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SAT SATURDAY 27 DECEMBER 2014 SAT SAT 00:00 Midnight News b04vd4tv (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT Followed by Weather. SAT SAT 00:15 Dog Days b036twsx (Listen) SAT The Call of the Wild SAT SAT Robert Hanks tells of a human obsession through four doggy SAT books. The Call of the Wild by Jack London. Is every pooch a SAT wolf in dog's clothing? With Prill Barrett, John Bradshaw SAT and Ian Bruce Miller and Jem the border terrier and Timmy SAT the whippet. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT 00:30 Book of the Week b04vjh7p (Listen) SAT Stories in the Stars, Episode 5 SAT SAT A seasonal reading for clear and frosty nights, when the SAT skies sparkle with thousands of dots forming half SAT remembered, almost traceable shapes. These are the stories SAT behind the names and shapes of the SAT constellations that pattern the night sky. SAT SAT Stories In The Stars by Susanna Hislop is read by a range of SAT voices and accents from around the country and the globe. It SAT might be one of the stories that the great Egyptian SAT astronomer Ptolemy assigned to them in his masterwork that SAT became known as the Almagest, or it might be a personified SAT first person narration from the constellation Chameleon SAT having a grumble about the number of different names and SAT imagined shapes assigned to him over the millennia. SAT SAT From Greco-Roman mythology to the lives of the eighteenth SAT century astronomers, this is a delightful miscellany which SAT gives us a reason to step outside, look up and wonder at the SAT magic lantern show above us. SAT SAT Readers: Colman Domingo, Paul Copley, Maggie Steed SAT SAT Episode Five: SAT Virgo - The Maiden points towards Spring. Canis Major is SAT leader of the pack. SAT SAT Abridged, directed and produced by Jill Waters SAT A Waters Company production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT Credits SAT Reader: Colman Domingo SAT Reader: Paul Copley SAT Reader: Maggie Steed SAT Author: Susanna Hislop SAT Abridger: Jill Waters SAT Director: Jill Waters SAT Producer: Jill Waters SAT SAT 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vd4tx (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vd4tz (Listen) SAT BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SAT at 5.20am. SAT SAT 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vd4v1 (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 05:30 News Briefing b04vd4v3 (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04vjqr6 (Listen) SAT A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt SAT Rev'd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. SAT SAT 05:45 iPM b04vjqr8 (Listen) SAT What it's like to be told you have ebola, the beauty of a SAT magnolia tree and a WW1 time capsule which contained a SAT letter to the future - some of the best bits from iPM this SAT year. Presented by Eddie Mair and Jennifer Tracey. Email SAT iPM@bbc.co.uk. SAT SAT 06:00 News and Papers b04vd4v5 (Listen) SAT The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SAT SAT 06:04 Weather b04vd4v7 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 06:07 Open Country b04vjqrb (Listen) SAT Dart Estuary SAT SAT The Dart Estuary is one of South Devon's longest and most SAT spectacular ria valleys. The surrounding area is a honeypot SAT for visitors, and the boat trip along the estuary is one of SAT the most popular attractions. SAT Helen Mark visits during the calm tranquillity of winter, SAT taking a boat from Dittisham to Dartmouth exploring the SAT Dart's industries, habitats and naval history. SAT SAT Helen meets skipper Dave Eggins at the village of Dittisham SAT and they embark down the river soaking up some of the sights SAT on the way. Their first stop is to meet oyster farmer Pat SAT Tucker at a very important time of year as he harvests his SAT oysters for the French market at Christmas. They join him on SAT the first day of a low tide, as the oysters can only be SAT harvested on 25 days of the year when the water is low SAT enough to reveal them. SAT SAT Next Helen and the skipper pop over the river to meet Nigel SAT Mortimer, Estuaries Officer from the South Devon AONB. He SAT sheds light on some of the characteristically important SAT habitats of the estuary such as mudflats, saltmarsh and reed SAT beds and they see if they can spot any of the regular SAT visiting wildlife. Using nets they take a closer look into SAT the mud to see the important worms, snails and bacteria SAT which recycle the organic detritus from the river basin, and SAT which many other species depend on. SAT SAT Helen gets back on the boat to head to the port of Dartmouth SAT where the estuary widens into a deep water harbour. No trip SAT on the Dart would be complete without delving into its long SAT and colourful naval history. She meets David Lingard SAT Chairman of the Dartmouth Museum and retired Royal Navy SAT Commander at the historic Bayard's Cove. He reveals how SAT international trade has shaped the fortune of Dartmouth and SAT other settlements along the Dart over the centuries. SAT SAT Although this global maritime trade may be consigned to the SAT past, the Dart is still used by the Royal Navy today. The SAT Britannia Royal Naval College is an imposing building SAT overlooking the lower estuary with a close connection to the SAT Dart. We meet Lieutenant Commander Sue Bryson on a college SAT jetty to hear about how the estuary provides an excellent SAT environment in which the cadets gain essential seamanship, SAT warfare and leadership training. SAT SAT Presenter: Helen Mark SAT Producer: Sophie Anton. SAT SAT 06:30 Farming Today b04vjqrd (Listen) SAT Farming Today This Week: Family Farming SAT SAT Marking the end of the UN's Year of Family Farming, SAT Charlotte Smith meets all four generations of the Palmer SAT family who farm together near Fowey in Cornwall. SAT SAT The UN's initiative received little attention in the SAT UK, but elsewhere around the world we'll hear that it SAT brought together family farmers from different continents to SAT share best practice. SAT SAT Down on the Palmer family's farm near Fowey in south SAT Cornwall, Charlotte meets the relatives whose experiences SAT stretch back over seventy years. Alice who's in her 90s SAT recalls coming to Frogmore Farm as a Lancashire land girl SAT during the war. She married Tom, the farmer's son, and has SAT never left. We hear of her daughter Jill's experience SAT running the farm these last twenty years, of her grandson SAT Simon, and her 18 year old great grandson Ben, who also SAT works on the farm. SAT SAT Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Mark Smalley. SAT SAT 06:57 Weather b04vd4v9 (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 07:00 Today b04vjqrg (Listen) SAT Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, SAT Thought for the Day and Weather. SAT SAT 09:00 Saturday Live b04vjrj9 (Listen) SAT Anton du Beke; Stephanie Hirst SAT SAT Anton du Beke of Strictly Come Dancing joins Aasmah Mir and SAT Suzy Klein. SAT SAT Anton has been with Strictly from the beginning, having SAT famously partnered Ann Widdecombe, Nancy Dell'Olio, and most SAT recently Judy Murray. SAT As he is about to go on tour with his dance partner, Erin SAT Boag, he explains how he became involved in ballroom dancing SAT and why his favourite dance is the Foxtrot. SAT SAT The poet Mr. Gee shares seasonal poems. SAT SAT The award winning broadcaster Stephanie Hirst, formerly SAT Simon Hirst, describes her lifelong passion for radio, her SAT musical influences, the events that have led her to change SAT gender and live as a woman, and how her family have SAT supported her. SAT SAT Vicki Brewer shares the story of her favourite Christmas SAT present - a personalised board game from her daughter and SAT son in law, in which the content was tailored to stories SAT from the family's life. SAT SAT JP Devlin meets John Lydon, aka Johnny Rotten, lead singer SAT of the iconic 1970s punk band The Sex Pistols. John talks SAT frankly about Christmas, his childhood illness, trains and SAT his relationship with his parents. SAT SAT Glyn Johns talks about his career as a sound SAT engineer/producer with bands from The Rolling Stones and The SAT Eagles to The Who and Led Zeppelin. SAT SAT And Grayson Perry shares his Inheritance Tracks: It's Not SAT Unusual by Tom Jones and I'd Rather Ride Around With You by SAT Reba McIntyre. SAT SAT Anton and Erin's new production That's Entertainment is on a SAT nationwide tour from 22 January - 29 March 2015. SAT SAT Sound Man, by Glyn Johns, is published by Blue Rider Press. SAT SAT Anger is an Energy: My Life Uncensored by John Lydon SAT SAT Grayson Perry: Who Are You? can be seen at the National SAT Portrait Gallery until 15 March 2015. SAT SAT Produced by Louise Corley. SAT SAT A Snowflake’s Path by Mr Gee SAT SAT If I could place all life's Winter Sorrows, SAT As far away from my tomorrows, SAT To see a snowflake's path that follows, SAT Beyond the melting point of time, SAT I'd construct a cave of childish wonder, SAT And place it safe from Life's cruel thunder, SAT For Stormy weather has no place among the, SAT World of make-believe & rhyme, SAT The fondest memories of yester-year, SAT Comfort me with their festive cheer, SAT Suddenly their faces magically appear, SAT As my mind recounts their fate, SAT Devilish grins & innocent glances, SAT Raiding the fridge & taking chances, SAT Being forced to dance with drunken Aunties, SAT And this Steve McQueen still hasn't managed to escape, SAT I wish to relive those precious moments, SAT Overseas phone-calls sounding Golden, SAT Cheating at monopoly & getting told off, SAT Even though the banker always smiles, SAT There's much to be said of December's tonic, SAT As we wind down the old year's promise, SAT Beyond the rush of midnight shoppers, SAT We'll find a place where the stillness lies, SAT For survival's grace is but for the few, SAT And not all dreams, will they come true, SAT Tinsel-towns have darker hues, SAT So our greatest gift is life, SAT If I could replace all my Winter Sorrows, SAT I'd float in the sun-rays of tomorrow, SAT For a snowflake's path is merely borrowed, SAT Its path is yet to be defined. SAT (c) Mr Gee SAT SAT Our Music SAT Our Music SAT "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /> SAT SAT If our music be just, SAT A combination of notes, SAT Painstakingly chosen, SAT To emotionally evoke, SAT Can our values be kind SAT Of an arrangement of thoughts, SAT Orchestrated into laws, SAT Pipes of Peace, Drums of War, SAT So to whose tune shall we dance? SAT Shall we make love & romance? SAT Do our lives compose melodies? SAT Or ride the rhythms of chance? SAT But what if the quiet voice is too loud? SAT Does it poison the sound? SAT SAT The discord caused by this chord, SAT Amplifies the silence of frowns, SAT SAT So pity the song that’s unsung, SAT Too scared to venture past the lungs, SAT Whose acoustics know no audience, SAT Whose plectrum knows no strum, SAT Pity the voice that’s unheard, SAT An eternal stranger to the world, SAT Forever held back by pleasant pauses, SAT Who act as a jailer to its words, SAT Pity the thought never travelled, SAT Or met with ridicule & challenge, SAT Embracing panoramic camera lenses, SAT To capture views from different angles, SAT Pity the symphony unwritten, SAT Never to be relished by the living, SAT The bridges never built, SAT The olive branches never given, SAT So yes, our music may be just, SAT A simple combination of notes, SAT It's also a simple combination of fear, SAT A simple combination of hope. SAT SAT © Mr Gee SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Aasmah Mir SAT Presenter: Suzy Klein SAT Interviewed Guest: Anton Du Beke SAT Interviewed Guest: Stephanie Hirst SAT Interviewed Guest: Mr Gee SAT Interviewed Guest: Vicki Brewer SAT Interviewed Guest: John Lydon SAT Interviewed Guest: JP Devlin SAT Interviewed Guest: Glyn Johns SAT Interviewed Guest: Grayson Perry SAT Producer: Louise Corley SAT SAT 10:30 The Kitchen Cabinet b04vjrjc (Listen) SAT Series 9, Berwick-upon-Tweed SAT SAT Jay Rayner and the panel are in Berwick-Upon-Tweed for this SAT week's episode of the culinary panel programme. SAT SAT Taking questions from a local audience in Bewick-upon-Tweed SAT are food scientist Professor Peter Barham, SAT DIY food expert Tim Hayward, Catalan inspired Scottish cook SAT Rachel McCormack, and broadcaster and cook Andy Oliver. SAT SAT The panel discuss their favourite ways to prepare salmon, SAT enjoy whisky and cook with malt - and, of course, the best SAT culinary creations with which to celebrate Hogmanay. SAT SAT Food Consultant: Anna Colquhoun SAT SAT Producer: Victoria Shepherd SAT Assistant Producer: Darby Dorras SAT A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 11:00 The Forum b04vjrjf (Listen) SAT Natural Navigation SAT SAT Could you find your way around using only natural signs? SAT Bridget Kendall explores the phenomenal computational power SAT of the human brain to work out where we are and the SAT navigational ability of migratory birds SAT to fly thousands of miles. With behavioural ecologist Tim SAT Birkhead, navigator and explorer Tristan Gooley and SAT neuroscientist Jennifer Groh. SAT SAT Photo: birds flying in formation (Getty Images) SAT SAT Tim Birkhead SAT SAT Tim Birkhead is Professor of behavioural ecology at the SAT University of Sheffield and author of SAT Bird Sense: What It’s Like to Be a Bird SAT . After decades of watching and studying birds he began to SAT recognise the incredible range of senses they possess, SAT including navigation skills like echolocation and a SAT well-developed magnetic sense which is essential for finding SAT their way during migration. SAT SAT Tristan Gooley SAT SAT Tristan Gooley is an explorer and author of SAT The Natural Navigator SAT He has walked with and studied the methods of the Tuareg, SAT Bedouin and Dayak people in some of the remotest regions on SAT Earth and has both flown solo and sailed single handed SAT across the Atlantic. He says that we would be amazed, even SAT in an urban environment, at the clues around us which help SAT us find our way without maps or GPS. SAT SAT Jennifer Groh SAT SAT For humans, knowing where things are seems effortless. Yet, SAT as Professor Jennifer Groh, a neuroscientist at Duke SAT University, explains in her book SAT Making Space: How the Brain Knows Where Things Are SAT our brains devote tremendous power to work out the simplest SAT details about spatial relationships. Tasks we take for SAT granted, like going to the local shop or finding our mobile SAT phone take coordination across different sensory and motor SAT domains. SAT SAT 11:30 From Our Own Correspondent b04vd4vc (Listen) SAT I Hate New York! SAT SAT Seasonal stories and festive fables: Mike Wendling strongly SAT disagrees with the thought that New York City is the world's SAT most magical place at this festive time of year; why Yolande SAT Knell in Bethlehem is SAT looking forward to two more Christmases in the coming weeks; SAT Nick Thorpe meets a Gypsy 'Santa Claus' on an allotment in SAT southern Hungary; Petroc Trelawny on how the glittering New SAT Year's Day ball in Vienna has its roots in a dark era of SAT Austrian history and in Paris, Joanna Robertson tracks down SAT one seasonal delicacy which, while delicious, carries the SAT unmistakeable whiff of ... gunpowder! SAT SAT 12:00 News Summary b04vd4vf (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 12:04 Money Box b04vjrjh (Listen) SAT What to do with an unexpected windfall SAT SAT This week Paul Lewis devotes the programme to one subject - SAT what should you do with an unexpected windfall? Perhaps an SAT inheritance has come through or is expected. Or you SAT downsized your home. An investment has SAT matured. Perhaps the lottery or a gamble has paid off. Or SAT you got a very welcome cheque from that distant relative for SAT Christmas. SAT Wherever unexpected cash comes from it can bring problems SAT with it. What to do? Spend? Save? Pay off debt? Invest? SAT Guests include Anna Bowes from Savings Champion.co.uk who SAT deals with cash. SAT MoneyWeek's commentator on gold and commodities Dominic SAT Frisby who is also a private investor himself. SAT Louise Oliver is a Certified Financial Planner with SAT Independent Financial Advisors Piercefield-Oliver. SAT And David Fyfe, Managing Director of Independent Financial SAT Advisors, Fyfe Financial. SAT SAT 12:30 Dead Ringers b04vjl75 (Listen) SAT Series 13, Episode 1 SAT SAT The impression show takes a look at all the shows that come SAT out around Christmas time and are given that extra festive SAT cheer: Crimewatch and Embarrassing Bodies. Who doesn't want SAT to see a crime scene brightened SAT up with tinsel and fake snow? And a pustulating sore that SAT looks like a snowman? SAT SAT Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis SAT MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. SAT SAT Producer: Bill Dare. SAT SAT Credits SAT Performer: Jon Culshaw SAT Performer: Jan Ravens SAT Performer: Duncan Wisbey SAT Performer: Lewis Macleod SAT Performer: Debra Stevenson SAT Producer: Bill Dare SAT SAT 12:57 Weather b04vd4vh (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 13:00 News b04vd4vk (Listen) SAT The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 13:15 The Reunion b04w5nn9 (Listen) SAT Wallace and Gromit SAT SAT Wallace and Gromit - created by Bristol-based animation SAT company Aardman - have entertained millions, made their SAT Plasticine stars national treasures, won multiple Oscars and SAT boosted sales of Wensleydale cheese. SAT Sue MacGregor is joined by Aardman founders Peter Lord and SAT David Sproxton, producer Carla Shelley, ex-manager Mary SAT Lowance and Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park - as well SAT as the two stars themselves - to recall four decades of SAT comic craft and innovation at Aardman that have left an SAT indelible impression on British cultural life. SAT SAT Aardman came to prominence with their Plasticine man Morph SAT and went on to create classics, such as Creature Comforts SAT which pioneered the use of real-life interviews as the SAT voices of Aardman's eccentric animal kingdom. SAT SAT Wallace and Gromit remain firm favourites. Wallace, the SAT eccentric inventor from Wigan who loves cheese, and his SAT silent but very well-read associate, quietly saving the day SAT with a range of facial expressions that have brought SAT comparisons with the great silent star Buster Keaton. SAT SAT A collaboration with American producers Dreamworks led to SAT the big-budget feature film Chicken Run. And few who saw it SAT will ever forget Wallace's moonlit transformation in The SAT Curse of the Were Rabbit. SAT SAT Yet there have also been moments of real-life drama, like SAT the huge fire that destroyed many character models, original SAT drawings and sets. SAT SAT As our guests reveal how they created these extraordinary SAT films and characters, they reflect on the ups and downs of SAT their experiences and look forward to the next chapter of SAT Aardman, Wallace and Gromit, Shaun The Sheep and those SAT characters waiting in the wings. SAT SAT Produced by David Prest and Peter Curran SAT A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 14:00 At Home with David Hockney b04w0b2v (Listen) SAT Radio 4 documentary. SAT SAT 14:30 Good Omens b04vjrjm (Listen) SAT Episode 6 SAT SAT Events have been set in motion to bring about the End of SAT Days. The armies of Good and Evil are gathering and making SAT their way towards the sleepy English village of Lower SAT Tadfield. The Four Horsepersons of the SAT Apocalypse - War, Famine, Pollution and Death - have been SAT summoned from the corners of the earth and are assembling. SAT SAT Witchfinder Sergeant Shadwell and his assistant Newton SAT Pulsifier are also en route to Tadfield to investigate some SAT unusual phenomena in the area, while Anathema Device, SAT descendent of prophetess and witch Agnes Nutter, tries to SAT decipher her ancestor's cryptic predictions about exactly SAT where the impending Apocalypse will take place. SAT SAT Atlantis is rising, fish are falling from the sky; SAT everything seems to be going to the Divine Plan. SAT Everything that is but for the unlikely duo of an angel and SAT a demon who are not all that keen on the prospect of the SAT forthcoming Rapture. Aziraphale (once an angel in the Garden SAT of Eden, but now running an antiquarian bookshop in London), SAT and Crowley (formerly Eden's snake, now driving around SAT London in shades and a vintage Bentley) have been living on SAT Earth for several millennia and have become rather fond of SAT the place. But if they are to stop Armageddon taking place SAT they've got to find and kill the one who will the one bring SAT about the apocalypse: the Antichrist himself. SAT SAT There's just one small problem: someone seems to have SAT mislaid him... SAT SAT With a cast led by Peter Serafinowicz and Mark Heap this is SAT the first ever dramatization of Terry Pratchett and Neil SAT Gaiman's Good Omens. SAT SAT Adaptation and sound design by Dirk Maggs. SAT Produced by Heather Larmour. SAT SAT Credits SAT Actor: Peter Serafinowicz SAT Actor: Mark Heap SAT Writer: Neil Gaiman SAT Writer: Terry Pratchett SAT Adaptor: Dirk Maggs SAT SAT 15:30 The Voices of Elly Stone b04vdzy3 (Listen) SAT Elly Stone is a modest 87 year old New Yorker ("born and SAT dragged up"), whose sublime voice will forever be associated SAT with the songs of Belgian chanteur Jacques Brel. SAT SAT In My Childhood, Song for Old Lovers, The SAT Old Folks and Carousel she brings a new perspective to SAT Brel's familiar emotional intensity and piercing social SAT commentary. SAT SAT Twenty years after her retirement from the stage, she offers SAT a rare insight into her life and what music has meant to her SAT - in a quiet New York studio, out on the streets of her SAT bustling city and at Sardi's, the famous theatre restaurant. SAT SAT Running through Elly's own story - from troubled childhood, SAT through Broadway success, to marriage, motherhood and SAT mid-life epiphany - there's a musical counterpoint that can SAT be traced in the songs she famously made her own in the SAT musical revue Jacques Brel's Alive and Well and Living in SAT Paris. SAT SAT Produced by Alan Hall SAT A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 16:00 Woman's Hour b04vjrjp (Listen) SAT Woman's Hour Powerlist 2014 - Game Changers SAT SAT Highlights from interviews with the Woman's Hour Powerlist SAT 2014 Game Changers. Baroness Doreen Lawrence, Caitlin Moran, SAT Francesca Martinez, Julie Bentley and Laura Bates. SAT SAT Presented by Jane Garvey SAT Producer: Abigail Hollick SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow. SAT SAT Credits SAT Presenter: Jane Garvey SAT Interviewed Guest: Doreen Lawrence SAT Interviewed Guest: Caitlin Moran SAT Interviewed Guest: Francesca Martinez SAT Interviewed Guest: Julie Bentley SAT Interviewed Guest: Laura Bates SAT Producer: Abigail Hollick SAT Editor: Jane Thurlow SAT SAT 17:00 PM b04vjrjr (Listen) SAT Full coverage of the day's news. SAT SAT 17:30 iPM b04vjqr8 (Listen) SAT [Repeat of broadcast at 05:45 today] SAT SAT 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04vd4vp (Listen) SAT The latest shipping forecast. SAT SAT 17:57 Weather b04vd4vr (Listen) SAT The latest weather forecast. SAT SAT 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vd4vt (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 18:15 Loose Ends b04vjrjt (Listen) SAT Clive Anderson celebrates a year of star names and stunning SAT music from the Loose Ends studio SAT SAT Clive Anderson celebrates a year of star names and striking SAT music and brings together the very best of Loose Ends 2014. SAT SAT Around an enlarged table, though possibly not all at the SAT same time, are - Gregory Porter, SAT Engelbert Humperdinck, Hugh Grant, Chris O'Dowd, Emma Freud, SAT Tamsin Grieg, Ray Davies, Alan Johnson MP, Arthur Smith, SAT Ross Noble, Sarah Solemani, Jon Gnaar, Ronan Keating, Sara SAT Pascoe, Jerry Springer, Danny Wallace, Kate Tempest, Nikki SAT Bedi, Mick Fleetwood, Tom Hollander, Cerys Matthews, Aisling SAT Bea, Maggie Aderin-Pocock, Leonie Orton, Imtiaz Dharker, SAT Bobby Crush, Scottee, and Cody ChesnuTT. SAT SAT 19:00 From Fact to Fiction b04wh18l (Listen) SAT Series 17, Episode 2 SAT SAT By Liam Williams SAT SAT The 27th December has always been a day for doing nothing, SAT until now. This year it's been re-branded as Purple Saturday SAT and it's all about shopping. SAT SAT As a couple get caught up in the havoc of the SAT post-Christmas sales, they try to make sense of this new SAT tradition, discover where it came from and find out if SAT there's any festive spirit left. SAT SAT Directed by James Robinson SAT A BBC Cymru/Wales Production. SAT SAT Credits SAT Ben: Liam Williams SAT Caroline: Charlotte Ritchie SAT Director: James Robinson SAT Author: Liam Williams SAT SAT 19:15 At Home Abroad b04v4sx8 (Listen) SAT The world is on the move. More than 200 million people live SAT today in a different country to their birthplace. SAT SAT Britain is a major crossroads of this seething human SAT migration. Among developed nations, there are SAT more Britons living abroad than from any other country. SAT Inward migration to Britain has also been massive - more SAT than 13 percent of the UK population is foreign born. SAT SAT A panel of New Britons, immigrants from all points of the SAT compass, debate questions raised by making a new home SAT abroad. How far do you assimilate? What is the process of SAT leaving one culture behind when the new one doesn't always SAT accept you with open arms? How do you raise your children, SAT born in Britain, if you do not fully feel a member of SAT British society yourself? Can an immigrant believe there too SAT many immigrants coming to this country now? SAT SAT Presented by Michael Goldfarb SAT SAT Produced by Anthony Denselow SAT A Certain Height production for BBC Radio 4. SAT SAT 20:00 21st-Century Mythologies b04w1cf4 (Listen) SAT Omnibus, Part 2 SAT SAT In 1954, the French critic and semiotician Roland Barthes SAT began a series of essays in which he analysed the popular SAT culture of his day. He called his essays "Mythologies." In SAT this series of witty talks, the SAT acclaimed writer and critic Peter Conrad delivers a series SAT of 21st Century Mythologies in a French accent of the mind. SAT Conrad ranges over the defining effluvia of our era, from SAT the Cronut, to the Shard, to the Kardashians. SAT SAT 21:00 Pink Mist b04vjsn8 (Listen) SAT A dramatic poem by Owen Sheers about soldiers struggling to SAT return home from Afghanistan. Commissioned for the Radio 4 SAT More than Words festival in Bristol and set and recorded SAT there. SAT SAT There are three comrades: SAT Arthur is back in Bristol and wants to tell the story of his SAT war and that of his friends, Hads and Taff. Taff is a SAT dubstep 'soundhead', Hads is trapped in a job in a shopping SAT centre; they join up too. Arthur's girlfriend and Had's SAT mother and Geraint's wife also appear. SAT With music by Jon Nicholls. SAT SAT Arthur: Carl Prekopp; Hads: Osi Okerafor; Taff: Jordan SAT Bernarde; Gwen: Devon Black; Lisa: Alex Tregear; Sarah: SAT Leona Walker. SAT Producer Tim Dee. SAT SAT 22:00 News and Weather b04vd4vy (Listen) SAT