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SAT SATURDAY 13 OCTOBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01n4lc2 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01n848r (Listen) SAT On the Map, Episode 5 SAT SAT Is the old cliché that women are less good at navigating SAT than men true? Or do they just have different ways of SAT finding their bearings? SAT SAT The last part of Simon Garfield's wander through the history SAT of maps takes us down the routes of gender difference and SAT sat nav. SAT SAT Producer: Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n4lc4 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n4lc6 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n4lc8 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01n4lcb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n6vyh (Listen) SAT A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 from SAT Wales with George Craig. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01n6vyk (Listen) SAT 'I still weep 19 years after my abortion.' She championed SAT abortion rights in her student days, but a listener says it SAT wasn't until she terminated a pregnancy in her late 30s that SAT she began to question those beliefs. Also, Hugh Sykes reads SAT Your News. With Jennifer Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01n4lcd (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01n4lcg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Ramblings b01n6sjg (Listen) SAT Series 22, Samuel West at Rainham Marshes in Essex SAT SAT Clare Balding walks with the actor, and passionate SAT bird-watcher, Samuel West around one of his favourite SAT birding spots, the RSPB reserve at Rainham Marshes in Essex. SAT SAT Currently in rehearsals for a West End production of Uncle SAT Vanya, Samuel West takes a day off to share with Clare SAT Balding his deep love of birding. SAT SAT He's drawn to birdlife because, he says, it reflects SAT human-nature so well, "birds interact with the world through SAT colour and song, both of which we - as humans - really get." SAT SAT A trip to Kenya at the age of 14 ignited this passion; "In SAT Britain, birds were 3 inches long and brown.. in Kenya they SAT were 7ft tall and couldn't fly, or bright blue... they were SAT easy to tell apart... that's where it all started". SAT SAT Producer: Karen Gregor. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01n95wz (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT This week Irish farmers demonstrated in Dublin over the SAT crisis they say their industry faces. Charlotte Smith visits SAT Rugby Farmers Mart to discuss the future for small and SAT medium sized farms here in the UK. Anna Hill meets a pig SAT producer with a small farm in Norfolk to hear how he's SAT adapting to survive. Heather Simons visits a dairy farmer SAT who's making a herd of 80 cows pay by selling milk and cream SAT direct to the public. Are economic forces necessarily on the SAT side of big business? Presenter: Charlotte Smith SAT Producer: Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01n4lcj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01n95x1 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and SAT Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for SAT the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01n95x3 (Listen) SAT Robin Ince, John McCarthy in the Wye Valley, Hugh Masekela's SAT Inheritance Tracks SAT SAT On Saturday Live this week the Reverend Richard Coles and SAT Sian Williams talk to broadcaster and comedian Robin Ince SAT about science, art and rationalism, find out how Martin SAT Spinelli coped with the car crash that killed his wife and SAT nearly killed his young son, explore psychiatrist R.D. SAT Laing's experiment at the Kingsley Hall commune in the SAT 1960's with a patient who spent 4 years there, reunite a SAT former policeman with his former police Ford Cortina, follow SAT Arlene Phillips as she goes back to her first dance school SAT in Manchester, travel with John McCarthy along the Wye SAT Valley- this week from Ross On Wye to Monmouth, revel in the SAT sound of the potter's wheel with Duffy Bocking and share SAT Hugh Masekela's Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Produced by Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 For One Night Only b01n95x5 (Listen) SAT Series 7, The Weavers at Carnegie Hall SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini is back with the award-winning series to SAT re-visit three more occasions when a classic live album was SAT recorded. He hears from those who were there, on-stage, SAT backstage and in the audience, to re-create the event for SAT all of us who, each time we play the album, think: 'If only SAT I could have been there'. SAT SAT Paul Gambaccini re-lives Christmas Eve 1955 and The Weavers SAT reunion concert at New York's prestigious Carnegie Hall. SAT Three years after Pete Seeger's blacklisting for communist SAT sympathies had forced the highly successful folk group to SAT break up because no one was playing their records and no SAT venues would book them, their manager Harold Leventhal took SAT a risk and booked the only venue that would take them: There SAT were queues round the block and the concert was a sell-out. SAT SAT In the company of Pete Seeger himself and the other two SAT surviving Weavers, Ronnie Gilbert and Fred Hellerman, Paul SAT hears about the birth of The Weavers in the radical home of SAT folk music and left-wing politics that was 1940s Greenwich SAT Village. With their early number 1 hits: 'Goodnight Irene' SAT and 'Tzena, Tzena', The Weavers reached beyond the 'purist' SAT folk movement into the mainstream. Gino Francesconi, SAT Carnegie Hall's Archivist, finds the programme and poster SAT from the 1955 concert, which became a best-selling album SAT after it was released two years later, by Vanguard. SAT Previously an exclusively classical label, this was the SAT album which would make Vanguard the leading folk label of SAT the 1960s. SAT SAT Also in this series of For One Night Only: 'Clapton SAT Unplugged' (1992) and The Rolling Stones 'Get Yer Ya-Yas SAT Out' (1969) SAT SAT Producer: Marya Burgess. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01n96qd (Listen) SAT A look behind the scenes at Westminster with Peter Oborne. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01n96qg (Listen) SAT Tough Cats SAT SAT Andrew Harding's in Zimbabwe where there are fears of a SAT return to violence as the election season approaches SAT SAT Ian Pannell's been in the Syrian city of Aleppo where SAT there's been fierce fighting and where foreign fighters have SAT responded to calls from the rebels for assistance SAT SAT Will Grant tells us of the embarrassment suffered by the SAT authorities in Mexico after the disappearance of the body of SAT one of the country's most notorious drug lords SAT SAT Louise Redvers visits the new multi-million pound seafront SAT development in the Angolan capital Luanda and hears SAT suggestions that, in this poor country where many live SAT without water and electricity, the money would have been SAT better spent on other projects SAT SAT The cats in Jerusalem are tougher than the dogs in your SAT neighbourhood! That's the view of Kevin Connolly who's SAT trying to rub along with a feline population which believes SAT in getting its own way. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01n96qj (Listen) SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT NatWest SAT Last week the programme revealed how NatWest customers had SAT lost thousands of pounds as a result of fraudulent attacks SAT on the bank's 'Get Cash' mobile app. Now the chair of the SAT Treasury Select Committee says he will seek answers from the SAT head of NatWest. Andrew Tyrie MP says banks must ensure SAT their new technology is secure after NatWest last week SAT suspended the mobile phone app which lets customers withdraw SAT cash without a debit card. Dozens of customers have been SAT contacting Money Box after their accounts have been stripped SAT by thieves using the Get Cash system. Bob Howard reports on SAT the latest developments. SAT SAT Energy price hikes SAT Npower has joined rival British Gas in announcing it is SAT increasing gas and electricity prices in the UK. SAT Npower will increase the price of gas by an average of 8.8% SAT and electricity by 9.1% from 26 November. SAT Earlier, British Gas, the UK's biggest energy supplier, SAT raised its charges for both types of fuel by an average of SAT 6%, adding £80 a year to the average dual fuel bill. The SAT firms both blamed the government's policies as well as SAT wholesale prices. Joe Malinowski from TheEnergyShop joins SAT the programme. SAT SAT RPI inflation SAT SAT The Office for National Statistics has started a SAT consultation on changes to the calculation of the retail SAT prices index (RPI). These would make the RPI move more SAT slowly, in step with the consumer prices index (CPI). SAT Pension experts have warned that any changes would cut SAT pensioners' incomes. Ros Altman, director general of Saga, SAT and Lynda Whitney, partner at actuaries, Aon Hewitt, speak SAT to the programme. SAT SAT 'Knowledge to Action' SAT SAT With the economy stuck in the doldrums and unemployment SAT stubbornly high, adverts are appearing everywhere claiming SAT to be able to teach jobless people or those in need of extra SAT cash how to make their fortunes. But are they all they are SAT cracked up to be? Adrian Goldberg presenter of 5 Live SAT Investigates has been looking into one of the biggest SAT providers of trading courses, 'Knowledge to Action'. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01n6vnw (Listen) SAT Series 78, Episode 6 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. Panellists are Susan Calman, Francis Wheen, Rebecca SAT Front and Nick Doody. SAT SAT Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01n4lcl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01n4lcn (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01n6vp2 (Listen) SAT Canford School, Wimborne SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents the political discussion SAT programme from Canford School, Canford Magna in Wimborne, SAT Dorset. Guests include the Secretary of State for Defence SAT Philip Hammond, Labour peer Lord Falconer of Thoroton, the SAT head of Relate Ruth Sutherland and the former BBC Director SAT General Greg Dyke. Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01n96ql (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01n96qn (Listen) SAT Love Me Do SAT SAT by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran SAT SAT As the world faces nuclear extinction SAT two Americans trapped in London find themselves thrown SAT together SAT in the countdown to the Cuban missile crisis. SAT SAT Director ..... Sally Avens SAT SAT The Cuban missile crisis took place fifty years ago. For SAT thirteen days in October the world teetered on the brink of SAT nuclear destruction. Our Saturday Drama, by the writers SAT Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, is a love story from the SAT time when everyone thought the world was about to end. When SAT Dorothy flys over to England from Kansas to attend the SAT friend of a wedding she finds herself the only American SAT there apart from 'Shack' who works at the American Embassy. SAT But she soon finds herself arguing with him over his SAT flippant attitude to life and specifically Dorothy's SAT marriage. But when she finds herself caught up in the crisis SAT it is Shack who comes to her rescue and struggling to come SAT to terms with the enormity of what's happening to the world SAT they find themselves falling in love. SAT SAT The writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran are responsible SAT for such hits as Birds of A Feather, The New Statesman and SAT Shine on Harvey Moon. Their last radio play 'Von SAT Ribbentrop's Watch' met with great acclaim. SAT SAT The play stars MIranda Raison who won acclaim for her roles SAT in Spooks and Vexed and on stage as Anne Bolyen SAT Adam James plays Shack and appeared in 'Band of Brothers', SAT Rome and Doctor Who as well as numerous stage appearances. SAT SAT Credits SAT Dorothy: Miranda Raison SAT Shack: Adam James SAT Richard: Stephen Hogan SAT Candice: Susie Riddell SAT Lindsay: Christine Kavanagh SAT Patrick: Stephen France SAT Marie: Francesca Spencer SAT Martin: Patrick Brennan SAT Jonathan: Don Gilet SAT Dentist: Joe Sims SAT General Power: Robert Blythe SAT Lady Compton: Christine Absalom SAT Chris Schenkel: Paul Stonehouse SAT Comic: Adam Nagatis SAT Actor: Eleanor Crooks SAT Actor: Sarah Thom SAT Actor: Will Howard SAT Director: Sally Avens SAT Writer: Laurence Marks SAT Writer: Maurice Gran SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01n96qq (Listen) SAT Weekend: Michelle Ryan, Julia Gillard, Abortion SAT SAT Sexual harassment at work then and now; ex-Eastender SAT Michelle Ryan does Cabaret; two former beauty queens SAT remember their crowning moments; how to Cook the Perfect SAT Bombay Potatoes with Anjum Anand; abortion in Northern SAT Ireland; Australian PM Julia Gillard's parliamentary SAT put-down; women outnumbered at the Royal Academy. SAT Presented by Jane Garvey. SAT Produced by Emma Wallace SAT Editor: Anne Peacock. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01n96qs (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news, presented by Patrick SAT O'Connell. SAT SAT 17:30 The Bottom Line b01n6sjz (Listen) SAT Quality SAT SAT The view from the top of business. Presented by Evan Davis, SAT The Bottom Line cuts through confusion, statistics and spin SAT to present a clearer view of the business world, through SAT discussion with people running leading and emerging SAT companies. SAT SAT Evan's guests delve into the concept of quality in business SAT - how to get it high, and why it might end up low. They also SAT compare notes on their respective weaknesses. Who do they SAT turn to for help should they need it? SAT SAT In the studio are Jon Moulton, founder and chairman of SAT private equity firm Better Capital; entrepreneur and SAT investor Deborah Meaden; David Haines, chief executive of SAT German sanitary fittings manufacturer Grohe. SAT SAT Producer: Ben Crighton SAT Editor: Innes Bowen. SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01n4lcq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01n4lcs (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n4lcv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01n96qv (Listen) SAT Barry Cryer, Karl Wallinger, Joanna Scanlan, Nicholas SAT Coleridge and John Shuttleworth SAT SAT Clive celebrates a milestone with comedian and clueless SAT joker Barry Cryer, who's fifty year career has seen him SAT write gags for the likes of Dave Allen and Tommy Cooper. SAT Hailed by his 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue' teammates as 'the SAT dirty old man with a drink problem', Barry and Co are SAT celebrating forty years of fun with a new book. 'I'm Sorry I SAT Haven't A Clue: The Best of Forty Years' compiles all the SAT best bits from this classic and hugely popular BBC Radio 4 SAT comedy show. SAT SAT Clive strikes a pose with head of publishing house Condé SAT Nast Nicholas Coleridge, who, as well as being in charge of SAT Vogue, Tatler and Vanity Fair, has found time to write over SAT ten books. His latest literary venture 'The Adventuress' SAT charts the rise and rise of Miss Cath Fox; a woman on a SAT mission to get what she wants. SAT SAT Emma Freud's Getting On famously with actress Jo Scanlan and SAT chats to her about playing prudish Terri Coverley in 'The SAT Thick of It' and starring as ward sister Den Flixter in BBC SAT Four's darkly comic hospital drama 'Getting On'. In amongst SAT the bed pans and blocked sluices lies humour and warmth. SAT 'Getting On' starts on Wednesday 17th October at 22.00. SAT SAT All aboard the Ship of Fools! Clive's throwing a party for SAT musician and former Waterboy Karl Wallinger. After surviving SAT an aneurysm in 2001, Karl has a lot to celebrate and tells SAT Clive about life after near-death, Robbie Williams and SAT releasing a collection of World Party tracks. He performs SAT 'She's The One' from the album 'Arkeology'. SAT SAT More music from former sweet factory security guard and SAT Sheffield's finest Yamaha organ player John Shuttleworth. SAT He's venturing beyond the garden gate to perform 'A Day In SAT The Life Of Alfie Boe' from his latest comedy tour 'Out Of SAT Our Sheds'. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01n96qx (Listen) SAT Paul Ryan SAT SAT Claire Bolderson profiles US Republican vice-presidential SAT candidate Paul Ryan. SAT Producers: Smita Patel and Chris Bowlby. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01n96qz (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT SAT Enquirer SAT Main Image: Gabriel Quigley and John Bett in Enquirer. SAT SAT Enquirer continues its run in London until 21 October 2012 SAT at Mother at The Trampery, in association with the Barbican. SAT SAT It will then be performed in Belfast, as part of the Ulster SAT Bank Belfast Festival from 26 October to 4 November 2012, SAT venue to be announced. SAT SAT Enquirer on Radio 4 SAT Enquirer will be Radio 4’s Friday Drama on 9th November. SAT SAT Ruby Sparks SAT Ruby Sparks is on general release, certificate 15. SAT SAT The Daughters of Mars SAT The Daughters of Mars by Thomas Keneally is published by SAT Spectre. SAT SAT Richard Hamilton: The Late Works SAT Richard Hamilton: The Late Works is at The National Gallery, SAT London until the 13th January 2013. Admission is free. SAT SAT Elementary SAT Elementary begins on Sky Living on the 23rd October. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01n97vw (Listen) SAT A Life Less Ordinary, Alex Currie SAT SAT In January 2000, the Solway Harvester fishing boat went down SAT off the Isle of Man resulting in the deaths of all seven of SAT those aboard. As the first tragedy of the new millennium it SAT attracted enormous media attention, with scores of SAT journalists pouring in to the remote Isle of Whithorn in SAT South West Scotland. There they met a population in deep SAT mourning, unused to the attention of the press and unwilling SAT to open itself up to that attention. One of those who played SAT a vital role as a family spokesman was Reverend Alex Currie, SAT who in spite of his own initial hostility to the media SAT placed himself at its disposal in order to represent the SAT bereaved and limit the intrusion they may otherwise have SAT faced. SAT SAT At the most testing time of his own professional life, SAT having to conduct five funerals on the same day, Curry also SAT had to learn the art of press spokesperson as he went along, SAT conducting hundreds of interviews over the weeks, months and SAT years that followed. Now in the second part of 'A Life Less SAT Ordinary' Geoff Bird takes him back over some of the archive SAT of the tragedy, finding out what it's like to be living an SAT ordinary life when the media spotlight picks you out. Along SAT the way they talk with some of those journalists involved at SAT the time, exploring the ethics involved in approaching SAT people suffering loss in order to meet the demands of a SAT public hungry for information about a major news story and SAT those it has hurt the most. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01n606d (Listen) SAT Far from the Madding Crowd, A Successful Rival SAT SAT By Thomas Hardy, adapted by Graham White. 3/3 - one man SAT proves constant in his love for Bathsheba, while she gives SAT up on all hopes of happiness. SAT SAT Musicians ... Colin Guthrie, Chris Davies, Lauren Swift SAT 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: Alex Tregear SAT Gabriel Oak: Shaun Dooley SAT Boldwood: Toby Jones SAT Troy: Patrick Kennedy SAT Liddy: Lizzy Watts SAT Fanny: Hannah John-Kamen SAT Maltster: Robert Blythe SAT Jan: Joe Sims SAT Joseph: Sam Alexander SAT Henery: Patrick Brennan SAT Billy: Don Gilet SAT Cain: Harry Livingstone SAT Maryann: Amaka Okafor SAT Director: Jessica Dromgoole SAT Writer: Graham White SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01n4lcx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01n6rsm (Listen) SAT The Morality of Public Service Broadcasting SAT SAT The BBC, the world's first national broadcasting SAT organisation, marks its 90th anniversary this year. It SAT started life on the 18th of October 1922 as the British SAT Broadcasting Company - a joint venture by a group of 6 SAT companies. As the wireless grew in popularity, it became SAT clear that the power of this new medium in people's lives SAT required a different kind of approach. In 1927 the BBC SAT became a non-commercial corporation with its own Royal SAT Charter and the age of the public service broadcaster was SAT born. Creating the BBC was an act of civil morality, a SAT recognition that such a powerful medium should have SAT something other than a commercial purpose; it should provide SAT a public service - hence the now slightly quaint idea that SAT it should "inform, educate and entertain." To say we're in a SAT very different commercial and broadcasting environment now SAT would be an understatement - so what is the moral purpose of SAT a public service broadcaster today? Especially one that is SAT funded by a universal tax? What is the balance between doing SAT what the market won't, or can't do, but at the same time SAT serving the widest possible audience to make sure they get SAT something out what they're being forced to fund? In an age SAT where the importance of an individual's right to choose has SAT become almost an article of faith, is the idea of a SAT universal licence fee to fund a common good still tenable? SAT Especially in a sector where there is ample commercial SAT provision? Or, by making individual choice the sole measure SAT of quality, are we abandoning all values to the short-term SAT demands of the market-place. A special edition of the Moral SAT Maze recorded in front of a live audience at The Times SAT Cheltenham Literature Festival to mark the 90th anniversary SAT of the BBC. SAT SAT Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by SAT Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Claire SAT Fox and Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT Witnesses: David Elstein - Chairman of Broadcasting Policy SAT Group, Robin Aiken - Journalist, Matthew Flinders - SAT Professor of Politics, University of Sheffield, Steve SAT Barnett - Professor of Communications, University of SAT Westminster. SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b01n61sp (Listen) SAT (6/12) SAT Tom Sutcliffe is in the chair for another cerebral work-out, SAT this week featuring the regulars from the North of England SAT and Scotland. Scientist Jim Coulson and children's author SAT Adele Geras play for the North of England, while the Scots SAT are the critic and translator Michael Alexander and SAT journalist Alan Taylor. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01n60lw (Listen) SAT The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde SAT SAT Oscar Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, read by Alex SAT Jennings. Presented by Roger McGough. SAT SAT In May 1897 Oscar Wilde was released from Reading Gaol. That SAT month he began to write The Ballad of Reading Gaol - to SAT express his horror and outrage at what he had witnessed SAT during his years in prison. The poem memorialises a fellow SAT prisoner, who was hanged for murder in 1896. SAT SAT Wilde wrote it in exile in Dieppe, then Naples. He finished SAT it in October that same year, and it was published the SAT following year, 1898. The author's name was given simply as SAT C. 3. 3., Wilde's number in Reading Gaol, his cell being the SAT third on the third floor of Block C. SAT SAT Producer Beth O'Dea. SAT SAT The poem featured in this programme: SAT The Ballad of Reading Gaol SAT By Oscar Wilde SAT From Oscar Wilde – Selected Poems SAT Published by Carcanet SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 14 OCTOBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01n8mt2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 A Georgian Trilogy b01n98tx (Listen) SUN The Wurst Express from Kakheti SUN SUN The second of three specially commissioned stories by James SUN Hopkin, inspired by his travels in Georgia. SUN SUN It is summer 2008 and an impoverished Georgian poet is SUN living in Berlin for three months. He is not expecting to SUN hear shattering news from his homeland. SUN SUN Read by Tom Goodman-Hill. SUN SUN Producer: Rosalynd Ward SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n8mt4 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n8mt6 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n8mt8 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01n8mtb (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01n98tz (Listen) SUN The bells of Sheffield Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01n96qx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01n8mtd (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01n98v1 (Listen) SUN Working for the Man SUN SUN In an economic climate where the jobs market is under more SUN extreme pressure than ever, Mark Tully examines the moral SUN issues of the working contract, with reference to both SUN employer and employed. SUN SUN What are the responsibilities of an employer - do they go SUN beyond honouring a contract? Does an employee have greater SUN duty to work hard to help keep a business afloat? These and SUN moral questions like them have been thrown into sharp relief SUN by the economic downturn. SUN SUN With readings from Frank Sonnenburg and the poet Robert SUN Service, music ranging from Shostakovich to William Walton SUN and in conversation with Will Hutton, Mark Tully charts the SUN increasingly choppy waters of employment ethics. SUN SUN Readers are Samantha Bond and John MacAndrew. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01n98v3 (Listen) SUN Over the next three weeks, Adam Henson along with fellow SUN judge, Chrstine Tacon will be travelling from Devon to SUN Wiltshire and then to Yorkshire to visit the three finalists SUN competing to become the BBC's Farmer of the Year, For this SUN On Your Farm, Adam is in Devon meeting Guy Watson from SUN Riverford Organics who runs a very successful UK wide box SUN scheme. At the end of the three visits, Adam and Christine SUN will decide who will become Farmer of the Year and the SUN winner will be announced at this year's BBC Food and Farming SUN Awards in Birmingham on the 28th of November. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01n8mtg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01n8mtj (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01n98v5 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01n98v7 (Listen) SUN Prisoners Abroad SUN SUN Harriet Walter presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Prisoners SUN Abroad. SUN Reg Charity:1093710 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Prisoners Abroad. SUN SUN Prisoners Abroad SUN Today there are over 1200 British men and women incarcerated SUN overseas struggling to survive. Each one needs your help. SUN SUN Prisoners Abroad provides life-saving and humanitarian SUN services to thousands of British Citizens detained overseas. SUN These services mean people have access to: SUN •vitamins and essential food SUN •emergency medical care SUN •clean water SUN •freepost envelopes to keep in touch with loved ones SUN •books and magazines SUN SUN Many who are detained in prisons around the world risk SUN malnutrition and disease without access to adequate food and SUN clean water. There is often no space to sleep in overcrowded SUN cells. Without help, serious medical conditions can go SUN untreated and people suffer in isolation and fear - far away SUN from their families and loved ones. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01n8mtl (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01n8mtn (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01n98v9 (Listen) SUN Coventry Cathedral celebrates its Golden Jubilee with alumni SUN from the past 50 years. Leader, The Revd Canon Dr David SUN Stone (Precentor); Director of Music, Kerry Beaumont; SUN Organist: Laurence Lyndon-Jones (Assistant Director of SUN Music); Featuring the solo voice of BBC Radio 2 Young SUN Chorister of the Year 2012 Ella Rainbird-Early; Producer: SUN Philip Billson SUN With its history, and especially the events of 14 November SUN 1940 in mind when the Medieval building was destroyed by SUN German enemy bombing, the Coventry Cathedral community sees SUN itself as having a special responsibility to take the SUN Christian message of reconciliation across the world. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01n6vp4 (Listen) SUN Understanding Contemporary China 1/4 SUN SUN Martin Jacques presents a personal view on how best to SUN understand the unique characteristics and apparent mysteries SUN of contemporary China, its development and its possible SUN future. In a new series of talks he sets out the building SUN blocks for making sense of China today. SUN SUN In this introductory talk, he argues that we cannot make SUN sense of China by looking at it through a Western prism. SUN China is not like a Western nation-state and never will be. SUN Western nations are countries constituted on the basis of SUN nation, China is a country constituted on the basis of a SUN civilization. The consequences are profound and SUN far-reaching. SUN SUN In his second talk, he examines the tributary system, the SUN historical China-centric network of international relations SUN which involved other parts of East Asia accepting the SUN principle of Chinese superiority in return for protection SUN and access to the Chinese market, an arrangement distinct to SUN European forms of colonialism. He asks whether a system of SUN this kind is now re-emerging. SUN SUN In his third talk, he explores the nature of race in China. SUN Over 90 per cent of the Chinese population regard themselves SUN as belonging to the same race, the Han. This is a stark SUN contrast to the multi-racial composition of the world's SUN other populous states. Chinese ethnic identity stems from a SUN process of integration and of cultural identity. What SUN defines the Chinese above all is pride in their culture and SUN a sense of cultural achievement. The advantage of the Han SUN identity is that it is the cement that has held China SUN together. The disadvantage is a weak understanding of and SUN respect for ethnic and cultural differences. SUN SUN In his final talk, he asks how the undemocratic Chinese SUN state can enjoy legitimacy and authority in the eyes of its SUN population. He argues that the Chinese state is held in such SUN high esteem because it is seen as the embodiment, protector SUN and guardian of Chinese civilization. The state is seen as SUN an intimate, a member of the family indeed - in fact, the SUN head of the family. It is a remarkable institution which SUN will come to exercise interest and fascination outside SUN China. SUN SUN Martin Jacques is the author of 'When China Rules the SUN World'. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01n9vhk (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 b01n9vhm (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Joanna Toye SUN Director ..... 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SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01n9vhp (Listen) SUN Noah Stewart SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is the American opera singer, Noah SUN Stewart. SUN SUN He's a hit in opera houses around the world and his solo CD SUN has topped the classical charts. Yet for a long time the SUN closest he managed to get to the stage was as a receptionist SUN at Carnegie Hall. He won a scholarship to the prestigious SUN Juilliard School in New York though while waiting for his SUN big break, he waited tables and did voice overs for Sesame SUN Street. SUN SUN Blessed not only with rich, clear tenor tones he also SUN possesses the good looks of a Hollywood film star. Brought SUN up by his single mother in Harlem, he still lives with her SUN when he's not travelling the world and says of the SUN neighbourhood he grew up in, ... "for me it was hard to be SUN there ... because I just didn't see many successful black SUN men around... there were just not many of us who made it SUN out". SUN SUN Producer: Christine Pawlowsky. SUN SUN 12:00 The Museum of Curiosity b01n7l2h (Listen) SUN Series 5, Brand, Hart Dyke, Clark SUN SUN The Museum of Curiosity is hosted as ever by the Professor SUN of Ignorance at the University of Buckingham, Professor John SUN Lloyd C.B.E. (of Not The Nine O'Clock News, Spitting Image, SUN Blackadder and QI fame). For this fifth series, he is joined SUN by the comedian Jimmy Carr. SUN SUN Each week, the Museum invites three guests, a mixture of SUN entertaining experts and expert entertainers, to donate one SUN item each to the Museum and explain why it deserves a place SUN in the museum. Ever since someone gave the Museum the Big SUN Bang it's been expanding at an alarming rate, and now SUN there's no looking back without the aid of a huge telescope. SUN SUN This week, John and Jimmy have invited along Astronomer Dr SUN Stuart Clark; Plant-hunter and former hostage Tom Hart Dyke; SUN and comedian, novelist and sitcom writer Jo Brand. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01n9vhr (Listen) SUN How to waste less food SUN SUN Tristram Stuart reports on the latest ideas to tackle our SUN growing mountains of food waste by thinking creatively and SUN producing good food from surplus produce SUN SUN Producer: Maggie Ayre. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01n8mtq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01n9whf (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 One Man's War b01n651t (Listen) SUN This is the story of classical music life in London during SUN the Second World War, which instead of stopping altogether SUN once war was declared in 1939, actually flourished as the SUN bombs fell. Lionel Bradley was a Librarian at the London SUN Library, and also an avid lover of ballet, opera, orchestral SUN and chamber music. After each event he attended, Lionel SUN would write a personal bulletin describing the occasion, SUN which he then circulated to his friends. Katie Derham SUN explores musical life in London during the Second World War, SUN through the writings of Bradley who often provides SUN invaluable insight into world premieres, refugee artists, SUN and a classical music scene which flourished during a world SUN in turmoil. SUN SUN Lionel Bradley was passionate about the arts. He often went SUN to see the same productions, or hear the same works again SUN and again, and through his diaries, Bradley captures SUN developments, changes, or nuggets of social history, SUN otherwise forgotten today. These priceless insights into a SUN bygone world contained within Bradley's bulletins, are held SUN at the Royal College of Music, and the Victoria and Albert SUN Museum. Professor Paul Banks from the RCM, and V&A's Curator SUN of Dance Jane Pritchard, team up with Katie Derham to SUN explore these written narratives, whilst Joan Bailey who SUN worked with Bradley at the London Library, brings Bradley SUN the man to life. SUN SUN This story begins with the discovery of the Bradley SUN documents at the RCM, and continues with the investigation SUN of musical life in London during World War Two. Enlisting SUN the help of historians Terry Charman, Patrick Bade and SUN Suzanne Bosman, Katie Derham glimpses through the windows of SUN Bradley's writings, exploring the determination of the likes SUN of Myra Hess to continue concert life during war time, and SUN surveying how the influx of refugee musicians, the falling SUN bombs, and conscription, all impacted upon the musical scene SUN of the day. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01n6vnh (Listen) SUN Eglwys Fach SUN SUN Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from SUN Eglwysfach in West Wales, with Bunny Guinness, Bob Flowerdew SUN and Matt Biggs fielding questions from a gardening audience. SUN SUN Producer: Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01n9whh (Listen) SUN Fi Glover, with the Sunday Edition, shows there's strength SUN in numbers when it comes to meeting life's challenges. Four SUN couples from Ulster, Cumbria, Leeds and Wales talk about SUN their family crises and how they've helped each other SUN through them, proving it's surprising what you hear when you SUN listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Many of the SUN long conversations are being archived by the British Library SUN and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a SUN unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the SUN millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just SUN learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01n9whk (Listen) SUN The Gothic Imagination, Dracula: Part 1 SUN SUN 1/2 Launching a month's focus on The Gothic Imagination, SUN Bram Stoker's disturbing vampire tale of horror, in a new SUN version by Rebecca Lenkiewicz. Told through letters, journal SUN entries, and other found testimony, this is the story of the SUN brief reign of terror of an uncivilised monster in Victorian SUN Britain. SUN SUN The Gothic Imagination on Radio 4 and 4 Extra, is reclaiming SUN original gothic creations from the clichés they have become, SUN and introducing three new works into the canon. For all the SUN fireworks of blood, flesh and horror, Frankenstein reveals SUN itself as the story of parenting and abandonment, and SUN Dracula, as a supernatural fable reflecting a harrowing fear SUN of female sexuality, and the treatment meted out to the SUN insane pervert who unleashes it for pleasure. SUN SUN Narrated by various characters, and with different 'takes' SUN on the progress of the story, this is an all action SUN adventure story, with ghosts, ghouls, lunatics, and SUN seriously gripping chase sequences. Adapting it in just two SUN hours takes the audience on a thrilling ride through the SUN dark psyche of Victorian England. SUN SUN Credits SUN Author: Bram Stoker SUN Count Dracula: Nicky Henson SUN Dr Seward: Charles Edwards SUN Renfield: Don Gilet SUN Jonathan Harker: Michael Shelford SUN Mina Murray: Ellie Kendrick SUN Lucy Westenra: Scarlett Brookes SUN Dr Van Helsing: John Dougall SUN Arthur: Joe Sims SUN Landlord's Wife: Christine Absalom SUN Driver: Robert Blythe SUN Simmons: Patrick Brennan SUN Vampiress: Sarah Thom SUN Vampiress: Ellie Crook SUN Vampiress: Stephanie Racine SUN Child: Harper Bone SUN Singer: Adriana Festeu SUN Director: Jessica Dromgoole SUN Writer: Rebecca Lenkiewicz SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01n9whm (Listen) SUN Michael Chabon on his latest novel Telegraph Avenue SUN SUN Pulitzer prizewinning Michael Chabon's latest novel SUN Telegraph Avenue, is set around a small independent record SUN store in Oakland, California. It examines early 21st century SUN America, from racial integration to the encroachment of big SUN business, all to the soundtrack of jazz funk. SUN SUN When is the best time to write a biography about someone - SUN when the subject is alive or deceased? Artemis Cooper and SUN Hunter Davies discuss whether having access to the person SUN and building up a relationship with them, rather than SUN rummaging through their archives, is a help or hindrance to SUN the process of writing a subjective biography. SUN SUN This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of SUN Charles Dickens. Professor John Bowen explains how SUN considering the ways he didn't always make the grade can SUN reveal the key to his genius. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN Telegraph Avenue - Michael Chabon SUN Publisher: Fourth Estate SUN SUN Patrick Leigh Fermor: An Adventure - Artemis Cooper SUN Publisher: John Murray SUN SUN The John Lennon Letters: Edited and with an Introduction by SUN Hunter Davies - John Lennon SUN Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01n9whp (Listen) SUN Celebrating the Bicentenary of Edward Lear's Birth SUN SUN Roger McGough celebrates the bicentenary of Edward Lear's SUN birth. Shirley Henderson and Andrew Sachs read a selection SUN of his nonsense poems as requested by listeners, including SUN The Jumblies and The Quangle Wangle's Hat. Adding to the mix SUN are some old favourites like Elton Hayes singing The Owl and SUN the Pussycat to a small guitar and Kenneth Williams' unique SUN interpretation of The Dong with the Luminous Nose. SUN SUN Produced by Beatrice Fenton. SUN SUN 17:00 File on 4 b01n65zg (Listen) SUN Alcohol Fraud SUN SUN A criminal gang was recently jailed for one of the biggest SUN ever alcohol smuggling rackets in the UK. It's become big SUN business for organised crime according to HMRC, with tax SUN losses in unpaid duty as high as £1.2 billion per year. MP's SUN are demanding tougher action. But these are highly complex SUN frauds, which take years to investigate. Allan Urry examines SUN the scale of the challenge facing the authorities, and SUN reveals the extent to which criminals have penetrated the SUN legitimate market in beer, wine and spirits SUN Presenter: Allan Urry SUN Producer: Paul Grant. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b01n96qx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01n8mts (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01n8mtv (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n8mtx (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01n9whr (Listen) SUN Sometimes we need a map to make sense of the bewildering SUN world of radio. To navigate the unfamiliar territory from SUN Beatleland to the home of the Bolicon. To chart a route SUN through the confluences of poetry and music, of art and SUN doormats, of jazz and hip-hop. A set of directions to where SUN X marks the spot. For all of this and more, join Val SUN McDermid on Pick of the Week. SUN SUN Book of the Week 'On The Map' - Radio 4 SUN Cheaper Than Walking - Radio 4 SUN Composer of the Week 'Debussy' - Radio 3 SUN The Story of Guru - 1xtra SUN A Life Less Ordinary 'Solway Harvester' - Radio 4 SUN Start the Week - Radio 4 SUN Short Cuts 'Making the Cut' - Radio 4 SUN John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme - Radio 4 SUN Beatleland - Radio 2 SUN 15 minute Drama 'Highlites: Retouched' - Radio 4 SUN The Flower Fields - Radio 4 SUN Lives in a Landscape - Radio 4 SUN The Life Scientific - Radio 4 SUN SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01n9wht (Listen) SUN Kenton is getting impatient and Pip is on a spending spree. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b01n9whw (Listen) SUN Series 3, Memory Lapse, If I Ruled the World SUN SUN The multi-award winning American essayist with more of his SUN wit and charm in a series of audience readings. This week, SUN childhood memories of competitive parenting in "Memory SUN Lapse" and a character monologue imagining what life would SUN be like "If I Ruled The World!". SUN SUN Produced by Steve Doherty SUN A Boomerang production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Dear Life b01nckb5 (Listen) SUN Haven SUN SUN A new collection of short stories by one of the world's most SUN acclaimed short story writers, Alice Munro, is always a SUN cause for celebration. Winner of the Man Booker SUN International Prize, the Lannon Prize, the Giller Prize and SUN many other awards, Alice Munro is widely regarded as a SUN doyenne of the short story form, a writer whose acuity and SUN compassion shines through all her work. Her latest SUN collection, Dear Life, is published in November and five of SUN the stories from Dear Life can be heard on Radio 4 on Sunday SUN evenings during October and November. SUN SUN Set mostly in the small towns and quiet domestic SUN surroundings of her native Canada, Munro, as always, SUN captures the ordinary and reveals the extraordinary that SUN lies beneath. Life is laid bare, and the complicated SUN emotions of normal lives resonate long after the final page SUN is turned. SUN SUN Today in Haven, a prolonged stay with her uncle and aunt SUN change a young girl's understanding of the world. SUN SUN The reader is Barbara Barnes, SUN The abridger is Sally Marmion SUN The producer is Di Speirs. SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b01n6vnp (Listen) SUN Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and SUN congratulations. SUN SUN Presented by Roger Bolton, this is the place to air your SUN views on the things you hear on BBC Radio. SUN SUN This programme's content is entirely directed by you. SUN SUN Producer: Kate Taylor SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b01n6vnm (Listen) SUN Verghese Kurien, Helen Nicoll, Bobby Hogg, Tereska Torres, SUN 'Big Jim' Sullivan SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN Dr Verghese Kurien. Known as "India's Milkman", he SUN transformed milk production in India by setting up SUN co-operatives of small farmers. SUN SUN Helen Nicoll - the children's author best known for her Meg SUN and Mog stories. Her illustrator Jan Pienkowski pays SUN tribute. SUN SUN Bobby Hogg - the last surviving speaker of the Cromarty SUN dialect which was used in parts of the Black Isle near SUN Inverness. SUN SUN The French writer Tereska Torres whose novel about wartime SUN romances caused controversy with its depiction of lesbian SUN affairs SUN SUN And session guitarist "Big Jim" Sullivan who played on an SUN amazing 55 number one songs. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01n96qj (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01n98v7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 Analysis b01n625z (Listen) SUN Keeping the Free Market Faith SUN SUN The financial crisis has made many on the political right SUN question their faith in free market capitalism. Jamie Whyte SUN is unaffected by such doubts. The financial crisis, he SUN argues, was caused by too much state interference and an SUN unhealthy collusion between government and corporate power. SUN SUN Interviewees include: SUN Matthew Hancock MP, Minister for Skills and co-author of SUN Masters of Nothing. SUN Luigi Zingales, author of Capitalism for the People: SUN Recapturing the Lost Genius of American Prosperity and a SUN professor at Chicago Booth School of Business. SUN SUN Producer: Helen Grady. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01n9why (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 b01n9wj0 (Listen) SUN Sir Harold Evans presents a special programme from New York, SUN looking at how the newspapers are covering the US elections. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01n6sjj (Listen) SUN Veteran actor Martin Landau discusses his role as the wise - SUN if sinister - science teacher in Tim Burton's retro-fable SUN Frankenweenie. SUN SUN Author Michael Morpurgo reflects on the two very different SUN screen treatments of his books, War Horse and Private SUN Peaceful. SUN SUN We reveal the winner of the first Wellcome Trust SUN Screenwriting Prize, intended to encourage more and better SUN scripts about science. SUN SUN Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, the team behind Little SUN Miss Sunshine, discuss their new film Ruby Sparks, about a SUN novelist whose fictional creation comes to life. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01n98v1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 15 OCTOBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01n8mvx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01n6rs7 (Listen) MON The New Arab Man, Lords Club Affiliation MON MON The 'New' Arab Man: Middle Eastern, Muslim men are often MON represented as 'zealots' and oppressors of women. But Laurie MON Taylor hears how 2 decades of research by the Professor of MON Anthropology, Marcia Inhorn, is undermining such cultural MON stereotypes. Her study found that ordinary Arab men who MON confront childlessness and infertility are re-thinking MON conventional masculinity. Also, research by Matthew Bond MON into elite club membership in the House of Lords. Is a MON British establishment still evident in the club community? MON Karel Williams, Professor of Sociology, joins the MON discussion. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01n98tz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n8mvz (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n8mw1 (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n8mw3 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01n8mw5 (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n9wzf (Listen) MON A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with MON George Craig. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01n9wzh (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01n8mw9 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01n9wzk (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with John Humphrys and MON Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the MON Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01n9wzm (Listen) MON Richard Ford on the US Elections MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr talks to two American authors, MON Richard Ford and Lionel Shriver about the state of the US. MON In the run-up to the Presidential elections, the journalist MON Edward Luce argues that the country's politics are broken, MON and America is facing the spectre of decline. But the chair MON of Republicans Abroad UK, Thomas Grant, disputes such a MON negative assessment. MON Producer - Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01n9wzp (Listen) MON Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor, Episode 1 MON MON Written by Adrian Fort. MON MON The first of five extracts from a new biography of Nancy MON Astor, the first woman to take a seat in the British MON Parliament. Born in 1879, hers was a fascinating life: from MON straitened beginnings in the Civil War-ravaged Deep South of MON America, to marriage into one of the world's richest MON families, to a straight-talking campaign conducted MON door-to-door in one of the most deprived areas of Plymouth MON which brought her a political career that lasted more than MON two decades (from 1919 - until 1945). MON MON Far from being a hardened campaigner who had suffered for MON the cause of female suffrage, she was already near the MON centre of ruling society, having married one of the richest MON men in the world. She was not even British, yet she became a MON trailblazer and beacon for the generations of women who MON would follow her into Parliament. MON MON Reader: Anna Maxwell Martin. MON Abridger: Alison Joseph. MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n9wzr (Listen) MON Alison Balsom; The End of Men and the Rise of Women MON MON Alison Balsom, the award-winning trumpeter talks about her MON new album. The End of Men and the Rise of Women - Hanna MON Rosin and John Harris discuss "plastic woman" and "cardboard MON man". The effect of the recession on vulnerable children - MON and the future of family policies - we talk to social policy MON analyst Clem Henricson and Polly Neate from Action for MON Children. The Pope recently declared Saint Hildegard of MON Bingen a 'doctor of the Church', meaning someone who is a MON great teacher - what impact might this have on women in the MON Catholic Church? MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Produced by Lucinda Montefiore. MON MON Decreasing Support for Vulnerable Children MON Fundamental flaws in the funding of vital children’s MON services are creating increasing problems for the support of MON vulnerable children, according to a report published today MON by children’s charity Action for Children. The Red Book 2012 MON says that two out of three of the most vulnerable families MON are struggling with more severe issues than a year ago. So MON is decreasing support for these children creating a time MON bomb for society? Jane is joined by Polly Neate from Action MON for Children and Jill Kirby, writer for the website MON Conservative Home. MON MON The Future of Family Policy – Clem Henricson MON The New Labour Government, from 1997 to 2010, oversaw a MON major shift in the relationship between the state and the MON family: there were ambitious goals to reduce child poverty MON and initiatives such as Sure Start which were designed to MON increase social mobility and deliver social cohesion. But MON is it possible, or even desirable, to change an unequal MON society by intervening in family relationships? Clem MON Henricson is a social policy analyst, and former director of MON research and policy at the National Family and Parenting MON Institute. She advised Labour in these areas, and has now MON written a book called A Revolution In Family Policy – Where MON We Should Go From Here. She joins Jane to argue for a new MON family policy free of government agendas, where a premium is MON set on the need to manage core tensions in families, and the MON main aim is increased wellbeing, rather than major social MON change. MON MON Alison Balsom MON Alison Balsom fell in love with the trumpet at seven and by MON 10 knew she wanted to be a soloist. Now she travels the MON globe doing just that. On her new album ‘Sound the Trumpets’ MON she plays a baroque instrument, which she describes as MON almost vocal in its tone. In making the album, Alison has MON expanded the repertoire of music available to the instrument MON she loves, and describes the production of the CD as a MON massive academic as well as musical challenge. MON 'Sound the Trumpet’ by Alison Balsomout on EMI Classics. MON MON Hanna Rosin: The End of Men MON On holiday one year, American journalist Hanna Rosin made an MON unusual observation about the beach town she had been going MON to for years - the men had disappeared from the streets, the MON commercial businesses and the pick-up trucks. But where had MON they gone? Hanna’s investigation led her to conclude that, MON as manufacturing and financial industries dwindled, men were MON losing their footing not just in the workplace, but in their MON homes. Hanna suggests “plastic” women become ever more MON flexible and able to juggle changes in industry with their MON families; “cardboard” men are being left behind. The result MON is a controversial book titled The End of Men, and Hanna, MON along with journalist John Harris, joins Jane in the studio. MON MON Saint Hildegard of Bingen – ‘Doctor of the Church’ MON The Pope recently declared Saint Hildegard of Bingen, a MON 12th-century German abbess, a ‘doctor of the Church’, MON meaning someone who is a great teacher. There are only three MON other women doctors of the Church out of a total of 35 MON around the world. Although she’s renowed as being one of MON the first female Christian musicans Saint Hildergard was MON also a theologian and interested in natural sicence, women’s MON health and healing. She was also one of the first women to MON set up her own convent. So what does her new status mean to MON women in the Catholic church and to the new Catholic MON feminist moment? Fiona Maddocks biographer of Hildegard of MON Bingen and Sarah de Nordwall from Catholic Voices join Jane MON to discuss. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01n9wzt (Listen) MON The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Episode 1 MON MON A brilliant exploration of the corrosive impact of tabloid MON journalism on one young woman. The Lost Honour of Katharina MON Blum is dissects the power of the press and it's impact on MON individual freedom. Told in the form of an unofficial MON report, this intelligent and pacy story from the 1970s MON tackles issues of press freedom, responsibility and police MON tactics. MON MON It's based on a real incident in the author's own life, when MON he was publicly accused of being a terrorist sympathiser and MON hounded by the German press. The subtitle of the book is MON "how violence develops and where it can lead." MON MON Recorded on location in Berlin, The Lost Honour of Katharina MON Blum also features a soundtrack of 1970s Krautrock from MON bands such as Can, Neu, La Dusseldorf and Ash Ra Tempel. MON MON Episode 1: MON The narrator sets the scene - Katharina Blum was taken in MON four days ago for questioning about her relationship with a MON young man she met at a party, who is in fact a suspected MON criminal on the run. A chain of chaotic and ever more MON pressurised events builds up, culminating in Katharina MON shooting Totges, a tabloid press journalist. We meet the MON police interrogation team and Katharina herself, whose MON resolute refusal to confess sends Inspector Beizmenne out of MON the interview room in a fury. MON MON Sound design ..... Eloise Whitmore MON Broadcast assistant ..... Kath Willgress MON Executive producer ..... Joby Waldman MON MON Abridged by Helen Meller MON Produced and directed by Polly Thomas MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Katharina Blum: Nicola Schossler MON The Narrator: Andre Kaczmarczyk MON Beizmenne: Matthias Horn MON Herr Blorna: Elias Arens MON Trude Blorna: Leslie Malton MON Totges: Daniel Hoevels MON Director: Polly Thomas MON Producer: Polly Thomas MON Writer: Heinrich Boll MON MON 11:00 Smile b01jg73p (Listen) MON Smile. MON MON Historian and author Kate Williams goes in search of the MON modern winning smile. MON The wide and toothy smile is all around us and used in many MON different and persuasive ways, from the delight of meeting MON up with friends, beautiful people beaming down from MON billboards persuading us to buy their product, to MON politicians vying to win our votes, the broad and confident MON smile is very much at the centre of communication in today's MON society. However this hasn't always the case, with open MON mouthed smiling deemed a sign of madness and undignified. MON MON We discover the impact of dentistry and films on our MON changing relationship with our smiles, the role gender and MON culture play, why most of us hate smiling in photographs and MON Jenni Murray explains why she would never broadcast without MON one. MON MON Producer: Andrea Kidd MON (Repeat). MON MON 11:30 Ayres on the Air b01ms34r (Listen) MON Series 4, Spring MON MON Popular poet Pam Ayres is joined in her poetry and sketch MON show by Felicity Montagu and Geoffrey Whitehead as they look MON at the season of Spring. MON MON This week she looks subjects such as flowers and animals in MON springtime, spring elections plus she has some unusual tips MON for spring cleaning. MON MON Her poems this week include: I Was Standing by the Cow; MON Heaps of Stuff; Barking: Fleeced and the Snoring Poem. MON MON Produced by Claire Jones. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01n9xz8 (Listen) MON Cosmetic surgery changes, Sikh poppies and how to run our MON railways MON MON Tough changes to be made to plastic surgery regulations in MON the wake of the PIP scandal. We hear the results of the MON review of the cosmetic surgery industry and find out about MON new stricter rules and regulations for clinics and cosmetic MON procedures MON MON We look into a dispute over special Sikh poppies for MON Remembrance Day. MON MON And with all the fuss over the government's failed handling MON of the West Coast Mainline contract we want to take your MON input and questions about what our railways should be like. MON Over the next six weeks we'll break down the rail franchise MON requirements and examine each in turn, starting with rail MON timetables, journey times and how to handle disruption. MON MON Presenter: Julian Worricker MON Producer: Paul Waters. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01n8mwc (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01n9xzb (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 China: As History Is My Witness b01nbsy3 (Listen) MON Qin Shi Huangdi: The Emperor MON MON The Emperor who built a unified China but enslaved nations MON and buried scholars in the process. Hero or villain? MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01n9wht (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01n9xzd (Listen) MON Top Kill MON MON On April 20th 2010 there was an explosion on the Deepwater MON Horizon oil-rig, in the Gulf of Mexico, in which 11 men were MON vaporised and 17 injured. 205.8 million gallons of crude oil MON proceeded to leak into the Ocean from a broken wellhead, 5 MON miles below the surface. MON MON Given there are more than 3000 such well heads in the Gulf, MON TOP KILL follows subsequent imagined events on a similar MON drilling platform, CLEARWATER VENTURE demonstrating MON just how cutting corners could lead to calamity. MON MON When news of the 'burst' reaches the Florida shoreline, MON tensions rise and tempers flare. As the clock ticks, TOP MON KILL follows the personal, political and commercial dilemmas MON facing the main players in this catastrophe; the new biggest MON oil spill in history. MON MON Managers, engineers and operators, implement a series of MON methods to try and stop the spill, 5 miles below the MON surface. They start with inadequate repairs to the Blowout MON Preventer, using containment caps and Junk Shots, until at MON last deciding on a desperate static TOP KILL which finally MON seals the leak. The story is one of action, high risk and MON increasing pressure as they become engulfed in crude-oil MON which spreads around them. A hard edged, driving drama of MON events and personalities dealing with a man made sub-oceanic MON Krakatoa which is way beyond the control of our available MON technology. MON MON Produced by ..... Eoin O'Callaghan. MON MON Credits MON Bat Masterson: Colin Stinton MON Karen Louis: Lorelei King MON Raylen: Nathan Osgood MON Charlene: Laurel Lefkow MON Gary: Eric Loren MON Mike Dos Passos: John Guerrasio MON Harrison Purcell: Stuart Milligan MON Producer: Eoin O'Callaghan MON Writer: Mike Walker MON MON 15:00 Round Britain Quiz b01n9yfj (Listen) MON (7/12) MON Believe it or not, you might confuse an alien's most MON determined adversary with a talented murderer. Why, and who MON are they? MON MON Another trademark puzzle opens the latest Round Britain Quiz MON contest, this week between the South of England and the MON Midlands. It's the second time these teams have played one MON another in the current series, and the South of England team MON of Marcus Berkmann and Marcel Berlins will be hoping to get MON their own back against the Midlands, Rosalind Miles and MON Stephen Maddock, who beat them very narrowly in the previous MON encounter. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01n9vhr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Scream Queens b01n9yfl (Listen) MON 'It is women who love horror,' said the screen's first MON Dracula, Bela Lugosi. Since the horror genre began eighty MON years ago, the female role has changed; the passive victims MON of the classic monsters of the past have become resourceful MON heroines competing on equal terms with their male co-stars, MON both human and inhuman. MON MON In this revealing documentary, part of BBC Radio 4's gothic MON season, Reece Shearsmith meets a coven of female horror MON stars and charts the development and changing roles in the MON genre; from the femmes fatales of Dracula's Daughter, MON through Hitchcock's leading ladies, to Hammer's lesbian MON vampires of the 1970s and the present-day action heroines MON such as Buffy the Vampire-Slayer. MON MON Shearsmith reflects on the history and roles of women in MON horror films such as Psycho, The Innocents and Rosemary's MON Baby, with archive of Deborah Kerr, Ingrid Pitt and Barbara MON Steele. MON MON Shearsmith believes that women are making a greater impact MON in the horror genre but is it still a man's world? MON MON Contributors include screen legends Barbara Shelley and MON Madeline Smith, along with television's 'Woman in Black' MON Pauline Moran. Shearsmith also meets Linda Hayden who stars MON in one of his favourite horror films 'Blood on Satan's MON Claw'; and we also hear from Jane Merrow who went from MON appearing in horror movies to producing them. MON MON Written by Roger Dobson MON Produced by Stephen Garner MON MON 16:30 Digital Human b01n9yfn (Listen) MON Series 2, Episode 3 MON MON Aleks speaks to Grandmaster of memory, Ed Cooke who thinks MON memory is going out of fashion because of our reliance on MON digital devices. MON MON Mastermind champion and London cabbie Fred Housego explains MON how he relies on 'The Knowledge' to navigate London but MON relies on his wife's short term memory to remember dates for MON engagements, shopping lists, phone numbers. Psychologist MON Betsy Sparrow explains that this is known as transactive MON memory and it's exactly what we are doing with our digital MON devices. Cyborg Anthropologist, Amber Chase explains that in MON the past we had physical extensions of ourselves, for MON example with tools, but we now have mental extensions of MON ourselves, with our digital devices acting as externalised MON brains, changing our sense of self. MON MON Aleks discovers that the way we remember is not only MON changing our perceptions of self but challenging the very MON concept of intelligence. Aleks hears that the smart kid of MON the past memorized lots of data but the smart kid of the MON future will know how to navigate the system and how to MON understand concepts. This is exactly what 15 year old US MON high school pupil, Jack Andraka did when he discovered a new MON test for pancreatic cancer using the internet. With little MON background knowledge and armed only with what he knew from MON biology classes he scoured the web for papers that helped MON him make connections that will potentially save thousands of MON lives. MON MON The way we use our memory is changing but as Psychologist MON Betsy Sparrow explains we are only responding to our MON surroundings and evolving as we always have. MON MON Producer: Kate Bissell. MON MON 17:00 PM b01n9yfq (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n8mwj (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 The Museum of Curiosity b01n9yfs (Listen) MON Series 5, Ker, Stephenson Connolly, Geim 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. Ever since someone gave the Museum the Big MON Bang it's been expanding at an alarming rate, and now MON there's no looking back without the aid of a huge telescope. MON MON This week, John and Jimmy have invited along comedian MON Humphrey Ker, sex therapist, comedian and author Dr Pamela MON Stephenson-Connolly and Nobel Physics Laureate Professor Sir MON Andre Geim. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01n9yfv (Listen) MON Jim tells a little white lie. Meanwhile Kenton is having a MON bad day. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01n9yfx (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Tim Burton's new MON black and white animated film Frankenweenie. MON MON Producer Jerome Weatherald. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01n9wzt (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Interrogators without Pliers b01n9yfz (Listen) MON The Chinese strategist and philosopher Sun Tzu wrote in The MON Art of War that 'If you know others and know yourself you MON will win a hundred battles.' Which is obviously good advice MON but finding out about the 'others' is not straightforward. MON What if they don't want to talk and share their secrets with MON you? MON MON Much of the debate about the interrogation of suspects in MON America's War on Terror has been about whether the methods MON used, such as waterboarding, could be described as torture. MON In this programme, Julian Putkowski sets aside all moral MON questions and instead thinks about efficiency. What is the MON most effective way to extract high quality information out MON of the enemy - the 'other'? If we are civil to our captives MON might we get them to cooperate? Could we get as much - or MON even more - information in exchange for a lot less pain? MON MON Julian's unlikely role model is the Master Interrogator of MON the Luftwaffe Hanns Scharff. He gently extracted information MON from downed US fighter pilots by being friendly and never MON appearing to show interest when a new piece of the mosaic MON fell into place. Scharff summed it up as 'a display of MON information and persuasion appealing to common sense'. MON MON Julian interviews: MON Dr Gavin Oxburgh, at the University of Teeside who is an MON international expert on police questioning. MON Ali Soufan, an FBI special agent, interrogator at Guantanamo MON Bay and author of 'The Black Banners.' MON Claudius Scharff, Hanns' son, who tells us about how his dad MON took POWs for trips to the zoo and shows us a fascinating MON 'visitor's book' Hanns asked the downed pilots to sign. MON MON The programme also includes extracts from lectures by Hanns MON Scharff to US pilots in California in the 1970's. MON MON Producer: Matt Thompson MON A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Analysis b01n9yg1 (Listen) MON Alternative Economic Cultures MON MON Paul Mason interviews renowned sociologist Prof Manuel MON Castells about the rise of alternative economic cultures MON since the financial crisis. Recorded in front of an audience MON at the London School of Economics on Monday 8th October. MON MON The financial crisis which has unfolded since 2008 marks MON more than an economic downturn, according to Prof Castells. MON The problems which caused the crisis are so deep rooted that MON they have provoked a profound reassessment of our economic MON beliefs and institutions. They have also given rise to MON social movements such as Occupy and alternative economic MON cultures opposed to financial capitalism. These ideas are MON explored in "Aftermath: The Cultures of the Economic MON Crisis", a book edited by Prof Castells. MON MON Manuel Castells is Professor of Sociology, and Director of MON the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the Open MON University of Catalonia (UOC), in Barcelona. He is also MON University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair MON Professor of Communication Technology and Society at the MON Annenberg School of Communication, University of Southern MON California, Los Angeles. MON MON Paul Mason is the Economics Editor of BBC 2's Newsnight MON programme. His books include Meltdown: The End of the Age of MON Greed; and Why It's Kicking Off Everywhere: The New Global MON Revolutions. MON MON The hashtag for this event is #LSECastells. MON Why Economics is Bunk MON Escaping credit serfdom MON MON 21:00 Material World b01n6sjl (Listen) MON This week is Nobel week, when the most recent recipients MON find out they've won the world's most important awards. We MON speak with three of this year's winners of the Science MON awards; Prof. Sir John Gurdon for Physiology or Medicine, MON Prof. Serge Haroche for Physics, and Prof. Brian Kobilka for MON Chemistry. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01n9wzm (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01n8mwm (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01n9yg3 (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis with Ritula MON Shah. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01n9yg5 (Listen) MON The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 1 MON MON By Patricia Ferguson MON MON Read by Joanna Tope MON MON Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the new novel by MON Orange Prize listed author Patricia Ferguson is the MON compassionate and moving story of two sisters and the young MON black orphan who changes their lives. MON MON Violet Dimond has a terrible nightmare about her dead MON daughter but wonders if the dream may not strictly be her MON own. MON MON Abridged by Robin Brooks MON Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. MON MON 23:00 SSSHHH! (The Best-Read Office in the World) b01kxzqy (Listen) MON It's an office in which the telephone rarely rings. But when MON it does, hundreds turn to stare in collective disapproval, MON especially when the ringtone is a snatch of Jay-Z. The MON world's knowledge lives here - although it is to be seen MON only in tiny glimpses: a pile of books or manuscripts or MON maps on a desk. Most of these treasures live elsewhere, in MON the basements that are never seen - which are closely MON guarded. Who are the people of the stacks, those 600 MON kilometres of bookshelves that roam 24 metres underground MON the British Library? What is the secret of the heartbeat of MON the building, the magnificent George III library that sits, MON a space within a space, in the centre of the building? Who MON was this building's architect, and how did he create such an MON extraordinary environment not just for learning and MON creativity, but also for social exchange? MON MON With its cavernous modern vistas and restaurants, outsiders MON sometimes compare the British library to a busy airport. But MON it is not: it is a five star resort for people who read. And MON like the most popular resorts it has peak holiday seasons MON when eager readers must arrive early, put their metaphorical MON towel on a deck chair to guarantee intellectual sunshine MON that day. Before the doors open at 9.30 the queue outside MON snakes as far as the perpetual traffic jam that is the MON Euston Road. There are no seat privileges. MON MON Who said the library was an anachronism? MON MON Every day thousands of pages of novels and film scripts, MON doctorates and popular histories, poems and business plans MON are written here, unknown to anyone but the author. MON Professors and students commune with books and journals, MON notebooks and IPads, and, most of all, with the gods and MON goddesses of creativity, in the fervent hope that the day's MON writing goes well. MON MON Start-up companies learn about intellectual property, MON novelists travel mentally to conceptualize faraway lands, MON resting actors work on that novel. Digerati upstairs MON formulate the library of the future. MON MON This is not a university, though there are many students; MON neither a public library, though it's free to join. It's a MON brains trust and an intellectual catwalk, a competition in MON erudition and eccentricity, obscurantism and silent comedy. MON With the help of Robin Hunt - Reader 170890 - we'll discover MON the peoples that inhabit the modernist jungle of the British MON Library. MON MON Producer: Vera Frankl MON An IGA Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01n9yg7 (Listen) MON Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 16 OCTOBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01n8mxq (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01n9wzp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n8mxs (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n8mxv (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n8mxx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01n8mxz (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01n9z0d (Listen) TUE A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with TUE George Craig. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01n9z0g (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 b01n9z0j (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and TUE John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in TUE Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01n9z0l (Listen) TUE As the Curiosity rover ventures into previously unexplored TUE territory on the surface of Mars and attempts to pick up and TUE analyse rock samples for the first time, many hope that the TUE NASA robot might find signs of life on the red planet. But, TUE after so many false dawns and with such ambiguous evidence, TUE how can we know for certain whether or not there was ever TUE life on Mars? Jim al-Khalili and Monica Grady, Professor in TUE Planetary Sciences at the Open University, discuss what life TUE on Mars might look like; Monica's passion for meteorites and TUE the asteroid named "monicagrady" in her honour. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01n9z0n (Listen) TUE Kate Silverton wanted desperately to be a journalist from TUE the age of 12. In her teens she travelled extensively - TUE hitch-hiking across Israel and visiting the Palestinian TUE territories in an attempt to better understand the conflict TUE there, she stayed with Bedouin in the desert and at nineteen TUE went to Zimbabwe for four months armed with just a TUE Dictaphone to capture the stories of the people she met TUE along the way. Despite her natural curiosity about the world TUE and her desire to report stories of people living in TUE conflict she didn't follow her heart because . she feared TUE she might fail. As the first in her family to go to TUE university much depended on her and her career choice and TUE she opted to enter the City as a Corporate Financier - a TUE demanding job but one that diverted from her doing the one TUE thing she wanted to do - because she feared she might not be TUE good enough. It took the death of her best friend to TUE convince her to change her mind. TUE TUE Presenter: Kate Silverton TUE Producer : Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01nf3lb (Listen) TUE Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor, Episode 2 TUE TUE Written by Adrian Fort. TUE TUE Second extract from a new biography of Nancy Astor, the TUE first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament. TUE TUE Far from being a hardened campaigner who had suffered for TUE the cause of female suffrage, she was already near the TUE centre of ruling society, having married one of the richest TUE men in the world. She was not even British, yet she became a TUE trailblazer and beacon for the generations of women who TUE would follow her into Parliament. TUE TUE Reader: Anna Maxwell Martin. TUE Abridger: Alison Joseph. TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01n9z0q (Listen) TUE Natasha Baker, a Para Dressage rider, on her experience of TUE the Paralympics. A girl's first period - how to celebrate? TUE Hannah Rochelle and Emmanuel Dirix discuss winter woolies. TUE Presented by Jane Garvey TUE Produced by Sarah Crawley. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nd783 (Listen) TUE The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE Katharina's employers, Mr and Mrs. Blorna, become involved TUE and are agitated by the lurid tabloid headlines about TUE Katharina. She is taken back in for questioning and TUE continues to deny knowledge of the whereabouts of Ludwig, TUE the suspected criminal she met at a party. She also refuses TUE to explain the origin of a valuable ring found in her flat, TUE which is clearly far too expensive for Katharina to have TUE bought herself. TUE TUE Sound design ..... Eloise Whitmore TUE Broadcast assistant .... Kath Willgress TUE Executive producer ..... Joby Waldman TUE TUE Abridged by Helen Meller TUE Produced and directed by Polly Thomas TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01n9z0s (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 7 TUE TUE Every two years wildlife film makers from across the world TUE arrive in Bristol to celebrate and promote the art of the TUE wildlife filmmaker at the International Wildscreen Film TUE Festival. TUE TUE Wildscreen's mission is to promote excellence in films and TUE photos from which many first learn about nature; to inspire TUE greater interest in Earth's living riches; to illustrate the TUE wonders of our natural world; to educate about the threats TUE facing our planet's biodiversity and to encourage TUE international enthusiasm for nature. TUE TUE Recently Dr Paul Jepson from Oxford University suggested in TUE an academic paper that "Media corporations that make and TUE broadcast wildlife programmes and films should pay towards TUE the cost of nature conservation under an existing innovative TUE funding mechanism for the 'use of ecosystem services' " TUE TUE In this special Saving Species we plan to devote the TUE programme to some of the ideas Dr Jepson put forward in his TUE paper. Brett Westwood, meeting with some of the world's most TUE respected international delegates at this years' Wildscreen, TUE discusses the question, "As a filmmaker; do the films we all TUE enjoy to watch on television actually put something back in TUE terms of wildlife conservation to the locations and species TUE we all love to watch from the comfort of our homes?". TUE TUE 11:30 Spellbound: Siouxsie and the Banshees b01n9z0v (Listen) TUE As the bright white heat of punk faded few bands survived TUE and emerged from the aftermath, stronger and more unique TUE than Siouxsie and the Banshees. Led by the unmistakable TUE force of Siouxsie Sioux and bassist Steven Severin, the TUE Banshees carved a musical legacy that is without parallel. TUE TUE Originally meeting as part of the 'Bromley Contingent' that TUE gravitated around punk pioneers The Sex Pistols, Susan Janet TUE Ballion met Steven Bailey at a Roxy Music concert at Wembley TUE in 1975, bonding over suburban boredom, a love of Bowie, TUE Hitchcock and 'Cabaret' style nocturnal fun. Armed with a TUE handful of ideas, suburban isolation, borrowed equipment, TUE the duo entered the furnace of punk intent on smashing down TUE the established musical order and sculpting a dark and TUE alluring legacy. TUE TUE Miranda Sawyer talks to Siouxsie about the legendary gig at TUE the infamous 100 Club as well as her and Steven Severin's TUE part in TV folklore by appearing on the Today show where the TUE Sex Pistol's Steve Jones and John 'Rotten' Lydon' swore at TUE presenter Bill Grundy revealing to the nation the filth and TUE the fury of punk rock. TUE TUE Through Banshee's biographer and fan Mark Paytress, TUE journalist Alexis Petridis and acclaimed producer Nigel TUE Gray, Sawyer unearths how the band quickly bolted from the TUE fading spark of punk and carved out an unparalleled legacy TUE of five albums in five years. From 1978's stark, Velvet TUE Underground inspired 'The Scream' through band fall-outs, TUE commercial and critical success, to the neo-psychedelic, TUE post punk of 'Kaleidoscope', the hugely influential dark TUE wave 'JuJu' and the quixotic, exotic and erotic and 'A Kiss TUE in the Dreamhouse' this a unique insight into a genre and TUE era defying band. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01n9z0x (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01n8my1 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01n9z0z (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 China: As History Is My Witness b01nbsyr (Listen) TUE Li Bai - The Warlord TUE TUE The swashbuckling adventurer from ancient China, when TUE cunning and courage ruled, whose exploits still grip China TUE today. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01n9yfv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nb1rx (Listen) TUE Rock and Doris and Elizabeth TUE TUE On the 15th July 1985 Rock Hudson appeared at a press call TUE on the first day of filming for the TV show Doris Day's Best TUE Friends as a favour to his old friend. His ravaged TUE appearance shocked the world. At the same time another old TUE friend, Elizabeth Taylor, was beginning a crusade to raise TUE awareness of the little-understood AIDS. TUE TUE Tracy Ann Oberman's new play is inspired by these events, TUE imagining how they might have played out and exploring the TUE relationships between Hollywood icons - the professional TUE virgin, the all American man and the woman condemned as an TUE "erotic vagrant" by the Pope. TUE TUE It marks the end of one Hollywood era and the start of TUE another, presenting a vivid snapshot of stardom and TUE sexuality, love and loss. TUE TUE Writer: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Script Editor: David Spicer TUE TUE Produced by Liz Anstee TUE A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Rock Hudson: Jonathan Hyde TUE Doris Day: Frances Barber TUE Elizabeth Taylor: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE Terry Melcher: James Lance TUE Reporter: Jonathan Hart TUE Producer: Liz Anstee TUE Writer: Tracy-Ann Oberman TUE TUE 15:00 Short Cuts b01nb1rz (Listen) TUE Series 2, Blackout 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 We hear tales of adventure, transgression and terror in the TUE dark as Nina switches out the lights for the last programme TUE in this current series - Blackout. TUE TUE The writer Ben Shattuck describes the last reported TUE Jonah-esque trip into the dark, dank belly of a whale and TUE asks - could you ever survive? Grandmaster Caz delves into TUE hip hop mythology and tells the story of how the music came TUE on in the 1977 New York City blackout... after the lights TUE went out. And there are tales of dangerous trips in complete TUE blackness and sparks flying after the lights have tripped. TUE TUE Produced by Eleanor McDowall TUE A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b01mqqfv (Listen) TUE Cruel Harvest TUE TUE The disastrous global harvest of 2012 has slashed food TUE supplies from the parched Mid-West of the USA to the dusty TUE plains of Ukraine. In this time of crisis many farmers are TUE asking if they should continue to grow crops to be turned TUE into fuel for cars and power stations when they could be TUE feeding more people. TUE TUE Costing the Earth visits the American corn-belt of Missouri TUE and the rape fields of Bedfordshire to investigate the TUE international impact of the tightening food supplies and ask TUE if we need to get used to more extreme weather patterns over TUE the coming decades. Can scientists help farmers grow crops TUE that are more resistant to drought and flood or should we TUE accept that all of our fertile land should be turned over to TUE food production? TUE TUE Producer: Steve Peacock. TUE TUE 16:00 Law in Action b01nb1s1 (Listen) TUE Where next for the Hillsborough families? TUE TUE Joshua Rozenberg asks where next for the families of those TUE who died at Hillsborough and looks at what can you say on TUE Twitter without attracting the attention of the law. TUE TUE 16:30 A Good Read b01nb1s3 (Listen) TUE What do teen blockbuster 'The Hunger Games' and Marguerite TUE Duras' erotic semi-memoir 'The Lover' have in common? TUE Heroines who are determined to survive, according to TUE Harriett Gilbert's guests, businessman Sir Michael TUE Darrington and financier Terri Duhon. TUE TUE Sir Michael Darrington brought Greggs bakeries to every high TUE street and is now leading a campaign against boardroom TUE bonuses. His book choice is John Grisham's 'The Litigators', TUE a comic story of a hotshot lawyer who rejects the fast lane TUE in favour of making a difference to ordinary lives. TUE TUE Terri Duhon has been described as a 'Harley Davidson-riding TUE maths whiz from rural Louisiana'. Her choice is 'The Hunger TUE Games' by Suzanne Collins, which explores a dog-eat-dog TUE world of reality TV and power imbalance. TUE TUE Harriett, who confesses to being a Grisham virgin, is amazed TUE to find connections between 'The Hunger Games' and her TUE choice, Marguerite Duras' erotic autobiographical novel set TUE in French colonial Vietnam in the late 1920s, 'The Lover'. TUE TUE Producer...Mary Ward-Lowery. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01nb1s5 (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 b01n8my3 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Rudy's Rare Records b01nb1s7 (Listen) TUE Series 4, Best Local Business TUE TUE Episode two: Best Local Business TUE TUE Father and son comedy set in the finest old-school record TUE shop in Birmingham. Starring Lenny Henry, Larrington Walker TUE and some terrific tunes. TUE TUE Rudy's Rare Records is a tiny down at heel old reggae record TUE shop in Birmingham - one of a dying breed; a place with real TUE soul, stacked with piles of vinyl, where the slogan is "if TUE we don't have it - them don't mek it". It's owned by the TUE charismatic, irrepressible Rudy Sharpe (Larrington Walker), TUE reluctantly helped out by his long-suffering neurotic son TUE Adam (Lenny Henry) and Handsworth's first, black, surly TUE girly goth, Tasha (Natasha Godfrey). Rudy has recently TUE married his long-term love interest Doreen (Claire Benedict) TUE which is leaving his best friend Clifton (Jeffery Kissoon) TUE feeling left out. TUE TUE But business is not booming and Adam enters a competition TUE for the Best Local Business hoping the publicity and the TUE prize money will give the record shop a much needed boost. TUE It also means war between Rudy's Rare Records and Clifton's TUE Blooms. TUE TUE Adam ..... Lenny Henry TUE Rudy ..... Larrington Walker TUE Tasha ..... Natasha Godfrey TUE Doreen ..... Claire Benedict TUE Clifton ..... Jeffery Kissoon TUE Richie ..... Joe Jacobs TUE Darnell ..... Javone Prince TUE Secret Shopper ..... Sarah Thom TUE Ainsley Harriott ..... Himself TUE Twitch ..... Adam Nagaitis TUE TUE Written by Paula Hines TUE Script Editor: Danny Robins TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01nb1s9 (Listen) TUE Ed searches for a way out and Kirsty lets her guard down. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01ndz64 (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, including an interview with comedy TUE performer and presenter Graham Norton. TUE TUE Producer Ella-mai Robey. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nd783 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 File on 4 b01nb1sc (Listen) TUE Recoiling the Arab Spring TUE TUE The ultra-conservative Salafist movement, which is said to TUE be the fastest growing branch of Islam, has been blamed for TUE being behind many of the recent violent protests over an TUE anti-Muslim film which appeared on the internet. Jenny Cuffe TUE investigates the spread of Salafism across the countries of TUE the Arab Spring. She asks what threat it poses to democracy TUE in the whole region and also examines concerns in Europe TUE that Salafists now represent a significant security risk. TUE Presenter: Jenny Cuffe TUE Producer: Ian Muir-Cochrane. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01nb1sf (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Inside Health b01nb1sh (Listen) TUE Dr Mark Porter presents a series that aims to demystify TUE perplexing health issues. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01n9z0l (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01n8my5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01nb1sk (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis with Ritula TUE Shah. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ncj0v (Listen) TUE The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Patricia Ferguson TUE TUE Read by Joanna Tope TUE TUE The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and TUE moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who TUE changes their lives. TUE TUE Violet has had a nightmare about her dead daughter, Ruth, TUE and sets off to visit her twin sister, Bea, whose dream it TUE may actually have been. TUE TUE Abridged by Robin Brooks TUE Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE 23:00 Clayton Grange b01nb1sm (Listen) TUE Episode 4 TUE TUE by Neil Warhurst with additional material by Paul Barnhill TUE Episode 4 TUE Anthony Head leads a team of brilliantly stupid scientists. TUE This is Clayton Grange, top secret Scientific Institute with TUE a government brief to solve the global fuel crisis, cheer TUE people up and make war just a bit more gentle. Meet the TUE scientists who are a bit rubbish at life. And not much TUE better at science. TUE TUE Saunders ..... Anthony Head TUE Geoff ..... Neil Warhurst TUE Roger ..... Paul Barnhill TUE Jameson ..... Stephanie Racine TUE Verenovsky/Quiz master ..... Don Gilet TUE Alan Dobson ..... Paul Stonehouse TUE Silas ..... Joe Sims TUE TUE Producer/Director ..... Marion Nancarrow. TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nb1sp (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 17 OCTOBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01n8mz0 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01nf3lb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n8mz2 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n8mz4 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n8mz6 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01n8mz8 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nb27y (Listen) WED A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with WED George Craig. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01nb280 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 06:00 Today b01nb282 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and WED John Humphrys. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in WED Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01nb284 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01nf3ls (Listen) WED Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor, Episode 3 WED WED Written by Adrian Fort. WED WED Third extract from a new biography of Nancy Astor, the first WED woman to take a seat in the British Parliament. WED WED Far from being a hardened campaigner who had suffered for WED the cause of female suffrage, she was already near the WED centre of ruling society, having married one of the richest WED men in the world. She was not even British, yet she became a WED trailblazer and beacon for the generations of women who WED would follow her into Parliament. WED WED Reader: Anna Maxwell Martin. WED Abridger: Alison Joseph. WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nb286 (Listen) WED Fiona Shaw, award-winning actress and star of True Blood on WED her role in Scenes from an Execution in which she plays a WED free spirited artist. WED Presented by Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nd7fk (Listen) WED The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Episode 3 WED WED Episode 3: WED Katharina is the subject of ever more lurid tabloid WED headlines. Her family and friends are interrogated and we WED find out more about Katharina's upright moral character, at WED odds with the press portrayal. She is becoming more WED distressed by the press intrusion, and the deluge of abusive WED letters and phone calls she is receiving. WED WED Sound design: Eloise Whitmore WED Broadcast assistant: Kath Willgress WED Executive producer: Joby Waldman WED WED Abridged by Helen Meller WED Produced and directed by Polly Thomas WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b01nb288 (Listen) WED Series 11, The Pigeon Men of Burdiehouse WED WED Burdiehouse is a council scheme on the outermost tip of WED Edinburgh and it's here, hidden away from the world outside, WED that Alan encounters the pigeon, or doo men, locked in a WED constant battle to capture each other's birds. These men are WED neighbours but when it comes to pigeons the battle lines are WED drawn. WED WED This is an old game: 'doo flying' has been practised in WED Scotland since Victorian times. Hundreds of doo men fly WED 'horseman thief' pigeons from lofts, bedrooms and sheds. The WED aim being to lure and capture the pigeons of their WED rivals.The doomen's pigeons mean a lot to them - they are WED groomed, their feathers dyed and combed to make them look WED their best. Some families have kept doos for generations. WED It's a passion passed on from father to son. WED WED In Burdiehouse Alan talks to Paul who comes from a long line WED of doo men. Paul gave up the birds and moved away from the WED scheme when he got married, but since separating from his WED wife has moved in with his mother Anne and built a doo hut WED in the garden. Central to his new life as a doo man is the WED swap shop, a bird auction held every week in the local pub. WED This is where the flyers go to trade birds and gossip over a WED pint. Paul runs the night with Iain, a long-time doo man and WED self-proclaimed sheriff of the scheme, who often has to step WED in to prevent the fierce rivalry over pigeons becoming WED violent. Despite suffering chronic health problems as a WED result of keeping birds since he was a boy, Iain says he WED will never give up his pigeons. WED WED This is a story of escapism, gamesmanship and family set WED against the backdrop of the elusive sport of doo flying. WED WED Producer: Caitlin Smith. WED WED 11:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01nb28b (Listen) WED Series 5, Carnaptious Scroosh WED WED The hit Radio 4 series Fags, Mags and Bags returns for a WED fifth series, with more shop-based shenanigans and over the WED counter philosophy courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty WED sidekick Dave. WED WED Written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli, WED the previous series picked up a Writers Guild nomination for WED best comedy and this new run sees a return of all the shop WED regular characters as well as some guest appearances along WED the way from the likes of Julie T Wallace, Barry Howard and WED Sean Biggestaff. WED WED The staff of Fags, Mags and Bags continue their tireless WED quest to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke WED with Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh WED Mahju has built the business up over 30 years and loves the WED art of the shop. However, he does apply the "low return" WED rules of the shop to all other aspects of his life. Then WED there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok, both surly and not WED keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, but Ramesh WED is keen to pass all his worldly wisdom onto them whether WED they like it or not! WED WED In this episode, new shop regular Mrs Birkett goes head to WED head with Lovely Sue as they both enter their cat in the WED Catticus Cat of the Year competition. Meanwhile, Sanjay and WED Alok start making music with their new cool friend Grebo, WED who goes by the rapping name of Carnaptious Scroosh. WED WED Ramesh ..... Sanjeev Kohli WED Dave ..... Donald Mcleary WED Sanjay ..... Omar Raza WED Alok ..... Susheel Kumar WED Grebo ..... Sean Biggerstaff WED Mrs Birkett ..... Stewart Cairns WED Lovely Sue ..... Julie Wilson Nimmo WED Mrs Begg ..... Marjory Hogarth WED WED Producer: Gus Beattie WED A Comdey Unit production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01nb28d (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01n8mzb (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01nb28g (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 China: As History Is My Witness b01nbsz4 (Listen) WED Wang Anshi - The Mandarin WED WED Running China has always required a civil service machine. WED One man's tale of triumph and disaster among the yes men and WED flatterers of the 11th century. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01nb1s9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01nb28j (Listen) WED Special Measures WED WED Special Measures by Christopher Reason WED The OFSTED inspectors arrive at Castle Steps Primary, an WED inner city primary school which thrives despite myriad WED social problems. The committed head teacher, Georgina Love, WED is under pressure for the school to become a sponsored WED academy, so it is vital the inspection goes well. Only she WED has the suspicion that she is being set up. WED WED Director/Producer Gary Brown WED WED Christopher Reason is a core writer for EastEnders and has WED written for Casualty, The Bill and Coronation Street. His WED radio work includes 'The Good Soldier Svjek', 'Every Child WED Matters' (Sony Gold Winner) and 'The Thank You Present'. He WED specialises in tackling contemporary issues in an honest and WED uncompromising way. WED WED Credits WED Georgina: Zara Turner WED Richard: Kevin Doyle WED Malina: Szilvi Naray-Davey WED Manpreet: Rani Moorthy WED Trevelyan: Kathryn Hunt WED O'Donohue: Robert Pickavance WED Director: Gary Brown WED Producer: Gary Brown WED Writer: Christopher Reason WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01nb2b4 (Listen) WED Tax WED WED Financial phone-in presented by Vincent Duggleby. WED WED 15:30 Inside Health b01nb1sh (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01nbq5y (Listen) WED Against Security WED WED 'Against Security'. A new book by the acclaimed American WED sociologist, Harvey Molotch, explores the complex systems WED which are designed to make us feel safe in public places. He WED tells Laurie Taylor why he thinks that security measures in WED airports and subways, post 9.11, have damaged the pleasure WED and dignity of our daily lives. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01nbq60 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01nbq62 (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie WED Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n8mzd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show! b00wlf1c (Listen) WED Series 6, Citizens' Advice WED WED Count Arthur Strong - one-time Variety Star and now sole WED proprietor and owner of Doncaster's Academy of Performance - WED is a show-business legend, raconteur and lecturer WED extraordinaire. In each episode of this sixth series we WED hear, as ever, a confused, muddled and often challenging WED day-in-the-life of Count Arthur - with his mixed-up delivery WED of words and forthright self-delusion. WED WED When Arthur attempts to return an item of clothing to a WED local shop, things don't quite go to plan - leading him to WED take some 'legal' advice at the Citizen's Advice Bureau. WED With an ever-increasing list of complaints, plus the WED possibility of having to acquire a puppy (or puppies) to WED boot, Arthur's day doesn't go quite as he'd hoped. WED WED The occasion does give him a chance to take a trip down WED memory lane however, re-living an acting moment in a legal WED TV drama - which of course enables Arthur to give some sound WED advice of his own! WED WED Count Arthur Strong ..... Steve Delaney WED Announcer, Shop Worker, Mr Smith & Wilf ..... Alastair Kerr WED Geoffrey, Jack, Person and Advisor ..... Dave Mounfield WED Sally, Brillo and Receptionist ..... Mel Giedroyc WED WED Producers: Richard Daws, Mark Radcliffe and John Leonard WED A Komedia Entertainment Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01nbq64 (Listen) WED Susan wants to help and Emma is lost for words. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01nbq66 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, who reports on Hollywood Costume, a major WED exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, featuring WED designs from a century of cinema, from Charlie Chaplin to WED Avatar. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nd7fk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01nbq68 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Kenan Malik, Giles Fraser, Melanie WED Phillips and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01nbq6b (Listen) WED Series 3, Rabina Khan WED WED Rabina Khan, author and independent local councillor, calls WED for a new understanding of multiculturalism which WED acknowledges people's multiple identities and avoids WED simplistic labels. "Regardless of which label we choose, WED there are different experiences for each label, and so there WED are many different ways of observing any religion or culture WED or lifestyle...By valuing multiple identities, multicultural WED Britain enhances rather than undermines British identity WED among minority communities." WED Producer: Sheila Cook. WED WED 21:00 Hallucination: Through the Doors of Perception WED b01nbq6d (Listen) WED Hallucinations aren't what they used to be. Time was when WED reporting a divine vision would bring fame or fortune, and WED have a queue of people wanting to touch your robe, receive a WED blessing, or recommend you for sainthood. WED WED The Enlightenment changed all that and nowadays you'd be WED more at risk of being handed a prescription for a major WED tranquilliser or even sectioned under the Mental Health Act WED for reporting what you saw or heard. Hallucinating, in WED essence, the experience of seeing or hearing (and sometimes WED smelling or touching) something that by any objective WED measure, isn't there, has been linked to a wide variety of WED causes. From the use of mind-altering substances such as WED LSD, to the complex collection of often distressing symptoms WED labelled schizophrenia. Neurological damage, dementia, WED post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, stress, WED narcolepsy - all these and more have been linked to WED hallucination. But there are also examples of otherwise WED 'healthy' individuals who have experienced vivid and WED sometimes distressing hallucinations which for most of the WED last century, science has largely overlooked. But with the WED advent of fMRI scanning, where researchers can observe the WED hallucinating brain in action, it is these "healthy" WED individuals who are beginning to open the doors of WED perception and which may provide new insights and treatments WED for psychosis and schizophrenia. WED WED In this programme, Geoff Watts meets researchers attempting WED to unlock the mysteries of hallucination as well as some of WED those who experience the phenomenon. Geoff visits Dr Dominic WED Ffytche of the Institute of Psychiatry in London, and WED undergoes a stroboscopic experiment designed to induce WED hallucinations in subjects whilst their brains are being WED scanned. We hear some of the vivid accounts from WED hallucinators, including Doris, who has macular WED degeneration. Over the last year, her failing eyesight has WED resulted in an array of objects and images appearing before WED her with startling clarity, from relatively benign baskets WED of flowers to the rather more distressing sight of dark, WED haunting figures sitting by her bed. Her condition is known WED as Charles Bonnet Syndrome and Dr Ffytche estimates that WED over 2 million people suffer from this in the UK alone, WED mostly in silence, due to the fear of being labelled as WED 'mad'. Geoff also visits Kelly Diederen's lab at Oxford WED University, which is investigating the origin of auditory WED hallucinations - hearing voices. Common in people with WED schizophrenia, Dr Diederen is instead, scanning the brains WED of so-called "healthy hallucinators", individuals who WED otherwise lead perfectly functional lives save for the fact WED that they hear voices on a daily basis. Could they hold the WED key to understanding and treating a key symptom of WED psychosis? And Geoff talks to internationally renowned WED neurologist and author, Dr Oliver Sacks, about his own WED experience of hallucination as well as his new book on the WED subject. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01nb284 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01n8mzg (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01nbq91 (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis with Ritula WED Shah. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ncjfs (Listen) WED The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 3 WED WED By Patricia Ferguson WED WED Read by Joanna Tope WED WED The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and WED moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who WED changes their lives. WED WED Violet has taken Grace home to Silkhampton where she causes WED quite a stir. And Violet receives an unwelcome visitor. WED WED Abridged by Robin Brooks WED Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. WED WED 23:00 My Teenage Diary b014gggx (Listen) WED Series 3, Jo Caulfield WED WED My Teenage Diary returns with four more brave celebrities WED ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their WED intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for WED the very first time. WED WED Rufus Hound is joined by comedian Jo Caulfield whose diaries WED describe her joining a terrible rockabilly band as drummer - WED despite the fact she can't play the drums. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nbq93 (Listen) WED Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 18 OCTOBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01n8n0c (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01nf3ls (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n8n0f (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n8n0h (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n8n0k (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01n8n0m (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nbqyx (Listen) THU A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with THU George Craig. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01nbqyz (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. THU THU 06:00 Today b01nbqz1 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and THU Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in THU Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01nbqz3 (Listen) THU Caxton and the Printing Press THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and influence THU of William Caxton, the merchant who brought the printing THU press to the British Isles. After spending several years THU working as a printer in Bruges, Caxton returned to London THU and in 1476 set up his first printing press in Westminster, THU and also imported and sold other printed books. The advent THU of print is now seen as one of the great revolutions in THU intellectual history - although many scholars believe it was THU a revolution that took many generations to have an effect. THU THU Producer: Natalia Fernandez. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01nf3mm (Listen) THU Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor, Episode 4 THU THU Written by Adrian Fort. THU THU A new biography detailing the fascinating life of Lady Nancy THU Astor, the first woman to take a seat in the British THU Parliament. THU THU Reader: Anna Maxwell Martin. THU Abridger: Alison Joseph. THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nbqz5 (Listen) THU Amanda Palmer plays live in the studio. Presented by Jenni THU Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nd826 (Listen) THU The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Episode 4 THU THU Episode 4: THU The Blornas discover their high ranking politician friend THU Alois Straubleder is in love with their housekeeper THU Katharina, even though she has refused his advances. He is THU terrified as he has given Katharina a key for his country THU home, where he suspects the fugitive Ludwig is hiding. THU Meanwhile, tabloid journalist Totges sneaks into the THU hospital to interview Katharina's dying mother. THU THU Sound design: Eloise Whitmore THU Broadcast assistant: Kath Willgress THU Executive producer: Joby Waldman THU THU Abridged by Helen Meller THU Produced and directed by Polly Thomas THU A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 11:00 From Our Own Correspondent b01nbqz7 (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 Hollywood on the Tiber b01nbqz9 (Listen) THU Cinecittà , "The City of Cinema" inaugurated by Italy's THU fascist leader Benito Mussolini in 1937, has had an THU extraordinary history. Some of the most iconic films of the THU 1950s and 60s - such as Roman Holiday, Ben Hur, War and THU Peace and La Dolce Vita - were shot in these famous studios, THU the largest in Europe. In that period huge numbers of THU American directors, producers and actors colonised Rome, THU attracted by the lower costs and skilled local craftsmen - THU and the city's undoubted other charms. Stars like Ava THU Gardner and Frank Sinatra could be spotted in the city's THU bars and nightclubs, the scandalous affair of Elizabeth THU Taylor and Richard Burton blossomed on the set of Cleopatra THU and filled the international gossip columns. It was the also THU the birth of the paparazzi (named after the celebrity THU photographer Paparazzo in Fellini's 1960 film La Dolce THU Vita). THU THU But only a few years earlier, Cinecittà had been ransacked THU by the German Army and, when the Allied forces liberated THU Rome in 1944, the studios were turned into a refugee camp THU where hundreds of orphaned children played and slept among THU the broken Corinthian columns from old film sets. The THU post-war American revival of Cinecittà took place even as THU the last refugees were still living there. THU THU Mukti Jain Campion meets producer Sandy Lieberson, film THU scholar Noa Steimatsky and award-winning costume maker THU Giampaolo Grassi, who recall Rome in its exciting THU film-making heyday, when Time magazine dubbed it "Hollywood THU on the Tiber". THU THU Producer Mukti Jain Campion THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01nbqzc (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01n8n0p (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01nbqzf (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 China: As History Is My Witness b01nbszj (Listen) THU Hong Xiuquan - The Rebel THU THU A 19th-century Christian king on the Yangtze. The Europeans THU joined forces against him, and nearly a 100 years later, it THU was another rebel who claimed to put China's people in THU power. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01nbq64 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00v72qx (Listen) THU Stone, The Bridge THU THU Detective series created by Danny Brocklehurst. Written by THU Cath Staincliffe. THU THU When university student Matt falls to his death from a THU railway bridge DCI Stone and his team embark on a murder THU investigation. Matt's best friend Liam and ex-girlfriend THU Holly are distraught. But when Liam's flat is set on fire THU and he subsequently goes missing, Stone if forced to THU consider whether these events might be linked. THU THU Directed by Nadia Molinari. THU THU Credits THU Stone: Hugo Speer THU Sue: Deborah McAndrew THU Tanner: Craig Cheetham THU Alan: David Fleeshman THU Liam: Oliver Lee THU Varney: Nick Moss THU Director: Nadia Molinari THU Writer: Danny Brocklehurst THU Writer: Cath Staincliffe THU THU 15:00 Ramblings b01nbqzh (Listen) THU Series 22, Simon Evans of the Wye and Usk Foundation THU THU Clare Balding walks with Simon Evans and his family along a THU tributary of the Usk, in the shadow of the Sugar Loaf. Simon THU is a passionate fisherman and river conservationist who THU works for the Wye and Usk Foundation. THU THU Simon's wife Hazel and their two children - Freya and Arlo - THU also joined in... Freya contributing musical accompaniment THU (Peter Rabbit had a fly upon his nose...) and Arlo narrowly THU avoiding tree-branches from his elevated position in Simon's THU backpack. A highlight was discovering otter spraint under a THU bridge - concrete evidence of recent otter activity. It's THU lilac-scented although perhaps not (as Clare pointed out) THU enough to warrant taking it home and putting it in her chest THU of drawers... THU THU An extraordinary 1000 year old sweet chestnut tree loomed THU into view towards the end of the walk... one of the boughs THU as big as a sizable tree. Clare's attempts to create a human THU circle ended in tears.. not her's... rather Freya's nose got THU rather too close to the trunk. THU THU We started at the Red Lion pub in Llanbedr, the walk took us THU along a tributary of the River Usk...(with a small trout THU leaping upstream) to our end point at The Bell in the THU village of Glangrwyney THU THU Producer: Karen Gregor. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01n98v7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01n9whm (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01nbrj5 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01nbrj7 (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 b01nbrj9 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie THU Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n8n0r (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b01nbrjc (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 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, presents the last in this THU second series of his 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 week's show starts by going to the dogs and ends with THU what is surely the oldest hymn in the world. 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. The original THU music is by Susannah Pearse. It is produced by Ed Morrish. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01nbrjf (Listen) THU Lilian is pushed to the limit. Meanwhile Brian is waiting THU for an important phone call. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01nbrjh (Listen) THU Kirsty Lang reports on The Lost Prince, a National Portrait THU Gallery exhibition about Henry Stuart, whose early death in THU 1612 at the age of 18 was widely mourned. THU THU Producer Stephen Hughes. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nd826 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 Law in Action b01nb1s1 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 20:30 The Bottom Line b01nbrjm (Listen) THU The Business of Sport THU THU The Business of Sport: Evan Davis chairs a round-table THU discussion providing insight into business from the people THU at the top. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01n9z0s (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01nbqz3 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01n8n0t (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01nbrjp (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis with Ritula THU Shah. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01ncjyn (Listen) THU The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 4 THU THU By Patricia Ferguson THU THU Read by Joanna Tope THU THU The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and THU moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who THU changes their lives. THU THU Grace is accepted as part of the Silkhampton community. At a THU school sports day, she catches a glimpse - for the first THU time - of another person who looks like her. THU THU Abridged by Robin Brooks THU Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. THU THU 23:00 Bigipedia b012qtwd (Listen) THU Series 2, Bigipedia 2.0 - BigiBuzz! THU THU This episode premiers the latest social networking add-on, THU BigiBuzz - find out the things that are popular so you can THU be one of them! 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 In this episode, Britain's least-haunted house is visited by THU terrified ghost-hunter Felix Richard and we find out the THU true meaning of pilk and pleather. THU THU Bigipedia was conceived by Nick Doody, and written by Nick THU Doody, Matt Kirshen and Sarah Morgan, with Carey Marx. It THU 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 Bigipedia is a Pozzitive production, produced by David THU Tyler. His radio credits include Armando Iannucci's Charm THU Offensive, Cabin Pressure, Another Case Of Milton Jones, THU Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes THU Off, The 99p Challenge, The Castle, The 3rd Degree and even, THU going back a bit, Radio Active. His TV credits include Paul THU Merton - The Series, Spitting Image, Absolutely, The Paul THU and Pauline Calf Video Diaries, Coogan's Run, The Tony THU Ferrino Phenomenon and Executive Producer of Victoria Wood's THU Dinnerladies. THU THU Produced and directed by David Tyler THU A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nbrjr (Listen) THU Alicia McCarthy with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 19 OCTOBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01n8n2f (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01nf3mm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01n8n2k (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01n8n2m (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01n8n2r (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01n8n2y (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01nbt92 (Listen) FRI A reading and a reflection to start the day on Radio 4 with FRI George Craig. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01nbt94 (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sarah Swadling. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01nbt96 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and FRI Evan Davis. Including Sports Desk; Yesterday in Parliament; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01n9vhp (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01nf3nd (Listen) FRI Nancy: The Story of Lady Astor, Episode 5 FRI FRI Written by Adrian Fort. FRI FRI Final extract from a new biography of Nancy Astor, detailing FRI the fascinating life of the first woman to take a seat in FRI the British Parliament. FRI FRI Reader: Anna Maxwell Martin. FRI Abridger: Alison Joseph. FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01nbt98 (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01nd3dy (Listen) FRI The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum, Episode 5 FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI The fugitive Ludwig is captured and Katharina is proved FRI innocent of any involvement with his crime. However, this FRI does not deter the press and their headlines grow ever more FRI lurid, blaming her for her mother's death. At last, she FRI cracks under the pressure and reveals exactly how and why FRI she shot Totges, the journalist responsible for the tabloid FRI campaign against her. FRI FRI Sound design: Eloise Whitmore FRI Broadcast assistant: Kath Willgress FRI Executive producer: Joby Waldman FRI FRI Abridged by Helen Meller FRI Produced and directed by Polly Thomas FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:00 Hairpieces for Horses and Clogs for Dogs b01fnqxw (Listen) FRI Domestic dogs and leisure horses have never had it so good, FRI but why do we spend so much money on them? From hair FRI extensions to formulated feeds, sorbet to scones, not FRI forgetting the "bling" and Santa outfits, it seems there is FRI nothing an owner can't buy these days for their treasured FRI animal companion. FRI FRI Dylan Winter explores what's changed in our life alongside FRI these animals to account for such pampering and expenditure. FRI Amongst the aisles of an equestrian megastore and the trade FRI stands at Crufts, he tackles the light-of-purse owners now FRI weighed down with shopping bags to find out what they are FRI prepared to spend and why, what's truly necessary and what's FRI not. Dylan also asks anthrozoologists and psychologists FRI about the origins and psychology of the complex and quirky FRI bonds humans can have with these animals. FRI FRI Producer: Sheena Duncan FRI A Sheena Duncan Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Gloomsbury b01nbt9b (Listen) FRI Trying to Avoid Unpleasantness FRI FRI The gardener Vera Sackcloth Vest and her husband Henry are FRI obliged to offer hospitality to the writer of very naughty FRI books Mr D H Lollipop and his new flame, Venus Traduces - FRI who formerly harboured a Sapphic passion for Vera. FRI FRI The guests are accommodated in the dovecote as Henry will FRI not have Lollipop in the house, in case the cook Mrs Gosling FRI is exposed to impertinences. Vera is hoping that Lollipop FRI will be able to improve her prose style, but instead he FRI seems to take pleasure in trashing her garden and FRI redesigning her study. Lollipop is intent on awakening FRI Venus's blood consciousness but, alas, any educational FRI impulse involving Venus is doomed to failure. FRI FRI As Venus's passion for Lollipop begins to flag, she finds FRI consolation with the gardener Gosling on the potting bench. FRI Despite Henry's precautions, Mrs Gosling is exposed to FRI Lollipop's impertinences, and the outcome is unexpected and FRI inconvenient. 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 D H Lollipop ..... John Sessions FRI FRI Produced by Jamie Rix FRI A Little Brother production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01nbt9d (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01nbt9g (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 b01n8n3b (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01nbt9j (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 China: As History Is My Witness b01nbt9l (Listen) FRI Old Hundred Names - China's Citizens FRI FRI At best they have been taken for granted and sometimes they FRI have endured far worse at the hands of China's governments FRI and invaders alike. What voice for the Chinese public now? FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01nbrjf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b00w1zlr (Listen) FRI Atching Tan FRI FRI Atching Tan by Dan Allum FRI FRI Lovvie Arkley is torn. Does she marry childhood sweetheart FRI Nelius and live a traditional, yet isolated Traveller life? FRI Or does she renounce her culture to pursue a career in the FRI outside 'Gorgia' world? Drama teacher John threatens to tip FRI the balance. Recorded on location on a Traveller site, with FRI all Traveller parts cast from the Traveller community. FRI FRI Music by Howard Jacques FRI FRI Written by Dan Allum FRI Producer: Charlotte Riches FRI Director: Fiona Kelcher. FRI FRI Credits FRI Lovvie: Candis Nergaard FRI Nelius: Damian Le Bas FRI John: Brodie Ross FRI Norah: Maryanne Loveridge FRI Aggie: Sharon Loveridge FRI Jim: Dean Loveridge FRI Director: Fiona Kelcher FRI Producer: Charlotte Riches FRI Writer: Dan Allum FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01nbt9n (Listen) FRI Kidlington FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs an episode of the horticultural panel FRI programme recorded in Kidlington in Oxfordshire, with Pippa FRI Greenwood, Matthew Wilson, and Anne Swithinbank taking FRI questions from a local audience. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 On the Brink b01nbt9q (Listen) FRI A Cold War FRI FRI First years ago, the world stood on the brink of nuclear war FRI as the US and Soviets engaged in a military stand-off over FRI missiles in Cuba. FRI FRI In Douglas Kennedy's story, the last in a series looking at FRI the Cuban Missile Crisis through the eyes of ordinary FRI people, a young boy in Manhattan watches his parents' FRI marriage fall apart as nuclear war looms. FRI FRI Writer: Douglas Kennedy is the author of ten novels, FRI including 'Leaving the World' and 'The Moment'. In 2007, he FRI received the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des FRI Arts et des Lettres. FRI Reader: Nathan Osgood FRI Producer: Justine Willett. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01nbt9s (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b01nbt9v (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 b01nbt9x (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 b01nbt9z (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01n8n3g (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01nbtb1 (Listen) FRI Series 78, Episode 7 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. Panellists include Jeremy Hardy, Phill Jupitus and FRI Michael Deacon. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01nbtb3 (Listen) FRI Writer...Joanna Toye FRI Director...Kim Greengrass FRI Editor... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Kenton Archer..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch FRI Pip Archer..... Helen Monks FRI Brian Aldridge..... Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jolene Perks..... Buffy Davis FRI Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks..... Hedli Niklaus FRI Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin FRI Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary..... Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe FRI James Bellamy..... Roger May FRI Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur FRI Arthur Walters.... David Hargreaves FRI Doctor.... Jan Knightley. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01nbtb5 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Kirsty Lang. FRI FRI Producer Ella-mai Robey. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01nd3dy (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01nbtb7 (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby chairs a discussion of news and politics FRI from St Alkmund's Church, Shrewsbury in Shropshire. Guests FRI include Sally Bercow, The General Secretary of the RMT Bob FRI Crow, Nigel Farage from UKIP and Stephan Shakespeare from FRI the polling company Yougov. FRI FRI Producer: Lisa Jenkinson. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01nbtb9 (Listen) FRI Understanding Contemporary China 2/4 FRI FRI In this second talk, he examines the tributary system, the FRI historical China-centric network of international relations FRI which involved other parts of East Asia accepting the FRI principle of Chinese superiority in return for protection FRI and access to the Chinese market, an arrangement distinct to FRI European forms of colonialism. He asks whether a system of FRI this kind is now re-emerging. FRI FRI Martin Jacques is the author of 'When China Rules the FRI World'. FRI FRI Producer: Ros Jones. FRI FRI 21:00 China: As History Is My Witness b01nbtjz (Listen) FRI Omnibus Edition: Part 2 FRI FRI Qin Shi Huangdi - The Emperor; Li Bai - The Warlord; Wang FRI Anshi - The Mandarin; Hong Xiuquan - The Rebel; Old Hundred FRI Names - China's Citizens. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01n8n3v (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01nbtk1 (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis presented by FRI Robin Lustig. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01nd3jk (Listen) FRI The Midwife's Daughter, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Patricia Ferguson FRI FRI Read by Joanna Tope FRI FRI The new novel by Patricia Ferguson is the compassionate and FRI moving story of two sisters and the young black orphan who FRI changes their lives. FRI FRI Violet hears about her sister's overreaction to a FRI description of Grace and suspects that Bea has been keeping FRI a secret from her. FRI FRI Abridged by Robin Brooks FRI Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane. FRI FRI 23:00 A Good Read b01nb1s3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01nbtk3 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports on the day's events at Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01ngryr (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
12 October, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 13/10/2012 - 19/10/2012
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