30 August, 2013

Radio 4 Listings for 31/08/2013 - 06/09/2013

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SAT SATURDAY 31 AUGUST 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b038z847 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b0395rgg (Listen) SAT Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter, Episode 5 SAT SAT Paul McCartney and John Lennon described him as the Beatles' SAT "favorite group," and yet no figure in popular music is as SAT much of a paradox as Harry Nilsson. A major celebrity at a SAT time when stadium rock was in its infancy and huge concerts SAT and festivals were becoming the norm, Nilsson's instrument SAT was the studio, his stage the dubbing booth, his greatest SAT technical triumphs were masterful examples of studio craft, SAT and he studiously avoided live performance. SAT SAT He was a gifted composer of songs for a wide variety of SAT performers, having created vivid flights of imagination for SAT the Ronettes, the Yardbirds and the Monkees, yet Nilsson's SAT own biggest hits were almost all written, ironically, by SAT other composers and lyricists. He won two Grammies, had two SAT top ten singles, and numerous album successes. Once SAT described by his producer Richard Perry as "the finest white SAT male singer on the planet," near the end of his life, his SAT career was marked by voice-damaging substance abuse. SAT SAT Kerry Shale reads extracts from this first ever full-length SAT biography of Nilsson, in which author Alyn Shipton traces SAT Nilsson's life from his Brooklyn childhood to his Los SAT Angeles adolescence, and charts his gradual move into the SAT spotlight as a talented songwriter. With interviews from SAT Nilsson's friends, family and associates, and material drawn SAT from an unfinished draft autobiography Nilsson was writing SAT prior to his death, Shipton probes beneath the enigma and SAT the paradox to discover the real Harry Nilsson, and reveals SAT one of the most creative talents in 20th century popular SAT music. SAT SAT NILSSON: THE LIFE OF A SINGER-SONGWRITER SAT BY ALYN SHIPTON SAT ABRIDGED BY LIBBY SPURRIER SAT Reader: Kerry Shale SAT PRODUCER: JOANNA GREEN SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b038z849 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b038z84c (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b038z84f (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b038z84j (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b038zt9q (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed SAT Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic SAT Faiths, Cambridge. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b038zt9s (Listen) SAT The programme that starts with its listeners. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b038z84l (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b038z84n (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b038ynz7 (Listen) SAT Beer Quarry Caves SAT SAT The history of Britain's cathedrals is celebrated but much SAT less so that of the quarries and quarrymen, who hewed the SAT stone they're built of. On this week's Open Country, Helen SAT Mark rectifies that. With her hard hat to hand she goes SAT underground in the South West. SAT SAT She explores Devon's Beer Quarry Caves which supplied Exeter SAT cathedral with the highest quality limestone, reserved for SAT some of the finest carvings in this and many other medieval SAT churches. SAT SAT Helen meets John Scott who fought hard to make sure that the SAT Beer Quarry Caves weren't demolished in the 1980s. John is a SAT master storyteller who conjures the underground world of SAT generations of anonymous masons and quarrymen at the caves, SAT which are open to the public. They're joined by master mason SAT Peter Dare.At Exeter cathedral the archaeologist John Allan SAT shows Helen the tracery windows and high ribbed ceilings, SAT all carved from the characteristic creamy white Beer stone. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b0397rq3 (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Caz Graham, and Produced by Anna Jones. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b038z84q (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b0397rq5 (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b0397rq7 (Listen) SAT Michael Rosen SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein are joined by writer and SAT broadcaster, Michael Rosen, former SOE operative Noreen SAT Riols and senior surgeon David Nott who talks about working SAT in war and disaster zones. They hear the Inheritance Tracks SAT of cook, writer and broadcaster Simon Hopkinson, the SAT soothing sounds of a chess clock and share the memories of SAT Edith Lee-Payne who was 12 and present when Martin Luther SAT King made his famous speech. SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 Punt PI b0397vqx (Listen) SAT Series 6, Pitchfork Murder - Lower Quinton SAT SAT In 1945 on St Valentine's Day the elderly farmworker Charles SAT Walton was found murdered. A pitchfork pinned him to the SAT ground and horrible wounds had been inflicted on person. But SAT seemingly Walton had no enemies and there appeared to be no SAT motive. Who could be the murderer and why? SAT SAT Various suspects came into the frame: a boot maker, a Nazi, SAT a "swarthy" Italian prisoner of War, and a local farmer . SAT SAT None of the motives seem credible: a stolen watch, a small SAT amount of money, or could it have been because of SAT witchcraft? SAT SAT But why had the farmer deliberately left his finger prints SAT on the murder weapon when he discovered the body in front of SAT witnesses? Why was the Italian POW covered in blood? Why had SAT Walton been murdered with a pitchfork, could it have been a SAT copycat witchcraft murder? Even the famous detective Fabian SAT of Scotland Yard was baffled, so will Steve Punt PI do any SAT better? SAT SAT With the help of Betty Smith, Warwickshire's answer to Miss SAT Marple, Steve unpicks one clue after another and believes he SAT may have an answer. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b039825r (Listen) SAT Crystals SAT SAT Bridget Kendall discusses the incredibly varied uses and SAT meanings of crystals with cave scientist Penny Boston, whose SAT work takes her deep underground to study ancient life forms SAT trapped inside the earth's largest crystals; biophysicist SAT Elspeth Garman who, with the help of robots, can spend years SAT growing one perfect protein crystal in her lab; and artist SAT Roger Hiorns who has encrusted many objects with sparkling SAT blue copper sulphate crystals, including the entire interior SAT of a derelict London bedsit. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b0397x1v (Listen) SAT A Banquet of Unpalatable Choices SAT SAT Correspondents tell their stories: Mark Mardell in SAT Washington on difficult decisions for President Obama: SAT Charles Haviland, off for dinner with the departing SAT president of Pakistan, ponders over the milk pudding on the SAT legacy Asif Ali Zardari leaves behind; a different SAT perspective on the state of Chinese justice comes from John SAT Sudworth, who was covering the trial in Jinan of ousted SAT politician Bo Xilai; as immigration tops the election SAT headlines in Australia, Jon Donnison tells the story of a SAT refugee who made it from the civil war in Syria to the SAT offices of a women's magazine in Sydney and Nick Thorpe's SAT unearthed the reason why, somewhere in the dry Hungarian SAT soil, the heart of Suleiman the Magnificent is beating a SAT little faster. SAT From Our Own Correspondent is produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b0397x1x (Listen) SAT Low interest rates; How a minor car scrape can still hurt SAT you SAT SAT The latest news from the world of personal finance. Low SAT interest rates are here to stay, and how a minor car scrape SAT you don't claim for could still push up your premium. SAT SAT 12:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b038zhbc (Listen) SAT Is Our Democracy Working? SAT SAT Rory Bremner's new weekly satirical comedy takes one big SAT contemporary question each week and attempts to answer it. SAT SAT Regular panellists Andy Zaltzman and Nick Doody are joined SAT this week by guests Debra Stephenson and political historian SAT Dr David Runciman, as Rory asks "Is Our Democracy Working"? SAT SAT Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of SAT things as it is to make fun of them - only then will people SAT laugh at the truth. So this deconstructed "quiz" has only SAT one question each week, because that question is so big, SAT there's no time for anything else. Expect a mix of stand-up SAT and sketch combined with investigative satire and incisive SAT interviews with a diverse range of characters who really SAT know what they're talking about. SAT SAT Presenter: Rory Bremner SAT Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling SAT A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b038z84s (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b038z84v (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b038zl3q (Listen) SAT Nick Boles, Diane Abbott, Shirley Williams, Nigel Farage SAT SAT Nick Robinson presents political debate and discussion from SAT Broadcasting House, London with Labour MP Diane Abbott who's SAT shadow Public Health Minister, Planning Minister Nick Boles SAT MP, Nigel Farage leader of the UK Independence Party and SAT Liberal Democrat Peer Baroness Shirley Williams. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b0397xdr (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 British New Wave b038p8h9 (Listen) SAT This Sporting Life SAT SAT As part of Radio 4's celebration of British New Wave film SAT and cinema, Johnny Vegas directs a feature-length radio SAT reversioning of This Sporting Life - marking the 50th SAT anniversary of the classic Lindsay Anderson film which SAT starred the young Richard Harris. SAT SAT This new version is adapted by Andrew Lynch, directly from SAT David Storey's novel. A surprisingly beautiful, yet SAT repressed, northern drama, it contrasts the deep wants and SAT needs of protagonist Arthur Machin with the stark aggression SAT of the rugby pitch. SAT SAT The sounds are rich - the rugby scrum, the atmosphere of the SAT match, the changing rooms, the dancehall, struggles in the SAT bedroom, arguments by the kitchen hearth. SAT SAT James Purefoy plays Arthur Machin and Emily Watson is Mrs SAT Hammond, accompanied on the touchline by an ensemble cast SAT including John Thomson, Julia Davis, Sheridan Smith and SAT Philip Jackson. SAT SAT Commentary for the Rugby League game-play is provided by SAT commentator Ray French, who witnessed some of the filming of SAT the 1963 film with Richard Harris. SAT SAT Dramatised from David Storey's original novel by Andrew SAT Lynch SAT SAT Producer: Sally Harrison SAT Director: Johnny Vegas SAT SAT A Woolyback production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Arthur Machin: James Purefoy SAT Mrs Hammond: Emily Watson SAT Maurice Braithwaite: John Thomson SAT Judith Parkes: Sheridan Smith SAT Mr Weaver: Philip Jackson SAT Mrs Weaver: Julia Davis SAT Dai: Peter Temple SAT Slomer: Peter Temple SAT Lynda Hammond: Sophie Wright SAT Mam (Machin): Gwyneth Powell SAT Dad (Machin): Wayne Forester SAT Commentator: Ray French SAT Director: Johnny Vegas SAT Producer: Sally Harrison SAT Adaptor: Andrew Lynch SAT Author: David Storey SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b038pxrm (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Internet Dating; Storme Toolis; Midori SAT SAT After Woman's Hour made a date with 5 Live's men's Hour to SAT look at the world of internet dating we hear your SAT experiences of going online in search of love. SAT SAT Musician Midori talks about her special relationship with SAT her violin and plays Prelude to Bach's Partita Nos 3 SAT SAT Actress Storme Toolis on her new role in New Tricks and how SAT as a wheelchair user, she sidesteps the inevitable part of SAT hospital patient. SAT SAT The relationship between a teacher and pupil is inevitably a SAT strong one, so what's being done to stop it crossing the SAT line and becoming abuse? SAT SAT A look at how throughout our cultural history, women's SAT sexual organs have often been demonised and rendered SAT obscene. So what does this mean for women's identities and SAT how is this issue addressed in literature and culture? SAT SAT And Jessica Swale makes her play-writing debut at the Globe SAT with Blue Stockings. Set in and around Girton College, SAT Cambridge in the 1890s - it's the story of four young women SAT fighting to be allowed to graduate along with their male SAT counterparts. She joins Jenni to discuss the inspiration for SAT the play and why she thinks the issues it raises are so SAT relevant to young women today. SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Jenni SAT Murray. SAT SAT Editor: Beverley Purcell. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b039825t (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b038zt9s (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b038z84x (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b038z84z (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b038z851 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b039825w (Listen) SAT Shirley Anne Field, Peter Rosengard, Peter Millar, Nica SAT Burns, Robin Ince, Kathryn Williams, Rob Heron SAT SAT Clive spends an evening with actress Shirley Anne Field, SAT who's starring in a dramatisation of 'Saturday Night and SAT Sunday Morning'. Shirley originally played Doreen in the SAT 1960 film about a rebellious, hard-living factory worker SAT juggling relationships with two women. She now takes the SAT role of Aunt Ada on Radio 4, as part of their 'British New SAT Wave' season. SAT SAT Clive's no stranger to author and founder of London's Comedy SAT Store, Peter Rosengard, who surprisingly holds one of the SAT longest standing Guinness World Records for selling the SAT world's largest life insurance policy for $100m! Peter's SAT memoir 'Talking to Strangers' charts the extraordinary SAT adventures of his unexpectedly glamorous life. SAT SAT Robin Ince boards the 'Slow Train To Guantanamo' with SAT journalist and author Peter Millar, whose new book is a SAT railway odyssey through Cuba. Travelling from Havana with SAT ordinary Cubans, sharing anecdotes, life stories and SAT political opinions, to the far end of the island where Peter SAT finds a more modern blot of American history, the Guantanamo SAT naval base and detention camp. SAT SAT Clive chats to Queen of Edinburgh comedy, Nica Burns, fresh SAT from producing the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards, which SAT she has run for almost thirty years. Nica talks about what SAT it takes to win the prestigious award and about her life as SAT the influential owner of London theatres, sharing strong SAT views on the current state of the West End - and on the SAT Comedy Business. SAT SAT With music from the relentlessly upbeat Rob Heron and The SAT Teapad Orchestra, who perform 'Hot Bath' from their album SAT 'Money Isn't Everything'. SAT SAT And a welcome return to Kathryn Williams, who performs SAT 'Heart Shaped Stone' from her album 'Crown Electric'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b0398260 (Listen) SAT A review of the week's cultural highlights with Tom SAT Sutcliffe. SAT SAT The Story of the Jews SAT Simon Schama's five-part series SAT The Story of the Jews SAT starts on BBC Two at 9pm on Sunday 1st September. SAT SAT MaddAddam SAT The third and final part of Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake SAT series of science fiction novels, SAT MaddAddam SAT is available now, published by Bloomsbury. SAT SAT Blue Stockings SAT Jessica Swale's debut play SAT Blue Stockings SAT is on at Shakespeare's Globe theatre in London until 11th SAT October. SAT SAT Upstream Colour SAT Shane Carruth's film SAT Upstream Colour SAT is out now in UK cinemas, certificate 12A. SAT SAT Tate Britain SAT We have asked our guests this week to select their favourite SAT item from Tate Britain’s permanent collection. SAT SAT 20:00 British New Wave b0398262 (Listen) SAT Beyond the Kitchen Sink SAT SAT To complement Radio 4's British New Wave drama season Paul SAT Allen, presents a first-hand account of it, using the SAT archive to illuminate the social changes which allowed it to SAT flourish. SAT SAT For ten years after the Second World War the battered SAT British public had been soothed, culturally, by urbanity and SAT charm. In the mid-fifties it was as if a huge wave - the New SAT Wave - had crashed over a quiet beach; frightening and SAT exhilarating. SAT SAT Paul Allen witnessed this. He was a theatre-struck schoolboy SAT when he read Kenneth Tynan's remark that he "couldn't love SAT anyone who didn't want to see 'Look Back in Anger'". He SAT relished the language and northern working class voices in SAT the novels of Alan Sillitoe such as 'Saturday Night' and SAT 'Sunday Morning' and felt the rage of David Storey's play SAT 'This Sporting Life'. Then came the challenging sexuality of SAT Nell Dunn's 'Up the Junction'. SAT SAT Paul Allen, was a young reporter in the North of England, SAT then a regional critic and a national broadcaster, SAT presenting 'Kaleidoscope', Radio 4's daily arts show, for 20 SAT years. He interviewed and got to know the leading figures of SAT the New Wave - John Osborne ('Look Back in Anger'), Stan SAT Barstow ('A Kind of Loving'), Barry Hines ('Kes'), Margaret SAT Forster ('Georgy Girl') and Alan Sillitoe. SAT SAT Using the BBC's and his own archives Paul explores the SAT artistic and social upheavals of the British New Wave. He SAT reveals how it was not a single movement, but a series of SAT progressions in literature and theatre, and in popular forms SAT beyond these, and went way beyond 'kitchen sink' dramas. SAT SAT Producer: Julian May. SAT SAT 21:00 Classic Serial b038x4x3 (Listen) SAT The Aeneid, Episode 2 SAT SAT Episode 2 of Hattie Naylor's adaptation of Virgil, from the SAT translation by Robert Fagles. SAT SAT Unaware that Dido is dead, Aeneas leaves Carthage and sails SAT to Sicily, where he meets the Cumaean Sibyl. She leads him SAT down to the Underworld, where he sees the terrible SAT punishments meted out to the wicked, has a shocking SAT encounter in the Fields of Mourning, and learns more about SAT the future from his father's ghost. SAT SAT The music was