The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4, SAT followed by weather. SAT SAT 22:15 Pass the Turkey Twizzlers b04vf95h (Listen) SAT Has the middle class obsession with organic, artisan and SAT locally sourced food gone too far? SAT SAT Lucy Kellaway hosts an argumentative dinner party where all SAT the debates are about food. Her guests are the columnist SAT India Knight, the presenter of Radio 4's The Food Programme SAT Sheila Dillon and the author of Bad Science Ben Goldacre. SAT SAT Producer: Mark Turner. SAT SAT 23:00 Brain of Britain b04vdnc1 (Listen) SAT Brain of Brains 2014 SAT SAT Russell Davies chairs the general knowledge contest of SAT champions, held every three years, featuring the Radio 4 SAT 'Brain of Britain' champions for 2012, 2013 and 2014. This SAT year the highest-scoring runner-up in SAT any of the last three Finals also joins them. SAT SAT A close contest is guaranteed, between four of Britain's SAT most competitive quiz brains: Mark Grant, Barry Simmons, SAT David Stainer and Ray Ward. SAT SAT The special contest launches the brand new season of 'Brain SAT of Britain' which begins in earnest next week. SAT SAT Producer: Paul Bajoria. SAT SAT The contenders are SAT SAT MARK GRANT, an accountant from Bromley in Kent, the current SAT Brain of Britain champion; SAT SAT BARRY SIMMONS, a TV quiz panellist and former IT manager SAT from Leeds, Brain of Britain champion in 2013; SAT SAT DAVID STAINER, a solicitor from Hertford, runner-up in Brain SAT of Britain 2013; SAT SAT RAY WARD, a retired librarian from London, Brain of Britain SAT champion in 2012. SAT SAT 23:30 The Echo Chamber b04vd6mj (Listen) SAT Series 4, Solsticial SAT SAT Paul Farley introduces a new poem called Tithonus for the SAT year's midnight from Alice Oswald - a poem which lasts as SAT long as dawn - and with music from nykelharpist Griselda SAT Sanderson. Producer: Tim Dee. SAT SAT SUN SUNDAY 28 DECEMBER 2014 SUN SUN 00:00 Midnight News b04vjvn7 (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN Followed by Weather. SUN SUN 00:15 Midwives to Be b04vf6z9 (Listen) SUN It's one of the most popular degree courses in the country. SUN If you've managed to secure a place at King's College London SUN to study midwifery, you've beaten 17 other applicants to SUN secure the place. SUN SUN Sarah Taylor SUN has been following the September 2014 intake of BSc SUN Midwifery students who are studying at King's College SUN London. Less than half of them are straight from school, SUN some arrive on the course having already studied something SUN completely different. Other members have finally got a place SUN to study midwifery after doing their time as Health Care SUN Assistants and studying via the access course route. SUN SUN It's a really diverse student group and of the 99 student SUN midwives, just one is male. The students share their stories SUN of what motivated them to apply for the course, how hard it SUN was to get on and how they are coping with the first term. SUN It's an intense student experience - twelve hour shifts in SUN hospital alongside lots of lectures to help them get up to SUN speed with everything they need to know to support women in SUN labour. SUN SUN Presented and produced by Sarah Taylor. SUN SUN 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vjvn9 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vjvnc (Listen) SUN BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. BBC Radio 4 resumes SUN at 5.20am. SUN SUN 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vjvnf (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 05:30 News Briefing b04vjvnh (Listen) SUN The latest news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 05:43 Bells on Sunday b04vjwt5 (Listen) SUN The bells of Westminster Abbey. SUN SUN 05:45 Four Thought b04vf95m (Listen) SUN Series 4, Art, Design and Politics SUN SUN Paola Antonelli explores the politics in art and design. SUN SUN The curator of design at the Museum of Modern Art in New SUN York City, Paola uses examples from a recent exhibition to SUN show how curatorial decisions can be SUN extremely political, and to examine the role of museums and SUN curators in stimulating political debate and discussion. SUN SUN The programme is presented by Amanda Stern, from McNally SUN Jackson Books in New York City. SUN SUN Producer: Giles Edwards. SUN SUN 06:00 News Headlines b04vjvnk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news. SUN SUN 06:05 Something Understood b04vjyh4 (Listen) SUN When I Grow Up SUN SUN When do we really feel like we've 'grown up'? SUN SUN Jude Rogers reflects on the transition to adulthood with SUN readings from Sharon Olds, Jennifer Egan and J.M. Barrie, SUN alongside music from Fever Ray, Broadcast and Nick Cave. SUN SUN Produced by Eleanor McDowall SUN A Falling Tree production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Readings SUN SUN Title: The Ocean At The End of the Lane SUN SUN Author: Neil Gaiman SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: Peter Pan SUN SUN Author: J M Barrie SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: The Perks Of Being A Wallflower SUN SUN Author: Stephen Chbosky SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Poem: First Thanksgiving SUN SUN Author: Sharon Olds SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: A Visit From The Goon Squad SUN SUN Author: Jennifer Egan's SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN SUN Title: A Circle of Quiet SUN SUN Author: Madeleine L'Engle SUN SUN 06:35 On Your Farm b04vjyh6 (Listen) SUN Caribbean Chilli SUN SUN Tom Heap samples the mouth-puckering Taste of Paradise as he SUN visits the Caribbean to meet a farmer specialising in Scotch SUN Bonnet Peppers. SUN SUN Well over 90% of the food consumed in the Turks and Caicos SUN islands is SUN imported from abroad. In the course of a generation a nation SUN of subsistence farmers and fishermen have given up the land SUN and the sea to work in the booming tourist industry. But SUN Courtney Missick is an exception. He comes from a long line SUN of local farmers and is absolutely determined to make his SUN small farm on the island of North Caicos a commercial SUN success. Growing coconut trees for resort hotels and Scotch SUN Bonnet Peppers for a local hot sauce bottler, he's showing SUN that the thin, dry soils of the islands can produce a SUN healthy harvest. SUN SUN Courtney takes Tom for a tour of his farm, showing how his SUN ducks and chickens fertilise the soil and explaining how SUN he's picked up innovative irrigation techniques from the US SUN and Israel. He's joined by his neighbour, naturalist and SUN amateur farmer Bryan Naqqi Manco who fills in the history of SUN the islands, from the pre-Columbian native farmers, through SUN the brief period of cotton plantations to the time when the SUN freed slaves learnt how to cultivate for themselves. SUN Courtney is determined to do justice to their legacy and SUN make the Turks and Caicos Islands self-sufficient once more. SUN SUN Producer: Alasdair Cross. SUN SUN 06:57 Weather b04vjvnm (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 07:00 News and Papers b04vjvnp (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 07:10 Sunday b04vjyh8 (Listen) SUN Women Bishops, Archbishop of Canterbury, Women in Religion SUN SUN 2014 was an historic year for women in the Church of England SUN when they won the right to be appointed as Bishops. SUN SUN In a special edition of Sunday ahead of the installation of SUN the rev Libby Lane as the bishop of SUN Stockport, Caroline Wyatt looks at the role of women in the SUN Church of England and other faiths. SUN SUN The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby reflects on the SUN historic decision to allow women bishops and discusses how SUN the Church will manage dissent from traditionalists. SUN SUN Sarah Swadling reports on the recruitment process for SUN Bishops. Is it down to who you know or is it now more SUN transparent? SUN SUN Katharine Jefferts Schori, presiding bishop of the Episcopal SUN Church in the United States gives her advice to the new SUN appointees based on her own experience and Trevor Barnes SUN investigates how the Diocese of London plans to deal with SUN opposition from parishes that won't accept a woman bishop. SUN SUN The rev Angela Berners-Wilson, the first priest to be SUN ordained by the Church of England and the rev Jody Stowell SUN discuss the opportunities for women now the Church is SUN finally an equal opportunity employer. SUN SUN Dina Brawer from the Jewish Orthodox Feminist Alliance and SUN Rabiha Hannan - vice president of the Islamic Society of SUN Britain look at their own faiths and reflect on the role of SUN women and how changes in the Church of England may impact on SUN their own faith. SUN SUN Contributors: SUN Archbishop of Canterbury, rt rev Justin Welby SUN Rev Angela Berners-Wilson SUN Rev Jody Stowell SUN Presiding bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori SUN Dina Brawer SUN Rabiha Hannan SUN SUN Producers: SUN David Cook SUN Catherine Earlam SUN SUN Series Producer: SUN Amanda Hancox. SUN SUN 07:55 Radio 4 Appeal b04vjyss (Listen) SUN Afasic SUN SUN Sir Derek Jacobi presents the Radio 4 Appeal for Afasic, a SUN charity which supports children and young people with SUN speech, language and communication needs and provides SUN information and training for parents and SUN professionals. SUN Registered Charity No 1045617 SUN To Give: SUN - Freephone 0800 404 8144 SUN - Freepost BBC Radio 4 Appeal, mark the back of the envelope SUN 'Afasic '. SUN - Cheques should be made payable to Afasic. SUN SUN Afasic SUN SUN Afasic is a relatively small UK wide charity that helps SUN children and young people affected by speech, language and SUN communication disabilities; works for their inclusion in SUN society and supports their parents and families. SUN SUN Afasic was established in 1968 as a parent led organisation SUN to provide support, information and help to parents and SUN carers and to raise awareness of this often hidden SUN disability. SUN SUN Our ultimate aim is that these children and young people SUN will get the support they need to be able to reach their SUN true potential, take an active role in their local community SUN and contribute to society, rather than face isolation from SUN it. SUN SUN Supporting Parents SUN SUN The Afasic parent support service provides support for SUN thousands of parents and carers of children with SUN communication disabilities and gives vital help at key SUN points in a child’s development, which can make a real and SUN lasting difference to their lives. SUN SUN It costs just £35 to keep the Afasic parent helpline open SUN for an hour. SUN SUN Youth Projects SUN SUN Afasic runs clubs for young people who have on-going SUN communication disabilities that enable them to have fun, SUN develop friendships and reduce their social isolation. The SUN clubs allow the young people to take part in a range of SUN activities they would otherwise struggle to access, whilst SUN also developing their communication and social skills. SUN SUN Just £50 enables a young person to attend an Afasic youth SUN club for a month. SUN SUN SUN Kelly SUN SUN When Kelly was four she had very few words and when people SUN spoke to her all she could hear was ‘sound’. But with SUN Afasic’s help Kelly got a place at a special school for SUN children with speech and language disabilities. Here she SUN received the support and therapy she needed and today Kelly SUN is a happy young woman who has a job and copes very well SUN with life. SUN SUN 07:57 Weather b04vjvnr (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 08:00 News and Papers b04vjvnt (Listen) SUN The latest news headlines. Including a look at the papers. SUN SUN 08:10 Sunday Worship b04vjysv (Listen) SUN Songs of Innocence and Experience SUN SUN Marking Holy Innocents from Wesley's Chapel London with SUN carols in the West Gallery style. Two hundred years ago, SUN when hymns as we know them were only just coming into use SUN and before mighty pipe organs had SUN appeared, a bunch of local musicians would bring their SUN enthusiasm and energy to the aid of congregations. They'd SUN sing from the west end of the church and often from a SUN specially constructed West Gallery. Robust and earthy some SUN of this music may be but their singing still covered every SUN part of human life with songs of innocence and experience. SUN Leader: The Superintendent, Leslie Griffiths; Preacher: SUN Professor of Christianity and the Arts at King's College SUN London Ben Quash. Music: Awake and join the cheerful choir - SUN Coventry Carol - A Virgin most Pure - While Shepherds SUN Watched their flocks by night - The Magi Carol - O Come all SUN ye Faithful. Music Director: Francis Roads; Producer: Rowan SUN Morton-Gedhill. SUN SUN 08:48 A Point of View b04vjl7c (Listen) SUN David Cannadine reflects on the history of the Queen's SUN Christmas message. Following the success of the first SUN broadcast in 1932 by the Queen's grandfather, King George V, SUN "what had begun as a one-off innovation" SUN soon "became an invented tradition". SUN SUN "There can be no doubt," says Cannadine, "it brought the SUN King closer to his subjects than had been true of any SUN monarch who had gone before him." SUN SUN Producer: Sheila Cook. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: David Cannadine SUN Producer: Sheila Cook SUN SUN 08:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0lwc (Listen) SUN House Wren SUN SUN Tweet of the Day is the voice of birds and our relationship SUN with them, from around the world. SUN SUN Sir David Attenborough presents the house wren found across SUN the New World. Having one of the largest ranges of any SUN songbird in the New World, the migratory house wren occurs SUN anywhere from their breeding grounds in Canada and North SUN America, to their to wintering grounds from Central America SUN to Chile. The male house wren's song is a torrent of trills SUN delivered at full volume from his territory of shrubs, low SUN trees and ferny banks. Diminutive he may be but he's feisty SUN and is known to drag other birds' eggs or chicks from a SUN nest-hole he wants for himself. In parts of North America, SUN house wrens are a significant cause of nest failure in some SUN other species of songbirds. SUN SUN House Wren (Troglodytes aedon) SUN SUN Webpage image courtesy of Shattil and Rozinski / SUN naturepl.com. SUN NPL Ref 01295484 SUN © Shattil and Rozinski / naturepl.com SUN SUN 09:00 Broadcasting House b04vjz06 (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 b04vjz08 (Listen) SUN King's School Worcester Choir ..... conducted by Simon SUN Taranczuk SUN Organist ..... Christopher Allsop. SUN SUN Credits SUN Writer: Tim Stimpson SUN Director: Sean O'Connor SUN Editor: Sean O'Connor SUN Jill Archer: Patricia Greene SUN David Archer: Timothy Bentinck SUN Ruth Archer: Felicity Finch SUN Pat Archer: Patricia Gallimore SUN Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas SUN Tom Archer: William Troughton SUN Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper SUN Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris SUN Lilian Bellamy: Sunny Ormonde SUN Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin SUN Joe Grundy: Edward Kelsey SUN Eddie Grundy: Trevor Harrison SUN Emma Grundy: Emerald O'Hanrahan SUN Ed Grundy: Barry Farrimond SUN Shula Hebden Lloyd: Judy Bennett SUN Alistair Lloyd: Michael Lumsden SUN Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott SUN Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery SUN Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling SUN Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen SUN Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd SUN Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron SUN Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell SUN Peggy Woolley: June Spencer SUN Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons SUN Harrison Burns: James Cartwright SUN Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott SUN SUN 11:15 Desert Island Discs b04vjz0b (Listen) SUN Ray Winstone SUN SUN Kirsty Young's castaway this week is the actor Ray Winstone. SUN SUN Nil By Mouth, Sexy Beast, Vincent, The Sweeney - he's SUN probably best known for totally authentic tough-guy, SUN geezer-parts. But his work has more range SUN and nuance, encompassing roles as varied as Henry VIII, SUN Magwich in Great Expectations and the lead in Beowulf. SUN SUN Beyond the screen the man himself almost seems to come from SUN a bygone era, when a fellow worth his salt always wore a SUN dapper three piece suit and was handy with his fists. In his SUN youth as a boxer he won 80 of his 88 fights and it seemed SUN for a while that a whiff of menace had followed him out of SUN the ring and onto the streets. SUN SUN However he says, "I'm not like the geezers I play: loads of SUN things scare me in everyday life but you have to hide a bit SUN and put on a front. I cry at movies, I cry at scripts, I SUN cried when West Ham got back into the Premiership - I'm even SUN frightened of spiders." SUN SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Kirsty Young SUN Interviewed Guest: Ray Winstone SUN Producer: Cathy Drysdale SUN SUN 12:00 News Summary b04vjvnw (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 12:04 I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue b04vdngk (Listen) SUN Series 62, Episode 6 SUN SUN Back for a second week at The Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, SUN regulars Barry Cryer and Graeme Garden are joined on the SUN panel by Susan Calman and Tony Hawks, with Jack Dee in the SUN chair. Piano accompaniment is provided by Colin Sell. SUN SUN Producer - Jon Naismith. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Jack Dee SUN Panellist: Barry Cryer SUN Panellist: Graeme Garden SUN Panellist: Susan Calman SUN Panellist: Tony Hawks SUN Producer: Jon Naismith SUN SUN 12:32 Food Programme b04vjz0d (Listen) SUN Redemption through Food SUN SUN Redemption through food. Sheila Dillon brings you her SUN selection of inspirational stories from The Food Programme SUN in 2014. SUN SUN Ken Hom tells Sheila how food changed his life and his SUN fortunes. Claudia Roden explains SUN how food brought the Egyptian diaspora together. And we hear SUN from a former drug addict who found a new life growing SUN salad. SUN SUN Presented by Sheila Dillon produced by Emma Weatherill in SUN Bristol. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Sheila Dillon SUN Interviewed Guest: Ken Hom SUN Interviewed Guest: Claudia Roden SUN Producer: Emma Weatherill SUN SUN 12:57 Weather b04vjvny (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 13:00 The World This Weekend b04vjz0g (Listen) SUN Global news and analysis; presented by Mark Mardell. SUN SUN 13:30 The Invisible Age b04vdnkt (Listen) SUN The Living Archive SUN SUN What's it really like to be old? This programme is dedicated SUN to conversations with the over 85s about the great turning SUN points in their lives. Presenter Matthew Sweet describes his SUN friends in their 80s and 90s SUN as a "living archive". The "fourth generation" is not only a SUN fast-growing feature of modern Britain, it's a portal to our SUN collective past. SUN SUN How does it feel to know about something that the culture SUN has forgotten? What happens when your friends and family SUN pass on and you are left? Matthew Sweet talks to people aged SUN over 85 in a quest to find out not only about their lives SUN but also how life has changed around them. We meet some of SUN Britain's 14,000 centenarians - they are part of a growing SUN trend, with demographers predicting that, by 2114, a million SUN Britons alive will have received their telegram from the SUN Queen. SUN SUN And Matthew travels back to his home town of Hull where, as SUN a six year old, he liked nothing more than spending time SUN with his elderly neighbours. He meets one of these SUN neighbours, who, unbeknown to Matthew at the time, is SUN eminent political theorist Professor Bikhu Parekh, now Baron SUN Parekh. Matthew also talks to Mary Urwin whose father knew SUN Florence Nightingale, and Bridgette Paterson who once played SUN with the von Hindenburg children in the German President's SUN Palace. SUN SUN Produced by Hermeet Chadha SUN A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 14:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04vk02x (Listen) SUN Belsay Hall, Northumberland SUN SUN Eric Robson hosts a festive edition of the horticultural SUN panel programme from Belsay Hall, Northumberland. Matt SUN Biggs, Bob Flowerdew and Anne Swithinbank take questions SUN from the audience. SUN SUN Produced by Darby SUN Dorras SUN Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton SUN SUN A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4 SUN SUN This week's questions and answers: SUN SUN Q. I planted Garlic for the first time this year at the end SUN of October, when should I harvest it and when will I know SUN it's ready? SUN SUN A. As it starts to shrivel a little at the beginning of July SUN dig it up and it will be ready. SUN SUN Q. We have established an area of wild flowers in our SUN village green, which mainly consists of perennials. It looks SUN good but come July the area is dominated by Oxeye Daisy and SUN Scabious, which fall over and smother the other plants. SUN We've tried to reduce them and put in more annuals but with SUN little success. Is it possible to grow annuals with SUN perennials and do the panel have any advice on keeping SUN colour throughout the season? SUN SUN A. Annuals are difficult to grow in a meadow and so you'll SUN probably just have to accept that the wild meadow is going SUN to look a bit ropey at certain times of year. The exception SUN to this is Yellow Rattle which can be grown successfully in SUN a meadow by sowing in the autumn but you really need to SUN score the ground a bit to get the seeds to germinate, even SUN scarify the earth. Yellow Rattle is a partial parasite so SUN will restrict the vigour of the grasses. You could always SUN cheat by planting annuals in pots and then burying these SUN pots so the rims are just below ground level. This will give SUN the appearance of annuals growing through perennials. SUN SUN Q. I have had a Russet Egremont Apple Tree for two years. It SUN has produced three apples, which promptly fell off. Does it SUN need pollinating? SUN SUN A. As you didn't have a lot of blossom either, pollination SUN is probably not the problem. It's probably just quite young SUN and a bit too dry. Put down a good mulch to keep the SUN moisture in and make sure grass isn't growing too close to SUN the base of the tree. Just in case this is a pollination SUN issue, plant any kind of Crab Apple tree and this is sure to SUN pollinate it. SUN SUN Q. What planting would you recommend for a low screen to SUN divide a vegetable plot from flowerbeds given that we suffer SUN from salt-laden easterly winds in the winter? We're 200 SUN metres from the sea. SUN SUN A. You might consider Brassicas - a low hedge of red Brussel SUN Sprouts would look very different and are known to survive SUN in costal conditions. There is also the perennial Nine Star SUN Broccoli that can keep going for three or four years. You SUN could also plant in a ridge of shingle, or put in a dry SUN stone wall or a fence and grow Rosa Rugosa up it. SUN SUN Q. Please tell me how I can get an obstinate Yucca SUN Filamentosa to flower. I've had it 14 years and tried it in SUN various locations and still no flowers. SUN SUN A. It's been distracted by all the moving. Yuccas need SUN really deep roots and a good crown of growth before they SUN flower. So put in the ground in the spring. Choose a SUN sheltered spot where it gets lots of sunshine and leave it SUN well alone. It needs at least four years before it will SUN flower. You could put stones or sand beneath it to increase SUN the warmth. SUN SUN Q. What do the panel feel about volunteer potatoes? The best SUN ones I harvest have come up on their own from last year's SUN crop. SUN SUN A. The ones that 'volunteer' come up before the blight gets SUN them. If you plant potatoes in the autumn, you encourage SUN this to happen. This works well in cold winters but in warm SUN wet ones the potatoes can rot in the ground. However, the SUN crops planted in the autumn tend to be lighter. You can try SUN growing Sarpo potatoes that are thought to be blight SUN resistant but make sure you don't leave them in the ground SUN too long as this can change the texture. You could also try SUN the 'Carolus' potato. SUN SUN Matthew Biggs gets a tour of the Belsay grounds with Head SUN Gardener, Jo Harrigan. SUN SUN The Quarry Garden of Belsay SUN SUN 14:45 The Listening Project b04vk02z (Listen) SUN Fi Glover revisits some of the children's conversations SUN featured by The Listening Project over the past two years. SUN Gems of youthful wisdom from Suffolk, Devon, Leeds and SUN Leicester. SUN SUN The Listening Project is a SUN Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary SUN Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a SUN conversation with someone close to them about a subject SUN they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations SUN are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from SUN local and national radio stations who facilitate each SUN encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, SUN and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, SUN and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection SUN between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations SUN are being archived by the British Library and used to build SUN up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the SUN UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn SUN more about The Listening Project by visiting SUN bbc.co.uk/listeningproject SUN SUN Producer: Marya Burgess. SUN SUN 15:00 The Barchester Chronicles b04vk031 (Listen) SUN Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington, Episode 2 SUN SUN Anthony Trollope's The Small House at Allington by Michael SUN Symmons Roberts SUN SUN Adolphus Crosbie is determined to enjoy all the pleasures of SUN high society including the attentions of Lady Alexandrina SUN during his stay SUN at Courcy Castle. Back at the Small House in Allington, Lily SUN Dale devotedly continues to plan their wedding, despite a SUN worrying lack of correspondence from her betrothed. SUN SUN Music composed by David Tobin, Jeff Meegan and Julian SUN Gallant SUN SUN Written by Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Directed by Gary Brown SUN Produced by Charlotte Riches SUN SUN The Small House of Allington is the fifth instalment of The SUN Barchester Chronicles, Anthony Trollope's much-loved series SUN of witty, gently satirical stories of provincial life set SUN within the fictional cathedral town of Barchester and the SUN 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 Lily Dale: Scarlett Alice Johnson SUN Johnny Eames: Samuel Barnett SUN Crosbie: Blake Ritson SUN Squire Dale: Clive Mantle SUN Lord de Guest: David Bamber SUN Sir Raffle Buffle: David Bamber SUN Mrs Dale: Alexandra Mathie SUN Mrs Hearn: Alexandra Mathie SUN Cradell: Griffin Stevens SUN Bell Dale: Lisa Brookes SUN Dr Crofts: Lucas Smith SUN Bernard: Henry Devas SUN Amelia: Emily Pithon SUN Alexandrina: Emily Pithon SUN Train Porter: Hamilton Berstock SUN Author: Anthony Trollope SUN Adaptor: Michael Symmons Roberts SUN Director: Gary Brown SUN Producer: Charlotte Riches SUN SUN 16:00 Open Book b04vk033 (Listen) SUN Sir Richard Eyre Five of the Best Books SUN SUN Sir Richard Eyre's distinguished career as a director SUN encompasses both theatre and film. He ran the National SUN Theatre in London for ten years and also created acclaimed SUN productions of Guys and Dolls and Mary SUN Poppins. For the big screen he's directed Notes on a Scandal SUN and Iris. He talks to Mariella Frostrup about his five SUN favourite books, and how they shaped his life. SUN SUN And Dr Sarah Dillon continues her series of close reading by SUN turning her attention to Aldous Huxley and the opening of SUN his novel Brave New World. Published in 1932, the novel is SUN set in a dystopian future where human beings are reproduced SUN artificially, the opiate of the people is the drug soma and SUN the population is strictly controlled and divided into SUN castes. SUN SUN Close Reading - Aldous Huxley - Brave New World SUN SUN The enormous room on the ground floor faced towards the SUN north. Cold for all the summer beyond the panes, for all SUN the tropical heat of the room itself, a harsh thin light SUN glared through the windows, hungrily seeking some draped lay SUN figure, some pallid shape of academic goose-flesh, but SUN finding only the glass and nickel and bleakly shining SUN porcelain of a laboratory. Wintriness responded to SUN wintriness. The overalls of the workers were white, their SUN hands gloved with a pale corpse-coloured rubber. The light SUN was frozen, dead, a ghost. Only from the yellow barrels of SUN the microscopes did it borrow a certain rich and living SUN substance, lying along the polished tubes like butter, SUN streak after luscious streak in long recession down the work SUN tables. SUN SUN ‘And this,’ said the Director opening the door, ‘is the SUN Fertilizing Room.’ SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Mariella Frostrup SUN Interviewed Guest: Richard Eyre SUN SUN 16:30 Found at Sea b04vk035 (Listen) SUN Andrew Greig recounts, in poetic sequence, the tale of his SUN open dinghy voyage from Stromness in Scapa Flow to an SUN overnight stay on Cava island. SUN SUN In a small boat in open waters, he found a new element to SUN live in SUN and a new metaphor for life. He captures it in a poetry SUN sequence of moving simplicity,"in the middle of life, SUN halfway over, we pitch on a gurly sea." SUN SUN Written in six weeks, Found at Sea is a 'very wee epic', as SUN Andrew calls it himself, about sailing, male friendship and SUN a voyage to find a way through the rest of life by recalling SUN the lives they've lived before. SUN SUN Cast: SUN Narrator ............Andrew Greig SUN Skip ...................Lewis Howden SUN Crew .................Tam Dean Burn SUN Musician ............Rachel Newton SUN SUN Sound Design Lee McPhail SUN Director Marilyn Imrie SUN SUN Producer Gordon Kennedy SUN An Absolutely production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 17:00 Terror and the Oxygen of Publicity b04vf2qh (Listen) SUN The Islamic State has been described as one of the most SUN brutal terrorist organisations currently fighting in the SUN Middle East and one with the most sophisticated (social) SUN media strategy. Much of their expansion SUN is not happening on the ground but online through videos, SUN magazines and blogs they publish. SUN SUN In 'Terror and the Oxygen of Publicity' Gordon Corera, the SUN BBC Security Correspondent, examines the jihadists' social SUN media strategy, the attempts to combat it, and how media SUN organisations tread the fine line of giving publicity to SUN terrorists and reporting the news. SUN SUN The Producer is Anna Meisel. SUN SUN 17:40 From Fact to Fiction b04wh18l (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Saturday] SUN SUN 17:54 Shipping Forecast b04vjvp6 (Listen) SUN The latest shipping forecast. SUN SUN 17:57 Weather b04vjvpg (Listen) SUN The latest weather forecast. SUN SUN 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vjvpk (Listen) SUN The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN 18:15 Pick of the Week b04vk0bx (Listen) SUN Liz Barclay chooses her BBC Radio highlights. SUN SUN 19:00 The Archers b04vk0bz (Listen) SUN Contemporary drama in a rural setting. SUN SUN 19:15 The Rest Is History b04vk0c1 (Listen) SUN Episode 3 SUN SUN A new, six-part comedy discussion show hosted by Frank SUN Skinner. SUN SUN Frank loves history, but just doesn't know much of it. So SUN he's devised a new comedy discussion show in order to find SUN out more about it. Along with SUN his historian in residence, Dr Kate Williams, each episode SUN will see Frank joined by a selection of celebrity guests, SUN who will help him navigate his way through the annals of SUN time, picking out and chewing over the funniest, oddest, and SUN most interesting moments in history. SUN SUN Frank's guests in this ediiton of the programme are John SUN Lloyd and Katy Brand. SUN SUN Produced by Dan Schreiber and Justin Pollard SUN An Avalon production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Frank Skinner SUN Panellist: John Lloyd SUN Panellist: Katy Brand SUN Panellist: Kate Williams SUN Producer: Dan Schreiber SUN Producer: Justin Pollard SUN SUN 19:45 Goodnight, Vienna b04vk1cz (Listen) SUN Jonke's Schnitzel SUN SUN A multi-contributor series of specially-commissioned radio SUN stories about this most beguiling of cities. To the SUN outsider, Vienna can be a state of mind as much as an actual SUN place. SUN SUN Episode 2 (of 3): Jonke's SUN Schnitzel by James Hopkin SUN The Narrenturm, or Tower Of Fools, was once the principal SUN mental asylum in Vienna. It has now been reopened. But to SUN what purpose? SUN SUN James Hopkin's short stories have been broadcast on BBC SUN Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4, including The Mural At Frau SUN Krauser's, A Georgian Trilogy and A Dalmatian Trilogy, which SUN was broadcast in 2012. He is currently working on his second SUN novel. SUN SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN SUN Produced by Jeremy Osborne SUN A Sweet Talk production for BBC Radio 4. SUN SUN Credits SUN Reader: Tim McInnerny SUN Writer: James Hopkin SUN Producer: Jeremy Osborne SUN SUN 20:00 Cells and Celluloid: A Science and Cinema Special SUN b04vj1x8 (Listen) SUN The Film Programme's Francine Stock and Adam Rutherford from SUN BBC Inside Science join forces for a special Christmas day SUN programme celebrating science in the movies. Francine meets SUN Paul Franklin, the special SUN effects wizard behind blockbuster Interstellar, and SUN discovers how he worked with theoretical physicist Kip SUN Thorne to create the most detailed simulation of a black SUN hole ever produced. But can Hollywood ever really be SUN faithful to science and should it be? Professor Sidney SUN Perkowitz, one of the authors of Hollywood Chemistry, SUN considers what happens when physics gets warped by cinema. SUN Christopher Frayling explores the scientist on screen, from SUN Frankenstein to Dr Strangelove; and can science save SUN celluloid? Adam visits the archives of British Film SUN Institute to uncover the science behind film preservation. SUN Adam and Francine subject themselves to a psychological SUN experiment that tracks their eye movements as they watch a SUN film on the big screen. SUN SUN 21:00 Money Box b04vjrjh (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 12:04 on Saturday] SUN SUN 21:26 Radio 4 Appeal b04vjyss (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 07:55 today] SUN SUN 21:30 In Business b04vj6gz (Listen) SUN The Business of Kindness - Revisited SUN SUN The Business of Kindness - Revisited SUN Random acts of kindness can help businesses grow in SUN surprising ways. Peter Day talks with one woman who explains SUN how the generosity of others has made all the SUN difference to her company. Henrietta Lovell, the Rare Tea SUN Lady, started her firm just before becoming seriously ill. SUN Through the kindness of strangers she has managed to return SUN to health and run a prosperous company. She is now a great SUN advocate for spreading the idea that kind gestures are an SUN important force in the way we conduct our personal and SUN professional lives. SUN SUN Producer: Sandra Kanthal. SUN SUN Contributors to this programme SUN SUN Henrietta Lovell, Founder, The Rare Tea Company SUN SUN SUN SUN Alexander Mccall Smith, Author SUN SUN SUN SUN Henry Mason, Global Head of Research, Trendwatching.com SUN SUN SUN SUN Alexander Armstrong, actor SUN SUN 22:00 News Review of the Year b04vk1gj (Listen) SUN 2014 SUN SUN From the tragedies of the Malaysian Airlines planes to the SUN spread of Ebola, from Scotland's referendum to the rise and SUN rise of UKIP, from Russia's annexation of Crimea to SUN America's withdrawal from Afghanistan, SUN from Gaza to Ferguson, from YouTube sensations to social SUN media trolls, from Rotherham to Hong Kong to Kobani, from SUN Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robin Williams to L'Wren Scott, SUN from Germany's World Cup to Malala Yusufzai - 2014 witnessed SUN episodes of extraordinary drama, tragedy, excitement, SUN elation and mystery. SUN SUN Sarah Montague presents her personal review of the year, SUN including its defining episodes and its lighter moments. SUN SUN Producer Simon Coates. SUN SUN 23:00 Last Word b04vjh88 (Listen) SUN In a special edition of Last Word, Matthew Bannister talks SUN to obituary editors from around the UK about the nature of SUN their work SUN SUN Matthew Bannister and a group of obituary editors from SUN around the UK gather to compare notes and discuss why the SUN world of the obituary writer is very often an uplifting one. SUN SUN Producer: Neil George. SUN SUN Credits SUN Presenter: Matthew Bannister SUN Producer: Neil George SUN SUN 23:30 Something Understood b04vjyh4 (Listen) SUN [Repeat of broadcast at 06:05 today] SUN SUN MON MONDAY 29 DECEMBER 2014 MON MON 00:00 Midnight News b04vjvqn (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON Followed by Weather. MON MON 00:15 Thinking Allowed b04vj6gx (Listen) MON Rituals at Christmas MON MON Customs at Christmas and beyond. It may be best not to MON invite a sociologist for Xmas - they're liable to spend MON their time chronicling, even questioning your seasonal MON rituals. In this festive programme, Laurie MON Taylor looks at the ever shifting nature of our habits, MON practices and customs; changes in our lives which have been MON detected and discussed in previous editions of Thinking MON Allowed. Is our concept of romantic love as timeless as we MON often presume? How did bathrooms evolve from luxurious MON Victorian rooms to classless and clinical spaces? Do MON contemporary constructions of sophisticated drinking MON downplay the risks of middle class alcohol consumption? In MON what ways has the elevator changed the status associated MON with the top and bottom floors of homes and buildings? And MON when did consumerism cease to be about the satisfaction of MON mere wants as opposed to the indulgence of hedonistic MON pleasures? Thinking Allowed subjects the trivial, the MON everyday and the taken for granted to entertaining MON sociological scrutiny. MON MON Producer: Jayne Egerton. MON MON Music and Archives list: MON Opening Music: MON MON Track: Love is everywhere MON Performers: Alain Clark MON Album Title: Colorblind MON Label: 8ball Music MON Catalogue No: 7466194 MON 01 January 2014 MON ) MON MON Contributors: MON Pascal Bruckner MON Novelist and philosopher MON Has Marriage for Love Failed? MON Publisher: Polity Press MON ISBN-10: 0745669786 MON ISBN-13: 978-0745669786 MON Claire Langhamer MON Senior Lecturer in History, University of Sussex MON The English in Love: The Intimate Story of an Emotional MON Revolution MON Publisher: OUP Oxford MON ISBN-10: 0199594430 MON ISBN-13: 978-0199594436 MON Mary Evans MON Emeritus Professor, University of Kent MON Love: An Unromantic Discussion MON Publisher: Polity Press MON ISBN-10: 0745620736 MON ISBN-13: 978-0745620732 MON MON 03 December 14 MON ) MON MON Contributor: MON MON Dr MON Lyn Brierley-Jones MON Research Fellow in the Department of Pharmacy, Health and MON Well-being, University of Sunderland MON MON Abstract: MON Habitus of ‘home’ and ‘traditional’ drinking: a qualitative MON analysis of reported middle class alcohol use MON Brierley-Jones, L., Ling, J., McCabe, K. E., Wilson, G. B., MON Crosland, A., Kaner, E. F. and Haighton, C. A. (2014) MON Sociology of Health & Illness, 36: 1054–1076 MON doi: 10.1111/1467-9566.12145 MON MON MON 19 February 2014 MON ) MON MON Contributor: MON MON Dr MON Barbara Penner MON Senior Lecturer in Architectural History at the Bartlett MON School of Architecture, University College London MON Bathroom MON Publisher: Reaktion Books MON ISBN-10: 1780231938 MON ISBN-13: 978-1780231938 MON MON MON 23 July 2014 MON ) MON MON Contributor: MON MON Dr MON Andreas Bernard MON Cultural Scientist and Editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung MON Lifted: A Cultural History of the Elevator MON Publisher: New York University Press MON ISBN-10: 0814787169 MON ISBN-13: 978-0814787168 MON MON MON 02 January 2013 MON ) MON MON Contributor: MON Colin Campbell MON Emeritus Professor in the Department of Sociology, MON University of York MON The Romantic Ethic And The Spirit Of Modern Consumerism MON Publisher: WritersPrintShop MON ISBN-10: 1904623336 MON ISBN-13: 978-1904623335 MON The Shopping Experience MON Edited by Pasi Falk & Colin B Campbell MON Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd MON ISBN-10: 0761950672 MON ISBN-13: 978-0761950677 MON MON MON Closing music: MON MON Track: Please, Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas) MON Performers: John Denver MON Album Title: Rocky Mountain Christmas MON Label: RCA MON Catalogue No: 74321695782 MON MON MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography (New Closing Date MON 31 January 2015) MON Thinking Allowed in association with the British MON Sociological Association announces the annual award for a MON study that has made a significant contribution to MON ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a MON culture or sub-culture. MON MON Are you involved in social science research and completing MON or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is MON open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or MON researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution MON of higher education. MON MON An entry should be a MON completed ethnography MON a qualitative research project which provides a detailed MON description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole MON authored book or peer reviewed research article published MON during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. MON MON The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. MON MON The judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair MON originality MON and MON clarity MON alongside sound methodology. The work should make a MON significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in MON the relevant area of research. MON MON The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that MON shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will MON be awarded a prize of £1000. MON MON The winner of the Award will be announced at the MON BSA Annual Conference MON in April 2015. MON MON Read on for essential information and details on how to MON enter. MON HOW TO ENTER: MON MON You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. MON MON All entries must include the summary and contact details and MON a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under MON the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. MON MON Email a summary of your work to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone MON number. MON Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' MON category of your email. MON If you are submitting a paper MON it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more MON than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation MON your paper is too large and you will need to send it by MON post. MON If you are submitting a book MON (which must be published during this year) it should be MON posted to: MON Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award MON Room 6045 MON Broadcasting House MON London MON W1A 1AA MON Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st MON January 2015 MON TERMS & CONDITIONS: MON The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and MON Conditions MON MON MON 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following MON criteria: MON MON 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. MON The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual MON entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered MON into. MON MON 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to MON ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk MON a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken MON and published by the entrant. Please include the name of MON your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The MON summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography MON must consist of a qualitative research project which MON provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday MON life and practice of a group, people or culture and been MON included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in MON 2014. All entries and research must be in English. MON MON 4. The email entry must include the following information MON and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal MON address, institution of higher education, email address and MON contact telephone number. MON MON 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published MON during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed MON Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A MON 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, MON provided it is no more than 10MB. 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Each entry MON will be a completed ethnography, a qualitative research MON project which provides a detailed, in-depth, description of MON the everyday life and practice of a group, people, or MON culture. Judges will be looking for work which displays MON flair, originality and clarity, alongside sound methodology. MON It should make a significant contribution to knowledge and MON understanding in the relevant area of research. MON MON 11. The prize will consist of: £1,000. The judges' decision MON will be final and the BBC will not enter into correspondence MON with the applicants. In the event of two outstanding MON entries, the prize of £1000 will be shared. MON MON 12. The finalists will be contacted by telephone in spring MON of 2015 and the winner announced in April 2015. If a MON selected entrant cannot be contacted after reasonable MON attempts have been made to do so, the BBC reserves the right MON to offer the prize to the next best entry. MON MON 13. 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The BBC reserves the right to cancel or alter the award MON (including amending these terms and conditions) at any MON stage, including members of the judging panel if deemed MON necessary in its opinion, and if circumstances arise outside MON its control. In this event, a notice will be posted on the MON following website: MON http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/thinkingallowed MON MON MON 23. These Terms and Conditions are governed by the laws of MON England and Wales. MON MON MON MON 00:45 Bells on Sunday b04vjwt5 (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 05:43 on Sunday] MON MON 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vjvqq (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vjvqs (Listen) MON BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. MON MON 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vjvqv (Listen) MON The latest shipping forecast. MON MON 05:30 News Briefing b04vjvqx (Listen) MON The latest news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04w4qr6 (Listen) MON A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt MON Rev'd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. MON MON 05:45 Farming Today b04vk6km (Listen) MON Farm Floods Revisited MON MON At the start of 2014 the Somerset Levels experienced their MON worst floods in living memory. For many farmers, it was a MON race against time to get livestock to dry land. Nearly a MON year on, life is starting to get MON back on track. In this programme, Charlotte Smith returns to MON West Yeo Farm near Bridgwater, where James and Jenny MON Winslade run a beef herd. When she was last there, in March, MON their cattle were spread across nine different farms, their MON pastures were an oily swamp, and the farmhouse was a MON building site. Now they're back home, and normality is MON slowing returning to the farm. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith and produced by Emma Campbell. MON MON 05:56 Weather b04vjvqz (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast for farmers. MON MON 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0m7p (Listen) MON Red-Throated Caracara 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 presents the red-throated caracara MON from the Amazonian rainforest. The size of buzzards, MON red-throated Caracaras are black- and -white birds of prey MON that travel together when searching for paper wasp nests MON among the leaves. While some birds search for food, others MON act as sentinels on the lookout for predators. If a monkey MON or a spotted cat approaches, the sentinel will alert the MON flock and together they will mob the intruder with loud MON calls. They specialise in bee and wasp grubs, but seem MON impervious to stings and it was once thought that they may MON possess a special repellent which deters the adult insects. MON Latest research now shows that when they are disturbed by MON the caracaras, paper wasps keep away from their damaged nest MON to avoid further danger and so the birds simply take MON advantage of the wasp's absence. MON MON Red-throated carcara (Ibycter americanus) MON MON Webpage image courtesy of Tim Laman / naturepl.com. MON NPL Ref 01471601 MON © Tim Laman / naturepl.com MON MON 06:00 Today b04vk6kp (Listen) MON Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, MON Weather and Thought for the Day. MON MON 09:00 Start the Week b04vk6kr (Listen) MON Sense of Place MON MON Andrew Marr discusses why we react so strongly to some MON places, look for meaning in them and build up stories about MON them over time. Joining him in the studio are author and MON travel writer Philip Marsden who has MON been exploring Cornwall with Sense of Place in mind; MON Scottish artist Victoria Crowe who's been returning to paint MON the Pentland Hills for thirty years; singer Ian Bostridge MON who's performing and analysing Schubert's Winterreise; and MON lecturer Joanne Parker on the maps we make in our minds, as MON we draw together places that have the most meaning to us. MON MON Producer: Simon Tillotson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Andrew Marr MON Interviewed Guest: Philip Marsden MON Interviewed Guest: Victoria Crowe MON Interviewed Guest: Ian Bostridge MON Interviewed Guest: Joanne Parker MON Producer: Simon Tillotson MON MON 09:45 Book of the Week b04vk6kt (Listen) MON Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 1 MON MON Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert's MON enigmatic masterpiece Winterreise, or Winter's Journey. MON Composed in 1827, this powerful song-cycle for voice and MON piano uses twenty-four poems by MON Wilhem Muller and is considered one of classical music's MON most powerful compositions. MON MON Drawing upon his experience as a performer (he has performed MON Winterreise more than a hundred times), on his musical MON knowledge and on his training as a scholar, Bostridge MON unpicks the enigmas and subtle meanings behind the songs to MON explore the world Schubert inhabited. MON MON Ian Bostridge is recognised as one of the greatest Lieder MON interpreters today. He has made numerous award-winning MON recordings of opera and song, and gives recitals throughout MON Europe, North America and the Far East. He was the original MON Caliban in Thomas Ades's The Tempest, and played Aschenbach MON in the landmark 2007 production of Britten's Death in Venice MON at ENO. He will be Humanitas Professor of Classical Music at MON the University of Oxford in 2014-15. MON MON Read by Ian Bostridge MON MON Written by Ian Bostridge MON MON Abridged by Laurence Wareing MON MON Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. MON MON Credits MON Reader: Ian Bostridge MON Author: Ian Bostridge MON Abridger: Laurence Wareing MON Producer: Kirsteen Cameron MON MON 10:00 Woman's Hour b04vk6kw (Listen) MON Jane Garvey presents the programme that offers a female MON perspective on the world. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Jane Garvey MON MON 10:45 15 Minute Drama b04vk6ky (Listen) MON Eating for England, Episode 1 MON MON In the bleak Christmas following his mother's death, the MON young Nigel Slater sought refuge in food. Sugar mice, pink MON wafers and mince pies helped him survive. So too did his MON Aunt Elvie who, against the wishes of MON his father, encouraged Nigel to cook. MON MON Eating for England, the successor to his highly acclaimed MON memoir Toast, is part food memoir, part collective memory MON bank of a nation's taste. Using the book as source material MON along with further conversations with Nigel, dramatist Sarah MON Daniels has written a playful reimagining. A grown up Nigel MON - played by Julian Rhind Tutt, looks back on his childhood MON while caring for a now elderly, yet ever sparkling, Aunt MON Elvie, played by Celia Imrie. MON MON Rich with sounds of the kitchen and recorded on location, MON with a cameo performance from Nigel himself. MON MON What drives a cook to write about food? Why is there such a MON powerful link between memory and what we eat? And why is MON reading about food so irresistibly appetising? MON MON Episode 1: MON Nigel reflects on sugar mice and the bleak Christmas just MON after his mother's death, when Aunt Elvie helped him MON through. MON MON Dramatised by Sarah Daniels MON Sound design by Eloise Whitmore MON MON Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas MON A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Aunt Elvie: Celia Imrie MON Nigel Slater: Julian Rhind-Tutt MON Tony: Adrian Scarborough MON Young Nigel: Isaac Whitmore MON Author: Nigel Slater MON Adaptor: Sarah Daniels MON Director: Polly Thomas MON Producer: Polly Thomas MON MON 11:00 This Farming Life b04vk6l0 (Listen) MON Episode 1 MON MON What is modern farming life really like? Do you picture rich MON landowners simply banking cheques from Europe or aging men MON struggling to produce food with no time off? In the first of MON a two-part series, Charlotte MON Smith - more commonly found challenging ministers on Farming MON Today - looks beyond the farm gate and follows the lives of MON several farmers through the Autumn season. MON MON Peter Alvis' cheese-making business supplies an MON international market and is going from strength to strength. MON His brother Johnny runs the 1100 cow dairy, providing a MON large proportion of the milk but is paid the same rate as MON other suppliers. They want to increase cheese production by MON 50% but are desperate to find more local suppliers. MON MON It's a different picture for Bob Hall. A year ago his home MON and farm were deluged by the Somerset floods. The farming MON community rallied to help those affected but his 250 strong MON herd is now just 70. When Charlotte meets him at the market MON he's finding new store cattle are too expensive and the year MON is pretty much lost. It's not just farming rhythms but MON family rhythms that have been hit. For his wife Sue the MON worst will only be over when she's back in her home and can MON have the extended family round for Sunday dinner. MON MON Phil Dibble has a slightly more relaxed outlook, despite the MON pressures. He says his 180acre farm isn't viable like it was MON for his grandfather so he works part-time as a truck driver MON and he says his District Nurse wife is the real MON bread-winner. But their 19 year old son, Harry, has big MON ideas of how to turn the farm around and Phil's prepared to MON listen. His mum had hoped he'd see through his A-levels as a MON back up, and use his skill for Maths but Harry knows what he MON wants to do. MON MON Presented by Charlotte Smith MON Produced by Anne-Marie Bullock. MON MON 11:30 Start/Stop b04vk6l2 (Listen) MON Series 2, Hotel MON MON Hit comedy about three marriages in various states of MON disrepair. Starring Jack Docherty, Kerry Godliman, John MON Thomson, Fiona Allen, Charlie Higson and Sally Bretton. MON This week David has to go into hospital MON for a delicate operation. Cathy is away on a spa weekend MON with Fiona. And Barney, Evan and Alice find themselves home MON alone. Could this be the opportunity for Barney and Alice to MON spend some time together? MON MON Producer ..... Claire Jones. MON MON Credits MON Barney: Jack Docherty MON Cathy: Kerry Godliman MON Fiona: Fiona Allen MON Evan: John Thomson MON David: Charlie Higson MON Alice: Sally Bretton MON Producer: Claire Jones MON Writer: Jack Docherty MON MON 12:00 News Summary b04vjvr1 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 12:04 Home Front b04vk6l4 (Listen) MON 29 December 1914 - Joe Macknade MON MON Warwickshire cricket captain Jim Troughton guest stars as MON England cricketer Colin Blythe on a recruitment drive in MON Folkestone, and appealing to one young man in particular. MON MON Written by Katie Hims MON Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. MON MON Credits MON Joe: Lloyd Thomas MON Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson MON Laurie: Will Howard MON Colin Blythe: Jim Troughton MON Albert: Harry Myers MON Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell MON Hilary: Craige Els MON Mickey: Ben Pettengell MON Norman: Sean Baker MON Ivor: Alun Raglan MON Writer: Katie Hims MON Director: Jessica Dromgoole MON MON 12:15 You and Yours b04vk6l6 (Listen) MON Consumer news. MON MON 12:57 Weather b04vjvr3 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 13:00 World at One b04vk6l8 (Listen) MON Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Edward MON Stourton. MON MON 13:45 Out of Armenia b04vk72b (Listen) MON Manchester MON MON Writer and historian Charles Emmerson traces the history of MON the Armenian diaspora through Europe's Armenian communities MON today. MON MON From Manchester, home to Britain's oldest Armenian MON community, Charles travels to MON Paris, the largest and most dynamic Armenian diaspora MON community in Europe, still living in the shadow of the MON memory of the massacres and deportations of Armenians in the MON Ottoman Empire in 1915. MON MON In Venice, he meets the monks charged with the safe-keeping MON of Armenian traditions of literature and song on the island MON of San Lazzaro. In Istanbul, we hear the more recent stories MON of the city's Armenian community - subtle architects MON building a new relationship between Turks and Armenians from MON the foundations up. MON MON Finally, at the foot of Mount Ararat, in Yerevan, MON underground jazz music and Syrian refugees tell a new story MON - of a new focus for Armenian identity and fresh challenges MON to its survival. MON MON Armenians have long lived in diaspora, struggling to keep MON their common identity alive in communities dispersed around MON the world. They became leading figures in Ottoman Istanbul. MON In the 19th century, some moved to the dirt and damp of the MON booming textile city of Manchester, establishing themselves MON in the city's middle-class suburbs and building the first MON Armenian church in north-west Europe. MON MON Over tea and cake in warm family homes, Charles hears the MON stories of a tiny but close-knit community, now concerned MON about how to keep alive its identity, language and religion MON for a new generation of Mancunian Armenians. The church MON holds services just once a month, when a priest comes up MON from London. Some ask whether there will be an Armenian MON community in Manchester at all in 50 years' time. MON MON Produced by Cicely Fell MON An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 14:00 The Archers b04vk0bz (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Sunday] MON MON 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04vk72d (Listen) MON Pilgrim, St Lewin MON MON by Sebastian Baczkiewicz. MON MON In search of silver and gold, Pilgrim comes to St Lewin MON where the malevolence of a powerful old enemy is causing MON havoc in the lives of ordinary people . MON MON 2 of 4 MON MON Directed by Marc Beeby. MON MON Credits MON Pilgrim: Paul Hilton MON Mister Truffles: Zubin Varla MON Binnie: Helen Longworth MON Mirabella: Janice Acquah MON Jerry: Ian Conningham MON Francis: Paul Heath MON Jose: Shaun Mason MON Maurice: David Acton MON Little Truffles: Bettrys Jones MON The Girl: Agnes Bateman MON Director: Marc Beeby MON Writer: Sebastian Baczkiewicz MON MON 15:00 Brain of Britain b04vk72g (Listen) MON Heat 1, 2015 MON MON (1/17) MON Which politician was described by the writer Malcolm MON Bradbury as 'the Bertie Wooster of Marxism'? And the A MON horizon, B horizon, C horizon and O horizon are all layers MON of what? MON MON Russell Davies returns to MON Radio 4 with the first contest in a new season of the MON evergreen general knowledge quiz, with contestants from all MON over Britain competing for the title Brain of Britain 2015. MON It's the 62nd series of the quiz, and the eventual champion MON will join a long and illustrious list of names which down MON the years has included Irene Thomas, Daphne Fowler, Kevin MON Ashman and Barry Simmons. MON MON The competitors in this week's opening heat come from MON London, Guernsey, Bath and Norwich. MON MON The programme also offers the customary chance for a MON listener to 'Beat the Brains' by suggesting ingenious MON questions that may stump their collective general knowledge. MON MON Producer: Paul Bajoria. MON MON 15:30 Food Programme b04vjz0d (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 12:32 on Sunday] MON MON 16:00 Sister Aimee b04w0fvk (Listen) MON Naomi Grimley tells the story of how a Canadian farm girl MON combined glamour and the gospel to become among the most MON famous women in America in the 1920s and 30s. Aimee Semple MON McPherson built a huge following for MON her healing abilities and for her extraordinary "illustrated MON sermons" - part bible reading, part music hall turn. And MON long before the arrival of televangelism, she pioneered the MON use of radio to spread her message across the airwaves. Her MON allure was such that even Charlie Chaplin was a fan. But MON with celebrity came loneliness and scandal. In 1926, she MON disappeared after swimming on Venice Beach, only to MON mysteriously reappear in Mexico five weeks later. What MON happened during that period is still hotly contested. Naomi MON asks what this extraordinary woman's life tells us about two MON of America's enduring themes: faith and fame. MON Producer: Nick White MON MON Special thanks to: MON Foursquare Archives MON Esotouric - Bus Adventures into the secret heart of Los MON Angeles MON Paul Rood MON Catherine Brekus MON Randall Balmer MON MON Music: MON Hauschka - Kreuzung MON Lee Rosevere - Dreaming MON Podington Bear - Gauze MON Martha Tilton - Blow, Gabriel, Blow MON Chris Zabriskie - Cylinder Six MON MON Archival material and piano recordings used with the express MON written consent of The International Church of the MON Foursquare Gospel. Copyright protected. MON MON 16:30 Beyond Belief b04vk9nh (Listen) MON Magna Carta MON MON What was the Church's role in the creation of Magna Carta? MON We all know about "Bad King John" and his barons, but this MON was a religiously charged document. The very first and the MON very last clause declare that MON "The Church must be free," and the Archbishop of Canterbury, MON Stephen Langton, almost certainly drafted it. MON MON Ernie Rea is joined by the Very Rev June Osborne, Dean of MON Salisbury , whose Cathedral houses one of the four original MON copies of Magna Carta; Simon Barrow Co Director of MON Ekklesias, a Christian think tank; and David Carpenter, MON Professor of Medieval History at Kings College London and MON one of the investigators involved in the Magna Carta Project MON which is researching the context, production and reception MON of Magna Carta. MON MON 17:00 PM b04vk9nk (Listen) MON PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. MON MON 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vjvr5 (Listen) MON The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. MON MON 18:15 Christmas With... b04vk9nm (Listen) MON Clare Barker MON MON Clare has had enough; it's the 29th December and it's high MON time Christmas was packed up for another year. Social work MON doesn't just stop because it's the festive season, but will MON a chance encounter bring back a MON bit of seasonal magic? MON MON Sally Phillips is Clare Barker the social worker who has all MON the right jargon but never a practical solution. MON MON In today's Big Society there are plenty of challenges out MON there for an involved, caring social worker. Or even Clare. MON MON Written by Harry Venning and David Ramsden MON Producer Alexandra Smith. MON MON Credits MON Clare: Sally Phillips MON Brian: Alex Lowe MON Nali: Nina Conti MON Old Man: Hugh Bonneville MON Father Christmas: Hugh Bonneville MON Son: Shaun Mason MON Writer: Harry Venning MON Writer: David Ramsden MON Producer: Alexandra Smith MON MON 18:30 The Unbelievable Truth b04vk9np (Listen) MON Series 14, Episode 1 MON MON David Mitchell hosts the panel game in which four comedians MON are encouraged to tell lies and compete against one another MON to see how many items of truth they're able to smuggle past MON their opponents. MON MON Lloyd MON Langford, David O'Doherty, Susan Calman and Josh Widdicombe MON are the panellists obliged to talk with deliberate MON inaccuracy on subjects as varied as penguins, spoons, dolls MON and letters. MON MON The show is devised by Graeme Garden and Jon Naismith, the MON team behind Radio 4's I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue. MON MON Produced by Jon Naismith MON A Random Entertainment production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: David Mitchell MON Panellist: Lloyd Langford MON Panellist: David O'Doherty MON Panellist: Susan Calman MON Panellist: Josh Widdicombe MON Producer: Jon Naismith MON MON 19:00 The Archers b04vk9nr (Listen) MON Contemporary drama in a rural setting. MON MON 19:15 Front Row b04vk9nt (Listen) MON The rise and rise of Event Cinema MON MON Kirsty Lang investigates the flourishing phenomenon of MON so-called event cinema. Plays, musicals and operas in major MON cities have become available throughout the country on the MON big - and sometimes small - screen MON in local cinemas. Eric Felner, the producer of Billy Elliot MON the Musical tells of his delight at the performance in MON September that topped the cinema box office, beating Denzel MON Washington's The Equalizer into second place. David Sabel, MON the Head of Digital at the National Theatre responsible for MON NT Live, analyses the success of Frankenstein, War Horse and MON many other shows. Helen McCrory talks about what the live MON screening of Medea felt like and Lesley Manville and Richard MON Eyre describe having their theatre production of Ibsen's MON Ghosts filmed. Front Row hears from some who fear the impact MON of event cinema on local theatre and on touring; Lorne MON Campbell of Northern Stage and the playwright Alan Ayckbourn MON voice their concerns. And what is the future of event MON screening? MON MON Presenter: Kirsty Lang MON Producer: Sarah Johnson. MON MON Credits MON Presenter: Kirsty Lang MON Interviewed Guest: Eric Fellner MON Interviewed Guest: David Sabel MON Interviewed Guest: Richard Eyre MON Interviewed Guest: Lesley Manville MON Interviewed Guest: Helen McCrory MON Interviewed Guest: Lorne Campbell MON Interviewed Guest: Alan Ayckbourn MON Interviewed Guest: Hasan Bakhshi MON Interviewed Guest: Peter Bazalgette MON Producer: Sarah Johnson MON MON 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04vk6ky (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] MON MON 20:00 The Invisible Age b04vk9nw (Listen) MON Let Yourself Go MON MON News reports about increased longevity invariably come with MON warnings and worries. Matthew Sweet asks whether we could MON turn society's pessimism about our increasing old age into MON an opportunity to gain a new MON perspective on life. MON MON He spends time with some of the oldest and greatest MON thinkers, who share with him their insights on ageing. He MON travels to talk to writers who use their old age to write MON about the privileged vantage point they enjoy. MON MON In the midst of a public conversation about old age which MON centres on the cost and loss of a long life, Matthew talks MON to people in their 80s and 90s about the gains that old age MON can bring. Matthew likens his conversations with the so MON called 'oldest-old' to meeting explorers of a new territory. MON He is curious to ask them what they can share with us about MON the things they have learnt and the things they can see. MON MON Produced by Catherine Carr MON A Loftus production for BBC Radio 4. MON MON 20:30 Crossing Continents b04vk9ny (Listen) MON Abdi and the Golden Ticket MON MON Each year, the US government does a strange and slightly MON surprising thing: it gives away 50,000 green cards MON (permanent resident visas) to people chosen at random via a MON lottery. MON MON But becoming an American is not MON easy, even if you do win a golden ticket. MON MON For Crossing Continents, Leo Hornak follows the story of MON Abdi Nor, a young Somali lottery winner living in one of the MON toughest slums in Kenya, as he prepares for his final US MON embassy interview and the chance of a new life in the MON States. MON MON But as Abdi's interview date approaches, the obstacles to MON him achieving his American dream appear to grow ever MON greater. MON MON 21:00 Shared Planet b04vdy2q (Listen) MON Pit Stops and Stopovers MON MON The Amur Falcon and the Swan Goose are both migrating birds. MON These birds, like many other migrating birds, need to rest, MON feed and refresh en route. Some journeys are thousands of MON miles and rich feeding habitat MON is disappearing for development. Wetlands, estuaries and MON coastlines are often the focus of industrial expansion, MON tourism and new housing, yet they are also the places most MON needed by migrating waders. Inland there are problems too as MON water bodies, scrub and insect rich grasslands are quickly MON taken over for agriculture and urban development. What can MON be done? In Nagaland in north-eastern India the Amur falcon MON has recently congregated at a newly built reservoir to feed MON on the rich insect life that it supports. Hundreds of MON thousands, millions even, of these small birds of prey come MON together for a few days and in the past have been heavily MON hunted and trapped for food. Yet local people, encouraged by MON NGOs and the churches, have decided to let the birds be. In MON America the migrating monarch butterfly is being helped by MON people planting nectar rich flowers and protecting the trees MON they like to roost in. Some of the challenges are huge, MON others easy to solve. Monty Don explores the trials of MON migration. MON MON Dr Tony Fox MON After a BSc and a hydrological PhD obtained up to his knees MON in a quaking peat bog in mid-Wales, Professor Fox worked for MON the British statutory nature conservation agency the Nature MON Conservancy Council in Wales and the Highlands of Scotland. MON Two expeditions to Greenland convinced him to return to MON waterbird research at the MON Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust MON at Slimbridge in an NCC-funded research position, where he MON eventually became Acting Head of Research in 1992. MON He moved to Denmark in 1993, where he is now Professor of MON Waterbird Ecology at the Department of Biosciences at MON Aarhus University, Denmark MON and visiting professor at the MON Chinese Academy of Sciences MON in Beijing. MON He feels deeply privileged and fortunate to have survived a MON career in avian research that continues to support MON conservation management actions, not least through studies MON of the Greenland White-fronted Goose over more than 35 MON years. MON MON Dr Yvonne Verkuil MON Dr Yvonne Verkuil is an ecologist at the MON University of Groningen MON Her research describes the evolutionary adjustments of MON migratory birds to our continuously changing planet, with a MON focus on population genetics and migration ecology of MON shorebirds, often called ‘waders’. MON Coastal wader habitats often have dense human populations, MON and this shared use of resources is a major challenge along MON all migration routes, inspiring her work at the interface MON between research and conservation. After her PhD she held a MON position at the MON Royal Ontario Museum MON Toronto, Canada. She is chair of the MON International Wader Study Group MON (IWSG), editor of the journal Wader Study, and an active MON member of the Global Flyway Network (GFN). MON In 2012 she co-authored a situation analysis, commissioned MON by the MON International Union for Conservation of Nature MON (IUCN), on the ecological crisis in East and Southeast Asian MON intertidal habitats, with particular reference to the Yellow MON Sea. This was followed in 2014 with a WWF report on MON Prioritizing Migratory Shorebirds for Conservation Action on MON the East Asian-Australasian Flyway MON . These syntheses of collective knowledge of the global MON community of shorebird ecologists, including recent MON ground-breaking work by researchers from Netherlands, China, MON Australia and New Zealand, largely initiated and supported MON conservation action in the Yellow Sea. MON MON 21:30 Start the Week b04vk6kr (Listen) MON [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] MON MON 21:58 Weather b04vjvr7 (Listen) MON The latest weather forecast. MON MON 22:00 The World Tonight b04vk9zq (Listen) MON In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. MON MON 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vk9zs (Listen) MON The Girls of Slender Means, All the Nice People Were Poor MON MON 'Few people alive at the time were more delightful, more MON ingenuous, more movingly lovely, and as it might happen, MON more savage than the girls of slender means.' MON MON Emilia Fox reads Muriel Spark's rapier-witted MON portrait of the lives and loves of a group of genteel but MON down-at-heel young women in postwar London. In the so-called MON May of Teck Club, a boarding house for single ladies, life MON carries on as if the world were back to normal: elocution MON lessons, poetry recitals, jostling over suitors and the MON sharing of a single taffeta gown. But the war has ended and MON things are not normal and never again will be. Into this MON world arrives Nicholas Farringdon, a writer and anarchist, MON who is beguiled by these girls of slender means and their MON giddy, carefree lives. But this meeting, we soon learn, will MON end in his death. MON MON Today: It is 1945, but life carries on as usual in the May MON of Teck Club. MON MON Spark's 1963 novel, The Girls of Slender Means, has become a MON modern classic. AL Kennedy has called it: 'An MON uncompromisingly well-crafted book: lean, ironic, funny, MON penetrating, unsettling and very, very beautiful. Welcome to MON the English language as operated by an expert.' MON Muriel Spark (1918-2006) was an award-winning Scottish MON novelist and biographer, known best for her acclaimed novel MON The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. MON MON Credits MON Actor: Emilia Fox MON Author: Muriel Spark MON Abridger: Sally Marmion MON Producer: Justine Willett MON MON 23:00 Word of Mouth b04vdzyf (Listen) MON Ebola: How should we talk about it? MON MON Michael Rosen talks to Oxfam's media officer on Ebola, Ian MON Bray, about the language we use about the disease, both in MON this country and in Liberia, where he's been based. Michael MON also asks linguists Louise MON Sylvester and Laura Wright about the words we've used though MON history to describe disease and plague, and what they tell MON us about changing attitudes to sickness. MON Producer Beth O'Dea. MON MON 23:30 Don't Log Off b04gvsnm (Listen) MON Series 5, Enduring Love MON MON Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook and Skype, hearing MON the real life dramas of random strangers. MON MON In this first programme of the new series, Alan discovers MON some moving stories of couples under pressure. MON MON Alan MON builds up a relationship with Hank and Norma in Arkansas, MON USA following them over the course of a difficult year as MON harp-playing Hank draws on his own near-death experience to MON deal with Norma's breast cancer. As Hank puts it: "I worked MON hard to survive, and I deserve my companion in life..." MON MON Alan also tracks the fortunes of a young couple in love, MON trying to make a go of it despite the fact one lives in MON southern Italy and the other in Slovakia. MON MON Plus a veteran of the first Gulf War - now a long distance MON lorry driver - recalls how he salvaged his own relationship MON after it faltered as a result of long absences from home. MON MON TUE TUESDAY 30 DECEMBER 2014 TUE TUE 00:00 Midnight News b04vjvs5 (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE Followed by Weather. TUE TUE 00:15 Dog Days b0371hjy (Listen) TUE Flush TUE TUE Robert Hanks tells of a human obsession through four doggy TUE books. Flush by Virginia Woolf. Is a pedigree over-rated? TUE With Prill Barrett, John Bradshaw and Ian Bruce Miller and TUE Jem, the border terrier, and Timmy the whippet. Producer: TUE Tim Dee. TUE TUE 00:30 Book of the Week b04vk6kt (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Monday] TUE TUE 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vjvs7 (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vjvs9 (Listen) TUE BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. TUE TUE 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vjvsc (Listen) TUE The latest shipping forecast. TUE TUE 05:30 News Briefing b04vjvsf (Listen) TUE The latest news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04w4ryf (Listen) TUE A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt TUE Rev'd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. TUE TUE 05:45 Farming Today b04vkhj9 (Listen) TUE Yuletide Growers: Mistletoe, Poinsettia and Kentish Walnuts TUE TUE You might think that the dead of winter is a quiet time for TUE growers, but for some it's the busiest time of the year. TUE Sarah Swadling visits a farmer in Worcestershire who has TUE built an online business around TUE Mistletoe, a grower who tends 100,000 Poinsettia every year, TUE and a man who is hoping to revive English Walnut production TUE in Kent. Produced and presented by Sarah Swadling. TUE TUE 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0m9x (Listen) TUE Laughing Kookaburra 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 Australia's laughing TUE kookaburra. At 45cm the laughing kookaburra is one of the TUE world's largest kingfishers. Native to south and eastern TUE Australia, they have now been introduced to Western TUE Australia and parts of New Zealand. Although they do catch TUE fish, they hunt mainly on land where they eat reptiles, TUE small mammals and invertebrates. The cacophony of loud TUE hooting laughs from which they get their Aboriginal name, is TUE often produced by several birds in chorus. The cackling call TUE is one of the few exotic bird sounds that is recognised TUE around the world: a captive kookaburra named Jacko became a TUE radio celebrity in Australia through his ability to break TUE into that laughing call on demand. By the time of his death TUE in 1939 he was one of the best known birds in the world. TUE TUE Laughing kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) TUE TUE Webpage image courtesy of Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com. TUE NPL Ref 01301013 TUE © Andrew Walmsley / naturepl.com TUE TUE 06:00 Today b04vkhjc (Listen) TUE Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, TUE Weather and Thought for the Day. TUE TUE 09:00 The Long View b04vkhl8 (Listen) TUE Obesity in the 1930s and now TUE TUE Jonathan Freedland compares current debates about obesity, TUE and how we treat it, with concerns and possible solutions TUE which arose in the 1930s. TUE TUE He examines books with titles like "Obesity", "Slimming for TUE the TUE Million: The New Treatment of Obesity", "Why Be Fat?" and TUE "Surplus Fat and How to Reduce It" on the shelves of the TUE Wellcome Collection Library. He looks at how the problem was TUE tackled in the 1930s and whether it can inform how we TUE approach today's obesity epidemic, which some claim "will TUE bankrupt the NHS". TUE TUE Jonathan's guests include writer and historian Louise TUE Foxcroft; Emeritus Professor of Nutrition Policy at London TUE Metropolitan University, Jack Winkler; Robert Opie of the TUE Museum of Brands, Packaging and Advertising; Margaret TUE Peggie, Vice President of the Fitness League, and Liz TUE Harper, Archivist at The Royal Albert Hall. TUE TUE Producer Clare Walker. TUE TUE Professor Jack Winkler, Jonathan Freedland and Louise TUE Foxcroft look at obesity titles at the Wellcome Collection TUE Library TUE TUE Professor Jack Winkler and Jonathan Freedland at the TUE Wellcome Collection Library TUE TUE Robert Opie and Jonathan Freedland at the Museum of Brands, TUE Packaging and Advertising with an advert for Bile Beans TUE TUE 09:30 Witness b04wlktg (Listen) TUE The Hong Kong Riots of 1967 TUE TUE Throughout much of 1967 striking workers and students filled TUE the streets of Hong Kong. They were inspired by the Cultural TUE Revolution in China and wanted an end to British rule. TUE Witness hears from Jasper Tsang TUE Yok-sing, now the president of Hong Kong's Legislative TUE Council, then a young left-wing student. TUE TUE 09:45 Book of the Week b04vkhlb (Listen) TUE Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 2 TUE TUE Internationally acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge examines one TUE of the most powerful compositions in classical music: TUE Schubert's song-cycle Winterreise (Winter's Journey). TUE TUE In this episode, which explores the TUE political context of the piece, he focuses on song five "Der TUE Lindenbaum" (The Linden Tree) and song ten "Rast" (Rest) TUE TUE Ian Bostridge is recognised as one of the greatest Lieder TUE interpreters today. He has made numerous award-winning TUE recordings of opera and song, and gives recitals throughout TUE Europe, North America and the Far East. He was the original TUE Caliban in Thomas Ades's The Tempest, and played Aschenbach TUE in the landmark 2007 production of Britten's Death in Venice TUE at ENO. He will be Humanitas Professor of Classical Music at TUE the University of Oxford in 2014-15. TUE TUE Written and read by Ian Bostridge TUE TUE Abridged by Laurence Wareing TUE TUE Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. TUE TUE Credits TUE Reader: Ian Bostridge TUE Author: Ian Bostridge TUE Abridger: Laurence Wareing TUE Producer: Kirsteen Cameron TUE TUE 10:00 Woman's Hour b04vkjs9 (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 b04w0jfs (Listen) TUE Eating for England, Episode 2 TUE TUE In the bleak Christmas following his mother's death, the TUE young Nigel Slater sought refuge in food. Sugar mice, pink TUE wafers and mince pies helped him survive. So too did his TUE Aunt Elvie who, against the wishes of TUE his father, encouraged Nigel to cook. TUE TUE Eating for England, the successor to his highly acclaimed TUE memoir Toast, is part food memoir, part collective memory TUE bank of a nation's taste. Using the book as source material TUE along with further conversations with Nigel, dramatist Sarah TUE Daniels has written a playful reimagining. A grown up Nigel TUE - played by Julian Rhind Tutt, looks back on his childhood TUE while caring for a now elderly, yet ever sparkling, Aunt TUE Elvie, played by Celia Imrie. TUE TUE Rich with sounds of the kitchen and recorded on location, TUE with a cameo performance from Nigel himself. TUE TUE What drives a cook to write about food? Why is there such a TUE powerful link between memory and what we eat? And why is TUE reading about food so irresistibly appetising? TUE TUE Episode 2: TUE When Nigel's dad announces his remarriage, Aunt Elvie and TUE mince pies come to the rescue. TUE TUE Dramatised by Sarah Daniels TUE Sound design by Eloise Whitmore TUE TUE Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas TUE A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Aunt Elvie: Celia Imrie TUE Nigel Slater: Julian Rhind-Tutt TUE Tony: Adrian Scarborough TUE Joan: Fenella Woolgar TUE Humphrey: David Annen TUE Young Nigel: Isaac Whitmore TUE Author: Nigel Slater TUE Adaptor: Sarah Daniels TUE Director: Polly Thomas TUE Producer: Polly Thomas TUE TUE 11:00 UK Confidential b04vkjsc (Listen) TUE Martha Kearney reviews today's release of secret government TUE files from the mid 1980s. TUE TUE The year long miners' strike came to an end in 1985, but TUE social unrest continued with riots in London leaving a TUE policeman TUE dead in Tottenham. Football hooliganism burgeoned, resulting TUE in horrific scenes at the European Cup Final in Heysel when TUE 39 people died during violent riots before the TUE Liverpool/Juventus match. TUE TUE Mikhail Gorbachev became Soviet leader and Oleg Gordievsky TUE was one of a number of high profile Russian defectors to TUE Britain. As nuclear arms talks between the Soviet Union and TUE the United States made a tentative start, a catastrophic TUE accident at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine TUE released radioactive particles over much of the Western TUE USSR. TUE TUE A row in Cabinet over the future of Westland helicopters TUE resulted in Michael Heseltine's resignation as Defence TUE Secretary in early 1986. A Cabinet Committee considered TUE government policy on AIDS for the first time, and several TUE Whitehall departments collaborated to develop what became TUE the 'Poll Tax'. TUE TUE As the official Cabinet papers of the mid-80s are opened to TUE the public for the first time, Martha Kearney discovers how TUE these events were viewed in Government. With access to the TUE Prime Minister's personal correspondence, minutes of top TUE secret meetings and telephone calls, and confidential policy TUE advice, UK Confidential offers fresh insights into history. TUE TUE Martha is joined in the studio by key political players from TUE the time - Defence Secretary Lord (Michael) Heseltine, TUE Shadow Chancellor Lord (Roy) Hattersley, Margaret Thatcher's TUE private secretary Lord (Charles) Powell, and Channel 4 TUE Political Correspondent Elinor Goodman. TUE TUE Produced by Deborah Dudgeon TUE A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:00 News Summary b04vjvsh (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 12:04 Home Front b04vkjsf (Listen) TUE 30 December 1914 - Esme Macknade TUE TUE Esme desperately needs a friend, and finds one in an TUE unexpected place. TUE TUE Written by Katie Hims TUE Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. TUE TUE Credits TUE Esme: Katie Angelou TUE Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw TUE Sylvia: Deborah Findlay TUE Phyllis: Christine Absalom TUE Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw TUE Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell TUE Isabel: Keely Beresford TUE Juliet: Lizzie Bourne TUE Writer: Katie Hims TUE Director: Jessica Dromgoole TUE TUE 12:15 You and Yours b04vkjsh (Listen) TUE Call You and Yours TUE TUE Consumer phone-in. TUE TUE 12:57 Weather b04vjvsk (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 13:00 World at One b04vkjsk (Listen) TUE Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Edward TUE Stourton. TUE TUE 13:45 Out of Armenia b04w0jfv (Listen) TUE Paris TUE TUE "The last of the battlefields is the battlefield of the TUE imagination - and that space is infinite". TUE TUE Charles Emmerson continues his journey through the Armenian TUE diaspora of Europe in Paris - Europe's largest, most TUE culturally-vibrant and politically-radical Armenian diaspora TUE community. TUE TUE With the singing of the Armenian monk-musician Gomidas TUE playing in the background, French-Armenian actor Simon TUE Abkarian tells Charles the story of how his family was wiped TUE out in Anatolia in 1915, and how Armenians have turned the TUE pain of memory into the foundations of a new homeland in TUE France. TUE TUE As Charles is plied with pomegranate wine in the local TUE Armenian shops of Alfortville, a Paris suburb which filled TUE with Armenian refugees in the 1920s, we hear how TUE French-Armenians have become more French than the French TUE themselves - counting members of parliament, actors, TUE musicians and the singer Charles Aznavour among their TUE number. One of the most famous fighters of the French TUE resistance, Missak Manouchian, was also Armenian. TUE TUE On a river barge in the Seine, as a mostly Armenian band TUE tunes up for an evening concert, we hear mixed Armenian, TUE Turkish, Kurdish and Persian music - symbol of a younger TUE generation of Paris Armenians opening up, and an embrace of TUE culture as a tool of both memory and peace. TUE TUE Produced by Cicely Fell TUE An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 14:00 The Archers b04vk9nr (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Monday] TUE TUE 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04vkjsm (Listen) TUE Memories of a Cad TUE TUE Affectionate comedy drama by Roy Smiles about the TUE relationship between Terry-Thomas and Richard Briers, TUE starring Martin Jarvis and Alistair McGowan. TUE TUE While holidaying on the island of Majorca in 1984, the TUE infinitely charming actor Richard Briers - then 50 and at TUE the height of his TV sitcom fame - decides to visit the TUE comic movie actor Terry-Thomas in his home on the other side TUE of the island. TUE TUE The 73 year old Terry-Thomas has been suffering from TUE Parkinson's disease for the past ten years. His memory is TUE fading, his body deteriorating and the work has dried up. He TUE lives in quiet seclusion with his adoring wife Belinda. TUE TUE He is delighted by the visit of 'young' Richard Briers, who TUE he recognises from the telly. Briers cheers him up by TUE telling him facts about his life Terry has long forgotten - TUE from his cabaret years in the 1930s and his success in the TUE Armed Forces as a Stars In Battledress entertainer, to his TUE work in the movies of the Boulting Brothers peaking with I'm TUE Alright Jack and his glory days in American movies such as TUE Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines and It's A TUE Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, which brought him worldwide fame TUE as a 'bounder.' TUE TUE Terry-Thomas has forgotten he came from Finchley, that his TUE father worked at Smithfields Market and that it was his fate TUE to be a clerk at the same market until he decided to TUE re-invent himself, aged 17, as the raffish cad the world TUE came to love. TUE TUE Roy Smiles has previously written the Radio 4 dramas Ying TUE Tong, Good Evening, Pythonesque and Dear Arthur, Love John. TUE TUE Produced by Liz Anstee TUE A CPL production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE Credits TUE Terry-Thomas: Martin Jarvis TUE Richard Briers: Alistair McGowan TUE Belinda: Laura Shavin TUE Spencer Tracy: Lewis Macleod TUE Producer: Liz Anstee TUE Writer: Roy Smiles TUE TUE 15:00 The Kitchen Cabinet b04vjrjc (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:30 on Saturday] TUE TUE 15:30 A Portrait of... Andrew Motion b04vkkpd (Listen) TUE We go into the artist's studio to follow portrait painter TUE Fiona Graham-Mackay as she paints the former poet laureate TUE Andrew Motion. TUE TUE A personal, immersive journey exploring art unfolding, this TUE is an insight into TUE the private encounter of two acclaimed artists, and we TUE listen in to what this process is like for both the painter TUE and the painted. TUE TUE It's a unique relationship, a little like being in the TUE therapist's chair - the painter stripping away the layers to TUE reveal the true likeness of her subject, the sitter under TUE the microscope, exposed and studied. Fiona Graham-Mackay TUE shares the secrets of the portrait painter as she captures TUE the sitter on canvas; the sitter reflects on what being TUE painted reveals and contemplates the prospect of being TUE immortalised in oil. TUE TUE Fiona Graham-Mackay has painted hundreds of portraits, TUE including Prince Michael of Kent, Seamus Heaney and Lord TUE Carrington. In all her sittings she has always been TUE fascinated by her conversations with her subjects and TUE continues to be amazed by how people open up in ways that TUE surprise even themselves as she paints them. What is TUE revealed goes beyond anything you might expect in an TUE ordinary interview. TUE TUE Produced by Eve Streeter TUE A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 16:00 Word of Mouth b04vkl1s (Listen) TUE Why do we laugh? TUE TUE Michael Rosen finds out why we laugh and why we cry, with TUE neuroscientists Sophie Scott and Sam Evans, and linguist TUE Laura Wright. It's probably not why you think... And does it TUE matter if laughter and crying are real or false, in terms of TUE their effect on us? Producer Beth O'Dea. TUE TUE 16:30 Great Lives b04vkl1v (Listen) TUE Series 35, Roald Dahl TUE TUE Writer Roald Dahl is well known as the author of Charlie and TUE the Chocolate Factory, Fantastic Mr Fox and The BFG, but he TUE was also fascinated by medical science. Professor Tom TUE Solomon, who looked after him TUE during his last illness, spent hours discussing medicine TUE with Dahl. TUE TUE Tom talks to Matthew Parris about Dahl's life and work, TUE through the prism of his forensic interest in the workings TUE of the human body. With them is Donald Sturrock, Dahl's TUE biographer. TUE TUE Producer Christine Hall. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Matthew Parris TUE TUE 17:00 PM b04vkl9g (Listen) TUE PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. TUE TUE 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vjvsm (Listen) TUE The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. TUE TUE 18:15 15 Minute Musical b03m79wb (Listen) TUE Series 8, It's a One-Hit-Wonderful Life TUE TUE A series of satirical, barbed, bittersweet fifteen-minute TUE comedy musicals. TUE TUE With over thirty musicals selling out in the West End night TUE after night - the British public (and the Radio 4 audience) TUE cannot get TUE enough of them, therefore ... TUE TUE In true West End style, artistic licence is well and truly TUE taken and stretched, as easily identifiable public figures TUE are dressed up, gilded, fabricated and placed against a TUE random musical backdrop for sugar coated consumption. The TUE stories are simple and engaging but with an edge - allowing TUE the audience to enjoy all the conventions of a musical (huge TUE production numbers, tender ballads and emotional reprises) TUE whilst we completely re-interpret events in major TUE celebrities' lives. TUE TUE Beautifully crafted with astronomically high production TUE values 15 Minute Musical does for your ears what chocolate TUE does for your taste buds. All in fifteen minutes! TUE TUE Winner of the Writers Guild of Great Britain Radio Comedy TUE Award this series provides an energy boost and a seasonal TUE treat at 1815 over the Christmas week. TUE TUE It's A One-Hit Wonderful Life TUE TUE Cast: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb and Pippa Evans. TUE Written by; Dave Cohen, David Quantick and Richie Webb TUE Music Composed, Performed and Arranged by: Richie Webb TUE Music Production: Matt Katz TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE TUE Other episodes include: TUE TUE Ra Ra It's Puti TUE A camp look at Russia's greatest love machine. TUE TUE The Last Days of Farage TUE Nigel Farage goes to Europe with a Britpop soundtrack. TUE TUE Half A Sixth Form TUE Michael Gove has a licence to teach. TUE TUE Julian And The Assanging Technicolour Download TUE An overly dramatic and musical look at Julian Assange. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Richie Webb TUE Actor: Dave Lamb TUE Actor: Pippa Evans TUE Producer: Katie Tyrrell TUE Writer: Dave Cohen TUE Writer: David Quantick TUE Writer: Richie Webb TUE TUE 18:30 I've Never Seen Star Wars b04vkl9j (Listen) TUE Series 6, Ann Widdecombe TUE TUE I've Never Seen Star Wars - Ann Widdecombe TUE TUE Marcus Brigstocke persuades his guests to try new TUE experiences. Ann tries camping in a tent for the first time TUE and watches as much of The Thick Of It as she can stand. TUE Marcus also offers her a Jagerbomb - but will she accept? TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: Marcus Brigstocke TUE Interviewed Guest: Ann Widdecombe TUE TUE 19:00 The Archers b04vkl9l (Listen) TUE Contemporary drama in a rural setting. TUE TUE 19:15 Front Row b04vkl9n (Listen) TUE People of the Year 2014 - Part 1 TUE TUE John Wilson talks to the people who have had exceptional TUE years in the worlds of the arts, culture and entertainment TUE in 2014, in the first of two special programmes. TUE TUE Carey Mulligan discusses making her west end TUE debut in Skylight, and the thrill of taking to the stage TUE after her many film roles. Gillian Anderson, lauded for her TUE performances on television in The Fall and on stage in A TUE Streetcar Named Desire, talks about playing two very TUE different women. TUE TUE Two of the biggest selling musicians of 2014, Ed Sheeran and TUE Paolo Nutini, discuss the song writing process and award TUE winning authors Hilary Mantel and Lionel Shriver on the art TUE of writing short stories. TUE TUE Kristen Scott Thomas and Helen McCrory, who stunned TUE audiences with their stage performances in Greek tragedies TUE Electra and Medea, on the visceral experience of playing TUE tragic heroines. TUE TUE Designer Tom Piper and ceramicist Paul Cummins explain why TUE their poppies installation at the Tower of London, which TUE marked the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI, struck a TUE chord with millions of people and artist Marina Abramovic on TUE her bravest installation yet. TUE TUE And, following two of the biggest comebacks of 2014, John TUE Cleese remembers the Pythons' reunion and Adrian Noble TUE discusses directing Kate Bush. TUE TUE Presenter: John Wilson TUE Producer: Olivia Skinner. TUE TUE Credits TUE Presenter: John Wilson TUE Interviewed Guest: Carey Mulligan TUE Interviewed Guest: Gillian Anderson TUE Interviewed Guest: Ed Sheeran TUE Interviewed Guest: Paolo Nutini TUE Interviewed Guest: Hilary Mantel TUE Interviewed Guest: Lionel Shriver TUE Interviewed Guest: Kristin Scott Thomas TUE Interviewed Guest: Helen McCrory TUE Interviewed Guest: Tom Piper TUE Interviewed Guest: Paul Cummins TUE Interviewed Guest: Marina Abramovic TUE Interviewed Guest: John Cleese TUE Interviewed Guest: Adrian Noble TUE Producer: Olivia Skinner TUE TUE 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04w0jfs (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] TUE TUE 20:00 Build and Be Damned b04g8hrq (Listen) TUE The Victorians famously built wildly ambitious TUE infrastructure projects, like roads, railways, sewers and TUE tunnels. David Wighton asks whether we should copy their TUE example. TUE The Victorians and their TUE predecessors have been celebrated for their forward TUE thinking, building assets which are continuing to benefit TUE the British economy. Yet some of their grandest projects TUE left investors broke or actually created headaches for later TUE generations. So - which is more important: cost-benefit TUE reports or sheer boldness of vision? David Wighton finds TUE that the lessons from the past turn out to more complex than TUE they first appear. TUE Producer: Sandra Kanthal. TUE TUE 20:30 In Touch b04vklfs (Listen) TUE Rt Hon David Blunkett MP TUE TUE Peter White joins the Rt Hon David Blunkett MP on a walk in TUE the Derbyshire countryside, to discuss David's plans for his TUE recently announced retirement. They talk about David's love TUE of the outdoors, football and TUE poetry. TUE David let's his dog Cosby off the lead and guides Peter on TUE one of his favourite walks, in which he uses the sound of TUE two weirs to locate where he is on the path. When back in TUE David's cottage, Peter asks about Mr Blulnkett's book TUE library and his skills as a cook. TUE TUE 21:00 All in the Mind b04vklfv (Listen) TUE Claudia Hammond investigate the mind, the brain and why we TUE behave the way that we do. TUE TUE 21:30 The Long View b04vkhl8 (Listen) TUE [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] TUE TUE 21:58 Weather b04vjvsp (Listen) TUE The latest weather forecast. TUE TUE 22:00 The World Tonight b04wv05j (Listen) TUE In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. TUE TUE 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vklsd (Listen) TUE The Girls of Slender Means, This Marvellous Dress TUE TUE 'Few people alive at the time were more delightful, more TUE ingenuous, more movingly lovely, and as it might happen, TUE more savage than the girls of slender means.' TUE TUE Emilia Fox reads Muriel Spark's rapier-witted TUE portrait of the lives and loves of a group of genteel but TUE down-at-heel young women in postwar London. In the so-called TUE May of Teck Club, a boarding house for single ladies, life TUE carries on as if the world were back to normal: elocution TUE lessons, poetry recitals, jostling over suitors and the TUE sharing of a single taffeta gown. But the war has ended and TUE things are not normal and never again will be. Into this TUE world arrives Nicholas Farringdon, a writer and anarchist, TUE who is beguiled by these girls of slender means and their TUE giddy, carefree lives. This meeting, we soon learn, will end TUE in his death. TUE TUE Today: During her 'brain work', Jane encounters writer and TUE anarchist, Nicholas Farringdon, whose arrival at the May of TUE Teck Club causes something of a stir. TUE TUE Spark's 1963 novel, Girls of Slender Means, has become a TUE modern classic. AL Kennedy has called it: 'An TUE uncompromisingly well-crafted book: lean, ironic, funny, TUE penetrating, unsettling and very, very beautiful. Welcome to TUE the English language as operated by an expert.' TUE TUE Muriel Spark was an award-winning Scottish novelist and TUE biographer, known best for her acclaimed novel The Prime of TUE Miss Jean Brodie. TUE TUE Reader: Emilia Fox TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett. TUE TUE Credits TUE Actor: Emilia Fox TUE Author: Muriel Spark TUE Abridger: Sally Marmion TUE Producer: Justine Willett TUE TUE 23:00 Fresh from the Fringe 2014 b04wh77q (Listen) TUE Long Showcase of new comedy talent from the 2014 Edinburgh TUE Fringe, hosted by Jason Cook and featuring Fosters TUE award-winners Alex Edelman (newcomer) and Funz and Gamez TUE (panel prize), along with Suzi Ruffell, TUE Gein's Family Giftshop, Lolly Adefope, Tamar Broadbent, Rhys TUE James, Massive Dad, Natasia Demetriou and Dane Baptiste. TUE TUE Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. TUE TUE 23:30 Don't Log Off b04hyrq1 (Listen) TUE Series 5, Identity TUE TUE Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook and Skype, hearing TUE the real life dramas of random strangers. TUE TUE Today, people tell stories about grappling with issues of TUE identity. A disabled woman from the Ukraine talks TUE about ethnic tensions as crisis grips the country, keeping TUE an audio diary of her reflections as the situation develops. TUE TUE Alan also hears from a young woman in Moscow who discusses TUE the difficulties of being gay and mixed race in Russia. TUE TUE Meanwhile, a young Bolton man whose family originate from TUE Pakistan recounts his horror after being shot at during his TUE last visit there, reflecting on how it has informed his TUE views on nationality. TUE TUE Producer: Laurence Grissell. TUE TUE WED WEDNESDAY 31 DECEMBER 2014 WED WED 00:00 Midnight News b04vjvtm (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED Followed by Weather. WED WED 00:15 Dog Days b0371hm9 (Listen) WED Sirius WED WED Robert Hanks tells of a human obsession through four doggy WED books. Sirius by Olaf Stapledon. Can a man be a dog? With WED Prill Barrett, John Bradshaw and Ian Bruce Miller and Jem, WED the border terrier, and Timmy the whippet. Producer: Tim WED Dee. WED WED 00:30 Book of the Week b04vkhlb (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Tuesday] WED WED 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vjvtp (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vjvtr (Listen) WED BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. WED WED 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vjvtt (Listen) WED The latest shipping forecast. WED WED 05:30 News Briefing b04vjvtw (Listen) WED The latest news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04w4tm7 (Listen) WED A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt WED Rev'd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. WED WED 05:45 Farming Today b04vkm6m (Listen) WED Celebration Foods: Truffles, Sparkling Wine and Champagne WED WED Ahead of the biggest party night of the year we meet WED producers of celebration food and drink from the British WED countryside. Sarah Swadling goes truffle hunting at a secret WED location in Wiltshire. She visits a WED smokery in Gloucestershire which continues the tradition of WED curing wild salmon from the River Severn. Charlotte Smith, WED meanwhile, is at one of the biggest makers of English WED Sparkling Wine, in Kent. Produced and presented by Sarah WED Swadling. WED WED 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0mj0 (Listen) WED Greater Hill Mynah 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 mimic specialist Greater WED Hill Mynah from Asia. Like many members of the starling WED family, Greater Hill Mynah's are superb mimics with a WED remarkable ability to reproduce the tones of the human WED voice. This makes them popular as cage and now some wild WED populations have been severely reduced by collecting. Hill WED mynahs are not just vocally outstanding. They're dapper WED looking birds too; glossy purplish-black with a white WED wing-patch and wattles of bright yellow skin under their WED eyes and around the back of their necks. The wild birds WED don't impersonate people though; it's only those captive WED birds which are amongst some of the best mimics of the human WED voice. WED WED Greater Hill Mynah (Gracula religiosa intermedia) WED WED Webpage image courtesy of Rod Williams / naturepl.com. WED NPL Ref 01178072 WED © Rod Williams / naturepl.com WED WED 06:00 Today b04vkm6p (Listen) WED Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, WED Weather and Thought for the Day. WED WED 09:00 Midweek b04vkm6r (Listen) WED Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber; Gurinder Chadha; Milton WED Jones; Dr Kevin Isaac WED WED Libby Purves meets cellists Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber; WED comedian Milton Jones; writer and director Gurinder Chadha WED and diplomat and poet, Dr Kevin Isaac. WED WED Gurinder Chadha OBE is a Kenyan-born writer and WED director who is best known for her film, Bend it Like WED Beckham. The comedy tells the story of a young Asian woman's WED ambition to play football while accommodating the demands of WED family and tradition. Alongside composer Howard Goodall, WED Gurinder has transformed the screenplay into a new West End WED musical. Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical is at the Phoenix WED Theatre in London from May 2015. WED WED Julian Lloyd Webber is an award-winning composer and WED cellist. His career began at 16 with a scholarship to the WED Royal College of Music. Later he studied in Geneva under WED renowned cellist, Pierre Fournier. His wife, Jiaxin Lloyd WED Webber, is a graduate of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music WED and former principal cello of the Auckland Chamber WED Orchestra. Following the announcement of Andrew's WED retirement, the couple have created a new show reflecting on WED his life and career and featuring music from them both. WED Julian and Jiaxin Lloyd Webber are on tour in 2015. WED WED Dr Kevin Isaac is the High Commissioner for St Kitts and WED Nevis to the Court of St James. A published poet, he has WED written several volumes of verse - a talent he discovered WED thanks to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office after he won WED an FCO-sponsored poetry competition. His latest collection, WED Breakfast with my Fathers, was inspired by his father and WED father-in-law. Breakfast with my Fathers is self-published. WED WED Milton Jones is a comedian known for his surreal one-liners WED and deadpan delivery. He stars in the award-winning Radio 4 WED programme, Another Case of Milton Jones, and regularly WED appears on panel shows such as Mock the Week. He is touring WED his new stand-up show, The Temple of Daft, next year. WED WED Producer: Paula McGinley. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Libby Purves WED Interviewed Guest: Jiaxin Lloyd Webber WED Interviewed Guest: Julian Lloyd Webber WED Interviewed Guest: Milton Jones WED Interviewed Guest: Gurinder Chadha WED Interviewed Guest: Kevin Isaac WED Producer: Paula McGinley WED WED 09:45 Book of the Week b04vkc30 (Listen) WED Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 3 WED WED Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert's WED masterpiece Winterreise, or Winter's Journey. Drawing upon WED his experience as a performer (he has performed Winterreise WED more than a hundred times), on WED his musical knowledge and on his training as a scholar, WED Bostridge unpicks the enigmas and subtle meanings behind the WED songs to explore the world Schubert inhabited. WED WED In this episode, he focuses on three songs: "Einsamkiet" WED (Loneliness), "Die Post" (The Post) and "Der greise Kopf" WED (The Old Man's Head). WED WED Written and read by Ian Bostridge WED WED Abridged by Laurence Wareing WED WED Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. WED WED Credits WED Reader: Ian Bostridge WED Author: Ian Bostridge WED Abridger: Laurence Wareing WED Producer: Kirsteen Cameron WED WED 10:00 Woman's Hour b04vkm6t (Listen) WED British Queens; Millennium Development Goals; General WED Election; Funding Women's Sport WED WED In September the Queen will become Britain's longest serving WED monarch. Royal Biographer Christopher Warwick and Tudor WED expert Sarah Gristwood discuss British Queens. In 2000, the WED UN adopted eight Millenium WED Development Goals to be achieved by 2015. How successful WED have they been? Penny Lawrence [the Deputy Chief Executive WED of Oxfam] and Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka [UN Women] discuss WED their impact on women. Newsnight's Political Editor Allegra WED Stratton takes a look at how women will influence the WED outcome of the 2015 General Election. Following an WED impressive new financial deal for women's tennis and the WED growing popularity of women's football, has women's sport WED finally come of age? Helen Grant, the Minister for Sport, WED and Ruth Holdaway, the Chief Executive of Women in Sport, WED discuss. WED WED Credits WED Presenter: Jenni Murray WED Interviewed Guest: Christopher Warwick WED Interviewed Guest: Sarah Gristwood WED Interviewed Guest: Phumzile Mlamgo-Ngcuka WED Interviewed Guest: Penny Lawrence WED Interviewed Guest: Allegra Stratton WED Interviewed Guest: Helen Grant WED Interviewed Guest: Ruth Holdaway WED WED 10:40 15 Minute Drama b04w0jxk (Listen) WED Eating for England, Episode 3 WED WED In the bleak Christmas following his mother's death, the WED young Nigel Slater sought refuge in food. Sugar mice, pink WED wafers and mince pies helped him survive. So too did his WED Aunt Elvie who, against the wishes of WED his father, encouraged Nigel to cook. WED WED Eating for England, the successor to his highly acclaimed WED memoir Toast, is part food memoir, part collective memory WED bank of a nation's taste. Using the book as source material WED along with further conversations with Nigel, dramatist Sarah WED Daniels has written a playful reimagining. A grown up Nigel WED - played by Julian Rhind Tutt, looks back on his childhood WED while caring for a now elderly, yet ever sparkling, Aunt WED Elvie, played by Celia Imrie. WED WED Rich with sounds of the kitchen and recorded on location, WED with a cameo performance from Nigel himself. WED WED What drives a cook to write about food? Why is there such a WED powerful link between memory and what we eat? And why is WED reading about food so irresistibly appetising? WED WED Episode 3: WED Chocolates, least favourite sweets and funerals occupy WED Nigel's time. WED WED Dramatised by Sarah Daniels WED Sound design by Eloise Whitmore WED WED Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas WED A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED Credits WED Aunt Elvie: Celia Imrie WED Nigel Slater: Julian Rhind-Tutt WED Tony: Adrian Scarborough WED Joan: Fenella Woolgar WED Young Nigel: Isaac Whitmore WED Author: Nigel Slater WED Adaptor: Sarah Daniels WED Director: Polly Thomas WED Producer: Polly Thomas WED WED 10:55 The Listening Project b04vkm6w (Listen) WED Sanchez and Han - Wife or Baby Mother WED WED Fi Glover introduces a father, now happily married to the WED mother of the two youngest of his seven children, and his WED eldest son; should he wait until he's married to have WED children. WED WED The Listening Project is a WED Radio 4 initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary WED Britain in which people across the UK volunteer to have a WED conversation with someone close to them about a subject WED they've never discussed intimately before. The conversations WED are being gathered across the UK by teams of producers from WED local and national radio stations who facilitate each WED encounter. Every conversation - they're not BBC interviews, WED and that's an important difference - lasts up to an hour, WED and is then edited to extract the key moment of connection WED between the participants. Most of the unedited conversations WED are being archived by the British Library and used to build WED up a collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the WED UK in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn WED more about The Listening Project by visiting WED bbc.co.uk/listeningproject WED WED Producer: Marya Burgess. WED WED 11:00 Faultline Scotland b04vkm6y (Listen) WED The Independence Referendum was intended to settle the issue WED of Scotland's future for a generation. But has it WED highlighted - or even created - a crack down the centre of WED Scottish society? On one side, you have WED passionate yes voters; younger, mobilised, comfortable in WED social media, disengaged from UK politics, less "British" WED than before. On the other, you have older, perhaps wealthier WED people, who tend to remember Thatcher and the Cold War, and WED who may be more closely engaged with mainstream media. WED Aasmah Mir will walk this faultline in Scottish society. WED She'll speak to #the45 who are keeping Scottish Independence WED alive in social media, and those no voters who, heart-sore WED at the division caused by the referendum, are determined WED that the question is never ever put again. WED WED 11:30 The Rivals b04vkmhh (Listen) WED Series 3, The Knight's Cross Signal Problem WED WED Based on a short story by Ernest Bramah. WED Dramatised by Chris Harrald. WED WED Inspector Lestrade was made to look a fool in the Sherlock WED Holmes stories. Now he is writing his memoirs and has a WED chance to get his own back, WED with tales of Holmes' rivals. He continues with blind WED detective Max Carrados as they try to discover who caused a WED horrific train crash at Knights Cross where the driver of WED the train swears the light was green and the signalman WED swears the light was red. WED WED Directed by Liz Webb WED WED Episode by Chris Harrald inspired by the short story 'The WED Knight's Cross Signal Problem' by Ernest Bramah: WED http://fullreads.com/literature/the-knights-cross-signal-pro WED lem/. WED WED Credits WED Lestrade: James Fleet WED Max Carrados: Pip Torrens WED Parkinson: David Acton WED Lucy: Roslyn Hill WED Carrick: Ian Conningham WED Hoskins: Ben Crowe WED Hutchins: Michael Bertenshaw WED Miss Chubb: Jane Slavin WED Mead: Sean Mason WED Drishna: Saikat Ahamed WED Director: Liz Webb WED Adaptor: Chris Harrald WED Author: Ernest Bramah WED WED 12:00 News Summary b04vjvty (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 12:04 Home Front b04vkmwn (Listen) WED New Year's Eve 1914 - Albert and Florrie Wilson WED WED Can the Wilsons draw a line under the terrible events of WED 1914, by celebrating New Year in the time-honoured fashion? WED WED Written by Katie Hims WED Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. WED WED Credits WED Albert: Harry Myers WED Florrie: Claire Rushbrook WED Brandy Seller: Alun Raglan WED Adam: Leo Montague WED Kitty: Ami Metcalf WED Writer: Katie Hims WED Director: Jessica Dromgoole WED WED 12:15 You and Yours b04vr5hr (Listen) WED Consumer news. WED WED 12:57 Weather b04vjvv0 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 13:00 World at One b04vr5ht (Listen) WED Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark WED Mardell. WED WED 13:45 Out of Armenia b04w0jxm (Listen) WED Venice WED WED Guided by an earnest novice monk from the bells of Santa WED Croce to the Armenian monastery-island of San Lazzaro, WED Charles Emmerson continues to Venice on his journey through WED the Armenian diaspora of Europe. WED Armenian traders have been in Venice for centuries. Tall WED tales of Armenians fighting with Venetians at Troy still WED circulate. But when the island of San Lazzaro, a former WED leper colony, was turned into an Armenian monastery in the WED early 18th century, it became a new magnet for Armenians in WED the city. WED WED Over the years, San Lazzaro developed into a sacred citadel WED of Armenian culture. The monks collected together WED manuscripts and books of the Armenian world even as they WED turned to dust elsewhere. We hear the Armenian religious WED singing which the monks kept alive, and share the wonder of WED the Venetian Armenians who first heard it when they were WED young. WED WED San Lazzaro's reputation spread - it's claimed Byron visited WED the island to learn the Armenian language by swimming all WED the way from the Venice shore. Charles learns of the very WED spot on the island where Byron came to meditate after trying WED to master the twists and turns of the semi-mystical Armenian WED alphabet. WED WED Speaking with the monks today, Charles discovers the links WED which tie the monastery to the outside world, even as it WED becomes harder and harder to make up a football team for the WED island's meagre football pitch. WED WED The gardener reveals the monastery's culinary secrets - WED rose-petal jam, and copious supplies of dairy products from WED the Lido. And as the mist draws in, and vespers end, the WED abbot takes out the monastery speedboat to return his WED visitors to the city. The island falls back into the WED protective silence of the night. WED WED Produced by Cicely Fell WED An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 14:00 The Archers b04vkl9l (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04vr5hw (Listen) WED The Meet-Cute WED WED Starring Mackenzie Crook and Rosie Cavaliero. WED WED When his agent threatens to leave him, an emerging horror WED writer makes one last bid for success. WED WED He teams up with the girl-next-door to write in a genre WED entirely WED unfamiliar to him - the romantic comedy. For her, rom-coms WED are a guilty pleasure: she literally keeps them in her WED closet. WED WED Can they together find the perfect receipt for successful WED film-writing, or will they find themselves trapped in the WED middle of a romantic-comedy cliché? WED WED Written by Ben Lewis WED Sound by Elena Pena WED Produced by Lu Kemp. WED WED BBC Scotland. WED WED Credits WED Man: Mackenzie Crook WED Woman: Rosie Cavaliero WED Actor: Anna Crilly WED Writer: Ben Lewis WED Producer: Lu Kemp WED WED 15:00 Afghan Women: Speaking Out, Losing Lives b04tj384 (Listen) WED Afghan Women: Speaking Out, Losing Lives paints a vivid WED portrait of the everyday lives of girls and women at a WED turning point in Afghan history. WED WED Lyse Doucet visits Kabul to see how the lives of Afghan WED girls and WED women have changed since the fall of the Taliban 13 years WED ago, and to hear concerns that these hard-won gains are WED already being threatened as the troops depart. WED WED From female illiteracy to maternal mortality and sexual WED violence, Afghanistan is still one of the worst places on WED earth for women's rights. WED WED Considerable advances have been made since the fall of the WED Taliban, as Lyse hears. WED WED She speaks with Rula Ghani, whose very public profile as the WED new First Lady - the first First Lady in a generation - WED gives a sense of how women's opportunities are improving, at WED least in cities such as Kabul. WED WED She visits the Rabia Balkhi Women's Hospital and the WED Zarghuna High School for Girls - the largest girls' school WED in the country. As doctors, midwives, new mothers, teachers, WED schoolgirls and one of the country's very few female rappers WED share their personal stories, she hears optimism about life WED in cities. WED WED But these women also share their grave concerns. WED WED Lyse hears shocking accounts of domestic violence and rape; WED the rapper, Paradise, shares the heart-breaking true story WED behind one of her songs; and Lyse chances upon an all too WED common instance of still-birth. WED WED Additionally, the testimonies of three women who had shared WED their stories for a play specially commissioned by Amnesty WED International, and whom Lyse had hoped to meet, are read by WED the actor Olivia Colman, giving voice to the women who fear WED even today to speak out. WED WED A timely portrait of Afghanistan from Lyse Doucet, the BBC's WED Chief International Correspondent WED WED Producer : Beaty Rubens. WED WED 15:30 All in the Mind b04vklfv (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 21:00 on Tuesday] WED WED 16:00 Thinking Allowed b04vr5j0 (Listen) WED Self-help and Self-improvement WED WED Self-help & self-improvement. As thoughts turn to WED resolutions and making a fresh start in 2015, Laurie Taylor WED wonders if his scepticism about self-help books and WED self-improvement programmes is well founded. He WED goes for advice to Christine Whelan - Professor in the WED School of Human Ecology at the University of Wisconsin and a WED self-help author. Further enlightenment is provided by Meg WED John Barker - Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the Open WED University - who has studied self-help literature dealing WED with sex and relationships and has also written what she WED describes as 'an anti self-help book'. And Rebecca Coleman - WED Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of WED London - explains how TV makeover shows and online dieting WED sites create powerfully gendered and class-based messages WED about changing our bodies. WED WED Producer: Torquil MacLeod. WED WED Christine Whelan WED WED Clinical professor in the Department of Consumer Science and WED director of the Relationships, Finance and Life Fulfillment WED Initiative in the School of Human Ecology, University of WED Wisconsin-Madison WED WED Find out more from WED Christine Whelan WED Self-Help Books and the Quest for Self-Control in the United WED States 1950-2000 WED Publisher: Simon & Schuster (2000) WED ISBN-10: 1451643411 WED ISBN-13: 978-1451643411 WED Generation WTF: From What the #$%&! to a Wise, Tenancious, WED and Fearless You WED Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press (2011) WED ISBN-10: 159947347X WED ISBN-13: 978-1599473475 WED WED Meg John Barker WED WED Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences, WED The Open University WED WED Find out more from Dr WED Meg John Barker WED Rewriting the Rules: An Integrative Guide to Love, Sex and WED Relationships WED Publisher: Routledge (2012) WED ISBN-10: 041551763X WED ISBN-13: 978-0415517638 WED WED Rebecca Coleman WED WED Senior Lecturer in Sociology at Goldsmiths, University of WED London WED WED Find out more from WED Rebecca Coleman WED The Becoming of Bodies: Girls, Images, Experience WED Publisher: Manchester University Press; Reprint edition WED (2012) WED ISBN-10: 0719089182 WED ISBN-13: 978-0719089183 WED Transforming Images: Screens, affect, futures WED Publisher: Routledge; Reprint edition WED ISBN-10: 1138820601 WED ISBN-13: 978-1138820609 WED WED Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography (new closing date for WED entries 31 January 2015) WED The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography WED Thinking Allowed in association with the British WED Sociological Association announces the annual award for a WED study that has made a significant contribution to WED ethnography: the in-depth analysis of the everyday life of a WED culture or sub-culture. WED WED Are you involved in social science research and completing WED or will have completed ethnography this year? The Award is WED open to any UK resident currently employed as a teacher or WED researcher or studying as a postgraduate in a UK institution WED of higher education. WED WED An entry should be a WED completed ethnography WED a qualitative research project which provides a detailed WED description of the practices of a group or culture. Any sole WED authored book or peer reviewed research article published WED during the calendar year of the award will be eligible. WED WED The judges for the Award are yet to be announced. WED WED The judges will be looking for work which displays WED flair WED originality WED and WED clarity WED alongside sound methodology. The work should make a WED significant contribution to knowledge and understanding in WED the relevant area of research. WED WED The panel of judges will select six finalists, and from that WED shortlist the judges will select an overall winner who will WED be awarded a prize of £1000. WED WED The winner of the Award will be announced at the WED BSA Annual Conference WED in April 2015. WED WED Read on for essential information and details on how to WED enter. WED HOW TO ENTER WED : WED WED You may submit one entry only, which must be sole authored. WED WED All entries must include the summary and contact details and WED a hard copy or electronic copy (attachments must be under WED the filesize of 10MB) of the ethnography. WED WED Email a summary of your work to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED (no more than 250 words) along with your name and phone WED number. WED Please include the name of your paper in the 'Subject' WED category of your email. WED If you are submitting a paper WED it can be attached to your email, provided it is no more WED than 10MB. If you receive no automatic email confirmation WED your paper is too large and you will need to send it by WED post. WED If you are submitting a book WED (which must be published during this year) it should be WED posted to: WED Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award WED Room 6045 WED Broadcasting House WED London WED W1A 1AA WED Entries must be submitted by the closing date of 31st WED January 2015 WED TERMS & CONDITIONS WED : WED The Thinking Allowed Award for Ethnography Terms and WED Conditions WED WED WED 1. To be eligible to enter you must meet the following WED criteria: WED WED 2. Proof of age, identity and eligibility may be requested. WED The BBC’s decision as to the eligibility of individual WED entrants will be final and no correspondence will be entered WED into. WED WED 3. Entrants must submit by way of email to WED ethnoaward@bbc.co.uk WED a summary outlining the nature of an ethnography undertaken WED and published by the entrant. Please include the name of WED your paper in the 'Subject' category of your email. The WED summary should not be longer than 250 words. The ethnography WED must consist of a qualitative research project which WED provides a detailed, in-depth description of the everyday WED life and practice of a group, people or culture and been WED included in a peer-reviewed paper or in a book published in WED 2014. All entries and research must be in English. WED WED 4. The email entry must include the following information WED and contact detail for the entrant: full name, postal WED address, institution of higher education, email address and WED contact telephone number. WED WED 5. If you are submitting a book (which must be published WED during this year) it should be posted to: Thinking Allowed WED Ethnography Award, room 6045 Broadcasting House, London W1A WED 1AA. If it is a paper, it can be attached to your email, WED provided it is no more than 10MB. 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However, some have WED lamented the demise of the 'traditional' talk show, where WED hosts do one-on-one in-depth interviews with celebrities. WED Instead, networks favour comedy entertainment shows, like WED Alan Carr and Graham Norton. So, why the change in style, WED and what are the ingredients for chat show success? Graham WED Norton joins Steve Hewlett to discuss chat show gold and WED explains how age, experience, and celebrity demands have WED influenced his style. Also in the studio; Elaine Bedell, WED Director of Entertainment and Comedy at ITV; Jonathan WED Shalit, Chair of talent management agency Roar Global, and WED the Guardian TV critic Julia Raeside. Together, they discuss WED how the changing nature of celebrity has had an impact on WED talk show styles, and ask where next for the genre. WED WED Producer: Dianne McGregor. WED WED 17:00 PM b04vr5j4 (Listen) WED PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. WED WED 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vjvv3 (Listen) WED The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. WED WED 18:15 Christmas With... b04vr5j6 (Listen) WED Damien Trench - New Year's Eve WED WED No-one likes New Year's Eve but don't worry, celebrated WED cookery writer and self-professed New Year's Eve WED celebrations specialist Damien Trench is on hand to impart WED his words of wisdom on how to make the perfect WED punch, what food to serve and most importantly, the best way WED of getting everyone to go home at the end of the night. WED WED Credits WED Damien Trench: Miles Jupp WED WED 18:30 What Does the K Stand For? b04vr5j8 (Listen) WED Series 2, Turning Cheeks WED WED The first in a new series of Stephen K Amos' sitcom about WED his own teenage years, growing up black, gay and funny in WED 1980s South London. WED WED Written by Jonathan Harvey with Stephen K Amos. WED Produced by Colin Anderson. WED WED Credits WED Stephen K Amos: Stephen K Amos WED Young Stephen: Shaquille Ali-Yebuah WED Stephanie Amos: Fatou Sohna WED Virginia Amos: Ellen Thomas WED Vincent Amos: Don Gilet WED Miss Bliss: Michelle Butterly WED Jayson Jackson: Frankie Wilson WED Producer: Colin Anderson WED Writer: Jonathan Harvey WED Writer: Stephen K Amos WED WED 19:00 The Archers b04vr5jb (Listen) WED Contemporary drama in a rural setting. WED WED 19:15 Front Row b04vr5jd (Listen) WED Arts news, interviews and reviews. WED WED 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04w0jxk (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 10:40 today] WED WED 20:00 Four Thought b04wh7xt (Listen) WED Best of Four Thought WED WED Kamin Mohammadi presents three of the best recent episodes WED of Four Thought, each addressing a state of mind. WED WED The talks include Amia Srinivasan on the potential benefits WED of anger, Mark O'Connell discussing his own constitutional WED ambivalence and Farrah Jarral on cheekiness. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 20:45 Four Thought b04wh7xy (Listen) WED Series 4, Keeping It Personal WED WED Darren Harris, a double paralympic athlete and mathematics WED graduate, draws similarities between people and prime WED numbers: each is indivisible and unique. In the age of big WED data, he makes the case for a more WED person-centred approach in public services. And he finds it WED in an unexpected place, somewhere more usually associated WED with a 'win at all costs' mentality: elite sport. WED WED Producer: Giles Edwards. WED WED 21:00 Music to Save Grimethorpe b04vjh7w (Listen) WED Ian McMillan, Yorkshire poet and broadcaster, was born and WED brought up near Grimethorpe, home of one of the most famous WED brass bands in the world - Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band. WED He knows and loves their music, WED and understands their importance to the local community. In WED this programme, he celebrates brass band music, revels in WED its power and precision and explores it's meaning in a world WED where coal-mining has all but disappeared. WED Throughout the twentieth century, the local brass band was a WED badge of pride for British industry that sat at the very WED centre of the community. Grimethorpe Colliery Brass Band was WED founded in 1917 and paid for by the pit to offer miners a WED hobby. After the mine shut, its fight to survive inspired WED the 1995 film Brassed Off, starring Ewan McGregor and Tara WED Fitzgerald. WED WED Through thick and thin, Grimethorpe Colliery Band have WED toughed it out and remained one of the world's best known WED brass bands. The band manager Nigel Dixon and trustees have WED committed to staying involved as long as they can and have WED turned attention to trying everything they can to save WED Grimethorpe. WED WED To hear them strike up, there is no other sound like it and WED this programme is filled with their wonderful, rich, WED colourful, emotional sounds. WED WED Ian McMillan meets members of the band, sits in on WED rehearsals, and finds out how they fight to survive WED financial catastrophe. He talks to the community as the band WED push on with their work of funding music education in the WED local school so that children can learn instruments for free WED and, for one or two, offer the potential to change their WED lives too, in the same way most of the current Grimethorpe WED band first started out. WED WED Produced by Bob Dickinson WED A Sparklab production for BBC Radio 4. WED WED 21:30 Midweek b04vkm6r (Listen) WED [Repeat of broadcast at 09:00 today] WED WED 21:58 Weather b04vjvv5 (Listen) WED The latest weather forecast. WED WED 22:00 The World Tonight b04vr5jj (Listen) WED Is inequality on the rise? David Eades presents a special WED edition of The World Tonight. Has a new class of global WED super-rich emerged and is the traditional middle class WED disappearing? We hear from Switzerland, China and the UK. WED WED 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vr5jl (Listen) WED The Girls of Slender Means, It's Just a Girls' Hostel WED WED 'Few people alive at the time were more delightful, more WED ingenuous, more movingly lovely, and as it might happen, WED more savage than the girls of slender means.' WED WED Emilia Fox reads Muriel Spark's rapier-witted WED portrait of the lives and loves of a group of genteel but WED impoverished young women in postwar London. In the so-called WED May of Teck Club, a boarding house for single ladies, life WED carries on as if the world were back to normal: elocution WED lessons, poetry recitals, jostling over suitors and the WED sharing of a single taffeta gown. But the war has ended and WED things are not normal and never again will be. Into this WED world arrives Nicholas Farringdon, a writer and anachist, WED who is beguiled by these girls of slender means and their WED giddy, carefree lives. This meeting, we soon learn, will end WED in his death. WED WED Today: Writer and would-be anarchist, Nicolas, becomes more WED and more intoxicated by the 'girls of slender means'. WED WED Spark's 1963 novel, The Girls of Slender Means, has become a WED modern classic. AL Kennedy has called it: 'An WED uncompromisingly well-crafted book: lean, ironic, funny, WED penetrating, unsettling and very, very beautiful. Welcome to WED the English language as operated by an expert.' WED Muriel Spark was an award-winning Scottish novelist and WED biographer, known best for her acclaimed novel The Prime of WED Miss Jean Brodie. WED WED Credits WED Actor: Emilia Fox WED Author: Muriel Spark WED Abridger: Sally Marmion WED Producer: Justine Willett WED WED 23:00 Fresh from the Fringe 2014 b04wh7y3 (Listen) WED Long Showcase of new comedy talent from the 2014 Edinburgh WED Fringe, hosted by Jason Cook and featuring Fosters WED award-winners Alex Edelman (newcomer) and Funz and Gamez WED (panel prize), along with Suzi Ruffell, WED Gein's Family Giftshop, Lolly Adefope, Tamar Broadbent, Rhys WED James, Massive Dad, Natasia Demetriou and Dane Baptiste. WED WED Produced by Lyndsay Fenner. WED WED 23:30 Don't Log Off b04jlpn1 (Listen) WED Series 5, Going It Alone WED WED Alan Dein crosses the world via Facebook and Skype, hearing WED the real life dramas of random strangers. WED WED This week he speaks to people who, through choice or WED circumstance, are going it alone. WED WED He hears from a Chinese WED student, now living in Los Angeles, who is coping with WED living alone in a foreign country and has come to terms with WED his stutter without the help of a speech therapist. WED WED A woman from Australia explains how she is overcoming the WED disappointment of being jilted by her Vietnamese fiancé WED while another in Argentina explains why she wants to remain WED alone having lost her savings in pursuit of a relationship. WED WED And finally he hears from a widow in London who is haunted WED by her husband's death. WED WED Producer: Clare Walker. WED WED THU THURSDAY 01 JANUARY 2015 THU THU 00:00 Midnight News b04vkc2y (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU Followed by Weather. THU THU 00:15 Dog Days b0371j3z (Listen) THU Niki THU THU Robert Hanks tells of a human obsession through four doggy THU books. Niki by Tibor Dery. If a dog could vote, would it? THU With Prill Barrett, John Bradshaw and Ian Bruce Miller and THU Jem, the border terrier, and Timmy the whippet. Producer: THU Tim Dee. THU THU 00:30 Book of the Week b04vkc30 (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 09:45 on Wednesday] THU THU 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vjvw6 (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vjvw8 (Listen) THU BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. THU THU 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vjvwb (Listen) THU The latest shipping forecast. THU THU 05:30 News Briefing b04vjvwf (Listen) THU The latest news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04w4xz6 (Listen) THU A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt THU Rev'd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. THU THU 05:45 Farming Today b04vkc3w (Listen) THU Country Estate THU THU Sally Challoner meets some of the staff and tenant farmers THU at Berkeley Castle - one of the UK's oldest country estates. THU Covering 6,000 acres in Gloucestershire, the estate is also THU home to a medieval deer park, THU and takes in part of the River Severn. We catch up with the THU heir to the estate, and find out how old traditions meet THU modern land management practices. THU There are now 18 tenant farms on the estate, along with THU several houses and two pubs. And difficult decisions THU sometimes have to be made to keep the castle running. But THU today the Berkeley family meet with the staff to hand out THU parcels of venison from the estate's deer park, as a thank THU you for the year just gone. THU THU 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0mqf (Listen) THU White Tern 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 widespread marine THU species, the white tern. Also known as fairy terns or angel THU terns, these are very slender, long-winged birds, brilliant THU white except for a black, slightly-upturned bill, dark eyes THU and very short blue-grey legs. In flight, their wings appear THU almost translucent. For such a delicate-looking bird, they THU have rather harsh calls. Unusually they lay their eggs on a THU bare branch. The female tern selects a small groove in the THU bark or on the leaf-stalks of palms where her single egg THU will be most secure. Here, on its tropical tightrope, the THU egg is safer from ground predators like rats and because THU there's no nesting material, there's less chance of THU parasites. THU THU White Tern (Gygis alba) THU THU Webpage image courtesy of Dave Watts / naturepl.com. THU THU NPL Ref THU 01091950 THU © Dave Watts / naturepl.com. THU THU 06:00 Today b04vkc6k (Listen) THU Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, THU Weather and Thought for the Day. THU THU 09:00 War and Peace b04w82wc (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families THU during the Napoleonic War. Starring Lesley Manville, John THU Hurt, Alun Armstrong and Harriet Walter. THU THU There's a lively dinner party at the Rostov family home and THU Anna Mikhailovna Dubretskoy is in battle with Prince Vassily THU over the will and inheritance of the wealthy Count Bezukhov. THU It seems Pierre, his illegitimate son, could be about to THU inherit the Count's vast fortune. Meanwhile, Andrei's THU decision to join the army causes tension between him and his THU pregnant wife, Lise. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 10:00 War and Peace b04w82wf (Listen) THU Episode 2 THU THU Having inherited his father's fortune, Pierre becomes the THU new Count Bezukhov and the richest man in Russia. Prince THU Vassily's charming daughter, Helene, captures Pierre's THU attention and before long they are THU married. But will it be a happy match? THU THU Meanwhile, Princess Marya is being wooed by Helen's wily THU brother, Anatole, while war dominates for others - Prince THU Andrei is building a respectful relationship with General THU Kutuzov and courageously speaks out to Prince Bagration in THU defence of Captain Tushin while Nikolai is wounded at THU Shoengraben. The Battle of Austerlitz is imminent. THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic THU War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and THU Harriet Walter. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 11:00 War and Peace b04w82wh (Listen) THU Episode 3 THU THU Napoleon maps out his strategic plan against the Russians at THU Austerlitz. General Kutuzov and Andrei are both wounded in THU the battle and Andrei's family don't know if he is alive. THU Meanwhile, Pierre challenges THU Dolokhov to a duel over Helene - he suspects them of being THU lovers - and Pierre and Helene argue, but she refuses to THU separate. Denisov and Nikolai return to the Rostov home THU while at Bald Hills, Lise is in childbirth but will she and THU Andrei ever see each again? THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic THU War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and THU Harriet Walter. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 12:00 War and Peace b04w82wl (Listen) THU Episode 4 THU THU Pierre meets a wise stranger, Bazdeev, and becomes a THU Freemason. Natasha catches the eye of Captain Denisov who THU rashly proposes - Countess Rostov sets him straight. Nikolai THU confesses his huge gambling debts to THU his father, Count Rostov, and vows never to gamble again. THU General Denisov vows never to propose again. THU THU Following Lise's death, Pierre visits Bald Hills to try and THU console a broken Andrei and siblings Andrei and Marya draw THU close when Andrei's young son, Nikolenka, is dangerously THU ill. Meanwhile, on the battlefield, Denisov takes drastic THU action to feed his starving troops but the consequences are THU harsh. And following a business visit to Count Rostov, THU Andrei encounters Natasha Rostov and is enchanted - he wants THU to live again. THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic THU War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and THU Harriet Walter. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 13:00 News b04vjvwn (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 13:15 Death of an Orchestra b04v381r (Listen) THU Alan Bennett recalls his regular boyhood visits to hear the THU Yorkshire Symphony Orchestra. With other keen supporters and THU former members, he tells the Orchestra's history from 1947 THU to its demise in 1955. THU THU Amid the THU austerity of the post-war years, the YSO was founded in a THU spirit of great optimism to provide first class orchestral THU music for the citizens of Yorkshire. It was based in Leeds THU Town Hall, and funded entirely out of the Rates. The THU inaugural concert book expressed the hope that it would THU "find a permanent place in the musical life of Yorkshire and THU rank with the finest orchestras of this country". THU The founder conductor was Maurice Miles, who appears in the THU only recording of the YSO to survive in the BBC Archive. THU THU There were guest appearances by Sir Malcolm Sargent, Sir THU Thomas Beecham and Sir Adrian Boult, and visits from THU glittering soloists such as Joan Hammond and Tito Gobbi. THU THU As a Leeds schoolboy, Alan Bennett found these figures from THU the outside world "tinged with great glamour". Violinist THU Rodney Friend, another supporter, was a winner of the YSO's THU competition for young soloists before becoming leader of the THU LPO, the New York Philharmonic and the BBC SO. THU THU Eight former members of the orchestra, now scattered around THU the country, describe life in the YSO: cold rickety buses, THU romance, and the thrill of the great conductor Nikolai Malko THU arriving for the final season. They recall their shock on THU discovering that the Orchestra was to be disbanded and the THU sadness of the final concert. THU THU Produced by Susan Kenyon THU A Whistledown production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 13:45 Out of Armenia b04w0k5n (Listen) THU Istanbul THU THU "I see them, I see them myself, I see them all the time." THU THU Charles Emmerson continues to Istanbul on his journey THU through the Armenian diaspora communities of Europe. He THU learns how the murder of Turkish-Armenian THU newspaper editor Hrant Dink in 2007 - reported and condemned THU worldwide - has changed relations between the city's Turks THU and Armenians. Long suppressed or hidden, Istanbul's THU Armenian life is seeping back to the surface. Subjects long THU taboo are now discussed openly. THU THU Armenians have lived in Istanbul for centuries - jewellers, THU porters, businessmen and architects. They have had a THU patriarch in the city since just a few years after the THU Turkish conquest. THU THU Yet when Hrant Dink was shot dead by a radical Turkish THU nationalist outside his office one Friday afternoon, many THU outside Turkey were surprised to learn that Armenians still THU lived in Istanbul at all. THU THU The moment became a watershed. Turks appeared on the streets THU of Istanbul bearing banners reading 'We are all Armenians'. THU THU Istanbul Armenians tell Charles of their pride in their THU culture and their city, and of their determination to THU continue Hrant Dink's legacy, building a new relationship THU with their Turkish friends and compatriots. Rober Koptas, THU Agos' current editor, takes Charles to the paper's cramped THU first floor offices. The paper's purpose now, he says, is to THU be "a playground, not a castle". THU THU In a bustling Armenian restaurant - the city's only Armenian THU restaurant - Charles runs into Turkish-Armenian photographer THU Ara Güler, Istanbul's Cartier-Bresson, and hears the story THU of his most famous photograph. Speaking to a publisher we THU discover how literature is drawing Turks and Armenians THU closer together. THU THU Produced by Cicely Fell THU An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU 14:00 The Archers b04vr5jb (Listen) THU [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Wednesday] THU THU 14:15 War and Peace b04w89tp (Listen) THU Episode 5 THU THU There is much excitement as the Rostov family is invited to THU the Emperor's New Year's Eve Ball where Andrei meets Natasha THU Rostov for the first time. The two of them fall deeply in THU love, but are the rumours of THU his proposal to her true? And how will Andrei's domineering THU father, Prince Bolkonsky, react to the news? THU THU Pierre, still a freemason, is growing increasingly distant THU from Helene. Meanwhile the Rostov family is in an THU increasingly dire financial position and Countess Rostov is THU desperate for Nikolai to marry Julia Karagin whose wealth THU could save them. But Nikolai and his penniless cousin Sonya THU love each other and are determined to marry. THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic THU War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and THU Harriet Walter. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 15:00 War and Peace b04w89ty (Listen) THU Episode 6 THU THU Natasha struggles to cope with Andrei's absence and is sent THU to stay with her Godmother in Moscow, so that she can meet THU with Prince Bolkonsky and Marya in a attempt to win them THU over. It all goes wrong when she THU is tempted to stray by the two timing Anatole Kuragin who THU immediately fills Natasha's head with promises of his love. THU Could Natasha be about to throw away everything she already THU has with her beloved fiancee, Andrei, for the hand of this THU wicked Prince? THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic THU War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and THU Harriet Walter. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Actor: Stephen Campbell-Moore THU Actor: Paterson Joseph THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 16:00 War and Peace b04w89v2 (Listen) THU Episode 7 THU THU Andrei grows ever more bitter about Natasha's behaviour with THU Anatole Karagin and, after a heated argument with his THU father, feels he has little choice but to leave Bald Hills THU in order to rejoin the army and THU forget the past. Petya, the youngest child of the Rostovs THU also wants to join the army much to the horror and worry of THU the Countess. THU THU Meanwhile, Pierre is convinced that he is on a mission to THU single-handedly save Russia from Napoleon, while his own THU feelings towards Natasha could be something more than just THU those of a concerned 'guardian'. As the war continues to THU spread across Russia, Prince Bolkonsky and Marya are warned THU by Andrei that troops could be drawing closer to their home THU near Smolensk. The news is too much for the old Prince. THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic THU War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and THU Harriet Walter. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 17:00 War and Peace b04w89v4 (Listen) THU Episode 8 THU THU Marya flees Bald Hills when it is subject to attack from the THU French army. After being rescued by Nikolai from a near THU peasants revolt, they both realise their mutual love for one THU another, despite Nikolai already THU being promised to Sonya. THU THU Pierre decides to visit the Battlefields at Borodino where THU he encounters Andrei who is now living in a broken down shed THU and desperately trying to forget his previous life. General THU Kutuzov is leading the cavalry. Despite Pierre warning THU Andrei of the rumours that Kutuzov is a traitor to the THU Russians and questioning whether Kutuzov is a skilled THU commander, Andrei believes that, with Kutuzov by their side, THU they will win the battle. Although, unknown to Andrei, THU Kutuzov may have to sacrifice Moscow in the process. THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic THU War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and THU Harriet Walter. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vjvwt (Listen) THU The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. THU THU 18:15 Christmas With... b04vkglq (Listen) THU Damien Trench - New Year's Day THU THU Renowned cookery Damien Trench is a man who's had more than THU his fair share of raucous New Year's Eve parties and THU therefore has more than a little wisdom to impart on how THU best to set about the clean up operation that must THU inevitably follow any evening of high-tempo ritournelles and THU roundalays. THU THU Credits THU Damien Trench: Miles Jupp THU THU 18:30 My Teenage Diary b04vkgls (Listen) THU Series 6, Alex Horne THU THU Comedian Alex Horne's teenage diary focuses on his 1997 gap THU year, which he spent teaching English in China. But looking THU back, Alex wishes he'd spent more time teaching grammar, and THU less time worrying about THU girls and sampling the local nightlife. THU THU Produced by Harriet Jaine THU A Talkback production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Rufus Hound THU Interviewed Guest: Lucy Worsley THU THU 19:00 The Archers b04xgj8k (Listen) THU Contemporary drama in a rural setting. THU THU 19:15 War and Peace b04w89v9 (Listen) THU Episode 9 THU THU As the Rostovs pack up ready to leave Moscow, Natasha THU invites all the wounded soldiers to stay in their house. THU Nikolai is still in love with Marya but feels he cannot go THU back on his promise to Sonya. That THU night, a wounded officer is wheeled into the courtyard - THU Prince Andrei - who Sonya is told won't live long. She and THU the Countess decide not to reveal the news to Natasha. THU THU Meanwhile, Pierre returns to the Queen-less hive that is THU Moscow where he receives a letter from Countess Bezukhov THU requesting a divorce. The French Army arrive to find Moscow THU deserted and completely out of control while Pierre wanders THU through the now-empty city, in disguise, as he initiates his THU solo mission to assassinate Napoleon. But fate could be THU about to interrupt his grand plan. THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic THU War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and THU Harriet Walter. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Actor: Paterson Joseph THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 20:15 War and Peace b04w89vd (Listen) THU Episode 10 THU THU In this concluding episode, Pierre recalls his time in the THU barracks - a surprisingly happy time where he meets a THU prisoner, Platon Karateev. Kutuzov reluctantly leads the THU Battle of Tarutino, a Russian victory by THU a series of accidents. THU THU Meanwhile, Sonya is left little choice but to return her THU promise to Nikolai so that he can marry his true love, THU Marya. Countess Rostov receives shocking news and Natasha is THU still suffering from the death of her beloved Prince Andrei. THU Kutuzov is called upon once again by the Emperor, this time THU to 'save Europe'. What will be the General's ultimate THU decision for Russia? THU THU A dynamic new all-day dramatisation by Timberlake THU Wertenbaker of Leo Tolstoy's epic - from the translation by THU Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokonsky - follows the fortunes THU of three Russian aristocratic families during the Napoleonic THU War. Starring Lesley Manville, John Hurt, Alun Armstrong and THU Harriet Walter. THU THU The story moves between their past and present as Pierre, THU Natasha, Marya and Nikolai talk to their children about the THU events that shaped their lives and the lives of every THU Russian who lived through these troubled times. THU THU War and Peace reflects the panorama of life at every level THU of Russian society in this period. The longest of 19th THU Century novels, it's an epic story in which historical, THU social, ethical and religious issues are explored on a scale THU never before attempted in fiction. From this, Timberlake THU Wertenbaker has created a riveting radio dramatisation in THU ten episodes. THU THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU Executive Producer: Peter Hoare THU THU A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Lesley Manville THU Actor: John Hurt THU Actor: Alun Armstrong THU Actor: Harriet Walter THU Actor: Paterson Joseph THU Actor: Roger Allam THU Actor: Tom Goodman-Hill THU Author: Leo Tolstoy THU Abridger: Timberlake Wertenbaker THU Director: Celia de Wolff THU THU 21:30 In Our Time b048nlfb (Listen) THU The Sun THU THU Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Sun. The object that THU gives the Earth its light and heat is a massive ball of gas THU and plasma 93 million miles away. Thanks to the nuclear THU fusion reactions taking place at THU its core, the Sun has been shining for four and a half THU billion years. Its structure, and the processes that keep it THU burning, have fascinated astronomers for centuries. After THU the invention of the telescope it became apparent that the THU Sun is not a placid, steadily shining body but is subject to THU periodic changes in its appearance and eruptions of dramatic THU violence, some of which can affect us here on Earth. Recent THU space missions have revealed fascinating new insights into THU our nearest star. THU THU With: THU THU Carolin Crawford THU Gresham Professor of Astronomy and Fellow of Emmanuel THU College, Cambridge THU THU Yvonne Elsworth THU Poynting Professor of Physics at the University of THU Birmingham THU THU Louise Harra THU Professor of Solar Physics at UCL Mullard Space Science THU Laboratory THU THU Producer: Thomas Morris. THU THU LINKS AND FURTHER READING THU Carolin Crawford at the University of Cambridge THU THU THU Yvonne Elsworth at the University of Birmingham THU THU THU Louise Harra at Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL THU THU THU Solar System Exploration: Sun - NASA THU THU THU High-Resolution Optical Spectroscopy - University of THU Birmingham THU THU THU Hinode Science Center - NAOJ THU THU THU STEREO THU THU THU Sun In Time THU THU THU SolarMonitor THU THU THU SpaceWeather THU THU THU Solar Orbiter - ESA THU THU THU Sun - Wikipedia THU THU THU THU THU READING LIST: THU THU THU THU William Chaplin, THU Music of the Sun: The Story of Helioseismology THU (Oneworld Publications, 2006) THU THU THU THU Stuart Clark, THU The Sun Kings: The Unexpected Tragedy of Richard Carrington THU and the Tale of How Modern Astronomy Began THU (Princeton University Press, 2009) THU THU THU THU Leon Golub & Jay M. Pasachoff, THU Nearest Star: The Surprising Science of Our Sun THU (Cambridge University Press, 2014) THU THU THU THU Kenneth Phillips, THU Guide to the Sun THU (Cambridge University Press, 1995) THU THU THU THU Hinode fan THU Arcs of plasma rising from a sunspot on the Sun’s surface, THU as photographed by the Hinode space probe. THU THU Credits THU Presenter: Melvyn Bragg THU Interviewed Guest: Carolin Crawford THU Interviewed Guest: Yvonne Elsworth THU Interviewed Guest: Louise Harra THU Producer: Thomas Morris THU THU 22:00 The World Tonight b04vkhcw (Listen) THU In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. THU THU 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vkhcy (Listen) THU The Girls of Slender Means, Let Them Enjoy Themselves while THU They're Young THU THU 'Few people alive at the time were more delightful, more THU ingenuous, more movingly lovely, and as it might happen, THU more savage than the girls of slender means.' THU THU Emilia Fox reads Muriel Spark's rapier-witted THU portrait of the lives and loves of a group of genteel but THU down-at-heel young women in postwar London. In the so-called THU May of Teck Club, a boarding house for single ladies, life THU carries on as if the world were back to normal: elocution THU lessons, poetry recitals, jostling over suitors and the THU sharing of a single taffeta gown. But the war has ended and THU things are not normal and never again will be. Into this THU world arrives Nicholas Farringdon, a writer and anachist, THU who is beguiled by these girls of slender means and their THU giddy, carefree lives. This meeting, we soon learn, will end THU in his death. THU Today: Greggie's stories of unexploded bombs in the Club's THU garden prove to hold some truth. THU THU Spark's 1963 novel, The Girls of Slender Means, has become a THU modern classic. Muriel Spark was an award-winning Scottish THU novelist and biographer, known best for her acclaimed novel THU The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. THU THU Credits THU Actor: Emilia Fox THU Author: Muriel Spark THU Abridger: Sally Marmion THU Producer: Justine Willett THU THU 23:00 Tim FitzHigham: The Gambler b01qldm8 (Listen) THU Pilot episode THU THU Award winning comedian-author-adventurer, Tim FitzHigham and THU his nemesis Alex Horne recreate a bizarre bet which was THU originally wagered by the 4th Duke of Queensbury in 1753. THU THU The bet: that Tim can pass a missive THU over a distance of fifty miles in one hour, using only the THU means that would have been available to a gentleman in 1753. THU THU Written by Tim FitzHigham and Jon Hunter, with additional THU material from Paul Byrne. THU THU Produced by Colin Anderson. THU THU 23:30 Hot Gossip! b04pvb7m (Listen) THU Episode 1 THU THU If language elevates us above other animals, why does human THU society seem to spend so much time gossiping? Perhaps it's THU because without gossip there would be no society and THU language would be much less THU interesting. In the first of two programmes, Geoff Watts THU explores our fascination with small talk and chit chat. THU Where did gossip come from, why did it evolve and how has it THU changed (and changed us) in the digital age? THU THU If your guilty pleasure is rifling through gossip magazines, THU then here's a reassuring message: you are merely fulfilling THU an evolutionary drive. The brain is 'hard-wired' to be THU fascinated by gossip - which not only helps members of your THU social group to bond but can also help to police those in THU the group who transgress. Biologist call them 'free-riders' THU and in large social groups, free-riders can wreak havoc with THU the society unless they're policed - by gossip. THU THU For anthropologist Robin Dunbar, author of the now classic THU text, 'Grooming, Gossip and The Evolution of Language', it THU is not the pearls of wisdom that makes the world go round THU but everyday tittle tattle: "we are social beings and our THU world is cocooned in the interests and minutiae of everyday THU social life. They fascinate us beyond nature". Gossip, which THU Dunbar says can be traced back to social grooming in apes, THU makes up around two-thirds of general conversation according THU to his research. Without gossip says Dunbar "there can be no THU society". THU THU Of course, historically, culturally, morally gossip has THU rarely been seen as anything but good. In Judaism where THU derogatory speech about another person has a special name - THU 'Lashon Hara' or 'evil tongue', it is, says Rabbi Jonathan THU Sacks, "...regarded it as one of the worst of all sins'. THU Gossip is said to kill three people, "the one who says it, THU the one he/she says it about, and the one who listens in. THU Gossip is not just a sinful act but one that contaminates THU others". Nowhere is this more evident than recent cases of THU internet trolling and cyber bullying. "we need a new ethic" THU argues Sacks. But are we even capable of changing our nasty THU habits? THU THU FRI FRIDAY 02 JANUARY 2015 FRI FRI 00:00 Midnight News b04vjvxs (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI Followed by Weather. FRI FRI 00:15 Dog Days b0371jlf (Listen) FRI My Dog Tulip FRI FRI Robert Hanks tells of a human obsession through five doggy FRI books. My Dog Tulip by J. R. Ackerley. The messy stuff - how FRI do we live with it? With Prill Barrett, John Bradshaw and FRI Ian Bruce Miller and Jem, the border terrier, and Timmy the FRI whippet. Producer: Tim Dee. FRI FRI 00:30 Book of the Week b04vqsh5 (Listen) FRI Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 