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SAT SATURDAY 29 DECEMBER 2012 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b01pglxr (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Stephen Fry on the Phone b017chq0 (Listen) SAT The Accidental Discovery of Text SAT SAT Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from SAT hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to SAT carry the battery to the smart little devices complete with SAT personal assistant we have today. SAT SAT There are more mobile phones in the world than there are SAT people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys SAT who made it all possible and hears how the technology SAT succeeded, in ways that the geeks had not necessarily SAT intended. SAT SAT Stephen Fry meets the men who created the first texting SAT facility, as well as other less commercially successful SAT products like taxifones, payphones on trains and in-car fax SAT machines. He hears how texting triumphed unexpectedly when SAT paging was all the rage, partly because paging services SAT never seemed to work on Friday afternoon. On the earliest SAT handsets there was no way of replying to a text. Later, just SAT in case someone might want to reply, they included a short SAT list of possible pre-set answers: yes, no and later. In the SAT mid 90s texting was just one of countless facilities SAT embedded within the new digital mobile phones: no one SAT thought it that important. In 2010 alone, a staggering 6.1 SAT trillion text messages were sent. And most of them received SAT a reply. SAT SAT Producer: Anna Buckley. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b01pgjy7 (Listen) SAT Three Houses, Episode 5 SAT SAT A beautifully nostalgic childhood memoir of Britain in the SAT late 1890s, written by the eminent author Angela Thirkell. SAT She recalls in rich detail, and with a delightful sense of SAT humour, the three houses which were seminal to her youth. SAT SAT It's Christmas at North End House in Rottingdean and the SAT waits and the mummers are busy touring the village. But for SAT one little girl, opening her stocking on her grandmother's SAT bed, it's a tiny dormouse that steals the day. SAT SAT Read by Sian Thomas SAT Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. SAT A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pglxt (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pglxw (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pglxy (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b01pgly0 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01pgmgk (Listen) SAT Presented by the Very Rev Graham Forbes, Provost of St SAT Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b01pgmgm (Listen) SAT The iPM New Year's Honours programme tells the stories of SAT some of the nominees, including a woman who, with her SAT husband, survived horrific violence in South Africa and SAT remains a natural optimist. Plus the winner is announced. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b01pgly2 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b01pgly4 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b01pgh27 (Listen) SAT Finding Neverland SAT SAT Helen Mark takes us on a journey to the real Never Never SAT Land. SAT SAT Peter Pan first came to life on the glittering stage of SAT London's Duke of York Theatre on 27th December 1904, but he SAT began life far away from the hustle, bustle and glamour of SAT the West End in the market town of Kirriemuir near Dundee. SAT Helen Mark visits the birth place of J.M. Barrie who SAT immortalised this "wee red toonie" as "Thrums" in his SAT popular (pre-Pan) novels Auld Licht Idylls, A Window in SAT Thrums, and The Little Minister. Helen also takes us out SAT into the landscape that is believed to have inspired Never SAT Never Land and the adventures of Peter Pan himself. SAT SAT Producer: Nicola Humphries. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b01pgmgp (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT There are 1.8 million dairy cows in the UK. Over the last SAT couple of years the way those cows are farmed has come under SAT increased scrutiny. Dairy farms are getting larger and, in SAT some cases, more intensive. Cows are being bred, and fed, to SAT produce higher yields. Farmers face continuing economic SAT pressure. To explore some of these issues Farming Today SAT followed a typical dairy cow through a year of milk SAT production. Bradley Cora 289 is owned by David Cotton, who SAT farms near Glastonbury in Somerset. This programme brings SAT together the key moments in Cora's year. SAT SAT Presented and Produced by Sarah Swadling. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b01pgly6 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b01pgnbf (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and SAT Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk, Weather and Thought SAT for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b01pgnbh (Listen) SAT John McCarthy and Suzy Klein with journalist and broadcaster SAT Aggie MacKenzie SAT SAT Producer: Dixi Stewart. SAT SAT 10:30 Shakespeare is German b01pgnbk (Listen) SAT We tend to think of William Shakespeare as wholly British - SAT but Stratford's greatest son has a rival fan club abroad. SAT His plays have now been translated into over 90 languages SAT and the first of these languages was German. SAT SAT There are records of touring productions of German SAT adaptations of Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet as early as the SAT first decade of the 17th century. But it was in the 18th SAT century that Shakespeare's influence on German culture SAT really took hold. Goethe proclaimed to a group of friends in SAT a lecture in celebration of Shakespeare given in Frankfurt SAT in 1771: "Once I had read an entire play, I stood there like SAT a blind man given the gift of sight by some miraculous SAT healing touch." SAT SAT Twenty-two of Shakespeare's plays had already appeared in SAT German prose translation by 1766. The world's first academic SAT Shakespeare society was founded in Weimar in 1864 and SAT continues to hold an annual Shakespeare conference. A SAT Shakespeare statue was erected in Weimar in 1904 and seems SAT as at home there as the statues of Wieland, Goethe and SAT Schiller. Germany has an almost obsessive fascination with SAT the bard, exemplified perhaps by the Ferdinand Freiligrath SAT poem of 1844 that opens: "Deutschland ist Hamlet". SAT SAT There are now more productions of Shakespeare's plays in SAT Germany every year than in England. SAT SAT Patrick Spottiswoode, Director of Education at Shakespeare's SAT Globe, explores Germany's intense relationship with SAT Shakespeare, using archive and recorded performances from SAT celebrated German actors. SAT SAT Produced by Clive Brill SAT A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b01pgnbm (Listen) SAT The Real and the Virtual SAT SAT Digital technology has given us a new realm to operate in, SAT but is the border between the real and the virtual becoming SAT increasingly blurred? And what's the role of maths in SAT helping us to make sense of things, both real and virtual? SAT SAT In this episode of the ideas discussion programme, Bridget SAT Kendall brings together three people whose work takes them SAT close to the dividing line of the tangible and intangible SAT worlds. From Jerusalem, the Israeli digital innovator Eyal SAT Gever uses 3D imaging software to create stunning models of SAT simulated catastrophes, from Boston the American professor SAT Robert Kaplan explores the way that maths gives expression SAT to virtual ideas, and in the studio the British ceramicist SAT Edmund de Waal describes his love of hand-crafted, physical SAT objects and how they connect people through time. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b01pgnbp (Listen) SAT A feast of highlights from 2012 SAT SAT The BBC's foreign correspondents take a closer look at the SAT stories behind the headlines. Presented by Kate Adie. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b01pgnbr (Listen) SAT Personal Finance Look Ahead SAT SAT Paul Lewis and his guests look ahead to 2013. What will SAT happen to house prices? Will the retail distribution review SAT really lead to a shake up in the world of paid for financial SAT advice? Will savers have to turn to investing to get a SAT decent rate of return? And will the UK economy grow as much SAT as the Office for Budget Responsibility predicts? SAT SAT Joining Paul Lewis in the studio will be freelance financial SAT journalist, Cliff D'Arcy; The Telegraph's brand new personal SAT finance editor, Andrew Oxlade; and Vicky Pryce, senior SAT managing director of economics at FTI Consulting. And in SAT Edinburgh we have Moneyweek's editor in chief, Merryn SAT Somerset-Webb. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b01pgls4 (Listen) SAT Series 79, Episode 2 SAT SAT A compilation of the best bits of The News Quiz from 2012, SAT presented by Sandi Toksvig. SAT SAT Produced by Martha Owen and Lyndsay Fenner. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b01pgly8 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b01pglyb (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Correspondents Look Ahead b01pgg83 (Listen) SAT Owen Bennett-Jones is joined by some of the BBC's top SAT correspondents as they give their predictions about what SAT will shape our world next year. SAT SAT Will the global economy recover? How will the Arab Spring SAT play out across the Middle East - and how will the conflict SAT in Syria be resolved? Will Burma and North Korea continue to SAT come out of the cold? And will a re-elected Barack Obama SAT play a more assertive role in global affairs? SAT SAT Join Owen and his guests as they gaze into their crystal SAT balls - and he rates their predictions from last year's look SAT ahead. SAT SAT Producer: Linda Pressly. SAT SAT 14:00 The Listening Project b01p7hdz (Listen) SAT The Listening Project Symphony SAT SAT BBC Radio 4's Listening Project captures intimate, heartfelt SAT encounters between friends and loved ones - the nation in SAT conversation. SAT SAT In this unique celebration, the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra SAT presents a new work by composer Gary Carpenter accompanied SAT by highlights from the series compiled by producer Cathy SAT FitzGerald. Fi Glover hosts the event live from MediaCityUK SAT in Salford, where the BBC Philharmonic will perform in front SAT of a specially invited audience of Listening Project SAT participants. SAT SAT Producer: Ekene Akalawu/Cathy Fitzgerald SAT A Rockethouse production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b01pgnbt (Listen) SAT Red Shoes SAT SAT This dark tale collected by Hans Christian Andersen is SAT reimagined for radio by Frances Byrnes and stars Lizzy Watts SAT as the teenage Karen whose vanity and skittishness compel SAT her to demand a forbidden pair of red shoes. But as she had SAT been warned on countless occasions, the red shoes are so SAT imbued with sin and lasciviousness that they utterly destroy SAT her both spiritually and corporally. In so doing, this SAT version of The Red Shoes shirks none of Anderson's SAT ruthlessness or darkness. Fairytale this may be but its SAT bleak warning against wanton behaviour under threat of a SAT violent and bloody demise, holds nothing back from young and SAT old alike. SAT SAT In The Red Shoes is reimagined for Radio by Frances Byrnes. SAT SAT The Red Shoes was directed in Belfast by Eoin O'Callaghan. SAT SAT Credits SAT Karen: Lizzy Watts SAT Give: Lizzy McInnerny SAT Old Lady: Barri Adair SAT The Soldier: Richard Dormer SAT The Shoemaker: David Horowitz SAT The Pastor: Patrick Fitzsymons SAT The Executioner: Mark Lambert SAT The Little Girl: Amy Lee Farmer SAT Director: Eoin O'Callaghan SAT Writer: Frances Byrnes SAT SAT 15:30 Bellydancing and the Blues b01pg3qt (Listen) SAT Dancer and drummer Guy Schalom hunts out the spirit of the SAT new Egypt in one of its biggest cultural exports. To our SAT ears, Baladi is the music of the bellydancer - kitsch and SAT mock-Arab. But in its true form it is the essence of Egypt, SAT 'of the country', 'home' in the deepest sense. SAT SAT Our journey begins in Berlin, as bejewelled dancers from SAT across Europe gather on a theatre stage ready to do battle SAT for the title 'Miss Bellydance 2012'. They might not all SAT know it, but the music which accompanies their gyrations is SAT a knot of contradictions: an essence of the east inspired by SAT western musical traditions, the spirit of rural Egypt made SAT urban. SAT SAT But the deepest contradictions rest with the very people who SAT perform Baladi. What seems to us a provocative, alluring, SAT even licentious dance for women in fact has roots in a SAT ceremonial dance for men. As we discover in Cairo, deep SAT divisions remain between those who think it is a vital SAT expression of the oriental spirit and those committed to SAT regenerating sexual stereotypes. So what is the reality of SAT bellydance and Baladi in the new Egypt? Can it find any SAT place amongst the street rappers and pop artists or is this SAT an artform about to be consigned to realms of the SAT tourist-pleasing clubs and cafes? As with so much in this SAT rapidly changing culture, answers prove difficult to find. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b01pgq2v (Listen) SAT Charlotte Church; Ren Harvieu; inspirational young women SAT SAT Charlotte Church, Ren Harvieu and other young women who've SAT impressed on Woman's Hour throughout 2012... SAT Child A, whose evidence led to nine men from Rochdale and SAT Oldham being sent to prison for grooming and sexual abuse of SAT young girls. 17-year-old Amy-Claire Davies who has a SAT life-limiting illness talks about her ambitions and the SAT effects of multiple system disease. Charlotte Church on the SAT Leveson Enquiry and press intrusion on her childhood. SAT Entrepreneur Carrie Green on setting up a business while at SAT university and the occasional loneliness of working alone. SAT Singer Ren Harvieu performs in the Woman's Hour studio - and SAT tells us about the disabling accident that delayed her first SAT album. Jessica Thom on Tourettes and her book Welcome to SAT Biscuit Land. HJ Lim plays the piano; and Ruby Craig SAT explains cosplay. SAT Presenter Jenni Murray SAT Producer Lucinda Montefiore. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b01pgq2x (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news with Patrick O'Connell. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b01pgmgm (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01pglyd (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b01pglyg (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pglyj (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b01pgq2z (Listen) SAT Simon Le Bon, Sir David Frost, Nile Rogers, Clare Balding, SAT Bobby Womack SAT SAT A panoply of stars joined Clive in the Loose Ends studio SAT this year, so as a special festive treat we've dished up the SAT best of the best in this tasty morsel of a show featuring SAT (deep breath): cricketer-turned-boxer Freddie Flintoff, SAT Duran Duran's Simon Le Bon, Chic's Nile Rogers, Radio 4's SAT very own James Naughtie, Sir David Frost, 2012's golden gal SAT Clare Balding, 2012 Booker nominee Will Self, 2012 Mercury SAT award winners Alt-J and The Poet himself, Bobby Womack with SAT an exclusive solo performance of Across 100th St. And SAT there's even more live music from Mercury award nominees: SAT Lianne La Havas, Field Music, Jess Ware, Django Django and SAT Michael Kiwanuka. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b01pgq31 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Dead End SAT SAT Gravediggers Keith and Hugo (Dicken Ashworth and Freddie SAT Fox) return to contemplate money, and the lack of it, in SAT John Godber's drama 'Dead End'. SAT SAT Are we in for a triple dip? And what about the fiscal cliff? SAT How to bridge the north/south divide? The conversation takes SAT a philosophical turn as two gravediggers labour with their SAT spades in a graveyard not far from the Humber Bridge. SAT SAT Hugo may be from Windsor but he has to work through his SAT Christmas break from Hull University to earn enough money to SAT keep him in chicken and pesto bagels. Keith has been SAT grave-digging for years. He's a plain cheese and pickle man SAT and he doesn't think much of the southern softie who's just SAT here for the holidays. But they have more in common than SAT they think. SAT SAT Writer...John Godber SAT Keith...Dicken Ashworth SAT Hugo...Freddie Fox SAT Director...Mary Ward-Lowery. SAT SAT 19:15 Pick of the Year b01pfxhz (Listen) SAT In the New Year, Senior Announcer Harriet Cass leaves Radio SAT 4 but before her departure she chooses her favourite moments SAT from BBC Radio in 2012. SAT SAT Included in her choices are children's voices talking about SAT trout and haircuts, disembodied voices in desperate morse SAT code messages signalling Titanic's end, Yorkshire voices SAT searching for the point where language and accent change, SAT great orator's voices - such as Martin Luther King - and SAT voices telling moving and heart-breaking stories. SAT SAT Good Morning Scotland - BBC Radio Scotland SAT The Arse That Jack Built - Radio 4 SAT Today: Leap For Change - Radio 4 SAT The Ice Mountain - Radio 4 SAT Titanic In Her Own Words - Radio 4 SAT Ship of Dreams - Radio 4 SAT Wireless Nights - Radio 4 SAT Soul Music: Brothers in Arms - Radio 4 SAT Today: Obama's Victory Speech - Radio 4 SAT Andrew Peach Show - Radio Berkshire SAT Charlie and Alfie's Breakfast Show: Martin Luther King SAT Archive - Radio Newcastle SAT PM: Leap For Change - Radio 4 SAT Tweflth Night - Radio 3 SAT Old Harry's Game - Radio 4 SAT Shortcuts - Radio 4 SAT In Tune: The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain - Radio 3 SAT SAT If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SAT programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b01pgq4j (Listen) SAT Blithe Margaret SAT SAT Margaret Rutherford was a benign battleaxe, chin wagging SAT like a windsock, famous as Miss Marple, Madame Arcati in SAT Blithe Spirit and for her roles in Passport to Pimlico, The SAT Importance of Being Earnest and an Oscar-winning performance SAT in The VIPs. Stephen Fry looks back at the life and work of SAT one of our finest comedy actors and one of Britain's SAT best-loved box office stars. SAT SAT The comic and dramatic roles Margaret played were as nothing SAT to the astonishing true crime stories that shaped her life SAT and career. Murder was to play a part in her life, beyond SAT the role of Miss Marple. She was also a regular visitor to a SAT young offenders' institution and had a family secret that SAT she never revealed. SAT SAT The programme includes archive of Margaret herself, film SAT director David Lean, writer Rumer Godden, comedian Frankie SAT Howerd, actor Robert Morley, her husband Stringer Davis, and SAT informally adopted daughter Dawn Langley Simmons. We also SAT hear from Andy Merriman (author of Margaret Rutherford: SAT Dreadnought with Good Manners) and actress Damaris Hayman. SAT SAT And Stephen talks to one of Margaret's distant relatives. SAT Somewhat surprisingly, it's the Rt.Hon.Tony Benn. SAT SAT Producer: Tamsin Hughes SAT A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b01pf6f7 (Listen) SAT The Eustace Diamonds, Episode 1 SAT SAT Rose Tremain's dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's SAT enthralling novel stars Pippa Nixon as the beautiful Lizzie SAT Eustace, fighting to retain possession of her magnificent SAT diamond necklace, which she claims was left to her as a gift SAT by her late husband Florian. SAT SAT Her immediate relatives, spurred on by the intransigent SAT family lawyer Camperdown, argue that the diamonds are an SAT heirloom and on no account can be retained by her. The SAT dispute colours all Lizzie's subsequent relationships - with SAT her cousin Frank, her new lover Lord Fawn and her admirer SAT