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SAT SATURDAY 01 DECEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01p0tt4 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01p4nxc (Listen) SAT The Black Count, Episode 5 SAT SAT Tom Reiss's new book reveals that the father of the writer, SAT Alexandre Dumas, led a life of derring-do that is captured SAT in his son's novels. Today, relief at escaping the rigours SAT of campaigning in Egypt turns to disillusion on reaching the SAT Neapolitan coast. SAT SAT Read by Hugh Quarshie. SAT Abridged by Richard Hamilton. SAT Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p0tt6 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p0tt8 (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p0ttb (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01p0ttd (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p0vy8 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Pastor SAT Alex Robertson. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01p0vyb (Listen) SAT 'My brain's wired up differently.' A listener with SAT Asperger's Syndrome shares his story and explains how PM SAT prompted him to make a big change in his life. With Jennifer SAT Tracey. iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01p0ttg (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01p0ttj (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01p0sb9 (Listen) SAT Atlantic College at 50 SAT SAT The 12th century St Donat's castle in South Wales was once SAT home to media mogul William Randolph Hearst - subject of SAT Citizen Kane. Fifty years ago it became the home of Atlantic SAT College, a unique educational establishment bringing SAT together students from around the world in the hope of SAT promoting peace and understanding and to overcome the SAT problems of the Cold War. Felicity Evans explores the campus SAT grounds, meeting students past and present, to find out how SAT an alternative education has influenced their lives. She SAT asks how serving the community and working on the land - SAT including running the organic farm and lifeboat unit - has SAT helped shape their views and plans for the future. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01p2tg4 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01p0ttl (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01p2tg6 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01p2tg8 (Listen) SAT Richard Madeley, Nona Hendryx Inheritance Tracks, John SAT McCarthy in Maastricht SAT SAT Sian Williams and Richard Coles with broadcaster Richard SAT Madeley, and a man who's spent many years pretending to be SAT him and his 'Uncle' Stan Madeley, a woman who believes the SAT secret to happiness lies in the Hawaiian hula dance, a rock SAT and roll history in poetic form from Murray Lachlan Young, a SAT father and son who've revived the sound and style of the SAT original Proms orchestra, a couple who have both been SAT diagnosed with terminal diseases, John McCarthy in SAT Maastricht and the Inheritance Tracks of musician and SAT activist Nona Hendryx. SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Football's Home Fans b01p2v1z (Listen) SAT One of the most embarrassing moments in Ian Stone's life was SAT when a coach made him player of the season in front of his SAT team mates. The coach was his dad. Ian was 22. Now Ian is a SAT football dad himself (and a comedian and broadcaster) and, SAT in Football's Home Fans, he investigates the rapidly SAT changing world of children's football. From campaigns to SAT improve parents' behaviour on the touchline, to bans on SAT league tables for younger players, many in the game believe SAT we're at the start of a new era. Ian tours the touchline, SAT talking to parents as they stand behind plastic barriers, SAT trying not to shout "get stuck in!" to a bunch of eight year SAT olds. We ask whether the Football Association's Respect SAT campaign has worked, learn about the work of the National SAT Children's Football Alliance, and talk to the author and SAT broadcaster Jim White, who spent years coaching his own SAT son's team and then wrote a book about it. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b01p2vt8 (Listen) SAT George Parker of The Financial Times looks behind the scenes SAT at Westminster. SAT SAT Will David Cameron change his mind and allow a press law on SAT to the statute book ? SAT SAT It's the question his critics are asking after the SAT publication this week of the report into press ethics by SAT Lord Justice Leveson. SAT SAT Here, the former journalist, Lord Fowler, and the Lib Dems' SAT deputy leader, Simon Hughes, join Labour's Graham Stringer SAT to weigh the chances. SAT SAT The UK Independence Party has had a week of publicity after SAT a Conservative MP suggested the two parties agree a pact. SAT SAT The Lib Dem, Nick Harvey, can't see that happening - in SAT spite of UKIP's showing in this week's by-elections. But the SAT Conservative, Douglas Carswell, thinks it should. SAT SAT The floods that have blighted parts of the country have put SAT a new focus on the government's handling of green issues. SAT SAT The Lib Dem, Tessa Munt, and the Tory, Mel Stride, come into SAT the studio with stories of their constituents' plight. SAT SAT And the appointment of a Canadian, Mark Carney, as the next SAT governor of the Bank of England, is just the latest case of SAT a big job here being filled from abroad. SAT SAT The American-born Conservative, Brooks Newmark, and the SAT Frenchman, PY Gerbeau, discuss the challenges he faces. SAT SAT Editor: Peter Mulligan. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01p2vtb (Listen) SAT Egypt at the Crossroads SAT SAT Foreign correspondents colour in the spaces between the SAT headlines. This week presented by Allan Little. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01p2vtd (Listen) SAT How to escape carmageddon, wine woes, free tax refunds that SAT cost and no-frill flight fees SAT SAT Carmageddon: it's not the latest Hollywood blockbuster but SAT the term being used by some commentators to describe what SAT will happen on the 21st December when insurance companies SAT will charge men and women the same premium to comply with SAT European Union legislation. Traditionally women drivers - SAT especially younger - have enjoyed cheaper premiums because SAT they make fewer claims. But that's set to change and if we SAT believe the predictions it could be as much as a 40% SAT increase. So what's going on and how can we prepare SAT ourselves? We talk to Graeme Trudgill from the British SAT Insurance Brokers' Association. SAT SAT People who invested thousands of pounds in fine wine are SAT facing an anxious wait after the collapse of another major SAT wine investment firm. Vinance PLC managed more than £50 SAT million for thousands of investors in the UK and abroad. We SAT hear from two people who invested in the company, wine SAT investment expert Jim Budd and Peter Shakeshaft, from the SAT Wine Investment Association which launched this week to SAT provide, he says, 'a new, robust framework of SAT self-regulation offering vital safeguards for investors'. SAT SAT From Dec 1st Ryanair becomes the latest airline to comply SAT with a recent Office of Fair Trading ruling that debit SAT charge fees should be included in the headline price for SAT flight costs. So what does this mean for travellers? Bob SAT Atkinson from Travelsupermarket.com reveals all. SAT SAT If you find you are on the wrong tax code or think you've SAT paid too much tax what should you do? The cheapest thing to SAT do is contact HMRC yourself but we talk to one company which SAT offers to do it for you on a no win no fee basis. But if SAT they are successful they take a cut of 39% of the rebate. So SAT why are some public bodies and businesses endorsing the SAT business? SAT SAT 12:30 The Now Show b01p0vqw (Listen) SAT Series 38, Episode 4 SAT SAT Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present stand-up and sketches SAT with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch Benn and special guests SAT Angela Barnes & Pippa Evans. Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01p0ttn (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01p0ttq (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b01p0vw4 (Listen) SAT Pinner Parish Church, Middlesex SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Pinner Parish Church in Pinner, in Middlesex. Guests SAT include the Shadow Foreign Secretary Douglas Alexander MP, SAT Business Secretary Vince Cable MP, Baroness Pauline Nevile SAT Jones and Editor of The Spectator Fraser Nelson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b01p2vtg (Listen) SAT Listeners' calls and emails in response to this week's SAT edition of Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01p2vtj (Listen) SAT A Slow Air SAT SAT by David Harrower. SAT SAT Siblings Morna and Athol haven't spoken to each other for SAT fourteen years. As they recount their troubled history, they SAT tell the story of modern Scotland. SAT SAT Athol lives in Houston, round the corner from where the SAT Glasgow Airport bombers planned their raid in 2007. He SAT believes that only Scotland could produce such 'crap SAT terrorists'. Dyed-in-the-wool SNP supporter Morna remembers SAT the good old days of well-intended protest. As they talk, SAT their differences - political, social, even musical - begin SAT to seem less important. SAT SAT David Harrower is one of Scotland's leading playwrights. His SAT work includes BLACKBIRD, KNIVES IN HENS and 365 as well as SAT many adaptations and translations. BLACKBIRD was an SAT astonishing tour de force and has received international SAT acclaim. His play, GOOD WITH PEOPLE and his translation of SAT Schiller's MARY STUART have recently been broadcast on SAT radio. SAT SAT Credits SAT Athol: Lewis Howden SAT Morna: Susan Vidler SAT Director: David Harrower SAT Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane SAT Writer: David Harrower SAT SAT 15:30 Who's Drummer? b01p2vtl (Listen) SAT Nobody caught his name, but everybody remembers the skinny SAT kid plucked from the audience to replace the legendary Keith SAT Moon. For just one night. SAT SAT Cow Palace, San Francisco, 20th November 1973. The Who play SAT the opening night of their Quadrophenia tour to a crowd of SAT 14,000. After taking a cocktail of drugs and drink, drummer SAT Keith Moon collapses over his drum kit one hour into the SAT show and has to be taken off stage. They throw him in a SAT shower and he seems to rally when he gets back on stage, but SAT soon starts flailing about and failing to make contact with SAT the drums. After he falls backwards off his stool, the three SAT remaining members carry on playing the song until guitarist SAT Pete Townshend stops and asks the audience "Can anyone play SAT drums? I mean somebody good!" SAT SAT Audience member Mike Danese points to his friend,19 year-old SAT Scot Halpin, who reluctantly and nervously climbs on stage. SAT He does himself proud. Scot knows every track, every beat. SAT It's his fifteen minutes of fame. SAT SAT In this programme, we re-live that moment and capture SAT memories of the concert from the people who were there. SAT SAT Gary Rossington from Lynyrd Skynyrd, the support act, talks SAT about touring with The Who and that fateful night. Peter SAT "Dougal" Butler, Keith Moon's PA for many years, paints a SAT picture of what life was like backstage. SAT SAT Sadly Scot Halpin passed away in 2008, and his wife Robin SAT recalls how he told the story so many times. SAT SAT Nick Barraclough, presenting, identifies with the syndrome. SAT His fantasy always was that John Lennon would fall ill and SAT Paul would call out "Can anyone play rhythm guitar and sing SAT - I mean somebody good?"? SAT SAT Presented by Nick Barraclough. SAT SAT Producer: Nick Barraclough and Emma-Victoria Houlton SAT A Smooth Operations production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01p2vtn (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jane SAT Garvey. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01p2vtq (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Patrick O'Connell. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01p0vyb (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01p0tts (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01p0ttv (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p0ttx (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01p2vts (Listen) SAT Stewart Lee, Oona Chaplin, David Nobbs, Jane Treays, SAT Kristina Train and Iko SAT SAT Clive discusses the ups and downs of being a comedy writer SAT with author David Nobbs, whose first break was writing for SAT 'That Was The Week That Was'. David's latest novel 'The Fall SAT And Rise Of Gordon Coppinger' is the follow-up to 'The Fall SAT And Rise Of Reginald Perrin' and is a witty observation of SAT modern British values and the craving for a public fall from SAT grace. SAT SAT Clive's just in time to talk to actress Oona Chaplin about SAT her role as Marnie Madden in the award-winning 1950's SAT newsroom drama 'The Hour'. Series two rejoins The Hour team SAT in 1957, still striving to broadcast the stories they SAT believe in as they grapple with the looming spectre of the SAT Cold War and changing social mores.'The Hour' is on BBC Two SAT on Wednesdays at 21.00. SAT SAT Nikki Bedi has afternoon tea with Director Jane Treays whose SAT hard-hitting documentary credits include 'Mum, Heroine and SAT Me' and this year's Olympic programme 'Tom Daley: Diving For SAT Britain'. Jane's living the highlife at the very grand SAT Claridges hotel, discovering the traditions and challenges SAT that lie behind its pampering and five star service. 'Inside SAT Claridges' begins on BBC Two on Monday 3rd December at SAT 21.00. SAT SAT Clive rolls out the red carpet and talks shagpile with SAT 'Officially The 41st Best Stand Up Ever', Stewart Lee. His SAT misery-comedy-memoir show sees him scramble to put together SAT a coherent show from a rag-bag of remnants originally SAT intended to explore idealised notions of society. 'Carpet SAT Remnant World' is available now on DVD. SAT SAT With music from pop/soul singer songwriter and London-based SAT New Yorker Kristina Train who performs the title track of SAT her new album 'Dark Black'. SAT SAT And Dartmoor band Iko take the studio by storm to perform SAT 'Lightning Bolts' from their 'Dazed and Confused' EP. SAT SAT Producer: Cathie Mahoney. