Edward Barnes and Joe Godwin, and talks to FRI Susan Daniels from the National Deaf Children's Society FRI about how TV can be accessible to all - something "Vision FRI On" pioneered with style. FRI Remembered that gallery theme music yet? FRI Producer: Sara Jane Hall. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01n4kjx (Listen) FRI Fi Glover presents Radio 4's series that proves it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Many of the FRI long conversations are being archived by the British Library FRI and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a FRI unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the FRI millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just FRI learn more about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
28 September, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 29/09/2012 - 05/10/2012
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