Lord George. As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzie is SAT driven to increasingly desperate behaviour in an attempt to SAT retain her jewels. SAT SAT Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown SAT Produced and directed by Gordon House SAT A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4 SAT SAT Harpist: Cecilia De Maria SAT Cellist: Alison Baldwin. SAT SAT Credits SAT Lizzie: Pippa Nixon SAT Lord Fawn: Jamie Glover SAT Florian: Nicholas Boulton SAT Lady Linlithgow: Richenda Carey SAT Lady Fawn: Stella Gonet SAT Frank: Joseph Kloska SAT Lucy: Amy Morgan SAT Camperdown: Malcolm Sinclair SAT Crabstick: Alison Pettit SAT Harter: Sam Kelly SAT Benjamin: Stephen Critchlow SAT John Eustace: Alex Waldmann SAT Augusta: Laura Hanna SAT Lydia: Ellie Butters SAT Nina: Ella Dale SAT Director: Gordon House SAT Producer: Gordon House SAT Writer: Rose Tremain SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b01pglyl (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Unreliable Evidence b01pg54x (Listen) SAT Courtroom Drama SAT SAT With its sets and costumes, soliloquies, suspense and SAT dramatic revelations - the courtroom is pure theatre. SAT SAT Following the return of Rumpole to Radio 4, Clive Anderson SAT and his guests discuss how accurately the legal world is SAT depicted in stage and screen dramas. And they discuss the SAT issues which arise when the distinctions between fiction and SAT fact - between Rumpole and reality - become blurred in the SAT public's mind. SAT SAT Guests Helena Kennedy QC, appeal court judge Sir Alan Moses, SAT German judge Ruth Herz and former barrister and co-creator SAT of Garrow's Law, Mark Pallis, reflect on 50 years of SAT fictional courtroom dramas - from To Kill a Mockingbird to SAT Silk, and ask if lawyers can learn things from the actors SAT who portray them. SAT SAT Does the way courtroom dramas introduce dramatic last minute SAT evidence, show defendants crumbling under cross-examination SAT and defence barristers reducing juries to tears, even SAT remotely reflect the real world? Are judges really as out of SAT touch, and lawyers as pompous and greedy as their screen SAT counterparts? And does it really matter if screenwriters SAT fail to stick to the truth, the whole truth and nothing but SAT the truth? SAT SAT Award-winning producers of comedy, drama, factual and SAT entertainment programming. SAT SAT Producer: Brian King SAT An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b01pgq4l (Listen) SAT (5/17) SAT Which writer's first published novel, 'Jumping The Queue' SAT appeared when she was aged 70? And in a special televised SAT ceremony at the end of 1999, who was named Sports SAT Personality of the 20th Century? SAT SAT Russell Davies chairs the latest heat of the longest-running SAT general knowledge quiz on British radio, this week from the SAT BBC's Maida Vale studios. Competitors from Swindon, Reading, SAT London and Petersfield in Hampshire try for a place in the SAT 2013 semi-finals. SAT SAT As always, there's a chance for a listener to 'Beat the SAT Brains' by devising questions that may outwit all four SAT contestants. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry Please b01pf7kf (Listen) SAT Roger McGough presents a varied, warm, yet slush-free SAT selection of Christmas poetry requests. SAT A moving poem called The Shepherd by Edward Kaulfuss will SAT strike a chord with anyone who has felt estranged at a SAT Christmas gathering. T.S. Eliot's 'The Journey of The Magi' SAT with its complexities and doubt features alongside other SAT classics like Hardy's ever hopeful poem The Oxen (it SAT wouldn't be Christmas without it, after all) and Laurie SAT Lee's Christmas Landscape. Another thoughtful nativity poem SAT comes from a poet perhaps better known for her caustic wit; SAT Dorothy Parker. SAT There are some nostalgic poems from Ireland, including SAT Patrick Kavanagh's poem 'A Christmas Childhood' where the SAT six year old Kavanagh saw the magic in the mundane ("my SAT child poet picked out the letters/On the grey stone/In SAT silver the wonder of a Christmas townland") as his father's SAT melodeon called out to his neighbours. John Montague's poem SAT The Silver Flask marks the brief reunion of a family SAT dispersed from County Tyrone to Brooklyn, where Montague SAT himself was born. SAT Coventry Patmore's poem The Toys might just move the hardest SAT cynic heart to tears, whilst Hugh MacMillan's 'Saturday SAT Afternoon at the Grotto' injects a healthy sense of SAT Glaswegian realism. SAT The readers are John Mackay, Ian McElhinney and Eleanor SAT Tremain. SAT Producer: Sarah Langan. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 30 DECEMBER 2012 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b01pgq6d (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Stephen Fry on the Phone b017cjmn (Listen) SUN Shrinking the Handset SUN SUN Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from SUN hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to SUN carry the battery to the smart little devices complete with SUN personal assistant we have today. SUN SUN There are more mobile phones in the world than there are SUN people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys SUN who made it all possible and hears how the technology SUN succeeded, in ways that the geeks had not necessarily SUN intended. SUN SUN In the fourth episode, Stephen Fry talk to the engineers who SUN turned mobile phones from hefty executive bricks into svelte SUN fashion accessories. One man at Motorola dreamt of a mobile SUN phone small enough to fit in a shirt pocket but it was Nokia SUN , once more famous for making loo paper and wellies, that SUN cornered the global market. In the early nineties, Nokia was SUN on the brink of collapse. But the new chief executive, SUN brought in to save the company from bankruptcy, made a bold SUN decision to ditch the wellies and focus solely on mobile SUN phones. Soon the iconic Nokia ringtone (extracted SUN incidentally from a piece for classical guitar composed in SUN 1902) was inescapable. SUN SUN Producer: Anna Buckley. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b011j8zn (Listen) SUN Winter in the Air and Other Stories, Winter in the Air SUN SUN Winter in the Air is the title story from Sylvia Townsend SUN Warner's recently republished collection in which a woman SUN reflects on the final and difficult days of her marriage. At SUN the same time she looks ahead to her new life in her SUN solitary flat in 1950s London. SUN SUN The stories in this collection were written between 1938 and SUN 1950. They capture the mood and atmosphere of the times, and SUN the lot of women in mid twentieth century England. Sylvia SUN Townsend Warner is less well known today, but in her time SUN was a prolific writer of novels, short stories and poetry. SUN She also wrote a biography of T.H. White. These stories SUN illustrate her talent for sharp, insightful, and vivid SUN storytelling. SUN SUN The reader is Susannah Harker SUN Abridged by Richard Hamilton SUN Produced by Elizabeth Allard. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01pgq6g (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01pgq6j (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01pgq6l (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b01pgq6n (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b01pgqcc (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Paul's Cathedral in London. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b01pg54z (Listen) SUN Series 3, Tom Armitage: The Coded World SUN SUN Designer and technologist Tom Armitage argues that learning SUN to write computer code means learning to think in a modern SUN way, and that it should spur creativity: the possibility of SUN doing entirely new things. SUN SUN Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought SUN provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in SUN front of an audience, speakers air their latest thinking on SUN the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our SUN culture and society. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b01pgq6q (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b01ph59q (Listen) SUN Letting Go SUN SUN Mark Tully asks when it is right to relinquish our dreams SUN and how best to leave grief behind? From sporting defeat to SUN the loss of a loved one, this programme looks at the SUN benefits of knowing when to let go, and the consequences of SUN not doing so. SUN SUN Readings explore the notion of letting go of worldly SUN successes and status symbols in preparation for retirement; SUN the pain of bereavement as the gradual process of forgetting SUN begins; a Hindu tradition of renouncing material possessions SUN and family connections before death; and the joy of finally SUN accepting defeat. SUN SUN Music featured in the programme includes an excerpt from an SUN opera unfinished by Claude Debussy which he finally let go SUN of by pretending to have burned the score. SUN SUN And in poetry, Naomi Shihab Nye suggests that if we don't SUN lose things - let them go - we will never, "learn the tender SUN gravity of kindness". SUN SUN Producer: Adam Fowler SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b01ph59s (Listen) SUN Farming and Space SUN SUN Caz Graham discovers how farming on planet Earth is SUN increasingly being shaped by outer space. SUN SUN For On Your Farm, Caz visits Julian Gold, who farms on the SUN Hendred Estate in Oxfordshire in the shadow of the Harwell SUN Campus, a centre for UK space research. Julian uses space SUN technology in several ways on his farm, including using SUN precision-guided tractors that steer themselves. Fifty-five SUN years since the first satellite was launched into space, SUN about six per cent of the UK economy is dependent on SUN satellite technology and this figure is rising. SUN SUN With the aid of Dr Hugh Mortimer, a space scientist from the SUN Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, and Stuart Martin, Vice SUN Chair of UKspace, Caz peers into a high-tech future for SUN agriculture involving invisible hedgerows, low-flying model SUN aircraft and scanning for plant diseases from far, far SUN above. SUN SUN Presented by Caz Graham and produced by Rich Ward. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b01pgq6s (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b01pgq6v (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b01ph59v (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme, SUN presented by Edward Stourton. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b01ph59x (Listen) SUN SolarAid SUN SUN Ian McEwan presents the Radio 4 Appeal for SolarAid SUN Reg Charity:1115960 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN SolarAid. SUN SUN Michael Phiri and his brother study after dark. With SUN affordable solar light school pass rates are on the rise. SUN SUN Mrs Silowimba is a teacher and uses the extra ‘light time’ SUN to write the next day’s lesson plan. Solar light extends the SUN working day and can even enable a second income. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b01pgq6x (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b01pgq6z (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b01ph59z (Listen) SUN Looking forward to Hogmanay and the turn of the year, Kevin SUN Franz, Mental Health Chaplain and member of the Society of SUN Friends, and the Revd Alison Jack of New College, Edinburgh, SUN explore the meaning of hospitality. SUN With the Choir of St Mary's Episcopal Cathedral, Glasgow, SUN directed by Frikki Walker. Organist: Mark Browne. SUN Readings: Genesis 18: 1-8, Luke 10: 38-42. SUN Music: SUN Let us build a house (Two Oaks) SUN In the bleak midwinter (Darke) SUN While shepherds watched (Owain Park) SUN Christ has no body (David Ogden) SUN I heard the voice of Jesus say (Rowan Tree) SUN Of the father's love begotten (Corde Natus) SUN Producer: Mo McCullough. SUN SUN 08:50 A Point of View b01pglsb (Listen) SUN The British Vomitorium SUN SUN "Are you full yet? Stuffed? Fit to burst?" asks Will Self as SUN he appeals to the post-Christmas glutton to consider a major SUN lifestyle change in the year ahead. SUN SUN "What I think we should all do", he says, "is throw up our SUN very obsession with food itself, and enter the New Year SUN purged". SUN SUN He takes us on a tour of foodie history, and explores how SUN we've gone from being a culinary backwater to "the most SUN food-obsessed nation in Europe - if not the world". SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b01ph5b1 (Listen) SUN News and conversation about the big stories of the week with SUN Paddy O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b01ph5b3 (Listen) SUN Writer ..... Joanna Toye SUN Director ..... Rosemary Watts SUN Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn SUN SUN Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene SUN Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee 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 Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer SUN Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen SUN Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett SUN Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin SUN Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman SUN Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins SUN Robert Snell ..... Graham Blockey SUN Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler SUN Jazzer Mccreary ..... Ryan Kelly SUN Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe SUN Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens SUN Rhys Williams ..... Scott Arthur. SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b01ph5b5 (Listen) SUN Anya Hindmarch SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the designer and SUN businesswoman, Anya Hindmarch. SUN SUN Given her first Gucci handbag by her mother at 16, she knew SUN that her future lay in fashion. At 18 she went to Florence SUN to immerse herself in Italian style, and ended up deep in SUN the world of Florentine leather, getting samples made up of SUN a duffel bag she'd spotted. An initial run of 500 bags sold SUN out. Fast forward 25 years and her eponymous fashion SUN business is globally successful with her designs much sought SUN after. SUN SUN She's also known for her conscience and designed a canvas SUN tote called "I am not a bag" as part of an environmental SUN campaign to highlight our over use of plastic bags. SUN SUN She combines all this with a hectic family life. She met and SUN subsequently married a widower 12 years her senior when she SUN was 25. He had 3 children aged under 5 and they've added a SUN further two to the clan. SUN SUN She says her life is like "juggling and dancing while having SUN one arm and one eye at the same time". SUN SUN Producer: Alison Hughes. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b01pfv8y (Listen) SUN Christmas Special SUN SUN In celebration of its 40th Anniversary this year, Radio 4's SUN perennial antidote to panel games presents a specially SUN extended Christmas edition of the show. Programme regulars SUN Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined SUN on the panel by Stephen Fry, with Jack Dee as the SUN programme's reluctant chairman. Regular listeners will know SUN to expect inspired nonsense, pointless revelry and Colin SUN Sell at the piano. Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN Christmas Special: behind-the-scenes SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b01ph7f0 (Listen) SUN The cocktail, old and new SUN SUN Dan Saladino explores the cocktail, a story which begins SUN with 18th century Indian punch and keeps on evolving with SUN new wave flavours being developed in the bars of New York , SUN London, Bristol and Manchester. SUN SUN After years of being out of fashion and misunderstood, the SUN cocktail is making a comeback. Drinks that had been SUN forgetten for decades, like the Sidecar, the Old Fashioned SUN and the Manhattan have returned as a new generation is SUN discovering the pleasures of a cold, expertly mixed drink. SUN SUN Cocktail expert Nick Strangeway explains that the SUN renaissance is largely down to drinks "following on the coat SUN tails" of wider changes in food in Britain. Meanwhile, SUN television programmes like Sex in the City and Mad Men have SUN excited the imagination of a generation less familiar with SUN the Martini and Bloody Mary. SUN SUN Joe Carlin, author of Cocktails: A Global History provides SUN some insights into why the cocktail became so successful in SUN 19th century America and why it still endures to this day. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b01pgq71 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b01ph7f2 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news, including an SUN in-depth look at events around the world. Email: SUN wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 Hardeep's Sunday Lunch b01ph7f4 (Listen) SUN Episode 6 SUN SUN In the heart of the Hertfordshire countryside live snow SUN leopards, pumas, amur leopards, ocelot and jaguar. For SUN Hardeep Singh Kohli's last Sunday lunch this week he visits SUN the Cat Survival Trust and with the help of its Director, SUN Terry Moore he cooks lunch for some of the volunteers who SUN work for the charity for free. Whilst preparing his fish pie SUN he finds out why Terry Moore set up his charity over 30 SUN years ago and hears some of the incredible stories about the SUN cats and their keepers. SUN SUN Producer: Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01pgll5 (Listen) SUN Newcastleton, Scotland SUN SUN Eric Robson and the team are in Newcastleton in Scotland for SUN the final GQT of 2012. Bob Flowerdew, Matt Biggs and Anne SUN Swithinbank are this week's panel. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b01ph7f7 (Listen) SUN Fi Glover features conversations requested by listeners in SUN the Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series that proves it's SUN surprising what you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Many of the SUN long conversations are being archived by the British Library SUN and used to build up a collection of voices capturing a SUN unique portrait of the UK in the second decade of the SUN millennium. You can upload your own conversations or just SUN learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 Classic Serial b01ph7fc (Listen) SUN The Eustace Diamonds, Episode 2 SUN SUN Rose Tremain's dramatisation of Anthony Trollope's The SUN Eustace Diamonds stars Pippa Nixon as the beautiful Lizzie SUN Eustace, fighting to retain possession of her magnificent SUN diamond necklace, which she claims was left to her as a gift SUN by her late husband Florian. SUN SUN Her immediate relatives, spurred on by the intransigent SUN family lawyer, Camperdown, argue that the diamonds are an SUN heirloom and on no account can be retained by her. The SUN dispute colours all Lizzie's subsequent relationships - with SUN her cousin Frank, her new lover Lord Fawn, and her admirer SUN Lord George. As gossip and scandal intensify, Lizzie is SUN driven to increasingly desperate behaviour in an attempt to SUN retain her jewels. SUN SUN Harpist: Cecilia De Maria SUN Cellist: Alison Baldwin SUN SUN Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown SUN Produced and directed by Gordon House SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Lizzie: Pippa Nixon SUN Crabstick: Alison Pettitt SUN Essie: Alison Pettitt SUN Frank: Joseph Kloska SUN Lord George: Adrian Scarborough SUN Mrs Carbuncle: Lorelei King SUN Lucinda: Lydia Leonard SUN Andy: Mark Bonnar SUN Lady Fawn: Stella Gonet SUN Lucy: Amy Morgan SUN Lord Fawn: Jamie Glover SUN Florian: Nicholas Boulton SUN Sir Gryffen: Nicholas Boulton SUN Augusta: Laura Hanna SUN Lydia: Ellie Butters SUN Nina: Ella Dale SUN Director: Gordon House SUN Producer: Gordon House SUN Writer: Rose Tremain SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b01ph7ff (Listen) SUN Literary trends of 2012 SUN SUN Mariella Frostrup is joined by authors James Runcie and SUN Naomi Alderman and the editor of The Bookseller Philip Jones SUN to discuss the literary trends of 2012. Themes include EL SUN James's 50 Shades of Grey and the rise of the bonkbusters, SUN Hilary Mantel's historic second winning of the Man Booker SUN Prize and what that means for historical fiction, and how SUN self-publishing is helping to change what and how people SUN read SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b01ph7fh (Listen) SUN Roger McGough presents a diverse selection of listeners' SUN poetry requests on the theme of time. The readers are Ian SUN McElhinney and John Mackay. SUN SUN Pianos, mountains, train stations and even coffee provide SUN the inspiration for poems on the theme of time. There's a SUN dystopian vision of earth in the future in a poem by SUN Sheenagh Pugh. Thomas Hardy wonders what people may say of SUN him when he's gone in 'Afterwards', whilst Cecil Day Lewis's SUN meditation on New Year's Eve urges us to cherish the 'dying, SUN but never dead' state of now. SUN SUN There's a rarely heard piece of archive of the poet Tony SUN Harrison reading his poem Old Soldiers which was inspired by SUN his childhood memory of a repeating image on a coffee label SUN that seemed to stretch to infinity. Jackie Kay also reads SUN her own work in a moving dialect poem about an old SUN friendship. SUN SUN Other poets reading their own work include two winners of SUN the recent Gardeners' World Magazine's Poetry Competition. SUN SUN There are also a few significant pauses at train stations SUN with poems by John Montague and Tomas Tranströmer. John SUN Dryden's speech 'When I Consider Life' is a glorious rant, SUN and Tennyson roars to the world in this poem 'I Stood on a SUN Tower in the Wet.' SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN 17:00 The Left to Die Boat b01pnn8d (Listen) SUN In March 2011, 72 African migrants were forced onto an SUN inflatable boat by Libyan soldiers in Tripoli. They were SUN desperate to escape the fighting in Libya and hoping for a SUN new life in Europe. Their boat headed for the small Italian SUN island of Lampedusa, only 18 hours away across the SUN Mediterranean. SUN SUN There was a NATO naval blockade of Libya at the time and the SUN area was full of military ships and aircraft. Yet, despite a SUN number of sightings, the boat was never rescued. SUN SUN Fifteen days later it washed up back on Libya's coast with SUN only 11 survivors on board - two more died soon after. SUN SUN In this documentary the survivors tell their story to SUN producer Sharon Davis and she investigates how it was that SUN these people were left to die in a boat in one of the most SUN heavily-monitored seas on earth. SUN SUN Producers - Sharon Davis and Geoff Parish. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b01pgq31 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b01pgq73 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b01pgq75 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01pgq77 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b01ph7fp (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay makes her selection from the past seven days of SUN BBC Radio. SUN SUN We wave a fond farewell to 2012 (and get 2013 off to a great SUN start) with some of the Radio highlights of the past week - SUN what we really think of those Round Robins telling us how SUN successful friends have been, how Art Garfunkel bridged his SUN troubled waters with a little prayer and how Just William SUN tackled the other William - Shakespeare. Music and SUN merriment, fun and frivolity, Great Lives past and present - SUN with a host of well known voices - but not all as they first SUN appear. SUN SUN With Great Pleasure at Christmas - Radio 4 SUN Ed Readon at Christmas - Radio 4 SUN I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue - Radio 4 SUN Johnnie Walker meets Art Garfunkel - Radio 2 SUN Mike Yarwood, So This is Him - Radio 2 SUN 15 Minute Musical - Radio 4 SUN Mark Steel's in Town - Radio 4 SUN And No Birds Sing - Radio 4 SUN Murals: A Bowl of Cherries - Radio 4 SUN World Routes - Radio 3 SUN Bellydancing and the Blues - Radio 4 SUN Great Lives - Radio 4 SUN Andy Murray History Boy - Radio 5 Live SUN Just William Live - Radio 4 SUN SUN If there's something you'd like to suggest for next week's SUN programme, please e-mail potw@bbc.co.uk. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b01ph7lh (Listen) SUN Chris steps into the limelight. Meanwhile Tom feels miffed. SUN SUN 19:15 Just William - Live! b01ph83g (Listen) SUN Aunt Arabelle in Charge SUN SUN Last May, as part of Winchester's Best of British Festival SUN in celebration of the Jubilee, Martin Jarvis performed the SUN second of two of Richmal Crompton's comic classics, live SUN on-stage. SUN SUN In Aunt Arabelle in Charge, William and his faithful Outlaws SUN (Ginger, Douglas and Henry) encounter a strangely complacent SUN six year old who is staying in the village. This odious SUN child turns out to be the hugely famous Anthony Martin, SUN subject of his mother's best-selling books and poems. SUN SUN The Outlaws need to redeem themselves in the admittedly SUN short-sighted eyes of Ginger's journalist aunt. She, SUN equally, is desperate to secure an exclusive interview with SUN the child star. It's soon clear that this wonderfully SUN constructed story is a brilliant parody of - who else - A.A. SUN Milne's Christopher Robin. SUN SUN The packed Winchester audience understood this at once. In SUN Jarvis' inhabitation of both the smug infant and Ginger's SUN aunt, the comedy is unremitting. SUN SUN Can William sort this out and, incidentally, give the SUN horrific child his just desserts? Blackmail is the answer, SUN of course. SUN SUN Performed by Martin Jarvis SUN Director: Rosalind Ayres SUN A Jarvis & Ayres production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Fairy Tales Retold by Sara Maitland b01phdqk (Listen) SUN Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up SUN SUN Acclaimed short story writer Sara Maitland puts her own SUN distinctive and magical spin on a classic fairy tale to SUN create Sleeping Beauty Wakes Up - and she gives it a very SUN different ending. The tale is told by Lia Williams. SUN SUN Producer Beth O'Dea. SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b01pglrw (Listen) SUN Numbers of 2012 SUN SUN A guide to 2012 in numbers - the most informative, SUN interesting and idiosyncratic statistics of the year SUN discussed by More or Less interviewees. SUN SUN Contributors: Robert Peston, BBC's Business Editor; Dr Pippa SUN Wells, physicist at CERN; Bill Edgar, author of Back of the SUN Net One Hundred Golden Goals; Gabriella Lebrecht, sports SUN analyst at Decision Technology; Helen Joyce, Brazil SUN correspondent for The Economist; Jack Straw, Member of SUN Parliament for Blackburn; Jil Matheson, the UK's National SUN Statistician; Dr James Grime, from the Millennium SUN Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge; Gillian SUN Tett, columnist and assistant editor of the Financial Times; SUN David Spiegelhalter, Professor for the Public Understanding SUN of Risk at Cambridge University SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford. SUN Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. SUN SUN 20:30 Every Day in Every Way b01mqq6f (Listen) SUN Positive thinking gurus and hypnotherapists aren't the only SUN ones familiar with the phrase 'Every day, in every way, I'm SUN getting better and better.' It's reputation today is that of SUN a trite, rather ineffective 'feel good' relic of yesteryear SUN but the phrase, and the man who conjured it up have a SUN fascinating history. SUN Writer Gillian Darley explores the work of the Frenchman SUN Emile Coué who, though a mere pharmacist in his native SUN France, came to be one of the best known figures of the post SUN First World War world. His visits to England and America SUN were proceeded by record sales of his books which encouraged SUN advocates in the ways of auto-suggestion. SUN The scientific community are dismissive of his place in the SUN development of psychiatric thinking and development and SUN Gillian reveals reports of one event in which he caused SUN chaos amongst a group of shell-shocked soldiers during a SUN 1922 visit to England. But there are others who say that the SUN 'Every day, in every way' phrase, borrowed to comic effect SUN by Frank Spencer amongst others, hides a genuine pioneer in SUN cognitive therapy. SUN Using contemporary eye-witness reports and newspaper SUN coverage of his travels, Gillian reveals a character who SUN might well merit a more measured response from those writing SUN the popular, as well as the academic, history of 20th SUN century medicine. SUN Meanwhile in France a recent conference in his old base in SUN Nancy is part of a new interest in the Coué method, ensuring SUN that 'Every Day, in Every way' he's reputation is, at the SUN very least, changing. SUN SUN Producer: Tom Alban SUN (Repeat). SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b01pgnbr (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b01ph59x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b01pgh6t (Listen) SUN The Business of Kindness SUN SUN Random acts of kindness can help businesses grow in SUN surprising ways. Peter Day talks with one woman who explains SUN how the generosity of others has made all the difference to SUN her company. Henrietta Lovell, the Rare Tea Lady, started SUN her firm just before becoming seriously ill. Through the SUN kindness of strangers she has managed to return to health SUN and run a prosperous company. She is now a great advocate SUN for spreading the idea that kind gestures are an important SUN force in the way we conduct our personal and professional SUN lives. SUN SUN 22:00 News Review of the Year b01phdqp (Listen) SUN 2012 SUN SUN A look back at the defining events over the past twelve SUN months with Paddy O'Connell. There has been much to SUN celebrate, despite Britain's economic woes. 2012 will SUN undoubtedly be remembered for the great success of the SUN London Olympic Games with team GB surpassing expectations. SUN Cyclist Bradley Wiggins was among the 29 gold medal winners, SUN having already become the first Briton to win the Tour de SUN France. Clare Balding is on hand to give her own perspective SUN on the Olympic and Paralympic Games. SUN SUN On the international stage, there were victories for SUN President Obama, returned for a second term in the United SUN States, and for Francois Hollande in France, who defeated SUN President Nicolas Sarkozy. Vladimir Putin returned for a SUN third term as Russian president and Xi Jinping was confirmed SUN as the man who will lead China for the next ten years. SUN Meanwhile, the situation in Syria steadily got worse, SUN claiming countless lives, including the celebrated SUN journalist Marie Colvin, who was in the city of Homs to SUN report the story. SUN SUN The economy continues to cause concern in Britain and around SUN the world. The BBC's Business Editor Robert Peston helps to SUN make sense of it all and predicts what he thinks will happen SUN to the Eurozone. Benefit claimants felt the squeeze and big SUN multinationals like Starbucks, Amazon and Google came under SUN attack over the amount of corporation tax they pay in the SUN UK. Meanwhile, parts of the country suffered their most SUN severe drought since 1976, followed by some of the worst SUN floods people had ever seen. SUN SUN The Leveson Inquiry into the culture, practice and ethics of SUN the press took evidence from nearly 400 people representing SUN 120 different organisations. And the BBC found itself in SUN crisis over the sexual abuse carried out by the former disc SUN jockey Jimmy Saville and a completely false allegation SUN levelled at the Tory peer Lord McAlpine. The corporation is SUN now minus one director general and about to inherit another. SUN SUN Producer: Mark Savage. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b01pgh5v (Listen) SUN The unfilmable books that have made it to the big screen SUN SUN In a special edition, Francine Stock and guests discuss SUN difficult books adapted for the big screen. Deepa Mehta SUN talks Midnight's Children, Ang Lee reveals the challenges of SUN making Life of Pi, and Walter Salles discusses On the Road. SUN Meanwhile, Sir Christopher Frayling, critic Tim Robey, and SUN screenwriter Tony Grisoni look back over the years at SUN cinema's attempts at realising 'unfilmable' books. SUN SUN Producer: Craig Smith. SUN SUN Midnight’s Children, directed by Deepa Mehta, is in cinemas SUN in key cities from this weekend, certificate 12A. SUN SUN Life of Pi, directed by Ang Lee, is in cinemas nationwide, SUN certificate PG. SUN SUN Cloud Atlas, directed by Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski and Andy SUN Wachowski, is scheduled for UK release in February 2013, SUN certificate 15. SUN SUN On the Road, directed by Walter Salles, will be released on SUN DVD in February 2013, certificate TBC. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b01ph59q (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 31 DECEMBER 2012 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b01phds6 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b01pg54j (Listen) MON Intoxication MON MON Intoxication - In a special programme, Laurie Taylor MON explores the role and meaning of both alcohol and drugs in MON human life. Why do so many people chose to alter their MON consciousness with stimulants, whether legal or illicit? MON Professor James Mills, the author of 'Cannabis Nation..' is MON joined by Dr Fiona Meesham and Professor Chris Hackley. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b01pgqcc (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01phds8 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01phdsb (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01phdsd (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b01phdsg (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01px5vf (Listen) MON Presented by the Very Rev Graham Forbes, Provost of St MON Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b01phf2c (Listen) MON Charlotte Smith takes a look back at one of the most MON controversial issues of 2012 - the cancellation of the MON badger cull designed to reduce TB in cattle. MON MON Around 27,000 cattle were culled between January and MON September alone due to bovine TB - the disease costs tax MON payers around £100 million each year. Badgers are accused of MON spreading the disease and a trial cull was controversially MON given the go ahead in two areas of England. MON MON A bitter battle ensued between farmers, politicians and MON animal rights activists, with Queen guitarist and vice chair MON of the RSPCA Brian May emerging as one of the policy's MON leading opponents. MON MON However, the culls were called off, with blame falling on MON the weather, the Olympics and - crucially - an MON underestimation of UK badger numbers. The government and MON farmers say that the cull will take place in 2013. MON MON President of the National Farmers' Union Peter Kendall, Vice MON President of the Badger Trust Jack Reedy and Gloucestershire MON farmer Jan Rowe join Charlotte to discuss the issue. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Polly Procter. MON MON 05:57 Weather b01phdsj (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 06:00 Today b01phf2f (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs with James Naughtie and MON Sarah Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for MON the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Value of Culture b01phf4c (Listen) MON Culture and Anarchy MON MON Melvyn Bragg presents the first in a series of programmes MON examining the idea of culture and its evolution over the MON last 150 years. In 1869 the poet and critic Matthew Arnold MON published Culture and Anarchy, a series of essays in which MON he argued passionately that culture - 'the best which has MON been thought and said' - was a powerful force for good. In MON this first programme Melvyn Bragg visits the Sheldonian MON Theatre in Oxford, where Arnold first unveiled his ideas on MON the subject, and discovers how Arnold's ideas were refined MON and rejected by later thinkers. MON MON Producer: Thomas Morris. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b01phf4f (Listen) MON Wild, Episode 1 MON MON Cheryl Strayed's redemptive account of hiking 1100 miles MON alone through America's rugged western landscape. At MON twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything MON after her mother died, and her marriage crumbled. With no MON previous experience of backpacking, she made the impulsive MON decision to rebuild her life by setting out on an incredible MON journey along America's Pacific Crest Trail. Beginning in MON California's Mojave Desert and ending at the Bridge of the MON Gods, marking the border between Oregon and Washington MON State, Strayed's story captures the physical, mental and MON emotional highs and lows of her experience. MON MON Cheryl Strayed is a novelist, essayist and short story MON writer. She lives in Portland, Oregon. MON MON Reader: Kelly Burke MON Abridger: Miranda Davies MON Producer: Elizabeth Allard. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b01phf4h (Listen) MON Campaigning Women MON MON Woman's Hour looks back at campaigns led by women in 2012. MON Among guests this year, we hear from Stephen Lawrence's MON mother Doreen about waiting almost 19 years to see her son's MON killers convicted of his murder. From mothers against MON violence in Northern Ireland to Malala Yousafzai in MON Pakistan, we ask what it takes to lead a campaign. With MON studio guests Camila Batmanghelidjh, founder and director of MON the charity Kids Company, and Laura Bates from The Every Day MON Sexism project, an online campaign. MON Presented by Jane Garvey MON Producer Steven Williams. MON MON The mother of Stephen Lawrence recently claimed that the MON Metropolitan police had given up trying to catch the rest of MON her son’s killers. In January this year, nineteen years MON after his death, Gary Dobson and David Norris were found MON guilty of murdering Stephen Lawrence and were sent down for MON life. Jenni talks to Doreen Lawrence about her continuing MON campaign for justice for her son. MON MON Malala Yousafzai was shot by the Taliban in October in North MON West Pakistan. She was flown to the UK for treatment MON afterwards and is still being treated by doctors in MON Birmingham. She’d been campaigning for four years for the MON rights of girls to attend school. She started with a blog on MON the BBC's Urdu website. She wrote about her everyday life MON and the struggle to continue her education in a Taleban MON controlled area. Earlier this year, she read from her blog MON in Urdu and gave an interview on the BBC World Service. MON MON Camila Batmanghelidjh from Kids Company and Laura Bates from MON the Every Day Sexism project discuss how to campaign MON effectively. MON MON Many people make New Year resolutions; maybe to give up MON smoking, cut back on the booze or do more exercise, but in MON 2010 writer Judith O’Reilly made a New Year’s Resolution to MON do a good deed every day for a whole year, and she wrote a MON book about the experience. She tells Jane why she did it and MON what she learnt from it. MON MON 10:45 The Cazalets b01phf4k (Listen) MON The Light Years, Episode 1 MON MON by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels MON MON Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow. MON MON As the Cazalet family gather for their annual summer holiday MON the onset of war is about to change everything. MON MON In the hot summer of 1938, Home Place in the beautiful MON Sussex countryside is frantically being opened up and MON prepared for another Cazalet family holiday, as siblings MON Hugh, Edward, Rupert and Rachel - and their respective MON families - are reunited. Rupert is trying not to think about MON whether he married the beautiful but rather petulant Zoe too MON soon after his first wife's death; Hugh and his wife Sybil MON each try to put the other first, not necessarily to their MON mutual advantage; Edward is mulling on how he might be able MON to get away from his wife, Villy, to spend time with his MON mistress and Rachel is trying to find a private place to MON read her letter in secret. But the wider world is about to MON intrude on their lives forever and each is increasingly to MON wonder what their future may hold - for themselves and their MON children. MON MON 'The Light Years' is the first of four compelling Cazalet MON novels by Elizabeth Jane Howard, which together give a vivid MON insight into the lives, hopes and loves of three MON generations. MON MON As Elizabeth Jane Howard approaches her 90th Birthday, Radio MON 4 is dramatising all four novels in 45 episodes, to be MON broadcast between New Year's Eve and July 2013. MON MON When Elizabeth Jane Howard began writing the first of her MON four novels featuring the Cazalet family, her aims were MON simple: . "I wanted to write about my youth, and the ten MON years that straddled the Second World War. I also wanted to MON write about what domestic life was like for people at home. MON A lot has been written about the battles and the war in a MON more direct sense, but little had been said about the way MON the whole of England changed. When the war ended, everybody MON was in a different position from where they were when it MON started." MON MON Two decades later, Howard's quartet of books -- The Light MON Years, Marking Time, Confusion and Casting Off - charting MON the family's fortunes between 1937 and 1947 have sold over a MON million copies. MON MON Martin Amis said of Elizabeth Jane Howard, "She is, with MON Iris Murdoch, the most interesting woman writer of her MON generation. An instinctivist, like Muriel Spark, she has a MON freakish and poetic eye, and a penetrating sanity." MON MON "Marking Time" follows in February. MON MON Credits MON Narrator: Penelope Wilton MON Rupert: Raymond Coulthard MON Zoe: Zoe Tapper MON Clary: Georgia Groome MON Rachel: Naomi Frederick MON The Duchy: Shirley Dixon MON Sid: Helen Schlesinger MON Director: Sally Avens MON Director: Marion Nancarrow MON Producer: Sally Avens MON Producer: Marion Nancarrow MON Writer: Sarah Daniels MON MON 11:00 The Hobbit, the Musical b01ld15z (Listen) MON Actor Billy Boyd, who played a hobbit in the films of The MON Lord Of The Rings, narrates the story of the first ever MON stage production of J.R.R.Tolkien's The Hobbit, at New MON College School in Oxford in 1967. It was written by Humphrey MON Carpenter, with music by composer, Paul Drayton, then MON Director of Music at the school. We hear from the boys who MON performed it, who were choristers at the time and who are MON now renowned in the musical world: Choral conductor Simon MON Halsey, Martin Pickard Head of Music at Opera North, MON artist's agent Stephen Lumsden and composer Howard Goodall- MON who watched his older brother Ashley, now a marketing MON professional, perform. They talk about their memories and MON about Tolkien's presence in the audience on the last night. MON The present-day Chamber choir at New College School sing MON some of the original songs, and we also play a never before MON broadcast recording of the production as it happened in MON 1967. MON Producer: Sara Conkey. MON MON 11:30 The Magic Faraway Tree b01phf4m (Listen) MON Up the Tree Again MON MON Wisha, wisha, wisha. MON MON Playfulness, soundscape and oddity above the rustling leaves MON of Enid Blyton's Magic Faraway Tree. MON MON In the centre of the Enchanted Wood is the Faraway Tree. MON Home to Moonface, Silky and Saucepan Man, its upper branches MON stretch into cloud-hosted dimensions of strange and magical MON lands. MON MON In this two-part abridged adaptation of Enid Blyton's MON classic children's tale, BBC Radio 4 swoops voices from the MON world of entertainment into the mystical lands above. MON MON Featuring Johnny Vegas, as Moonface, Nigel Planer as MON Saucepan and Lucy Beaumont (Winner of the BBC's New Comedy MON Awards 2012) as Silky. MON MON Episode 2 of 2: Up The Tree Again MON MON Narrator........................Ronni Ancona MON Rick.............................Billy Kennedy MON Joe...............................Alex Clarke MON Frannie.........................Nell Tiger Free MON Beth.............................Tess Fontaine MON Moonface......................Johnny Vegas MON Silky.............................Lucy Beaumont MON Saucepan......................Nigel Planer MON Mother...........................Joanna Hall MON Mr Changeabout.............Wayne Forester MON MON Additional voices: Joanna Hall and Wayne Forrester MON MON Written by Enid Blyton MON Adapted for Radio by Andrew Lynch MON Music composed and arranged by Phase Music MON Directed by Johnny Vegas MON Produced by Sally Harrison MON A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b01phf4p (Listen) MON Has social media made us antisocial? Or has it improved the MON way we get on? MON MON Call You and Yours: Is social media anti-social? Or has it MON improved the way we communicate and get on? MON MON You may just have been given a new smartphone or tablet for MON Christmas - but did using it over the holiday season cause MON friction? Were you annoyed when the kids carried on MON messaging their friends during what was supposed to be MON 'family time'? Or did you slip away to check work emails or MON vent your frustration online? MON MON According to Ofcom's latest research, the British use MON smartphones and tablets to access the web more heavily than MON any of the world's leading economies. 18-to 24-year-olds in MON the UK are the world's top mobile social networkers, with MON 62% accessing their profiles on the go. MON MON So how is all this technology changing the way we relate to MON each other - has it alienated us or allowed us to be closer? MON MON Are the holidays a time to take a break from Facebook or MON Twitter? Do we need a new family etiquette? Or do you simply MON welcome the fact that technology allows you to talk to MON absent family and friends? MON MON 03700 100 400 is the phone number to call or you can e-mail MON via the Radio 4 website or text us on 84844. Join Julian MON Worricker at four minutes past twelve. MON MON 12:57 Weather b01phdsl (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b01phf4r (Listen) MON Shaun Ley presents national and international news. MON Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or MON on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 Belle de Jour's History of Anon b01phf7d (Listen) MON The Importance of Namelessness MON MON A history of anonymity and why writers have sought it, as MON told by Brooke Magnanti, the real voice behind one of the MON 21st century's most famous anonymous texts, Belle de Jour's MON Diary of a London Call Girl. Brooke explores motivations for MON remaining masked and the lengths the anonymous have gone to MON in order to remain unnamed. She draws on her own experiences MON to reveal how the concept of anonymity has changed - and how MON both writers and readers have dealt with it. From life or MON death to trivial and bitchy, juggling open disclosure with MON the withholding of vital information, Brooke shows us that MON whilst we may not know their names, the anonymous have long MON shaped our worldview. MON MON In this first programme, Brooke begins her exploration of MON anonymity. The word itself is derived from the Greek MON anonymia, "without a name". Writers in antiquity often MON sought anonymity not as protection, but as a nod to the MON importance of their subject beyond its author's identity. MON From The Torah and Old Testament, texts have been composed, MON refined, and accepted over a period of centuries, the word MON more important than who said it (beyond the ultimate author, MON of course). Yet alongside the collectively written, and MON fabled authors, there were always anonymous texts, and as MON Brooke discovers, the reasons for that anonymity are complex MON and varied. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b01ph7lh (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01phf7g (Listen) MON Stormchasers MON MON The British have always had a very emotional relationship MON with the weather, and its climate creates particularly MON fertile conditions for obsessive weather watching. Though MON less dramatic than in other countries, Britain nevertheless MON has its fair share of tornadoes and waterspouts and MON hurricanes - with attendant fans and followers. For many MON people, the pursuit of extreme weather phenomena is a matter MON of scientific, and sometimes personal necessity. MON MON For Ken and Bernard, however, there is only deeply personal MON necessity, and when, on a muggy afternoon, conditions become MON perfect for tornado spotting, both men drop everything and MON set out on a road trip to try and find the 'big one' - MON hoping that it will go some way to making up for the tragic MON failures in their lives. MON MON Along the way, a divorce, a kidnapping, and a series of MON confrontations with mobile catering vans and rival MON stormchasers mean the trip soon becomes about so much more MON than the weather, and both men soon realise they are on a MON life-defining journey through the arterial roads of the MON midlands. MON MON Stormchasers is a rain-sodden, windswept comedy drama MON written by Nick Walker. MON MON Written and produced by: Nick Walker MON Directed by Paul Warwick MON A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Penny: Clare Louise Connolly MON Emma: Natasha Joseph MON Ken: Dave Lamb MON Henry: Jim North MON Hardish: Wahab Sheik MON Bernard: Richard Webb MON Actor: Paul Warwick MON Producer: Nick Walker MON Writer: Nick Walker MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b01phf7j (Listen) MON (6/17) MON Which of Ian Fleming's original James Bond novels is MON narrated by a female character? And which is the largest MON lake in Italy? The contestant whose general knowledge is MON good enough to cope with these questions could be taking MON another step towards the title of Brain of Britain 2013 - MON with Russell Davies in the chair. MON MON This week's four contenders come from the West Country and MON the Home Counties. They're bidding for a semi-final place in MON this, the sixtieth series of the ever-popular general MON knowledge contest. As usual, the questions cover every MON imaginable subject, from literature and music to geography, MON medicine and science. MON MON There'll also be the customary chance for a Brain of Britain MON listener to outwit the contestants with some cunning MON questions of his or her own devising. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b01ph7f0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Roger, the Eagle Has Landed b01phf7l (Listen) MON DJ and club promoter Roger Eagle was a mentor to many young MON music fans in Liverpool and Manchester from the early-1960s MON until his death aged 56, in 1999. In this programme, Mark MON Radcliffe pieces together his unconventional life. Roger MON Eagle wasn't local - he came from Oxford and was related to MON George Bernard Shaw - but his love of blues and jazz brought MON him to Manchester, on his motorbike, in the late 1950s, MON where, as one of the first DJ's at the Twisted Wheel Club, MON he was responsible for booking, befriending and promoting MON acts like Howling Wolf, Bo Diddley, and Sonny Boy MON Williamson, on their earliest visits to the UK. Roger's MON musical knowledge and enthusiasm gained the club enough MON notoriety to coin the term "Northern Soul" as a description MON of what was going on there, both musically and as a MON subculture, by the late 1960s. MON MON But, always wary of musical conservatism, Roger rapidly MON moved on, to Liverpool, where he co-founded another club, MON Erics. Here, in the mid 1970s, he helped to develop the MON talents of new bands like Echo & The Bunnymen, the Teardrop MON Explodes and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, as well as MON championing dub reggae and what became known as world music. MON Roger promoted everything from Louisiana zydeco music to the MON Clash, and Eric's had a direct influence on the development MON in Manchester of the Factory club and record label. MON MON Returning to Manchester in the early 1980s Roger discovered MON a scruffy post-punk band, the Frantic Elevators, whose MON vocalist, Mick Hucknall, was converted by Roger, and his MON record collection, into a soul-styled solo singer, MON subsequently a major pop star. Here also, Roger co-founded MON yet another influential club, the International, staging MON early gigs by REM and the Stone Roses. Anyone interested in MON particular musical styles could get a free informal lecture MON from Roger, and probably a free mix tape or record as well. MON These included producer of this programme, Bob Dickinson, MON who got to know Roger (and wrote his obituary for the MON Guardian newspaper). Interviews with many other friends of MON Roger including artist and KLF member Bill Drummond, MON musicians Jayne Casey, Andy McCluskey of OMD, and C.P. Lee, MON underground magazine editor Mike Don, manager/ promoter MON Elliott Rashman, and Bill Sykes,the author of "Sit Down! MON Listen To This!", a new biography of Roger, who will show MON what an unsung hero Roger Eagle was and what a fascinating MON figure he remains. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b01phf89 (Listen) MON Apocalyptic MON MON If you get to listen to this programme, it's because the MON Domesday scenario - according to which the world would end MON on December 21st - did not happen. The interpretation of the MON Mayan calendar that arrived at this date was derided by most MON Mayan scholars, but this hasn't stopped the media camping MON out in the French village of Bugarach, identified as the MON only village on earth which was to be spared destruction. MON MON Apocalyptic ideas about the end of the world, as we in the MON West understand them, have their roots in the Jewish and MON Christian traditions. The popular imagery - the Mark of the MON Beast, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, the Whore of MON Babylon - feed the imagination of film makers and writers, MON who draw upon Biblical imagery. MON MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the nature and role of MON apocalyptic ideas on western religion and culture are Dr MON Philip Alexander, Professor of Post Biblical Jewish Studies MON at the University of Manchester; Dr Stefan Skrimshire, MON lecturer in Theology and Religious Studies at the University MON of Leeds; and Rev Dr Steve Jeffrey minister of Emmanuel MON Evangelical Church in North London. MON MON 17:00 PM b01phf8c (Listen) MON Carolyn Quinn with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01phdsn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:15 15 Minute Musical b01phfmv (Listen) MON Series 7, Licence to Kil...marnock MON MON Ep 5: Licence to Kil...marnock MON MON Sean Connery is Special Agent Ond, Alex Salm-Ond, in musical MON espionage pitted against his old foe Dr No Vote, Alistair MON Darling.. MON MON Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Pippa Evans MON Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick MON Music by: Richie Webb MON Music Production: Matt Katz MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON Radio 4's 15 Minute Musicals are lovingly crafted treats for MON the ear. The bitesize yet satisfying musicals take an easily MON identifiable public figure and give them a West End Musical MON make-over. The fabricated, sugar-coated story is told in an MON original, never heard before, musical that will have your MON toes tapping to the rhythm and shoulders shaking to the MON laughs. MON MON So, enjoy a West End Musical experience for a fraction of MON the cost - well, actually for no cost at all. MON MON 15 Minute Musicals are beautifully crafted treats for the MON ear! MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b01phfmx (Listen) MON Series 10, Episode 1 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. Tony Hawks, Ed Byrne, Lucy Porter and MON Charlie Higson are the panellists obliged to talk with MON deliberate inaccuracy on subjects as varied as Pies, Worms, MON Dancing and James Bond. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Producer: Jon Naismith. MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b01phfmz (Listen) MON It's the night of the Lower Loxley ball, and there's a panic MON for Elizabeth. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b01phfn1 (Listen) MON Julian Fellowes, Rumer and Maureen Lipman in the Front Row MON Quiz MON MON Mark Lawson turns quizmaster to test the cultural knowledge MON of two teams in the Front Row Quiz of the Year. MON MON Downton Abbey creator Julian Fellowes and film-maker Asif MON Kapadia join team captain Natalie Haynes to compete against MON actress Maureen Lipman and singer Rumer, under the captaincy MON of crime writer Mark Billingham. MON MON Questions cover a wide range of the year's events, and MON there's a teasing round of Nordic TV crime drama clips - in MON their original languages. MON MON Producer Claire Bartleet. MON MON 19:45 The Cazalets b01phf4k (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Northern Ireland: Who Are We Now? b01phfn3 (Listen) MON On January 1 2013 Derry~Londonderry begins its year as the MON first UK City of Culture. Using the city as his starting MON point William Crawley takes us on a journey around modern MON Northern Ireland to reflect on attitudes to identity in the MON 'province', 'region', 'country', 'nation'...well, what MON exactly do you call what one political scientist has MON labelled the "constitutional oddity" of Northern Ireland? MON Ulster, the North, the Six Counties...? MON MON The subject of identity hit the headlines recently when MON Northern Ireland's 23 year old World No 1 golfer Rory MON McIlroy, who is from a Catholic background, suggested he MON would declare for Team GB rather than Ireland at the next MON Olympics. He's since put that decision on hold. MON MON The response to Rory McIlory's statement from Northern MON Ireland's Deputy First Minister, Martin McGuinness, was MON this: "I think his allegiance probably lies all over the MON place...I actually think he is a great ambassador for all of MON us". MON MON William Crawley meets men and women around Northern Ireland MON to consider whether there are changes in perceptions of MON identity. MON MON Producer: Claire Burgoyne. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b01pg5p2 (Listen) MON Burma MON MON Lucy Ash asks what the explosion in popular protest over a MON Chinese-backed copper mine says about changes in Burma and MON asks if this is a test case for the government's commitment MON to democratic reforms. MON MON Farmers' daughters Aye Net and Thwe Thwe Win have led MON thousands of villagers in protest against what they say is MON the unlawful seizure of thousands of acres of land to make MON way for a $1 billion expansion of a copper mine run by the MON military and a large Chinese arms manufacturer. They have MON been thrown in jail and they have been harassed by their own MON police and military, and yet they have refused to back down. MON MON Their bravery has been celebrated by the poet Ant Maung from MON the nearest big city Monywa, who wrote: "The struggle made MON them into iron ladies. . .This is life or death for them - MON they will defend it at the cost of everything." MON MON Burmese officials and the Chinese company say the Monywa MON copper mine will create jobs and bring prosperity to one of MON the poorest and least developed nations in Asia. But the MON villagers complain about pollution, damage to crops and the MON loss of fertile land. MON MON A violent crackdown on the protestors was a stark reminder MON that the country's transition to democracy remains fraught MON with difficulties. Some suspect the government acted to MON avoid scaring away foreign investors. Others say the brutal MON response shows Burma's military leaders are still in charge MON behind the scenes and that they are not prepared to tolerate MON any dissent which encroaches on their economic interests. MON MON Meanwhile there is a rising tide of Sinophobia in a country MON which feels overshadowed by its powerful northern neighbour. MON How the mine dispute is resolved may provide vital clues MON about the future of Burma. MON MON Producer: Katharine Hodgson. MON MON 21:00 Material World b01pgh5x (Listen) MON Unsung heroes of Science MON MON Recorded in front of an audience Quentin Cooper and guests, MON Kevin Fong, Adam Rutherford, Mark Miodownik, Vivienne Parry MON and Dallas Campbell, discuss the unsung heroes of science MON MON 21:30 The Value of Culture b01phf4c (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b01phdss (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b01phfq7 (Listen) MON Roger Hearing presents national and international news and MON analysis. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01phfq9 (Listen) MON Frenchman's Creek, Episode 6 MON MON Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du MON Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady MON Dona and the French pirate Aubery. MON MON Episode 6 MON Lady Dona trades her skirts for the trousers of a cabin boy MON and sets sail with the Frenchman and his crew, in a daring MON bid to steal a merchant ship from under the noses of her MON compatriots. MON MON Read by Adjoa Andoh MON Abridged by Eileen Horne MON Produced by Clive Brill MON A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b01pfxj1 (Listen) MON Michael Rosen meets linguists, historians, students and MON sequence dancers to find out why the giving and receiving of MON compliments can be a complex and dangerous business. He MON meets language students in Cheltenham and sequence dancers MON in North London, who each have very different responses to MON people saying nice things to them. He talks to a personal MON development tutor and an etiquette coach about the do's and MON dont's of positive feedback. And he talks to the Swansea MON linguist studying why people feel uncomfortable with MON compliments. The difficulty is not the compliment, it's the MON response. How do you reply positively and politely without MON sounding arrogant? Michael discovers that our tendency MON towards post-modern irony makes a sincere compliment a MON difficult manoeuvre to complete - so even if you can say MON something nice, it may still be best to say nothing at all. MON MON Producer: John Byrne. MON MON 23:30 The History Plays b01cmfh1 (Listen) MON Jagger in Jail MON MON The History Plays MON By Nigel Smith MON Jagger in Jail MON MON The History Plays are a series of two-hander plays by Vent MON author Nigel Smith which are imagined conversations at key MON moments in recent history, moments that have permanently MON changed the British psyche. Starting with Mick Jagger's MON conviction for drug possession and the surprising pro-Jagger MON line taken in a Times editorial; through the fragmented MON morality of John Stonehouse; the Indian summer of patriotism MON over the Falklands; the death of Diana; and the end of the MON Blair years, The History Plays are a satirical and MON thoughtful exploration of huge social forces played out in MON small human dramas. This is a series about the promises and MON pitfalls of history, the points of conflict. But what's MON really significant is what these moments say about our MON attitudes and assumptions now. MON MON JAGGER IN JAIL MON Written and directed by Nigel Smith MON Produced by Gareth Edwards MON MON Starring Kayvan Novak ("Facejacker") as Mick Jagger and MON Blake Harrison ("The Inbetweeners") as Jim MON MON It is 1967, the summer of love and Mick Jagger, lead singer MON of the Rolling Stones, is in prison starting his three-month MON sentence for drug possession. His trial - and particularly MON his sentence - has both scandalised and split public MON opinion. MON MON Jagger in Jail imagines the conversation that might have MON taken place between Mick and a cellmate, Jim, during what MON turned out to be his only night behind bars. As the night MON passes Jim and Mick find that while they have a fair bit in MON common, society's plans for them could not be more MON different. And Jim isn't too happy about it.. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 01 JANUARY 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b01phfsp (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:15 Stephen Fry on the Phone b017clwx (Listen) TUE The Chips inside Smartphones TUE TUE Stephen Fry traces the evolution of the mobile phone, from TUE hefty executive bricks that required a separate briefcase to TUE carry the battery to the smart little devices complete with TUE personal assistant we have today. TUE TUE There are more mobile phones in the world than there are TUE people on the planet: Stephen Fry talks to the backroom boys TUE who made it all possible and hears how the technology TUE succeeded, in ways that the geeks had not necessarily TUE intended. TUE TUE All mobile phones rely on hyper-intelligent silicon chips to TUE run them. And the astonishing thing is 85% of the silicon TUE chips inside all mobile phones are designed by one TUE Cambridge-based company, ARM. Stephen Fry talks to the TUE pioneers who designed these chips. They needed some TUE micro-processors to build a better home computer, but didn't TUE like what they saw and decided to make their own. Strapped TUE for cash, they designed chips that were small, cheap and TUE exceptionally low power and, quite by chance, ideally suited TUE to the next generation of pocket-sized mobile phones. Not to TUE mention today's power-hungry smartphones. TUE TUE Producer: Anna Buckley. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b01phf4f (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01phdtx (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01phdtz (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01phdv1 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b01phdv3 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01px5v3 (Listen) TUE Presented by the Very Rev Graham Forbes, Provost of St TUE Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b01phfsr (Listen) TUE After a year of protest, Anna Hill asks what 2013 might hold TUE for the troubled dairy industry. 2012 saw blockades, TUE negotiations and boycotts as farmers mobilised to fight for TUE what they saw as a fair price for a pint. Jim Begg from TUE Dairy UK and industry consultant, Ian Potter explain why the TUE price paid to farmers was cut, and look at whether the any TUE truce between farmers, processors and supermarkets might TUE last. TUE TUE Presenter: Anna Hill Producer: Melvin Rickarby. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b01phfst (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Sarah TUE Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the TUE Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Value of Culture b01phfsw (Listen) TUE Culture and the Anthropologists TUE TUE Melvyn Bragg continues his exploration of the idea of TUE culture by considering its use in the discipline of TUE anthropology. In 1871 the anthropologist Edward Tylor TUE published Primitive Culture, an enormously influential work TUE which for the first time placed culture at the centre of the TUE study of humanity. His definition of culture as the TUE 'capabilities and habits acquired by man' ensured that later TUE generations saw culture as common to all humans, and not TUE simply as the preserve of writers and philosophers. TUE TUE Producer: Thomas Morris. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b01pkkky (Listen) TUE Wild, Episode 2 TUE TUE Cheryl Strayed's redemptive account of hiking 1100 miles TUE alone through America's rugged western landscape. At TUE twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything TUE after her mother died, and her marriage crumbled. With no TUE previous experience of backpacking, she made the impulsive TUE decision to rebuild her life by setting out on an incredible TUE journey along America's Pacific Crest Trail. Today, Cheryl TUE Strayed begins her journey in the heat of California's TUE Mojave desert. TUE TUE Read by Kelly Burke TUE Abridged by Miranda Davies TUE Produced by Elizabeth Allard. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b01phfsy (Listen) TUE Sinead O'Connor and 2012 musical highlights TUE TUE Sinead O'Connor sings and talks about her musical career, TUE her political activism and her mental health along with TUE highlights from twelve months of music on Woman's Hour TUE including Tori Amos, Stooshe, Mary Chapin Carpenter,Janina TUE Fialkovska and Melody Gardot. Presented by Jane Garvey TUE Producer: Laura Northedge. TUE TUE 10:45 The Cazalets b01phft0 (Listen) TUE The Light Years, Episode 2 TUE TUE 2/10 by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow TUE TUE As the long summer holiday continues for the Cazalet family TUE Edward heads up to London for a secret liaison. TUE TUE 11:00 Saving Species b01phft2 (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 18 TUE TUE The first of January is often a special day for birdwatchers TUE everywhere as the race is on to begin their new year lists TUE whilst also reflecting on the year list just completed. For TUE this Saving Species the role of wetland habitats in TUE providing a wintering refuge for our own wildfowl and to TUE birds from more northern areas of Europe is explored at TUE Lymington Marshes in Hampshire. With the Solent separating TUE Lymington from the Isle of Wight this episode revels in the TUE winter spectacle of thousands of birds coming into the marsh TUE at high tide providing an atmospheric backdrop to the more TUE serious conservation issues which make areas like this such TUE a valuable habitat in Europe. TUE TUE Britain's native oysters are in trouble. In the last few TUE decades our oyster beds have been reduced by an estimated TUE more than 90 per cent. Recently in Cambridge a conference TUE took place between scientists, fishermen and the government TUE to discuss what can be done to reverse this decline. We TUE report from an oyster bed and discuss what the future holds TUE for these bellwether indicators of estuarine river health. 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 Jazz Is Dead b01phg6m (Listen) TUE Jazz was once revolutionary, but is now arguably part of the TUE heritage industry. Paul Morley meets performers, critics and TUE passionate punters to test the contention that jazz is dead TUE - a victim of its own history. Featuring Geoff Dyer, Paul TUE Gilroy, Seb Rochford, Gary Crosby, Laura Jurd, Nick Smart TUE and Chris Hodgkins. TUE TUE 12:00 Pick of the Week b01ph7fp (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 18:15 on Sunday] TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b01phdv5 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b01phg6p (Listen) TUE National and international news. Listeners can share their TUE views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. TUE TUE 13:45 Belle de Jour's History of Anon b01phg8c (Listen) TUE Writers and Readers TUE TUE Today, Brooke reveals the varied, complex and often TUE mischievous reasons for which authors have hidden their TUE names. Reflecting on today's hunger for details of writers' TUE interior lives, and readers' demands for authentic voices, TUE she asks what impact audiences have had on unnamed writers, TUE and wonders whether we are less accepting of anonymity than TUE our book-loving forebears. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b01phfmz (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b011p607 (Listen) TUE A Monstrous Vitality TUE TUE by Andy Merriman TUE TUE June Whitfield stars as the indomitable actress Margaret TUE Rutherford in a tale of chimpanzees, Jordanian Princes, an TUE adoring husband and falling in love with a musician 30 years TUE her junior. TUE TUE Director: David Hunter. TUE TUE Credits TUE Margaret: June Whitfield TUE Malcolm: Ryan McCluskey TUE Stringer: Sean Baker TUE Rumer: Gabrielle Lloyd TUE Prince Juan: Adeel Akhtar TUE Driver: Lloyd Thomas TUE Chimp trainer: Sally Orrock TUE Doctor: Sam Dale TUE Director: David Hunter TUE Writer: Andy Merriman TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b01phgjn (Listen) TUE Series 3, Bath TUE TUE Jay Rayner and the team present a relaxing and refreshing TUE New Year edition of The Kitchen Cabinet from The Komedia TUE theatre in Bath. TUE TUE Joining Jay to field the audience's questions are; TUE London-born chef Sophie Wright, food-writer and restaurateur TUE Tim Hayward, Asian-cooking expert Angela Malik, and The TUE Kitchen Cabinet's resident food-scientist Peter Barham. TUE TUE On the menu this week: Peter Barham rants on how to make TUE your Yorkshire puddings rise properly, and the panel debate TUE the best cure for a hangover and whether detoxing and TUE cleansing diets work. TUE TUE The team also suggest their best ideas for how to make TUE spinach taste delicious, and discuss what makes the best TUE tasting Bath bun. Angela Malik explains how bulk cooking can TUE save you money, and Tim Hayward talks about why butter would TUE have to be the one ingredient he couldn't live without. 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 Lives in a Landscape b01n1qxw (Listen) TUE Series 11, Gone Astray TUE TUE Alan Dein goes in search of stories from Britain today. TUE TUE 1. Gone Astray. Maureen's black and white cat Rosie has gone TUE missing and the pensioner is scouring the neighbourhood to TUE find her. Little does she know that further down the same TUE Portsmouth street, the Fletcher family have had a visitor. TUE Last Sunday night a black and white cat wandered into their TUE house, sprawled herself out and showed every indication she TUE wanted to stay. The cat has brought the family back together TUE after a nightmare summer holiday with their teenage TUE children. But does their feline peacemaker actually belong TUE to Maureen? TUE TUE Alan Dein finds out in a tale of lost and found cats, aided TUE by Joy Wilson of Portsmouth and District Cat Rescue, who has TUE devoted her life to the welfare of cats. TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b01phgjq (Listen) TUE Stenography TUE TUE As courts around the world replace human stenographers with TUE digital recording systems, Michael Rosen explores the TUE ancient art of stenography. Michael looks at the work TUE Charles Dickens did in London courts around 1830, and asks TUE how his career as a shorthand reporter influenced his work. TUE He investigates the mysteries of modern stenograph machines, TUE and talks to people who operate them and to a leading TUE barrister about the different ways we record words spoken in TUE trials and other official proceedings. TUE TUE Producer: Chris Ledgard. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b01phgjs (Listen) TUE Series 29, Grigori Rasputin TUE TUE What was so notable about Grigori Rasputin ? "The hypnotic TUE power shining in his exceptional gaze," said one observer. TUE The photos are indeed remarkable, and so are the myths. This TUE programme begins with his death. The date is December 1916, TUE and Rasputin, ice encrusted and with a mutilated face, is TUE dragged out of a frozen river in St Petersburg. According to TUE police reports at the time, people ran to the river with TUE armed with jugs and buckets, hoping to scoop up any unfrozen TUE water that had come into contact with this famous man. TUE TUE Comedian Richard Herring chooses Rasputin as much for the TUE mythology as the fact. Was he really the lover of the TUE Russian Queen ? No ... but it is said that his dead body sat TUE up in the fire when it was being burnt. Filling in some of TUE the gaps in this mysterious tale of pre-revolutionary Russia TUE is Bob Service of Oxford University, and an endlessly TUE entertained Matthew Parris presents. The producer is Miles TUE Warde. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b01phgkt (Listen) TUE Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01phdvh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:15 15 Minute Musical b01phhb1 (Listen) TUE Series 7, Barack of Ages TUE TUE Episode 6: Barack of Ages TUE TUE Can Barack find the strength to fight for another TUE Presidential term? With enough power ballads and rock TUE anthems he can. TUE TUE Starring: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Jess Robinson TUE Written by: Richie Webb, Dave Cohen and David Quantick TUE Music by: Richie Webb TUE Music Production: Matt Katz TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b01phhb3 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 1 TUE TUE Guests experience new things and give their verdicts to TUE Marcus Brigstocke. It's always fascinating to discover what TUE the guests think of their new experience, but also to find TUE out why they've waited so long to do it. Poet Benjamin TUE Zephaniah had never seen a Bond movie or had a cup of TUE builder's tea - so he'll be discussing his first Bond TUE experience over tea and scones. Meer Syal had never been to TUE a football match. Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie had TUE never seen the Olympics Opening Ceremony, despite featuring TUE in it, and she has her first experience of Downton Abbey. TUE Comedian Dave Gorman tries going to a strip club and reads TUE his first Dickens. Perhaps most astonishing of all, actor TUE and comedian Les Dennis swallows his first ever piece of TUE cheese. TUE TUE Produced by Bill Dare. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b01phhb5 (Listen) TUE Alice has the New Year blues. Meanwhile Emma receives an TUE unlikely visitor. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b01phhb7 (Listen) TUE Andy Serkis and Neil Young on the impact of technology in TUE the arts TUE TUE With John Wilson TUE TUE Digital technology is developing at a rapid pace. John TUE investigates how new technology will shape how we experience TUE culture in the coming year. TUE TUE Andy Serkis, who has recently reprised the role of Gollum in TUE The Hobbit, has been so inspired by the technology behind TUE some of his famous roles, that he has set up a studio to TUE develop the art of performance capture in the UK. Serkis TUE demonstrates the multiple ways in which technology can be TUE used in films and video games. TUE TUE Neil Young explains why his dislike of the compressed sound TUE offered by mp3 recordings has led him to invent his own TUE digital music format, which he hopes will be more TUE representative of a musician's performance. TUE TUE Discussing virtual theatre, art in a digital age and making TUE their predictions for the future are technology writer Bill TUE Thompson, Chair of Artangel and co-owner of Somethin' Else TUE productions Paul Bennun and digital entrepreneur and product TUE designer Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino. TUE TUE Producer Claire Bartleet. TUE TUE 19:45 The Cazalets b01phft0 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Ben Goldacre's Bad Evidence b01phhb9 (Listen) TUE Medic and author Ben Goldacre explores the idea of TUE evidence-based policy and asks if it can ever become a TUE reality in the UK. TUE TUE In medicine, how do we know if a particular treatment works? TUE The simple answer is to subject it to a fair test against TUE other treatments or a placebo. So far the best example of a TUE fair test in medicine is a randomised controlled trial or TUE RCT. TUE TUE Often to referred to as 'the gold standard' when it comes to TUE determining what works, RCTs are now commonplace in TUE business. But what about government? The idea of TUE evidence-based policy is hardly new - it's what social TUE scientists have been banging on about since the 1960s. But TUE in practice, when evidence has been used to determine TUE policy, it's often been anything but 'gold-standard'. TUE TUE In this programme, the medic and author of Bad Science, Ben TUE Goldacre, sets out to explore the potential for putting RCTs TUE at the heart of the policy-making process, arguing that not TUE only can they reveal if our existing policies are effective TUE but RCTs have the potential to transform the way we create TUE and implement social policy across the country, from TUE education to health, from welfare to crime. TUE TUE Of course not everyone agrees that all you need is hard data TUE to make the best policy. Experience, values, ideology - TUE these, say critics should never be abandoned in favour of TUE cold statistics. And whilst the RCT may work well for pills TUE and potions, it's too blunt an instrument to deal with the TUE subtle and complex challenges of assessing how best to TUE punish crime, treat drug users or teach children from TUE impoverished background to read and write. Just look at the TUE recent fiasco over badger-culling. over a ten-year period, TUE randomised experiments and pilot studies have resulted in no TUE clear policy on how to prevent the spread of bovine TB. And TUE then there's the ethical question - how for example could TUE you allow randomisation to determine something as morally TUE (and politically) sensitive as sentencing criminals, let TUE alone teaching kids? TUE TUE What is clear, is that bad policies cost us dear - both TUE socially and economically. The challenges are many but the TUE potential, argues Ben, could be truly transformational, both TUE for society and for government. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b01phhbc (Listen) TUE Henry Blofeld Test Match Special's long-standing TUE commentator, famed for addressing everyone as 'My Dear Old TUE Thing' talks to Peter White about the impact his recent TUE eyesight problems have had on his commentating. TUE Peter visits Henry at his London home, where he talks openly TUE about his dust with Macular Degeneration and the onset of TUE cataracts. TUE TUE 21:00 I'm a Lumberjack b01mqmgj (Listen) TUE When the English poet and writer James Lasdun moved to TUE wooded New York State his wife gave him a chainsaw. He had TUE to either learn to chop down trees or risk his home and TUE garden being taken over by the resurgent forests of the TUE eastern states of the USA. But how should a clumsy townie, TUE good with his words but not with his hands, take to the TUE woods? With help from some of the champion axmen of the TUE Lumberjack World Championships at Hayward, Wisconsin, he TUE learns the underhand chop, the standing block chop, the hot TUE saw, and much of the wisdom and lore of the world of tall TUE trees and tough men. Producer: Tim Dee. TUE TUE 21:30 The Value of Culture b01phfsw (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b01phdvk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b01phhbf (Listen) TUE Philippa Thomas presents national and international news and TUE analysis. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01phhbh (Listen) TUE Frenchman's Creek, Episode 7 TUE TUE Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du TUE Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady TUE Dona and the French pirate Aubery. TUE TUE Episode 7 TUE Lady Dona succumbs at last to the Frenchman's charms and TUE enjoys an idyllic voyage with him. But the dream cannot TUE last. TUE TUE Read by Adjoa Andoh TUE Abridged by Eileen Horne TUE TUE Produced by Clive Brill TUE A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Heresy b017mv2b (Listen) TUE Series 8, Episode 1 TUE TUE The show that dares to commit heresy. Victoria Coren and her TUE guests have fun exposing the wrong-headedness of received TUE wisdom and challenging knee-jerk public reaction to events. TUE TUE Her guests are comedian Mark Steel, novelist Jessica Berens TUE and actor and national treasure, Christopher Biggins. TUE TUE Christopher Biggins gets on his high pantomime horse, TUE arguing against the assertion that Panto is an outdated art TUE form, Mark Steel comes out in support of public displays of TUE drunkenness, and former Tattler journalist Jessica Berens TUE explains why people are totally misguided if they think it TUE would be nice to live in a house like Downton Abbey. TUE TUE Producer: Brian King TUE An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:30 The History Plays b01cdvb7 (Listen) TUE Stonehouse in Alice TUE TUE Written and directed by Nigel Smith and starring Tim TUE McInnerny as John Stonehouse and Daniel Rigby as Ed TUE Jennings. Stonehouse in Alice is the second of The History TUE Plays, imaginary conversations set against the backdrop of TUE real events. TUE TUE It's 1974 and Ed Jennings, a cub reporter from a local paper TUE has stumbled upon the scoop of a lifetime while on holiday TUE in Australia. Because Leonard has found missing maverick MP, TUE John Stonehouse. TUE TUE Stonehouse recently faked his death to escape from a sea of TUE debt, the fraud squad, his wife, and a series of TUE misadventures back home in the UK. A charmer, a snob, an TUE aesthete, a writer and a con man, the Walsall North MP, once TUE one of the greatest loose cannons of his political TUE generation, is now in hiding, shacked up with his mistress TUE in one of the loneliest places on earth. What will be kept TUE secret for decades, however, is that he's also a communist TUE spy. TUE TUE Ed is bright enough to know this story will make his name. TUE It has all the ingredients; celebrity, notoriety, sex, TUE politics and sleaze. But what it's fundamentally about is TUE greed. And that is still seen as shocking in an MP. Chisholm TUE knows no post-war English politician will have had such a TUE fall from grace. Profumo only erred for lust. This is TUE something new... and thrilling. And it turns out Stonehouse TUE has an offer for the young reporter. One that will change TUE both their lives. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 02 JANUARY 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b01phdwd (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:17 Musical Migrants b015zs0x (Listen) WED Series 3, Zanzibar WED WED Watching the Live Aid concert on television in the mid 80s WED changed the life of Englishman, Yusuf Mahmoud. At the time, WED Yusuf was working as a milkman in Cheltenham and doing the WED odd bit of DJ-ing, but when he realised that music could be WED used as a tool for change he got involved in music promotion WED and festival organising for the Anti-Apartheid movement and WED similar operations. WED WED After several years of doing that, an opportunity arose for WED him to work at the first Zanzibar International Film WED Festival. Driven by his interest in the music of the region, WED he headed off to Tanzania intending to stay for only 6 WED months. Thirteen years on, he's still there and has set up WED the Sauti Za Busara Festival - a thriving festival that WED promotes the music of East Africa. WED WED Tanzania is one of the poorest countries in the world; Yusuf WED is used to going for months without power and his daily WED shower consists of a beaker and a bucket of water. Yet such WED things don't faze him because - he says - he's nourished by WED the cultural richness of his adopted land. WED WED Produced by Rachel Hopkin WED A Falling Tree Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b01pkkky (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01phdwg (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01phdwj (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01phdwl (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b01phdwn (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01px5v5 (Listen) WED Presented by the Very Rev Graham Forbes, Provost of St WED Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b01phhy1 (Listen) WED Anna Hill reviews a year of drought and flood and asks what WED the weather might bring for farmers in 2013. East Anglian WED farming consultant Lindsay Hargreaves reflects on the driest WED spring and wettest summer in a century; Aberdeenshire farmer WED Charlie Adam recalls the challenges of harvesting in the WED snow; and Newcastle University hydrologist Paul Quinn WED outlines on-farm solutions for flooding and drought. WED WED Presenter: Anna Hill Producer: Melvin Rickarby. WED WED 06:00 Today b01phhy3 (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs with Justin Webb and Sarah WED Montague. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the WED Day. WED WED 09:00 The Value of Culture b01phhy5 (Listen) WED Two Cultures WED WED Melvyn Bragg considers the 150-year history of the Two WED Cultures debate. In 1959 the novelist C.P. Snow delivered a WED lecture in Cambridge suggesting that intellectual life had WED become divided into two separate cultures: the arts and the WED humanities. The lecture is still celebrated for the furore WED it provoked - but Snow was returning to a battleground WED almost a century old. Melvyn Bragg visits the old Cavendish WED Laboratory in Cambridge, scene of many of modern science's WED greatest triumphs, to put the Two Cultures debate in its WED historical context - and Paul Nurse, President of the Royal WED Society, reveals the influence the Two Cultures debate had WED on his development as a scientist. WED WED Producer: Thomas Morris. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b01pkkr7 (Listen) WED Wild, Episode 3 WED WED Cheryl Strayed's redemptive account of hiking 1100 miles WED alone through America's rugged western landscape. At WED twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything WED after her mother died, and her marriage crumbled. With no WED previous experience of backpacking, she made the impulsive WED decision to rebuild her life by setting out on an incredible WED journey along America's Pacific Crest Trail. Today, a WED perilous section of the trail tests Cheryl's powers of WED resilience and endurance. WED WED Read by Kelly Burke WED Abridged by Miranda Davies WED Produced by Elizabeth Allard. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b01phhy7 (Listen) WED Mothers-in-Law Phone-In WED WED Mother in law phone-in. Whether married or not, your WED relationship with your partner's mother is an important one, WED so how does it work for you? If you've been together over WED Christmas has it been all joy and laughter or hell on earth? WED If you're a mother in law, what are the flash points when WED dealing with your child's partner? What strategies have you WED learned over the years to keep the peace? And if you and WED your mother in law ARE good friends, tell us the special WED things she brings to your life. WED Email us now via the Woman's Hour website or phone from 0800 WED on Wednesday the 2nd January on 03700 100 444. WED WED 10:45 The Cazalets b01phhy9 (Listen) WED The Light Years, Episode 3 WED WED 3/10 by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels WED WED Sid and Rachel's day together is threatened by Sybil's WED pregnancy. WED WED Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow WED WED 11:00 A Tale of Two Sittings b01phhyc (Listen) WED On the 40th anniversary of Britain's entry into the EEC, WED Edward Stourton lifts the lid on the turmoil surrounding WED accession. WED WED Today, there's talk in Brussels of Britain's increasingly WED isolated position and calls for a referendum here are WED getting louder. A Tale of Two Sittings features guests from WED two key dinners in the early 1970s, one on 2nd January 1973 WED at Hampton Court celebrating Britain's entry to the EEC and WED the second at Roy Jenkins' London club marking the British WED public's sanctioning of it in 1975. WED WED Key international players from both nights relive the WED political schisms and exhausting campaigning which WED characterised the two and a half years in between - and WED provide insight and perspective on Europe's current crisis. WED WED Edward talks to Tony Benn, leader of the No campaign who WED feels his original arguments have been vindicated, and Lord WED Archer who voted in favour of entry into Europe and WED organised the Hampton Court banquet. And we hear from WED Kenneth Clarke, who was chief whip for a largely WED pro-European Conservative party but is now seen as one of WED the few remaining prominent Conservative supporters of WED Europe. WED WED Presenter: Edward Stourton WED Producer: Karen Pirie WED WED A Whistledown production for BBC. WED WED 11:30 Clare in the Community b01phhyf (Listen) WED Series 8, Hot Desk WED WED Episode One - Hot Desk WED WED Social Worker Clare Barker and her colleagues have to move WED offices and embrace hot desking. All this while Clare has a WED new student to wet nurse. Brian is struggling to keep WED control in the classroom. WED WED Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all WED the right jargon but never a practical solution. WED WED A control freak, Clare likes nothing better than interfering WED in other people's lives on both a professional and personal WED basis. Clare is in her thirties, white, middle class and WED heterosexual, all of which are occasional causes of WED discomfort to her. WED WED Each week we join Clare in her continued struggle to control WED both her professional and private life WED WED In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out WED there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. WED WED Clare: SALLY PHILLIPS WED Brian: ALEX LOWE WED Megan/Nali: NINA CONTI WED Ray: RICHARD LUMSDEN WED Helen: LIZA TARBUCK WED Simon: ANDREW WINCOTT WED Libby: SARAH KENDALL WED Alice: ALEX TREGEAR WED Abigail: ELEANOR CROOKS WED Dexter: WILL HOWARD WED Bob: ROBERT BLYTHE WED Neighbour/Terence/MC: BEN CROWE WED Simon's Girlfriend: BHARTI PATEL WED WED Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden WED Producer Katie Tyrrell. WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b01phhyh (Listen) WED How much exercise should you be doing? WED WED How much exercise should you be doing if you want to stay WED healthy? Dr Michael Mosley finds out why doing the same WED amount might not work for everyone. WED WED And we look at new plans to regulate the people who look WED after adults living in residential care homes, in day WED centres and in their own homes. WED WED Producer: John Neal WED Presenter: Peter White. WED WED 12:30 Face the Facts b01pj2s6 (Listen) WED John Waite investigates why increasing numbers of homeless WED families are being housed in bed and breakfast hotels, WED sometimesfor months at a time. The law states families WED should be placed in properly equipped temporary WED accommodation, but over the last year the number of families WED staying in B&Bs for over 6 weeks has more than doubled. WED Councils blame the rise in homelessness on the government's WED reform of housing benefit. A new cap on the amount of WED housing benefit that the State will pay has reduced the WED number of properties which poor families can afford and WED their local authorities have started looking beyond their WED boundaries, sometimes in completely different parts of the WED country, to fulfill their legal obligations to the homeless. WED The consequences are felt particularly acutely in relatively WED cheap outer London boroughs such as Barking and Dagenham and WED Croydon. There, competition from inner London authorities WED for suitable private rented accommodation has driven up WED rents and landlords prefer to rent their properties to WED students or working families. One local authority housing WED officer called it a "perfect storm." For its part, the WED Government says the payment of housing costs on behalf of WED tenants, direct to landlords was out of control and had to WED be tackled in an era of austerity. WED WED Presenter:John Waite WED Producer:Richard Hooper. WED WED 12:57 Weather b01phdwq (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b01phhyk (Listen) WED Shaun Ley presents national and international news. WED Listeners can share their views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or WED on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 Belle de Jour's History of Anon b01phhym (Listen) WED The Anonymous Woman WED WED Some of the most celebrated female authors of all time were WED first published under a pseudonym. But was it modesty, WED convention, or to pique curiosity that led the likes of Jane WED Austen, the Brontes and George Eliot to assume alternative WED identities? Brooke takes a look at the writings and WED reputations of anonymous women, from canonical greats to WED sexual memoirs. And she draws on the reaction to her own WED experiences to explore the reader's fascination with unnamed WED women, considering the conflicts of being open and WED revealing, whilst keeping the ultimate secret. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b01phhb5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01phj10 (Listen) WED The Reluctant Spy, Episode 1 WED WED As the world waits to see what democracy will bring to WED Egypt, Nigel Lindsay plays hard-up Coptic art expert who WED becomes embroiled in (what appears to be) corporate WED espionage when approached by seductive Canadian student Tara WED to deliver a letter - for money - to a prominent Egyptian WED politician. But nothing in this tense three-parter from WED writer/director John Dryden is quite what it appears to be. WED WED Casting - Toby Whale, WED Production Manager - Russell Owen, WED Script Editor - Mike Walker. WED Sound design - Steve Bond, WED Music - Sacha Puttnam WED WED Written and directed by: John Dryden WED A Goldhawk Production for BBC Radio 4 WED www.goldhawk.eu WED WED Writer/Director - John Dryden WED This is John's forth trilogy for Radio 4, after SEVERED WED THREADS, PANDEMIC (winner of this year's Writers' Guild WED award for Best Radio Drama) and A TOKYO MURDER. He recently WED directed and co-wrote with journalist Owen Bennett-Jones the WED documentary/drama BLASPHEMY AND THE GOVERNOR OF PUNJAB. WED WED Credits WED Duncan: Nigel Lindsay WED Ola: Aiysha Hart WED Tara: Sarah Goldberg WED Al-Basiri: Philip Arditti WED Dr Zacoutte: Raad Rawiha WED Amr: Jonathan Bonnici WED Hameed: Karim Saleh WED Randa: Saba Sirene WED Kamal: Jude Edriss WED Karl: Rufus Wright WED Mrs Darwish: Baris Cerliloglu WED Mrs Zacoutte: Myriam Acharki WED Policeman: Nayef Rashed WED Actor: Zayden Khalaf WED Actor: Jumaan Short WED Actor: Albert Welling WED Actor: Omar Mustafa WED Director: John Dryden WED Writer: John Dryden WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b01phj12 (Listen) WED Consumer Rights WED WED Was your Christmas shopping a success? Or are you WED disappointed by poor quality goods and service? What are WED your rights and how can you enforce them? Call 03700 100 444 WED from 1pm or email moneybox@bbc.co.uk. WED WED If the gifts you bought are faulty, arrived late or didn't WED turn up at all where do you stand and how do you complain? WED WED Do your rights differ depending on whether you shop online, WED by mail order or over the phone? WED WED Perhaps you have an issue with community or group buying? WED WED What is the safest way to pay? WED WED And what should you do if you regret a hasty purchase made WED in the sale? WED WED For advice about faulty goods or poor service, call Paul WED Lewis and guests on Wednesday's Money Box Live. WED WED Waiting to discuss your problems and give advice will be: WED WED Alonso Ercilla, Trading Standards Institute WED Jane Negus, European Consumer Centre WED Joanne Lezmore, Which? Legal Services WED WED You can email your questions now to moneybox@bbc.co.uk. Or WED the number to call is 03 700 100 444 - lines are open WED between 1pm and 3.30pm on Wednesday 2 January 2013. Standard WED geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 Dr Inkblot b01l0kch (Listen) WED The Rorschach ink blot test is one of the most popular and WED controversial personality tests used by psychologists here WED and abroad. The theory is that we reveal our true selves WED through interpreting ambiguous shapes. It was developed WED nearly a century ago by the Swiss psychiatrist Hermann WED Rorschach - a man who worked outside the mainstream and who WED died young. WED WED Jo Fidgen traces the origins, refinement and application of WED Rorschach's test and its subsequent falling from favour. She WED visits the Tavistock Centre in London, where it is still in WED clinical use, and the Hermann Rorschach Museum and Archives WED in Bern, Switzerland. She also talks to psychologists around WED the world - in Japan, where it's more popular than ever, and WED in the US where controversy rages about its reliability and WED validity. And she undertakes the test herself. WED WED With contributions from Dr Michael Drayton, Dr Justine WED McCarthy-Woods, Dr Noriko Nakamura, Dr Scott Lilienfeld, Dr WED Bruce Smith, Professor Anne Andronikof and Rita Signer, WED curator of the Rorschach Archives. WED WED Produced by Alan Hall WED A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b01phj21 (Listen) WED Consuming Passions WED WED Consumer pleasures - in a New Year special edition, Laurie WED Taylor explores the place of shopping in our lives, as well WED as within sociological thought. He's joined by Professor WED Colin Campbell, Dr Kate Soper and Professor Rachel Bowlby. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b01phj2m (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b01phj43 (Listen) WED Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01phdws (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Mark Steel's in Town b01phjb0 (Listen) WED Series 4, Chipping Norton WED WED This week, Mark visits Chipping Norton and uncovers the WED relationship between the Camerons, the Clarksons, and a town WED full of rebels. WED WED Additional material by Pete Sinclair. WED Produced by Sam Bryant. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b01phjb2 (Listen) WED Things begin to add up for Ed, and Ruth figures out what WED Josh is up to. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b01phjb4 (Listen) WED With Mark Lawson, including the announcement of the winners WED in the Costa Book Awards for novel, first novel, biography, WED poetry and children's book. WED WED Producer Jerome Weatherald. WED WED 19:45 The Cazalets b01phhy9 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Unreliable Evidence b01phjb6 (Listen) WED Clive Anderson and top lawyers and judges reveal why the WED wheels of our legal system turn so slowly and discuss WED concerns that Government proposals to speed up proceedings WED in our criminal courts could lead to injustices. WED WED The president of the Law Society, Lucy Scott-Moncrieff, WED strongly opposes plans for weekend courts and to extend WED court hours, warning that such measures would be expensive WED and ineffective. WED WED Deputy chair of the Magistrates Association, Richard WED Monkhouse says delays in the criminal courts, which often WED result in defendants spending months in custody, could be WED addressed by giving magistrates greater sentencing powers. WED WED Retired appeal court judge, Sir Mark Potter, predicts that WED legal aid cuts will result in major delays in the civil WED courts. He says a shortage of resources is causing WED particular problems in the family courts where delays have WED serious impacts on children's lives. WED WED The programme also considers the arguments for reforming the WED appeal system, following comments from the Lord Chief WED Justice, Lord Judge, who expressed "fury" over cases such as WED that of Abu Hamza which take many years to resolve. WED WED Producer: Brian King WED An Above the Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b01phjb8 (Listen) WED Series 3, Sally Kettle: Does hope help? WED WED Adventurer Sally Kettle argues that hope is not helpful, and WED suggests some alternative strategies. WED WED Sally has twice rowed the Atlantic Ocean, and worries that WED hope can lead to a passive state of mind. There is nothing, WED she believes, like taking concrete steps to make things WED happen. WED WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine thought WED provoking ideas and engaging storytelling. Recorded live in WED front of an audience, speakers air their latest thinking on WED the trends, ideas, interests and passions that affect our WED culture and society. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 I'm Suzy and I'm a Phobic b01lv7y0 (Listen) WED Suzy Klein is highly phobic and she wants it to stop. She WED won't go in lifts, no matter how many steps she has to WED climb, and she hasn't been on the underground for twenty WED years. Suzy has been phobic of spiders (now recovered) and WED didn't go on a plane for three years (but now flies). Yet WED every time she beats a phobia, another one takes hold. WED WED At the moment she has claustrophobia and, in this programme, WED Suzy attempts to conquer her fear, culminating in a trip on WED the London Underground. Along the way she'll meet fellow WED phobics and discover the impact the fear has on their WED everyday lives and behaviour. WED WED As a fly on the wall in her therapy sessions, we hear WED Professor Paul Salkovskis attempt to help Suzy overcome her WED claustrophobia through Cognitive Behavioural Therapy - or WED CBT. WED WED Other contributors include Dr James Lefanu of the Daily WED Telegraph, who warns Suzy that CBT is only successful in WED around 30% of cases and she will have to be "desensitised" WED by confronting her fear. Suzy also meets up with WED arachnophobic Phill Jupitus to discuss where fears come WED from. WED WED Produced by David Morley WED A Perfectly Normal production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 The Value of Culture b01phhy5 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b01phdwx (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b01phjbb (Listen) WED Roger Hearing presents national and international news and WED analysis. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01phjbd (Listen) WED Frenchman's Creek, Episode 8 WED WED Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du WED Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady WED Dona and the French pirate Aubery. WED WED Episode 8 WED Harry and Rockingham prepare to trap the pirates, and Dona WED must host a dinner for their fellow conspirators. WED WED Read by Adjoa Andoh WED Abridged by Eileen Horne WED WED Produced by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Sarah Millican's Support Group b010twf6 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 1 WED WED Award winning comedian Sarah Millican is back for a second WED series playing Sarah, modern day agony aunt dishing out real WED advice for real people. WED WED Solving the nations problems with her Support Group, she WED wants you to live life to the upmost, and she's got tons of WED ideas of how to help. Together with her team of experts of WED the heart - man of the people local cabbie Terry, and self WED qualified counsellor Marion, Sarah tackles the nation's WED problems head on and has a solution for everything. WED WED This week the team tackle two problems - "My partner is too WED controlling - a fight for the television remote" and "I'm a WED non drinker with no friends - should I just buy a cat?" WED WED Sarah Millican Sarah WED Ruth Bratt Marion WED Simon Day Terry WED Diane Morgan Linda WED Will Smith Matthew. WED WED Credits WED Producer: Lianne Coop WED WED 23:30 The History Plays b01cw5p1 (Listen) WED Maggie Heart Galtieri WED WED The History Play: Maggie Heart Galtieri WED WED Maggie Watkins (Josie Lawrence) finds a young Argentinean WED soldier, Christian Galtieri (Javier Marzan), in her kitchen, WED wounded and in need of shelter. As she slowly learns why he WED is in hiding the pair fall in love, but as their WED relationship grows the Task Force lands and it becomes WED harder and harder to ignore the larger forces at play around WED them. WED WED This is the third of Nigel Smith's series The History Plays, WED five two hander plays set at turning points in the history WED of the last five decades. WED WED Written and directed by Nigel Smith WED Produced by Gareth Edwards. WED WED THU THURSDAY 03 JANUARY 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b01phdxs (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b01pkkr7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01phdxv (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01phdxx (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01phdxz (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b01phdy1 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01px5v7 (Listen) THU Presented by the Very Rev Graham Forbes, Provost of St THU Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b01phkt2 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU THU 06:00 Today b01phkt4 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs with Sarah Montague and THU Justin Webb. Including Sports Desk; Weather; Thought for the THU Day. THU THU 09:00 The Value of Culture b01phkt6 (Listen) THU Mass Culture THU THU Melvyn Bragg considers how technology and increasing access THU to education made possible the rise of a true mass culture THU in the twentieth century. He examines how the rise of cinema THU and photography opened the cultural realms to millions, and THU how our understanding of what culture is, and what it's for, THU was transformed by the work of scholars such as Richard THU Hoggart and Raymond Williams. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b01pk8cv (Listen) THU Wild, Episode 4 THU THU Cheryl Strayed's redemptive account of hiking 1100 miles THU alone through America's rugged western landscape. At THU twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything THU after her mother died, and her marriage crumbled. With no THU previous experience of backpacking, she made the impulsive THU decision to rebuild her life by setting out on an incredible THU journey along America's Pacific Crest Trail. Today, Cheryl THU reflects on her childhood, and a momentary lapse of THU concentration leads to an unexpected challenge. THU THU Read by Kelly Burke THU Abridged by Miranda Davies THU Produced by Elizabeth Allard. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b01phkt8 (Listen) THU Women to watch in 2013. Presented by Jenni Murray. THU THU 10:45 The Cazalets b01phktb (Listen) THU The Light Years, Episode 4 THU THU by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels THU THU Louise's image of her father, Edward, is about to be THU shattered for good. THU THU Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b01phktd (Listen) THU Forced Confessions in Japan THU THU Mariko Oi investigates forced confessions of suspects in the THU Japanese criminal justice system. She asks if the use of THU prolonged questioning and other dubious tactics by police THU and prosecutors might be one reason for Japan's THU astonishingly high conviction rate. THU Producer: Nina Robinson. THU THU 11:30 Forgetting a Revolutionary: Lawrence Durrell at 100 THU b01phktg (Listen) THU This year Lawrence Durrell is or would have been 100. Tim THU Marlow sleeps beneath a special shelf above his bed which THU holds his collection of first editions of Durrell. He is a THU devotee. What does Durrell and those bright covered novels THU of The Alexandria Quartet once read by every open-minded THU reader mean today? Can his reputation extend beyond his THU surviving fans and the occasional leftovers of scandal? THU Should new readers pick him up, what would they find? With THU archive recordings and new interviews a reassessment of a THU revolutionary writer in danger of being forgotten. Producer: THU Tim Dee. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b01phktj (Listen) THU 'Five a Day' THU THU Dr Michael Mosley looks at the history and science behind THU the '5 a Day' message. THU THU 12:57 Weather b01phdy3 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b01phktl (Listen) THU Shaun Ley 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 Belle de Jour's History of Anon b01phktn (Listen) THU Anonymity and Accountability THU THU Anonymity can be valuable - a means of challenging an THU accepted view, of speaking out without reprisal. But it is a THU double-edged sword - anonymous commentary can also be brutal THU and malicious. Brooke explores the complicated relationships THU between anonymity, accountability and reputation. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b01phjb2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01phktq (Listen) THU The Reluctant Spy, Episode 2 THU THU Part 2 of John Dryden's original thriller set in present-day THU Egypt. THU THU Nigel Lindsay plays hard-up Coptic art expert Duncan THU Kavanagh who, through greed and lust has been drawn into a THU world of espionage and unwittingly brought about the death THU of his good friend, the Palestinian Dr Zacoutte. THU THU The enigmatic Tara, who claims to be a student from Canada, THU appears to be using Duncan. But Duncan is not as innocent as THU he seems to be - his past is about to catch up with him. THU THU Casting: Toby Whale THU Production Manager: Russell Owen THU Script Editor: Mike Walker THU Sound design: Steve Bond THU Music: Sacha Puttnam. THU THU Written, produced and directed by: John Dryden THU A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Duncan: Nigel Lindsay THU Ola: Aiysha Hart THU Tara: Sarah Goldberg THU Al-Basiri: Philip Arditti THU Dr Zacoutte: Raad Rawiha THU Amr: Jonathan Bonnici THU Hameed: Karim Saleh THU Randa: Sirine Saba THU Kamal: Jude Edriss THU Karl: Rufus Wright THU Mrs Darwish: Baris Cerliloglu THU Mrs Zacoutte: Myriam Acharki THU Policeman: Nayef Rashed THU Actor: Zayden Khalaf THU Actor: Jumaan Short THU Actor: Albert Welling THU Actor: Omar Mustafa THU Director: John Dryden THU Writer: John Dryden THU THU 15:00 Open Country b01phkts (Listen) THU Hastings: The Shingle Fleet THU THU Helen Mark visits the ancient town of Hastings to meet the THU people involved in the fishing community there. The fishing THU fleet is made up of small wooden boats which are all under THU ten metres long. This is important as, unusually, they are THU launched each day from the beach. This involves pushing them THU down the shingle bank, by tractor nowadays but traditionally THU by hand, and winching them back up again out of the sea when THU they return. Helen meets Paul Joy, a fisherman, who can date THU his family back as far as the 1000s, all launching their THU boats from the beach in Hastings as he does today. This is THU true of lots of the fishing families working there. But even THU with such a long and thriving history behind them the THU Hastings fishing industry is now in trouble. Their crews are THU in their seventies and there's no sign of new blood, and THU their wages are falling. Before 2006, under ten metre boats THU weren't subject to any EU fishing quotas as they were deemed THU exempt, but new legislation brought in six years ago changed THU all this. Since then the number of cod they're allowed to THU catch has dramatically reduced, and the fishermen are THU struggling. THU THU Producer: Beatrice Fenton. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b01ph59x (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b01ph7ff (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b01phlg8 (Listen) THU how the grey pound is influencing the film world THU THU In a special edition of the programme, Francine Stock looks THU at a growing number of films aimed at an older audience, THU known within the industry as the 'grey pound'. THU THU Billy Connolly and Tom Courtenay discuss their retirement THU home comedy, Quartet, the directorial debut of Dustin THU Hoffman. THU THU Francine visits the set of Roger Michell's latest, Le THU Weekend, starring Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan as a THU retired couple trying to rekindle the romance of their THU honeymoon. THU THU Analyst Charles Gant reveals the films that made the THU industry sit up and notice the older cinemagoer, while THU president of Momentum pictures, Xavier Marchand, discusses THU his company's future plans for this audience. THU THU Plus, Dame Helen Mirren, one of the most bankable British THU stars of the last 30 years. THU THU Producer: Craig Smith. THU THU 16:30 Material World b01phlgb (Listen) THU Quentin Cooper looks into the science stories of the week THU and speaks to scientists who are making the headlines. THU THU 17:00 PM b01phlgd (Listen) THU Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01phdy5 (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Births, Deaths and Marriages b01jxvnz (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU In this episode, Malcolm loses his registrar mojo when his THU ex-girlfriend Emma comes into the office to register her THU marriage while Lorna tries to introduce themed weddings. THU THU 'Births, Deaths and Marriages' is a new sitcom set in a THU Local Authority Register Office, where the staff deal with THU the three greatest events in anybody's life. THU THU Written by David Schneider ('The Day Today', 'I'm Alan THU Partridge'), he stars as chief registrar Malcolm Fox who is THU a stickler for rules and would be willing to interrupt any THU wedding service if the width of the bride infringes health THU and safety. He's unmarried but why does he need to be? He's THU married thousands of women. THU THU Alongside him are rival and divorcee Lorna who has been THU parachuted in from Car Parks to drag the office (and THU Malcolm) into the 21st century. To her marriage isn't just THU about love and romance, it's got to be about making a profit THU in our new age of austerity. THU THU There's also the ever spiky Mary, geeky Luke who's worried THU he'll end up like Malcolm one day while ditzy Anita may get THU her words and names mixed up occasionally but as the only THU parent in the office, she's a mother to them all. THU THU Cast: THU Malcolm ....... David Schneider THU Lorna ....... Sarah Hadland THU Anita ....... Sandy McDade THU Luke ...... Russell Tovey THU Mary ...... Sally Bretton THU Richard, Male Dalek Voice, Bride's father .......Simon THU Greenall THU Emma, Mrs Crawley ....... Jane Whittenshaw THU Bride, female guest ....... Gina Peach THU THU Producer: Simon Jacobs THU A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 19:00 The Archers b01phlgg (Listen) THU Peggy strides out, and Mike puts on a brave face. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b01phlgj (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 The Cazalets b01phktb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b01phlgl (Listen) THU After a year marked by new revelations and allegations about THU the scale of historic child abuse in England and Wales, THU Simon Cox asks whether there are lessons in the way other THU countries have tackled the problem. In Northern Ireland THU victims from across the province have begun giving testimony THU to an independent inquiry panel and in Scotland there are THU also plans for a national hearing to take evidence from THU residents of children's homes across the country. In the THU Irish Republic, as long ago as 1999, the Prime Minister THU apologised on behalf of the State and set up a redress board THU to make pay-outs to victims of abuse. But there are THU complaints there from those who felt it didn't go far enough THU and from others worried about the way costs quickly THU spiralled. So should there be, as some argue, a THU comprehensive nation-wide inquiry in England and Wales? THU Would it just re-open old wounds or is a truth and THU reconciliation process necessary to learn the lessons of the THU past and protect children in the future? THU Producer: Nicola Dowling. THU THU 20:30 In Business b01phlgn (Listen) THU Sounds Familiar THU THU After years of promise, voice recognition is at last THU becoming a significant method of using computers and THU accessing the Internet. Why now, and what difference does it THU make? Peter Day talks to the companies at the forefront of THU developments in the field (including Massachusetts-based THU Nuance, one of the largest makers of voice recognition THU technology), and asks whether our relationship with machines THU will change once we have the ability to talk to them. THU THU 21:00 Saving Species b01phft2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 11:00 on Tuesday] THU THU 21:30 The Value of Culture b01phkt6 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b01phdy7 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b01phlgq (Listen) THU Carolyn Quinn presents national and international news and THU analysis. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01phlgs (Listen) THU Frenchman's Creek, Episode 9 THU THU Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du THU Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady THU Dona and the French pirate Aubery. THU THU Episode 9 THU Dona fights for her life and her lover in the face of THU Rockingham's jealous rage and struggles to bridge the THU impossible gulf that divides her and the captured Frenchman. THU THU Read by Adjoa Andoh THU Abridged by Eileen Horne THU THU Produced by Clive Brill THU A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 The Simon Day Show b0112ydl (Listen) THU Series 1, Tommy Cockles THU THU Simon Day and his characters welcome listeners to The THU Mallard, a small provincial theatre somewhere in the UK. THU Each week one of Simon's characters come to perform at The THU Mallard and we hear the highlights of that night's show THU along with the back stage and front of house goings on at THU the theatre itself. THU THU This week, comedy legend Tommy Cockles performs at the THU Mallard and is stunned to discover that manager Ron Bone has THU no idea who he is. THU THU Tommy Cockles ..... Simon Day THU Catherine ..... Catherine Shepherd THU Goose ..... Felix Dexter THU Ron Bone ..... Simon Greenall THU THU Written by Simon Day THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 The History Plays b01d1403 (Listen) THU O Salutaris Hostia, Diana THU THU The History Plays are a series of imagined conversations at THU key moments in the recent history of Britain. THU THU In "O Salutaris Hostia, Diana" Imelda Staunton stars as THU Martha and Toby Jones as Graham. The couple look back over THU their lives together but their very different views on Diana THU mask a far more personal conflict, and Graham's dislike of THU the princess has its roots in his pain over the THU circumstances of their son Alan's death. THU THU Written and directed by Nigel Smith THU Produced by Gareth Edwards. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 04 JANUARY 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b01phdz2 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b01pk8cv (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b01phdz4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b01phdz6 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b01phdz8 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b01phdzb (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b01px5v9 (Listen) FRI Presented by the Very Rev Graham Forbes, Provost of St FRI Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b01phm1d (Listen) FRI Charlotte Smith reports from the Oxford Farming Conference. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b01phm1g (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; FRI Weather; Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Value of Culture b01phm1j (Listen) FRI What's the Value of Culture Today? FRI FRI Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the meaning and value of FRI culture in the twenty-first century. In a programme recorded FRI in front of an audience at Newcastle's Literary and FRI Philosophical Society, Melvyn and the panel consider whether FRI Matthew Arnold's assessment of culture as 'the great help FRI out of our present difficulties' still has any relevance, FRI almost 150 years after it was written. FRI FRI Producer: Thomas Morris. FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b01pk8fn (Listen) FRI Wild, Episode 5 FRI FRI Cheryl Strayed's redemptive account of hiking 1100 miles FRI alone through America's rugged western landscape. At FRI twenty-six Cheryl Strayed thought she'd lost everything FRI after her mother died, and her marriage crumbled. With no FRI previous experience of backpacking, she made the impulsive FRI decision to rebuild her life by setting out on an incredible FRI journey along America's Pacific Crest Trail. Today, Cheryl FRI anticipates the journey's end. FRI FRI Read by Kelly Burke FRI Abridged by Miranda Davies FRI Produced by Elizabeth Allard. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b01phm1l (Listen) FRI Celebrating, informing and entertaining women. Presented by FRI Jenni Murray. FRI FRI 10:45 The Cazalets b01phm1n (Listen) FRI The Light Years, Episode 5 FRI FRI 5/10 by Elizabeth Jane Howard, dramatised by Sarah Daniels FRI FRI As Sid worries about the situation in Germany, Louise FRI discovers an enemy within her own family. FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Sally Avens and Marion Nancarrow FRI FRI 11:00 The Silent Epidemic b01phm1q (Listen) FRI Everybody assumes that the biggest killers of children in FRI poor countries are diseases like cholera, pneumonia and FRI dysentery and it's this belief that still drives the global FRI public health agenda. FRI FRI Yet it's not actually true. FRI FRI In countries like Bangladesh, drowning is the number one FRI killer and it's a leading cause of death in south-east Asia. FRI There are a quarter of a million child fatalities from FRI drowning every year - as many as all the children and adults FRI who drowned in the Asian tsunami of 2004. Yet because most FRI child drownings go unrecorded and because they happen in FRI ones and twos every day, rather than in one great FRI cataclysmic event, the problem has gone largely unreported. FRI It's a hidden killer - a 'silent epidemic'. FRI FRI Mark Whitaker reports from Bangladesh, and also from Vietnam FRI where the problem was identified with the help of the first FRI US Ambassador to the country after the war, Pete Peterson. FRI An ex-fighter pilot who spent six years as a POW in Hanoi, FRI Peterson founded The Alliance for Safe Children which led FRI the research revealing the problem and now leads a large FRI drowning prevention programme. FRI FRI Children drown in these countries because there are so many FRI ponds, irrigation ditches and rivers, often within yards of FRI each house. Few know how to swim and the youngest are FRI particularly vulnerable when mothers are too busy to FRI supervise them closely. So in Bangladesh, a country that is FRI 70% under water, TASC is pioneering a huge programme of FRI "survival swimming", training local instructors to teach FRI simple swimming strokes, treading water and safe rescue. For FRI children under four, there's a parallel programme of village FRI creches to keep them safe while their mothers do the chores. FRI FRI Producer: Mike Hally FRI A Square Dog Radio production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 Slippered Pantaloons b01jqfk6 (Listen) FRI So what does it mean to be old? FRI FRI The drama of stage and screen is one of the places we have FRI traditionally gone to for answers to this sort of question. FRI Theatre plays, sit-coms and soaps are full of images of the FRI elderly - sometimes affectionate, sometimes contemptuous - FRI that explore this subject. But what about the people who FRI embody those images? FRI FRI Slippered Pantaloons explores how actors come to terms with FRI ageing, and draws parallels with how old age is portrayed on FRI stage and screen. From characters like Victor Meldrew in One FRI Foot in the Grave via our favourite matriarchal soap opera FRI figures to the deep and flawed characters of Shakespeare. FRI Are there enough of these great characters and do they FRI really reflect our aging demographic? FRI FRI As a culture we are only just beginning to take serious FRI notice of ageing. In England and Wales alone, census figures FRI show that between 1900 and 1950, the number of centenarians FRI receiving the traditional telegram from the monarch held FRI fairly steady at under 400. By the 2001 census, this had FRI risen to nearly 9000. By 2025, there are expected to be 1.2 FRI billion people aged 60 or over worldwide. Are they visible FRI in the plays being written and performed today? FRI FRI Along with the physicality of performance, no artist is as FRI conscious of the ageing process, no artist makes us as FRI conscious of the ageing process, as the actor whose body FRI itself displays, hides or imitates the ineluctable signs of FRI youth or age. FRI FRI So what does it mean to be old - for actors and the parts FRI they play? FRI FRI Presenter: Simon Fanshawe FRI FRI Producer: Rob Alexander FRI A Pier Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b01phm1s (Listen) FRI Alcohol units FRI FRI We all want to believe that a little bit of alcohol can be FRI good for us but what's the truth? Dr Michael Mosley examines FRI the Government guidelines. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b01phdzd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b01phm1v (Listen) FRI National and international news. Listeners can share their FRI views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. FRI FRI 13:45 Belle de Jour's History of Anon b01phm1x (Listen) FRI Identity and Control FRI FRI Here, Brooke ponders the impact of anonymity on the FRI anonymous themselves. She speaks to other people who have FRI used anonymity about their experiences and the different FRI ways in which they have played with the concept - and finds FRI out what happened when they were unmasked. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b01phlgg (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01phm1z (Listen) FRI The Reluctant Spy, Episode 3 FRI FRI The final part of John Dryden's thriller set against the FRI political upheavals in Egypt. FRI FRI Things are spiralling out of control for Duncan who has FRI attracted the attentions of the Egyptian authorities FRI investigating the disappearance of a university student. FRI FRI Caught between his love for his daughter, his increasing FRI infatuation with the mysterious Tara, and a desperate need FRI to escape his past, Duncan navigates his way through a FRI complex web of secrets and misinformation that threaten to FRI destroy him, as a new Egypt struggles to realign itself in FRI the world. FRI FRI Casting: Toby Whale FRI Production Manager: Russell Owen FRI Script Editor: Mike Walker FRI Sound design: Steve Bond FRI Music: Sacha Puttnam. FRI FRI Written, produced and directed by: John Dryden FRI A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Duncan: Nigel Lindsay FRI Ola: Aiysha Hart FRI Tara: Sarah Goldberg FRI Al-Basiri: Philip Arditti FRI Dr Zacoutte: Raad Rawiha FRI Amr: Jonathan Bonnici FRI Hameed: Karim Saleh FRI Randa: Sirine Saba FRI Kamal: Jude Edriss FRI Karl: Rufus Wright FRI Mrs Darwish: Baris Cerliloglu FRI Mrs Zacoutte: Myriam Acharki FRI Policeman: Nayef Rashed FRI Actor: Zayden Khalaf FRI Actor: Jumaan Short FRI Actor: Albert Welling FRI Actor: Omar Mustafa FRI Director: John Dryden FRI Writer: John Dryden FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b01phm21 (Listen) FRI Mercia FRI FRI Peter Gibbs is joined by panel members Christine Walkden, FRI Chris Beardshaw and Bob Flowerdew to kick off the new FRI gardening year in the first Gardeners' Question Time FRI programme of 2013, recorded in Mercia. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Student Stories b01phm23 (Listen) FRI Carrel 16 - Fifth Floor - Ussher Library FRI FRI Three stories about contemporary student life written by FRI students. What is modern student life really like? Parties FRI and Love and Lectures? Debts and daytime telly? Self-doubt FRI and self-discovery? These stories, offering a snapshot of FRI student life illustrate it is all this and more. FRI FRI Carrel 16 - Fifth Floor - Ussher Library FRI By Gerald Murphy FRI FRI It's the day of the Trinity College Ball in Dublin and FRI Brendan has a plan. He'll spend the day studying for his FRI Economics and Business exams in the library and then crash FRI the ball in the evening to meet up with Helen, the girl he's FRI trying to impress. But when his revision doesn't go quite as FRI planned and he gets locked in, Brendan discovers an escape FRI route out of more than just the library. FRI FRI Gerald Murphy holds an MA in Playwriting from Trinity FRI College Dublin as well as a Diploma in Film and TV Project FRI Development from UCLA. His primary degree was in Marketing. FRI He has written several plays including the RTE PJ O'Connor FRI Award winning radio play Stranger in the Night and Take Me FRI Away, winner of the Edinburgh Fringe First Award and the FRI Stewart Parker Award. Gerald teaches scriptwriting at BCFE FRI in Dublin and in 2012 co-founded Figure 8 Films with Orla FRI Murphy. FRI FRI Produced by Heather Larmour. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b01phm25 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b01phn0y (Listen) FRI Tim Harford investigates the numbers in the news and in FRI life. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b01phn10 (Listen) FRI Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b01phdzg (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b01phn12 (Listen) FRI Series 79, Episode 3 FRI FRI The News Quiz (Sandi Toksvig & Jeremy Hardy) take on The Now FRI Show (Steve Punt & Hugh Dennis) in the ultimate topical FRI smackdown. Hosted by Rory Bremner. FRI FRI Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b01phn14 (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Caroline Harrington FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Vanessa Whitburn FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI Kenton Archer ..... Richard Attlee FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth FRI Lily Pargetter ..... Georgie Feller FRI Tom Archer ..... Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge ..... Angela Piper FRI Matt Crawford ..... Kim Durham FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley ..... June Spencer FRI Joe Grundy ..... Edward Kelsey FRI William Grundy ..... Philip Molloy FRI Nic Grundy ..... Becky Wright FRI Emma Grundy ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter ..... Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter ..... Charlotte Martin FRI Christopher Carter ..... William Sanderson-Thwaite FRI Alice Carter ..... Hollie Chapman FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Brenda Tucker ..... Amy Shindler FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller ..... Annabelle Dowler FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Jim Lloyd ..... John Rowe FRI Paul Morgan ..... Michael Fenton Stevens FRI Iftikar Shah ..... Pal Aron. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b01phn16 (Listen) FRI Arts news, interviews and reviews, with John Wilson. FRI FRI Producer Penny Murphy. FRI FRI 19:45 The Cazalets b01phm1n (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Archive on 4 b01hdp9g (Listen) FRI The Great Listener FRI FRI Tony Parker was a ground-breaking writer and oral historian FRI - the master of the tape-recorded interview. Whether talking FRI to convicted murderers, the homeless, impotent men or FRI unmarried mothers, his enigmatic quiet empathy meant that FRI people opened up to him with immense honesty and trust. He FRI was the Great Listener. FRI FRI The result was a unique and expansive body of work, in which FRI he shaped these real-life stories into compelling thematic FRI narratives. By the time of his death in 1996, he had FRI published scores of books, made documentaries for radio and FRI television, and pioneered the genre of verbatim drama. FRI FRI Although his work was always based on real people in real FRI places, Parker gave all his interviewees and their locations FRI pseudonyms, and he scrupulously destroyed all traces of the FRI interviews-the tapes and the transcripts-once the books were FRI published. FRI FRI Alan Dein traces the story of Tony Parker through the FRI archive that remains and along the way tries to get behind FRI the pseudonyms and obfuscation and track down some of Tony FRI Parker's interviewees to find out what it was like to open FRI up to the Great Listener. FRI FRI Producer: Martin Williams. FRI FRI 21:00 It's Fun, But Is It Theatre? b01j5fwn (Listen) FRI You may find yourself conducting a bank robbery, being FRI dragged into a dark corner by an opera singer, feel the FRI tickle of cobwebs run over your face in the dark, or stand FRI two feet away from a woman who has just been raped. FRI Immersive, site specific, site-responsive, installation - FRI but definitely not for the faint-hearted - the interactive FRI trend in the 21st century theatrical scene has been FRI gathering pace and popularity. FRI Companies such as Punchdrunk, YouMeBumBumTrain, FRI dreamthinkspeak, Sound and Fury and Artichoke have wowed FRI audiences, selling out tickets, or filling city centres with FRI spectators, wherever they have popped up, and in some cases FRI that means in warehouses, streets or abandoned basements. FRI FRI Sarah Hemming, theatre critic for the Financial Times screws FRI her courage to the sticking point and embarks on a series of FRI theatrical experiences, to help you decide whether you too FRI might enjoy this type of theatre trip: the sort that doesn't FRI involve a stage, a programme, an ice cream at the interval - FRI oh, or a seat. Experiences can range from Lucien Bourjeily's FRI re- enactment of imprisonment in a Syrian detention centre - FRI "we promise you will be released at the end" ,to a magical FRI storytelling moment by a cosy library fireplace - but is it FRI theatre? FRI Talking to Felix Barrett, creator of Punchdrunk; Tristan FRI Sharps of dreamthinkspeak; Nicky Webb from Artichoke; Sound FRI and Fury's Dan Jones, and experiencing the full force of the FRI improvisation medley that is YouMeBumBumTrain, Sarah boldly FRI goes beyond the fourth wall. FRI FRI Appearing for the defence, Guardian critic, Lyn Gardner, and FRI for the prosecution Whatsonstage critic Michael Coveney. FRI FRI Producer: Sara Jane Hall FRI FRI (Repeat). FRI FRI 21:30 The Value of Culture b01phm1j (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b01phdzj (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b01phn47 (Listen) FRI Round-up of the day's news, with Carolyn Quinn. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b01phn49 (Listen) FRI Frenchman's Creek, Episode 10 FRI FRI Part adventure, part romance, and set in Cornwall, Daphne Du FRI Maurier's novel tells the powerful love story between Lady FRI Dona and the French pirate Aubery. FRI FRI Episode 10 FRI With just hours to go before he is hanged, Dona and William FRI conspire to spring the Frenchman from his prison. But will FRI their plan succeed? FRI FRI Read by Adjoa Andoh FRI Abridged by Eileen Horne FRI FRI Produced by Clive Brill FRI A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b01phgjs (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 The History Plays b01dhs1h (Listen) FRI A History of Blair in 9 1/2 Voices FRI FRI Last in Nigel Smith's series of plays set at key moments in FRI the last five decades. FRI FRI A History of Tony Blair in 9 1/2 voices stars Jon Culshaw as FRI Tony Blair, lost in the winding corridors of the BBC the day FRI after his resignation. He finds himself sharing a room with FRI Sue (Fiona Allen), a struggling impressionist who assumes he FRI is a Tony Blair lookalike. Blair enjoys the opportunity to FRI talk about himself in the third person, and to show off a FRI few impressions of his own. FRI FRI A darkly comic but thoughtful exploration of what makes FRI Blair tick, the play gives a compelling explanation for what FRI may have lain behind Blair's early political successes and FRI what prompted his unwavering commitment to the war in Iraq. FRI FRI Written and directed by Nigel Smith FRI Produced by Gareth Edwards. FRI
28 December, 2012
Radio 4 Listings for 29/12/2012 - 04/01/2013
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