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b01p2vtv (Listen) SAT Nigel Farage SAT SAT The UK Independence Party has not been out of the news SAT headlines over the past fortnight: two of its supporters in SAT Rotherham had their foster children taken away from them SAT because of their UKIP affiliation; Conservative Party Deputy SAT Chairman Michael Fabricant suggested that the Tories might SAT be wise to enter into an pact with UKIP at the 2015 general SAT election; and rumours surfaced of a possible defection of SAT several Conservative MPs to the anti-EU party. SAT SAT All of that on top of results from some polls suggesting SAT that UKIP now musters more support from the electorate than SAT the Liberal Democrats. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b01p2vtx (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights. SAT "I’ve noticed before that the journey to Stratford is rarely SAT the same distance coming back as it is going." SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01p2vtz (Listen) SAT Great Spy Books: Fact or Fiction? SAT SAT Peter Hennessy, the leading expert on state secrecy, asks SAT how close the great British spy novels come to reality and SAT explores what they reveal about the top secret world of SAT intelligence and security - MI5, MI6 and Whitehall. By SAT drawing on official papers and what were once top secret SAT intelligence documents, and by interviewing former diplomats SAT and former officers in MI5 and MI6, he compares and SAT contrasts the great spy novels with the real world of SAT espionage. SAT SAT Much of the appeal of great spy novels lies in their SAT apparent authenticity and some leading spy writers draw on SAT their experience of secret intelligence work. But how much SAT do their fictional characters, such as James Bond or George SAT Smiley, resemble real spies? And is fact sometimes stranger SAT than fiction? SAT SAT Peter Hennessy shows that spy books in the early 1900s SAT reflected British anxieties about a German invasion and made SAT a big impact, contributing to the founding of Britain's SAT first secret service bureau, the forerunner of MI5 and MI6. SAT He traces the development of spy fiction from its early days SAT to the more nuanced spy stories of Somerset Maugham in SAT 'Ashenden' and of Eric Ambler's 1930s' novels. Their more SAT subtle approach is echoed by Graham Greene and John le SAT Carre, whereas Ian Fleming's hero, James Bond, is part spy, SAT part assassin. Cold War novels reflect the deep fear of SAT nuclear war and of betrayal by double-agents ('moles'), but SAT can modern spy fiction achieve the same degree of intrigue SAT and suspense? SAT SAT Peter Hennessy compares the views and works of spy writers SAT with evidence of official intelligence work and the SAT experiences of former diplomats and intelligence officers, SAT as he assesses great spy books - fact or fiction. SAT SAT Producer: Rob Shepherd. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01p0680 (Listen) SAT The Count of Monte Cristo, Episode 1 SAT SAT By Alexandre Dumas, adapted for radio by Sebastian SAT Baczkiewicz. SAT At the age of nineteen, seaman Edmond Dantès has a charmed SAT life - about to be promoted to Captain, and engaged to the SAT beautiful Mercédès. But Marseilles in 1815 is a dangerous SAT place, and three of Dantes' acquaintances set in train a SAT chain of events that will lead Edmond to fourteen years of SAT solitary confinement in the notorious Chateau D'If. SAT SAT Alexandre Dumas was born in 1802. His father, the SAT illegitimate son of a marquis, was a general in the SAT revolutionary armies, but died when Alexandre was four years SAT old. His most successful novels were The Count of Monte SAT Cristo (serialised between 1844-5) and the Three Musketeers, SAT published in 1844. SAT SAT To coincide with the broadcast of The Count of Monte Cristo, SAT the Book of the Week is Tom Reiss's account of the life of SAT Alexandre Dumas's father - General Alex Dumas, 'The Black SAT Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of SAT Monte Cristo'. SAT SAT Credits SAT Edmond Dantes: Iain Glen SAT Haydee: Jane Lapotaire SAT Abbe Faria: Richard Johnson SAT Monsieur Morrell: Robert Blythe SAT Danglars: Toby Jones SAT Fernand: Zubin Varla SAT Caderousse: Ben Crowe SAT Jacopo: Joe Sims SAT Captain Patin: Patrick Brennan SAT Albert de Morcerf: Will Howard SAT Antoine: Will Howard SAT Claude: Paul Stonehouse SAT Max Morrell: Adam Nagaitis SAT Mathilde: Liza Sadovy SAT Julie Morrell: Eleanor Crooks SAT Director: Jeremy Mortimer SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01p0tv1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b01p0s0v (Listen) SAT Rationing the NHS SAT SAT In the week of the 70th anniversary of the Beveridge report SAT that was to lay the foundations for the welfare state, a SAT Conservative MP, who's also a practicing GP, says patients SAT suffering from lifestyle-related diseases such as type 2 SAT diabetes should pay for part of their care. And in a recent SAT online poll more than half of the doctors who took part said SAT smokers and the obese should be denied non-emergency SAT treatment until they changed their lifestyles. We now spend SAT over £90 billion a year on the NHS, but with more spending SAT cuts likely in next week's Autumn Statement how much longer SAT can we afford the principle that treatment should be based SAT on need and be free at the point of delivery? When money is SAT tight and demand for, and costs of health care are SAT increasing, who should the NHS be for? Is it fair for those SAT who look after their health to see their taxes being SAT squandered on treatment for those whose poor health could be SAT described as "self-inflicted". But exactly what is the SAT definition of 'self-inflicted illnesses? Obesity? SAT Alcoholism? And what of injuries sustained while playing SAT sports? It's a moral minefield too - how does one decide SAT which illness is the result of sheer self-indulgence, and SAT which is the result of uncontrollable inner demons at play? SAT And do we blame ourselves for the ills that befall us, or SAT should society take the rap and pay the bill? Is the concept SAT of deserving and un-deserving patients inherently immoral, SAT or a healthy dose of reality? Combative, provocative and SAT engaging debate chaired by David Aaronovitch with Kenan SAT Malik, Melanie Phillips, Matthew Taylor and Claire Fox. SAT Witnesses: Dr Steve Davies - Education Director, Institute SAT of Economic Affairs, Joyce Robbins - Patient Concern, Tam SAT Fry - Spokesman for the National Obesity Forum; Chairman of SAT the Child Growth Foundation, Dr Vivienne Nathanson - SAT Director of Professional Activities at the British Medical SAT Association. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01p0bmv (Listen) SAT (1/17) SAT The most venerable radio general knowledge quiz of them all SAT returns for the 2012-13 season, with Russell Davies SAT welcoming 48 competitors from all over the UK hoping to be SAT named the 60th Brain of Britain. SAT SAT In the first programme the contestants are from the Isle of SAT Wight, Cornwall, South Wales and Aberdeen. SAT SAT History, music, science, geography, literature, mythology, SAT popular culture, and all points in between, lurk in SAT Russell's pack of questions. This is the quiz where you SAT can't save yourself with clever tactics, hedging your bets, SAT making your opponents go first, or voting them off! The SAT winner will be the contestant who knows the most correct SAT answers - who will go through to a place in the series SAT semi-finals in the new year. SAT SAT As always, the programme includes the 'Beat the Brains' SAT feature, in which the competitors tackle a pair of questions SAT suggested by a listener trying to outwit them. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Workshop b01p0684 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Episode 4 SAT SAT The Shalom House Poets meet regularly in Belfast Central SAT Library to dole out tough love on each other's poems. Ruth SAT Padel joins them as they workshop their poems in a spirit of SAT supportive criticism, going behind the scenes of a poem to SAT find out which techniques work and which don't. SAT Ruth and the group work on three very different poems on the SAT theme of 'windows'. One of them is an intricate observation SAT of a sculpture in Salzburg, another is an enigmatic SAT reflection on shadows, and there's a nostalgic and powerful SAT recollection of a living room in Belfast. SAT The technical focus this week will be on inspiration and SAT description .The group discuss the techniques, inspiration, SAT wordplay and imagination that make poetry so enjoyable and SAT rewarding. As well as working on their own poems, they also SAT consider a very well know one by Louis MacNeice; 'Snow'. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 02 DECEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01p2smh (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Vasily Grossman from the Frontline b014ptrt (Listen) SUN Ukraine without Jews SUN SUN Elliot Levey reads the final front line despatch from Vasily SUN Grossman's wartime journalism. 3: Ukraine Without Jews. SUN 'Stillness. Silence. A people has been murdered.' SUN SUN The author of Life and Fate, which begins its dramatization SUN on Radio 4 today, conveyed the 'ruthless truth of war' that SUN revealed itself to the Soviet Union after Nazi invasion in SUN June 1941. This devastating piece was one of the very first SUN articles to describe the results of Nazi genocide as the war SUN still raged. SUN SUN Grossman's own mother would be one of the thousands murdered SUN in his home town of Berdichev which lay in the path of the SUN Nazi's lightning quick advance through the Ukraine. Some one SUN and half million Jewish people lived in these newly SUN conquered areas, nearly all would be shot in what has become SUN known as 'shoa by bullet' SUN SUN Grossman had volunteered for military service partly in SUN reaction to his mother's fate. Instead he found himself SUN assigned as frontline correspondent for the military SUN newspaper Red Star. From the disastrous year of 1941 to SUN final victory in ruined Berlin, Grossman gave the Soviet SUN people a sense of their war. SUN SUN But his attempts to detail the murder of the millions of SUN Jews on Soviet soil would only be met by official silence. SUN As the Red Army began reconquering the occupied lands SUN Grossman travelled with them, recording the empty villages SUN and towns, the mass graves and terrible silence. Ukraine SUN Without Jews was rejected by the military censor & would SUN only appear in the Yiddish newspaper Einkayt in November SUN 1943. The full version, from which this is an extract, would SUN only be rediscovered in the late 1990's and appeared in SUN English earlier this year. SUN SUN Reader Elliot Levey SUN Translators Jim Riordan & Polly Zavadivker SUN Producer Mark Burman. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p2smk (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p2smm (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p2smr (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01p2smt (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01p30dz (Listen) SUN The bells of St Andrew's Church, Hurstbourne Priors, SUN Hampshire. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b01p2vtv (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01p2smw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01p30f1 (Listen) SUN Houses of God SUN SUN Mark Tully talks to the Archbishop of Westminster, in SUN Westminster cathedral, as part of an exploration of the SUN contemporary purpose of church buildings. SUN SUN What is the true function of buildings dedicated to God? SUN Churches were originally built to "His greater glory" but SUN arguably we build them far less now and preserve them far SUN more. Has our relationship with houses of God changed? SUN SUN Mark Tully visits Westminster Cathedral and, in conversation SUN with Archbishop Vincent Nichols, discusses the tension SUN between honouring God through the creation of beautiful SUN spaces and the duty expressed by all the major faiths to do SUN charitable work. SUN SUN With readings reflecting the building of great churches and SUN mosques, as well as humble churches and chapels, and music SUN from Brahms, Bruckner and Morton Feldman, Mark examines the SUN benefits and the beauty of religious buildings. The readers SUN are Toby Jones and Emily Raymond. SUN SUN Producer: Frank Stirling SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 The Living World b01p30f3 (Listen) SUN The Living Deadwood SUN SUN All trees, even ornamental species, at the end of their life SUN are great providers of dead and decaying wood, whether they SUN are in recognised woodlands, or as single specimens in our SUN parklands. However far from being the end of life this SUN provision of dead and decaying timber provides the beginning SUN of life for rare invertebrate and fungal species. From a SUN biodiversity point of view the conservation of this deadwood SUN in woodlands is of critical value as many species are SUN associated with specific species of deadwood, or certain SUN trees. SUN SUN In Living World this week, Trai Anfield travels to an old SUN park woodland near Helmsley in North Yorkshire where she SUN meets up with entomologist Dr Roger Key for a daylong safari SUN looking for invertebrates contained within deadwood. The SUN story begins with fungi. Fungus spores carried in the air SUN are deposited on the dead wood and with luck will germinate SUN and send hyphae into the wood gradually breaking the wood SUN down and thus providing suitable habitats for invertebrates SUN and their larvae. SUN SUN During her quest, Trai Anfield uncovers what is actually SUN meant by deadwood, and that as a specialist Dr Key is known SUN as a saprophytic entomologist, one who specialises in the SUN lifecycles of deadwood insects. During the day, Dr Key SUN uncovers a species he has known about but never seen in the SUN wild in 30 years of searching for it. SUN SUN Exploring the park woodland it becomes clear that a complex SUN ecosystem is in place which if we become too tidy and clear SUN up our fallen wood it can often be the worst thing people SUN can do as this removes vital habitats from the lifecycle of SUN many invertebrates and ultimately reduced the vigour of the SUN woodland itself. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01p2smy (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01p2sn0 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01p30f5 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Samira Ahmed. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b01p30f7 (Listen) SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal SUN SUN To give to this years appeal call: 0800 082 82 84. Or donate SUN online via the Radio 4 website. Or send cheques payable to SUN St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal, Trafalgar Square, SUN London, WC2N 4JJ. SUN Phillip's story of homelessness SUN The Listening Project SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01p2sn4 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01p2sn6 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01p30f9 (Listen) SUN Advent Expectations - 'Doing What's Expected' is the theme SUN of Mass live from Our Lady and the English Martyrs, SUN Cambridge. Preacher: Fr Father Benedict Jonak OP; Celebrant: SUN The Rector, Monsignor Peter Leeming; Director of Music: SUN Nigel Kerry; Producer: Philip Billson. SUN SUN Advent is a time of expectation. The Biblical texts are SUN filled with anticipation of the coming Messiah, promises of SUN hope for the future, and expectations of the Second Coming SUN of Christ. It's a time that we're called on to question SUN what's expected of us and reflect upon what we can expect SUN from God. As we prepare for Christmas our hearts are filled SUN with expectations, which may or may not be fulfilled. And we SUN are also reminded that God does not show His love for us in SUN the way we expect; rather than making a great and triumphant SUN entry into the world, he comes to us as a tiny, vulnerable SUN child. SUN SUN The readings in the Lectionary for this Sunday are all about SUN what's expected of God's Children and what they are to SUN expect from God. We are expected to love one another, to be SUN blameless and to remain alert. In return we can expect that SUN God will fulfil his promise to bring forth a branch of David SUN and restore Jerusalem; he will remain steadfast in love and SUN faithfulness and the Song of Man will come to us with all SUN the saints. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01p0vw6 (Listen) SUN Are students getting their money's worth? SUN SUN Mary Beard reflects on why universities are being consumed SUN by "customer satisfaction" surveys. SUN SUN "When you're paying up to £9000 a year for the privilege of SUN being at university, you want to make it pretty clear if you SUN feel you're not getting your money's worth", she writes. SUN SUN But the deluge of forms - asking students for their views on SUN the content, presentation, organisation of the course and SUN the quality of the handouts will - she argues, do little to SUN improve "the learning experience". SUN SUN She admits having a "tweak of nostalgia for that old era SUN before the tick-box, when brave students would tell their SUN famous professors to their face that their lectures were SUN rubbish"! SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01p30fc (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 09:45 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b01p30ff (Listen) SUN Received with Thanks SUN SUN Libby Purves on how the money from last years appeal has SUN helped homeless and vulnerable people across the UK. To give SUN to this year's appeal call: 0800 082 82 84. Or donate online SUN via the Radio 4 website. Or send cheques payable to St SUN Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal, Trafalgar Square, SUN London, WC2N 4JJ. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01p314l (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Graham Harvey SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN David Archer..... Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer..... Felicity Finch SUN Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling SUN Matt Crawford..... Kim Durham SUN Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde SUN Jolene Rogers..... Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Kathy Perks..... Hedli Niklaus SUN Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter..... Charlotte Martin SUN Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker..... Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker..... Lorraine Coady SUN Bert Fry..... Eric Allan SUN Lewis Carmichael..... Robert Lister SUN Jazzer McCreary..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN James Bellamy..... Roger May SUN Joyce Walters ..... Ann Beach. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01p314n (Listen) SUN Dustin Hoffman SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is Dustin Hoffman. SUN SUN In spite of his Aunt Pearl telling him he wasn't good SUN looking enough to be an actor for the past forty-five years SUN he's been crafting landmark movie performances. He is that SUN rare and apparently contradictory thing - a character actor SUN and a superstar. SUN SUN The Graduate, Midnight Cowboy, Lenny, All The President's SUN Men, Marathon Man, Kramer v Kramer, Tootsie, Rain Man, Wag SUN The Dog, and Last Chance Harvey are just a handful of the SUN movies that contribute to an unparalleled body of work: he SUN is the only actor in history to have top billing in three SUN films that won Best Picture Oscars. SUN SUN Now in his mid-70s he is making his directorial debut. SUN SUN He says "I'm always fighting to break through... I'm trying SUN to show you the part of me that wants to love, wants to SUN kill, that wants to find my way out, that feels there is no SUN way out." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01p0bn3 (Listen) SUN Series 58, Episode 3 SUN SUN The nation's favourite wireless entertainment pays a visit SUN to the Symphony Hall in Birmingham. Regulars Barry Cryer, SUN Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel SUN by Jeremy Hardy, with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell SUN provides piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01p314q (Listen) SUN A Winning Meal - The BBC Food Awards menu SUN SUN A Winning Meal - the menu behind the Food and Farming SUN Awards. Chef Arthur Potts-Dawson tells the story behind a SUN celebratory meal created using ingredients from UK food SUN producers who were nominated for the BBC Food and Farming SUN Awards. SUN SUN Presented by Arthur Potts-Dawson. Produced by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01p2sn8 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01p314s (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, presented by SUN Shaun Ley. Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: SUN #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b01p067w (Listen) SUN Episode 2 SUN SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli travels to Liverpool to cook lunch for SUN Wayne Burns and Lindsay Ball. For many years food has been SUN an important part of both their lives, so much so that after SUN years of overeating they become obese. Eventually events in SUN their lives convinced them the only way forward was for both SUN to have operations for a duodenal switch. Since then Wayne SUN has literally become half the man he was. But as Hardeep SUN finds out dramatic weight loss hasn't solved all their SUN problems. SUN SUN Producers: Amanda Hancox SUN Dawn Bryan. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01p0vfs (Listen) SUN Oxfordshire SUN SUN Chaired by Eric Robson, the GQT team is in Oxfordshire for SUN this week. Taking the audience's questions are Pippa SUN Greenwood, Matthew Wilson and Anne Swithinbank. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01p314z (Listen) SUN As Radio 4 launches its Christmas Appeal, Fi Glover hears SUN about the challenges of homelessness on the streets of SUN London from Gemma and her case worker at The Connection at SUN St Martin in the Fields, as well as conversations from Kent SUN and Shropshire about politics and activism - or lack of it. 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 b01p3151 (Listen) SUN The Count of Monte Cristo, Episode 2 SUN SUN By Alexandre Dumas, adapted for radio by Sebastian SUN Baczkiewicz. SUN It is 1838, and the Count has arrived in Paris. His enemies, SUN Baron Danglars, Gerard de Villefort and Fernand de Morcerf SUN have no idea that Edmond Dantes, who they betrayed in SUN Marseilles a quarter of a century earlier, is plotting to SUN destroy them. SUN SUN Music by David Tobin and Jeff Meegan SUN Directed by Jeremy Mortimer and Sasha Yevtushenko. SUN SUN Credits SUN The Count/Edmond Dantes: Iain Glen SUN Haydee: Jane Lapotaire SUN Younger Haydee: Amber Rose Revah SUN Baron Danglars: Toby Jones SUN Gerard de Villefort: Paul Rhys SUN Fernand, Count de Morcerf: Zubin Varla SUN Mercedes de Morcerf: Josette Simon SUN Heloise de Villefort: Kate Fleetwood SUN Abbe Faria: Richard Johnson SUN General Noirtier: Karl Johnson SUN Hermine Danglars: Stephanie Racine SUN Albert de Morcerf: Will Howard SUN Jacopo: Joe Sims SUN Max Morrell: Adam Nagaitis SUN Valentine de Villefort: Lizzy Watts SUN Coachman: Paul Stonehouse SUN Director: Jeremy Mortimer SUN Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SUN Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b01p3ccv (Listen) SUN Sathnam Sanghera discusses his memoir The Boy With The SUN Topknot, which won the 2009 Mind Book of the Year. SUN SUN Born to Punjabi parents in the West Midlands, the book is SUN his account of his childhood in 1980s Wolverhampton. SUN SUN The youngest of a Sikh family, it wasn't until he was 24 SUN that he discovered his mother had protected him from the SUN family's secret : that his father had suffered from paranoid SUN schizophrenia all his life. SUN SUN Subtitled "A memoir of Love, Secrets and Lies in SUN Wolverhampton", writing the book was Sathnam Sanghera's way SUN of confronting his mother with some uncomfortable truths; SUN that after his grammar school and Cambridge education, he SUN had moved away from the family's culture and religion and SUN was not going to accept an arranged marriage. This was a SUN journey of discovery and independence for Sathnam that began SUN on the day he went to the barbers on his own, and had his SUN joori - his Sikh topknot - cut off. When the barber asked SUN him if his dad knew he was doing this, he thought, 'it's my SUN mum you should be worrying about'. SUN SUN The memoir is a meditation on mental illness as well as SUN class and cultural differences, and in Bookclub Sathnam SUN ponders on whether it was a young man's folly to 'share too SUN much information' by writing down his life story. SUN James Naughtie presents and a group of readers ask the SUN questions. SUN SUN January's Bookclub choice is Agent Zigzag by Ben Macintyre. SUN SUN Producer : Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 A Few Don'ts b01p3cg0 (Listen) SUN The poet Lavinia Greenlaw reappraises Ezra Pound's SUN manifesto, A Few Don'ts by an Imagiste. SUN SUN A century on, what can his lively don'ts do for today's SUN poets? His passion to make poetry as modern as, say, SUN Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring (first performed in the same SUN year, 1913) drives him to pronounce on adjectives, ornament, SUN metronomes and abstraction and in praise of the Image. SUN SUN With fellow poets Frances Leviston, Andrea Brady and Richard SUN Price, and with the visual artist Cornelia Parker, SUN psychologist Sophie Scott and composer John Woolrich, SUN Lavinia explores the dos and don'ts of good poetry and the SUN ins and outs of writing manifestos about it. SUN SUN Producer: Frances Byrnes SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 The Hackers b01p0h5v (Listen) SUN Governments do it, companies do it, criminals do it. But in SUN recent years some of the highest profile computer hacks have SUN come from so-called hacktivist groups. Each week hackers SUN target a new organisation or government website. Many of SUN these hacker activists claim to belong to the amorphous SUN group known as Anonymous or an off-shoot of it. Their aim? SUN To wrest control of the internet from states and big SUN corporations and give it back to the people. Or simply to SUN have fun. SUN The FBI, the Metropolitan police, the US Senate, Sony, SUN PayPal and Visa have been some of the highest profile SUN victims of the hackers. More often than not the attacks come SUN in the form of DOS, or denial of service, attacks - SUN effectively flooding websites with requests so that they SUN crash. In some cases the hackers have managed to steal SUN personal and financial records from the organisations and SUN then post them online. Sometimes the reason given by the SUN hackers for these attacks is as a response to official SUN actions taken against Wikileaks or attempts by the SUN authorities to close down certain websites, such as free SUN music download sites. SUN The FBI and police have had some success in tracking down SUN some of the hackers - many of them just teenagers. SUN In "The Hackers" Simon Cox delves into the strange world of SUN hacktivism, as he tracks down some of these hackers and SUN speaks to those trying to catch them. SUN Cyber Spies SUN SUN 17:40 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b01p30ff (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 today] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01p2snb (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01p2snd (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p2sng (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01p3cpz (Listen) SUN An inspirational cycling heroine of yesteryear, Beryl Burton SUN shows us how it used to be done in Pick Of The Week. And SUN going further back into history we witness the grand opening SUN of the original Broadcasting House in London as the King and SUN Queen sweep past us into the foyer. Hardeep Singh Kohli SUN nearly drops his spatula preparing lunch, hearing from a SUN couple for whom weight loss was a literal matter of life or SUN death. SUN SUN And we hear a rare recording of Kenny Everett when he was SUN Mr. Saturday Morning on Radio 1. All, and more in Pick Of SUN The Week, presented by Stewart Henderson. SUN SUN Mark Steel's in Town - Radio 4 SUN Beryl: A Love Story on Two Wheels - Radio 4 SUN Walking on Planet C - Radio 4 SUN The Beat Hotel - Radio 4 SUN The Strand - World Service SUN Twenty Minutes: To Build a Fire - Radio 3 SUN Hardeep's Sunday Lunch - Radio 4 SUN Mastertapes [Ray Davies] - Radio 4 SUN Four Thought - Radio 4 SUN Kings of Cool: Mel Torme - Radio 2 SUN The Listener's Archive - Radio 2 SUN The BBC and All That - Radio 4 SUN When Harry Potter Met Frodo - Radio 4 SUN Midweek - Radio 4 SUN Desert Island Discs [Dustin Hoffmann] - Radio 4 SUN Kings of Cool - Radio 2 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 b01p3cq1 (Listen) SUN Matt makes an effort, and Joe is worried. SUN SUN 19:15 Nick Mohammed in Bits b00tjdnz (Listen) SUN Witness Statement SUN SUN There's been a robbery, and character comedian Nick Mohammed SUN (Reggie Perrin, Sorry I've Got No Head) dons a police helmet SUN and takes statements. Colin Hoult and Anna Crilly (Lead SUN Balloon) co-star as the unhappy couple called on to testify. SUN SUN Bits is a series of character pieces showcasing the best of SUN Nick Mohammed's idiosyncratic characters in a series of one SUN off comic plays. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Lloyd. SUN SUN 19:45 Astray b01p3cq3 (Listen) SUN Snowblind SUN SUN Four short stories from Emma Donoghue's new collection SUN Astray. These fact-inspired fictions, about travels to, in SUN and from North America, focus on emigrants, runaways or SUN drifters all gone astray for love or money, under duress or SUN incognito. Emma's compassionate imagination crosses borders SUN of race, law, sex, and sanity bringing the reader through a SUN scattered scrap-book of history. SUN SUN Snowblind, read by Danny Mahoney, is the beautifully SUN atmospheric tale of two young men who become gold mining SUN 'partners' in the 1890s Klondike. SUN SUN Dublin born Emma Donoghue is an emigrant twice over; she SUN spent eight years in Cambridge doing a PHD before moving to SUN southwest Ontario where she now lives. Emma is probably best SUN known for her international bestseller Room, winner of the SUN Roger's Writers' Trust Fiction prize and the Hughes & Hughes SUN Irish novel of the year and a finalist for the Man Booker. SUN Emma has also written The Sealed Letter, Landing, Life Mask SUN alongside many short story collections, most recently Three SUN and a Half Deaths. Emma has also written drama for radio, SUN theatre and screen. SUN SUN Snowblind was abridged by Doreen Estall and produced by SUN Laura Conway. SUN SUN 20:00 The State of Welfare b01p0fpg (Listen) SUN Seventy years ago William Beveridge wrote a report that was SUN to lay the foundations for the welfare state. He identified SUN the Five Giants that society needed to slay: Want, Disease, SUN Ignorance, Squalor and Idleness. Using archive from the SUN time, Jane Garvey and Julian Worricker take us back to that SUN extraordinary moment in wartime Britain that has proved so SUN pivotal to the shape of the welfare state today. They SUN discuss how well the system serves those who rely it on it SUN now - and those who pay for it. Changing attitudes to those SUN on benefits are reflected in a new BBC-commissioned poll and SUN there'll be tough debate on fairness, entitlement, rights SUN and compassion with Frank Field, Labour MP, the philosopher SUN Roger Scruton and social commentator Polly Toynbee. The SUN Secretary of State for Work and Pensions Iain Duncan Smith SUN will be challenged to outline the philosophy behind his SUN decisions on reforming the welfare state, as well as SUN responding to the views of contributors and listeners. And SUN his Labour counterpart Liam Byrne explains why he thinks SUN welfare provision is a moral issue. SUN SUN Producers:Elaine Lester, Sharmini Selvarajah SUN Editor:Andrew Smith. SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b01p30f7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01p0sng (Listen) SUN Berlin: Start-Up City SUN SUN Every city wants to become a high technology business hub, SUN but ambitious entrepreneurs SUN from all over Europe are rushing to set up shop in Berlin. SUN So-called Silicon Allee is fast SUN becoming a start-up rival to Silicon Roundabout in London. SUN Peter Day finds out why. SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b01p3gvy (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 b01p3gw0 (Listen) SUN Steve Richards of The Independent analyses how the SUN newspapers are covering the Leveson report's findings. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01p0sbc (Listen) SUN This week Francine meets with Ralph Fiennes who, fresh from SUN Skyfall, is now rattling his leg-irons as Magwitch in Mike SUN Newell's Great Expectations. SUN SUN Critic Ben Walters casts an eye over several films dealing SUN with gay and transgender issues from Laurence Anyways and SUN Keep the Lights On to the documentary, Call Me Kuchu, which SUN paints a harsh picture of life as a homosexual in Uganda. SUN SUN Then two go psycho in a motorhome in Ben Wheatley's SUN Sightseers. Comedy duo Alice Lowe and Steve Oram on their SUN horror flick about caravanning and rage. SUN SUN And sticking with the outlandish, graphic novelist Alan SUN Moore discusses his Northampton-style noir which he hopes SUN will form a new model for filmmaking. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01p30f1 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 03 DECEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01p2spg (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01p0hnv (Listen) MON Family funerals; red tape MON MON Red Tape in India - a major new study by the renowned MON anthropologist, Akhil Gupta, seeks to understand why state MON bureaucracy hinders the fight against poverty in the world's MON third largest economy. Laurie Taylor hears about his MON ethnographic study among officials in charge of development MON programs in rural Uttar Pradesh. Why is it that the MON expansion of government programmes have failed to improve MON significantly the lives of the poorest? Fellow MON anthropologist, Dr Alpa Shah, joins the discussion. Also, MON the sociologist, Kate Woodthorpe explores how funeral MON arrangements illuminate the modern family. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01p30dz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p2spj (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p2spl (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p2spn (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01p2spq (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p3hnd (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Pastor MON Alex Robertson. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01p3hng (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Angela Frain. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01p2sps (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01p3hnj (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b01p3hnl (Listen) MON Nuclear Iran - Shirley Williams and Geoffrey Robertson MON MON On Start the Week Andrew Marr discusses the prospect of an MON Iran with nuclear weapons. David Patrikarakos points to the MON failure to understand how far Iran's nuclear strategy is MON linked to its recent history and sense of identity. Geoffrey MON Robertson QC argues that the production of atomic bombs MON should be made an international crime against humanity, MON whereas Baroness Shirley Williams believes that politics MON still has a role to play in disarmament around the world. MON But Douglas Murray dismisses the idea that political MON negotiation or the law will work, and believes force may be MON the only answer. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01p3hnn (Listen) MON The Horologicon, Episode 1 MON MON The Etymologicon was last year's surprise runaway MON bestseller. The author has now assembled The Horologicon, or MON book of hours, to delight his audience with a feast of words MON appropriate to a precise moment of the day. MON MON Did you wake up feeling rough? Then you're philogrobolized MON probably at day peep when you were roused by your MON expergefactor. MON MON Written by Mark Forsyth MON Read by Hugh Dennis MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p3hnq (Listen) MON Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by MON Jane Garvey. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3hns (Listen) MON China Girl, Episode 1 MON MON China Girl by Tom Fry MON MON It is 1997 and Naomi and Nick Freeman have almost given up MON the idea of having a child. They've been through the MON heartache of fertility treatment and have resigned MON themselves to being childless. Then a chance encounter with MON someone who is adopting sets Nick thinking that perhaps they MON might do it. There's only one problem, this baby is from MON China. Inspired by the author's real life experience. MON MON Producer/Director Gary Brown MON MON The one child policy in China means that there are many MON abandoned babies, and most of these are female. Scriptwriter MON Tom Fry (co-creator of R4's long running series Brief Lives) MON adopted two Chinese baby girls in the 1990s and these events MON are the springboard for this fictional drama. MON MON Starring real life partners Sophie Thompson and Richard MON Lumsden, this touching drama charts the highs and lows of a MON middle aged couple bringing a Chinese baby into England. MON MON Credits MON Nick: Richard Lumsden MON Naomi: Sophie Thompson MON Jemma: Laura Lindsay MON Lottie: Laura Lindsay MON Paul: Lloyd Peters MON Director: Gary Brown MON Producer: Gary Brown MON Writer: Tom Fry MON MON 11:00 Our Language in Your Hands b01p3hnv (Listen) MON Nepal MON MON Landlocked and mountainous Nepal is home to over 100 MON languages, many of which are now endangered. Languages MON spoken for generations may soon be extinct. Anthropologist MON and linguist Dr Mark Turin has spent years talking to the MON last speakers of languages under threat, and now he returns MON to the Himalayas to show us how communities are preserving MON and even reviving their speech forms, as well as what will MON be lost when languages die out. MON MON Mark travels to the mountains of Eastern Nepal, where MON Thangmi is now spoken by only a few thousand people. Like MON many other languages that are at risk, Thangmi is a mine of MON unique indigenous terms for flora and fauna that have MON medical and ritual value. When people switch to speaking MON another language, traditional knowledge about man's place in MON nature falls into disuse. With the death of the last MON speaker, these unique ways of seeing the world can be lost MON forever. MON MON Mark has lived with the Thangmi community for years, and MON speaks their ancestral language. Thangmi, whose speakers MON live in a highly mountainous region, has four distinct verbs MON that equate with the English verb 'to come', including yusa MON 'to come from above (down the mountain)' and wangsa 'to come MON from below (or up the mountain)'. Languages, like species, MON adapt to and reflect their environment. MON MON Through these windows into the world of Thangmi speakers, MON and in discussions with language activists and educators MON across Nepal, Mark explores the enduring relationship MON between language, culture and identity and explains why it's MON so critical for linguists to work with indigenous MON communities to document and protect these vanishing voices MON before they disappear without record. MON MON Producer Mark Rickards. MON MON 11:30 55 and Over b01p3hnx (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON Juliet Stevenson and Philip Jackson star in Peter Souter's MON romantic comedy about love, sex and other foolhardy mistakes MON made by the modern 50pluser.Hearts are more fragile than MON previously thought this week when disaster strikes and old MON lovers are forced to confront their new younger replacements MON around a hospital bed. MON MON Jane ..... Juliet Stevenson MON Ray ..... Philip Jackson MON Tony ..... Patrick Brennan MON Heather ..... Liza Sadovy MON Honey ..... Stephanie Racine MON Sam ..... Adam Nagaitis MON Portia ..... Sarah Thom MON MON Producer/Director ..... Helen Perry. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01p3hnz (Listen) MON ASDA defies consumer guidelines, and diving for golf balls MON MON Consumer news with Julian Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01p2spv (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01p3hqj (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 The Global Gap b01p40gz (Listen) MON Series 1: Mexico, Business Students MON MON Global Gap is a series of five programmes where two people MON who do the same job, one from the UK and one from another MON country (in this series, Mexico), have a thought provoking MON conversation, to compare and contrast their working lives MON and the issues that arise in their jobs. The theme MON throughout the week is 'the next generation'; each programme MON features young people who are the new generation of workers MON in their countries. We capture the differences in society MON and attitudes through their conversation and recordings of MON in their workplace. MON MON Episode 1 (of 5): Business Students MON Luke Robinson studies Management and Spanish at the MON University of Leeds and he speaks to Miguel Bueno who is MON studying Business Administration at University in Mexico MON City. They discover that university is only for the rich in MON Mexico, but there is a growing interest in Business Studies MON as Mexico's economy rises. While Luke is looking forward to MON a placement in a large bank in the UK after university, MON Miguel is being encouraged to set up his own business. MON MON Producer: Laura Parfitt MON A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01p3cq1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p40h1 (Listen) MON McLevy - Series 9, No Looking Back MON MON Victorian detective drama series, starring Brian Cox and MON Siobhan Redmond. MON MON Written by David Ashton. MON MON Episode two: No Looking Back. MON MON When a corpse turns up in a fisherman's net, McLevy MON discovers the murdered man had last been seen at the Just MON Land. MON MON Other parts are played by the cast. MON Producer/Director: Bruce Young. MON MON Credits MON McLevy: Brian Cox MON Jean: Siobhan Redmond MON Hannah: Colette O'Neil MON Mulholland: Michael Perceval-Maxwell MON Roach: David Ashton MON Pike: Gavin Mitchell MON Cairns: James Bryce MON Geddes: Jordan Young MON Maisie: Sarah McCardie MON Director: Bruce Young MON Producer: Bruce Young MON Writer: David Ashton MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01p40h3 (Listen) MON (2/17) MON What does the musical instruction 'da capo' mean? And which MON national newspaper features the motto 'Without fear and MON without favour' on its front page? MON MON Russell Davies is in the questionmaster's chair for the MON second heat in the current series of the evergreen general MON knowledge quiz. This week he's welcoming competitors from MON London, Hampshire and Kent to the BBC Radio Theatre. MON MON As always they'll need the widest possible knowledge of MON science, history, the arts, current affairs, music and MON popular culture, to stand a chance of making it through to MON the series semi-finals in the new year, and possibly being MON named the 60th Brain of Britain champion. MON MON There will be a chance for listeners to try to outwit the MON contestants by suggesting their own intriguingly tricky MON questions, in the 'Beat the Brains' feature. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01p314q (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Songs of the Sacred Harp b01p40h5 (Listen) MON Cerys Matthews visits Alabama to uncover a sacred choral MON tradition. Widely practiced before the American Civil War, MON Sacred Harp singing is currently experiencing a global MON resurgence. MON MON Once called 'white spiritual', this haunting unaccompanied MON choral tradition survived in the small rural Baptist MON churches of the American Deep South. Very different to MON bluegrass and to African American Gospel music, Sacred Harp MON preserved Anglo-Celtic practices that were subsequently lost MON in the UK. MON MON Today, this music is spreading from the Deep South around MON the US and is even developing a following in the UK. Cerys MON travels to an all-day singing convention in Alabama to find MON out why the music is not just surviving but flourishing. In MON an age when church attendance is dropping fast, what is MON attracting people all over the US and the UK to sing archaic MON hymns? MON MON Also called 'shape note singing', the music is based around MON the Sacred Harp hymn book compiled in Georgia in 1844. The MON pages show different shapes above the words to indicate the MON notes, enabling songs to be sung on sight. Gatherings are MON arranged in a hollow square with the self-selected leader MON entering the middle to call out the number of their chosen MON song. No applause or audience is allowed. Far removed from MON 'happy clappy', they are often austere hymns with themes of MON death and the pain of everyday existence. MON MON Contributors include Hugh McGraw, Jesse Karlsberg, Warren MON Steele, Reba Del Windom, Henry Johnson, Michael Walker, Emma MON Rose Brown and Sam Carter. MON MON For information on Sacred Harp singing around the UK: MON http://www.ukshapenote.org.uk/ MON http://londonsacredharp.org/ MON MON Produced by Joby Waldman MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01p40h7 (Listen) MON Series 7, Secret Science MON MON Robin Ince and Brian Cox are joined on stage by comedian MON Dave Gorman, author and Enigma Machine owner Simon Singh and MON Bletchley Park expert Dr Sue Black as they discuss secret MON science, code-breaking and the extraordinary achievements of MON the team working at Bletchley during WW II. MON MON 17:00 PM b01p40h9 (Listen) MON Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p2spx (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01p40hc (Listen) MON Series 58, Episode 4 MON MON The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the MON Symphony Hall in Birmingham. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme MON Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by MON Jeremy Hardy with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell attempts MON piano accompaniment. Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01p40hf (Listen) MON Lilian receives a covert call, and Ruth makes an offer. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01p40hh (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on Martin McDonagh's MON film Seven Psychopaths, starring Colin Farrell as an Irish MON screenwriter who becomes entangled with gangsters in Los MON Angeles. MON MON Producer Nicki Paxman. MON St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3hns (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Decontaminating Halabja b01p40hk (Listen) MON The BBC's foreign affairs editor John Simpson returns to MON Kurdistan nearly 25 years after the world's worst-ever MON chemical weapons attack on civilians. He hears from the MON survivors of the attack, launched by Saddam Hussein's regime MON against the citizens of Halabja at the tail-end of the MON Iran-Iraq war. It is thought to have claimed more than 5000 MON lives, most of the victims killed within minutes, as a MON lethal cocktail of nerve agents and mustard gas spread MON through the town. With the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime, MON and his trial and execution in 2006, much has changed in MON this region of Iraq, but for many citizens of Halabja there MON remains a quest for justice and closure. A British forensics MON company now believes it can help by identifying the precise MON chemicals used and the European companies suspected of MON supplying them. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01p0s9z (Listen) MON The Mystery of South Africa's Missing Textbooks MON MON Many schoolchildren in South Africa's northern Limpopo MON province have gone for months without school textbooks. MON There was money to buy them. There was also a contract to MON deliver the books. Yet they didn't arrive. Students and MON parents are furious with politicians of the governing ANC - MON and say the problem is due to mismanagement and corruption. MON They say the issue typifies the faults of the political MON system, and that their children have been the victims. Rob MON Walker investigates the mystery of the missing textbooks. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01p0sbf (Listen) MON Dr Roy Davey analyses the latest Energy Bill statement by MON the Energy Secretary. MON MON An expedition of scientists, helicopter pilots, chefs and MON engineers embark on a four month mission to eradicate the MON brown rat from South Georgia. Professor Tony Martin, the MON team's leader, will be talking to Quentin about how his team MON will spread rat bait across 94,000 hectares of land. MON MON Olive oil could be used to preserve ancient stone buildings, MON like York Minster. Synchrotron X-ray methods are used to MON understand the protective powers of olive oil for stone. Dr MON Karen Wilson will be joining Quentin on the line from MON Cardiff. MON MON Also, Quentin talks to Professor Martyn Poliakoff about the MON new "Romantic Chemistry" exhibition at the Royal Society. MON The exhibition looks at the most unusual elements discovered MON by Fellows of the Society during the Romantic period MON (1780-1825). MON MON Olive oil could be used to preserve ancient stone buildings MON including York Minster MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b01p3hnl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01p2spz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01p40hm (Listen) MON National and international news and analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p40hp (Listen) MON The Mighty Walzer, Episode 6 MON MON From the beginning Oliver Walzer is a natural - at MON ping-pong. Even with his improvised bat (the Collins Classic MON edition of 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde') he can chop, flick, MON half-volley like a champion. MON MON At sex he is not so natural, being shy and frightened of MON women. But with tuition from Sheeny Waxman, fellow member of MON the Akiva Social Club Table Tennis team, his game improves. MON And while the Akiva boys teach him everything he needs to MON know about ping-pong, his father Joel Walzer teaches him MON everything there is to know about 'swag'. MON MON Unabashedly autobiographical, this is a hilarious and MON heartbreaking story of one man's coming of age in 1950's MON Manchester. MON MON Howard Jacobson won the Mann Booker in 2010 for "The Finkler MON Question", but this is his masterpiece. MON MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b01p40hr (Listen) MON Ray Davies (the B-Side) MON MON John Wilson continues with his new series in which he talks MON to leading performers and songwriters about the album that MON made them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live MON audience at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each MON edition includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing MON the artist about the album in question, and then, in the MON B-side, the audience puts the questions. Both editions MON feature exclusive live performances. MON MON Programme 5, the B-side. Having discussed the making of two MON classic Kinks albums, "Lola Versus Powerman and The MON Moneygoround, Part One" and "Muswell Hillbillies" (in the MON A-side of the programme, broadcast on Tuesday 27th November MON and available online), Ray Davies responds to questions from MON the audience and performs acoustic live versions of some to MON the tracks from the albums, both of which were released more MON than forty years ago. MON MON Producer: Paul Kobrak. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p40ht (Listen) MON Susan Hulme with the day's top news stories from MON Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 04 DECEMBER 2012 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01p2sqt (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01p3hnn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p2sqw (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p2sqy (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p2sr0 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01p2sr2 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p8fyr (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Pastor TUE Alex Robertson. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01p3k5l (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Ruth Sanderson. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01p3k5n (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; TUE Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. TUE St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b01p3k5q (Listen) TUE Jared Diamond TUE TUE Jim Al-Khalili talks to Jared Diamond about how his passion TUE for the birds of Papua New Guinea overtook his medical TUE interest in the gall bladder, and led him to undertake a TUE scientific study of global history. TUE Science polymath and celebrated author, Jared Diamond has TUE tackled some of the big questions about humanity: what is it TUE that makes us uniquely human not just a third species of TUE chimpanzee; and why do some societies thrive and others TUE struggle to survive, or collapse? TUE Once a Professor of Physiology (specialising in the gall TUE bladder), he became increasingly fascinated by the birds of TUE Papua New Guinea and does an excellent imitation of the TUE ptilinopus fruit dove, among others. TUE Now Professor of Geography at University of California in TUE LA, he stresses the vital importance of the environment in TUE determining the success or otherwise of a society. He argues TUE first that it was settled agriculture that enabled the white TUE man to develop guns, germs and steel and later that abuse of TUE the environment is often responsible for their collapse. TUE But can the history of humanity really be understood in much TUE the same way as we might seek to explain the success or TUE otherwise of a particular species of bird? TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b01p3k5s (Listen) TUE Olivia O'Leary with Vladimir Ashkenazy TUE TUE In a new series of One to One, Olivia O'Leary speaks to TUE people who've reached the peak of their careers about how TUE growing older affects their approach to work. TUE TUE In this first programme, Olivia speaks to one of her heroes TUE - the great Russian-Icelandic pianist, Vladimir Ashkenazy. TUE He left the Soviet union in the sixties, and has played a TUE vast repertoire of the greatest piano music on stages all TUE over the world. Ashkenazy is now conductor laureate with the TUE Philharmonia Orchestra in London and Principal Conductor and TUE Artistic Advisor to the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. TUE TUE At 75 he is still jetting around the world to engagements so TUE we were lucky to catch up with him in a hotel at Heathrow as TUE he was leaving after a brief visit to the UK. TUE TUE In a candid discussion, Ashkenazy discussed the arthrosis TUE (not arthritis as has been reported) in his hands which TUE occasionally means his fingers cannot fit between the black TUE keys; he talks about not wanting to become the kind of TUE 'older' conductor, with failing physical capacity, that TUE orchestras respond to purely out of respect. TUE TUE He also talks more widely - about his decision to leave TUE Russia in the 1960s; about the pianists he holds in great TUE respect and about his decision to concentrate on conducting TUE rather than live performance. TUE TUE Producer: Karen Gregor. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01p5884 (Listen) TUE The Horologicon, Episode 2 TUE TUE Did you have ben joltram for your ariston? If so, you TUE jenticulated well - which would have pleased Zeus. For more TUE hidden delights from the English language to fit your day, TUE join Hugh Dennis for The Horologicon. TUE TUE Written by Mark Forsyth TUE Read by Hugh Dennis TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p3k5v (Listen) TUE Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by TUE Jane Garvey. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3k5x (Listen) TUE China Girl, Episode 2 TUE TUE China Girl by Tom Fry TUE Episode 2 TUE After many bureaucratic hurdles, Nick and Naomi finally TUE travel to Northern China to bring home their Chinese baby. TUE TUE Producer/Director Gary Brown TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01p3k5z (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 14 TUE TUE Scotland's five year Species Action Framework programme TUE ended in March 2012. This unique programme has advanced TUE conservation and management action for 32 of Scotland's TUE select species - including beaver, red squirrel, sea eagle, TUE capercaillie, freshwater pearl mussel, great yellow TUE bumblebee and woolly willow and invasive non-native species TUE such as North American signal crayfish. TUE TUE For Saving Species Brett Westwood travels up to the Scottish TUE Natural Heritage conference in Edinburgh to discuss the TUE results of this 5 year programme with the movers and shakers TUE in Scotlands wildlife conservation. TUE TUE Also in the programme - News from around the world with our TUE regular news reporter, Kelvin Boot. And we'll update you on TUE the activities of the Open University's iSpot. TUE TUE 11:30 Rebuilding the LSO b01p3k61 (Listen) TUE Matthew Bannister tells the story of how London's oldest TUE self-governing orchestra, the LSO, made a spectacular TUE recovery from near financial collapse in the early 1980s. TUE TUE The London Symphony Orchestra was founded in 1904 by a group TUE of rebellious musicians, as an act of defiance against their TUE conductor Sir Henry Wood. In the words of one of its TUE founders, it was set up as "something akin to a musical TUE republic", run by its own musicians. And 108 years later, TUE the orchestra has done more than just survive -it's TUE flourishing. But the journey hasn't been without its hazards TUE - none more perilous than the financial crisis precipitated TUE by its move to a permanent home in the Barbican concert hall TUE in the early 1980s. TUE TUE Matthew Bannister tells the story of how the fortunes of TUE London's oldest self-governing orchestra were turned around TUE by one of its own players, the cellist Sir Clive Gillinson. TUE He took the job of Chairman of the Board reluctantly at TUE first - and then pursued his aim to balance the books with TUE increasing determination because, he says, if you believe TUE passionately that something has to exist then other people TUE will believe you too. TUE