composed by Will Gregory, arranged by Ian SAT Gardiner, and performed by the BBC Singers, conducted by SAT Matthew Hamilton. The soloist was Cherith Milburn-Fryer. SAT Percussion was by Joby Burgess. SAT SAT Production Coordinator: Scott Handcock SAT SAT Sound design: Nigel Lewis SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, produced and directed by Kate SAT McAll. SAT SAT Credits SAT The Storyteller: Daniel Morden SAT Aeneas: Richard Harrington SAT Anchises: Robert Pugh SAT The Sibyl: Fiona Shaw SAT Achates: Matthew Gravelle SAT Acestes: Matthew Gravelle SAT Latinus: Matthew Gravelle SAT Charon: Matthew Gravelle SAT Phlegyas: Ben Crowe SAT Faunus: Ben Crowe SAT Evander: Ben Crowe SAT Turnus: Ben Crowe SAT Proserpina: Eiry Thomas SAT Amata: Eiry Thomas SAT Jove: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Juno: Rachel Atkins SAT Venus: Annette Badland SAT Rhea: Annette Badland SAT Lavinia: Ayesha Antoine SAT Cymodoce: Ayesha Antoine SAT Allecto: Ayesha Antoine SAT Pallas: Arthur Hughes SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT Producer: Kate McAll SAT Adaptor: Hattie Naylor SAT Author: Virgil SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b038z853 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Inside the Ethics Committee b038ym0m (Listen) SAT Series 9, Lung Transplant Teenager SAT SAT At the age of 11 John was diagnosed with a condition called SAT pulmonary hypertension. He suffers from shortness of breath, SAT coughing up blood and swelling in the legs. He's seriously SAT ill and is referred to a specialist hospital where he is SAT advised that he needs a lung transplant. SAT SAT John recovers well from the operation. He goes back home and SAT lives like a normal teenager, albeit one who has to take SAT medication every day to stop his body rejecting the new SAT lungs. John passes his GCSEs and gets a place to study art SAT and design at college. SAT SAT But at a regular check up John and his family receive bad SAT news. His body is rejecting the lungs and he is becoming ill SAT again. The doctors suggest he needs a second transplant. SAT SAT Joan Bakewell and her guests discuss the issues around SAT whether John should be given a second transplant and be put SAT through another long and complicated operation. How much SAT should John at 17 years old be told about his condition and SAT its long term prognosis? SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b038xmd9 (Listen) SAT The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. SAT SAT As ever, a host of celebrities will be joining Nigel as he SAT quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and SAT asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they SAT have personally collected on a variety of subjects. We find SAT out their least favourite quotes, and discover the most SAT quotable people they have ever met. SAT SAT This week Nigel is joined by veteran broadcast war reporter SAT and former independent politician - Martin Bell; arts SAT journalist - Viv Groskop; actor, writer and artist - Edward SAT Petherbridge and actor, comedian and writer David Schneider. SAT SAT Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. SAT Produced by Carl Cooper. SAT SAT 23:30 Poetry of Gold and Angels b038x4x7 (Listen) SAT Los Angeles SAT SAT Poet and Lyricist Stephen J. Kalinich takes us on a poetic SAT tour of Los Angeles for this 2 part series on Californian SAT poetry. SAT SAT Los Angeles poet and lyricist Stephen J. Kalinich looks to SAT find the real poetic voice of the city - a voice he believes SAT is to be found in the poetry of the streets. SAT SAT Stephen worked with the Beach Boys as a lyricist in the '60s SAT and also recorded a poetry album with Brian Wilson, 'A World SAT of Peace Must Come' inspired by Vietnam. Indeed peace has SAT been his major theme as a writer. He recently recited poetry SAT at a concert of 'Sugarman' Sixto Rodrigez. As well as SAT reciting some of his own work, Stephen is on a quest to SAT discover the true poetry of LA. SAT SAT On his journey round the city, he encounters poets such as SAT S.A. Griffin, from the poetry group Carma Bums who talks SAT about his work also to promote peace with his tour of a SAT 'poetry bomb' - a real bomb filled with poems. He also talks SAT about the harshness of living in a town dominated by the SAT movie industry and a desire to be famous from his experience SAT of working as an actor. SAT SAT We also visit acclaimed song writer P.F. Sloan who talks SAT about his latest work on a musical and the difference SAT between writing lyrics and poetry. He also explains how SAT living in L.A. can sometimes seem like being at a party, SAT being really hungry and the fruit in the fruit bowl is SAT plastic. SAT SAT Other poets we meet include Gingee, a poet and DJ from the SAT Filipino community who talks about the issues she has SAT encountered and why she needs to represent her community in SAT her work. SAT SAT Producer: Laura Parfitt SAT A White Pebble Media production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b0397jy4 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Under the Skin b01cvdds (Listen) SUN Eyebrows SUN SUN Under the Skin is a celebration of the second ever South SUN Asian Literature Festival, which is staged in London and SUN across the United Kingdom. SUN SUN The relationship between the English language, its literary SUN tradition and writers from South Asia has become an exciting SUN and enduring part of British literary life. The Festival SUN celebrates writers from South Asia and British Asian SUN writing, equally, reflecting the diversity of themes, SUN subjects and literary forms that constitute South Asian SUN writing in 2012. SUN SUN Under the Skin features three stories by British Asian SUN writers. Kavita Bhanot's Eyebrows introduces us to three SUN generations of women seen through the eyes of Jaya on her SUN weekend visits to her grandmother. SUN SUN Lyndam Gregory, Deni Francis and Najma Khan are the readers. SUN SUN Producer: David Roper SUN A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0397jy6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0397jy8 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0397jyd (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b0397jyg (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b039b678 (Listen) SUN The bells of Exeter Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b039825y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b0397jyj (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b039b67b (Listen) SUN Mending Cracks with Gold SUN SUN What can we learn from a broken teapot? SUN SUN According to legend, when a 15th century shogun smashed his SUN treasured pottery, Japanese artists repaired it with gold. SUN Kintsugi, as the practice is known, gives new life to SUN damaged goods by celebrating their frailty and history. SUN Samira Ahmed considers how we might live a kintsugi life, SUN finding value in the 'cracks' - whether it's the scars SUN showing how we have lived, finding new purpose through loss, SUN or learning to love ourselves despite our flaws. SUN SUN With readings from The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura, Haruki SUN Murakami's After the Quake, and the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam SUN - and music from Michio Miyagi, the Rolling Stones and SUN Elizabethan composer, John Dowland. SUN SUN Presenter: Samira Ahmed SUN Producer: Jo Fidgen SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b039b67d (Listen) SUN As a trial badger cull is underway in parts of Somerset, and SUN is likely to start in parts of Gloucestershire, Caz Graham SUN joins the Gloucestershire Wildlife Trust vaccinating badgers SUN against bovine TB on Greystones Farm in SUN Bourton-on-the-Water. SUN SUN The trust has embarked on a five year trial, vaccinating SUN badgers on two sites in Gloucestershire to test the SUN vaccine's efficacy. Their staff trap badgers and inject them SUN with a BCG vaccine, before releasing them back into the SUN wild. SUN SUN Caz visits farmers in the surrounding area to gauge their SUN opinions on both the cull and badger vaccination as ways to SUN tackle the problem of TB in cattle. SUN SUN Presenter: Caz Graham SUN Producer: Martin Poyntz-Roberts. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b0397jyq (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b0397jys (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b039b67g (Listen) SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b039b67j (Listen) SUN Core, The Digestive Disorders Foundation SUN SUN Dr Phil Hammond presents the Radio 4 Appeal on behalf of the SUN charity Core. SUN Reg Charity:1137029 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN Core. SUN Give Online www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/appeal. SUN SUN Core - Digestive Disorders Foundation SUN SUN Core is a UK charity working to fight all diseases that SUN affect the gut, liver and pancreas. Collectively these are SUN known as ‘digestive disorders’ and every year are SUN responsible for one in eight deaths nationally. SUN SUN Core works to reduce deaths from digestive disorders, SUN helping people who live with these conditions to take SUN control of their lives. Core supports medical research that SUN works towards cures and better treatments. They also provide SUN evidence-based information to help people understand their SUN condition and make better decisions about it, and they work SUN with the public and medical professionals to raise awareness SUN of digestive disorders. SUN SUN The digestive system SUN SUN Many people are unaware of the importance of the digestive SUN system and unclear about the conditions that affect it – SUN they can also be embarrassed to talk about symptoms they SUN have. SUN SUN Information leaflets SUN Core provides information and support on over twenty medical SUN conditions. These help more than 200,000 people every year SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b0397jyz (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b0397jz1 (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b039b67l (Listen) SUN The annual Charles Wood Summer School, named after the SUN composer who grew up in Armagh, aims through worship and SUN workshops to develop choral music. SUN SUN From St. Patrick's Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh, led SUN by the Rev Dr Peter Thompson. SUN SUN Preacher: the Very Rev Gregory Dunstan, Dean of Armagh. SUN SUN With the Charles Wood Boys' Choir and the Charles Wood SUN Singers. SUN SUN Director of Music: Nigel McClintock. SUN Organist: Ian Keatley. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b038zl3v (Listen) SUN Of the People, By the People 4/4 SUN SUN Roger Scruton continues his series of talks on the nature SUN and limits of democracy. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger Scruton SUN Producer: Richard Knight SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b0378xsn (Listen) SUN Common Gull SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN the British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Michaela Strachan presents the common gull. In spite of SUN their name Common Gulls aren't as common or widespread as SUN some of our other gulls. Most of the breeding colonies in SUN the UK are in Scotland. In North America their alternative SUN name is Mew gull because of their mewing cat-like cries. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b039b6vk (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b039b6vr (Listen) SUN There's a hiccup in Brian's schedule, and Alan makes a grand SUN gesture. SUN SUN Credits SUN Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pip Archer: Helen Monks SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jolene Perks: Buffy Davis SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Alan Franks: John Telfer SUN Usha Franks: Souad Faress SUN Ray Franklin: Robin Bowerman SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Leigh Barham: Jonathan Forbes SUN Writer: Nawal Gadalla SUN Director: Sue Wilson SUN Producer: Julie Beckett SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b039b6w0 (Listen) SUN The Kennedy Assassination SUN SUN On the 22nd of November 1963, President John F. Kennedy was SUN campaigning in Texas. That morning, Air Force One touched SUN down at Dallas Love Field Airport. The President and First SUN Lady waved to jubilant crowds that watched the motorcade SUN move through downtown Dallas. SUN SUN In Dealey Plaza, Kennedy was shot in the head by an SUN assassin's bullet. Less than half an hour after the SUN shooting, 75 million Americans had heard the news. President SUN Kennedy was declared dead at 1pm, Dallas time. SUN SUN Within three chaotic days, three murders rocked the city of SUN Dallas. After President Kennedy, police officer J.D. Tippit SUN was shot and killed by the assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who SUN himself was later fatally shot on live television. SUN SUN In this special 100th edition of The Reunion recorded in SUN Dallas, Sue MacGregor reunites five people who were SUN intimately connected to the events surrounding the Kennedy SUN assassination: Clint Hill, the former Secret Service agent SUN who frantically climbed up the back of the presidential SUN limousine as the shots rang out; Gayle Newman, who stood SUN with her young family in Dealey Plaza and became one of the SUN closest eyewitnesses; Hugh Aynesworth, then of the Dallas SUN Morning News, who reported on the events in November 1963, SUN Kenneth Salyer, who was part of the medical team at Parkland SUN Hospital, desperately trying to revive the President; and SUN James Leavelle, retired Dallas Homicide Detective, who was SUN famously handcuffed to Lee Harvey Oswald when he was shot by SUN Jack Ruby. SUN SUN Producer: Colin McNulty SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 Just a Minute b038xmf6 (Listen) SUN Series 67, Episode 3 SUN SUN Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds with no SUN hesitation, repetition or deviation? Join Sue Perkins, SUN Russell Kane, Paul Merton and new player Henry Blofeld find SUN out. Recorded at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Sue Perkins SUN Panellist: Russell Kane SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Henry Blofeld SUN Producer: Katie Tyrrell SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b039bg57 (Listen) SUN DIY Food SUN SUN DIY Foods - Tim Hayward meets the people taking ambitious SUN food production into their own hands. Andy Mahoney makes his SUN own cheese in the spare room of his house in South London. SUN Hannes Viljoen makes his own biltong to give the taste of SUN his native South Africa to his friends and family. And three SUN friends in Guilford - Nick McDuff, Dick Nevitt and Nevin SUN Stewart - have invented a new method for making cider in SUN your kitchen. SUN SUN Presented by Tim Hayward and produced by Emma Weatherill in SUN Bristol. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b0397jz7 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b039bg59 (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 I Have a Dream b0395qvq (Listen) SUN In this unique tribute program, global figures celebrate the SUN legacy of Martin Luther King by reading the words of "I have SUN a Dream." Introduced by Professor Clayborne Carson, editor SUN of the Martin Luther King papers. SUN SUN The readers are Congressman John Lewis, who spoke at the SUN 1963 March. SUN SUN Dr Maya Angelou, American author and Civil Rights activist. SUN SUN Prof Muhammad Yunus, Nobel Peace Laureate and economist. SUN SUN Doreen Lawrence, mother of murdered British teenager Stephen SUN Lawrence. SUN SUN Wei Jingsheng, Chinese democracy campaigner. SUN SUN Mary Robinson, former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, SUN first female President of Ireland. SUN SUN John Hume, jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his SUN contribution to the peace process in Northern Ireland. SUN SUN His Holiness the Dalai Lama. SUN SUN Albie Sachs, anti-apartheid campaigner, judge on South SUN Africa's Constitutional Court. SUN SUN President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia, first female SUN Head of State in Africa. SUN SUN Raja Shedadeh, Palestinian lawyer, author and human rights SUN activist. SUN SUN Ndileka Mandela, granddaughter of Nelson Mandela. SUN SUN Ariel Dorfman, Chilean-American author and human rights SUN activist. SUN SUN David Grossman, Israeli author and peace campaigner. SUN SUN Dr Shirin Ebadi, Iran's first female judge, Nobel Peace SUN Laureate. SUN SUN Malala Yousafzai, sixteen-year-old student from Swat in SUN Pakistan, shot by the Taliban. SUN SUN Satish Kumar, Indian peace campaigner and environmentalist. SUN SUN Maestro José Antonio Abreu, Venezuelan educator and SUN musician. SUN SUN Joan Baez, American musician and activist, performer at the SUN 1963 March on Washington. SUN SUN Stevie Wonder, American musician, singer and songwriter. SUN Campaigner for Martin Luther King's birthday to become a SUN national holiday in the United States. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b038zhb1 (Listen) SUN The Roof Gardens, Kensington SUN SUN GQT reaches new heights with a programme at The Roof Gardens SUN in Kensington, London. Eric Robson is in the chair with SUN panellists Anne Swithinbank, Matthew Wilson and Bunny SUN Guinness taking the questions. SUN SUN Bunny explores the history and structure of The Roof SUN Gardens, Kensington and Matthew visits a project at London's SUN Southbank Centre where roof gardening is being used as SUN ecotherapy for people who have suffered from homelessness. SUN SUN Produced by Victoria Shepherd SUN A Somethin' Else Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b039bg5c (Listen) SUN Edinburgh Special SUN SUN Fi Glover introduces a special Sunday Edition of the Radio 4 SUN series that proves it's surprising what you hear when you SUN listen. These conversations were recorded at the Edinburgh SUN Festival between people inspired by the Listening Project. 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. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can upload your own conversations or SUN just learn more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 British New Wave b039bg5f (Listen) SUN Robert Rigby's dramatisation of Alan Sillitoe's seething SUN novel set in 1958 Nottingham - part of Radio 4's celebration SUN of British New Wave film and cinema,. SUN SUN 'Angry young man' Arthur Seaton rages against the boredom of SUN his factory machinist job and home life with 'dead from the SUN neck up' parents. SUN SUN Determined to avoid a similar slide into domestic drudgery, SUN Arthur is a risk-taking womaniser, enduring each tedious SUN week in the knowledge that the weekend's thrills are to SUN come. But Arthur takes a risk too far, inflicting SUN life-shattering consequences on those around him. SUN SUN Sound Design: David Chilton SUN Spot Effects: Alison McKenzie SUN Production Manager: Sarah Tombling SUN Director: Carl Prekopp SUN SUN Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown SUN A Goldhawk Essential production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Arthur Seaton: Joe Dempsie SUN Aunt Ada: Shirley Anne Field SUN Brenda: Natalie Grady SUN Winnie: Sarah Smart SUN Harold Seaton: Philip Fox SUN Vera Seaton: Julia Hills SUN Fred Seaton: Ashley Cook SUN Barman: Ashley Cook SUN Margaret Seaton: Victoria Brazier SUN Soldier: Victoria Brazier SUN Mrs Bull: Rachel Atkins SUN Robboe: Stephen Critchlow SUN Loudmouth: Stephen Critchlow SUN Jack: Graeme Hawley SUN Policeman: Graeme Hawley SUN Em’ler: Lorna Jones SUN Undertaker Man: Sean Baker SUN Bus Conductor: Paul Stonehouse SUN Billy: Felix Lailey SUN Director: Carl Prekopp SUN Producer: Lucinda Mason Brown SUN Adaptor: Robert Rigby SUN Author: Alan Sillitoe SUN SUN 16:00 Bookclub b039bg5h (Listen) SUN Paul Theroux - Dark Star Safari SUN SUN With James Naughtie. The celebrated travel writer Paul SUN Theroux discusses Dark Star Safari. The book is his account SUN of an overland journey from Cairo to Cape Town, which he SUN made 35 years after first living as a volunteer teacher in SUN Malawi in the early 60s. SUN SUN In the programme he talks about the pleasures and hazards of SUN travelling across countries that many consider no-go areas. SUN He recalls the joy of wild camping by the little known SUN pyramids of the Sudan, the peril of being shot at on the SUN road, and how the continent has changed since he first knew SUN it as a young man. He explains his theories on western aid, SUN and how he manages the rigours of travelling. He says it's SUN best to travel light and alone, with an open mind, a SUN willingness to make friends - and to never forget a SUN paperback. SUN SUN October's Bookclub choice : Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary SUN Mantel. SUN SUN Producer Dymphna Flynn. SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b039bg5k (Listen) SUN Seamus Heaney SUN SUN A special programme to mark the death and celebrate the life SUN and work of Seamus Heaney. Heaney's poems have been SUN regualrly requested by the Poetry Please audience down the SUN years so Roger McGough goes digging in the archive to SUN present a selection of Heaney's poems read by the poet SUN himself. Producer: Tim Dee. SUN SUN 17:00 Before the Mugshot b038xtdl (Listen) SUN In 2008 a grainy CCTV image appeared in south London SUN newspapers of a young man robbing a cash and carry. Sarah SUN O'Connell tells the story behind the photo. SUN SUN Everyone has seen similar pictures - of a surly young man SUN who has committed a serious criminal offence. Yet as a SUN society we have not been very successful at stopping them SUN from doing so. SUN SUN Sarah takes that CCTV picture, and one of Aaron as a baby, SUN and explores what went wrong with Aaron's life in the gap SUN between the two pictures which resulted in him committing a SUN serious, violent criminal offence before he had yet turned SUN 18. SUN SUN In the programme Aaron himself discusses his life with SUN candour - from his family background to his motivation for SUN committing criminal offences. Sarah also speaks to members SUN of his family, teachers and mentors to give a rich picture SUN of how a life can fall apart - and perhaps what we might do SUN better in the future. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b039825y (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b0397jz9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b0397jzc (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0397jzf (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b039bg5m (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon makes her selection of the best of the SUN previous seven days of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b039bg5p (Listen) SUN Ray starts as he means to go on, and Fallon fulfils a SUN difficult task. SUN SUN 19:15 Paul Sinha's Citizenship Test b037vlck (Listen) SUN Episode 1 SUN SUN Paul Sinha is proudly British. He also loves a quiz. So you SUN would have thought that the UK Citizenship Test, which SUN newcomers to this country must pass to become citizens, SUN would have been right up his street. But the questions in SUN the 2012 and 2013 Home Office guides seem either bizarrely SUN easy - "Where is Welsh most widely spoken?" - or SUN infuriatingly vague - "What happened in the First World SUN War?". SUN SUN So Paul has created his own test, to better reflect the SUN things that aspiring migrants should understand before they SUN can call themselves British. In episode one he deals with SUN the history syllabus, looking at what we know about the most SUN important legal document in our history; the Patron Saints SUN of the Home Nations; provides a guide to our twenty most SUN important cities; and points out a historical error in the SUN official guide. He also tests the studio audience on their SUN knowledge, with those that answer incorrectly being SUN deported. SUN SUN The series intertwines the sort of comedy Paul has become SUN known for on The Now Show, The News Quiz, and Fighting Talk, SUN as well as his own Radio 4 shows The Sinha Test and The SUN Sinha Games, and the command of facts and figures he SUN demonstrates on the ITV quiz show The Chase. SUN SUN Written and performed by Paul Sinha. SUN Producer: Ed Morrish. SUN SUN 19:45 Tales from the East b039bg5r (Listen) SUN Blow-Ins SUN SUN Fenella Woolgar reads D J Taylor's 'Blow-Ins', the first in SUN a series of stories taking their inspiration from the East SUN Anglian coast. SUN SUN In today's story, the rural idyll turns sour when winter SUN hits a North Norfolk coastal town. SUN SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Written by: D J Taylor, a Whitbread Award-winning author and SUN journalist, who lives in Norfolk. SUN Reader: Fenella Woolgar is a British actor who has worked SUN with with Mike Leigh, Conor McPherson and Woody Allen. She's SUN recently starred in 'Dr Who', and BBC1's 'Case Histories' SUN with Jason Isaacs. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Fenella Woolgar SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN Writer: DJ Taylor SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b038zhb7 (Listen) SUN What price the life of a badger? SUN SUN Has the government taken into account the worth of a SUN badger's life in any cost-benefit analysis of the SUN controversial badger cull, which is taking place to tackle SUN the spread of tuberculosis among cattle? Tim Harford SUN considers the problem. And the government aims to kill 70% SUN of badgers in the two cull zones, but Tim discovers that SUN such precision might be tricky. It's terribly difficult to SUN count badgers, you see. SUN SUN Plus, have blundering doctors and nurses really killed SUN 13,000 people? This was widely reported alongside the SUN publication of the Keogh Report into standards of care at 14 SUN NHS hospital trusts in England. Tim Harford finds out how SUN so-called 'excess' deaths are calculated, and whether SUN they're the best measure of hospital standards. SUN SUN The shadow immigration minister Chris Bryant has warned that SUN climate change is going to create 200 million more migrants. SUN But More or Less discovers that migration experts disagree. SUN SUN And, always down with the cool kids, Tim discovers more SUN about this buzz phrase, "big data". Companies and SUN governments are releasing large datasets about us, with our SUN identities obscured, for the purposes of marketing - or SUN even, occasionally, for the purposes of public SUN understanding. But might those apparently anonymous datasets SUN be telling the world our darkest secrets? SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b038zhb5 (Listen) SUN An Irish poet, a woman stockbroker, a Roma King and a Welsh SUN rugby player SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on: SUN SUN Seamus Heaney - the Nobel prize winning poet who combined SUN critical acclaim with popularity SUN SUN Muriel Siebert - the first woman to buy a seat on the New SUN York stock exchange SUN SUN Florin Cioaba - the Romanian who was self-proclaimed king of SUN the Roma people SUN SUN And Cliff Morgan - the Welsh rugby international turned SUN commentator and broadcaster. SUN SUN Producer: Laura Northedge SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b0397x1x (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b039b67j (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b038ynzp (Listen) SUN Kit of Life SUN SUN Simon Berry wondered why crates of soft drinks can be found SUN in some of the most remote places in the world, but simple SUN medicines to treat childhood diseases have for decades SUN failed to reach the people who need them. The social SUN enterprise he set up, ColaLife, designed an ingenious SUN package that can slot in between soda bottles, piggybacking SUN on Coca-Cola's supply chain and potentially getting anywhere SUN Coca-Cola does. SUN Called 'Kit Yamoyo' - roughly translated as 'kit of life' in SUN a number of African languages - it includes oral rehydration SUN salts and zinc to treat diarrhoea, plus a bar of soap. The SUN outer shell also functions as a measure and drinking cup for SUN the medicine. The idea caught the attention of the design SUN world and won Cola Life a top prize in the London Design SUN Awards show earlier this year. SUN But Simon Berry was already realising that a clever design SUN was not enough, and that the real lesson from Coca-Cola was SUN devising a 'value chain' - and making sure everyone involved SUN in the distribution gets paid. SUN In this programme (in London and Zambia), he explains to SUN Peter Day how he applied the profit-driven ideas of SUN multinational companies to tackle a disease that kills more SUN African children than HIV, malaria and measles combined. SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b039bk7y (Listen) SUN Preview of the week's political agenda at Westminster with SUN MPs, experts and commentators. Discussion of the issues SUN politicians are grappling with in the corridors of power. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b039bk80 (Listen) SUN A look at how the newspapers are covering the biggest SUN stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b038ynz9 (Listen) SUN Shane Carruth, Gravity, film schools SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Shane Carruth about his new, complex SUN film Upstream Colour which explores the theme of SUN interconnectedness involving an organism that mutates via SUN various hosts from a nematode worm to a vivid orchid. The SUN director Shane Carruth was already known for an earlier SUN experimental film, Primer, which won the Grand Jury Prize at SUN Sundance back in 2004. SUN SUN Whilst Shane Carruth did NOT go to film school, but learnt SUN his craft by doing, the Director of the National Film and SUN Television School Nik Powell, and film maker Asif Kapadia - SUN director of features including The Warrior and Far North and SUN the documentary Senna - discuss how film schools prepare SUN aspiring film makers for a career in the film industry. SUN Thousands of students go to more than 1200 film schools each SUN year around the world and CILECT, which represents the top SUN 160 schools across 90 countries, has judged the UK's SUN National Film and Television School as the winning school SUN across three award categories; fiction, animation and SUN documentary. SUN SUN This announcement comes just a few days before the BFI names SUN the film schools, universities and independent cinemas that SUN will be partners for its new training schemes for aspiring SUN young filmmakers. So how do film students best learn their SUN craft: and is funding allocated fairly across the diverse SUN film education institutions within the UK? SUN SUN As the Venice film festival opens this week, Times film SUN critic Kate Muir discusses the film which opened the SUN festival - Gravity starring George Cluney and Sandra Bullock SUN - and provides a round up of the best British films being SUN screened. SUN SUN And nearly half a century since Patricia Highsmith's novel, SUN The Talented Mr Ripley, was adapted for the screen by French SUN film maker Rene Clement - called Plein Soleil and starring SUN Alain Delon - Sandra Hebron discusses how the representation SUN of the psychopath has changed over time, referencing Anthony SUN Mingella's 1999 version starring Matt Damon and Jude Law. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b039b67b (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 02 SEPTEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b0397k0f (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b038yk6v (Listen) MON Walter Benjamin MON MON What is the value of forgotten histories, of possibilities MON not realised? What can a quite amble down a backstreet tell MON us about the nature of modernity? How has technology MON affected the nature and purpose of art? In the mid twentieth MON century Walter Benjamin explored all these questions and MON brought Marxist thinking to high culture, exploring people's MON relationship to objects and art. His influence is probably MON felt now more than ever. Laurie Taylor presents a special MON programme on the work of this pioneering German intellectual MON and theorist. He's joined by the philosopher Jonathan Ree MON and the professor of political aesthetics, Esther Leslie. MON MON Producer: Charlie Taylor. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b039b678 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0397k0h (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0397k0k (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0397k0m (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b0397k0p (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039jb9n (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed MON Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic MON Faiths, Cambridge. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b039c5cn (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Anna Hill, and Produced by Sarah Swadling. MON MON 05:56 Weather b0397k0r (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qhyz (Listen) MON Robin MON MON Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about MON our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. MON MON Brett Westwood presents the robin. The autumn song of the MON Robin is the soundtrack to shortening days, gathering mists MON and ripening fruit. Robins sing in spring but their autumn MON song is different. It may sound melancholy to us but for the MON Robin it has clear purpose - to defend the winter MON territories that male and female robins establish separately MON after they've moulted. MON MON 06:00 Today b039c5cq (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Fry's English Delight b039c5cs (Listen) MON Series 6, Spelling MON MON The spelling of English has always been a strange. As MON Stephen Fry puts it "I before e except after c. Weird!" MON MON Stephen asks how our spelling became so irregular, and MON whether we can do anything to simplify it - with the help of MON Professor David Crystal who explains how a history of MON attempted language reform has probably made things steadily MON worse. MON MON The programme starts with a mysterious postcard from a MON listener, in an almost unrecognisable form of English MON writing. Stephen eventually gets a translation from his huge MON band of Twitter followers. He also finds out how the MON commercial success of My Fair Lady helped fund a 20th MON Century attempt at reform, and hears from a current member MON of the English Spelling Society about how she would "tidy MON up" English spelling. MON MON What emerges is that there is probably only one set of MON circumstances in which language can be systematically MON reformed. Lexicographer Noah Webster knew that his fellow MON countrymen in the New World would welcome a form of writing MON that distanced them from their British "oppressor" - and his MON dictionary, with its simplified spelling, was an instant MON success. MON MON Producer: Nick Baker MON A Testbed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 09:30 Wow! How Did They Do That? b039c5cv (Listen) MON Episode 4 MON MON Roger Law goes in search of the entrepreneurs who are behind MON some of the Britain's best designs and inventions. MON MON Charlie Paton may not be able to turn water into wine but he MON is working on making seawater turn into a cooling system for MON hot and arid countries. The invention could increase crop MON yields in the driest parts of Africa as it uses a natural MON resource to cool greenhouses. As he says, "It's MON counter-intuitive to most people. Anybody who knows anything MON knows you don't have seawater in greenhouses and you don't MON have greenhouses in arid countries. On every level it is the MON opposite of what we do." Yet he believes this system can and MON will work, as he explains to Roger Law. MON MON Roger's second guest helped create some of the most useful MON objects for those with disabilities by recognizing what they MON themselves wanted. Roger Coleman first got involved in a MON friend's kitchen after she developed multiple sclerosis. 'I MON asked her what the most important thing was about the MON design. She said 'I want the neighbours to be jealous!'. It MON was a real light bulb moment for me. That's about being like MON everyone else." MON It set Roger on the path of designing a whole range of MON things that people really wanted, from the big button MON telephone to brightly coloured seating for kids in special MON schools which helped integrate them into the classrooms. It MON also led him to develop medical equipment for the NHS that MON suited users in hospital, such as a unique design for a MON resuscitation trolley. MON MON Two contrasting inventors who are changing the world one MON small design at a time. MON MON Producer Mark Rickards. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b039c5cx (Listen) MON When Britain Burned the White House, Episode 1 MON MON Nearly 200 years ago, Britain attacked the heartland of the MON United States. The President and his wife had just enough MON time to pack their belongings and flee the White House MON before the British army entered and set fire to the MON building. From here, the British army turned its sights to MON Baltimore. MON MON Peter Snow tells the story of this extraordinary MON confrontation between Britain and the United States, the MON outcome of which inspired America's national anthem. Using MON eyewitness accounts, Peter describes the colourful MON personalities on both sides of this astonishing battle - MON from Britain's fiery Admiral Cockburn, to the cautious but MON widely popular army commander Robert Ross and the MON beleaguered President James Madison whose nation was MON besieged by a greater military force. MON MON In the first episode, the American watchman at Chesapeake MON Bay wakes one August morning to find fifty ships of the MON Royal Navy at anchor. The British have arrived to end, MON decisively, the war of 1812. In Washington, President MON Madison waits nervously to see where they will attack first. MON MON Read by Jamie Parker MON Producer: David Roper MON A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b039c5cz (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Jamie Oliver MON Jamie Oliver first appeared on our screens as the Naked Chef MON in 1999. Since then he was written a string of bestselling MON cookery books, he has campaigned to improve school dinners, MON negotiating with feisty dinner ladies and the prime MON minister and he also runs a successful chain of restaurants. MON But he’s still on a mission to teach us how to cook well on MON a budget. He’s just written his latest book Save with Jamie MON and today and he’s going to Cook the Perfect Singapore MON Noodles. MON MON The Novel Cure MON Can reading a novel really help to make you feel better? Can MON a novel change your life? Artist Ella Berthoud and author MON Susan Elderkin believe it can and they’ve compiled an A-Z of MON ailments, experiences, and emotional states and the books MON that they think might relieve them. From Emily Bronte to MON re-boot a broken heart, Jane Austen to cure arrogance and MON Ernest Hemingway to soothe a headache, Ella and Susan will MON be talking to Jane about their book the Novel Cure on MON Monday. MON MON The Sandwich Generation MON A recent report explores the growing pressures on working MON women who are caring for elderly parents as well as children MON or grandchildren. The report by IPPR titled “The Sandwich MON Generation: Older Women Balancing Work and Care”, outlines MON recommendations for reflecting the growing demands on women, MON the nation’s carers, in policy. Woman’s Hour talks to Dalia MON Ben-Galim Associate Director and one of the co-authors of MON the report at IPPR and we hear from Cari Rosen at MON Gransnet.com about the experiences of the Sandwich MON Generation. MON "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> MON MON Editor: Alice Feinstein MON MON 10:45 British New Wave b039c5d1 (Listen) MON Georgy Girl, Episode 1 MON MON By Margaret Forster MON Dramatised by Rhiannon Tise MON Georgy is wonderfully sparky, funny and MON financially independent. She's living in the MON swinging London of 1965 but she's twenty-seven MON and never been asked out by a fella, let alone MON kissed. She's desperate to fall in love. MON MON Directed by Tracey Neale MON MON Credits MON Georgy: Lucy Speed MON Jos: Paul Ready MON James: Stephen Critchlow MON Meredith: Philippa Stanton MON Peg: Ella Smith MON Ted: Ben Crowe MON Doris: Joanna Brookes MON Director: Tracey Neale MON Writer: Rhiannon Tise MON Author: Margaret Forster MON MON 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b039c5d3 (Listen) MON Series 14, The Wedding MON MON Mimi and Ryan are getting married. Alan Dein presents a MON fly-on-the-wedding cake documentary that follows them MON through the day, from waking up with a hangover to MON chucking-out time at Sale Rugby Club. MON In between there's a church wedding, a christening (their MON daughter Isabella is six months old), photographs, confetti, MON a lavish home-made buffet, speeches (ranging from tearful to MON inappropriate), dancing and a lot of laughter. MON MON 'We want to be a proper family,' says Ryan. MON 'It's the biggest party I'll ever throw in my life,' says MON Mimi. 'It started out as a budget wedding but it got a bit MON out of hand.' MON MON Producer: Peter Everett. MON MON 11:30 Reception b039c5d5 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON A new sitcom by Paul Bassett Davies about two men sitting MON behind a desk, starring Adrian Scarborough, Morwenna Banks MON and Amit Shah. MON MON A persuasive visitor with some suspiciously cheap laptops to MON sell tries to talk his way past the front desk. Brian, naive MON and nerdish as always, thinks he smells a bargain - but the MON more streetwise Danny sniffs a rat. Meanwhile, their MON supervisor, Clarissa, is on the prowl. She has amorous MON designs on Brian, who persuades Danny to distract her while MON he rustles up the cash for a deal. MON MON Is Brian being taken for a ride, or is Danny missing the MON kind of opportunity that his beloved self-help books are MON always telling him to seize? MON MON Producer: Anna Madley MON An Avalon Television production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b039c5d7 (Listen) MON Delayed Flights, Email Hackers and Home Sprinklers MON MON Compensation for delayed flights after six years, and MON hunting down the email hackers. Consumer news with Julian MON Worricker. MON MON 12:57 Weather b0397k0t (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b039c5d9 (Listen) MON National and international news. Listeners can share their MON views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. MON MON 13:45 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039c5dc (Listen) MON Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have MON spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, MON from the French Revolution to the Permissive Society. MON MON Episode 1: How the French Revolution shocked progressive MP MON Edmund Burke into defending British traditions and MON privileges - sowing the seeds of British conservatism. MON MON Bourke was no reactionary - he was a supporter of the MON American Revolution of the 1770s. Many of his fellow MON progressives saw in the French Revolution a similar push for MON liberation. MON MON But to their consternation, Burke predicted that the French MON Revolution would descend into bloodshed. MON MON He questioned abstract French ideas of Liberty and instead MON championed British tradition, from the right to own MON property, through the role of the Church, to the stabilizing MON effect of the House of Lords. MON MON Among the radicals aghast at Burke's heresy was a young MON Cumbrian poet and student, William Wordsworth. MON MON But having witnessed the impact of the Terror in Paris for MON himself, he - like other radical champions of the Revolution MON - began to turn away from it. MON MON Finally, with Burke dead but his influence on conservatism MON spreading through nineteenth century Britain, Wordsworth MON hailed the long-dead MP as a genius. MON MON With: Professor Richard Bourke, Professor Dinah Birch MON MON Producer: Phil Tinline. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b039bg5p (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 British New Wave b039c5df (Listen) MON John Osborne - The Author of Himself MON MON By Stephen Wakelam. One afternoon in 1955 Theatre Manager MON George Devine sets out in a rickety rowing boat to inspect MON an actor, John Osborne, living on a Thames barge who has MON written a play. Look Back in Anger has been returned by many MON theatres but Devine has seen something in it. The meeting is MON a pivotal moment in the course of theatrical history. MON MON Director: David Hunter MON MON Look Back in Anger was premiered at London's Royal Court MON Theatre on 8th May 1956 by the English Stage Company MON directed by Tony Richardson with the following cast - MON Kenneth Haigh, Alan Bates, Mary Ure, Helena Hughes and John MON Welsh. The press release referred to John Osborne as "an MON angry young man" - a phrase that came to represent a new MON movement in British Theatre. MON MON Credits MON John Osborne: Samuel Barnett MON George Devine: Jonathan Coy MON Anthony Creighton: Harry Livingstone MON Nellie: Joanna Brookes MON Tony Richardson: David Seddon MON Director: David Hunter MON Writer: Stephen Wakelam MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b039c5dh (Listen) MON The quotations quiz hosted by Nigel Rees. MON MON A host of interesting celebrities will be joining Nigel as MON he quizzes them on the sources of a range of quotations and MON asks them for the amusing sayings or citations that they MON have personally collected on a variety of subjects, MON including quotes they wish they'd said and the family MON sayings that they grew up with. MON MON This week Nigel is joined by Actress and Singer - Janie Dee, MON former editor of Private Eye and current editor of The Oldie MON - Richard Ingrams, science writer and broadcaster Vivienne MON Parry and comedian and writer Robin Ince. MON MON Reader ..... Peter Jefferson. MON Produced by Carl Cooper. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b039bg57 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 The Little Prince at 70 b039c5dk (Listen) MON Mike Greenwood unlocks the secrets of Antoine de MON Saint-Exupéry's classic novella, 70 years after it was first MON published. MON MON Barely 100 pages long, The Little Prince is one of the most MON read books in the world. Like the little prince himself, his MON creator Antoine de Saint Exupéry has become an enigma. An MON aristocrat and an aviator, he wrote The Little Prince in MON exile in America, when the world was at war and France was MON under Nazi occupation. Barely two years later he was dead - MON having failed to return from a reconnaissance mission over MON his homeland. His body was never found. MON MON But the fable-like book he left behind continues to MON captivate generations of readers, from the child to the MON adult. Why? MON MON "It is only with one's heart that one can see clearly. What MON is essential is invisible to the eye." Is it a simple MON children's story engaging with simple truths about love, MON experience and loss? A manifesto for humanist values in time MON of strife? Or a manual for living on our fragile planet? MON MON Mike Greenwood journeys to Paris to unravel the origins, MON meaning and enduring appeal of Le Petit Prince. He meets MON Saint-Exupery's nephew, Francois d'Agay, now 87, who MON remembers visits from Uncle Antoine in the 1930s, and Mike MON enters the inner circle of 'Saint-Exupérians' who have made MON it their life's work to interpret the symbols, biographical MON parallels and true message of the book. MON MON The novelist Tracey Chevalier and children's author Michael MON Rosen also share their personal insights into the French MON classic, which is featured in a series of evocative MON readings. MON MON Presenter: Mike Greenwood MON Producer: Eve Streeter MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b039c5dm (Listen) MON Comedy and Religion MON MON Beyond Belief debates the place of religion and faith in MON today's complex world. Ernie Rea is joined by a panel to MON discuss how religious beliefs and traditions affect our MON values and perspectives. MON The late Christopher Hitchins wrote that "The mockery of MON religion is one of the most essential things". Certainly if MON you go to any Comedy Club today, you can expect to find that MON religious belief is an open target. But are there any limits MON to what is acceptable? Are there any parallels between the MON role of the priest and his congregation & the comedian with MON his audience? MON Joining Ernie Rea to discuss the relationship between comedy MON and religion are the Muslim stand-up comedian, Imran Yusuf, MON the Jewish stand-up, Josh Howie and Patrick McKearney, a MON Doctoral Researcher in Theology & Social Anthropology at the MON University of Cambridge. MON MON 17:00 PM b039c5dp (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0397k0w (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b039c5dr (Listen) MON Series 67, Episode 4 MON MON Nicholas Parsons hosts the popular panel game. How hard can MON it be to talk for 60 seconds with no hesitation, repetition MON or deviation? MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Producer: Claire Jones MON Producer: Tilusha Ghelani MON MON 19:00 The Archers b039c5dt (Listen) MON Tom confesses, and Kathy's at the end of her tether. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b039c5dw (Listen) MON With Mark Lawson, including an interview with Stephen Fry as MON he curates events marking the bicentenaries of Verdi and MON Wagner at the Royal Opera House. MON MON Producer Olivia Skinner. MON MON 19:45 British New Wave b039c5d1 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Teacher Versus Tutor b037jn8b (Listen) MON No longer just for the rich, tutoring is booming in Britain. MON Last year parents spent over £1bn on tutors for their MON children. From traditional entrance exam tutoring to the MON latest online services, there are thousands of companies to MON choose from. MON MON But it's an unregulated industry. Some even lack Disclosure MON and Barring Service (formerly Criminal Records Bureau) MON checks. MON MON Visiting tutoring centres, schools and families, Sushma Puri MON investigates the factors behind the tutoring boom. She asks MON whether tutoring works and whether it is worth the money. MON Emerita Professor Judy Ireson from the Institute of MON Education reveals some research results which may surprise MON many. MON MON With the introduction of tutoring in state schools, she MON examines the roles of teachers and tutors. Can tutors MON complement classroom teachers or are they on a collision MON course? MON MON Meanwhile one expert believes 'the Wild West of education' MON is in urgent need of regulation. MON MON Producer: Hilary Thomson MON A Tigereye production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b038ynyx (Listen) MON Inside Gay Pakistan MON MON Mobeen Azhar investigates life in gay, urban Pakistan. MON Despite Pakistan's religious conservatism and homosexuality MON being a crime, he finds a vibrant gay scene, all aided by MON social media. He meets gay people at underground parties, MON shrines and hotels and finds out what it's really like to be MON gay in Pakistan. As one man tells him, "The best thing about MON being gay in Pakistan is you can easily hook up with guys MON over here. You just need to know the right moves and with a MON click you can get any guy you want." At a gay party he meets MON an NGO worker who then takes him to one of Karachi's prime MON cruising locations - a shrine to a 9th-century Muslim saint. MON Mobeen meets a "masseur", who works on the street MON advertising his services. The masseur's real job is selling MON sexual services to men - with the full knowledge of his MON wife. And with great difficulty, Mobeen speaks to a lesbian MON couple, who conceal their relationship from their own MON parents. One of them argues that it is too soon for gay MON Pakistanis to fight openly for political rights and that MON they must find happiness in the personal sphere. Mobeen MON discovers that while urban Pakistanis may easily be able to MON find sex, being in a relationship is far more difficult. MON Producer: Helena Merriman. MON MON 21:00 Deep Down Inside b038xrjf (Listen) MON Deep Brain stimulation is a brain surgery technique MON involving electrodes being inserted to reach targets deep MON inside the brain. Those targets are then stimulated via the MON electrodes which are connected to a battery powered MON pacemaker surgically placed under the person's collar bone. MON MON Geoff Watts finds out how the technique has been used MON successfully for treating the movement disorders of MON Parkinson's disease, in patients with severe, intractable MON depression, in chronic pain and how it's also being trialled MON to see if it can also be successful in treating Obsessive MON Compulsive disorder, Tourette's syndrome and other MON disorders. MON MON Geoff meets patients who have had their lives changed by MON having Deep brain stimulation. He also meets the surgeons at MON the operating table to find out how it works. At the moment MON no one has all the answers but one psychiatrist he meets MON says the success of Deep Brain stimulation means we should MON radically change the way we understand how the brain works. MON That the brain is governed by electrical circuitry rather MON than a chemical soup of neurotransmitters. MON MON 21:30 Fry's English Delight b039c5cs (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b0397k0y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b039c5dy (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039c5f0 (Listen) MON Secrecy, Episode 6 MON MON "Some see you as a master craftsman. Others say you're a MON sorcerer. You're mysterious, obsessive. Controversial." MON MON Zummo - a 17th-century sculptor - makes things out of wax, MON figures so lifelike they look as if they might move and MON breathe. He has journeyed throughout Italy over the years in MON an attempt to flee his past. Now, in 1691, he has been MON summoned to the Medici court by the Grand Duke of Tuscany. MON He arrives in Florence, a city in which "everything was MON forbidden [and] anything was possible." But what does the MON Grand Duke have in mind for him? MON MON Ten years later, Zummo visits a convent in France and tells MON the whole story to Marguerite-Louise of Orléans, MON long-estranged wife of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. MON MON Secrecy is a tale of love, art, murder and concealment, MON enacted within a beautifully-realised 17th century MON Florentine and Tuscan setting. MON MON Some of the 'plague pieces' by Gaetano Zummo (1656-1701) can MON be found in La Specola, Florence. MON MON Rupert Thomson is the author of eight highly-acclaimed MON novels including Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted MON for the 2008 Costa Novel Award. His memoir This Party's Got MON to Stop won the Writer's Guild Non-Fiction Award. MON MON Episode Six MON Faustina has revealed her dangerous secret to Zummo. And MON Stufa is on his trail. But for now, Zummo is absorbed in MON completing his work for the Grand Duke. MON MON Reader: Owen Teale MON Abridger: Jeremy Osborne MON MON Producer: Rosalynd Ward MON A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b038xtd6 (Listen) MON Language Laws MON MON What are we allowed to say to each other? Chris Ledgard MON looks at the laws surrounding language use, from libel to MON blasphemy. MON MON Barristers Nicola Cain and Christina Michalos explain MON defamation law. Professor Laura Gowing from King's College MON London takes us back to a time when seditious language could MON land you in the pillory. And barrister Diane Chanteau MON explains how critical the use of exact language is in court. MON MON Producer: Melvin Rickarby. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b039c5f2 (Listen) MON Susan Hulme reports, as MPs return to Westminster after the MON summer break. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b0397k1s (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b039c5cx (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0397k1v (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0397k1x (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0397k1z (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b0397k21 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039jn7h (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed TUE Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic TUE Faiths, Cambridge. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b039cbsh (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill, and Produced by Anna Jones. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj1l (Listen) TUE Swallow TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about TUE our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. TUE TUE Brett Westwood presents the swallow. You can see Swallows at TUE this time of year gathering on telegraph wires, strung out TUE like musical notes on a stave, before their long journey TUE south to Africa. The female swallow often rears two broods TUE of young each year but in sunny weather when there are TUE plenty of flying insects, she may manage three broods. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b039cgzw (Listen) TUE News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Life Scientific b039cbsn (Listen) TUE Mark Lythgoe TUE TUE Professor Mark Lythgoe created and runs the largest medical TUE imaging research facility in Europe - the Centre for TUE Advanced Biomedical Imaging at University College London. TUE That is quite an achievement for someone who spectacularly TUE failed his A levels because he was dancing on the podiums of TUE Manchester clubs or tuning the engine of his motorbike. TUE TUE Now the Centre does everything from testing new treatments TUE for cancer, stroke and heart disease to probing the homing TUE sense of pigeons. Mark Lythgoe's team develops new TUE techniques to image the living body and its biochemical TUE activities in ever-minute detail, with radio, light and TUE ultrasound waves. TUE TUE In The Life Scientific, Mark Lythgoe talks about the TUE frontier research at his centre and the thrill he gets from TUE it. As well as a scientist, he is also an intrepid mountain TUE climber and believes there are parallels between the TUE experiences of a mountaineer and those of an inventor of new TUE views of the human brain and body. TUE TUE Professor Lythgoe talks candidly about his unconventional TUE journey and struggle to make a successful career in science TUE which took him through making plastic pipes in a factory, TUE training Israeli attack dogs and working with Australian TUE Aboriginal people. He describes the deep sense of failure TUE which powered with his progress once he had a foot in the TUE laboratory door. TUE TUE Mark also discusses his collaborations with artists on TUE sci-art projects. He says one film project about a young TUE girl with a severe brain condition helped to make him the TUE scientist he is today. TUE TUE 09:30 One to One b039cbsq (Listen) TUE Frank Gardner talks to Deborah Impiazzi TUE TUE Frank Gardner was shot several times by terrorists in Saudi TUE Arabia in 2004, and suffered damage to his spinal nerve. He TUE lost the use of his legs and is in a wheelchair for the rest TUE of his life. TUE TUE It was a catastrophic change to his life but having a TUE supportive partner and being able to go back to work and TUE continue with his career as a journalist for the BBC has TUE been a key factor in his own recovery. In his third and TUE final interview for the series 'One to One ', Frank meets TUE Deborah Impiazzi who lost her sight and with it her job and TUE her husband and explores how she is coping with this life TUE changing trauma. TUE TUE Producer: Perminder Khatkar. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b039jg9g (Listen) TUE When Britain Burned the White House, Episode 2 TUE TUE In episode two, the British invaders confront the American TUE militia at Bladensburg, eight miles from the Capitol. The TUE Americans are defeated and scattered. The road to Washington TUE lies undefended. TUE TUE Read by Jamie Parker TUE Producer: David Roper TUE A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b039cbss (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 British New Wave b039cbsv (Listen) TUE Georgy Girl, Episode 2 TUE TUE By Margaret Forster TUE Dramatised by Rhiannon Tise TUE A tearful Georgy is worried about facing Jos again and is TUE now thinking about accepting James's offer. TUE TUE Directed by Tracey Neale TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b039cbsx (Listen) TUE Agricultural Crops and Wildlife TUE TUE Monty Don presents Shared Planet, the series that looks at TUE the crunch point between human population and the natural TUE world. In this week's programme we have a field report from TUE England with Simon Potts, Professor of Biodiversity and TUE Ecosystem Services at Reading University. Simon Potts's TUE research looks specifically at how effective bees and other TUE pollinators are and their abundance in agricultural TUE landscapes - a crucial link in food security. Monty Don TUE explores some of the issues with Vandana Shiva in Delhi, a TUE board member of the International Forum on Globalisation and TUE an author of over 20 books about biodiversity, food and TUE economies. TUE TUE 11:30 Tom Ravenscroft's One Man Band b039cbsz (Listen) TUE With a guitar in hand, harmonica in mouth, cymbals and bells TUE and a big drum strapped to the back, Tom Ravenscroft goes in TUE search of the musical characters who prefer to go solo. TUE TUE One Man Bands have a surprisingly long history, documented TUE in pictures and writings from France and Spain as far back TUE as the middle ages. Entertaining and enterprising men, they TUE started with a flute and a drum and, over the centuries, TUE have literally added whistles and bells - as well as TUE cymbals, harmonica, accordion, trumpet, and the list goes TUE on. TUE TUE Contemporary one man band legends include North Carolina's TUE Jim Garner, Georgia's Jesse Fuller and West Virginia's Hasil TUE Adkins who have all influenced current players such as TUE Bloodshot Bill and Washboard Hank - who Tom tracks down. TUE TUE Charmed by their inventiveness and talent, Tom visits the TUE one man band festival, an annual event in Montreal where the TUE world's most musical solitary figures perform. He finds some TUE eccentric characters with rich stories following traditions TUE that stretch way back into British and American folk and TUE blues music. Meeting performers such as Bob Log III, Dana TUE Schecter (also known as Insect Ark) and Spain's TUE 'Hyperpotamus', Tom learns what it takes to become a one man TUE band. TUE TUE Producer: Jo Meek TUE A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b039cbt1 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Julian Worricker. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b0397k23 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b039cbt3 (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 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039cbt5 (Listen) TUE Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have TUE spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, TUE from the French Revolution to the Permissive Society. TUE TUE Episode 2: By the 1830s and 1840s, the Industrial Revolution TUE had brought vast changes to British life. It delivered TUE innovation and prosperity, but chaos and disconnection too. TUE TUE In the industrial north of England in particular, unrest was TUE growing. TUE TUE In this episode, Anne visits the Chelsea home of the great TUE Scottish writer and thinker Thomas Carlyle, to find out how TUE he fought back against the Industrial Revolution and the TUE revolutionary idea it brought in its wake. TUE TUE Carlyle argued that the concept of Utilitarianism, with its TUE New Poor Law and its attack on older forms of charity, was TUE forging a cold new world of atomized individuals. The only TUE things that now connected people, he contended, were cash TUE and disease. TUE TUE In response, he called for strong leadership and a return to TUE medieval Christian values. TUE TUE And Anne visits Newcastle to see how Carlyle's ideas found a TUE profound echo in architecture, through the buildings of TUE Augustus Pugin, still visible across the country today. TUE TUE With: Professor Dinah Birch, Dr Tristram Hunt MP TUE Producer: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b039c5dt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 British New Wave b039cd9g (Listen) TUE Up the Junction TUE TUE By Nell Dunn. Dramatised by Georgia Fitch. TUE TUE In Nell Dunn's Sixties classic, a young writer from Chelsea TUE decides to swap her privileged life for a grittier TUE experience in industrial Battersea. We join Lily as she TUE embarks on life in the working class community, forming TUE strong friendships with sisters Sylvie and Rube and working TUE in the local sweet factory. The girls scrape together enough TUE to get by on, live in each other's pockets and shake off TUE whatever drama life throws at them. TUE TUE The bold energy of Nell Dunn's writing and characters is TUE still like a breath of fresh air - fifty years on from the TUE book's original publication. TUE TUE Director/Producer ..... Lucy Collingwood TUE TUE Up the Junction is part of Radio 4's British New Wave season TUE celebrating the fiction that was turned into iconic films of TUE the 1960s. TUE TUE Credits TUE Lily: Zoe Tapper TUE Rube: Lacey Turner TUE Sylvie: Hannah Wood TUE Dave: Alex Lanipekun TUE Terry: Ben Crowe TUE Ron: Don Gilet TUE Sheila: Amaka Okafor TUE Winny: Philippa Stanton TUE Mum: Joanna Brookes TUE Tallyman: Paul Stonehouse TUE Director: Lucy Collingwood TUE Producer: Lucy Collingwood TUE Adaptor: Georgia Fitch TUE Author: Nell Dunn TUE TUE 15:00 Making History b039cd9j (Listen) TUE Tom Holland is joined by leading historians to discuss the TUE latest historic research and showcase listener's passions TUE that, together, are helping to deliver new insight into our TUE past. TUE TUE Contact the programme: making.history@bbc.co.uk TUE TUE Produced by Nick Patrick TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b039ctgc (Listen) TUE The Palm Oil Palm Off TUE TUE In June this year a thick haze descended over Singapore, TUE causing record air pollution levels which left streets empty TUE and forcing children, the sick and elderly to stay indoors. TUE It was attributed to the illegal burning of forests in TUE Indonesia to clear land to plant palm oil. It was a visible TUE reminder of a practice which has been continuing for years TUE but, say environmental groups, which must be stopped. TUE TUE Palm oil is in hundreds of products, from detergents and TUE cosmetics to biscuits and now biofuels. But the burning of TUE forests is destroying the habitat of endangered wildlife, TUE destroying woodland and releasing carbon dioxide from the TUE peat. Tom Heap asks if we've turned a blind eye to this TUE issue. Some manufacturers have pledged to source sustainably TUE but he asks how sure they are the oil they get is untainted. TUE TUE Costing the Earth heads to Indonesia to see the level of TUE destruction, find out who's behind it and looks at the TUE impact the haze has had on Singapore. In France politicians TUE have called for a levy on palm oil and consumers have TUE campaigned against it but is this an issue the British still TUE want to know about? TUE TUE Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b039ctgf (Listen) TUE The Rise of the Political Soundbite TUE TUE Chris Ledgard and guests discuss the art and efficacy of the TUE political soundbite. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b039ctgh (Listen) TUE Series 31, Paul Mason on Louise Michel TUE TUE TV journalist and writer Paul Mason talks to Matthew Parris TUE about the 19th Century French anarchist, Louise Michel, TUE heroine of the Paris Commune. They're joined by historian TUE Carolyn Eichner who says that Michel "expounded action and TUE aggression with a theatrical, infectious elegance." TUE TUE Known as 'the Red Virgin of Montmartre', Michel fought on TUE the barricades in the short-lived revolution of 1871. TUE Captured and tried by the French government, she told her TUE accusers: "Since it seems that every heart that beats for TUE freedom has no right to anything but a little lump of lead, TUE I demand my share. If you let me live, I shall never cease TUE to cry for vengeance and l shall avenge my brothers. If you TUE are not cowards, kill me!" TUE TUE She served seven years in a penal colony in the South TUE Pacific and seven thousand Parisians turned out to welcome TUE her home. She was a school teacher, writer, orator, TUE anthropologist, feminist and cat-lover. She wrote some TUE moving poems - and an opera about the destruction of the TUE world. TUE TUE Producer: Peter Everett. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b039ctgk (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0397k25 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme b039ctgm (Listen) TUE Series 3, Episode 1 TUE TUE John Finnemore, the writer and star of Cabin Pressure, TUE regular guest on The Now Show and popper-upper in things TUE like Miranda, presents a third series series of his hit TUE sketch show. TUE TUE The first series was described as "sparklingly clever" by TUE The Daily Telegraph and "one of the most consistently funny TUE sketch shows for quite some time" by The Guardian. The TUE second series won Best Radio Comedy at both the Chortle and TUE Comedy.co.uk awards, and was nominated for a Sony award. TUE TUE In this new series, John promises to stop doing silly TUE sketches about nonsense like Winnie the Pooh's honey TUE addiction or how goldfish invented computer programming, and TUE concentrate instead on the the big, serious issues. TUE TUE This first episode of the series addresses the kind of TUE animals that don't get sanctuaries; why the train manager TUE needs to see the train driver; and why people literally TUE shout at the radio? TUE TUE Written by and starring John Finnemore, with Margaret TUE Cabourn-Smith, Simon Kane, Lawry Lewin and Carrie Quinlan. TUE Original music is by Susannah Pearse. TUE TUE Producer: Ed Morrish. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b039ctgp (Listen) TUE Ruth's distracted, and Helen needs a favour. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b039ctgr (Listen) TUE With Mark Lawson, who reviews the Italian film The Great TUE Beauty, set in contemporary Rome and acclaimed at this TUE year's Cannes festival. TUE TUE Producer Nicki Paxman. TUE TUE 19:45 British New Wave b039cbsv (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Michael Ignatieff and the Red Cross Crisis b039ctgt (Listen) TUE The International Committee of the Red Cross turns 150 this TUE year. Few humanitarian organisations have such long TUE experience of working in war zones, but is their role still TUE relevant? TUE Today, war is taking on new dimensions; conflict is emerging TUE in new quarters; and technology is transforming the nature TUE of the battlefield. Can the ICRC keep up with the TUE extraordinary speed of change? Can it continue to be of help TUE to victims? And can it hope to persuade combatants to obey TUE the traditional laws of war? TUE TUE Harvard professor Michael Ignatieff has kept a watching TUE brief on the work of the ICRC since 1997 when he visited its TUE delegation in Afghanistan. Now he returns, this time to the TUE headquarters in Geneva, to explore the challenges the TUE organisation faces. TUE TUE We hear reports from Medellin in Colombia where the ICRC has TUE started working with victims of narco-violence; we hear the TUE latest from Syria where the ICRC is attempting to support TUE the Arab Red Crescent under desperate conditions; and we TUE find out how the ICRC has negotiated with America over its TUE proven abuses of international humanitarian law during the TUE course of the War on Terror. How can the ICRC preserve TUE confidentiality without becoming complicit in such abuses? TUE We ask whether the principles of neutrality and impartiality TUE come at too great a cost. TUE TUE The question of technology is a looming problem for the TUE International Committee Red Cross. Michael asks how the TUE organisation can continue to promote the laws of war when TUE drones are dissolving battle lines and cyber threats make TUE the Internet a site of conflict. TUE TUE 'Michael Ignatieff and the Red Cross Crisis' poses tough TUE questions about the future of humanitarian work and the TUE future face of war. TUE TUE Producer: Isabel Sutton TUE A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b039ctgw (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially-sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 Seven Ages of Science b039ctgy (Listen) TUE Age of the Lab TUE TUE Lisa Jardine explores how scientists became separated from TUE wider society. TUE TUE Until the end of the 18th century, most scientific endeavour TUE took place in private houses or workshops, often done on a TUE part-time basis by passionate enthusiasts. It was the poet TUE Samuel Coleridge who suggested, in 1833, that men who were TUE neither literary men nor philosophers might be called TUE "scientists"; but still there were no public laboratories TUE and certainly no white coats. TUE TUE The idea that people could be trained in laboratories was TUE pioneered in Germany and it was decades before Britain TUE caught on. TUE TUE In 1858, an expensive project to lay a telegraph cable under TUE the Atlantic, failed; and an inquiry into the failure TUE recommended that Britain needed more men who understood how TUE telegraphy actually worked. Today, the Cavendish Laboratory TUE in Cambridge is famous for a string of Nobel Prize winning TUE discoveries into the nature of the atom and the structure of TUE molecules including, famously, DNA. But it was set up to TUE train more telegraph engineers. TUE TUE As more purpose-built laboratories were established, TUE complete with petri dishes, test tubes, and bunsen burners, TUE scientists started to be perceived as somehow different from TUE the rest of us. Trained in specialist techniques, they TUE followed their own methods and rules. They became a separate TUE tribe. TUE TUE 21:30 The Life Scientific b039cbsn (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b0397k27 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b039cth0 (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039cth2 (Listen) TUE Secrecy, Episode 7 TUE TUE Zummo has moved to a new apartment in anticipation of his TUE mother's arrival from Sicily. But this doesn't stop Stufa TUE from becoming more and more intrusive. TUE TUE Reader: Owen Teale TUE Abridger: Jeremy Osborne TUE Producer: Rosalynd Ward TUE A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed b039cth4 (Listen) TUE Series 2, Forgery TUE TUE Forgery: DS Nick Mohammed finds himself immersed in the art TUE world, when a forgery ring is discovered. Colin and Anna. TUE Written and performed by Nick Mohammed, with Anna Crilly, TUE Colin Hoult, Margaret Cabourn-Smith and and Wil Andrews. TUE Producer: Tilusha Ghelani & Victoria Lloyd TUE TUE NEW SERIES TUE Call 999! Detective Sergeant Nick Mohammed returns for a TUE second series of his critically acclaimed Radio 4 sitcom. TUE "Delightfully bonkers!" The Guardian. TUE TUE This time around Nick is tackling some major crimes - and TUE assisting with some major public events. He's joined by TUE special constables Colin Hoult (Being Human) and Anna Crilly TUE (Lead Balloon), who aid and abet him in everything he does. TUE With special guests Margaret Cabourn-Smith, and Wil Andrews. TUE TUE Nick recently appeared as a lead in new Sky One comedy, TUE Gates, and has featured in a host of BBC sitcoms including TUE Life's Too Short, Miranda and 10 O'Clock Live. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Nick Mohammed TUE Actor: Colin Hoult TUE Actor: Anna Crilly TUE Actor: Margaret Cabourn-Smith TUE Actor: Will Andrews TUE Producer: Victoria Lloyd TUE Writer: Nick Mohammed TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b039cth6 (Listen) TUE Sean Curran with the latest news from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 04 SEPTEMBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b0397k3q (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b039jg9g (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0397k3v (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0397k43 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0397k45 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b0397k47 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039jh3y (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed WED Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic WED Faiths, Cambridge. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b039ctn3 (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Caz Graham, and Produced by Sarah Swadling. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj2c (Listen) WED Roseate Tern WED WED Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about WED our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. WED WED Brett Westwood presents the Roseate Tern. One of the rarest WED of the UK's breeding seabirds, the Roseate Tern is WED exquisitely graceful. Roseate means flushed with pink and WED seen close this bird does have a faint pinkish wash on its WED chest in summer, but from a distance, it's the WED brilliant-white freshly-laundered look of its back and wings WED that distinguishes a Roseate Tern from its greyer relatives, WED the Common and Arctic Terns. WED WED 06:00 Today b039ctrv (Listen) WED News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday WED in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b039ctrx (Listen) WED Allan Ahlberg WED WED Lively and diverse conversation. Mariella Frostrup meets WED children's author Allan Ahlberg. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b039jh40 (Listen) WED When Britain Burned the White House, Episode 3 WED WED Read by Jamie Parker WED Producer: David Roper WED A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b039ctrz (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 British New Wave b039cts1 (Listen) WED Georgy Girl, Episode 3 WED WED By Margaret Forster WED Dramatised by Rhiannon Tise WED Meredith's baby is on the way and Georgy and Jos, an WED adulterer and his mistress, now have the long wait for news. WED WED Directed by Tracey Neale WED WED 11:00 Our Libraries: The Next Chapter b038xx7b (Listen) WED Episode 1 WED WED As public libraries shut down or cut their opening hours, WED Michael Rosen opens the book of library history to WED investigate their journey from the ancient world to the WED modern and beyond. WED WED In the first of two programmes, Michael goes to WED Herefordshire where, earlier this year, there was a plan to WED cut council funding to the library service by 75%. There was WED a public outcry and the plans have been re-considered. WED Councillors and library staff discuss how they're trying to WED find ways through the crisis and protect the Victorian WED legacy of free libraries for rural communities. In the WED village of Peterchurch, we hear how volunteers are running WED the county's smallest library...in a church tower. WED WED Simon Eliot, a Professor of the History of the Book, WED explains the power of the Victorian library movement; and WED Brian Ashley, director of libraries at Arts Council England, WED argues that as we re-shape our idea of a public library WED service, we have to accept the idea of some neighbourhood WED libraries shutting down. WED WED Producer: Chris Ledgard. WED WED 11:30 Paul Temple and the Gregory Affair b038xx7d (Listen) WED Millgate Steps WED WED Part 9 of a new production of a vintage serial from 1946. WED WED From 1938 to 1968, Francis Durbridge's incomparably suave WED amateur detective Paul Temple and his glamorous wife Steve WED solved case after baffling case in one of BBC radio's most WED popular series. Sadly, only half of Temple's adventures WED survive in the archives. WED WED In 2006 BBC Radio 4 brought one of the lost serials back to WED life with Crawford Logan and Gerda Stevenson as Paul and WED Steve. Using the original scripts and incidental music, and WED recorded using vintage microphones and sound effects, the WED production of Paul Temple and the Sullivan Mystery aimed to WED sound as much as possible like the 1947 original might have WED done if its recording had survived. The serial proved so WED popular that it was soon followed by three more revivals, WED Paul Temple and the Madison Mystery, Paul Temple and Steve, WED and A Case for Paul Temple. WED WED Now, from 1946, it's the turn of Paul Temple and the Gregory WED Affair, in which Paul and Steve go on the trail of the WED mysterious and murderous Mr Gregory. WED WED Episode 9: Millgate Steps WED WED Temple and Sir Graham take to the river in the hunt for the WED missing girl. WED WED Producer Patrick Rayner WED WED Francis Durbridge, the creator of Paul Temple, was born in WED Hull in 1912 and died in 1998. He was one of the most WED successful novelists, playwrights and scriptwriters of his WED day. WED WED Credits WED Paul Temple: Crawford Logan WED Steve: Gerda Stevenson WED Sir Graham: Gareth Thomas WED Charlie: Greg Powrie WED Inspector Vosper: Michael Mackenzie WED Sir Donald: Simon Donaldson WED Virginia van Cleeve: Francesca Dymond WED Kay Wiseman: Meg Fraser WED Peter Davos: Richard Greenwood WED Edward Day: Nick Underwood WED Producer: Patrick Rayner WED Writer: Francis Durbridge WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b039ctyr (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b0397k49 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b039ctyt (Listen) WED National and international news. Listeners can share their WED views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. WED WED 13:45 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039ctyw (Listen) WED Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have WED spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, WED from the French Revolution to the Permissive Society. WED WED Episode 3: In the 1840s, industry, commerce and voting WED reform gave new power to the cities and the middle classes. WED But then the feudal aristocracy found an unlikely new WED champion. WED WED Benjamin Disraeli was a dandy Jewish London novelist, who WED dressed in peacock waistcoats. WED WED But along with a clutch of youthful aristocrats, he formed a WED group called Young England. WED WED They tried to revive the romantic idea of rural landowners WED looking after the poor, and to translate this to the new WED era. WED WED Disraeli toured the cities of the industrial north, and drew WED on the suffering he saw in novels that venerated the old WED ways. WED WED This was not a huge success. But Disraeli found his great WED cause in the battle over Free Trade. WED WED When Prime Minister Robert Peel decided to abolish the WED tariffs that protected British farmers from foreign corn WED imports, Disraeli spied betrayal. WED WED And so did Lord George Bentinck, a true rural aristocrat and WED a man who was really just interested in horse-racing - until WED the threat of Free Trade spurred him into action. WED WED Together, 'the Jockey and the Jew', as they were dubbed, led WED the charge against Peel, arguing that Free Trade would WED destroy a whole social system. WED WED But they lost - and it was Peel's championing of Free Trade WED which proved the more effective conservative move. WED WED Instead of Disraeli and Bentinck's diehard defence of the WED old ways, Peel's more open approach welcomed the new urban WED middle classes into politics, showing that you didn't have WED to be a landed gentleman to support the Church and the WED Constitution. WED WED With: Professor Jon Lawrence, Professor Richard Aldous, Dr WED Tristram Hunt MP WED Producer: Phil Tinline. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b039ctgp (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b039ctyy (Listen) WED The Watcher on the Wall WED WED To mark the fiftieth anniversary of his death, the story of WED poet Louis MacNeice's trans-Atlantic love affair with the WED American short story writer Eleanor Clark and the poetry it WED inspired, dramatised from his Letters by playwright Lucy WED Caldwell. WED WED In 1939 Louis MacNeice fell in love. The poet had had a WED tough few years: his world had fallen apart when his adored WED wife eloped with their American lodger, and now, with WED divorce proceedings acrimonious and MacNeice a single parent WED looking after their young son Daniel, the poet plunges WED himself into his travels and his work. WED WED Then, in the spring of 1939, MacNeice met Eleanor Clark, a WED young, beautiful and gifted short-story writer. Their WED intense, passionate, desperate affair - he in England, she WED in New York, the war and the Atlantic Ocean between them - WED consumed the next few years, and the poet's imagination. WED Communicating through letters, their relationship becomes WED for MacNeice one of pursuit rather than possession, but WED nevertheless amid the pressures of parenthood, debts, WED deadlines and the on-going war, it inspires some of WED MacNeice's most famous and passionate poetry, most notably WED "Meeting Point" and "Cradle Song for Eleanor". But can a WED relationship that exists more in the mind than reality ever WED endure, or will its fate simply be that of a passing poetic WED fantasy? WED WED Also a prolific writer/producer of radio drama, the WED Belfast-born poet began working at the BBC in 1941 where he WED produced numerous programmes including the acclaimed drama WED "The Dark Tower." It was while caving in Yorkshire recording WED sound effects for a radio drama that MacNeice contracted the WED pneumonia that lead to his death on 3rd September 1963. WED WED The Letters of Louis MacNeice edited by Jonathan Allison WED were published by Faber & Faber in 2010. WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b039ctz0 (Listen) WED Student Finance WED WED Worried about paying for higher education? Put your student WED money queries to Paul Lewis and guests. Call 03700 100 444 WED from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Ready to answer your questions will be: WED WED Miriam Craven, Head of Customer Engagement, Student Awards WED Agency for Scotland. WED WED Rob Ellis, Swansea University Money Adviser and Co-ordinator WED for Welsh National Association of Student Money Advisers. WED WED David Malcolm, Head of Social Policy, National Union of WED Students. WED WED E-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now or call 03700 100 444 from 1pm WED to 3.30pm on Wednesday. Calls cost the same as 01 and 02 WED numbers, calls from mobiles may be higher. WED WED 15:30 Seven Ages of Science b039ctgy (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b039cy07 (Listen) WED Erving Goffman WED WED Erving Goffman - Laurie Taylor presents a special programme WED on the work and influence of this groundbreaking Canadian WED sociologist. He's joined by Professor Gregory Smith, Dr WED Rachel Hurdley and Dr Susie Scott. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b039cy09 (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED Producer: Simon Tillotson. WED WED 17:00 PM b039cy0c (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0397k4c (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 My Teenage Diary b039cy0f (Listen) WED Series 5, Sarfraz Manzoor WED WED My Teenage Diary returns with six more brave celebrities WED ready to revisit their formative years by opening up their WED intimate teenage diaries, and reading them out in public for WED the very first time. In this programme, Comedian Rufus Hound WED is joined by journalist Sarfraz Manzoor. WED WED Sarfraz relives his teenage days living in Luton in a strict WED Muslim family - when he was obsessed with Bo Derek and pop WED music, and desperate to buy a computer. WED WED Producer: Harriet Jaine WED A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 19:00 The Archers b039d14n (Listen) WED Lynda's beginning to have misgivings, and Kirsty tells it WED like it is. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b039d14q (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews, with Mark Lawson. WED WED Producer Olivia Skinner. WED WED 19:45 British New Wave b039cts1 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Four Thought b039d14s (Listen) WED Best of Four Thought, Against the Grain WED WED David Baddiel presents the best of the series which combines WED new ideas and personal stories. In this fourth and last WED edition we hear from speakers who have gone against the WED grain. WED WED Naomi Shragai is a Jewish woman who was expected to find a WED nice Jewish man to marry, but she then found herself on a WED very different path. Musa Okwonga tried to give up social WED media - at least for a while. And James Friel celebrates WED being single. WED WED Producer: Arlene Gregorius. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b039d1fp (Listen) WED Series 4, Alan Bissett WED WED In the 1990s, author Alan Bissett was a lad and women were WED 'birds'. WED WED In a frank and personal account, Alan talks about why he WED turned to the work of the late American radical feminist WED Andrea Dworkin after becoming concerned over his use of WED internet pornography. WED WED He dissects elements of what he describes as our "sex WED saturated culture" and argues that men need to start WED engaging with feminism for the good of all. WED Four Thought is a series of talks which combine new ideas WED and personal stories. WED WED Recorded during the Edinburgh festival, speakers explain WED their thinking on the trends and ideas in culture and WED society in front of a live audience. WED WED Producer: Caitlin Smith. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b039ctgc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Midweek b039ctrx (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b0397k4f (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b039d1fr (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039d1ft (Listen) WED Secrecy, Episode 8 WED WED After the break-in at his house, and with both Stufa and WED Bassetti closing in, Zummo acts to keep Faustina safe. WED WED Reader: Owen Teale WED Abridger: Jeremy Osborne WED Producer: Rosalynd Ward WED A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 The Music Teacher b039d1fw (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED Richie Webb returns for a third series as WED multi-instrumentalist music teacher Nigel Penny. WED WED Nigel inherits a life changing sum of money from a distant WED relative leading to him considering jacking it all in and WED starting again. A consideration consistently reinforced by WED the constant stream of useless pupils. WED WED Meanwhile Belinda is keen to keep Nigel on at the Arts WED Centre to run free taster sessions. At any cost. WED WED Directed by Nick Walker WED Audio production by Matt Katz WED Written and produced by Richie Webb WED A Top Dog production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Nigel Penny: Richie Webb WED Belinda: Vicki Pepperdine WED Glen: Jim North WED Claude: Joseph Webb WED Emily: Jess Robinson WED Sandra: Jess Robinson WED Director: Nick Walker WED Producer: Richie Webb WED Writer: Richie Webb WED WED 23:15 It Is Rocket Science b00z5hrv (Listen) WED Series 1, Episode 1 WED WED Helen Keen, Peter Serafinowicz and Susy Kane star in this WED funny, off-beat but factually accurate account of the WED science of rockets and the brilliant but occasionally warped WED brains behind it all. WED WED Written by Helen Keen and Miriam Underhill. WED Produced by Gareth Edwards WED WED This week we look at the three fathers of modern rocket WED science: 19th Century self-taught Russian visionary WED Eduardovich Tsiolkovsky and his dreams of orbiting space WED stations and Martian colonies; American Robert H Goddard, WED derided in The New York Times in the 1920s for his WED prediction of a lunar landing (they printed a retraction the WED day after the Apollo 11 launch); Transylvanian-German WED Hermann Oberth with his brilliant theories about space WED travel and his horrifying theories about racial supremacy. WED Plus Helen reveals the surprising connection between space WED travel and a coach tour of the Jewels of the Rhineland. WED WED It is performed by Helen Keen, and stars Peter Serafinowicz WED as The Voice of Space, with other parts played by Susy Kane. WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b039d1fy (Listen) WED Susan Hulme reports from Westminster on the first Prime WED Minister's Questions since July. WED WED THU THURSDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b0397k5b (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b039jh40 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0397k5d (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0397k5g (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0397k5j (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b0397k5l (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039jn36 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed THU Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic THU Faiths, Cambridge. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b039d4b0 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Anna Varle. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj54 (Listen) THU Greenshank THU THU Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about THU our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. THU THU Brett Westwood presents the Greenshank. The ringing triple THU call of a greenshank from a pool or marshy area is something THU to listen out for and a sure sign that autumn migration is THU under way. It's during their migration north that most of us THU meet greenshanks because in the UK they breed only in THU Scotland and even there, they are usually in the most remote THU bogs and mires of the Flow Country of Caithness and THU Sutherland. THU THU 06:00 Today b039d4b2 (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday THU in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Last Bus to Serendip b039d4b4 (Listen) THU Journalist and psychologist Dr Aleks Krotoski sets out to THU discover what serendipity actually is and why we need it THU today more than ever. THU THU 09:30 The Listening Project b039bg5c (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 14:45 on Sunday] THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b039j2gj (Listen) THU When Britain Burned the White House, Episode 4 THU THU In episode four, two weeks after their successful invasion THU of Washington, the British turn on Baltimore. But this time THU the Americans are prepared and more resolute. THU THU Read by Jamie Parker THU Producer: David Roper THU A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b039d4b6 (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 British New Wave b039d4b8 (Listen) THU Georgy Girl, Episode 4 THU THU By Margaret Forster THU Dramatised by Rhiannon Tise THU Georgy's wish has come true. She loves Jos and he loves her THU but what will happen when Meredith comes home with the THU baby? ... THU THU Directed by Tracey Neale THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b039d4bb (Listen) THU Venezuela - Out of Stock THU THU Despite its massive natural oil wealth, Venezuela is a THU country sliding into recession, and has one of the highest THU inflation rates in the world. With prices of some products THU rising as much as 50% or more annually, the crisis presents THU a simple human predicament - how to lay your hands on the THU ever-dwindling supply of price-capped essentials that THU government shops pledge to provide. The trouble is that many THU of these basic goods like milk and toilet rolls, are THU disappearing from the supermarkets within a few minutes of THU getting there. THU Ed Butler explores how gossip and the black market have THU become a part of the answer for many ordinary citizens. He THU follows one consumer's quest for goods across the capital, THU and examines the rumours of smuggling and massive THU corruption, especially in the west near the border with THU Colombia. THU And he hears how the Socialist legacy of the former THU President Hugo Chavez still casts a big shadow over the THU nation. Businesspeople complain that his policies have made THU it almost impossible to produce anything profitably, and THU have left a legacy of massive red tape. The housing sector THU has been hit particularly hard with years of THU under-investment. Ed meets one retired couple unable to THU reclaim a rented apartment in their own property, who now THU are forced to live in their own garage. THU THU 11:30 Designing the Impossible b039d4bd (Listen) THU How would you like to experience a Soyuz rocket launch or a THU volcanic eruption in your living room? Could you create dark THU energy in your kitchen sink? Perhaps you dream of becoming THU an astronaut? THU THU Then enter the world of Nelly Ben Hayoun, acclaimed designer THU of fantasy experiences, who brings the thrill of cutting THU edge science within the reach of ordinary people. THU THU Nelly is a graduate of the Royal College of Art's THU groundbreaking Design Interactions course - one of a new THU breed of designers who use immersive experiences to THU stimulate debates about what sort of future we want for THU ourselves as the limits of technology and science extend THU ever further. THU THU She plans her experiences like a circus showman, charting THU precisely the emotional trajectory through which she wants THU to lead her audiences. Each project is more ambitious than THU the last, each seemingly impossible at the outset. THU THU For example, how do you share the high drama of the 1969 THU Apollo 11 Moon landing? Nelly's idea was to create an opera THU based on transcripts from the mission control room and have THU it performed by the world's first International Space THU Orchestra - made up of NASA space scientists and lunar THU mission veterans. Astonishingly she pulled it off - the epic THU Ground Control Opera had its first performance in September THU 2012. Since then, she has also managed to arrange for a THU recording of the performance to be broadcast in space. THU THU And Nelly Ben Hayoun's next impossible project? To become an THU astronaut, of course. THU THU Producer/Presenter: Mukti Jain Campion THU A Culture Wise production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b039d4bg (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b0397k5n (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b039d4bj (Listen) THU National and international news. Listeners can share their THU views via email: wato@bbc.co.uk or on twitter: #wato. THU THU 13:45 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039d4bl (Listen) THU Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have THU spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, THU from the French Revolution to the Permissive Society. THU THU Episode 4: In 1864, as the British economy boomed, the great THU Victorian critic John Ruskin was invited to Bradford to THU advise the prosperous merchants of the town on the style of THU their new Wool Exchange. THU THU But instead Ruskin lambasted them for ditching traditional THU values of taste and craft. They had become worshippers, he THU told them, of 'the Goddess of Getting-On, or Britannia of THU the Market.' THU THU Anne follows Ruskin to Bradford and discovers how, for this THU child of south London, the north of England came to THU represent both the crass prosperity of the time - and a very THU different vision of life. THU THU Ruskin was deeply influenced by the Romantic poet William THU Wordsworth, who ditched his youthful radicalism for a THU conservatism that embraced the communal memory embodied in THU tradition. THU THU And as Anne discovers, Ruskin moved to Wordsworth's native THU Lake District and set up guilds to foster an alternative to THU the factories and mills. He encouraged a return to small THU communal groups working the land and pursuing traditional THU crafts. THU THU Yet Ruskin described himself as both 'a violent Tory of the THU old school' and 'the reddest of the red'. He had a great THU influence on the emerging socialist movement. THU THU Anne suggests that John Ruskin is an example of how some THU nineteenth century conservatives had a surprising amount in THU common with socialism, because of their shared hostility to THU the costs of capitalism. THU THU With: Professor Dinah Birch, Dr Tristram Hunt MP THU Producer: Phil Tinline. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b039d14n (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b039d4bn (Listen) THU My Brilliant Divorce THU THU Caroline Quentin stars in Geraldine Aron's radio adaptation THU of her Olivier nominated West End hit - a comedy drama about THU surviving divorce with your sense of humour intact. THU THU Good-natured, slightly overweight, former window-dresser THU Angela (declared age 39, real age 51) thinks her marriage THU will last forever. But suddenly her husband Max, who has an THU irritatingly round head, loses his heart to beautiful young THU Rosa and moves out. THU THU Cheerful about her unexpected freedom at first, Angela's THU spirits begin to droop as she copes with a mother who won't THU acknowledge the break-up because she considers divorce THU 'common', a misogynous solicitor, and Christmas alone (apart THU from Dexter the family dog and a number of help-line THU counsellors). THU THU She gets regular updates on the wild expenditure and THU goings-on at the love nest via her cleaner, Meena, whose THU sister Leena - also a cleaner - works for Max. THU THU As she tells us of the ups and downs of her life and wryly THU observes how society treats freshly single women of a THU certain age, Angela learns how to deal with - and even enjoy THU - life on her own. THU THU Eccentric, poignant and funny, Angela's journey will THU resonate with anybody who's lived through a break up. THU THU Written by Geraldine Aron THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Angela: Caroline Quentin THU Max: James Lance THU Vanessa: Claire-Marie Hall THU Mother: Sally Grace THU Mr Tripp: Matt Addis THU Producer: Liz Anstee THU Writer: Geraldine Aron THU THU 15:00 Open Country b039d4bq (Listen) THU Laurie Lee Land THU THU Helen Mark explores the newly safeguarded 'Laurie Lee Wood' THU and meets the people who inhabit the 21st Century 'Cider THU with Rosie' Landscape. Earlier this year Gloucestershire THU Wildlife Trust had an unprecedented response to its appeal THU to save a plot of ancient woodland. It had once belonged to THU Slad Valley's beloved son, Laurie Lee. Having become too THU much for the author and playwright's remaining family to THU maintain, the trust launched an appeal to take it over. In THU this week's Open Country Helen Mark meets the people who THU saved this land and the community that still find THU inspiration in this valley today including Julie and Simon THU Cooper at 'The Cider Farm' where they now handcraft frames THU for old master paintings, artist Amanda Lawrence who draws THU inspiration from the natural landscape and captures her work THU in glass and writer Adam Horowitz who is capturing his own THU 'Cider with Rosie' experience on paper. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b039b67j (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Bookclub b039bg5h (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b039d4c3 (Listen) THU The latest news from the world of film. THU THU Producer: Fiona Couper THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b039d4c7 (Listen) THU Dr Adam Rutherford and guests illuminate the mysteries and THU challenge the controversies behind the science that's THU changing our world. THU THU Covering everything from the humble test tube to the depths THU of space, Inside Science is your guide not just to the THU research that makes the headlines, but to how science itself THU is evolving, transforming our culture, and affecting our THU lives. THU THU 17:00 PM b039d4c9 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0397k5q (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Fags, Mags and Bags b01llcp6 (Listen) THU Series 5, Hovering Chops THU THU More shop based shenanigans and over the counter philosophy, THU courtesy of Ramesh Mahju and his trusty sidekick Dave. THU THU The careful eco-balance of shop is under threat when a new THU butcher (played by Barry Howard) sets up shop in Lenzie with THU a dazzling array of award winning sausages and forthright THU chat. The current butcher incumbent, Mutton Jeff (played by THU Sean Scanlan), is particularly upset that his chop empire is THU under threat and calls upon Ramesh and the Lenzie Local THU Retail Traders Association to put a stop it. THU THU The staff of 'Fags, Mags and Bags' are on a tireless quest THU to bring nice-price custard creams and cans of coke with THU Arabic writing on them to an ungrateful nation. Ramesh Mahju THU has lovingly built the business up over the course of 30 THU years, and is ably assisted by his sidekick Dave. But then THU there are Ramesh's sons Sanjay and Alok - both surly and not THU particularly keen on the old school approach to shopkeeping, THU but natural successors to the business so Ramesh is keen to THU pass them all his worldly wisdom whether they like it or THU not. THU THU Written by and starring Donald Mcleary and Sanjeev Kohli. THU THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU A Comedy Unit production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Ramesh: Sanjeev Kohli THU Dave: Donald McLeary THU Sanjay: Omar Raza THU Alok: Susheel Kumar THU Frank Butcher: Barry Howard THU Archibald Sibbald: Tom Urie THU Mutton Jeff: Sean Scanlan THU Bras Jeff: Steven McNicoll THU Hilly: Kate Brailsford THU Mrs Begg: Marj Hogarth THU Writer: Sanjeev Kohli THU Writer: Donald McLeary THU Producer: Gus Beattie THU THU 19:00 The Archers b039d4cc (Listen) THU Rob comes to the rescue, and Eddie's having a busy evening. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b039d4ct (Listen) THU With Kirsty Lang, including the verdict on a new National THU Theatre staging of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II. THU THU Producer Rebecca Nicholson. THU THU 19:45 British New Wave b039d4b8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b039d4cw (Listen) THU Fracking THU THU There's a battle for influence taking place over fracking. THU Should companies in the UK be drilling for the trillions of THU cubic feet of shale gas lying thousands of metres below the THU surface of the earth, and hydraulically fracturing THU (fracking) the wells to get it out? Demonstrators have THU already voiced noisy opposition to the plans in the West THU Sussex village of Balcombe, citing fracking-induced THU earthquakes in Lancashire and leaks and contamination of THU water sources near fracking sites in the United States. The THU Prime Minister, David Cameron, and the Chancellor, George THU Osbourne, have both championed fracking saying it will lower THU energy prices and lead to better energy security for the UK THU as it has done in America. But is fracking dangerous, and THU will it be the silver bullet for energy prices? Wesley THU Stephenson looks at the evidence. THU Shale gas THU THU 20:30 In Business b039d4cy (Listen) THU Civilian Drones THU THU For decades, unpersoned planes have been used by the THU military in places such as Afghanistan and Pakistan to watch THU the ground and deliver weapons controlled by remote pilots THU thousands of kilometres away. But now companies and experts THU are putting their minds to turning military drones into THU civilian vehicles that can do things cheaper and better than THU piloted planes. Peter Day investigates unmanned aerial THU vehicles and how they are already being used by farmers and THU the police. Also, could a drone be delivering your pizza in THU the not too distant future? THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b039d4c7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Last Bus to Serendip b039d4b4 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b0397k5s (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b039d655 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039d657 (Listen) THU Secrecy, Episode 9 THU THU Zummo rides off to Torremagna in search of Faustina, knowing THU he must find her before Stufa does. THU THU Reader: Owen Teale THU Abridger: Jeremy Osborne THU Producer: Rosalynd Ward THU A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Colin Hoult's Carnival of Monsters b036mykr (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU Master character comedian Colin Hoult presents his much THU anticipated debut comedy series for BBC Radio 4. Enter the THU Carnival of Monsters, a bizarre and hilarious world of THU sketches, stories and characters, presented by the sinister THU Ringmaster. THU THU Meet such monstrous yet strangely familiar oddities as: THU Thwor - the mighty (but Leeds-based) god of Thwunder; Len THU Parker - Nottingham-born martial arts and transformers THU enthusiast; Anna Mann - outrageous star of such forgotten THU silver screen hits such as 'Rogue Baker', 'Who's For Turkish THU Delight' and 'A Bowl For My Bottom'; and many more. THU THU Writers Guild Award-winner Colin Hoult is best known for his THU highly acclaimed starring roles in 'Being Human', 'Life's THU Too Short', and 'Russell Howard's Good News', as well as his THU many hit shows at the Edinburgh Festival. He has also THU appeared and written for a number of Radio 4 series THU including 'The Headset Set' and 'Colin and Fergus' THU Digi-Radio'. THU THU 'Lewis Carol meets The League Of Gentlemen . A beautifully THU staged masterclass in character comedy' - Time Out THU 'Comic gold' - Metro THU 'Delightfully funny' - The Telegraph THU THU Produced by Sam Bryant. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b039d65c (Listen) THU Sean Curran reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 06 SEPTEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b0397k7k (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b039j2gj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b0397k7m (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b0397k7p (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b0397k7t (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b0397k7w (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b039j4z1 (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Ed FRI Kessler, Director of the Woolf Institute of Abrahamic FRI Faiths, Cambridge. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b039dbjf (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith, and Produced by Emma Campbell. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b038qj9c (Listen) FRI Red Grouse FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about FRI our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. FRI FRI Brett Westwood presents the Red Grouse. These birds like to FRI eat the shoots of young heather and nest in the shelter of FRI older clumps. For many years Red Grouse were thought to be FRI the only species of bird found in the British Isles and FRI nowhere else, but scientists now believe the Red Grouse is a FRI relative, a subspecies of the Willow Grouse, which is a FRI widespread bird of northern Europe. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b039dbjh (Listen) FRI News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday FRI in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b039b6w0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b039j4z3 (Listen) FRI When Britain Burned the White House, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the final episode, the British attack on Baltimore has FRI failed and they retreat to their ships. To celebrate FRI victory, a young American poet Francis Scott Key writes a FRI poem - The Star Spangled Banner. FRI FRI Read by Jamie Parker FRI Producer: David Roper FRI A Heavy Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b039dbjk (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 British New Wave b039dbjm (Listen) FRI Georgy Girl, Episode 5 FRI FRI By Margaret Forster FRI Dramatised by Rhiannon Tise FRI Jos has Georgy all to himself once again but having to care FRI for a baby has changed everything and a frustrated Jos FRI takes drastic action. FRI FRI Directed by Tracey Neale FRI FRI 11:00 The Italian Freedom Trail b039dbjp (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI On September 8th 1943 around 50,000 Allied prisoners broke FRI out of their POW camps in Italy. On the 70th anniversary FRI Edward Stourton presents The Italian Freedom Trails, the FRI incredible story of the biggest mass breakout in history. In FRI the recounting of the history of World War II it's often FRI forgotten that Italy surrendered to the Allies and the FRI Italians threw open the doors of their POW camps. For the FRI prisoners in Italy this was a golden opportunity that FRI amazingly they were ordered to ignore. While their Italian FRI guards put down their rifles and in many cases left the FRI prison camps completely, the order from London was for FRI soldiers to wait for Allied troops to arrive so they could FRI quickly be integrated back in to fighting units - any FRI serviceman making a run for it would be regarded as a FRI deserter. The vast majority of men though didn't hesitate FRI and headed for freedom. All of those who obeyed orders were FRI transported to Germany. Edward Stourton joins an FRI Anglo-Italian memorial walk in the Apennines, along the FRI routes taken by escapers, to tell their extraordinary FRI stories and the stories of those who helped them; stories of FRI bravery, endurance, sacrifice and love, as Eric Newby told FRI in his classic "Love and War in the Apennines." The series FRI includes interviews with Wanda Newby, the woman who helped FRI Newby while he was on the run and who eventually married FRI him, with veterans who escaped and with Italian families who FRI helped them. These are moving stories of individuals and of FRI a mass escape which helped changed the course of the war and FRI subsequent history of Italy. FRI FRI 11:30 Start/Stop b039dbjr (Listen) FRI Episode 1 FRI FRI A new sitcom about three couples sailing off in to the FRI sunset. And sinking. This week a trip to a classical concert FRI poses difficulties for everyone. FRI FRI Credits FRI Barney: Jack Docherty FRI Cathy: Kerry Godliman FRI Fiona: Fiona Allen FRI David: Charlie Higson FRI Evan: John Thomson FRI Alice: Katherine Parkinson FRI Producer: Steven Canny FRI Writer: Jack Docherty FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b039dbjt (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b0397k7y (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b039dbjw (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 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039dbjy (Listen) FRI Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have FRI spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action, FRI from the French Revolution to the Permissive Society. FRI FRI Episode 5: In 1867, a new Reform Act was passed which gave FRI urban working men the vote. FRI FRI Conservatives of both parties were deeply concerned about FRI what this meant for the future. FRI FRI The leading conservative thinker and future Conservative FRI Prime Minister Lord Salisbury damned the new Act as FRI surrender. He opposed mass democracy, fearing the tyranny of FRI the majority. FRI FRI But in a Sheffield pub, Anne learns how other, less exalted FRI conservatives responded to the threat of urban mass FRI democracy more creatively. FRI FRI They drew on an old Tory tradition, and found the answer in FRI a pint of beer. FRI FRI They adapted the old idea that each class in society should FRI respect the others' pleasures, even if they were very FRI different. FRI FRI In opposition to new licensing laws, they began to champion FRI the working man's right to a quiet pint. FRI FRI Meanwhile, the music halls of the 1860s championed a rough, FRI rumbustious patriotism for the ordinary people - rather than FRI fostering revolution. FRI FRI And a group of 'Tory Democrats' set up the Primrose League - FRI an organization designed to bolster conservatism in ordinary FRI people. FRI FRI It offered a mix of loyalty to Queen and Country, medieval FRI nostalgia, and invitations to picnics and summer balls. FRI FRI At its height, the League amassed a membership of two FRI million, many of them women. FRI FRI All this showed that conservatism and democracy need not be FRI opposites. In the end, even Lord Salisbury was reluctantly FRI reconciled to the new order. FRI FRI With: Professor Jon Lawrence, Dr Matthew Roberts, Fern FRI Riddell, Professor Krista Cowman FRI Producer: Phil Tinline. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b039d4cc (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b039dbk0 (Listen) FRI Red and Blue, Shadow FRI FRI Tom Wilson runs an oil rig in the North Sea. It's a FRI challenging job at the best of times. But today he's being FRI put through his paces by wargame exercise writer Bradley FRI Shoreham who has invented all manner of crises to push him FRI and his crew to the limit and beyond. FRI FRI Directed by Toby Swift FRI FRI Part of the second series of Red and Blue, Philip Palmer's FRI drama focusing on the work of Lieutenant Colonel Bradley FRI Shoreham (Tim Woodward). After leaving the British Army, FRI Shoreham became a Consultant Subject Matter Expert. He FRI spends his working life creating war games for training FRI purposes. Fictional they may be but the higher the level of FRI authenticity, the greater their value to the participants. FRI And when governments and major corporations are paying for FRI training, they expect a high return for their money. FRI FRI Credits FRI Bradley Shoreham: Tom Woodward FRI Tom Wilson: Liam Brennan FRI Jock: Sean Murray FRI Claire Patterson: Christine Kavanagh FRI Sean: Roshan Rohatgi FRI Linda: Philippa Stanton FRI Interrogator: Ben Crowe FRI Billy: David Seddon FRI Writer: Philip Palmer FRI Director: Toby Swift FRI Producer: Sasha Yevtushenko FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b039dbk2 (Listen) FRI Postbag edition at Sparsholt College FRI FRI Eric Robson chairs a postbag edition from the GQT potting FRI shed at Sparsholt College with Chris Beardshaw, Anne FRI Swithinbank, Pippa Greenwood and Rosie Yeomans answering FRI listeners' questions sent in by post, email and Twitter. FRI FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Afternoon Reading b039dbk4 (Listen) FRI Comic Fringes, I Bought a Monkey to Stand Out in the New FRI York Art Scene FRI FRI Story series featuring new writing by leading comedians, FRI recorded live in front of an audience at this year's FRI Edinburgh Festival Fringe. FRI FRI A man goes to great lengths to put his hometown of FRI Bishopbriggs on the map. The title says all. Brilliantly FRI absurd story written and read by actor, writer and comedian FRI Sanjeev Kohli. FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b039dbk6 (Listen) FRI Obituary series with Matthew Bannister, analysing and FRI celebrating the life stories of people who have recently FRI died. FRI FRI Producer: Neil George FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b039dbk8 (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b039dbkb (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news. Including Weather FRI at 5.57pm. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b0397k80 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 Bremner's One Question Quiz b039dbkd (Listen) FRI How Should We Educate Our Children? FRI FRI Rory Bremner's new weekly satirical comedy takes one big FRI contemporary question each week and attempts to answer it. FRI FRI Regular panellists Andy Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick FRI Doody are joined this week by teacher, author and columnist FRI Tom Bennett and Professor of Education Gordon Stobart. FRI FRI Rory's mantra is that it's as important to make sense out of FRI things as it is to make fun of them. He believes only then FRI will people laugh at the truth. This deconstructed "quiz" FRI has only one question each week, because that question is so FRI big, there's no time for anything else: expect a mix of FRI stand-up and sketch combined with investigative satire and FRI incisive interviews with a diverse range of characters who FRI really know what they're talking about. FRI FRI Presenter: Rory Bremner FRI FRI Panelists: Zaltzman, Kate O'Sullivan and Nick Doody, Tom FRI Bennett and Gordon Stobart. FRI FRI Producers: Simon Jacobs & Frank Stirling FRI A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b039dbkg (Listen) FRI Ian's not keen, and Shula averts a crisis. FRI FRI Credits FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Tony Archer: Colin Skipp FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Ian Craig: Stephen Kennedy FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus FRI Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Ray Franklin: Robin Bowerman FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Martyn Gibson: Jon Glover FRI Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley FRI Steff: Hannah Redfern FRI Producer: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI Writer: Carolyn Jones FRI Director: Kim Greengrass FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b039dbkj (Listen) FRI With Kirsty Lang, including an interview with actor Cillian FRI Murphy, who stars as a gang leader in the BBC Two drama FRI Peaky Blinders, set in Birmingham in 1919. FRI FRI Producer Nicki Paxman. FRI FRI 19:45 British New Wave b039dbjm (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b039dbkl (Listen) FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from Colwyn Bay, North Wales with former Home Secretary FRI David Blunkett MP, Health Minister Anna Soubry MP, Professor FRI of Entrepreneurship Dylan Jones Evans and Plaid Cymru MP FRI Jonathan Edwards. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b039dbkn (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 British Conservatism: The Grand Tour b039dbkq (Listen) FRI British Conservatism: The Grand Tour - Omnibus, Week 1 FRI Omnibus FRI FRI Anne McElvoy tells the stories of big challenges that have FRI spurred leading British conservative thinkers into action. FRI FRI In this omnibus edition of the first five episodes, Anne FRI traces the story of British conservatism from the French FRI Revolution to the beginnings of mass democracy. FRI FRI In 1790, the Revolution in France shocked progressive MP FRI Edmund Burke into defending British traditions and FRI privileges - sowing the seeds of British conservatism. Burke FRI was no reactionary - he was a supporter of the American FRI Revolution of the 1770s. But in the French Revolution he saw FRI not liberation but bloodshed. He championed British FRI tradition, from the right to own property, through the role FRI of the Church, to the stabilizing effect of the House of FRI Lords. Among the radicals aghast at Burke's heresy was a FRI young Cumbrian poet, William Wordsworth. But having FRI witnessed the impact of the Terror in Paris for himself, FRI Wordsworth began to turn away from it, later becoming a FRI leading conservative voice in early Victorian Britain. FRI FRI By the 1830s and 1840s, the Industrial Revolution had FRI brought vast changes to British life. It delivered FRI innovation and prosperity, but chaos and disconnection too. FRI In the industrial north of England in particular, unrest was FRI growing. To the great Scottish writer and thinker Thomas FRI Carlyle, it seemed as big a threat as the Revolution in FRI France. In Carlyle's Chelsea Anne finds out how he fought FRI back against the Industrial Revolution and the revolutionary FRI idea it brought in its wake. Carlyle argued that the concept FRI of Utilitarianism was forging a cold new world of atomized FRI individuals. In response, he called for strong leadership FRI and a return to medieval Christian values. FRI FRI In the 1840s, industry, commerce and voting reform gave new FRI power to the cities and the middle classes. But then the FRI feudal aristocracy found an unlikely new champion. Benjamin FRI Disraeli, a dandy Jewish London novelist, drew on the ideas FRI of both Edmund Burke and Thomas Carlyle, and toured the FRI cities of the industrial north, drawing on the suffering he FRI saw in his novels. He set out to revive the romantic idea of FRI rural landowners looking after the poor, and adapt it for FRI the new era. Disraeli found his great cause in the battle FRI over Free Trade. When Prime Minister Robert Peel decided to FRI abolish the tariffs that protected British farmers from FRI foreign corn imports, Disraeli united with rural aristocrat FRI Lord George Bentinck to lead the charge against Peel, FRI arguing that Free Trade would destroy a whole social system. FRI But they lost - and it was Peel's championing of Free Trade FRI which proved the more effective conservative move. His more FRI open approach welcomed the new urban middle classes into FRI politics. FRI FRI By 1864, the troubles of the 1840s had been smoothed away by FRI prosperity. The great Victorian critic John Ruskin was FRI invited to Bradford to advise the prosperous merchants of FRI the town on the style of their new Wool Exchange. But FRI instead Ruskin lambasted them for ditching traditional FRI values of taste and craft. They had become worshippers, he FRI told them, of 'the Goddess of Getting-On.' Anne follows FRI Ruskin to Bradford and discovers how, for this child of FRI south London, the north of England came to represent both FRI the crass prosperity of the time - and a very different FRI vision of life. Ruskin was deeply influenced by William FRI Wordsworth. He moved to the poet's native Lake District and FRI set up guilds to foster an alternative to the factories and FRI mills. He encouraged a return to small communal groups FRI working the land and pursuing traditional crafts. Anne FRI suggests that John Ruskin - like Carlyle and Disraeli - is FRI an example of how some strands of nineteenth century FRI conservatism had a surprising amount in common with FRI socialism, because of their shared hostility to the costs of FRI capitalism. FRI FRI By 1867, Disraeli was Prime Minister, and championed a new FRI Reform Act which gave urban working men the vote. FRI Conservatives of both parties were deeply concerned about FRI what this meant for the future. The leading conservative FRI thinker and future Conservative Prime Minister Lord FRI Salisbury damned the new Act as surrender. He opposed mass FRI democracy, fearing the tyranny of the majority. But other FRI conservatives found a way to appeal to the new voters. They FRI adapted an old Tory tradition - that each class in society FRI should respect the others' pleasures. They began to champion FRI the working man's right to a quiet pint. And a group of FRI 'Tory Democrats' set up the Primrose League - an FRI organization designed to bolster conservatism in ordinary FRI people. At its height, the League amassed a membership of FRI two million, many of them women. All this showed that FRI conservatism and democracy need not be opposites. In the FRI end, even Lord Salisbury was reluctantly reconciled to the FRI new order. FRI FRI With: Professor Richard Bourke, Professor Dinah Birch, Dr FRI Tristram Hunt MP, Professor Jon Lawrence, Professor Richard FRI Aldous, Dr Matthew Roberts, Fern Riddell, Professor Krista FRI Cowman FRI FRI Producer: Phil Tinline. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b0397k82 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b039dbks (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b039dbkv (Listen) FRI Secrecy, Episode 10 FRI FRI Zummo concludes his tale with a final showdown with Stufa. FRI But his story sends Marguerite-Louise on a journey of her FRI own. FRI FRI Readers: Owen Teale and Greta Scacchi FRI Abridger: Jeremy Osborne FRI Producer: Rosalynd Ward FRI A Sweet Talk Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b039ctgh (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b039dbkx (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster, as MPs debate Private FRI Members' Bills. FRI