4 FRI FRI Award-winning tenor Ian Bostridge explores Franz Schubert's FRI song-cycle masterpiece Winterreise, Winter's Journey. FRI Drawing upon his experience as a performer, on his musical FRI knowledge and on his training as a FRI scholar, Bostridge unpicks the enigmas and subtle meanings FRI behind the songs to explore the world Schubert inhabited. FRI FRI "I'm at an end with all dreams / why should I linger among FRI the sleepers?" In this episode, he looks at the ways in FRI which Schubert used his composition to challenge the social FRI and political order of his day, focusing on two songs: "Im FRI Dorfe" (In The Village) and "Tauschung" (Deception). FRI FRI Written and read by Ian Bostridge FRI FRI Abridged by Laurence Wareing FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ian Bostridge FRI Author: Ian Bostridge FRI Abridger: Laurence Wareing FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 00:48 Shipping Forecast b04vjvxv (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 01:00 Selection of BBC World Service Programmes b04vjvxx (Listen) FRI BBC Radio 4 joins the BBC World Service. FRI FRI 05:20 Shipping Forecast b04vjvxz (Listen) FRI The latest shipping forecast. FRI FRI 05:30 News Briefing b04vjvy3 (Listen) FRI The latest news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 05:43 Prayer for the Day b04w4zsx (Listen) FRI A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with the Rt FRI Rev'd Richard Chartres, Bishop of London. FRI FRI 05:45 Farming Today b04vqsh7 (Listen) FRI Land Army FRI FRI Charlotte Smith meets some of the Women's Land Army - Land FRI Girls and Lumber Jills - who kept Britain in food and timber FRI during the Second World War. They were invited to a tea FRI party at the offices of Defra in FRI London. Earlier in the year a memorial was unveiled to the FRI Land Army at the National Arboretum in Staffordshire, FRI following a fund-raising campaign. Produced by Sally FRI Challoner. FRI FRI 05:58 Tweet of the Day b04t0msp (Listen) FRI Black Swan 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 widely regarded symbol of FRI Australia, the black swan. These stately looking birds FRI are native to the wetlands of south-western and eastern FRI Australia. The New Zealand population was hunted to FRI extinction but has now been reintroduced there. Their FRI plumage is charcoal grey rather than black and beautifully FRI ruched along their lower back, hiding the white primary FRI feathers which are fully revealed in flight. Their only FRI colour is a raspberry- coloured bill. Black swans behave FRI like nomads, tracking local rains and breeding when they FRI can. In Britain as a collection bird, a few have even FRI cross-bred with mute swans to produce a greyish hybrid FRI nick-named the 'Blute Swan'. FRI FRI Black Swan (Cygnus atratus) FRI FRI Webpage image courtesy of Inaki Relanzon / naturepl.com. FRI FRI NPL Ref FRI 01369090 FRI © Inaki Relanzon / naturepl.com. FRI FRI 06:00 Today b04vqsh9 (Listen) FRI Morning news and current affairs. Including Sports Desk, FRI Weather and Thought for the Day. FRI FRI 09:00 Desert Island Discs b04vjz0b (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 11:15 on Sunday] FRI FRI 09:45 Book of the Week b04vqvbq (Listen) FRI Schubert's Winter Journey, Episode 5 FRI FRI Literature, religion and the hurdy-gurdy man. FRI Internationally acclaimed tenor Ian Bostridge concludes his FRI exploration of Schubert's existential masterpiece FRI Winterreise, Winter's Journey. FRI FRI Strange old FRI man, FRI Should I go with you? FRI Will you to my songs FRI Play your hurdy-gurdy? FRI FRI Written and read by Ian Bostridge FRI FRI Abridged by Laurence Wareing FRI FRI Produced by Kirsteen Cameron. FRI FRI Credits FRI Reader: Ian Bostridge FRI Author: Ian Bostridge FRI Abridger: Laurence Wareing FRI Producer: Kirsteen Cameron FRI FRI 10:00 Woman's Hour b04vqvbs (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 b04w0k8x (Listen) FRI Eating for England, Episode 5 FRI FRI In the bleak Christmas following his mother's death, the FRI young Nigel Slater sought refuge in food. Sugar mice, pink FRI wafers and mince pies helped him survive. So too did his FRI Aunt Elvie who, against the wishes of FRI his father, encouraged Nigel to cook. FRI FRI Eating for England, the successor to his highly acclaimed FRI memoir Toast, is part food memoir, part collective memory FRI bank of a nation's taste. Using the book as source material FRI along with further conversations with Nigel, dramatist Sarah FRI Daniels has written a playful reimagining. A grown up Nigel FRI - played by Julian Rhind Tutt, looks back on his childhood FRI while caring for a now elderly, yet ever sparkling, Aunt FRI Elvie, played by Celia Imrie. FRI FRI Rich with sounds of the kitchen and recorded on location, FRI with a cameo performance from Nigel himself. FRI FRI What drives a cook to write about food? Why is there such a FRI powerful link between memory and what we eat? And why is FRI reading about food so irresistibly appetising? FRI FRI Episode 5: FRI Aunt Elvie, now in a home, continues to play a central part FRI in Nigel's life. FRI FRI Dramatised by Sarah Daniels FRI Sound design by Eloise Whitmore FRI FRI Produced and Directed by Polly Thomas FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Aunt Elvie: Celia Imrie FRI Nigel Slater: Julian Rhind-Tutt FRI Waiter: Nigel Slater FRI Nellie: Buffy Davies FRI Cynthia: Effie MacMillan FRI Author: Nigel Slater FRI Adaptor: Sarah Daniels FRI Director: Polly Thomas FRI Producer: Polly Thomas FRI FRI 11:00 Wittgenstein's Jet b04v3b9v (Listen) FRI Did the future philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein, design and FRI build a an early jet powered aero-engine, in Manchester, in FRI 1908? This programme tells the story of Wittgenstein's FRI earliest project, and rebuilds his FRI jet. Presenter Cassie Newland is an archaeologist with a FRI passion for engineering. When she meets "shed engineer" Dave FRI Southall they scrutinise Wittgenstein's designs, and try to FRI work out how the aero-engine would have worked. FRI FRI Arriving in England in 1908, Wittgenstein was a research FRI student in mechanical engineering at Manchester University. FRI After working at a research station in Glossop, doing FRI experimental work with kites, and thinking about designs for FRI a flying machine, he began to focus his attention more on FRI the engines that might power them. Using a combustion FRI chamber, he developed a scheme for an engine powering a FRI propeller assisted by gas discharge nozzles at the end of FRI each blade. But by 1911 Wittgenstein was restless and FRI switched to studying Mathematics at Cambridge. Would his FRI engine have worked, if used in an aircraft? In this FRI programme, we find out. FRI FRI 11:30 Mark Steel's in Town b03nt9w6 (Listen) FRI Series 5, Glastonbury FRI FRI Mark Steel returns to Radio 4 for a fifth series of the FRI award winning show that travels around the country, FRI researching the history, heritage and culture of six towns FRI that have nothing in common but their FRI uniqueness, and does a bespoke evening of comedy in each FRI one. FRI FRI As every high street slowly morphs into a replica of the FRI next, Mark Steel's in Town celebrates the parochial, the FRI local and the unusual. From Corby's rivalry with Kettering FRI to the word you can't say in Portland, the show has taken in FRI the idiosyncrasies of towns up and down the country, from FRI Kirkwall to Penzance, from Holyhead to Bungay. FRI FRI This first edition of the series comes from Glastonbury, FRI Somerset, which lives up to every expectation of being the FRI most new-agey, hippyish town Mark has ever visited. He talks FRI about the Tor and King Arthur, visits the two chain shops on FRI the High Street, is given an unusual reason for not being FRI able to get into his dressing room, and makes a crucial FRI mistake when it comes to cider. FRI FRI Written and performed by ... Mark Steel FRI Additional material by ... Pete Sinclair FRI Production co-ordinator ... Trudi Stevens FRI Producer ... Ed Morrish. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Mark Steel FRI Writer: Mark Steel FRI Writer: Pete Sinclair FRI Producer: Ed Morrish FRI FRI 12:00 News Summary b04vjvy5 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 12:04 Home Front b04vqvbv (Listen) FRI 2 January 1915 - Ivor Davies FRI FRI The recruitment drive is finally bearing fruit for Sergeant FRI Major Davies, but nothing is simple. FRI FRI Written by Katie Hims FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Ivor: Alun Raglan FRI Laurie: Will Howard FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI PC Monk: Sam Swann FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Norman: Sean Baker FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 12:15 You and Yours b04vqvbx (Listen) FRI Consumer news. FRI FRI 12:57 Weather b04vjvy7 (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 13:00 World at One b04vqwyk (Listen) FRI Analysis of current affairs reports, presented by Mark FRI Mardell. FRI FRI 13:45 Out of Armenia b04w0khs (Listen) FRI Yerevan FRI FRI As Charles Emmerson's journey through the Armenian diaspora FRI draws to a close, he travels to Yerevan, the capital of FRI modern Armenia, in the shadow of Mount Ararat. FRI FRI Over rich piano chords, through a haze of FRI cigarette smoke, Charles speaks to Levon Malkhasyan, FRI Armenia's most famous jazz musician. He hears the Yerevan FRI stories which define it as a city - its Soviet construction FRI in the 1920s, the earthquake of 1988 and, since the 1990s, FRI the city's opening up to the diaspora world. FRI FRI Poor, isolated, cut off from neighbouring Turkey, keeping an FRI uneasy ceasefire with Azerbaijan, dependent on Russia, FRI Yerevan is no natural cosmopolitan centre. Yet with Mount FRI Ararat floating above its sky-line of Soviet-built tower FRI blocks, it has become a city for diasporans to call their FRI own. From Toronto, Melbourne, Paris or Boston, some visit FRI for summer jaunts, others to reassert who they are. FRI FRI "You realise that Armenian identity is much more expansive", FRI says Scout Tufankjian, an American-Armenian photographer FRI newly-returned from a four year voyage documenting the FRI Armenian diaspora around the world. The bonds that tie FRI Armenians together - visible and invisible, tangible and FRI intangible - are real. FRI FRI Scout remembers a few lines of William Saroyan, the FRI American-Armenian writer: "the glance, the gesture, the FRI smile, and through these things the swift rebirth of the FRI race, timeless and again strong..." More than history, more FRI than religion, more than suffering, more than political FRI claims - an innate sense of what it means to be Armenian, in FRI and out of Armenia. FRI FRI Produced by Cicely Fell FRI An Above The Title production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 14:00 The Archers b04xgj8k (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 19:00 on Thursday] FRI FRI 14:15 Afternoon Drama b04vqwym (Listen) FRI Inventing Scotland FRI FRI Inventing Scotland a comedy by Mike Harris FRI The true story of how one man's need for cash created a FRI national myth and saved the union. FRI It is 1822 . King George is coming to Edinburgh and novelist FRI Walter Scott has two weeks to create a patriotic, FRI nation-binding spectacle that will avert revolution, save FRI the union, earn the monarch's eternal gratitude, and also FRI rescue himself from imminent bankruptcy. FRI FRI Director/Producer Gary Brown. FRI FRI Credits FRI Lockhart: Stuart McQuarrie FRI Scott: Eric Potts FRI King George: Nicholas Blane FRI Meltrose: Seamus O'Neill FRI Lady Charlotte: Fiona Clarke FRI Ned: Drew Cain FRI Writer: Mike Harris FRI Director: Gary Brown FRI Producer: Gary Brown FRI FRI 15:00 Gardeners' Question Time b04vqwyp (Listen) FRI The Garden Museum FRI FRI Peter Gibbs chairs this week's edition of the horticultural FRI panel programme from The Garden Museum in London. Chris FRI Beardshaw, Pippa Greenwood and Bunny Guinness join him to FRI answer questions from the audience. FRI Produced by Howard Shannon FRI Assistant Producer: Hannah Newton FRI FRI A Somethin' Else production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 15:45 King Albert's Book b04vqwyr (Listen) FRI Episode 3 FRI FRI King Albert's Book was a tribute to the Belgian King and FRI people, published by subscription in December 1914. FRI FRI The book was the idea of Hall Caine, a novelist and FRI playwright of the late Victorian and Edwardian FRI eras, to raise money for the Daily Telegraph Belgium fund. FRI He invited princes, statesman, churchmen, authors, political FRI activists, artists and composers to present their view of FRI the tragedy that had befallen Belgium in the preceding FRI months of war. FRI FRI Contributors include Winston Churchill, Thomas Hardy, the FRI Archbishop of Canterbury, Sarah Bernhardt, Emmeline FRI Pankhurst and Rudyard Kipling. The result is an FRI extraordinary snapshot of a moment in time and the passions FRI aroused by the conquest of Belgium and the resistance led by FRI King Albert. FRI FRI As the book was being prepared in the Autumn of 1914, no one FRI knew how the tragedy of the First World War would unfold - FRI there was still hope that it would all be over fairly FRI swiftly. What seemed to be a heroic defence of a sovereign FRI state was the primary concern of the book's contributors, FRI little knowing how long the conflict would continue and how FRI the greater tragedy of the war would supersede this event. FRI FRI This final episode, narrated by the writer and producer Paul FRI Dodgson, includes a statement by French philosopher Henri FRI Bergson, an account of wounded Belgium soldiers in England FRI by Mary Cholmondeley, and a history lesson by Professor Paul FRI Vinogradoff. FRI FRI Readers: Kenneth Cranham, Tim McMullan and Harriet Walter FRI Pianist: Kevin Matthews FRI FRI Narrated and Produced by Paul Dodgson FRI A Pier production for BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI Credits FRI Narrator: Paul Dodgson FRI Reader: Kenneth Cranham FRI Reader: Tim McMullan FRI Reader: Harriet Walter FRI Producer: Paul Dodgson FRI FRI 16:00 Last Word b04vqx62 (Listen) FRI Obituary series, analysing and celebrating the life stories FRI of people who have recently died. FRI FRI 16:30 More or Less b04vqx64 (Listen) FRI Numbers of the Year 2014 FRI FRI Tim Harford and guests look back at some of the weird and FRI wonderful numbers of 2014. Featuring contributions from Evan FRI Davis, Sir David Spiegelhalter, Helen Joyce, Nick Robinson, FRI Helen Arney, Pippa Malmgren, Paul Lewis and Carlos Vilalta. FRI FRI 16:55 The Listening Project b04vqxyx (Listen) FRI Eifion and Berwyn - Community Matters FRI FRI Fi Glover introduces two men who both put a lot into the FRI thriving community of Llansannan in North Wales. For them a FRI town holds no attraction, but village life has everything. FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 FRI initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library and used to build up a FRI collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK FRI in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more FRI about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI FRI 17:00 PM b04vqxyz (Listen) FRI PM at 5pm- Eddie Mair with interviews, context and analysis. FRI FRI 18:00 Six O'Clock News b04vjvy9 (Listen) FRI The latest national and international news from BBC Radio 4. FRI FRI 18:15 15 Minute Musical b03m7zb7 (Listen) FRI Series 8, The Last Days of Farage FRI FRI A series of satirical, barbed, bittersweet fifteen-minute FRI comedy musicals. FRI FRI With over thirty musicals selling out in the West End night FRI after night - the British public (and the Radio 4 audience) FRI cannot get FRI enough of them, therefore ... FRI FRI In true West End style, artistic licence is well and truly FRI taken and stretched, as easily identifiable public figures FRI are dressed up, gilded, fabricated and placed against a FRI random musical backdrop for sugar coated consumption. The FRI stories are simple and engaging but with an edge - allowing FRI the audience to enjoy all the conventions of a musical (huge FRI production numbers, tender ballads and emotional reprises) FRI whilst we completely re-interpret events in major FRI celebrities' lives. FRI FRI Beautifully crafted with astronomically high production FRI values 15 Minute Musical does for your ears what chocolate FRI does for your taste buds. All in fifteen minutes! FRI FRI Winner of the Writers Guild of Great Britain Radio Comedy FRI Award this series provides an energy boost and a seasonal FRI treat at 1815 over the Christmas week. FRI FRI Other episodes include: FRI FRI Ra Ra It's Puti FRI A camp look at Russia's greatest love machine. FRI FRI Half A Sixth Form FRI Michael Gove has a licence to teach. FRI FRI Julian And The Assanging Technicolour Download FRI An overly dramatic and musical look at Julian Assange. FRI FRI It's A One-Hit-Wonderful Life FRI Simon Cowell contemplates ending his career until his FRI guardian angel Susan Boyle appears to show him life without FRI Cowell - It's A Wonderful Life. FRI FRI Heaven Knows I'm Middle-Aged Now FRI Morrissey looks for a new musical collaborator. FRI FRI Cast: Richie Webb, Dave Lamb, Jess Robinson and Pippa Evans. FRI Written by: Dave Cohen, David Quantick and Richie Webb FRI Music Composed, Performed and Arranged by: Richie Webb FRI Music Production: Matt Katz FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell. FRI FRI Credits FRI Actor: Richie Webb FRI Actor: Dave Lamb FRI Actor: Jess Robinson FRI Actor: Pippa Evans FRI Producer: Katie Tyrrell FRI Writer: Dave Cohen FRI Writer: David Quantick FRI Writer: Richie Webb FRI FRI 18:30 Dead Ringers b04vr10b (Listen) FRI Series 13, Episode 2 FRI FRI The classic impression show takes a look back at 2014 FRI together with a sneak preview of things that will definitely FRI happen in 2015. How will the UKIP/Labour coalition fair? FRI FRI Starring Jon Culshaw, Jan Ravens, Duncan Wisbey, Lewis FRI MacLeod, Debra Stevenson. FRI FRI Producer: Bill Dare. FRI FRI Credits FRI Performer: Jon Culshaw FRI Performer: Jan Ravens FRI Performer: Duncan Wisbey FRI Performer: Lewis Macleod FRI Performer: Debra Stevenson FRI Producer: Bill Dare FRI FRI 19:00 The Archers b04vr10d (Listen) FRI Writer ..... Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director ..... Julie Beckett FRI Editor ..... Sean O'Connor. FRI FRI Credits FRI Writer: Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti FRI Director: Julie Beckett FRI Editor: Sean O'Connor FRI Jill Archer: Patricia Greene FRI David Archer: Timothy Bentinck FRI Pip Archer: Daisy Badger FRI Josh Archer: Angus Imrie FRI Kenton Archer: Richard Attlee FRI Helen Archer: Louiza Patikas FRI Brian Aldridge: Charles Collingwood FRI Jennifer Aldridge: Angela Piper FRI Phoebe Aldridge: Lucy Morris FRI Susan Carter: Charlotte Martin FRI Daniel Hebden Lloyd: Will Howard FRI Adam Macy: Andrew Wincott FRI Kate Madikane: Perdita Avery FRI Elizabeth Pargetter: Alison Dowling FRI Fallon Rogers: Joanna Van Kampen FRI Lynda Snell: Carole Boyd FRI Rob Titchener: Timothy Watson FRI Carol Tregorran: Eleanor Bron FRI Roy Tucker: Ian Pepperell FRI Johnny Phillips: Tom Gibbons FRI Harrison Burns: James Cartwright FRI Charlie Thomas: Felix Scott FRI Tristram Hawkshaw: David Benedict FRI FRI 19:15 Front Row b04vr10g (Listen) FRI News, reviews and interviews from the worlds of art, FRI literature, film and music. FRI FRI 19:45 15 Minute Drama b04w0k8x (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 10:45 today] FRI FRI 20:00 Correspondents Look Ahead b04vr10j (Listen) FRI 2015 FRI FRI The BBC's top international news correspondents look ahead FRI to the major developments in 2015, in a lively discussion FRI chaired by Mark Mardell. FRI FRI He will be asking for their ideas about the stories and the FRI people FRI to watch over the coming months. FRI FRI What will happen in the conflict between Russia and Ukraine FRI - and how will it affect the rest of us in Europe? Will FRI Britain and other Western nations succeed in stopping the FRI advance of the group calling itself Islamic State in Iraq FRI and Syria - and which other countries' help will they need FRI to obtain? FRI FRI How far will the efforts to control the ebola epidemic, in FRI which Britain has taken a significant role, prompt wider FRI international cooperation? Will the recent protests in Hong FRI Kong and the nervousness of Beijing's neighbours about its FRI intentions escalate tensions in east Asia? And what impact FRI will Britain's general election have on international FRI affairs? FRI FRI Mark is joined by Chief International Correspondent Lyse FRI Doucet, China Editor Carrie Gracie, Business Editor Kamal FRI Ahmed and Diplomatic Correspondent Bridget Kendall. FRI FRI Producer Simon Coates. FRI FRI 20:50 A Point of View b04vr10l (Listen) FRI The Pursuit of Happiness FRI FRI A L Kennedy reflects on what it means to pursue happiness in FRI a world where "not having enough money can be utterly FRI miserable" and indulging our desire to acquire is also FRI unsatisfying. The answer may lie in FRI seeing that happiness is, "not so much a condition as a FRI destination - it can inspire journeys ...better made in FRI company". FRI Producer: Sheila Cook. FRI FRI Credits FRI Presenter: AL Kennedy FRI Producer: Sheila Cook FRI FRI 21:00 Home Front b04vr10n (Listen) FRI Home Front - Omnibus, 29 December 1914 to 2 January 1915 FRI FRI Folkestone is uneasy about the move from 1914, and all its FRI hope and fear, into 1915 with all its hope and fear. FRI FRI Written by: Katie Hims FRI Consultant Historian: Professor Maggie Andrews FRI Music: Matthew Strachan FRI Directed by Jessica Dromgoole. FRI FRI Credits FRI Joe: Lloyd Thomas FRI Humphrey: Matthew Tennyson FRI Laurie: Will Howard FRI Colin Blythe: Jim Troughton FRI Albert: Harry Myers FRI Alice: Claire-Louise Cordwell FRI Hilary: Craige Els FRI Mickey: Ben Pettengell FRI Norman: Sean Baker FRI Ivor: Alun Raglan FRI Esme: Katie Angelou FRI Gabriel: Michael Bertenshaw FRI Sylvia: Deborah Findlay FRI Phyllis: Christine Absalom FRI Nancy: Jane Whittenshaw FRI Isabel: Keely Beresford FRI Juliet: Lizzie Bourne FRI Florrie: Claire Rushbrook FRI Adam: Leo Montague FRI Kitty: Ami Metcalf FRI PC Monk: Sam Swann FRI Queenie: Lorna Nickson Brown FRI Writer: Katie Hims FRI Director: Jessica Dromgoole FRI FRI 21:58 Weather b04vjvyd (Listen) FRI The latest weather forecast. FRI FRI 22:00 The World Tonight b04vr10q (Listen) FRI In-depth reporting and analysis from a global perspective. FRI FRI 22:45 Book at Bedtime b04vr1j3 (Listen) FRI The Girls of Slender Means, It Was All a Question of Time FRI FRI 'Few people alive at the time were more delightful, more FRI ingenuous, more movingly lovely, and as it might happen, FRI more savage than the girls of slender means.' FRI Emilia Fox reads Muriel Spark's rapier-witted FRI portrait of the lives and loves of a group of genteel but FRI impoverished young women in postwar London. In the so-called FRI May of Teck Club, a boarding house for single ladies, life FRI carries on as if the world were back to normal: elocution FRI lessons, poetry recitals, jostling over suitors and the FRI sharing of a single taffeta gown. But the war has ended and FRI things are not normal and never again will be. Into this FRI world arrives Nicholas Farringdon, a writer and anachist, FRI who is beguiled by these girls of slender means and their FRI giddy, carefree lives. This meeting, we soon learn, will end FRI in his death. FRI Today: As tragedy strikes the May of Teck Club, time is FRI running out for some of the 'girls of slender means'. FRI Spark's 1963 novel, The Girls of Slender Means, has become a FRI modern classic. Muriel Spark was an award-winning Scottish FRI novelist and biographer, known best for her acclaimed novel FRI The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. FRI FRI Credits FRI Author: Muriel Spark FRI FRI 23:00 Great Lives b04vkl1v (Listen) FRI [Repeat of broadcast at 16:30 on Tuesday] FRI FRI 23:27 Hot Gossip! b04sy3qp (Listen) FRI Episode 2 FRI FRI In the second of two programmes, Geoff Watts continues to FRI explore the science, history and cultural implications of FRI gossip. FRI FRI Gossip has a bad reputation and for the most part, FRI deservedly so. Yet, on-going FRI research appears to suggest that gossip does serve a useful FRI purpose. Not least because our brains may be hard wired for FRI it. Researchers in Boston have used a technique known as FRI binocular rivalry (showing different images to left and FRI right eye at the same time) to suggest that gossip acts as FRI an early warning system, that the brain automatically FRI redirects your attention onto people you've heard negative FRI remarks about. Even though this process happens at a FRI sub-conscious level, your brain is sifting through and FRI weeding out anyone in your surroundings that you may be have FRI good reason to distrust. Elsewhere, researchers in FRI Manchester have been analysing what makes gossip memorable FRI and are now scanning subjects brains to see if there are FRI specific gossip networks which light up. From preliminary FRI results it appears gossip activates areas in the brain FRI similar to those that produce feelings of pleasure and FRI reward. Next they plan to scan their subjects' brains as FRI they tweet. FRI FRI Perhaps unsurprisingly, in many of these experiments, it is FRI celebrity gossip that tends to produce the largest response. FRI Thanks to what one commentator calls the perfect storm of FRI 24-hour news, reality TV and social media, the all-pervasive FRI celebrity gossip industry exploits our endless appetite for FRI information about people we will never meet. But could even FRI celebrity gossip serve a purpose? Or are we gorging FRI ourselves on trivia whilst ignoring the plight of those FRI closest to us? And can and should anything be done to stem FRI the negative impacts of gossip in a digital age? FRI FRI 23:55 The Listening Project b04vr1j7 (Listen) FRI Tony and Chris - Magical Powers FRI FRI Fi Glover with two magicians who are expert in card tricks, FRI mind-reading and spoon-bending, but acknowledge that they FRI deliberately deceive their audiences. Is magic moral? FRI FRI The Listening Project is a Radio 4 FRI initiative that offers a snapshot of contemporary Britain in FRI which people across the UK volunteer to have a conversation FRI with someone close to them about a subject they've never FRI discussed intimately before. The conversations are being FRI gathered across the UK by teams of producers from local and FRI national radio stations who facilitate each encounter. Every FRI conversation - they're not BBC interviews, and that's an FRI important difference - lasts up to an hour, and is then FRI edited to extract the key moment of connection between the FRI participants. Most of the unedited conversations are being FRI archived by the British Library and used to build up a FRI collection of voices capturing a unique portrait of the UK FRI in the second decade of the millennium. You can learn more FRI about The Listening Project by visiting FRI bbc.co.uk/listeningproject FRI FRI Producer: Marya Burgess. FRI
26 December, 2014
Radio 4 Listings for 27/12/2014 - 02/01/2015
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