TUE We hear from one of the LSO's most famous former principal TUE conductors, André Previn, about his love affair with the TUE orchestra. And its current principal conductor, Valery TUE Gergiev, the Managing Director and musicians tell us what TUE makes the orchestra successful in a very competitive TUE environment - and whether anything remains of the rebellious TUE spirit that brought it in to existence. TUE TUE Producer: Philippa Goodrich TUE A White Pebble production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b01p3k63 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in presented by Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01p2sr4 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01p3k65 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or TUE on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 The Global Gap b01p41gy (Listen) TUE Series 1: Mexico, Fashion Designers TUE TUE Episode 2 (of 5): Fashion Designers TUE Craig Lawrence is one of our brightest young knitwear TUE designers, making clothes for Lady Gaga among others. He TUE talks about his experiences in the fashion industry with TUE Mexican clothes designer Marvin Duran. Craig operates in a TUE well-established fashion industry in the UK and his year TUE revolves around London Fashion Week. Marvin's success was TUE almost overnight and he became famous in Mexico despite no TUE formal training in fashion. The industry is not as TUE established in Mexico, as people look to Paris and London. TUE Meanwhile, the internet has meant that Craig's designs are TUE seen around the world. TUE TUE Producer: Laura Parfitt TUE A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01p40hf (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p41h0 (Listen) TUE Ubykh TUE TUE by Simon Scardifield. TUE TUE Only one person in the world speaks Ubykh, and he's very, TUE very old. Almost a quarter of people on earth speak TUE competent English. What price do we pay for English being TUE the bully in the playground? TUE TUE Swedish academic, Ole, sets off to Turkey to meet the TUE world's last Ubykh speaker. Will he be too late? TUE TUE Produced/directed by Gaynor Macfarlane. TUE TUE Credits TUE Ole: Tom Goodman-Hill TUE Onur: Justin Salinger TUE Erkan: Karl Theobald TUE Tevfik: Alexander Morton TUE Tevfik's Niece: Lizzy Watts TUE Yasmin: Susie Riddell TUE Jan: Ben Crowe TUE Director: Gaynor MacFarlane TUE Producer: Gaynor MacFarlane TUE Writer: Simon Scardifield TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01p41h2 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Whitstable TUE TUE Jay Rayner hosts the first in a new series of BBC Radio 4's TUE culinary panel programme, recorded in Whitstable. TUE TUE The team take questions from a local audience on all aspects TUE of cooking and eating. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Robert Abel and Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b01p41h4 (Listen) TUE Corinne Bailey Rae (the A-Side) TUE TUE Programme 6, A-side. "The Sea" - four years after her Number TUE One debut album Grammy award winning Corinne Bailey Rae TUE returns to its follow-up album, released in 2010. An TUE extremely personal album, it explored a range of human TUE emotions from grief and loss to love and joy. In a revealing TUE interview, Corinne describes not just her musical upbringing TUE and influences but also talks movingly about the impact that TUE the death of her husband had on the making of this album. TUE And, together with pianist Steve Brown she performs an TUE exclusive live version of the title track from the album. TUE TUE Producer: Paul Kobrak. TUE TUE 16:00 It's My Story b01p41h6 (Listen) TUE Music and Silence TUE TUE Michael Berkeley has been composing music since he was six TUE years old. His father was a composer and, as a child, he TUE sang for his godfather Benjamin Britten. His whole life has TUE revolved around music. But two years ago an ordinary cold TUE virus triggered a catastrophic loss of hearing. TUE TUE This programme is the story of the last year as he comes to TUE terms with partial deafness and talks to other musicians who TUE have suffered a similar disaster - opera singer Janine TUE Roebuck and rock critic Nick Coleman. We begin in the Royal TUE Albert Hall with rehearsals for the London premiere of TUE Michael Berkeley's organ concerto at last year's Proms. As TUE the composer, Michael is expected to give final notes on the TUE music balance - but how can he do that when he can't be sure TUE he is hearing it accurately? TUE TUE At the piano, Michael shows us powerfully how sounds are TUE distorted and what he hears inside his head. We follow him TUE on medical appointments as he experiments with different TUE hearing aids. Walking in the countryside in Wales, he thinks TUE about Beethoven and the tragic letter he writes about his TUE deafness but, as time passes, something strange happens: TUE Michael begins to enjoy listening to music again. His brain TUE seems to be filling in the gaps. He goes to meet an expert TUE in the University College London Ear Institute who reveals TUE new research about the extraordinary connection between the TUE ears and the brain. So he ends with a surprising message of TUE hope. TUE TUE Michael is brave to speak out; some of his colleagues did TUE not want him to make this programme. Deafness is still a TUE taboo, the invisible disability, and yet ten million people TUE in Britain (1 in 6) struggle to hear. TUE TUE Producer: Elizabeth Burke TUE A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE If you're worried about your hearing you can also take their TUE free online and telephone hearing check. TUE Helpline: 0808 808 0123 (freephone) TUE Textphone: 0808 808 9000 (freephone) TUE TUE Through their free Advisory Service, they also provide TUE information and advice about the medical aspects of TUE deafness and hearing loss. TUE Freephone: 0808 808 2222 (Monday-Friday 9.30am-5.30pm) TUE Email: TUE TUE Confidential helpline: 0800 018 0527 TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01p41h8 (Listen) TUE Series 29, Dick Francis TUE TUE The date is 1956, Aintree, and Dick Francis is riding the TUE Queen Mother's horse to victory in the Grand National. TUE Except Devon Loch collapses bizarrely to the ground within TUE sight of the finishing post. The jockey later says that he TUE never recovered from this defeat. But the strange case of TUE Devon Loch and the most famous Grand National of them all is TUE the making of Dick Francis, who becomes both a household TUE name and a best selling author too. TUE TUE Martin Broughton, chairman of British Airways, the British TUE Horse Racing Board and - for a while - Liverpool FC, chooses TUE Dick Francis as his example of a man who succeeded in two TUE careers. The Francis novels have sold in millions. Philip TUE Larkin loved the opening lines: "There was a godawful cock TUE up in Bologna," begins The Danger. TUE TUE But there have been question marks over whether the books TUE were all his own work. Mischievous biographer Graham Lord TUE tells Miles Warde why he thinks Dick's wife, Mary, was TUE responsible. "Garbage," says Martin Broughton. Expert TUE opinion comes from Jonathan Powell, racing correspondent of TUE the Mail on Sunday and a man who knew Dick Francis in his TUE later years. The presenter is Matthew Parris, the producer TUE Miles Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01p41hb (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie TUE Mair. Includes Weather. TUE St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p2sr6 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Bleak Expectations b01p41hd (Listen) TUE Series 5, An Alrightish Life Savagely Frozen to Bits TUE TUE by Mark Evans TUE TUE The Victorian comedy adventure continues as Pip races to TUE Antarctica to thwart another fiendish plot by his evil TUE ex-guardian, Mr Gently Benevolent. TUE TUE Sir Philip ..... Richard Johnson TUE Young Pip Bin ..... Tom Allen TUE Gently Benevolent ..... Anthony Head TUE Harry Biscuit ..... James Bachman TUE Clampvulture ..... Geoffrey Whitehead TUE Ripely ..... Sarah Hadland TUE Pippa ..... Susy Kane TUE Explorer ..... Mark Evans TUE TUE Produced by Gareth Edwards. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01p41hg (Listen) TUE Robert has parental concerns. Meanwhile there's news for TUE Roy. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01p41hj (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. TUE TUE Producer Olivia Skinner. TUE St Martin-in-the-Fields Christmas Appeal TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3k5x (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Inside the Academy School Revolution b01p41hl (Listen) TUE Zoe Williams steps inside Education Secretary Michael Gove's TUE academy school revolution to find out if removing schools TUE from local authority control is really a magic formula for TUE success. TUE TUE Many primary schools and more than half of England's TUE secondary schools have already converted, or are in the TUE process of converting, to academy status - gaining greater TUE control over curriculum, length of school day and general TUE educational approach. TUE TUE But teachers' unions and other critics warn that academies TUE are democratically unaccountable and the changes to the TUE education system will lower teaching standards and divide TUE communities. TUE TUE Zoe Williams spends time inside two flagship academies TUE sponsored by the charity ARK. Does their "depth before TUE breadth" policy, focusing on core curriculum subjects TUE provide a rounded education? She finds out how pupils and TUE teachers respond to a longer school day and to the TUE introduction of a variety of US-style teaching methods. And TUE she challenges ARK's co-founder, hedge fund manager Paul TUE Marshall, about his motives for stepping into education. TUE TUE Zoe also visits academies where staff and sponsors are still TUE struggling to achieve success. St Aldhelm's in Dorset TUE achieved the worst exam results in England in its first year TUE as an academy and Sir Robert Woodard in West Sussex was TUE placed in "special measures" after an Ofsted inspection TUE found teaching standards to be inadequate. TUE TUE Finally, Zoe challenges Michael Gove about the long term TUE viability of his academy "experiment". TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01p41hn (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b01p41hq (Listen) TUE Why we continue to believe information even when we are told TUE its wrong. Claudia Hammond discovers how the brain stores TUE facts and why we don't erase erroneous explanations. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b01p3k5q (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01p2sr8 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01p41hs (Listen) TUE National and international news and analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p41hv (Listen) TUE The Mighty Walzer, Episode 7 TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b01p40h7 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p41hx (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from TUE Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 05 DECEMBER 2012 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01p2ss3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01p5884 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p2ss5 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p2ss7 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p2ss9 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01p2ssc (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p7qvj (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Pastor WED Alex Robertson. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01p3lfm (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Angela Frain. WED WED 06:00 Today b01p3lfp (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; WED Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b01p3lfr (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation with weekly guests. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01p589h (Listen) WED The Horologicon, Episode 3 WED WED More delights from the English language. As the amell WED approaches, it's time to dash to a grubbery - or perhaps to WED somewhere smarter if Sir Timothy Treat-All is around. WED WED Mark Forsyth's The Horologicon offers a feast of words to WED suit all hours of the day and night. WED WED Written by Mark Forsyth WED Read by Hugh Dennis WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p3lft (Listen) WED Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by WED Jenni Murray. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3lfw (Listen) WED China Girl, Episode 3 WED WED China Girl by Tom Fry WED WED It is 1997 and Naomi and Nick are in China with their new WED baby girl Luo Ning. They just have to go through some final WED formalities before they can finally bring her home. WED WED Producer/Director Gary Brown WED WED 11:00 Uzbek to My Roots b01p3lfy (Listen) WED Even as a 25-year-old north Londoner, Amy Cordell has grown WED up embracing the rituals, food and music of a far away WED world, one that still cleaves to the ancient traditions of WED her Bukharian grandparents who were once part of a WED 95,000-strong community of Jews living in Uzbekistan in WED central Asia. WED WED Uzbek To My Roots is an audio diary tracing her journey back WED to her family's homeland, to the teeming provinces of WED Bukhara and Samarkand, along the Silk Road, in a reunion WED involving various cousins, aunts and uncles gathered from WED the UK, Israel and America. WED WED Together they visit grandpapa John's place of birth, where WED he went to school, played and worshipped. Against a backdrop WED of palaces and mosques, wide avenues and imposing, intricate WED architecture, they find the old Jewish quarter and its WED cemeteries still largely intact and encounter an array of WED characters, from carpet and silk sellers to street acrobats, WED and visit a bazaar filled with gold-teethed women trading in WED gold, silk and velvet garments. WED WED Amy and her party are embarking on a voyage of discovery: to WED learn both their family's back-story and about themselves as WED they travel by coach, car and plane, crossing the length and WED breadth of this vast cotton growing country where Western WED impulses are encroaching on long held custom and tradition. WED WED Producer: Sara Parker WED A Tonic production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 11:30 Charles Paris b01p3lg0 (Listen) WED An Amateur Corpse, Episode 1 WED WED by Jeremy Front WED Based on the novel by Simon Brett. WED When old friend Hugo offers Charles some voiceover work it WED leads him into the murky world WED of Hugo's marriage and his wife's appalling am-dram group. WED WED Charles ..... Bill Nighy WED Frances ..... Suzanne Burden WED Joan ..... Geraldine McEwan WED Hugo ..... Paul Ritter WED Ellie ...... Amaka Okafor WED Saskia ..... Christine Absalom WED Geoff ...... Patrick Brennan WED Clive ...... Sam Alexander WED WED Director ...... Sally Avens WED WED Bill Nighy is back as Charles Paris, actor, alcoholic and WED amateur sleuth. Charles is once again out of work an event WED that is made worse by the fact that his mother (played by WED Geraldine McEwen) has come to stay whilst recovering from an WED operation; Joan is even driving 'St Frances of Highgate' WED mad. So when he bumps into old friend, Hugo, who offers him WED the chance of some voiceover work Charles is doubly happy; WED some money and a chance to get out of the house. WED But a simple voice job leads Charles into Hugo's drink WED fuelled depressing marriage; his young wife spends most of WED her time at an am-dram group with some very strange members WED and Hugo it seems is ready to crack. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01p3lg2 (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01p2ssf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01p3lgb (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 The Global Gap b01p4243 (Listen) WED Series 1: Mexico, Green Politicians WED WED Episode 3 (of 5): Green Politicians WED Jason Kitkat is a young Green Party politician who runs WED Brighton and Hove City Council. He has a conversation with WED Arnold Richarde, who founded the Mexican Green Party and is WED now an environmental activist in Mexico City. They discover WED that Mexico City, because of its pressing problems, is more WED advanced than the UK in areas such as water preservation, WED recycling and living roof technology. Jason's council is WED addressing the need for cycle routes in the city, while WED Arnold also has campaigned to stop the mass use of cars in WED Mexico City. WED WED Producer: Laura Parfitt WED A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01p41hg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p4245 (Listen) WED A Disappearing Town WED WED By Hugh Hughes WED WED A darkly comic modern fairy-tale from the Isle of Anglesey's WED foremost 'emerging artist'. WED WED Hugh Hughes has returned to his childhood home in the town WED of Llangefni on the Isle of Anglesey. There Hugh, his sister WED Delyth and brother Derwyn are tidying the house ready for WED their mum's return from hospital. But when Hugh stumbles WED upon a box of his old journals hidden up in the attic, the WED day's events take a new course. Armed with an old WED tape-recorder and a synthesiser, the three siblings distract WED themselves by telling a dark and fantastical story from WED their childhood, growing up on the island in the 1970s. WED WED The story is from a Llangefni that no longer exists, full of WED characters who have long since vanished. It tells the tragic WED tale of Carrie-Ann, a woman persecuted by the townsfolk WED because of her weight. But the narrative takes a fantastical WED twist as it's warped through the mists of time and by the WED magic of memory. WED WED Hugh's first play for Radio 4 - last year's 'Floating' - won WED a BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Scripted Comedy Drama. WED WED Created and performed by Hugh Hughes, Delyth Hughes and WED Derwyn Hughes with assistance from Shôn Dale-Jones, Sophie WED Russell and Andrew Pembrooke. WED WED Produced by James Robinson WED A BBC Cymru Wales Production. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Hugh Hughes WED Actor: Delyth Hughes WED Actor: Derwyn Hughes WED Actor: Shon Dale-Jones WED Actor: Sophie Russell WED Actor: Andrew Pembrooke WED Producer: James Robinson WED Writer: Hugh Hughes WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01p4247 (Listen) WED The Autumn Statement WED WED Financial phone-in. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b01p41hq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01p424c (Listen) WED How to Be Gay WED WED How to be Gay - Laurie Taylor talks to David Halperin, the WED US Professor of History and Theory of Sexuality, whose WED controversial new book. explores gay culture from Grand WED Opera to Broadway Musicals. Whilst some gay men repudiate WED what they perceive as a narrow and stereotypical version of WED their sexual identity; Halperin argues that a love of WED kitsch, camp and melodrama is, in fact, linked to a uniquely WED gay sensibility. Furthermore, he claims that the genius of WED gay culture lies in some of its most despised features, WED namely its snobbery, caricatures of women and adoration of WED glamour. They're joined by the writer and cultural critic, WED Owen Jones. Also, Tim Strangleman discusses his study into WED work identity and 'loss': how older railway workers have WED reacted to change in their industry. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01p424f (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01p424h (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p2ssh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01p424k (Listen) WED Series 4, Episode 2 WED WED This week, Mark visits Tobermory on the Isle of Mull, to WED discuss kid's TV-rage, underwear odysseys, and supercilious WED sea eagles. WED WED Additional material by Pete Sinclair. WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01p424m (Listen) WED Mike takes the plunge, and David has a favour to ask. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01p424p (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including the verdict on a new all-female WED staging of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, with Harriet Walter WED as Brutus, and Frances Barber as Caesar. WED WED Producer Claire Bartleet. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3lfw (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b01p424r (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk with Michael Portillo, Anne McElvoy, Matthew WED Taylor and Claire Fox. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01p424t (Listen) WED Series 3, Amber Dermont: The Benefits of an Unhappy WED Childhood WED WED Amber Dermont explains the benefits of an unhappy childhood. WED WED "Though my parents were caring people, I could not escape my WED own sense of despair," she says. She discusses the influence WED of sadness on the imagination, and describes how this WED upbringing took her on a journey that gradually helped her WED imagine a life for herself as a fiction writer. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b01p424w (Listen) WED The ENCODE project recently announced that much of our WED genome is not junk, in other words with no function. Adam WED Rutherford reports on the significance of this major WED discovery. Does it help us understand what makes us human or WED which diseases we may develop in the future? WED WED 21:30 Midweek b01p3lfr (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01p2ssk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01p424y (Listen) WED National and international news and analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p4250 (Listen) WED The Mighty Walzer, Episode 8 WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Warhorses of Letters b01p4252 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED By Robbie Hudson and Marie Phillips WED WED The world's greatest epistolary equine love story. The Duke WED of Wellington's horse Copenhagen's romance with Marengo WED (Napoleon's horse) has lead to a proposal of marriage. But WED planning a wedding is fraught with arguments for our gay WED horses...church or wood? Should people be invited or just WED horses? And which of them is the groom? WED WED Marengo ..... Stephen Fry WED Copenhagen ..... Daniel Rigby WED Narrator ..... Tamsin Greig WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED 23:15 Mission Improbable b01p4254 (Listen) WED Splash! WED WED A brand new series of high octane mini-adventures, written WED by and starring The Boom Jennies - Anna Emerson, Lizzie WED Bates and Catriona Knox. WED WED When cub reporter Jane arrives in Tintagel to get an WED interview with Cornwall's oldest whelk fisherman, her WED long-suffering companions could be forgiven if they were a WED little reluctant to tag along. Not a bit of it. WED Spinster-in-waiting Lucy has her eye on Jane's WED septuagenarian man of the sea, and zoo assistant Amelia has WED her mind fixed on dolphins. But as they head out into the WED bay to intercept the aged shellfish gatherer, the speed of WED Amelia's rowing sets them on a very different course - one WED of world records, mountainous seas and near misses with oil WED tankers. WED WED Will Jane get her story? Will Lucy catch the man of her WED dreams? Will Amelia remember to take the lens cap off her WED binoculars? All these questions will be answered before WED their plucky rowing boat spies land once more. WED WED Jane ................ Catriona Knox WED Lucy .................Lizzie Bates WED Amelia ..............Anna Emerson WED Bill ................... Paul Ryan WED WED Written by Anna Emerson, Lizzie Bates and Catriona Knox WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED WED Produced by Dave Lamb and Richie Webb WED A Top Dog Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p4256 (Listen) WED Rachel Byrne with the day's top news stories from WED Westminster. WED WED THU THURSDAY 06 DECEMBER 2012 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01p2std (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01p589h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p2stg (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p2stj (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p2stl (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01p2stn (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p7r0x (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Pastor THU Alex Robertson. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01p3n05 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Rich Ward. THU THU 06:00 Today b01p3n07 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; THU Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b01p8fsr (Listen) THU Bertrand Russell THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the influential British THU philosopher Bertrand Russell. Born in 1872 into an THU aristocratic family, Russell is widely regarded as one of THU the founders of Analytic philosophy. His theory of THU descriptions had profound consequences for the philosophy of THU language, epistemology and metaphysics, and he made a major THU contribution to mathematics in the shape of Russell's THU Paradox . A prominent political activist and anti-war THU campaigner, he also contributed to social and political THU philosophy. Russell's work exerted a significant influence THU on other philosophers, and he played an important role in THU promoting the public understanding of ideas through his THU appearances on the BBC. THU THU Producer: Victoria Brignell. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01p58ch (Listen) THU The Horologicon, Episode 4 THU THU Feeling refreshed after your post lunch slooming? Then you'd THU better get on with your faciendum because, if you're THU lolly-gagging, the buzz-wig may notice and offer you a THU meeting without coffee. THU THU Mark Forsyth's The Horologicon provides us with just the THU vocabulary we need whatever the time of day. THU THU Written by Mark Forsyth THU Read by Hugh Dennis THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p3n2k (Listen) THU Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by THU Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3n7j (Listen) THU China Girl, Episode 4 THU THU China Girl by Tom Fry THU THU It is 1999 and Nick and Naomi have adopted a Chinese baby. THU But things are not going smoothly. The baby can't settle and THU then a chance remark at a Millennium party starts Nick THU thinking that maybe they aren't doing enough about Miranda's THU original culture. THU THU Producer/Director Gary Brown THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01p3n7l (Listen) THU Sexual Abuse in US Prisons THU THU Linda Pressly investigates why rape and sexual abuse is so THU common in America's huge prison system - and asks if new THU measures to fight it will succeed. THU Producer: Helen Grady. THU THU 11:30 The Physicist's Guide to the Orchestra b01p3n9f (Listen) THU In 1945, Benjamin Britten wrote The Young Person's Guide to THU the Orchestra, showing off the instruments of the orchestra THU in a short film. Viewers are taken through each section of THU the orchestra accompanied by a narration which describes the THU different sound quality of instruments: 'Clarinets ... make THU a beautifully smooth, mellow sound', flutes have a 'sweet THU voice' and the oboe has a 'plaintive quality.' THU THU Trevor Cox, Professor of Acoustic Engineering at the THU University of Salford, looks at the physics behind the way THU orchestral instruments produce their unique sound. How is THU the sound produced, and how much does the material from THU which the instrument is made affect the sound? THU THU Trevor talks to scientists who have studied musical THU instruments - David Sharp from the Open University, Mike THU Newton at Edinburgh University and Jim Woodhouse of THU Cambridge University. And members of the BBC Philharmonic THU provide the players' perspective. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01p3n9h (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01p2stq (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01p3n9k (Listen) THU Martha Kearney presents national and international news. THU Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or THU on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 The Global Gap b01p42w0 (Listen) THU Series 1: Mexico, Obesity Doctors THU THU Episode 4 (of 5): Doctors THU Laura Chambers is a young GP in the NHS in Rotherham, with a THU special interest in obesity and she speaks to Paula de La THU Garza, a doctor who runs a private clinic in Mexico City THU specializing in obesity and eating disorders. Laura THU discovers from Paula that Mexico has the largest number of THU children with obesity in the world, some of whom have heart THU attacks. Paula has even treated obese babies. While Laura THU has never treated very young children with these worrying THU symptoms, she is seeing increased obesity in her area and a THU reliance on junk food. Laura can refer patients to a special THU NHS clinic, set up alongside her GP practice, where patients THU are monitored and given tailor-made exercise regimes. THU THU Producer: Laura Parfitt THU A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01p424m (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p42w2 (Listen) THU The Stevie G Method THU THU In Gary Ogin's comedy Neil Stuke plays a struggling actor THU who is accidentally offered a job as a psychotherapist. THU Knowing nothing about the craft, he resorts to teaching THU Method Acting exercises to his unsuspecting patients. To his THU amazement, the Stevie G method is born! THU THU Music composed and performed by Russell Taylor and Steve THU Cooke. THU Directed by Peter Kavanagh. THU THU Credits THU Stevie: Neil Stuke THU Isobel: Katie McGuinness THU Milly: Lizzy Watts THU Dr Melton: Robert Blythe THU Mrs Finkel: Liza Sadovy THU Bob: Paul Stonehouse THU Zak: Ben Crowe THU Mr Ho: Ben Crowe THU Director: Peter Kavanagh THU Writer: Gary Ogin THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01p42w4 (Listen) THU Mendips Canal THU THU Countryside magazine featuring the people and wildlife that THU shape the landscape of Britain. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b01p30f7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b01p3ccv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01p42w6 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01p42w8 (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 b01p42wb (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p2sts (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01hxt9l (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Sitcom set in a local authority register office, written by THU and starring David Schneider, who plays chief registrar THU Malcolm Fox, a stickler for rules and regulations. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01p42wd (Listen) THU Kenton is nervous, and Elizabeth seeks advice. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01p42wg (Listen) THU With Mark Lawson, who reports on the stage musical version THU of The Bodyguard, based on the successful film which starred THU Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3n7j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01p42wj (Listen) THU Surgeons under Scrutiny THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations. Presented by THU Matthew Hill. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01p4349 (Listen) THU Strong Medicine THU THU Big problems loom over the pharmaceutical industry which THU influences so many people's lives. Giant corporations are THU beset by scandal and their pipelines of new treatments are THU running dry. Peter Day looks at the future of the industry THU through the eyes of two Swiss pharma companies, one very big THU and one of them tiny. Both are linked by their quest for a THU treatment for Alzheimers. THU THU Producer: Sandra Kanthal. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01p3k5z (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b01p8fsr (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01p2stv (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01p436q (Listen) THU National and international news and analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p436s (Listen) THU The Mighty Walzer, Episode 9 THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Headset Set b01p436v (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 6 THU THU Audience sketch show set in the world of a call centre THU called Smile5, a company that sells anything and everything. THU The call centre installs a thermostat, which causes THU conflict. THU THU Aleesha and other characters ..... Chizzy Akudolu THU Bernie and other characters ..... Margaret-Cabourn Smith THU Big Tony, Ralph and other characters ..... Colin Hoult THU Various ..... Lucy Montgomery THU Sailesh, Bradley and other characters ..... Phaldut sharma THU THU Writers ..... Various THU Producer ..... Tilusha Ghelani. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p436x (Listen) THU Sean Curran with the day's top news stories from THU Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 07 DECEMBER 2012 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01p2svt (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01p58ch (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01p2svw (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01p2svy (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01p2sw0 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01p2sw2 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01p8fyh (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Pastor FRI Alex Robertson. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01p3nqf (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Ruth Sanderson. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01p3nqh (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Yesterday in Parliament; Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b01p314n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01p58n6 (Listen) FRI The Horologicon, Episode 5 FRI FRI As the ploughman drops into the western bay, we offer you FRI bene darkmans dear listener. Mark Forsyth is feeling FRI finifugal as his Horologicon reaches the end of the day. FRI FRI Written by Mark Forsyth FRI Read by Hugh Dennis FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01p3nqk (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3nqm (Listen) FRI China Girl, Episode 5 FRI FRI China Girl by Tom Fry FRI FRI Nick and Naomi are finding it hard. The baby is unsettled FRI and they feel guilty. Desperate for a way to connect with FRI their adopted daughter, they consult a Chinese doctor FRI FRI Producer/Director Gary Brown FRI FRI 11:00 Touchline Tales b01p3nqp (Listen) FRI Series 3, Episode 2 FRI FRI Old friends Des Lynam and Christopher Matthew venture out to FRI different sporting venues - to enjoy, observe, reminisce and FRI trade tales about some of the greatest pleasures in their FRI lives. Today, they float like butterflies between those FRI training at the All Stars Boxing Gym (on West London's FRI Harrow Road) and they sting like bees with their FRI affectionate verbal jabs, trying to outdo each other with FRI their knockout boxing anecdotes. FRI FRI As a commentator and friend of sporting stars, Des has, as FRI ever, a fund of stories to tell, and insights to reveal. But FRI Christopher gamely tries to match him stride by stride with FRI his own experiences as a lifelong spectator at the highest FRI levels of sport (and, like Des, an occasional participant at FRI the lowest). FRI FRI Producer: Paul Kobrak. FRI FRI 11:30 Polyoaks b01p3ntd (Listen) FRI Series 2, The Shaky Shaky Hip FRI FRI In the NHS satire by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer, a FRI general practice somewhere in Bristol is faced with FRI challenges and opportunities in equal measure as they adjust FRI to another 'biggest shake-up of the NHS in a lifetime'. FRI FRI Of all the doctors at Polyoaks, Hugh is the committed FRI political mover and shaker. To get on politically in the NHS FRI it helps to play squash. And to play squash it helps if your FRI hip is working. Dr Hugh's isn't - and he hates going to see FRI the doctor. FRI FRI Dr Roy Thornton...........................Nigel Planer FRI Dr Hugh Thornton.........................Simon Greenall FRI TV's Dr. Jeremy............................David Westhead FRI Nurse Vera Duplessis....................Polly Frame FRI Mr. Devlin.....................................Phil Cornwell FRI Robert..........................................Lewis McLeod FRI FRI Written by Dr Phil Hammond and David Spicer FRI Directed by Frank Stirling FRI Producer: David Spicer FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01p3ntg (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Shari Vahl. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b01p3nvk (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 b01p2sw6 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01p3nvm (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. Listeners FRI can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on FRI twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 The Global Gap b01p450w (Listen) FRI Series 1: Mexico, Charity Workers FRI FRI Episode 5 (of 5): Charity Workers FRI Fiona Patterson works for Barnardo's in Bradford. She helps FRI provide a special service for girls aged between 11 and 18 FRI who are being exploited or groomed for sexual exploitation. FRI She speaks to Sofia Almanza, a charity worker at Casa FRI Alianza in Mexico City, who works with 12 - 18 year olds who FRI have been abandoned, neglected or abused. FRI FRI While Fiona works with young people who are housed with FRI family or friends, Sofia's service provide residential FRI houses for homeless young people and helps people develop FRI tools to deal with independent life. Sometimes in Mexico, FRI the children are part of larger criminal organisations and FRI many are drug dependent. There are worrying side effects of FRI the drugs, such as blindness and stomach complaints. FRI FRI Fiona sees many young people with very low self esteem, some FRI of whom have left home to live with people who are now FRI exploiting them sexually or using them to transport drugs. FRI Her service helps the young people to identify their FRI situations and remove themselves to a safer environment. FRI FRI Producer: Laura Parfitt FRI A Juniper production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01p42wd (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01p450y (Listen) FRI On Mardle Fen, Series 5, Dillie's Day FRI FRI By Nick Warburton. Trevor Peacock stars as inspirational FRI chef Warwick Hedges who runs an idiosyncratic restaurant in FRI the Cambridgeshire Fens. Polish waitress Zofia has a FRI surprise communication from her brother who is coming to FRI Britain for a short visit. FRI FRI Director Tracey Neale FRI Producer Claire Grove FRI FRI Credits FRI Warwick Hedges: Trevor Peacock FRI Jack Hedges: Sam Dale FRI Marcia Hedges: Kate Buffery FRI Zofia: Helen Longworth FRI Samuel: John Rowe FRI Bernard: Ben Crowe FRI Director: Tracey Neale FRI Producer: Claire Grove FRI Writer: Nick Warburton FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01p4510 (Listen) FRI Rayleigh, Essex FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs BBC Radio 4's horticultural panel FRI programme from Rayleigh in Essex, where he is joined by Matt FRI Biggs, Christine Walkden and Bunny Guinness, to field FRI questions from gardening enthusiasts. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Radio 4 Christmas Appeal b01p30ff (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Sunday] FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01p4512 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01p4514 (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b01p4516 (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 b01p457h (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01p2sw8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Now Show b01p457k (Listen) FRI Series 38, Episode 5 FRI FRI Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis present the week in topical FRI stand-up and sketches with Jon Holmes, Laura Shavin, Mitch FRI Benn and special guest Holly Walsh. Produced by Victoria FRI Lloyd. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01p457m (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Simon Frith 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 Elizabeth Pargetter..... Alison Dowling FRI Tom Archer..... Tom Graham FRI Matt Crawford... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Jamie Perks..... Dan Ciotkowski FRI Joe Grundy..... Edward Kelsey FRI Eddie Grundy..... Trevor Harrison FRI Emma Grundy..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy..... Barry Farrimond FRI Mike Tucker..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker..... Lorraine Coady FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Robert Snell..... Graham Blockey FRI Lynda Snell..... Carole Boyd FRI Jim Lloyd..... John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI James Bellamy..... Roger May FRI Leonie Snell..... Jasmine Hyde FRI Rhys Williams..... Scott Arthur FRI Iftikar Shah..... Pal Aron FRI Joyce Walters..... Ann Beach FRI Matthew Watkins..... Paul Stonehouse. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01p457p (Listen) FRI With John Wilson, including an interview with the American FRI writer Paul Auster. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b01p3nqm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b01p457r (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Queen Elizabeth's High School in Gainsborough, FRI Lincolnshire. Guests include the Shadow Business Secretary FRI Chuka Umunna, Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee, Dr Samantha FRI Callan from the Centre for Social Justice and the Leader of FRI the House of Commons Andrew Lansley MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b01p457t (Listen) FRI Onora O'Neill reflects anew on the theme of trust, which was FRI the subject of her Reith lectures. FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI 21:00 Saturday Drama b016k89p (Listen) FRI Something Wicked This Way Comes FRI FRI By Ray Bradbury FRI Dramatised by Diana Griffiths FRI FRI Composer ..... David Paul Jones FRI Sound ..... Paul Cargill FRI Produced/Directed by Pauline Harris FRI FRI Set in 1960's Illinois this gem of modern Gothic literature FRI is the memorable story of two boys, James Nightshade and FRI William Halloway, and the evil that grips their small FRI Midwestern town with the arrival of a "dark carnival" one FRI Autumn midnight. These two innocents, both aged 13, (Will is FRI born one minute before Halloween, and Jim one minute after) FRI save the souls of the town (as well as their own). This is a FRI vivid variation on the eternal theme of the fight between FRI Good and Evil. A thrilling, chilling, richly kaleidoscopic FRI sound world ensues; a shimmering mirror maze that reflects FRI your older or younger self, depending on your desires, and a FRI magic carousel that plays Chopin's Funeral March forwards - FRI with each rotation you gain a year, and rotating backwards - FRI you get younger. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01p2swb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01p457w (Listen) FRI National and international news and analysis. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01p457y (Listen) FRI The Mighty Walzer, Episode 10 FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01p41h8 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b01p4580 (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy with the day's top news stories from FRI Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b01p4582 (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
30 November, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 01/12/2012 - 07/12/2012
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