Go to: SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI
SAT SATURDAY 07 DECEMBER 2013 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b03k2h7m (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b03k2gqd (Listen) SAT Penelope Fitzgerald: A Life, Episode 5 SAT SAT Penelope Fitzgerald's novels were short, spare masterpieces, SAT self-concealing, oblique and subtle. She won the Booker SAT Prize for her novel Offshore in 1979, and her last work, The SAT Blue Flower, was acclaimed as a work of genius. SAT SAT The early novels drew on her own experiences - a boat on the SAT Thames in the 1960s, the BBC in war-time, a failing bookshop SAT in Suffolk, an eccentric stage-school. The later ones opened SAT out to encompass historical worlds which, magically, she SAT seemed to possess entirely: Russia before the Revolution, SAT post-war Italy, Germany in the time of the Romantic writer SAT Novalis. SAT SAT Fitzgerald's life is as various and as cryptic as her SAT fiction. It spans most of the twentieth century, and moves SAT from a Bishop's Palace to a sinking barge, from a demanding SAT intellectual family to hardship and poverty, from a life of SAT teaching and obscurity to a blaze of renown. SAT SAT She was first published at sixty and became famous at SAT eighty. This is a story of lateness, patience and SAT persistence - a private form of heroism. SAT SAT Loved and admired, and increasingly recognised as one of the SAT outstanding novelists of her time, she remains also SAT mysterious and intriguing. She liked to mislead people with SAT a good imitation of an absent-minded old lady, but under SAT that scatty front was a steel-sharp brain and an imagination SAT of wonderful reach. SAT SAT This biography by Hermione Lee pursues Fitzgerald's life, SAT her writing, and her secret self, with fascinated interest. SAT SAT Read by Penelope Wilton SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03k2h7p (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03k2h7r (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03k2h7t (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b03k2h7w (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03k2hjt (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment, prayer and tribute to Nelson Mandela SAT with Lord Harries of Pentregarth. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b03k2hjw (Listen) SAT 'My husband was a child sex offender, but I never knew' - A SAT listener who knew nothing of her husband's crimes speaks to SAT iPM. Your News is read by Robert Peston. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b03k2h7y (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b03k2h80 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b03k29y0 (Listen) SAT Romney Marsh SAT SAT Tales of smuggling and 'lookers huts' unfold as Helen Mark SAT explores Romney Marsh in Kent. Historically, this great SAT coastal marshland was the result of reclamation of land from SAT the sea, and is the site of an on-going battle to drain it SAT and keep the sea from taking it back. Throughout the SAT centuries life on the Marsh had been difficult, but by the SAT 19th century the economy and the landscape was dominated by SAT sheep; the Romney Marsh sheep. Today, alongside the sheep SAT the area boasts a Nuclear power station at Dungeness, SAT sitting in stark contrast to the shingle landscape of the SAT National Nature Reserve it neighbours. This, along with the SAT 14 medieval churches which dot the landscape, is what gives SAT Romney Marsh it's unique character. SAT SAT Produced by Perminder Khatkar. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b03kp2rv (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week SAT SAT The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Jules Benham. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b03k2h82 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b03kp2rx (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Yesterday in SAT Parliament, Sports Desk, Weather and Thought for the Day. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b03kp46y (Listen) SAT Michael Arditti, Judith Kerr SAT SAT Richard Coles and Suzy Klein meet novelist Michael Arditti SAT who talks about faith and the novel, nearly dying after SAT eating goats cheese and his travels around the Philippines SAT researching a book, enjoy the Inheritance Tracks of Judith SAT Kerr who wrote and illustrated, amongst other things, The SAT Tiger Who Came To Tea, talk to Melvyn Evans who fought in SAT Aden in the 1960's and realised, 40 years later, that he was SAT suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and hear from SAT Joe Glackin, a former priest who worked in Liberia with SAT child soldiers and street children. There's more travel with SAT Professor Cathy Warwick CBE, General Secretary of the Royal SAT College of Midwives, who organises midwifery tours of South SAT Africa, a celebration of Martin Wright, the inventor of the SAT peak flow meter, and JP Devlin travels to the recently SAT announced City of Culture 2017, Hull, where he meets some of SAT the locals. SAT SAT Producer: Chris Wilson. SAT SAT 10:30 The Enfield Thunderbolt b03kp470 (Listen) SAT Episode 2 SAT SAT Peter Curran has bought the 40 year old remains of a piece SAT of motoring history. The Enfield 8000 was a prototype SAT electric car built in the early 1970s at the height of the SAT energy crisis, when the British Government feared that the SAT country would grind to a halt at the hands of the oil SAT producing nations of the world. SAT SAT The car was the result of a secret deal brokered between a SAT Greek shipping billionaire and the Electricity Boards, and SAT was aimed at creating a revolution in the way we thought SAT about transportation. SAT SAT The Enfield 8000 was shorter than a Mini but had bold SAT styling and came in a range of classic 70's shades. It was SAT powered by four giant tractor batteries and applied the SAT latest electrical circuitry to control the car. It had no SAT gear stick, just a tiny toggle switch which flicked it SAT instantly from forward to reverse. Just over a hundred SAT vehicles were produced, and enthusiastic early owners talked SAT about its delicate handling, impressive pick up speed and SAT natty aero-dynamics. SAT SAT Peter Curran tells the story of this ground-breaking British SAT car and tries to breathe life into his 40 year old Enfield SAT for one final challenge. SAT SAT Producer: David Prest SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 Week in Westminster b03kp472 (Listen) SAT Steve Richards of The Independent looks behind the scenes at SAT Westminster. SAT SAT Did George Osborne's Autumn statement this week have its SAT sights on the next general election and if so how exactly SAT does the economy influence voting intention. Plus is there a SAT blue print for coming out of Europe and Lord Prescott on how SAT to deputise for the Prime Minister at Question Time. SAT SAT The Editor is Marie Jessel. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b03kp474 (Listen) SAT Mandela: Five Correspondents' Stories SAT SAT Nelson Mandela: a special programme featuring five SAT correspondents who will never forget how their own stories SAT came to coincide with that of the great South African SAT leader, who died on Thursday. Fergal Keane was our man in SAT Johannesburg as Mr Mandela fought to keep his country back SAT from the brink of civil war; John Simpson on the day he met SAT a man who had 'become perhaps the most revered person on SAT earth.' Milton Nkosi recalls the risks taken to keep the SAT name of Nelson Mandela alive in the townships during his SAT long years of imprisonment; Hamilton Wende on what it was SAT like, as a white South African, growing up in a country SAT where even talking of Mr Mandela could be dangerous and SAT James Robbins on the long-awaited day when the man who went SAT on to lead the country was freed from prison and appeared SAT before a jubilant crowd in Cape Town. SAT SAT From Our Own Correspondent is presented by Kate Adie and SAT produced by Tony Grant. SAT SAT 12:00 Money Box b03kp476 (Listen) SAT Energy firms, Autumn Statement, mobile bills SAT SAT Personal finance news with Paul Lewis, including energy SAT firms that keep your money, the Autumn Statement, and the SAT new deal to end sky-high mobile phone bills. SAT SAT 12:30 The News Quiz b03k2gqv (Listen) SAT Series 82, Episode 5 SAT SAT A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi SAT Toksvig. With guests Susan Calman, Justin Moorhouse and Greg SAT Proops joining regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b03k2h84 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b03k2h86 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b03k2gr1 (Listen) SAT Andrew Lansley MP, Tristram Hunt MP, Jeanette Winterson, SAT Paul Johnson SAT SAT Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion SAT from Gloucestershire College, Royal Forest of Dean Campus in SAT Coleford with the Leader of the House of Commons, Andrew SAT Lansley; Shadow Education Secretary, Tristram Hunt; Paul SAT Johnson from the Institute for Fiscal Studies; and the SAT writer, Jeanette Winterson. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b03kp478 (Listen) SAT A chance for Radio 4 listeners to have their say on the SAT issues discussed on Any Questions? SAT SAT 14:30 Saturday Drama b03kp47b (Listen) SAT Angel Maker by Carine Adler SAT SAT Set in mid 1950s, post war London, a time when women had few SAT choices and would be lost without a man to protect them. SAT This was especially true for immigrants like Lili Weiss, a SAT penniless, Jewish Hungarian, who comes to London with her SAT young daughter Rosie in the hope of securing a brighter SAT future for herself and her daughter by marrying Sam, a man SAT whom she had a passionate affair with just after the war. As SAT a development entrepreneur, Sam is rich and powerful and is SAT making a name for himself in the higher echelons of London SAT society. As a Jewish immigrant with no family and no money SAT Lili is at the opposite end of this spectrum. Lili must use SAT her sexuality and charm to encourage Max to go against the SAT prejudice of London society and his own family to take her SAT as his wife. SAT SAT Credits SAT Lili: Anamaria Marinca SAT Sam: Adam Levy SAT Rosie: Ashley Ogden SAT Julia: Harriet Chandler Judd SAT Jean: Edward Akrout SAT Rebecca: Rosina Carbone SAT Jacob: Stuart Richman SAT Mrs Mills: Maggie Fox SAT Writer: Carine Adler SAT Producer: Charlotte Riches SAT Director: Charlotte Riches SAT SAT 15:30 Soul Music b03jznqg (Listen) SAT Series 17, Gymnopedie No 1 SAT SAT From the seat of a concert hall piano, Pascal Rogé, one of SAT the world's greatest interpreters of French piano music, SAT leads us through a personal and musical journey of Erik SAT Satie's Gymnopédies. You may not immediately know the title SAT but in hearing just the first few notes you are most likely SAT to know the music. SAT SAT Erik Satie's Gymnopédies are a collection of short, SAT atmospheric pieces of which Gymnopédie No.1 is perhaps the SAT most popular. Music historian and author Mark Prendergast SAT has studied Satie's work and reveals the complex character SAT of the man who revolutionised the 19th century classical SAT music of Europe. Melbourne based artist Colin Duncan SAT reflects on the music's 'physical form which takes you into SAT space and time' and for him inspired a body of work created SAT in brail. Murder Mystery writer Cathy Ace remembers how this SAT meditative music could shut out the noise of the city as she SAT sped around London in her old brown mini, whilst SAT Mathematician and author Ian Stewart explores the SAT mathematics of this special piece and how music can touch SAT our soul. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b03kp9bj (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour: Barbara Broccoli; Jeff Kinney; Mona SAT Eltahawy SAT SAT Barbara Broccoli on her love of Bond movies and on producing SAT Strangers on a Train for theatre. Jeff Kinney on his Diary SAT of a Wimpy Kid and the books that get boys reading. Who are SAT the new role models for girls? We discuss with Rachel de SAT Souza, Chief Executive of the Inspiration Trust and Holly SAT Baxter from the Vagenda blog. The journalist Mona Eltahawy SAT tells us about the worrying reality for women in Egypt and SAT her hopes for the country. Randi Zuckerberg demystifying SAT technology with her book Dot Complicated. Is it ever okay SAT for audiences at meetings held in universities to be SAT segregated? Sara Khan and Reyana Patel give us their views. SAT SAT Presenter: Jenni Murray SAT Producer: Rebecca Myatt SAT Output Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT 17:00 PM b03kp9bl (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b03k2hjw (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03k2h88 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b03k2h8b (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03k2h8d (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b03kp232 (Listen) SAT Julie Hesmondhalgh, Alan McGee, Dan Patterson, Henning Wehn, SAT Danny Wallace, Samantha Crain SAT SAT Clive's on the cobbles with actress Julie Hesmondhalgh, SAT who's best known for her role on Coronation Street as Hayley SAT Cropper, the first transsexual character in a British SAT serial. As Hayley's story ends, Julie talks to Clive about SAT Hayley's life and its resonance, and about what the future SAT holds for her post Hayley. 'Coronation Street' is on SAT Mondays, Wednesday and Friday at 19.30 on ITV. SAT SAT Clive talks to the German Comedy Ambassador to The United SAT Kingdom, Henning Wehn. This is not the easiest of jobs SAT because Germans allegedly do not have a sense of humour. SAT Henning does not find that funny. He talks to Clive about SAT his new Christmas show 'Henning Knows Bestest', which is at SAT Leicester Square Theatre, London on 8th and 15th December. SAT SAT Danny Wallace talks to Alan McGee, whose role in shaping SAT British musical culture over the past thirty years is hard SAT to overstate. As the co-founder of Creation Records he SAT brought us the bands that defined an era, including My SAT Bloody Valentine and Primal Scream. His autobiography SAT 'Creation Stories' documents the events from leaving school SAT at sixteen to co-founding Creation when he was just SAT twenty-three. SAT SAT Clive Mocks the Week with television producer and writer Dan SAT Patterson, who was responsible for Clive's improvisation SAT show 'Whose Line Is It Anyway?' His new outrageous comedy SAT 'The Duck House' is set in a world of dodgy receipts, SAT dodgier deceit, and pure Parliamentary panic. It's at SAT Vaudeville Theatre, London until 29th March 2014. SAT SAT With music from Oklahoma's Samantha Crain, who performs SAT 'Paint' and 'Somewhere All The Time' from her album 'Kid SAT Face'. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b03kp9bn (Listen) SAT SAT Tom Daley SAT SAT He was one of the poster boys for London 2012. A contributor SAT to Team GB's medal total, associated with dauntingly SAT impressive mid-flight somersaults and skimpy speedos. SAT SAT British Olympic diver Tom Daley has lived most of his life SAT in the public eye since achieving attention as young as ten SAT when he became Britain's youngest diver to win the national SAT championships. SAT SAT Tom Daley is in the media spotlight again this week when he SAT announced via YouTube that he is dating a man. SAT SAT Mark Coles looks at Tom's long list of sporting accolades SAT and his life away from the diving board. SAT SAT Presenter: Mark Coles. SAT Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b03kp9bq (Listen) SAT SAT Emil and the Detectives at the National Theatre; SAT Photorealism exhibition in Birmingham; Nebraska; The Dogs SAT of Littlefield SAT SAT The week's cultural highlights, including Emil and the SAT Detectives at the National Theatre, a photorealism SAT exhibition in Birmingham, and Suzanne Berne's The Dogs of SAT Littlefield. SAT SAT 20:00 Making Mandela b03nxvfh (Listen) SAT Following the death of Nelson Mandela, Laurie Taylor SAT presents a special programme describing how he became a SAT moral icon in Britain. Back in the 1960s, he was virtually SAT unknown in this country. But the efforts of a small group of SAT strategically minded campaigners against apartheid turned SAT him into one of the most recognisable of figures. Laurie SAT tells the remarkable story of Mandela's secret visit to SAT Britain in 1962, and the beginnings of the anti-apartheid SAT campaign in some ramshackle offices. Despite opposition from SAT those who saw Mandela as a terrorist, pure and simple, they SAT managed to focus their campaign around his story and his SAT long imprisonment on Robben Island. Laurie talks to the SAT musicians like Jerry Dammers who celebrated Mandela's SAT birthdays in a series of high-profile concerts and who SAT released the hit single "Free Nelson Mandela." This is the SAT inside story of Nelson Mandela became a hero to an entire SAT British generation. SAT SAT Producer: Tony Phillips. SAT SAT 21:00 The James M Cain Series b03jyp1c (Listen) SAT Double Indemnity SAT SAT Walter Huff has a good steady job in the insurance business SAT and leads a quiet life. Then he meets and falls in love with SAT Phyllis, an unhappily married woman, enquiring about SAT accident insurance for her husband. They come up with a plan SAT in which Phyllis's husband will die an unlikely death, by SAT falling from a moving train. The 'accidental' nature of his SAT demise will trigger the 'double indemnity' clause of the SAT policy, forcing the insurance company to pay the widow twice SAT the normal amount. SAT The couple carry out their plan but things soon turn sour. SAT The Insurance Investigator is suspicious, and so are SAT Phyllis's daughter, and her mysterious boyfriend Nino. SAT SAT Adapted from James M Cain's novel, by Stef Penney SAT SAT A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SAT SAT Credits SAT Walter Huff: Trevor White SAT Phyllis Nirdlinger: Christy Meyer SAT Keyes: Mitchell Mullen SAT Lola: Ashleigh Haddad SAT Nino: Martin T Sherman SAT Author: James M Cain SAT Adaptor: Stef Penney SAT Director: Kate McAll SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b03k2h8g (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Moral Maze b03k21p1 (Listen) SAT Morality on the battlefield SAT SAT This Friday a court martial will sentence Marine A - the SAT sergeant who was found guilty of the murder of a wounded SAT Afghan insurgent. In footage from a helmet camera we heard SAT the Commando shooting the man point blank in the chest with SAT the words: "Shuffle off this mortal coil... It's nothing you SAT wouldn't do to us." He then said to his comrades: "Obviously SAT this doesn't go anywhere, fellas. I just broke the Geneva SAT Convention". With these words you might feel that Marine A SAT was condemned out of his own mouth. His guilt has certainly SAT been established, now perhaps the more morally difficult SAT question of his culpability has to be answered. Is he simply SAT a cold blooded ruthless killer or a man who having been SAT through the horrors of war, momentarily lost his bearings? SAT For almost all of us it's hard to imagine the exhaustion and SAT pressure that soldiers like Marine A have been through and SAT if we were in the same situation, might we too have pulled SAT the trigger? But would any hint of clemency incentivise SAT revenge jihadist attacks and undermine our moral ascendancy SAT over our enemies? If that is the case why are we trying SAT Marine A and not the drone operators who fire missiles which SAT kill innocent bystanders? We rely on our armed forces to SAT fight on our behalf and when needs be, to kill on our behalf SAT too, but how do we ensure they do the right thing? Is it SAT still sufficient to rely on a "band of brothers" military SAT ethos born out of Aristotelian virtue ethics- where we do SAT the right thing out of strength of character that's SAT inculcated through training and regimental honours? Or do SAT the demands of modern warfare, where targets can be an enemy SAT one moment and a civilian the next, mean that we should SAT focus on more sophisticated rules of engagement and legal SAT documents such as the Geneva Conventions? SAT SAT 23:00 Round Britain Quiz b03jz22f (Listen) SAT (12/12) SAT The 2013 season of the lateral thinking quiz reaches its SAT final contest, with Wales hoping to complete a full house of SAT victories this year. Only the Northern Ireland team can stop SAT them sweeping all before them for the fourth time in five SAT years. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe asks the questions, and provides the teams SAT with helpful nudges where necessary - but the more clues he SAT has to give, the fewer the points he awards them for their SAT answers. SAT SAT The Wales team consists of Myfanwy Alexander and David SAT Edwards, while Roisin McAuley and Brian Feeney play for SAT Northern Ireland. SAT SAT For the final contest, by tradition, every question asked in SAT the programme has been submitted by a Round Britain Quiz SAT listener. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT 23:30 The Whitsun Weddings b03jyp1k (Listen) SAT Whitsun Weddings was the title poem of the collection - SAT published 50 years ago - that made Larkin famous. Poet Jean SAT Sprackland, who teaches Larkin and whose father, a SAT librarian, met him professionally, retraces the train SAT journey at the heart of the poem. SAT SAT She considers Larkin's views about marriage, about class and SAT about the 'state of Britain', against the background of the SAT poet's own seemingly quiet life in the provincial town of SAT Hull. SAT SAT For many, Whitsun Weddings is Philip Larkin's most SAT characteristic poem, expressing his detachment from the SAT crowd and from love and marriage of the ordinary sort. SAT SAT With James Booth, Andrew Motion, John Osborne and Larkin's SAT surviving mistress, the 'third woman' Betty Mackereth. SAT SAT Producer: Susan Marling SAT A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 08 DECEMBER 2013 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b03kl41z (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 Afternoon Reading b01292gb (Listen) SUN Three for My Baby, Mighty SUN SUN These stories take their cue from the Johnny Mercer classic SUN 'One For My Baby' - made famous by Fred Astaire, Ella SUN Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday and especially Frank Sinatra. SUN Each of these specially-commissioned pieces tell of a 'brief SUN episode' of the kind the song alludes to but doesn't SUN describe. In other words, these are stories about doomed SUN love: affairs that turned sour, were thwarted by SUN circumstance or were never, ever, going to work. SUN SUN Mighty by Tom Connolly SUN SUN It has been going well for the Man and his lover. So much so SUN that they plan to start a family. But the arrival of a cat SUN in the neighbourhood seems to call his lover back to a SUN painful past ... SUN SUN Tom Connolly is a film-maker and writer. His first novel, SUN The Spider Truces, was published in 2010. This is his first SUN story for Radio 4. He lives in a remote corner of the Rother SUN Valley, in East Sussex. SUN SUN Reader: Tom Goodman-Hill SUN SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03kl421 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03kl423 (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03kl425 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b03kl427 (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b03kpky0 (Listen) SUN The bells of St. Bartholomew the Great, Smithfield in SUN London. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b03kp9bn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b03kl429 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b03kpky2 (Listen) SUN A Special Tribute to Nelson Mandela SUN SUN Mike Wooldridge presents a celebration of the life and SUN career of Nelson Mandela in a special edition of Something SUN Understood with readings by Adjoa Andoh and Colin SUN MacFarlane. SUN SUN In a tribute to the life and extraordinary achievements of SUN Nelson Mandela, Mike Wooldridge presents a portrait of South SUN Africa's great statesman, philanthropist and President SUN through readings of a wide and affecting range of friends SUN and admirers - Desmond Tutu, the late Seamus Heaney, SUN Tanzanian poet and songwriter Nasibu Mwanukusi, as well as SUN Robben Island warder James Gregory and the grandson of the SUN architect of apartheid and ANC supporter Wilhelm Verwoerd. SUN SUN Music is drawn from work Mandela himself was known to love SUN and the enormous range of work written in tribute to him SUN throughout his life. SUN SUN Presenter: Mike Wooldridge SUN Producer: Eley McAinsh SUN A Unique production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b03kpky4 (Listen) SUN A Norfolk Farm on a Plate SUN SUN Anna Hill is in Norfolk on the Blickling Estate to see one SUN farmer's produce end up on her plate - as a traditional SUN roast dinner and a pint of ale. Tony Bambridge is a SUN specialist grower of both seed and ware potatoes which SUN require virgin land each time they are grown. Potatoes are SUN particularly susceptible to pests and pathogens and ensuring SUN that he uses fresh land cuts down on the risks of these SUN affecting his crop. For seed potatoes he must leave a gap of SUN 12 - 15 years so he rents neighbouring farmers' land, SUN fitting into their crop rotations. On his own land he also SUN grows Maris Otter winter barley, which he sells to local SUN microbreweries to produce real ale. His niche crop is SUN horseradish root which goes to local restaurants and shops, SUN and is particularly popular amongst the Jewish community at SUN Passover. Tony's wife Emily breeds Lincoln Red cattle to SUN produce beef which is all sold to the local butcher in SUN Aylsham. All these elements come together at the Saracen's SUN Head, where Anna sits down to a plate of roast beef, roast SUN potatoes, horseradish sauce with a pint of local beer, all SUN produce originating from Tony's farm. SUN SUN Produced by Beatrice Fenton. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b03kl42c (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b03kl42f (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b03kpky6 (Listen) SUN Mandela, Faith Schools, Buddha SUN SUN Sunday morning religious news and current affairs programme. SUN Remembering Mandela SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b03kpky8 (Listen) SUN Women and Children First UK SUN SUN Kathy Lette presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Women and SUN Children First UK. SUN Reg Charity:1085096 To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Women and Children First Radio'. SUN SUN Women and Children First (UK) SUN One woman dies in childbirth and pregnancy every two SUN minutes. Each year around three million babies die before SUN they are one month old, the majority of them in sub-Saharan SUN Africa and South Asia. Most of those who die live in SUN remote villages where there aren’t enough hospitals, SUN midwives or drugs and women lack vital, life-saving SUN information. Whilst many of us consider the birth of a new SUN baby as something to celebrate, in Malawi pregnant women SUN often say they have one foot in the grave. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b03kl42h (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b03kl42k (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b03kpkyb (Listen) SUN The Archbishop of Canterbury, The Most Revd Justin Welby, SUN reflects on the life of Nelson Mandela in a service live SUN from St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square and from the SUN Church of Christ the King, Sophiatown, Johannesburg. SUN SUN Leader: The Revd Dr Sam Wells SUN With: The Revd Neo Motlabane SUN Organist: Michael Cayton SUN Music Director: Andrew Earis SUN Producer: Simon Vivian & Christine Morgan. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b03k2gr3 (Listen) SUN It's Always the Others Who Die SUN SUN Will Self reflects that our modern, secular society has SUN silenced the voices of the dead. As a result, he argues, we SUN fail to appreciate the sacred buildings, art and literature SUN of the past. SUN SUN "Having purged them on the basis that they can furnish no SUN proof of their existence, do we not begin to undermine the SUN capacity of that which they have left behind to also speak SUN to us?" SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b03jz1hj (Listen) SUN Whooper Swan SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is a series of fascinating stories about SUN our British birds inspired by their calls and songs. SUN SUN Chris Packham presents the whooper swan. The elegance and SUN beauty of wild swans has inspired writers and musicians SUN across the centuries - the most familiar perhaps being SUN Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, which may well have been SUN inspired by the Whooper swan. SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b03kpkyd (Listen) SUN We hear how a ship's cook was rescued after spending three SUN days trapped in a sunken tug boat. SUN SUN As Kielder Forest aims to be the first Dark Sky Park in SUN England, we find out what lights are revealed. SUN SUN The renowned bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff explains why he SUN gave up performing opera. SUN SUN Reviewing the Sunday papers this week: actor Robin Ellis, SUN broadcaster Johnny Vaughan and journalist Laura Kuenssberg. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Paddy Oconnell SUN Editor-of-the-Day: Amanda Lewis SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b03kpkyg (Listen) SUN Clarrie wants to heal the rift. Meanwhile, Alistair leads a SUN frantic search. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: Tom Graham SUN Kathy Perks: Hedli Niklaus SUN Jamie Perks: Dan Ciotkowski SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell SUN William Grundy: Philip Molloy SUN Nic Grundy: Becky Wright SUN Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett SUN Oliver Sterling: Michael Cochrane SUN Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler SUN Jim Lloyd: John Rowe SUN Darrell Makepeace: Dan Hagley SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney SUN Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper SUN Director: Kim Greengrass SUN Editor: Julie Beckett SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b03kpkyj (Listen) SUN Barbara Hulanicki SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway is Barbara Hulanicki, designer and SUN creator of Biba. SUN SUN Today her creativity spans fashion, illustration, interior SUN design and architecture but it was the success of the label SUN Biba that first made her name; launching a high street SUN revolution with its opulent-looking but entirely affordable SUN high fashion. According to Twiggy, "she changed fashion in SUN England singlehandedly". SUN SUN A newspaper advert for a £3 pink gingham dress in 1963 SUN kicked things off and by the seventies her London department SUN store was a throbbing temple to all things skinny-fitted in SUN plum, mulberry, green, brown and black. Romantic, SUN mysterious, nostalgic and very profitable. But when it all SUN turned sour with her business partners, she and her husband SUN Fitz walked away, leaving behind the hugely popular creation SUN that had made her name. SUN SUN The fantasy and perfection of her creations were a far cry SUN from the harsh reality of her childhood; born in Poland just SUN before the Second World War, the air of privilege that SUN surrounded her family was traumatically punctured when her SUN father, a diplomat, was assassinated. SUN SUN She says "Now whenever I finish something I take some SUN photographs and say 'goodbye'. When you lose everything, you SUN realise that the only thing you have is what's in your SUN head." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN 12:00 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b03jz22p (Listen) SUN Series 60, Episode 4 SUN SUN The antidote to panel games pays a return visit to the SUN Theatre Royal Drury Lane. Regulars Barry Cryer, Graeme SUN Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by SUN special guest Victoria Wood with Jack Dee in the chair. SUN Colin Sell attempts piano accompaniment. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b03kpkyl (Listen) SUN Bovril SUN SUN Cambridge University historian Lesley Steinitz explains the SUN pioneering story of Bovril. From its beginnings at the end SUN of the 19th Century there are many parallels between Bovril SUN then and our food production today. SUN SUN Robert Opie takes Sheila round the Museum of Brands to see SUN Bovril's strong advertizing campaigns. Pete Simson drinks SUN beef tea with the crowds at a Bristol Rovers game. And SUN Sheila samples a Bovril cocktail. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon and produced in Bristol by Emma SUN Weatherill. SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b03kl42m (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b03kpkyn (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 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03k2gqs (Listen) SUN Wainfleet SUN SUN Eric Robson is in the chair as GQT visits Wainfleet near SUN Skegness. Bunny Guinness, Pippa Greenwood and Matthew Wilson SUN answer the questions from local gardeners. SUN SUN This week's topical tips focus on sowing poppies, and Bunny SUN Guinness visits a local garden with links to Lord Alfred SUN Tennyson and Rudyard Kipling. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon. SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b03kpkys (Listen) SUN Fi Glover introduces conversations ranging from whether to SUN bring up your child as a vegetarian to whether to bring him SUN up with wolves. And then there's whether to be a father in SUN the first place, and the sacrifices and thrills involved if SUN you decide you will. The Sunday Edition of Radio 4's series SUN proves once again that it's surprising what you hear when SUN you listen. SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 The James M Cain Series b03kpkyv (Listen) SUN The Butterfly SUN SUN When Jess Tyler's two-timing wife left him he stayed on at SUN the farm alone, growing corn and going to Church. Nearly SUN twenty years later, a young woman turns up with a suitcase, SUN and there's an immediate attraction between them. The SUN problem is that the young woman is Jess's daughter, Kady. Or SUN is she? Only the butterfly birthmark can settle the question SUN for good. A tale of revenge, murder and forbidden love, SUN adapted by Adrian Bean. SUN SUN A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. SUN SUN Credits SUN Jess Tyler: John Chancer SUN Kady: Ashleigh Haddad SUN Wash: Solomon Mousley SUN Moke Blue: Jess Mash SUN Deputy: Martin T Sherman SUN Director: Kate McAll SUN Adaptor: Adrian Bean SUN Author: James M Cain SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b03kpkyx (Listen) SUN David Vann, Stuart Kelly, Penelope Lively, Suzanne Berne SUN SUN A magic ring, dwarves, elves, monsters and the battle SUN between good and evil - not the Lord of the Rings, but SUN rather The Saga of the Volsungs, the ancient tale believed SUN to have inspired JRR Tolkein. The Saga is one of a newly SUN republished collection of translations of Icelandic myths SUN and epic Anglo Saxon poetry called Legends of the Ancient SUN North. Author and Beowulf behemoth David Vann and Volsung SUN enthusiast and Man Booker judge Stuart Kelly discuss their SUN centuries old appeal. SUN SUN The answer to where authors like to write is often a SUN surprising one. From garden sheds to kitchen tables, trains SUN to coffee bars, the locations favoured for imaginative SUN journeys are as diverse as the novels themselves. In a new SUN series we join writers in their designated sanctum and we SUN begin in the North London home of one of the greats - Dame SUN Penelope Lively SUN SUN Orange Prize winner Suzanne Berne talks to Mariella Frostrup SUN about her latest novel The Dogs of Littlefield. The book is SUN set in Littlefield, Massachusetts, which has been named as SUN one of the 20 Best Places to Live in America, but tension SUN lurks under the surface and boils over via the issue of the SUN rights of the town's dog-owners. Suzanne explains why she SUN decided a dog's life was the way to explore small town SUN America. SUN SUN Producer: Andrea Kidd. SUN SUN 16:30 A Notebook on Aime Cesaire b03kpkyz (Listen) SUN When poet and politician Aimé Césaire died at the age of 94 SUN in 2008, it robbed the Caribbean island of Martinique of its SUN most articulate and powerful voice. He was a prolific writer SUN - of poetry, plays and essays - and served as Mayor of SUN Martinique's capital Fort-de-France for over 50 years, as SUN well as representing Martinique in the French National SUN Assembly for 45 years. Aimé Césaire dedicated his life, in SUN print and in public, to his people and his island. SUN SUN Aimé Césaire would have been 100 this year, and to walk SUN around Fort-de-France is to be confronted with his image on SUN almost every street, as Martinique honours his centenary and SUN comes to terms with his loss and his legacy. SUN SUN Although a potent critic of colonialism, Césaire was central SUN in advocating for Martinique to become a département of SUN France in 1946 - not a dominion or an independent nation, SUN but an equal part of the French Republic. Thus, in part, was SUN created the Martinique of today, a Gallic outpost in the SUN Caribbean, fully part of the European Union, and where the SUN currency is the Euro. But while the official language may be SUN French, the lingua franca is Creole. SUN SUN Perhaps Césaire's most celebrated work is the long poem SUN Notebook of a Return to My Native Land (Cahiers d'un retour SUN au pays natal), a fragmentary, excoriating meditation on the SUN predicament of colonial Martinique. Begun in 1936, after SUN Césaire had spent several years in France, it is in Notebook SUN of a Return to My Native Land that he first employed the SUN term that would become inseparable from his name: Négritude. SUN Developed with fellow Francophone intellectuals in Paris in SUN the 1930s, Négritude was an influential literary and SUN ideological movement marked by a rejection of colonialism in SUN favour of a common black identity, rooted in Africa and as SUN such possessed of a shared historical context. SUN SUN Using extracts from Notebook of a Return to My Native Land, SUN this programme sketches a fragmentary portrait of Aimé SUN Césaire in his centenary year, and also of Martinique SUN itself, since to talk about one is necessarily to talk about SUN the other. SUN SUN Featuring Christian Lapousiniere, director of the Césaire SUN Study and Research Centre, filmmaker Euzhan Palcy, SUN anthropologists Richard and Sally Price, and Dominique SUN Taffin, director of the Martinique National Archive. SUN SUN Includes readings by John Norton. SUN Producer: Martin Williams. SUN SUN 17:00 Cry Freehold b03k0s5q (Listen) SUN There is a housing crisis in many parts of Britain. But is SUN land the real issue? Chris Bowlby goes to Oxford, where the SUN problem is acute, to investigate. SUN SUN He hears how a dynamic city can end up with virtually SUN nowhere to build, how land prices help make homes so costly SUN and how land shortage creates invisible victims. SUN SUN Producer: Lucy Proctor. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b03kp9bn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b03kl42p (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b03kl42r (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03kl42t (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b03kpkz1 (Listen) SUN Sheila McClennon chooses the best of the previous seven days SUN of BBC Radio. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b03kpkz3 (Listen) SUN Shula struggles with her emotions. Meanwhile Rosa cannot SUN cope. SUN SUN 19:15 Meet David Sedaris b03kp2kh (Listen) SUN Series 4, Repeat After Me SUN SUN One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC SUN Radio 4 doing what he does best. SUN SUN This week, a story dealing with the guilt he sometimes feels SUN as a result of writing stories about his family in "Repeat SUN After Me" and some more extracts from his hilarious diary. SUN SUN Producer: Steve Doherty SUN A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 19:45 Through the Wardrobe b03kpl7r (Listen) SUN The Rosy Rural Ruby SUN SUN In tribute to Belfast-born C.S. Lewis who died fifty years SUN ago on 22nd November 1963, three new short stories take us SUN though doors and portals into unexpected worlds and SUN situations. While novelist and playwright Lucy Caldwell SUN charts a defining moment in the life of someone struggling SUN with their sense of identity, a woman gets to know her SUN neighbours a little more intimately than she could ever have SUN expected in a story from novelist and screenwriter Glenn SUN Patterson. And finally in a new story from Frank Cottrell SUN Boyce we discover what might happen if C.S. Lewis himself SUN were to discover an opening to another world. What might SUN such a world contain? SUN SUN The Rosy Rural Ruby by Frank Cottrell Boyce SUN Read by David Troughton SUN Produced in Belfast by Heather Larmour SUN SUN 20:00 Feedback b03kk9bp (Listen) SUN Did Radio 4 devote far too much airtime this week to the SUN marital strife of a cook and an ad man? That's the view of SUN many Feedback listeners who complained that the BBC became SUN more gossip-mag than public service broadcaster in its SUN coverage of Nigella Lawson and Charles Saatchi's very public SUN divorce. SUN SUN Also, why has Radio 4 been asking sailors how they get their SUN weather information? Does this signal the beginning of the SUN end for The Shipping Forecast? Network manager Denis Nowlan SUN eases listeners' fears. SUN SUN And we wander the lanes of Ambridge with the Archers SUN Archivist, Camilla Fisher and long-term writer Jo Toye, who SUN give us the lowdown on how they ensure all the characters SUN are in the right place at the right time. SUN SUN Producer: Will Yates SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b03kk6bp (Listen) SUN Paul Ausseresses, Olivia Robertson, Noel Woodall, Hugh de SUN Wardener, Junior Murvin SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The French General Paul Aussaresses who admitted to taking SUN part in summary executions and torture during the Algerian SUN War of Independence. SUN SUN Olivia Robertson, the flamboyant Archpriestess of the SUN Fellowship of Isis, who worked to bring feminine influence SUN into religion in her castle in Ireland. SUN SUN Noel Woodall, the car number plate expert whose passion SUN became a billion pound industry. SUN SUN Professor Hugh de Wardener, the pioneering kidney specialist SUN who treated inmates in a Japanese prisoner of war camp. SUN SUN And reggae singer Junior Murvin, best known for his song SUN Police and Thieves. SUN SUN Due to the death of Nelson Mandela, Last Word will not be SUN broadcast this Friday afternoon. SUN You can listen to the programme in its usual repeat slot on SUN Sunday evening at 8.30pm. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b03kp476 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b03kpky8 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b03k2k7y (Listen) SUN Longevity War Game SUN SUN In Newcastle if you live in a well off area you are likely SUN to have eleven more healthy years then if you reside in a SUN more deprived part of the city just a few miles away. These SUN figures are replicated in areas all over Britain. Peter Day SUN attends a Newcastle University war game put together to try SUN and find a way to bridge this gap by 50% in ten years with SUN no extra money. Can they come up with new solutions or will SUN the exercise just highlight how big a problem the country SUN faces as the population ages? SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b03kpl7t (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 b03kpl7w (Listen) SUN Dennis Sewell of the Spectator looks at how papers covered SUN the week's biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b03k29y2 (Listen) SUN Kill Your Darlings; Nebraska; A Long Way From Home; BIFA SUN Awards SUN SUN Francine Stock talks to Daniel Radcliffe and Dane Dehaan SUN about Kill Your Darlings in which Radcliffe plays beat poet SUN Allen Ginsberg. SUN SUN Plus Sideways director Alexander Payne on his new film SUN Nebraska starring Bruce Dern. Shot in black and white, it SUN charts a father and son's road journey across the mid West SUN to claim a non-existent sweep stake prize. SUN SUN And James Fox on A Long Way From Home, a portrayal of a SUN marriage under strain after a couple retires to the south of SUN France. SUN SUN Plus a look at the best of British film making as we examine SUN the nominations for the British Independent Film Awards. SUN SUN Producer: Hilary Dunn. SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b03kpky2 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 09 DECEMBER 2013 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b03kl446 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b03k21nl (Listen) MON Tooth Loss; Communist Utopia in a Spanish Village MON MON Communist 'utopia' in a Spanish village. Laurie Taylor talks MON to the writer, Dan Hancox, about his research into a tiny MON community in Andalucia which set out to create an MON egalitarian enclave after the demise of General Franco. Does MON the reality match the dream? They're joined by the social MON geographer, Helen Jarvis. Also, the health researcher, MON Nicolette Rousseau, discusses the experience and meaning of MON tooth loss and replacement. MON MON Producer:Jayne Egerton. MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b03kpky0 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03kl449 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03kl44c (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03kl44f (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b03kl44h (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03kpnjg (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the MON Most Rev George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b03kpnjj (Listen) MON The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b03kl44k (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5b9c (Listen) MON Long-Tailed Duck 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 Chris Packham presents the long-tailed duck. The musical MON call of the long-tailed duck gives it the Scottish name of MON 'calloo', or 'coal- and-candlelight'. In the UK you're more MON likely to see them in Scotland and northern England where MON they seek out shellfish, diving up to 60 metres to retrieve MON them. MON MON 06:00 Today b03kpnjl (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b03kpnjn (Listen) MON The Building Blocks of Life and Intelligence MON MON On Start the Week Anne McElvoy talks to the geneticist MON Alison Woollard about the extraordinary developments in MON biological science in the last decade, and how switching on MON and off certain genes could improve and extend life. The MON psychologist Kathryn Asbury studies the vexed question of MON nature and nurture, and whether a better understanding of MON genetic influence can improve children's education. MON Professor Roger Kneebone explains the role of jazz MON improvisation in the operating theatre, and what recreating MON surgery from the 1980s can teach modern clinicians. Raiding MON the past for hidden gems fascinates the conductor Sir Mark MON Elder as he prepares to bring operatic rarities to a new MON audience. MON MON Producer: Katy Hickman. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b03nxwz2 (Listen) MON Long Walk to Freedom, Episode 1 MON MON Published in 1995, Long Walk to Freedom is Nelson Mandela's MON own story of his journey from his birth in 1918 in a tiny MON village in the Transkei, and an idyllic childhood, through MON his life as a young lawyer in the bustling city of MON Johannesburg under apartheid, increasing politicisation by MON his experiences in the city, membership of the African MON National Congress, arrest and 27 years' imprisonment, to MON release and eventual election as President in South Africa's MON first national, non-racial, one-person-one-vote election. MON MON This extraordinary story is read by the South African actor MON John Kani who first came to prominence in Europe in the MON plays 'Sizwe Bansi is Dead' for which he won a Tony in New MON York, and The Island which he co-wrote. He received an MON Olivier award for 'My Children My Africa.' MON MON The music at the beginning of the programme is the South MON African National Anthem, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika. MON MON Abridged by Michelene Wandor MON MON Produced by Chris Wallis MON A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b03kpnjs (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON The Politics of Christmas MON We’re talking about the politics of organising your family MON Christmas. How harmonious are the negotiations in your MON family? Do you love getting everyone together or resent MON every moment? And what about present buying - who makes the MON rules on what to buy and how much to spend? Are you happy to MON go along with the majority or are you fed up with others MON dictating YOUR Christmas? Ulrika Jonsson, Presenter and mum MON of 4, talks to Jane about how to cope with the politics of MON Christmas. MON MON Artist: Liliane Lijn MON MON Liliane Lijn is the only woman shortlisted this year for MON the Fourth Plinth. If chosen, she will be the 3rd female MON artist to exhibit, following Rachel Whiteread and the MON incumbent artist Katharina Fritsch. The announcement will MON be made in January, and the decision is made by a panel of MON experts. She is also the author of the piece Moonmeme MON which will be showing in London in the New Year. MON MON Powerlister: Marisa Drew MON MON Marisa Drew is one of the leading movers and shakers in the MON heady world of corporate finance. She currently works at MON Credit Suisse where she is the company’s most senior female MON investment banker in Europe, responsible for multi-billion MON pound deals and it won’t surprise you to know that she is MON also on the Woman’s Hour powerlist. MON MON Archive: Winnie Mandela MON MON We hear a 1986 archive interview with Nelson Mandela’s first MON wife Winnie, in which she talks about first becoming aware MON of Mandela and what he was trying to achieve. MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03kpnjv (Listen) MON The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 1 MON MON Sam starts the year observing people gambling with dice at MON the Groom Porter's but doesn't venture a wager himself. Then MON his cousin, Anthony Joyce, asks to borrow £350 to rebuild MON his house after the Great Fire, but before Sam can decide, MON Anthony tries to take his own life by jumping in a pond. He MON survives initially but succumbs to a fever. Sam helps his MON widow by persuading the King not to take all her goods, as MON is the custom in the case of suicide. Adapted by Hattie MON Naylor. MON MON Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by MON Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany MON Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David MON Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by MON Alice Baxter. MON MON Historical consultant: Liza Picard MON Sound by Nigel Lewis MON MON A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. MON MON Credits MON Samuel Pepys: Kris Marshall MON Elizabeth Pepys: Katherine Jakeways MON Will: John Biddle MON Debs: Aimee-Ffion Edwards MON Mrs Joyce: Eiry Thomas MON James, Duke of York: Ewan Bailey MON Prince Rupert: Matthew Gravelle MON Director: Kate McAll MON Producer: Kate McAll MON Writer: Hattie Naylor MON MON 11:00 Riding the Graphene Wave b03kpnjx (Listen) MON Construction work is underway to build a world-class MON laboratory at Manchester University. Costing £61m, the MON National Graphene Institute aims to be the world's leading MON centre of graphene research and commercialisation. MON MON Graphene is super-strong and super-conductive - it's often MON called a 'wonder material' - and it was invented in MON Manchester by Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov, who won a MON Nobel prize for their work. The city takes great pride in MON the discovery, seeing a direct line of descent from its MON legacy of industrial invention, and has awarded the two MON scientists the freedom of the city in recognition of their MON work. MON MON Gerry Northam finds out how the the UK is competing in the MON global market as Korea, China and the USA pour money into MON the patenting and commercialisation of Manchester's magic MON material. What will it take for graphene to move out of the MON laboratory and into the commercial world? MON MON Investors are running the numbers to work out which MON applications are most ready for go-to-market products, and MON which countries are making fastest progress in finding ways MON to manufacturer graphene. Can graphene give the UK a MON significant new role in the 21st century global economy? MON MON Producer: Philip Reevell MON A City Broadcasting production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 11:30 Ed Reardon's Week b03kpnjz (Listen) MON Series 9, Intellectual Fireworks MON MON Ed appears to have stepped on the gravy train at last as he MON takes up a professorship at Much Wenlock Court - a MON prestigious writing retreat. He hopes this will lead him to, MON at the very least, a contentious Saturday Essay on the Today MON Programme. However, this retreat has been set up by one Jaz MON Milvain so could Ed's change in fortune be too good to be MON true? MON MON Written by Andrew Nickolds and Christopher Douglas MON Produced by Dawn Ellis. MON MON Credits MON Ed Reardon: Christopher Douglas MON Olive: Stephanie Cole MON Ned: Jonathan Coy MON Newsreader: Corrie Corfield MON Jaz: Philip Jackson MON Rosemary: Felicity Montagu MON Maureen: Carolyn Pickles MON Suki: Nicola Sanderson MON Waitress: Nicola Sanderson MON Pearl: Alison Steadman MON Ping: Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Lisa: Barunka O'Shaughnessy MON Stan: Geoffrey Whitehead MON Writer: Andrew Nickolds MON Writer: Christopher Douglas MON Producer: Dawn Ellis MON MON 12:00 You and Yours b03kpnk1 (Listen) MON Fund manager charges, social supermarkets, champagne taste MON tests MON MON Winifred Robinson presents Radio 4's consumer programme and MON looks at the hidden charges made by the people who run your MON pension fund or ISA investment. Also the new "social" MON supermarket that sells food to registered customers at MON significantly reduced prices. And the surprising results in MON champagne taste tests conducted by scientists at Oxford and MON London universities. MON MON 12:57 Weather b03kl44m (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b03kl44p (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 A Cause for Caroling b03kpnk3 (Listen) MON A Carol's a Carol, to Begin With MON MON The first programme in a ten part series in which choral MON conductor and scholar Jeremy Summerly tells the story of the MON Christmas Carol in Britain. He begins by trying to capture MON something of the caroling traditions of today and then heads MON back into the misty caroling past discovering what he MON believes is the first carol in the English language. MON MON Producer:Tom Alban. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b03kpkz3 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03kpnk5 (Listen) MON Fearless MON MON On April 1st 2013, an aspiring young journalist went to live MON on the streets of Newcastle for one week. He never came MON home. His dead body was found, three days later, in a MON derelict, boarded-up hostel. MON MON As part of a job application for a TV investigative MON journalism post, 26 year old Lee Halpin decided to tell the MON story of the recent rise in homelessness by sleeping rough MON and relying on the services open to the homeless for his MON survival. The job advert asked applicants for an example of MON a 'fearless approach to a story'. MON MON 'Fearless' is the story of a talented young man eager to MON escape the confines of Newcastle, impatient to discover what MON would define him, and egged on by the gauntlet of MON fearlessness. He set out on one of the coldest weeks of the MON year, informing only five people of his plans, forgoing a MON phone and other luxuries in his pursuit for authenticity. MON MON Through intimate interviews with the people who knew him MON best and those that were filming him over the three days, as MON well as dramatisations, 'Fearless' pieces together what MON happened to Lee and why it was so important to him to pursue MON the story at all costs. MON MON Producer: Gemma Newby MON A Goldhawk production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Lee Halpin: Billy Jeffries MON Chris: Neil Grainger MON Hayley: Meghan Doyle MON Danny: Chris Connel MON Pete (Homeless man 1): Donald McBride MON Lenny (Homeless man 2): Alan Renwick MON Margo: Jackie Phillips MON Cyrenian worker: Jackie Phillips MON Producer: Gemma Newby MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b03kpnk7 (Listen) MON (1/17) MON Russell Davies welcomes the first four contestants in the MON quest for the 2014 Brain of Britain. MON MON Forty-eight competitors from all over Britain take part this MON winter, with the eventual winner being named the sixty-first MON Brain of Britain champion in the spring of 2014. The MON longest-running general knowledge quiz on British radio is MON still the title every serious quiz contestant wants to win. MON MON Whether it's science, history, music, mythology, popular MON culture, literature or sport, there's no telling what the MON next question will be about, and no clever strategies to MON resort to if you don't know the answer. There's a point for MON every correct answer and a bonus point for getting five MON right in a row. There are no other rules! MON MON The programme also offers the chance for a listener to 'Beat MON the Brains' by suggesting questions which might be more than MON a match for the combined knowledge of the contestants. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b03kpkyl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Bryan Ferry's Jazz Age b03kpy59 (Listen) MON In 1955 at the age of ten, Bryan Ferry developed a passion MON for jazz music. Listening to his radio in Washington, County MON Durham, he was transported from rural North East England to MON 1920s New Orleans and Cotton Club, New York. British Trad MON Jazz was booming, with Humphrey Lyttelton, Chris Barber and MON Ken Collier offering a gateway to the 'yellow cocktail' MON music of Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington and Charlie Parker. MON MON Now Bryan has returned to his earliest musical love with MON 'The Jazz Age', a record that remakes and remodels some of MON his biggest Roxy Music hits in the style of instrumental 20s MON jazz standards. MON MON Bryan takes us back to his first concert at Newcastle City MON Hall to see the Chris Barber band and reveals how a MON performance of St Louis Blues caught his imagination. MON Trombonist Chris Barber describes how he brought music from MON the Deep South to rapturous British audiences. MON MON Newcastle music historian Chris Phipps traces the mythical MON connection between the Mississippi and the Tyne, while Bryan MON shares his memories of a vibrant, modernist city where he MON studied fine art. The city still shows traces of its jazz MON heritage, including J G Windows, the record shop where Bryan MON bought his 78s including the Charlie Parker Quintet's EP MON whose solos he learnt by heart. MON MON It wasn't just the jazz age of the 20s that inspired Bryan, MON but its literature too. He recently contributed to the MON soundtrack of Baz Luhrmann's Great Gatsby, the film of one MON of his favourite novels. MON MON With live recordings from his recent UK tour with The Bryan MON Ferry Jazz Orchestra, Bryan reflects on Roxy Music's early MON years and explains how his grounding in jazz helped him lead MON one of the most influential British bands of all time. MON MON Producer: Paul Smith MON A Just Radio production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 The Infinite Monkey Cage b03kpy5c (Listen) MON Series 9, To Infinity and Beyond MON MON This week on the Infinite Monkey Cage, Brian Cox and Robin MON Ince are joined by comedy producer John Lloyd, mathematician MON Colva Roney Dougal and writer Simon Singh, to explore the MON universality of mathematics, the nature of infinity and the MON role of numbers in everyday life. Producer: Rami Tzabar. MON MON 17:00 PM b03kpy5f (Listen) MON Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03kl44t (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b03kpy5w (Listen) MON Series 60, Episode 5 MON MON The godfather of all panel shows pays a visit to the Milton MON Keynes Theatre. Old-timers Barry Cryer, Graeme Garden and MON Tim Brooke-Taylor are joined on the panel by David Mitchell, MON with Jack Dee in the chair. Colin Sell accompanies on the MON piano. MON MON Producer - Jon Naismith. MON MON 19:00 The Archers b03kpy65 (Listen) MON Jennifer and Jess begin to bond. Meanwhile Clarrie tries to MON keep the peace. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b03kv4k7 (Listen) MON Producer: Tim Prosser. MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03kpnjv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Whatever Happened to Community? b03kpy6k (Listen) MON Nostalgia MON MON Giles Fraser has left a glittering job as Canon Chancellor MON of St Paul's Cathedral and is now working as the priest of a MON run-down parish in Elephant and Castle. This has set him MON thinking about the nature of community, which he MON investigates in this very personal series. MON MON In our digital, global age, we look back with misty eyes to MON a 'golden age' of community in the 1950s. But our anxiety MON about lost community is nothing new. MON MON In 1836, Augustus Pugin published Contrasts, a book of MON architectural drawings comparing the buildings of the MON medieval community with those of the industrial revolution. MON In response to what he saw as the urban decay and social MON rootlessness created by the industrial revolution, Pugin set MON about re-inventing the architecture of medieval community, MON initiating the Gothic revival. This wasn't simply about MON highly decorated churches with pointy arches, it was a MON wholesale programme of social and moral reform - a return to MON some imagined 'golden age' where people lived at ease with MON each other in stable and religiously engaged communities MON with shared values. MON MON Giles travels to North Staffordshire, often known as MON 'Pugin-land' because of the high concentration of Pugin's MON buildings, to explore how many in the 19th century wanted to MON return to medieval forms of community. He argues that this MON is not dissimilar to the nostalgia many people feel today in MON response to globalisation and social churn. MON MON And in the struggling former pottery town of Stoke on Trent MON he talks to MP Tristram Hunt about contemporary anxiety over MON community, and challenges a former BNP councillor nostalgic MON for a past with few immigrants and full employment. MON MON Producer: Jane Greenwood. MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b03k29xr (Listen) MON India: Resisting Rape MON MON One year on from the horrific attack in Delhi, Joanna Jolly MON hears from three women who've chosen to report a rape in a MON country that is at last waking up to the problem. The MON authorities have introduced tougher laws since the young MON student was raped on a bus last December but is the MON experience of women who choose to prosecute their attackers MON getting any better? Three women talk about their struggle: MON reporting rape to a not always sympathetic police, being MON examined in the government's often overcrowded hospitals and MON finally standing up in court. MON MON Joanna Jolly talks to the senior policewoman running the MON Delhi's Women and Children's Unit, a leading gynaecologist MON who has treated rape victims in the city and to those who've MON worked in the Indian legal system. MON MON Will the public outcry over the attack over a year ago make MON it easier for women to report rape and will their experience MON of India's overburdened courts be any better? MON MON Producer: Mark Savage. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b03jznqc (Listen) MON Ocean Pollutants MON MON Sea lions in California are developing cancer and the most MON likely cause is pollution in the ocean. As world population MON grows and demands on agriculture increase, can we control MON the amount of damaging chemicals entering rivers and then MON being taken into the sea? Many of these agricultural and MON industrial chemicals are long lasting and highly toxic and, MON although officially banned, substances like DDT and PCBs are MON still in use in some areas. As pressure grows to control MON diseases in order to feed a growing world, solutions have to MON be found to stop these harmful chemicals damaging wildlife. MON Monty Don explores the problems of keeping our coastal MON waters free of toxins. Can we grow food and control disease MON while still protecting wildlife? MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b03kpnjn (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b03kl44y (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b03kpy6w (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03kqbl9 (Listen) MON Truman Capote Short Stories, A Christmas Memory: Part One MON MON 'Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter MON morning ...' MON MON Truman Capote considered 'A Christmas Memory' one of his MON best works of fiction. Kerry Shale reads the first of two MON parts as seven-year old Buddy and his best friend, the MON elderly Miss Sook, prepare for the festive season. MON MON '"Oh my" she exclaims, "It's fruitcake weather. Buddy, stop MON stuffing biscuit and fetch our buggy. We've thirty cakes to MON bake."' MON MON Read by Kerry Shale MON MON Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall. MON A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 23:00 Mastertapes b03j9np4 (Listen) MON Series 3, Soul II Soul (the A-Side) MON MON John Wilson talks to Jazzie B and Caron Wheeler of Soul II MON Soul about their 1989 album 'Club Classics Vol 1' including MON the global hit Back to Life. Including exclusive performance MON by the whole band. MON MON Soul II Soul is one of the most successful British black MON groups of all time. Their ethos of 'a happy face, a thumping MON bass for a loving race' and the sound of their debut album, MON released in 1989, defined a time and place in the UK's MON musical history. Featuring the huge hits 'Back To Life' and MON 'Keep On Moving' the album took London's multicultural MON underground club culture into the mainstream and achieved MON worldwide success. 'Club Classics' mixed the sounds of a MON burgeoning DJ scene with Jazzie B's distinctly British take MON on rap and the colossal vocal talents of Caron Wheeler. MON MON Complete versions of the songs performed in the programme MON (and others) can be heard on the 'Mastertapes' pages on the MON Radio 4 website, where the programmes can also be downloaded MON and other musical goodies accessed. MON MON Mastertapes is new programme in which John Wilson talks to MON leading performers and songwriters about the album that made MON them or changed them. Recorded in front of a live audience MON at the BBC's iconic Maida Vale Studios. Each edition MON includes two episodes, with John initially quizzing the MON artist about the album in question, and then, in the B-side, MON the audience puts the questions. Both editions feature MON exclusive live performances. MON MON The B-side of this programme, where it's the turn of the MON audience to ask the questions, can be heard tomorrow at MON 3.30pm. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b03kpy6y (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 10 DECEMBER 2013 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b03kl45y (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b03nxwz2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03kl460 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03kl462 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03kl464 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b03kl466 (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03kqbqb (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the TUE Most Rev George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b03kqbqd (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Jules Benham. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5bgq (Listen) TUE Gadwall 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 Chris Packham presents the gadwall. Gadwall were rare ducks TUE until a few decades ago, now though, gadwall are spreading TUE fast in the UK. Gadwall can be sneaky thieves, exhibiting TUE what scientists call klepto-parasitic tendencies. They often TUE wait for birds such as coot and mute swans to bring up TUE aquatic vegetation beyond their reach and seize it before TUE their victims can eat it themselves. TUE TUE 06:00 Today b03kqbqg (Listen) TUE News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday TUE in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Making of the Modern Arab World b03kqbqj (Listen) TUE Episode 1 TUE TUE Egyptian author Tarek Osman uncovers the history of the TUE modern Arab world by tracing some of the great political TUE dreams that have shaped it, from the nineteenth century to TUE the Arab Spring. TUE TUE Throughout the series, he focuses on two countries that are TUE currently high on the news agenda: Egypt and Syria. As Tarek TUE discovers, these are also the states from which many of the TUE crucial characters and ideas in this story emerged. TUE TUE In the first episode, Tarek takes us back to Egypt's early TUE nineteenth century encounters with Europe. TUE TUE He traces the journey of the Islamic scholar al-Tahtawi, who TUE spent several years in Paris in the 1820s. There he was TUE deeply struck by many exotic aspects of French culture, from TUE constitutional governance, through forms of dress and dance, TUE to newspapers. Back in Egypt, he became part of a burgeoning TUE push to modernise his home country. TUE TUE And Tarek visits what is now a major Cairo hotel, but in TUE 1869 was a vast neoclassical palace, newly built to host the TUE celebrations for the opening of the Suez Canal. Sitting on TUE the garden terrace, he hears of the delights of 'the TUE century's grandest party'. TUE TUE Through scenes like this, he explores how, in the late TUE nineteenth and early twentieth century, even as the Ottoman, TUE British and French Empires asserted their power in the Arab TUE world, a cultural renaissance was spreading. TUE TUE It brought an explosion in literacy, campaigns for women's TUE rights, and a flowering of artistic creativity from novels TUE to cinema. TUE TUE But the First World War saw Britain and France cut a secret TUE deal to divide parts of the Arab world between them. And the TUE reassertion of colonial power after the war brought major TUE rebellions, such as the 1919 Egyptian Revolution and the TUE 1925-7 Syrian rising against the French. TUE TUE As Tarek hears, these were in the minds of some of those TUE who, in 2011, took to the streets to protest against their TUE rulers. TUE TUE And so Tarek traces how, in the years between the world TUE wars, what some historians call the liberal period in the TUE Arab world began to lose credibility. TUE TUE After all, the lives of the growing Arab middle-class might TUE have been enriched by the Nahda, but many ordinary people TUE remained impoverished. And many still chafed against TUE colonial power. TUE TUE And so new, harder-edged ideas began to emerge. TUE TUE In 1928, a young teacher called Hasan al-Banna founded the TUE Muslim Brotherhood in Ismailiya in northern Egypt, to oppose TUE the cultural dominance of the West and reassert Islamic TUE values. TUE TUE And meanwhile, a much more secular vision of a better future TUE for the Arab world was taking shape too: Arab nationalism. TUE TUE PRODUCER: Phil Tinline. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b03nxx63 (Listen) TUE Long Walk to Freedom, Episode 2 TUE TUE Working in a law firm in Johannesburg and doing a degree, Mr TUE Mandela becomes interested in politics and is soon involved TUE with the ANC, the party fighting for black rights. TUE TUE Abridged by Michelene Wandor TUE Produced by Chris Wallis TUE A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b03kqdzy (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03kqf00 (Listen) TUE The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 2 TUE TUE Sam buys a pornographic book in French but then burns it TUE (after reading). At the theatre he is so enraptured by some TUE music that it reminds him of how he felt when he first fell TUE in love with Elizabeth. Meanwhile, he's been preparing his TUE defence of the Navy Board to Parliament and can't sleep the TUE night before his speech. Elizabeth comforts him in the early TUE hours and in the morning he has a dram of brandy for TUE courage. The speech is a triumph. TUE TUE Historical consultant: Liza Picard TUE Sound by Nigel Lewis TUE TUE A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b03kqf02 (Listen) TUE Eco-Tourism TUE TUE Humans in the form of scientific research or for artistic TUE endeavour have for centuries travelled the world in search TUE of new landscapes and places. It was not until the arrival TUE of cheap air travel in the 1970's that far flung remote TUE areas became accessible to anyone. Seeing and engaging with TUE a wild landscape or animal has been shown to improve our TUE desire to protect nature. But as the sheer numbers of people TUE travelling to see wildlife spectacles increases, is it TUE possible that the wildlife they have come to see may be TUE changing their behaviour in response to this pressure. This TUE week's field report comes a whale and dolphin watching trip TUE in the Azores where tourist boats head off in search of a TUE once in a lifetime wildlife spectacle. TUE TUE Producer Andrew Dawes. TUE TUE 11:30 Soul Music b03kqf04 (Listen) TUE Series 17, Can't Take My Eyes Off You TUE TUE Few songs can claim to be - quite literally - as far TUE reaching as the 1967 classic 'Can't Take My Eyes off You'. TUE In this edition of Radio 4's 'Soul Music', we hear from TUE former astronaut Christopher Ferguson who heard this song as TUE an early morning wake-up call aboard the space shuttle TUE Endeavour. And from mum of two Michelle Noakes who sang this TUE classic piece to the baby she was told she may never be able TUE to carry. We also hear from the honeymoon couple whose TUE marriage proposal began with a hundred strong 'flash mob' TUE performance of this track and from Frankie Valli himself, TUE who reflects on one of the most moving performances he ever TUE gave when he sang 'Can't Take My Eyes off You' to a crowd of TUE recently returned Vietnam Veterans. DJ Mark Radcliff recalls TUE the many artists since Valli that have covered this song TUE (not least his mum as she sang along to the Andy Williams TUE version) and composer Bob Gaudio tells us how this now TUE universally famous piece of music began life in a room over TUE looking Central Park with a melody originally penned for a TUE children's nursery rhyme. TUE TUE Producer: Nicola Humphries. TUE TUE 12:00 You and Yours b03kqf06 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in with Winifred Robinson. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b03kl468 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b03kl46b (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 A Cause for Caroling b03kqf08 (Listen) TUE Spreading the Medieval Word Made Flesh TUE TUE The second programme in Jeremy Summerly's ten part series TUE tracing the history of the Christmas Carol in Britain. Today TUE he discovers the impact of the Franciscans in using the TUE carol to make the birth of Jesus a focus for the church and TUE harnessing the energy of popular music to that end. TUE TUE Producer: Tom Alban. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b03kpy65 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03ln04f (Listen) TUE The Morpeth Carol TUE TUE by Timothy X. Atack. TUE TUE 9 year old Harry goes on a mysterious Christmas Eve road TUE trip with a very unusual and very dangerous Santa. TUE TUE Directed by Marc Beeby TUE TUE Nine-year-old Harry lives on the edge of a housing estate in TUE an un-named Northern town, a serious and intelligent lad TUE with a troubled mum and dad. Late on Christmas Eve he TUE escapes his rowing parents and ventures out into the night. TUE and on a snow-covered precinct in between high-rises he TUE finds what looks like a crashed sled, burning presents TUE scattered in its wake, and mortally wounded reindeer all TUE around. There's also a very scary looking man, gaunt, TUE unshaven and hooded, who skulks around the crash site, TUE finishing off the dying animals with a shotgun... TUE TUE The Writer TUE TUE Tim Atack is a writer, musician and film-maker based in TUE Bristol. His work has been commissioned by Paines Plough, TUE Bristol Old Vic, BAC, Arnolfini and BBC Film Lab amongst TUE others. TUE TUE He's a founder member of the performance group Sleepdogs, TUE and his short film All My Dreams On VHS won the audience TUE award at NexT International Film Festival 2009 in Bucharest. TUE His one-man show The Bullet and the Bass Trombone was TUE recently to be seen at The Shed - the National Theatre's new TUE space - following a nationwide tour. TUE TUE In the past he has toured with the comedians Matt Lucas and TUE David Walliams, writing the music for several of their TV TUE and radio projects. He is currently developing a comedy TUE series for television, Dave, Consumed By Fire with Simon TUE Winstone and Tony Jordan at Red Planet Pictures. TUE TUE Credits TUE Harry: Paul Copley TUE Young Harry: Ellis Hollins TUE The Man: Alun Raglan TUE Yvonne: Rachel Davies TUE Mum: Philippa Stanton TUE Dad: Paul Stonehouse TUE Policeman 1: Matthew Watson TUE Policeman 2: David Seddon TUE Writer: Timothy X Atack TUE Director: Marc Beeby TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b03kqfzv (Listen) TUE Series 5, Dover TUE TUE Jay Rayner and the team are in Dover for this episode of TUE Radio 4's culinary panel programme. TUE TUE A local audience poses questions on all aspects of cooking TUE and eating. TUE TUE Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun. TUE TUE Produced by Peggy Sutton. TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 15:30 Mastertapes b03jb1wf (Listen) TUE Series 3, Soul II Soul (the B-Side) TUE TUE Soul II Soul, the B-side. Having discussed the making of TUE "Club Classics Vol 1", the breakthrough album from Soul II TUE Soul (in the A-side of the programme, broadcast on Monday TUE 25th November and available online), Jazzie B and Caron TUE Wheeler respond to questions from the audience. Jazzie talks TUE more about his own roots as a musician and Soul II Soul TUE perform live versions of tracks from the album. TUE TUE 16:00 Data, Data Everywhere... b03kqfzx (Listen) TUE From the Tesco Clubcard to the Large Hadron Collider, from TUE internet searches to genetic science, from social networks TUE to government services - these days they all generate data, TUE huge quantities of it. TUE TUE The greatest intellectual challenge faced by many TUE organisations today is how not to be overwhelmed by data, TUE and instead how to select and analyse the data that matters. TUE TUE Future intellectual history may well regard the period we're TUE in now as the 'data decade'. Timandra Harkness explores the TUE challenges and the opportunities through talking to those in TUE a variety of fields who are seeking to tackle them. TUE TUE Producer: Martin Rosenbaum. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b03kqfzz (Listen) TUE Series 32, Ricky Ross on Hank Williams TUE TUE A new series of Great Lives with Matthew Parris begins with TUE the life of the 'Hillbilly Shakespeare' Hank Williams as TUE chosen by Deacon Blue singer Ricky Ross. Williams is TUE regarded as being the prototype rock star and continues to TUE be hugely influential on musicians today despite a short TUE recording career of just six years before he died at the age TUE of 29 TUE TUE Producer: Maggie Ayre. TUE TUE 17:00 PM b03kqg01 (Listen) TUE Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03kl46d (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 That Mitchell and Webb Sound b03kqg03 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Episode 3 TUE TUE Comedy sketches from the quirky world of David Mitchell and TUE Robert Webb. TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b03kqg05 (Listen) TUE Neil offers to help, and who is the mysterious visitor at TUE Ambridge Hall? TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b03kqg07 (Listen) TUE Mark Lawson presents a mix of reviews and interviews from TUE the arts world. Tonight he samples the Christmas singles TUE releases and reviews the latest instalment of the Hobbit TUE film franchise. TUE TUE Producer: Claire Bartleet. TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03kqf00 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Inside the Fed b03kqg09 (Listen) TUE The US Federal Reserve - America's central bank - is 100 TUE years old. Simon Jack tells the surprising story of an TUE institution which despite crashes and crises is a TUE cornerstone of the global economy. TUE TUE With rare access to the Federal Reserve itself Simon talks TUE to some of those who have been intimately involved with it TUE over the decades. TUE TUE He discovers some unlikely tales in the Fed's struggle to TUE maintain its independence and he finds out what things were TUE really like there during the worst of the financial crisis TUE in 2008. TUE TUE Producer: Sandra Kanthal. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b03kqg0c (Listen) TUE Peter White with news and information for blind and TUE partially sighted people. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b03kqg0f (Listen) TUE How do you change teenagers negative body images? TUE Psychological strategies can help young people defend TUE themselves against unrealistic expectations and stop them TUE "fat talking". Claudia Hammond reports on a new study. TUE TUE 21:30 The Making of the Modern Arab World b03kqbqj (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b03kl46g (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b03kqhzs (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03kqhzv (Listen) TUE Truman Capote Short Stories, A Christmas Memory: Part Two TUE TUE The second part of 'A Christmas Memory', one of Truman TUE Capote's favourite stories. TUE TUE In the woods, Buddy and Miss Sook search for a tree. '"It TUE should be" muses my friend, "twice as tall as a boy. So a TUE boy can't steal the star." The one we pick is twice as tall TUE as me.' TUE TUE Read by Kerry Shale TUE TUE Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall TUE A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 23:00 The Infinite Monkey Cage b03kpy5c (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Monday] TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b03kqhzx (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 11 DECEMBER 2013 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b03kl47d (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b03nxx63 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03kl47g (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03kl47j (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03kl47l (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b03kl47n (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03ktyzx (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the WED Most Rev George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b03ktyzz (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Lucy Bikerton. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5bk0 (Listen) WED Water Rail 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 Chris Packham presents the water rail. Water rails are very WED secretive and live in thick vegetation in marshes and fens WED where the birds breed. The adult birds look rather like WED small moorhens but with chestnut on top, a blue-grey face WED and a zebra-stripe patch on their sides. They have long WED blood-red bills used for probing for insects. WED WED 06:00 Today b03ktz01 (Listen) WED News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday WED in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b03ktz03 (Listen) WED Lively and diverse conversation. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b03nxxf2 (Listen) WED Long Walk to Freedom, Episode 3 WED WED Mr Mandela's involvement with the ANC leads to his arrest WED and trial for High Treason. WED WED Abridged by Michelene Wandor WED Produced by Chris Wallis WED A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b03ktz07 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03ktz09 (Listen) WED The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 3 WED WED Sam and Mrs Knipp visit the Tower of London to see the Crown WED Jewels. Later, in the dark, in the ruins of St Dunstan, they WED escape a pair of robbers. Sam and Elizabeth set off for a WED tour of the West Country, including the hot springs at Bath WED but Sam doesn't think the water can be very clean, with so WED many bodies in it. His eyes are starting to hurt now and he WED begins to fear that he's losing his sight. Adapted by Hattie WED Naylor. WED WED A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. WED WED 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b03ktz0c (Listen) WED Series 15, Rooms for Rent WED WED Alan Dein returns with more extraordinary stories of WED ordinary life in Britain. In Rooms for Rent, he meets Helga WED and her daughter Melody in a small Norfolk town who, ever WED since husband - a Cliff Richard impersonator - upped sticks WED and left, rent out rooms. They've got two men in situ, and a WED newcomer has just turned up. WED WED But as the 'family' gather round the communal dinnertable, WED they dream of a fulfilling future beyond this often noisy WED house of song and dance. And how will the five of them get WED on as the Christmas season sets everyone on edge? WED WED Producers: Sarah Bowen and Simon Elmes WED WED 11:30 Believe It! b03ktz0f (Listen) WED Series 2, Victor WED WED Jon Canter's "radiography" of Richard Wilson returns for a WED second series. WED WED Celebrity autobiographies are everywhere. Richard Wilson has WED always said he'd never write one. Based on glimmers of WED truth, Believe It is the hilarious, bizarre, revealing (and, WED most importantly, untrue) celebrity autobiography of Richard WED Wilson. WED WED He narrates the series with his characteristic dead-pan WED delivery, weaving in and out of dramatised scenes from his WED fictional life-story. He plays a heavily exaggerated version WED of himself: a Scots actor and national treasure, unmarried, WED private, passionate about politics, theatre and Manchester WED United (all true), who's a confidant of the powerful and has WED survived childhood poverty, a drunken father, years of WED fruitless grind, too much success, monstrosity, addiction, WED charity work and fierce rivalry with Sean Connery and Ian WED McKellan (not true). WED WED The title - in case you hadn't spotted - is an unashamed WED reference his famous catchphrase. WED WED Written by Jon Canter WED Produced and Directed by Clive Brill WED A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Richard Wilson WED Terry Savage: Simon Greenall WED Francois Mattieu: Simon Greenall WED Bob Geldof: Lewis Macleod WED Margaret Thatcher: Steve Nallon WED Jorgen: Steve Nallon WED Mickey Mouse: David Tennant WED Lisa McTaggart: Jane Slavin WED Old Woman: Jane Slavin WED Tabitha: Lotte Rice WED Sheila Goldenberg: Samantha Spiro WED Writer: Jon Canter WED Producer: Clive Brill WED WED 12:00 You and Yours b03ktz0h (Listen) WED Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. WED WED 12:57 Weather b03kl47q (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b03kl47s (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 A Cause for Caroling b03ktz0k (Listen) WED From Coventry to Agincourt WED WED In the third programme in the series Jeremy finds a WED developing professionalism in carol singing and writing in WED the details of a manuscript held by Cambridge University, WED and he reveals the background of the Coventry carol's WED mystery play setting. The combination of energetic drama and WED more refined singing men makes this period a caroling golden WED age but with clouds on the horizon. WED WED Producer: Tom Alban. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b03kqg05 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b011zn6g (Listen) WED The People Next Door WED WED by Shelley Silas. WED WED directed by Mary Peate. WED WED Sarah has never much liked her next-door-neighbours Samuel WED and Teresa - he plays his music too loud and she's just WED plain creepy, but are they as weird as Sarah thinks, or is WED she just letting her imagination run away with her? Husband WED James is sure it's the latter. WED WED Credits WED Sarah: Claire Rushbrook WED James: Nicholas Gleaves WED Samuel: Sean Baker WED Teresa: Marlene Sidaway WED Car mechanic: Alun Raglan WED Writer: Shelley Silas WED Producer: Mary Peate WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b03ktz0m (Listen) WED Saving and Investing for Children WED WED Saving or investing for children? For the best rates on cash WED accounts or to ask about investing in equities call 03700 WED 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail WED moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED WED Where can you find the best interest rate for children? WED WED What are the rules about tax? WED WED How much can you save into a Junior ISA? WED WED Should you consider investing in equities? WED WED Whatever your question presenter Ruth Alexander will be WED ready to help, with guests: WED WED Jason Hollands, Bestinvest WED WED Christine Ross, SG Hambros WED WED Sylvia Waycott, Moneyfacts WED WED To talk to the team call 03700 100 444 between 1pm and WED 3.30pm on Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Standard geographic charges apply. Calls from mobiles may be WED higher. WED WED Presenter: Ruth Alexander WED Producer: Diane Richardson. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b03kqg0f (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b03ktz0p (Listen) WED Chicago; Pocket Calculator in Papua New Guinea WED WED The Great American City - US Professor of Social Sciences, WED Robert J Sampson, discusses his landmark research project WED with Laurie Taylor. Following in the influential tradition WED of the Chicago School of urban studies, but updating it for WED the twenty-first century, he argues that communities do WED still matter because life is decisively shaped by where we WED live. Neighbourhoods influences a wide variety of phenomena WED including teen births, altruism and crime. Not even national WED crisis can destroy the enduring impact of place. WED WED Also, the anthropologist, Anthony Pickles, reveals the WED significance of pockets for controlling money in Highland WED Papua New Guinea. WED WED Producer: Jayne Egerton. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b03ktz0r (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED Producer: Katy Takatsuki. WED WED 17:00 PM b03ktz0t (Listen) WED Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03kl47v (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 What Does the K Stand For? b03ktz0w (Listen) WED First Love WED WED Young Stephen falls in love, makes a self-discovery and WED breaks his first heart. WED WED Violin ... Rachel Barnes WED WED Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits WED Himself: Stephen K Amos WED Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah WED Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna WED Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas WED Vincent Amos: Don Gilet WED Miss Collins: Gemma Whelan WED Fanni: Emerald O'Hanrahan WED PE Teacher: Harry Jardine WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 19:00 The Archers b03ktz0y (Listen) WED Tom seeks advice, and Jess springs a surprise on Helen. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b03ktz10 (Listen) WED Mark Lawson with the daily programme on the worlds of arts, WED literature, film and music WED WED Producer: Rebecca Nicolson. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03ktz09 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] WED WED 20:00 Moral Maze b03ktz12 (Listen) WED Combative, provocative and engaging debate chaired by WED Michael Buerk. With Michael Portillo, Melanie Phillips, WED Kenan Malik and Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Pop-Up Ideas b03l3sh9 (Listen) WED Series 2, Tim Harford: The Power of Maps WED WED Tim Harford returns with a new series of Pop Up Ideas. This WED time Tim and his guests tell intriguing stories inspired by WED maps. WED WED In the first talk, Tim argues that maps - for all their WED beauty - can in fact be dangerous. In the hands of powerful WED people the map, Tim says, begins to shape the world in its WED image. WED WED He tells the story of the 18th-century Saxon forester Johann WED Gottlieb Beckmann, who mapped the German forests. He WED developed the idea of the "normalbaum", a kind of platonic WED ideal of what a tree should be, which could be planted in WED neat rows to make mapping and harvesting them easier. WED WED It appeared to be a brilliant idea and produced WED unprecedented growth in the forestry business. But the WED forests came to resemble the map - with all its uniformity - WED and eventually the lack of diversity led to the destruction WED of the forests themselves. WED WED Tim then looks at the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) WED which operated in Depression-era America. They drew up maps WED to decide who needed help with mortgages. Slabs of blue, WED green, yellow or red were superimposed on maps of the great WED American cities. The blue blocks were grade A WED neighbourhoods, a safe bet for lending. The red blocks were WED African-Americans neighbourhoods. If you lived in a red WED area, whatever your circumstances, you would not get help. WED WED "Let's be clear what's going on here" says Tim. "A tax-payer WED backed organisation refusing to grant credit to people, not WED because of their credit history, not because of their WED ability to repay, not even because of their need. But just WED because of where they lived on the map." WED WED Producer: Adele Armstrong. WED WED 21:00 Frontiers b03ktz14 (Listen) WED Geoengineering is a controversial approach to dealing with WED climate change. Gaia Vince explores putting chemicals in the WED stratosphere to stop solar energy reaching the earth. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b03ktz03 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b03kl47x (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b03ktz16 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03ktz18 (Listen) WED Truman Capote Short Stories, The Thanksgiving Visitor: Part WED One WED WED 'The Thanksgiving Visitor,' Part 1. Sook invites Buddy's WED worst enemy to their special dinner. WED WED 'Talk about mean! Odd Henderson was the meanest human WED creature in my experience ... alas I was the object of his WED relentless attentions.' WED WED Read by Kerry Shale WED WED Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall WED A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 23:00 Political Animals b03ktz1b (Listen) WED Series 2, Barney and George WED WED by Tony Bagley. WED WED 2. Barney and George WED WED The second in a series of four talks giving an unreliable WED dog's eye view of the trials and tribulations of living in WED the White House. Today, Barney reveals how George broke his WED heart by being unfaithful with a man called Tony. WED WED Directed by Marc Beeby. WED WED Credits WED Barney: Jonathan Forbes WED Writer: Tony Bagley WED Director: Marc Beeby WED WED 23:15 Bird Island b01jxslg (Listen) WED Episode 2 WED WED On one hand, Ben is on the trip of a lifetime to WED Sub-Antartica. On the other, he's trapped in an icy hell WED with one other person, a dodgy internet connection and a WED dictaphone. Loneliness is something of a problem. His fellow WED travelling scientist Graham should alleviate this, but the WED tragi-comic fact is, they are nerdy blokes, so they can only WED stumble through yet another awkward exchange. Ben WED experiences all the highs and lows that this beautiful, but WED lonely place has to offer but fails miserably to communicate WED this to Graham. So, Ben shares his thoughts with us in the WED form of an audio 'log'. WED WED Apart from his research studying the Albatross on the WED Island, Ben attempts to continue normal life with an WED earnestness and enthusiasm which is ultimately very WED endearing. We're with him as chats awkwardly with Graham, WED telephones his mother and as he tries to form a long WED distance relationship with a woman through Chemistry.com. In WED fact, we follow Ben as everything occurs to him. We also WED hear the pings and whirrs of machinery, the Squawks and WED screeches of the birds and the vast expanse outside. Oh, and WED ice. Lots of ice. WED WED EPISDE TWO: WED Bird Island is the story of Ben, a young scientist working WED in Antarctica, trying to socially adapt to the loneliness by WED keeping a cheery audio diary on his Dictaphone. An WED atmospheric 15 minute non audience comedy. WED Ben and Graham are short on food supplies and can't radio WED main base. Tensions rise as they are forced to survive on WED porridge. WED WED Written by ..... Katy Wix WED Produced by ..... Tilusha Ghelani. WED WED Credits WED Ben: Reece Shearsmith WED Graham: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED D'Angelo: Jot Davies WED Producer: Tilusha Ghelani WED Writer: Katy Wix WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b03ktz1d (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports on Prime Minister's Questions and the WED rest of the day's events. WED WED THU THURSDAY 12 DECEMBER 2013 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b03kl48w (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b03nxxf2 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03kl48y (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03kl490 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03kl492 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b03kl494 (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03kv0cd (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the THU Most Rev George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b03kv0cg (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5bnl (Listen) THU Mute Swan 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 Chris Packham presents the Mute Swan. Mute Swans are deeply THU embedded in our culture. They are unique among British birds THU because the Crown retains the rights of ownership of all THU unmarked mute swans in open water. Since the 15th century, THU an annual census of mute swans has been held annually on the THU River Thames. THU THU 06:00 Today b03kv0cj (Listen) THU News and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, Yesterday THU in Parliament, Weather, Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 In Our Time b03kv0cl (Listen) THU Pliny the Younger THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the life and work of THU Pliny the Younger, famous for his letters. A prominent THU lawyer in Rome in the first century AD, Pliny later became THU governor of the province of Bithynia, on the Black Sea coast THU of modern Turkey. Throughout his career he was a prolific THU letter-writer, sharing his thoughts with great THU contemporaries including Tacitus, and asking the advice of THU the Emperor Trajan. Pliny's letters offer fascinating THU insights into life in Ancient Rome, from the mundane details THU of irrigation schemes to his vivid eyewitness account of the THU eruption of Vesuvius. THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b03nxxn5 (Listen) THU Long Walk to Freedom, Episode 4 THU THU Gone underground as an organiserfor the ANC, using the name THU David Motsamayi, Mr Mandela is asked to set up a military THU wing of the organisation. THU THU Abridged by Michelene Wandor THU Produced by Chris Wallis THU A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b03kv1ds (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03kv1dv (Listen) THU The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 4 THU THU Sam writes a letter to the Duke of York laying out his THU suggestions for reform of the Navy Board; the Duke is THU delighted and signs the letter as his own. Elizabeth is THU upset to hear that Sam has been gadding about while she's THU been away but that's nothing compared to what happens when THU she walks in on him in the act of fondling Debs, the maid. THU Adapted by Hattie Naylor. THU THU A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b03kv1dx (Listen) THU Indonesia's humungous healthcare plan THU THU On 1 January 2014 Indonesia will launch the largest public THU health insurance scheme in the world. It will unite a THU bewildering array of current schemes to cover the entire THU population, with the poor getting their health care free. THU Former BBC Jakarta Correspondent Claire Bolderson asks THU whether the world's fourth most populous country has the THU resources and organisational skills to make such an THU ambitious scheme work? THU Producer: Mike Gallagher. THU THU 11:30 Precious Metal b03kv1dz (Listen) THU The skills of the silversmith are some of the oldest known THU to man. The creation of beautiful objects in precious metal THU is an endlessly versatile art form - objects can be tactile, THU weighty or beguilingly delicate. Their making is spectacular THU and violent - bashing with hammers, filing, cutting, heating THU red hot and polishing to perfection. The art of the THU silversmith is a hard-won product of skill, passion and THU patience. THU THU It's also a strange world that brings together ancient and THU modern -with fiercely guarded craft skills, solitary makers, THU workshops filled with traditional tools as well as the THU latest in digital technologies and precision engineering. THU THU Silversmithing is also one of Britain's quiet success THU stories. The country is now the global centre for THU contemporary metalwork, attracting students and skilled THU silversmiths from all over the world. Awareness of this new THU mood in metalworking is growing - museums are developing THU collections, British metalworkers are achieving ever-greater THU international accolades and independent training centres are THU committed to growing the craft. THU THU Martin Ellis explores the world and work of a number of THU leading contemporary silversmiths, discovering how they work THU the precious metal to express their vision and tell their THU stories - from sacred chalices raised out of flat sheets of THU silver, to intricate objects reflecting back the life of THU rock pools, and fabulously be-jewelled ceremonial scabbard THU to mysterious silver spoons. He investigates how new THU generations of silversmiths are learning ancient techniques THU and how processes like Computer Aided Design and 3D printing THU offer new opportunities and new challenges to the modern THU silversmith. THU THU Producer: Mike Greenwood THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 You and Yours b03kv1f1 (Listen) THU Consumer news with Winifred Robinson. THU THU 12:57 Weather b03kl496 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b03kl498 (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 A Cause for Caroling b03kv1f3 (Listen) THU Carol Crisis? What Crisis? THU THU In the fourth programme in the series Jeremy describes the THU impact of the Reformation and later Puritan attitudes to THU music in general and carols in particular. The development THU of the Medieval carol may have been arrested but there was THU never a serious threat to folk caroling and it wasn't long THU after the Commonwealth that carols, or rather one particular THU carol, was back in church. THU THU Producer: Tom Alban. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b03ktz0y (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03kv26x (Listen) THU Pilgrim, Parsons Mount THU THU By Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU Episode 4: Parsons Mount THU THU Pilgrim's quest for the Radiant Boy forces him to travel to THU the one place he has been forbidden to go THU THU Sound ..... Colin Guthrie THU Directed by Marc Beeby. THU THU Credits THU William Palmer: Paul Hilton THU Hecht: James Fleet THU Millie: Amaka Okafor THU Chloe: Lizzy Watts THU carlton: John Norton THU Stringer: Joel MacCormack THU Piano: Colin Guthrie THU Director: Marc Beeby THU Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz THU THU 15:00 Open Country b03kv26z (Listen) THU Shropshire Union Canal THU THU Felicity Evans travels along the backwaters of the THU Shropshire Union Canal meeting people who've adopted a new THU area as their own. THU THU Starting out near Beeston she joins Wirral Autistic Society THU who have adopted a 2 mile stretch of the canal, which THU they've used regularly, to maintain its upkeep. She sets to THU work and finds out how it's changed how they feel about the THU area. THU THU Along the way she helps monitor the hedgerows which were THU introduced when the canals were created to stop stock THU entering the waterways. Now many sections are in poor THU condition but they need to be improved to help a rare moth THU which has adopted it as its own. THU THU Travelling on to Ellesmere Port and the National Waterways THU Museum finds out who still use the canals and how a new THU generation are learning the traditional skills to rebuild THU and restore heritage boats. THU THU Produced in Bristol by Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b03kpky8 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b03kpkyx (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b03kv271 (Listen) THU Ken Loach; Xmas gifts from the film world THU THU Francine Stock joins Ken Loach in the cutting room of his THU latest feature film. He explains why editing reel to reel THU remains the best method for his work despite the increasing THU scarcity of materials. Plus a pick of the best Christmas THU gifts from the film world with Catherine Bray and Jason THU Solomons. THU THU Producer: Elaine Lester THU THU 16:30 Inside Science b03kv273 (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 b03kv275 (Listen) THU Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03kl49b (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 The Secret World b03kv277 (Listen) THU Series 4, Episode 3 THU THU The impression show with a difference. This week, Mary Berry THU from Bake Off has to deal with a baking-related dispute THU between Ray Winstone and Bob Hoskins. Olympic director Danny THU Boyle is tasked with rescuing a cat from a tree, and James THU Naughtie seeks counselling from poet Roger McGough. THU THU With Jon Culshaw, Julian Dutton, Lewis MacLeod, Jess THU Robinson, Debra Stephenson and Duncan Wisbey. THU THU Producer: Bill Dare THU THU 19:00 The Archers b03kv279 (Listen) THU Shula makes a shocking discovery. Meanwhile Ed has a plan. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b03kv27c (Listen) THU John Wilson is live from the BBC buildings in Salford for THU the unveiling of a new work of art that will adorn the THU City's skyline. THU THU Producer: Ekene Akalawu. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03kv1dv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b03kv27f (Listen) THU Roma migration THU THU Last month the former Home Secretary David Blunkett warned THU that tensions between Sheffield's Roma and their more THU established neighbours could lead to "an explosion". But, THU with estimates of as many as 200,000 Roma in the UK, such THU tensions aren't confined to Sheffield. So is enough being THU done to help ease their integration? Andrew Fletcher reports THU on how local authorities are coping with the arrival of THU large numbers of Roma migrants and asks why the UK has THU missed out on European funds that might have helped. And, THU with Britain's labour market opening to Bulgaria and Romania THU in January, will there be extra pressures in areas already THU experiencing community tensions? THU THU Producer: Rob Cave. THU THU 20:30 In Business b03kv48v (Listen) THU Workload THU THU Once there were quotas for employing disabled people. Now THU there is equality legislation and protection from THU discrimination in the workplace. Employers are THU ultra-sensitive about this but what does it actually mean THU for people with disabilities and the people they work with? THU Peter Day finds out. THU THU 21:00 Inside Science b03kv273 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b03kv0cl (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b03kl49d (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b03kv48x (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03kv48z (Listen) THU Truman Capote Short Stories, The Thanksgiving Visitor: Part THU Two THU THU 'The Thanksgiving Visitor' Part 2. THU THU 'I felt Odd Henderson before I saw him: with the sense of THU peril that warns an experienced woodsman say of an impending THU encounter with a bobcat. To others he must have seemed THU simply a grubby twelve-year-old boy. But to me he was as THU sinister as a genie released from a bottle.' THU THU Read by Kerry Shale THU THU Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall THU A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 23:00 Alice's Wunderland b03kv491 (Listen) THU Series 2, Episode 1 THU THU A trip to the woods of Wunderland, the Poundland of magical THU realms. This week, it's the Wunderwoods Widderday. THU THU Sketch show by Alice Lowe. THU THU Also starring Richard Glover, Simon Greenall, Rachel THU Stubbings, Clare Thomson and Marcia Warren. THU THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b03kv493 (Listen) THU Rachel Byrne reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 13 DECEMBER 2013 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b03kl4bl (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b03nxxn5 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b03kl4bn (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b03kl4bq (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b03kl4bs (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b03kl4bv (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b03kv6ks (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day, with the FRI Most Rev George Stack, Archbishop of Cardiff. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b03kv6kv (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Lucy Bickerton. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b03k5br7 (Listen) FRI Brent Goose 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 Chris Packham presents the brent goose. Brent Geese are our FRI smallest wild geese and are unmistakable with their rather FRI funereal colours, blackish heads and grey backs with a wisp FRI of white on the neck. Strangford Lough in Northern Ireland FRI is a very important wintering site for Brent Geese. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b03kv6kx (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b03kpkyj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b03nxy5r (Listen) FRI Long Walk to Freedom, Episode 5 FRI FRI After 20 years' imprisonment on Robben Island, the political FRI situation is changing and Mr Mandela is moved suddenly to a FRI prison on the mainland. FRI FRI Abridged by Michelene Wandor FRI Produced by Chris Wallis FRI A Watershed production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b03kv6l1 (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b03kv6l3 (Listen) FRI The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Episode 5 FRI FRI Elizabeth is furious with Sam over his affair with the maid FRI and refuses to wash. She's still not sure what she saw but FRI gets Debs to confess. Elizabeth wants Debs to be thrown out FRI and a reluctant Sam agrees. Adapted by Hattie Naylor. FRI FRI Theme music: Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May, words by FRI Robert Herrick and music by William Lawes, sung by Bethany FRI Hughes. Lute, baroque guitar and theorbo played by David FRI Miller. Violin and viol by Annika Gray, and recorders by FRI Alice Baxter. FRI FRI Historical consultant: Liza Picard FRI Sound by Nigel Lewis FRI FRI A BBC/Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll. FRI FRI 11:00 Sons and Lovers b03kv8hg (Listen) FRI With Sons and Lovers, D.H. Lawrence announced himself as a FRI major player on the national and international literary FRI scene. FRI FRI The book - the first in a series of novels featuring the FRI character Paul Morel - drew heavily on Lawrence's own life FRI growing up in a Nottinghamshire mining village, and helped FRI establish him as one of the most venerated novelists of the FRI first half of the twentieth century. FRI FRI Since then though, Lawrence's reputation has suffered a FRI series of major assaults from those portraying him as FRI aggressively misogynistic and a misanthropic. FRI FRI A hundred years on from the book's publication, Frank FRI Cottrell Boyce sets out to explain why he thinks Sons and FRI Lovers deserves to be rescued from the bonfire that has FRI engulfed Lawrence's reputation. It is, he argues, a landmark FRI novel filled with extraordinary moments of tenderness that FRI treats its characters as fully realised human beings with FRI profound spiritual and intellectual yearnings. FRI FRI Frank returns to St Helen's, the former mining town where he FRI grew up, to make the case that Paul Morel and his family are FRI characters who deserve to live on in our reading lives for FRI another hundred years at least. FRI FRI Producer: Geoff Bird FRI A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 11:30 On the Rocks b03kvby1 (Listen) FRI Movies FRI FRI by Christopher William Hill. It's 1937 on the remote Scilly FRI Island of St. Martin's, where the islanders are resisting FRI the attempts of the Penzance GPO man to modernise the post FRI office - around which their world revolves. FRI FRI Episode 3: Movies. Morwenna is bored of island life. FRI FRI Directed by Mary Peate. FRI FRI Sound by Jenni Burnett, Anne Bunting and Caleb Knightley FRI Production Co-ordinator, Jessica Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank Gunwallow: Joseph Kloska FRI Mary: Bec Applebee FRI Grace: Christine Absalom FRI Tommy: Stuart Fox FRI Ben: Alex Palmer FRI Len: Ed Gaughan FRI Tregarthan: Peter Marinker FRI Morwenna: Alex Tregear FRI Pender: Christopher William Hill FRI Director: Mary Peate FRI Producer: Mary Peate FRI Writer: Christopher William Hill FRI FRI 12:00 You and Yours b03kvby3 (Listen) FRI Consumer news with Peter White. FRI FRI 12:52 The Listening Project b03kvby5 (Listen) FRI Margaret and Monica - Dust to Dust FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about the rights and FRI wrongs of cremation that gets a little heated before the FRI friends agree to differ, proving once again that it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b03kl4bx (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b03kl4bz (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 A Cause for Caroling b03kvby7 (Listen) FRI The Ghosts of the West Gallery FRI FRI In the fifth programme of his series telling the story of FRI the Christmas Carol Jeremy Summerly visits Dorchester where FRI Thomas Hardy captured the caroling tradition that had FRI matured through the 17th and 18th century but which faced FRI extinction in the 19th. The West Gallery tradition of FRI musicians and singers in parish churches was an integral FRI part of community life in Hardy's Wessex as elsewhere. FRI Jeremy explains the origins of that tradition and the FRI fuguing carols so beloved at the time and why it was that FRI their days were numbered. FRI Along with folk musician Tim Laycock he gets to see the FRI carol manuscripts from which Hardy's great grandfather FRI played and sang on Christmas night in 1800. FRI FRI Producer: Tom Alban. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b03kv279 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b03kvby9 (Listen) FRI Helen, by Virginia Gilbert FRI FRI A journalist is accused of molesting his stepdaughter in FRI this powerful drama starring Ed Stoppard and Lia Williams, FRI and introducing Lucy Cook as Helen. FRI FRI Following his divorce, David lives alone with his twelve FRI year-old daughter Helen. Clara, Helen's mother, has FRI remarried Tom, a successful journalist. Helen sees them at FRI weekends and for holidays. When Helen, seemingly out of the FRI blue, makes a shocking and violent accusation against Tom, FRI claiming he's molested her, it has devastating results for FRI everyone involved. FRI FRI Helen is a powerful, contemporary drama about a family torn FRI apart by anger, weakness and resentment. The play explores FRI the damage we so easily do to those we love. Is Helen FRI telling the truth? And if she isn't, can the damage ever be FRI repaired? FRI FRI Starring Ed Stoppard and Lia Williams, and introducing Lucy FRI Cook as Helen. FRI FRI David: Ed Stoppard FRI Clara: Lia Williams FRI Helen: Lucy Cook FRI Tom: Richard Lumsden FRI Dr Feldman: Jack Klaff FRI Sarah: Ashley Jensen FRI Max: Steve Toussaint FRI Louise: Priyanga Burford FRI Jamie: Arthur Hughes FRI Writer: Virginia Gilbert FRI Director: David Neville FRI Producer: David Neville FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b03kvbyc (Listen) FRI The Millennium Seed Bank at Wakefield Place FRI FRI Eric Robson hosts GQT from The Millennium Seed Bank at FRI Wakehurst Place. Bunny Guinness, Anne Swithinbank and FRI Christine Walkden are on this week's panel. FRI FRI Produced by Victoria Shepherd FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Saki b03kvd4v (Listen) FRI The She Wolf FRI FRI by Hector Hugh Munro, better known by his pen name Saki. FRI FRI A mischievous story in which Saki's regular character Clovis FRI springs an elaborate trick on fellow guests at a house FRI party. A playful satire on Edwardian society with a streak FRI of the ludicrous. FRI FRI Read by Maureen Beattie FRI Produced by Allegra McIlroy. FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b03kvd4x (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 Feedback b03kvd4z (Listen) FRI Radio 4's forum for comments, queries, criticisms and FRI congratulations. FRI FRI 16:56 The Listening Project b03kvd51 (Listen) FRI Alice and Jan - Scared to Love FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a mother and FRI daughter about how her anencephalic first pregnancy has had FRI an impact on her relationship with her subsequent children. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b03kvd53 (Listen) FRI Full coverage and analysis of the day's news. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b03kl4c1 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The News Quiz b03kvd55 (Listen) FRI Series 82, Episode 6 FRI FRI A satirical review of the week's news, chaired by Sandi FRI Toksvig. With guests Samira Ahmed, Hugo Rifkind and Rufus FRI Hound joining regular panellist Jeremy Hardy. FRI FRI Producer: Sam Michell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b03kv6l5 (Listen) FRI Jim tries to intervene, and Lynda has to cover her tracks. FRI FRI Credits FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Tom Archer: Tom Graham FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde FRI Peggy Woolley: June Spencer FRI Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey FRI Clarrie Grundy: Heather Bell FRI William Grundy: Philip Molloy FRI Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan FRI Edward Grundy: Barry Farrimond FRI Neil Carter: Brian Hewlett FRI Caroline Sterling: Sara Coward FRI Robert Snell: Graham Blockey FRI Leonie Snell: Jasmine Hyde FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Kirsty Miller: Annabelle Dowler FRI Jim Lloyd: John Rowe FRI Jess Titchener: Rina Mahoney FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Rosa Makepeace: Anna Piper FRI Writer: Tim Stimpson FRI Director: Rosemary Watts FRI Editor: Julie Beckett FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b03kvd57 (Listen) FRI Mark Lawson talks to TV comedian Harry Hill about his FRI transfer to the big screen. FRI FRI Producer: Olivia Skinner. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b03kv6l3 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b03kvd59 (Listen) FRI Sajid Javid MP, Chuka Umunna MP, Shami Chakrabarti, Amjad FRI Bashir FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate and discussion FRI from the Farnley Academy in Leeds with the Director of FRI Liberty Shami Chakrabarti, Financial Secretary to the FRI Treasury Sajid Javid MP, Shadow Business Secretary Chuka FRI Umunna MP, and UKIP's spokesman on Small Business Amjad FRI Bashir. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b03kvd5c (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 A Cause for Caroling b03kvd5f (Listen) FRI A Cause for Caroling: Omnibus, Forging a Tradition FRI FRI Choral Conductor and scholar Jeremy Summerly begins his FRI narrative history of the Christmas Carol in Britain with a FRI journey through today's caroling tradition. He then travels FRI back to the earliest traces of carol singing and performing FRI in the early Medieval period, traces the development of the FRI golden age in before the dual hammer blows of Reformation FRI and Puritanism which ushered the carol away from the church FRI but gave it a durability that survives to this day. FRI FRI Producer:Tom Alban. FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b03kl4c3 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b03kvd5h (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b03kvd5k (Listen) FRI Truman Capote Short Stories, One Christmas FRI FRI 'One Christmas', Buddy is invited to New Orleans to spend FRI the festive season with his estranged father. FRI FRI 'I cried, I didn't want to go. I was afraid of strangers, FRI But Sook said, "It's the Lord's will."' FRI FRI Read by Kerry Shale FRI FRI Abridged and produced by Jane Marshall FRI A Jane Marshall production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b03kqfzz (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b03kvd5m (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b03kvd5p (Listen) FRI David and Natasha - Warriors or Wizards FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation between a couple who met FRI LARPing about their favourite characters and the way Live FRI Action Role Play has influenced their own personalities, FRI proving once again that it's surprising what you hear when FRI you listen. FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
06 December, 2013
Radio 4 Listings for 07/12/2013 - 13/12/2013
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)