30 August, 2014

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SAT SATURDAY 30 AUGUST 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04fchqg (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04fchlh (Listen) SAT Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love, Episode 5 SAT SAT Philip Larkin was that rare thing among poets - a household SAT name in his own lifetime. Lines such as 'Never such SAT innocence again' and 'Sexual intercourse began / In nineteen SAT sixty-three' made him one of the most popular poets of the SAT last century. SAT SAT Larkin's reputation as a man, however, has been more SAT controversial. A solitary librarian known for his pessimism, SAT he disliked exposure and had no patience with the literary SAT circus. And when, in 1992, the publication of his Selected SAT Letters laid bare his compartmentalised personal life, SAT accusations of duplicity, faithlessness, racism and misogyny SAT were levelled against him. SAT SAT There is, of course, no requirement that poets should be SAT likeable or virtuous, but James Booth asks whether art and SAT life were really so deeply at odds with each other. Can the SAT poet who composed the moving 'Love Songs in Age' have been SAT such a cold-hearted man? Can he who uttered the playful, SAT self-deprecating words 'Deprivation is for me what daffodils SAT were for Wordsworth' really have been so boorish? SAT SAT A very different public image is offered by those who shared SAT the poet's life - the women with whom he was romantically SAT involved, his friends and his university colleagues. It is SAT with their personal testimony, including access to SAT previously unseen letters, that Booth reinstates a man SAT misunderstood - not a gaunt, emotional failure, but a witty, SAT provocative and entertaining presence, delightful company; SAT an attentive son and a man devoted to the women he loved. SAT SAT Written by James Booth SAT Abridged by Libby Spurrier SAT SAT Produced by Joanna Green SAT A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Michael Pennington SAT Author: James Booth SAT Abridger: Libby Spurrier SAT Producer: Joanna Green SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04fchqj (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04fchqn (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04fchqq (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04fchqs (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04fchwj (Listen) SAT A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04fchwl (Listen) SAT 'We started thinking, are we going to be allowed to die in SAT our house?' After a sharp rise in right-to-buy sales, iPM SAT hears from two listeners who finally decided to buy their SAT council house after 23 years. And we assess recent SAT government measures to speed up sales. Presented by Eddie SAT Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Email iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04fchqv (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04fchqx (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04fcb4n (Listen) SAT The Needles, Isle of Wight SAT SAT Helen Mark visits one of the Isle of Wight's great SAT attractions, those famous chalk cliffs, The Needles, at the SAT western end of the island. These iconic white stacks march SAT out to sea, back towards the Dorset coast, that they used to SAT be joined to a mere 10,000 years ago. Tony Tutton of the SAT National Trust shares the great views across the Solent with SAT Helen, describing how treacherous the waters beneath them SAT can sometimes be to competing sailors, and how vicious the SAT winds can be. SAT SAT Helen also unpicks a Cold War secret that lurks amongst the SAT Needles: in the 1950s, the Victorian gun battery here became SAT the test site for the British space missile programme. We SAT hear from former rocketeer Mike Elliott, who used to work on SAT the Black Knight system. SAT SAT By contrast, Jamie Marsh, Reserves Officer with the Isle of SAT Wight Wildlife Trust, shows Helen the impact of the sea at SAT Bouldnor, where old oaks, part of a landslip wood, are being SAT rapidly undercut by the sea - the nearest to a mangrove SAT swamp that you could hope to find in the UK. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04frbnj (Listen) SAT Countryside Access SAT SAT How accessible is the British countryside? In this week's SAT programme, Sybil Ruscoe takes a stroll through the SAT Monmounthshire countryside, meeting farmers and ramblers en SAT route, to discuss the problems they both encounter. How can SAT the two sides work together, to make sure the countryside is SAT shared and respected by both? We also hear about the new new SAT coastal path which will surround the whole of England and SAT Wales, and talk to the farmer who took drastic steps to stop SAT walkers and dogs straying from the designated footpath SAT across his land. SAT SAT Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Emma Campbell. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04fchqz (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04frbnl (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04frbnn (Listen) SAT Katharine Whitehorn SAT SAT Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by the columnist SAT Katharine Whitehorn, the writer Nina Stibbe, and Nikki King, SAT Honorary Chairman of Isuzu Truck UK, who shares her stories SAT of doing business in Japan. Louise Johncox describes how her SAT baker father inspired her love of the sound of a whisk. SAT Nigel Brazier on four generations of his family business and SAT traditional Black Country recipes. Stephen Evans explains SAT why he learned to ride a bike at the age of 49 and a quarter SAT and the singer Natalie Cole shares her Inheritance Tracks. SAT SAT Man at the Helm, by Nina Stibbe. SAT SAT The Baker's Daughter, by Louise Johncox. SAT SAT Stephen Evans is cycling 100 miles for Joining Jack a SAT Charity that helps fight Duchene's Muscular Dystrophy. SAT SAT Natalie Cole inherits Smile, from her father Nat King Cole SAT and passes on You Gotta Be by Des'ree. SAT SAT Nat King Cole: Afraid Of The Dark is released through SAT Universal Music, and features a brand new, previously SAT unheard Nat King Cole track. SAT SAT Producer: Louise Corley. SAT SAT Steve Evans with his bike SAT Steve Evans who learned to ride a bike aged 49 and a quarter SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Richard Coles SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Interviewed Guest: Katharine Whitehorn SAT Interviewed Guest: Nina Stibbe SAT Interviewed Guest: Nikki King SAT Interviewed Guest: Louise Johncox SAT Interviewed Guest: Nigel Brazier SAT Interviewed Guest: Stephen Evans SAT Interviewed Guest: Natalie Cole SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04frbnq (Listen) SAT Series 8, Smithfield, London SAT SAT This week Jay Rayner and the team are in Smithfield, London. SAT SAT Answering questions on eating and drinking are school food SAT adviser and restaurateur Henry Dimbleby, Michelin star chef SAT Angela Hartnett, food scientist Charles Spence, and Israeli SAT chef Itamar Srulovich. SAT SAT The panel talk meat markets and butchery, sample wine from SAT one of Britain's oldest merchants and learn how sound can SAT affect their eating experiences. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b04frbns (Listen) SAT Time to Rethink What Is 'Normal'? SAT SAT Where is the dividing line between 'being a bit different' SAT and having a mental illness that needs treatment and SAT professional help? Bridget Kendall is joined by novelist SAT Jerry Pinto, who has turned personal experiences of growing SAT up with a relative with bipolar disorder into an SAT award-winning book, Professor of Disability and Human SAT Development Lennard Davis, and autism research pioneer SAT Professor Uta Frith. SAT SAT Photo: Shan Pillay SAT SAT Jerry Pinto SAT SAT After a decade teaching maths, writing television scripts SAT and audio-documentaries, Jerry Pinto got a ‘real job’ SAT selling media space. He SAT left to join a travel dotcom and then returned to magazine SAT journalism as SAT Executive Editor of Man’s World magazine. Later, he joined SAT Paprika Media, the SAT publishing house that brings out Time Out Mumbai and Time SAT Out Delhi. His first SAT novel Em and The Big Hoom has won the Hindu Literary Prize SAT and the Crossword SAT Prize for fiction. SAT SAT Photo: Chirodeep SAT Chaudhuri SAT SAT Lennard J. Davis SAT Lennard J. Davis is SAT Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the SAT University of Illinois SAT at Chicago, where he is also Professor of Disability and SAT Human Development in SAT the School of Applied Health Sciences, and Professor of SAT Medical Education in SAT the Medical School. His latest book is ‘The End of Normal: SAT Identity in a SAT Biocultural Era’. His other works on disability include SAT Enforcing Normalcy: SAT Disability, Deafness, and the Body and My Sense of Silence. SAT He was awarded a SAT Guggenheim Fellowship for his book A Cultural History of SAT Obsession: From SAT Fascination to Pathology. SAT SAT Uta Frith SAT SAT Uta Frith is Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development at SAT University College London and Visiting Professor at Aarhus SAT University. During SAT her 50 year career she has been concerned with finding out SAT the biological basis SAT of neuro-developmental disorders. In her SAT book ‘Autism – Explaining the Enigma' Uta discusses the SAT idea that the social SAT impairments of autism were due to a lack of our automatic SAT tendency to attribute SAT mental states to each other, also known as ‘mentalizing’. SAT Uta has also SAT translated Hans Asperger’s seminal paper and set it into SAT the context of autism SAT which led to the rise of interest in Asperger Syndrome. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04frbnv (Listen) SAT The Lucky Country SAT SAT Global despatches. In this edition, Australia's tough SAT immigration policy comes under the spotlight as a group of SAT asylum seekers goes to court; why the mark which writer SAT Ernest Hemingway left on Paris is now beginning to SAT disappear; how the militants of Islamic State have affected SAT Kurdish dreams of a state of their own; the tourists have SAT returned to the beaches of Greece but, we learn, there's one SAT correspondent who might not be so welcome in the country. SAT And we hear from the reporter who's having second thoughts SAT about wearing the headscarf, or hijab. SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04fchr1 (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04frbnx (Listen) SAT NISA or nastier? SAT SAT On Money Box with Paul Lewis: SAT SAT Nisa or nastier? SAT A record £5 billion was put into cash ISAs when the new SAT limit of £15,000 began on 1 July. The banks responded by SAT slashing the rates paid. More than 20 ISA providers have cut SAT the rates by an average of 0.34 percentage points. Only half SAT a dozen have raised rates. Why are they cutting rates just SAT when people can put more in? Anna Bowes from Savings SAT Champion joins the programme. SAT SAT Try again but will it work? SAT From Monday all banks will give us a second chance to avoid SAT a penalty charge if a payment from our current account is SAT bounced. As long as funds are put in the account by a least SAT 2pm a second try will enable the payment to be made without SAT a penalty. But many banks will not tell us that we have a SAT pending bounced payment. So we will not know that we have to SAT do anything. So we may still have to pay an average of £12 SAT for the privilege of missing a payment. Mark Bowerman from SAT The Payments Council explains how the initiative should SAT work. SAT SAT Money lessons SAT As teenagers saunter through the school gates next week, SAT they'll have to get to grips with a new topic. From this SAT term, all 11-16 year olds will have lessons in managing SAT money as part of the National Curriculum. Money Box reporter SAT Hannah Moore visits Ivanhoe College in Leicestershire to SAT talk to pupils and teachers about what they are taught and SAT how useful it is. SAT SAT Price of freedom SAT The Chancellor has promised that from April 2015 anyone aged SAT at least 55 will be able to take all their pension fund out SAT and - after paying tax - spend it as they like. But there SAT are worrying rumours that the pensions industry is busy SAT planning to restrict this freedom - or at least make hefty SAT charges if we want to enjoy it. Will the price of pension SAT freedom be high? Alan Higham, head of pensions at Fidelity SAT and Hugh Nolan, head actuary at JLT Employee Benefits, SAT explain all. SAT SAT 12:30 The Brig Society b04fchm4 (Listen) SAT Series 2, Religion SAT SAT Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! SAT SAT Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of SAT a big old thing and each week he starts out by thinking SAT "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with SAT "Oh - turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who SAT knew...?" SAT SAT This week, glory be, Marcus Brigstocke has decided to form SAT his own religion - based on peace, lovingkindness and SAT probably war. SAT SAT Among his acolytes and apostates are Rufus Jones (W1A, Holy SAT Flying Circus), William Andrews (Sorry I've Got No Head) and SAT Margaret Cabourn-Smith (Miranda) SAT SAT The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by SAT Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler who also SAT produces Marcus appearances as the inimitable as Giles SAT Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio credits include Jeremy SAT Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Thanks A Lot, SAT Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando SAT Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, The 3rd Degree, The SAT 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active and Bigipedia. SAT SAT Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, SAT Nick Doody, Steve Punt and Dan Tetsell. SAT SAT Produced by David Tyler SAT A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Ensemble: Rufus Jones SAT Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith SAT Ensemble: William Andrews SAT Producer: David Tyler SAT Writer: Marcus Brigstocke SAT Writer: Jeremy Salsby SAT Writer: Toby Davies SAT Writer: Nick Doody SAT Writer: Steve Punt SAT Writer: Dan Tetsell SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04fchr3 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04fchr5 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:10 Any Questions? b04fchmb (Listen) SAT Simon Heffer, Thomasina Miers, Prof Sir Simon Wessely, Osama SAT Saeed SAT SAT Ritula Shah presents political debate from the Broadcasting SAT House Radio Theatre in London with the chef Thomasina Miers SAT who founded the Mexican restaurant chain Wahaca, political SAT columnist and historian Simon Heffer, the new President of SAT the Royal College of Psychiatrists Professor Sir Simon SAT Wessely and Osama Saeed who manages Global Communications SAT for Al Jazeera TV. SAT SAT 14:00 Any Answers? b04frbnz (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 b01mnxtk (Listen) SAT The Martin Beck Killings, The Man Who Went Up in Smoke SAT SAT by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö SAT Dramatised for radio by Katie Hims. SAT SAT Having just arrived on a beautiful, remote island for his SAT much-needed Summer break with his wife and young children, SAT Detective Inspector Beck is summoned back to Stockholm, SAT where he is sent on a seemingly pointless and unofficial SAT mission to Budapest, in search of a missing journalist. It SAT is only when Beck has pretty much given up on the case that SAT the truth finally emerges. SAT SAT Original Music composed by Elizabeth Purnell SAT SAT Directed by Mary Peate. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Martin Beck: Steven Mackintosh SAT Lennart Kollberg: Neil Pearson SAT Gunnarsson: Justin Salinger SAT Ari Boeck: Georgia Groome SAT Szluka: Patrick Brennan SAT Frobe: Joe Sims SAT Inga Beck: Lucy Black SAT Molin: Robert Blythe SAT Foreign Office Man: Sam Alexander SAT Embassy Man: Harry Livingstone SAT Frau Boeck: Christine Absalom SAT Steffi: Amaka Okafor SAT Radeberger: Don Gilet SAT Gun Kollberg: Sally Orrock SAT Narrator 1: Lesley Sharp SAT Narrator 2: Nicholas Gleaves SAT Writer: Maj Sjowall SAT Writer: Per Wahloo SAT Writer: Katie Hims SAT Director: Mary Peate SAT SAT 15:45 Key Matters b01hy302 (Listen) SAT Series 3, C Minor SAT SAT In "Key Matters", Ivan Hewett explores the way in which SAT different musical keys appear to have unique characteristics SAT of their own. In this last programme Ivan is joined by SAT pianist Peter Donohoe, to explore the key of C minor. They SAT start with one of the most famous C minor pieces of all, SAT Beethoven's 5th Symphony. They explore pieces which start in SAT one key and work their way towards C minor,such as the SAT opening of Rachmaninov's 2nd Piano Concerto. Ivan and Peter SAT conclude by looking at pieces which start in C minor but SAT travel triumphantly towards C major at their end ; SAT Beethoven's 5th Symphony, being the ultimate example. This SAT brings this last Key Matters series full circle as Ivan SAT began this series back in 2008 by looking at the key of C SAT major. SAT SAT Producer - Rosie Boulton. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04frcvg (Listen) SAT Weekend Woman's Hour SAT SAT Highlights from the Woman's Hour week. Presented by Emma SAT Barnett. SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Emma Barnett SAT Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04frcvj (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04fchwl (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04fchr7 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04fchr9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04fchrc (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04frcvl (Listen) SAT Nicholas Parsons, Kevin Bishop, Rikki Stein, George Dawes SAT Green, Catherine Burns, Arthur Smith, The Barr Brothers, SAT Femme SAT SAT Since its first broadcast in December 1967, 'Just a Minute' SAT has consistently entertained BBC Radio 4 listeners. And SAT chairman Nicholas Parsons has appeared in every episode of SAT the almost 900 broadcasts to date. He talks to Nikki about SAT his new book 'Welcome to Just a Minute', recalling the very SAT best, occasionally awkward and often hilarious moments from SAT the last six decades. SAT SAT Nikki talks Afrobeat with Rikki Stein, who was Nigerian SAT musician and social activist Fela Kuti's long-term friend SAT and manager. Rikki features in new documentary 'Finding SAT Fela', a compelling portrait of the man who created a SAT musical movement, using it as a form of political protest, SAT becoming a revolutionary, hero and legend. SAT SAT Are you sitting comfortably? Arthur Smith pulls up an easy SAT chair and settles in for story time with the founder and the SAT Artistic Director of 'The Moth' storytelling events, George SAT Dawes Green and Catherine Burns. Since 1997, household names SAT and unknowns alike have performed their real life stories to SAT packed crowds across the US, which audiences can now SAT experience in book form. SAT SAT How far would you go to get a table at the smartest SAT restaurant in town? Actor and comedian Kevin Bishop talks to SAT Nikki about starring in 'Fully Committed', a whirlwind SAT culinary comedy set in one of Manhattan's hottest SAT restaurants, where the city never sleeps and the phone never SAT stops ringing. SAT SAT With music from The Barr Brothers, who perform 'Even The SAT Darkness Has Arms' from their album 'Sleeping Operator' and SAT Femme performs 'High' from her forthcoming debut album. SAT SAT Producer: Sukey Firth. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Kevin Bishop SAT ‘Fully Committed’ is at Menier Chocolate Factory from SAT Wednesday 3rd September to Saturday 15th November. SAT SAT Rikki Stein SAT 'Finding Fela' is showing in UK cinemas from Friday 5th SAT September. A special preview screening is on Thursday 4th SAT September at the BFI London as part of African Odysseys SAT season. SAT The soundtrack to ‘Finding Fela’ is available now on SAT Knitting Factory Records. SAT ‘Fela Boxset #3 Curated by Brian Eno’ is available on 13th SAT October on Knitting Factory Records. SAT SAT George Dawes Green SAT ‘The Moth’ is published by Serpent’s Tail and available now. SAT SAT Catherine Burns SAT ‘The Moth’ is published by Serpent’s Tail and available now. SAT SAT Nicholas Parsons SAT ‘Welcome to Just a Minute’ is published by Canongate Books SAT on 4th September. SAT SAT The Barr Brothers SAT ‘Sleeping Operator’ is available 6th October on Secret City SAT Records. SAT The band are playing at End of the Road Festival, Salisbury SAT this weekend. SAT SAT Femme SAT Femme is playing at Birthdays in London on Wednesday 24th SAT September. SAT SAT 19:00 Profile b04frcvn (Listen) SAT Petro Poroshenko SAT SAT There is every sign this weekend that Russia's proxy war SAT with Ukraine could become a full-blown conflict between SAT states. SAT SAT The crisis now coming to a head has been in the making ever SAT since Ukraine declared its independence from Moscow in the SAT summer of 1990. SAT SAT Edward Stourton profiles the Ukrainian leader, Petro SAT Poroshenko, who must now face the challenge of war - and who SAT came of age and flourished during his country's first SAT turbulent two and a half decades as a modern independent SAT nation. SAT SAT Producer: Bob Howard. SAT SAT 19:15 Saturday Review b04frcvs (Listen) SAT Martin Amis, Pitcairn, The Moth, Obvious Child, Secret Life SAT of Books SAT SAT Martin Amis' latest novel The Zone of Interest deals with SAT the Holocaust, but has riled some critics because of its SAT light tone. SAT Pitcairn is Richard "One Man, Two Guv'nors" Bean's new play SAT dealing with the aftermath of The Bounty. SAT The Moth is a public storytelling event that started in SAT America and is now coming to the UK to coincide with a book SAT collection of stories. SAT Obvious Child is a romcom film about abortion which has SAT incurred the wrath of pro-lifers in the US; can it be a SAT suitable topic for a humorous film? SAT BBC TV's new series the Secret Life of Books examines SAT original texts, manuscripts, letters and diaries to uncover SAT the story behind the creation of six classic books. SAT SAT Tom Sutcliffe is joined by Tiffany Murray, Inua Ellams and SAT Michael Arditti. The producer is Oliver Jones. SAT SAT Pitcairn SAT Written by Richard Bean and directed by Max Stafford-Clark, SAT Pitcairn SAT is at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester until 20 September SAT 2014. Main Image: Saffron Hocking (Te'o), Vanessa Emma SAT (Fasto), and Lois Chimimba (Te Lahu), Photo by Robert SAT Workman. SAT SAT The Zone Of Interest SAT The Zone of Interest by Martin Amis is published by Jonathan SAT Cape. SAT SAT Obvious Child SAT Directed by Gilliam Robespierre, Obvious Child is in cinemas SAT from Friday 29 August, certificate 15. SAT SAT The Moth in London SAT The inaugural SAT Moth London StorySlam SAT is at The Book Club in Shoreditch on 1st September, and SAT monthly StorySlam events in London are set to follow. SAT SAT The Secret Life of Books SAT A six part series, SAT The Secret Life Of Books SAT begins on Tuesday 2 September, 8.30pm on BBC Four. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Tom Sutcliffe SAT Interviewed Guest: Tiffany Murray SAT Interviewed Guest: Inua Ellams SAT Interviewed Guest: Michael Arditti SAT Producer: Oliver Jones SAT SAT 20:00 Archive on 4 b04frcvv (Listen) SAT The Eccentric Entrepreneur SAT SAT "Radio Normandy Calling!" The Belles of Normandy sing the SAT station ident; Roy Plomley (of Desert Island Discs fame) SAT introduces the artistes from the Bradford Alhambra, and SAT another melody-packed hour - sponsored by a patent medicine SAT - begins on the commercial radio station that, back in the SAT 1930s, was often more popular than the majestic BBC. SAT SAT The man behind it all was called, improbably, Captain SAT Leonard Plugge. And in this programme, Dominic Sandbrook SAT tells the story of this clever, enterprising and subversive SAT man. Tory MP, passionate European and backroom boffin, SAT Plugge created a string of brilliantly successful commercial SAT stations in France and beyond that challenged Sir John SAT Reith's radio monopoly with popular music and variety shows, SAT sponsored by Bile Beans, Persil and Diploma cheddar cheese. SAT So wealthy did his radio network make him that he owned two SAT yachts, six cars (including two Rolls Royces), a Mayfair SAT mansion, employed twelve staff, and lived a life that lay SAT somewhere between The Great Gatsby and Citizen Kane. SAT SAT With Plugge's son Frank, Dominic leafs through his father's SAT mountain of diaries and scrapbooks - news cuttings, SAT photographs... memorabilia of a life that brought him the SAT Legion d'Honneur, a medal from US broadcaster NBC and made SAT him a worldwide celebrity. With a rich archive of SAT contributions from Roy Plomley, Bob Danvers-Walker and many SAT others who first made their names on Plugge's stations, plus SAT recordings from the shows they broadcast, Dominic Sandbrook SAT brings a forgotten mogul of a bygone era to life. SAT SAT And next time you approach a road junction with an elongated SAT 'SLOW' painted on the tarmac, you can thank Captain Plugge SAT for it, because that was his idea too... SAT SAT Producer Simon Elmes. SAT SAT Leonard Plugge’s son Frank (right) shows his father’s medal, SAT including his Legion d’Honneur, to presenter Dominic SAT Sandbrook SAT SAT Dominic Sandbrook examines a photograph of Leonard SAT Plugge,driver of the first underground train to run in 1926 SAT General Strike SAT SAT 21:00 The Stuarts b04f8m5d (Listen) SAT James II: The Storms of this Deceitful World SAT SAT By Mike Walker SAT SAT During his short reign James II faced rebellion led by his SAT nephew and widespread condemnation for his policy of SAT religious tolerance. When he produced a Catholic heir, the SAT political tensions exploded and resulted in his son-in-law SAT William of Orange landing an invading army in England. Why SAT did it go so wrong for dismal Jimmy? SAT SAT Directors: Marc Beeby & Sasha Yevtushenko. SAT SAT Credits SAT James II: James Fleet SAT Sunderland: Clive Hayward SAT Talbot: Michael Bertenshaw SAT Churchill: Michael Shelford SAT Sarah Churchill: Jaimi Barbakoff SAT Monmouth: Alex Waldmann SAT Maria: Jane Slavin SAT Van Weede: Nicholas Murchie SAT Colonel: David Cann SAT Foreman: Damian Lynch SAT Sergeant: Mark Edel-Hunt SAT Priest: Matthew Watson SAT Director: Marc Beeby SAT Director: Sasha Yevtushenko SAT Writer: Mike Walker SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04fchrf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Agree to Differ b04fc70m (Listen) SAT Vivisection SAT SAT Agree to Differ is Radio 4's new discussion programme where SAT the aim is to give listeners a completely new way to SAT understand a controversial issue and to decide where they SAT stand. Presented by Matthew Taylor. SAT SAT 23:00 Quote... Unquote b04f9fs0 (Listen) SAT Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, returns for SAT its 50th series. SAT SAT In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by SAT writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy SAT types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, SAT Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... SAT have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. SAT SAT Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the SAT origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the SAT famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. SAT SAT Episode 3 SAT Actress, writer and comedienne Maureen Lipman SAT Presenter and newsreader Penny Smith SAT Journalist, political commentator and president of YouGov SAT Peter Kellner SAT Comedian, writer and actor Sanjeev Kohli SAT SAT Presenter ... Nigel Rees SAT Producer ... Carl Cooper. SAT SAT Clip SAT empty SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Nigel Rees SAT Panellist: Maureen Lipman SAT Panellist: Penny Smith SAT Panellist: Peter Kellner SAT Panellist: Sanjeev Kohli SAT Producer: Carl Cooper SAT SAT 23:30 In Memoriam: Conversations on a Bench b04f8m5j (Listen) SAT Anna Scott-Brown hears stories of love, loss and hope from SAT the strangers and friends she sits beside on 'Rosie's Bench' SAT in a park in Oxford. The inscription, Rest Awhile and SAT Remember Happy Times Together, draws out reflections and SAT revelations which Michael Symmons Roberts weaves into a SAT poem, specially commissioned for the programme. SAT SAT Gradually, the story behind the inscription is revealed by SAT Rosie herself as she remembers her husband Chris, whose life SAT the bench commemorates. The experience of others, mixed with SAT her own, turns Rosie's tale into a heartfelt and emotional SAT acknowledgement of the need to stop and communicate with SAT people around us, as life rushes by. SAT SAT Hidden lives are revealed and common threads recur as Anna SAT Scott-Brown's gentle - but insistent and sometimes extremely SAT direct - questions elicit poignant and profound responses SAT from those sitting on the bench to 'Rest Awhile'. SAT SAT Producer: Adam Fowler SAT An Overtone production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 31 AUGUST 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04frd57 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:30 A Flash of Fireflies b03g8nwd (Listen) SUN Six Feet of the Country SUN SUN Marking Nobel Laureate Nadine Gordimer's death in July, the SUN first of three stories from her remarkable career as a SUN writer and political activist. SUN SUN In this story, first published in 1953, a landowning couple SUN face a stark dilemma when an illegal immigrant dies on their SUN property. SUN SUN (repeat) SUN SUN Read by William Gaminara SUN Abridged and produced by Gemma Jenkins SUN SUN The South African author and political activist saw the SUN short story as the literary form for our age. She described SUN the experience of human life as "the flash of fireflies. SUN Short story writers see by the light of the flash; theirs is SUN the art of the only thing one can be sure of - the present SUN moment." SUN SUN Three stories which shine a light on her country's turbulent SUN past. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: William Gaminara SUN Producer: Gemma Jenkins SUN Abridger: Gemma Jenkins SUN Author: Nadine Gordimer SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04frd59 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04frd5c (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04frd5h (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04frd5k (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04fxz8m (Listen) SUN Washington National Cathedral SUN SUN The bells of Washington National Cathedral. SUN SUN 05:45 Profile b04frcvn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04frd5m (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04fy1c7 (Listen) SUN The Prince Who Walked Out of His Fairy Tale SUN SUN Siddhartha is the name of a prince who became the Buddha. SUN SUN He was born in present day Nepal, sometime around 563 BC, SUN and he grew up as a prince enjoying a comfortable existence SUN for the first 29 years of his life. It was then, as a SUN married man with an infant son, Siddhartha abandoned his SUN palace and set off for a wandering life with a band of SUN ascetics seeking spiritual fulfilment. SUN SUN In 'The Prince who walked out of his fairytale' Samira Ahmed SUN pieces together the story of Siddhartha - the Sanskrit name SUN meaning 'He who achieves his goal'. She tells the story of SUN how Siddhartha abandoned future kingship after the shocking SUN discovery of old age, sickness and death. She tells of how SUN he took up and then discarded extreme asceticism and how, SUN after six years of penance, he sat unmoving under a tree SUN until he gained Nirvana or perfect enlightenment and became SUN known as the Buddha. SUN SUN Samira Ahmed looks at the appeal of the image of the seated SUN Buddha and the spread of Buddhist ideas into the West. She SUN considers how writers and thinkers have imagined the SUN experience of enlightenment, and explores how others have SUN interpreted the relevance of the Buddha's key ideas for SUN today's fast moving materialistic life. With readings, SUN poetry and music - including Tibetan chant, Herbie Hancock, SUN Bengali film soundtrack, and Wagner. SUN SUN Producer: Anthony Denselow SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN The Prince Who Became The Buddha SUN In Our Time: The Buddha SUN SUN Readings SUN Title: Poem SUN ‘The Garden Buddha’ in ‘What’s Written on the Body’ SUN Author: SUN Peter Pereira SUN Publisher: SUN Copper Canyon Press SUN ISBN: SUN 978-1556592522 SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Inner Revolution ’ SUN Author: SUN Robert Thurman SUN Publisher: SUN Rider Books. SUN ISBN: SUN 0-7126-7056-4 SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Buddhism ’ SUN Author: SUN Donald S. Lopez Jr SUN Publisher: SUN Penguin Books SUN ISBN: SUN 0-713-99434-7 SUN SUN SUN Title: Poem SUN ‘The Life of the Buddha according to the Pali Canon’ SUN Author: SUN Bhikku Nanamoli SUN Publisher: SUN Buddhist Publication Society SUN ISBN: SUN 955-24-0063-52 SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN Poem ‘Enlightenment is like the moon’ SUN Author: SUN Dogen (13th Century Japanese Priest) SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Buddha’ SUN Author: SUN Karen Armstrong SUN Publisher: SUN Weidenfeld & Nicolson, The Orion Publishing Group SUN ISBN: SUN 0-297-64347-9 SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Siddhartha’ SUN Author: SUN Hermann Hesse (translated by Hilda Rosner) SUN Publisher: SUN Penguin Modern Classics SUN ISBN: SUN 978-0-141-18957-4 SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Wake Up: The Life of the Buddha’ SUN Author: SUN Jack Kerouac SUN Publisher: SUN Penguin Modern Classics SUN ISBN: SUN 978-0-141-18946-8 SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Buddhism without Beliefs: A Contemporary Guide to SUN Awakening’ SUN Author: SUN Stephen Batchelor SUN Publisher: SUN Bloomsbury Publishing plc SUN ISBN: SUN 0-7475-3843-3 SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Old Path White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the SUN Buddha’ SUN Author: SUN Thich Nhat Hanh SUN Publisher: SUN Parallax Press, Berkeley, California SUN ISBN: SUN 0-7126-5417-8 SUN SUN SUN Title: SUN ‘Whether you are going or staying’ SUN Author: SUN 13th Century Zen Monk, Daikaku SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04fy1c9 (Listen) SUN Caribbean Conch SUN SUN The Queen Conch is the seafood staple of the Caribbean, SUN cropping up fried, boiled or baked on most restaurant menus. SUN But its popularity has been its undoing with populations in SUN steep decline in many areas. American businessman, Richard SUN Berke is trying to fill the gap by farming the alien-looking SUN gastropods in the waters of the Turks and Caicos Islands. As SUN Tom Heap discovers they're not the easiest livestock to rear SUN but Richard is full of bright ideas for keeping the tourists SUN and locals fed with prime protein from the waters of the SUN Caribbean. SUN SUN Producer: Alasdair Cross. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04frd5p (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04frd5r (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04fy1cc (Listen) SUN Rotherham, Confucius, Bishop Nick Baines SUN SUN How should the community in Rotherham respond to this week's SUN revelations of child sexual exploitation on a massive scale SUN by men of predominantly Pakistani origin? We debate the SUN lessons that need to be learned from a cultural and SUN religious perspective. SUN SUN The Archbishop of Canterbury has backed a new campaign that SUN aims to draw attention to domestic violence within the SUN church. Kevin Bocquet reports on claims that churches are SUN failing to deal with the issue effectively. SUN www.restoredrelationships.org SUN SUN This week Recep Tayyip Erdogan became Turkey's 21st SUN president. Dorian Jones reports from Istanbul about the SUN country's Alevi minority who claim they are being targeted SUN by Erdogan and his supporters. SUN SUN The Ordinariate - an Anglican breakaway group that joined SUN the Catholic Church in 2011 - is trying to attract more SUN members in order to survive. We discuss what its role should SUN be alongside the two Churches. SUN SUN Is Confucianism experiencing a revival in China? Martin SUN Palmer explores the philosophy's increasing influence in SUN 21st century China. SUN SUN In an exclusive for Sunday, Bishop Nick Baines, the man SUN tasked to look after the Church of England's new 'super SUN diocese' of West Yorkshire and the Dales has been keeping an SUN audio diary account of his first few weeks in the job. SUN SUN Producers: SUN Dan Tierney SUN Carmel Lonergan SUN SUN Series Producer: SUN Amanda Hancox SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Bishop Nick Baines SUN Mgr Keith Newton SUN Ruth Gledhill SUN Martin Palmer SUN Alyas Karmani SUN Julie Siddiqi. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04fy1cf (Listen) SUN Meningitis Research Foundation SUN SUN Kirsty Young presents The Radio 4 Appeal for Meningitis SUN Research Foundation which supports research into the SUN prevention, detection and treatment of meningitis and SUN septicaemia. SUN Registered Charity 1091105 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Meningitis Research Foundation'. SUN SUN Action Meningitis SUN SUN Meningitis kills over half the babies and young children who SUN contract this disease in Malawi. Others are left with SUN serious disabilities SUN which the country is ill-equipped to support. SUN Research funded by Meningitis Research Foundation (MRF) SUN established that many meningitis cases in Malawi are SUN misdiagnosed as malaria. SUN There is a huge lack of awareness about the symptoms among SUN health professionals SUN and public alike. SUN MRF’s answer was to use the experience and expertise they SUN have built up over 25 years in the UK to SUN launch Action Meningitis in Malawi’s second largest city, SUN Blantyre. SUN Their work is saving lives by ensuring thousands of babies SUN and children are SUN properly screened for serious illnesses on arrival at SUN health clinics. Trained SUN healthcare workers use mobile phone technology (the SUN ‘mHealth’ tool) to SUN prioritise children according to their symptoms. This SUN technique has proved effective SUN and now they want to do more of it. For more information SUN click here SUN Kirsty Young is a patron of Meningitis Research Foundation. SUN She contracted meningitis in 1994 when she was 25 years old SUN and a freelance TV SUN presenter working on a variety of programmes including the SUN BBC’s ‘Holiday’ and SUN ‘Film 94.’ It’s thanks to her mother, SUN her GP and Aberdeen Royal Infirmary that she survived SUN unscathed. SUN SUN Edith Cheonga SUN SUN Edith Cheonga was two years old when misdiagnosed with SUN malaria. After three days she was finally treated for SUN meningitis, but the delay left Edith blind, deaf and unable SUN to sit upright. SUN SUN Ndirande Clinic in Blantyre, Malawi SUN SUN This crowded waiting room at Ndirande Clinic illustrates the SUN problem Action Meningitis is tackling– up to 300 children SUN come to the clinic SUN every day, queuing from 5 am. SUN Before Action Meningitis, a child in this room could be SUN dying and no one would know. Severe illnesses were SUN regularly missed as sick SUN children queued together with those attending for routine SUN check-ups and SUN immunisations. For rapidly-evolving diseases like SUN meningitis the consequences SUN were often fatal. SUN SUN Using mobile and wireless technologies to achieve health SUN objectives SUN SUN This ‘mHealth’ tool improves children’s chances of survival SUN by empowering healthcare workers to quickly and accurately SUN identify and SUN prioritise the sickest children and refer urgent cases to SUN hospital. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04frd5t (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04frd5w (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04fy1ch (Listen) SUN Communicating the Case for God SUN SUN "Communicating the Case for God" SUN SUN From Fisherwick Presbyterian Church, Belfast. SUN Led by the Revd. Michael Anderson SUN Preacher: The Revd. Dr Gordon Gray SUN SUN With Grosvenor, directed by Edward Craig SUN Organist: Stephen Hamill SUN SUN Exodus 3:1-6, 10 -15 SUN Acts 17: 16 - 34 SUN SUN Cantate Domino (Pitoni) SUN The God of Abraham Praise (Leoni) SUN Nearer my God to Thee SUN Lord of Life to you we come (Eriskay Love Lilt) SUN How shall I sing that majesty (Coe Fen) SUN Gaelic Blessing (Rutter). SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04fchmd (Listen) SUN Why Orwell Is the Supreme Mediocrity SUN SUN Will Self takes on one of the nation's best loved figures, SUN George Orwell.....and braces himself for the backlash! "Not SUN Orwell, surely!" he hears the listeners cry. SUN SUN He uses Orwell's essay "Politics and the English Language" SUN to make his point. This - he says - is often seen as "a SUN principled assault upon all the jargon, obfuscation, and SUN pretentiously Frenchified folderol that deforms our noble SUN tongue". That - in Self's view - couldn't be farther from SUN the truth. SUN SUN Describing Orwell as a "Supreme Mediocrity", Self gets to SUN work..... SUN SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Will Self SUN Producer: Adele Armstrong SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b038qk0y (Listen) SUN Wood Sandpiper 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 Brett Westwood presents the Wood Sandpiper. Wood Sandpipers SUN are elegant waders and just a handful of pairs breed in the SUN UK, in wooded marshes and remote bogs of Northern Scotland. SUN There's a chance to see them when they break their migration SUN journey south at inland pools and marshes here. Listen out SUN for their cheerful call that has been described as sounding SUN like an old penny-whistle. SUN SUN Wood Sandpiper (Tringa glareola) SUN Image courtesy of Steve Knell (rspb-images.com) SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04fy1r0 (Listen) SUN Sunday morning magazine programme with news and conversation SUN about the big stories of the week. Presented by Paddy SUN O'Connell. SUN SUN 10:00 The Archers Omnibus b04fxy79 (Listen) SUN At Loxfest, there is good news and bad. Meanwhile, Jennifer SUN gets a surprise. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Simon Frith SUN Director: Rosemary Watts SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Freddie Pargetter: Jack Firth SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Leonie Snell: Jasmine Hyde SUN Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson SUN Mike Tucker: Terry Molloy SUN Vicky Tucker: Rachel Atkins SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Hayley Tucker: Lorraine Coady SUN PC Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN Wayne Tucson: Clive Wood SUN SUN 11:15 The Reunion b04fy2bj (Listen) SUN Zimbabwe SUN SUN Sue MacGregor brings together those who played a key role SUN during the bitter wrangling which led to Zimbabwe's SUN independence in April 1980. SUN SUN Rhodesia was Britain's last colony in Africa. By the early SUN 1960s, 200,000 white settlers still dominated the country's SUN three million black population. In 1965, civil war broke out SUN between the white Rhodesian forces and the guerrilla armies SUN of the two rival black nationalist parties, the Zimbabwe SUN African National Union (ZANU) and the Zimbabwe African SUN People's Union (ZAPU). SUN SUN Over the next fifteen years, the war escalated as the SUN nationalist movement gained massive momentum. SUN SUN When Margaret Thatcher came into power in 1979, she SUN inherited the crisis. To the surprise of many she called for SUN all-party negotiations which would lead to the first SUN independent elections. It was her Foreign Secretary, Lord SUN Carrington, who devised a plan and persuaded the various SUN parties to negotiate. SUN SUN What followed was three months of nerve wracking talks. SUN "Every moment of those talks I thought the whole thing might SUN fall apart," recalls Lord Carrington. By the skin of their SUN teeth, an agreement was signed and, in February 1980, SUN polling opened which would lead to a landslide victory for SUN Robert Mugabe and his ZANU-PF party and independence for a SUN newly named Zimbabwe. SUN SUN Sue is joined by Lord Carrington, former Conservative SUN Foreign Secretary; Dumiso Dabengwa who was head of SUN intelligence for the military wing of ZAPU; Dzingai SUN Mutumbuka, the youngest member of the ZANU-PF delegation; SUN Dennis Norman who was President of the Rhodesia National SUN Farmers' Union; and historian and Africa correspondent SUN Martin Meredith. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Cuddon SUN Series Producer: David Prest SUN A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04frd5y (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 Just a Minute b04f9hy0 (Listen) SUN Series 70, Episode 3 SUN SUN Hosted by the legendary Nicholas Parsons and recorded at the SUN Edinburgh Festival - how hard can it be to talk for 60 SUN seconds without hesitation, repetition or deviation? Sue SUN Perkins, Gyles Brandreth and Paul Merton find out. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Nicholas Parsons SUN Panellist: Gyles Brandreth SUN Panellist: Paul Merton SUN Panellist: Sue Perkins SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04fy2bl (Listen) SUN A Taste of Britain Revisited - Wales SUN SUN In 1974, Derek Cooper set off on a hunt - for BBC Television SUN - around Britain to discover what was left of its regional SUN foods and traditional ingredients. Forty years on, Dan SUN Saladino revisits Wales, and that series, called "A Taste of SUN Britain" - to meet some of those involved, their SUN descendants, and to find out what happened after these foods SUN and skills, some of which at the time were on the wane when SUN they were recorded for the cameras. SUN SUN Dan goes to Wales to find out how the tradition of fishing SUN for sewin in tiny boats called coracles is faring. When SUN Derek visited the Gower Peninsula, cockles were in short SUN supply and had to be sourced from outside of Wales. Dan SUN visits Swansea market to ask how the cockle trade is doing SUN now and to see if the famous Welsh laverbread is as popular SUN today as it was when the original series was filmed in the SUN mid 70's. At that time, Derek Cooper feared that some of the SUN traditional Welsh foods and skills were about to be lost SUN forever. Dan finds out whether those fears became the SUN reality, as he asks how Welsh identity is expressed through SUN its food. SUN SUN Producer: Sarah Langan. SUN SUN Clips SUN empty SUN empty SUN empty SUN empty SUN empty SUN See all clips from A Taste of Britain Revisited - Wales (5) SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Dan Saladino SUN Producer: Sarah Langan SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04frd60 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04fy2bn (Listen) SUN Shaun Ley presents national and international news, SUN including an in-depth look at events around the world. SUN Email: wato@bbc.co.uk; twitter: #theworldthisweekend. SUN SUN 13:30 The Map That Made Manhattan b04fy2bq (Listen) SUN Just over two hundred years since the beginning of its SUN construction, this feature explores the New York grid system SUN as real and imagined: architectural matrix, psychic space SUN and site of continuing cultural-political argument. SUN SUN A "grid of money-making" devised by the kinds of "men who SUN would have cut down the seven hills of Rome" was how the SUN Commissioners' Plan of 1811, which would implement the SUN infamous Manhattan street system, was described upon its SUN unveiling. Instead, the grid was the great democratic SUN leveller. The Plan concluded that New York was "to be SUN composed principally of the habitations of men and that SUN straight-sided and right-angled houses are the cheapest to SUN build and the most convenient to live in" By shifting SUN millions of cubic yards of earth and rock, it carved out SUN modest but equal flat lots (mostly 25 by 100 feet) available SUN for purchase. And if it fostered what de Tocqueville viewed SUN as relentless monotony, its coordinates also enabled drivers SUN and pedestrians to figure out where they stood, physically SUN and metaphorically. "This is the purpose of New York's SUN geometry," wrote Roland Barthes, "...that each individual SUN should be poetically the owner of the capital of the world." SUN SUN Filled with the sounds and atmosphere of New York, and SUN hearing entirely from its residents (from city architects SUN and historians to taxi drivers and subway engineers) this SUN feature traces the evolution and impact of arguably the most SUN important, far reaching and visionary piece of urban design. SUN It explores the geometry of the grid on more than just an SUN architectural level, but as the brilliant intersection of SUN architectural vision with imaginary and cultural space. SUN Political too: condemned for dehumanizing and effectively SUN mechanising the city's inhabitants (Henry James, writing in SUN the grid-free enclave of Greenwich Village would call it "a SUN primal topographic curse") others saw it as a modern, SUN rational system in step with the ethos of a young republic. SUN SUN The debate continues: Urban critic Tony Hiss ('In Motion: SUN The Experience of Travel') has written about the grid's SUN primal orderliness: 'I still think it distances us from our SUN natural surroundings and it has given us a spurious and SUN diminished mental geometry' - that linear blocks replace SUN neighbourhoods (and neighbourliness?), and New Yorkers SUN themselves are of course a great source of wit and comment SUN on the grid system. It's influence is linguistic too: to SUN this day it constitutes the very language of movement, SUN navigation and location around the city, destinations are SUN referred to in terms of their street/avenue intersection - SUN never their address. The 200 year evolution of the original SUN block matrix (imposed on forests, farms, country estates and SUN common lands) has been one of the most important, continuous SUN forms of both artistic and commercial stimuli - one of SUN extreme rigidity and concurrent malleability - shaping SUN architecture, the arts, commerce and the mass movement of SUN people. SUN SUN Producer: Simon Hollis SUN A Brook Lapping Production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04fchly (Listen) SUN RHS Wisley SUN SUN Peter Gibbs is at RHS Wisley for the horticultural panel SUN programme. Pippa Greenwood, Bunny Guinness and Matthew SUN Wilson join him to answer audience questions. SUN SUN Produced by Howard Shannon SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. Each year, some things in my allotment do well while SUN others don't. This makes spring planning tricky. Any SUN suggestions? SUN SUN A. Keep a log of the vegetables that do well and those that SUN don't and also keeping note of the weather conditions. SUN SUN Q. What is the panel's opinion on using mycorrhizal fungus SUN granules in annual hanging baskets and pots? Would the SUN fungus help to release nutrients from the compost and would SUN the plants still need feeding? SUN SUN A. Mycorrhizal fungus can be useful in some situations but SUN don't bother using it in pots and containers planted with SUN annuals. It would make more sense to save the fungi for SUN longer-term planting and use standard feed for the annuals. SUN SUN Q. How can I propagate a deep purple Perennial Geranium SUN (Psilostemon) from an existing root? There are pale pink SUN Geraniums (Enderssii) taking over and I want more of this SUN deep-purple variety. SUN SUN A. Dig it up. Now is the time to propagate. Divide it into SUN two or three plants, pot it up and plant it somewhere else. SUN SUN Q. Should we give up on our potted black bamboo or try SUN moving it to lower ground? It's currently on a sixth floor SUN roof terrace, which is very exposed. It is very well fed. SUN SUN A. You will need to divide the plant because it looks like SUN the roots are getting too large for the pot. Divide the SUN plant in two. Prune out the dead branches. SUN SUN Q. What relevance do RHS Awards of Garden Merit (AGM) have SUN to plant performance in situations with different cultural SUN conditions to those at Wisely? SUN SUN A. The RHS awards of garden merit are very useful as they SUN are based on a number of trials in different conditions. SUN However, due to the huge variety of gardening conditions in SUN the UK it difficult to make them fully comprehensive. Trials SUN are held all over the four corners of the country. SUN SUN Q. How can I transform an old concrete-lined pond SUN (underneath trees) into a bog garden? SUN SUN A. You must allow the water to get out somehow so it doesn't SUN go stagnant. Try drilling a few holes. If you don't think SUN the location is ideal, your best bet might be to smash it up SUN with a pickaxe and have a pond elsewhere. If you did want to SUN try the bog garden, put some grit in the bottom and then SUN fill it up with a loam baste compost or soil from the SUN garden. Put a pond next to it to make it look seamless. SUN SUN Q. What are these bugs on my Bay leaves? How can I treat SUN them? SUN SUN A. These bugs are called 'bay sucker'. They're very SUN difficult to treat but they don't seriously harm the plant SUN so just try to remove the leaves that are covered in the SUN critters. SUN SUN Q. Which plants do the panel like to show off best? SUN SUN A. Pippa loves to show off her Sun Flowers, Liquid Amber SUN trees and her Amelanchiers. Bunny loves her Merveille SUN Sanguine Hydrangea and her Filariasis. Matthew loves his SUN frilly Peony Inspecteur Lavergne. SUN Wisley garden boasts a Peony Rockii (Tree Peony). SUN SUN Braving the rain SUN The GQT team are shown around the beautiful RHS SUN Garden Wisley. SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04fy2bs (Listen) SUN Fi Glover with conversations about the impact of the SUN National Front in the 1980s, coming to terms with SUN infertility, and history beneath your feet, from London, SUN Scotland and Devon, proving again that it's surprising what SUN you hear when you listen. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a SUN snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the SUN UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to SUN them about a subject they've never discussed intimately SUN before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK SUN by teams of producers from local and national radio stations SUN who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're SUN not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - SUN lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key SUN moment of connection between the participants. Most of the SUN unedited conversations are being archived by the British SUN Library and used to build up a collection of voices SUN capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade SUN of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening SUN Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 The Barchester Chronicles b04fy3z7 (Listen) SUN Anthony Trollope's Framley Parsonage, Two Different Sets of SUN People SUN SUN by Anthony Trollope, dramatised by Nick Warburton SUN SUN For young Mark Robarts, life as the Vicar of Framley can SUN sometimes feel a little too quiet. So, risking the wrath of SUN Lady Lufton and leaving his wife and children, he heads off SUN for the allure of country house parties, little knowing the SUN repercussions which are in store. SUN SUN Music composed by David Robin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SUN Gallant SUN SUN Produced & directed by Marion Nancarrow SUN SUN Framley Parsonage is the fourth book in the Barchester SUN Chronicles and the focus moves to Framley and its young SUN vicar, Mark Robarts. Friend of the local landowner's son, SUN the dashing Lord Lufton, Mark cannot resist the lure of SUN celebrity beyond his own village. But he's to risk SUN everything in his ambitious pursuits, including his devoted SUN wife and children and his sister's happiness. SUN SUN The Barchester Chronicles is Anthony Trollope's much-loved SUN series of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life SUN set within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and SUN the surrounding county of Barsetshire. With a focus on the SUN lives, loves and tribulations of the local clergy and rural SUN gentry, the canvas is broad and colourful, with a wonderful SUN set of iconic characters whose lives we become intimately SUN involved in as they grow up, grow old and fall in or out of SUN love and friendship across the years. SUN SUN Credits SUN Mrs Baxter: Maggie Steed SUN Mark Robarts: Pip Carter SUN Fanny Robarts: Charity Wakefield SUN Lady Lufton: Kate Buffery SUN Lord Lufton: Joe Coen SUN Lucy Robarts: Sarah Ovens SUN Mr Sowerby: Nicholas Farrell SUN Miss Dunstable: Hattie Morahan SUN Mrs Proudie: Joanna Monro SUN Harold Smith: Clive Hayward SUN Dr Forrest: Clive Hayward SUN Mrs Smith: Elaine Claxton SUN Dolly: Elaine Claxton SUN Griselda: Sarah Sweeney SUN Dr Robarts: David Cann SUN Groom: David Cann SUN Waiter: David Cann SUN Culpepper: David Cann SUN Director: Marion Nancarrow SUN Adaptor: Nick Warburton SUN Author: Anthony Trollope SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04fy5q7 (Listen) SUN Ian McEwan and Amy Bloom SUN SUN As we head for a literary publishing bonanza this September, SUN Mariella Frostrup talks to acclaimed author Ian McEwan on SUN his new novel 'The Children Act', featuring a leading High SUN Court Judge struggling to preside over a moral crisis in her SUN own life. SUN SUN Mariella will also be joined by American author Amy Bloom SUN who will be discussing her new novel 'Lucky Us', the story SUN of two dispossessed sisters on a journey through 1940s SUN America in search of fame and fortune. SUN SUN Plus Claire Armitstead, Books Editor of the Guardian and SUN Observer, who will be looking at why so many literary greats SUN have novels out this September. SUN More about Super Thursday SUN Ian McEwan discusses his novel Enduring Love with James SUN Naughtie SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN Read the opening chapter of The Children Act by Ian McEwan SUN Chapter 1: The Children Act SUN by Ian McEwan SUN SUN BOOKLIST SUN SUN The Children Act by Ian McEwan Publisher: Jonathan Cape SUN SUN Lucky Us by Amy Bloom Publisher: Granta SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Ian McEwan SUN Interviewed Guest: Amy Bloom SUN Interviewed Guest: Claire Armitstead SUN Producer: Justine Willett SUN SUN 16:30 Poetry Please b04fyf2q (Listen) SUN Yeats SUN SUN Roger McGough presents a special programme marking 75 years SUN since the death of WB Yeats. With Yeats' biographer SUN Professor Roy Foster, voices from the archive including SUN Seamus Heaney, Sinead Cusack and Steven Rea, and of course SUN some of Yeats' best loved poetry. Poems requested by SUN listeners and featured on the programme include He Wishes SUN for the Cloths of Heaven, The Lake Isle of Innisfree and The SUN Second Coming. SUN SUN This Week's Poems SUN SUN Song of the Old Mother SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN From The Collected Poems of W.B Yeats SUN SUN Published by Macmillan SUN SUN SUN SUN Song of Wandering Aengus SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN Taken from the CD ‘Now and In Time to Be’ by Christy Moore SUN SUN Label: Grapevine Label SUN SUN SUN SUN He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven SUN SUN By W. B Yeats SUN SUN From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Lake Isle of Innisfree SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Host of the Air SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Easter 1916 SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN An Irish Airman Forsees His Death SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Second Coming SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Long-Legged Fly SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN The Wild Swans at Coole SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN Extract from Under Ben Bulben SUN SUN By W.B Yeats SUN SUN From W.B Yeats – Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney SUN SUN Published by Faber SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Roger McGough SUN Interviewed Guest: Roy Foster SUN Reader: Seamus Heaney SUN Reader: Sinead Cusack SUN Reader: Stephen Rea SUN SUN 17:00 Whatever Happened to Global Governance? b04f9rdr (Listen) SUN The way that countries cooperate with each other is SUN changing, and in surprising ways. The old powers - the SUN United States, Britain, Europe - used to hold the reins of SUN how global issues were dealt with. Professor Ngaire Woods SUN examines how a new playing field is emerging where newcomers SUN - such as Brazil, Russia, India and China - are creating SUN their own solutions. SUN SUN Is old-style global governance fragmenting? In 1944, Bretton SUN Woods, New Hampshire, was the birthplace of the familiar SUN international organisations that keep countries talking to SUN each other. The International Monetary Fund and World Bank SUN were created, followed by the United Nations and what went SUN on to be the World Trade Organisation (WTO). They were a SUN huge achievement - but 70 years on, are they fit for SUN purpose? SUN SUN The world's smaller economies, such as in Africa, used to SUN have to go cap in hand to Washington DC for answers. Now SUN they have many other options. Professor Woods speaks to SUN former chief economists of the World Bank, Joseph Stiglitz SUN and Justin Yifu Lin, and former WTO director, Pascal Lamy, SUN to find out why. SUN SUN So as the old system fragments, how will the world solve its SUN big issues, such as poverty, climate change, immigration and SUN pandemics? And how will Britain negotiate this new terrain? SUN SUN Producer: Dominic Byrne SUN A Blakeway production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:40 Profile b04frcvn (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04frd62 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04frd64 (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04frd66 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04fyf2s (Listen) SUN There's a poetic feel to this week's Pick of the Week, as SUN John Waite re-plays clips from programmes that feature the SUN voice of Seamus Heaney, the characters of Dylan Thomas, the SUN verse of Simon Armitage and the life- story of Philip SUN Larkin. From the sublime there's also the ridiculous as 'Sue SUN MacGregor' meets three of the four Apostles. And some real SUN "heavy metal" with a duo for cello... and saw. SUN SUN Word of Mouth (Radio 4, 26th August) SUN Dead Ringers (Radio 4, 27th August) SUN Everything We Know is Wrong (Radio 4, 26th August) SUN World at One (Radio 4) SUN BOTW - Phillip Larkin (Radio 4, All Week) SUN Fantasy Festival (Radio 4, 28th August) SUN Dylan Thomas: The Outing (BBC Radio Wales, 25th August) SUN John Peel Remembered (Radio 6 Music, 31st August) SUN 100 Greatest Guitar Riffs (Radio 2, 25th August) SUN Private Passions: Mark Miodownik (Radio 3, 31st August) SUN A Meeting with Dora (Radio 4, 28th August) SUN Local Stories: Ryans Recovery (Radio 5, 24th August) SUN BBC Proms (Radio 3). SUN SUN Clip SUN empty SUN SUN John Waite SUN SUN Born in Stoke-on-Trent, John Waite joined the BBC as a SUN trainee in 1973 working his way up to being a news presenter SUN on BBC Radio London by the early 1980s. SUN SUN He then crossed over to Radio 4 in 1986, where he presented SUN You & Yours, many documentaries, and Face the Facts which he SUN can still be heard now. SUN SUN SUN SUN In John's own words - SUN SUN BEST MOMENT IN CAREER: Presenting a special programme for my SUN cousin Terry Waite, which he did manage to hear in his SUN Beirut hostage cell. SUN SUN SUN SUN WORST MOMENT IN CAREER: Being so keen to get my microphone SUN close to Prince Charles I stood heavily on his toe. SUN SUN SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04fyf2v (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 Charles Paris Mystery b00wlbvx (Listen) SUN Murder in the Title, Episode 4 SUN SUN By Jeremy Front SUN Based on the novel by Simon Brett SUN SUN Someone wants to close The Regent Theatre, and is willing to SUN murder to do so. SUN SUN Directed by Sally Avens SUN SUN As ever, Charles is his own worst enemy, a louche lush who SUN can resist anything except temptation especially in the form SUN of women and alcohol. His intentions may be good but somehow SUN the results always go wrong SUN SUN He's been out of work so long now he feels he may never get SUN a job and he's driving Frances his semi-ex-wife mad. So when SUN he's offered a small role in an awful play up in Rugland she SUN nearly pushes him out the door. SUN SUN The production is as creaky as anything Charles has ever SUN appeared in but the next play the theatre is scheduled to do SUN is much more controversial. Soon a protest group has formed SUN calling for a 'Porn Free Rugland'. Nasty accidents begin to SUN befall members of the cast and crew. It seems someone wants SUN to close down the theatre and they will even murder to get SUN their way. SUN SUN Music Played SUN SUN Eric Clapton SUN Crossroads SUN SUN Carole King SUN It's Too Late SUN SUN The Kinks SUN Situation Vacant SUN SUN The Kinks SUN Picture Book SUN SUN The Doors SUN Strange Days SUN SUN Cream SUN White Room SUN SUN Small Faces SUN Own Up Time SUN SUN The Kinks SUN You Really Got Me SUN SUN Derek and the Dominos SUN Layla SUN SUN Credits SUN Charles Paris: Bill Nighy SUN Frances: Suzanne Burden SUN Maurice: Jon Glover SUN Tony: Sam Dale SUN Sean: Iain Batchelor SUN Elaine: Christine Kavanagh SUN Phoebe: Claire Harry SUN Chris: Henry Devas SUN Martha: Sally Orrock SUN Author: Simon Brett SUN Adaptor: Jeremy Front SUN Director: Sally Avens SUN SUN 19:45 Comic Fringes b04fyf2x (Listen) SUN Series 10, The Gospel According to Judas SUN SUN Short story series featuring new writing by leading SUN comedians, recorded earlier this month at the BBC's pop up SUN venue at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. SUN SUN Tonight, an irreverent tale by satirist John O'Farrell: SUN imagine if Judas Iscariot spent his 30 pieces of silver on a SUN creative writing class and re-drafted the books of the SUN Gospels... SUN SUN A former comedy scriptwriter for Spitting Image, O'Farrell SUN can occasionally be spotted on such TV programmes as Grumpy SUN Old Men, Question Time and Have I Got News for You. He has SUN written four books: "The Man Who Forgot His Wife", "May SUN Contain Nuts", "This Is Your Life" and "The Best a Man Can SUN Get". SUN SUN Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: John O'Farrell SUN Producer: Kirsteen Cameron SUN SUN 20:00 More or Less b04fcsyt (Listen) SUN How Deadly Is Ebola? SUN SUN Media reports are suggesting that as many as 12,000 people SUN may have Ebola in West Africa, but experts tell More or Less SUN that's not the case. It's also said that Ebola kills up to SUN 90% of victims, but while that's true of one outbreak, the SUN death rate in other Ebola outbreaks has varied widely. Tim SUN Harford and Ruth Alexander look at what we know about how SUN dangerous Ebola is, how bad the latest outbreak is, what SUN factors might influence whether people survive once they're SUN infected, and how likely it is that there might be an SUN outbreak of the virus in the UK. SUN SUN Have 25% of guide dogs in London been hit by a cyclist? Tim SUN Harford fact-checks the numbers behind a questionable SUN headline. SUN SUN The Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has said an SUN 'unexpected' rise in the prison population is in part driven SUN by 700 more sex offenders being sentenced this year than SUN last. But is this really what's driving the numbers? Tim SUN Harford speaks to Carol Hedderman, visiting scholar in SUN criminology at University Of Cambridge. SUN SUN Internet rumours abound that 10,600 people have died within SUN six weeks of being pronounced fit to work. But the numbers SUN are not quite all they seem. Tim Harford takes a close look SUN at them with Tom Chivers of The Daily Telegraph. SUN SUN Presenter: Tim Harford SUN Producer: Ruth Alexander. SUN SUN Chapters SUN How Deadly Is Ebola? SUN Reports say 12,000 people in West Africa have ebola, but SUN experts say that's not the case SUN Guide Dogs Hit by Cyclists SUN Have 25% of London's guide dogs been hit by a cyclist? SUN 'Fit to Work' Deaths SUN Internet rumours claim 10,600 people died within 6 weeks of SUN being pronounced fit to work SUN Sex Offenders Fuel Prison Population Rise SUN Is the rising prison population down to an increase in sex SUN offenders being sentenced? SUN SUN 20:30 Last Word b04fcstv (Listen) SUN Richard Attenborough, Helen Bamber, BKS Iyengar, Sam SUN Galbraith, Bill Kerr SUN SUN Matthew Bannister on SUN SUN The film director and actor Lord Attenborough. After a week SUN of tributes, we bring you a highly personal interview in SUN which he talks movingly about his family - and we cast light SUN on his role in the development of London's Capital Radio. SUN SUN Also: human rights campaigner Helen Bamber who was inspired SUN to devote her life to helping victims of torture by her SUN experiences of working at the Belsen concentration camp SUN after the war. SUN SUN The yoga guru BKS Iyengar who inspired millions of devotees SUN around the world. SUN SUN And the neurosurgeon Sam Galbraith, who survived a lung SUN transplant and became a Labour MP and MSP. SUN SUN Richard Attenborough SUN SUN Matthew Bannister spoke to Nigel Walmsley, former Managing SUN Director of Capital Radio. SUN SUN Born 29 August 1923 - died 24 August 2014 - aged 90 SUN SUN Helen Bamber SUN SUN Matthew Bannister spoke to TJ Birdi, Executive Director of SUN the Helen Bamber Foundation. SUN SUN Born 01 May 1925 - died 21 August 2014 - aged 89 SUN SUN BKS Iyengar SUN SUN Matthew Bannister spoke to Silvia Prescott, former teacher SUN who trained under BKS Iyengar. SUN SUN Born 14 December 1918 - died 20 August 2014 - aged 95 SUN SUN Sam Galbraith SUN SUN Matthew Bannister spoke to Brian Wilson, former Labour SUN minister and close friend SUN SUN Born 18 October 1945 - died 18 August 2014 - aged 68 SUN SUN Bill Kerr SUN SUN South African-born Australian and British stage, television SUN and film actor. SUN SUN Born 10 June 1922 – died 28 August 2014 – aged 92 SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Laura Northedge SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04frbnx (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04fy1cf (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04fcc87 (Listen) SUN Take a Bow SUN SUN Thanks to great craftsmen such as the Amati family and SUN Antonio Stradivari, the city of Cremona in northern Italy SUN has been a global centre of violins for five centuries. SUN Peter Day finds out how tradition, marketing and years of SUN training enable Cremonese instrument makers to survive in a SUN fast changing musical world. SUN SUN Producer: Caroline Bayley. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Massimo Ardoli SUN SUN International Violin Making School of Cremona SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Christopher Kurz SUN SUN student International Violin Making School of Cremona SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Philip Ihle SUN SUN Ihle Violins, London SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Stefano Trabucchi SUN SUN Master Violin Maker, Cremona SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Giorgio Grisales SUN SUN Master Violin Maker, Cremona and business director, Antonio SUN Stradivari Consortium of Cremona Violin Makers SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Edgar Russ SUN SUN Master Violin Maker, Cremona SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Mathijs Heyligers SUN SUN Master Violin Maker, Cremona SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Paulo Bodini SUN SUN Chairman, Museum of the Violin Cremona SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN 22:00 Westminster Hour b04fyf2z (Listen) SUN Weekly political discussion and analysis with MPs, experts SUN and commentators. SUN SUN 22:45 What the Papers Say b04fyf31 (Listen) SUN Zoe Williams of The Guardian analyses how the newspapers are SUN covering the biggest stories. SUN SUN 23:00 The Film Programme b04fcb4q (Listen) SUN The Cabinet of Dr Caligari; Gruff Rhys; Richard Attenborough SUN SUN With Francine Stock. SUN SUN Francine unlocks The Cabinet Of Dr Caligari as the horror SUN classic is re-released in cinema. Holding the keys are SUN novelist Kim Newman, psychiatrist Peter Byrne and production SUN designer Maria Djurkovic. SUN SUN Another chance to hear Richard Attenborough's interview with SUN Francine, in which he discusses his philosophy of film and SUN explains why cinema needs to be compassionate and political SUN as well as entertaining. SUN SUN Singer Gruff Rhys discusses his documentary American SUN Interior about his quest for a tribe of Welsh speaking SUN Native Americans and his distant relative, the 18th century SUN explorer John Evans, who tried to find them and ended up SUN mapping the heartlands of the United States in the process. SUN SUN Director Ivan Sen on his thriller Mystery Road about an SUN Aborginal detective who stands alone against corruption in SUN the Australian Outback. SUN SUN The Cabinet of Dr Caligari SUN Directed by Robert Wiene, SUN The Cabinet of Dr Caligari SUN is in cinemas from Friday 29 August, certificate U SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Francine Stock SUN Interviewed Guest: Kim Newman SUN Interviewed Guest: Peter Byrne SUN Interviewed Guest: Maria Djurkovic SUN Interviewed Guest: Gruff Rhys SUN Interviewed Guest: Ivan Sen SUN Producer: Stephen Hughes SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04fy1c7 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 01 SEPTEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04frd77 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 The Educators b04fc707 (Listen) MON Tony Little MON MON Eton College in Berkshire is one of the world's most famous MON schools. With so many of its old boys having distinguished MON careers, an Eton education carries the expectation of MON success. MON MON The school's name has also become a cultural shorthand for MON influence, privilege and wealth. MON MON Tony Little became headmaster in 2002. A former pupil of the MON school, he talks to Sarah Montague about how Eton gets MON results, and whether there's anything in the ethos and MON practice that could apply to all schools. MON MON He believes a British education is uniquely rich and varied, MON with much of the value being outside the classroom, but MON fears it is being eroded by an age of measurement. MON MON Nineteen British prime ministers have been educated at Eton, MON alongside notable writers, actors and scientists. Tony MON Little says it asks something of all the boys there. "If MON they've done it, why not you?" MON MON Presenter: Sarah Montague MON Producer: Joel Moors. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04fxz8m (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04frd79 (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04frd7c (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04frd7f (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04frd7h (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04fyhct (Listen) MON A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04fyhcw (Listen) MON Hedges, Fishing Nets, Farm Education MON MON The National Farmers' Union says the government's decision MON to ban hedge cutting in August is 'draconian' and is urging MON Defra to rethink the changes. From next year farmers in MON England will have to wait until September 1st to trim hedges MON around their fields. Farming Today speaks to the RSPB who MON say the changes are vital for the conservation of nesting MON birds and also to the NFU who says it will hit the farming MON calendar. MON MON Hundreds of thousands of seabirds across the world get MON trapped in vertical fishing nets, known as gillnets, every MON year. The problem in Filey Bay on the east coast of MON Yorkshire was so bad the fishermen decided to do something MON about it. And the changes they've made are proving a MON success. Sybil Ruscoe speaks to Rex Harrison who is flying MON to Seattle today on America's west coast to show fishermen MON there what they've been doing. MON MON And Farming Today goes back to the classroom this week to MON look at farm education in the UK. Anna Jones visits Redborne MON Upper School in Bedfordshire who offer land-based MON qualifications. MON MON Presented by Sybil Ruscoe and produced by Lucy Bickerton. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04frd7k (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dv7fc (Listen) MON Blue Bird of Paradise MON MON Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship MON with them, from around the world. MON MON Sir David Attenborough begins the series with the blue bird MON of paradise. The crow sized blue birds of paradise provide a MON spectacular flash of blue in the Papua New Guinea MON rainforests yet it is the males dazzling courtship MON performance which grabs a female's attention. Tipping MON forward from his perch he hangs upside down fluffing out and MON shimmering his gauzy breast feathers. As if this weren't MON enough, as the female approaches, he increases the frequency MON of his calls to produce a hypnotic mechanical buzzing, more MON like the song of a giant cicada than any bird. MON MON Blue Bird of Paradise (Paradisaea rudolphi) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Tim Laman / naturepl.com MON MON NPL Ref MON 01442262 MON © Tim Laman / naturepl.com MON MON MON 06:00 Today b04fyhcy (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk; MON Weather; Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 The Educators b04d4nvv (Listen) MON Sir Ken Robinson MON MON A talk for the online lecture series TED in 2006 launched MON Sir Ken Robinson's ideas to a global audience. He spoke MON about creativity in schools for 20 minutes, and the video MON has been watched more than any other TED Talk, with 27 MON million views so far. MON MON In conversation with Sarah Montague, he argues that modern MON teaching is a product of industrialisation, putting children MON through a factory model that prepares them for working life. MON But if we truly value innovation and creativity, why isn't MON it taught? MON MON For the programme, Sir Ken returns to the former Margaret MON Beavan Special School in Liverpool, where he spent his MON primary school years in the 1950s, after contracting polio MON at four years old. MON MON He's since advised governments and businesses around the MON world on how to harness creativity, and believes if schools MON were radically different, giving creative subjects equal MON status, children would find their true talents. MON MON Presenter: Sarah Montague MON Producer: Joel Moors. MON MON Clip MON empty MON MON 09:30 The Ideas That Make Us b03s76cm (Listen) MON Series 2, Hospitality MON MON Bettany Hughes samples changing ideas of hospitality by MON gazing into outer space and by inviting poet and author Ben MON Okri 'round to her house for supper. MON MON The Ideas That Make Us is a Radio 4 series which reveals the MON history of the most influential ideas in the story of MON civilisation, ideas which continue to affect us all today. MON MON In this 'archaeology of philosophy', the award-winning MON historian and broadcaster Bettany Hughes begins each MON programme with the first, extant evidence of a single MON word-idea in Ancient Greek culture and travels both forwards MON and backwards in time, investigating how these ideas have MON been moulded by history and shaped the human experience. In MON the third programme of this series, Bettany samples changing MON ideas of hospitality with astronomer Professor Didier MON Queloz, classicist Professor Paul Cartledge, poet and author MON Ben Okri and former Deputy Prime Minister John Prescott. MON MON Other ideas examined in The Ideas that Make Us are idea, MON desire, agony, fame, justice, wisdom, comedy, liberty and MON peace. MON MON Producer: Dixi Stewart. MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04fyjq2 (Listen) MON Hopeful: The Autobiography, Episode 1 MON MON Episode 1/5 MON MON Comedian and actor Omid Djalili is one of Britain's funniest MON men. His memoirs take us through his unconventional MON childhood growing up in an Iranian household in London and MON chart his progression from serious acting into comedy. MON MON It's a laugh-out-loud, intelligent and deeply touching MON journey through a fascinating life. MON MON In today's episode, Omid recalls occasions when he's MON provoked laughter for all the wrong reasons. MON MON Writer and Reader ..... Omid Djalili MON Abridger ..... Lu Kemp MON Producer ..... Kirsty Williams MON MON A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Omid Djalili MON Author: Omid Djalili MON Abridger: Lu Kemp MON Producer: Kirsty Williams MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04fyjq4 (Listen) MON Culottes. Women on Oil Rigs. Friends with an Ex's New MON Partner? MON MON Can you be friends with an ex's new partner? Culottes - how MON to wear them and their place in fashion history. Working on MON an oil rig - why do so few women, and so few women MON engineers, take up a well-paid and exciting career? Ageing MON without children, why is no-one talking about it? And why MON are so many young women embarrassed to talk about MON gynaecological health? MON MON Gynaecological Cancer in Young Women MON MON September is Gynaecological Cancer Awareness Month and a new MON survey from the charity The Eve Appeal reveals how MON embarrassed young women feel MON about gynaecological issues. A thousand women of MON different ages from across the UK were questioned and one MON in five women aged 16-25 years could not MON name a single correct symptom of any of the five MON gynaecological cancers, which MON include: ovarian, cervical, vulval, vaginal and womb MON cancer. Plus, only half of MON women aged 26-35 were able to label the vagina accurately MON on a simple diagram. MON Jane is joined by Professor Usha Menon, Professor of MON Gynaecological Cancer at MON University College London, to discuss why women need to be MON more open and better MON informed about gynecological health and how understanding MON the symptoms can save MON lives. Jane is also joined by Emma Darts who discovered she MON had ovarian cancer MON at the age of eighteen. MON Eve Appeal MON Cancer Research UK MON NHS Cancer of the ovary MON MON Friends With Ex Boyfriend's New Partner MON MON After a relationship has ended and your ex has moved on to MON someone MON new, how do you react to their new partner? With feelings MON of bitter resentment, MON a desire to blank that woman from your mind, or a need to MON just let it go? Or MON have you perhaps decided to befriend that new woman? Suzy MON Miller did just that MON when she became friends with her ex partner’s new wife. As MON did journalist Daisy MON Buchanan, who was devastated to split from her boyfriend, MON but then discovered MON she got on even better with his new girlfriend than she MON ever did with him. So MON what’s it like to make friends with an ex’s new partner? Is MON it an act of MON madness, as some might say, or a source of resolution and a MON new best friend? MON MON Women and the Rigs MON MON A career that offers the opportunity to travel, clear career MON progression and the potential to make lots and lots of MON money. Sound good? Well MON arguably working on an oil rig offers all those things, of MON course it can also MON mean being stuck in the middle of the North Sea in the MON middle of winter for MON weeks on end, unable to escape your colleagues. Either way, MON women do not appear MON to be interested in this kind of work, only 3 and a half MON percent of those MON working on the rigs are women. So what’s life like for the MON few who do live MON their lives off shore, and should more girls be considering MON it as an option? Jane speaks to MON MON Lauren Adams, North Sea Field Engineer. MON MON Ageing without children MON MON In this country, care for older people rests mostly with MON family MON carers. Without them, it is said the MON health and social care system would collapse. But one in MON five women born in the MON 1960's don't have any children, and 25% of women in their MON 40’s now will age MON without children. So with the social care system already MON stretched to breaking MON point, who will look after people without children in their MON old age? We speak MON to MON Kirsty Woodard MON who is a third sector consultant with 20 years experience MON working in the field of ageing- and who has no children. MON And to 79 year old Rita whose son lives in Australia. MON Age UK MON Age UK London MON Independent Age MON Positive Ageing MON Gateway Women MON Change AGEnts MON UK Co-Housing Network MON MON Culottes MON MON Culottes are MON having a bit of a fashion moment – but will you be wearing MON them this MON autumn? Trousers designed to look like a skirt may sound MON like a bit MON of a contradiction, but culottes have a long history going MON back to the days MON when women were not supposed to wear trousers, but MON sometimes needed something MON more practical than a skirt. Jane is joined by fashion MON writer, MON Melanie Rickey MON and historian Oriole Cullen to consider culottes, how to MON wear MON them and their place in fashion history. MON V&A Museum MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON Producer: Kirsty Starkey MON Interviewed Guest: Usha Menon MON Interviewed Guest: Emma Darts MON Interviewed Guest: Suzy Miller MON Interviewed Guest: Daisy Buchanan MON Interviewed Guest: Oonagh Werngren MON Interviewed Guest: Lauren Adams MON Interviewed Guest: Melanie Rickey MON Interviewed Guest: Oriole Cullen MON Interviewed Guest: Kirsty Woodard MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04fyjq6 (Listen) MON Dark Fire, Episode 6 MON MON Dramatisation of the second novel in C J Sansom's Tudor MON crime series, featuring lawyer-detective hero Matthew MON Shardlake. MON MON London, 1540, Shardlake has been ordered by Thomas Cromwell MON to investigate the theft of a barrel of Greek Fire - an MON ancient weapon of mass destruction, the formula for which MON was thought to have been lost centuries before. Assisted by MON Cromwell's man, Barak, it's increasingly clear that whoever MON is behind the theft will do anything - including murder - to MON keep the dangerous substance from the Earl of Essex. MON MON Written by C. J. Sansom MON Dramatised by Colin MacDonald MON Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Shardlake: Justin Salinger MON Barak: Bryan Dick MON Cromwell: Robert Glenister MON Guy: Vincent Ebrahim MON Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton MON Norfolk: Patrick Brennan MON Marchamount: Nick Underwood MON Elizabeth: Susie Riddell MON Bealnapp: Clive Hayward MON Rich: Damian Lynch MON Director: Kirsteen Cameron MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON Adaptor: Colin MacDonald MON Author: CJ Sansom MON MON 11:00 The Lessons of Ray Honeyford b04fyjq8 (Listen) MON Aasmah Mir revisits the 'Honeyford Affair', the heated MON dispute surrounding Ray Honeyford, a Bradford headteacher MON whose outspoken criticisms of multiculturalism caused a MON national controversy. MON MON Ray Honeyford was headmaster of Drummond Middle School in MON Bradford, a school with a largely British-Asian intake. He MON had been writing publicly about his disagreement with MON multicultural education policies for a couple of years when, MON in spring 1984, one of his articles was reprinted in a local MON paper. It sparked a widespread outcry. MON MON Outraged parents formed an action group, with large-scale MON protests taking place outside the school. Scores of pupils MON ceased to attend lessons. Honeyford was suspended, then MON reinstated on appeal. Again, parents withdrew their MON children. The protests were heated and persistent. MON MON The Honeyford Affair went on for nearly two years. MON Eventually Ray Honeyford took early retirement. He never MON worked as a teacher again. MON MON Honeyford was admired on the one hand and reviled on the MON other. For some he was a racist, malignly out of step with MON his community; for others he was a prophet and a martyr. For MON some it was an issue of free speech; for others the simple MON responsibility of an employee to implement the policies of MON their employer. MON MON But what does the Honeyford Affair have to tell us today? MON Have we moved on in our discussions of multiculturalism and MON education? And how has time changed the views of those MON involved? MON MON Aasmah Mir talks to those closest to the issue: Honeyford's MON deputy head; parents and governors; his replacement as Head MON of Drummond Middle School; Bradford's Race Relations Officer MON of the day and Eric Pickles MP, who as Chair of Bradford's MON Education Committee at the time, was intimately involved MON with the long-running controversy. MON MON Producer: Martin Williams. MON MON 11:30 The Cold Swedish Winter b04fyjqb (Listen) MON Autumn MON MON Episode Four and it's a new season of the year in this MON Englishman abroad sitcom from Danny Robins (the writer of MON the Lenny Henry comedy 'Rudy's Rare Records') This series is MON set and recorded in Sweden and stars Adam Riches, Danny MON Robins and some of Sweden's most popular TV comedy actors. MON Geoff, a marginally successful stand-up comic from London, MON is moving to the tiny, cold and unpronounceable village of MON Yxsjö in northern Sweden; a culture shock forced on him by MON his Swedish girlfriend Linda's decision to move home to MON raise their child. This series follows his first year MON attempting to settle in his new home, each episode set in a MON different season. MON MON Geoff has to contend with snow, moose, pickled herring, MON unemployment, snow, Maypole dancing, snowmobiles, snow, MON meatball rolling, saunas, social democracy, snow, the MON weirdest pizzas in Europe, bears, deep forests, death metal, MON illegal alcohol, snow... Above all he has a new family to MON contend with. The Andersson's bewilder him - from father MON Sten (Thomas Oredsson - Crimes of Passion to be broadcast on MON BBC Four this year), who has a worrying tendency to growl MON like a bear and threaten him with any blunt instrument to MON hand to Gunilla (playwright and comedian Anna-Lena MON Bergelin), who threatens him with naked folk-dancing. It's MON worth it all for Linda, of course, apart from her new found MON urge to conform with everything and except for her brother, MON a Goth with a propensity to set fire to things. And his MON fellow immigrants are no less unsettling: Ian (Danny MON Robins), a divorcee, who has been depressed for the last MON eight years and Soran (Farshad Kohlgi - The Killing), a MON Danish Kurd with Swedophobia. MON MON Episode 4 -"Autumn": In which Geoff tries to be different, a MON heavily pregnant Linda throws a "fika" party and Sten MON campaigns for re-election MON MON Writer: Danny Robins MON Director: Frank Stirling MON A Unique Production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Geoff: Adam Riches MON Sten: Thomas Oredsson MON Linda: Sissela Benn MON Gunilla: Anna-Lena Bergelin MON Ian: Danny Robins MON Estate Agent: Joakim Jennefors MON Jorgen: Joakim Jennefors MON Doctor: Lisa Werlinder MON Director: Frank Stirling MON Writer: Danny Robins MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04frd7m (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04fyz52 (Listen) MON 1 September 1914 - Florrie Wilson MON MON A retired Admiral, Charles Fitzgerald, conceived the notion MON of the White Feather movement in Folkestone. Local women are MON encouraged to join in the shaming of non-combatants, with MON more or less success. MON MON Written by Shaun McKenna MON Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews MON Music: Matthew Strachan MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON Character: Florrie Wilson MON Folkestone: Birthplace of the White Feather Movement MON MON Credits MON Florrie: Claire Rushbrook MON Albert: Harry Myers MON Hilda: Bella Hamblin MON Sylvia: Deborah Findlay MON Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown MON Young Man: Joel McCormack MON Hilary: Craige Els MON Kitty: Ami Metcalf MON Writer: Shaun McKenna MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04fyz54 (Listen) MON Consumer news with Chris Warburton. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04frd7p (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04fyz56 (Listen) MON National and international news with Martha Kearney. MON MON 13:45 Penguin Post Office b04fyz58 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew MON Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for MON Antarctica to film the lives of a colony of Gentoo penguins MON for a BBC Natural World film. Every year the Gentoos return MON to Port Lockroy which is on a tiny island called Goudier to MON find a mate and raise their young in the shadow of world's MON most southerly public Post Office. It was to be one of the MON most challenging filming trips the team had ever undertaken. MON Joining them in Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan MON who narrates this series of five programmes which follows MON the team's adventures. In the first programme, we join them MON as they board their yacht Pelagic, which with its 12mm steel MON hull is designed for the glacial ice fields they encounter MON on their journey south. But fields of ice and giant icebergs MON are not their only challenge they also have to cross the MON notorious Drake Passage. Here the unimpeded waves of the MON vast Southern Ocean squeeze through the relatively narrow, MON shallow bottleneck of the Drake Passage, resulting in often MON unpredictable and brutal seas. It's a terrifying ordeal for MON them all. Producer Sarah Blunt. MON MON Picture of the Post Office MON Webpage picture courtesy of MON United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04fyf2v (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04fyz5b (Listen) MON Slipping MON MON Andrew Scott (Moriarty in the BBC's Sherlock) and Charlotte MON Riley (Cathy in ITV's Wuthering Heights and Nance in the MON film Edge of Tomorrow) play two expert liars who meet in an MON ocular prosthetics clinic. Elena, a teacher, is about to MON undergo surgery to receive a cosmetic eye to replace one of MON hers which has been disfigured by glaucoma. Sean, her MON prosthetics specialist, is crafting and hand-painting a MON shell to exactly match Elena's good eye. Flattered by her MON interest in him, Sean embarks on a relationship with her, in MON part as a distraction from his own chaotic life, but the MON closer they get, the more he realises that her charismatic MON stories may all be lies. Is Elena ready for surgery and is MON Sean ready for a relationship? MON MON Directed by Liz Webb MON MON A first radio play by Claudine Toutoungi, who has written MON several plays for theatre including Bit Part for The Stephen MON Joseph Theatre Scarborough, Life Skills for Shared MON Experience Youth Theatre at The Hampstead Theatre, Risk MON Assessment for Theatre 503, The Echo Chamber for The Cockpit MON Theatre and Dumb for the Corpus Playroom Cambridge. She is MON also a poet with work published in PN Review, The Delinquent MON and Magma and by Bloodaxe. MON MON Credits MON Elena: Charlotte Riley MON George: Andrew Scott MON Actor: Jane Slavin MON Actor: David Cann MON Director: Liz Webb MON Writer: Claudine Toutoungi MON MON 15:00 Quote... Unquote b04fyz5d (Listen) MON Quote ... Unquote, the popular quotations quiz, continues MON its 50th series. MON MON In almost forty years, Nigel Rees has been joined by MON writers, actors, musicians, scientists and various comedy MON types. Kenneth Williams, Judi Dench, PD James, Larry Adler, MON Ian KcKellen, Peter Cook, Kingsley Amis, Peter Ustinov... MON have all graced the Quote Unquote stage. MON MON Join Nigel as he quizzes a host of celebrity guests on the MON origins of sayings and well-known quotes, and gets the MON famous panel to share their favourite anecdotes. MON MON Episode 4 MON Writer, actor, director and comedian - Chris Addison MON Scientist, author and broadcaster - Professor Jim Al-Khalili MON Actress, writer and comedian - Katy Brand MON Political Biographer - John Campbell MON MON Presenter ... Nigel Rees MON Producer ... Carl Cooper. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nigel Rees MON Panellist: Chris Addison MON Panellist: Jim Al-Khalili MON Panellist: Katy Brand MON Panellist: John Campbell MON Reader: Peter Jefferson MON Producer: Carl Cooper MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04fy2bl (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 A Theatre for Everyman b04fz0ws (Listen) MON The legendary Everyman Theatre in Liverpool has nurtured the MON careers of many actors - from Robert Donat and Richard MON Burton, to Julie Walters, Anthony Sher, Jonathan Pryce and MON Matthew Kelly. Founded in 1964 by 3 young idealistic MON students, the theatre has fostered generations of MON heavyweight acting talent in the decades ever since - and MON even in the decades before - as it used to be a music hall, MON then a cinema before becoming the Everyman. Closed two years MON ago for a £28 million pound refurbishment, the theatre MON opened its doors again in March this year - having been MON completely re-built from the bottom up. MON MON Capturing the spirit of a theatre through the voices of some MON of the writers, actors and directors who worked there - "A MON Theatre for Everyman" tells the story of one of the most MON exciting theatre spaces in England. We take a tour round the MON new building as they prepare for their first production; we MON hear how in the early days, actors had to manage coping with MON rats in their dressing rooms and getting changed in boiler MON rooms; how they had no money and had to make do and mend in MON order to get a play on - and how the spirit of the Everyman MON engendered a sense of family and belonging, in everyone who MON worked there. MON MON Throughout the programme we also capture the spirit that is MON Liverpool - recalling the days of hardship and austerity in MON the 1970s; the Toxteth Riots of the 1980s and the Capital of MON Culture in 2008 - which went some way in helping to get the MON city back on its feet. MON MON It's a story of originality and imagination, of ups and MON downs, triumphs and tragedies, crises and comebacks - but MON most of all, it's a story of extraordinary talent, of MON inspiration, of originality that all makes up of one of the MON most exciting theatre spaces in England. MON MON Producer: Angela Hind MON A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04fz0wv (Listen) MON Holy Spirit MON MON The blessing "In the name of Father, Son and Holy Spirit" is MON much used in Christianity. But what do we mean by the term MON Holy Spirit? Belief in the Holy Spirit is a cardinal tenet MON of the Christian faith, while Muslims and Jews talk of the MON "Spirit of God." Whilst there is some common ground between MON the faiths, the differences in the interpretation of the MON Holy Spirit go to the heart of what marks the Abrahamic MON faiths apart. MON MON Ernie Rae explores the Holy Spirit with Loveday Alexander, MON Professor Emeritus in New Testament Studies at Sheffield MON University, Sajjad Rizvi, Associate Professor of Islamic MON Intellectual History at the University of Exeter and Laura MON Janner Klausner, from the Movement for Reform Judaism. MON MON Producer: Catherine Earlam. MON MON 17:00 PM b04fz0wx (Listen) MON Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04frd7r (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:30 Just a Minute b04fz0wz (Listen) MON Series 70, Episode 4 MON MON Just how hard can it be to talk for 60 seconds without MON hesitation, repetition or deviation? Hosted by the legendary MON Nicholas Parsons with panellists Gyles Brandreth, Stephen MON Mangan, Tony Hawks and newbie Kerry Godliman. MON MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Nicholas Parsons MON Panellist: Gyles Brandreth MON Panellist: Stephen Mangan MON Panellist: Tony Hawks MON Panellist: Kerry Godliman MON Producer: Katie Tyrrell MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04fz0x1 (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04fz0x3 (Listen) MON Arts news, interviews and reviews with John Wilson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: John Wilson MON Producer: Dymphna Flynn MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04fyjq6 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 Digitising Stalin b04fz400 (Listen) MON For Stalin, privacy was key. So how would he feel about his MON secrets being revealed? MON MON The Stalin Digital Archive is the result of a collaboration MON between the Russian State Archive of Social and Political MON History (RGASPI) and Yale University Press. As it approaches MON completion, the implications of this decade-long endeavour MON are explored by journalist and author Daniel Kalder. MON MON Encompassing the years 1890 through to 1952, over 400,000 MON pages of archive prise open a safe full of Soviet secrets. MON There's Stalin's foreign policy with Germany before World MON War II; communications during the Great Purges and relations MON with Western intellectuals and leaders. There are classified MON documents regarding deposed police chiefs, the 'Interior MON Ministry of the Russian Empire' and, latterly, the FBI. MON Pieced together, this puzzle of papers underlines the MON suspicion and paranoia that dominated this era. MON MON Daniel Kalder believes that the collection has provided us MON with important new ways to 'read' Stalin. We discover: MON MON Stalin as artist: he loved to draw wolves' heads all over MON his notes while he was sitting in tedious meetings. That was MON the only thing he drew - wolves, wolves, wolves. A holdover MON from his years spent in exile in Siberia, surrounded by MON wolves? MON MON Stalin as modest: he hacked out references to himself in the MON works he edited. A revelatory and previously unknown MON quality, this completely inverts our understanding of Stalin MON MON Stalin as smart: he added lots to Marxist theory, and yet, MON according to Trotsky, his limited mental capacity wasn't up MON to such a task MON MON With the click of a mouse, we gain access to one of the most MON guarded and secretive periods in Russia's modern history. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04fc8yq (Listen) MON Guatemala's Addicts Behind Bars MON MON The last decade has seen a dramatic increase in cocaine MON trafficking through Guatemala en route north, to the United MON States. Part of the fallout locally, has been a rise in MON addiction. As a result, more than 200 drug rehabilitation MON centres have been set up in the capital alone. Many of these MON are run by Pentecostal churches, with little oversight or MON regulation. Often addicts are swept up from the streets by MON 'hunting parties', and forced to attend such a centre. Linda MON Pressly travels to Guatemala City to investigate compulsory MON drug rehabilitation. MON MON 21:00 Mum and Dad and Mum b04fz6lg (Listen) MON Alana Saarinen is a thirteen year old girl who lives with MON her mum and dad in Michigan, USA. She loves playing golf and MON the piano, listening to music and hanging out with friends. MON In those respects, she's like many teenagers around the MON world. Except she's not, because every cell in Alana's body MON isn't like mine and yours; Alana is one of a handful of MON people in the world who have DNA from three people. MON MON The BBC's Science Correspondent Rebecca Morelle explores how MON more children like Alana could be born. The UK is looking to MON legalise a new technique which would mean more children with MON DNA from three people could be born. This irreversibly MON changes the human genetic code, and would also eliminate MON debilitating genetic diseases. MON MON This programme examines the safety and health implications MON of this new science. For some it is controversial. For those MON who have these specific genetic diseases, it is the way they MON could have their own healthy child. The UK is playing a MON pioneering role in developing the technique, called MON mitochondrial replacement, and Parliament are expected to MON vote on legalising it soon. If that happened, the UK would MON be the first place in the world to make the process legal. MON MON But despite that, there are a small number of children in MON the world, like Alana Saarinen, who have DNA from three MON people already. Although a small sample, they could answer MON some of the questions people have, such as will they be MON healthy, do they feel like they have three parents and would MON they like to trace the donor one day in the future? MON MON Producer: Charlotte Pritchard. MON MON 21:30 The Educators b04d4nvv (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04frd7t (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04fz402 (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04fz404 (Listen) MON The Thrill of It All, Episode 6 MON MON Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill MON of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative MON soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the MON formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their MON struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in MON transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. MON Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" MON MON This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for MON anyone who has ever loved a song. MON MON Author ..... Joseph O'Connor MON Abridger ..... Neville Teller MON Producer ..... Gemma McMullan MON Reader ..... Philip Glenister MON MON The Author MON MON Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and MON Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, MON The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, MON Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written MON radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the MON multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed MON adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. MON MON His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, MON selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 MON languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio MON Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen MON Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association MON Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and MON the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. MON His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book MON novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for MON Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Philip Glenister MON Author: Joseph O'Connor MON Abridger: Neville Teller MON Producer: Gemma McMullan MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b04f9r9k (Listen) MON Is the Double Entendre in Rude Health? MON MON Arthur Bostrom examines the origins and colourful history of MON the double entendre and asks if this comic device is MON upholding its reputation as a firm favourite or whether its MON popularity is starting to droop. MON MON Novelist Angela Carter described a double entendre as MON 'everyday discourse which has been dipped in the infinite MON riches of a dirty mind'. Whether innocently filthy or MON gleefully subversive, this British institution is part of a MON comedy tradition which has made us giggle for centuries. MON MON Bostrom himself is a purveyor of this custom, most memorably MON as Officer Crabtree in the popular television situation MON comedy 'Allo 'Allo, and in this programme he slips into a MON world of suggestive speech; including radio series, saucy MON postcards and advertising. However as he probes the use of MON double entendre he discovers it isn't always to everyone's MON taste - including his own. MON MON He's joined by writer Perry Croft, Lecturer in film studies MON at the University of Salford CP Lee, Deputy Editor of MON Marketing Week Branwell Johnson, artist Jez Dolan, comedian MON Steve Bugeja and Dr Paul MacDonald, a comic novelist and MON lecturer in creative writing. MON MON Produced by Stephen Garner. MON MON 23:30 Today in Parliament b04fz406 (Listen) MON Sean Curran reports from Westminster as the Commons returns MON after its summer break. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 02 SEPTEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04frd8n (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04fyjq2 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04frd8q (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04frd8s (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04frd8v (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04frd8x (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04fz42q (Listen) TUE A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04fz42s (Listen) TUE The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. TUE Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Jones. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvk7n (Listen) TUE Hoatzin TUE TUE Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship TUE with them, from around the world. TUE TUE Sir David Attenborough presents the South American hoatzin. TUE Moving clumsily through riverside trees the funky Mohican TUE head crested hoatzin looks like it has been assembled by a TUE committee. Hoatzin's eat large quantities of leaves and TUE fruit, and to cope with this diet have a highly specialised TUE digestive system more like that of cattle, which gives them TUE an alternative name, 'stink-bird'. TUE TUE Hoatzin (Opisthocomus hoazin) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com. TUE TUE NPL Ref TUE 01438627 TUE © Visuals Unlimited / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04fz4v8 (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 What's the Point of...? b04fz4vb (Listen) TUE Series 6, The Methodists TUE TUE They've lost a third of their members in the last decade - TUE Quentin Letts asks whether the Methodists in Britain have a TUE future. TUE In the nineteenth century the Methodists were a religious TUE and social force in the land; shaking up a complacent Church TUE of England, preaching in the open air and singing from the TUE rafters, organising the masses into trade unions and laying TUE the foundations of the modern labour party. Today, if TUE current trends are anything to go by, they are heading for TUE extinction. TUE Why has this happened? Have the Methodists lost their TUE radical edge, sold out by watering down their attitudes to TUE alcohol? Are they victims of their own success - do we now TUE all take for granted the values equality and social justice TUE which they communicated? Is their singing not what it used TUE to be? What's the point of the Methodists? TUE TUE Producer: Rosie Dawson. TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b04fz4vd (Listen) TUE The Port Arthur Massacre TUE TUE 35 people were killed by a single gunman during a mass TUE shooting in the Tasmanian town of Port Arthur in 1996. The TUE killings led to sweeping changes in Australia's gun laws. TUE John and Gaye Fidler survived the massacre and immediately TUE began to campaign for changes to firearms law. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04fz4vg (Listen) TUE Hopeful: The Autobiography, Episode 2 TUE TUE Episode 2/5 TUE TUE Comedian and actor Omid Djalili is one of Britain's funniest TUE men. His memoirs take us through his unconventional TUE childhood growing up in an Iranian household in London and TUE chart his progression from serious acting into comedy. TUE TUE It's a laugh-out-loud, intelligent and deeply touching TUE journey through a fascinating life. TUE TUE In today's episode, Omid remembers childhood visits to Iran TUE and explores how it feels to belong to two very different TUE cultures. TUE TUE Credits TUE TUE Writer and Reader ..... Omid Djalili TUE Abridger ..... Lu Kemp TUE Producer ..... Kirsty Williams TUE TUE A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Omid Djalili TUE Author: Omid Djalili TUE Abridger: Lu Kemp TUE Producer: Kirsty Williams TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04fz4vj (Listen) TUE Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female TUE perspective on the world. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Jane Garvey TUE TUE 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04fz4vl (Listen) TUE Dark Fire, Episode 7 TUE TUE Dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's Tudor bestselling crime TUE novel set during the last days of Thomas Cromwell. TUE TUE Shardlake puts pressure on Lady Honor to tell him all she TUE knows about Greek Fire, but suspects that she's still TUE holding something back. With little to report, Cromwell, TUE frustrated by Shardlake's lack of progress, reveals just how TUE worried he is about losing the King's favour. TUE TUE Written by C. J. Sansom TUE Dramatised by Colin MacDonald TUE Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Shardlake: Justin Salinger TUE Barak: Bryan Dick TUE Cromwell: Robert Glenister TUE Guy: Vincent Ebrahim TUE Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton TUE Norfolk: Patrick Brennan TUE Marchamount: Nick Underwood TUE Elizabeth: Susie Riddell TUE Bealnapp: Clive Hayward TUE Rich: Damian Lynch TUE Director: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE Adaptor: Colin MacDonald TUE Author: CJ Sansom TUE TUE 11:00 Shared Planet b04fz4vn (Listen) TUE Belugas TUE TUE The St Lawrence River in south east Canada is a popular spot TUE for many species of whale including a resident small TUE population of the world's only entirely white whale, the TUE beluga. Plans to build a new terminal in the St Lawrence to TUE ship oil from northern Canada to the rest of the world have TUE made some of the residents of one particular tourist town TUE particularly concerned. The protesters claim the development TUE will be right at the heart of the belugas critical habitat, TUE which at worst could threaten the future survival of this TUE small population. As the demand for oil increases are some TUE wildlife casualties inevitable? And as attention turns TUE further north into the icy waters of the Arctic are we TUE adequately prepared to clean up in the event of a spill? TUE TUE Professor Robert Gramling TUE TUE Bob Gramling is an environmental TUE sociologist. He is the author or TUE co-author of four books and numerous journal articles. His TUE research has focused on coastal TUE communities and natural resource development; coastal TUE restoration; and on TUE natural and technological disasters and recovery. TUE TUE He has served on National Academy of Science TUE committees and scientific committees for state and federal TUE agencies, including TUE National Marine Fisheries Service, Northwest Power Planning TUE Commission, and the TUE states of Alaska and Louisiana. TUE TUE His research has been funded by a number of agencies TUE including the TUE Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of TUE Interior. TUE TUE Professor Mads Peter Heide-Jorgensen TUE Professor Mads Peter Heide-Jørgensen has been working as a TUE senior scientist at the Greenland Institute of Natural TUE Resources since 1988. His expertise is in the ecology of TUE cetaceans in Greenland and his work has produced over 100 TUE peer-reviewed publications and books on Arctic top predator TUE biology. TUE TUE Robert Michaud TUE Robert Michaud's work with the whales of the St Lawrence TUE began when he was hired as a naturalist aboard the first TUE boats that were taking tourists to see the whales off TUE Tadoussac in the early 1980s. TUE What started as seasonal employment became the work of a TUE lifetime and led to him founding the Group for Research and TUE Education on Marine Mammals (GREMM) in 1985. TUE His goal was to study whales to better understand and TUE protect them and to use the information they discovered to TUE engage the public and make them aware of the importance of TUE protecting the marine environment. TUE TUE 11:30 The Poet Librettists b04fz4vq (Listen) TUE Michael Symmons Roberts is one of our most accomplished TUE poets, and has for some years also built a reputation as a TUE first rate librettist, in collaboration with James TUE Macmillan. In the course of his alternative operatic career TUE he's had much time to consider why so many poets have TUE decided to have a go at writing for the opera stage - even TUE though the collaborative experience is often so alien to TUE poets most comfortable writing alone. He meets some of the TUE modern era opera's most illustrious practitioners, including TUE Harrison Birtwistle, David Harsent, Alice Goodman as well as TUE James Macmillan - and more skeptical voices such as Don TUE Paterson, a prize-winning poet who has been highly reluctant TUE in the past to have his own words set to music as he regards TUE them to have their own internal music already. Michael also TUE presents archive audio from perhaps the greatest TUE poet-librettist of all, W.H. Auden, to try to establish TUE precisely what it is that poets bring to the operatic table TUE that other writers - such as novelists and playwrights - do TUE not; he also investigates how writing for the voice rather TUE than the page affects the writing style of poets. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04frd8z (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04fz4vs (Listen) TUE 2 September 1914 - Ralph Winwood TUE TUE The complications in the vicar's life threaten to catch up TUE with him. TUE TUE Written by Shaun McKenna TUE Music: Matthew Strachan TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE Character: Ralph Winwood TUE TUE Credits TUE Ralph: Nicholas Murchie TUE Hilary: Craige Els TUE Isabel: Keely Beresford TUE Dorothea: Rachel Shelley TUE Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson TUE Adam: Leo Montague TUE Tom: Matthew Watson TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE Writer: Shaun McKenna TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04fz507 (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04frd91 (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04fz509 (Listen) TUE National and international news with Martha Kearney. TUE TUE 13:45 Penguin Post Office b04fz6kr (Listen) TUE Episode 2 TUE TUE In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew TUE Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for TUE Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins for a BBC TUE Natural World film which every year return to Port Lockroy TUE on a tiny island called Goudier to find a mate and raise TUE their young in the shadow of world's most southerly public TUE Post Office. It was to be one of the most challenging TUE filming trips they had ever undertaken. Joining them in TUE Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan who narrates TUE this series of five programmes which follows the team's TUE adventures. Having survived the notorious Drake Passage, the TUE team have reached the southern oceans but their troubles TUE aren't over. They are surrounded by sea ice and send the TUE first mate up the mast to help navigate a safe journey TUE through the maze. All goes well until a fierce storm takes TUE them by surprise and once again they endure a terrifying TUE journey until they reach Anvers island and sanctuary for the TUE night. Next morning they set off on the last leg of their TUE journey but instead of reaching Port Lockroy are forced to TUE stop within a few hundred metres of Goudier island by yet TUE more dense sea ice. Producer Sarah Blunt. TUE TUE Picture of Post Office TUE TUE Webpage images courtesy of TUE United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04fz0x1 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01pgh25 (Listen) TUE The Sensitive, Queen of the Dead TUE TUE By Alastair Jessiman. TUE TUE Glasgow's psychic detective returns for a new case. A TUE grieving daughter finds hundreds of cassette recordings made TUE by a woman obsessed with her late father, a Professor of TUE English. Thomas Soutar is hired to trace the identity of the TUE woman behind the tapes - who styles herself the "Queen Of TUE the Dead". TUE TUE Producer/director: Bruce Young. TUE TUE Credits TUE Thomas: Robin Laing TUE Kat: Julie Duncanson TUE Sheila: Tamara Kennedy TUE Miriam: Irene MacDougall TUE Richie: Steven McNicoll TUE Nurse: Amiera Darwish TUE Writer: Alastair Jessiman TUE Director: Bruce Young TUE Producer: Bruce Young TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04frbnq (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 Costing the Earth b04fz6kt (Listen) TUE Texan Drought TUE TUE Whilst many parts of the United States have suffered drought TUE this summer, for Texas it's been going on for years. Wells TUE and reservoir levels are at a fraction of what they should TUE be and farmers and residents have been forced to face some TUE big changes. Climatologists say this is the second worst TUE drought in recorded history but if it continues it could TUE soon surpass that experienced in the 1950s. TUE TUE Tom Heap visits cattle and crop farmer Kenneth McAlister who TUE lives near one of the areas in 'exceptional drought' - TUE Wichita Falls. The lack of rain has made it hard to grow TUE feed and he's had to reduce his herd size. Many others have TUE done the same or left farming altogether - which is TUE beginning to change the face and identity of this state TUE famed for ranching. Some recent light rain has only brought TUE with it grasshoppers and dangerous weeds on the land. TUE TUE Meanwhile, to preserve water supplies in Wichita Falls TUE evaporation suppressants are being sprayed onto reservoirs TUE and water companies say they've started 'direct potable TUE reuse' - reducing the stages between flush and faucet - TUE which has garnered an interesting response. TUE TUE With over 1000 people moving to Texas each day and business TUE being encouraged to boom Tom asks what's being done to save TUE precious water supplies and ensure there's enough to go TUE around. TUE TUE Producer: Anne-Marie Bullock. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04fz6kw (Listen) TUE Speaking, Listening and the English GCSE TUE TUE Chris Ledgard presents a discussion on the teaching of TUE speaking and listening in schools and the way it's now TUE assessed in the English GCSE. Can students really be taught TUE to be eloquent speakers, and if so, how? TUE TUE Taking part will be Christine Blower, General Secretary of TUE the National Union of Teachers; writer and thinker Tom TUE Chatfield, and Professor Neil Mercer. He studies students' TUE spoken language skills in four areas: physical (how you use TUE your voice and body), cognitive (how you marshal an argument TUE and use questioning and logic), linguistic (how large your TUE vocabulary is and how fluently you use general, abstract and TUE academic words) and social (how you engage an audience and TUE develop your confidence). TUE TUE Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04fz6ky (Listen) TUE Series 34, Tom Shakespeare on Gramsci TUE TUE Dr Tom Shakespeare, lecturer at the Medical School in the TUE University of East Anglia and prominent campaigner for the TUE rights of the disabled, explains to Matthew Parris why the TUE life and work of the Italian left-wing revolutionary Antonio TUE Gramsci means a great deal to him personally. They are TUE joined in the studio by Professor Anne Sassoon. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE Interviewed Guest: Tom Shakespeare TUE Producer: Christine Hall TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04fz6l0 (Listen) TUE Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04frd93 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:30 Meet David Sedaris b03mclqh (Listen) TUE Series 4, English Lesson; Understanding Understanding Owls TUE TUE One of the world's funniest storytellers is back on BBC TUE Radio 4 doing what he does best. TUE TUE This week, he considers his native tongue as if it were a TUE foreign language in "English Lesson" and the trouble that TUE taxidermy can bring in "Understanding Understanding Owls". TUE TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE A Giddy Goat production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: David Sedaris TUE Producer: Steve Doherty TUE Writer: David Sedaris TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04fz6l4 (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04fz6l6 (Listen) TUE Arts news, interviews and reviews with John Wilson. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: John Wilson TUE Producer: Timothy Prosser TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04fz4vl (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Painful Medicine b04fz6lb (Listen) TUE Addictions researcher, Dr Sally Marlow, investigates fears TUE that easy access to powerful painkillers could be creating a TUE large, but hidden problem of addiction. TUE TUE Painkillers are widely available over-the-counter, and TUE combinations containing codeine, which is addictive, can be TUE purchased from pharmacists and on the internet. TUE TUE Teenager, Alice, tells Sally about secretly buying huge TUE numbers of painkillers on her way to school while she was TUE wearing her school uniform. She used her lunch money to buy TUE multiple packs from several stores, switching shops when she TUE was questioned by pharmacists. TUE TUE And Steve describes how his serious codeine addiction began TUE after treating tooth pain with the drug. The side effects TUE helped his anxiety and for years he was doctoring tablets in TUE order to increase his codeine intake. TUE TUE Some health professionals believe easy access is fuelling a TUE potential health crisis and say those with serious TUE dependency problems, are hidden below the healthcare radar. TUE TUE Only a tiny percentage of people with an addiction to TUE painkillers find their way to traditional substance misuse TUE services, fuelling concerns that there is a large, but TUE hidden group, who aren't getting help with their dependency. TUE TUE David Grieve, who set up the charity, Over-count, 21 years TUE ago after his own serious addiction to over-the-counter TUE cough mixture, believes the number of people dependent on TUE painkillers is growing, fuelled by easy availability on the TUE internet. TUE TUE Between 30-35% of visitors to his website say when they are TUE refused purchases by pharmacists, they buy online instead. TUE TUE Fabrizio Shiffano, Professor of Clinical Pharmacology at the TUE University of Hertfordshire and a member of the government's TUE Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, demonstrates how TUE easy it is to buy potent painkillers online and Dr Paolo TUE DeLuca, a senior research fellow in addictive behaviour at TUE King's College, London, tells Sally about a three year TUE international study, the Codemisused Project, which aims to TUE discover the scale of codeine use and misuse. Dr DeLuca is TUE leading the British arm of the study and he hopes that TUE research will fill the current gap in knowledge so that if TUE action is needed to reduce the risk to individuals, it can TUE be based on evidence. TUE TUE Producer: Fiona Hill. TUE TUE 20:40 In Touch b04fz6ld (Listen) TUE News, views and information for people who are blind or TUE partially sighted. TUE TUE 21:00 Everything We Know Is Wrong b04f9r4k (Listen) TUE Every day the newspapers carry stories of new scientific TUE findings. There are 15 million scientists worldwide all TUE trying to get their research published. But a disturbing TUE fact appears if you look closely: as time goes by, many TUE scientific findings seem to become less true than we TUE thought. It's called the "decline effect" - and some TUE findings even dwindle away to zero. TUE TUE A highly influential paper by Dr John Ioannidis at Stanford TUE University called "Why most published research findings are TUE false" argues that fewer than half of scientific papers can TUE be believed, and that the hotter a scientific field (with TUE more scientific teams involved), the less likely the TUE research findings are to be true. He even showed that of the TUE 49 most highly cited medical papers, only 34 had been TUE retested and of them 41 per cent had been convincingly shown TUE to be wrong. And yet they were still being cited. TUE TUE Again and again, researchers are finding the same things, TUE whether it's with observational studies, or even the "gold TUE standard" Randomised Controlled Studies, whether it's TUE medicine or economics. Nobody bothers to try to replicate TUE most studies, and when they do try, the majority of findings TUE don't stack up. The awkward truth is that, taken as a whole, TUE the scientific literature is full of falsehoods. TUE TUE Jolyon Jenkins reports on the factors that lie behind this. TUE How researchers who are obliged for career reasons to TUE produce studies that have "impact"; of small teams who TUE produce headline-grabbing studies that are too statistically TUE underpowered to produce meaningful results; of the way that TUE scientists are under pressure to spin their findings and TUE pretend that things they discovered by chance are what they TUE were looking for in the first place. It's not exactly fraud, TUE but it's not completely honest either. And he reports on new TUE initiatives to go through the literature systematically TUE trying to reproduce published findings, and of the bitter TUE and personalised battles that can occur as a result. TUE TUE Producer/Presenter: Jolyon Jenkins. TUE TUE 21:30 What's the Point of...? b04fz4vb (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04gbxbk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04fz6lj (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04fz6ll (Listen) TUE The Thrill of It All, Episode 7 TUE TUE Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill TUE of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative TUE soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the TUE formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their TUE struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in TUE transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. TUE Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" TUE TUE This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for TUE anyone who has ever loved a song. TUE TUE Author ..... Joseph O'Connor TUE Abridger ..... Neville Teller TUE Producer ..... Gemma McMullan TUE TUE The Author TUE TUE Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and TUE Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, TUE The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, TUE Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written TUE radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the TUE multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed TUE adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. TUE TUE His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, TUE selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 TUE languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio TUE Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen TUE Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association TUE Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and TUE the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. TUE His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book TUE novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for TUE Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. TUE TUE Credits TUE Robbie: Philip Glenister TUE Trez: Natasha Little TUE Author: Joseph O'Connor TUE Abridger: Neville Teller TUE Producer: Gemma McMullan TUE TUE 23:00 The Guns of Adam Riches b04fz6ln (Listen) TUE Series 2, Episode 3 TUE TUE Award-winning comic, Adam Riches' series of one-off comic TUE adventures continues with the tale of Victor Legit, a TUE supermarket store detective whose shop is being targeted by TUE a mysterious shoplifter called the "Rat King." Aided by his TUE wingman - and live saxophonist - Tony, can Victor solve the TUE mystery and save the day? TUE TUE Cast: Adam Riches, Cariad Lloyd, Jim Johnson, Katharine TUE Bennett-Fox and special guest, Pete Grogan as Tony TUE Saxatanski. TUE TUE Written by Adam Riches TUE Produced by Simon Mayhew-Archer. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Adam Riches TUE Actor: Cariad Lloyd TUE Actor: Jim Johnson TUE Actor: Katharine Bennett-Fox TUE Tony Saxatanski: Pete Grogan TUE Writer: Adam Riches TUE Producer: Simon Mayhew-Archer TUE TUE 23:30 Today in Parliament b04fz6lq (Listen) TUE Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 03 SEPTEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04frdb1 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04fz4vg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04frdb3 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04frdb5 (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04frdb7 (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04frdb9 (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04fzb7h (Listen) WED A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04fzb7k (Listen) WED The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. WED Presented by Anna Hill and produced by Anna Jones. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvrcj (Listen) WED Australian Magpie WED WED Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship WED with them, from around the world. WED WED Sir David Attenborough presents the Australian magpie. These WED large piebald birds with pickaxe bills reminded early WED settlers of the more familiar European magpie, but in fact WED they are not crows at all. Australian magpies have melodious WED voices which can range over four octaves in a chorus of WED squeaks, yodels and whistles. Pairs or larger groups of WED magpies take part in a behaviour known as carolling, a WED harmony of rich fluting calls which marks their territories WED and helps to cement relationships between the birds. WED WED Australian Magpie (Gymnorhina tibicen / Cracticus tibicen) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Marie Read / naturepl.com. WED WED NPL Ref WED 01306034 WED © Marie Read / naturepl.com. WED WED 06:00 Today b04fzb7m (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b04fzbhq (Listen) WED Series 2, Margaret Beckett WED WED In this series, Peter Hennessy, the historian of modern WED Britain, asks a senior politician to reflect on his or her WED life and times. Each week, he invites his guest to explore WED their early influences, their experiences of events and WED their impressions of people they've known. WED In the final episode of the current series, Dame Margaret WED Beckett MP, the former Foreign Secretary and Labour Deputy WED Leader, reflects on her transition from trainee engineer to WED Labour MP, and subsequently to a minister who served four WED Labour Prime Ministers between 1976 and 2009. She talks WED about becoming a minister at a time when there were few WED women in national politics. Discussing her loyalty to Labour WED since the 1960s, she explains her opposition to British WED membership of the European Community in the 1970s and her WED reasons for having voted for Michael Foot as Labour Leader WED in 1980 and Tony Benn as Deputy Leader in preference to WED Denis Healey. Looking back on her senior role in the Labour WED Party from the 1990s, she tells how she became Deputy Labour WED Leader to John Smith and discusses her time in Tony Blair's WED Cabinet, including during the Iraq War, and recalls that WED when she was appointed Foreign Secretary in 2006 she was WED 'stunned'. WED Peter's guests earlier in this series were Sir John Major, WED the former Prime Minister; Roy Hattersley, the former Labour WED Deputy Leader, and David Steel, the former Liberal Party WED Leader. WED The producer is Rob Shepherd. WED WED 09:30 Publishing Lives b03xgslw (Listen) WED Series 2, Carmen Callil WED WED Robert McCrum explores the stories of five great British WED publishers. WED WED Carmen Callil set out to change the world with her WED pioneering feminist publishing house, Virago Press. Arriving WED in London from Australia in 1960, she started as a WED "publicity girl", then one of the few publishing jobs WED available to women who did not want to be secretaries. WED WED In 1973 she founded Virago Press to "publish books by women WED which celebrated women's lives, and which would, by so WED doing, spread the message of women's liberation to the whole WED population". Virago's first publication was Fenwomen: A WED Portrait of Women in an English Village by Mary Chamberlain. WED This oral history set out as Virago meant to go on, giving WED voice to previously silent women. WED WED Despite some criticism from the established literary world, WED Virago quickly became a success. In 1978, Carmen launched WED the hugely influential Modern Classics series, with their WED distinctive green spines, celebrating and reviving the work WED of hundreds of often neglected female writers. Since then, WED the Modern Classics series has become Virago's hallmark. WED WED Carmen left Virago to run Chatto in the 80s, and retired WED from publishing in 1994. The company she founded over 40 WED years ago has evolved and changed, yet the founding WED principles remain the same, to publish the best of women's WED writing and to celebrate women's lives thorough literature. WED Since 1973, women have made a significant contribution to WED literature, as bestsellers, as Booker Prize winners and as WED readers shaping the modern book trade. WED Featuring Carmen Callil, Ursula Owen and Lennie Goodings. WED WED Producer: Melissa FitzGerald WED A Blakeway Production production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04fzbl7 (Listen) WED Hopeful: The Autobiography, Episode 3 WED WED Episode 3/5 WED WED Comedian and actor Omid Djalili is one of Britain's funniest WED men. His memoirs take us through his unconventional WED childhood growing up in an Iranian household in London and WED chart his progression from serious acting into comedy. WED WED It's a laugh-out-loud, intelligent and deeply touching WED journey through a fascinating life. WED WED In today's episode, Omid recalls his experiences as a WED ten-year old medical translator and WED revisits a poignant period when religious tensions in Iran WED reached his family home in Kensington. WED WED Credits WED WED Writer and Reader ..... Omid Djalili WED Abridger ..... Lu Kemp WED Producer ..... Kirsty Williams WED WED A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Omid Djalili WED Author: Omid Djalili WED Abridger: Lu Kemp WED Producer: Kirsty Williams WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04fzbl9 (Listen) WED Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female WED perspective on the world. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED WED 10:41 15 Minute Drama b04fzblc (Listen) WED Dark Fire, Episode 8 WED WED Dramatisation of C. J. Sansom's Tudor crime novel set during WED the last days of Thomas Cromwell. WED WED Trapped inside the rapidly burning house, Shardlake and WED Barak search desperately for an escape route as they witness WED first-hand the terrible power of Greek Fire. WED WED Written by C. J. Sansom WED Dramatised by Colin MacDonald WED Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Shardlake: Justin Salinger WED Barak: Bryan Dick WED Cromwell: Robert Glenister WED Guy: Vincent Ebrahim WED Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton WED Norfolk: Patrick Brennan WED Marchamount: Nick Underwood WED Elizabeth: Susie Riddell WED Bealnapp: Clive Hayward WED Rich: Damian Lynch WED Director: Kirsteen Cameron WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED Adaptor: Colin MacDonald WED Author: CJ Sansom WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04fzblf (Listen) WED Victor and Finola - The Key of Heaven WED WED Fi Glover introduces a conversation in which 63 year old WED Victor shares the joy of his new life, now he's learned to WED read and write, with the mentor who handed him the key, WED proving once again that it's surprising what you hear when WED you listen. WED WED The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a WED snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the WED UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to WED them about a subject they've never discussed intimately WED before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK WED by teams of producers from local and national radio stations WED who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're WED not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - WED lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key WED moment of connection between the participants. Most of the WED unedited conversations are being archived by the British WED Library and used to build up a collection of voices WED capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade WED of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening WED Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 The Life Sub-Aquatic b04fzc7m (Listen) WED Marine biologist and avid scuba diver, Helen Scales, WED explores the human obsession with inhabiting the depths and WED meets aquanauts who want to go down and stay down. From WED Jules Verne to Jacques Cousteau, the dream of a life WED sub-aquatic has endured. But could it ever become a reality? WED WED At the moment, there is one place on Earth where you can WED live deep underwater for weeks at a time: The Aquarius Reef WED Base, a research station run by Florida International WED University which sits on the seabed some 20 metres down. As WED Helen discovers herself on a short visit to Aquarius, this WED is paradise for marine scientists who can wave goodbye to WED the surface and conduct experiments in situ, 24/7. It also WED hosts astronauts who use the unique conditions to train for WED life on the International Space Station as well as voyages WED deeper into space. Helen talks to Commander Chris Hadfield WED (recently made famous through his rendition of Space Oddity) WED about his time testing space suits for NASA and meeting WED sharks face to face on night time sorties. WED WED Aquarius stands alone today but the dream of working - and WED living - under the sea has a rich history that began years WED before we ever stepped foot on the surface of the moon. It WED was undersea pioneer Jacques Cousteau, co-inventor of the WED Aqua-Lung, who captured the world's imagination when he WED created the Conshelf underwater village in the Red Sea. This WED was followed by the US Navy's Sea Lab and NASA's own WED 'Tektite' house (built in 1969 by General Electric and WED described by inhabitant Sylvia Earle as looking like a giant WED kitchen appliance). WED WED More recently, an upsurge in interest from philanthropists, WED corporations and even individuals is keeping alive the dream WED of life as an aquanaut. Helen meets Lloyd Godson, a young WED Australian adventurer who is working on his third project - WED BioSub 3 - a submerged habitat powered by sustainable WED energy. As Helen discovers, there's a long way to go to meet WED the many challenges this hostile environment throws up - not WED least how our bodies and our brains cope with the pressure WED and confined conditions that come with living underwater. WED WED 11:30 Wordaholics b04fzc7p (Listen) WED Series 3, Episode 1 WED WED The return of the work-obsessed panel game. WED WED Comedians Lloyd Langford, Holly Walsh, Paul Sinha and WED Natalie Haynes join Gyles Brandreth for the panel game about WED words that will make you laugh your socks off. WED WED On this week's show Lloyd Langford delicately tells us whey WED avocados are called avocados; Natalie Haynes explains what WED the modern term astroturfing is; Paul Sinha unlocks the WED meaning of the German word handschuhsanbalwerfer and Holly WED Walsh shares her favourite example of prison slang. WED WED The panel also suggest words that don't yet exist, but WED should. What could they mean by 'a Clarkson', WED 'messcalation', 'trage' and 'appointmentia'? WED WED Writers: Jon Holmes and James Kettle. WED Producer: Claire Jones. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Gyles Brandreth WED Panellist: Lloyd Langford WED Panellist: Holly Walsh WED Panellist: Paul Sinha WED Panellist: Natalie Haynes WED Writer: Jon Hunter WED Writer: James Kettle WED Producer: Claire Jones WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04frdbc (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04fzck9 (Listen) WED 3 September 1914 - Marieke Dupont WED WED A Belgian couple arrive at the vicarage claiming that WED Matthieu is their baby, but Marieke has more than an WED instinct that they are lying. WED WED Written by Shaun McKenna WED Music: Matthew Strachan WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED Character: Marieke Dupont WED WED Credits WED Marieke: Olivia Ross WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Dorothea: Rachel Shelley WED Madame Drouet: Lorna Nickson-Brown WED Monsieur Drouet: Sean Baker WED Ralph: Nicholas Murchie WED Writer: Shaun McKenna WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04fzckc (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04frdbf (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04fzd86 (Listen) WED National and international news with Martha Kearney. WED WED 13:45 Penguin Post Office b04fzd88 (Listen) WED Episode 3 WED WED In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew WED Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for WED Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins for a BBC WED Natural World film which every year return to Port Lockroy WED on a tiny island called Goudier to find a mate and raise WED their young in the shadow of world's most southerly public WED Post Office. It was to be one of the most challenging WED filming trips they had ever undertaken. Joining them in WED Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan who narrates WED this series of five programmes which follows the team's WED adventures. Having survived the notorious Drake Passage , WED the team have reached the southern oceans but their troubles WED aren't over. They are surrounded by sea ice and so have to WED send the first mate up the mast to help navigate a safe WED journey through the maze. All goes well until a fierce storm WED takes them by surprise and once again they endure a WED terrifying journey until they reach Anvers island and WED sanctuary for the night. Next morning they set off on the WED last leg of their journey but instead of reaching Goudier WED are forced to stop within a few hundred metres by yet more WED sea ice. Producer Sarah Blunt. WED WED Picture of Post Office WED Webpage image courtesy of WED United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04fz6l4 (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b01d2q3z (Listen) WED Interiors WED WED Johnny Vegas welcomes you to the tasteful home of Jeffrey WED Parkin. WED WED "Now you may notice as we begin our tour in earnest that WED there are some design initiatives around the house that WED aren't, strictly speaking, finished... I terms of the decor WED I've been playing around with some ideas. Not all the colour WED schemes have been finalised yet but I think you'd all agree, WED that's a veritable bonus. Most of the hard work's done so WED I'm basically handing you a colour-by-numbers dream home WED come true. You just paint in between the guiding lines that WED my vision has provided you with, and you're laughing." WED WED Interiors shines a mis-wired spotlight on the structural WED flaws exposed in the recent demise of the British property WED market and sparks on the revelation that a house really WED stands up or falls down on the basis of its human contents. WED WED Based on an original play by Johnny Vegas, Stewart Lee and WED Rob Thirtle. WED WED Directed by Dirk Maggs WED Produced by Sally Harrison WED A Woolyback Production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Jeffrey Parkin: Johnny Vegas WED Actor: Ben Crompton WED Actor: Jo Enright WED Actor: Catherine Kinsella WED Actor: Joe Ransom WED Actor: Rachael McGuinness WED Actor: Peter Slater WED Writer: Johnny Vegas WED Writer: Stewart Lee WED Writer: Robert Thirtle WED Director: Dirk Maggs WED Producer: Sally Harrison WED WED 15:00 Money Box Live b04fzd8b (Listen) WED Saving and Investing WED WED Paul Lewis answers your questions about saving and WED investing. Call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail moneybox@bbc.co.uk WED WED Savers deposited almost £5bn in NISAS in July but since then WED many providers have cut the interest rates they pay. If your WED rate is about to drop where should you move your money to? WED WED Who is offering the best regular saving or fixed rates, or WED perhaps you're tempted by a high interest current account? WED WED If your saving goals are long term and you are prepared to WED take some risk what are the investment options, risks and WED costs? WED WED Whatever your question, ready to share their views and WED experience will be: WED WED Jason Hollands, Tilney Bestinvest. WED Flora Maudsley-Barton, Parsonage Financial. WED Kevin Mountford, Moneysupermarket. WED WED To talk to the team call 03700 100 444 from 1pm to 3.30pm on WED Wednesday or e-mail your question to moneybox@bbc.co.uk now. WED Standard geographic call charges apply. WED WED 15:30 Mum and Dad and Mum b04fz6lg (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Monday] WED WED 16:00 The Educators b04fzd9h (Listen) WED Daisy Christodoulou WED WED It's a relatively new dilemma for teachers. If the answer to WED almost anything is available with a search, should children WED be taught to remember facts, or how to find and use them? WED WED Teacher and writer Daisy Christodoulou tells Sarah Montague WED why she thinks a generation of school children are being let WED down by discovery learning, which places emphasis on WED students finding out for themselves. WED WED It's the opposite of traditional 'chalk and talk'. But have WED classrooms already moved too far towards skills and group WED work, in the interest of pleasing inspectors? WED WED Based on her own time in classrooms, Daisy Christodoulou WED believes young people have vast gaps in their knowledge and WED understanding, and that traditional fact-based lessons would WED serve them better. WED WED Presenter: Sarah Montague WED Producer: Joel Moors. WED WED 16:30 The Media Show b04fzdqp (Listen) WED Steve Hewlett presents a topical programme about the WED fast-changing media world. WED WED 17:00 PM b04fzdqr (Listen) WED Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04frdbh (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:30 Dead Ringers b04fzdqt (Listen) WED Series 12, Episode 6 WED WED After a rest of 7 years, the classic, award winning WED impressions show is back with a new cast of characters. WED WED No one will be safe from the merciless parodies, as the show WED takes down every programme, institution and politician you WED hold dear. WED WED Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis WED MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. WED WED Producer: Bill Dare. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Jon Culshaw WED Performer: Jan Ravens WED Performer: Duncan Wisbey WED Performer: Lewis Macleod WED Performer: Debra Stevenson WED Producer: Bill Dare WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04fzfxv (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04fzfxx (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews with Samira Ahmed. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Samira Ahmed WED Producer: Rebecca Nicholson WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04fzblc (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:41 today] WED WED 20:00 Agree to Differ b04fzfxz (Listen) WED Jerusalem WED WED Agree to Differ is Radio 4's new discussion programme where WED the aim is to give listeners a completely new way to WED understand a controversial issue and to decide where they WED stand. Presented by Matthew Taylor. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04fzfy1 (Listen) WED Series 4, The Trouble with Paradise WED WED Carrie Gibson argues that we need to re-think what we mean WED by paradise. WED WED Carrie has recently completed a major history of the WED Caribbean, and in this talk she explores the complicated WED interwoven history of the Caribbean and of how it has been WED understood in the wealthy west. And she argues that we may WED need to re-evaluate our understanding of the meaning of WED paradise. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Costing the Earth b04fz6kt (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 15:30 on Tuesday] WED WED 21:30 Reflections with Peter Hennessy b04fzbhq (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04frdbk (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04fzfy3 (Listen) WED In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04fzfy5 (Listen) WED The Thrill of It All, Episode 8 WED WED Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill WED of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative WED soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the WED formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their WED struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in WED transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. WED Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" WED WED This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for WED anyone who has ever loved a song. WED WED Author ..... Joseph O'Connor WED Abridger ..... Neville Teller WED Producer ..... Gemma McMullan WED Reader ..... Philip Glenister WED WED The Author WED WED Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and WED Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, WED The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, WED Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written WED radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the WED multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed WED adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. WED WED His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, WED selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 WED languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio WED Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen WED Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association WED Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and WED the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. WED His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book WED novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for WED Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Philip Glenister WED Author: Joseph O'Connor WED Abridger: Neville Teller WED Producer: Gemma McMullan WED WED 23:00 Jigsaw b04fzfy7 (Listen) WED Series 2, Episode 2 WED WED Award-winning stand-up comedians Dan Antopolski, Tom Craine WED and Nat Luurtsema combine their talents to piece together a WED rapid-fire and surreal sketch show. WED WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits WED Performer: Dan Antopolski WED Performer: Tom Craine WED Performer: Nat Luurtsema WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED WED 23:15 Little Lifetimes by Jenny Eclair b04fzfy9 (Listen) WED Doing the Best for Daniel WED WED by Jenny Éclair WED WED Jenny Éclair plays a single mother who will stop at nothing WED to give her son the best education and future. But might she WED have gone too far? WED WED Producer ..... Sally Avens. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Jenny Eclair WED Producer: Sally Avens WED Writer: Jenny Eclair WED WED 23:30 Today in Parliament b04fzfyc (Listen) WED Sean Curran reports from Westminster on the first Prime WED Minister's Questions since the summer break. WED WED THU THURSDAY 04 SEPTEMBER 2014 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04frdch (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04fzbl7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04frdck (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04frdcm (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04frdcp (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04frdcr (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04g10z5 (Listen) THU A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04g10z7 (Listen) THU The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. THU Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally THU Challoner. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvrt1 (Listen) THU Central Asian Bar-Headed Goose THU THU Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship THU with them, from around the world. THU THU Sir David Attenborough presents the Central Asian bar-headed THU goose. The bar-headed goose is a high-flier of the bird THU world. Bar-headed geese are migrants which undertake one of THU the most arduous journeys of any bird. They breed mainly in THU the remote lakes of the Tibetan Plateau, but overwinter on THU the plains of northern India. But to get there, they have to THU cross the World's highest mountain range, the Himalayas, a THU height of over 20,000 feet. THU THU Bar-headed Goose (Anser indicus) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of John Downer / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01052866 THU © John Downer / naturepl.com. THU THU 06:00 Today b04g10z9 (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 Voices from the Old Bailey b04g10zc (Listen) THU Series 3, Transportation THU THU Half a million people were transported during the 18th THU century - to America, the West Indies, and Australia. THU Historians are just beginning to track their progress from THU the Old Bailey to their lives beyond. What they're THU discovering is as dramatic and colourful as any novel. THU THU Amanda Vickery tells the stories of three criminals who were THU transported during the 18th and early 19th centuries, and of THU one group of desperate women who refused to go, throwing the THU entire penal system into chaos. THU THU Recorded on location in the Prospect of Whitby pub in THU Wapping, on the River Thames, near where the prisoners were THU kept in hulks on the river and where many were hanged. THU THU Contributors include Professor Peter King of Leicester THU University, leading historian of crime; Robert Shoemaker, THU Professor of History at Sheffield University and the THU co-founder of the Old Bailey Online; and historian of THU Empire, Zoe Laidlaw, from Queen Mary, University of London, THU herself the descendent of a transported convict who was THU convicted in the Old Bailey. THU THU With readings by Charlotte Stockley, Ewan Bailey, David THU Holt, and Steven Webb, and specially arranged music from THU singer Guy Hughes and pianist David Owen Norris. THU THU Produced by Elizabeth Burke. THU A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 09:45 Book of the Week b04g10zf (Listen) THU Hopeful: The Autobiography, Episode 4 THU THU Episode 4/5 THU THU Comedian and actor Omid Djalili is one of Britain's funniest THU men. His memoirs take us through his unconventional THU childhood growing up in an Iranian household in London and THU chart his progression from serious acting into comedy. THU THU It's a laugh-out-loud, intelligent and deeply touching THU journey through a fascinating life. THU THU In today's episode, Omid looks back at two key encounters THU which inspired him to risk all and become an actor. THU THU Credits THU THU Writer and Reader ..... Omid Djalili THU Abridger ..... Lu Kemp THU Producer ..... Kirsty Williams THU THU A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Reader: Omid Djalili THU Author: Omid Djalili THU Abridger: Lu Kemp THU Producer: Kirsty Williams THU THU 10:00 Woman's Hour b04g10zh (Listen) THU Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female THU perspective on the world. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Jenni Murray THU THU 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04g10zk (Listen) THU Dark Fire, Episode 9 THU THU Penultimate episode of this dramatisation of C J Sansom's THU bestselling Tudor crime novel, set during the last days of THU Thomas Cromwell. THU THU Shardlake and Barak's dogged investigation bears fruit as THU they discover the identity of who lies behind the elaborate THU plot to bring down Cromwell. THU THU Written by C. J. Sansom THU Dramatised by Colin MacDonald THU Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. THU THU Credits THU Shardlake: Justin Salinger THU Barak: Bryan Dick THU Cromwell: Robert Glenister THU Guy: Vincent Ebrahim THU Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton THU Norfolk: Patrick Brennan THU Marchamount: Nick Underwood THU Elizabeth: Susie Riddell THU Bealnapp: Clive Hayward THU Rich: Damian Lynch THU Director: Kirsteen Cameron THU Producer: Kirsteen Cameron THU Adaptor: Colin MacDonald THU Author: CJ Sansom THU THU 11:00 Crossing Continents b04g10zm (Listen) THU A Song for Spanish Miners THU THU A Song for Spanish Miners: Reports from around the world. THU THU 11:30 Tupac Shakur, Hip-Hop Immortal b04g10zp (Listen) THU Poet Al Letson recalls the life of Tupac Shakur, a THU conflicted African American folk hero. The son of a black THU panther, Tupac Shakur, trained as an actor, posed as a THU street thug and became a best selling rapper. He continues THU to be mythologised, revered and highlighted like no other. THU He was shot and killed 18 years ago, yet he is still the THU third biggest selling hip hop artist. THU THU A restless revolutionary he led a conflicted life, causing THU moral outrage in one verse and capturing the voice of the THU disenfranchised in another. He continues to inspire the THU disenfranchised around the world and has even been chosen by THU the Vatican, as someone who 'aimed to reach the heart of THU good minded people.' THU THU He carried the conflict between community struggle and THU personal gain. He wrote the feminist elegy "Brenda's Got a THU Baby" and the abusive "Wonda Why They Call U Bitch." THU THU His music is still the most requested on UK prison radio. THU Exploring the the complexity of Tupac's life and the THU contending identities that defined him, Al will ask what is THU it about Tupac's life that still resonates? THU THU Producer: Barney Rowntree THU A Tonic Production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:00 News Summary b04frdct (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 12:04 Home Front b04g11ls (Listen) THU 4 September 1914 - Norman Harris THU THU The policeman's lot is a varied one in wartime Folkestone - THU from protecting a german breed of dog to arresting Lord THU Alfred Douglas by appointment. THU THU Written by Shaun McKenna THU Music: Matthew Strachan THU Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. THU Character: Norman Harris THU THU Credits THU Norman: Sean Baker THU PC Monk: Harry Jardine THU Forrester: Nigel Hastings THU Albert: Harry Myers THU Lord Alfred Douglas: Patrick Kennedy THU Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson THU Adam: Leo Montague THU Bill: Ben Crowe THU Mickey: Reece Buttery THU Writer: Shaun McKenna THU Director: Jessica Dromgoole THU THU 12:15 You and Yours b04g13r9 (Listen) THU Consumer news. THU THU 12:57 Weather b04frdcw (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 13:00 World at One b04g13rc (Listen) THU National and international news with Martha Kearney. THU THU 13:45 Penguin Post Office b04g13rf (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew THU Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for THU Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins for a BBC THU Natural World film which every year return to Port Lockroy THU on a tiny island called Goudier to find a mate and raise THU their young in the shadow of world's most southerly public THU Post Office. It was to be one of the most challenging THU filming trips they had ever undertaken. Joining them in THU Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan who narrates THU this series of five programmes which follows the team's THU adventures. Having finally arrived at Goudier island, the THU film crew waste no time filming the lives of the Gentoo THU penguins which return here every year to mate and raise a THU family. Once they have found their mate, the penguins build THU nests from small stones which resemble mini volcanoes - to THU keep the eggs off the ground and keep them dry. Squabbles THU break out when penguins steal stone from each other's nests. THU The nesting parents also have to watch out for predators THU like the skuas which nest on nearby islands and won't THU hesitate to steal an egg or a chick to feed their own young. THU As the weeks pass, the reality of life an island with no THU running water and no electricity begins to take its toll on THU the team. Producer Sarah Blunt. THU THU Picture of Post Office THU Webpage image courtesy of THU United Kingdom Antarctic Heritage Trust THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04fzfxv (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04g13rh (Listen) THU Dad THU THU When 18 year old Joel is given full-time care of his baby THU daughter Mia for two weeks, it doesn't turn out to be quite THU the easy ride he expected. In fact, being solely responsible THU for this perfect, tiny, beautiful baby - his baby - is THU probably the hardest thing he has ever done. He knows that THU for once in his life, he really can't mess up. Written by THU Sarah McDonald Hughes. THU THU Directed by Charlotte Riches. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Joel: Robert Haythorne THU Naomi: Sarah McDonald Hughes THU Danny: Reece Noi THU Tracy: Flo Wilson THU Amy: Rosina Carbone THU Ashleigh: Lauren Gabrielle-Thomas THU Writer: Sarah McDonald Hughes THU Director: Charlotte Riches THU THU 15:00 Open Country b04g13rk (Listen) THU The John Muir Way THU THU A young boy - John Muir - spent his early years in Scotland, THU playing along Dunbar's coast and scrambling across rocks. THU This early fascination with nature and 'wild places' later THU saw him campaign to protect them. When his family emigrated THU to the USA it led him on a path that would see him appeal THU directly to the president and help create the National THU Parks. Today he's known by most American schoolchildren but THU he is not so widely known in the UK. THU THU Helen Mark sets off on the new coast to coast John Muir Way THU from Dunbar to Helensburgh, named after the man but leading THU through his native country. She visits the town where he THU revelled in nature, hikes along some of the route with poets THU who've planted trees and created new writing inspired by his THU work and takes in Helix Park and the Kelpies - a dramatic THU modern designed landscape - far from the wilderness which THU Muir revelled in but which is bringing together thousands THU from the local community into the outdoors. THU THU Presented by Helen Mark and produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. THU THU 15:27 Radio 4 Appeal b04fy1cf (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 on Sunday] THU THU 15:30 Open Book b04fy5q7 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:00 on Sunday] THU THU 16:00 The Film Programme b04g13zx (Listen) THU Nicole Kidman talks to Francine Stock about her new thriller THU Before I Sleep. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Francine Stock THU Interviewed Guest: Nicole Kidman THU Producer: Stephen Hughes THU THU 16:30 BBC Inside Science b04g13zz (Listen) THU Adam Rutherford investigates the news in science and science THU in the news. THU THU 17:00 PM b04g1401 (Listen) THU Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04frdcy (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:30 Susan Calman Is Convicted b01qwc92 (Listen) THU Series 1, Depression THU THU In a brand new series for Radio 4, Susan Calman explores THU issues on which she has strong opinions. THU THU When Susan was younger (and more than a little THU self-obsessed), she thought that the brooding, silent type THU was the best way to be. Then, whilst trying to deal with THU depression, she went on a journey of counselling, self-help. THU even writing poetry - you name it, she did it all. Now she THU is convinced that bottling things up makes things worse and THU that we should all talk about everything all the time. Well, THU not quite. But nearly. THU THU But does counselling help or does it encourage self-pity? THU Should we all just pull ourselves together? THU THU Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. THU THU Clip THU empty THU THU Credits THU Performer: Susan Calman THU Writer: Susan Calman THU Producer: Lyndsay Fenner THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04g144m (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 Front Row b04g144p (Listen) THU Arts news, interviews and reviews. THU THU 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04g10zk (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] THU THU 20:00 The Report b04g14ty (Listen) THU Afghan Sikhs THU THU Current affairs series combining original insights into THU major news stories with topical investigations, presented by THU Melanie Abbott. THU THU 20:30 In Business b04g14v0 (Listen) THU Thanks for the Memory THU THU The internet and and the rapid rise of social networking THU creates the possibility of total recall forever for many of THU life's most significant (and insignificant) moments - maybe THU all of them. THU Peter Day hears from people building businesses based on THU this new extension of the human mind..and asks whether it is THU really a good idea. THU THU Producer: Mike Wendling. THU THU 21:00 BBC Inside Science b04g13zz (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 today] THU THU 21:30 Voices from the Old Bailey b04g10zc (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] THU THU 21:58 Weather b04frdd0 (Listen) THU The latest weather forecast. THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04g14v2 (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04g14v4 (Listen) THU The Thrill of It All, Episode 9 THU THU Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill THU of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative THU soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the THU formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their THU struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in THU transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. THU Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" THU THU This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for THU anyone who has ever loved a song. THU THU Author ..... Joseph O'Connor THU Abridger ..... Neville Teller THU Producer ..... Gemma McMullan THU THU The Author THU THU Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and THU Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, THU The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, THU Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written THU radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the THU multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed THU adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. THU THU His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, THU selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 THU languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio THU Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen THU Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association THU Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and THU the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. THU His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book THU novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for THU Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. THU THU Credits THU Robbie: Philip Glenister THU Sean: Shaun Dingwall THU Author: Joseph O'Connor THU Abridger: Neville Teller THU Producer: Gemma McMullan THU THU 23:00 The Show What You Wrote b04g14v6 (Listen) THU Series 2, Science and Nature THU THU Radio 4's themed sketch show made entirely from THU contributions sent in by the public is back for a second THU series. THU THU The best ideas have been chosen from thousands of THU submissions from new writers resulting in a show like no THU other. THU THU Recorded in Manchester. THU THU Episode 4 - Science & Nature THU THU Written by THU The Public THU THU Cast THU Fiona Clarke THU Gavin Webster THU Janice Connolly THU Rob Rouse THU THU Producers THU Alexandra Smith THU Carl Cooper. THU THU Written by THU THU Martin Alcock THU THU Liam Beirne THU THU Elise Bramich THU THU Joshua Bolland-Burrell THU THU Matthew Carr THU THU David Catstrey THU THU Tom Crowley THU THU Max Davis THU THU Rob Gilroy THU THU Steven Holford THU THU Gabby Hutchinson-Crouch THU THU Caspian James THU THU Jason Jillings THU THU Peter Jump THU THU Lucias Malcolm THU THU Harry Roth THU THU THU THU Credits THU Ensemble: Fiona Clarke THU Ensemble: Gavin Webster THU Ensemble: Janice Connolly THU Ensemble: Rob Rouse THU Script Editor: Jon Hunter THU Producer: Carl Cooper THU Producer: Alexandra Smith THU THU 23:30 Today in Parliament b04g14v8 (Listen) THU Susan Hulme reports from Westminster. THU THU FRI FRIDAY 05 SEPTEMBER 2014 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04frddy (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04g10zf (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Thursday] FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04frdf0 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04frdf2 (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04frdf4 (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04frdf6 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04g1ddp (Listen) FRI A short reflection and prayer with Pastor Lindsay Allen. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04g19vw (Listen) FRI The latest news about food, farming and the countryside. FRI Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04dvsly (Listen) FRI Brown Noddy FRI FRI Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship FRI with them, from around the world. FRI FRI Sir David Attenborough presents a seabird with a worldwide FRI distribution, the brown noddy. Expert fliers, the brown FRI noddy is seldom seen near land and is highly pelagic, FRI wandering extensively in warm tropical waters where it FRI searches for small fish and squid which are captured by FRI hover-dipping and contact-dipping. However in the Galapagos FRI Islands, brown noddies have learnt to sit on the heads of FRI brown pelicans hoping to steal fish from their open gular FRI pouches; a behaviour known as kleptoparasitism (literally, FRI parasitism by theft). FRI FRI Brown Noddy (Anous stolidus) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Julian Partridge / naturepl.com FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01117133 FRI © Julian Partridge / naturepl.com FRI FRI The brown noddy is also known as "common noddy". FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04g1ddr (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Yesterday in Parliament, Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 The Reunion b04fy2bj (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04g19vy (Listen) FRI Hopeful: The Autobiography, Episode 5 FRI FRI Episode 5/5 FRI FRI Comedian and actor Omid Djalili is one of Britain's funniest FRI men. His memoirs take us through his unconventional FRI childhood growing up in an Iranian household in London and FRI chart his progression from serious acting into comedy. FRI FRI It's a laugh-out-loud, intelligent and deeply touching FRI journey through a fascinating life. FRI FRI In today's episode, Omid explores the vital role his FRI vivacious mother plays in his life and art. FRI FRI Credits FRI FRI Writer and Reader ..... Omid Djalili FRI Abridger ..... Lu Kemp FRI Producer ..... Kirsty Williams FRI FRI A BBC Scotland Production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Omid Djalili FRI Author: Omid Djalili FRI Abridger: Lu Kemp FRI Producer: Kirsty Williams FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04g1dkm (Listen) FRI Jenni Murray presents the programme that offers a female FRI perspective on the world. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Jenni Murray FRI FRI 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04g19w0 (Listen) FRI Dark Fire, Episode 10 FRI FRI Gripping conclusion of C J Sansom's bestselling Tudor crime FRI novel, set during the last days of Thomas Cromwell. FRI FRI Taken prisoner and threatened with death by the mastermind FRI of the plot to bring down Cromwell, Shardlake and Barak must FRI find a way to escape and warn the Earl. Can they make it in FRI time? And how will the Wentworth family react when FRI confronted with the truth of what lies down the well? FRI FRI Written by C. J. Sansom FRI Dramatised by Colin MacDonald FRI Produced and directed by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Shardlake: Justin Salinger FRI Barak: Bryan Dick FRI Cromwell: Robert Glenister FRI Guy: Vincent Ebrahim FRI Lady Honor: Elaine Claxton FRI Norfolk: Patrick Brennan FRI Marchamount: Nick Underwood FRI Elizabeth: Susie Riddell FRI Bealnapp: Clive Hayward FRI Rich: Damian Lynch FRI Director: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI Adaptor: Colin MacDonald FRI Author: CJ Sansom FRI FRI 11:00 Lives in a Landscape b04g19w2 (Listen) FRI Series 17, Branscombe Chalet Owners FRI FRI In February 2014, the worst storms in a generation hit the FRI south Devon coast. Among those affected were the owners of FRI five beach chalets at Branscombe. The sea took away much of FRI the beach shingle beach and eroded the earth banks on which FRI the chalets stood, exposing the foundations and making some FRI of them uninhabitable. FRI FRI Before the storm, the chalets were worth up to £250,000 each FRI but now they are virtually unsaleable. The owners would like FRI to rebuild them, and move shingle back up the beach to FRI protect them from future storms. But there's a problem: FRI Branscombe beach is part of a Site of Special Scientific FRI Interest, and falls under the control of Natural England. FRI Natural England won't let the owners move shingle, partly FRI because the upper shoreline is home to the very rare scaly FRI cricket. They also adhere to a "Shoreline Management Plan", FRI which says that there should be "no active intervention" to FRI protect the beach from erosion. FRI FRI There is a stand-off between the owners and Natural England, FRI but the clock's ticking: without urgent action, the chalets FRI could fall into the sea in the next big storm. Some of the FRI chalet owners are not wealthy - they have mortgages on their FRI chalets and depend on the income from letting them out in FRI the summer. Now, with an entire season's income gone, some FRI of them are staring at financial ruin. One man in FRI particular, Philip Trenchard, was brought to the chalets by FRI his father when he was a child, and now brings his own FRI family every year. This continuity is a key part of his FRI identity, and he'd expected to be able to continue using the FRI chalets for many more years. But the coastal erosion, which FRI is more severe than anyone predicted, has thrown all his FRI assumptions about time scales into doubt. FRI FRI Presenter: Alan Dein FRI Producer: Jolyon Jenkins. FRI FRI 11:30 My First Planet b04b261q (Listen) FRI Series 2, Sample of Terror FRI FRI A sitcom set in a hapless Space Colony. FRI FRI It's Day 30 on the colony and Brian has to win the Tour De FRI France to save the contents of Lillian's freezer. Meanwhile, FRI Mason discovers that a nuclear core is not the best venue FRI for some role-play. FRI FRI The return of the hit sitcom starring Nicholas Lyndhurst and FRI Vicki Pepperdine ("Getting On") set on a shiny new planet. FRI FRI Welcome to the colony. We're aware that, having been in deep FRI cryosleep for 73 years, you may be in need of some FRI supplementary information. FRI FRI Personnel: FRI Unfortunately, Burrows the leader of the colony has died on FRI the voyage so his Number 2, Brian (Nicholas Lyndhurst), is FRI now in charge. He's a nice enough chap, but no alpha male, FRI and his desire to sort things out with a nice friendly FRI meeting infuriates the colony's Chief Physician Lillian FRI (Vicki Pepperdine), who'd really rather everyone was walking FRI round in tight colour-coded tunics and saluting each other. FRI She's also in charge of Project Adam, the plan to conceive FRI and give birth to the first colony-born baby. Unfortunately, FRI the two people hand-picked for this purpose - Carol and FRI Richard - were rather fibbing about being a couple, just to FRI get on the trip. FRI FRI Add in an entirely unscrupulous Chief Scientist, Mason and FRI also Archer, an idiot maintenance man who believes he's an FRI "empath" rather than a plumber, and you're all set to answer FRI the question - if humankind were to colonise space, is it FRI destined to succumb to self-interest, prejudice and FRI infighting? (By the way, the answer's "yes". Sorry.) FRI FRI Written by Phil Whelans FRI Produced & directed by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Brian: Nicholas Lyndhurst FRI Lillian: Vicki Pepperdine FRI Mason: Tom Goodman-Hill FRI Archer: Phil Whelans FRI Carol: Letty Butler FRI Richard: John Dorney FRI Collins: Catherine Shepherd FRI Director: David Tyler FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI Writer: Phil Whelans FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04frdf8 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04g1b94 (Listen) FRI 5 September 1914 - Sylvia Graham FRI FRI The fear of Victor's ruin in an ill-advised marriage becomes FRI very real for his aunt, who is prepared to do everything in FRI her power to stop it. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04g1dyn (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04frdfb (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04gblzv (Listen) FRI National and international news with Shaun Ley. FRI FRI 13:45 Penguin Post Office b04g1b96 (Listen) FRI Episode 5 FRI FRI In October 2013, wildlife cameraman and director Andrew FRI Graham-Brown and assistant producer Ruth Peacey set sail for FRI Antarctica to film a colony of Gentoo penguins for a BBC FRI Natural World film which every year return to Port Lockroy FRI on a tiny island called Goudier to find a mate and raise FRI their young in the shadow of world's most southerly public FRI Post Office. It was to be one of the most challenging FRI filming trips they had ever undertaken. Joining them in FRI Antarctica was wildlife cameraman Doug Allan who narrates FRI this series of five programmes which follows the team's FRI adventures. As the young Gentoo penguins prepare to enter FRI the water for the first time - they face another of life's FRI challenges - leopard seals. These fearsome predators patrol FRI the shores waiting for the young penguins to take their FRI first dive. Doug Allan joins the team to film the hunt that FRI is likely to follow - but Antarctica is an unpredictable FRI place; the bay is filling with ice which deters the seals, FRI the weather becomes worse and time is fast running out FRI before the team must leave Antarctica and head for home. FRI Producer Sarah Blunt. FRI FRI Picture of Post Office FRI Webpage image courtesy of FRI United Kindgom Antarctic Heritage Trust FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04g144m (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04g1bsh (Listen) FRI Brief Lives, Episode 4 FRI FRI Brief Lives by Lizi Patch. Ep 4 of 6 FRI FRI Another case for the team of Manchester paralegals. A FRI teenager is pulled in for texting an indecent photo of his FRI girlfriend which has gone viral. Is it just a case of an FRI official warning by the police? But then matters take an FRI even more serious turn. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Frank: David Schofield FRI Sarah: Kathryn Hunt FRI Ronnie: Rachel Austin FRI Cheryl: Mandi Symonds FRI Mark: Terence Mann FRI DC Archer: Gillian Kearney FRI Ryan: Ben Boskovic FRI Peter: Graeme Hawley FRI PC Clarke: Hamilton Berstock FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI Writer: Lizi Patch FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04g1bsk (Listen) FRI Whitstable FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs the horticultural panel programme from FRI Whitstable. Bob Flowerdew, Anne Swithinbank and Matthew FRI Wilson answer the audience's questions. FRI FRI Produced by Darby Dorras FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 Opening Lines b04g1bsm (Listen) FRI Series 16, Audiophile FRI FRI A return of the series which gives first-time and emerging FRI short story writers their radio debut. FRI FRI Bryan Dick reads this off-kilter love story by Ian Green FRI about a young man who falls for the girl next-door when he FRI hears her singing through the adjoining wall of their two FRI flats. FRI FRI Produced by Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI Previously Ian Green's fiction has been performed and FRI recorded at Liar's League London and published in Open Pen FRI magazine. A piece originally performed at Liar's League was FRI also performed at the inaugural Lit Crawl London in 2013. FRI Read Audiophile here FRI Meet Ian Green FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Bryan Dick FRI Writer: Ian Green FRI Producer: Gemma Jenkins FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04g1drc (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b04g1drf (Listen) FRI Investigating the numbers in the news. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04g1drh (Listen) FRI Lindsey and Isabel - Weavers and Dyers FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces a conversation about discovering the FRI joys of spinning, weaving and dying and the surprises that FRI natural dyes can spring on you, proving once again that it's FRI surprising what you hear when you listen. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04g1drk (Listen) FRI Coverage and analysis of the day's news with Eddie Mair. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04frdfd (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:30 The Brig Society b04g1bsp (Listen) FRI Series 2, Banker FRI FRI Uh-oh - Marcus Brigstocke has been put in charge of a thing! FRI FRI Each week, Marcus finds he's volunteered to be in charge of FRI a big old thing and each week he starts out by thinking FRI "Well, it can't be that difficult, surely?" and ends up with FRI "Oh - turns out it's utterly difficult and complicated. Who FRI knew...?" FRI FRI We would like to inform you that this week, Marcus FRI Brigstocke has decided to open a bank. That'll be £25 FRI please. If you would like to call our customer helpline... FRI that will be another £25 FRI FRI Waiting to serve you are Rufus Jones ("W1A", "Holy Flying FRI Circus"), William Andrews ("Sorry I've Got No Head") and FRI Margaret Cabourn-Smith ("Miranda") FRI FRI The show is a Pozzitive production, and is produced by FRI Marcus's long-standing accomplice, David Tyler who also FRI produces Marcus appearances as the inimitable as Giles FRI Wemmbley Hogg. David's other radio credits include Jeremy FRI Hardy Speaks To The Nation, Cabin Pressure, Thanks A Lot, FRI Milton Jones!, Kevin Eldon Will See You Now, Armando FRI Iannucci's Charm Offensive, The Castle, The 3rd Degree, The FRI 99p Challenge, My First Planet, Radio Active & Bigipedia. FRI His TV credits include Paul Merton - The Series, Spitting FRI Image, Absolutely, The Paul Calf Video Diary, Three Fights FRI Two Weddings & A Funeral, Coogan's Run, The Tony Ferrino FRI Phenomenon and exec producing Victoria Wood's dinnerladies. FRI FRI Written by Marcus Brigstocke, Jeremy Salsby, Toby Davies, FRI Nick Doody, Steve Punt & Dan Tetsell FRI FRI Produced by David Tyler FRI A Pozzitive production for the BBC. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Ensemble: Rufus Jones FRI Ensemble: Margaret Cabourn-Smith FRI Ensemble: William Andrews FRI Producer: David Tyler FRI Writer: Marcus Brigstocke FRI Writer: Jeremy Salsby FRI Writer: Toby Davies FRI Writer: Nick Doody FRI Writer: Steve Punt FRI Writer: Dan Tetsell FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04g1bsr (Listen) FRI ter ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director ..... Sean O'Connor FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor FRI FRI Jill Archer ..... Patricia Greene FRI David Archer ..... Timothy Bentinck FRI Ruth Archer ..... Felicity Finch FRI Jolene Archer ..... Buffy Davis FRI Helen Archer ..... Louiza Patikas FRI Lilian Bellamy ..... Sunny Ormonde FRI James Bellamy ..... Roger May FRI Eddie Grundy ..... Trevor Harrison FRI Ed Grundy ..... Barry Farrimond FRI Shula Hebden Lloyd ..... Judy Bennett FRI Adam Macy ..... Andrew Wincott FRI Jazzer McCreary ..... Ryan Kelly FRI Elizabeth Pargetter ..... Alison Dowling FRI Freddie Pargetter ..... Jack Firth FRI Fallon Rogers ..... Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell ..... Carole Boyd FRI Leonie Snell ..... Jasmine Hyde FRI Rob Titchener ..... Timothy Watson FRI Mike Tucker ..... Terry Molloy FRI Vicky Tucker ..... Rachel Atkins FRI Roy Tucker ..... Ian Pepperell FRI Hayley Tucker ..... Lorraine Coady FRI Charlie Thomas ..... Felix Scott. FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04g1drm (Listen) FRI Arts news, reviews and interviews. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04g19w0 (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Any Questions? b04g1bsw (Listen) FRI Anna Soubry MP, Roger Helmer MEP, Caroline Lucas MP, Michael FRI Dugher MP FRI FRI Jonathan Dimbleby presents political debate from Westonbirt FRI School in Gloucestershire with the UKIP MEP Roger Helmer, FRI Green MP Caroline Lucas, Defence Minister Anna Soubry and FRI Shadow Minister for the Cabinet Office Michael Dugher MP. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04g1dw8 (Listen) FRI A weekly reflection on a topical issue. FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04g1c1n (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 1-5 September 1914 FRI FRI A hundred years ago this week, the country entered its FRI second month at war, and the White Feather Movement began in FRI earnest. FRI FRI Written by Shaun McKenna FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Norman: Sean Baker FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Mrs Grimes: Amelda Brown FRI Mickey: Reece Buttery FRI Bill: Ben Crowe FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Hilda: Bella Hamblin FRI Forrester: Nigel Hastings FRI Jessie: Lucy Hutchinson FRI PC Monk: Harry Jardine FRI Lord Alfred Douglas: Patrick Kennedy FRI Victor: Joel MacCormack FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Ralph: Nicholas Murchie FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Madame Drouet: Lorna Nickson-Brown FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Dorothea: Rachel Shelley FRI Tom: Matthew Watson FRI Writer: Shaun McKenna FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04frdfg (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04g1dwb (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04g1c1q (Listen) FRI The Thrill of It All, Episode 10 FRI FRI Spanning 25 years, Joseph O' Connor's new novel The Thrill FRI of It All rewinds and fast-forwards through an evocative FRI soundtrack of struggle and laughter. It deals with the FRI formation of a band in the early 80's in Luton, their FRI struggle for recognition, playing low dives, living in FRI transit vans culminating in overnight worldwide success. FRI Then the inevitable, "artistic differences!" FRI FRI This is an incredibly warm-hearted and uplifting story for FRI anyone who has ever loved a song. FRI FRI Author ..... Joseph O'Connor FRI Abridger ..... Neville Teller FRI Producer ..... Gemma McMullan FRI FRI The Author FRI FRI Joseph O'Connor is the author of eight novels: Cowboys and FRI Indians (short-listed for the Whitbread Prize), Desperadoes, FRI The Salesman, Inishowen, Star of the Sea, Redemption Falls, FRI Ghost Light and The Thrill of it All. He has also written FRI radio diaries, film scripts and stage-plays including the FRI multiple award-winning Red Roses and Petrol and an acclaimed FRI adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's novel My Cousin Rachel. FRI FRI His novel Star of the Sea was an international bestseller, FRI selling more than a million copies and being published in 38 FRI languages. It won France's Prix Millepages, Italy's Premio FRI Acerbi, the Irish Post Award for Fiction, the Neilsen FRI Bookscan Golden Book Award, an American Library Association FRI Award, the Hennessy/Sunday Tribune Hall of Fame Award, and FRI the Prix Litteraire Zepter for European Novel of the Year. FRI His novel Ghost Light was chosen as Dublin's One City Book FRI novel for 2011. He received the Irish PEN Award for FRI Outstanding Contribution to Irish Literature in 2012. FRI FRI Credits FRI Robbie: Philip Glenister FRI Fran: Ramon Tikaram FRI Trez: Natasha Little FRI Sean: Shaun Dingwall FRI Molly: Jennifer Armour FRI Author: Joseph O'Connor FRI Abridger: Neville Teller FRI Producer: Gemma McMullan FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b04fz6ky (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:30 Today in Parliament b04g1c1s (Listen) FRI Mark D'Arcy reports from Westminster. FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04g1dwd (Listen) FRI Liz and Darren - Call Me Councillor FRI FRI Fi Glover with a conversation between a couple who were both FRI recently elected as UKIP councillors for different Walsall FRI wards about the impact of their politics on family life. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 initiative that offers a FRI snapshot of contemporary Britain in which people across the FRI UK volunteer to have a conversation with someone close to FRI them about a subject they've never discussed intimately FRI before. The conversations are being gathered across the UK FRI by teams of producers from local and national radio stations FRI who facilitate each encounter. Every conversation - they're FRI not BBC interviews, and that's an important difference - FRI lasts up to an hour, and is then edited to extract the key FRI moment of connection between the participants. Most of the FRI unedited conversations are being archived by the British FRI Library and used to build up a collection of voices FRI capturing a unique portrait of the UK in the second decade FRI of the millennium. You can learn more about The Listening FRI Project by visiting bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI